Filled With Righteousness Series

Filled with Righteousness

Lakeview Baptist Church of Kannapolis April 13, 2025

Text

Matthew 5:1-6 And seeing the multitudes, He went up on a mountain, and when He was seated His disciples came to Him. (2) Then He opened His mouth and taught them, saying: (3) "Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (4) Blessed are those who mourn, For they shall be comforted. (5) Blessed are the meek, For they shall inherit the earth. (6) Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled.

Prayer

I. Review vss.3-5

A. Recognizing the Truth v.3

"Blessed are the poor in spirit, For theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

B. Rejecting the Lie v.4

Blessed are those who mourn, For they shall be comforted.

C. Reconstructed Attitude v.5

Blessed are the meek, For they shall inherit the earth.

II. Reflect v.6

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled.

A. Blessed

1 Corinthians 2:14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.

B. Hunger

Have you ever really been hungry?

Hunger can make us do some crazy things

Genesis 25:29-34 Now Jacob cooked a stew; and Esau came in from the field, and he was weary. (30) And Esau said to Jacob, "Please feed me with that same red stew, for I am weary." Therefore his name was called Edom. (31) But Jacob said, "Sell me your birthright as of this day." (32) And Esau said, "Look, I am about to die; so what is this birthright to me?" (33) Then Jacob said, "Swear to me as of this day." So he swore to him, and sold his birthright to Jacob. (34) And Jacob gave Esau bread and stew of lentils; then he ate and drank, arose, and went his way. Thus Esau despised his birthright.

Esau was hungering for the wrong things in life and he settled for what was temporary rather than longing for what was eternal.

Jacob hungered for what was most valuable, but went about it the wrong way.

C. Thirst

Have you ever really been thirsty?

Luke 16:20-24 But there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, full of sores, who was laid at his gate, (21) desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table. Moreover the dogs came and licked his sores. (22) So it was that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels to Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died and was buried. (23) And being in torments in Hades, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. (24) "Then he cried and said, 'Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.'

John 4:13-14 Jesus answered and said to her, "Whoever drinks of this water will thirst again, (14) but whoever drinks of the water that I shall give him will never thirst. But the water that I shall give him will become in him a fountain of water springing up into everlasting life."

John 4:31-34 In the meantime His disciples urged Him, saying, "Rabbi, eat." (32) But He said to them, "I have food to eat of which you do not know." (33) Therefore the disciples said to one another, "Has anyone brought Him anything to eat?" (34) Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.

The words “to hunger” and “thirst” literally mean to suffer from want.

What are we suffering from want for?

Will you settle, like Esau, for what the world says is valuable?

Or will you choose to seek out what Jesus says is the real value?

D. Righteousness

Proverbs 14:12 There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.

Matthew 7:13-14 "Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. (14) Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.

Matthew 5:20 For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.

Conduct flows from character

2 Corinthians 5:21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.

E. Filled