Title: High Places Part 2 Throughout the time of the priest Jehoiada instructed him, Joash did what was right in the Lord’s sight. Yet the high places were not taken away; the people continued sacrificing and burning incense on the high places. 2 Kings 12:2-3 (CSB) WHAT IS MY YET, THAT I’M GIVING MY LIFE TO, THAT IS PREVENTING ME FROM HAVING THE LIFE GOD HAS FOR ME? BETCHA CAN’T EAT JUST ONE ONCE YOU POP, YOU CAN’T STOP EAT, DRINK, AND BE MERRY WE DON’T LIKE TO DENY OURSELVES, NOR DO WE THINK IT’S NECESSARY TO DO SO But know this: Hard times will come in the last days. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, demeaning, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good, traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than loves of God, holding to the form of godliness but denying its power. 2 Timothy 3:1-5 (CSB) YOU ARE TRYING TO SATISFY YOURSELF, YET YOU ARE RESTLESS He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also put eternity in their hearts, but no one can discover the work God has done from beginning to end. Ecclesiastes 3:11 (CSB) If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world. C.S. Lewis Has a nation ever exchanged its gods? (But they were not gods!) Yet My people have exchanged their Glory for useless idols. Jeremiah 2:11 (CSB) For My people have committed a double evil: They have abandoned Me, the fountain of living water, and dug cisterns for themselves - cracked cisterns that cannot hold water. Jeremiah 2:13 (CSB) After this, Jesus crossed the Sea of Galilee (or Tiberias). A huge crowd was following Him because they saw the signs that He was performing by healing the sick. John 6:1-2 (CSB) The next day, the crowd that had stayed on the other side of the sea saw there had been only one boat. They also saw that Jesus had not boarded the boat with His disciples, but that His disciples had gone off alone. John 6:22 (CSB) Some of the boats from Tiberias came near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord had given thanks. When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor His disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus. John 6:23-24 (CSB) When they found Him on the other side of the sea, they said to Him, “Rabbi, when did you get here?” John 16:25 (CSB) Jesus answered, “Truly I tell you, you are looking for Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate the loaves and were filled.” John 6:26 (CSB) “Don’t work for the food that perishes, but for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal of approval on Him.” John 6:27 (CSB) “Come, everyone who is thirsty, come to the water; and you without silver; come, buy, and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without silver and without cost! Why do you spend silver on what is not food, and your wages on what does not satisfy?” Isaiah 55:1-2a (CSB) “Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and you will enjoy the choicest of foods. Pay attention and come to Me; listen, so that you will live.” Isaiah 55:2b-3 (CSB) WE OFTEN FIND OURSELVES IN THE PLACE WHERE WE ARE FORCED TO CHOOSE BETWEEN, ____________ TO SATISFY THE CRAVING, OR JESUS TO SATISFY OUR SOULS We were made for God, and until He is our greatest pleasure, all the other pleasures of this life will lead to emptiness. Kyle Idleman “Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.” Matthew 5:6 (CSB) WHAT ARE THE BROKEN CISTERNS YOU CONSTANTLY FIND YOURSELF GOING TO? WHAT DO I LOVE AND RELY ON MORE THAN I LOVE AND RELY ON GOD? Remember my affliction and my wanderings, the wormwood and the poison. I continually remember them and have become depressed. Lamentations 3:19-20 (CSB) Yet this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: Lamentations 3:21 (CSB) Because of the Lord’s faithful love we do not perish, for His mercies never end. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness! I say, “The Lord is my portion, therefore, I will put my hope in Him.” Lamentations 3:22-24 (CSB)