The Emptiness Only God Can Fill

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212 all right let's run this thing good morning everyone I'm so happy that you all have made it here may let us all just stand up and praise the King of Kings whenever you're ready [Music] go [Music] foree [Music] [Music] for is your [Music] thee BR [Music] to [Music] [Music] [Music] on [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] the my [Music] on his is [Music] the [Music] [Music] build [Music] us har this [Laughter] is is [Music] [Music] the to follow [Music] J [Music] of the story [Music] just on [Music] praise be to our Lord for this wonderful morning that you and me we gather together in Lord's House you can turn around two or three people around and greet them bless each [Music] other praise be to our [Music] Lord you know we like to begin our service with the word of God and prayer you know Acts chapter 5 you read Verse [Music] [Music] 18 we see that disciples being filled with the Holy Spirit they were preaching the [Music] gospel they meet this great resistance a resistance against the gospel and they were placed into [Music] jail we do not know exactly it's possible that all 12 of them were in [Music] jail and what they were doing there it was dark and they were praying I'm [Music] sure and then the an angel appears and says come out and go and preach the gospel they went to the temple and they were preaching the word of life right after they got arrested one more time and they were threatened and they were even [Music] beaten but they received this persecution with joy and in verse 42 it says regardless of the consequences regardless of the beating that they they received [Music] and they continued to preach without ceasing preaching about Jesus Christ hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah say hallelujah this is the word of life it is Jesus Christ it is the word of life that being became flesh and the word is being preached today it will continually to be preached receive this word into your heart it is the word of life for you and me live by Christ who gave his life for you I would like for you to Bow your heads and and we as a church let's worship him together with one lips with one heart he's worthy all the praise amen [Music] amen [Music] [Music] [Music] for [Music] for for [Music] amen there was a moment when the lights went out when death had claimed its Victory the king of Love had G up his life The Darkest Day in [Music] History they on a cross they made for siners for Every curse his blood atoned one final breath and it was finished but not the end we could have [Music] known for the Earth began to shake and the veil was go what sacrifice was made as the heavens [Music] War all hell King Jesus all hell the Lord of Heaven and Earth all hell King Jesus all hell the savior of the [Music] world there was a moment when the sky lit up a flash of Light breaking [Music] when I was lost he crossed eternity the king of life was on the [Music] moon or in a car gold tomb where our Lord was L one miraculous r and forever change and all hell King Jesus all hell the Lord of Heaven and Earth all hell King Jesus all hell the savior of the world all hell King Jesus all hell the Lord of Heaven and Earth all hell King Jesus all hell the of the [Music] world let every KN come bow before the King of Kings let every time confess that he is Lord of your shout let us join with all of heaven singing oh we're singing Holy Cry Out ho cry out let every need come back before the King of Kings where every confess that he is born lift up your shout let us join with all of heaven singing oh sing cry out cry out all hell King Jesus all hell the Lord of Heaven and Earth all hell King Jesus all hell the savior of the world Jesus we just come before you we thank you for your presence this morning we thank you that we're just able to come into this place just come together as a Community to worship what you have done and how you saved us Jesus we thank you for the blood that you poured out for all of our sins Jesus we thank you for the life you lived and now that you're resurrected we thank you for what you continue to do Jesus we thank you for the holy spirit that we've that you've given us and that Jesus we just want to bless your name we just want to just come together and just worship who you are Jesus let us just come before you and just acknowledge who you are to each and every one of us and what you've done Jesus we thank you so [Music] much Christ is my firm foundation The Rock on which I stay when everything around me is shaken I've never been more glad that I put my faith in Jesus cuz he's never leted me down he's faithful through [Music] generations so I will would he fail now he still got joy in chaos I've got peace that makes no sense and I won't be going under I'm not held by my own strength cuz I built my life on Jesus he never let me down he's faithful in every season so why would he fail now he won't he w he won't fail he won't fail he won't he won't he won't fail he won't fail Christ is is my firm foundation The Rock on which I stand when everything around me shaking I've never been more glad that I put my faith in Jesus he's never let me down faithful through J Generations so why would he fa now he won't he won't he won't fail he won't fail [Music] rain came wind blew but my house was built on you and I safe with with you and I'm going to make it through great came with but my house was built on you I'm safe with you I'm going to make it through yeah I'm going to make it through oh cuz I'm standing strong on you yeah I'm going to make it through cuz my house is built on you Christ is my first Foundation The Rock on which I stand when everything around me is Shen and I never never been more glad that I put my faith in Jesus he's never let me down he's faithful through generations so why would he fail now he W he w he won't fail he won't F all the Earth Will shout your praise our hearts will cry these bones will sing and great are you Lord and all the Earth Will shout your praise our hearts will cry these bones will sing great are you Lord It's your breath in our love so we pour out our praise we pour out our praise is your breath in our love so we pour out our praise to you it's your breath in our love so we pour out our praise we pour out our Praises your breath in our Lord so we pour out our praise to you ho and great are you Lord great are you [Music] Lord Lord we thank you tonight Lord today we just Lift Your Name Jesus Jesus We Praise You And We Worship You You Are are great Lord Jesus and we glorify your name Jesus your name be high and lifted up above every other name Jesus that all glory all honor and all power be to your name Jesus the name above every Other Name Lord we thank you we thank you that today we can stand firmly on your word we can stand firmly on your name Jesus the name that by which we have received salvation your name Jesus we praise you today for your name we praise you today God that you're here in this place and we ask that you continue to move today throughout the service God that your glory would fall like a cloud in this place just like upon the people of Israel Lord just like upon your temple Lord let may this be your house where your glory would dwell God may this Glory dwell in us and through us God that we would live all our lives to worship you God we worship you we praise you we thank you Lord that you are Great Mighty and wonderful in this place you're so good to us you are so so good to us and we just thank you and Praise You In the mighty name of Jesus we pray amen amen you may take your seats God bless [Music] you praise be to our to our Lord dear church we are all creations of God Amen if some of you still might believe that we're products of evolution we welcome you to a gathering of the children of God who believe we are all creations of God Amen Genesis CH 2 verse 7 praise be to our Lord you know how powerful and Mighty Is Our Lord you know all the scholars study and they know what a seed comes from and they could put it all together all all of these laws they put it together how it's supposed to be but no matter how hard they try how much they blow they water there's no life there and how complex of an organism that the human is God created it from the dust from the same elements and he breathed life into them and this man became living the person's alive and I have a question that human that God created are they Eternal let's turn to the word of God you know subjectively I thought as well that they were eternal you know did Adam become eternally living when he was created you know and we all know that God planted the Garden of Eden and in the center of Eden what was the most important tree the tree of life you remember correct we all remember the tree of the knowledge of Good and Evil but do we remember the Tree of Life in the center and I was thinking if he was eternal why did he need that tree of life maybe so that when he was willing he could use that tree and we all understand that the consequences of Adam's disobedience that the word of God tells us that the gates were closed so that Adam did not would not be able to enter to get to that tree of life so in front of that Source of Life there was an angel put with a sword so that Adam could not get to it let's turn to that you know once again I'm saying this my subjective thought Genesis chap 3 verse 28 the entrance the path to this tree of life the source of life was closed and now the life in in the body the life of Adam just became slowly dying life without God it's just dying for a long period of time we all know that Jesus is the way the truth and the life Jesus is that tree of life who man turn to and they have life and life from God is life eternal and physical life life in our flesh is only for a period of time it's like fumes going up to the top Sparks like Sparks going up you know they go up but they don't reach their point for just a short moment for just a short moment they come but they do not reach to God and what happened was that source of life was blocked off before Adam Psalm 35 chapter 35 verse 10 God himself is that source of life and from him from God that is where that spring of Life flows out of unto man you know one Christian apologetic said it this way he said humans are born with the giant hole in inside of them that hole is the size of God it's the size of God and people walk around with that big emptiness because the source of life was once blocked for them and people they have that decision what will they do with that emptiness inside of them what will they fill it with and has anyone ever read anything about black holes what a black hole does is it sucks everything inside of it and the black hole has such a gravitational pull that it pulls everything inside of it even a a beam of light will be redirected into the the black hole and I think that's the same thing with the emptiness inside of humans it tries to pull everything in people try to fill it with something so that they didn't have this emptiness inside of them you know it's a very interesting story in the Gospel of John about the Samaritan woman next to the well you know it's a person that was trying to fill their emptiness with whatever they could just like a woman she was finding one or the other she was trying to fill herself with some sort of Joy with with different men let's just read a part of that story that Samaritan at the well she meets Jesus Christ and they have a certain dialogue and that's where God Jesus shows a certain Doctrine John Chapter 14 verse chapter 4: 13 to 15 to who will drink the water of life will not thirst anymore this is this water this spring that comes out from God himself and God is life the one that gives life that one will never thirst turning to God we turn to his life and turning to his life is life eternal and turning to God this this whole this emptiness inside of us it gets filled with God and you don't need anything else inside of you you just need that it makes a person joyful I want to talk about that today just a little lower we're going to open up verse 24 of the same chapter it's talking it's talking about worship or submitting yourself submitting yourself to God the one who worship will worship in spirit and just a little bit lower in chapter seven of this same gospel Jesus Christ isn't only talking to this woman anymore John chap 7 verse 37-39 he is already talking to a great multitude of people and he says these words this he was saying about the holy spirit that Living Water the spirit of God the spirit that creates life it leads people to life leads people to the kingdom of God but Jesus he invites and he says can you go back to verse 37 this is a very important phrase he said let anyone who is thirst thirsty come to me and drink are you thirsty today am I thirsty today for the truth of God am I thirsty for the Holiness of God the will of God the leading of God we we pray let your will be done on Heaven as it is on Earth Earth but are we truly putting our hearts into this you know I I've seen it so a couple times in my life where I I didn't want to pray this prayer because I brought a certain need before the Lord and I said Lord I want it to be like this but we have a great tradition to finish with the Lord's Prayer and we say let your will be done and I could feel it that my will and his will were a little bit different and you know every single one of us might have had these instances in our lives why because even Jesus had this moment in his life he said let this cup pass me but not my will but your will be done am I Desiring his will more than my own may your will be done who is thirsty today am I Desiring his will more than my own today if me in my life and your life we have that desire to be led by God do we have that desire to know God or sometimes we just you know something on the surface level you know I don't drink I don't smoke and that's good enough you know the call to Salvation the call to receive God as your Source of Life calling a sinner to to him it's only the beginning it's all only the start of of going to this life and the person comes by the mercy to this source of life to the Holy Spirit and they just get a taste and they get born again and he connects himself to this grace of God and then a child is born a spiritual child you know everyone rejoices even the angels in heaven Rejoice over a sinner receiving salvation but that child still has a long life you know filled with Adventures filled with dangers and you know not all children that are born live until their old age somebody dies young somebody dies in the middle somebody makes it to the end and being born making it to the End by the will of God you can only do it by by being led by the Holy Spirit but but to be led you need to be thirsty it says who is thirsty let him come to me and drink the person must have the desire to be led you know not the one that is self-confident that says I know because the one that is self-confident you must be weary so that you would not fall because we have limits but the person who who sees their need in God they see that God is the only one that can lead them they truly have the desire for God just like the one that leads that will lead him throughout his whole life and will lead him into the kingdom of God and so it's the most important you know I I wanted to start going into The Sermon on the Mount we already started doing it on Wednesdays and the very first thing Jesus talks about is the blessed are the poor in spirit blessed are the ones who their Spirit it needs God whose Spirit needs God to lead them need God's holiness for they have the kingdom of God why do they have the kingdom of God because that's them being led by God and it leads them there and here on Earth they live as members of the kingdom of God and that's why Jesus starts The Sermon on the Mount saying blessed are the poor in [Music] spirit in life we must have that desire that thirst to search for the source of life and only only God can satisfy that need that whole in Man Is So Great and Mighty that only God's might can fill it and blesses the man that with their spring with their life they choose God just how only God is the spring and the source of eternal life but we also have a caution to us and you know it's in Jeremiah chapter 2 we might all know this place Jeremiah chapter 2:s 12 and 13 it says to the people of God these people also had that desire and thirst but the spring from where they might satisfy their thirst they chose something different they didn't choose The Godly spring but they chose something that is not of God something that is not Eternal something that cannot hold water that you must fill it again and again something that cannot hold water you must constantly pour into it just like people you know they go from one thing to another thing they can't stick on one thing and it's not of God and just like Apostle Paul writes in Ephesians doing all uncleanliness making you um not filled making you un not filled so they do all these unclean things and they think it'll satisfy them but it never satisfies you know it doesn't come satisfaction doesn't come into the life of people you know the happiness might come for just a moment but it doesn't come any satisfaction and then people struggle and they search for something that will satisfy them for a longer period of time let's actually read this scripture from Ephesians chapter four I already I already read I already said it but Ephesians chapter 4 verse 17 for what is ignorance that is not knowing they're ignorant they don't know they do not know anything about God and and when they Harden their heart that means they do not want to know anything about God they don't want to know and they don't want to hear about God and because of that they substitute the will of God or that spring that is for them they they substitute it with with these SNS that hold that don't hold water with that thing that is unclean so it's it's never ending they cannot feel the emptiness inside of them and we could see that it talks about these things that people substitute for the spring that is God and these sisters don't hold water and they are filled with impurity and we'll go back to uh Jeremiah chapter 17 verse 13