Worship: Find Satisfaction in Christ

Find Satisfaction in Christ
WORSHIP
SUGGESTED WORSHIP SONGS:
We Praise Your Name, Better Than Life, The Love of Jesus, Beautiful Savior
WELCOME
Happy Feet. Where do you usually go when you want to be happy? Describe a
happy place for you.
WORD
MATTHEW 5:6
“Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be
satisfied.”
The word “blessed” comes from the Greek substitutes for Him, we fall into idolatry. It can be
word ‘makarios’ which means ‘happy.’ We work, relationships, title, money, position; in
have to understand that in the language of the fact, anything that takes the place of God
Bible, joy and happiness are basically the becomes our idol.
same which tells us that God wants us to be For sure, Christians are not exempt from trials
happy. The question is are we happy and do and sufferings but despite this, we can always
we know how to be truly happy? rejoice in the Lord. The central essence of the
Christian life is joy, but because we live in a
GOD WANTS US TO BE HAPPY fallen world, there will be grief and pain (John
We should not feel guilty when we desire for 16:22). This does not mean you will not cry
happiness because God created us with a anymore but that at the end of it all, joy shall
desire to be happy. In fact, the Bible commands prevail (John 15:11).
us to be happy: God is a happy God and He wants us to be happy
“And you shall rejoice before the Lord your His way. Sadly, many people do not know the
God…” (Deuteronomy 12:12); “Let all who truth about happiness. They are either ignorant
seek You rejoice and be glad in You” (Psalm or they are deceived by counterfeit happiness. If
40:16); “Shout joyfully to the Lord” (Psalm only they knew
98:4). “Rejoice in the Lord always”
(Philippians 4:4); “Rejoice that your names
are recorded in heaven” (Luke 10:20).
Notice that in the Bible, happiness is always
connected with the Lord. True happiness is
about having joy in the Lord. Because God
made us for Him, whenever we try to fill the
God-shaped vacuum in our lives with
health at risk. Compounded anger can lead to
that God wants them to be happy and that anxiety, cardiovascular diseases, depression,
He even laid down the principles of being and other illnesses. So, if you want to live
happy to them in their lives, wouldn’t they longer, don't be angry.
consider coming to Jesus?
HAPPINESS IN JESUS
The Bible tells us that we will be happy
when we hunger and thirst for righteousness
(Matthew 5:6). The words used to describe
hunger and thirst in this verse are ‘peinao’
and ‘dipsao’, together they express a strong
desire and an extremely dry thirst. Hunger
and thirst are natural instincts. Just as food
and water are essentials to our physical life,
so is righteousness to our spiritual life. But
unless we have experienced deep hunger
and thirst, we will not fully understand this
verse.
Also, if we do not hunger and thirst for the
right thing, we will eventually lose our
appetite for it. Now, “righteousness”, in this
verse, comes from the Greek word
“dikaiosynē” which means the condition of
acceptable to God. The Bible also tells us that
unless we have righteousness that exceeds
the righteousness of religious people, we
cannot enter the kingdom of heaven (Matthew
5:20). This is why righteousness and Jesus
cannot be separated. The righteousness of
human beings is external while the
righteousness of Jesus is both external and
internal. The righteousness of man says do
not commit murder. But Jesus says that
anyone who is angry with his brother already
commits murder (Matt 5:21-22). He is saying
that if we are angry, we are as guilty as a
murderer. While this kind of righteousness is
certainly higher than the law for it deals with
the heart, it is actually for our own good.
Research says that anger actually puts our
WORD (cont’d)
The Sermon of the Mount is the manifesto of
true followers of Jesus. It tells them how they If you are truly a child of God, He will give you
ought to live their lives. Do not, however, the appetite to put into practice true
confuse good works as a way to salvation. righteousness. But keep in mind that we are
While righteousness is the standard of Jesus, not supposed to live the Christian life alone on
He Himself is the source of it, including the our own, we need the body of believers to be
strength needed to carry it out. able to live a righteous life (Titus 2: 11,12).
God made us righteous because of Jesus. By In Jesus, we will find satisfaction for our hunger
God’s doing, Jesus became to us both and thirst for righteousness. How do we know
wisdom and righteousness (1 Corinthians we are satisfied in Him? The Samaritan
1:30, 2 Corinthians 5:21). He is our woman, right after she encountered Jesus,
righteousness, our sanctification and our dropped everything to tell others about Him
redemption. This means that we are as (John 4:28-29). Her response to finally
righteous as Jesus when we give our life to Him. experiencing Jesus shows that she is fully
We are made righteous by God’s grace satisfied in Him. How about you, are you
(positional righteousness) and also by the satisfied in Jesus? What is the evidence that
same grace, we desire to live a righteous life you have find full satisfaction in Him?
(practical righteousness).
True righteousness is not just an imparted
status, it is also a lived out and pursued reality
(2 Timothy 2:22).
DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
(Leaders: Please choose questions that are appropriate to the level of spiritual maturity of your
members)
1. Happily Hungry. What will make us happy according to Matthew 5:6? What is God’s promise?
2. Unsatisfied. What have you desired in life that after attaining it still left you unsatisfied? What did you
learn from it?
3. I’m Full. What satisfies you in life? What is the evidence that you are satisfied in Jesus?
WORKS
PRAY CARE SHARE IN ACTION relative the righteousness of Jesus, with emphasis
that it is not about our good works that make us
Blessed are those who hunger and
righteous but we become righteous when we give
thirst for righteousness, for they shall
our life to Jesus.
be satisfied.
Use the table of righteousness below in
sharing with your unbelieving friend and/or
EXTERNAL RIGHTEOUSNESS INTERNAL RIGHTEOUSNESS
Everyone who is angry with his brother commits murder

You shall not commit murder
(Matt 5:21-22)
Everyone who looks at a woman with lust already

You shall not commit adultery committed adultery (Matt 5:27-28)
You shall love your neighbor and hate Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you
your enemy (Matt 5:43-44)
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