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The Beatitudes – Thirsty and Hungry for Righteousness

The Beatitudes – Part 2

  1. Happy are the Ones Hungering and Thirsting for the Righteousness, Matthew 5:6
    1. They are characterized as hungering and thirsting
      1. They do not possess righteousness
      2. Hunger and thirst come from lack
        1. After 40 days in the wilderness, Jesus was hungry, Matthew 4:2
        2. The disciples become hungry on the Sabbath, Matthew 12:1
        3. Primarily used of the lack of food and water, Revelation 7:16;
      3. Those who came to Christ during His earthly ministry would not hunger or thirst, John 6:35; Romans 12:20
    2. A Christian already possesses a quality of the Righteousness of God in Christ, 2 Corinthians 5:21; 1 Corinthians 1:30
    3. They will be satisfied (used of eating and drinking until one is full)
  2. Happy are the Merciful, Matthew 5:7
    1. “Mercy” is relief from the affects of one’s own sin
    2. An expression of God’s mercy results in salvation, Titus 3:5
      1. God’s show of mercy upon Paul, 1 Timothy 1:13, 16
      2. God’s show of mercy upon the Gentiles, 1 Peter 2:10
      3. God has shut up all in disobedience so that He may show mercy to all, Romans 11:30 – 32
      4. Mercy is not shown to a man on the basis of his desire to receive it, Romans 9:16-18
    3. Mercy and the Christian
      1. Christians receive mercy on the basis of God’s mercy apart from works of righteousness, Titus 3:5
      2. Mercy is upon a Christian who walks by the rule of the New Creation (The Christ), Galatians 6:15, 16
      3. God showed us mercy while we were still dead in our trespasses, Ephesians 2:4, 5
        1. A trespass is within the mind
        2. Sin ultimately results from a trespass
      4. We can draw near to the Throne of Grace where we receive mercy, because Christ is our High Priest, […]
The Beatitudes – Thirsty and Hungry for Righteousness2023-12-14T11:19:44-08:00

Wars and Conflicts

JamesJames 4:1 – 6 From where do waging wars and conflicts come among you? Do they not come from here: out from your pleasures, the ones serving as soldiers in your members? All of you desire, and do not have. All of you murder and all of you are jealous and are not caused to have the natural ability to obtain. You fight and wage war. You do not have because you do not ask, as a lessor to a greater. You ask, as a lessor to a greater, and you do not receive because you incorrectly10 ask, as a lessor to a greater, in order that you spending it freely by your own pleasures. Adulterers and adulteresses, do you not intuitively know that the fondness of the world is hostility concerning God? Therefore the one determining to be a friend belonging to the world constitutes himself an enemy pertaining to God. Or do you think that the Scripture says in vain, “The spirit, which settled down and feels at ease among you, longs towards envy”? And he gives more favor, wherefore saying, “God arranges Himself in battle against the arrogant, but give favor to the humble.”

 

 

 

 

Wars and Conflicts2023-11-23T12:18:33-08:00

Contentment

Philippians 4: 11 – 13 Not that according to need I speak, for I, on my part, have learned in which I am, to be content. I intuitively know also to be humble. I intuitively know also to abound in all and in all I am in a state of having been initiated, both to be satisfied and to hunger, both to prosper and to lack. I am physically able to do all in Christ, the one empowering me.

 

 

 

Contentment2018-11-04T08:02:09-08:00
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