We develop an “I Problem” when we lose the ability to _______________ on the _______________ things.
2 Timothy 3:1-5 You should know this, Timothy, that in the last days there will be very difficult times. 2 For people will love only themselves and their money. They will be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to their parents, and ungrateful. They will consider nothing sacred. 3 They will be unloving and unforgiving; they will slander others and have no self-control. They will be cruel and hate what is good. 4 They will betray their friends, be reckless, be puffed up with pride, and love pleasure rather than God. 5 They will act religious, but they will reject the power that could make them godly. Stay away from people like that!
A self-centered person expects __________________ and __________________ to revolve around them.
Galatians 6:3 NIV If anyone thinks they are something when they are not, they deceive themselves.
Selfish _______________ reveal a self-centered life.
James 4:2-3 You want what you don’t have, so you scheme and kill to get it. You are jealous of what others have, but you can’t get it, so you fight and wage war to take it away from them. Yet you don’t have what you want because you don’t ask God for it. 3 And even when you ask, you don’t get it because your motives are all wrong—you want only what will give you pleasure.
God becomes _______________ when my pleasure is central to my life.
Spiritual nearsightedness prevents you from seeing the _______________ of others.
Ephesians 1:12God’s purpose was that we Jews who were the first to trust in Christ would bring praise and glory to God.
God has called us to bring Him _______________ and _______________.
God did not create us to worship __________________, He wants us to worship Him.
Philippians 2:3-4Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. 4 Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too.
You will feel _______________ about yourself when you take your _______________ off yourself.
