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00:00 I I suppose Jesus knows that is what is foremost in many people's minds and intention. They want to be happy in
00:07 life. So Jesus began with this uh batitudes. Yeah. So the word blessed
00:13 Jesus used in the sermon uh came from the word Greek word mario which means to be happy is not used for god more used
00:21 for men. Yeah. But it has a spiritual connotations. Yeah. Uh we need you you
00:26 want to be happy and blessed by God. So it's a self-contained happiness. The
00:31 idea that happiness is independent of our circumstances. That's the word Marius used.
00:38 So blessed are they. This is Jesus definition of true happiness is blessedness. Yeah. So
00:45 blessed are they. For those who are poor in spirit for yours is the kingdom of heaven.
00:53 For those who are mourn you will be comforted. And those who are meek, you inherit the earth. And those who are uh
01:01 thirst and hunger for righteousness, you'll be filled. You are merciful, you'll be shown mercy. If you are pure
01:07 in heart, you will see God. And if you are peacemaker, you'll be called children of God. And again, those who
01:14 are persecuted for righteousness, theirs is the kingdom of heaven. So these seven
01:20 components are Jesus' definition of happiness or blessedness.
01:27 It is counterculture. It is not what we are used to to the world is even
01:33 mindboggling. How can this be? How can we live this way? You know, but Jesus is not uh manleaser. Yeah. So he tells us
01:41 the truth. He is the way, the truth, and the life. He tells us the way to
01:47 abundant life and this these are kind of like a formula how we can have that
01:54 abundant life the blessedness. So the the first
02:00 uh not first the bottom three yeah comforted inherited speak about something that happened inside us things
02:08 that change transform and the the higher part is things that related to God uh
02:14 our position uh before God our position on in this world the possession that we
02:20 have in eternity and the provision that what we will see in the future. Yeah. So
02:25 these are encapsulate what it means to be a blessed person or with true
02:32 happiness. So I may not have everything in life. Uh I may not have everything I
02:37 want in life but I'm blessed enough to have all I need. So it's good. It is blessed if you can come to this level
02:43 and say this you know I don't need everything in life but I'm blessed
02:48 enough to have all that I need and I just need to be grateful.
02:55 A person who has been transformed internally realize his or her position uh by the
03:05 grace of God knowing his future the hope that he has knowing who God the father
03:12 is to to him. Sometimes we we come to a point you know you know we we often read
03:18 the Bible or books or listen to sermon it's just okay information yeah facts but sometimes some of these facts
03:26 penetrate into our hearts and we begin to realize something deeper than what's
03:32 on the surface and many of times in the worship it happens to I think many of us it happened to me too so sometimes tears
03:38 roll down in the eyes because the truth suddenly hit you and you realize and you become so appreciative
03:46 of God or you realize you're so sinful before God and this transformation or
03:52 realization happen and you you can climb up on the on the hill like this and say
03:57 you know I'm so thankful that I'm blessed that God is so good to me that I have more than I deserve.
04:09 So blessedness, yeah, there are three things uh I'd like to uh bring from the sermon on the mount. What is blessedness
04:16 and how we ought to what we ought to do to receive this blessedness? First is to
04:22 be dependent and is taken from this being poor in the spirit.
04:28 To be poor in spirit means we acknowledge, we agree, we realize that we are
04:35 spiritually bankrupt. That means there's nothing that we have
04:41 or that we can do that can earn any mark or any point
04:47 for spirituality. We are bankrupt. Nothing nothing we have to earn anything uh
04:54 spiritually and that because of that you nowhere to turn to you you turn to God. So we have to be then dependent on God.
05:04 Paul in Romans says, "For I know that good itself does not dwell in me, that
05:10 is in my sinful nature." Or another version says, "I know that in me
05:15 dwelleth no good thing." Do we have we at any time felt like what
05:23 Paul felt in me dwell no good things?
05:29 Why is it so? Because in Isaiah say when we continue to sin against your ways. You were angry. How then can we be
05:35 saved? All of us have become like one who is unclean. All our righteous acts are like filthy rats.
05:44 That means yes you may have done some you and I may have done some good things. Serve in a church or give
05:50 charity and so on. Good. These are good things to do. But if we have sinned, we
05:57 continue to have sinned. What is this good things that we are doing? They are like filthy rags. Take example. Yeah,
06:04 take example. Maybe you have a nephew that come from um far away study in the
06:10 college maybe here. Stay with you, right? You you're gracious enough to open your house for him to stay with
06:16 you. After a while, you realize things things go missing in your house. You know, some
06:22 expensive stuff. And then you and your wife realize don't know where it's gone. Then your daughter also say this is gone
06:28 that is gone and you um your nephew did not know that you have a secret CCTV
06:33 right so you can play and you watch oh this nephew actually has been cheating
06:38 and stealing things in your house but in actual life he's very good to you he
06:44 come back you come back he give you a cup of tea maybe he clean the house maybe he arranged for slippers and shoe
06:50 nicely maybe he fold the clothes so he's very good doing things around the house helping in the house showing that he
06:56 appreciate that you let him stay in the room but behind your back he's doing something else right cheating against
07:02 you stealing things you so all this righteous thing that he did in your house how do you feel
07:09 what good is it serving nicely arranged this and that nicely in the house but he's actually cheating you uh stealing
07:16 things from your house so all your so-called righteous acts are like filthy racks
07:22 so in a in the same way the way God look at Yeah, you have some righteous acts,
07:27 but we are still sinful. We still have wrongdoing. We still have we still harbor hatred in our hearts. We still
07:33 have this and that. So, our righteous acts are like filthy rats before God.
07:38 That's what I think Isaiah meant. Look, look at this parable of a Pharisee
07:44 and a tax collector. Pharisee, you know, they they they feel they are so righteous, right? So, they thank God I'm
07:50 not like the other people, the robbers, the evildoers and so on. Even like this tax collector, you know, I fast twice a
07:56 week, you know, I give a 10. All I get, I do done everything right. But the tax collector stood at distance. He would
08:02 not even look to the heaven. He bit his breast. You know, God have mercy on me. You know, I'm a sinner. So when we stand
08:10 before God, all of us are spiritually bankrupt. Some of us realize, some of us
08:17 don't realize, some of us still hang on to, hey, I have done this, I have done that, you know. I'm sure God is pleased
08:24 with me. But do we have sin? Do we still have
08:30 sin? Yeah, all of us have sin. However try we
08:35 want to overcome, we still do have sin. We don't want to, but we still fall into
08:40 sin every now and then. Thank to Jesus, thank to God that we are delivered. But
08:46 what about our righteous acts that the things that we do, they do not earn any single points. Yeah. They are filthy
08:54 wrecks before God. So Paul says, "Whatever we whatever
09:02 gains to me and I consider loss, what more I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of
09:07 knowing Christ Jesus. For who say I have lost all things, I consider them garbage."
09:14 You know, Paul said in that passage, you know, uh I'm a you know, I'm a chosen
09:19 nation. You know, I'm a Hebrew of Hebrews. I was circumcised on the eight days, you know, in regards to law. I'm
09:25 like a f Pharisee. In regards to righteousness, I'm faultless, you know. So, he put all his credentials or his
09:33 CVs, you know. You know, I deserve uh approval from God much more than anyone
09:38 else. I wonder whether any of us may think uh the same thing. Hey, you know, I was
09:44 baptized when I was a baby. You know, I came to school uh Sunday school since I was young. I even read Bible cover to
09:53 cover more than 10 times. I I serve in the alpha or gamma. You
09:58 know, I have this and that. You know, I have my CVs and credentials to show. Better than many of you.
10:06 But to Paul, these are all garbage. Nothing. Yeah. Before God, we are
10:11 nothing. Take example the prodigal son. You you
10:17 heard about this story that you know the youngest son wants his his portion of his inheritance uh inheritance to go
10:23 away. The the father loved him reluctantly gave to him and he spent his money gallivanting uh getting a lot of
10:30 friends who just wanted his money womanizing drinking and all that. And he
10:36 after he lost all his money maybe gambling and all that he realized he just had to be a worker and tending to
10:41 the pigs. And he was of course depressed uh devastated dissolution. Where are all
10:48 his friends? Where are all those happiness that he used to have? Reality is this. Reality is all those didn't
10:55 give you happiness. You are down to where you are now. Destitute.
11:01 Yeah. Nothing uh for him. So the prodigious son realized he was bankrupt.
11:07 He has done something wrong. Nothing before him. So he the prodant had it.
11:13 Realization of spiritual banks. You and I must have had it.
11:20 That is one of the condition of being blessed to be to realize we are
11:27 spiritually bankrupt. you know some some years ago uh maybe about 25 years ago when I was a new
11:33 Christian I can't remember what incident but I was renting a small room somewhere
11:38 in Sububanga after you know usual work and come back
11:43 I I came back to my room small little room and I thought back of things that I
11:48 said either to my friend or colleague I can't remember but I was so uh sorry for
11:56 what I said because it's it showed me that I was very proud, very egoistic for saying those things. Yeah. And I
12:02 remembered I I knelt down uh in my room. I bang my hand on the bed. Why am I like
12:08 this? You know, why have I not changed? You know, I I asked God, you know, why can't I change? Why am I still so proud
12:15 and uh felt very bad for myself and very angry with myself? Yeah. And I felt that
12:22 I I at some point I felt that I think I'm the most terrible sinner in the world. I think because of this that I
12:30 have that I cannot change and there was another time where in the vasity uh I I
12:37 was reading a book called unconditional love I think it's John Pow also yeah and in the course of reading that book yeah
12:44 we ought to have perfect unconditional love to everyone and that also towards the exam time also there's a stress of
12:50 exam and uh I brought stress upon myself uh this requirement and this exam and
12:57 all Right. I I could I was almost like couldn't take it. And then I was walking around
13:02 campus. One elder uh uh one year senior brother came. Hi Sin, how are you? Now
13:09 that how are you is like wow is like liberating. So I began to tell him you
13:15 know I really don't think I can be a Christian. I can't have this unconditional love that we are supposed
13:20 to have. I I cannot I can't do it. I think I think if if that brother didn't
13:26 talk to me maybe to some people they may end up very depressed or or maybe uh go
13:31 to another place in hospital or something but I I was glad that the brother talked to me and the the beautiful thing that I remembered that I
13:38 learned from him is this you know it's okay you know uh that we we we cannot
13:44 live this perfect life that God intended us to be and we fall every now and then
13:50 we fall but the important thing is when we before we get up. Jesus always extend
13:58 his hand for us to get up. We can fall again but get up, fall, get up and you
14:06 know the the the the rate of falling will will drop. So that gave me the the
14:11 relief like a renewed life uh not able to to sustain that perfect
14:19 living and yet there's this grace of God which I did not did not embrace so much
14:25 but that afternoon it was liberating for me that I can always rely on God's
14:32 grace. Yeah. So when when we have experienced this
14:38 poor in spirit spiritually bankrupt we learn to be dependent of God no longer
14:44 on ourselves. So what does it mean for me today?
14:50 So do do I live with God's righteousness or with self-righteousness?
14:56 Do I always rely on you know all the good things I've done or all the ability I able to live a sinless life or do I
15:04 always depend on Jesus my righteousness? Do I demand on superiority or hierarchy
15:11 you know respect you know I'm elder than you you know or I have a certain position uh better in the company or in
15:17 the church. So inside me do I demand that if you are spiritually bankrupt we
15:23 are all equal before God. There's nothing we can bring that can earn us any credit. So we have no other way.
15:31 There's no other way but to be dependent on God.
15:36 So second to have this blessedness that Jesus say we ought to be repentant
15:44 spoken as mourn. You know blessed are those who mourn. John call it happy are
15:49 those who are unhappy. It is one thing to be spiritually poor
15:55 and to acknowledge it but it's quite another to actually grieve over and mourn over it. So in positionwise yeah
16:03 we are bankrupt but we can just say okay we are bankrupt and walk away you know don't do anything about it. So what he's
16:10 saying here is it's a different thing you know if you realize your position
16:15 you can you can walk away or you can grief over and mourn over it. So this is the second component. Jesus said with
16:23 that realization there's this action a resultant grieving. King David wrote you
16:30 know broken spirit and contrite heart are offerings that most pleased to God. God is pleased not so much with our
16:37 righteous act but actually our contrite heart. But that shows we mourn. We know
16:44 we are bankrupt and that's why we need God. So we feel or express sorrow, we
16:50 grief and lament. So it's an expression. There must be an action after a realization.
16:58 The prodical son had it. He mourned. He realized, you know, what a what's what a
17:05 desperate condition he was in. And he began to felt, you know, not only that
17:11 he long after what the pigs were eating, but after that he realized, hey, my my father's house got so much food left
17:17 over, you know, I could I could go back. I could go back to my father and repent, you know. So he expressed remorse,
17:24 repentance, and he was contemplating, yeah, I need to go back. I need to tell my father, father, I no longer deserve
17:32 to be your son for what I have done. Just make me one of your servants. you know I I no longer have this position
17:38 before you or inheritance you know at least I can eat decently you know so he
17:44 go back repenting confessing that he has done wrong to his father and to some of us or some of your
17:51 friends you you may have similar thing against your parents you know uh you
17:56 know you you you demand something and your parents didn't give to you or you feel so angry you walk away you
18:03 disappear for a few days Uh then after a while maybe you realize all along my
18:08 parents actually love me. He actually want what is good for me and you take that humble journey back. You know you
18:15 go back you you you you you you you you have soul searching and you realize you
18:21 have been wrong all along. And that continual magnanimous love of your
18:28 father or your mother or your grandfather whoever actually is what is needed by you by me and we take that
18:36 humble journey back and to be received back by our love
18:42 ones. Yeah. So repentance doesn't mean anything if we keep doing what we are
18:47 sorry for. There must be a meaning of repenting, right? That means we don't want to do it anymore. If you keep doing
18:53 it, there's not repentance. Yeah. So what does it mean to me today being
18:58 mourning and repenting? So first truly sorry for our wrong and the common
19:04 excuses are like you know I was just being honest you know can't you handle the truth for example somebody say you
19:10 know there are particular raceh they they cannot be trusted with money out of 10 nine of them are like snake you know
19:17 you know I heard of this before actually. Yeah, I I I couldn't believe what I heard and of course I don't believe that what what they said even
19:23 though in my experience yeah this happened again yeah this happened again but I still do not want to believe that but it is not good not fair for us to
19:32 generalize this kind of people are like this you know and you say you are just being honest you do not want to confess
19:39 or don't want to realize that you are not fair to them oh I wasn't kidding you know you actually misunderstood me I
19:45 didn't mean it this way you things that we said was wrong or hurtful, things that out of your pride,
19:53 you did it, but once found out, you have excuses. We have excuses. You know,
19:59 actually, I'm not as bad as you think. Or just that's who I am. You know, sorry, that's who I am. I'm just a
20:05 sinner like you. You know, I've done this wrong one today. You may have done that wrong tomorrow, right? You know, we are all sinners. Do not want to confess.
20:11 Do not want to feel sorry. Yeah. I'm just having a bad day. I didn't mean to do it. Uh actually didn't mean to get
20:18 caught. Remember this Bill Clinton uh in his infamous uh incident with his
20:24 intern right? So he was inter interrogated in 1998 and after that he
20:29 knew that you know at first he denied deny deny after that he realized the evidence is too much. He have to accept
20:35 the fact that it is the truth you know. So indeed I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky. That was not appropriate.
20:41 In fact it was wrong. Yeah, I misled the people including even my wife. I deeply regret that. I don't
20:49 know what he regretted about. Is it being doing something that was wrong or being found out? Yeah. Then he said,
20:56 "It's time to stop the pursuit of personal destruction and prying to private lives. Let's get on with our
21:01 national life," he said. But he stopped short for uh short of a full apology
21:07 according to the daily news. So we we just like you know previous president or
21:13 even current president saying all kind of nasty things about women against a certain racial nationality after that
21:21 for political reason he has to say something to apologize so I'm sorry that it hurts you something like what like
21:28 that I'm sorry it hurts I'm sorry uh you know you didn't take it well
21:33 sorry for what sorry because that happened to you felt it that way but he was not really sorry for what he has
21:40 said or what he has done. So there's a two different thing. So giving excuses
21:45 uh like what I showed just now um are very common people use uh for not really
21:52 apologizing or saying sorry right even if you say sorry is we are sorry that
21:59 you you felt hurt. We are sorry that you are disappointed or or we are sorry that
22:04 you know you found out you know so that's not real repentance. Yeah.
22:10 So be dependent, be repentant and be meek. Say Jesus.
22:16 Lloyd Jones rightly applies meekness to our attitudes toward others. We may acknowledge our own bankruptcy and
22:22 mourn. But to respond with meekness when others tell us of our bankruptcy is different thing. Yeah. Yeah. when other
22:30 when in terms of our relationship to people is different thing because all of
22:35 us have this pride or ego with us. Yeah. So if we do not respond well then you do
22:41 not have the weak meekness. Yeah. So meekness is really accepting that we are
22:47 uh spiritually bankrupt and other people knows about it. So uh the word meek means gentleness and
22:55 self-control and the self-control it entails completely the opposite of what the world extols. Greek considered
23:02 meekness is a weakness and only servants are meek. So meekness is actually an
23:07 active yeah a deliberate acceptance of undesirable circumstances
23:13 that are wisely seen by individual as only part of a larger picture. He knows the larger picture.
23:23 There are undesirable circumstances. He can accept it. When Jesus was nailed on
23:28 the cross, he knows the larger picture. He can even for ask God to forgive the
23:34 soldier that was nailing on him. Right? So a meek person
23:39 is not easily swayed uh by what people think or do against him because he knows
23:45 he know he himself don't deserve good things. He knows he himself before God is bankrupt and he knows how to behave
23:51 to others. So it is strength under control. Jesus said, "Come to me all ye
23:57 that labor and heavy laden and I'll give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Learn from me. I am weak. I'm meek, sorry, and
24:04 lowly in heart and you shall find rest in your soul." Yeah. Ephesians, I
24:09 therefore the prisoner of the Lord, Paul said, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation where wherewith you are
24:15 called with all loneliness and meekness, with longsuffering, forbearing one another in love. So this second one is
24:22 about relationship. Why did he say about longsuffering and forebearing? Because he knows we all who have stepped on each
24:30 other's toes every now and then. We need to have longsuffering. Bear with one another's wrongdoing.
24:36 You don't react all the time. You don't scold the person all the time when he uh
24:42 step on your toes or on your tails. But in meekness and loneliness, bear.
24:48 There's a weakness. You may have a right to react, but you don't. Meekness means
24:55 strength under control. Yeah. So biblical examples like Abraham know Abraham was called to a promised land
25:01 and then there's a nephew Lot came with him and there were some quarrels uh among their hermen. What did Abraham do
25:09 to to solve the problem? Come Lord come come look at the land so big and wide. This is a promised land that God has
25:15 given us. Let's not quarrel. You know you choose. You want to go to the left I go to the right. You want to go to the
25:21 right I go to the left. Abraham, the father of nation, uh the person chosen
25:26 by God, not Lot. It was Abraham. And in his meekness, come on, let's not argue.
25:32 You choose. I go here, you go there. Yeah. King David. Remember King David?
25:38 Uh King Saul was pursuing him, want to kill him because all the people are
25:43 supporting that king and he felt so jealous. And one day he was resting at a cave. King David and his men were inside
25:49 the cave. there was a a a perfect chance to to kill King Saul because he want to
25:55 kill you. Don't you shouldn't you end it by killing him. But what he did was he ran clean and just cut a piece of a
26:02 cloth from his rope. And then when King Saul wanted to go off, he he came out
26:07 and called King Saul and prostrate himself down expecting to the king and saying, you know, oh king, you know, I I
26:14 have no evil intent against you. You know, uh you know, look at this piece of cloth. is cut from your robe. I could
26:20 have killed you, but I still respect you as my king because you are the anointed king anointed by God. So, King David was
26:30 completely meek at that time. Strength under control. Yeah.
26:37 Jesus when he was uh praying in the garden of Gethsemane. Jesus the one who
26:44 calmed the storm, stopped the wind and did all kinds of miracles uh could be tearing there, telling there struggling
26:52 whether he want to go through this suffering and ask the father whether it's possible to take away this cup.
26:57 Yeah. But at the end he he submitted in obedience to the will of the father.
27:05 He had he could have done anything he wanted. Uh even the soldiers will come to catch him. No problem. You know you
27:12 can call angels will just come but he just want to be submissive and that is
27:17 meekness as well. So the prodigal son experienced undeserved grace. He was humbled and
27:24 forever grateful. Right. The father received him back. Forever grateful. Once once imagine we we are the prodigal
27:31 son. Yeah. We were so bad against our father because taking that inheritance
27:37 uh early is as good like telling the father you are dead you know by by right this inheritance should be given after
27:42 the father is has died but taking it as is like implying you are dead what would the father how the father face the
27:48 relatives and uncles and all that you know embarrassment but the the prodical son didn't care so went squandle and
27:54 came back and the father still love him so much even have a big party for him a
28:00 person who who really uh felt he has done something terribly wrong,
28:08 remorse over it and now gracefully being accepted back. This person will have
28:13 changed. The whole transformation would have happened. The gratefulness will be
28:18 forever. He will be unforgettable, you know.
28:23 So the prodigal son then knew his position was restored. He enjoyed the
28:28 house and the father's providence. He wanted to be just one of the servant but no he's back to be the son having
28:35 control all the servant whatever he wants to do around the house. So I believe that prodigical son will
28:42 have a renewed attitude. His attitude will be different instead of doineering
28:48 asking a servant do this, do that. Hey hello, why didn't you sweep this clean and blah blah blah. I don't think he will be like that anymore. He will have
28:55 that gratefulness forever and that meekness even though he is the son in
29:01 the house but I think his attitude to the servants and all those around in the house will be transformed will be
29:07 different. No more that proud egoistic, you know, I I deserve this, I deserve that, that's my right and this. Yeah.
29:14 But he will be so humble and thankful around the house.
29:20 This is maybe a picture of a meekness. The the little lamb did not know, you
29:26 know, how powerful the lion was. He could be running around, step on his toes once a while, maybe urinate and
29:32 near his body or that, you know. Um, the lion could be just let it be.
29:37 I to me it's a perfect symbol of a peace peaceful relationship a meekness shown
29:44 by a lion who's who can do anything to a little lamb but just want to be there with him. Yeah. So what does it mean to
29:51 me today? Let's continue. Let's forever be grateful and thankful because we
29:56 don't deserve what we have in the kingdom of heaven. And let's also then be gracious to
30:03 others shortcoming. We are not perfect. They are not. We are all same bankrupt.
30:10 Nobody is more bankrupt than the other. Same level. Nothing to bring. Yeah. So let's be gracious to one another's
30:17 shortcoming or wrong coming wrongdoings. Yeah. Allow ourselves to be wrong and
30:24 criticize. Don't always insist of our right. Uh want to appear right.
30:32 Uh but let God be our righteous judge. Let us not worry so much what other people judge on us. The righteous who
30:40 knows everything is God. He is the righteous judge. That must be our
30:45 primary concern. Yeah. So let us be wrong be criticized. It's okay.
30:53 And whoever is forgiven much love much. Yeah. Remember the woman alabaster.
30:59 Jesus says you know uh the the love that she has shown is in what uh they see
31:06 that day you know Peter in the house or Simon in the house did not even give
31:11 water to wash her feet but she used her tears to wipe his feet uh didn't even
31:16 kiss but didn't even kiss him but this woman never stopped kissing his feet.
31:22 Yeah. And even put perfume on his feet. Yes. So this is the extent of love of
31:28 somebody who is grateful, thankful. If you have forgiven much, we will love
31:34 much. Not like the elder brother who refused to join the party. You know your son,
31:41 you going to squander all the all the properties and come back and now you you have a party for him. I work for so
31:46 long, you know, you don't even give me a small little lamb to celebrate with my friends. No.
31:53 The elder brother, do you think he has a right to say that? Was it fair of the father to to
32:00 celebrate for the son, the prodigal son? And this elder brother, you know, didn't get anything. But the father say, "You
32:08 are always with me. Everything I have here is yours." But no, the elder brother wants recognition, wants special
32:16 uh mention or something, you know, hardened heart, no transformation at all, self-righteous.
32:22 He has done all the right thing. Refuse to budge. Jealous and envious.
32:29 Someone who has no such transformation. Who don't realize they are bankrupt,
32:34 spiritually bankrupt, never mourn for their sin, never been meek. Yeah, we
32:41 will be like that. We will demand what is ours. We will have what we call
32:46 something like a tight fist. You know, holding on to what is mine. Insist on my right, my way, protect my pride,
32:54 compare, be envious of each other. We'll be like that. Our life will be like that. Wow. Is that a happy life? Is that
33:02 happiness? You and I don't think so. Isn't it? Happiness is not like that. Happiness is
33:08 like this. Open your palm. Open to receive
33:14 and open to give. That's happiness. Not hold tightly to your right. and
33:20 whatever but even material possession you know job say naked I come naked I go
33:26 you know that is the attitude you know what I have is all from you I can have some I can have more today I can have
33:31 less tomorrow but my life is an open palm
33:37 so what is the prerequisite and process poor in spirit mourn about it and be
33:44 meek in your relationship with each other so when we are poor you realize this there is a conviction iction
33:50 something happened inside us we be dependent on God because in ourselves we
33:55 can't do it and that comes out with the expression when we mourn and that makes us repentant not to do it anymore and in
34:03 our relationship then we continue to be meek power under control right under
34:09 control as well and this is what Jesus said to be blessed it's counterculture
34:17 not the same as many of us talk about not many of us think about it is
34:22 something that is Jesus is a truth that is a truth of abundant life that is a
34:30 requirement how to have this true happiness if I can invite the uh worship team uh I
34:37 will end with this little poem so we living in blessedness yeah I need
34:45 to embrace daily independence
34:50 looking at his face repent with meekness I don't need rat
34:57 race wretched me is safe now that's amazing
35:03 grace
