Satisfaction

“if you try to satisfy yourself, you will get no satisfaction. And you may try and you may try and you may try, but you will get no satisfaction spoken by the great theologian Mick Jagger. Right? That's it. You're not going to get satisfaction. Oh, you can get gratification. You can get all kinds of things, but you will not get what God has promised to those who trust him. And by the way, while I'm in the neighborhood, you notice that Jesus quoted the scripture.”

“riches of his grace. God in his grace invites everyone to his presence to find life, to find it abundantly in him. And so that's the first thing. Satisfaction is found in living in God's presence. The second thing is satisfaction is found in living at God's pace. Satisfaction is found in living in God's pace. I don't know about you, but when I hear the fact that God is never in a hurry, my brain doesn't really catch that because I'm always in a hurry. Are you always in a hurry? You're always getting to the next thing. And I'm driven too, so it's even worse. I'm ready”

“Like, oh, that was sweet. That was delicious. Your satisfaction, your steadfast love is better than life. I must have more. And note this, too, that in Jesus, Jesus says, hey, I'm the bread of life. Whoever comes to me shall never hunger and thirst again. So in Jesus, there is satisfaction that satisfies our souls, that fills it up. But even more so, the satisfaction of God just doesn't fill your soul like bread.”

“to be forgiven is to have an eternal sacrifice be made for them. That is the only way that is sufficient for the sins of the world to be forgiven, to be wiped clean, as clean as snow. Jesus, the cross matters because it was the sacrifice, the substitution, the sufficiency of Jesus. And finally, it was the satisfaction. The cross is the satisfaction of the wrath of God over sin. Listen to Romans chapter 3. But now the righteousness of God has been manifested”

“was not just for our satisfaction. Something really important for us to remember tonight. It's not just for our satisfaction. John Piper would say something entirely different that marriage is to make us holy. John Piper says that marriage is to make us holy. He has a quote here. He says the ultimate purpose of marriage is not to make us happy but to make us holy. Marriage is meant he said to display the covenanteping love between Christ and the church. And so marriage is something like God uses to shape us to make us”

“adultery, lying, and deceit, and lust, and pornography addictions, all of these sort of things. And they all start and begin as you start talking to people with a temporary desire, fleshly impulse that believes that something can bring you satisfaction or joy outside of the word of God or will of God, or ultimately the law of God in our hearts and lives. And all sin has a period, most of sin has a period of indulgence that brings temporary satisfaction,”

“By his knowledge shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be counted righteous, and he shall bear their iniquities. So what brings our Lord Jesus joy and satisfaction at the greatest moment of grief and hardship? It's looking and hope to a future where you're in the family of God. That's what brings him joy and satisfaction. So God shows his love or he puts on display for us that while we were yet, so while we were still in sin, Christ dies for us.”

“But what we find is that we hunger for the wrong thing. It, of course, was Mick Jagger who in 1965, yes, 60 years ago, sang those words that became culturally repeated over and over, I can't get no satisfaction. And I try, and I try, and I try, but I can't get no satisfaction.”