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2. Desires for Other Things
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3. Desires for Other Things
Parable of the Sower
Mark 4:13-20 – “desires for other things”

4. Desire for Other Things
Self

5. Self
Luke 18:9-14 – “who trusted in themselves that they were righteous”
Acts 9:6 – “Lord, what do You want me to do?”

6. Self
Luke 9:23 – “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself”
Luke 14:26-27 – “yes, and his own life also, he cannot be My disciple”
Matthew 26:39 – “not as I will, but as You will”
Luke 2:49 – “I must be about My Father’s business”

7. Desire for Other Things
Self
Men

8. Men
Praise of Men
John 12:42-43 – “they loved the praise of men more than the praise of God”
Matthew 6:1-5 – “do not do your charitable deeds before men, to be seen by them”

9. Men
Wisdom of Men
Proverbs 14:12 – “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death”
Matthew 15:9 – “In vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men”

10. Men
Fear of Men
Luke 12:4-7 – “do not be afraid of those who kill the body”
Hebrews 13:6 – “The Lord is my helper”

11. Men
Family & Friends
Matthew 10:37 – “he who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of me”

12. Desire for Other Things
Self
Men
Riches & Pleasures

13. Riches & Pleasures
Mark 10:17-22 – “sent away sorrowful, for he had great possessions”
Matthew 16:26 – “what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul”
Ecclesiastes 2:9-11 – “There was no profit under the sun”

14. Riches & Pleasures
I Timothy 6:17-19 – “nor to trust in uncertain riches but in the living God”
Hebrews 11:24-26 – “esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt”

15. Conclusion What do we desire most… God or the things of this world?
II Peter 3:10-13
We must stop holding on to this world.
I John 2:15-17 – “the world is passing away”
Philippians 3:20 – “our citizenship is in heaven”

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