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Show 91-;JA/aJr r-r: h& r-. hn.v41 THE PERIL OF FORGETTING Deuteronomy 6: 11 b-15 Perhaps the greatest tragedy of all times is to know the power of God in your life but when prosperity comes to forget where you came calls us from. This text the children of Israel while still in the wilderness to beware that God is getting ready to bless them and when they get full, the temptation will be to forget how you got there. The children of Israel will suddenly come into possession of everything they need, the easy way, into a land flowing with milk and honey. They had nothing, now they have everything. They had no where to go and no reason to go even if they did. 1 , fplJsW they have more places than they can possibly use. To make matters worst, what they have, they did not work for. The old folks used to say "easy come, easy go." There is great danger with all this prosperity-great and goodly cities you did not build, houses you did not build, wells you did not dig, vineyards and trees you did not plant. Will you forget that God is the source? As young people, the ultimate danger is that Now because you do not know where it came from and how it came about, you will take it for granted. Listen to the text, "When thou shall have eaten and be full; Then beware lest forget many family members thou the Lord " ... 2 I have known to squander the hard earned, lifetime gains and achievements of their parents is a matter few years. w yUIA- k.vv mtWr 10lJ. 1-4 BAst S{Ytvf1.J{er"",r r This word "forget" is a powerful woro of months about from our ones or a failure. It put aside lose memory of, means memory, to to inducing oblivion, having no recollection of, ceasing to recall, to slight, to neglect. One who forgets goes about as if what is forgotten does not exist. The first danger of forgetfulness is when we get material, physical, earthly things, we seems to forget invisible, spiritual and heavenly things. The goods of this world can easily blind us to the things of another world. The second danger of forgetfulness is when things come easy, it is easy to 3 forget where those things came from. I read the other day a story about a man who won millions of dollars by the lottery. He shared some with family and friends. He gave some to beggars who acted like he owed them something. He bought a lot of things he had always wanted. In just about two years time, the winner of the lottery filed for bankruptcy because he could no longer pay his obligations. The third danger of forgetfulness is when everything is too good to believe, look out. You remember the story of the rich man whose barns already were full when his bumper crop came in. He tom down his old barns, built new ones, and stored all of his goods. He said to his 4 soul, "Eat, drink, and be merry." But God said, "Thy fool, this night thy soul is required of thee, now whose goods are these?" These children of Israel are delivered completely and totally. They are no longer wanderers in the wilderness. They are now occupants and residents of the promised land. They are no longer on somebody else's land but have a land of their own They have reason to fear bondage or aught from their enemy. Yet, the text says prosperity brings on the temptation to forget God. The danger is on the inside. We always brings our selves with sin are us. within The root of bitterness and us. No matter how pleasant our circumstances, 5 still we have us. perfect, our perfections. Even if the world is still us with were there why we have to put God first. F or if we put things first, God will have no place in our lives. Jesus came to claim His rightful place in our lives. He wants us to put His first, to never forget that He gave His life that we might live, that He died for us and that He rose again so that we might have the victory. That's 6 |
