Poor and Hungry

 N.T.# 515 "Poor and Hungry"

MARCH 26, 2025 

LUKE 6-PART 5

LET IT GLOW

Jesus was training His disciples, although others were around to hear. The Sermon on the Mount. Matthew 5-7 also records it. 

In the Greek language, blessed means happy.

Jesus is teaching about the principles of God's kingdom, the cost and benefit of discipleship:

1. Blessed be ye poor: for yours is the kingdom of God. (verse 20) Poverty can be in the literal sense, having nothing. Or it can be figurative describing one's attitude toward temporal wealth. Jesus became poor when He left the limitless wealth of heaven to become the son of a poor teenage girl; when He bypassed turning stones into oven-fresh loaves and feeding on the Word of God. We are blessed when we empty our hands of this world's wealth in order to cast our self on God's treasures.
2. Blessed are ye that hunger now: for ye shall be filled. (verse 21a) Fill means satisfy. While people seek inward satisfaction through physical, external means, God calls His disciples to seek spiritual satisfaction first. Figuratively, those who long for righteousness will be satisfied in time. Jesus promises delayed gratification for those who wait. (Swindoll)

LET IT GROW

We must see our spiritual poverty before we will trust God's provision for our need. Sometimes material poverty teaches us to depend on God entirely. Only God can meet our spiritual needs.  (Falwell)

Are we hungry for what God has to offer spiritually? When we become needy spiritually, He will fill us with forgiveness, love, joy, peace, patience, goodness, kindness-the fruit of the Spirit.

LET IT GO

Is pride standing in our way of trusting God with everything?

Only Jesus paid the price for me. Only His love can set us free. Nobody else could open heavens door. Just Jesus and nothing more.