Comparison
Harris Creek Baptist Church
Harris Creek
4.8 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2022
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Where in life are you prone to compare your life to others? What happens in your mind and heart when you compare to others? Is it helpful? Hurtful? As we continue our series, 7 Deadly Sins of Suburbia, Nate Hilgenkamp teaches us about the sin of comparison by studying Luke 18:9-14.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
-It’s been well said that comparison is the thief of all joy.
-A parable is a story told in order to emphasize a single point of truth.
-Comparison views life as a competition.
-Some of you have an exhausting life because you are always comparing yourself to and competing with other people.
-Where do you find your worth and value in life? Your salary? Social media likes and comments? How much playing time your kid gets? Your neighborhood?
-If you really want to succeed and you can’t celebrate when other people succeed, you struggle with comparison.
-The sin of comparison is not new or exclusive to Suburbia. It shows up as early as Genesis 4 when Cain kills Abel. There are many examples of comparison all throughout the Scriptures.
-There are typically two different buckets of comparison: materialistic (“I want what they have”) and moralistic (“I’m better than they are”).
-When you pray, who is the focus of your prayer? You or God?
-Comparison crushes relationships.
-When your life is a competition, it makes everyone else your competitor and you isolate yourself, both of which kill your relationships.
-Comparison is killed by humility.
-How do you become humble? Compare yourself to God.
-When you compare yourself to a righteous, holy, & perfect God, there is no other option than to be humble before Him.
-Your job isn’t to compare to other people or Christians. Your job is to pick up your cross and follow Jesus every day.
-If you are too busy focusing on someone else’s life you won’t be able to live your own life.
MENTIONED OR RECOMMENDED RESOURCES
-Suggested Scripture study: Luke 18:9-14; Exodus 20:17; Genesis 4; Luke 9:46; Isaiah 6:5; Hebrews 10:14-18; John 21:17-25
-Sermon: Apathy
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Well, good morning, Harris Creek. We are so glad you're here with us this morning, whether you're in here or in the lobby. |
| 0:06.1 | Man, I just want to acknowledge you guys out there once again. I know when you were driving here this morning, you weren't expecting to be sitting out there, but we're so glad you're here with us today, even though you're not where you necessarily want to be. |
| 0:18.3 | And I just want to acknowledge that we are aware that we have |
| 0:21.3 | some difficulties here with space. And there's a number of different ways that we can work on that |
| 0:26.4 | and address it. And one of the ways that we've decided to address it is by having me speak this |
| 0:32.0 | morning. So next week, it's going gonna be a thinner crowd. |
| 0:37.7 | You can show up late, you'll get a parking spot, |
| 0:40.5 | you'll find a place here in this room. |
| 0:42.1 | So that's how we're addressing our space difficulties this morning. |
| 0:46.0 | Well, anyway, I just wanna start by sharing with you |
| 0:48.1 | that I have so badly wanted to have one of the best things |
| 0:52.5 | about living in Waco come true to me. And if you're watching online, you're not from Waco, you're probably thinking he just really, really wants to meet Chip and Joanna. That's not what I'm talking about. There's so much more to our city than that. I just really wanted to have one of these things, one of this one thing, which is one of the best things about living in Waco, happened to me because it's happened to a few of my friends before, and I just so badly |
| 1:14.2 | wanted to experience it. And it's this. One of the best things about living in Waco is when |
| 1:20.2 | someone else, not from Waco, typically California, approaches you, contacts you, leaves a letter |
| 1:27.3 | in your mail, asking to buy your house for a lot more |
| 1:30.4 | than what you paid for it. And it did happen to me. Just a couple of weeks ago, someone |
| 1:36.3 | contacted us and said, hey, we want to buy your house. And for a couple of different reasons, |
| 1:39.8 | it needs to be your house specifically. And I'm like, praise Jesus, we're moving. So as soon as I got |
| 1:45.8 | contacted, I was on Zillow every single day for the next week. And if you tell me what street |
| 1:52.2 | you live on, I probably know where it is. Because I researched every single neighborhood in the |
| 1:56.7 | McGregor, Hewitt, Woodway, Waco area, and I looked at house after house after house. |
| 2:02.4 | And in that week, I spent so much time on Zillow, and here's what happened. |
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