1 / 14

Decision Time The Beatitudes Matthew 5:6

Decision Time The Beatitudes Matthew 5:6. February 13, 2005 Grace Community Church. Matthew 5:6. “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.” BLESSED Makarios (blessed) means happy, fortunate, blissful.

hillary-nixon
Download Presentation

Decision Time The Beatitudes Matthew 5:6

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Decision TimeThe BeatitudesMatthew 5:6 February 13, 2005 Grace Community Church

  2. Matthew 5:6 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.” BLESSED • Makarios (blessed) means happy, fortunate, blissful.

  3. “To be blessed is not a superficial feeling of well-being based on circumstance, but a deep supernatural experience of contentedness based on the fact that one’s life is right with God.” ~John MacArthur

  4. Every believer can experience deeper devotion to God by making threedecisive decisions of the will. 

  5. Decision #1 To decideto seek God above everything else (…those who HUNGER and THIRST… Mt. 5:6) • What does it mean to truly hunger and thirst? • Hunger and thirst are some of the STRONGEST impulses we have • To be hungry and thirsty Is to be absolutely desperate – to be starving – to feel life is ebbing out

  6. Decision #1 THE PROBLEM IS: • We hunger and thirst not only after food. • We hunger after positions, possessions, pleasures, and person (s) • We must allow a new taste palette to be cultivated

  7. Decision #2 To decideto believe God to provide for your deepest need (Righteousness) • What does this righteousness mean and what exactly what am I believing God for? • It does not mean general righteousness; morality or peace

  8. Decision #2 THE PROBLEM IS: “It is a law of righteousness which no child of Adam can possibly obey” – John Stott

  9. Decision #2 So what Am I believing God for?  For how we are made right with God – and how we are to live in God. • For those who do not know Christ – this righteousness is available through the blood of Jesus Christ (Justification) • For those who know Christ it is an ability to become increasingly like God (Sanctification)  

  10. Decision #3 To decide to trust God to withhold no good thing (for they will be filled) This is both a present reality and a promise • If you know Christ you are filled –you need not seek it. • We are filled – we are satisfied  You will increasingly be delivered from the power of sin and it’s pollution • Are we enjoying our Christian experience? • Experienced now – but perfected in eternity.

  11. Decision #3 The point is: Are we increasingly receiving more of God and yet secure in our relationship with God?

  12. Every believer can experience deeper devotion to God by making threedecisive decisions of the will.  • Decision #1: Decide to seek God above everything else (Hunger and Thirst) • Decision #2: Decide to believe God to provide for your deepest need (Righteousness) • Decision #3: Decide to trust God to withhold no good thing (they will be filled)

More Related