10-24-10: Lesson 12 - You should want what God has for you more than anything else

Sermon Theme: You should want what God has for you more than anything else
Bible Verse: “Seek first the kingdom of God” –Matthew 6:33

Bible Story:

We all think we know what’s best. We think we know what will make us happy and keep us satisfied. Most of the time, we are completely wrong. There was a man in the Bible who thought he knew what was best for himself. He thought he knew what would satisfy him.
His name was King Solomon.

King Solomon spent his whole life searching for things that would satisfy him. God told King Solomon not to marry women who worshiped other gods but he disobeyed God. He wanted to find out if there was anything that he could get, or feel or accomplished that would make him feel satisfied. He built really big houses with gardens, vineyards, and pools. After all that building and hard work, He said this at the end of his life.

“Meaningless, meaningless, Everything is MEANINGLESS”

It was meaningless for him. He had everything. Big houses did not satisfy him. He had thousands of servants. He had singers who sang for him. He had the best amazing selection of foods on his table everyday. He even found the most beautiful women he could find and he married them. He had 700 wives.

He had a whole lot of Gold and silver and precious things. He had the nicest clothes and most expensive jewelry in his treasury. This made him really famous. People from all over the world brought him expensive gifts. With all these things, the houses, the women, the gold, the servants, the gifts he said all these things were meaningless. He was mad on the inside because he tried to find happiness in things but nothing satisfied him. Solomon finally came to this conclusion:

The whole purpose of man is to fear God and obey his commands. – Ecc 12:13

He realized at the end of his life that only God can satisfy you. Maybe you’re not satisfied. Maybe you’ve tried different things that the world tells you to get, like nice clothes, video games and toys, but none of these things will satisfy you, but you first have to seek the kingdom of God. You have to want what God has for you more than anything

1. What you want is never enough

We try to fill ourselves with friends, money, music

2. What the devil wants is to destroy you

Devil wants to substitute things that destroys our life.

3. What God wants will last forever