LIBERTY CHURCH OF CHRIST 4/30/17
Maintaining our appetites
Mt 5:1-11

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Mt 5:6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, For they shall be filled. (NKJV)

1) Those who hunger and thirst for righteousness

1) Those who hunger and thirst for righteousness

The ability to recognize hunger is given to us by God.

HUNGER MT 5:6

• Is our hunger for spiritual food the same?
• Do we eat spiritual food with the same regularity?
• Does our spiritual hunger turn us to God?

The ability to recognize thirst is given to us by God.

THIRST MT 5:6

• Is our thirst for spiritual water the same?
• Do we drink spiritual water with the same regularity?
• Does our spiritual water turn us to God?

2) The object of our hunger and thirst is righteousness.

Mt 5:9 "For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. (NKJV)

Php 3:8 Yet indeed I also count all things loss for the excellence of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them as rubbish, that I may gain Christ
9 and be found in Him, not having my own RIGHTEOUSNESS, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the RIGHTEOUSNESS which is from God by faith;
10 that I may know Him and the power of His resurrection, and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death,

Hungering & thirsting after righteousness means to satisfy the daily desire that we should have as Christians to
1) Know God's word
2) Live God's word

3) The end result - we are full.

1Pe 2:1 Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking, 2 as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the word, that you may grow thereby,

Heb 5:12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of RIGHTEOUSNESS, for he is a babe. 14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. (NKJV)

Job 23:12 I have not departed from the commandment of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth More than my necessary food.

Eze 3:1 Moreover He said to me, "Son of man, eat what you find; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel."
2 So I opened my mouth, and He caused me to eat that scroll.
3 And He said to me, "Son of man, feed your belly, and fill your stomach with this scroll that I give you." So I ate, and it was in my mouth like honey in sweetness.

Ps 42:1 As the deer pants for the water brooks, So pants my soul for You, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and appear before God?
3 My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say to me, "Where is your God?"

Are we spiritually well-fed
or are we spiritually anorexic?

Joh 4:10 Jesus answered and said to her, "If you knew the gift of God, and who it is who says to you, 'Give Me a drink,' you would have asked Him, and He would have given you living water."
Joh 6:35 And Jesus said to them, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to Me shall never hunger, and he who believes in Me shall never thirst.

We need to obtain or maintain our appetite for God and His Word.

BECOME A CHRISTIAN
Hear Him (Romans 10:17)
Believe Him (Mark 16:16)
Repent Of Sins Against Him (Acts 2:38)
Confess Him (Acts 8:37)
Be Baptized Into Him (Romans 6:3)
Live For Him (Galatians 2:20)
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COME HOME AS AN ERRING CHILD OF GOD
Come Back To Him (Matthew 11:28-30)
Repent (Acts 8:22)
Pray (James 5:16)
Live For Him (Galatians 2:20)