OUTLINE:
Be Careful What You Treasure
If we treasure a counterfeit, we suffer for it.
Sources of Counterfeit “Self-Esteem”
Your education, work, or income
Your appearance or dress
Your kindness, niceness, sweetness
Your reputation, accomplishments, “success”
Your religion
1Co 15:10
But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.
Sources of Counterfeit “Self-Esteem”
Your education, work, or income
Your appearance or dress
Your kindness, niceness, sweetness
Your reputation, accomplishments, “success”
Your religion
Goliath and his spear
Head of spear = 15lbs
Shaft ~ “weaver’s beam”
Remember How You God Here!
Once you think you’ve “arrived,” be careful you don’t forget where you came from and WHO, exactly, sanctified you! David forgot and ultimately suffered dearly. You might just be miserable because of this ONE reason – you’ve become familiar, entitled, arrogant. (cp. 1Sa 17, 1Chr 21)
The Source of Your Misery
You want the FRUIT of righteousness, but you refuse to actually BE righteous!
No Escaping the Truth
The Word of Truth never leaves a person unchanged (ref. Is 55:11). There is no neutral response.
Double-Minded Unrest
A true believer will be haunted by their own good conscience until they either change or God decides to remove them from Earth by the sin unto death (1Jn 5:16)!
Don’t be a hypocrite.