The Beatitudes-Those Who Hunger and Thirst/Joe D. Piper

Описание: Matthew 5:6 (NKJV) Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled.

Kingdom Principle: It’s what is on the inside that counts.

Psalm 63:1 (NLT) O God, you are my God; I earnestly search for you. My soul thirsts for you;
my whole body longs for you in this parched and weary land where there is no water.

Psalm 37:18-19 (NKJV) 18 The LORD knows the days of the upright, And their inheritance shall be forever. 19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time, And in the days of famine they shall be satisfied.

Isaiah 49:10 (NKJV) 10 They shall neither hunger nor thirst, Neither heat nor sun shall strike them; For He who has mercy on them will lead them, Even by the springs of water He will guide them.

Righteousness is not…

1. Man made.
Psalm 135:15-18 (NIV) 15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by the hands of men. 16 They have mouths, but cannot speak, eyes, but they cannot see; 17 they have ears, but cannot hear, nor is there breath in their mouths. 18 Those who make them will be like them, and so will all who trust in them.

Ecclesiastes 2:10-11 (NIV) I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my labor, and this was the reward for all my toil. Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.

2. A One and Done.

Hunger and thirst is a reoccurring cycle of life.

3. Right conduct.

Matthew 5:20 (MSG) Unless you do far better than the Pharisees in the matters of right living, you won’t know the first thing about entering the kingdom.

Matthew 6:1 (MSG) “Be especially careful when you are trying to be good so that you don’t make a performance out of it. It might be good theater, but the God who made you won’t be applauding.

Righteousness is…
1. God fulfilled.
Ecclesiastic 3:11 (NLT) …He has planted eternity in the human heart…

Psalm 34:8 (NIV) Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him.

2 Corinthians 5:21 (NLT) For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.

2. Coming to the table with Jesus.
John 6:35 (NLT) Jesus replied, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never be hungry again. Whoever believes in me will never be thirsty.

John 7:37-38 (NLT) “Anyone who is thirsty may come to me! 38 Anyone who believes in me may come and drink! For the Scriptures declare, ‘Rivers of living water will flow from his heart.’”

We fill up on the wrong things.

3. Holy Spirit produced.

Zechariah 4:6 (NKJV) Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ Says the LORD of hosts.

Matthew 5:6 (MSG) “You’re blessed when you’ve worked up a good appetite for God. He’s food and drink in the best meal you’ll ever eat.

The Holy Spirit will do a better job than me to produce righteousness.

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