What We Really Want

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Purpose: To help people understand that genuine belif in Jesus reorganizes our life priorities around what truly satisfies our deepest longings. The driving principle is "God's heavenly will prioritizes my earthly will.

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What we Really Want

Introduction: What do you desire? What do you really long for? If we were to take a microphone all over this room, we would hear a variety of opinions. Some desires would overlap with those of others while some may stand out as a bit unique. Still, we all have yearnings that tend to propel us in pursuit of something we deem as important.
Ironically, those desires often shift depending on our current life stage. For example, children desire things that are very different from adults. They love swimming in the lake where as adults get freaked out that there might be some algae in the lake or a mucky bottom instead of sand. Or worse yet, they saw the movie jaws and think this pond is host to a great white shark. Kids desire watching the same movie over and over and over again; aka, Frozen! If I see that movie another time, I am going to grow carrots out of my nose. If you are an adult in the room, I am confident that you have had your fill of Frozen, or Finding Nemo, or Cars; your desires have shifted to other pursuits.
For teens, longings shift from bicycles to bikes, from animated movies to dramas such as Jurassic Park or Thirteen Days, or a Netflix Original, “This is us,” from childish games such as Toon-town, or Mind-craft to Call of Duty or GTA, that’s Grand Theft Auto for the uninitiated.
John 6:25–27 NIV
When they found him on the other side of the lake, they asked him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?” Jesus answered, “Very truly I tell you, you are looking for me, not because you saw the signs I performed but because you ate the loaves and had your fill. Do not work for food that spoils, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on him God the Father has placed his seal of approval.”

Three steps that align our priorities with God’s

1. Jesus exposes our real motive for coming to Him.

John 6:28
John 6:28–34 NIV
Then they asked him, “What must we do to do the works God requires?” Jesus answered, “The work of God is this: to believe in the one he has sent.” So they asked him, “What sign then will you give that we may see it and believe you? What will you do? Our ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written: ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” Jesus said to them, “Very truly I tell you, it is not Moses who has given you the bread from heaven, but it is my Father who gives you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is the bread that comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” “Sir,” they said, “always give us this bread.”

2. Jesus redirects our attention to what really matters (vv. 28-34)

John 6:35–40 NIV
Then Jesus declared, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. But as I told you, you have seen me and still you do not believe. All those the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away. For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me. And this is the will of him who sent me, that I shall lose none of all those he has given me, but raise them up at the last day. For my Father’s will is that everyone who looks to the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and I will raise them up at the last day.”

3. Jesus provides greater clarity into His identity and mission (vv. 35-40)

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