FINDING FREEDOM FROM THE SELF-DESCTRUCTION OF SELF-CENTEREDNESS (9 OF 10)
by Craig Smith
Scripture: Galatians 5:13-25
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Finding Freedom From the Self-Desctruction of Self-Centeredness (9 of 10)
Series: Live Free - A Study of Galatians
Craig Smith
Galatians 5:13-25
Introduction
There's an old story I've heard. You might have heard it too. I'm not 100% sure it's true I've heard it multiple times from multiple people in multiple countries...and I did check it out on snopes.com and they have not declared it false, so maybe it's true. But it's about how you catch a monkey. And apparently a technique that works very well is you hollow out a log and drill a hole in the side that's just big enough for a monkey's hand to barely fit through. Then you put in something that monkeys love, like an orange and seal up the sides. And when they put their hand in the hole to get the orange, once they've got it in their hands, they can't pull their hand back out the hole. And apparently they're so reluctant to let go of what they want that they'll stay stuck...and they're so preoccupied with getting that thing they want...that it's pretty easy to sneak up on them and throw a net over them.
So here's a very blunt, but practical question I've been asking myself this week: am I smarter than a stupid monkey? Or am I so fixated on getting what I want for myself that I'm failing to see how I'm actually destroying myself?
Today as we continue our journey through the book of Galatians, we're going to talk about getting free from the self-destruction of self-centeredness. Why don't you go ahead and grab a bible and start making your way to Galatians 5:13?
Last week we saw that our understanding of what it means to be free tends to be incomplete. We tend to think of freedom in terms of what we've been freed from...but in reality, that's only half the definition. A full understanding includes not just what we're free from but also what we're free for. And that second part is really important because, as we saw last week, unless we lean in to what we're free for, we'll drift back to what we'r ...
Series: Live Free - A Study of Galatians
Craig Smith
Galatians 5:13-25
Introduction
There's an old story I've heard. You might have heard it too. I'm not 100% sure it's true I've heard it multiple times from multiple people in multiple countries...and I did check it out on snopes.com and they have not declared it false, so maybe it's true. But it's about how you catch a monkey. And apparently a technique that works very well is you hollow out a log and drill a hole in the side that's just big enough for a monkey's hand to barely fit through. Then you put in something that monkeys love, like an orange and seal up the sides. And when they put their hand in the hole to get the orange, once they've got it in their hands, they can't pull their hand back out the hole. And apparently they're so reluctant to let go of what they want that they'll stay stuck...and they're so preoccupied with getting that thing they want...that it's pretty easy to sneak up on them and throw a net over them.
So here's a very blunt, but practical question I've been asking myself this week: am I smarter than a stupid monkey? Or am I so fixated on getting what I want for myself that I'm failing to see how I'm actually destroying myself?
Today as we continue our journey through the book of Galatians, we're going to talk about getting free from the self-destruction of self-centeredness. Why don't you go ahead and grab a bible and start making your way to Galatians 5:13?
Last week we saw that our understanding of what it means to be free tends to be incomplete. We tend to think of freedom in terms of what we've been freed from...but in reality, that's only half the definition. A full understanding includes not just what we're free from but also what we're free for. And that second part is really important because, as we saw last week, unless we lean in to what we're free for, we'll drift back to what we'r ...
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