Follow Along with the Message

Questions Jesus Asked

Do You Want to Go Away?

Every person who professes Jesus as Lord and Savior will face moments where we     with the way God acts or doesn’t act.

And each time we face those moments, Jesus asks a   just like He asked early followers facing the same dilemma.

“Do you want to go away    ” John 6:67

Jesus is concerned about the   more than the temporal, more focused on people being restored to God and growing in faith than doing what they want when they want.

We live in a time that tastes of the realities of the kingdom of God. We taste  

But we are still waiting for the   of the kingdom, a fullness that will not happen until the trumpet sounds, the sky is rent, and He descends as a conquering warrior.

I get all that in my head. But there are moments where my heart really struggles, where I wonder why He doesn’t work in this situation, where I question why He hasn’t returned to   bringing His kingdom.

God can be absolutely   even when He doesn’t do as we want or expect.

When I turn my   to the cross – to the empty grave – I know:

• God is   beyond what I can fathom.
• God can be absolutely