Bible Verse for Sunday Service January 23, 2022
Psalm 13:5
But I have trusted in your steadfast love;
my heart shall rejoice in your salvation.
Announcements:
Today finally brings the arrival of the event announced on several Sundays past, the arrival of the Potluck and Annual Meeting. We all enjoyed a time of fellowship and discussed the church business. Next Sunday, a Gideons’ representative will provide a report. Pastor received a message of thanks and gratitude from Runias announcing that, once again, Africa was open, the virus restrictions lifted. So they hope return to the mission field and continue to support the team at work in places like New Guinea.
Sermon:
Pastor continued in Matthew, 5:5-6, the chapter of beatitudes or blessings with a message titled “Way to Greatness and Happiness in the Kingdom.” This way illustrated in the two beatitudes in the verses for today illustrates how meekness and a thirst for righteousness are key. Being meek, being tranquil and untroubled by the world, being powered in this disposition by an enduring faith in our Savior Jesus, leads to Jesus raising us up in the Kingdom, we inherit it here on earth.
Similarly, the second beatitude points the way to overcoming the world here now. Possessing a desire for what is right in God’s eyes, thirsting for His righteousness, which is always satisfying. Jesus delivers on his promises to us here as we seek him, his view of the world, what is good. In trusting and following Him we are satisfied in finding His righteousness even now in the world.
Pastor illustrated how both of these beatitudes are more than pretty words, they are the words of life that we can live by now as we enter in the Kingdom of God. Let’s do that now and enjoy Jesus and His Kingdom here and now.
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