Blessed are those who hunger for righteousness | Living the Way | Week 2

Living the Way
Blessed are those that hunger for righteousness... • January 14, 2024
Teacher: Adam Barnett

/> Μακάριος (blessed) – happy, supremely blessed, fortunate

/> Μακάριος (blessed) – happy, supremely blessed, fortunate; to be envied.

/> “We can compare the work of the beatitudes to that of a plow in the fields. Drawn along with determination, it drives the sharp edge of the plowshare into the earth and carves out a deep wound; a broad channel. In the same way, the word of the beatitudes penetrates us with the power of the Holy Spirit in order to break up our interior soil. It cuts through us with the sharp edge of trials and with the struggles it provokes. It overturns our ideas, reverses the obvious, thwarts our desires, and bewilders us, leaving us poor and naked before God. All this, in order to prepare a place within us for the seed of new life.” — Jonathan Pennington

/> Read the Beatitudes not only as instructions on how to live, but directions to where God can be found.

\_Matthew 5:6_\

/> "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled."

/> Do I hunger and thirst for the wrong things?

\_Jeremiah 2:12-13_\

/> “My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.”

\_Isaiah 55:1-2_\

/> "Why spend money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy? Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good, and you will delight in the richest of fare. Give ear and come to me; listen, that you may live."

\_Matthew 5:20_\

"For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven."

"If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world." – C.S. Lewis