{"id":520,"date":"2018-01-28T00:00:39","date_gmt":"2018-01-28T00:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/?p=520"},"modified":"2019-12-30T13:49:26","modified_gmt":"2019-12-30T21:49:26","slug":"righteous-hunger-and-thirst-matthew-51-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"Righteous Hunger and Thirst (Matthew 5:1-6)"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist wp-audio-playlist wp-playlist-light\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-current-item\"><\/div>\n\t\t<audio controls=\"controls\" preload=\"none\" width=\"1118\"\n\t\t\t><\/audio>\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-next\"><\/div>\n\t<div class=\"wp-playlist-prev\"><\/div>\n\t<noscript>\n\t<ol>\n\t\t<li><a href='https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Righteous-Hunger-and-Thirst-Elder-Matthew-Davis-56181311262.mp3'>Righteous Hunger and Thirst<\/a><\/li>\t<\/ol>\n\t<\/noscript>\n\t<script type=\"application\/json\" class=\"wp-playlist-script\">{\"type\":\"audio\",\"tracklist\":true,\"tracknumbers\":true,\"images\":true,\"artists\":true,\"tracks\":[{\"src\":\"https:\\\/\\\/biblefreak.org\\\/teaching\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/Righteous-Hunger-and-Thirst-Elder-Matthew-Davis-56181311262.mp3\",\"type\":\"audio\\\/mpeg\",\"title\":\"Righteous Hunger and Thirst\",\"caption\":\"\",\"description\":\"\\\"Righteous Hunger and Thirst\\\" from Covenant Reformed Church by Elder Matthew Davis. Released: 2018. Genre: Other.\",\"meta\":{\"artist\":\"Elder Matthew Davis\",\"album\":\"Covenant Reformed Church\",\"genre\":\"Other\",\"year\":\"2018\",\"length_formatted\":\"33:48\"},\"image\":{\"src\":\"https:\\\/\\\/biblefreak.org\\\/teaching\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/The-Completion-Fulfillment-and-Perfection-of-Christ-Elder-Matthew-Davis-2319178144-mp3-image-1.jpg\",\"width\":196,\"height\":242},\"thumb\":{\"src\":\"https:\\\/\\\/biblefreak.org\\\/teaching\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/The-Completion-Fulfillment-and-Perfection-of-Christ-Elder-Matthew-Davis-2319178144-mp3-image-1-150x150.jpg\",\"width\":150,\"height\":150}}]}<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\t\n<p>Part of being blessed in Christ is the promise of being satisfied.\u00a0 This spiritual satisfaction is defined by the promise of being filled.\u00a0 Imagine overflowing with even oozing with the purity of Almighty God, with not an ounce of sin remaining.\u00a0 Filled to overflowing with living waters which are tapped and allowed to run free forever.<\/p>\n<p>The words of Christ here reflect upon those blessings only found in the economy of heaven (Kingdom of God) which provides a place for every soul brought to salvation.\u00a0 The poor in spirit, the meek, those who mourn, and those who hunger and thirst for righteousness are al blessed in Christ.\u00a0 For every Christian the place prepared for us from the foundation of the world is prefect in its provision.<\/p>\n<p>Children who have little understanding of God\u2019s greatness, the world, or the consequences of sin, will receive the blessings of knowing God, the sick and lame will be healed, the faithful in Christ will enter and possess a reward which is more than we can know in this life, and our physical needs will be met to the fullest extent imaginable.\u00a0 David recognized this as he wrote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Psalm 63<\/strong><br \/>\nA Psalm of David, when he was in the wilderness of Judah.<br \/>\n1 O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee:<br \/>\nMy soul thirsteth for thee,<br \/>\nMy flesh longeth for thee<br \/>\nIn a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;<br \/>\n2 To see thy power and thy glory,<br \/>\nSo as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.<br \/>\n3 Because thy lovingkindness is better than life,<br \/>\nMy lips shall praise thee.<br \/>\n4 Thus will I bless thee while I live:<br \/>\nI will lift up my hands in thy name.<br \/>\n5 My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness;<br \/>\nAnd my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:<br \/>\n6 When I remember thee upon my bed,<br \/>\nAnd meditate on thee in the night watches.<br \/>\n7 Because thou hast been my help,<br \/>\nTherefore in the shadow of thy wings will I rejoice.<br \/>\n8 My soul followeth hard after thee:<br \/>\nThy right hand upholdeth me.<br \/>\n9 But those that seek my soul, to destroy it,<br \/>\nShall go into the lower parts of the earth.<br \/>\n10 They shall fall by the sword:<br \/>\nThey shall be a portion for foxes.<br \/>\n11 But the king shall rejoice in God;<br \/>\nEvery one that sweareth by him shall glory:<br \/>\nBut the mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our great blessings and reward is found in Christ, in the righteousness which has taken us from the sufferings of this life, into the incomparable glory of the Creator (Romans 8:18).\u00a0 But more than this, the fullness of righteousness will be demonstrated, delivered to us as his children, and the blessings of heaven will be ours as the struggle against sin and death is removed from us in glory, and our constant focus will be upon glorifying God.<\/p>\n<p>Elder Matthew Davis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of being blessed in Christ is the promise of being satisfied.\u00a0 This spiritual satisfaction is defined by the promise of being filled.\u00a0 Imagine overflowing with even oozing with the purity of Almighty God, with not an ounce of sin remaining.\u00a0 Filled to overflowing with living waters which are tapped and allowed to run free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":491,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,25,10],"tags":[35,17,19,27,6,24],"class_list":["post-520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beattitude","category-christ-jesus","category-covenant","tag-beattitude","tag-christ","tag-hope","tag-jesus","tag-mercy","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblefreak.org\/teaching\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}