Do You Know the Gospel of Satisfaction?

Religion Can't Give You Eternal Life

“What can Jesus do for me that I cannot do for myself?” That was the question posed by evangelist Luis Palau to hundreds attending his Highland Festival in Inverness this past weekend. Palau, who has a Scottish grandfather, told around 1,000 people that Jesus could do everything that money could not and do that which neither scholars nor scientists could fully explain.

As we continue to ask and wrestle with the question, "Why Give the Gospel?" and how to, we have to come to grips that people almost instinctively are looking to fulfill a deeply-held desire for meaning and love in their life. A courageous ex-homosexual man in our community who is a friend and has a burden to minister to and win homosexuals to the kingdom of Christ, said that many of these people caught in this perverted lifestyle, are as the song goes, "Looking for love in all the wrong places." He added that that they are looking for a man to love them unconditionally and this local missionary to homosexuals tells them, "I know such a man- Jesus Christ."

What can Jesus do that we can't do for ourselves? One, He can love us as only God can, and as a result, He can be the only substitute necessary to forgive us of our sins- sexual or otherwise. Only HE can pay the ultimate price- or make the ultimate sacrifice for us. As I often say, that's the greatest news in the history of the world. When's the last time you shared or broadcasted that news with someone?

Palau, the world evangelist based in Portland, Ore., warned against the dangers of sexual temptation, saying that although sex is a beautiful gift from God it should be used within God’s plan of marriage. Urging young people to first find love in God, Palau encouraged the crowd to regard themselves as the holy temples of God and appealed to young girls and women especially to do what is right in the eyes of God, rather than give in to pressure from men to have sex.
“When you are looking for real love, pure love, you delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart,” he said, quoting Psalm 37.4.

“As a young person looking for love you have to say ‘Jesus Christ I can’t find real love without you, fill me with your love.” As you go about your daily business today and the rest of this week, pray and ask God for opportunties to walk and talk in such a way that lost and dying people will yearn to ask you about life and where and in whom they can find unconditional love, fulfillment, satisfaction and escape from the judgment or wrath of a loving AND holy God. Then, be ready to 'give an answer for the hope that lies within you (1 Peter 3:15).'