Our modern society makes
sure that we aren't too hot,
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too cold, too hungry,
too thirsty, or too tired.
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So if you are ever too tempted
to complain about these things,
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spare a thought for what
life was like as a medieval monk
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about 500 years ago.
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A monk's day in the
middle ages started between one
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and two a.m. with the ringing
of the bells to wake him up
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for the first prayers of
the day, the group then would
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sing hymns and
recite psalms and prayers.
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Then they were allowed a short
nap before the bells rang again
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at sunrise for more prayers
and then every three hours
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after that. All the
monks joined for prayers
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seven times a day.
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Monks slept on slabs of stone
with only straw for padding
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they'd only caused?
blankets to keep them warm
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through the freezing
European winters, many of them
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used no blankets at all. They
weren't allowed to own anything
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except a crucifix
and a begging bowl.
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Monks regularly performed
rituals designed to test their
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endurance and humility.
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This included fasting, lying in
the snow, wearing uncomfortable
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prickly undershirts
made of animal hair and even
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beating themselves with whips.
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And if this wasn't bad enough
monks were required to work hard
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whenever they weren't praying.
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They had to provide food for
the monastery and also to work
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for their communities but
why did they put themselves
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through all of that?
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Well, they were
searching for something
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and it's still something
that all of us are looking for,
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join me as we look at the
story of one such monk and how
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he found peace and freedom
and how you can find it too.
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I'm here by the Sea of
Galilee where Jesus gave us the
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beatitudes, the center
of Jesus teachings about
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the kingdom of God is
the Sermon on the Mount
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and the very heart of the Sermon
on the Mount are the Beatitudes.
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So, if we want to really know
what it means to be a follower
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of Jesus and to live as a
citizen of the kingdom of God,
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then we must understand Christ's
teaching in the Beatitudes.
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But the beatitudes
aren't just spiritual principles
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for Christians, they're
arguably the body of principles
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that has been most influential
in shaping western civilization
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as we know it today.
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The word Beatitude is an old-
fashioned religious-sounding
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word that not many
people will recognize today,
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it refers to
being blissfully happy.
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When Jesus calls people
blessed in the Beatitudes that's
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literally what he means, he
means that if you display these
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qualities, you will
be blissfully happy.
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This is a happiness that belongs
only to God and it can come
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only from God. In other words
when in your life you display
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Jesus describes in the
beatitudes, you will share
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in the joy of heaven here
on earth. It's the only way to
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truly live. If you're
after hope, inner peace and
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happiness, this is
where you'll find it.
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So Jesus sat on a hill
here so the crowd could hear him
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and He taught the people
the most radical and influential
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set of principles for living
that this world has ever heard.
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Among the beatitudes he
said this in Matthew 5:6
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like each of the beatitudes
there is a great truth hidden
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in this radical contradiction.
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And this great truth can
be seen played out in the
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life of a German
monk Martin Luther.
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Young Martin was brilliant
even as a child so when he was
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only 13 years old, his father
sent him to the University
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of Erfurt to study law
He proved so skillful at
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public debates that he
was given the nickname,
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the philosopher. But
behind his many achievements
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Martin was a young man in
turmoil that's why he threw
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himself so
relentlessly into his studies.
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to try to find peace. He
was driven by the fears of
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hell and the wroth of God.
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Martin Luther lacked the
assurance of his own salvation
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he desperately
wanted to be right with God
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and have God accept him
but he knew that he wasn't
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good enough on his own.
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Then in 1505 at the age of
21 his life took a dramatic turn
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he'd been visiting his
parents and was on the dirt road
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back to Erfurt when he suddenly
found himself in the midst
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of a raging thunderstorm.
Suddenly a bolt of lightning
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struck the ground near him
in terror, Martin screamed out
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a vow to St. Anne his
patron saint, help me, St. Anne
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and I will become a monk.
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This doesn't seem to be a random
spur of the moment decision
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he had probably
thinking about this for sometime
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so when he has saw that
he had survived the storm
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Martin immediately gave
away all of his possessions
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left his studies of law
and entered the Augustinian
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Order of Erfurt becoming a monk.
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His parents were
bitterly disappointed but Martin
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embarked on his monastic life
in Wittenberg with great fervor.
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Finally, he thought he would
be able to learn to love God
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without fear and
find peace with his soul.
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As a monk, Martin focused
on and even obsessed about
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his personal sins and
worked hard to overcome them.
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He was determined to
become good enough for God
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to accept him, he would begin
each day in the early hours
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after midnight and then he
would try to purify himself
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through a regular routine
which included confession,
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silently praying at almost every
moment and reading the Bible
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late into the night.
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He was content with only a table
and a chair in his unheated room
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he slept without a blanket
in the bone-chilling cold of the
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Northern German winter.
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And a penance for his
sins, Martin would beat himself
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with a whip and he would
fast to the point of emaciation.
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Martin was such a successful
man that in 1506 he gained
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full admission to
the Augustinian Order.
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Afterward, Luther said:
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But still, he found no
peace his conscience told him
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that he was unworthy of
heaven because of his sins and
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weaknesses. He wanted to
be able to love God fully
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but more and more he was
terrified of the wrath of God
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and the more religious he
became, the more his terror
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increased, Luther said:
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While in the monastery
Martin continued to study
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although now instead of studying
law, he studied theology.
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The year after his ordination
he began teaching theology
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at the University of Wittenberg
where he was also awarded
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two bachelor's degrees.
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A text in the Bible book of
Romans that Martin came across
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was Romans 1:17 which says:
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Whenever Luther read
this, his eyes were drawn not
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to the word faith but
to the word righteous,
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for Luther the text was
clear, you had to already be
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righteous or morally
upright perfectly good,
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because only the
righteous could live by faith.
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Luther remarked:
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Luther could not live by
faith, because he knew he wasn't
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righteous, morally
correct or perfectly good.
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And so he knew he was
under the condemnation of God
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this was at the core of Luther's
inner turmoil, he was hungering
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and thirsting for righteousness
but he didn't know how to
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find it. Even with all of
his good efforts and works
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he knew in his heart that he
was still a sinner and full of
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mistakes and sin.
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In the year 1510
Luther made a journey to Rome,
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there he thought he might find
the answers to his questions
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that would satisfy the hunger
of his soul, but instead Luther
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disturbed by the corruption
and lack of spirituality among
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the clergy that he saw
there. And being scrupulously
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observant Luther followed the
traditional customs of Pilgrims
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in Rome. One of these
was climbing the holy stairs
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on his knees, reciting the
Lord's Prayer at every step.
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While Luther was doing this,
the words of the Apostle Paul
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sounded in his mind.
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He returned to Germany even
more troubled than when he left.
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In the attempt to shift his
focus away from his troubled
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soul, Luther threw himself
into more study in Wittenberg
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where in 1512 he earned
his doctorate in theology.
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He went on the become a
professor at the university
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there while he was presenting
lectures on the sounds in the
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book of Romans, for the
first time he began to see God
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in the Bible in a
different way, he wrote:
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Although light had dawned
in Luther's mind and his hunger
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and thirst for righteousness
was being filled by the
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gift of God, he still hadn't
lit the spot that launched the
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Protestant Reformation.
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The spot that lit the
Reformation was the sale of
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indulgences, these came
about because Pope Leo the 10th
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needed to raise funds to rebuild
the Basilica of St. Peter's
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in Rome so he sent
preachers throughout Europe
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to promote their sale.
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Basically how an
indulgence worked was like this
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If you gave the required
amount of money to the church,
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or its representative, any
and all sins would be forgiven
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for yourself and anyone
else nominated living or dead.
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It was a way of buying
the righteousness of God
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with money, the very basic
form of salvation by works.
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And when the preacher
John Tetzel started selling
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indulgences in
Wittenberg, Luther objected.
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He objected on the basis
that God alone had the power
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to forgive sin. The
practice of selling indulgences
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took people's eyes from the
true source of righteousness
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which is faith in Christ.
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On October 31, 1517, Luther
nailed his 95 Theses to the
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door of the church at
Wittenberg and the Protestant
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Reformation began.
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In 1521, Martin Luther
was called to an assembly
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really a trial at Worms, Germany
there he uttered the famous
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words,
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Martin Luther had finally
discovered the true source
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of righteousness, his hunger
and his thirst had been filled
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by the righteousness of
Christ, received as a free gift
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through faith. His fear of
God, his wroth and hell-fire
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was gone, it had been
replaced by assurance and peace.
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He finally had peace of mind,
he now knew that he was made
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right with God not by what
he did, but by what Jesus did.
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He was accepted by
God, not because he was good
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but because Jesus was
good, all he had to do was
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believe in Jesus and
accept Him as his Savior.
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And because his own hunger
and thirsting for righteousness
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had been satisfied. Luther was
now able to share the message
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of Righteousness
by Faith to the world.
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There's nothing worse
than feeling hungry is there?
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Fortunately, few of us
know what real hunger is
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but Jesus' heroes did, they
were subsistence farmers and
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fishermen under tremendous
financial pressure from the
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Roman rulers. They knew
what it was like to go for a day
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or two without a proper meal,
the majority of Jesus' audience
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was never far from starvation
and so when Jesus said,
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"Blessed are those who hunger
and thirst," the people who
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heard Him knew the
light- headedness and weakness
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that accompanied hunger.
They knew the desperation that
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they felt when they were without
food, they knew nausea and
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pain in their stomachs.
They knew that to be hungry
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was a terrible thing and
to be thirsty was even worse,
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water was the most precious
commodity of all for its lack
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would soon be followed by death.
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Just think, we're used to having
cold water whenever we like
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the people who heard
Jesus didn't have taps with
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running water, the only water
they had was what they could
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carry themselves
from wells and streams.
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If you were traveling and
didn't know the lay of the land,
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dying of thirst was a real
risk, this is the kind of hunger
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and this is the kind of thirst
of which Jesus was speaking
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It is the hunger that will
cause you to starve to death
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and the thirst that will
kill you if you don't drink.
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This Beatitude is a challenge
to all of us, it asks you
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how much do you
really want righteousness?
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Do you want it as much as a
starving man who craves food?
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Or a thirsty man cries
out for water? First of all,
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what is righteousness?
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Well at its most basic righteous
ness is simply right doing,
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a person who is righteous
will do the right thing.
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When someone does what is right,
we tend to think of them as
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a good person don't we? Most
people want to be good people.
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As William Barclay the famous
Scottish Bible scholar says.
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But most people don't crave
goodness like a man dying of
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thirst craves water,
instead what most often happens
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is that people's desire to
do what is right is prioritized
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below other desires. For example
let's say I want to do the
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right thing and be
honest but if I lie and cheat
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I will end up with more money.
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Or let's say I want to
do the right thing and admit
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I've done something wrong but
if I do other people will think
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less of me, it's usually
easy to rationalize away why
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we shouldn't do the
right thing and the thing about
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doing the right thing is
that it's black and white.
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You can't partially do the
right thing, you either do the
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right thing or you
don't. It's like being pregnant,
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you can't be half pregnant,
so if righteousness means
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always doing what is right,
then that's a very high standard
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and you have to do it
all the time to maintain it.
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So, who can be a
good person? Can anyone?
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Well, Jesus gave us
a perspective on this.
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Once a man came running up
to Jesus and addressed him as
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"Good Teacher", why do you
call me good Jesus answered?
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No one is good except God alone
so that leaves all of humanity
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in a real bind doesn't it?
Romans 3:23 says it like this.
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But we were all created
for goodness that's why people
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instinctively
admire what is good.
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We were all created to do
the right thing that's why we
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recognize it when we see
it and that's why most people
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instinctively desire
it for their own lives.
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But here's the thing,
only God has perfect goodness
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and because of sin in our
lives we don't, righteousness
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is God's alone. In this
Beatitude however the blessing
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the perfect happiness isn't
for the person who achieves
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perfect righteousness
in his or her own life
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and that's encouraging
because the blessing is instead
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for the person who recognizes
his own hunger and clutches
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at the wonderful goodness of
God despite the ups and downs
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of life and despite their
own stumbles and failures.
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And that's what is so encour-
aging about this Beatitude
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righteousness is all or
nothing it can't be partial
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A single selfish
thought bought you a copybook,
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in fact, this is emphasized
in this original Greek of this
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Beatitude which emphasizes
the blessing is for those who
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hunger and thirst for
complete righteousness.
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Of course the only one in
whom righteousness may be found
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is Jesus, the only
source of righteousness.
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He's the only one who can
satisfy your hunger and thirst
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for goodness in your life
and the only way to be filled
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and satisfied with
the righteousness of Jesus
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is through faith in Him.
It's a gift, you take hold of it
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by accepting His
sacrifice on the cross for you
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and submitting your
life to Him. When you do that
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Christ's complete righteousness
is credited to your account
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as if it had always been
yours. As the Apostle Paul says
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in Ephesians 2:8,9
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The earliest followers of Jesus
knew that righteousness was a
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gift that was received through
faith, but sadly at the time of
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Martin Luther, the main
church taught something else,
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it taught that you could
be righteous by performing
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the religious services of
the church decreed or by doing
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sufficient good works or simply
by giving the church your money.
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So, by the time of Martin Luther
there was a huge desperation
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for righteousness and
God used Luther's own hunger
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and thirst for righteousness
to remind the world
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of the message of God's
Righteousness as a free gift.
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The church popularly taught
that righteousness was something
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that you did but Luther
discovered from the word of God
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that righteousness is
something that God has done,
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He accomplished it at
Calvary through Jesus Christ
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and now He offers
it to you as a gift.
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Over 500 years have
passed since Martin Luther
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rediscovered the
message of how humanity's hunger
00:24:42.04\00:24:45.55
for righteousness can be
truly satisfying and since then
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society has developed in
ways so that the meaning of this
00:24:50.29\00:24:54.22
Beatitude has been once again
forgotten by most despite our
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modern sophistication
and advanced technology
00:25:00.40\00:25:03.23
and even despite the
rise of evolution and atheism
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the essence of what it
means to be a good human being
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remains. All of us as
human beings were created by God
00:25:10.74\00:25:16.51
we all have a desire
for goodness in our lives
00:25:16.54\00:25:20.82
but everywhere around us
we see the results of evil.
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And within ourselves, we fail
to live up to who we ultimately
00:25:25.25\00:25:30.19
want to be and just like in
Luther's time the world today
00:25:30.23\00:25:34.96
has no answers. Our hunger
and thirst for righteousness
00:25:35.00\00:25:39.80
can be met as an
absolutely free gift from God
00:25:39.83\00:25:44.37
when you trust in Jesus.
Isn't that amazing, you are then
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counted as righteous before God.
00:25:49.88\00:25:53.98
Are you distressed by
the evil in the world?
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Are you disappointed by the
failures in your own personal
00:25:56.28\00:25:59.79
life? Are you hungering and
thirsting for righteousness?
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that can only be found in Jesus,
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Dear Heavenly Father, We
thank you for the gift of
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righteousness through Jesus,
we thank you that you have
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promised to meet every
one of our needs and fill us
00:27:57.01\00:28:00.24
with your spirit. Please
guide us as we accept the gift
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of salvation along with your
promises of peace and assurance
00:28:04.78\00:28:08.95
and follow your leading.
In Jesus' name, we pray,
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Amen!
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