{"id":513,"date":"2018-01-14T00:00:33","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T00:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/?p=513"},"modified":"2019-12-30T13:57:30","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T21:57:30","slug":"the-blessedness-of-christian-mourning-matthew-51-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/?p=513","title":{"rendered":"The Blessedness of Christian Mourning (Matthew 5:1-4)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"min-width: 150px;\" tabindex=\"-1\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.sermonaudio.com\/player\/a\/34182131224\/?dark=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"150\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Christ from the beginning<\/strong> of his public ministry <strong>taught in the synagogues preaching the gospel of the kingdom<\/strong> and healing various sicknesses and diseases.\u00a0 He confronted demons, and freed the demon possessed, <strong>doing the miracles which demonstrated his power and authority<\/strong>.\u00a0 This is recorded in <strong>Matt 4:23-25<\/strong>, also this was the confession of Nicodemus from <strong>John 3:1-2<\/strong>, and Peter from <strong>Acts 10:34\u201339<\/strong>.\u00a0 But the ministry of Christ was more than miracles, it included clearly and concise teachings on what was intended or proper understanding of the Law of God.\u00a0 Which had been twisted by the Jewish leadership over the centuries, making men slaves to traditions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Entrance into the kingdom of heaven was not only a final resting place<\/strong>.\u00a0 It represented all of life, total and complete dependence upon the Lord of all blessings, this is what the 10 commandments taught, what the sabbath was a picture of- total dependence upon God.<\/p>\n<p>Christ came to fulfill the promises of God toward all men.\u00a0 The sermon on the mount as we know it today is one of the clearest expressions of God\u2019s promises fulfilled, <strong>the repeated usage of the word blessed<\/strong> is its central theme.\u00a0 Conveying not only the condition of those who are saved in Christ, but also the fullness of those blessings which began at creation <strong>Gen 2:1-2<\/strong>, in the garden spoken by God looking toward Christ Gen as his only begotten son.\u00a0 In our text Christ takes the time to preach the content of God\u2019s blessings as they relate to his kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Elder Matthew Davis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christ from the beginning of his public ministry taught in the synagogues preaching the gospel of the kingdom and healing various sicknesses and diseases.\u00a0 He confronted demons, and freed the demon possessed, doing the miracles which demonstrated his power and authority.\u00a0 This is recorded in Matt 4:23-25, also this was the confession of Nicodemus from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":493,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,25,10],"tags":[35,17,19,12,18,24],"class_list":["post-513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beattitude","category-christ-jesus","category-covenant","tag-beattitude","tag-christ","tag-hope","tag-lord","tag-trust","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=513"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1075,"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513\/revisions\/1075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}