Blessed are those who hunger for righteousness
David Matthew
In the fourth Beatitude of the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus said “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they will be filled”. In practice, what does this mean for us? The search for righteousness takes place at both a personal and a societal level - and it is the duty of each disciple to make the search for righteousness and justice (both drawn from the same Greek word in the New Testament) central to their life.
(Please note that there is a very short interruption in flow of the audio after about 40 minutes - very little dialogue is lost. It was due to the message having to be recovered from an audio cassette back up. Please forgive us if this causes you any difficulty in listening to the message - at that point David was making a brief comment that some teachers have, on occasion, proclaimed a doctrine that sinless perfection is a practical possibility for the disciple.)
