Living Fulfilled and Satisfying Lives!
Freedom From A Life of Discontent and Complaint

Discontentment

Violates the Command To Be Thankful!

1 Thessalonians 5:18 in everything give thanks; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. 19 Do not quench the Spirit.

2. Compels You To Compare Yourself With Others.

It Produces Envy

Psalm 37:1 Do not fret because of evildoers, be not envious toward wrongdoers.
Proverbs 23:17 Do not let your heart envy sinners, but {live} in the fear of the LORD always.

Compels You To Look Back

Ecclesiastes 7:10 Do not say, “Why is it that the former days were better than these?” For it is not from wisdom that you ask about this.

God’s Purpose Revealed – To Reflect God and His Glory!

Genesis 1:27 – Found in the Father’s Purpose of Creation!
Who Is This God? What Is His Glory? Exodus 34:5-7
Genesis 2:16-17 – Found in God’s Command! Obey Me!

God’s Purpose Rejected! Genesis 3:1-8

John 10:10 The Thief Comes to kill, steal and destroy!

We Listen to the Enemy’s Voice.
We Believe the Lie – The Wages of Sin is Not Death.

Romans 1:25 For they exchanged the trugh of God for the lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen

And We Give In to the Temptation.

1 John 2:16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.

Fellowship w/ God is Broken – The Glory Departs! Genesis 3:7-8

Romans 5:12-21 – Through one man sin entered the world!
Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Being Deceived: Genesis 3:13 Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

God’s Purpose Restored! Genesis 3:15

Genesis 3:15 And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him on the heel.”

John 10:10 The Their Comes to Kill steal and destroy, But I come that you might have life and have it abundantly.

Romans 16:20 And the God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus be with you.

God’s Purpose Received and Lived!

⎫ Through Faith in What Christ Did!
⎫ Through Action by Living a Life where He is Center! He is Sought first and Loved most
⎫ A life where I default to His way, not man’s way, not my way!

And then life flows out of that! And Satisfaction and Fulfillment In this Life Is Yours!