The Beatitudes - Merciful Part 5 - Home Church Ministry
Channel: Home Church Ministry
Date: 2014-06-29

Ft. Pastor Jessie Martinez Click Here To VIsit My Website: http://www.homechurchministry.com/

Notes:
7 Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
We’re going to see that the first 4 beatitudes, was a deeper spiritual walk with the Lord for yourself.
The next 4 are going to be an outward showing.

Merciful means - Genuine compassion, pure and unselfish motive, to reach out and help others.

We can see by the scriptures that the religious leaders didn’t teach mercy, because mercy was not part of them.
They were proud, self-righteous, and judgmental.
The more Jesus showed mercy, the more the leaders wanted him dead.

The religious leaders justify their lack of love and mercy under the deceptive appearance of their religious duties.
By not even showing mercy to the parents.
Matt 15:1-9
1 Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying,
2 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
They didn’t even try to hide the fact that Jesus disciples offended their traditions of the elders.
These men’s traditions were superior to the scriptures.
Just like today, you have religions were the people give more authority to the traditions of men than the word of God.
3 But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
Jesus totally ignored their question, because when men try to put themselves over the Lord he’s not even going to give attention to that.
Jesus goes straight to the problem.
Why are you disobeying the commandments of God.
4 For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
One of the Ten Commandments Ex 20:12 is “Honour thy father and mother”
Also Ex 21:17 “He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.”
If we lived by the commandments of God, teenagers wouldn’t be acting the way they do now.  One putting to death a teenager for disrespecting their parents, that would fix a lot of problems.

This is how important it is to respect the authority that God has put in place.
In 1 Cor 11:3 But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
We have gotten away from the ways of God.
5 But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;
Jesus says: but you say “It’s O.K. to give to the church, and tell the parents sorry I gave to the church already.  This is not honoring father and mother.
Family comes before the Church, I didn’t say God.
I’m sure most preachers won’t like what about to say, but if your parents are in need, you help them before you give to the church.
Especially if your mother is a widow.
  
Let me just say that the things we use the tithe money on, it’s not biblical.
Don’t help your parents so we can built nice big fancy churches, it is against God’s word to have debts, there’s a lot of things the church uses the tithe for, and biblically there are only 3 things the Lord said to use it on. 
6 And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
Again they are saying that their tradition is superior to God.
7 Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
8 This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
This is the very reason the Lord said in:
Matt 7:21-23
21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
22 Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name done many wonderful works?
23 And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

The churches of God are allowing little by little sins come into the church.
Homosexual can be preachers.
Women can be pastors.
You have to be that religion in order to be baptized by them.
Passing the plate in the church stops some people from coming, passing the plate is just like asking for money.
We’re fighting right here in the Baptist religion, is the word of God infallible?

1 Cor 5:6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

I used these verses in Matt chapter 15 to show that traditions have no conviction, no purity of the heart, you don’t need faith, no trust, and we have no dependence on God.
The more we live by tradition the further we get from the Lord.


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