Blessed to Say Yes!

  • Pastor Duane Cross
  • May 23, 2010
  • Series: Blessed

BLESSED

“Blessed To Say Yes!”  

 Pastor Duane Cross  |  05.23.2010

“News about him spread all over Syria and people brought to him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering severe pain, the demon possessed, the epileptics and the paralytics, and he healed them.”                                               (Matthew 4:24)

“Large crowds from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and the region across the Jordan followed him.”                                                                   (Matthew 4:25)

“...the good news of the kingdom.”                            (Matthew 4:23)

“Now when he saw the crowds, he went up on a mountainside...and he began to teach them.”                                                                 (Matthew 5:12)

Blessed -> KNOW THE WORD -> DIVINE FAVOR, SACRED DELIGHT

 

Dallas Willard             The Divine Conspiracy

Blessed are the physically repulsive,

Blessed are those who smell bad,

The twisted, misshapen, deformed,

The too big, too little, too loud,

The bald, the fat, and the old--

For they are riotously celebrated in the party of Jesus.

Then there are the “seriously” crushed ones:  The flunk-outs and drop-outs and burned-outs.  The broke and the broken.  The drug heads and the divorced.  The HIV-positive and the herpes-ridden.  The brain-damaged, the incurably ill.  The barren and the pregnant too-many-times or at the wrong time.  The overemployed, the underemployed, the unemployed.  The unemployable.  The swindled, the shoved aside, the replaced.  The parents with children living on the street, the children with parents not dying in the “rest” home.  The lonely, the incompetent, the stupid.  The emotionally starved or emotionally dead.  And on and on and on.  It is true that “Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal?”  It is true!  That is precisely the gospel of heaven’s availability that comes to us through the Beatitudes.  And you don’t have to wait until you’re dead.  Jesus offers to all such people as these the present blessedness of the present kingdom--regardless of circumstances.  The condition of life sought for by human beings through the ages is attained in the quietly transforming friends of Jesus.

YOU’RE INVITED TO THE PARTY!

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