Claim Your Inheritance – Matthew 5:5
March 10, 2024
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This eight-week series examines the most famous ever given, The Sermon on the Mount, by none other than Jesus himself. Jesus’s audience was the outcasts of his day, and they were the first to engage this incredible message and design for living. We will unpack the nine Beatitudes presented by Jesus. It’s a series you don’t want to miss. Today, we unpack Matthew 5:5 and look at the first Beatitude and what it means to be humble and inherit the land.
Questions to ponder:
- What does it mean to be “humble.”
- How would you describe what it means to be humble, experience humility, or, if you wish, meekness?”
- What does it mean to be humble from a Biblical perspective?
- How is it possible to be humble and yet wait on an inheritance?
- How do we experience the promise of an inheritance living in America in the 21st century? Is that even possible?
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- Harold Long
- BEatitudes
- Job 24
- Matthew 5:1-12
- Psalm 37:7
- Psalm 72
- Afflicted
- Anav
- Excluded
- Humble
- Humility
- Inheritance
- Justice
- Land
- Needy
- Peace
- Poor
- power
- Praus
- Racial Inequality
- Racism
- Serenity Prayer
- Shalom
- Suffering
- Systemic Injustice
- Systemic Racism
- Unimportant
- White Privilege
- World System
- Wounded
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
- Wesley UMC Festus Missouri
What Comes Around Goes Around
November 14, 2021
- Harold Long
- Esther
- Esther 6:14-7:10
- Idolatry
- Passion
- Politics
- power
- Yellowstone
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
Today’s message is centered on where our allegiance is centered. Does our allegiance lie with the World or with the Kingdom of God? Our actions validate where our loyalty and commitment reside. In our message today, we unpack Esther Chapter 6:14-7:10. We discover what is meant by the phrase “What Comes Around Goes Around.”
A Special Kind of Freedom
July 7, 2020
- Harold Long
- Summer 2020 Lectionary Series
- 1 Samuel
- Galatians
- Matthew
- Matthew 11:16-19; 25-30
- dark side
- devil
- enemy
- Freedom
- glory
- lower power
- power
- prestige
- principalities and powers
- Satan
- Self-contentedness
- Selfishness
- Hillsboro UMC
- Transformation UMC
Today’s message for Sunday, July 5, 2020, is titled “A Special Kind of Freedom.” In our message today, Pastor Harold unpacks Matthew 11:16-19; 25-30 and helps us understand the difference between the “world system” versus “The Kingdom of God.” The principalities and powers of this world influence our lives to the point of delusion, where we believe we are in full control of our lives. Human beings tend to reject God because they wish to play God themselves and rule their own lives. This lust and quest to do what we want, how we want, and when we want, has been in existence since “the fall of humankind” in the Garden of Eden. If we are honest with ourselves, when we look back at our lives as individuals, as America and the world, we see where we made decisions based on self, which later put us in a position to be hurt. To become genuinely free can only happen when we put our will in line with God.