Jesus Unfiltered - Follow - Jesus Offers Satisfaction, Part 1
Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram Daily Podcast
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🗓️ 22 July 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Wouldn’t it be great if somehow you could just flip a switch and be instantly and completely satisfied? Satisfied with your life, your relationships, your job, your living circumstances - just completely, forever satisfied. So what keeps us from achieving that? In this message, Chip explores what Jesus had to say about finding fulfillment.
Main PointsJesus’ promise of satisfaction - John 7:37-38
Solomon’s counsel for satisfaction - Proverbs 2:1-6
How to unearth spiritual wisdom from God’s Word - John 6:63
3 Important Tools:
- Context - What informs this passage?
- Content - What is the basic flow/outline?
- Climax - What seems to be the most important truth, event, or action in the passage?
How to hear God's voice from your study of His Word - John 7:17
3 Great Questions:
- Is there a command to obey? - John 7:37
- Is there a promise to claim? - John 7:38
- Is there an example to follow? - John 7:31, 50
Barriers to receiving Jesus’ promise:
- Familiarity – brothers - John 7:5
- Fear of what others may think or do - John 7:13
- Unwillingness to obey - John 7:17
- Ignorance - John 7:24
- Superficial assessment or evaluation - John 7:25-31
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About Living on the EdgeLiving on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Wouldn't it be great if you could just flip a switch somewhere and be |
| 0:04.7 | instantly and completely satisfied? I mean satisfied with your life, your |
| 0:09.0 | relationships, your job, your circumstances, I mean you flip the switch and wow you've got it. Now that's not |
| 0:15.2 | possible but what is possible is to hear directly from Jesus exactly how he can |
| 0:22.0 | satisfy the deepest needs in your life. That's today. |
| 0:27.0 | Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:35.0 | The mission of these daily programs is to intentionally disciple Christians through the Bible teaching of Chip Ingram. |
| 0:41.0 | We're in the middle of volume two of our series Jesus Unfiltered |
| 0:44.2 | titled Follow. And Chip has a lot to share on this topic of satisfaction today. |
| 0:49.0 | So let's dive right in. Go in your Bible to John Chapter 7 as we join Chip for his talk. |
| 0:56.4 | What are you most thirsty for today? Not your whole life, but just today. What are you most |
| 1:01.0 | thirsty for? What do you wish? What are you hankering for? What do you long for? |
| 1:07.0 | Second, there are days where it seems that events, circumstances, answers to prayer, |
| 1:18.0 | relationships, it really does feel like it's a wonderful world and you feel satisfied. |
| 1:24.9 | You ever think about what the word means? |
| 1:26.6 | To be satisfied is the feeling experience |
| 1:30.0 | when one's wishes are met when you're content, when you're delighted, when you're happy, when there's |
| 1:37.2 | enjoyment, gladness, gratification. It's just a moment and you relish the moment. |
| 1:45.0 | See, we all have times where we thirst for certain things. It's human and there's times where we experience deep, deep satisfaction. |
| 1:54.3 | So let me ask you, what's really been satisfying for you lately? |
| 1:59.4 | What event, what person, what moment in the last 24 or 48 hours a week you'd say, |
| 2:05.0 | that was good. |
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