THe inner Heart of Gods Child

But just like it's just like the first of the

year just flipped over yesterday, and here we are in

another another month in the new year, the first Sunday,

Sunday of the second month.

Look at God, look at me dropping every now.

An he ain't you glad to be here today? Well,

we gonna get right into it, ah, man, let's get

right into it. Book of Matthews, very very very We

know about this because it's called the Beauty Twoes? Do

we know about this? Do we understand the Beauty Twoes? Well,

if you don't, we gonna find that. I didn't understand

the Beauty two at one time, but I understand it now.

God will give you the revelation of understanding, because you

know what God says. God says and all I get,

and He wants us to get an understanding.

Amen.

So Sunday, before that we talked about when when you

stay connected?

Amen.

And after we talked about after we talked about staying connected,

we talked about how to avoid what disconnects us, which

was saying Amen. So we talked about staying connected, and

the only way to stay connected is to avoid sining.

If we don't avoid saying, we get disconnected. So now

we're going to talk about the person that avoids sining

and the person that does avoid saying, what this person's

in a self should look like.

Amen.

The person that is connected is the one that avoids sin,

and that one that avoids saying, we're gonna talk about

how the inner self of that individual should look like

that avoid sin, Amen, and stays connected to God.

Amen.

So let us look at Matthews chapter five and starting

at verse one, and it says, this is the Sermon

on the Mountain, and this is Jesus, and it's it's

watch Jesus here and seeing the multitudes. And seeing the multitudes,

he went up into a mountain, and when he was

seat sack he and when he was set, his disciples

came under him. So he went when he saw the multitude,

He saw multitude, and so he had to get in

a position where he could see all of them, and

he had to get in position where all of.

Them could hear him. So he got up in the mountain.

When he spoke, his voice would carry because there was

so many folks that he had to talk to. And

when he got seated, his disciples came under him, and

he opened his mouth and taught them, saying, so Jesus.

When he opened his mouth, he began to teach how

you with me? And he said, Blessed.

Are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom

of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall

be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit

the earth. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst

after righteousness, for.

They shall be filled.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed

are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they should be called the

children of God. Are the sons?

Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake?

For theirs is the Kingdom of heaven. Blessed are ye when.

Men needs, say they? He said, ye, when men shall

revail you and persecute you, and shall say all man

of evil against you falsely for my sake, So what

does God tell us to do? Rejoice and be exceedingly glad,

for greatest your reward in heaven for soul. Persecuted they

the prophets which were before you. Can you say, man,

may be seated in the House of the Lord. I'm

gonna pick these apart for you. Hey man, I'm gonna

pick them apart and serve you a piece back piece.

Amen, so you won't miss nothing. Amen.

Somebody, Amen, you don't take all your food. If you

got man tatoes and green beanes, you might mix it

together and eat it, but you ain't gonna take it

all and put it in the pound, shove it down

your throat. You got the you, and you ain't gonna

take that chicken and shove it down. You're gonna break

it down, ain't. You're gonna break the steak down to

and eat it.

Right. So we're gonna break this word down and eat it. Amen.

And we're gonna talk about the heart of God's Child.

This is our title, the Heart of God's Child, because

this is the kind of heart you gotta have to

stay connected and avoid sining.

Amen. Amen.

So Jesus here he comes with an opening statement of

this sermon on the mound, and Jesus opening statement of

this sermon on the Mound indicate that this message deals

with the inner state of mind and heart that is

the indisispensable, absolute truth. Amen of Christian discipleship. It is

the absolute indispensable truth of Christian discipleship.

If you're a Christian.

Jesus' message here indicates the outward manas the station of

character and conduct of true believers and genuine disciples. Understand

it projects, Amen, this is the indispensable, absolute truth of

a Christian who is considered a disciple of Jesus Christ.

So with Jesus's teaching here, it will indicate what's on

the inside of you, Amen, Because all this that he

He's talked.

About about, the beauty ties.

Is the inner part of a child heart of God.

Are you with me?

And what's in you will come outwardly because it would

manifest its menisters, station will come out of your character

and conduct a man of every true believer and every

truth and genuine disciple. Listen to the words that I'm using,

genuine disciples of Christ.

You can't vary from this. I got to tell you

the truth.

Because this only way you're gonna really grow is with

the truth. Can't grow with half a truth, just like

you can't be a little pregnant. It's either the truth

of Us not you Ei the pregnant that he ain't

pregnant you can't be a little pregnant.

And you can't get a little truth. You gotta get

all the truth.

So this discermon that Jesus ministered on the Mount gives

proof to what is on the inside of a true believer.

It gives a genuine indication of what's on the inside

of them that are true believers and true disciples of

Jesus Christ.

True. I'm gonna use that word luck.

It's a way of true Christian. He told you, I'm

gonna use that word luck. Lives in God's eyes. It's

not the way a Christian lives in other people's eyes.

It's the way a Christian lives in God's eyes. Because

God's eyes that's looking at us is the only eyes

that matter. It don't matter how you live in my eyes,

you live in you know, some people, a whole lot

of folks in ministry try to live a certain way

in the eyes are faster, and his eyes are crooked,

and his eyes ain't living the way he's supposed to

be live in.

Your eyes.

Because your eyes got a certain way that your pastor

supposed to live and project itself, and he got eyes

that he believed you's supposed to live, and what he's

supposed to be living believing the way you's supposed to live,

and what you's supposed to be believing that he's supposed

to be living is what God sees in his eyes.

You're thoroughly confused now because it messed me up. So

it's not the way we look in somebody else's eyes,

but the way we look in God's eyes.

Because we got to understand the way of the world.

Contradicts God's way a Christians. It contradicts the way of

Christian should live. Ay man, God's way that Christians should

be living in the world is the way the Word

of God tells us how to live a man. Just

like this morning when we're talking about blessed he that

fear the Lord, that one that reverenced God, and that

one that walketh in the way of God. And then

it goes forward and he begins to tell you what

your blessings is for walking in the ways of God.

But I reiterated, the only way you're gonna get that

you need to know how to also walk in His ways.

We're gonna be blessed for walking in His ways. And

it indicated what the blessings are. But I had to

indicate to you that you have to know the way

to walk. You can't walk any kind of way in

God's eyes.

And think it's pleasing to God, and think that you are.

Totally indispensable and absolute a true Christian of the way

God sees it. Because when we talk about being a Christian,

you gotta look like Jesus. When God look at you,

you gotta look like Jesus. If you don't look like him,

you don't look like no Christian. What does Christian mean?

Somebody tell me to be?

What to be? What to be? What y'all a loud them?

If y'all shout loud on that of the baseball game

and the loudest one in it, I can't even hear her.

All Right, there we go to be what?

That's what it means. It don't mean to be like

you are like me, I like her, or like him,

or be like Mike. It don't mean to be like Beyonce.

It means to be like Christ. Every Christian should be

striving to be like Christ.

The only reason he came here to show us the example.

And to save our souls. So we gotta understand that

the way of the world contradicts God's way a Christian

should be living in the world.

So we got the beauty tows here, beauty tooth. What

is the beauty too? The beauty too. It's a state

of comput happiness and joy.

The beauty tooths, it's a state of complete I said,

it's a state of complete happiness and joy.

That's why I said, blessed Are they blessed? Are they blessed?

Are they? What does that mean?

Blessed means what I told you this morning? Blessed means happy?

Are they happy? So happy is a description of the

believers in a condition as a result of the work

of God.

That's a sea live moment there.

See, when you're blessed of the Lord, there is an

inner condition that goes along with the fact that you

are blessed of the Lord. What is that in a

condition that in a condition is the result of the

work of God on the inside of you? Hey man,

So the beauty tooths do not understand the beauty tooth.

The beauty tooth.

Ain't talking to a man and trying to tell.

Him how to be saved. Amen.

The beauty toths do not show a man how to

be saved, but Rather, the beauty tooth are describing the

characteristics of one who has already been saved. Is describing

a save indi visual is describing the heart of a

child of God with God's heart in him.

Let's break it down for.

The vibn Since blessed are the poor in spirit, The

poor in spirit are the opposite of the proud. Are

haughty in spirit? That man that think more of himself

than he is. They have been humbled by the grace

of God.

Amen.

They're not poor in spirit because they because they in

a state of depression, they're in the They're poor in

spirit because they're humbled to God, and they're humbled by

the grace of God, and they have knowledge of their sin.

So you got to first get humbled to understand your sining.

When you're halty, you don't see your sin cause you

be like the Republican.

I pray twice a day, pay my time and my offer,

give to the poor.

I'm greater than that man right there. That's the haughty.

But the other man said, he beat against his chest,

recognizing that he wasn't needed worthy of being in the

presence of God. That's humble, that's haughty. That's recognizing you

got sin. So they acknowledge their sin, and therefore there

their position with God is that God can save them.

Blessed are they that mourn.

This is a deep depth of one's humility and realization

of one's unworthiness.

Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.

This is one that realizes one's unworthiness before God. The

one that don't come so proud like I did all

you're telling me to do the long Why you ain't

gave me my cake so I can eat it now?

You got the wrong spirit. Hey man, you're not.

You're not in a deep humiliation, humiliation of state, not realizing,

you're not realizing you think you worthy of whatever. You're

supposed to do this for me. This is one that

has true sorrow. They'll truly have sorrow. They if they sin,

their truly sorry, heartfelt God, heartfelt sorrow for the sin

they have committed.

Amen.

You got folks that only say this sorry because they

got caught. This ain't him and they know that only

God removes sorrow for sin, and only God can forgive

and erase it. And only God can give comfort to

those who suffer for His sake. They come to understand

that those that mourn blessed are the.

Meek, not the weak, but the meek.

They are the general that show humility and trust in God,

and they don't think too hardly of themselves.

They the meek in God, ay Man, the meat there

is in the meet.

There is the balance between physical and the spiritual.

Promises of the Kingdom of God.

Not only do they inherit the earth, but the blessedness

of Heaven. So here the kingdom that Jesus teaches is

not only yet to come.

They understands he teaches about the kingdom that's yet to come.

But not only do they understand that teaching, but it

is that they understand that the Kingdom of God is

in them now, not only yet to come, but in

them now. Blessed are they wish to hunger? They ain't

talking about after no steak and no baked potato.

This is those that have also.

A deep, intense desire for personal.

Justice and righteousness. See, I'll be.

Watching TV and I know it ain't nothing but the show,

but I'll be clocking out when they ain't doing right

by the other person on the show. My wife has

to remind me it's just a TV show. It's it's

a TV show. But see that's that's a compassion that, uh,

that a child of God has.

In his heart.

You know, like even though it's a show and it

ain't really real, it's still you know, it sends a

message to you that that.

That is wrong with that. I'm I'm appalled to that.

But it's just a show.

So this person here is intense, has an intense desire

for personal justice and righteousness. And this gives proof to

the spiritual rebirth of this person who completely does God's

will with complete obedience. Oh it hurt right there, with.

Complete obedience to God, no matter what nobody else say.

And I'm gonna tell you something, and back were back

at it again. The only way to have complete obedience

to God is to know what God says to be

obedient to which means you have to know the word.

You have to pick this thing up seven days a week.

Are somewhere in the vicinity of more than one on Sunday, heymen,

and this one their soul shall be completely satisfied, ay man,

completely satisfied. Blessed are the merciful, the merciful, the merciful,

those who have been born again by the mercy of God.

And because the divine love of God has been extended

to them, they have the work of the Holy Spirit

in them. And they and that they produce a mercy.

Y'all gotta watch this whole thing about this mercy. They

produce a mercy they must.

E etin to others.

They have a mercy produced in them by the Holy

Spirit that they must extend to other folks. Heymen, the

same mercy that God has extended to them. Mercy is

and it implies generosity. This with mercy implies generosity. It

also implies forgiveness and compassion and a desire to remove

the wrong as well as the suffering of people. But

this promise does not guarantee mercy from other people.

That's the part of the ones you get. I showed

him mercy, spost show me mercy. Ain't no guarantee.

You got to show the mercy whether they show it

or not. You called to show and to share the

mercy and have the mercy.

And even if they.

Don't show it to you, you gotta continue showing the

mercy to them, because this is the merciful.

Blessed outdated, Blessed are the pure in heart. These are

truly saved people.

Those who are truly saved shall see God. They are

the pure in heart. Their lives have been transformed by

the grace of God. They are not sinless, but their

position before them. They're not sinless now, heymen, and not

sin less but their position before. They actively worked for peace,

to cause reconciliation, to end bitterness and strife, who solving problems,

to maintaining peace at all times, reflecting nothing but the

character of God.

Amen, Blessing our They.

Which are persecuted, but only for righteousness. Man, you can

get persecuted two ways, for what you done, did wrong,

and for the righteousness of God.

But this one was talking about.

Those being persecuted for the righteousness of God. Amen, And

those that are persecuted for the righteousness of God's sake,

for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven. When you live

for God, persecution should not surprise you.

Let me say that again, When you live for.

God, persecution should not surprise you.

And the only reason why most folks are that live for.

God are surprised by persecution because they don't realize that

they are. They don't realize that they believe that they

shouldn't be persecuted because they do live for God.

That's what I'm trying to say, that I fumbled over

all of it.

So when I live for God, I shouldn't be persecuted.

But no, if you live for God, you shouldn't be surprised.

You're gonna be persecuted because God told you, and if

you ain't read it, then that's your problem. That's why

it's a surprise for you. Also that you didn't know

it was gonna happen. And if you had been in

the word of God, you would have known it was

gonna happen. So when you live for God, persecution should

not surprise you, because Jesus clearly teaches that such a

life causes his people to be in direct contrast to

the world in which in which we live. So the

world's gonna persecute us, and not long the world befolk

sitting right beside you in the House of God.

Going persecute you.

So when persecution comes, don't be surprised, because even though

persecution comes, God will make up for the suffering when

we stay the loyal to Him. So when you get persecuted,

don't go to the left. Keep God's word in your persecution, hey, man,

in your persecution, continue to hold on the God, continue

to stay loyal to God, because God already have a

way out for your persecution. And when you get out

of it, there's a blessing.

Waiting on you.

As a matter of fact, there's one inside.

The persecution bless their ye. I got it back up again.

Now I got to get back to the persecution. We

can't handle persecution. We can't handle slamder.

Some of us are soul passionate that we can't even handle.

Somebody not liking us can't handle it. Why don't like me?

I ain't never did nothing to them?

You need to straighten your back up, get your mind

right with God. You just said you ain't never did

nothing to him? What you upset about? The enemy got

you on the run and won't let you let you

turn around to see that you shouldn't be running.

You said, he ain't never did nothing to him? Wound

like me? What your crying for?

You know you ain't never did nothing to him? Then

you know they ain't got no right to persecute you.

So now they persecuting you for righteousness sake? You ain't

never did nothing to them. And some people just gonna

gonna gona not like you because you won't. You won't

help them in the way they want to be helped.

You ain't give them the five dollars because they because

you already realize they ain't trying to do nothing use you.

You look like an ATM machine for them.

After a while, you realize they keep drawing the money

after the machine. You realize something. Ain't nobody putting money

back in the machine. ATM machines have to be restored.

After a while. You ain't gonna keep going to.

An ATM machine down there in Regions Bank, and don't

nobody come in there and replenish it.

You're gonna come up her one day and it's gonna

say out of order, temporary at order.

Don't allow Oh God is saying is, don't allow persecution.

To dim your loyalty to Him.

And that's what people are doing today. Like I'm saying

this morning. People think people treating the churches like uh,

I can't never remember the name of the street Missouri.

They treating.

They treat the House of God like Missouri Street. Missouri

Street got all kind of restaurants on. So if they

get mad at McDonald's, they go to bird King so

they can have it their way. If they get mad

at harvest time, they gonna go the greatest thing whoever

mark somewhere. If they get mad that, they're gonna go

to another Baptist so and so see where. If the

fries are cold at McDonald's, they gonna go to bird

King and see if they're hot. And in doing all that,

there's no loyalty to God because you jumping from church

to church because it the way you like it, because

they appreciate what you want to hear, because they're attacking

the way you live, the wrong way in the sight

of God. So now you gotta go to another restaurant

and get what you want that set its sides your flesh.

The milkshake is too sweeted Burger King, so you go

to Wendy's appreciating that and talking about me living with

this woman. I ain't married to you, man, It ain't

ain't all that, ain't necessary. I'm going somewhere else, going

on somewhere else, still going to hell.

Wherever you go. If you don't, if they don't take.

Heed to it, don't matter where you jump, go on

over there and get your flesh.

Fieled. I thought we supposed to be denying.

The flesh can't handle suffering. Suffering is a guarantee when

you follow Christ, I said, a guarantee.

Can't handle it. It wouldn't let my.

Daughter in the choir, s she in the choir. Ain't

ever let her sing her song. I'm go'a go to

the church. That'll let her sing.

Go on to the church. May't let her sing. They

let her sing. Let all the sisters sing. They let

the sisters direct.

Now everything go on over there, m hm, go on

over there. Sisters coming there. Sisters ain't gonna go nowhere

until they get comfortable. That's why sisters are starting ministries,

so they can go where they're comfortable. The House of

God is diminishing on a daily basis because of suffering.

They don't want to fluffing.

They want they flesh to be comfortable in the house

of God.

Your fleshing. If your flesh is comfortable in the house

of God, you and you ain't in the house of God.

Because your flesh shouldn't be comfortable in the house of God.

Because the flesh is evident with God. It's an enemity

of God's So ain't the way your flesh should be

comfortable in God's house? If it is, it ain't God's house.

They ain't doing nothing to tell you about your flesh.

They patting your they telling you so they could pet

your poets.

They don't care that about you.

They want your money, so they don't want you to

suffer in there.

I told you a while back, Assist.

They opened up a ministry, and he had a thousand

members on the first day that he opened the doors

of the House of the Devil. The first day he

opened the house, his first opening, he had a thousand

people come up in there, a thousand people like him.

No sises, abominations. We're in there, so I know it

in God's house a house.

Full of abomination. Because they don't want to go nowhere.

Somebody tell them about their acts. They don't want to

go nowherehere they flesh is not going to be condemned.

And there's no way you can set up in God's

house to not feel some kind of a pressure of

the word of God against what you're doing. If you

ain't convicted, it's something wrong with you.

Even the words I vary that I preach on Sunday.

At some point, I'm convicted.

Blessed with men shall reveal you and persecute you, and

say all manner of evil against you.

Here's the key. Falsely for my sake, falsely for my sake.

Again, Jesus warns them of persecution and folks talking about them,

blaspheming them, slandering them.

But this is a twofold persecution.

It's physical, and it is a personal attack of slander,

where people will mock you and lie on you.

Like they lied on me when all came here.

They gonna do it just as they did him. They

lied on me to sister Lane. That's why Sister Lane

didn't like me when she first met me.

But it came around with it. I gotta use your

sister Lane. Be quiet, backer. That's what happens when folks

lie on you. Other folks begin to believe the line.

They aren't like you, hey man, But blessed are they

when folks do that to you, Because he says, rejoice,

Jesus gives us a description of the way to handle persecution.

He gives us a way, he says, be happy in it,

be very glad, because grat is our reward in heaven.

Great is our reward in heaven. In other words, we

are to focus our attention on the eternal destiny of

all things and not on the persecution of what people

try to put upon us are the persecution and sorrow

that comes against us. Our focus is always still to

stay on the Lord. That's why he said bless it.

So you can't stay focused. If you literally attack you

and you take on the attack. You have to let

yourself take on the attack. It's up to you, even

though they persecute you. It's up to you to accept

the attack, how to be blessed of it?

Like God said, be happy?

And if you stay happy during the persecution, you can

stay focused on him. Depressed people ain't a focus on God,

then I focused.

When you get out of focus.

Then you can't have stand connected to you and you

can't avoid it. But if you stay blessed is he

in the Lord, you can stay.

Focused on him. Hey man, let me conclude, So I ask.

You if God is as real as he claims, if

the Bible is true?

Y'all getting the ifs in this? Huh? Let me say

it again.

So I ask you if God is as real as

he claims to thee. If the Bible is true, if

heaven is to be gained, then no temporary earthly trouble

or persecution can deprive the children of God of the joy,

of the eternal glory that lies ahead.

If that's true, Amen, I'm done.

And so pss so now you know, so, now you know. Well,

let us all stand