“ ENJOYING LIFE WITHOUT THE COMPLAINTS ” Enjoying the Rest of Your Life – Part 5 Philippians 2:14-15.

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“ ENJOYING LIFE WITHOUT THE COMPLAINTS ” Enjoying the Rest of Your Life – Part 5 Philippians 2:14-15

Philippians 2:14-15 "Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like stars in the universe."

I. FOUR COMMON TYPES OF COMPLAINERS 1.THE "WHINER" (David) "Have I been wasting my time? Why take all the trouble to be pure? All I get out of it is trouble and woe." Psalm 73:13 (LB)

I. FOUR COMMON TYPES OF COMPLAINERS "They took their money and started grumbling against the employer... `We put up with a whole day's work in the hot sun - yet you paid them the same as you paid us." Matt. 20:11-12 (GNB)"They took their money and started grumbling against the employer... `We put up with a whole day's work in the hot sun - yet you paid them the same as you paid us." Matt. 20:11-12 (GNB)

I. FOUR COMMON TYPES OF COMPLAINERS 2. THE "MARTYR" "Moses said to the Lord, ‘Why pick on me, to give me the burden of a people like this? I can't carry this nation by myself!... If you're going to treat me like this, please kill me right now - it will be a kindness! Let me out of this impossible situation!’" Numbers 11:11-15 (LB)"Moses said to the Lord, ‘Why pick on me, to give me the burden of a people like this? I can't carry this nation by myself!... If you're going to treat me like this, please kill me right now - it will be a kindness! Let me out of this impossible situation!’" Numbers 11:11-15 (LB)

I. FOUR COMMON TYPES OF COMPLAINERS 3. THE "CYNIC" (Solomon) "Life is useless... you spend your life working and what do you have to show for it?... the world stays just the same... what has been done before will be done again." Ecclesiastes 1:2-4,9 (GNB)

I. FOUR COMMON TYPES OF COMPLAINERS 4. THE "PERFECTIONIST" "A nagging wife is like water going drip, drip, drip on a rainy day." Proverbs 27:15 (GNB)

I. FOUR COMMON TYPES OF COMPLAINERS "Better to live out in the desert than with a nagging, complaining wife." Proverbs 21:19 (GN)

II. HOW TO CONQUER COMPLAINING 1.ADMIT IT IS A PROBLEM A man who refuses to admit his mistakes can never be successful. But if he confesses and forsakes them, he gets another chance." Proverbs 28:13 (LB)

II. HOW TO CONQUER COMPLAINING 2. ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR MY OWN LIFE! "Some people ruin themselves by their own stupid mistakes and then blame the Lord." Proverbs 19:3 (GNB)

II. HOW TO CONQUER COMPLAINING 3. DEVELOP AN ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE "Give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus." I Thessalonians 5:18

II. HOW TO CONQUER COMPLAINING "... I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances." Philippians 4:11

II. HOW TO CONQUER COMPLAINING 4. LOOK FOR GOD’S HAND IN CIRCUMSTANCES

II. HOW TO CONQUER COMPLAINING "This small and temporary trouble we suffer will bring us a tremendous and eternal glory, much greater than the trouble. So we fix our attention, not on the things that are seen, but on the things that are unseen. What is seen lasts only for a time, but what cannot be seen lasts forever." 2 Corinthians 4:17-18 (GN)

II. HOW TO CONQUER COMPLAINING 5. PRACTICE SPEAKING POSITIVELY "Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen." Ephesians 4:29

II. HOW TO CONQUER COMPLAINING "Don't keep on scolding and nagging your children, making them angry and resentful, rather, bring them up with loving discipline... and godly advice." Ephesians 6:4 (LB)

Let’s Pray…