Genesis 29
"EVERY ONE OF US IS, EVEN FROM HIS MOTHER’S WOMB, A MASTER CRAFTSMAN OF IDOLS."
John Calvin
I. Looking for love.
When you make a relationship with someone else your god, it will eventually be marked with disappointment and bitterness.
II. A new love
God of Love
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Daniel 4:1-3 What motivates you? For Nebuchadnezzar his motivation was to impress others. What is your standard for success? For Nebuchadnezzar it was personal gain. What’s your source of power? For Nebuchadnezzar it was self-empowerment. What’s the purpose of your life? For King Nebuchadnezzar it was personal happiness. “’Therefore, I bring charges against you again,’ declares the Lord…’My people have exchanged their glorious God for worthless idols. Be appalled at this, you heavens, and shudder with great horror,’ declares the Lord. ‘My people have committed two sins: They have forsaken me, the spring of living water, and have dug their own cisterns, broken cisterns that cannot hold water.’” Jeremiah 2:9, 11-13 What motivates you? Instead of “impressing others” that answer becomes “pleasing God.” What is your standard for success? Instead of “personal gain” the answer becomes “faithfulness to God.” What’s your source of power? Instead of “self-empowerment” your answer becomes “dependence on God.” What is the purpose of your life? Instead of answering “personal happiness” your answer becomes “God’s Glory.” Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.” John 4:13-14
God of Success
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Luke 18:18-30 I. Success vs. blessed. There are not enough deeds or donations in the world to buy an ounce of the purity we need. II. You have to choose. No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. Matthew 6:24 How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God! Mark 10:23 III. Jesus my purpose.
God of Money
February 23, 2020 • Gregg Parris
Luke 12:13-21 “Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute and cannot unite – but they all worship money.” Mark Twain “Watch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; life does not consist in an abundance of possessions.” Luke 12:14-15 “Everyone comes naked from their mother’s womb, and as everyone comes, so they depart. They take nothing from their toil that they can carry in their hands.” Ecclesiastes 5:15 I. Source of security. II. Source of satisfaction. If you love money, you will never be satisfied; if you long to be rich, you will never get all you want. Ecclesiastes 5:10 III. Source of significance.