TITLE: Are you mature?
TEXT: Philippians 3:15-16
PROPOSITION: God wants us to grow up.
QUESTION: What?
KEY WORD: Marks
SCRIPTURE READING: Same
INTRODUCTION:
We often say to teens and some adults, Grow up.
Children can do some things and we laugh.
When an adult does the same thing, we shake our head.
There are some marks of maturity and immaturity.
Man has 5 ages. A person might be:
50 Chronologically
40 Physically
60 Intellectually
15 Emotionally
10 Spiritually
Luke 18:9-14 Pharisee had a hard time seeing his own faults, he could see faults in others with ease
Selfishness in attitude and action Love is not selfish 1 Corinthians 13:4-8
Ingratitude Where are the nine? Luke 17:11-19
Demand to have ones own way
Little sense of responsibility or obligation job, home, pay bills, raise family
Fail to finish what they start change jobs, short interest span
Unable to handle conflicts with control temper, fuss and fume, run home to mama
More blessed to receive Acts 20:35
Matthew 5:1-13 Beatitudes teach us how to be happy
Has a poor way to love and to be loved
Independence Leave and cleave Matthew 19:5
Proper attitude toward commitment
Willingness to make the other person happy
Agape (Greek) seek what is best for another
Feeling of gratitude instead of self-pity
Matthew 5:43-48 immature complain, gripe, full of self-pity
Filled with Christian love
Without love other things are worthless
With love small things become significant
With love we will do other
things we should do
John 14:15 If you love me, do what I command you
Love has transforming power
2 Corinthians 5:14 love of Christ constrains us
Love is live changing 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 you are washed, justified,
sanctified