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TRUE SUCCESS

by Larry Wynn

Scripture: DEUTERONOMY 8:10-20


True Success
Larry Wynn
Deuteronomy 8:10-20


Introduction

A. Success: ''achieving a desired result.'' That is the way the dictionary defines The word.

1. This definition lends itself to a Neutral meaning of the word.

2. When defined this way success Can be good or bad. It all Depends on the desired result.

B. For the next three weeks i want to Talk about success in the market Place.

1. Where is the market place?

2. That place where we spend much Of our time. The work place.

3. We will deal with:

A. Success.

B. Enjoying one's work.

C. Handling the heat.

C. Success isn't a dirty word.

Ill. To often one finds himself excusing His success, because people tend to Look down on the successful.

D. Success is relative. Today, i want to Talk about how to be a real success.

E. Deuteronomy 8 warns us to handle The blessings that come our way Correctly if we want to continue to Be successful.

I. Avoid traps of success.

A. Success becomes failure when god is Ignored.

1. The bible records many people Who could not handle success.

Ill. Solomon

2. Amazing, how blessed we are, But how forgetful of god we Are.

B. Success becomes failure when one Neglects relationships.

1. Be careful of the world's Standard of success.

2. Ill. A man builds a strong Business, attains a position of Importance and notoriety, Become independently wealthy, Is influential in governmental Matters. The world says he is a Success. Yet his life may be Falling apart spiritually, Morally, and physically. 3. Ill. Patrick morley: ''the Culture we live in values Possessions and Accomplishments higher Than people and Relationships.''

C. Self-centeredness.

1. If we are not car ...

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