Sunday Service (2)

Sunday Service: Crave

(03-07-2021) Ptr. Lynard Molo

Beatitudes:
1. Poor in Spirit. "Without God, we are nothing."
2. Spiritual Mourning. "Jesus' disciple must always mourn over sin."
3. Meekness.
4. Spiritual Hunger and Thirst.

=Crave=

*Matthew 5:6
"6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled."

Appetite
Latin: "petere" --> "to seek"

We crave to all sort of things:
-Food
-Love
-Attention
-Intimacy
-Power
-Money and so on..

Matthew 5:6
"6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled."

*Romans 3:10
"10 As it is written: "There is no one righteous, not even one;"

*Romans 3:22a
"22 This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe. There is no difference,"

-righteousness = gift

"Things are right with God and other people."

How can I live with righteousness?
R-elationship
  +Having right relationship with Christ.

      *Mark 12:30-31
           "30 Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'

"Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus."
-Oswald Chambers

1 The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'There is no commandment greater than these."

"Ang nagmamahal ay nagbibigay. Pero pwede ka magbigay ng walang nagmamahal."

*Galatians 6:10
"10 Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers."

How to be good to others?
B-e kind and helpful.
B-e selfless.
F-orgive those who offended you.

I-ntention
  +Right motives.

     *Jeremiah 17:10
         "10 "I the LORD search the heart and examine the mind, to reward a man according to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve."

      *Proverbs 16:2
         "2 All a man's ways seem innocent to him, but motives are weighed by the LORD."

       *James 4:3
         "3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures."

G-odly Life
    +"Godliness is the:
            --Proof of our Faith.
            --Example of our Faith.
            --Action of our Faith.

          *1 Timothy 4:7
              "7 Have nothing to do with godless myths and old wives' tales; rather, train yourself to be godly."

H-oliness
    *1 Peter 1:15-16
        "15 But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do;
16 for it is written: "Be holy, because I am holy."

    *Romans 12:1-2
        "1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God's mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God--this is your spiritual act of worship.
2 Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God's will is--his good, pleasing and perfect will.

"Set apart yourself for God's disposal."

Set apart
-is not an isolation, it is transformation

T-ruthful
    +Dishonesty ruin our character.
  
        *John 8:44
            "44 You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to carry out your father's desire. He was a murderer from the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native language, for he is a liar and the father of lies."

Matthew 5:6
"6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled."

"God will give you complete satisfaction."