In order to prepare us for a good study on Jesus' teaching on discipleship, I am posting a good illustration by Bible teacher John MacArthur on having a true hunger for righteousness (I have added bold to various parts of his message): Think about the prodigal son. The prodigal son, Luke 15, he had a lot of passions. In that little story you see them repeatedly. First of all, he had a consuming desire for money, for earthly treasure. He had a consuming desire for what it could buy by way of possessions and pleasure. He had a passion for iniquity and because of his drive for sin and his drive for pleasure, and his drive for possessions and his drive for material things, he went to his father and basically demanded his inheritance. And then he took his inheritance, you remember the story in Luke 15, and he went out and he just wasted it on all those things which he passionately desired. And he wound up satisfied...is that right? No. He wound up empty. When he had managed to catch everything he was chasing, when he had managed to achieve all of his goals, when he had managed to experience all of those ambitions, he was empty. And he thought to himself, "How many hired servants, slaves in my father's house have bread enough and to spare. He had absolutely nothing. He wound up working for some Gentiles, no doubt, on a pig farm, slopping pigs and eating pig slop, when he decided it would be better to go home to his father. And at that point the parable is saying his hunger changed. First he was hungry for money and earthly treasure that he might fulfill his lusts. Then he was hungry just to be satisfied with pig slop. And finally he was hungry enough to go back to all the bounty that his father had. That's the picture of hungering and thirsting after righteousness. When you've had everything you thought would satisfy and it's just pig slop. Our homes should not settle for anything but the best - which only God the Father can supply. On Sunday we will study more about this. - Dr. Zockoll
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