Misplaced satisfaction

Finding happiness in the

wrong place.
 The world
falsify, Jesus
satisfy.
“Blessed are those who
hunger and thirst for
righteousness, for they
shall be satisfied.”
Matthew 5:6
 Hebrew and Greek
Blessed (Makarios) Supremely blest,
HAPPY.

Righteousness (Dikaios) Observing

divine laws, keeping the commands
of God. God’s standard
 The world
falsify, Jesus
satisfy.
 Falsify
To make or change
something in order to
make people believe
something that is not true.
 John 4
Jesus left Judea and departed again
for Galilee. And he had to pass
through Samaria.
Jacob's well was there; so Jesus,
wearied as he was from his journey,
was sitting beside the well. It was
about the sixth hour.
A woman from Samaria came to
draw water.
Jesus: “Give me a drink.” (For his disciples
had gone away into the city to buy food.)
Samaritan woman: “How is it that you, a
Jew, ask for a drink from me, a woman
of Samaria?”
Jesus: “If you knew the gift of God, and
who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a
drink,’ you would have asked him, and
he would have given you living water.”
Samaritan woman: “Sir, you have
nothing to draw water with, and the well
is deep. Where do you get that living
water?
Samaritan woman : Are you greater
than our father Jacob? He gave us the
well and drank from it himself, as did his
sons and his livestock.”
Jesus: “Everyone who drinks of this water
will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks
of the water that I will give him will never
be thirsty again. The water that I will give
him will become in him a spring of water
welling up to eternal life.”
Happiness says
“I am satisfaction.”
Pursue what makes you the
happiest even when it leads
you away from God.
 Finding satisfaction is tiring

Samaritan: “Sir, give me this

water, so that I will not be thirsty
or have to come here to draw
water.”
 People who pursue
happiness above all
else are the most
miserable people in the
world.
Jesus: “Go, call your husband,
and come here.”
Samaritan: “I have no husband.
Jesus: “You are right in saying, ‘I
have no husband’ for you have
had five husbands, and the one
you now have is not your
husband. What you have said is
true.”
Rom 2:8 but for those
who are self-seeking
and do not obey the
truth, but obey
unrighteousness, there
will be wrath and fury.
Jesus: “Woman, believe me, You
worship what you do not know; we
worship what we know, for salvation is
from the Jews. But the hour is coming,
and is now here, when the true
worshipers will worship the Father in
spirit and truth, for the Father is
seeking such people to worship him.
Samaritan: “I know that Messiah is
coming (he who is called Christ).
When he comes, he will tell us all
things.”
Jesus: “I who speak to you
am he.”
There is a God-shaped
vacuum in the heart of
each man which cannot
be satisfied by any
created thing but only
through
JESUS CHRIST.
-Blaise Pascal
Samaritan: So the woman
left her water jar and went
away into town and said
to the people,
“Come, see a man who
told me all that I ever did.
Can this be the Christ?”
 The indicator of true
satisfaction in God is
when you are willing to
leave your water jar to
experience the spring of
life.
 Happy are those who
obey the Lord’s standards
for they shall be satisfied.
 The world
falsify, Jesus
satisfy.
We can experience good but God has
prepared the best