Sunday Worship

[Music] of the goodness of god [Music] every breath that i am [Music] i love your voice [Music] of the goodness [Music] with every breath that i am [Music] [Applause] [Music] now i give you everything [Music] [Applause] [Music] now every day [Music] so [Music] of the goodness [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh goodness [Music] what is going on church family my name is brandon ward and i'm so glad y'all are here today and i'm therese perky welcome this morning therese how's the week been it's been pretty good weather's been changing it has been or at least in louisiana which this this is like the best few weeks of louisiana life i don't know if out-of-staters know this but i pray that y'all are praying for us year-round because we only get like one week maybe a week and a half of like awesome weather and i i think this is our week it's our week i think and so soak it up yeah i've been walking outside my apartment in like my pajamas and like maybe that makes my neighbors feel awkward i don't even care because i'm like i just wanna i just wanna be outside and uh man it's just been it felt so good it's been awesome i've had a great week awesome i've also completed a class um for harding so my schedule has been lessened from uh four classes to three and that's also been nice that's given me the time to walk outside and to enjoy nature so thank you god for that yeah and you just came back from teaching class this morning yeah teaching middle schoolers just i just need all the prayers please i love those guys i love them but middle school boys listen middle school girls they're the sweetest they're quiet they're timid they're awesome middle school boys they're the opposite opposite of that but uh man it's it's a great time they're great kids i love them it's just an awesome experience uh and they they just know how to drive you crazy that's awesome that you're doing that brandon thank you um let's shout out some good mornings yeah kathy nolan greg schneider schneider yeah jennifer westlake cindy k from bethel acres oklahoma welcome the uh we also have what other states do we have in the building i see uh i see i see a lot of that kelly reese burt devery's liz corey i know that y'all are from just around the globe which is awesome um and like it's just such a cool experience uh just to see all these different places and like each time i'm here i see more and more places that are just so different and i want to come visit i promise i want to visit you i love exploring i love traveling me and my wife love that kind of stuff so it's it's awesome to see family from all over and i know some of you guys have visited us like let us know when you're kind of be in town like we're excited to welcome you here yes please that is so important that if you're coming to visit shout that out tell us when tell us where uh because we want to know that you're coming we want you to feel welcome here because we we love that you want to come see what we're about and to fellowship with us in this moment like it's just such a beautiful thing and we love it we don't want to take it for granted yeah um some more welcomes um todd langdon keith bergens karen brown olga perez from laredo texas okay texas is linda potter uh from maine that's awesome i've never been to may mike mike keller from west monroe louisiana welcome i'm live streaming live right here ready to roll thank you guys for hosting by the way yeah i love this dude thank you you just make us look better too i don't know about that she does well about live stream folks i'm so grateful you're here and uh with us and we got exciting sermons so look get your bibles open because we're going to be flying by uh i mean quickly we're going to do the entire sermon on the mount today oh but hey jesus preached it all in one day right it's true so yeah so i'm going for it i believe in you all right so it's going to be fast and fierce thank you guys for being here guys thanks for hosting and look by the way next week's one kingdom sunday um and we uh uh all of our donations uh as uh as kyle smith says uh it's not uh you're not making a donation you're making a difference and that's uh we're involved all over the world so it's exciting day for us thanks again thanks again guys for hosting yeah you're welcome thanks we're excited to be here um and speaking of i asked we've got t-shirts for sale for one kingdom some of you guys have already been buying those you can do that on the website i just told perky my husband i was like pick out what color you want so we can match because there's like four different colors a lot of options for you people out there yeah and that is good that's onekingdom.org the store is awesome but a man it's just what an incredible organization and we're blessed to have them so connected with our church so please reach out donate get you a t-shirt i mean it'll just be a great time and we love the support but because next week and uh this is important we want to shout this out uh send in your photos of you wearing the t-shirt watching the live stream because here we are all going to be wearing our speak jesus one kingdom t-shirts for one kingdom sunday we want to show our support we want to recognize that that god has us on a mission right and it's not in the pews that our mission is to reach out and to go and to love and to make disciples out of all nations and that's what we are called to do and so any organization that is geared towards that specifically one kingdom man we want to show our support we want to just show out and so we'll be wearing our speak jesus t-shirts next sunday so please wear yours send them in uh tag us uh on instagram on facebook so that we can see that because we want to see our church family uh raising support for this awesome uh yeah thing that's awesome yeah let's give some more welcome amanda langdon from south florida hello florida bridgette from indiana indiana in the building theresa clemons virginia bert and joy lynn from pennsylvania is that roe aaron rowe aaron from tennessee welcome welcome everyone thanks for telling us where you're from we love to see where y'all are coming in from yes that's pr honestly my favorite part yeah i'm just like man this is so cool yeah that's awesome we're all connected we're so excited to be with you guys this morning yes and if looking for um and you want to plug into this uh to this group here to this live stream we have a facebook group uh called the wfr live stream community group please join in on there that's where we communicate best and most i mean the the live stream audience there and the group is just continuously just posting and just sharing with each other their lives and it is a beautiful thing yes but also if you need to send us prayer requests and you need to talk to somebody here uh please send your stuff to info at wfrchurch.org we have people like josh and shaq who are constantly looking over those things to make sure and that's not just uh oh we saw it we'll pray for you like we're gonna communicate with you um and that's the best way to get in touch with us so please uh info wfrchurch.org right and i think we have some pretty awesome prayer warriors so yes um if you do not have the app already that will go through the app like if you send your prayer requests so people will be praying so yeah make sure you join our community and get the app if you haven't already yes so we're going through the sermon on the mount this morning the whole thing which uh is incredible and mike's going to do a great job i'm sure of it yeah but you know this week actually i was able to talk about how our church operates in terms of our lessons and what we're doing and who makes up our church really with one of my classes and it was such a cool thing to share with my class what our church is a part of and what we do and we're so geared towards a biblical focus of reading the bible like our sermon series have been we're going through john we're going through romans we're going through matthew because we want our members to know the bible uh we don't act like oh everybody should know these stories everybody should know this narrative we don't act like that um because we know that sometimes like people don't know these things actually a lot of times we don't know these things and so it's so important to dive into the word as a body as a family and to read these passages so that we can learn together and grow with each other and to challenge each other to learn the word of god more right and i love all of our classes like we've been streaming we did ephesians and now we're on james those are so awesome and i'm thankful that they put those out there for us to watch as well and it's just really good yeah because guess what i don't know everything about the bible you don't brandon i don't i'm young and some might say dumb young and dumb and i need wise counsel i need people that have been dedicated to the word longer who have read the word longer who have been counseled by others longer than i have that can show me this these scriptures and show me what they mean and show me how we got to this conclusion i need those people in my life we all do yeah and and for for my church to be uh doing that um i think is is one of the best things we can be doing as a church very awesome i know yeah um let's give some more shout outs um lisa dose from germany pause germany that's the big one right now welcome welcome i'm so glad you're here yeah william baker ohio devin thibodeau like charles good morning michelle renard from georgia good morning and then we got jane the i'm sorry uh de bruyne de brose the bros up from arkansas uh i apologize i know that just got butchered but you show grace and mercy like jesus christ does and i am so grateful for that thank you thank you and we also have lori gilmore and beverly curry from alabama thank you so much for joining in today and let us worship together today okay thanks guys they threw it to us at the booth there thanks live stream team let's be standing this morning and sing everybody else on in here with the song he took my burdens all the way out to a brighter day he gave me a song he gave me a song a wonderful song a wonderful song i now can see in my heart joy bells ring he [Music] he lifted me [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] i am redeemed no more to die never to say goodbye he gave me a song he gave me a song a wonderful song a wonderful song and some of these days sing with the chorus friend he gave me a song a wonderful song a wonderful song he gave me a song he gave me [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] amen amen man i had to bring out the big guns today so i have isaac and avalyn here with me to remind you that our blue line ministry is coming to a close that's right next sunday october 3rd is our one kingdom sunday and that's where all of our contributions and all of our attention is going to turn into the missions arm of one kingdom here at white's ferry road it's absolutely fabulous now we are still collecting money one quarter equals one quarter of an inch and we're trying to go for an entire mile throughout our children's department and all throughout our church you've seen the blue line so we would encourage you guys to give bring your change if you want bring your dollars if you want bring your checks if you want you guys out there feel free to donate and give online we always accept that and it goes straight to the one kingdom mission for the philippines that our blue lines are sponsoring as always we encourage you guys to give with an open heart for all of our wonderful uh missions that we have here at white's ferry road and uh and there are many many ways to do that you just keep looking in all right guys we're going to get this done we're going to make this money for the philippines all right i bet we can hey we love you guys and welcome home if you would be standing again and we'll continue our worship this morning hosanna hosanna [Applause] highest [Music] [Applause] so be insulted glory glory glory to the king of kings glory glory glory to the king of kings lord looked up your name [Music] [Applause] [Laughter] [Laughter] [Music] [Music] my soul [Music] and i pour out my deep within me deep within me i pour out my soul draw me deeper lord deeply [Music] [Music] [Music] yes [Music] deep within me deep within me i pour out my soul draw me deeper lord deeper lord in you draw me deeper lord deeper lord [Music] deep within me [Music] draw me deeper lord deeper lord in you my heart with me no other name jesus jesus my heart will sing no other day jesus jesus my heart will sing no other day jesus jesus my heart will sing no other name jesus jesus [Music] the riches of your love will always be enough nothing compares to your embrace light of [Music] the riches of your love will always be enough nothing compares to your embrace [Music] [Music] no matter how far i run i run into your love and when i'm falling apart you won't let me go no matter how far i run i run into your love and when i'm falling apart you won't let me go nothing i want that your love doesn't offer [Music] nothing i've done that your grace won't cover it's not over till you say so [Music] the cross is all the confidence i need your love won't give up for me you never make a promise you don't keep [Music] [Music] but i'm not forgotten it's not over till you say so you are faithful god [Music] your love won't give up on me [Music] won't give up on me your love won't give up on me no matter how far i run i run into your love and when i'm falling apart you won't let me go no matter how far i run i run into your love and when i'm falling [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you the cross is all the confidence i need your love won't give up on me [Music] give up the cross is all the confidence i need [Music] your love won't give up on me give up on me [Music] your love won't give up on me me [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] and sings the song of righteousness [Music] by blood and not [Music] your grace that reaches far and wide to [Music] has [Music] joy of your salvation [Music] by grace i am [Music] walk into my lord your grace [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] and now i freely [Music] let praise rise up [Music] for grace we'll [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] and now [Music] free of christ amen good morning house dirk good morning church i was honored to uh be asked to do this uh to talk over communion uh i'm not the type of guy to talk in front of a bunch of people so forgive me but i was thinking of uh first corinthians 11 23-33 which reads for i received from the lord what i was also passed on to you the lord jesus on that night he was betrayed took bread and when he had given thanks he broke it and said this is my body which is for you do this in remembrance of me in the same way after supper he took the cup saying this cup is the new covenant in my blood do this whenever you drink it in remembrance of me for whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup you proclaim the lord death until he comes so then whoever eats the bread and drinks from the cup of the lord in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body the blood of the lord everyone ought to examine themselves before they eat the bread and drink from the cup for those who eat and drink will without discerning the body of christ eating drink judgment on themselves that is why many among you are weak and sick and a number of you have fallen asleep but if we were more discerning with regards to ourself we would not come under sex judgment nevertheless when we are judged in this way by the lord we are being disciplined so that we will not be finally condemned with the world so with that i remember when i first come here probably four years ago five years ago we sat in that back corner and we passed the cup the crackers and i really didn't get it we really didn't get it uh but joining the church uh joining house church and learning more of god's word and god's truth is more of a think about it more now and it almost brings me to tears to think that somebody like that would give their life for the love of us even though we didn't deserve it uh so if you would pray with me dear heavenly father i'll come to you today just so nervous but i know that you got my back lord and uh i just uh i just want to do the best i can for you lord i just thank you for this church thank you for everybody in it that it just pours into me and my family and lord it just just teaches us the right way to live and lord uh i just thank you so much it's in jesus name i pray amen [Applause] on a hill far [Music] [Laughter] [Music] suffering and shame and i love that old cross where the deer and best for a world of lost sinners was slain until my truth is [Music] [Music] and exchange it someday for a crowd [Music] [Music] then he'll call me sunday to my home far away where is glory forever [Music] till my truth is [Music] [Music] till my trolls is [Music] is [Music] no other name jesus jesus my heart will see no other day jesus jesus my heart will see no other name jesus jesus my heart will sing your name jesus jesus i'm running to your arms [Music] nothing compares to your embrace [Music] the riches of your love will always be enough nothing compares to your real praise light of the world [Music] be forever good morning church i'm deian cole my husband several groups at this church and one of them is community group at our house on sunday night at five o'clock we'd love to have you join us and then another one's thursday night with reengage if you want to reignite your marriage that's the place to be and another thing we're involved in our favorite one kingdom disaster and relief team man sometimes it's hard manual labor and sometimes we just get to cook for people it's amazing if you want to be a part of that team all you have to do is go to the app sign in you'll get alerts and emails they'll tell you where we're going who's going what they need what we're doing it's so exciting but guys it's such a blessing to the people in a disaster area but guess what it's a blessing to you we have made new friends that we're still in contact with it's just an amazing ministry and i'm so glad we're part of that mission here's your announcements for this week october 8th through 10th celebrate recovery homecoming it's going to be so exciting we want all our people that's that's currently going and we want our people from the former from the past to come we're celebrating change and restoring lives amen and guess what we're gonna have special guests mary and mack owen are gonna be here check your app for upcoming details okay guys next sunday one kingdom sunday wear your shirts they're great you have to have them on let's come and support one kingdom okay guys the blue line these kids have worked so hard they've made it all the way up to the third floor but it's got to make it back to this stage by next sunday come on guys we need your help let's bring it home church we are excited that each and every one of you are here with us today we are family welcome home keith i'll tell you i got a story i need to tell you now you know this is probably the most embarrassing things that have happened to me i i think you've ever heard this one before actually yeah you know once upon a time i had this ranch okay let's talk about what's going to happen this week well that's a great idea but you know i really wasn't through with my story but i can finish it later hey we got something going on this weekend 8th 9th and 10th watch ferry road gonna start off on a friday night 5 30 we're gonna have a little feed we're gonna have a fantastic get together with mac and mary owens we're looking forward to anybody that's been involved with cr another big day on saturday the following day out at my place gonna have the band playing the kids playing bonfires hopefully nick will be there with a few more stories and on this sunday morning we're going to have a deal back at weissberry road it's going to be a very special day so y'all come be with us young old we're going to have a good time good time together [Music] just like that right now that's okay start over they live in not the busy did you actually start this time i'm actually starting this time right now wait everybody hands down and we're gonna go three two yo look at me the whole time and smile three two one [Music] come join us next week for one kingdom sunday as we share with you how your partnership in the gospel is advancing the kingdom in the dominican republic [Music] i didn't know keith and nick had in him ruthie thank you for being in between those two and taking care of things so good to see everyone here as well as in our service in the other room in our fellowship center as well as our live stream folks uh from everywhere around the country actually around the world so thank you for being with us and we're uh excited that you're uh you're here with us today and to read our scripture is uh sullivan stokes come on up sullivan i already know she's a good letter writer she's a fifth grader at ocs she loves singing and soccer and being outdoors and we're glad you're willing to do this scripture for us today okay now when jesus saw the crowds he went up on the mountainside and sat down his disciples came to him and he began to teach them he said blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of heaven thank you so much david appreciate you you know paul told timothy to be committed to the public reading of the word and so i'm so proud that this church honors that and that we have uh our young people learning uh to do that and publicly read the word of god uh matthew chapter 5. as we study in the book of matthew i have this small assignment to preach the sermon on the mount this morning so buckle up but somebody reminded me said well not jesus preached it in one sermon so you know uh well i'm not him and i can't feed 5 000 either so you know don't come by the house but we're going to we're going to make a run at this scripture and see what we can can do with it the whole section i want you to remember the context of matthew is writing to basically a jewish audience and their understanding of the kingdom has been all messed up and he's correcting their understanding of what it really it means to be in the kingdom of god that it's not about the physical kingdom on earth it's about the kingdom of god that jesus is the king of kings of and so jesus comes to them and in it as he corrects their understanding he also has to correct their understanding of the old testament scriptures because they had this idea that this was going to be a national movement whenever this messiah comes and he says no that's not what it's about matter of fact jesus is going to say i'm actually i'm not abolishing this old law i'm fulfilling this old law and this king that was prophesied about in the old testament i'm him and now we have the kingdom of god here and so how should people live so as he starts preaching his ministry and doing his ministry he's healing people and he and so crowds automatically start following him right now as they're following him that group of people i want you to understand who those are in chapter four he says jesus went throughout galilee teaching in the synagogue preaching the good news of the kingdom here's the sermon right preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness among the people news about him spread all over syria and people brought to him uh all who were ill with various diseases those suffering uh severe pain the demon possessed uh those having seizures and and the paralyzed and he healed them in large crowds from galilee the decapolis jerusalem judea and the region across jordan followed him now when he saw the crowds this is the same group people right he sees this group of folks so he goes up on the mountainside it's kind of kind of get this picture almost of uh moses on the mountain bringing the law now jesus is on the mountain bringing the real meaning of the law and he sat down which is what a rabbi would do to teach and his disciples came to him and he began to teach them and this whole crowd saying and so we're going to get into what he says to them in this sermon now the first section in matthew 5 1-20 is going to be about the kingdom blessing and fulfillment so let's kind of take off and grab that section now now the audience he's speaking to it's not just this crowd of disease and and and people needing help broken folks in life and by the way uh uh this this very first one of what he says in the behavior is blessed are the poor in spirit these folks understood that the the poor and spirit were what was called uh back uh uh uh back in the hebrew attached to the anawim the anawim were the group of people that when a country conquered another country and they took everybody in and took them back for slaves they left the anawim because they were useless they were old diseased crippled and they were no good to even to the enemy didn't even want them you remember what that's like right you know you're choosing up teams at the ball field and i'll take him and i'll take him and i'll take him and there's one guy left at the end okay i'll take him that's the anawim guy nobody really wants him that's the broken that's the disease that's the the people needing healing that's the that's the crowd that's followed jesus they're poor and they're poor in spirit because they recognize that uh they need to be totally dependent on somebody else other than themselves they can't fix what's wrong with them now you have that that group of broken folks but then you also have looking out here here in the summer the pharisees remember them they're the rule keepers and then by the way we have some of these kind of folks in this all in our church by the way uh we have broken people that understand nothing and we kind of got some kind of pharisees type folks you know how i know that because they'll write me again because there's more rules they want us to do in church right there's not enough rules here we got to lay things out and then there's the sadducees and what the sadducees did back then they would take part of the scripture but they really you know they might deny some of the miracles of it the resurrection stuff but they would take and use part of it but keep kind of the modern culture going on that's kind of how they work we've got folks that do that in our culture they want to keep a little religion but not really give up kind of what's happening around them and then there was the zealots the zealots were the nationalists and you couldn't preach enough on things that you ought to protest and carry sign and talk to the government and they that was the zealots so you got all this group here and jesus tells him blessed now he starts this section of blessing this he bookends it the very first one is blessed are the poor in spirit for what you're the kind of people i value in the kingdom of god now think about that if everybody in your town is not picking you even your enemies don't want you and everybody says just stay away from them they're useless they have no value to us and jesus comes along and says i'm going to tell you what you you're valuable to me this is not about commands this is about blessings matter of fact you cannot practice the rest of the sermon on the mount until you've been blessed by jesus and matter of fact he's going to end this whole beatitude section on the very folks that look and when you're persecuted hey guess what yours is the kingdom of god too he bookends it with those two things now with that in mind think about it blessed are the poor theirs is the kingdom of heaven they're not poor just physically it's not about that it's poor in spirit they understand their brokenness and so that has to be the way we are about our own sinful condition that that we are broken people and we can't fix ourselves and so then now but jesus blessed are you i value you the kingdom belongs to people like you not only that blessed are those uh uh blessed are those who mourn not just not about physical grief they're gonna be comforted what are they mourning over if i look at the brokenness of my sin what am i mourning over i'm mourning over the fact that i've been that i'm this way before my god blessed are the meek for they'll inherit the earth now this isn't by the way personality sometimes we'll read through that well you know that guy there he sold me this is something about the whole kingdom of god people who are blessed understand meekness is not weakness jesus said he was it says he was meek and lowly of heart and yet he was able to give people what rest and blessed are those who hunger and thirst that's about desire to do the right thing just have a good heart about doing the right thing uh blessed are the merciful for they'll be what show mercy i love that one you know why because i need mercy and i'm like the old testament guy i need it every day his mercies are new every morning and i need them every morning blessed are the pure in heart for they'll see god here now think about this it's not just this pure is not about purity just morally it's not about that the pure in heart here is about it's something that clears up your vision because look what it says your pure heart they will what they see god because see when we're not pure in heart the impurity pollutes and dilutes our vision and we can't see clearly what we need to but he says those blessed are those that are pure in heart then they see clearly who god is and blessed are the peacemakers not peacekeepers peacemakers for they'll be called sons of god well isn't that great when somebody recognizes you there's my son there's my son are you proud to have the name that you have you're a son of god blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness for theirs is the kingdom of heaven blessed are you when people insult you persecute you and falsely say all kinds of evil against you then because of me now look the persecution not everybody's persecuted is blessed kingdom people are blessed even though they have persecution but they have it because they're living in the name of jesus they have it because of him so you rejoice and be glad because great is your reward in heaven for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you you and i need to take this and understand we are blessed we're blessed we are valued jesus says in your brokenness your sinfulness your weakness i'm saying you're valuable you're the kind of people that belong to the kingdom of god and finally all the unworthies of the world that see themselves properly say wow i i belong to somebody god sees me as valuable i don't know how you see yourself today but you need to understand how jesus sees you you are valuable to the kingdom and what are valuable people who what's that lifestyle like this kingdom of being blessed what happens well in that life once you're blessed and you understand you're blessed by jesus then you're able to make an impact on the culture around you your salt he says in your light to the world and we live in a dark world do you not agree we need salt and light people who have been blessed by jesus then jesus said in verse 17 don't think that i've come to abolish the law of the prophets he said i didn't come to do that i've come to fulfill them when you see jesus you see the whole fulfillment of everything god has written and laid out and prophesied for the kingdom of god and he calls us to be like him matter of fact later on he says i'm going to tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the pharisees and the teacher of the law you'll certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven and people say how can i be more righteous than the pharisees he's the most righteous of all be because look he's only keeping outside rules jesus is telling them we're taking this thing to the heart here's a word i want you to get heart or two words heart space there's an empty space in the heart of the pharisees they're doing the outside stuff but it's not making them righteous they're really not righteous so when jesus says you're going to be more righteous than those guys it's about the heart inside filling up that empty space with god and who he is in your life matter of fact that's why your behavior is going to be so different look right conduct always flows from a right relationship with god you can only do this when you've been blessed by jesus now he gets into not only do we have the kingdom blessing we have the kingdom character in matthew 5 21 through 48. in this you're going to see over and over again he's going to say as it was said in the old now i'm telling you something new you've heard it said this way but i'm going to read i'm going to correct your interpretation so you get the real message because it's going to be about an inside job it's going to be about having that heart space right so jesus corrects their view as he goes through six different things that a lot of times they fight and argue over and and and the very first one of them of all things is murder he says you've heard that it said that people long ago do not murder and anyone who murders will be subject to judgment but i'll tell you look i'll tell you don't even get angry now you don't have to raise your hand but did anybody have a fight coming to church today some of you did some of you you argued with your wife and you hollered at her and she hollered back and no i'll turn that air off i said turn it on and that's kind of things we're fighting about right and this and that and then all of a sudden you pull up the church get out of the park well hi brother smith good to see you he says look this ain't about hit look i'm going to tell you how to handle murder you first start by handling anger matter of fact this whole progression not only that you don't call people foolish you don't call them reiki you don't say they're stupid you don't belittle people when you be little people that leads into a progressive thing that all of a sudden how do you think people end up murdering people so jesus says take this thing down it's not about that i want to get feel that empty space in your heart with how to have right relationships it's kind of sad that in our culture people who are sarcastic and in and are good at insulting others get honored and laughed at and paid to do it yet when we belittle people we fail to see the human value of folks instead jesus says instead of doing that what i want you to do is i want you to restore your relationships and do it quickly matter of fact he says in the text if you've got a problem with a brother go to him don't come off your gift at the altar go to him now and solve it see what he says he says you solve that relationship quickly jesus elevates reconciliation over worship and says get things right not only do you not murder you don't belittle people and when you do have a problem with somebody you take care of it quickly whether it's your enemy or whether it's your brother and a matter of fact you don't even go to worship to you take care of that problem wow what a challenge then he gets on this thing of adultery you've heard that it was said do not commit adultery but i tell you anyone who looks at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her and in his heart if your right eye causes you to sin gouge it out and throw it away it's better to lose one part of your body than for the whole body to go to hell you know the emphasis there right he says uh that they say just don't commit adultery he says no it's greater than that it's greater than that it's an inside problem now he doesn't literally mean gouge your eye out right he doesn't literally mean that if he did i would be preaching to a bunch of one-eyed lusters in this room right now right i'd have a patch over mine i'd be the first one so he says you gotta solve that problem inside the heart it's not about just the physical thing taking place but he's trying to say you have to take extreme action to make sure that problem doesn't get out of hand then he says the same thing about divorce it's not about what you can or can't do it's not about deciphering who's right and who's wrong remember the whole problem of this is how do we live in the kingdom you live as as people who settle problems quickly you live as people who understand by the way listen listen by the way on this adultery thing everybody listening love is patient lust is not it's a young woman that first time that guy says if you love me he won't wait you know what ain't love it's lust love is patient lust is not it's a inside problem and we don't divorce because why because we understand the power of faithfulness so we sell our problems quickly we love with patience and and when we hold our relationships together and we're faithful in doing that we do what god says to do not only that we keep our word that's where he gets the next section by the way you started said not to make an oath but i'm telling you just let your yes bs you and nobody know let me just say a word about this one right here for me i remember a day when watching my dad do business and if he shook somebody's hand that settled it you have to have anything in writing nobody was going around suing each other this kind of world we live in is ridiculous and sometimes we get caught up in ourselves look if you give your word you keep your word now i'm going to step on our toes just a little bit you thought i already did didn't you now this is going to hurt some of us but you know what if i say i'm going to be somewhere at nine o'clock keep your word if we can't keep a word expected to keep our word in this little things then why would people expect us to keep our word in the big this is lifestyle of kingdom people and lifestyle of kingdom people is always counter culture to the world it's always different than the world the world put up with stuff but we shouldn't put up with it in ourselves they'll let us get by with it because that's how they live but we as kingdom people cannot do that and then he says don't retaliate you've heard that it says an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth by the way that whole eye for an eye tooth for two things in the old testament was to protect the proper justice taking place in other words you didn't over punish somebody for something small and you didn't under punish them for something serious that's where that came from he says at nine or nine two two but i'm going to tell you something different you don't resist an evil person what do you mean you don't resist if someone strikes you on the right cheek turn the other one also boy this is difficult isn't it now remember again it's not literal somebody wants to see you and take your coat while let him have the cloak as well if somebody says go with me a mile which that soldier by the way roman soldier could compel them to do go with me a mile and they had to do it you just go ahead and say i'm going to tell you why not will i do that i'll carry your stuff two miles don't retaliate instead serve and remember this christianity got it ready christianity is two miles long then he says well love our enemies you heard it said love your neighbor and hate you in it but i'm telling you jesus tells them love your enemies really i mean love people that persecute me and make that have a hard time yeah love your enemies we sat around here all the time we love everybody we've all started out as enemies of the if god didn't love enemies we wouldn't be here so who are we not to love enemies we love everybody that's the character of kingdom living now he gets into kingdom piety or holiness in chapter 6 verse 1 through 18. he lists three things that they counted on as jesus being doing in front of people to say i'm holy first one was giving and by the way since we're on giving i just got to go ahead and say thank you ahead of time for what you're going to give next week to one kingdom uh and and look by the way i like what kyle smith says about giving uh you're not making a donation you're making a difference i love that but he says when you give you don't do it in front of everybody so everybody claps and says how good you are look what he says with each one of these with the giving with the prayer and with fasting all three of these acts that the jews said man that's practicing holiness but they did it in front of everybody with each one of them he says when you do it says in chapter six and verse four then your father who sees what is done in secret will reward you same thing when he says pray and you go in your closet and pray and you don't do it out here so everybody can see then he says the same thing your father sees what's done in secret and rewards you and then when you come to fasting he says you don't make a big show of this so everybody knows what you're doing no you don't do that matter of fact you make yourself look like people can't even tell your fasting and what did you say about that you what you do your father sees what you do in secret and he will greatly reward you yeah kingdom piety and kingdom holiness is not practiced for the praise of men but for the glory of god then he gives some kingdom priority matthew 6 19 through 34. what matters most in the kingdom this is what he's talking about so he says you don't store treasures for yourself and you don't do that you don't gather up a bunch of stuff and we're pretty good stuff gatherers aren't we but he says that's not your goal is to have a bunch of material things that's not it now he's going to say here that where your where your treasure is their what their heart will be also it almost feels backwards doesn't it you think well jesus are you sure you shouldn't have said where your heart is there your treasure will be let's kind of stick that within him boxing think about that one he says well your treasure is there's your heart will be also it's because your heart's going to follow your treasure and he says when you put up stuff for yourself that's not having the kingdom being the priority of your life it's having you be the priority your life you can't serve god money so you're gonna have to make a choice here it's are you gonna be on the on the throne here or are you gonna let god reign kingdom people keep that priority matter of fact he said not only do you do that you don't worry about things you don't worry about what you eat drink or how you look and look we worry about that a lot don't we look look at this verse right here i kind of got i got tickled when i was reading about this not worried therefore i tell you do not worry about your life what you eat or drink or about your body what you will wear is not life more important than food and body more important than clothes look at the birds of the air they do not sew a reef or store away in barns and yet your heavenly father feeds them are they not much more valuable than are you not much more valuable than they who of you by wearing can add a single hour to his life and why do you worry about clothes see how the lilies of the field grow they do not labor or spin yet yet i tell you that uh that not solomon and all the splendor uh was dressed like one of these if that's how god closed the grass of the field which is here today and tomorrow is thrown in the fire will it not much more clothe you oh you little face so do not worry watch you'll eat watch your drink what you wear the pagans run after these things your heavenly father knows that you need them but seek first there's the priority seek first the kingdom and as righteous and all these things will be added unto you wow if i could just learn to trust god and make kingdom business the priority of my life i wouldn't be caught up in someone now do you see again how this is so counter culture this is so opposite of the world he really turns the lifestyles upside down we find ourselves sometimes having that tendency to try to live like the world as much as possible instead of yet still be following christ he says no you just got to flip that thing upside down when you follow christ you're going to run against the grain of the world then he says in matthew 7 verse 1 through 12 you have the kingdom challenge and reminder here's the challenge and and we all have this tendency by the way don't we he says look don't be judging your brother now i love this verse gets you so out of context so much because you can't make one decision and say he's not saying there's not a time to judge and make decisions about writing it's not about that he's saying look uh the idea here is in in this in this relationship you have the challenge is it's always easier to look at the wrong stuff in somebody else's life right it's kind of like i remember i remember one day i walked out the back of this auditorium and somebody said oh my i said more that was a great sermon i tell you i wish old joe was here he needed that it's always the other guy that needs it he said don't don't judge your brother he's got a little bitty speck there in his eye and you're trying to take it out but you can't see to take it out why now picture this because you got a big old beam coming out of yours you got a log coming out of your eyes you can't even turn around swing without hitting somebody with that thing and yet you're trying to get something out of somebody else's eye that's not the character of kingdom people now what he says here is he says the kingdom challenge is to be humble be humble look at your own self first but be helpful look at yourself make sure you're right with god and then be ready to help a brother who does have a problem because you actually can help him but there has to be humility before help can be practiced and then he says be holy because see when you need help where do you go you ask you seek you find and god provides it and he knows how to give good gifts to his kids you don't have to worry about it he won't mess up god knows how to take care of that kind of thing in our life matter of fact jesus even says in that section when you do this and you treat other people right you're practicing what normally referred to what the golden rule so in verse 12 he says so in everything do to others what you would have them do to you for this sums up the law and the prophets you got to have a little echo in your head right now going back to chapter 5 verse 17 where jesus says i didn't come to abolish the law i came to what fulfill it and when you practice right relationships and you treat other people right you're fulfilling it too you're being like jesus which after all is the whole goal of christianity anyway then this last section chapter 7 verse 13 through 29 is kingdom choices now he writes this jesus does or speaks this as he's doing it in a very traditional jewish teaching style where he contrasts things he gives you several twos two things that contrast each other the first he gives is two gates right there's a wide one and there's a narrow one and look most of the people in the world they're going to go the wide one it's easy a lot of people saying come this way he said but kingdom people don't kingdom people go the narrow way and doing it they find life you go the broad way it's destruction how many turns around look at the road and say you know what there's destruction at the end of that thing but i think i'll take that anyway i don't know of anybody i've worked with a lot of people over the years i don't know of anybody in addiction that were sticking they said my goal in life was just to go down to a path where i just wanted to stick needles in my arm i've never found that person yet yet that path of destruction was broad and easy to go to narrow broad he gives you a choice kingdom choices then he says there's two fruits and actually these two fruits there's there's the there's the there's bad fruit and there's good fruit now this bad fruit he says it comes in the form of these false prophets and they sound like they're really good but they're they're not very authentic in their life matter of fact he's going to go ahead and say later on jesus says not everyone that says unto me lord lord is enter the kingdom of heaven and you're going to say well didn't we cast out demons in your name and then we do good things in your name and we did miracles we preached in your name we did all these things in your name he's going to say i never knew who you were you were bad fruit you were wolf in sheep's clothing he said now kingdom people have that heart space filled with christ and god is their priority and when they do that their actions produce real fruit and you can recognize it in people's lives then he gives them the old two builders by the way before i leave that two fruit thing because jesus is telling you to do some stuff here james in the book of james james writes james says faith without works is dead jesus says works without faith is dead we're saved by grace and once we've been blessed to be kingdom people we've become salt and light we live different than the world and we get busy working for god and are honored to do so because he rescued us out of such a mess that we were in then he says there's two builders we all sung the song if you went to sunday school at all right the wise man built his house up on the rock the foolish man built it and when the rains come flop right thing just destroyed so the question becomes for me to ask mike kellet and for us to ask each other really am i wise or am i foolish look what jesus says in 7 20 therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built this house on the rock you know what that tells me the sermon on the mount is something you and i can practice so if you think my that loving your enemies that's too hard that forgiving people when they've committed adultery that's too difficult i can't do that i can't keep my word i can't live like that no yes you can jesus says kingdom people who have been blessed by him can practice the principles in this sermon don't you swallow that pill that somebody out there that says oh that's just ideal stuff nobody can really do that oh yeah you can practice it you can do it and we don't work in order to be saved we work because we are saved we work because we're kingdom people living a kingdom lifestyle that is totally different than how the world lives yes this sermon can be practiced but it cannot be practiced until you're blessed by god and you fill that heart space with the spirit of god the word of god and the grace of god you are valuable even in your worst brokenness disease dependence on other people you're valuable and jesus says to the broken people i want you the kingdom belongs to you are you in the kingdom are you broken about your own sinfulness are you mourn the brokenness of your life are you willing to make him the lord and let him reign and bless you so you can become salt and life and feel that empty space in your heart that's what our invitation is about or maybe you've just gotten away from walking the way jesus hey look we're all in this thing together we're all family right we'll help you walk the journey we help each other i need help other people in this room understand they need help but if you have a need today to be baptized into christ and start your journey if you have a need today to just regain your zeal for following god letting him reign in your life because you kind of let some other things creep into rule get him back on top right that's what our invitation is for it's a forever family saying we love you and we'll walk with you if you ever need come while we stand and sing hello my name is mike williams i'm one of the shepherds here at white spray road and we want to encourage everybody that's with us today to respond to the message what a great message about the kingdom we know there are people who are struggling we have a couple of prayer requests and uh we just want to encourage you to respond to the lord today as you can in your heart and in your life make these choices that kellet was talking about what a blessing what a blessing that we have a kingdom that the lord has brought and he has called us to enter it let's pray heavenly father we are so so thankful for the love you've shown to mankind we are grateful that jesus came that you had a plan to restore us lord and to bring us out of our old lives into this blessed kingdom heavenly father there are a couple of that we want to remember in prayer we want to pray for the niece of keith burge and the struggle the suffering lord we just pray that for blessings of healing and comfort and protection we also want to pray for um blessings for the clark family lord and we ask for their comfort as well heavenly father we know there are people who are struggling today with um disappointment it's real lord and struggling with anger that's real we pray lord for you to set us free to bless us and help us lord with those things lord we know we pray for those who are hurting today that are with physical struggles we pray for healing we pray for comfort and strength and heavenly father we want to pray for those who are seeking your kingdom we ask that you would give them strength and faith to take those first steps to make jesus the lord of their life heavenly father we are so so thankful that you have loved us so dearly and blessed us and called us into a new life in jesus name amen amen thank you so much mike for praying over us and thank you all for being with us today we do have a baptism this morning so we are going to be with you guys until that happens and then we're going to cut to that smooth transition man what a great sermon uh i love um the sermon on the mount i should everybody um but the b attitude specifically man i just i've learned a lot about them and i just love reading them because they're so interesting uh one of my favorite things i read a book that the author made this uh correlation between matthew 18 and the beatitudes in matthew 18 you know we have some apostles arguing and they're like god like who's the greatest like who like i want to be the greatest i want to sit at your right hand like who's going to do it like who who is it among us and jesus like brings over a child and he's like i tell you this until you become like this child this kid you're not going to enter the kingdom of heaven you will never be at my right side and i love that and he makes the correlation that if you look at the beatitudes if you want to know how to become a child of god like a like a child like an innocent person read the beatitudes he's like that's how you do it that's how you can enter the kingdom of god so if we have a moment i'll tell you a quick child story this morning i love child stories so we're riding over here in the minivan me and judah and jack and jack is two and he just like hits up i guess because i said we're going to church he starts singing sing like never before oh my soul all words sing it again sing like never we kept singing it again and i was like but that was like that's awesome yeah that's what we write sing it again like praise right beautiful man and that's what man i love children um because they just have such a pure heart and they really are the example that we should be looking to you know so often we we flip it and we're like children look at us we're the example but god says no you you're messed up adults like you're faulty like you got sin all in your life i actually want you to be like that child innocent amazed by the world having so much wander and creativity and just saying it like it is that's what i love about children they just say it like it is they see the truth they call out the truth and that's what god calls us to do and calls us to be like so that we can be and spend eternity with him i love that yeah i know that's awesome man just like good job mike that was a hard lesson today but he did really well did really good today yeah the man i see that we've had so many people uh continue to pour in i see pennsylvania nebraska um iowa new york these are some awesome places california so we've got the west coast to the east coast that's great honduras kenya really yeah oh that's awesome welcome everyone yeah simon from kenya we're so glad that you are here today uh man we're just we're connecting around the world which is really cool the uh the uh awesome thing about you know going through the sermon on the mount and and seeing these really powerful messages that god says and that jesus spoke you know is that uh mike mentioned it like jesus uses a lot of hyperbolic statements like they're meant to like oh god whoa and and what god is like i'm trying to grip your attention and show you the core of this principle and if we can get this core principle down it'll change your life it will change your life but i gotta shock you to wake you up because so often you're just asleep and you're like oh i've heard this pharisee before i've heard this teaching before and god's like oh have you okay well i'll really tell the truth about it since you're gonna be asleep on me right you know and so jesus does that a lot where he's like i'm going to say something and you're going to be like whoa and i love that about jesus one of the biggest things he said is like i haven't uh i did not come to bring peace i came to bring the sword that's one of my favorite things i'm like oh god you're kind of scary yeah that's awesome but uh yeah um we have that baptism happening later and uh i think that's awesome i love when uh you know brothers and sisters come to christ i love when you hear such a message that was so powerful and you're like you know what that's what i want to i want to give it all to god that's a beautiful thing most beautiful thing you can do in your life yeah the uh and so like i said earlier um if you want to join uh this community if you just came in from iowa or nebraska or wherever you're from and you're like what's this about please join our wfr live stream community group and i promise that you will see what it's about it's about family it's about hope it's about grace and mercy and we want you to be a part of that um we also have this new uh chat platform as well uh wfrchurch.online.church that's the place it's a it's a it's a smooth system so you can chat there's a prayer room all that different kind of stuff it's really effective so please hop on there as well yeah well it was so great being with you all this morning and being with you brandon yes i had so much fun i love teresa that their whole family and we both of our spouses are worship leaders yeah that's cool yeah yeah and i'm glad that they are because uh yeah not me not not i yes yeah well yeah i hope you all have a great week we love you all so much and uh just uh thank y'all uh for what just being here with us and uh worshiping our father all right have an awesome week love y'all [Music] i was buried beneath my shame [Music] till i met you [Music] [Applause] [Music] i [Music] [Music] become my name [Applause] out of the darkness into your glorious day [Music] [Applause] [Music] into your glorious days [Music] now [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] out of the darkness into your glorious day [Music] [Applause] into your glorious [Music] a little day sing a little louder [Music] [Music] [Applause] hope will arise is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] my weapon is [Music] in the middle of the door louder and louder you're gonna hear my praises roar up from the ashes hope we'll arise [Music] [Applause] [Music] your love is [Music] [Applause] out of the darkness into your glorious days [Applause] into your glorious days [Music] [Applause] yes [Applause]

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