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7 Things That We Should Not Love
Contributed by Dr. Stanley Vasu on May 2, 2020 (message contributor)
Summary: WE SHOULD NOT LOVE 1. OURSELVES SELFISHLY. 2. ANYBODY MORE THAN JESUS INCLUDING OUR FAMILY. 3. MONEY. 4. THE WORLD 5. DO GOOD DEEDS OR PRAY TO BE SEEN BY MEN. 6. PROMINENCE BEFORE MEN. 7. HONOUR OF MEN.
7 THINGS THAT WE SHOULD NOT LOVE
OUTLINE
1. WE SHOULD NOT LOVE OURSELVES SELFISHLY.
2. WE SHOULD NOT LOVE ANYBODY MORE THAN JESUS INCLUDING OUR FAMILY.
3. WE SHOULD NOT LOVE MONEY.
4. WE SHOULD NOT LOVE THE WORLD OR WORLDLY POSSESSIONS.
5. WE SHOULD NOT DO GOOD DEEDS OR PRAY IN ORDER TO BE SEEN BY MEN.
6. WE SHOULD NOT LOVE PROMINENCE BEFORE MEN.
7. WE SHOULD NOT LOVE THE PRAISE AND HONOUR OF MEN.
THE MESSAGE
7 THINGS THAT WE SHOULD NOT LOVE
1. WE SHOULD NOT LOVE OURSELVES SELFISHLY.
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Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life.
But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days.
People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,
treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—
2. WE SHOULD NOT LOVE ANYBODY MORE THAN JESUS INCLUDING OUR FAMILY.
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“Anyone who loves their father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves their son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
“If anyone comes to me and does not hate father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even their own life—such a person cannot be my disciple.
And whoever does not carry their cross and follow me cannot be my disciple.
3. WE SHOULD NOT LOVE MONEY.
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But godliness with contentment is great gain.
For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.
But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.
Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs.
“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
They have left the straight way and wandered off to follow the way of Balaam son of Bezer, who loved the wages of wickedness.
“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise
the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”
The Pharisees, who loved money, heard all this and were sneering at Jesus.
4. WE SHOULD NOT LOVE THE WORLD OR WORLDLY POSSESSIONS.
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Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, love for the Father is not in them.
For everything in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—comes not from the Father but from the world.
The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.
for Demas, because he loved this world, has deserted me and has gone to Thessalonica. Crescens has gone to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.
5. WE SHOULD NOT DO GOOD DEEDS OR PRAY IN ORDER TO BE SEEN BY MEN.
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"Be careful not to do your 'acts of righteousness' before men, to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.
"So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by men. I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full.
But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,
so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.
6. WE SHOULD NOT LOVE PROMINENCE BEFORE MEN.
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they love the place of honor at banquets and the most important seats in the synagogues; 7 they love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and to be called ‘Rabbi’ by others.