2. Seed Faith For Seekers
3, Selflessness

3. WHY?
WHY?
WHY?
WHY?
WHY?

4. [Rom 7:19 ESV] 19 For I do not do the good I want, but the evil I do not want is what I keep on doing.

5. The Principle Explained
[Phl 2:3-4 ESV] 3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

6. The Principle Explained
[Phil 2:3-4 ESV] 3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
Count others, speaks to one’s attitude
Look to others, speaks to one’s actions

7. The Principle Explained
[Phl 2:5-8 ESV] 5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

8. The Principle Explained
[Rom 8:29 ESV] 29 For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

9. How Do We Empty Self? Last Lesson Not Just Negatives Falsehood
Sinful anger
Stealing
Corrupting talk
Reactions
Not Just Negatives
Overworking
Pleasing loved ones
Recreations
Time, energy
Interest in our own desires
Takes balance and making priorities

10. Four Areas of Selflessness to Prioritize
Worship
[Jhn 4:24 ESV] 24 God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

11. Four Areas of Selflessness to Prioritize
Worship, devoted to it
[Act 2:42 ESV] 42 And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.

12. Four Areas of Selflessness to Prioritize
Worship, In the habit of it
[Heb 10:25 ESV] 25 not neglecting to meet together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as you see the Day drawing near.

13. Four Areas of Selflessness to Prioritize
Worship, part of a community of builders
[1Pe 2:5, ESV] 5 you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

14. Four Areas of Selflessness to Prioritize
Worship
Proclaiming
[1Pe 2:9-10 ESV] 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God's people; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.

15. Four Areas of Selflessness to Prioritize
Worship
Proclaiming, We have a model
[Luk 19:10 ESV] 10 For the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost."

16. Four Areas of Selflessness to Prioritize
Worship
Proclaiming, We have examples
[Act 20:20 ESV] 20 how I did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and teaching you in public and from house to house,

17. Four Areas of Selflessness to Prioritize
Worship
Proclaiming, We have pers. encouragement
[Mat 5:13-16 ESV] 13 "You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people's feet. 14 "You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.

18. Four Areas of Selflessness to Prioritize
Worship
Proclaiming, We have pers. encouragement
[1Pe 2:12 ESV] 12 Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.

19. Four Areas of Selflessness to Prioritize
Worship
Proclaiming
Loving the brethren
[1Th 4:9-10 ESV] 9 Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another, 10 for that indeed is what you are doing to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to do this more and more, (NASV, excel)

20. [1Pe 1:22 ESV] 22 Having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart,
What does “earnestly” mean?
[Luk 22:44 ESV] 44 And being in agony he prayed more earnestly; and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
[Act 12:5 ESV] 5 So Peter was kept in prison, but earnest prayer for him was made to God by the church.

21. Four Areas of Selflessness to Prioritize
Worship
Proclaiming
Loving the brethren
In ministry
[1Th 5:11 ESV] 11 Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing.

22. Encourage, defined as… Build up, defined as…
To call near, invite, beseech, call for
To call to one’s side, summon, address, speak to
Build up, defined as…
To found, establish
To promote growth in Christian wisdom, affection, grace, virtue, holiness, and blessedness

23. Four Areas of Selflessness to Prioritize
[Phl 2:3-4 ESV] 3 …in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.
Worship
Proclaiming
Loving the brethren
In ministry