There are two sermons below that explain what hungering and thirsting for righteousness means.
I found pastor Timothy Bixby’s sermon to cover Mt. 5:6 very well and posted this 34 minute sermon in its entirety, first. Afterwards, there is an excerpt and an entire sermon by Dr. Nelson Kloosterman on the same topic, hungering and thirsting for righteousness.
Bixby used a broad variety of scripture references and also identified 4 types of righteousness; both of which should help one more easily grasp the meaning of this beatitude:
Below is a 15 minute excerpt by Dr. Nelson Kloosterman:
Dr. Kloosterman’s entire 48 minute sermon follows:
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***See, categories, Beatitude Life for narratives on all the beatitudes.
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