Why spend money on that which is not bread, and your labor on that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to Me, and eat what is good, and your soul will delight in the richest of foods.Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.
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… Come buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money on that which is not bread and your labor on that which doesn't satisfy? Listen diligently to me and eat what is good and delight yourself in rich food. Do you know what good news it is that the living God would talk like that? that he would say, you're thirsty, and that's good, because I want to give you fresh, cold water, and you're hungry, that's good. I want to give you a feast for your joy in me. The God who made you doesn't drop in and say, hey, what are you sinners doing? Desiring. Thirsting. Stop your thirsting. Stop your hungering. No, he comes and says, be hungry, be thirsty. I made you like that. I made your soul to be hungry for me. I made your soul to thirst for me that I might satisfy it. The problem with humanity is not that we desire. The problem is not that we're hungry and thirsty. …
… Come buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread and labor for that which does not satisfy. Listen diligently to me and eat what is good. Delight yourselves in rich food. Come and hear that your soul may live and I will make with you an everlasting covenant my steadfast, sure love for David. God, I pray that the effect of this moment and the closing of this conference would be that these pastors would know and feel afresh that they are stunningly beneficiaries of the covenant made with David. And all the blessings that David reveled in are theirs. and so they may they go out with a sense of my rock will hold and carry on for another 10 or 20 or 30 or 40 or 50 years. So do that work and more, I pray, in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. I invite you to turn to 2 Samuel chapter 22. there came a point where David's relentless conflict with Saul and his ongoing conflict with the Philistines ceased. …
… Come buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money on that which is not bread and your labor on that which does not satisfy? but listen diligently and come to me and delight yourself in rich food. Isn't that amazing? That the God of the universe would stoop to play street vendor and that when he does, he would appeal to your thirst and say, I wanna satisfy your thirst. I gave you thirst so that I, the living God, would satisfy your thirst. I made you hungry, not just with a physical appetite, but with a soul hunger that I might feed you with the bread of life. I couldn't help but hear that. In some of these testimonies, as you would say, you had talked to somebody and they're basically talking about their spiritual thirst without using that language. I'm thirsty. I'm looking for something. I'm hungry. My soul is hungry. And the living God in Isaiah 55 says, I made you like that for me. I put that hunger in your soul, that thirst in your soul for me. And so you may say, hey, that's great. I want it. …
… We want real joy. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread and your labor for that which does not satisfy? That's another way of saying we long for real joy. We want to be satisfied. Our souls long for satisfaction. So number one, God made the world and you for his glory. Number two, God also made you to long for and seek satisfaction. That's not a defect. That's design. and these two truths that were made to seek his glory and made to seek our joy are as clear as day in scripture and they're both here in Isaiah 55 and then now number three we get to the heart of what Christian hedonism claims and what I want to make plain in this first session tonight and then deepen and apply tomorrow. Number three, these are not two pursuits, but one. not two pursuits, one. God made us for his glory, and God made us for real joy, and these two pursuits come together in one amazing truth, that our God is glorified. …
… Come buy wine and milk without money and without price. Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread? And your labor for that which does not satisfy? listen diligently to me and eat what is good and delight yourselves in rich food incline your ear and come to me here that your soul may live father you've spread a banquet out before us you're inviting us here in these verses to a fountain of living water. Forgive us for spending our money on food that does not satisfy. Forgive us for pursuing fountains, wells which do not satisfy. Give us ears to hear you this morning. Give us eyes to see you, to want you, to feast on you, to drink from you and never be thirsty again. I pray this in Jesus' name. Amen. Okay, so we read here verses 1 through 3 that Jesus leaves Judea because of pressure from the Pharisees, the rulers there. They were getting jealous and angry and he's feeling the pressure and so he heads for Galilee. And you had to go through Samaria to get to Galilee. …