BE-ATTITUDES!

KINGDOM BLESSINGS FOR THOSE WITH

KINGDOM CHARACTERS !

HUMBLE… MOURN…MEEK… HUNGER AND THIRST…MERCIFUL…PURE…PEACEMAKERS

BLESSED

MATTHEW 5:10 !

BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO ARE PERSECUTED BECAUSE OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, FOR THEIRS IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.

REASON !

John 15:18–19 (TNIV)!18 “If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. 19 If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you.

BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO ARE PERSECUTED BECAUSE OF

RIGHTEOUSNESS

REPENTANCE !

Matthew 16:24–25(TNIV)!24 Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 25 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.

REWARD !

FOR THEIRS IS THE KINGDOM OF

HEAVEN

Consider the famous Dietrich Bonhoeffer. As he left his prison room on the way to the gallows in 1945, he said to Payne Best, "This is the end—for me the beginning of life" (Bethge, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Biography, p. 830). Ten years later the camp doctor wrote,

REVELATION 2:10 (TNIV) !

BE FAITHFUL, EVEN TO THE POINT OF DEATH, AND I WILL

GIVE YOU LIFE AS YOUR VICTOR’S CROWN.

REWARD !

FOR THEIRS IS THE KINGDOM OF

HEAVEN

RESPONSE !

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REASON REPENTANCE REWARD RESPONSE !