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2024-05-20 Sermon Notes

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Spiritual Inventory Part 1

  • Why are bad habits so easy, but good habits are so hard?
    • A lot of us are looking for a quick fix.
      • Drugs, or food can give us much quicker results.
      • But healthy choices require discipline and time.
      • Your accountability partner can help you see parts of your character that you are blind to
  • Principle 4
  • CR Step 4
  • It is important to do your spiritual inventory with another person.
    • Your sponsor,
    • An accountability partner
  • Principle 4 begins the process of coming clean.
    • Today we're going to take a look at our "junk drawer" and start cleaning it out.
    • Don't forget to be balanced in your spiritual inventory.
      • Don't just focus on the negatives, or your mistakes.
  • We believe everyone has 3 characters
      1. the character we exhibit
      1. the character we think we have
      • the things we think we're hiding
      1. the character we truly have
      • The person we truly are
  • Parts to work on in your spiritual inventory:
    • The people you name in these questions go in your column 5 of your spiritual inventory
      1. Your relationship to others:
        1. who has hurt you?
        • You don't have to list every single person who has hurt you.
        • Remember many people do their inventories many times, even yearly.
        • Who is God calling to your attention now?
        1. against whom have you been holding a grudge?
        1. Against whom are you still seeking revenge?
        • seeking revenge is like biting a dog who just bit you. It doesn't help anyone.
        1. Are you harboring jealousy toward someone.
        1. Have you tried to justify a bad attitude by blaming someone else.
        1. Who have you hurt?
        • We have all hurt people. There's not a person here who hasn't.
        • There's a lot of guilt and shame for us to overcome.
        • sometimes it can be harder to overcome our shame, than the hurt that others placed on us.
      1. Your attitude:
      • Ephesians 4:31 : Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.
        1. What area of your life are you ungrateful for?
        • Have an attitude of gratitude.
        • 1 Corinthians 15:57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
        1. Do you get easily angry?
        • How do you handle or react to your anger?
          • Blowing up? Sarcasm? Passive-aggresivism?
        1. What in your past is crippling your?
      1. Your integrity:
      • In what past dealings were you dishonest?
        • An honest man alters his ideas to fit the truth. A dishonest man alters the truth to fit his ideas.
        • Have you stolen things? Have you exaggerated yourself to make yourself look better?
        • Did you know there are no degree of honest? You are either honest or you're not.[1]
      • In what areas of your life do you use false humility?
      • Who have you been critical of, and who have you gossiped about?
        • We find it amazing that a tongue 4 inches long can destroy a man 6 feet tall.
      1. The priorities in your life
      • What you do is what's important to you.
        • If you don't find the right things important than you won't do the right things.
        • If you're not recovering, there's probably a large part of you that doesn't want to get better.
      • In what areas are you not allowing God to work in your life?
      • Is your ambition driven by God or by you?
        • Is it driving by your pleasure? desire for approval?
      • What in your priorities is stopping your from meeting God's priorities?
      • What have been your priorities in the past?
        • In your jobs?
        • In your relationships?
        • In your goals?
      • Who is affected by your priorities?
        • You will never get so rich that you can afford to lose a true friend.
      • Are you living a double life?
        • Have you pretended to work one way in front of Christians and another way at home?
  • Remember the good news:
    • Jesus didn't come for the healthy, but for the sick.
      • He came for you and me.

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  1. Hmm. I gotta think about this point. ↩︎

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