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<div class="SSN_title">"RIGHTEOUSNESS AND BLESSEDNESS"</div>
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<div class="SSN_intro">Intro: Trouble with world today - war - sickness - crime. Not any single manifestation of sin, but sin itself. The church's answers to the world's ills lie in this verse. Ours is not the task of reforming society - converting world from sin.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. THIS BEATITUDE IN RELATION TO OTHERS.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Others have revealed my need.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. I need to be poor in spirit - mourn - meek.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. I need deliverance from my super ego.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Self-concern - Self-reliance.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Self-interest.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. This verse offers hope.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. I have despaired of victory because of continual failure.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Applied every home remedy; self improvement course; and do-it-yourself gadget on the market.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Being made conscious of my illness now brought to cure.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. THIS BEATITUDE ANSWERS THE GREATEST DESIRE OF MAN.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. "Happy are they."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Everybody wants to be happy.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Great motive behind actions and ambitions.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Everything designed for happiness.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Great tragedy though whole world seeks never seems to be able to find.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. We are not to hunger and thirst after blessedness (happiness).</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. This is what most people are doing.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Happiness should never be sought directly.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Church people quilty of this.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. Always seeking a blessing Chase all over.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">2. Chief aim is to receive blessing.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">3. Not to hunger and thirst after experience.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">d. If you put happiness before righteousness you are doomed to misery.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. The fundamental error.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Treat symptoms rather than cause.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">1. Man suffering pain desires relief from pain.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level5">2. I want relief from pain I will go to the theater, drink, drugs.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. What is causing the pain?</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. WHAT DOES "RIGHTEOUSNESS" MEAN?</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Neg. Not morality between nations (violating treaties).</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Some men who stand and decry nations for breaking treaties yet disloyal to own wives break sacred vows.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Free from sin in every manifestation. I desire to be free from sin because sin separates me from God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. A desire to be right with God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. All trouble in world today because men not right with God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. A desire to be free from the power of sin.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. See world under power of Satan desire freedom.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Desire to be free from very desire for sin.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. To desire to be completely holy.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Want to exemplify beatitudes.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Manifest the fruit of the spirit.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Long to be the new man in Christ Jesus, pure as He is pure, righteous as He.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">IV. BLESSED ARE THEY WHICH DO "HUNGER AND THIRST."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Means we recognize own inability.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. To desire supremely not at rest or satisfied.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. "As the heart panteth after the water brooks."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. To be conscious of desperate need of help.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">V. "HAPPY" WHY? "THEY SHALL BE FILLED."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. This is gospel of grace.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. Gift of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. You could never fill yourself with righteousness.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. Past - Present - Future.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. A day when Christ came in and changed.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Present stage of growth.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Some day stand in His presence.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">"Now unto Him who is able to keep."</div>
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