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Destiny
The search for your life starts in the hope that is found in One life - Jesus. In Jeremiah 29:13 God guarantees that you will find Him, and hope for your life, if you seek Him. However, in John 10:10 we read that Satan comes to steal, kill & destroy your life. But, remain focused on God - and He will help you achieve the destiny (abundant life) He has set out for you. Key Passage: John 10:10
Cravings and Conflict (James 4:1-2)
James explains that the root problem in our conflicts is worse than we think: it is our own sin, specifically our sinful cravings that make idols out of our desires and then fight for them. Fortunately, the answer is also easier than we think -- the forgiveness and reconciliation that we receive through the cross in humbling ourselves to confess and repent. NOTE: This is a recording of the same sermon delivered at another time and place. There were technical issues recording the sermon at Sovereign Grace Church.
Destiny
Our souls crave lives of purpose and significance that ultimately can only come from God. “We cannot live the life of our dreams without an irrational sense of destiny. And all of us have our dreams. More than that, all of us need our dreams. Some of us sadly are sleeping through them. All of us long to become something more than we are. We are driven to achieve, moved to accomplish, fueled by ambition. It burns hotter in some than in others, but it is within all of us. We’re all searching for our unique purpose, our divine destiny, or simply a sense of siginificance or some measure of success.†-Erwin McManus, Soul Cravings
Intimacy
We cannot live unaffected by love. We are most alive when we find it, most devastated when we lose it, most empty when we give up on it, most inhumane when we betray it, and most passionate when we pursue it. Can you be honest enough to admit how love pulls you, woos you, eludes you, torments you - sometimes all in the same day? You were created for relationship.This is and always will be at the core of your being. It may be hard to accept, but you are the object of God's love.You were created out of love by him, and though you may not yet realize it, your soul longs to know this love. Key Passage: Matthew 22:37-39
Meaning
We all crave for "meaning" in our lives... we yearn to make sense of the world and our place in it. What is true? Why am I here? Timeless questions that have been asked even by the wisest of men. Erwin McManus writes: "While we may disagree on what we believe in and we may argue violently about what is true, what we can't escape is that we are all on the same quest and our soul craving is to find something to believe in... Whatever I would come to believe in, it could not simply change my mind; it had to change my life....When we search for truth, we search for God. Our souls crave the One who is true." Key Passages: Ecclesiastes 2:1-11 and 12:13-14
Meaning
This service will be about our hunger for meaning, our craving to know that life makes sense, and that ultimately we are all on a search for truth, and that ultimately, truth is personal.
Love
The big idea in the first session of “Soul Cravings†is all about our undeniable, inexorable craving for intimacy, to love and be loved. But when love is so hard, why do we keep on trying? 2nd, 3rd, 4th marriages, friendship after friendship after friendship, we just keep trying to find something with other people, even if the “other people†is the same person we’ve been married to for years and years and years. Sure, some people shut down and become reclusive, and we obviously do give up on some relationships some times, but the reality is that even our reclusiveness and giving up is driven by this soul craving. Rarely does anyone ever call it quits on love in this world and remain in this world without being found to be not quite “right in the headâ€. It’s a soul craving.
