Matthew 5:6

Sermon by:James BradshawJan. 8, 2012

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

Beatitudes begin with “Blessed”. In the Greek, the word literally means more than happy.

1. Food & Drink2. Knowledge3. Entertainment4. Money5. Power6. Righteousness

Righteousness according to Vines is the character or quality of being right or just.

To hunger and thirst after righteousness means to have a STRONG desire to become more like God and Christ.

1. Money – “the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil; 1 Tim. 6:10.

2. Entertainment – ultimately will leave us empty; Eccl. 3.

3. Power – is futile because all power comes from God.

4. Knowledge or food and drink.

Ecclesiastes 12:12-14 NKJV (12) And further, my son, be admonished by these. Of making many books there is no end, and much study is wearisome to the flesh. (13) Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God and keep His commandments, For this is man's all. (14) For God will bring every work into judgment, Including every secret thing, Whether good or evil.

Deuteronomy 8:3 NKJV So He humbled you, allowed you to hunger, and fed you with manna which you did not know nor did your fathers know, that He might make you know that man shall not live by bread alone; but man lives by every word that proceeds from the mouth of the LORD.

Jesus quotes this when tempted by Satan to turn stone to bread. We can only find true fulfillment through living by God’s Word.

John 4:7 NKJV A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, "Give Me a drink.“

John 4:9-10 NKJV Then the woman of Samaria said to Him, "How is it that You, being a Jew, ask a drink from me, a Samaritan woman?" For Jews have no dealings with Samaritans. (10) Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water.”

John 4:13-14 NKJV 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.”

Have you drunk of the everlasting water by obeying the gospel of Christ?

Revelation 22:1-3 NKJV And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding from the throne of God and of the Lamb. (2) In the middle of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve fruits, each tree yielding its fruit every month. The leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. (3) And there shall be no more curse, but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it, and His servants shall serve Him.