SUNDAY SERMON COMMENTS (10.02.05)

My outline from Sunday's sermon on Contentment follows. I am looking forward to the comments.

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DEAD POET’S SOCIETY
-REMINDED US OF THE FILM
-THE SOCIETY WAS FORMED TO "SUCK THE MARROW OUT OF LIFE"
-BUT THE MARROW THAT NOURISHES THE SOUL IS NOT FOUND IN THIS LIFE.

THE POINT
-CONTENTMENT HAPPENS WHEN I GO TO THE RIGHT SOURCE TO FIND THE MARROW THAT NOURISHES THE SOUL.

TWO MISTAKES ABOUT CONTENTMENT
-WE HAVE CONTENTMENT WHEN WE HAVE ALL THE THINGS FROM THIS LIFE THAT WE WANT -- 1 TIM 6:6-10
-WE HAVE CONTENMENT WHEN WE GET RID OF OUR DESIRES -- ILLUS: SQUEEZING A BALLOON

CHRISTIAN CONTENTMENT
-PSALM 73: GOD IS THE STRENGTH OF OUR HEART AND PORTION FOREVER
-ILLUS: SHORTY -- HE COULD HAVE MANY EXCUSES TO BE DISCONTENT, BUT HE HAS FOUND THAT THE MARROW THAT SATISFIES HI SOUL IS GOD

CULTIVATING CONTENTMENT
-EVALUATE TO SEE IF THERE IS ANYTHING BESIDES GOD I AM LOOKING TO TO BE THE MARROW THAT SATISFIES THE SOUL (THE BIBLE CALLS THIS IDOLATRY)
-PURSUE GOD, I.E., ACTUALLY OPEN MY LIFE TO GOD.

BLAISE PASCAL –"THERE IS A GOD SHAPED VACUUM IN THE HEART OF EVERY MAN WHICH CANNOT BE FILLED BY ANY CREATED THING, BUT ONLY BY GOD, THE CREATOR, MADE KNOWN THROUGH JESUS"

JESUS AND THE DEAD POET’S SOCIETY
INSTEAD OF INVITING THE 12 TO SUCK THE MARROW OUT FO LIFE, HE WOULD INVITE THE 12 TO SEEK FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD -- THE REAL MARROW THAT SATISFIES THE SOUL - THE SOURCE OF CONTENTMENT.