Bilingual | Grupo de Familia | Mateo 5:1-12

Welcome.

Two men in English.

Aldoches.

in English.

So on Sunday we went up the mountain uh

with Jesus

and um we are here now uh we read the

first 12 verses of the sermon on the

mount uh the sermon of the mountain uh

and so this sermon extends all the way

to chapter 7 verse 29

and in our way of trying to honor uh the

scripture uh to trying to create a space

to listen to God and to one another.

We're going to go step by step uh in

this teaching. And so this first 12

verses we we read and so um in just a

second we'll read it again. Um and then

we have some some questions for

conversation

uh for those who were there on Sunday

and then those that are hearing it again

or for the first time here today.

So a couple things, one of the things we

noted on Sunday was that um the

biatitudes

uh in many ways are describing the life

and the mission of Jesus.

And when we put it in that context, I

think it brings uh the biatitudes in a

new in a new light in a new way of

practically seeing how we can follow

Jesus in that way. Another thing that we

noted is that the biatitudes is a

description of the type of people, the

kind of humans that the kingdom of

heaven uh forms, expects and creates.

Um, we noted once again, what does

Matthew mean when he says kingdom of

heaven? And we asked the question, is

the kingdom of God here or is it on its

way? And our answer was CC yes to both.

Um,

so we um we we take note of that because

we will see this phrase kingdom of

heaven all throughout uh Matthew.

Uh we've also um noted that this is

taking place at a mountain and uh

mountains uh are echoes to the Old

Testament places where God uh reveals

Godself encounters human provides and

directs. And so as Moses went up the

mountain to receive

um a covenant from God, we now see not a

human being necessarily,

but God as human being, Godself going up

the mountain, not to receive, but now to

give. And so Jesus himself teaches his

disciples what it means to be his

disciples. And we should be aware that

there's large crowd present. But Mark or

sorry, Matthew is intentionally

letting us know that Jesus is teaching

the disciples, but the crowds are

present. Meaning that this is a very

public uh teaching. But we can also kind

of lean into that and say, are we crowd

members? Are we faithful disciples?

Am I being formed in the likeness of

Jesus? Do these biatitudes

describe my posture? Um am I allowing

the Holy Spirit to form in me these

biatitudes? So those are the type of

things that we could uh look into um

consider and explore.

Another thing we need to note it are our

make a connection that when Jesus uh

confronts Satan in the third temptation,

it takes place at a mountain. Uh Jesus

exposes and rejects uh that fall, that

false um presentation that Staint

offers. Uh but now we see what God is

like and what God does in mountains. He

begins to teach. And of all the things

that Jesus could have said, there's

something to it where the first thing he

says is,

"Blessed are those who are poor in

spirit." And then we looked at all of

the eight or nine biatitudes depending

on how you count them. Um, and how

they're they're the the first one in

verse three and the last one in verse 10

end with the same phrase. And so meaning

that that same phrase implies to all of

them. And then we also uh can tell that

there there's an interconnection between

the uh the references to the future and

the references to the present which goes

back to kingdom of heaven. It's here.

It's ongoing but it's also breaking in.

it's also going to be completely

fulfilled um at some point. So, all of

that is kind of taking place there. Um I

hope you're enjoying slowing down

reading reading in context, allowing the

scripture to read us more than us read

the scripture.

um allowing us to rehear

Jesus's words from Jesus and from his

tone, not from past experiences perhaps

or human tones. So

maybe I can stop here. Um we've heard

Jesus say, "Repent for the kingdom of

heaven is near." And we've tried to do

some good work to hear that sacred call

of repentance, not with human tones, not

with a tone of threat, but from Jesus

himself,

an invitation.

Um, and we can then ask, am I turning to

God? You know, when Jesus calls us to

repent,

uh, he's always going to get an answer

from us. It's either yes or no.

Maybe we can say not yet or we can say I

don't think I can. That's an answer. Uh

but Jesus is inviting us and now he's

describing what this kingdom is like and

what does it mean to be a person of

repentance and we see the descriptions

of the posture, the attitudes, the being

uh that takes place there in the

biatitudes. So a lot of great things

taking place. But let's listen to the

word of God once again. Let's listen to

God once again. Let's listen to one

another and see what surprises us

tonight. So take 30 seconds to be still.

Someone read Matthew 5 verse 1-2

Matthew 5:1–2

in Spanish.

And then someone read Matthew 5 verse

Matthew 5:1–12

1-12 in English. then take another 30

seconds of silence and then you can

attend to the questions here. So,

So that is what we will do. And when you

are done and before the night ends, if

you could read verse 13 through verse

16, there's no questions for that, but

just read it out loud. That's going to

be what we're going to study on Sunday.

Peace

out.

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