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Feb 03, 2019

Blessed to be Satisfied

Passage: Matthew 5:6

Speaker: Brian Land

Series: Sermon on the Mount

Category: Grace Brevard

Keywords: crave, hunger, righteousness, satisfied, thirst

We all deeply crave to be whole, satisfied, complete; to be made right. We are all acutely aware of the brokenness of creation and the brokenness of ourselves, leaving us desperately craving wholeness which leads us to try to reacquire the wholeness we lost at The Fall through countless hollow ways. The beautiful promise of the Gospel is that greatest loss in our lives leaves us with our greatest craving which is overwhelmingly satiated in Jesus, which propels us to love others the way we’ve been loved.

ORDER of Worship

PRELUDE: Sing Team - Satisfied In You

CALL TO WORSHIP: Psalm 19:7-8 & Psalm 34:8 ESV

READING: John 6:35,40a ESV

MUSIC:

PRAYER: The Lord’s Prayer ESV

ALL: Our Father in heaven, hallowed be Thy name.

Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done,

on earth as it is in heaven.

Give us this day our daily bread,

and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.

And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil

For Thine is the Kingdom

and the power and the glory

forever and ever Amen.

GRATITUDE: Matthew 6:25,33 NIV

MISSIONAL LIVING: Baby Bottle for Brevard Women’s Center

MESSAGE: Blessed to be Satisfied

CENTRAL TEXT: Matthew 5:6

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

IllUSTRATIONS: 

RESPONSE: Confession & Assurance: WSB – Section 2. 31

ALL: Eternal and merciful God,

You have loved us with a love beyond our understanding and have set us on paths of righteousness for Your name’s sake. Yet, we have strayed from Your way, having sinned against You in thought, word, and deed. As we remember the lavish gift of Your grace,  we praise You and give thanks that we are forgiven by the finished work of Jesus. Grant us now, the gift to die daily to sin and self-righteousness and to rise daily to our new lives in Christ. In whose name we pray. Amen.   

BENEDICTION: Isaiah 55:1-2 ESV

ADDITIONAL SCRIPTURES:

  • Psalm 42:1,2
  • Psalm 119:5-7
  • Isaiah 55:1-3
  • John 7:37
  • John 14:13-15
  • Romans 3:10
  • Romans 8:1-7
  • Philippians 3:8-9
  • John 4:13-14
  • Jeremiah 2:12-13

MEDIA:

2.03.19 Album

DISCUSSIONS QUESTIONS:

  1. What do you truly crave?
  2. What do you run to when you feel empty and alone?
  3. Why do you run to these? What do they do for you?
  4. In order to be hungry we have to realize that the “food” we’ve been consuming isn’t actually satisfying us -- Look through the Four Major Food Groups and talk about how each impacts you, your hunger and your satisfaction:
    1. Amorality - “regular” things that aren’t necessarily good or bad (relationships, job, money, appearance, reputation...)
    2. Immorality - Things that are against God (sexual antics, substance abuse, greed...)
    3. Morality - Using our “goodness” as our righteousness (bible reading, prayer, church attendance, theology)
    4. The Gospel - Jesus’ Righteousness that’s been gifted to us (see Philippians 3:8-9 in the resources).
  5. How do/can we come to realize our true hunger and false foods?
  6. What does it mean to have the “rightness” of Jesus imputed into us, and have our “wrongness” imputed into him?
  7. How can/does that propel us forward, upward, outward?

QUOTES:

  • “For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison.” - C.S. Lewis

  • “Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thing to worship. . . is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things, if they are where you tap real meaning in life, then you will never have enough, never feel you have enough. It's the truth. Worship your body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when time and age start showing, you will die a million deaths before they finally grieve you. Worship power, you will end up feeling weak and afraid, and you will need ever more power over others to numb you to your own fear. Worship your intellect, being seen as smart, you will end up feeling stupid, a fraud, always on the verge of being found out. But the insidious thing about these forms of worship is not that they're evil or sinful, it's that they're unconscious.” - David Foster Wallace

  • “All our lives we’ve been unconsciously living by the philosophy, ‘The only way to gain respect is doing so well you can’t be ignored.. . .However in choosing [this] path most of us have ended up very satisfied in ourselves, but very lonely.” - A letter from a fan of Ender’s Game written to Orson Scott Card
  • "The only way to break the hold of a beautiful object on the soul is to show it something even more beautiful" - Thomas Chalmers

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