Happiness and the Beatitudes

Excerpts from an hour long teaching on happiness and the Beatitudes. *You may have to turn your volumn down.
The "beatitudes" are declarations of blessedness made by Jesus at the beginning of the Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5:3-12), each beginning with "Blessed are..." It is debated as to exactly how many beatitudes there are. Some speak of eight, seven, nine, or ten beatitudes. Luke 6:20-26 recounts only four Beatitudes. These stress a reversal of the condition of those who belong to the Kingdom of God.
The expression "Blessed are those" translated into English, the Greek word makarious, which in turn translates a similar phrase in the Old Testament (based on the Hebrew word 'aser). These phrases describe the person who is "Blessed", "happy", or "fortunate".

The Greek word translated "blessed" means "spiritual well-being and prosperity." This refers to the deep joy of the soul. Those who experience that first aspect of a beatitude (poor, mourn, meek, hungry for righteousness, merciful, pure, peacemakers, and persecuted) will also experience the second aspect of the beatitude (kingdom of Heaven, comfort, inherit the earth, filled, mercy, see God, called sons of God, inherit the kingdom of Heaven). The blessed have a share in salvation, and have entered the kingdom of God, experiencing a foretaste of heaven.
The Mount of Beatitudes refers to the hill in northern Israel where Jesus delivered the Sermon on the Mount.
The traditional location for the Mount of Beatitudes is on the northwestern shore of the Sea of Galilee, between Capernaum and Gennesaret.
Note: Pictures of this biblical site are at the end of the video.
Some scriptures from the Psalms to remember:

Psalms 1:1,2: "Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. 2But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

Psalms 33:12 reads "Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance".

Psalms 65:4 says "Blessed is the man whom thou choosest, and causest to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in thy courts: we shall be satisfied with the goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple.
Psalms 106:3 "Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that doeth righteousness at all times".

Psalms 112:1, "Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments."

Psalms 128:1,2: "Blessed is every one that feareth the LORD; that walketh in his ways.2For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee."

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