Hunger for Rightness: Two RoadsSignpost #4

Two Roads

Matthew 7:13 "Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it."

Two Roads

14 "But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it."

Two Roads

Sign #4:

Matthew 5:6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be satisfied.

What is "blessing"?

What torpedoes blessing?

What is "blessing"?

WRONG BELIEF #1:Happiness is priority ___.

WRONG BELIEF #2:Happiness is found by _______ seeking it.

#1

directly

Righteousness

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

Righteousness

Matthew 5:20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.

Hunger and thirst

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

Hunger and thirst

Romans 7:23 but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members.

Hunger and thirst

24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?

Hunger and thirst

25 Thanks be to God--through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself in my mind am a slave to God's law, but in the sinful nature a slave to the law of sin.

Hunger and thirst

Philippians 2:12 Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, so now, not only as in my presence but much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling;

Hunger and thirst

13 for God is at work in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.

Hungering for righteousness

2 Timothy 2:22 Flee the evil desires of youth, and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace, along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

Hungering for righteousness

Isaiah 51:1 Listen to me, you who pursue righteousness and who seek the Lord: Look to the rock from which you were cut and to the quarry from which you were hewn;

Hungering for righteousness

Deuteronomy 8:3 He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your fathers had known,

Hungering for righteousness

to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

Hungering for righteousness

Isaiah 55:1 "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.

Hungering for righteousness

2 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 your soul will delight in the richest of fare."

"Shall be satisfied"

Isaiah 59:17 He put on righteousness as his breastplate, and the helmet of salvation on his head; he put on the garments of vengeance and wrapped himself in zeal as in a cloak.

Matthew 6:33 But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

"Shall be satisfied"

Isaiah 32:17 The fruit of righteousness will be peace; the effect of righteousness will be quietness and confidence forever.

"Shall be satisfied"

Luke 6:25 Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will go hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

"Shall be satisfied"