Mat 5:6, Living Full and Satisfied, Both Now and Forever.

Class Outline:

Wednesday April 10, 2024

Idea: Those who thirst and hunger for righteousness are blessed to be able to do the Father’s will now and finishing the race glorifying Christ.

We must not miss the fact that we can be righteous as God, the pure, holy, judge defines righteousness. This fact should awe us.

MAT 5:6.

But remember, there are enemies of righteousness that desire you to get enveloped in evil (JOH 17:15-17).

The Lord thirsted, JOH 19:28-30. Why? 

1) 6 hours on the horrible Roman cross, 2) Jesus thirsted in some way His entire life.

He refuses to drink until it is over. The thirst in Him is a thirst for finishing. PSA 69:20-21; 22:14-18. The reason lies in the theme of thirst in the heart of man for God; PSA 42:1-3, 9-11; 63:1.

While you pursue (hunger and thirst) for righteousness, you will, at time, long for the face of the Lord. You are sacrificing time and again, and suffering, and persecuted and we groan within waiting eagerly for our adoption as sons (ROM 8:23; 2CO 5:1-10). 

We are promised that we will be satisfied. Therefore, Jesus’ promise of satisfaction is both now and eternity.

Now: the fulfillment of doing the Father’s will even though you had to sacrifice to do it.

Eternity: the fulfillment of being finished and the satisfaction that you glorified Christ and were rewarded.

Jesus thirsted (did not drink of certain things) in a fallen world because He always thirsted for righteousness (temptations, interruptions, marriage, etc.). Would we conclude that Jesus missed out in life? JOH 17:4.

Application for us: 1CO 10:23-24, 31-33; LUK 14:13-23. 

The hunger and thirst for righteousness will require actually going hungry and thirsty for things that are legitimate to have but get in the way of God’s will for you at that time. 

That we must leave lusts and sins and evil desires to die of hunger goes without saying. 

Concerning experiential, practical righteousness; it is a life of righteousness that includes sacrificing legitimate things for the sake of others who are weak on that particular issue.