Isn’t There More to Life?

The American Dream

Faces Reality

Remember when you dreamed…

Of Christmas - Birthday

Of starting school - Finishing School

Driver’s License – 25 rates drop

New car – paid off

Falling in love – ball and chain

Career - Retirement

Children - Graduation

Isn’t There More to Life than

Just making a living?

The same old rat race

Just paying bills

Stacking up paper in a bank

It is the nature of man

to want more than we have

It is the nature of God to have more than we could ever ask or think

Matthew 6: 18-33

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

But lay up for yourselves

treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

No man can serve two masters:

for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Therefore I say unto you,

Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?

Behold the fowls of the air:

for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

Which of you by taking thought

can add one cubit unto his stature?And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Wherefore, if God

so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

Therefore take no thought,

saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

But seek ye first

the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

Solomon sought fulfillment

In Wealth

In Pleasure

In Substance Abuse

In Power

In Accomplishments

In Passion

In Knowledge

Solomon said

Fear God & keep his commandments

Rejoice with the wife of thy youth

Enjoy work of your hands

Eat the fruits of your labors

Study to do your own business

Eli

Didn’t restrain children

Lost ark / job

Fell over and died

David wanted more

Bathesheba

Paid 4 fold

Demas wanted more

2 Timothy 4:10

For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world

Judas wanted more

John:12:6

This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag

Jacob wanted more

Swindled brother

Wrestled angel

Some are dying for real

Love

Acceptance

Family

Belonging

Emotional Security

Some are on a mad rush for Joy

Thrills

Pleasure

Fun

Excitement

Enjoyment

Others long for Peace

Quiet

Calm

Rest

Contentment

The fruit of the Spirit

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance:

Galatians 5:22-25

Isn’t there more than this?

Meaning? Purpose? Reason? Fulfillment?

I came that they might have life

and that they might have it more abundantly.

Death

GodLife

SIN

Hell

“All have sinned and come short of the glory of God” – Romans 3:23

Death

GodLife

SIN

Hell

BaptismGood deedsCommunion

Church

Money

Can these save you?

JesusGod

Hell

I am the way, the truth, and the life; no man cometh unto the Father,

but by me.John 14:6

“Christ has once suffered for

our sins… that He might bring

us to God.” 1 Peter 3:18

“God commended His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.” – Romans 5:8