Sacrificing Your Future

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Sacrificing Your Future

• On the Altar of Instant Gratification

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Are You Sacrificing Your Future?

• We live in a world of instant gratification get
  it today dont worry about tomorrow
• Give it to me now (1 Sam. 216)
• The Devil uses instant gratification to get us to
  sacrifice our future
• Do you think about the future before you act
  today (Lk. 164)?

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Are You Sacrificing Your Future?

• Marriage give it to me now!
• Pregnancy give it to me now!
• New things give it to me now!
• Smoking, drugs, alcohol, over-eating give it to
  me now!
• Dont talk to me about future consequences (Amos
  63)!
• Ill get by, always have, always will

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The Altar of Instant Gratification

• Quick deals (Gen. 2527-34)
• Sexual gratification (Judges 143 161)
• Instant relief (Job 29)
• Instant credit (Prov. 227)
• Fun times now (Mt. 2437,38)

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The Altar of Instant Gratification

• Quick profits (Mt. 2614-16 273-10)
• Instant success (Lk. 1219-20)
• Wasteful spending (Lk. 1513)
• Worldliness (2 Tim. 410)
• Outburst of anger (Tit. 17)
• The tongue (Jas. 35-6)

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Dont Sacrifice Your Future

• Job waited (Job 210)
• Jesus waited (Mt. 41-11 Heb. 123)
• Paul waited (1 Cor. 924-27)
• Moses waited (Heb. 1124-25)
• We must all wait (Jas. 57-8)