Matthew 5, the Gospel of Matthew
5, the Lord is speaking to His disciples. You saw with me, it says He saw
the multitude. They went up into a mountain
and sat down. His disciples came to Him. He opened His mouth and
taught them. And what He was saying was to
His disciples, though everyone heard it, Yet the disciples then
and now are the only ones that hear and heed His Word. And Luke 6 is the Sermon on the
Mount and it says, He lifted up His eyes on His disciples
and said to them, blessed are you poor. If you look at verse
13, He says, You are the salt of the earth. You see that? He's talking to His disciples.
Not talking to everybody. Why do I emphasize this? Because the greatest error, one
of the greatest other than just pure error, is that men are applying
God's Word to everybody. Look at verse 14. You are the light of the world.
See that? That's God's people he's talking about. And he says
here, blessed are the poor in spirit. Theirs is the kingdom
of heaven. Blessed are they that mourn. They shall be comforted.
Blessed are the meek, they shall inherit the earth. Blessed, blessed
are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, they
shall be filled. And on and on it goes. It's not
they should be this way, but they are. You see, blessed are
all of God's people. All of God's people. There are
no exceptions. No, that they're poor. There's Psalms like Psalm
34, David said, this poor man cried and the Lord heard him
and blessed him. David was rich, earthly speaking,
materially speaking, but he said, I'm poor and needy. And all of
God's people are, they know, they're very poor, poor spiritually. We don't feel like we have any
holiness, any goodness, any righteousness, any faith, any strength, anything,
any love, Mercy, any of those things. And we mourn over that,
don't we? We mourn over our poverty, our
lack of these things. And it makes us meet. Whatever God sends our way, whether
good or bad, we take it. If it's bad, we think it's not
as bad as it could be. Right? Not what I deserve. And
one of the brethren always says that. I say, how are you doing?
He said, better than I deserve. It's true, isn't it? Whatever
God, that's meekness. And if He sends us something
good, oh, why me? Why is He so good to me? That's
meekness. Then we come to this hunger and
thirst for righteousness. Now, He said, blessed are they
that hunger and thirst. Now, the world, there's nobody
in this natural world that thinks it's a blessing to be poor or
a blessing to mourn. or a blessing to be meek. You
can't get anything being meek. You've got to be proud and loud
and proud and, you know, bold. No, no, no, no. Christ said they'll
inherit the earth to me. And you know what that means. It's a new earth. And hunger
and thirst, nobody thinks it's a blessing to be hungry and thirsty. But now you know what these things
mean, don't you? You're so blessed. Blessed are
your ears. They hear this. Blessed are your
eyes. They see what this means. Blessed is your heart. You receive
it. You feel it. You feel this. You have this. Now, and now listen. Christ was
all these things, wasn't He? Talking about the blessed man,
Psalm 1 begins with, blessed is the man. Well, who gets the
preeminence? Christ must have the preeminence,
even in poverty. He who was rich and weak, indescribably
rich, yet for our sakes became poor. Poor, mourn, he was a man
of sorrows acquainted with grief. We wouldn't choose to be sorrowful
if we could keep from it, wouldn't we? He did. Why? He bore our
griefs and our sorrows. Oh, what a blessed man. And we're
blessed because he became poor and grieving. He was heard for
his strong crying and tears. Meek? None more so. He didn't deserve
anything bad. He took it. Didn't he? He said, take my yoke upon you
and learn from me. I am meek and lowly. If there was one human being
that ever lived who could be proud, it would have been him.
But he wasn't. He endured such contradiction
of sinners against himself. He allowed them to spit in his
face, to charge him with all manner of things falsely. And
the last blessing is to be persecuted and take it. Oh, my. Oh, hungry and thirsty. He was
hungry. He said, my meat. He wasn't eating. They came to him and said, Lord,
eat something. They saw that he hadn't eaten anything in a
long time. Why? Because he knew something we
didn't know. He said, man doesn't live by
this bread. He said, I have meat to eat you
don't know what. What was his meat? To do God's will. To live righteously and honor
God. And the Lord was well pleased
for what? His righteousness. He hungered to do this righteousness. Why? He didn't have to prove
it himself, because we didn't have one. He's working this robe,
sister, isn't He? He's by hand, He's hand-sewing
this robe of righteousness to cover us in. Now, I've already
told you the whole story. That's okay. Thirst? Did He thirst when He crowned
the cross? Oh, there's more in those two
words of Christ hanging on the cross than we'll ever learn.
Eye thirst. Bearing the wrath, the judgment,
going through hell on Calvary's tree so we don't have to. He
said, eye thirst. And they didn't give him anything
to relieve that thirst. Vinegar made it worse. Oh, my. Merciful. Blessing of the merciful. Pure. Peacemaker. Who could all this
apply to more than our Lord Jesus Christ? He made peace. How? By the blood of His cross. Persecuted, what was His reward? Everything. So there you have it. Christ
is all. And we are blessed in that blessed
man. You see that? We are blessed
to know that all will be blessed in Him. Psalm 71, 72. We're blessed
in Him. Brother Edmondson preached from
there. I'll never forget that man. You remember that? All blessed
in Him. We're blessed to be found in
Christ. You know what that means, don't
you? And Christ in you. The hope of glory. To know that
Christ did all this for you, and the hunger and thirst that
the Holy Spirit will put Christ in you. That's what we long for,
isn't it? That's what we long for. Hunger
and thirst. Hunger and thirst. Turn with me to 1 Peter 1. 1
Peter chapter 1. Hunger and thirst are signs of
life. Signs of physical life and spiritual
life. Hunger and thirst. Our Lord said,
blessed, happy. or those that hunger and thirst.
You're a sign of physical life and spiritual life. When you're
born into this world, you're born of God. You know that? God, He said, I kill and I make
a life. People don't produce children,
God does. And they're born of a seed, aren't they? There's
a conception. Who does that? Wait, that's the scripture that
says that before I had any, my being, thou knewest all my substance,
though there wasn't yet none of it. That's Psalm 139? Yeah,
Psalm 139. It's an unborn child that God
already predestined them. Everything about them. Every
single human being. God gets the glory for all physical
life then. Especially spiritual life, predestined
to be what? Conformed to the image of Christ. But physical life begins with
the seed and the conception, and God purposed that. And then
there's a birth, and then the child comes forth. If it's alive,
it'll breathe, won't it? It'll breathe. And all this is
a picture, he said. But then it'll cry, won't it?
Why is it crying? Why does that baby cry as soon
as it comes out of the womb? Why is it crying? What does it
want? It's hungry. It's thirsty. What does it need? One thing. Milk. And oh, there's so much in mother's
milk, isn't there? I better say this right. Is it
colostrum? That's it. Yeah, that the woman
has in her milk. Somebody mispronounced it and
we never forget it. Anyway, it's a substance in a
mother's milk that helps in immunity and helps in the growth, that
they don't need anything for the first year. We knew a woman,
well Linda Stoniker, she nursed her children for three or four
years. Alright, look at 1 Peter 1. Spiritual
life is much the same way. We're born of God, the seed.
You're not born, but we're one way. The seed, the incorruptible
seed, which is the word of God, the gospel, which is Christ in
you. Look at 1 Peter. Nobody's saved apart from the
preaching of the gospel. Verse two, you're elect. This
is where Peter begins. Elect according to the foreknowledge
of God. Ephesians 1. Four knowledge of God, four knew.
God knew you like Adam knew his wife Eve. Through sanctification
the Spirit set apart to receive this seed. Under the obedience
to receive the obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus
Christ. All his elect received that.
Oh, grace is unto you, saving grace unto you, and peace by
the blood of His cross is multitude. Oh, blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, according to His abundant mercy, hath begotten
us again, born again, unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus
Christ from the dead. And it goes on. But look down
at verse 23, being born again. Not of corruptible seed, but
of incorruptible, by the Word of God, which liveth and abideth
forever. All flesh is grass. The glory of man is the flower
of the grass. The grass withers, the flower
fadeth, falleth away, but the Word of the Lord endureth forever. And this is the Word which by
the gospel is preached unto you. How were you born again? If I
were to ask you, are you born again? Are you saved? Are you
a child of God? How? What happened? And if you begin with I, you
begin all wrong. But if you say, the Lord revealed
Himself to me. Here's how Paul said it. He said,
He revealed Himself in me. Didn't he, John? When he pleased
God, who separated me from my mother's womb, and called me
by His grace to reveal His Son in me, not to me, in me. He put the Word in your heart,
and He gave you this new life, born of God. What happens? You still in 1 Peter? Look at
chapter 2, verse 2. As newborn babes desire the sincere
milk, There was a time you had no desire
for the Word of God. None. You hungered and thirsted
for everything but the Word of God. Right? You were like that
woman at the well. She was religious. Okay? She came to the well again, like
she'd done so many times, to get that same old worldly water,
that never would satisfy her. She'd gone through five relationships
and none of those satisfied her. But bless her heart. Blessed be God. God was waiting
on her. Waiting to be gracious. Sitting
on the well. She came to get water out of
the well. The water was sitting on the well. She brought a water
pot to get water out of that well. No, the vessel of mercy. The vessel with the water of
life in it was Christ Himself. And the first thing He did was
create a thirst in her. She never had that before. She
just kept looking. She was hungry and thirsty and
kept trying to find fulfillment and be filled up with all these
things and people and things, and it never fulfilled her. She
didn't know what she wanted, and Christ said, that's your
religion, but you don't know what you believe. Isn't it? You don't know what
you believe. He says salvation is of the Jews. Remember that?
We know what that means. And he revealed her sin to her.
And I'm sure she was ashamed when he brought to her attention
that, you know, she'd married five times, now living with a
fellow in sin. She was ashamed. Hanging her
head. But Christ didn't come there
to put her to shame. He came to put away her sin.
He came to reveal Himself to her. He came to give her a hunger
and a thirst for Him. She didn't know who or what she
needed. He did. And He revealed Himself to her. She said, well, I know this.
When Christ comes, He'll tell us all things. He said, I am. What'd she do? I love His. That's right, Tammy. You know
what she did? Dropped her water pot. I don't need that. It never has
satisfied me. And I'm just sure she went home
and dropped that feather. Or told him like she did everybody
else. You need to come see a man. He told me all about myself. I met the Christ. She blessed. She did. You must hear the Gospel. You
must hear His voice. He said, My sheep hear My voice.
You must. And the Lord must give ears to
hear and a heart to believe. Salvation is of the Lord. You're
born of God. You don't get born again. You're
born again by the Word of God. And you desire the sincere milk
of the Word. As I said, there was a time we
had no desire, no need, no cry. We were dead, but God gave you
this hunger and thirst. for righteousness. Now, as said, everyone hungers
and thirsts for something, someone. Paul one time said, he said,
I weep because so many their God is their belly. He said,
I say this weeping, that God is their belly. And so many try
to get fulfillment In religion, when they're only feeding, a
fang would fill their bellies like the product with husks.
When there's one thing, leave them. What is righteousness? He said, Blessed are they that
hunger and thirst after righteousness. What is righteousness? Well,
do you remember the answer of the wise owl? Someone, somewhere, at some time,
dubbed the owl wise. I guess because it can see at
night time, because it doesn't say much. Big eyes, it looks like it sees
and knows all. But I'll tell you why he's so
wise. If you'll ask him a question, he'll answer with one word. You
ask him, what is the meaning of life? Who? Where do we go to worship God? Who? I'm not making this up. God made
that creature, and man dubbed him wise, and he says one thing.
Who? What's the answer to life, peace,
joy? Where do we go? What do we do?
It's not what. It's not where. It's not how.
It's who. Who? That's wisdom. He's made unto us wisdom, isn't
it? He's the answer to everything.
The answer you know. You know the answer to what righteousness
is. It's not a what. It's a who.
It's not even a doctrine. You can know this doctrine. I
knew this doctrine. I believed this doctrine. And
I didn't know Christ. I didn't need Christ. But blessed
are they that hunger and thirst for Him. He is our righteousness. Do you understand that? A big
difference. Every child of God hungers and
thirsts for Christ. The righteousness of God, our
righteousness, is a person. A person, yes, and a principle.
A principle means something ruling within, a ruling power within. Well, that's Christ, isn't it?
That's the Spirit of Christ. If you have the person, you have
the principle. As some people that seem to hunger
and thirst after being good and moral and all that, well, you
must have the righteousness of Christ to be complete, mustn't
you? To be truly righteous by God,
not your own. So blessed are they that hunger
and thirst for righteousness. Brother David and I were talking,
David Edmondson and I were talking today, And I was bemoaning the
fact that it's hard to preach this. We want to preach it not as doctrine,
but we want it to touch the heart. As I said, there's many that
will, you know, agree to righteousness imputed, It's a person that we
need. The hunger and thirst for righteousness
is the hunger and thirst after Christ, he said. And we're going
to see that in John 6 in a minute. But David said it like this. Here it is. Listen to this. Turn with me because you need
to know where this scripture is. David sums it all up right
here in Psalm 17. Psalm 17. You know, David was
a man after God's own heart. How many times did he say, My
soul thirsteth for whom? For what? For Thee. Like the heart panteth
after the water brook, so thirsteth my soul for Thee, my living God.
When shall I come and appear before Thee? Thirst is after
thee in a dry and thirsty land where no water is. David was
a man after God's own heart. He had a heart. He wanted to
know God, to know Christ. Psalm 17, verse 15. This sums it up. As for me, I
will behold thy face in righteousness. be in God's heaven, our new earth,
except that we're perfectly righteous, holy as God. You say, that's
too strict. God said it. And it's essential. What happened to this world when
one sin entered? All hell broke loose. One sin. There's no end to it. It's just
a world full of iniquity, a cesspool of iniquity. Well, God has purposed
a land, a new heaven, a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousness. And this righteousness is not
man's. Adam and Eve had a righteousness.
They lost it. It failed. But now we get the righteousness
of another, the second Adam. Are you with me? Do you understand?
That this is substitution is what this is. It's the person. Our standing is not I believe
in purity of righteousness. No, our standing is Christ is
my righteousness. But look at it. As for me, I
will behold thy face in righteousness. David wrote Psalms like Have
mercy on me, O God, according to Thy lovingkindness. Blot out
my sin. Wash me through them. David, how are you going to behold
His face in righteousness? Well, we just read it, didn't
we, in Psalm 85? Mercy and truth met together. and purposed this great covenant
of salvation for a person to come down, for righteousness
to come down from heaven. A doctrine come down from heaven?
No, a person. And righteousness and peace kissed
each other. How can God, who is holy and
righteous, have anything kiss a filthy sinner? Do you remember
the story of Jacob? and his mother telling him that
he must be the older brother to receive the blessing? Well,
how? He's got to feel like Him. He's got to smell like Him. He's
got to have that savory meat that the Father loved, or he'll
be found out. Well, that's what the Holy Spirit
teaches all of you. All! There are no exceptions
to this. You say, what if a person doesn't
know this? Well, they'll find out. And when they find out,
they'll bow, they'll believe, they'll love this, they'll just
take... We're going to look at Philippians
2 and 3 in a minute. But David said, this is how I'm
going to behold God's faith, in righteousness. And I'll be
satisfied. And not until then. I'm so unsatisfied
with myself. I'm poor and needy and rotten
to the core. But I want to awake with His
likeness. His righteousness. I want to
be just like Him. And isn't that what 1 Corinthians
13 says? We're going to see Him as He
is and we're going to be like Him. Just like Him. Righteous. And there's no possibility
of us falling ever. Because it's not our righteousness.
It's His. You know, I'm speaking things
too wonderful for me. But you understand, at least
in part. But that's it. We sang this song. Dressed in
His righteousness alone, faultless to stand before the throne. There it is. And you know this story. You've heard this so many times.
In the garden. And you know, I got to be careful
about saying this, but I really believe that Adam and Eve had
a free will. Only human beings that had free
will ever. Created with free will. What
happened? They had the will to choose between
good and evil. What did they choose? People. And then man lost that
ability to choose. Now he's only evil continually. Isn't that what it says? The
Lord looked down at Genesis 6. Genesis 6, He said, the imagination
of his thoughts are only evil continually. What was people's hope back in
Noah's day? Noah. Noah was a type of Christ. I kind of want to preach on that
real soon. I've been thinking about it. I've been thinking
about seven clean animals. You understand the significance
of seven? Seven clean animals. I'll go
ahead and tell you. Six lived. One died. Anyway, back in the garden, Satan
deceived the woman. Didn't you? False religion is
called what? A woman. A harlot. Flesh. Flesh trade. Sells flesh. And flesh eats it up. Well, they
had God. That's all they needed. Didn't
even have clothes. Didn't need them. They just ate. That wasn't the life of their
life, food. They ate it for enjoyment. And when they sinned against
God, they lost everything. Righteousness. They lost their
minds. They lost holiness. They lost
the knowledge of God. Tried to hide from God. Can you
imagine how foolish? Tried to cover themselves. Remember,
what was the first thing? They realized they were naked.
So what did they do? They went to a fig tree. Of all things. There was one
thing our Lord cursed on this earth. One object on earth He
cursed when He was here. What was it? A fig tree. But Adam and Eve got, and they
sowed them some fig leaves together. Now as soon as you pluck a leaf,
what is it? Dead. How long is it going to last?
It's going to dry up. And it won't cover. Well, they
tried to cover themselves, okay? Cover themselves. From the eye
of God? And you know, you know this.
You know how few people know this? But that's a picture of
people trying to make their own righteousness, their own covering
to do anything. Sewing together a neat little
robe or covering, you know, look God what I've done. Look, I've
done this, I've done that, I've been faithful to it. Like that,
I read, told you about that Olympic swimmer or diver that failed
and she couldn't understand why God didn't bless her because
she'd served Him so faithfully all these years. See, that's a righteousness that
she had worked up to please God. See, Lord, what I'm doing? Why
did Jesus Christ come here? If God can be appeased and if
we can cover our sin, atone for our sin, and God be well pleased
with what we've done, then why did Jesus Christ come? He didn't
need to. If righteousness come that way, Christ didn't need
to come here and sure didn't need to die. All right? So they tried to cover
themselves. What foolish, foolish sinners. Paul wept. in Romans 10, saying
there's some people that are moral, they're zealous, they're
religious, they're sincere. I know they are. I know them.
I've observed them. I just like them. They're moral,
they're sincere, and they're outwardly pious and devoted,
and nobody can find any fault with them. They have an outward
righteousness of the law. Blameless. Nobody can find any
blame. They're zealous. They go out
and win souls for Jesus. He said they are ignorant of
God's righteousness and they're going about to establish their
own as fig leaves. And it won't cover. And he said, Christ is the end
of the law for righteousness to everyone that believes. And
what did our Lord Jesus Christ do to those first sinners when
He came walking in the garden? Bless His holy name. He should
have just wiped them both out right there. You ungrateful,
good for nothing sinners. Look at what I've done for you.
You don't deserve to live. Get out of here. I'm going to
create a new race. No. He's merciful. He's gracious. And He came walking in the garden
and He told them, somebody's coming to undo what you've done. And He showed them what He was
saying. A woman's seed of virgin born. And He showed them by taking
an innocent lamb, sinless, innocent victim, lamb, spotless, without
blemish, and cut his throat right in front of their face. They'd
never seen blood before, and they saw blood. And all that
blood flowed out of that lamb. How do you know it was a lamb?
Oh, I know it was a lamb. And then he began to disrobe
that lamb, skin it. Don't you know they watched in
horror? What's he doing? Why did that poor thing have
to die? Because the soul that sinneth
must surely die. I told you, the day you die,
you shall die. The only way you're going to
live is a substitute. And you can't cover your sin,
you can't atone for what you've done by anything you do, anything
you sew together, anything you work up, it won't work. before
they all see an eye of God. Here's the only thing that will
cover. And He took that skin. He stripped that lamb naked. And He took that skin and wrapped
both of them up in it. And now they're covered. What
is that? Out of what? Who? Christ. Why was Christ stripped
on the cross? Because He was made a curse.
He was made sin when He was made our substitute. Behold, the Lamb
of God taketh away the sin of the world. Not just Jew, but
Gentile. And makes them righteous. He was made sin for us who knew
no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.
How's that? The righteousness that He worked
at. The one that He worked at with
His own hand. Pure hands. The people in heaven are dressed
in a robe. Everybody in heaven is wearing
a robe. It's called the marriage, the wedding garments. Our Lord
told this story of a marriage, a king making a marriage, and
everybody there was dressed in a wedding garment provided by
the king. He just didn't come any old way. Some of you ladies had probably
had real elaborate weddings, maybe not, but you had bridesmaids,
didn't you? And did you say, well, just wear
anything you want. Wear a blue jean. Oh, no, it's
too great an event for that. You're not just going to dress
any old way. You're going to dress in a manner that pleases
the one who's holding the wedding. And you provide it. You buy it.
You don't tell them, well, buy whatever you want. Somebody will
come in and no telling how they come in. It brings shame on the
whole thing. Like people do in worship. But
anyway, you bought it, you provided it, and they all dressed alike.
Don't they? Well, everybody in heaven is
wearing a winning garment that Christ wrought. That's Psalm
45. The king's daughters brought
in in glorious apparel. And it says in Revelation 19,
they're wearing white robes, fine linen, clean and white,
and it's the righteousness of saints. What's that? And a man came into that wedding.
Our Lord told it. A man came into that wedding
and said, and he wasn't wearing that wedding garment. He had
something he had sowed at home. And he liked it. Like Cain. Like
Cain bought his works. God didn't like it. And man was
real proud of it. He thought God would like it.
No, he cast him out. Because you're stealing from
the glory of His Son who made this righteousness. And there's
only one that God will accept. You understand that. You know
how blessed you are. This is what it means. And I
close with this. Philippians 3. Go over there
with me. I close. I was going to read
John 6. I still might. Let me just tell you what our
Lord said in John 6. He said, He said, except you
eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have
no life in you. He said, whoso eateth my flesh,
and you eat because you're hungry, don't you? You drink because
you're thirsty, don't you? Blessed are they that hunger
and thirst. He said, whoso eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood
hath eternal life. I will raise him up at the last
day. My flesh is meat and deeds. My blood is drink and deeds.
You know what that means, don't you? Who? You know what that
means. That means to hunger and thirst
for the gospel of Christ. God's people hunger and thirst
for one thing. The gospel of the Lord Jesus
Christ. That's what they feed on. That's what gives them, that's
what fills them. They don't need fleshly religion.
They don't need all this flesh. Flesh needs flesh. Spirit needs
the Gospel. And we hunger and thirst. And
you get a taste of God's sovereign grace and mercy and the Gospel
of the Lord Jesus Christ, you don't want anything else served
up. Well, in John 6, some people
said, this is hard, this is too hard, it's too narrow. He said,
and they left and walked no more with her. And he said to Simon
Peter and his disciples, will you go away? Simon Peter was a blessed man.
Why was he blessed? How did they know this? He chose
him. Christ chose him. This is why.
Or he'd have left too. Will you go away? Simon Peter
said, to whom? Not to what or where, to whom? Thou hast the words of life.
We live on you. We hang our being, our souls,
our families, everything depends on you. In fact, we've left everybody
for you. That's hunger and thirst for
Christ. And he said, we believe, no,
we're sure, that Christ, the Son of the living God, and our
Lord answered and said, have not I chosen you twelve? They
that are with Him are called, chosen, and faithful. Full of
faith. One thing. Philippians 3, here's what Paul
said. He said, I was moral. I was religious. I thought I was righteous. Verse
6, concerning zeal, touching the righteousness of the law,
I was blameless. Oh, he said all of that was worthless. Verse
8, he called it dung. What is dung? You know what dung
is. He said, oh, that's all dung. You know what God's people call
their righteousness that they used to have, that they thought
they had? Isaiah 64, 6? Filthy rags. You know what that
filthy rag means? I'm going to go ahead and say
it. Minstrel's cloths. That's what they esteem their
righteousness as. They really do. And Paul said,
I want to win Christ. Not heaven, I want to win Christ.
And be found in Him, not having mine own righteousness, which
is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ. That's not a misprint. The essence of the gospel is
in a two-letter word, of. It's not your faith in Christ.
It's His faithfulness for you. To do what He did for you to
God. Offer Himself to God for you. The righteousness which is of
God. Oh, I want to know Him. That's what it means to hunger
and thirst. And you know what the promise is? They'll be filled.
Does the Gospel fill you? I didn't know how this was going
to come across. I really asked Mindy. I threw
away 15 pages of notes. Just kept working on it for two
days. And I just thought, I don't want it to be a doctrine. I don't
want it to be dead. I don't want it to be dry. I
want it to be person. I want us to hunger and thirst,
and I want us to live filled with His righteousness, filled
with joy, filled with comfort, filled with amazement, filled
with praise and thanksgiving and honor to Him for doing that. You're filled. How are you filled? There's only one thing that fulfills.
Where did God put all fullness? Where did God put all fullness?
Who? In Him dwelleth all the fullness. It pleased God that in Him should
all fullness dwell. You're not going to be fulfilled.
You're not going to be satisfied. Nothing in this life, no one
and nothing is going to give you any lasting satisfaction
but Jesus Christ. Okay, stand with me.