Fifth Beatitude Persuasive Speech

The fifth Beatitude is, “Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.” This beatitude, like the other eight beatitudes, is supposed to be thought about on a personal level. In every beatitude Jesus is referring to your own behavior, your own qualities, and your own characters, as well as what other people think of you. To think of these eight beatitudes elsewhere is the wrong thing to do.

Followers of Christ have the ability to show compassion and to forgive which actually makes them stronger, rather than making them weaker and making them made fun of by others. This makes them able to rise to a better, more fulfilling level of life rather than move on the lower less fulfilling level of life.

One of the favorite things people like

to watch in movies is for the hero to take revenge on someone who offended him/her personally, usually with violent and entertaining fight scenes. It is doubtful whether many people would want to watch movies where the hero were to give into the enemy and let him walk away without retribution.Mainly people want to see the hero get revenge on the enemy.
The one person I have heard about forgive his enemies in extreme circumstances was Jesus. He attempted to teach them about God, he healed them, and willingly gave them his life. Even when he was dying on the cross he prayed to God for their forgiveness.
Most people including followers of Christ have a hard time forgiving others. A lot of problems are caused when you can not find forgiveness to others. God never judges us and will always forgive us if we ask for forgiveness. We are never supposed to judge others and we should always forgive. “For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.” (John 2:13)
The sixth Beatitude is “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” Being pure of heart is something that is not seen often, especially in today’s world with all temptations we see everyday.

Being pure of heart means not putting your desires first, instead putting others. “Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.” (Psalm 51:10) It is not often when you are watching TV when you do not see uncatholic advertisements or hear bad language. Many of today’s songs that many people listen to make things like alcohol, drugs, and sex a good thing.Things like books or magazines do the same thing. Starting right from childhood children are open to various things that can make them behave unlike how they

should.
The seventh Beatitude is, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God.” This can be a challenging beatitude to think about. It is not talking about the people who are of a quiet nature, who do not start fights, or arguments, or the people who are against things like war. Protesting or marching for peace does not make you a peacemaker and it is not what Jesus is talking about, because the reason for wanting to protest or march is sin. Sin can not and probably will never be gotten rid of simply making peace with others. There are many countries who are war free but still have problems and still have people who are struggling with their faith.
On a personal level, a follower of Christ can judge if he/she is a peacemaker when he/she actively shows and promotes peace around him/her. Peace comes from the personal level by helping others solve arguments or disputes.The beatitude says if people live in this way people will “be called children of God.” So in other words like Jesus, this person will have a good effect on the people he/she is close to like family and friends. These people will have a lasting effect to those who have contact with them. "But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven; for He causes His sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.” (Matthew 5:44-45)
The eighth Beatitude is, “Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for theirs is the kingdom of God.” In today’s society it is actually bad if you are considered to be a good person.This should be the other way around because this world needs all the good people it can get because of all the bad people in the world. The good people are the ones who keep the society from being filled with murder, robbery, and other crimes. Perhaps those who use this expression as an insult have never really thought it through – and perhaps they are opposed to righteousness?
Jesus wants all of his followers of Christ to always do, or at least try to do what is right.

To do this people need to keep in mind the Ten Commandments as well as these eight beatitudes. Righteous people are the people who are good, keep in mind their virtues, justifiable, law-abiding, honest, noble, helpful, and faithful. In some situations a non-catholic person can become extremely annoyed with a follower of Christ because the way in which the follower of christ lives his/her life can make the un-catholic person feel bad about the way in which he/her has been living their life. “All that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution” (2Timothy

3:12)
When followers of Christ are successfully able to show all of these beatitudes listed above, they demonstrate that this world can become a place that God intended it to be. The beatitudes also show what God’s Kingdom will be like after death. It is kind of like God working in the present and we do not have to wait for Him to come again. Eventually the qualities seen in the small amounts of the followers of Christ will hopefully become the universal idea for all people everywhere.
The Beatitudes should become something everyone should think about almost every day. People should see how he/she is living their life compared to how these Beatitudes want all of us to live. If someone is unhappy they should try to live their life how the Beatitudes wants us to live because living the Beatitudes causes happiness for you as well as those around you. People should put others first and try their best to be humble as humble as he/she can be.