Hungering and Thirsting... Strong desires...ambition
Examples from the Bible:
Lucifer...Isah 14:13
Nebuchadnezzar...King of Babylon Daniel 4:30
The Rich fool...Luke 12:17
Key Questions:
1. How does this beatitude fit with the others?
2. What does it mean to hunger and thirst?
"this hunger and this thirst ____________ in the very act of being satisfied."
3. What is this that we hunger for?
The only real happiness in life is to be _______
Salvation wants restoration to God and free from sin and its penalty
Sanctification happiness belongs to the increasing of holliness in your life
4. What is the result?... Filled-satisfied and yet not!
Ps 107:9, Ps 34:10, Ps 23:1, Jer 31:14, John 4 & 6
5. How do I know that I am really hungering and thirsting after righteousness?
1. Are you dissatified with yourself?
2. Does anything external satisfy you?
3. Do you have a great appetite for the word of God
4. Are the things of God sweet to you?
5. Is my hunger and thirst unconditional?
Ps 119:20, Isa 26:9
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