Our final week studying the beatitudes.

1. The Beatitudes:
The Kingdom Lifestyle
Lifestyle:
“the way in which a person or group lives.”

3. The Beatitudes
Matthew 5
“The beatitudes are not talking
about eight different kinds of
people. Rather, these are eight
qualities and characteristics of
ONE type of people: people who
enter the Kingdom of God.”

4. The Beatitudes:
Crossing into the Kingdom
Righteous
Meek
Mourn
Poor in Spirit
Merciful
Pure in Heart
Peacemakers
Persecuted

5. The Beatitudes:
The Kingdom Lifestyle
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for
they will be called children of God.
„Blessed are those who are
persecuted for righteousness‟
sake, for theirs is the kingdom of
heaven.”
Matthew 5:9-10

6. The Beatitudes:
Three Questions
1. What is “peace”?
2. What is “peace-making”?
3. Why does peace-making
always bring persecution?
Matthew 5:11

7. At War with God
“The only way we will ever
be peace-makers is if we first
understand how God made
peace with us”
“For the sinful nature
is always hostile to
God. It never did
obey God‟s laws, and
it never will.” Rom. 8:7

8. At Peace with God
1. Joy in Worship
2. No Fear of Failure
3. Persecution
“Therefore, since we have
been made right in God's
sight by faith, we have
peace with God because of
what Jesus Christ our Lord
Rom. 5:1
has done for us..”

9. What is
“Peacemaking”?
“Peacemaking is announcing
the good news that God has
made peace with humankind.”

10. When Peace Brings
Persecution
“Everyone
who wants to
live a godly
life in Christ
Jesus will
suffer
persecution.”
2 Tim. 3:12

11. The Beatitudes:
Rejoice and Be Glad!
“Blessed are you when people
revile you and persecute you and
utter all kinds of evil against you
falsely on my account. Rejoice and
be glad, for your reward is great in
heaven, for in the same way they
persecuted the prophets who were
Matthew 5:11-12
before you.

12. The Beatitudes:
Is it Worth it?
“I gave up
nothing; I
received
everything.”
Dr. Martyn Lloyd Jones