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Created For More
Last week we looked at Jesus feeding of the 5000.
Crowds gathered to hear the Gospel of the Kingdom Proclaimed and Demonstrated.
The crowd was gathered because the Gospel of the Kingdom touched them to the very core of their human longing.
We were created for Kingdom of Heaven living.
Created for spiritual fulfillment.
Created for more.
Created for life, and love, and healing, and purpose, and Divine image-bearing.
Created for more than the brokenness that we see and experience around us.
I love what C.S. Lewis says in Mere Christianity, “If I find in myself desires which nothing in this world can satisfy, the only logical explanation is that I was made for another world.”
Our desires never satisfy.
Our hunger is never filled.
Our thirst never quenched.
That is why Jesus promises to fill our hunger and give never ending water to those that seek after him.
It only in Jesus that we can find satisfaction.
It’s only in Jesus that our questions can be answered.
It’s only in Jesus that our fears can be calmed and our doubts assuaged.
Only in Jesus do we discover and realize the life we were created for.
And we were created for so much more than what we live for.
Created For Who?
Who Do The Crowds Say I Am
Jesus had been praying.
Jesus had been communing with the Father.
And Jesus sees the crowds.
Jesus knows they have been following him.
And Jesus asks the disciples what the crowds things about him.
Some say your John the Baptizer, Some Elijah, or another of the ancient prophets come back to restore the Kingdom of Israel.
Who do the crowds say I am.
Those who don’t know Jesus personally have mischararctized him, misunderstood him, and misapplied him.
Critics often ask why Christianity is any better than any other religion in the world.
Of all the religions that exist, how can it be that only Christianity is true?
If God exists, why can't God use different religions?
Don't all paths lead to God?
But we know this, Religions contradict each other; therefore, they cannot all be true.
Mormonism teaches that there are many gods in existence, and that you can become a god.
Christianity teaches that there is only one God, and you cannot become a god.
Islam teaches that Jesus is not God in flesh--where Christianity does.
Islam says Jesus cannot be both God and not God at the same time.
Some religions teach that we reincarnate, while others do not.
Some teach that we are all gods, and others teach that we can become gods.
They cannot all be true.
If they cannot all be true, it cannot be true that all religions lead to God.
But only in Jesus do we find the truest of all understandings of the human condition and the truest revelation of God himself!
The truth about the human condition is this.
We are broken.
We are messy.
We are needy.
We are sinful.
And no matter how good we are we are still selfish and conceited and ugly and broken.
The truth is that we need need something greater than ourselves to get us out of the mess we have made.
We need a greater doctor to mend out souls.
We need a greater designer to rebuild our brokenness.
We need a greater counselor to guide our hearts.
We need a greater King to rule our kingdoms.
We need a greater Savior than our selves.
We need Jesus!
Why do we need Jesus?
Because Jesus is the Christ!
Who Do You Say I AM
If the crowds say I’m a prophet, who do you say I am?
God’s Messiah.
The Christ.
The Annointed One.
The Chosen One.
The Prophecied One.
Jesus is the King forever.
That what Messiah means.
He is the promised King.
The one who will restore all things and rule eternally.
Who is Jesus to you?
Is Jesus a mere prophet or philosopher or teacher?
Or is Jesus the Christ?
Because If Jesus is the Christ then following him is our only option.
And if Jesus is our only option, we must decide if we will follow the Crowd or the Christ.
And following the Christ mean following the way of the Cross.
The Crowd Or The Cross?
What is the way of the Cross
Denial of Self
if we are going to follow the way of the cross we have to know that there it requires something from us.
Remember what we were made for?
We were created for Kingdom of Heaven living.
Created for spiritual fulfillment.
Created for more.
Created for life, and love, and healing, and purpose, and Divine image-bearing.
Created for more than the brokenness that we see and experience around us.
What we were created for can’t not be realized by living for less than what we were created to live for.
We no longer live to please our sinful desires.
Our sinful desires only temperarily satisfy.
And we weren’t created to be temporarily satisfied, we were created to be eternally satisfied.
And until you are satisfied in Jesus you will not understand how much unsatisfactory temporary satisfaction is.
That is why were live holy lives.
Because we know that there is eternal satisfaction ahead.
It’s why we say no to the works of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life.
It’s why we submit our anger, our pride, our sexuality, our thoughts, our bitterness, our hatred, our rights, to Jesus.
Because eternal satisfaction matters more than temporary pleasure.
Esau was the rightful heir of the his father’s inheritance.
But Esau traded away the inheritance that was to come for a bowl of soup.
He was hungry.
He was tired.
His brother Jacob offered him some soup that he had made if Esau would promise him the inheritance.
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