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Blessed Are Those Who Hunger And Thirst Series
Contributed by Steve Malone on Aug 17, 2022 (message contributor)
Summary: In this message we will talk about 'why' we are still hungry and thirsty (why we can't get no satisfaction) and then we will look at what it means to hunger and thirst after righteousness... like how do we actually do this.
Blessed Are Those Who Hunger…
Dismiss Grove KIDZ
OKAY – I want to start off by reading some Words that God breathed.
The God who…
• Is the Maker of heaven and earth
• Holds oceans in the palm of His hands
• Breathes out stars and stretches out billions of galaxies with His hand
At this very moment according to Revelation 5:11 is surround by 10,000 x 10,000 angels (100 million) which is the approximate population of every state on the east coast…
UNDERSTAND – as we sit in here 100 million surround The Lamb who sits on His throne, and they are all singing the same song… “You are worthy…”
YES B/S – that is who breathed the words that we are about to read… YEAH - I thought that I would just over a little context about…
WHOSE - presence we are in, and…
WHOSE - whose words we are about to hear.
LIKE – maybe it would not be a bad idea to give His Word our attention today…
WHAT – say you?
As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When can I go and meet with God? - Psalm 42:1,2
David wrote these words during a time when he was in the wilderness of Judah…
You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water. I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you.
I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands. I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you.
The prophet Isaiah wrote these powerful and penetrating words to God’s people 700 years before God the Son put on flesh and invaded this planet…
Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.
Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare. Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live. - Isaiah 55:1-3
Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water so that I won’t get thirsty and have to keep coming here to draw water.”
Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. – John 6:35
Prayer
OKAY – welcome another week in our series on the Gospel of Matthew, ‘The King and His Kingdom.’
NOW – we are in the opening verses of the greatest sermon ever preached (The Sermon on The Mount) preached by the greatest preacher who has ever lived (Jesus).
Specifically we are unpacking what are known as the Beatitudes… Jesus’ radical upside-down manifesto, about the path to a blessed life.
NOW – it is not the path that we would have expected, and it is certainly not the path the most people are on.
• Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs… is the kingdom of heaven.
• Blessed are those who mourn, for they… will be comforted
• Blessed are the meek, for they… will inherit the earth
AND THIS MORNING…
THE - upside down, counterintuitive pathway to a blessed life that we are going to unpack is,
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they will be satisfied. – Matthew 5:6
FOR – they will be what? ‘satisfied’
QUESTION – how satisfied and fulfilling are you finding your life right now? On a scale of 1-10 (1 – I can barely get out of bed in the morning… 10 – I don’t even want to go to bed and miss out on all the satisfaction I am feeling?
Be honest.
Would you like that number to be higher?
Would you like your satisfaction to not be so fleeting?
YOU KNOW – I am confident that God has a Word for some people in this room or watching online this morning.
