Preacher: Emmet Cox
Theme: Contentment
Texts:
- Matthew 6:19-34
- Luke 14:11-
- 1 Timothy 6:7-12, 17-19
Notes:
- What is contentment?
- Being in Christ
- Growing in Christ
- Matt 6:24, “…you cannot serve God and mammon….”
- We cannot pursue the material things of this life and pursue Christ–they are opposite pursuits
- Finding identity in jobs, money, sports will always leave us empty
- Contentment grows from eternal values
- It grows from humility
- Luke 14:11-14
- True humility puts others first
- Barriers to contentment
- Bitterness
- Covetousness
- Materialism
- 1 Timothy 6:7-12, 17-19
- v7 We can taking nothing with us
- v8 We should be content with what God gives us
- v9-10 The love of money often draws people into sin
- v11 Pursue instead those things with eternal value: “…righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness”
- v17-19 God blesses us materially so that we might have more to bless others
- It is false that we deserve better
- But it is true that God hasn’t given us what we deserve
- Because of Christ we have received far better
- Much discontentment stems from false beliefs that we deserve better than God has given us
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