The Grenada sentinel., 1903-01-17
TIE HUNGRY SOUL.
It Travels the Road of the Blessed
in Christ's Kingdom.
And Has the Comfort of the Promise
That lit Shall he Filled-Ser-
mon by the "Hixhvvay and
Byway" Preacher.
rCopyrlght, 1903. by A. N. Kellogg News
paper Co.


Chicago. January IL 1906
Text: blessed are they which do hun
ger and thirst after righteousness, for they
shall be filed Matt. $50.
The hungry soul is one of the char
acters met with in the Kingdom Of
Jesus Christ. And because it is a hun
cry soul it is plainly and self-evident-
ly live soul, a healthy soul and a
growing soul. A dead body never
yet hungered and thirsted, and a dead
soul is as insensible to desire for the
righteousness of God as is the dead
body to the tempting viands placed
at it's side. Jesus declares: BLESSED
are they which do hunger and thirst
after righteousness, for they shall be
filed For thirty years the Son of God
had walked the pathway of the
blessed. In Him was found the per-
feet expression Of David's outpoured
heart: "Oh. how love l Thy law
(righteousrcss), it is my meditation
all the day" In the humble home at
Nazareth during his boyhood as He
learned at His parents knees; in the
first journey to Jerusalem at the age
of twelve, when He sought out the
rabbis in the temple and questioned
them eagerly out of the law and the
prophets; during the long years of
waiting in the rude carpenter shop
at Nazareth, while He wrought with
His hands for His daily bread, oh,
how His soul hungered and thirstcd
for the righteousness Of God! He
learned to know that blessed indeed
was he who hungered and thirsted
for Righteousness, and the fullness CT
God was His portion as day by day
His soul sat at His Fathers table
End ate and drank of the spiritual
bounties so lavishly set before Him.
And then i'll the fullness of Gods
time He came to set up His King
dom. and in the Sermon on the Mount
we have, not the Magma Charta of
the human race, as it has been false
ly called, but the recastirg of the in
flexible law of God S Righteousness as
the declaration of principles of the
Kingdom of Jesus Christ. The Mag
ma Charta of the human race rang
forth in Christ's words from the
cross: 1T is finished" as He. the
Righteous One. bore the sins Of the
world, and wrought for mankind a
mighty deliverance from sin and
dea tn, but in the Sermon on the
Mount we have the perfect righteous
ness of God made manifest in new
form, and perfectly lived out in the
life of Jesus. Jesus was a practi-
cal theologian. and step by step dur
ing the actual experiences of every
day life He had come to know that
the poor in spirit, the mourner, the
meek, the hungry soul, the merciful.
the pure-hearted, the peacemaker,
were all blessed. and that every prom
ise given to them by God was as
certain of fulfillment as His coming
had been the fulfillment of prophecy.
The clear understanding of this
shuts every door of human possibil-
ity of realizing the lofty heights Of
this towering mountain Of Gods
Righteousness; but, blessed be God!
it opens the "Via Christi' along
which the soul may walk and real
ize all the righte Gus ness and fullness
of Christ Jesus. Man may not look
through the natural lenses Of the
human heart upon the rare and
priceless gems studding this Sermon
on the Mount and appropriate them
to his use. God must fit glasses 10
the eyes of his soul before be can
see clearly the beauty of these jew
els and understand their true setting.
Belshazzar, king of Babylon, appro-
priated the holy vessels taken from
the temple at Jerusalem to his own
use. and the finger of God traced His
nd
his palace and the prophet Daniel
read: ''Thou art weighed in the ba!-
ances and found wanting." And it is
ever thus. If the natural man ap.
propriates the holy things of God, he
does so to his own destruction. AS
Peter puts it: ''They that are un-
| learned and unstable wrest the
| Scriptures unto their own de-
struction." And every verse, and
every line, and every word, in the
Sermon on the Mount bears it's over
| whelming Indictment of the natural
| man: 'Thou art weighed in the bal.
| ances and found wanting." But the
soul which has been quickened into
life by the touch of Him Who has
scaled it's every glistening height and
has measured it's length and breadth
of possibilities may follow over the
pathway marked out by Jesus pa
tient, bleeding feet, and rejoice that he
can sit in the School of Heaven and
learn the Divine secrets of the King
| dom of God.
| And so our text is not for the
dead soul of the natural man, but
is a message to the quickened SOU
of the regenerate man, and blessed
is he when he hungers and thirsts
after righteousness, for he shall b@
j filled.
There are just two kinds of souls
dead souls and live souls; the sou
that hungers and the soul that doe:
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