Brown's Daily Word 3-5-10

Praise the Lord for this Friday. It is going to be sunny and bright . Praise the Lord for He brings deep Joy in to our lives. He spoke about the Joy of the Disciples in Mathew 5:1-12. Chuck Swindoll, in his book Simple Faith, made the following observation. After noting that Jesus used nine, back-to-back announcements of blessing, he remarked, “Having endured a lifetime of verbal assaults by the scribes and Pharisees, the multitude on the mount must have thought they had died and gone to heaven.” Jesus is the real Joy giver. He came that our joy might be full. Jesus declared that those who know Him trust in Him, and those who serve Him are blessed.

G. Campbell Morgan wrote that blessed is a word "full of sunshine, thrilling with music, brimming over with just what man is seeking…."

The same word is used in 1 Tim. 1:11:
"According to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which was committed to my trust."

I’m so glad we serve a joyful God.
The same word is also in Titus 2:13:
"Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. Jesus spoke of the beatitudes from the sermon on the mount."

The beatitudes are a self-portrait of Christ – that which we would see if God were living in the body of a man. And God’s purpose, according to Romans 8:29, is for every Christian to be conformed to the image of Christ. • The beatitudes describe qualities that EVERY CHRISTIAN should exhibit. • Every Christian should exhibit ALL of them.

The beatitudes describe the evidence of a yielded life.
They are not to be produced BY the Christian, but IN the Christian. They tell us what men will see in a life that is surrendered to the Lord.
The beatitudes do not represent individual qualities, but a complete picture of a man mastered by Jesus…a complete package of qualities.
The Bible speaks of the FRUIT of the Spirit, not the fruits. The evidence that a man is truly walking in the Spirit is that he exhibits the fruit of the Spirit on a consistent (not perfect) basis.

The blessed people in the world are those who yield themselves to experience the grace of God every day. Why? Because theirs is the kingdom of heaven, they are comforted, they inherit the earth, they are filled, they obtain mercy, they see God – and others see God in them, for they are called "the children of God." They also lead the most fulfilling lives – because Jesus makes them into a complete person.

In Christ,
Brown
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