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The point is our self-interest is a danger to others and will hurt them as we pursue it. If you choose to see it as a bomber going on a raid, so be it. Abort the mission.

I understand your point. The damage is caused to others as a consequence of our own self-interest. The damage to others is unintentional, it occurs as a result of us pursuing goals set through self-interest. We aim for our goal, but end up doing much more harm than good. I picked the title...

covetous – Covetous literally means fond of silver. To understand how damaging a covetous person can be to others listen to what Paul says in 1 Tim 6:9-10 ...they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and...

Collateral Damage is a term used to describe the inflicting of injury, pain, sorrow, difficulty or even death on an unintended target. As we progress through this lesson there may be a tendency for all of us to view ourselves as the victim of collateral damage. I'm going to ask you to resist...

Isn't it up to God to convert us? Matthew 28:19-20 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost: teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the...

Someone once said a picture is worth a thousand words. Someone else said seeing is believing. I'm not in any way discounting or making light of the necessity of faith by sharing such statements. I'm trying to stress the importance of a witness to go with the message. Heb 2:3-4 How shall we...

Psalm 19:7 The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The Pew Research Center conducted something they call the U.S. Religious Landscape Survey in June of 2008. They questioned just over 19,000 professing Christians across...

The true purpose of a Christian can be found in Acts 26:18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me. In that verse we see...

It may seem to some that it's pointless for us to be concerned about the deception which is taking place in the church and our country because there's nothing we can do about it. We can't attack it directly for the reason we seen in the parable of the wheat and the tares, but we can appeal to...

Deception is the act of deceiving or being deceived, of misleading or being misled. An exception is something other than what's generally true, something other than what's normal. Deception that's not the exception is beguilement, that, has in fact, become the normal state of being. Deception...

goodness - Virtue, moral excellence, a disposition to conform to what's right. Disposition is the manner in which the parts of something complex are arranged. So to conform to what's right we have to be arranged properly. It's impossible to understand how that could happen apart from being...

Gal 5:22-26 ...the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law. And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts. If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit...

When I tried to post it all together it would not allow me to, said it was to long, but thanks!

III. The Holy Spirit wants to reprove us. Jesus said in John 16:7-11 Nevertheless I tell you the truth; It is expedient for you that I go away: for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you; but if I depart, I will send him unto you. And when he is come, he will reprove the world of...

Matthew 5:13-16 Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men. Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. Neither do...

To those of you who read the Bible regularly, have you like me ever wondered what this verse and others like it mean? Exodus 11:10 And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and THE LORD HARDENED PHARAOH'S HEART, so that he would not let the children of Israel go out of his land...