The Sermon Things that people want by Brad Price
Nov 28, 2010
Things that people want (35:15)
Referenced Scriptures: Philippians 4:19
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Philippians 4:19
19) My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
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One reason for the way you expect some form of Joker goofiness out of me and for those gigs, LLC, like this weekend is always the weekend when I want to preaching pastors always in which finance the guy never goes away. Our members. It is no woman ever take the wonderful pastor because he expects and I get some slack don't understand for those of you whoever you know, understand the whole idea of horses and animals, as will the slack in the line for Brad, though, you know, I expect such things, Kathy, my friend, if you will put up on their last session with the Martha Stewart calendar family members last year at this time here. I shared with you. Martha Stewart 's calendar. Yes no your member. Some of the crazy stuff on her cast. We put the first phase of ISO. This is a small portion. I want to know that Martha Stewart scaled back his Christmas. Apparently even the economy has really affected Martha or maybe she just thought it organizes usually because last year I offer there was even a thing about ironing the linens for the table to cover that Jesse had I got a day in her calendar to iron her linens per table, so I don't know if Mark was cutting back because the economy or are you getting lazy, but let's face it is holiday pressure fall on, but be honest women. Okay, you know it's the honest God, and that it are a lot of quality which I do share a little bit of the pressure to go on. Okay, maybe not learning out now how much of his holiday pressure to be put upon ourselves. I got up again, what you always expect me to want off-topic I have a friend that works it sheets your number selling a part of a moodiness, allergies, is the severest related post on Herbert talking that was on Friday were talking about Thanksgiving and one of her coworkers that I can't wait till I Mike and Thanksgiving and one of their houses. I said let me ask you a question. Would you be willing to give up Thanksgiving having at your house and have a one on none of them because I said, seeing, so I was kind of teasing and pleasing. I want to know. I wonder Frank Thomas, sometimes on a holiday pressure that we put ourselves is what we put on ourselves and so anyhow I distribute things work for your amusement this morning. Today's the twenty eighth, by the way, a marker is making her advent calendar in case any of you don't know what eleven calories. It was never made one, you know, Google, Google calendar, like every day starting at Christmas on the first of December, rather in a you start opening one for each day and sometimes they make them of little treats, little candy for the kids, you know, and it's a countdown until Christmas Eve, my great aunt always made ones with Tootsie Rolls and there was no bell bottom and there was little pupil poem. It innocently about significant human eye. When you reach the belt the bottom, it's Christmas Eve. So anyhow, but Mark is making her advent calendar today tomorrow. Martha will be choosing photos for her Christmas cards. So if you haven't done that. And she'll be updating her Christmas card mailing list tomorrow on and then Tuesday, Martha, we making handmade gifts to give to all her friends and family so long I hope I hope you're all caught up with the first of December. Obviously, Martha brings out the advent calendar that she made and should be mailing her party invitations the fourth of December Saturday is hanging wreaths replenish wrapping supplies. You can see the separate should be making stockings that so next Monday and donating clothes to charity mailing list to faraway friends on the tent making holiday donations. The eleventh mark will be picking out a Christmas tree and in one thousand words. I want to knows that when you have Martha Stewart again to see if they had a return okay all were more up now on the twelfth two decorative tree once again stepping in front of you, Martha Stewart, England. Nothing on you the thirteenth to be decorating the house, making up and picking up fresh fruit for displays, so for all of you in your fresh fruit displays, please be aware and also the one farmers markets closed, now 's the beginning of the regular supermarket addressing and mailing cards making freezing cookie dough wrapping gifts make a donation to charities baking cookies all. Yes, the eighteenth of December. Don't forget the pepper of your house that's in case you have visiting relatives were bringing pet and you know, make sure those dogs and cats are saying. I make this up. Okay, yes I am sort of picking a little bit of fun and mark them, but I either think this is great, but this is nothing compared to last year 's calendar, a promise to finalize the menu on the nineteenth for Christmas Day dinner delivery box suites off. Yes, this ever twenty first sweeping pine needles, who has ways that need break yet. But they often talk about and I get older, they just finalize the end of the forty second shooting your Lenten season, not ironing. Apparently that's here on filling stockings. The twenty fourth in setting the table and twenty fifty will be enjoying so I'm sorry I really had to share and so sometimes I tell jokes, funny, but sons, his humor and real stuff is there, so Thanksgiving is passed or thinking about Christmas right maybe not everybody thing about Christmas. The want for Christmas so has the question what you want for Christmas, a car room is what you undulate little birdie hotel modern-day what I want for Christmas is your friends house money bribery, but we just piece worth my dad used to say a little peace and quiet. I think we want to know these are guys, your review open of my childhood, which I may have already. There was one particular Christmas. I must abandon. I don't know, maybe eight maybe nine years old somewhere around that there was one thing that I really wanted for Christmas and my best friend Chris Westover had one and I wanted chassis. We put it up there. One Christmas, I'm telling you I was so focused on. I wanted hungry hungry hippos and airplane hungry hungry hippos. Yes, now that Christmas I got busted peeking that within the file and it wound up going back to the store again, I'm not making this up. There is there is humor in the real stuff in life, so I anyhow, we make sure our kids added that might yet so we can identify with that. I was busted there is no way to get around it and mom took it back right was ever seen the movie a Christmas story. I can go and you remember what a wealthy one aristocrat or maybe dying with was a car parked carbine action with what compositions. What the all you and decimal numbers. Response to hearing where I am. That was all Ralphie wanted for Christmas was the red Ryder BB gun Ralphie was incisive over the red Ryder BB gun Ralphie would danger in a class over the red Ryder BB gun and bring with them with all the ones coming through the coming through the schoolyard was of the house, yard, he was defending his family. There is good material in your will move along. But that's all right. He wanted for Christmas was the red Ryder BB gun sauce is what you want for Christmas. It's funny how the our desires and wants change as we get older is a no. Whereas once upon a time, we may have been extremely focused on things such as hungry hungry hippos on honestly I really don't want hungry hungry hippos anymore. I'm over it, but but our desire to change the order. Enter things we desire and we we wait, wait, we wish for certain things help pace will impinge sometimes there's only one. Sometimes it might be for my babies in the family situation. Now I'm not implying anything or anywhere in the same. Sometimes an independent wheat is one of the help. Sometimes we just think one of the nice to have an old-fashioned romantic Christmas yawns than just the quiet Christmas Eve at home with your family or spend church or quiet Christmas day that you know in our desires change announcements intended in the hustle and bustle of life. Sometimes all we want is a day off away from things, something perhaps a little different. Nothing so you know outlandish is hungry hungry hippos or a red Ryder BB gun, but our desires change as we move along as we grow in my thing. Yes, there are toys that I would like to have employees that I sometimes dream of the unfortunate part life as we get older, the boys get more expensive. Don't what consumes our thoughts and our dreams of Philippians, chapter four first nineteen I have my NIV Bible trying up. Here's the message version you can be sure that God will take care of everything you need his generosity exceeding Amy yours in the glory that pours from Jesus. It goes without saying that almost everyone is one thing something right. How often does your phone ring so many want something this passage in Psalms says that even as the deer pants after water so we also showed long after God of the Solomon said I pant after you Lord. Isaiah said, why do you spend money on things that aren't bread and why do you labor for things that will satisfy you think about this per second. What is it that people really want, and just how important are these things anyhow. Okay, so I may listen this morning I have a list that I like to go through things that people want and/or need. Okay, so are the first of all is fast food right people were concerned about food. Now that doesn't come as any great surprise is one of those things that we don't we think about once it probably wouldn't be up on the top of our last because it's more of an evening that we have to have all time. What we want. We need food throughout the day. Hunger can cause pain beyond description. But the thing is, most of us here can't even imagine the pain of that, because we've never been really hungry. I mean truly hungry, having gone days or weeks or months or years without some form of regular sustenance. I'm not. I couldn't imagine myself. Okay, and yes, the people of the world. Watch the money is spent towards constant dieting and people thinking that they're hungry, but there is no comparison when we eat regularly and we go to bed usually having had plenty to eat, but yet were told that half the world is starving and even in this land of plenty, there are people always asking for food bank. People will do almost anything to satisfy hunger. I'm talking real food. Hunger go to the Old Testament whenever the family came in and Joseph had convinced Pharaoh to store up food and the seven years of famine come through. Only Pharaoh had food stored up for that people were willing to sell their proper were willing to sell their lives, their clothing, anything they had possessions for food. You're what happened after Jesus fed the multitudes in Matthew after he fed the ground law. They wanted to make anything just because he was able to feed them. The poor who had nothing they want a king that always miraculously give them food to eat, Jesus can supply all of our needs. But Jesus is especially concerned about our internal needs. Okay, Jesus said I am the bread of life you comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty people have once been the one knowledge. People want information. There are companies built all around the whole concept of knowledge information last night, Stefan, I worded up front of her styles are working on her computer and I was there eligible to appear with one count was really slow. They were getting all these pop-ups and so we had some random the computer and we went through removing some programs, things are running in the background and there's a company which am sure you've all heard of and I that am the very popular recently the news that has search engine on market dimension earnings, but they put software on your computer. If you click on it. This computer will the search engines track what you're searching for, and they put information in the programs on your computer to monitor where it is what you're looking at, because they want to know the information about how you shop what you're doing online because they're trying to turn it into a block right information is important to people for different reasons and varieties in this age. People on it will have a church. Sometimes we have questions were this person on the model worth that risk on the Bible of people. Last of iPad people. I think I will ever happen to the art of becoming regarded governor. I don't know one way case you're curious to. I'd also like to know unavoidably covenant is it anyhow. People ask all kinds question people were hungry for knowledge, information, and we want to know God 's word to. We want knowledge of the world around us. One knowledge of other people. We want to know things about ourselves to God 's given us a desire for knowledge and this is brought about a lot of the conveniences we have arrived today we drive cars because a horse and buggy wasn't fast enough. We learn how to ride horses because walking wasn't fast enough and so rode a horse that wasn't fast of cinematic arts will cause more fast as we have airplanes and helicopters in them sure somebody working on Star Trek technology suite and is being stuff to, but we have these desires the past things easier. Okay, I got really good with the desires within us. Okay and and we have these desires you to find easier ways, faster ways to do things in the couple of all kinds of conveniences for life. But Paul also mentioned the Bible there is a knowledge that is evil. Paul said that there is an evil knowledge that pops itself up and causes pride and brings about arrogance and even division it out talking about. People want Jesus was very insightful and was able to find out what people want was any legal and even the book of Matthew, you can say there were so many situations where people wanted something from Jesus and if you look for Matthew will you are not to know. Finally, Jesus had a way of drawing out of them, getting them to say what it is they wanted to voice it out loud whether it was an eye has an insincere. The centurion who came of it. His son was ill yell censure in the working Jesus taught him to articulate what it was he wanted of the woman who was waiting, Jesus, and who, exactly, I felt our go out for me to talk to me and she said what it is a daughter to say what it is that she wanted God is concerned about your wants by the way I want you to know that case you didn't realize it. God is concerned about your desires and your once, and what it is that you're looking for. He raised the Willis, daughter of being when he yielded that the blind. Jesus knew what people wanted one of Pharisees came to Jesus try to trick him trip him up. Talk about you know what's more important to do on the Sabbath. Jesus knew what they wanted their intention was to deceive imager, and he was able to deal with them. Jesus was very insightful and I want you to know God wants us to be insightful to and to be aware or not, I really do feel that for the power of the Holy Spirit, we can be insightful and discerning realize what it is that people want and need in a situation, we need to be aware of other people 's needs and desires so that we can do our part in the kingdom of helping people out there with the story of pastor preached on it. Once back in the became a woman who came ugly, but because her daughter was even possessed and as you know, she wanted her daughter, you'll remember, Jesus said the problems the grounder for the children NL and she said, even the dogs did eat the crumbs off the floor and at first blush, and looking at it, it would look like Jesus was speaking very clearly doesn't it. But we know that's really out of character for Jesus to talk to people in such a way. The hard part is him and him and him him and reading the Bible and understanding it is, we don't have video of Jesus. We don't know how he said things we don't know what he said with a smile on his face and we don't know what you said seriously to understand and say so in looking at that situation where it seemed like Jesus was speaking so cruelly to her because the whole idea that she wasn't Jewish. It's a lot of character that I don't accept it. The Jesus was being grown up after wasn't espousing that either will I get. I think Jesus was using a mobile phone with the word is not sarcasm, but down there is another lyrical or term for people to write stories the whole idea of Jesus being since his satires at the word satire or sarcasm or something to that effect. But Jesus probably had a smile on his face and was speaking tongue-in-cheek with her in and in this interaction with her. Jesus knew what she wanted any certainty what your faith has healed your daughter. Simple as that. If Jesus didn't care about hurting think he would've killed his daughter revealed her daughter away with Jesus cares and is concerned about her once God is concerned about your. Once your desires. Okay, so am said knowledge. I am what this companionship old wine in the companionship call friendship: love: however you want. We are surrounded by people who are lonely and who need interaction they need companionship. People who are longing for meaningful relationships and what, how is it, and we all know what that event the holidays. What people celebrate to be the happiest time of year. Oftentimes a very painful time of year for people because of one potential reason is loneliness. God put a desire inside of us to need other people, but like it would join clubs, but like people enjoy fellowship in your church. That's why we are in this fellowship is gone, but a desire inside of us to have meaning. Interaction with other people. We need others. We need friends. We need companions. We need people who care about us. All we people friends that we can care about. Also, it's an important part of life. Jesus said in John chapter fifteen versus thirteen to fifteen numbers. The blaze right through it. This is a very important. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down his life for a friend. You are my friends if you do what I tell under longer call you servants, because a servant doesn't know his master 's business. Instead, I called you friends, because everything I learned from my father. I've made known to you God with his desire for interaction into us. It's a good and honest thing okay. They are also, however, potential for bad friendships, parents are always concerned about their children as they Wayne, you're running with the wrong crowd and I'm sure the children grow tired of listening to parents warnings about who they spend their time with what our friends, and I think maybe more than anyone else. Teenagers did more than anyone else. Our friends influence our character. I certificate am sure even as gotten really sick of hearing me say this, but you show me your five closest friends and I'll show you your future. There is a phrase one rotten apple ruins the whole barrel on what is about it. Whatever that your put your tomatoes in with your bananas the try to get one to ripen the other faster run certain fruits near him, and once it starts to go right because like kaboom it's gone. The others bananas went from green to brown instantly, but it's the whole idea that one bad influence can spoil the whole bunch. Okay, when a friend if a friend betrays us. It can be a deflating experience. Okay, relationships can be beneficial relationships can be damaging at times to Jesus knew what it was like to have a friend betrayed him and his friend Judas betrayed him, and that Jesus knew about her. Jesus knew about being wrong. But Jesus was also capable and able to love and to establish good strong friendship. So I got a personal on here are so sweet, we mentioned the first reality for one love people want love in this life. Everyone needs we love and we all need to love others. I don't know which one we need more I'm not sure why need for you to love me as much as I need to love you, but we need both to give love and to receive it. When we give love. We run a risk and only we run a risk of the concern and love and wish over people won't be returned and that can be a frightening experience for some people day newsflash, I am not perfect husband, Stephanie rains and now you call me a liar, but Stephanie may not be the perfect spouse. No one of us is the perfect person. No one of us is the perfect husband. No one of us is the perfect wife. Okay for the pretty young people of his own. No one 's the perfect best friend. People can and will disappoint us. I joke with the teenagers that they think the puppy love will last forever. You know, there thrown elbows each other now. But you know when we were in a minute. First, it is a little married her high school sweetheart. I don't know, but you know when we're dying we getting these relationships and we think all women love forever, you know, and a week later is also in our discouraging. Puppy love, but anyhow sometimes people back in life rollback with family. We hold back with friends because were afraid of doing our little hearts trampled on and getting her okay but abortion is something we can always count on God. We don't need to hold back with God because God is not natural on your heart want to step on your feelings. God is in love with you and is committed to you for the rest of your life, and in through eternity. Okay, the Bible says we love him because he first loved us. I think beauty people want beauty people need one feel the need one. What was your line even we are demolished and wanted to go to one of the popular holdings, which was a parable style and what was originally about T-shirts being on sale and I said you do need the surgery you want the shirts and borderline evenings that I feel the need to want these to CSS, which really did bring a big smile to my face and review him. People want to be and/or feel beautiful or attractive to others. Quite often you can talk to people who are depressed, worried about being unloved because they don't fit a certain image or people say all you know, something, some portions in part of your body is not perfect and that makes me unlovable God made a beautiful world full of beautiful people. Okay, he made us God pain in the sky. He painted the fields. He gave us beautiful things to love beautiful things to behold because he loves us, and there are people in this world who are beautiful and the people there are people in this world that are not so beautiful and friends. It has nothing to do with what we consider to be whatever it comes from something that starts on the inside, and works its way so we often joke I am what's the restaurant and air restaurant always stated that they are doing. I don't belong present for the beautiful people of the world go to the learning out on the phrases viewed easily either the holder and what I think is beautiful. You. You may not find to be beautiful at all. In fact, but God wants us out there is a difference between what people think is beautiful and what really truly is beautiful. There was a movie called shallow Hal that dealt with all of that on the whole idea of what makes people beautiful, but some while I may never have outer beauty. We all are capable of being dutiful people who are part conduct our actions okay by the way, God is made everything beautiful in its site take up happiness. People want happiness. People need happiness. I talk to people who want to be happy and don't know how to be happy weekend. Oftentimes the believe that happiness is found in acquiring things that happiness is never been found. There never will be people searched frantically believing the idea that that happiness comes from the abundance of things that we possess, but here's something here. Happiness doesn't come from what we possess, but rather happiness comes from what possesses us. God told the wealthy farmer in full this night your soul is required of you, and you'll get all the things you stored up what is across him the whole world and lose his soul. What shall a man give in exchange for his soul. We are God 's words. But so many times those words don't think in here this is what people were hungry for just a few things that I came up with in my opinion, people longer for food knowledge companionship, love, beauty and happiness. Though there are the things we can add to this list that we haven't even touched on drinks it will hunger for grace and forgiveness, and haven't found it yet in life because they haven't met a loving Savior. And perhaps they haven't met a Christian, yet it was been able to effectively show God 's grace to them. I people want these things, people hunger for healing friendship, love, all these things, but Philippians four nineteen, says my God shall supply all your needs according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. That's the answer friends that the how. That's how God gets it all done. That's how all of my once all of your once everyone you meet. That is how once it truly satisfied is through Christ Jesus God has an inexhaustible account can't run dry, can't run in the red God has untold riches and if there brought by the Jesus Christ so whatever our need is as it to give to fulfill our need, so we used it with me. Please will you hungry for food. Jesus is the bread of life. Are you hungry for knowledge or younger for food. What younger this morning, what information are you hungry for forgiveness are we looking for a meaningful relationship, friendship grace, love, acceptance, there is no greater love than what God shows towards us. He gave everything he had given only through Jesus without reservation. God wants to make us beautiful, beautiful person for graceful forgiveness for mercy for those around us. Are you hungry for healing. God can do it. Are you hungry for happiness. God, the source. I think any one of these hungers and probably millions more are why we each one of us is here in this building this church family. I think we're here because we found something here, we found a savior who loves and is so committed to us. And yeah, we probably found it was somebody in this church who expressed it, so we need to remember that we need to go out and convey to people around us. God 's grace and mercy, forgiveness, you can support I someone else's need, you can do it. What better place experience God 's grace and healingOne reason for the way you expect some form of Joker goofiness out of me and for those gigs, LLC, like this weekend is always the weekend when I want to preaching pastors always in which finance the guy never goes away. Our members. It is no woman ever take the wonderful pastor because he expects and I get some slack don't understand for those of you whoever you know, understand the whole idea of horses and animals, as will the slack in the line for Brad, though, you know, I expect such things, Kathy, my friend, if you will put up on their last session with the Martha Stewart calendar family members last year at this time here. I shared with you. Martha Stewart 's calendar. Yes no your member. Some of the crazy stuff on her cast. We put the first phase of ISO. This is a small portion. I want to know that Martha Stewart scaled back his Christmas. Apparently even the economy has really affected Martha or maybe she just thought it organizes usually because last year I offer there was even a thing about ironing the linens for the table to cover that Jesse had I got a day in her calendar to iron her linens per table, so I don't know if Mark was cutting back because the economy or are you getting lazy, but let's face it is holiday pressure fall on, but be honest women. Okay, you know it's the honest God, and that it are a lot of quality which I do share a little bit of the pressure to go on. Okay, maybe not learning out now how much of his holiday pressure to be put upon ourselves. I got up again, what you always expect me to want off-topic I have a friend that works it sheets your number selling a part of a moodiness, allergies, is the severest related post on Herbert talking that was on Friday were talking about Thanksgiving and one of her coworkers that I can't wait till I Mike and Thanksgiving and one of their houses. I said let me ask you a question. Would you be willing to give up Thanksgiving having at your house and have a one on none of them because I said, seeing, so I was kind of teasing and pleasing. I want to know. I wonder Frank Thomas, sometimes on a holiday pressure that we put ourselves is what we put on ourselves and so anyhow I distribute things work for your amusement this morning. Today's the twenty eighth, by the way, a marker is making her advent calendar in case any of you don't know what eleven calories. It was never made one, you know, Google, Google calendar, like every day starting at Christmas on the first of December, rather in a you start opening one for each day and sometimes they make them of little treats, little candy for the kids, you know, and it's a countdown until Christmas Eve, my great aunt always made ones with Tootsie Rolls and there was no bell bottom and there was little pupil poem. It innocently about significant human eye. When you reach the belt the bottom, it's Christmas Eve. So anyhow, but Mark is making her advent calendar today tomorrow. Martha will be choosing photos for her Christmas cards. So if you haven't done that. And she'll be updating her Christmas card mailing list tomorrow on and then Tuesday, Martha, we making handmade gifts to give to all her friends and family so long I hope I hope you're all caught up with the first of December. Obviously, Martha brings out the advent calendar that she made and should be mailing her party invitations the fourth of December Saturday is hanging wreaths replenish wrapping supplies. You can see the separate should be making stockings that so next Monday and donating clothes to charity mailing list to faraway friends on the tent making holiday donations. The eleventh mark will be picking out a Christmas tree and in one thousand words. I want to knows that when you have Martha Stewart again to see if they had a return okay all were more up now on the twelfth two decorative tree once again stepping in front of you, Martha Stewart, England. Nothing on you the thirteenth to be decorating the house, making up and picking up fresh fruit for displays, so for all of you in your fresh fruit displays, please be aware and also the one farmers markets closed, now 's the beginning of the regular supermarket addressing and mailing cards making freezing cookie dough wrapping gifts make a donation to charities baking cookies all. Yes, the eighteenth of December. Don't forget the pepper of your house that's in case you have visiting relatives were bringing pet and you know, make sure those dogs and cats are saying. I make this up. Okay, yes I am sort of picking a little bit of fun and mark them, but I either think this is great, but this is nothing compared to last year 's calendar, a promise to finalize the menu on the nineteenth for Christmas Day dinner delivery box suites off. Yes, this ever twenty first sweeping pine needles, who has ways that need break yet. But they often talk about and I get older, they just finalize the end of the forty second shooting your Lenten season, not ironing. Apparently that's here on filling stockings. The twenty fourth in setting the table and twenty fifty will be enjoying so I'm sorry I really had to share and so sometimes I tell jokes, funny, but sons, his humor and real stuff is there, so Thanksgiving is passed or thinking about Christmas right maybe not everybody thing about Christmas. The want for Christmas so has the question what you want for Christmas, a car room is what you undulate little birdie hotel modern-day what I want for Christmas is your friends house money bribery, but we just piece worth my dad used to say a little peace and quiet. I think we want to know these are guys, your review open of my childhood, which I may have already. There was one particular Christmas. I must abandon. I don't know, maybe eight maybe nine years old somewhere around that there was one thing that I really wanted for Christmas and my best friend Chris Westover had one and I wanted chassis. We put it up there. One Christmas, I'm telling you I was so focused on. I wanted hungry hungry hippos and airplane hungry hungry hippos. Yes, now that Christmas I got busted peeking that within the file and it wound up going back to the store again, I'm not making this up. There is there is humor in the real stuff in life, so I anyhow, we make sure our kids added that might yet so we can identify with that. I was busted there is no way to get around it and mom took it back right was ever seen the movie a Christmas story. I can go and you remember what a wealthy one aristocrat or maybe dying with was a car parked carbine action with what compositions. What the all you and decimal numbers. Response to hearing where I am. That was all Ralphie wanted for Christmas was the red Ryder BB gun Ralphie was incisive over the red Ryder BB gun Ralphie would danger in a class over the red Ryder BB gun and bring with them with all the ones coming through the coming through the schoolyard was of the house, yard, he was defending his family. There is good material in your will move along. But that's all right. He wanted for Christmas was the red Ryder BB gun sauce is what you want for Christmas. It's funny how the our desires and wants change as we get older is a no. Whereas once upon a time, we may have been extremely focused on things such as hungry hungry hippos on honestly I really don't want hungry hungry hippos anymore. I'm over it, but but our desire to change the order. Enter things we desire and we we wait, wait, we wish for certain things help pace will impinge sometimes there's only one. Sometimes it might be for my babies in the family situation. Now I'm not implying anything or anywhere in the same. Sometimes an independent wheat is one of the help. Sometimes we just think one of the nice to have an old-fashioned romantic Christmas yawns than just the quiet Christmas Eve at home with your family or spend church or quiet Christmas day that you know in our desires change announcements intended in the hustle and bustle of life. Sometimes all we want is a day off away from things, something perhaps a little different. Nothing so you know outlandish is hungry hungry hippos or a red Ryder BB gun, but our desires change as we move along as we grow in my thing. Yes, there are toys that I would like to have employees that I sometimes dream of the unfortunate part life as we get older, the boys get more expensive. Don't what consumes our thoughts and our dreams of Philippians, chapter four first nineteen I have my NIV Bible trying up. Here's the message version you can be sure that God will take care of everything you need his generosity exceeding Amy yours in the glory that pours from Jesus. It goes without saying that almost everyone is one thing something right. How often does your phone ring so many want something this passage in Psalms says that even as the deer pants after water so we also showed long after God of the Solomon said I pant after you Lord. Isaiah said, why do you spend money on things that aren't bread and why do you labor for things that will satisfy you think about this per second. What is it that people really want, and just how important are these things anyhow. Okay, so I may listen this morning I have a list that I like to go through things that people want and/or need. Okay, so are the first of all is fast food right people were concerned about food. Now that doesn't come as any great surprise is one of those things that we don't we think about once it probably wouldn't be up on the top of our last because it's more of an evening that we have to have all time. What we want. We need food throughout the day. Hunger can cause pain beyond description. But the thing is, most of us here can't even imagine the pain of that, because we've never been really hungry. I mean truly hungry, having gone days or weeks or months or years without some form of regular sustenance. I'm not. I couldn't imagine myself. Okay, and yes, the people of the world. Watch the money is spent towards constant dieting and people thinking that they're hungry, but there is no comparison when we eat regularly and we go to bed usually having had plenty to eat, but yet were told that half the world is starving and even in this land of plenty, there are people always asking for food bank. People will do almost anything to satisfy hunger. I'm talking real food. Hunger go to the Old Testament whenever the family came in and Joseph had convinced Pharaoh to store up food and the seven years of famine come through. Only Pharaoh had food stored up for that people were willing to sell their proper were willing to sell their lives, their clothing, anything they had possessions for food. You're what happened after Jesus fed the multitudes in Matthew after he fed the ground law. They wanted to make anything just because he was able to feed them. The poor who had nothing they want a king that always miraculously give them food to eat, Jesus can supply all of our needs. But Jesus is especially concerned about our internal needs. Okay, Jesus said I am the bread of life you comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty people have once been the one knowledge. People want information. There are companies built all around the whole concept of knowledge information last night, Stefan, I worded up front of her styles are working on her computer and I was there eligible to appear with one count was really slow. They were getting all these pop-ups and so we had some random the computer and we went through removing some programs, things are running in the background and there's a company which am sure you've all heard of and I that am the very popular recently the news that has search engine on market dimension earnings, but they put software on your computer. If you click on it. This computer will the search engines track what you're searching for, and they put information in the programs on your computer to monitor where it is what you're looking at, because they want to know the information about how you shop what you're doing online because they're trying to turn it into a block right information is important to people for different reasons and varieties in this age. People on it will have a church. Sometimes we have questions were this person on the model worth that risk on the Bible of people. Last of iPad people. I think I will ever happen to the art of becoming regarded governor. I don't know one way case you're curious to. I'd also like to know unavoidably covenant is it anyhow. People ask all kinds question people were hungry for knowledge, information, and we want to know God 's word to. We want knowledge of the world around us. One knowledge of other people. We want to know things about ourselves to God 's given us a desire for knowledge and this is brought about a lot of the conveniences we have arrived today we drive cars because a horse and buggy wasn't fast enough. We learn how to ride horses because walking wasn't fast enough and so rode a horse that wasn't fast of cinematic arts will cause more fast as we have airplanes and helicopters in them sure somebody working on Star Trek technology suite and is being stuff to, but we have these desires the past things easier. Okay, I got really good with the desires within us. Okay and and we have these desires you to find easier ways, faster ways to do things in the couple of all kinds of conveniences for life. But Paul also mentioned the Bible there is a knowledge that is evil. Paul said that there is an evil knowledge that pops itself up and causes pride and brings about arrogance and even division it out talking about. People want Jesus was very insightful and was able to find out what people want was any legal and even the book of Matthew, you can say there were so many situations where people wanted something from Jesus and if you look for Matthew will you are not to know. Finally, Jesus had a way of drawing out of them, getting them to say what it is they wanted to voice it out loud whether it was an eye has an insincere. The centurion who came of it. His son was ill yell censure in the working Jesus taught him to articulate what it was he wanted of the woman who was waiting, Jesus, and who, exactly, I felt our go out for me to talk to me and she said what it is a daughter to say what it is that she wanted God is concerned about your wants by the way I want you to know that case you didn't realize it. God is concerned about your desires and your once, and what it is that you're looking for. He raised the Willis, daughter of being when he yielded that the blind. Jesus knew what people wanted one of Pharisees came to Jesus try to trick him trip him up. Talk about you know what's more important to do on the Sabbath. Jesus knew what they wanted their intention was to deceive imager, and he was able to deal with them. Jesus was very insightful and I want you to know God wants us to be insightful to and to be aware or not, I really do feel that for the power of the Holy Spirit, we can be insightful and discerning realize what it is that people want and need in a situation, we need to be aware of other people 's needs and desires so that we can do our part in the kingdom of helping people out there with the story of pastor preached on it. Once back in the became a woman who came ugly, but because her daughter was even possessed and as you know, she wanted her daughter, you'll remember, Jesus said the problems the grounder for the children NL and she said, even the dogs did eat the crumbs off the floor and at first blush, and looking at it, it would look like Jesus was speaking very clearly doesn't it. But we know that's really out of character for Jesus to talk to people in such a way. The hard part is him and him and him him and reading the Bible and understanding it is, we don't have video of Jesus. We don't know how he said things we don't know what he said with a smile on his face and we don't know what you said seriously to understand and say so in looking at that situation where it seemed like Jesus was speaking so cruelly to her because the whole idea that she wasn't Jewish. It's a lot of character that I don't accept it. The Jesus was being grown up after wasn't espousing that either will I get. I think Jesus was using a mobile phone with the word is not sarcasm, but down there is another lyrical or term for people to write stories the whole idea of Jesus being since his satires at the word satire or sarcasm or something to that effect. But Jesus probably had a smile on his face and was speaking tongue-in-cheek with her in and in this interaction with her. Jesus knew what she wanted any certainty what your faith has healed your daughter. Simple as that. If Jesus didn't care about hurting think he would've killed his daughter revealed her daughter away with Jesus cares and is concerned about her once God is concerned about your. Once your desires. Okay, so am said knowledge. I am what this companionship old wine in the companionship call friendship: love: however you want. We are surrounded by people who are lonely and who need interaction they need companionship. People who are longing for meaningful relationships and what, how is it, and we all know what that event the holidays. What people celebrate to be the happiest time of year. Oftentimes a very painful time of year for people because of one potential reason is loneliness. God put a desire inside of us to need other people, but like it would join clubs, but like people enjoy fellowship in your church. That's why we are in this fellowship is gone, but a desire inside of us to have meaning. Interaction with other people. We need others. We need friends. We need companions. We need people who care about us. All we people friends that we can care about. Also, it's an important part of life. Jesus said in John chapter fifteen versus thirteen to fifteen numbers. The blaze right through it. This is a very important. Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down his life for a friend. You are my friends if you do what I tell under longer call you servants, because a servant doesn't know his master 's business. Instead, I called you friends, because everything I learned from my father. I've made known to you God with his desire for interaction into us. It's a good and honest thing okay. They are also, however, potential for bad friendships, parents are always concerned about their children as they Wayne, you're running with the wrong crowd and I'm sure the children grow tired of listening to parents warnings about who they spend their time with what our friends, and I think maybe more than anyone else. Teenagers did more than anyone else. Our friends influence our character. I certificate am sure even as gotten really sick of hearing me say this, but you show me your five closest friends and I'll show you your future. There is a phrase one rotten apple ruins the whole barrel on what is about it. Whatever that your put your tomatoes in with your bananas the try to get one to ripen the other faster run certain fruits near him, and once it starts to go right because like kaboom it's gone. The others bananas went from green to brown instantly, but it's the whole idea that one bad influence can spoil the whole bunch. Okay, when a friend if a friend betrays us. It can be a deflating experience. Okay, relationships can be beneficial relationships can be damaging at times to Jesus knew what it was like to have a friend betrayed him and his friend Judas betrayed him, and that Jesus knew about her. Jesus knew about being wrong. But Jesus was also capable and able to love and to establish good strong friendship. So I got a personal on here are so sweet, we mentioned the first reality for one love people want love in this life. Everyone needs we love and we all need to love others. I don't know which one we need more I'm not sure why need for you to love me as much as I need to love you, but we need both to give love and to receive it. When we give love. We run a risk and only we run a risk of the concern and love and wish over people won't be returned and that can be a frightening experience for some people day newsflash, I am not perfect husband, Stephanie rains and now you call me a liar, but Stephanie may not be the perfect spouse. No one of us is the perfect person. No one of us is the perfect husband. No one of us is the perfect wife. Okay for the pretty young people of his own. No one 's the perfect best friend. People can and will disappoint us. I joke with the teenagers that they think the puppy love will last forever. You know, there thrown elbows each other now. But you know when we were in a minute. First, it is a little married her high school sweetheart. I don't know, but you know when we're dying we getting these relationships and we think all women love forever, you know, and a week later is also in our discouraging. Puppy love, but anyhow sometimes people back in life rollback with family. We hold back with friends because were afraid of doing our little hearts trampled on and getting her okay but abortion is something we can always count on God. We don't need to hold back with God because God is not natural on your heart want to step on your feelings. God is in love with you and is committed to you for the rest of your life, and in through eternity. Okay, the Bible says we love him because he first loved us. I think beauty people want beauty people need one feel the need one. What was your line even we are demolished and wanted to go to one of the popular holdings, which was a parable style and what was originally about T-shirts being on sale and I said you do need the surgery you want the shirts and borderline evenings that I feel the need to want these to CSS, which really did bring a big smile to my face and review him. People want to be and/or feel beautiful or attractive to others. Quite often you can talk to people who are depressed, worried about being unloved because they don't fit a certain image or people say all you know, something, some portions in part of your body is not perfect and that makes me unlovable God made a beautiful world full of beautiful people. Okay, he made us God pain in the sky. He painted the fields. He gave us beautiful things to love beautiful things to behold because he loves us, and there are people in this world who are beautiful and the people there are people in this world that are not so beautiful and friends. It has nothing to do with what we consider to be whatever it comes from something that starts on the inside, and works its way so we often joke I am what's the restaurant and air restaurant always stated that they are doing. I don't belong present for the beautiful people of the world go to the learning out on the phrases viewed easily either the holder and what I think is beautiful. You. You may not find to be beautiful at all. In fact, but God wants us out there is a difference between what people think is beautiful and what really truly is beautiful. There was a movie called shallow Hal that dealt with all of that on the whole idea of what makes people beautiful, but some while I may never have outer beauty. We all are capable of being dutiful people who are part conduct our actions okay by the way, God is made everything beautiful in its site take up happiness. People want happiness. People need happiness. I talk to people who want to be happy and don't know how to be happy weekend. Oftentimes the believe that happiness is found in acquiring things that happiness is never been found. There never will be people searched frantically believing the idea that that happiness comes from the abundance of things that we possess, but here's something here. Happiness doesn't come from what we possess, but rather happiness comes from what possesses us. God told the wealthy farmer in full this night your soul is required of you, and you'll get all the things you stored up what is across him the whole world and lose his soul. What shall a man give in exchange for his soul. We are God 's words. But so many times those words don't think in here this is what people were hungry for just a few things that I came up with in my opinion, people longer for food knowledge companionship, love, beauty and happiness. Though there are the things we can add to this list that we haven't even touched on drinks it will hunger for grace and forgiveness, and haven't found it yet in life because they haven't met a loving Savior. And perhaps they haven't met a Christian, yet it was been able to effectively show God 's grace to them. I people want these things, people hunger for healing friendship, love, all these things, but Philippians four nineteen, says my God shall supply all your needs according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. That's the answer friends that the how. That's how God gets it all done. That's how all of my once all of your once everyone you meet. That is how once it truly satisfied is through Christ Jesus God has an inexhaustible account can't run dry, can't run in the red God has untold riches and if there brought by the Jesus Christ so whatever our need is as it to give to fulfill our need, so we used it with me. Please will you hungry for food. Jesus is the bread of life. Are you hungry for knowledge or younger for food. What younger this morning, what information are you hungry for forgiveness are we looking for a meaningful relationship, friendship grace, love, acceptance, there is no greater love than what God shows towards us. He gave everything he had given only through Jesus without reservation. God wants to make us beautiful, beautiful person for graceful forgiveness for mercy for those around us. Are you hungry for healing. God can do it. Are you hungry for happiness. God, the source. I think any one of these hungers and probably millions more are why we each one of us is here in this building this church family. I think we're here because we found something here, we found a savior who loves and is so committed to us. And yeah, we probably found it was somebody in this church who expressed it, so we need to remember that we need to go out and convey to people around us. God 's grace and mercy, forgiveness, you can support I someone else's need, you can do it. What better place experience God 's grace and healing