4 ways selfishness sneaks into our daily lives

1)     We cling to our old self by not growing and learning by the daily renewing our mind in the Truth of scripture.

-Jesus is not just added to our life when we are saved. Our old life has died, and He becomes our new life.

Ephesians 4:20–24  [20] But that is not the way you learned Christ!— [21] assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, [22] to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, [23] and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, [24] and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. (ESV)

2)     Sexual sin is a consistent struggle for us.
-We must realize that All sexual sin is selfish.  It is self-centered, self-pleasing and self-worship.

-We are to be set apart and walk pure before the Lord. We do this by His power, not our own.

 1 Thessalonians 4:3–7 [3] For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; [4] that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, [5] not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God; [6] that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you. [7] For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness. (ESV)

3)     The central focus of our new life has strayed from the Gospel and onto self.

-A summary statement on the purpose of the life of a Christian would be this: To know God personally and to make Him known to others.

Colossians 3:12–13  [12] Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, [13] bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive.  (ESV)

4)     Our agenda/motivation is to continually improve our self-esteem/self-worth.

-We must see ourselves as we are – both the bad of what we are in the flesh and the glory of what we are in Jesus Christ.

2 Timothy 3:2-4 [2] For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, [3] heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, [4] treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,  (ESV)