Success Equation: The Price of Success
Pastor Peter Gowesky
GOOD GRADES + COLLEGE + HIGH + PAYING JOB= SUCCESS
NICE CAR + ZIP CODE + SOCIAL STATUS= SUCCESS.
THE WAY YOU DEFINE SUCCESS DEFINES YOU.
SUCCESS IS NOT A PROBLEM. BEING SUCCESSFUL AT THE WRONG THINGS IN THE WRONG WAY IS.
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. —Jeremiah 29:11
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. —Romans 8:28
Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their ancestors to give them. “Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. —Joshua 1:6-8
SUCCESS IS NOT A PROBLEM. BEING SUCCESSFUL AT THE WRONG THINGS IN THE WRONG WAY IS.
15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. 16 For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world. 17 The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever. —1 John 2:15-17
Don’t love the world’s ways. Don’t love the world’s goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. Practically everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him. The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out—but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity. —1 John 2:15-17 MSG
- Passion
- Possession
- Position
PT. 1 YOU CAN DO THE RIGHT THING BUT FOR THE WRONG MOTIVE.
Pride= taking credit for what belongs to God.
Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall. —Proverbs 16:18
PT. 2 THE BIGGER THE
HUMILITY= having an appropriate view of yourself.
Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death—even death on a cross! —Philippians 2:5-8
Pt. 3 HUMILITY
YOU ARE NEVER MORE