We're welcome today to all of our life churches, all of our network churches,

and those of you all over the world at church online. If you have your

Bibles with you, let's open them up today to Luke chapter 17, Luke 17. Today we

are concluding the very important series called Forgotten Virtues. And the

first week of the series we talked about the Forgotten Virtue of honor, who the

Bible says we should show honor to. The second week we talked about purity, my wife

Amy, talked about a very powerful message about purity. In the third week we

talked about the Forgotten Virtue of loyalty. Last week we talked about a very

important virtue of integrity. Today though I want to talk to you about a

virtue that is almost totally forgotten in the society and in the world that's

growing up today. I'll give you an example. There was a Boston consultant who was

working with a bunch of college graduates and it took all these college

graduates and said that everybody in the workforce today there's one word that

they use to describe this emerging generation into the workforce and the word

begins with E. He asked all of these recent graduates what do you think is the

one word that so many people use to describe you that starts with the letter E.

And all of these young hopeful said energetic, excellent. And they all

through these different names that really describe their positive behaviors

beginning with exceptional. And after they listed all of these different E words,

the consultant said actually the number one most commonly used word to

describe this generation as they move into the workforce is the word entitled.

Entitled. In fact the millennials are labeled as the entitled generation those who

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