1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:08,560 You guys probably all have plans for post church and a lot of 2 00:00:08,560 --> 00:00:10,320 your plans are just going to be where are we going to eat? 3 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:13,480 Right after church. And you think about all of. 4 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:15,720 The the the. Holidays and the milestones of 5 00:00:15,720 --> 00:00:18,720 life, all of them are marked by feasting. 6 00:00:18,880 --> 00:00:21,720 Humans love to feast. It's one thing we have all in 7 00:00:21,720 --> 00:00:23,240 common. Is that we love. 8 00:00:23,240 --> 00:00:25,960 A good meal. We love to celebrate with a, 9 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:28,240 with a, with a, with a. Giant plate. 10 00:00:28,840 --> 00:00:31,240 Wherever we are, food is so good. 11 00:00:31,240 --> 00:00:33,400 And I. Start that to really set the 12 00:00:33,400 --> 00:00:35,480 stage for. Everything that we're going to 13 00:00:35,480 --> 00:00:38,000 talk about throughout this summer series for the Way of 14 00:00:38,000 --> 00:00:41,880 Jesus and the sermon in the plane flies in the face of what 15 00:00:41,880 --> 00:00:44,720 we think of as. Blessed if today I. 16 00:00:44,840 --> 00:00:47,640 Stood before you and I said, blessed are you when you feast 17 00:00:47,640 --> 00:00:49,040 on all of the. Joys of. 18 00:00:49,040 --> 00:00:52,160 Traveling in cuisine, it would be a very short sermon because 19 00:00:52,160 --> 00:00:54,120 we don't really need much preaching about that. 20 00:00:54,480 --> 00:00:56,880 But today? We look at another example, and 21 00:00:56,880 --> 00:00:59,680 this is just the lens by which you need to read the Sermon on 22 00:00:59,680 --> 00:01:02,040 the Mount. We've called this series The Way 23 00:01:02,040 --> 00:01:03,880 of. Jesus, and maybe a better title 24 00:01:03,880 --> 00:01:07,520 would have been the surprising The Shocking Way of Jesus. 25 00:01:08,080 --> 00:01:10,360 To follow Jesus. And to understand his. 26 00:01:10,360 --> 00:01:12,400 Philosophy of your life for your life. 27 00:01:12,840 --> 00:01:16,240 Is to understand that he wants. You to see the world radically. 28 00:01:16,240 --> 00:01:20,520 Different than you currently do, and we'll get a great example of 29 00:01:20,520 --> 00:01:23,320 how shocking today's word or blessing is. 30 00:01:23,800 --> 00:01:26,680 Very simply so read. Along with me in. 31 00:01:26,760 --> 00:01:31,800 Luke Chapter. 6 verse 21. He's going to. 32 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:33,760 Give another. Key to the Blessed. 33 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:37,280 Life in his Kingdom and for this one in verse 21 he says. 34 00:01:37,280 --> 00:01:40,680 Blessed are you. Who are hungry, not blessed are 35 00:01:40,680 --> 00:01:41,200 you? Who are a? 36 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:44,000 Full and satisfied. Blessed are you right after the. 37 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:47,640 Feast ready for a nap? He's now going to give us a 38 00:01:47,720 --> 00:01:50,160 principle for following his ways. 39 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:53,120 For your life that. Flies in the face of one of the 40 00:01:53,120 --> 00:01:56,160 great blessings that we normally think of, which is feasting. 41 00:01:56,160 --> 00:01:57,920 And he's going to say. You're actually. 42 00:01:57,920 --> 00:02:01,720 Blessed when you're hungry. Says Blessed are you. 43 00:02:01,720 --> 00:02:04,720 Who are hungry now for you? Shall be filled. 44 00:02:05,320 --> 00:02:08,280 Blessed are you who? Weep now, for you shall laugh, 45 00:02:08,280 --> 00:02:10,320 and we'll save that for next week. 46 00:02:10,320 --> 00:02:11,760 But. Today we just ask the. 47 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:15,160 Question that as you read the Sermon on the Mount or the 48 00:02:15,160 --> 00:02:18,000 Sermon on the Plane in Luke chapter 6, you have to continue 49 00:02:18,000 --> 00:02:18,920 to ask. Why? 50 00:02:19,680 --> 00:02:22,000 Why are the ways of Jesus so upside? 51 00:02:22,000 --> 00:02:26,320 Down and And how do we find a blessing when we are actually 52 00:02:26,320 --> 00:02:31,080 deeply hungry? Hunger, just for those of you, 53 00:02:31,240 --> 00:02:33,360 some of you might have it right now, some of you experienced 54 00:02:33,360 --> 00:02:35,360 this part of your life. Hunger is painful. 55 00:02:35,800 --> 00:02:39,840 Hunger actually stirs in us a physical discomfort. 56 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:43,480 And in other translations, he says blessed are the hungry. 57 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:45,400 It's not just painful physically, it's kind of 58 00:02:45,400 --> 00:02:47,840 embarrassing. Socially to be at the very. 59 00:02:47,840 --> 00:02:51,640 Bottom of the food chain. Literally to be the class of 60 00:02:51,640 --> 00:02:55,600 people. Who are are are so unprovided 61 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:58,120 for in your life that you have to think about where food is 62 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:01,960 coming from and. Jesus will say these are. 63 00:03:01,960 --> 00:03:06,240 People in my Kingdom, this is a condition of your life in my 64 00:03:06,240 --> 00:03:10,360 Kingdom that can be blessed. So today we just. 65 00:03:10,440 --> 00:03:13,520 Answer the question. How does Jesus give us a? 66 00:03:13,520 --> 00:03:16,760 Blessing for those conditions of our life and so I'll just. 67 00:03:17,520 --> 00:03:19,880 Short verse Short. Sermon three ways. 68 00:03:20,560 --> 00:03:23,320 That you are actually. Blessed when you're hungry that 69 00:03:23,320 --> 00:03:27,400 you're blessed when you find yourself in a condition of great 70 00:03:27,400 --> 00:03:30,680 hunger. The first one is going to be a 71 00:03:30,720 --> 00:03:32,840 theme throughout Understanding the Way of. 72 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:36,040 Jesus for your life when he draws out. 73 00:03:36,040 --> 00:03:38,800 Principles that surprise. You because they're blessed. 74 00:03:39,120 --> 00:03:41,320 He's teaching you. About how you are. 75 00:03:41,320 --> 00:03:45,760 Blessed by Hope Hunger is one of the great tests of your hope. 76 00:03:45,760 --> 00:03:48,840 It's one of the reminders that there are things that you need 77 00:03:48,840 --> 00:03:50,360 in your life. That you don't have. 78 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:53,960 The the hunger is often used as an example. 79 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:56,120 Of people who feel a lack of hope. 80 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:58,440 You remember the children of Israel as. 81 00:03:58,440 --> 00:04:00,440 They're. Leaving slavery in Egypt and 82 00:04:00,440 --> 00:04:03,200 they get to the wilderness and they're so hungry, they actually 83 00:04:03,200 --> 00:04:06,120 think it would have been better to be enslaved because they're 84 00:04:06,120 --> 00:04:09,120 going to die. And when you feel the hunger 85 00:04:09,120 --> 00:04:11,960 pains of your life, it's a question of whether or not 86 00:04:11,960 --> 00:04:15,320 you'll ever be satisfied again. I think for this, parents, you 87 00:04:15,320 --> 00:04:18,560 can see your children at any moment throughout the day. 88 00:04:18,560 --> 00:04:20,360 For me, it was usually pick up during school. 89 00:04:20,360 --> 00:04:23,360 I pick them up from school and they're like, we're so hungry 90 00:04:23,360 --> 00:04:26,200 we're about to die. And that happened every day I 91 00:04:26,200 --> 00:04:27,600 pick them up. I actually. 92 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:29,200 Had to outlaw the phrase that we're. 93 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:31,160 Dying of hunger. I'm like, listen to you little 94 00:04:31,160 --> 00:04:32,680 kids. You're not dying of hunger. 95 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:35,320 You're hungry, but you're not dying of hunger. 96 00:04:35,320 --> 00:04:39,280 They needed a constant reminder that their hunger was not going 97 00:04:39,280 --> 00:04:44,040 to cause them to perish. And this is the message of the 98 00:04:44,040 --> 00:04:46,520 Sermon on the Mount. The message of the Sermon on the 99 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:49,520 Mount is that your current conditions are temporary. 100 00:04:50,000 --> 00:04:51,880 Last week it was Blessed are the poor. 101 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:55,040 For yours is the Kingdom. You might be poor now on earth, 102 00:04:55,040 --> 00:04:56,360 but listen, you have. A. 103 00:04:56,400 --> 00:04:59,760 Future in the Kingdom of God that is going to be richly 104 00:04:59,760 --> 00:05:04,240 blessed and today we say. We look at Jesus. 105 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:05,720 Teaching, he says. Blessed are you. 106 00:05:05,720 --> 00:05:08,480 Hunger. Now that's an important word. 107 00:05:08,480 --> 00:05:10,200 It could. Also say blessed are you. 108 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:14,520 Who are hungry for now there's coming a day when you will not 109 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:17,960 be the bottom of the food chain there's coming a day when you 110 00:05:17,960 --> 00:05:21,280 will be satisfied in fact, the blessing continues to say you're 111 00:05:21,280 --> 00:05:24,480 going to be full and so for this. 112 00:05:24,680 --> 00:05:26,960 Just we will. Actually spend more time on this 113 00:05:26,960 --> 00:05:28,000 when we look at. The woes? 114 00:05:28,000 --> 00:05:30,320 Because Jesus is going to give a warning for those who are full 115 00:05:30,320 --> 00:05:33,400 now and they're not hungry. For God says you're actually 116 00:05:33,400 --> 00:05:34,880 going to be very hungry in the coming day. 117 00:05:34,880 --> 00:05:39,560 The script is going to flip. But but hear this because you 118 00:05:39,560 --> 00:05:42,360 all have. Conditions in your life that 119 00:05:42,360 --> 00:05:44,240 when you look at children thinking they're going to die 120 00:05:44,240 --> 00:05:46,640 because it's the afternoon and they haven't had a snack yet, we 121 00:05:46,640 --> 00:05:48,400 laugh. But you have conditions of your 122 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:49,720 life. You think I'm not going to make 123 00:05:49,720 --> 00:05:51,480 it? I'm going to perish. 124 00:05:51,480 --> 00:05:54,640 Because of what's? Happening in my circumstance 125 00:05:54,640 --> 00:05:58,240 with physical need, emotional need, the future looks daunting 126 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:02,760 and as Jesus continues this teaching in the the version that 127 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:06,080 we get in Matthew chapter 6, he uses hunger as a. 128 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:08,680 Way to teach. Them to trust him. 129 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:12,600 Matthew chapter 6 verse 31 says do not. 130 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:16,400 Worry about what you're. Going to eat or what you're 131 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:18,760 going to drink. Stop thinking you're going to 132 00:06:18,760 --> 00:06:20,520 die. Stop thinking you're going to 133 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:21,880 perish. For after. 134 00:06:21,880 --> 00:06:26,480 These things the Gentiles seek, but your Heavenly Father knows 135 00:06:26,480 --> 00:06:30,480 that you need these things. Your hunger is temporary. 136 00:06:31,280 --> 00:06:35,840 Your hunger presented to God is going to be met with His 137 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:38,520 provision. And then he says, seek first the 138 00:06:38,520 --> 00:06:42,680 Kingdom of God and his righteousness and these things. 139 00:06:43,040 --> 00:06:47,280 Shall be added to you. Again, I won't spend all of our 140 00:06:47,280 --> 00:06:50,720 time on on this principle that. Whatever your earthly lot. 141 00:06:50,720 --> 00:06:52,880 Is right now the Sermon on the Mount teaches. 142 00:06:52,880 --> 00:06:54,200 You how to have. Hope. 143 00:06:54,840 --> 00:06:59,680 But I I think it's worth just pointing out right now that I'm 144 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:02,080 speaking to some of you who have a deep hunger in your life. 145 00:07:02,520 --> 00:07:04,920 You think about the conditions that you walked into this 146 00:07:04,920 --> 00:07:06,200 sanctuary. With. 147 00:07:06,720 --> 00:07:11,000 And there are some unmet wants, needs and desires that just 148 00:07:11,000 --> 00:07:14,280 exist anytime the message. Goes out I specifically. 149 00:07:14,280 --> 00:07:17,760 Think of just, you know, the the world that we're passing off to 150 00:07:17,760 --> 00:07:20,480 the next generation. What a time to be a young 151 00:07:20,480 --> 00:07:24,040 person, a 20 something and you just looking out to the future 152 00:07:24,600 --> 00:07:28,280 and you just. Hear all of these worries, it's 153 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:31,360 like the the the future of how you. 154 00:07:31,360 --> 00:07:34,480 Make money in the future of AI in the workforce is like how are 155 00:07:34,480 --> 00:07:36,200 any of you going to provide for anyone? 156 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:40,200 Do you think about? Starting a family in such a time 157 00:07:40,200 --> 00:07:42,480 as this and you hear more and more young people think I can't 158 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:44,640 do that. My life is crazy. 159 00:07:44,640 --> 00:07:46,360 I have so much. Stress I can barely provide for 160 00:07:46,360 --> 00:07:48,480 myself. How can I step out in faith and 161 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:52,280 and and take on more or just recently you think about. 162 00:07:52,280 --> 00:07:55,440 What the the world? Is the headline news of the. 163 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:57,840 World is. Wars and rumors of. 164 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:00,000 Wars all the. Time and to be a young person 165 00:08:00,000 --> 00:08:04,520 you're thinking I don't know if we're going to perish this is 166 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:07,920 there's a there's an appetite for the goodness of God that 167 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:10,600 needs to hear once again don't worry the. 168 00:08:10,600 --> 00:08:13,280 People of God, the. Kingdom people, you listen to 169 00:08:13,280 --> 00:08:16,960 the Sermon on the Mount and you have a hope no matter what the 170 00:08:17,000 --> 00:08:19,120 conditions of your earthly lot are. 171 00:08:19,640 --> 00:08:21,720 You have a hunger for a family. God will provide. 172 00:08:21,920 --> 00:08:25,520 You have a hunger to to continue to look forward into the future 173 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:26,720 and say, hey, I'm going to work hard. 174 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:29,760 I'm going to trust that God will someday provide for me and the 175 00:08:29,760 --> 00:08:32,600 desires of my heart will be met in God to to. 176 00:08:32,600 --> 00:08:35,280 Say. To the hungry now you will be. 177 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:41,000 Filled is to say trust God have hope that your current. 178 00:08:41,000 --> 00:08:45,880 Wants, needs and desires will be met with the goodness of God. 179 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:49,600 So Jesus is saying the one of the reasons you can be blessed 180 00:08:49,600 --> 00:08:52,680 is hunger is a test of hope, and you got hope in the Kingdom of 181 00:08:52,680 --> 00:08:56,760 God the second way. That we'll look at how. 182 00:08:56,760 --> 00:09:00,000 To answer this question, how can hunger actually be a blessing? 183 00:09:00,360 --> 00:09:05,200 Well, another way to think of hunger is a desire, and you are 184 00:09:05,200 --> 00:09:07,080 actually. Blessed with desire. 185 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:11,840 You're blessed when you have a hunger for the good things that 186 00:09:11,840 --> 00:09:15,560 God wants to give you in life. In fact, you can see this point 187 00:09:15,560 --> 00:09:18,720 in in kind of the opposite. One of the most dangerous 188 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:21,400 conditions you can be in physically is to. 189 00:09:21,400 --> 00:09:23,920 Lose your appetite is to have. No hunger. 190 00:09:24,200 --> 00:09:28,160 In fact, if if you're, you know, going through a sickness or 191 00:09:28,160 --> 00:09:30,640 disease and one of the symptoms is that you just don't want to 192 00:09:30,640 --> 00:09:32,080 eat. That, that, that's. 193 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:33,040 Pointing you to. A. 194 00:09:33,040 --> 00:09:35,560 A 'cause. That could be very dangerous. 195 00:09:35,560 --> 00:09:37,360 In fact, many people near the end of the life. 196 00:09:37,360 --> 00:09:40,960 Totally lose their appetite. For food there that that hunger 197 00:09:41,280 --> 00:09:43,160 is inside of you. Because. 198 00:09:43,640 --> 00:09:47,720 You have life desiring more sustenance and the same is true 199 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:51,000 not just a physical hunger or or physical illness. 200 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:55,400 But if you've ever. Gone through emotional distress, 201 00:09:56,360 --> 00:09:59,000 a season of depression or weightiness on your life? 202 00:09:59,000 --> 00:10:01,760 If you've ever experienced heartbreak in your life, you 203 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:03,080 know one of the things that just. 204 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:05,040 Leaves. You, you can't eat. 205 00:10:05,480 --> 00:10:08,480 You're in a place in your life where the hunger is gone. 206 00:10:08,600 --> 00:10:12,560 It's a sign that something's going on that is rattling your 207 00:10:12,560 --> 00:10:16,280 soul. We see this in Psalm chapter 42, 208 00:10:16,280 --> 00:10:18,720 he says. My tears have been my food day 209 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:22,000 and night while they continually say to you say to me. 210 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:26,640 Where is your God? For for those of you. 211 00:10:26,640 --> 00:10:29,920 Who have a hunger right now you might as the sermon goes on too 212 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:31,880 long, the hunger might take over you might think I got to eat, 213 00:10:32,040 --> 00:10:35,040 you're being. Pushed to a good. 214 00:10:35,080 --> 00:10:40,760 And healthy desire for you to get nourishment and the one of 215 00:10:40,760 --> 00:10:43,360 the ways that we have to understand this is to see. 216 00:10:43,520 --> 00:10:46,240 That Jesus, yes, is. Speaking literally to Hungry. 217 00:10:46,240 --> 00:10:49,120 People, but he's also. As we know from the Sermon on 218 00:10:49,120 --> 00:10:50,960 the Mount in Matthew. He's speaking about a. 219 00:10:50,960 --> 00:10:53,960 Hunger for God. There is such a. 220 00:10:53,960 --> 00:10:58,560 Healthy hunger for people who are on the right track in the 221 00:10:58,560 --> 00:10:59,840 will. Of God he. 222 00:10:59,840 --> 00:11:01,760 Says in that version. Blessed are you who? 223 00:11:01,840 --> 00:11:05,040 Hunger and thirst for righteousness. 224 00:11:05,840 --> 00:11:08,680 David Gusick says. Hunger, in this case, is an 225 00:11:08,680 --> 00:11:12,240 intense. Focused desire for God. 226 00:11:12,640 --> 00:11:14,200 Physical hunger drives you straight to. 227 00:11:14,200 --> 00:11:16,320 Food. Spiritual hunger is meant to. 228 00:11:16,320 --> 00:11:21,640 Drive you to Christ. Blessed are the hunger, hungry 229 00:11:21,640 --> 00:11:24,080 for they. Thirst for. 230 00:11:24,280 --> 00:11:27,560 Righteousness, the psalmist says as the deer pants. 231 00:11:27,560 --> 00:11:32,760 For the Waters Brooks. So my soul longs for God and 232 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:36,680 thirsts for God, the living God. When should I come before God? 233 00:11:37,440 --> 00:11:40,200 There is. A blessedness in the. 234 00:11:40,200 --> 00:11:42,360 Appetite that we are supposed to have. 235 00:11:42,840 --> 00:11:47,400 For God, and I have to say, being a pastor, a preacher in 236 00:11:47,400 --> 00:11:52,920 this instance, there is no greater ease of pastoring and 237 00:11:52,920 --> 00:11:58,800 preaching than when I am before a hungry audience, maybe just a 238 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:01,840 hungry audience of one person. But you know, the, the people 239 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:04,480 after a sermon, you know, and they, they say, Oh my goodness, 240 00:12:04,480 --> 00:12:07,280 that was so good. Or I just wish that would have 241 00:12:07,280 --> 00:12:11,200 gone longer Hungry. Believers, it's like. 242 00:12:11,200 --> 00:12:13,320 You don't actually need a well packaged sermon. 243 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:16,360 You just have to be presenting the word of God and they're just 244 00:12:16,360 --> 00:12:18,920 soaking it up. And then the. 245 00:12:18,920 --> 00:12:21,840 Opposite is true too. One of the hardest things, the 246 00:12:21,840 --> 00:12:25,160 context to preach around, it's people that you know, they, 247 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:27,480 they, they're, they're, they're. Here, but they're. 248 00:12:27,600 --> 00:12:29,160 You know, they could be somewhere else. 249 00:12:29,160 --> 00:12:31,400 Just as easily. It's like I'm, I'm here, I come 250 00:12:31,400 --> 00:12:34,560 to church and you know, I, I. Like I like this particular 251 00:12:34,560 --> 00:12:36,400 church because the. Sermons are shorter than the 252 00:12:36,400 --> 00:12:38,760 other ones, and the parking's easy and you know that. 253 00:12:38,760 --> 00:12:40,880 We'll we'll get in and we'll get out and I'll get on with my day 254 00:12:40,880 --> 00:12:42,240 and they don't require too much of me. 255 00:12:42,720 --> 00:12:46,680 There's really no sermon that's going to reach that person which 256 00:12:46,800 --> 00:12:50,920 you know, as a as a preacher, I find comfort in the reality that 257 00:12:50,920 --> 00:12:54,800 the effectiveness of the Word of God preached, presented, shared. 258 00:12:54,800 --> 00:12:57,160 With you has very little to do with the package and. 259 00:12:57,160 --> 00:12:58,680 Everything to do. With the appetite. 260 00:12:59,560 --> 00:13:05,680 When you are hungry for God, God can speak to you in a variety of 261 00:13:05,680 --> 00:13:10,280 different ways. And unfortunately, you may have 262 00:13:10,280 --> 00:13:12,520 sensed this in your own life. You may sense this just in the 263 00:13:12,720 --> 00:13:16,600 the world that we live in, it seems to me as someone who can 264 00:13:16,600 --> 00:13:18,640 be, you know, qualified as a bit of an insider. 265 00:13:18,640 --> 00:13:22,320 We live. In a church age that has. 266 00:13:22,320 --> 00:13:26,840 Lost its appetite for the glory of God. 267 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:30,480 Well, we live in a church age that that that is. 268 00:13:30,480 --> 00:13:33,360 Very good at at. Gathering and and and doing the 269 00:13:33,360 --> 00:13:36,200 operations of a church. There are more churches than 270 00:13:36,200 --> 00:13:38,320 there are McDonald's, which is. Always a stat that. 271 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:40,040 Blows me away. So we're very good at doing 272 00:13:40,040 --> 00:13:43,000 church. But church? 273 00:13:43,760 --> 00:13:48,160 In its current form, is often. Required to be. 274 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:52,320 Presented as the perfect meal, the parking has to be perfect 275 00:13:52,640 --> 00:13:55,720 and the sermon has to ignite your senses to want to. 276 00:13:55,720 --> 00:14:01,880 Have some because people are so. Full with other things that 277 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:04,800 they're not hungry to hear from God. 278 00:14:06,040 --> 00:14:09,600 So the real question of this sermon is not how hunger is a 279 00:14:09,600 --> 00:14:12,480 blessing. It's how do you actually? 280 00:14:12,480 --> 00:14:16,000 Get hungry for God How do you come to a place where the word 281 00:14:16,000 --> 00:14:17,680 of God can. Speak where the. 282 00:14:17,680 --> 00:14:19,600 Gathering and the. Call to live for. 283 00:14:19,600 --> 00:14:22,800 God and and and live out faith in God doesn't have to be 284 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:25,720 presented in the perfect passion package, otherwise you won't 285 00:14:25,720 --> 00:14:27,720 listen. So as. 286 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:29,840 We as we consider. This. 287 00:14:29,840 --> 00:14:32,600 Blessing before us that is so counter intuitive. 288 00:14:33,720 --> 00:14:35,160 I'll just present you with a question. 289 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:37,480 I'll offer you some ideas and those of you who are hungry, may 290 00:14:37,480 --> 00:14:40,080 may, may snack on some of my ideas and go look for more. 291 00:14:41,880 --> 00:14:43,040 How do we hunger for God? I'll give. 292 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:45,480 Three ways that I. See in the word and just 293 00:14:45,680 --> 00:14:48,880 experiencing life in godliness that a an. 294 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:52,640 Appetite for God. Can be renewed or restored or 295 00:14:52,640 --> 00:14:55,280 given for the first time and right out the gate. 296 00:14:55,720 --> 00:14:59,840 Here they are. Repentance, redemption, and 297 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:00,800 radical. Faith. 298 00:15:02,120 --> 00:15:06,600 These are three. Times, moments, seasons where 299 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:10,560 when you see someone going through repentance or 300 00:15:10,560 --> 00:15:14,720 redemption, renewal or a, a, a moment of radical faith, there 301 00:15:14,720 --> 00:15:17,920 is built into those moments Hunger. 302 00:15:18,000 --> 00:15:20,520 For God. So we start with. 303 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:23,720 Repentance and in In this instance, there's so many 304 00:15:23,720 --> 00:15:26,000 different ways that the preacher may try to present what 305 00:15:26,000 --> 00:15:28,960 repentance is, a change of direction, a change of mind. 306 00:15:29,200 --> 00:15:31,840 In this instance, think of it as a change of diet. 307 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:36,200 You know your doctor may call you to repentance as as you come 308 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:38,840 into the the waiting room and he looks at your chart and he looks 309 00:15:38,840 --> 00:15:43,080 at your vitals and he says, listen, you got to change your 310 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:45,960 diet, most of your health issues. 311 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:50,200 Are due to how you're. Currently consuming your your 312 00:15:50,200 --> 00:15:53,720 diet and and that the doctor's causing or calling you to a 313 00:15:53,720 --> 00:15:56,000 repentance of consumption right there that that's what's 314 00:15:56,000 --> 00:16:00,720 happening and what the good news is is just like you can change a 315 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:05,040 diet and develop a good and healthy appetite, you your 316 00:16:05,040 --> 00:16:08,960 appetite can determine what you crave you think about the. 317 00:16:08,960 --> 00:16:14,280 Spiritual Diet. Of so many of the American 318 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:20,960 church or who we are, we consume all of these things that don't 319 00:16:20,960 --> 00:16:24,960 actually benefit our soul. Think about the first thing you 320 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:28,840 do when you wake out of bed. Your Your appetite is for. 321 00:16:29,040 --> 00:16:31,920 What's the latest news? What are the latest photos 322 00:16:31,920 --> 00:16:35,040 shared by my friends? What are what's the first thing 323 00:16:35,040 --> 00:16:37,480 in my e-mail box? And, and what we're doing is 324 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:40,080 we're actually cultivating an appetite not for God, but the 325 00:16:40,080 --> 00:16:43,560 things of this world. And you look at the the 326 00:16:43,560 --> 00:16:44,960 converse. Of that if you. 327 00:16:44,960 --> 00:16:47,840 Had an appetite for sleeping in and being lazy and you wanted to 328 00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:50,000 repent and change your physical appetite? 329 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:53,400 Wake up early in the morning, go to the gym and over time you'll 330 00:16:53,400 --> 00:16:56,960 actually start to crave working out and in the same. 331 00:16:56,960 --> 00:17:00,960 Way you. Can change your spiritual 332 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:06,319 appetite by repenting of how you just consume the world around 333 00:17:06,319 --> 00:17:10,160 you and spending time in the presence of God. 334 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:13,359 The danger? Of the way that. 335 00:17:13,520 --> 00:17:17,960 So many of us live our lives is that when you get so full in 336 00:17:17,960 --> 00:17:19,040 the. Ways of the World. 337 00:17:19,079 --> 00:17:22,280 There's no room left in your. Spiritual appetite for God. 338 00:17:22,800 --> 00:17:27,280 It says in Proverbs chapter 27, a person who is full refuses 339 00:17:27,280 --> 00:17:29,800 honey but even bitter. Food tastes. 340 00:17:29,800 --> 00:17:32,720 Sweet to the hungry Proverbs require you to think so. 341 00:17:32,720 --> 00:17:35,920 What is this proverbs saying? A person who is so. 342 00:17:35,920 --> 00:17:37,960 Full they've. Just got done feasting. 343 00:17:38,080 --> 00:17:41,000 Well, the the joy. Of the ancient diet was a little 344 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:43,200 something sweet with the honey and he's like, I'm so full I 345 00:17:43,200 --> 00:17:47,080 can't even take the best part. And yet he says when somebody's 346 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:49,640 hungry they can eat anything and be satisfied. 347 00:17:49,840 --> 00:17:52,480 They're so anything that you have for me, I'll take. 348 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:57,200 John Piper says if. You don't feel strong desires 349 00:17:57,200 --> 00:17:59,000 for the manifestation of the glory of God. 350 00:17:59,000 --> 00:18:02,080 It is not because you have drunk deeply and are satisfied. 351 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:04,800 It is. Because you have nibbled so long 352 00:18:04,800 --> 00:18:07,680 at the table. Of the world that you are too. 353 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:14,120 Full to hunger repentance is a call to change your spiritual 354 00:18:14,120 --> 00:18:17,400 diet and I have to say I feel. A little. 355 00:18:17,400 --> 00:18:20,160 Bit like a doctor in a waiting room, a preacher calling a 356 00:18:20,160 --> 00:18:23,440 sanctuary of believers to repent is a little bit like a doctor 357 00:18:23,440 --> 00:18:25,640 coming into the waiting room and saying, you know, you really 358 00:18:25,640 --> 00:18:28,560 should focus more on God and and less on the things of this 359 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:29,680 world. And then you'll leave here and 360 00:18:29,680 --> 00:18:31,240 you'll think maybe I'll do that, maybe I won't. 361 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:35,760 And just like someone who takes. The advice of a doctor. 362 00:18:37,120 --> 00:18:39,120 They'll have some health benefits, but if they don't, 363 00:18:39,120 --> 00:18:41,280 they're going to continue to go down the road until they get 364 00:18:41,600 --> 00:18:45,880 scared straight and so often times repentance in this way. 365 00:18:45,880 --> 00:18:49,880 Requires you to be so. Full and so. 366 00:18:49,880 --> 00:18:51,640 Sick of the diet of the world that you're? 367 00:18:51,640 --> 00:18:53,240 Willing to actually make a change. 368 00:18:53,240 --> 00:18:57,200 You know, some of this is this is a warning like repent now or 369 00:18:57,200 --> 00:19:00,400 repent. Later, there's actually a great. 370 00:19:00,840 --> 00:19:03,720 Parable in the Bible. To give us a. 371 00:19:03,720 --> 00:19:06,840 Picture of someone who. Was so sick of the diet of the 372 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:10,480 world they were. So sick of consuming. 373 00:19:11,160 --> 00:19:14,400 The worldly appetite. That they actually decided to 374 00:19:14,400 --> 00:19:17,040 make a change. We often think of this parable. 375 00:19:17,800 --> 00:19:19,920 Or or call this parable the parable of the. 376 00:19:19,920 --> 00:19:22,160 Prodigal son, but think. About it. 377 00:19:22,160 --> 00:19:24,360 It could easily be called the parable. 378 00:19:24,600 --> 00:19:29,160 Of the hungry sun, you think? About what he did he he left. 379 00:19:29,160 --> 00:19:31,080 The goodness of his. Father's house. 380 00:19:31,600 --> 00:19:34,320 And he went to consume the world. 381 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:36,600 He took all of his money and he spent it. 382 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:38,720 He took it in. He was feasting. 383 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:40,560 He was enjoying the pleasures of the world. 384 00:19:40,680 --> 00:19:42,320 He did. Whatever he wanted. 385 00:19:42,320 --> 00:19:44,960 With the. Offering of the world and what 386 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:47,240 happened. That diet? 387 00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:51,880 Was so unfulfilling that he came to the end of himself, in fact, 388 00:19:52,000 --> 00:19:54,280 God. Used the. 389 00:19:54,520 --> 00:19:58,200 A famine and gave him physical hunger to point out his 390 00:19:58,200 --> 00:20:01,560 spiritual hunger look what it says in verse 14 of Luke chapter 391 00:20:01,560 --> 00:20:04,000 15 says, but when he had spent all. 392 00:20:04,000 --> 00:20:06,600 There arose a severe. Famine in the land, and he began 393 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:10,360 to be in want. Then he went and joined himself 394 00:20:10,360 --> 00:20:13,440 to a citizen of that country, and he sent him into his fields 395 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:15,200 to feed swine. And he would have. 396 00:20:15,200 --> 00:20:17,600 Gladly have filled his. Stomach with the. 397 00:20:17,600 --> 00:20:20,560 Pods that the. Swine ate, but nobody gave him 398 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:22,560 anything. He was so. 399 00:20:22,800 --> 00:20:25,280 Hungry that he was willing to eat. 400 00:20:25,280 --> 00:20:28,600 Pig food. Especially scandalous for a a a 401 00:20:28,600 --> 00:20:32,240 Jewish person. And he was such in want that he 402 00:20:32,240 --> 00:20:36,120 finally came to his senses, says in verse 17. 403 00:20:36,120 --> 00:20:38,160 But when he came. To himself, he said. 404 00:20:38,440 --> 00:20:41,560 How many of my father's hired servants have bread enough and 405 00:20:41,560 --> 00:20:44,160 to spare, and I'm going to perish in hunger? 406 00:20:45,040 --> 00:20:47,440 And so this is what this is. Here's a prophetic. 407 00:20:47,440 --> 00:20:50,120 Word some of. You come to church and you're. 408 00:20:50,160 --> 00:20:53,040 Full your diet is. Not the things of God. 409 00:20:53,040 --> 00:20:55,840 It is not a desire to know God's Word and His will. 410 00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:57,800 For your life. Your diet is all the things of 411 00:20:57,800 --> 00:20:59,360 the world. Here's what's going to happen. 412 00:20:59,360 --> 00:21:02,680 You are going to come to an end and you're going to be so sick 413 00:21:02,680 --> 00:21:05,720 of it and it's going to leave you in such one and you're going 414 00:21:05,720 --> 00:21:07,760 to remember. That there is a God. 415 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:11,560 Who loves you and he's good and you're dying of hunger and you 416 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:15,480 will have a new hunger. For God. 417 00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:18,560 That is the design of repentance. 418 00:21:18,560 --> 00:21:20,840 He comes back and what do we get at the end of the story? 419 00:21:21,360 --> 00:21:23,880 This guy who? Couldn't find even pig food. 420 00:21:24,400 --> 00:21:25,520 He gets a. Feast. 421 00:21:26,360 --> 00:21:28,720 This is the Gospel. That you can be. 422 00:21:28,720 --> 00:21:30,800 So. Empty. 423 00:21:30,920 --> 00:21:34,040 You can be so. Broken by consuming the ways. 424 00:21:34,040 --> 00:21:36,280 Of the world. That you find yourself in a 425 00:21:36,280 --> 00:21:39,480 famished land, you find yourself in want, and you come to God and 426 00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:41,920 He. Said here is the actual. 427 00:21:42,000 --> 00:21:45,560 Blessing of your hunger. I will fill you. 428 00:21:46,360 --> 00:21:49,800 What a blessing it is to repent and come to God now. 429 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:51,520 I hope that none of you will come to. 430 00:21:51,520 --> 00:21:53,880 That that place where you're that. 431 00:21:53,880 --> 00:21:56,760 Far from God, all of us continually can say why am I 432 00:21:56,760 --> 00:22:00,720 eating this when I have? The joy of God's will to. 433 00:22:00,720 --> 00:22:04,960 Sustain and comfort my life. Repentance will bring a new 434 00:22:04,960 --> 00:22:06,320 hunger for your life. For God. 435 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:12,160 So will redemption. You know, repentance, real 436 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:14,480 repentance can be marked by two things. 437 00:22:16,720 --> 00:22:20,720 A unsustain, an unsustainable desire for God. 438 00:22:20,720 --> 00:22:23,320 I'm repenting. I just want God and a redemption 439 00:22:23,320 --> 00:22:26,880 in your life. When you fully turn away from 440 00:22:26,880 --> 00:22:29,320 the ways of the world, you will find the. 441 00:22:29,320 --> 00:22:32,840 Grace of God is. More vast and deeper than your 442 00:22:32,840 --> 00:22:34,840 sin. And there will be a moment of 443 00:22:34,840 --> 00:22:36,920 redemption. You can think back to the joy of 444 00:22:36,920 --> 00:22:39,120 your salvation for those of you who've experienced that. 445 00:22:39,680 --> 00:22:41,920 You can think back to anytime you repented and came back to 446 00:22:41,920 --> 00:22:43,760 the Lord. There is this beautiful time 447 00:22:43,760 --> 00:22:47,760 when the Lord redeems the things that were lost in first Peter, 448 00:22:47,760 --> 00:22:52,360 it says, as newborn babes desire pure milk of the. 449 00:22:52,360 --> 00:22:55,160 Word. That you may grow thereby. 450 00:22:56,240 --> 00:22:58,960 You know when you see people come into the Kingdom with a 451 00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:02,440 hunger? For God, it's a gift to all of 452 00:23:02,440 --> 00:23:04,720 us to. Be reminded of what it's like. 453 00:23:05,120 --> 00:23:08,120 To just. Desire the goodness of God in 454 00:23:08,120 --> 00:23:09,800 your life. And you kind of see it in the 455 00:23:09,800 --> 00:23:12,120 metaphor, the analogy. Is there anything hungrier than 456 00:23:12,120 --> 00:23:14,200 a newborn baby? You know the the. 457 00:23:14,200 --> 00:23:17,160 Baby's first cry is like. Feed me. 458 00:23:17,640 --> 00:23:20,200 And then, you know, then they cry all the time. 459 00:23:20,200 --> 00:23:22,440 And the answer is typically they're hungry. 460 00:23:22,560 --> 00:23:24,600 They're either they've either got a mess on their hands or 461 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:25,920 they're hungry. And that's kind of true of 462 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:28,840 newborns or new believers. It's like, listen, they just 463 00:23:28,840 --> 00:23:31,400 want to be fed. And again, pastoring. 464 00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:34,760 There's such a sweet moment when a new believer comes into the 465 00:23:34,760 --> 00:23:38,840 church and they just want everything in those in those 466 00:23:38,840 --> 00:23:41,160 moments. Announcements do not have to be 467 00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:43,680 eloquent or clever. I I love seeing the the new 468 00:23:43,680 --> 00:23:45,400 people that are new in the Lord and they just like study the 469 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:46,640 bulletin. How can I get involved? 470 00:23:47,000 --> 00:23:49,160 How can I jump in? How can I learn more? 471 00:23:49,480 --> 00:23:53,800 How can I understand more Disciple me when when you go 472 00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:55,720 through a season of redemption in your life. 473 00:23:55,720 --> 00:24:00,840 There is a. Brand new hunger and focus on 474 00:24:00,840 --> 00:24:05,080 God's nourishment through His Word and His will. 475 00:24:05,080 --> 00:24:08,560 For your life. So you have this moment of 476 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:11,880 repentance, you have the moment of redemption and, and some of 477 00:24:11,880 --> 00:24:14,880 your you can look at back in both of those examples and think 478 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:18,160 I remember that hunger. I remember when I was repenting, 479 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:19,680 I just wanted God's will for my life. 480 00:24:19,680 --> 00:24:22,280 I remember when I was coming into the Kingdom, I just wanted 481 00:24:22,280 --> 00:24:28,160 more of God and for all of. Us that third part. 482 00:24:28,720 --> 00:24:30,560 Applies to every single one of us. 483 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:35,800 To live with radical faiths faith is to have a. 484 00:24:35,800 --> 00:24:38,960 Total dependency and a hunger on the will. 485 00:24:38,960 --> 00:24:43,000 Of God for your life. Martin Lloyd Jones says the 486 00:24:43,000 --> 00:24:46,000 inevitable and constant preliminary to revival has 487 00:24:46,000 --> 00:24:49,320 always been a. Thirst for God a. 488 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:53,960 Living thirst for a knowledge of the living God and a hunger for. 489 00:24:54,040 --> 00:24:58,280 The will of God. In one moment. 490 00:24:58,280 --> 00:25:00,800 Jesus, the series, The way of Jesus. 491 00:25:00,800 --> 00:25:02,400 We look at Jesus for all of this. 492 00:25:04,040 --> 00:25:10,640 And Jesus did not come feasting. Jesus came and he said in a 493 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:13,480 moment of great hunger for his day of ministry, ministering to 494 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:15,120 the woman of the well, John chapter 4. 495 00:25:15,280 --> 00:25:18,640 He's just spending time with a woman, preaching the gospel, 496 00:25:19,040 --> 00:25:22,120 sharing with her the plan for the Messiah to bring salvation 497 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:24,960 and his disciples to come. Haze you, you got to get some 498 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:25,960 food. And what does he say? 499 00:25:26,840 --> 00:25:30,080 He says my food. Is to do the. 500 00:25:30,080 --> 00:25:33,120 Will of him who sent me and to finish his work. 501 00:25:34,120 --> 00:25:36,360 If you. Hear this message and you say 502 00:25:36,360 --> 00:25:37,120 you. Know I would. 503 00:25:37,120 --> 00:25:40,240 Love a hunger? For God, the fastest. 504 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:43,640 Way that you can be. Revived is to say Lord. 505 00:25:43,640 --> 00:25:46,800 I want to step out in faith and I want to do something that 506 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:49,120 you've called me to do. I want to live within the. 507 00:25:49,280 --> 00:25:51,360 The perfect. Will that you have for my life 508 00:25:51,360 --> 00:25:54,600 in such a way that I'm desperate for you. 509 00:25:54,960 --> 00:25:57,640 That I I if I have to pray because. 510 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:02,080 I need you to be my provision. I think one of the challenges 511 00:26:02,080 --> 00:26:05,520 for this whole message is that we live in a culture that has 512 00:26:05,520 --> 00:26:07,880 completely eradicated hunger for the most part. 513 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:11,760 And it's not just physical hunger we've eradicated we've. 514 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:16,520 Also eradicated. The dependency on God, so much 515 00:26:16,520 --> 00:26:18,760 of us. Have lives that if. 516 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:21,320 You remove the Holy Spirit, you remove the Word from your life. 517 00:26:21,480 --> 00:26:24,880 Your life would go on. Without a without. 518 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:30,320 Missing a beat and the answer to some of this is to say, God, am 519 00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:33,840 I actually living my life with enough faith? 520 00:26:34,120 --> 00:26:39,480 To say I need you every day. I need your presence to fill me 521 00:26:39,480 --> 00:26:41,440 with joy. I need your word to be a lamp 522 00:26:41,440 --> 00:26:43,600 unto my feet. I need your people to be my 523 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:46,480 community. Do you need? 524 00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:48,720 God. And I'll tell you this if you're 525 00:26:48,720 --> 00:26:51,120 living in the will of. God. 526 00:26:53,400 --> 00:26:58,960 Just thinking about the sermon series we're in, you will need 527 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:00,440 him. Because the ways of the. 528 00:27:00,440 --> 00:27:03,520 World will no longer make sense because. 529 00:27:03,520 --> 00:27:06,200 The the the. Default plan for how to find 530 00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:09,480 blessing and how to map out your life will no longer be the 531 00:27:09,480 --> 00:27:11,640 default plan for your life you will need. 532 00:27:11,720 --> 00:27:15,280 God to give you. Wisdom and insight and 533 00:27:15,280 --> 00:27:17,600 encouragement live in the will. Of God. 534 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:20,840 And you will be hungry for the provision of God. 535 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:28,240 So we have blessed with hope. And we have this, this blessing 536 00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:30,160 that comes with hunger. For God. 537 00:27:31,000 --> 00:27:34,000 And finally, it's the encouragement of this entire 538 00:27:34,000 --> 00:27:37,240 sermon series. Is that you are also blessed. 539 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:39,960 With satisfaction, look what he says the. 540 00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:47,760 Hunger shall be filled. And this is maybe understated in 541 00:27:47,760 --> 00:27:49,760 the times that we live in when the message. 542 00:27:49,760 --> 00:27:52,440 Of the gospel goes out. So much of this is a. 543 00:27:52,760 --> 00:27:54,760 A look. To the future, when God sets all 544 00:27:54,760 --> 00:27:57,800 in in into order and and when we're all into heaven and 545 00:27:57,800 --> 00:28:00,480 eternity makes sense and he's wiped away every tear from our 546 00:28:00,480 --> 00:28:02,600 eyes, of course we're going to have satisfaction then. 547 00:28:02,840 --> 00:28:06,600 But here's the the the great joy and the secret of following 548 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:11,360 Jesus. Those who follow Jesus, those 549 00:28:11,360 --> 00:28:13,560 who have a. Hunger for the will of God in 550 00:28:13,560 --> 00:28:17,080 their life. Have a deep and meaningful 551 00:28:17,080 --> 00:28:21,040 satisfaction in their life, the psalmist says. 552 00:28:21,040 --> 00:28:24,800 For God satisfies the. Longing of the soul. 553 00:28:24,800 --> 00:28:28,560 And fills the hungry soul with goodness. 554 00:28:29,360 --> 00:28:32,680 Jesus is inviting everyone in his to his Kingdom and he's 555 00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:35,600 promising them. He says, listen, this is all 556 00:28:35,600 --> 00:28:38,240 going to be upside down. It's going to be different than 557 00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,160 the ways of the world, but it's going to be blessed. 558 00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:43,440 The poor will be blessed. The hungry will be blessed. 559 00:28:43,560 --> 00:28:46,400 The morning will be blessed. Those who are persecuted. 560 00:28:46,400 --> 00:28:47,840 Will be blessed. The the the. 561 00:28:47,840 --> 00:28:52,560 Promise of your hunger for God. Is that if you really live out. 562 00:28:52,920 --> 00:28:56,000 Those ways to be hungry if you really did repent, if you 563 00:28:56,000 --> 00:28:57,080 really. Did say God? 564 00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:59,520 Renew me, redeem me. And you really said I want to 565 00:28:59,520 --> 00:29:01,680 live in your will. Here's the promise you'll be 566 00:29:01,680 --> 00:29:05,440 filled. Your life will be full. 567 00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:09,360 Of goodness and isn't that. The. 568 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:12,200 Biggest question for everyone on the fence with the will of God. 569 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:16,120 Isn't that the the fundamental? Fear that that people. 570 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:19,560 Have in in giving their life to God the fundamental fear. 571 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,200 Goes all the way back to the garden, are we so? 572 00:29:22,200 --> 00:29:24,400 Certain that living. God's will is. 573 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:28,080 Going to be good Did God really say that you shouldn't even 574 00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:31,640 Maybe it would be better if you didn't listen to him, every one 575 00:29:31,640 --> 00:29:34,720 of you, every one of. Us our biggest. 576 00:29:34,720 --> 00:29:37,760 Struggle in life is to. Wrestle with whether. 577 00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:39,440 Or not we. Really believe. 578 00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:44,000 Following God and His plan for our life in the ways that it 579 00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:45,920 makes no sense. Is. 580 00:29:45,920 --> 00:29:48,800 Actually going to be good at the. 581 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:51,240 Core of all your. Wrestling whether or not you 582 00:29:51,240 --> 00:29:53,560 should read the word in the morning or scroll on your phone 583 00:29:54,200 --> 00:29:57,440 whether or not you should. Trust God with all of your. 584 00:29:57,440 --> 00:29:59,560 Wishes and dreams or whether you should work hard and provide. 585 00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:01,800 For yourself at the core of all of it there. 586 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:06,400 Is a question of whether or not. You will actually be cared for. 587 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:07,600 And your. Soul will be. 588 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:11,200 Overflowing with goodness in the perfect plan of God. 589 00:30:11,200 --> 00:30:14,400 For your life. And Jesus says, listen, think 590 00:30:14,400 --> 00:30:15,800 about those times you were hungry. 591 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:21,720 If your parents know how to take care of you, how much more will. 592 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:25,520 God. And the antithesis is true. 593 00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:27,880 Some of you need to learn this from just the way your life is 594 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:29,840 unfolding outside the will of. God. 595 00:30:30,880 --> 00:30:33,120 You're hungry for God and you're going to be full and your life 596 00:30:33,120 --> 00:30:34,680 will be abundant and you will be cared for. 597 00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:37,840 And think about all the things we do apart from God and ask 598 00:30:37,840 --> 00:30:39,200 yourself this fundamental question. 599 00:30:39,560 --> 00:30:42,960 Am I really satisfied? Think about all. 600 00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:44,840 The ways people reject. The will of God. 601 00:30:44,840 --> 00:30:47,320 And they look at us, believers who are following Jesus in this 602 00:30:47,320 --> 00:30:49,200 narrow way and they're way. They laugh at us. 603 00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:51,880 They think we wear a spiritual straitjacket. 604 00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,760 We're we're bound by this. These weird ways that Jesus 605 00:30:54,760 --> 00:30:58,680 tells us to live. The question for life is, can 606 00:30:58,680 --> 00:31:01,720 you be? Satisfied outside of God. 607 00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:04,760 Then you'll wrestle with it, with your spiritual. 608 00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:11,560 Appetite and Jesus says those who hunger and thirst for 609 00:31:11,560 --> 00:31:15,880 righteousness found only in. Christ, those who? 610 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:19,280 Hunger and thirst for. God are the. 611 00:31:19,520 --> 00:31:22,760 Only ones. Who will be satisfied? 612 00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:27,320 And So what would it look? Like if we. 613 00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:29,960 Reoriented our our life. To look. 614 00:31:29,960 --> 00:31:34,120 A little bit different and I just can't help but thinking 615 00:31:34,120 --> 00:31:36,400 there are some here right now if you just. 616 00:31:36,400 --> 00:31:42,760 Took a real survey of your life. Are you actually satisfied with 617 00:31:42,760 --> 00:31:45,240 what you're? Doing and here's the invitation. 618 00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:48,520 For those who are far off, for those who. 619 00:31:48,680 --> 00:31:50,480 Came to church ready to worship Jesus. 620 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:55,960 Here's the invitation. What would your life look like? 621 00:31:57,240 --> 00:32:00,520 If you change your diet. What would your life look like? 622 00:32:00,840 --> 00:32:04,480 If tomorrow morning when you woke up, you were determined to 623 00:32:04,480 --> 00:32:10,480 start your day with a hunger for God and the faith. 624 00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,040 That Jesus is. Calling his people to now is to 625 00:32:14,040 --> 00:32:16,320 say. If you give God. 626 00:32:16,640 --> 00:32:20,160 Your hunger, you let him satisfy the longings of your life. 627 00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:26,400 You will be blessed. Thanks for joining us today. 628 00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:29,440 If you would like to watch the full service, check out the link 629 00:32:29,440 --> 00:32:32,280 in the description. For next steps and to learn 630 00:32:32,280 --> 00:32:34,520 more, visit calvaryboise com.