Satisfied in Christ

Ultimately with R.C. Sproul

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 3 minutes

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If we're looking for complete satisfaction in anyone or anything other than Christ, we've guaranteed our own disappointment. Today, R.C. Sproul urges us to seek our supreme happiness not in our circumstances but in our Savior.

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0:00.0	We were not made to be satisfied by things.
0:05.0	Oh God thou hast made us to be satisfied only by you.
0:14.0	I don't know what you're like, but when I was in high school,
0:21.0	I don't know what you're like, but when I was in high school, when actually in junior high school,
0:27.0	I kept looking forward in my life to a moment in the future where I would be happy.
0:35.0	I can remember, I couldn't wait for my 16th birthday,
0:39.0	because when I was 16, I could have my driver's license.
0:42.0	And when I have my driver's license and when I have my driver's license then I'll be happy.
0:45.7	And after that it was, well this is great but I want to own my own car.
0:49.7	I own my own car then I'll be happy and I got my own car then I'll be happy I got my own car but now I wanted to get out of high
0:55.8	school once I graduate get out of here I'll be happy that didn't work then once I
1:02.2	graduate from college once I get married, once we have a baby, once
1:06.8	we build our first house, once I get a good job, once I do this, once I do that, and I kept changing my goals and my plans and thinking that each
1:18.9	plateau would bring me final peace and happiness.
1:26.1	And I realized that's not what we were made for.
1:29.6	We were not made to be satisfied by things. But as Augustine has said, oh Lord, thou hast made
1:37.7	us for thyself and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in the, we could change those words a little bit and say oh God
1:45.7	the has made us to be satisfied only by you and we cannot be satisfied until we drink of the water that is Christ.
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