Speaker 1: Recently, I got this letter and it said, dear Reverend Warren.
Speaker 1: Anybody who says Reverend Warren doesn't know me obviously, So,
Speaker 1: Dear Reverend Warren, I heard your program on the radio,
Speaker 1: so I thought you might be able to help me
Speaker 1: with my dilemma. I'm sure you're familiar with the U
Speaker 1: two song. I still haven't found what I'm looking for.
Speaker 1: That line could be the theme of my life. It's
Speaker 1: a strange feeling, since I have, by all standards, achieved
Speaker 1: everything that most people work their entire lives to get.
Speaker 1: My success as an investment banker has given me multiple homes,
Speaker 1: nice cars, all kinds of perks and luxuries. I'm married
Speaker 1: to a great woman, and I have two young kids
Speaker 1: that I adore, and I enjoy good health. And all
Speaker 1: of this came to me at a much earlier age
Speaker 1: than I figured it would take. And yet, and yet,
Speaker 1: I'm just not as happy as I think I ought
Speaker 1: to be. To be honest, I'm often restless. I'm often
Speaker 1: bored and unsatisfied. Sometimes at night I feel hollow and empty.
Speaker 1: I keep thinking there's got to be more to life
Speaker 1: than this. What do you think I should do?
Speaker 2: Do you know? Friends?
Speaker 1: There is an entire book of the Bible about this dilemma.
Speaker 1: It's called the Book of Ecclesiastes, and it was written
Speaker 1: by another guy who had everything. He had it all.
Speaker 1: His name was King Solomon. Solomon was the king of
Speaker 1: Israel at its apex of power. There was no man wiser, wealthier,
Speaker 1: or more powerful in the world during the reign Solomon.
Speaker 1: And yet Solomon has really in one sense of midlife
Speaker 1: crisis in the Book of Ecclesiastes. And it's kind of
Speaker 1: a negative book that you get to the end where
Speaker 1: he comes to the right conclusion. But Solomon says, my
Speaker 1: life just seems so empty, so meaningless, so painfully unsatisfying,
Speaker 1: and so he said, I decided that I would try
Speaker 1: to find meaning and purpose and fulfillment in life. And
Speaker 1: Ecclesiastes is the book or the journey of his journal
Speaker 1: of his journey trying to find satisfaction fulfillment in life.
Speaker 1: And Solomon starts off in chapter one. He says, you know,
Speaker 1: first they decided I'd try education, and I thought, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna get wise and I'm gonna learn everything there
Speaker 1: is to know. So I learned everything I could learn,
Speaker 1: and I discovered everything I could discover, and I became
Speaker 1: as wise as I could be, became the wisest man
Speaker 1: in the world. And he said, I read all the books.
Speaker 1: In one part, he says, in the making of books,
Speaker 1: there is much weariness. Yes, And at the end of
Speaker 1: all of his education, he says, you know, I got
Speaker 1: it all.
Speaker 2: I knew what I needed to know, and I still
Speaker 2: felt empty inside.
Speaker 1: So he said, you know, then I decided I would
Speaker 1: look for it in my career. And he said, I'm
Speaker 1: the king of Israel, and I have enormous power. So
Speaker 1: I am you know, embrace all kinds of big public works,
Speaker 1: and I do all kinds of good things, and I
Speaker 1: have great goals, and I have a big vision, and
Speaker 1: I go after all the things in my work and
Speaker 1: my career and my vocation. And I really gave myself
Speaker 1: to it. But he said, I still felt empty. So
Speaker 1: he said, well, maybe, you know, maybe the answer is
Speaker 1: in money. And so he said, I amassed a huge fortune.
Speaker 1: And of course Solomon became the wealthiest man in the
Speaker 1: world in his day. And when the Queen of Sheba
Speaker 1: actually came to see Solomon, she says, I've never seen
Speaker 1: this kind of wealth it's just massive.
Speaker 2: It's just unbelievable.
Speaker 1: How much money, how much wealth, how many riches this
Speaker 1: guy has. And he said, and I piled it all up,
Speaker 1: and I bought nice things, and I did art projects
Speaker 1: and all of these things.
Speaker 2: But I still felt empty. I said.
Speaker 1: You know, I tried everything that everybody tries, popularity, you know, fame,
Speaker 1: I tried the party scene. I went out and I
Speaker 1: gave my life to wine women in song, emphasis wine
Speaker 1: and women. And he goes, at the end of that,
Speaker 1: I still felt empty. It's a common common cause of
Speaker 1: many many people. Now, let me just ask you. Have
Speaker 1: you ever been so hungry? Let's say you get up
Speaker 1: in the middle of the night. You've all done this.
Speaker 1: Likely you go to the refrigerator and you opened the
Speaker 1: door of the refrigerator and then you stare because you
Speaker 1: know you're you're hungry, but you don't know what you're
Speaker 1: hungry for. Okay, how many of you have ever been there?
Speaker 1: Can I see your hands?
Speaker 2: All right?
Speaker 1: The rest of you are dirty, rotten liars. Okay, we've
Speaker 1: all done this. You just stand in front of a
Speaker 1: refrigerator and you go, I'm hungry, but nothing looks good.
Speaker 1: You can't decide, what is this hunger inside of me?
Speaker 1: You ever been so hungry all you can think about
Speaker 1: was food?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Have you ever been so thirsty driving across the desert
Speaker 1: you just think I've got to get something to drink
Speaker 1: from my parched throat.
Speaker 2: Yes, you have.
Speaker 1: In this famous sermon of Jesus, he says, you know,
Speaker 1: being spiritually hungry is actually a good thing. He said,
Speaker 1: it's a good thing to be hungry, for God is
Speaker 1: a good is a good thing. In fact, he says
Speaker 1: it's one of the keys to living a blessed life. Matthew,
Speaker 1: Chapter five, verse six, Jesus says, this God blesses those
Speaker 1: who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
Speaker 2: That's promise.
Speaker 1: I want you to circle the word righteousness, and I
Speaker 1: want you to circle the word filled, because we're gonna
Speaker 1: spend some time on that today. First this word pill.
Speaker 1: They will be filled. A lot of translations translated this verse.
Speaker 1: They will be fully satisfied, they will be satiated, they
Speaker 1: will have all of their needs fulfilled. They will be
Speaker 1: fully satisfied with what happens in their life. And the Bible
Speaker 1: says that you get that kind of fulfilled life you
Speaker 1: get that kind of satisfying life, that meaningful life by
Speaker 1: hungering and thirsting for righteousness. So obviously we need to
Speaker 1: know what righteousness is. Now, Righteousness is incredibly important word
Speaker 1: in the Bible. It's used hundreds and hundreds and hundreds
Speaker 1: of times. The one day God is going to judge
Speaker 1: the earth in righteousness, and so this is an important concept.
Speaker 1: So what in the world does it mean to hunger
Speaker 1: and thirst for righteousness? Because if I do that, then
Speaker 1: I'm going to have a fulfilled and satisfying life. Well,
Speaker 1: if you were to go to a theological dictionary look
Speaker 1: up the word righteous, you'd find a long definition. In fact,
Speaker 1: one dictionary I had had a twenty seven page definition
Speaker 1: other word righteous. But let me just boil it all
Speaker 1: down into statements.
Speaker 2: It's it is.
Speaker 1: About a relationship, and it is about a lifestyle.
Speaker 2: First, it is a relationship. Write this down.
Speaker 1: To be righteous means being right with God. In its
Speaker 1: simplest form, it just simply means being right, being right
Speaker 1: with God.
Speaker 2: That's righteousness.
Speaker 1: It is a position that God has in relationship to you.
Speaker 1: You have in a relationship to God. Romans, Chapter one,
Speaker 1: verse seventeen says this the good news tells us how
Speaker 1: God makes us right with himself. Now, that word good news,
Speaker 1: you know you've heard the word gospel, You've heard gospel music,
Speaker 1: gospel preaching. Sharing the gospel with the word gospel simply
Speaker 1: the Old English word for good news.
Speaker 2: It simply means good news.
Speaker 1: And the Bible says the gospel or the good news
Speaker 1: tells us how God makes us right with him. Now,
Speaker 1: I want you to notice that this is something that
Speaker 1: God does for you. You don't do it, you don't
Speaker 1: make yourself righteous. God does it for you. And we're
Speaker 1: gonna look at that good news in detail in just
Speaker 1: a minute.
Speaker 2: It's a relationship. It's being right with God.
Speaker 1: But the Bible also uses the word righteous to refer
Speaker 1: to a lifestyle.
Speaker 2: And when you write this down, it means.
Speaker 1: Living right, living right as God intends, living right in faith,
Speaker 1: living right in God's commandments. And this is not a
Speaker 1: position of righteous it is the practice of righteousness. First
Speaker 1: John chapter two twenty nine says this, All who practice
Speaker 1: righteousness are God's true children. All who practice righteousness are
Speaker 1: God's true children. So what I want us to do
Speaker 1: today is to look at two things. How does God
Speaker 1: make me? Write with him. Me being an imperfect, flawed individual,
Speaker 1: and God being perfect and holy, How does God make
Speaker 1: me write with Him? And then I want us to
Speaker 1: look at practically on a daily basis, how do I
Speaker 1: keep a spiritual hunger for God? Because the Bible says
Speaker 1: if I am hungry and thirsty for God, to be
Speaker 1: right with God and to do right with God, then
Speaker 1: I will be filled. I will be fulfilled in life. Today,
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Speaker 1: that's very close to my heart, fulfilling the great commission
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Speaker 1: Why should I care about being right with God? Especially
Speaker 1: since none of my friends seem to care. The people
Speaker 1: who you live next door to couldn't care less, most
Speaker 1: likely about being right with God. There are millions of
Speaker 1: people in America and hundreds or hundreds of millions or
Speaker 1: billions of people who really don't care at all about
Speaker 1: being right with God. They don't seem to be doing
Speaker 1: so bad. So why in the world should I care?
Speaker 1: Or why in the world should I hunger and thirst
Speaker 1: for righteousness and nobody else seems to care about it. Well,
Speaker 1: to put it simply, one it's the only way to
Speaker 1: really live, and two it's the only way to get
Speaker 1: to coven.
Speaker 2: Let me show you some verses.
Speaker 1: Proverbs chapter twelve, Verse twenty eight says this righteousness is
Speaker 1: the road to life and the path to immortality. Proverbs
Speaker 1: righteousness is the road to life and the path to immortality.
Speaker 2: Now, when it.
Speaker 1: Says it's the road to life, then it must mean
Speaker 1: I'm not really living unless I'm connected with God.
Speaker 2: Not you're not.
Speaker 1: If you're not connected to God, you're just existing. You're
Speaker 1: not really living. Righteousness is the path to real life,
Speaker 1: to real living. Saint Augustine said it like this, this
Speaker 1: thou hast made us for thyself, Oh God, and our
Speaker 1: hearts are restless. We got spiritual add until we find
Speaker 1: our rest in thee. This is the very thing Solomon
Speaker 1: was talking about. Says, I'm looking for meaning in this,
Speaker 1: and I'm looking for meaning in that I'm looking for
Speaker 1: satisfaction and fulfillment in all these different areas, but nothing happens,
Speaker 1: and I can only find it in being connected to
Speaker 1: my creator. It's nonsense to try to live my life
Speaker 1: disconnected from the one who made me. You're not going
Speaker 1: to discover your plan, your purpose, or your meaning in
Speaker 1: life unless you're connected to God. How many times have
Speaker 1: you heard me say you were made by God and
Speaker 1: you were made for God. And until you figure that out,
Speaker 1: life is never going to make sense. Life is not
Speaker 1: about the acquisition of things. It's not about the achievement
Speaker 1: of goals. It's not about all these other things, because
Speaker 1: that's only going to last sixty eighty at the most
Speaker 1: one hundred years. It's about getting to know God, who
Speaker 1: made you and who loves you. It is the road
Speaker 1: to life. But the Bible says it's also righteousness is
Speaker 1: the path to immortality. And what does this mean? What
Speaker 1: does this mean? It means that God's not going to
Speaker 1: force you to go to heaven. He said, what do
Speaker 1: you mean? It's a choice? You see, God created you,
Speaker 1: and he loves you deeply. He wants you to learn
Speaker 1: to love him back. But love is not love unless
Speaker 1: you have a choice. So God never forces anybody to
Speaker 1: love him. You can spend your whole life thumbing your
Speaker 1: nose to God. You can reject God, and God will say,
Speaker 1: like Burger King, have it your way. God will not
Speaker 1: force himself on you. God does not. You can rebel
Speaker 1: your entire life. You could ignore God your entire life.
Speaker 1: You can act like God doesn't exist your entire life,
Speaker 1: and God will let you do that.
Speaker 2: He gave you.
Speaker 1: He made you in his image, which means you have
Speaker 1: the free moral will to make a choice, and He
Speaker 1: wants you to choose to love him, not be forced to.
Speaker 1: And so if I want to say God, I want
Speaker 1: to live my entire life disconnected from you, God will, like.
Speaker 2: Burger King, say have it your way. But here's the problem.
Speaker 1: One day I'm going to die and I'm going to
Speaker 1: stand before God, and God will be able to then
Speaker 1: say to me, wait a minute.
Speaker 2: You chose during your.
Speaker 1: Life to totally ignore me, to rebel against me, to
Speaker 1: disobey me, to ignore me, to live your life separate
Speaker 1: from me. And I said, have it your way. So
Speaker 1: obviously you must not want to live with me forever
Speaker 1: an eternity, So have it your way, and you would
Speaker 1: be eternally separated from God. And if you're separated from God,
Speaker 1: you can't blame God. He gave you the choice. Why
Speaker 1: would somebody want to live there life life completely separated
Speaker 1: in denial of God and his will in your life?
Speaker 1: And then once you die, Oh, by the way, I
Speaker 1: want to love you and live in your house forever.
Speaker 1: God will say, have it your way. You get what
Speaker 1: you asked for you, what you chose. It was your choice.
Speaker 1: Now you saw that verse where God says that the
Speaker 1: good News shows us how God makes people write with himself.
Speaker 1: That's called the gospel. What is that today? I want
Speaker 1: to give you Christian theology one oh one? Okay, this
Speaker 1: is the A. B. C's of our faith. What does
Speaker 1: it mean for God to make me write or righteous
Speaker 1: with him? Well, it means three things. Here's the plan, right,
Speaker 1: you might want to write these down. And the first
Speaker 1: thing is not necessarily good news. In fact, it's not
Speaker 1: even news. But it's this. I can't make myself righteous, Okay,
Speaker 1: I can't make myself righteous. Over In the Book of Jeremiah,
Speaker 1: Chapter thirteen, verse twenty three, Jeremiah says, can a leopard
Speaker 1: change his spots, And the answer is obviously not. And
Speaker 1: he said, neither can an imperfect person make himself perfect.
Speaker 1: I stop being perfect about the fourth breath of my life,
Speaker 1: and nobody bats a thousand. In fact, I've never met, actually,
Speaker 1: anybody who claimed to be perfect, except some people who
Speaker 1: weren't all in their capacities.
Speaker 2: And so we all know this. We all know.
Speaker 1: But if I am imperfect, then here's the question.
Speaker 2: How do I go to heaven if I'm imperfect?
Speaker 1: Let me let me explain that the Bible says that
Speaker 1: there is a heaven, and the Bible says Heaven is
Speaker 1: a perfect place. There's no sadness, there's no sorrow, there's
Speaker 1: no sickness, there's no suffering, there's no sin in heaven.
Speaker 2: Now here's the problem.
Speaker 1: I'm imperfect and I have problems like anger and fear
Speaker 1: and anxiety and jealousy and self centeredness. If God lets
Speaker 1: imperfect people into heaven, then guess what, Heaven would be
Speaker 1: no better than earth.
Speaker 2: So we got a problem here, because if.
Speaker 1: God lets us into heaven with all of our sin,
Speaker 1: then there's gonna be jealousy in heaven.
Speaker 2: There's gonna be rape and murder in heaven.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be war, adultery, unfaithfulness, meanness, racial prejudice, injustice.
Speaker 1: All the things we have on the broken planet would
Speaker 1: be in heaven, and heaven would be no different than earth.
Speaker 1: If God just let imperfect, sinful people bring all their
Speaker 1: sins into heaven.
Speaker 2: That ain't gonna work. That isn't gonna work.
Speaker 1: The Bible says, I can't make myself righteous. Now God
Speaker 1: comes up with a plan for this. But let me
Speaker 1: show you what the Bible says. Ecclesiast the chapter seven,
Speaker 1: verse twenty says this, there is not a righteous person
Speaker 1: on earth who always does what is right and never
Speaker 1: since that's you, me, it's the pope, it's everybody. There's
Speaker 1: no righteous person who always does the right thing and
Speaker 1: never sins. And in Romans chapter three, it says this,
Speaker 1: no one can ever be made right in God's sight
Speaker 1: by simply doing what his law commands, because the more
Speaker 1: we know God's law, the clearer it becomes that we
Speaker 1: can't keep it because the standard of perfection is it's
Speaker 1: you know, I was. I was on a plane one
Speaker 1: time and the guy figured out I was a pastor.
Speaker 1: So we start talking about heaven, and as we were talking.
Speaker 1: I just happened asking. I said, so why do you
Speaker 1: why do you think on what basis do you think
Speaker 1: God's going to let you into heaven? He said, well,
Speaker 1: I keep the ten commandments. I said, name them. I said,
Speaker 1: you can't even know. I'm much less. Keep them, okay,
Speaker 1: And the fact is we've all broken them all.
Speaker 2: The Bible says you shall have no other gods for you.
Speaker 1: I've had lots of gods before God many times in
Speaker 1: my life, and so have you. Bible says, don't make
Speaker 1: any idols. All we've idolized all kinds of things. We
Speaker 1: ida liize success, we idolize beauty, we idolize money. You've
Speaker 1: had all kinds of idols in your life. The Bible says,
Speaker 1: don't lie, don't steal. You've lied, you stolen. The Bible says,
Speaker 1: don't covet what somebody else says.
Speaker 2: You've done that. When it comes to the commandments, I'm
Speaker 2: ten for ten the wrong way.
Speaker 1: Because Jesus said, hey, you know, if you have lust
Speaker 1: in your heart, that's like adult treat He says, if
Speaker 1: you have anger in your heart, it's like murder. So
Speaker 1: guess what, I'm a murder and adulter. If that's true,
Speaker 1: I'm ten for ten blanked out on that one. So
Speaker 1: I need another plan, okay, and so do you. I
Speaker 1: remember one time I was talking to God on another
Speaker 1: plane and we were talking pretty much the same thing,
Speaker 1: and I said, so, on what basis do you think
Speaker 1: God's gonna let you into his heaven? And he said,
Speaker 1: because I'm better than other people. And I said, so
Speaker 1: you think God grades on a curve, okay, and that
Speaker 1: your good works are this high and your bad works
Speaker 1: are this low, so He's gonna you know, ignore or
Speaker 1: vice versa.
Speaker 2: You see, we all.
Speaker 1: Want to be good enough to get to heaven, but
Speaker 1: bad enough to be fun. Really, I said, no, No,
Speaker 1: God's standard is perfection because God is a sovereign, holy,
Speaker 1: just righteous God, and God cannot stand the side of sin.
Speaker 1: The Bible makes us very clear over and over and over.
Speaker 1: So how in the world do I get into God's
Speaker 1: presence being an imperfect, sinful person.
Speaker 2: There's got to be a plan for this.
Speaker 1: Let's trying to earn God's approval by my works and
Speaker 1: trying to earn perfection.
Speaker 2: That it's like this. Let's say let's say.
Speaker 1: La is Earth, and you know, and Hawaii is heaven.
Speaker 1: Some of you think Hawaii is heaven, and so we
Speaker 1: decide we're all gonna try to get to heaven on
Speaker 1: our own, and we're all gonna get there by swimming
Speaker 1: to Hawaii. Okay, now some of you don't know this,
Speaker 1: but before I became a pastor, for three years, I
Speaker 1: was a Red Cross lifeguard. So I let's say I
Speaker 1: swim out twelve miles, but then I wear out and
Speaker 1: I sink. And let's say you're an Olympic you Greg
Speaker 1: Luganus or somebody, and you you swim out twenty miles
Speaker 1: or thirty miles, and then you sink, And then you
Speaker 1: and I we have a friend that we lack a lot,
Speaker 1: but he doesn't even know how to swim, and he
Speaker 1: drowns in the surf. And some guy doesn't even get
Speaker 1: into the edge of the water. Do some people get
Speaker 1: further than others? Yes, but the path is too far.
Speaker 1: Nobody makes it all the way. I have no doubt
Speaker 1: you're better than me. You're probably a more moral person
Speaker 1: than I am. You're probably a more ethical person than
Speaker 1: I am. I don't have any doubt that there are
Speaker 1: a lot of people better people than me, and the world.
Speaker 1: The thing is, none of us attain perfection and none
Speaker 1: of us can swim all the way to Hawaii. So
Speaker 1: we got to have a plan. Now, that's the second
Speaker 1: part of this point two in the gospel is that
Speaker 1: God sent Jesus to pay for my sin. God sent
Speaker 1: Jesus to pay for my sin in a sacrificial system.
Speaker 2: God sent his son to pay for my sin. Let
Speaker 2: me give you an example.
Speaker 1: Let's say you have lived a life of crime your
Speaker 1: entire life.
Speaker 2: And let's say you get caught.
Speaker 1: And you go to court, and the prosecuting attorney makes
Speaker 1: the case and you're found guilty of a lifetime of crime,
Speaker 1: and so you are given a lifetime sinentence.
Speaker 2: And the judge he's sitting.
Speaker 1: There in the courthouse with his robe on and his gabble,
Speaker 1: and he bangs the gabble down as a judge and says,
Speaker 1: you are guiltiest charged. I sentence you to a lifetime sentence.
Speaker 1: And then, to the shock of everyone, the judge gets up,
Speaker 1: takes off his robe, walks down and stands beside you,
Speaker 1: puts his arm around you, said you're guilty of all
Speaker 1: those things and you deserve to repunished for it. But
Speaker 1: I love you. So here's the deal. I'm going to
Speaker 1: pay the penalty for you. I'm going to go serve
Speaker 1: the lifetime sentence for you. And you hear the shock
Speaker 1: in the room and the air is being sucked out
Speaker 1: as everybody gasped go. The judge has just become the savior.
Speaker 2: Today.
Speaker 1: I've got a quick note from a listener in Minneapolis.
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Speaker 1: this morning, accepting God into my life.
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