Hungering & Thirsting after Righteousness (Point 3)

Another Weekly Sermon

Matthew 5:6 – “Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.”

Matthew 6:33 – “But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”

The following outline is an expansion upon a previous set of outlines:  
                                        Hungering & Thirsting after Righteousness (Introduction)     
                                        Hungering & Thirsting after Righteousness (Point 1)    
                                        Hungering & Thirsting after Righteousness (Point 2)      

Hungering & Thirsting after the House of Our Lord

Psalm 84:1-4 – How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!  My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.  Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O LORD of hosts, my King, and my God.  Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: they will be still praising thee. Selah.

1.  To bring honor unto the Lord.

Psalm 26:8 – LORD, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.

2.  To behold the glory of the Lord.

Psalm 27:4 – One thing have I desired of the LORD, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the LORD, and to enquire in his temple.

3.  To bolster our fellowship with the Lord.

Psalm 84:2 – My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the LORD: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

4.  To back up our priority in the Lord.

Psalm 84:10 – For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand.  I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

5.  To bestow service for the Lord.

Psalm 84:10 – For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand.  I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

6.  To build up our separation from wickedness.

Psalm 84:10 – For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand.  I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

7.  To broaden our understanding of the truth.

1 Timothy 3:15 – But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and ground of the truth.

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