T. C. Moore - 07/14/2024
Blessed are the Meek
In this message, Pastor T. C. preaches on one of the most misunderstood Beatitudes: Blessed are the meek. Pastor T. C. shows that Jesus's meekness is strength, not weakness. The audio also includes portions of the dialogue from "Talk Back."
Scripture References: Matthew 5:5
From Series: "Center of Gravity - Sermon on the Mount"
The Holy Scriptures contain the revelation of God’s redemptive history—the inspired story of God’s covenant with God’s people. That’s the outer circle of the bullseye. That story climaxes in the story of Jesus in the four Gospels in the New Testament. Those are the two next inner circles. Then, the central theme of the Gospels is God’s in-breaking Kin(g)dom that is arriving and has now arrived in and through Jesus the Messiah. The core of that message is the Sermon on the Mount. The Sermon on the Mount is the summary of Jesus’s core teachings about the Kin(g)dom of God that he declared and demonstrated as he traveled around first-century Judea-Palestine. If we think of Jesus’s ministry as a messianic campaign, calling disciples to join him in his redemptive mission, then the Sermon on the Mount was his “stump speech.” Not only is the Sermon on the Mount the “center of gravity” for Christians because of the centrality of its message to Jesus’s life and ministry. It’s also the “center of gravity” because it prevents us from the imbalances of either Legalism on the one side or Cheap Grace on the other. The Sermon on the Mount invites Jesus’s disciples into a vision of the Kin(g)dom that expresses God’s love through works of faith in the power of the Spirit. Join us as we explore this powerful and central set of passages this year!