Hunger and Thirst, The Way to Happiness.

Refinery Life Radio

Episode • Jan 27, 2020 • 17m

Hey everyone I’m Pastor Gary Hoban and welcome to Refinery Life Australia.

This year our goal is to release a new video / Podcast every Monday Wednesday and Friday.

To begin 2020 we are starting off on Sundays with “The Way to Happiness”.

Everyone wants to be happy, and the New Testament is the greatest authority on happiness.

Jesus gives is the key that will unlock the door to happiness.

This key is found in the eight Beatitudes.

Did you know the word “Blessed” is sometimes translated as “Happy”.

Today is part 4 Hunger and Thirst, The Way to Happiness.

Text

Matthew 5:6 (ESV)

6 “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.

No two people are exactly alike.

Nor have they ever been or will be.

We are different from each other in so many ways.

Different finger prints, eye, hair, and skin colours, different heritage, intelligence levels, and personalities, and don’t forget different heights and weights..

But we are all alike in the fact that we hunger and thirst.

Jesus, in His usual manner of simplifying things that were complicated, used this common demonstration to express the truth of the fourth way to happiness.

“Blessed (happy) are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied (filled).

Its a strange statement to make.

How could hunger and thirst make a person happy?

Jesus explained that the right type of hunger and thirst leads to happiness.

Jesus was actually asking, “How much do you want righteousness? As much as a hungry person wants food? As much as a thirsty person wants water?”

Then He asserted that if you truly hunger and thirst for righteousness, you will be blessed, or happy.

But why?

Because Hunger and thirst are the way to happiness.

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