John Piper once said, “The Gospel does not offer to the sinner what the sinner wants naturally.”
John MacArthur quoted John Piper and then asked, “What does a natural sinner want?” This was his answer: the natural sinner wants “good feelings, blessings, healing, happiness, riches, money, success, for the angel to work for him,” and so on and so forth.
And the Gospel does not offer these things.