THE SACRED SECRET OF SATISFACTION

PSALM 17:15

Pastor Rick Jackson

Everybody wants satisfaction but no one has found it beneath the sun. The book of Ecclesiastes tells of Solomon’s efforts to be satisfied and his inability to be thus. If the richest, wisest man of his time failed how, with our meager resources, do we hope to be satisfied?

I. THE SATISFACTION OF BEHOLDING OUR SAVIOUR

1. The Testimony of Job [Job 19:26-27]

And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God: Whom I shall see for myself, and mine eyes shall behold, and not another; though my reins be consumed within me.

2. The Testimony of Paul [1st Thessalonians 4:13-18, I Cor. 15]

3. The Testimony of John [1 John 3:2]

Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.

II. THE SATISFACTION THAT IS PERSONAL

Generally speaking not everyone is satisfied by the same things or the same people. What satisfies your sweet tooth?

1. The Difficulties of this Life [Ps. 17:1-8]

The closest we come in this life is living in fellowship with Him but we fail! Are you satisfied with your spiritual life?

Proverbs 27:20 Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

2. The Opposition of this Life [Ps. 17:9-13]

3. The Injustice of this Life [Ps. 17:14]

III. THE SATISFACTION THAT LASTS [Daniel 12:2]

And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt.

1. The Testimony of John [1 John 3:2]

2. The Testimony Of Paul [Philippians 3:21]
Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

3. The Testimony of Peter [2 Peter 3:13 compared with Ps. 17:15]]

Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.