The Persecuted
May 5, 2024 Speaker: Drew Bennett Series: The Beatitudes: Kingdom People
Passage: Matthew 5:1-10, Matthew 5:13-16
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Outline
Hook: Have you ever been made fun of or disadvantaged because of your faith?
I. PERSECUTION
"An index of the Church's fidelity to her master is her indigestibility. When the world accepts the Church, the Church is no longer the Church." - Peter Kreeft
II. GLUTTONY
"A glutton is one who raids the icebox for a cure for spiritual malnutrition." - Frederick Buechner
III. THE KINGDOM
"The gospel of the kingdom is that no one is beyond beatitude, because the rule of heaven is available to all." - Dallas Willard
Application: "We reject the comfortable conformism of fitting into whatever the majority is doing, and we take instead the nonconforming narrow way of living out the difficult truths requiring faith and love." – Eugene Peterson
Resources
- Rebecca DeYoung, Glittering Vices
- Peter Kreeft, Back to Virtue
- Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Sermon on the Mount
- Will Willimon, Sinning Like a Christian
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