Challenging Advice: The Last Worlds of A Dying Man
“Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.”
Top Ten List Of Good Advice:
1. Take time to know yourself. -Aristotle
2. A narrow focus brings big results.
3. Don’t make assumptions.
4. In order to get, you have to give.
5. Be the best at all times.
6. Don’t make decisions when you are angry.
7. Don’t worry what other people think.
8. When you quit, you fail.
9. Use adversity as an opportunity.
10. Do what is right, not what is easy.
Top Ten List Of “Fine” Advice:
10. Expand my horizons. . . .
Gain more weight.
9. Exercise “more”. . . . .
“More” is my dog.
8. Procrastinate more. . . .
maybe later.
7. Repeat more sermon Jokes. . . .
Cause I’m funny.
6. Spend more time riding in fresh air. . . .
Play more golf.
5. Get in a new rut.
4. Eat out more. . . . .
or just eat more (not the dog.)
3. Repeat more sermon jokes. . . .
I’m still funny and no one remembers them.
2. Buy pants that adjusts to my new year’s resolutions.
1. Pad more sermons with Top 10 Lists.
Challenging Advice:
The Last Words Of A Dying Man
I Chronicles 28:8
1 Chronicles 28:8
1 Chronicles 28:9–10
1. _Know_ God.
“And you Solomon my son, know the God of your father. . . ” I Chronicles 28:9a
- Intellectual knowledge
Jeremiah 9:24
- Personal knowledge
1 John 5:13
2. _Serve_ God.
“and serve Him with your whole heart and with a willing mind. . . ” I Chronicles 28:9b
Settle the question of loyalty- “whole”
- Serve God
- Whole heart
- Willing mind
Key aspects of a Willing Mind:
- Voluntary Eagerness
- Active Engagement
- Joyful Submission
- Undivided loyalty
3. _Seek_ God.
“. . .for the Lord searches all hearts and understands every plan and thought. If you seek Him He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will cast you off forever.”
David advice is a choice:
Seek God or forsake God.
Psalm 34:4
Psalm 34:18
Matthew 7:7–8
4. Remember God has _chosen_ you.
1 Chronicles 28:10
- “Be careful.”
- “Be strong.”
- Just do it!!
1 Chronicles 28:20
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