The Beatitudes

This Wednesday Night the youth of Ealge Heights will be discussing the Beatitudes. In Exodus Chapter 3 God reveals himself to Moses in a burning bush after being silent for 400 years. God tells Moses to go and tell Pharaoh to let his people go after these 400 years of slavery. Moses is scared though and instead starts making excuses (like we all do) about why he can't do this vaunting task that God has given him. During this conversation, Moses asks God what his name is. Until this point in history Moses' people the Israelites had only known God by one name which was Yahweh. Most of the Israelites were even scared to call him by this name. So, when Moses asked God what his name was God replied to Moses, " I am who I am, tell them I AM sent you." God goes on to tell Moses that this will be his name forever and ever. The two names mentioned for God here, Yahweh and I AM, both have a sub meaning which is TO BE since GOD has always been. Thus, in scriptures when we see the word BE we can literally translate it for GOD.
Now to the discussion of the BE Attitudes. Did you catch it? Yes, the BE Attitudes can literally be translated, the GOD Attitudes. These attitiudes which were given by Jesus at the Sermon on the Mountain or as it is more precisely known The Sermon on the Mount are a blueprint for happiness. If we can live by these GOD Attitudes we will be sure to find true happiness that comes from GOD. Join us Wednesday night at 7:00 P.M. in the upper room of the student building to find out more about the GOD Attitudes.