What Is The One Thing That You Need To Have Joy and Find Fulfillment in Your Life?
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What Is The One Thing That You Need
To Have Joy and Find Fulfillment in Your Life?
Exodus 20: 1-6
“10 Commandments”
An Idol is:
* What We Bow Down to
* What We Serve* What We Love
“Idolatry is taking a Good Thing,
making it a ‘god’ Thing,
and that’sa Bad Thing.”
- Mark Driscoll
The Various “Shades” of Idolatry
Approval Idol
Appearance
Relationships
Position/Titles
Achievements
Social Status
Comfort Idol
Pleasure
Freedom
Health/Activity
Recreation
Excess Spending
Security Idol
Family
Housing
Finance/Wealth
Employment
Religion
“Idolatry Detector Test”
James 4: 2-42 “You want something but don’t get it.
You kill and covet, but you cannot have what you want. You quarrel and fight. You do not have,
because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with
wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures. 4 You adulterous people, don’t you know that friendship with the world is hatred
toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.”
“You Complete Me”
Jonah 2:8“Those who cling to worthless idols forfeit the grace
that could be theirs.”
“For You have made us for Yourself,and our hearts are restless,
until they rest in You, O Lord.
Too late have I loved You, Beauty ever-ancient, ever-new.
You have burst my bonds asunder;I will offer up to You an offering of praise.”
- Saint Augustine
Jesus is Better Than:
MoneyHuman Love
Physical PleasurePopularity
Power & Influence
God Wins Every Time!
Titus 2: 11-1411 “For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men. 12 It teaches us to say “No” to ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live
self-controlled, upright and godly lives in this present age, 13 while we wait for the blessed hope
—the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior, Jesus Christ, 14 who gave himself for us
to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are His very own,
eager to do what is good.”
Philippians 3: 7-9“But whatever was to my profit I now consider loss
for the sake of Christ. 8 What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord,
for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ
9 and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which
is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith.”