The Greatest Rewards

V.10-12- blessed are you when someone says terrible things about you because you are a Christian. You are blessed when people do you wrong and you still love and pray for them. You are blessed when you are like a lamb among wolves, and you still at his table in the midst of your enemies. You are blessed when you lose things here to gain things there. You are blessed when your best friend or only friend is Jesus, because He is the truest of all friends. You are blessed even if the world says you aren’t a success, because your goal is higher than the stars and your destination is not of this world.

Close: Ted Turner said, Christians are losers because their leader died on a cross, and He didn’t need anyone to do that for him. He said, he wanted to go to hell, because going to heaven would be boring, (meaning Christians are boring) he said all of his friends were going to hell, so he didn’t want to miss out on seeing them. I am sure if you ate where Ted Turner eats, drive what he drives, lives where he lives, and could go to the places he travels, you would say, I’ll take it. But I would rather be blessed with the poor in Spirit, I would rather be blessed with the meek and lowly. Take this whole world, but give me Jesus. For you to be blessed, (happy) you must kill the material God of this world, the pleasure God of this world, the mean, vengeful God of this world, and take up your cross and follow Christ. It make seem like a hard way, it may seem like a heavy load, but it will be worth it all, when we see Christ.