Hunger and thirst
Now hunger and thirst, not for the meat that perishes (John 6:27), but for that which endures to everlasting life. Trample under foot the world and the things of the world: all these riches, honors, pleasures. What is the world to you? Let the dead bury their dead (Matthew 8:22): but follow after the image of God. And beware of quenching that blessed thirst, if it is already excited in your soul, by what is vulgarly called religion, a poor, dull farce, a religion of form, of outside show, which leaves the heart still cleaving to the dust, as earthly and sensual as ever. Let nothing satisfy you but the power of godliness, but a religion that is spirit and life; the dwelling in God and God in you; the being an inhabitant of eternity; the entering in by the blood of sprinkling within the veil (Hebrews 10:20), and sitting in heavenly places with Christ Jesus (Ephesians 2:6).
1771 text
9. *Now do thou hunger and thirst, not for the meat that perisheth, but for that which endureth unto everlasting life. Trample under foot the world and the things of the world: all these riches, honours, pleasures. What is the world to thee? Let the dead bury their dead: but follow thou after the image of God. And beware of quenching that blessed thirst, if it is already excited in thy soul, by what is vulgarly called religion, a poor, dull farce, a religion of form, of outside show, which leaves the heart still cleaving to the dust, as earthly and sensual as ever. Let nothing satisfy thee but the power of godliness, but a religion that is spirit and life; the dwelling in God and God in thee; the being an inhabitant of eternity; the entering in by the blood of sprinkling within the veil, and sitting in heavenly places with Christ Jesus.
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Sermon 33 in the 1771 Works. Matthew 7:21-27.
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