Sermon: Acceptance (He's Enough series)

There are no shortages of activities, assets, and privileges that this world will try to tell you will make you feel happy, wanted, and loved.  The world loves throwing "things" at us and trying to convince us that those "things" will satisfy our souls.  All you need is the right social group; all you need is the right financial purpose; all you need is the right political cause.  Missing in all of this is a realization that the holes in our hearts are God-shaped and can only be filled by one thing... God.  It can all be summed up in one phrase: He's enough.  He's enough for our wants, He's enough for our needs.  He's enough for our humbling, He's enough for our salvation.  He's enough for anything and everything our hearts could desire.  If we have Him, how could we want for anything else? This is the sixth message in our series titled "He's Enough" which is on the subject of acceptance.  Rest assured, God is well acquainted with rejection.  The entire story of creation has essentially been one where we see God providing and man rejecting.  It is fitting, then, that the one God sent to redeem all mankind is his son who would be rejected by the religious authorities, yet become the savior to the lost, the burdened, and the afflicted.