Week 1 (10.11) – FIRST: Seek His Kingdom
As the world appears to unravel, Jesus provides a reality that is much greater than what all the nations around the world can provide. His reality feeds the hungry, comforts the poor, provides ultimate peace, gives justice to all, and provides a King who is worthy of our praises. This reality is the Kingdom of God! Since this Kingdom is totally “upside down” when compared to worldly kingdoms, we are calling it the Upside Down Kingdom. When looking at the Beatitudes, parables, and Sermon on the Mount, we will discover the joy and the necessity to live in a healthy community that is counter to our everyday culture. This will be a life-changing reality for those seeking to fulfill the promises of God.
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Week 2 (10.18) – Beatitudes: Poor in Spirit
Here is a sermon summary for the website: In the Beatitudes, Jesus invites us into a new and better way of life, but it is a paradoxical realm that turns human logic upside down. It’s a life where sorrow leads to joy, brokenness to health, and suffering to glory. As Jesus preaches perhaps the best sermon ever recorded, Jesus begins to announce how our spiritual bankruptcy gives us the opportunity to live within the kingdom of God on earth as it will someday be in heaven.
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Week 3 (10.25) – Beatitudes: Those Who Mourn
When we face evil, it saddens us. The evil may come from ourselves, from others, or from sources unknown. In any case, when we honestly mourn the evil things of this world, whether that be words, deeds, or circumstances, God sees our sorrows and comforts us. He also gives us the knowledge and confidence that things will not always be this way. Jesus displays this comfort to a sinful woman in Luke 7:36-50. From this lesson in Luke, we discover that those who experience deeper sorrow are more likely to experience greater comfort, and live a life with more gratitude.
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Week 4 (11.01) – Beatitudes: Those Who Are Meek
When we face evil, it saddens us. The evil may come from ourselves, from others, or from sources unknown. In any case, when we honestly mourn the evil things of this world, whether that be words, deeds, or circumstances, God sees our sorrows and comforts us. He also gives us the knowledge and confidence that things will not always be this way. Jesus displays this comfort to a sinful woman in Luke 7:36-50. From this lesson in Luke, we discover that those who experience deeper sorrow are more likely to experience greater comfort, and live a life with more gratitude.
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Week 5 (11.22) – Beatitudes: Those Who Hunger and Thirst
Everybody’s got a hungry heart. God created us this way so that we would yearn for His love and truth. Regrettably, many people attempt to fill this appetite with pride, success, fame, drugs, pleasures, false ideologies, and power. Why have regrets? Why chase after emptiness? Why waste your life chasing things that will not make you complete? Only God will satisfy. Only God can fill the hunger in your heart. The sooner we accept, the sooner we live a life that is whole and meaningful.
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Week 6 (01.03) – New Year, New heart
Last year was the “year of the Lord”. While 2020 may appear to be a bad year for most people, it was a great year for Aldersgate. More than all the wonderful things that we have witnessed that were tangible, visible, and easy to recognize, God allowed for Aldersgate to go through a cocoon stage of death, a stage of letting go of the old wine and the old wine skin. The year 2021 is the year “all things renewed in Jesus Christ”. This is the year of the “butterfly”. This is the year of the new church. The born again church. New Year, New Heart is for individual people and for the whole church. Of course, along with the new heart, we get the breath of God.
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Week 7 (01.10) – Beatitudes: Those Who Are Persecuted
The almighty Church of God is not a feeble, insecure, defeated, outdated group of people who seek to please the world and make everyone happy. But rather, she is a powerful, unshakable, victorious, and relevant “body of Christ” who is equipped and prepared to be the light of world and the salt of the earth. With the gospel story to tell to the nations, she knows that evil is predominate and threatening; and that evil will insult, mock, and even threaten to take a person’s life. But like Jesus Christ, like the head of the body of Christ, the Church will shine her light and share the gospel truth and allow for light to outshine darkness. All who join her, take up the cross and follow not with shame nor fear but with honor and faith.
Twelve Minutes with God
– 4 minutes to read the Matthew 5:3-10 and Matthew 22:37-39
– 4 minutes to Listen/watch the video “This is God” by Phil Vassar – Click here to watch.
– 4 minutes to Pray to God. Express your love to God. Express your love for your neighbor. Express your love for the Beatitudes.
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Week 8 (01.17) – Precepts of God
The Kingdom of God is not the exclusion of the Laws/ Old Testaments/ Old Covenant but the extension. The Kingdom of God provides us with a new heart/ new wine/ new Spirit that gives us the inner disposition to live a life that naturally displays what the Laws required. In the old nature, we desire to do evil and the laws become requirements that are difficult to fulfill. However, thanks to Jesus who died for our sins and our sinful nature so that we can be born-again. Being new creatures in Christ , we desire to do good not because it is required but because it is in our new nature. With new hearts and a new nature, we are invited to live in a Kingdom where Jesus is King and everything is under new management.
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Week 9 (01.24) – Practices
God does not set up a standard of morality and declare that when we have achieved it we can enter His glorious kingdom. Rather, there is one requirement for entrance. Jesus said, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, one cannot enter the Kingdom of God” John 3:3. Accepting Jesus as the One who delivers us from evil, we come to realize that Jesus is our King and we are new citizens in the kingdom of God. Unlike the corrupt culture and politics that surround us, we live according to the practices taught by Jesus which promise priceless and everlasting rewards. Let us learn about these timeless practices, seek first the Kingdom of God, and enjoy the endless benefits here on earth as it will be in heaven.
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Week 10 (01.31) | Faith In Action
How are you building your life? What is your foundation? Do you want something that will withstands the storms of this life. Do you want to leave a legacy that will last forever? At the end of the ‘Sermon on the Mount’ sermon series, Jesus gives a simple illustration that determines the effectiveness of His promises and the quality of your life. Embracing Jesus’s teachings is exciting but practicing them will bring fulfillment beyond your own imaginations. Jesus desires to bless us when we put our faith into action.
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