Am I Blessed or What? Understanding True Blessing

Nov 10, 2025

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“Jesus brings this word macarios to a different place and that's where we're going to see it in the biatitudes and it's that word that he uses uh throughout those verses and we're we're we're going to look at those right now. And if we if we look in our main text say at Matthew 5:es 3-1 11, we're going to find out who Jesus considers to be blessed, who our heavenly father considers to be blessed. Because it's not what the world thinks. It's not what the other religions think. It's not what secular society thinks about who's blessed, who's not.”
“We don’t we do that? We look We look at what everybody else has and compare it to what we have and we say, "Oh, if I could only have a house like that. Oh, that car. I want that. That's that's would be a great if I could have that car. How do I get a car like that? Oh, can I go on vacations like those guys always seem to be on vacation. They're traveling here, traveling there. They are blessed. Those people are blessed and I want to be blessed like them. But that's that's a worldly understanding of being being blessed.”
“They are prophetic declarations over the people. He's declaring to the people. You think other people are blessed or not, but I'm telling you that you are blessed right where you are. Doesn't matter your circumstances. Doesn't matter what's going on in your life. Doesn't matter what's happening in in the church body. Doesn't matter what's happening in the in the in the political arena. Doesn't matter what's happening in BC with ostriches. It doesn't matter about all the you can go on and on and on and on.”
“He's making declarations over over the people and he's making that declaration over you here today. These declarations that Jesus made are made on the conviction of an of a coming and already present kingdom of God. He he told his he told the people what did he tell me? He said the kingdom of God is at hand. It's not he's not talking about a place. He's talking about the rule of God where things where where things are under the rule and dominion of of God. He said it's it's near. It's near.”
“The irony of it is that today we still think a lot like those ancient Greeks. We think that somebody else is blessed because we of what we see, what we perceive that they they're they're doing so much better. you know, they've got a, you know, if you're up on up on a platform here in front of a a church, you can let's like it's wonderful to be able to preach to a to people that are hungry. But then you but then you might you might be get envious and say, "Oh, but I don't have a television program or you know, nobody's inviting me to come to preach at a conference and and uh then we because we but those people that are that are invited for there and people that have they must be blessed and I'm not blessed."”
“No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. My challenge to you would be to read through the biatitudes every day and put yourself in the blessed are you. Blessed are blessed am I. Jesus doesn't just stop there with with uh with this passage that we we just read. He goes on because he continually is declaring over the people what's true. He's saying you, he goes on to say, you are a city on a hill. You are a lamp that must be must be exposed to everyone.”
“People have to see your your light. And he's not saying these as obligations that well, you you better you better stand up and and do something. He says, no, you already are those things. Your life is that you are a city on a hill. You're not you're not trying to become one. Hey, look at me what I can do or or shine my light brighter just so that we can get something done here. No, no, no. He said, just be be you because you are I have blessed you with that increase.”
“I have blessed you with that multiplication. If we would just start to be who he has created us to be, the world would actually see something. Amen. They would take notice of, oh, that p that person or that church or that group of people, they they're like a city on a hill. Like, you can't you can't avoid them. They're just they're they're they're everywhere. They're doesn't matter where I go, I see them. There's a they're a they're a lamp that cannot be covered up or cannot be hidden.”
“Their light just goes everywhere. In the darkest places, on the in the in the streets or in the marketplace or in the in the malls, doesn't matter. your light. He's just saying just be who I've created you to be because you you've been blessed and highly favored by me. So if we find it so easy to say good things about someone after they've passed, why can't we say those good things about people when they're alive?”
“And sometimes we say good things to to people. We actually do. But it's often to those people that we we like, people that are on the same page as us, people that we have an affinity with, same maybe it's the same, you know, ethnic background or or whatever it is. We just find something in common and it's easy for us to say good things about them and even good things to them. But how about the people that we don't like? How about the people that we know don't like us?”
“How about the people that we're in conflict with, disagreement with? Right now, probably some of you are thinking about somebody and just your blood's starting to boil. and you got lots of things to say about them, but you might not want to say them out loud. You see, Jesus calls us to a to a higher place. He he he he says I think it's in I can't remember which gospel it is but he says bless those who whatse curse you don't just bless those who bless you.”
“That's easy. You can do that in your sleep. He says bless those who curse you. not curse those who curse you. Isn't that what we do sometimes? Somebody says something, you hear something, somebody says something about me or whatever, ah, I'm gonna say something right back. And there's probably something you could say that would be at least partial truth. But that's not what we're called to. We're called to bless those that curse us. Bless those that have a a negative word to say about us.”
“Who've who've reviled us, who've persecuted us, who've who've who've who've defamed our character. And what does that blessing look like? That word bless when he says bless those who curse you. That's the word eulog. Say nice things about them. Say good things about them. Say things that are lovely, that are pure, that are beautiful, that are uplifting, that are encouraging, that that shed good light on them.”
“And then when you're finished telling everybody else about what a great person you believe that person is, that there's gold in that person somewhere. Even if you have to dig somewhere, we I know there's gold. Then you go to that person and you say it to their face. Amen. Even if your blood's still boiling a little bit, because I guarantee you when you start to speak life into somebody else, especially somebody else who doesn't give maybe a rip about your life, something shifts in the atmosphere.”
“See, when Paul was praying in many of his his different letters to the churches, you'll find that a lot of his prayers are actually yulio. They're they're prayers of blessing. He's speaking life into the people in those churches. He knows what's going on. He knows there's some rotten, dirty scoundrels in the church, but he speaks life over them because he sees their destiny. He knows how how the Lord sees them. He knows He knows the destiny and the calling of them as individuals and as a as a body and he speaks life into them.”
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