HONOR FOR SUCCESS
(Message by Tanny Keng)
1. Success
a) What does the Bible say about success? Are there biblical principles about how we can be successful?
b) Definition of Success: The World Versus The Word
i) As the world sees success, it is the achievement of a social status, completing a goal, reaching an objective or the achievement of an action in a specified set of time.
ii) The way God defines success is so much different than the way the world does. Success to those in the world means achieving something that is useful in this life on earth. Success as God sees it is something that is achieved that is of infinite, eternal value in this life and in the life to come. That is a huge difference indeed. The Bible describes success in a much different way than the world does.
2. Honor For Success
a) The first four Commandments are vertical…that is they are commands relating to God but the last six are horizontal and deal with human relationships. By the way, this makes a cross-shaped pattern. The first of the six Commandments that relate to humans is that of honoring your parents because that is the most important of all the commands for a nation to be strong and receive the blessings of God. Families are the bedrock of a nation and if the family breaks down, eventually so will the nation. If a child does honor their parents, “it may go well” with the children and their “days will be prolonged.” This means that things will go much better for them and they will live a longer life. The opposite is true as well. If that isn’t success, we don’t know what is.
Deuteronomy 5:16
“Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.”
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1. Successa) What does the Bible say about success? Are there biblical principles about how we can be successful?
b) Definition of Success: The World Versus The Word
i) As the world sees success, it is the achievement of a social status, completing a goal, reaching an objective or the achievement of an action in a specified set of time.
ii) The way God defines success is so much different than the way the world does. Success to those in the world means achieving something that is useful in this life on earth. Success as God sees it is something that is achieved that is of infinite, eternal value in this life and in the life to come. That is a huge difference indeed. The Bible describes success in a much different way than the world does.
2. Honor For Success
a) The first four Commandments are vertical…that is they are commands relating to God but the last six are horizontal and deal with human relationships. By the way, this makes a cross-shaped pattern. The first of the six Commandments that relate to humans is that of honoring your parents because that is the most important of all the commands for a nation to be strong and receive the blessings of God. Families are the bedrock of a nation and if the family breaks down, eventually so will the nation. If a child does honor their parents, “it may go well” with the children and their “days will be prolonged.” This means that things will go much better for them and they will live a longer life. The opposite is true as well. If that isn’t success, we don’t know what is.
Deuteronomy 5:16
“Honor your father and your mother, as the Lord your God commanded you, that your days may be long, and that it may go well with you in the land that the Lord your God is giving you.”
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