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Lessons for the Me Generation

Lessons for the Me Generation. 9/19/98 S&S.

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Lessons for the Me Generation

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  1. Lessons for the Me Generation

  2. 9/19/98 S&S

  3. Lk. 12:17, “And he reasoned within him- self, saying, What shall I do, because I have not where to bestow my fruits? 18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my grain and my goods. 19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry.”

  4. Lessons for the Me Generation SELFISHNESS

  5. "The Greatest Love of All." I never found anyone who fulfilled my needs. A lonely place to be. And so I learned to depend on me. I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow. If I failed, if I succeed, at least I'd lived as I believe. No matter what they take from me, they can't take away my dignity. Because the greatest love of all is happening to me. I found the greatest love of all inside of me. The greatest love of all is easy to agree. Learning to love yourself; it's the greatest love of all.

  6. SELFISHNESS I. SELFISHNESS IS A TEMPTATION FOR ALL Self - "person or thing . . . Individu- ality“; Ish - "belonging to, after the manner of, inclined or tending to“; Ness - "denoting quality or state" (Webster). Lessons for the Me Generation

  7. Some who sinned because of selfishness: • Eve (Gen. 3:1-6) • Cain (Gen. 4:1-11; Heb. 11:4; Lev. 10:1-2) • Achan (Josh. 7:1-26) • David (2 Sam. 11:1-27; 13) • Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5:1-11) • Demas (2 Timothy 4:10; Jas. 1:13-14)

  8. Sins that have resulted from selfishness: • Failure to help those in the most pitiful state, Isa. 1:23 • Murmuring and complaining in the church, Jas. 5:9 • Selfish ambition, Phil. 2:3 • False (vain) religion, Matt. 15:9; 2 Pet. 2:2,10; 2 Tim. 4:3-4; Titus 1:7 • Denial of a need for God! Lk. 18:9-14

  9. SELFISHNESS I. SELFISHNESS IS A TEMPTATION FOR ALL II. GOD’S REMEDY FOR SELFISHNESS • NEGATIVELY: • Renounce pride, Ps. 10:1-11 • Renounce the “be your own self” philosophy, Jer. 10:23; Rom. 8:13; 8:6; Prov. 16:25 Lessons for the Me Generation

  10. SELFISHNESS I. SELFISHNESS IS A TEMPTATION FOR ALL II. GOD’S REMEDY FOR SELFISHNESS • POSITIVELY: • "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.” (Matt. 22:37) Jno. 14:15; Rom. 1:28-32; Matt. 11:28; Jas. 4:10 • “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." (Matt. 22:39) Phil. 2:1-8 • “Love each one his own wife even as himself;” “to love their husbands.” (Eph. 5:33; Titus 2:4) 1 Cor. 13:5 Lessons for the Me Generation

  11. SELFISHNESS I. SELFISHNESS IS A TEMPTATION FOR ALL II. GOD’S REMEDY FOR SELFISHNESS III. OUR PERSONAL CONVICTIONS AND ACTIONS Lessons for the Me Generation

  12. III. OUR PERSONAL CONVICTIONS AND ACTIONS • Do you have faith in the omnipotent God of creation? • Is your every religious act scripturally authorized? • Do we put God above personal pleasures? Rom. 15:3; Matt. 25:40 • Do I look at my faith as something that is needed by others? • Is your chief aim in marriage to give satisfaction rather than to receive it?

  13. III. OUR PERSONAL CONVICTIONS AND ACTIONS • Are you concerned about how your actions are regarded by others or how they affect them? • In temporal matters, are you willing not to have your way without complaining or criticizing? Jno. 6:38 • Are you able to rejoice in the success and achievements of others? Rom. 12:15

  14. SELFISHNESS I. SELFISHNESS IS A TEMPTATION FOR ALL Lessons for the Me Generation

  15. Some who sinned because of selfishness: • Eve (Gen. 3:1-6) • Cain (Gen. 4:1-11; Heb. 11:4; Lev. 10:1-2) • Achan (Josh. 7:1-26) • David (2 Sam. 11:1-27; 13) • Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5:1-11) • Demas (2 Timothy 4:10; Jas. 1:13-14)

  16. Sins that have resulted from selfishness: • Failure to help those in the most pitiful state, Isa. 1:23 • Murmuring and complaining in the church, Jas. 5:9 • Selfish ambition, Phil. 2:3 • False (vain) religion, Matt. 15:9; 2 Pet. 2:2,10; 2 Tim. 4:3-4; Titus 1:7 • Denial of a need for God! Lk. 18:9-14

  17. SELFISHNESS I. SELFISHNESS IS A TEMPTATION FOR ALL II. GOD’S REMEDY FOR SELFISHNESS • NEGATIVELY: • Renounce pride, Ps. 10:1-11 • Renounce the “be your own self” philosophy, Jer. 10:23; Rom. 8:13; 8:6; Prov. 16:25 Lessons for the Me Generation

  18. SELFISHNESS I. SELFISHNESS IS A TEMPTATION FOR ALL II. GOD’S REMEDY FOR SELFISHNESS • POSITIVELY: • "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.” (Matt. 22:37) Jno. 14:15; Rom. 1:28-32; Matt. 11:28; Jas. 4:10 • “Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." (Matt. 22:39) Phil. 2:1-8 • “Love each one his own wife even as himself;” “to love their husbands.” (Eph. 5:33; Titus 2:4) 1 Cor. 13:5 Lessons for the Me Generation

  19. III. OUR PERSONAL CONVICTIONS AND ACTIONS • Do you have faith in the omnipotent God of creation? • Is your every religious act scripturally authorized? • Do we put God above personal pleasures? Rom. 15:3; Matt. 25:40 • Do I look at my faith as something that is needed by others? • Is your chief aim in marriage to give satisfaction rather than to receive it?

  20. III. OUR PERSONAL CONVICTIONS AND ACTIONS • Are you concerned about how your actions are regarded by others or how they affect them? • In temporal matters, are you willing not to have your way without complaining or criticizing? Jno. 6:38 • Are you able to rejoice in the success and achievements of others? Rom. 12:15

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