Embracing Spiritual Poverty: Our Dependence on God's Grace
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### Quotes for Outreach
1. "We can't keep Your law close enough. We can't obey Your commandments close enough. We can't read the Bible enough, or pray enough, or go to church enough, or do anything enough that will earn standing before You, Holy God. And so it is my prayer and confession for us this morning simply, God, for the times that we have believed, or worse, thought we were able to earn our way into Your presence, would You have mercy on us?" [01:38] (37 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "Jesus says the one who lives in God's blessing and favor is the one who rids themselves of all forms of pride and opens themselves to receive whatever God would give. Jesus later depicts this poverty of spirit like this in Luke chapter 18. It's the story of the Pharisee and the tax collector. Some of us may know the story. Both men approach the temple there to pray or to give alms or whatever the case may be." [24:22] (28 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "To be poor in spirit is to be found in the likeness of the prodigal son of Luke chapter 15. Many of us know the story of the prodigal son. A man, a father has two sons. And his youngest son comes to him and demands his share of the inheritance. Which is basically like saying, Dad, I wish you were dead and gone already. So I could get my money and do what I want to do." [26:10] (19 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "To be poor in spirit is to be aware of your spiritual poverty. To recognize our own inability to get what we need most. And absolute need and dependence and reliance on God alone. The Greek word here for poor has connotations meaning to cringe back. To cower and to cover. The word picture is someone who crouches about wretchedly begging. What a word picture that is." [27:37] (29 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "Until Jesus is the only thing you want in your beggar hands, you are not poor in spirit. Which means the kingdom is not yours. Poor in spirit is a lot like the Field Museum in Chicago. Ever been to the Field Museum? It's huge. It's really big. I think. I've never been. But you know. There's a picture. So you can kind of see how big it is. The roadways. There's many ways to kind of approach the Field Museum." [29:46] (29 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
### Quotes for Members
1. "And God, would we walk in that truth. And as we walk in that truth, Lord, would it spur us on to come into Your presence all the more, knowing that we have access, knowing that we can come boldly into Your presence, where we will receive mercy and grace for our time, for our time of need. And so, in this moment of need, God, we lay these requests at Your feet." [03:01] (26 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "When we think about how we engage in the world, how we engage with our coworkers, our neighbors, our friends, and maybe even total strangers, would we be marked by a self-emptying, Christ-like humility that seeks not our own gain, but the good of others and the glory of God. When we think about how we engage, with our brothers and sisters in Christ, would we put every form and kind of pride aside?" [35:55] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "When we think about how we approach the throne of God, would we join the ranks of so many in Scripture who were absolutely faithful to God? Absolutely undone by the thought of being seen in all our mess and brokenness and sin by a holy, perfect, just God, and yet the one who welcomes us into His presence through faith in the life and death and resurrection of His Son, our Lord Jesus the Christ." [36:44] (37 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "Flourishing is fuller than fortunate and not fickle like happiness. Flourishing, I think, gets at least better to the heart of God for his people. When God created the universe and everything in it he did so with a particular design for his prized creation, Adam and Eve. He created them to live in and to experience daily his perfect peace what we call in the Hebrew word shalom and to do it according to his good design." [17:39] (28 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "And so friends, may we too learn in this helpless dependence on God every day. When we think about how we engage in the world, how we engage with our coworkers, our neighbors, our friends, and maybe even total strangers, would we be marked by a self-emptying, Christ-like humility that seeks not our own gain, but the good of others and the glory of God." [35:55] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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1. "We can't keep Your law close enough. We can't obey Your commandments close enough. We can't read the Bible enough, or pray enough, or go to church enough, or do anything enough that will earn standing before You, Holy God. And so it is my prayer and confession for us this morning simply, God, for the times that we have believed, or worse, thought we were able to earn our way into Your presence, would You have mercy on us?" [01:38] (37 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "Jesus says the one who lives in God's blessing and favor is the one who rids themselves of all forms of pride and opens themselves to receive whatever God would give. Jesus later depicts this poverty of spirit like this in Luke chapter 18. It's the story of the Pharisee and the tax collector. Some of us may know the story. Both men approach the temple there to pray or to give alms or whatever the case may be." [24:22] (28 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "To be poor in spirit is to be found in the likeness of the prodigal son of Luke chapter 15. Many of us know the story of the prodigal son. A man, a father has two sons. And his youngest son comes to him and demands his share of the inheritance. Which is basically like saying, Dad, I wish you were dead and gone already. So I could get my money and do what I want to do." [26:10] (19 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "To be poor in spirit is to be aware of your spiritual poverty. To recognize our own inability to get what we need most. And absolute need and dependence and reliance on God alone. The Greek word here for poor has connotations meaning to cringe back. To cower and to cover. The word picture is someone who crouches about wretchedly begging. What a word picture that is." [27:37] (29 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "Until Jesus is the only thing you want in your beggar hands, you are not poor in spirit. Which means the kingdom is not yours. Poor in spirit is a lot like the Field Museum in Chicago. Ever been to the Field Museum? It's huge. It's really big. I think. I've never been. But you know. There's a picture. So you can kind of see how big it is. The roadways. There's many ways to kind of approach the Field Museum." [29:46] (29 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
### Quotes for Members
1. "And God, would we walk in that truth. And as we walk in that truth, Lord, would it spur us on to come into Your presence all the more, knowing that we have access, knowing that we can come boldly into Your presence, where we will receive mercy and grace for our time, for our time of need. And so, in this moment of need, God, we lay these requests at Your feet." [03:01] (26 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
2. "When we think about how we engage in the world, how we engage with our coworkers, our neighbors, our friends, and maybe even total strangers, would we be marked by a self-emptying, Christ-like humility that seeks not our own gain, but the good of others and the glory of God. When we think about how we engage, with our brothers and sisters in Christ, would we put every form and kind of pride aside?" [35:55] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
3. "When we think about how we approach the throne of God, would we join the ranks of so many in Scripture who were absolutely faithful to God? Absolutely undone by the thought of being seen in all our mess and brokenness and sin by a holy, perfect, just God, and yet the one who welcomes us into His presence through faith in the life and death and resurrection of His Son, our Lord Jesus the Christ." [36:44] (37 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
4. "Flourishing is fuller than fortunate and not fickle like happiness. Flourishing, I think, gets at least better to the heart of God for his people. When God created the universe and everything in it he did so with a particular design for his prized creation, Adam and Eve. He created them to live in and to experience daily his perfect peace what we call in the Hebrew word shalom and to do it according to his good design." [17:39] (28 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
5. "And so friends, may we too learn in this helpless dependence on God every day. When we think about how we engage in the world, how we engage with our coworkers, our neighbors, our friends, and maybe even total strangers, would we be marked by a self-emptying, Christ-like humility that seeks not our own gain, but the good of others and the glory of God." [35:55] (27 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)
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