Sermonette: Self-Made Man

Avoiding Idolatrous Ideas
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Given 15-Apr-23; 17 minutes

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Throughout the business community, the personal development self-help audio-book genre, featuring luminaries such as James Clear and Napoleon Hill, have made a huge impact, encouraging rugged individualism, hustling, and grinding, with emphasis on the self. Sadly, when success is defined by business moguls rather than the Bible, the emphasis of servant leadership and serving is replaced by the Darwinian survival of the fittest model. The world amasses men to show how to be successful by elevating themselves over others, placing their own opinions and discoveries above Almighty God. As long as Joash/Jehoash remained in a servant leadership status, accepting counsel from God's servant, he did right (II Kings 1-3), but when he forgot the purpose of his calling, listening to evil counselors, he served the asherim and allowed idols to sit in the high places of his mind. We must remember we are God's servants (Isaiah 44:21-24) and have a perfect Corner Stone upon which to align ourselves. Instead of Napoleon Hill's counsel to "Think and Grow Rich," we need to "Seek the Lord and Live."




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