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Matthew 5:6, “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.”   Jesus

 

This beatitude is one of the most important verses in the entire Sermon on the Mount.  It has to be the foundational requirement for all godly living.  To hunger and thirst for righteousness is the natural result of recognizing we are not spiritually sufficient (poor in spirit), from grieving over our own inability to meet God’s standards for righteousness (mournful) and from being humble and submissive before God (meek). 

 

 Righteousness is the desire to be from sin and all of its forms.  The Bible is clear that sin separates us from God.  The first three beatitudes show us the need to be right with God.  Once this need is realized, the next step is to begin to search, to “hunger and thirst” for what will free us from sin and bring us back into the relationship we were created to have with God.  Lloyd-Jones states, “People who hunger and thirst for righteousness are happy people.” 

 

The spiritual lives of Christians depend on their hunger and thirst for righteousness! When we are physically hungry, that need continues until we eat and are satisfied.  It is with through spiritual hunger we come to know God, to be in fellowship with Him, and to grow up to be like Christ.  Lloyd-Jones points out something for all of to understand.  When we believed the Lord Jesus Christ died on a cross to remove your sins, confessed your sins, were forgiven, we were filled with His righteousness away; God looked at and saw the righteousness of Christ and He no longer saw our sin.  But righteousness is a continuing process as sin is still in the world.  It is always around, always trying to lure us back into its trap.  Sometimes we fail and need to ask for forgiveness for the failure.  We must have a hunger and thirst for righteousness, to live closely to the Lord every day!  It is the power of Christ in us and the power of the Holy Spirit living within us that will enable us to resist Satan causing Him to flee. In this beatitude we begin to move away from self and turn to be more like God. That will be explained in the coming Beatitudes.

 

The Christian’s hunger for things of God can be destroyed by worldly anxiety (such as election results), deceitfulness of wealth, desire for things and life’s pleasures and the failure to abide in Christ.  When the Believer’s hunger for God and His righteousness is destroyed, they will die spiritually.  For this reason, it is essential that we be sensitive to the Holy Spirit’s convicting work in our lives.  When any of these things become part of our lives, He will direct us back to that hunger for the things of God.

 

Do you have a hunger and thirst for righteousness?  If so, you will be filled!  That is the whole gospel!  It is the gift God gives you when you know the need and desire it and search for it.  You cannot fill yourself with righteousness.   God fills you!  You know that you have been forgiven of past, present, and future sins and are covered by the righteousness of Christ.  No more hoping for peace with God; He has given it to you.

 

Lloyd-Jones asks these questions to help us examine our lives.  Are you enjoying your Christian life and experience?  Do you know your sins are forgiven?  Are you enjoying peace with God?  Do you rejoice in the Lord always?    He writes that as a Christian we should be able to say “yes” to each one.

 

“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.”  

 

I pray each day that my wife, daughters, sons-in-laws, grandchildren and family living up north will have a desire and hunger and thirst for righteousness.  Each day is new with its own set of challenges.  Might greatest desire is to see them grow to love the Lord and draw closer to Him today than yesterday. 

 

It is only as you seek righteousness with your entire being that you can discover it!

 

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Matthew 5:5, “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.”  Jesus

 

The world thinks in terms of strength and power.  Military capability is built up so other countries will know not to attack the United States or Russia, or China, or North Korea.  Alliances between countries are made because an attack on one of the allied countries is an attack on all of them.  For some reason, people desire to be in positions of authority and power.  We are seeing today the extent people will go to be elected or to elect their candidate into powerful positions of government. 

 

The Jewish people were looking for a leader to come lead to a military victory against the Roman oppressors; their thinking was in terms of military conquest.  Jesus came teaching about the kingdom of God.  He was the Messiah.  But He said conquest was not the way, He was not a military leader like they were looking for.  He said the kingdom of God is not gained by military conquest. 

 

So far, Jesus has taught being poor in spirit leads to mourning; becoming aware of sin leads to thinking about other people.  Now He told His listeners it was not the strong and powerful that would inherit the earth but the meek.  It might be easier to understand what meekness is not.  Meekness is not a natural quality (Are you seeing the pattern?) because it is produced by the Holy Spirit.  Meekness in the natural sense is really laziness.  Meekness does not mean weakness of character or personality such as being easy to get along with. 

 

The “meek” are those who are humble and submissive before God.  They find their protection in Him and commit their way entirely to Him.   This comes from being poor in spirit and from mourning.  You cannot be meek if you are not poor in spirit, until you see yourself as an awful sinner.  In reality meekness is an honest view of yourself and your attitude toward others.  It is shown in the way you conduct yourself.  A meek person does not demand anything for himself because of his position in life, what he has, nor what his status in life is.  He does not even care about what others think of him.  Lloyd-Jones writes that a “meek person is finished with himself altogether.”

 

Lloyd-Jones writes that being meek means a person is no longer concerned with what others have done to them.  A meek person is patient and long-suffering when he suffers unjustly because God sees what he endures.  He writes that a meek person is always ready to listen and to learn, implying a teachable spirit.  One must always be ready to be taught by the Holy Spirit and be led by the Lord Jesus Christ.  A meek person is more concerned about God’s work and God’s people than what might happen to him personally.

 

You need to know that meekness is actually great strength, authority, and power.  Meekness is an inward spirit that strengthens you to stand strong on the truth of God’s Word.  It is being led by the Holy Spirit to speak or remain silent.  It is turning the other cheek when not wanting to or walking the extra mile when not required to.  It is to be satisfied where God has placed you, even though opportunities might be elsewhere.  It is to be content with what you have knowing that eternity really begins now.  It is knowing that the meek, not the aggressive, who will inherit the earth and are heirs with Christ, reigning with Him in His kingdom to come.

 

Being poor in spirit leads to mourning which leads to meekness which leads to….

 

 

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Matthew 5:4, “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.”  Jesus

 

This thought is quite different from what the philosophy of the world promotes.  The world tells us to forget our troubles and be as happy as you can be.  However, this beatitude has nothing to do with the natural life; it deals with the spiritual.  To “mourn” is to grieve over our own weaknesses in relation to God’s standard of righteousness and kingdom. 

 

Let me get right to it this morning.  The Church has a flawed sense of sin today.  There is too much preaching to make the people feel good about themselves and to be politically correct.  Any teaching on sin is shallow because people do not want to be brought face to face with their need to be forgiven.  The result is a superficial kind of person and a Christian walk that is not what it could be.

 

Just as a person needs to be poor in spirit to be filled with the Holy Spirit, a real sense of one’s sin must come before there is true joy in one’s salvation.  A person must understand that the reason for not being able to find true Christian joy is because of a real failure to be convicted of sin.  This has to come before one can experience joy.  The need for a Savior has to come from the knowledge that even our best behavior is as “filthy rags” when compared to God’s standard of righteousness.  The doctrine of sin is not a popular sermon series. 

 

Facing or examining your life and mourning over your sins must follow being poor in spirit.  It is seeing yourself as completely unable, hopeless to do anything about what you have done.  There is absolutely no way you can meet the standards God has set to enter His kingdom because of your sin.  If you are like me you have done, have said, have felt things which make you unable, unworthy of the kingdom of God.  That should cause you, as it does me, to grieve over these things.  I am so thankful for the grace of God, that He understands these things, and He forgives when we ask for His forgiveness.  I am so thankful His answer to how many times does He forgive is “seventy times seven”!  I have a great feeling of grief and sorrow for my sin that causes me to mourn. 

 

The idea of mourning is to also grieve over the things that grieve God.  Christians should be grieved over what is going on in this nation and the world.   What do you say is the condition of this nation? The world?   Today, there is no hidden agenda in this country.  What one group of people is promoting is an abomination to God.  It does not take a genius to see that this country is headed toward terrible consequences without repentance.  Jesus wept over what He saw in Jerusalem.  He wept over the people’s rejection and mourned deeply because He understood what sin meant to His Father, His hatred for it.  So too, Christians must be grieved over the sinfulness in this country and in the world; they too must mourn over it.

 

Jesus said that the person who mourns is really blessed, happy!  Just what does that mean?  You and I must see ourselves as totally hopeless because when we do the Holy Spirit reveals to him the Lord Jesus Christ as our perfect satisfaction; we see that Christ died for our sins, washing us as clean as snow.  We see the Son standing before the Father as our Advocate, our Defense Attorney.  Those who mourn are comforted by receiving from the Father righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.

 

Martyn Lloyd-Jones describes the person who mourns as; One who is sorrowful, not miserable; serious not sad; never has to put on the appearance of sadness or cheerfulness; and groans with himself but is happy regarding his experience with Christ.  Lloyd-Jones wrote, “The joy of a Christian is a holy joy, a serious happiness.  His outlook is always serious, but he has a joy that is unspeakable and full of glory.”

 

I do mourn for what I see in this country, in the world.  At the same time, I am comforted by the One who hold it in the palm of His hand, knowing that He has all things in His control.  Join with me in praying for revival in this country.  The decisions made in the coming week are so important to this country going forward!

 

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Matthew 5:3, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “   Jesus

 

There are many today preaching and teaching the gospel that many of the followers of Jesus wanted to hear.  They wanted to hear “Come follow Me and be prosperous”.  Jesus did not preach that!

 

There are many preachers telling people to send them money and you will receive a “blessing”. There were people of Jesus’ time on earth who followed Him to receive something from Him -not because He offered them salvation.  That is still the same today.  If He does not do what they think He should, they abandon Him.  In this first beatitude, Jesus tells the first and the fundamental characteristic of His kingdom.

 

The word “blessed” refers to the well-being of those who have received Christ as their Savior and Lord, which includes His Word, His care, His love, and seeking to walk with Him daily.  In this relationship, there are requirements to receive the blessings of God’s kingdom.  We must be guided by the ways and values of God as revealed in Scripture and not by the ways and values of the world.  The first requirement is to be “poor in spirit”.  We must realize that we are not spiritually self-sufficient; we need the Holy Spirit’s life, power, and sustaining grace in order to inherit the kingdom of God.

 

This statement is not about being in poverty.  Lloyd-Jones is quite clear that poverty does not guarantee spirituality as the poor man is no closer to the kingdom of God than the rich man.  If being “poor in spirit” is fundamental to the kingdom of God and leads to the other beatitudes, we must understand what it means.  It is the foundation to the house, so to speak. 

 

Too often we compare ourselves to others.  Or, we look at the appearance of another.  Does the person carry themselves with a confidence of success?  Consider the promises of politicians today.  Each of them seems to know how to save us; all have a plan to make us happy because of their tax plan, their health plan, their educational plan, and their plans to transform society.  Being “poor in spirit” is not men comparing themselves to men; it is looking face to face at God.  Lloyd-Jones, “If anyone feels anything in the presence of God but utter poverty of spirit, it means you have never really faced Him.  That is the meaning of this beatitude.”

 

The heart of being “being poor in spirit” is not talking about natural qualities such as personality or appearance or even the impression we might make.  It is not about suppressing our personality or trying to change who we are.  Again, it is not trying to look good for others.  It is a consciousness that we are nothing in the presence of God; we can do nothing on our own.  As I have studied the Bible, read countless authors who have helped me to have a little understanding of who God is, I have come to know I can do nothing to make myself righteous before Him.  I am in awe of who He is and how I am totally dependent upon Him.  When I consider what is happening right now on this day in October, I feel helpless and all my hope is in what God has said in His Word.  I look to the Creator of all things and that He has chosen to save me, my family, you and your family, I am in complete awe of who He is.

Take some time to consider who God is.  Meditate on Him and keep Him in your thoughts today.  Consider all He has done, that He sent Jesus to save you to eternal life in heaven.  I bet you will have a different perspective of things knowing that He is with you.  I do not believe you can meditate on Him without sensing your absolute poverty.  By doing so, Jesus gives the assurance that the kingdom of heaven belongs to you. 

 

Matthew 5:3, “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “   Jesus

 

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Matthew 5:1,2, And seeing the multitudes, He went up on a mountain, and when He was seated, His disciples came to Him.  Then He opened His mouth and taught them saying:

 

Many people are searching for success and for happiness.  Some people who have worked so hard for what the world defines as success look back at their life and find the result of their search has only been misery.  They have lived their life in fear of impending disasters and fear that what they have will be taken from them.  So, they work harder and longer to keep what they have.  They look at the world and nothing looks encouraging; instead of the happiness they sought, they worry about what will happen. 

 

I read a devotion once that stated Satan wants us to live in fear and not trust God.  He wants us to worry about our lives and entices us to live for ourselves, in our own strength.  His deceitfulness may help someone think they are happy living this way but unfortunately it only adds to one’s misery.  Satan gets us to worry just knowing that calamity is ahead and everything is going to pieces.

 

But God wants us to know the secret for living a successful life and He wants to teach it to you.  The Sermon on the Mount speaks to the one who really wants to be happy – this is the way!

 

A number of years ago, I taught a Sunday School class on the Sermon on the Mount.  I also had a website that included a section for a Bible study where I wrote on Jesus’ teaching.  For that I used Studies in the Sermon on the Mount written by Martyn Lloyd-Jones as my primary source of information.  I will not mark his words with quotation marks because I no longer have the book to quote his work precisely.  I do want to give him the credit for much of the following teaching as I use the notes for the class taught and the articles written for the website.  I would suggest to any of you who desire further knowledge on Jesus’ teaching to find the book and read it. 

 

Jesus began His teaching with what is known as the Beatitudes.  He knew that His followers wanted dominion and prosperity.  They no longer wanted to be ruled by the Romans and hated the tax burden placed upon them.  They were certain that the Kingdom of God would make them free and even wealthy.  But Jesus turned that expectation upside down.  With the Beatitudes He said all Christians are to be interested primarily with character.  Jesus speaks of God’s principles of righteousness by which all Christians are to live through faith in Him.  Paul said in Romans 1:17, “the just shall live by faith.”  Lloyd-Jones said all Christians were to live according to the Beatitudes; “they do not describe exceptional Christians”.  All the Beatitudes were to be followed by each Christian.  In other words, we must not think that one Christian is to be “poor in spirit” and another to be “meek” and another to be “merciful”.  It is more than interesting to see how each beatitude leads to the next one.  Lloyd-Jones also emphasizes that to live the Beatitudes is not something that anyone is able to do on their own; it is just not natural.  To live them in our daily lives comes only through grace and the Holy Spirit’s presence in our life.

 

There is a lot of pressure on Christians to be different.  Worldliness has invaded the Church.  I remember hearing at a conference how the competition among churches for membership is leading to worldliness in the church.  The difference between the church and the world as a result is becoming blurred because of the need to make the church “attractive”; the result has been the church becoming like the person it is trying to attract.  However, the gospel of Jesus Christ is absolutely different from the world and that has to continue to be in order to attract those who are seeking something different.  While the gospel message might be hated at first revival comes as a result of Christians offering the One who has overcome the world! 

 

Our desire as Christians is to be more and more like Jesus Christ and not conform to what the world says.  The Sermon on the Mount is to be studied to show us how to be different.  Jesus words here and His words on the Mount of Olives (Matthew 24-25) have been so influential in my life.  I hope you look forward to each day as we study the words of Jesus; I hope you begin to make them a part of your life if you have not already done so.

 

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Psalm 9:1-2, I will praise You, O Lord, with my whole heart; I will tell of all Your marvelous works.  I will be glad and rejoice in You; I will sing praise to Your name, O Most High.

 

I have to admit there were days I got tired of all the negative and just needed to have someone stop by my office and give me a word of encouragement.  It was amazing how something simple could lift up my spirits.  I believe God desires those who follow Him to give praise to Him through our words, actions, thoughts and any other way we can give praise to Him.  Praise is at the very center of every Believer’s relationship with Him.

 

Throughout the Bible God’s people are told to give praise to Him for who He is and for what He has done.  We are told to give Him praise while going through trials because He is with us during those times.  Through all things and all the time our faith should be giving Him praise.

 

Praise and thanksgiving go together.  Praise and thanksgiving were given by the Israelites after crossing the Red Sea safely, for giving them the Promised Land, and for the victories over the enemies Israel faced.  David’s desire to praise the Lord is evident in so many of the Psalms he wrote.  Others who wrote recorded Psalms express the need to praise the Lord as did many of the prophets instruct God’s people to praise Him.

 

The New Testament records Jesus praising His Father in heaven. Paul exhorting saved people to praise Him for the salvation offered through Jesus Christ.  The Revelation gives several glimpses of multitudes, including the twenty-four elders and the angels bowing before the throne of God in praise.  Psalm 150:6 explains the idea of giving praise, “Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.” 

 

It is not only God’s people who are commanded to give God praise.  He also commands inanimate nature to praise Him.  The sun, moon, stars, lightning, hail, mountains, hills, rivers, seas, trees and all living creatures are to give God praise.  When Jesus entered Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, the crowd rejoiced and praised Him.  When the Pharisees told Jesus to rebuke the crowd for doing so He replied, “I tell you that if these should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out.”  (Luke 19:40)

 

We are to lift up praise to our Lord for all He has done, doing, and going to do.  We lift up praise for who He is, because He deserves our praise.  Praise is part of our worship – both individually and when we gather together as the body of Believers.  We praise Him with out mind, with the words we speak, through our action, by lifting hands in surrender, and through instruments.  We give Him praise by telling others the things He has done for us and through us; we tell others of His forgiveness.  We praise Him for His continual care both physically and spiritually. 

 

Consider today what you have to give Him praise for.  Then do so.

 

 

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John 14:27, “Peace I leave with you, My peace, I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you.  Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”    Jesus

 

How are you doing this morning?  Me?  I’m feeling a little anxious and am sure tired of all the political stuff.  I’m a little concerned about where this country is headed and what tomorrow will bring.  Just trying to be honest.  I need peace.  Webster tells us that peace is a state of tranquility or quiet. Huh?!  Not much of that around right now.  I guess that turning off the news, talk radio, finding a cabin in the mountains (where there is no fire) might aid my search for tranquility and peace.  Jesus talked about peace.  What did He offer?

 

Jesus is teaching His disciples, encouraging them because His time has come to go to the cross.  He was leaving them.  But He was not going to leave them to flounder around, wondering what to do next.  He was going to do several things.  First, He was going to send them a Helper, the Holy Spirit, to teach them all things and to help them remember that which He had taught them.  Second. He was going to give them His peace.  It was a peace that the world does not give; it was a peace that would ease their heart from being troubled and calm their fears.  What did He mean and can I have it as well?

 

What was the peace that Jesus offers?  Since He is the same today as He was yesterday and will be tomorrow, it makes sense to look at His life while on earth.  That should be a Christian’s example as we strive to be like Him.  Right?!  Jesus had peace in the face of temptations with Satan, peace when in a boat and storms were raging around Him, when He was rejected and mocked by the religious leaders of the day.  There was a time the crowds were so incited by His words that they wanted to throw Him over a cliff and, yet, He remained calm.  Or what about the crazy trial(s) He faced before religious and Roman authorities where lies were told about Him?  Even while enduring the cross, having been beaten without mercy, spit upon and insulted, He never fought back.  Instead He asked the Father to forgive those doing these things.

 

The peace that Jesus gives His disciples is not a peace that is some sort of escape from the world; it is not a get out of jail free card.  It is not even a source that gives some sort of pleasure by being in this world.  That is a worldly peace.  Worldly peace causes us to believe that it can be attained by things, wealth, position, the things the devil offered Jesus when he tempted Him.

 

The peace that Jesus gives comes from obedience.  The first step includes saying no to sin.  The devil will work hard with those things that tempt you; he wants to make you to believe you have done too many terrible things to be accepted into God’s kingdom.   Obedience might also mean accepting the challenges that He brings into your life.  Peace comes by knowing that “all things work for good to those who love God and are called according to His purpose.” (Romans 8:28). 

 

The peace I want is the peace that Jesus gives.  It comes from His nature and there is no lack given.  I want calmness in the storm because my trust is in Him.  I know that He is never surprised by any event that happens.  I know that nothing happens without His permission being given first.  He is omniscient!  That is a fancy word for all-knowing and all-seeing.  Because that is so, I can trust His peace as a gift you and to me. The world does not understand it but need to see it in the way we live.  When they do, perhaps those in the world will ask what is different about you.  Will you be bold enough to tell them about the peace that Jesus gives?  

 

The words of the songs below do remind me that Jesus loves and cares for me.  That is my peace.  That is why I have them at the end of the blog -to give you hope, encouragement and a sense of the peace only Jesus can give.

 

“For this man who needs amazing kind of grace

For forgiveness and a price I couldn’t pay

I’m not perfect so I thank God every day

There was Jesus

There was Jesus!”   Zack Williams

 

Even when I can’t feel it You’re working

You never stop working!    Michael W. Smith

 

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Luke 12:40, “Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”     Jesus

 

The last verse from the parable of the watchful servants is pretty clear that we are to be spiritually ready because the Lord will return at an uncertain time.  Jesus gave another parable after this one in which He told about two possible lifestyles of His disciples (that would include us today) during His absence and promised return.  One way finds His followers being faithful and obedient, always watching and ready for His return.  We have already seen that those who are living this way will receive their Master’s reward or blessing.  There is always the possibility for another way of life occurring.  One’s walk can grow careless and worldly-minded, believing that the Lord’s return is far into the future.  This attitude of carelessness can cause you to resist sin and do things that God does not approve of. 

 

Be ready!  Be alert!  What does that look like?  Conversely, what causes us to not be alert, to not be ready?

 

It seems to me that a lot of this has to be due to our attitude toward sin. When we indulge ourselves with certain sins, we immediately start to lose our sensitivity or our awareness.  Sometimes we can fool ourselves; we know that we should not be doing ______ (You fill in the blank.) but we indulge and do it anyway.  We use forgiveness as a license to sin.  However, indulging the sinful nature prevents us from walking closely with the Lord and being alert to His voice.  This amounts to trading a close walk with the Lord for sin, a trade that is never worth the trouble.  It is deception and the devil uses it to counteract our influence with others.

 

Another area where our ability to be alert is dulled is in our prayer life.  Prayer is a must if we are to be spiritually alert.  When we pray, we become more spiritually in tune to what is happening around is.  When we do not pray, our guard is down.  A pattern or habit of not praying can cause us to be unaware of what is happening around us.

 

Jesus said, “the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”   What do you believe about that statement?  What you do or how you act has a lot to do with what you believe.  If you do not believe this to be true or that He will come in your lifetime, you are very vulnerable to be taken by surprise when He returns.  This is not living life in fear.  It is living the way the Lord desires you to live every day. 

 

I believe that the way life is lived has a lot to do with the preaching in your church and your own personal study.  If you are a follower of Jesus Christ, you should want to know what the Bible says, what He said about His return.  The preaching at your church should be helping you grow closer to the Lord, be encouraging you to be prepared and ready, so that if He returns today, this week or next you would not be surprised. 

 

I end today with the same question as yesterday.  If Jesus were to come today, would you be ready?

 

“For this man who needs amazing kind of grace

For forgiveness and a price I couldn’t pay

I’m not perfect so I thank God every day

There was Jesus

There was Jesus!”   Zack Williams

 

Even when I can’t feel it You’re working

You never stop working!    Michael W. Smith

 

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