[Music] doctor i i know you and desiring god you're all into you know satisfaction in god get that can't you just say do you have to always stick in that word satisfaction i mean can you just say the inner essence of worship is having christ as a greater treasure than everything in the world just leave out that word satisfaction are you going to stick that emotionally laden word in there i feel really strongly about this you might detect two reasons number one being satisfied with christ is implied in saying he's your greatest treasure and i
want to push that in your face i want to push it through your eyeballs into your heart or into your eyeballs into your brain and then down into your heart i would really like you to feel what i feel right now and believe what i believe namely that if you say and you must say this if you're a christian christ is my greatest treasure jesus said he who loves mother or father more than me is not worthy of me and he who loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me period you're
not a christian if you love your mother or your father your children more than you love jesus and that's an affectional love that's not a duty love that's not a sacrificial love that's an affection how do you feel about your kids i love my kids yes you should and jesus ten thousand times more and if you don't love him more so my first reason for using the word satisfied is because it forces this issue it forces people who are willing to use the language of treasure or commitment or belief while their hearts are going after
stuff you can watch it you just watch them watch their lives jesus is a weekend thing [Music] all week long what they watch on tv what they do it just has nothing to do with their heart's delight in god nothing i personally don't want to encourage those people to think they're christian my life commitment is to to talk about the bible in such a way that fake christians feel fake so that they can be saved so many churches are just coddling them just constantly coddling them it could be okay it's gonna be okay he's a
god of love god's love they're not christian their hearts are not made new they love other things more than they love christ they think if they walked that aisle or side that car did some few things they're in i just talked to so many of these people so that's my first reason it really is implied in the language of faith of the language of treasure that you are satisfied in jesus more than everything else here's my second reason and this is a review from this morning's session you remember the one verse parable the kingdom of
heaven is like a treasure hidden in a field which a man found and covered up and then in his joy he goes and sells all he has to buy that field now you might think it would be very paradoxical odd if a person sold everything they had to have the kingdom but they didn't do it with joy that happens folks that happens okay tell me what i need to do you need to sell some stuff got it i'm selling this now how much should i sell well zacchaeus richard all of it okay got that that's
not what he says the kingdom of heaven when the kingdom of heaven takes hold of you and the king is revealed in the rule of the kingdom as the treasure hidden in the field you don't just sell your stuff you are happy to sell your stocks that's what it says i can't tell you how long maybe 22 years i read that verse and skipped right over that apa karas out to from his joy he sold everything he had you sell your stuff for jesus without joy of it the plenty of ascetics in the world are
going to go to hell sit on top of statues for 30 years leave everything they have it's not what it says so i use the word satisfy to make that unescapable i'm slamming the door every chance i get on your escape from that of slamming the door on anybody saying well you don't really need to feel satisfied in god as long as he's your treasure that's nonsense god knows it you know treasure doesn't mean anything it's just a word without your heart i love you more you're more precious so review the inner essence of worship
is experiencing christ and all that god is for us in him as a more satisfying treasure than everything that death can take and life can give that's the inner essence of worship to be a christian is to be born again into that that's what happens when you become a christian your heart shifts off of preferring the world to preferring christ that's the meaning of new birth that's the meaning of conversion to live the christian life in all of its practicalities is to act out of that and where people are not acting out of that i
don't think what they're acting is the fruit of righteousness you
