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Bible Lesson: Marks Of Godly Character Versus Marks Of Non-Christian Character: Trust Versus Selfishness.
Bible Texts:
Trust:
Proverbs 28:25 NLT
Greed causes fighting; trusting The Lord leads to prosperity.
Selfishness:
I Corinthians 13:4,5 NLT
4 Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud
5 or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged.
The Word Concerning, Trust:
Matthew 6:34 KJV
Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Matthew 6:34 NLT
So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today.
This verse is so easily understood in the New Living Translation.
This is all about the subject of worry versus trust.
As God's people, should we plan for tomorrow's needs? Yes, of course, but we are never to get to the place where we stop “trusting God,” and start to worry and become overly disturbed.
Philippians 4:6,7 KJV
6 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:6,7 NLT
6 Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank Him for all He has done.
7 Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus.
I Peter 5:7 KJV
Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you.
Who is caring, and interceding for you? The Lord Jesus Christ, that's who, He's not dead impaled on a cross, He's living and interceding for you at the right hand of The Father!
Romans 8:34 KJV
"...It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us."
As a child of God, we are to “trust,” our God to keep us.
Psalm 37:3-5 KJV
3 Trust in the LORD, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
4 Delight thyself also in The LORD: and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart.
5 Commit thy way unto The LORD; trust also in Him; and He shall bring it to pass.
Proverbs 3:5,6 KJV
5 Trust in The LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
6 In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths.
Isaiah 26:3,4 KJV
3 Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.
4 Trust ye in The LORD for ever: for in The LORD Jehovah is everlasting strength:
Psalm 34:22 KJV
The Lord redeemeth the soul of His servants: and none of them that trust in Him shall be desolate.
Here are the words Jesus spoke before in Matthew chapter six.
Matthew 6:19-34 NLT
19 “Don’t store up treasures here on earth, where moths eat them and rust destroys them, and where thieves break in and steal.
20 Store your treasures in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy, and thieves do not break in and steal.
21 Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be.
22 “Your eye is a lamp that provides light for your body. When your eye is good, your whole body is filled with light.
23 But when your eye is bad, your whole body is filled with darkness. And if the light you think you have is actually darkness, how deep that darkness is!
24 “No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other; you will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
25 “That is why I tell you not to worry about everyday life—whether you have enough food and drink, or enough clothes to wear. Isn’t life more than food, and your body more than clothing?
26 Look at the birds. They don’t plant or harvest or store food in barns, for your heavenly Father feeds them. And aren’t you far more valuable to Him than they are?
27 Can all your worries add a single moment to your life?
28 “And why worry about your clothing? Look at the lilies of the field and how they grow. They don’t work or make their clothing,
29 yet Solomon in all his glory was not dressed as beautifully as they are.
30 And if God cares so wonderfully for wildflowers that are here today and thrown into the fire tomorrow, He will certainly care for you. Why do you have so little faith?
31 “So don’t worry about these things, saying, ‘What will we eat? What will we drink? What will we wear?’
32 These things dominate the thoughts of unbelievers, but your heavenly Father already knows all your needs.
33 Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and He will give you everything you need.
34 “So don’t worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring its own worries. Today’s trouble is enough for today.
Psalm 112:5-7 KJV
5 A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
6 Surely he shall not be moved for ever: the righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance.
7 He shall not be afraid of evil tidings: his heart is fixed, trusting in The Lord.
Psalm 121:1-3 KJV
1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.
2 My help cometh from The LORD, which made heaven and earth.
3 He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: He that keepeth thee will not slumber.
Isaiah 41:10 KJV
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of My righteousness.
The Word, Concerning Selfishness:
Selfishness:
Lacking consideration for others; concerned chiefly with one's own personal profit or pleasure.
Psalm 75:5-7 KJV
5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
6 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
7 But God is The Judge: He putteth down one, and setteth up another.
Isaiah 56:11 NCV (Evil Leaders of Israel.)
They are like hungry dogs that are never satisfied. They are like shepherds who don’t know what they are doing. They all have gone their own way; all they want to do is satisfy themselves.
Matthew 16;25 KJV
For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for My sake shall find it.
Mark 10:42-44 NLT
42 So Jesus called them together and said, “You know that the rulers in this world lord it over their people, and officials flaunt their authority over those under them.
43 But among you it will be different. Whoever wants to be a leader among you must be your servant,
44 and whoever wants to be first among you must be the slave of everyone else.
45 For even The Son Of Man came not to be served but to serve others and to give His life as a ransom for many.”
Romans 15:1 KJV
We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.
I Corinthians 10:24 KJV
Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.
II Corinthians 5:15 KJV
He died for everyone so that those who receive His new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them.
Philippians 2:3,4 NLT
3 Don’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.
James 2:8 NLT
Yes indeed, it is good when you obey the royal law as found in the Scriptures: “Love your neighbor as yourself.
II Peter 2:10 KJV
But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, self willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
Christ our example:
Philippians 2:7,8 KJV
7 But made Himself of no reputation, and took upon Him the form of A Servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
8 And being found in fashion as a man, He humbled Himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Matthew 10:38 KJV
And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after Me, is not worthy of Me.
Matthew 16:24 KJV
Then said Jesus unto His disciples, If any man will come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.
“Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without in himself”
Henry Ward Beecher
Psalm 139:23,24 KJV
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
24 And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Prayer:
Psalm 118:8,9 KJV
8 It is better to trust in The Lord than to put confidence in man.
9 It is better to trust in The Lord than to put confidence in princes.
