Matthew 5:6“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.” (ESV) 1. A duty: To Hunger and Thirst after Righteousness Isaiah 26:9 – “My soul yearns for you in the night; my spirit within me earnestly seeks You.For when Your judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world…
Romans 6 v 1 – 3 1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? 3 Do you not know that all of us who have been baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized…
Matthew 5:6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. (ESV) The Lord Jesus has something to say about the insatiable hunger of the human heart: 1. The nature of the righteousness we are to hunger after.It means:a. Giving to God and your neighbour what is their due, namely…
2 Timothy 3 v 1 – 5 1 But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. 2 For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, 4 treacherous, reckless, swollen…
Matthew 12:22-32 22 Then a demon-oppressed man who was blind and mute was brought to Him, and He healed him, so that the man spoke and saw. 23 And all the people were amazed, and said, “Can this be the Son of David?” 24 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “It is only…
Psalm 131 1 A Song of Ascents. Of David.O LORD, my heart is not lifted up; my eyes are not raised too high; I do not occupy myself with things too great and too marvellous for me. 2 But I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother; like a…
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Romans 6 v 1 – 2 1 What shall we say then? Are we to continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 By no means! How can we who died to sin still live in it? (ESV) Paul’s question is rhetorical – it requires no answer. He reasons: ‘How can anyone who have died…