Matthew 5:8 Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.These words are part of his legal argument. Sevier has unsuccessfully sued the State of Florida and is currently suing the State of Texas for the right to marry the laptop computer that contains his pornography.
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42.7% of internet users view pornography and download 1.5 billion peer to peer downloads per month. 25% of the total requests made on internet engines is a pornographic search… that is 68million per day. Every day there are 116,000 requests for child pornography and there are 100,000 websites offering it to them. Every second, 372 people are typing adult search terms. Every second 28,258 people are viewing pornography. Every second, $3,075.64 is spent on pornography. Mark is one of the growing number of people who have developed an addiction to internet pornography. It was the story about Mark “Chris” Sevier. Yesterday, as I was listening to the radio in the car, I heard a news story that I had missed. I won’t furnish many details… the broader strokes will do. I want to begin with an absolutely bizarre story.
This week we move onto the sixth beatitude… Jesus’ blessing to the pure in heart. Evangelism flows out of a sense of being recipients of God’s mercy. Together we saw that mercy is undeserved and that when we truly understand how undeserving we are, but how badly we need God’s mercy, it will motivate us to do two things… talk to Jesus about unsaved people and talk to unsaved people about Jesus. Then, last week we looked at being merciful. It is the hunger that propels us to seek God’s kingdom first. The next rung on the ladder was hungering and thirsting for righteousness. Meekness is typified by Jesus who was both omnipotent and nailed to a cross. We then looked at meekness and saw that meekness is not weakness, it is strength under control. Instead of dismissing our sin and explaining it away, we view our sin the way that God does… as a cancer that needs to be cut out. We then saw that an important next step was mourning – especially mourning over our sinfulness. The journey towards Christ-likeness begins with poverty of spirit – acknowledging that we are powerless to change ourselves and humbly seeking God’s grace to become more like Jesus. I have described them as rungs on a ladder. Today we will be looking at the sixth of Jesus’ 8 beatitudes.
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