Blessed Are Those Who Hunger Thirst

Blessed Are Those Who Hunger Thirst

Summer On The Mount

7.17.2022

We are working our way through 9 principles

Matthew 5:6 (NIV) “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.” 

Matthew 5:6 (TLB) “Happy are those who long to be just and good, for they shall be completely satisfied.” 

Matthew 5:6 (NCV) “Those who want to do right more than anything else are happy because God will fully satisfy them.” 

Ecclesiastes 1:18 (NIV) For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief. 

Ecclesiastes 12:12 (NIV) Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body. 

Ecclesiastes 2:10-11 (NIV) I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my labor, and this was the reward for all my toil. Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun. 

Ecclesiastes 2:17-18 (NIV) So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. I hated all the things I had toiled for under the sun, because I must leave them to the one who comes after me. 

Ecclesiastes 5:10-11 (NIV) Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless. As goods increase, so do those who consume them. And what benefit are they to the owners except to feast their eyes on them? 

Ecclesiastes 4:8 (NIV) There was a man all alone; he had neither son nor brother. There was no end to his toil, yet his eyes were not content with his wealth. 

1 Kings 11:3 (NIV) He had seven hundred wives of royal birth and three hundred concubines… 

Ecclesiastes 12:13 (MSG) The last and final word is this: **Fear God. Do what he tells you. And that’s it. 

Ecclesiastes 12:14  (MSG) Eventually God will bring everything that we do out into the open and judge it according to its hidden intent, whether it’s good or evil.

“Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee.” ~St. Augustine 

Proverbs 21:21 (NIV) Whoever pursues righteousness and love finds life, prosperity and honor. 

We fill up on the ___________  ____________. 

Hebrews 11:25 (NIV) (Moses) chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin. 

Isaiah 55:1-2 (NCV) The LORD says, “All you who are thirsty, come and drink. Those of you who do not have money, come, buy and eat! Come buy wine and milk without money and without cost. Why spend your money on something that is not real food? Why work for something that doesn’t really satisfy you? Listen closely to me, and you will eat what is good; your soul will enjoy the rich food that satisfies.” 

Psalm 34:8 (NIV) Taste and see that the LORD is good; blessed is the one who takes refuge in him. 

Ephesians 3:18-19 (NIV) I pray that you… may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. 

Righteousness is… 

___________  _______________ with God. 

Romans 1:17 (NCV) The Good News shows how God makes people right with himself. 

Romans 3:25 (NLT) We are made right with God when we believe that Jesus shed his blood, sacrificing his life for us. 

Romans 5:9-11 (NLT) And since we have been made right in God’s sight by the blood of Christ, he will certainly save us from God’s condemnation. For since our friendship with God was restored by the death of his Son while we were still his enemies, we will certainly be saved through the life of his Son. So now we can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God because our Lord Jesus Christ has made us friends of God. 

Matthew 7:21–23 (NLT) — 21 “Not everyone who calls out to me, ‘Lord! Lord!’ will enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Only those who actually do the 

will of my Father in heaven will enter. 22 On judgment day many will say to me, ‘Lord! Lord! We prophesied in your name and cast out demons in your name and performed many miracles in your name.’ 23 But I will reply, ‘I never knew you. Get away from me, you who break God’s laws.’ 

We are ___________  __________ with God by coming into a ___________  ________   ____________. 

Righteousness is… 

_________  __________ on earth. 

(Proverbs 14:12 NIV) There is a way that appears to be right, but in the end it leads to death. 

We have __________  ___________ on earth by pursuing the _______________that God intends. 

(Proverbs 12:28 NIV) In the way of righteousness there is life; along that path is immortality. 

“You don’t have to wait any longer or look any further.” ~Jesus, John 4:26 (MSG)