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Christ John Otto directs Belonging House, an international community of artists and creative people. This teaching is from our Sunday congregation, Beth Charashim, the House of Artisans.

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Christ John Otto directs Belonging House, an international community of artists and creative people. This teaching is from our Sunday congregation, Beth Charashim, the House of Artisans.

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Christ John Otto directs Belonging House, an international community of artists and creative people.  This teaching is from our Sunday congregation, Beth Charashim, the House of Artisans.   This week's readings are I Corinthians 2:6-16 and Matthew 5:17-37.

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#artists 

#Belonginghouse

#kingdomofgod 

#sermononthemount

#discernment

#prophetic

We cannot understand the Kingdom using worldly systems

worldly logic,

and worldly paradigms.

Grids.

It is interesting when you read a lot of commentaries,

that most of the people writing them are either not believers

or believe that the work of the Holy Spirit ceased.

And most of it is not helpful.

This is what Paul describes as the "unspiritual man"

who does not receive the gifts of the Spirit

they are folly.

And then Paul says the spiritual man

judges all things because it is in the spirit that things are discerned.

So what Jesus is telling us

lines up with Paul.

Jesus is showing us that the moral code

that is required of us in heaven

is beyond human ability.

Jesus is building up to the crescendo of his sermon:

Come unto me all you who labor and are heavy laden

and I will give you rest.

Come to me.

Come to me and I will give you my mind.

Come to me and I will help you give you my emotional stability.

I will help you with your impossible marriage.

I will help you with you rotten brother.

I will help you with contracts and agreements

so that your yes will be yes and your no will be no.

I will help you with your wandering eye.

I will be in you.

And this is only in the Spirit.

And in order to do this,

you need the gifts and the fruit of the Holy Spirit.

Christ John Otto directs Belonging House, an international community of artists and creative people.

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Christ John Otto directs Belonging House, an international community of artists and creative people.

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Throughout this season 

we are going to come back to one theme:

How do we experience grace?

This is not Biblical language, but rather,

language that comes from the controversies 

that happened five hundred years ago.

The terms from the reformation

introduced a vagueness into the Christian experience,

that persists to the present day.

The New Testament talks about life in the Holy Spirit.

And this life in the Holy Spirit 

is the experience 

of God's favour, 

goodness,

lovingkindness,

and Person, Presence, and Power in our lives.

One passage of scripture that suffers from 

a vague interpretation

is today's gospel.

The Beatitudes.

Because I grew up in a liberal church,

I have heard the beatitudes used to support

a variety of political and social causes.

And preachers can get away with this

because the English translation is vague and broad.

And the words in our Bibles are bland enough

that anyone can read into them their own interpretations.

And a number of errors have become common,

like living in poverty is a better way of life

than being prosperous.

Christ John Otto directs Belonging House, an international community of artists and creative people.

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Christ John Otto directs Belonging House, an international community of artists and creative people. You can find out more at https://belonging.house

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