October 21 2012 The Choice Of Satisfaction
/THE CHOICE OF SATISFACTION
Matthew 5:6 - Happy are those who are hungry and thirsty for true goodness, for they will be fully satisfied.
Why Are So Many So Unsatisfied?
• You don’t find lasting satisfaction in
Pleasure
Ecclesiastes 1:8 - No matter how much we see, we are never satisfied; no matter how much we hear, we are never content.
Hebrews 11:25 - The pleasures of sin last a short time.
• You don’t find lasting satisfaction in
Performance
Ecclesiastes - What does a man get for all his hard work? Days full of sorrow and grief and restless nights.
Ecclesiastes - (Man) is always working, never satisfied.
• You don’t find lasting satisfaction in
Possessions
EcclesiastesHe who loves money will never have enough. The foolishness of thinking wealth brings happiness.
Psalm 37:4 - Seek your happiness in the Lord, and He will give you your heart’s desire.
How To Experience Satisfaction In Life
1. Recognize my real hunger.
Deutoronomy 8:3 - God humbled you by letting you go hungry and then feeding you with manna. He did this to help you realize that real life comes by obeying every command of God.
2. Stop eating junk food.
Isaiah 55:2 - Why spend your money on what is not bread, and your labor on what does not satisfy?
3. Start looking to Christ.
John 8:35, 51 - Jesus said, I am the Bread of Life. Whoever comes to Me will never be hungry and whoever believes in Me will never be thirsty. If anyone eats of the bread, he will live forever.
John 4:13-14 - Jesus said, whoever drinks water will get thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give will never be thirsty again. I will be in him a spring of living water.
