Christian parenting.

Hello, true seekers and welcome back to our summer series on the Beatitudes.

We are talking about what it means to follow Jesus

and what it means to be an influencer for Jesus. Today we're going to look at

the fourth Beatitude. In the fourth Beatitude Jesus said,

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness

for they will be filled.

This is one of the most important verses in the sermon on the mount.

This is the foundational requirement for following Jesus

that we hunger and thirst for righteousness. Jesus is our righteousness and so to hunger and thirst after righteousness is to hunger and thirst after righteousness is to hunger and thirst for Jesus.

So we better understand what it means to hunger and thirst after righteousness.

Well I'm sure you know what it feels like to be

hungry or thirsty. I don't know about you but when I get really hungry all I can do

is think about food, what kind of food I want, how much food I want, where I want to get that food, it's the main thing on my mind.

To hunger and thirst after righteousness is to have a desire for God and for the things of God.

If you're hungry for something, you desire it,

you think about it, you want to know more about it,

you want to experience it.

The hungrier you are for Jesus and His righteousness, the more you make time for Him, the more you will read His Word, the more you want to know what His Word says, the more you want to follow Him and obey Him.

Do you hunger and thirst after Jesus? the more you want to follow him and obey him.

Do you hunger and thirst for his holiness and his purity and his righteousness?

Let's talk about a man who knew what it was to hunger and thirst after righteousness.

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