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Group Questions1. In which areas of your life does selfishness tend to

surface? (home, work, school, recreation, thoughts, etc)

2. Compare the sins of Pride & Selfishness to the Fruit of the Spirit listed in Galatians 5:22-23. How do they compare? Note the differences. Why do Christians sometimes display Pride & Selfishness rather than the fruit of the Spirit?

3. Why do you think Pride & Selfishness are so difficult to detect in ourselves?

G. Gordon LiddyI have found within myself all I need

and all I ever shall need. I am a man of great faith, but my faith is in George Gordon Liddy. I have never failed me

Shirley MacLaineThe most pleasurable journey you take is through yourself...the only sustaining love involvement is with yourself...When you look back on --your life

and try to figure out where you've been and where you're going, when you look at your work, your love

affairs, your marriages, your children, your pain, your happiness--when you examine all that closely, what you really find out is that the only person you really go to bed with is yourself...The only thing you

have is working to the consummation of your own identity. And that's what I've been

trying to do all my life.

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Luke 18:13-14But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me, a sinner!'I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted."

2 Timothy 3:1-5But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

1 Corinthians 1:10-12I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment. For it has been reported to me by Chloe's people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers. What I mean is that each one of you says, "I follow Paul," or "I follow Apollos," or "I follow Cephas," or "I follow Christ."

Philippians 2:19-21I hope in the Lord Jesus to send Timothy to you soon, so that I too may be cheered by news of you. For I have no one like him, who will be genuinely concerned for your welfare. For they all seek their own interests, not those of Jesus Christ

Selfishnessconcerned excessively or exclusively

with oneself : seeking or concentrating on one's own advantage, pleasure, or well-being without regard for others

(Merriam-Webster Dictionary)

Genesis 3:1-6Now the serpent was more crafty than any of the wild animals the LORD God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat fruit from the trees in the garden, but God did say, ‘You must not eat fruit from the tree that is in the middle of the garden, and you must not touch it, or you will die.’” “You will not surely die…

Genesis 3:1-6” the serpent said to the woman. “For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” When the woman saw that the fruit of the tree was good for food and pleasing to the eye, and also desirable for gaining wisdom, she took some and ate it. She also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.

4 Kinds of Selfishness1. Selfishness with our PERSONAL INTERESTS

2. Selfishness in regards to our TIME

3. Selfishness in regards to our MONEY

4. Selfishness in being INCONSIDERATE

Philippians 2:4Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others.

Galatians 6:2Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ

1 John 3:17But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?

Examples of Being Inconsiderate

1. Not concerned about being LATE

2. Not considerate of OTHER PEOPLE’S FEELINGS

3. Indifferent to the EMBARASSMENT OF OTHERS4. Only concerned with sharing YOUR OWN

OPINIONS5. Demanding spouse to MEET YOUR NEEDS

while ignoring theirs.

Philippians 2:3Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves

2 Corinthians 8:9For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, so that you by his poverty might become rich

Philippians 2:5-8Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

Philippians 2:4Let each of you look not only to his own

interests, but also to the interests of others.