As bem-aventuranças
Mat 5:1-13
O ser do discipulado interior
ATITUDES do Reino
Viv Grigg
O contexto do ser feliz
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Dando a luz a
comunidade
 Definindo
valores(Estilo de
vida)
 Definindo
os universais
 Aprendendo com o
homem sabio de Israel,
cada bem-aventuranca
do Velho Testamento
The Disciplines of Jesus
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Como as facetas de um
diamante
 Isso
e usado como base
para a etica
 Impossivel, a nao ser com
a habitacao do Espirito
 Voce conhece a presenca
esmagadora ou voce esta
bloqueado?
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Cada bem-aventuranca inclui:
 Uma
bencao e uma maldicao
 Uma descricao do carater de Deus
 Uma promessa
Mateus 5:3-12
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Felizes sao os pobres de espirito,
Pois deles e o Reino dos ceus.
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Felizes os que choram,
Pois eles serao consolados.
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Felizes os mansos,
Pois herdarao a terra.
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Felizes os que tem fome e sede
de justica,
Pois serao saciados.
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Felizes os misericordiosos,
Pois obterao misericordia.
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Felizes os puros de coracao,
Pois verao a Deus.
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Felizes os pacificadores,
Pois serao chamados filhos de Deus.
10 Felizes os que sofrem
perseguicao por causa da justica,
Pois deles e o Reino dos ceus.
11 Felizes sao quando os insultarem
e perseguirem e os acusarem
12 falsamente por causa do meu
nome.
Se regozijam e sejam felizes, pois
grande e o seu galardao nos ceus.
Luke 6:20-26 Blessings…
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"Blessed are you who are poor, for the
kingdom of God is yours.
Blessed are you who are now hungry, for
you will be satisfied.
Blessed are you who are now weeping, for
you will laugh.
Blessed are you when people hate you, and
when they exclude and insult you, and
denounce your name as evil on account of
the Son of Man. Rejoice and leap for joy on
that day! Behold, your reward will be great in
heaven. For their ancestors treated the
prophets in the same way.
…and Woes
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But woe to you who are
rich, for you have received
your consolation.
But woe to you who are
filled now, for you will be
hungry.
Woe to you who laugh now,
for you will grieve and
weep.
Woe to you when all men
shall speak well of you, for
their ancestors treated the
false prophets in this way."
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How would Jesus view
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Os pobres de espirito
Meu casa em
Tatalon,
Manila
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Lukas disse, “Felizes sao os pobres de espirito”
E
uma classe dos pobres, as pobres que trabalhar
 Out of their poverty they responded to God
 The term had developed during the prophetic period
as Israel had urbanised, and the society polarised
between the oppressive rich and the oppressed poor.
 No so pessoas ricas que tem probreza do espirito
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The opposite of poverty of spirit
is the spirit of the rich.
 The rich are always right.
 They are independent of others and of God.
 They have a sense of power and control.
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The poor in spirit have an internal poverty,
 They are people who depend on
 recognising their spiritual need,
 their lack of spirituality,
 their
frailty.
God,
Is poverty blessed?
No, the poor are blessed –
those poor who respond to God
 The Conundrum (Luke 6)
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Poverty is a curse
 The poor are blessed
 Riches are a blessing
 But the rich are cursed
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The beatitudes are an
expansion of the
blessings on the
godly poor.
Felizes os que
choram …
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God weeps, God sits where
men and women sit, where
people hurt. He dwelt (e.g. Tumbakan).
The dying disciple wears
sackcloth in their heart for the
sins of his/her people.
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They cry over the slave trade in
Manila,
over the putrid stench of the
alcoholic in their arms
over the pain of the childless
orphans of Rwanda.
They pour out their soul for
the hungry (Isa 58:10).
Wailing- Bernard Hinds
Abencoados sao os humildes…
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Humildade morre para o poder e
escolhe a falta de poder.
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Nao se pode rebaixar os humildes
pois eles escolheram estar em
baixo.
A dureza do interior e amaciada
pela gentil compaixao e o
espirito gentil em
relacionamentos.
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Como borracha por fora e aço por
dentro
Mulheres assim sao lindas deante
de Deus (1 Pe 3:4).
 (como buscando agua)
Humildade - M (Feuerteufel)
by Karin Kuhlmann (Germany)
…eles herdarão a terra.
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A pessoa humilde nao precisa lutar pelos seus prorios
direitos
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Este e o carater central do missionario de sucesso.
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Eles escolheram nao ter direitos.
Essas pessoas sem poder sao as que sao realmente poderosas.
O humilde pode cruzar qualquer barreira.
Eles herdarao a terra.
Com uma pequena obediencia como entrar numa favela,
vem ccentenas de trabalhos – essa e a nossa heranca,
1000’s – se escolhermos o caminho mais baixo.
Abencoados aqueles que tem fome
e sede de justica
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Humildade e fraqueza sem o desejo pela
verdade de Deus.
 Esta
fome nao e uma fome por sabedoria, mas por
sabedoria em acao – um compromisso a acao por
justica.
 Justica nao e somente vertical
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E tanto morrer para a auto-justica en confiar na
justica de Deus.
E
uma fome por santidade.
e.g. land rights consultation
Blessed are the merciful
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Mercy balances the drive for righteousness
 It
is death to cruelty, the harsh word, the rigid
hardness that blames others, demands from others
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A tenderness
 that
easily forgets and forbears, daily choosing to
forgive (Eph 4:32)
 It walks softly among the bruised souls of mankind
(Prov 15:1; Isa 42:3).
Blessed are the pure in heart
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The heart is the inner shrine,
the temple of God
The pure heart is fixed on
God alone, undivided
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By desires to please self
By courting the approval of
others
By the cares of owning and
buying and selling
By the delight in a wife,
husband, family
By pride of position
These do not steal away that
pure devotion to him (1 John
2:15,16)
Blessed are the peacemakers
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The cross is a cross of pro-active
reconciliation
Peacemakers are able to speak
the truth in love
They are not peaceful people
watching television
They enter into conflict when it
solves the sins that destroy
people and communities.
(e.g. Raineer)
or
Blessed are the persecuted
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We are hated
Friends are irritated by our goodness
Families hate those who choose poverty and
powerlessness, it goes against their goals for success
Communities hate us: A pure love for Jesus is deeply
offensive to those who love self and darkness
(e.g. CIA or Marxist)
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Politicians seek to destroy those who would destroy their
oppressions
Yet we always rejoice and overcome the hatred of our
closest friends and families with love (II Cor 6:10)
And the promises
From righteous poverty to ….
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The Kingdom of heaven
From pain to comfort
From meek response to opression to inheriting the earth
From oppression and injustice, they will be filled with
righteousness, see the transformation of the nations
From cruel slavery, they will find mercy, forgiveness
They will see God, the centre of the Kingdom
They will be adopted as sons and daughters
Persecuted but theirs is the Kingdom of heaven
Rich man, poor man…
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Can we be rich externally
and poor in spirit?
Jesus chose poverty in
birth, life and death, laying
aside his wealth.
 He
asks us to follow.
 Flee earthly riches
Internal
Poverty
External
Poverty
?External
Internal
Humility
Humility
Kingdom Economics
Advice for the Middle Class
Earn much
 Consume little
 Hoard nothing
 Give generously
 Celebrate life
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Grigg, 1984,
Companion to the
Poor, Authentic
•Production
•Consumption
•Simplicity
•Redistribution
•Focus on Deity