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The Struggle for Satisfaction. God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him! - John Piper If Jesus Christ is so satisfying, why don’t I see it, believe it and feel it when I am confronted with sin?. The Struggle for Satisfaction The Agony of Saying “No” to Sin
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God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him! - John Piper If Jesus Christ is so satisfying, why don’t I see it, believe it and feel it when I am confronted with sin?
The Struggle for Satisfaction • The Agony of Saying “No” to Sin • The Delayed Satisfaction of Embracing Jesus • The “Take Care” Approach to Fighting for Satisfaction
So I find it to be a law that when I want to do right, evil lies close at hand. For I delight in the law of God, in my inner being, but I see in my members another law waging war against the law of my mind and making me captive to the law of sin that dwells in my members. Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, I myself serve the law of God with my mind, but with my flesh I serve the law of sin.
Hebrews 12:3-4 Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.
Hebrews 12:2 looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 12:11 For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant, but later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
3. The “Take Care” Approach to Fighting for Satisfaction
Early my God without delay I haste to seek your face My thirsty spirit faints away Without your cheering grace
Not all the blessings of a feast Could fill my soul so well As when your richest grace I taste And in your presence dwell
My spirit toils with this life’s gloom And fights to stay the course Remind me of that heavenly hour When you first called me yours
Early my God without delay Before tomorrow’s dawn Let trumpets sound the victory tune Because you have returned
Not life itself with all her joys Will tempt my spirit move My maker and my helping hand All I need is You