BIG THOUGHT: Nothing can hinder our coming to Jesus more than our own selfishness. If we are occupied with , we will definitely miss Christmas.
1. Selfishness is by good news.
is a product of selfishness.
2. Selfishness seeks to and others for your own interests.
is a product of selfishness.
3. Selfishness sets the Lord you.
1 Peter 5:5b (ESV) – Clothe yourselves, all of you, with humility toward one another, for “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.”
Philippians 3:8c-9 (ESV) – … in order that I may gain Christ and be found in Him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which comes through faith in Christ, the righteousness from God that depends on faith.
4. Selfishness results in the of any compass.
1 Corinthians 15:33 (ESV) – Do not be deceived: “Bad company ruins good morals.”
5. Selfishness does not .
Proverbs 11:7 (NIV) – When a wicked man dies, his hope perishes; all he expected from his power comes to nothing.
Ecclesiastes 8:8a (NIV) – No man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has power over the day of his death.
John 3:18 (ESV) – Whoever believes in Him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only Son of God.
John 1:12 (ESV) – But to all who did receive Him, who believed in His name, He gave the right to become children of God,