More Than Bread

His Sermon, My Story #7 -- Matthew 5:3 -- What is the blessed life?

Dan Nold (Pastor of Calvary Church) Season 5 Episode 613

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As we dive into the beatitudes, we immediately run into the word "Blessed." The word is used 9x's in the first 11 verses of the Sermon on the Mount. The Living Bible translates it, "fortunate, or happy."  Eugene Peterson in The Message uses the word "lucky."  What is the essence of lucky?  It's getting something you don't deserve.  
In the Greek language, the word blessed is the word makairos. 

How do you describe, the blessed life? Makairos? What 2 or 3 things would you like to happen in your life, where if they happened, you would consider yourself "makairos."  Blessed? What is the blessed life? (And how do we get it?)