Wrong Kinds Of Delight

Wrong Kinds Of Delight
 
 
 
1.  Delight Of the Heart of Man (self-centered)
Eccl 2:8-9
8 I amassed silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and provinces. I acquired men and women singers, and a harem as well-the delights of the heart of man. 9 I became greater by far than anyone in Jerusalem before me. [...]

DELIGHT: OUR EXTREME JOY & SATISFACTION

DELIGHT: EXTREME JOY & SATISFACTION

Ps 37:4

4 Delight yourself in the LORD

and he will give you

the desires of your heart.

B. Definition Of Delight:

1 : a high degree of gratification : joy; also : extreme satisfaction

2 : something that gives great pleasure

3 archaic : the power of affording pleasure

intransitive senses

1 : to take great pleasure ²delighted in playing the guitar³

2 : to give keen enjoyment ²a book certain to delight³

transitive senses : to give joy or satisfaction to

–de£light£er noun

Introduction:

A. Biblical Injunction To Be Delighted In God!

Ps 37:4

4 Delight yourself in the LORD

and he will give you the desires of your heart.

Repentance Unto Life

I think one of the most terrible commands in the Bible is to Repent. As the cliché goes “easier said than done.” When I accepted Jesus as my Lord and Savior I wondered if I will ever truly and perfectly repent. Sometimes it grieves me so much, and like the prophets of old I’m so overwhelmed by God’s holiness and my own sinfulness so I can say with Isaiah “Woe to me!…I am ruined! (Isa 6:5 NIV) and in feeling God’s presence I can say what Apostle Peter had said “…”Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!”” (Luke 5:8 NIV). I even groaned inside like Apostle Paul “What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? (Rom 7:23-24 NIV)