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Patrick D. Degn
Redeeming Latter-day Israel
Friday 1755

Building Beatitudes: Establishing Zion the Lord’s Way

— previous class questions:

Four women mentioned in the Saviors Genealogy in Matthew.

77 generations from Adam to Christ. begins with the man and culminates with the perfect man.

Abraham to David are 14 generations.
David to babylon are 14.
babylon to Christ are 14.

Jeremiah 22.. king will not be found again in the blood line.

four women mentioned.. Tamar, Ruth, Bashbia, Mary.. 3 are women of “ill repute”.. they are mentioned for specific reasons.. each forms a different redemming role.

Find out Uriah means. (story of David world)

Jews will deliberately manipulate something so that they form a prophetic type of something.

ruth and boaz name are every 49 letters.

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Sermon on the Mount

There are seven deliberate beatititudes.. that form a type of how you advance

It’s like the days of creation. You can’t have the 5th beatitude without the 4th.

There is a deliberate pattern to the sermon itself. Trenched in the old testament.

Brief outline to the sermon:
1. Man’s relationship with Self: Matt 5:1-16
– you must first understand your place in the cosmic place of things before you can understand God.

2. Man’s Relationship to the Law: Matt 5:17-48
– your relationship to Gods Law..
– Gods law is designed to bring you to Christ.
– 5:48.. Let Jesus mean what he says there.. “Like unto God”.
– the sermon is just a picture of ‘the problem’.
– the solution is Jesus Christ himself.

3. Man’s Relationship to God: Matt 6
4. Man’s Relationship to Others: Matt 7

Dallin H. Oaks Ensign, Nov 2000, pg 32. “The Final Judgment is not just an evaluation…. become what our Heavenly Father desires us to become.”
It’s not about righteous acts, but about becoming what our Father desires us to become.

Building Beatitudes..the Lord’s Way
#1. Poor in Spirit (v3)
#2. Mourn
– all of these beatitudes are character traits of what we are. You can’t have a mournful spirit until you are poor in spirit.
#3. Meakness
#4. Hunger and Thirst
- you naturally hunger for something once you are meek
#5. Merciful
#6. Pure in Heart
- you must go through a sequence of beatitudes to be Pure in Heart.
#7. Peacemakers

compare these #1s to the creation days.. #1, light, #2, separation.. mourning separation from the heavens..
#3.. provision for life.. meakness means life #4.. plant life.. #6.. created man and woman and beast. purity of heart can not come without the family unit.

Brief outline of beatitudes:
#1. Attitude towards Self
- we commonly think of that as ‘humility’.
#2. Attitude towards Sin
#3. Attitude towards Others.
#4. Attitude towards God.
#5. State of Being: Actions (What)
#6. State of Being: Motives (Why)
#7. State of Being: Ambitions (Purpose)

#1.. Poor in Spirit:
Poor (ptochos = greek)
- destitute of wealth, influence, position, honor
- lowly, afflicted
- powerless to accomplish an end
- lacking in anything.
- empty and desolate (what was the description of the earth before it was created?)

Scriptures on poor in spirit:
Moses 1:10
Mosiah 4
2 Cor. 3:5
Isa 57:15 — ‘high and lofty one’.. with him that is of a ‘contrite and humble spirit’… someone who is poor in spirit recognizes that they are absolutely nothing in the eyes of God, man, or anybody.

Alma 42:29 — let these things trouble you no more. only let your sins trouble you. everything but your sins are a preoccupation of ’self’.
once you divorce yourself from ’self’.. God can fill that.

#2.. he is describing our state of being. now you recognize your separation from God. What separates you? Sin. Sins are stopping you from becoming like God is.
Moroni 7:33.. don’t believe in who you “are”..believe in who HE “is”..

#3.. towards Others.. how do i view others, now that i recognize that I am nothing.. Meekness is outward towards others.. we are patient, long suffering, willing to forgive..

#4.. now i see a pathway to God. because I am hungering and thirsting after what He has. It’s not my works that saves..it’s His works that save. 2 Nephi 3… ‘wherefore I know that thou art redeemed because of the Righteousness of our Redeemer’..

#5. this describes what i am..what my actions are. because i see my self as i am.. and God for who he is.. my actions speak for who I am. It is a state of being.

#6. my actions are starting to purify me.. purifying my motives.. His suffering is what saves me.. My suffering is what changes my perception towards the sin. my motives are changed.. because my heart is clean. Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the truth..before he puts his guard on.
CS Lewis.. mere christianity 164-165. 1960 edition.

#7. What is my souls ambition? What do you want in life?

Neal A Maxwell says that some of the hardest trials we get are “ease”, “(something maybe comfort?)”, and “money”

If you are like this .. (7 beatitudes).. you will naturally be a light..the salt.. a light is a token for the witness of the Spirit. salt is a token of the covenant of Abraham.

Where do you learn how to “do” poor in spirit?
begins in the home, church and then into the temple. according to Isaiah.

Begins with the word of God.

Harold B Lee said that this is the blueprint for a perfect life.