Disappointment

Disappointment

Pastor Ty Neal


“Poised between memory and hope”

Kevin J Vanhoozer

Expectation of Happiness
Expectation of Relational Harmony
Expectation of Perfection

Mark 10:17
Romans 6:23
1 Corinthians 1:7-9
Mark 10:18
Proverbs 14:3

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God. That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God, but let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. . . . Now it seems to me obvious that He was neither a lunatic nor a fiend: and consequently, however strange or terrifying or unlikely it may seem, I have to accept the view that He was and is God.”

C. S. Lewis

Mark 10:19-22

“When Jesus called this young man to give up his money, the man started to grieve, because money was for him what the Father was for Jesus. It was the center of his identity. To lose his money would have been to lose himself”

Tim Keller

“I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please. Not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, but just enough to equal a cup of warm milk or a snooze in the sunshine. I don’t want enough of God to make me love my enemies or pick beets with a migrant. I want ecstasy, not transformation. I want the warmth of the womb, not a new birth. I want a pound of the Eternal in a paper sack. I would like to buy $3 worth of God, please.”

Wilbur Rees

Mark 10:23-27

1. Stop expecting to save yourself.

Philippians 1:6

2. Stop expecting to ultimately satisfy you.

“The human heart is an idol factory, churning out new idols like the conveyor belt in a manufacturing plant rolling out new widgets.”

John Calvin (as paraphrased by Tony Reinke)

3. Start trusting the goodness of Jesus to satisfy.

2 Corinthians 8:9

Revelation 22:1-7

Jesus, save the lost and guide the saved.


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