Entitlement

Harris Creek Baptist Church

Harris Creek

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 524 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2022

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Has there ever been a time in your life when you were frustrated or complained because something didn’t make sense to you? Because you didn’t get what you wanted? As we continue our series, 7 Deadly Sins of Suburbia, JP teaches us about the sin of entitlement by studying Luke 14:1-14.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

-What are things we feel entitled to? Comfort, health, time, food, money, safety, salvation, love…what is it for you?

-Want to know a sure fire way to know what you feel entitled to? What do you complain about? Whatever you complain about, that’s what you are entitled about.

-Don’t fall victim to a counterfeit version of Christianity and be OK with it.

-Should Christians ever take the best seat?

-Entitlement is focusing on what you deserve.

-As Christians, we are to use whatever God has entrusted us with to serve others.

-Discomfort kills entitlement. There is no comfortable solution to entitlement.

-Entitlement is the air we breathe. It impacts everything about us.

-For entitled people, it rarely feels like things are going their way.

-Entitlement leads to disappointment.

-Every disappointment you’ve ever experienced comes from your expectations.

-Entitled people are perpetually frustrated.

-You cannot be thankful for what you feel entitled to.

-Christians in America have a lot to be thankful for, and on the whole, we are terrible at being grateful for most of it.

-Want to grow in gratitude? Ask God to take away anything you aren’t grateful for.

-Grateful people always win. Entitled people always lose.

-We change entitlement by changing our perspective.

-What is your role in “the party” that is life? The host, or the guest? Make no mistake, as a Christian, it’s always the host.

-We are masters at manipulating the rules or the system in our favor.

-The Christian (or biblical) worldview says life on this world is a limited amount of time to serve as many people as you can serve before spending forever in heaven with God.

-All we actually deserve is hell. However, an infinitely good God gave us everything we need to be with Him through Christ.

-If something is true, even if no one around you lives or acts like it, it is still true.

-The gospel kills entitlement.

-Practicing gratitude kills entitlement.

-Ask people near you this week: am I a grateful person? Does gratitude mark my life?

-Ask God what you are entitled to.

MENTIONED OR RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

-Suggested Scripture study: Luke 14:7-14; Philippians 2:3; 1 Peter 5:5; James 4:10; Luke 13:30; Mark 10:45; Philippians 2:6-8

-Sermon: Busyness

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0:00.0	Thank you for listening to the Harris Creek podcast.
0:02.6	If you'd like more information about our church, please visit www.org or download our app on Google Play or iTunes.
0:13.4	Amen.
0:13.9	All right, guys.
0:15.4	So I am, you know, one thing people say all the time when they come up afterwards is, wow, I didn't realize how tall you were.
0:21.6	Almost like I'm lying, because I say it all the time, right?
0:24.6	I'm six feet, seven inches tall, weird tall.
0:27.6	Like that's like past the threshold of normal.
0:31.6	And there's some things that aren't like super fun when you're this tall, like folding up in the back of a sports car,
0:39.5	for example, not the greatest experience.
0:41.9	To be honest with you, I don't love to fly, right?
0:44.7	Because American Airlines, like, gives you,
0:46.8	they make those seats for about a max of six, four.
0:51.3	And so six, seven means you've gotta like just somehow, you know, kind of sit up
0:57.3	the whole flight.
0:58.6	And so I'm flying from Seattle to DFW the other day, and I'm in coach always, coach,
1:05.9	I'm sitting about six rows behind bulkhead.
1:09.6	Bullkehead is that front row of coach.
1:12.0	You have a little bit more leg room, almost like an exit row.
1:15.9	And that's where I want to be always.
1:18.3	And so I'm about six rows back, folded up in a seat there.
1:23.6	And the plane takes off.
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