1.
How
much is this watch worth to you? (ex: Coach Wysong’s watch)
Answer: How ever much a
person is willing to spend on the item
Example: Mark McGwire’s 70th
Homerun in a season sold for $3 million.
2.
What
does the word “WORTH” mean to you?
Dictionary: (n)
1) The quality that renders
something desirable, useful, or valuable.
2) Quality that commands esteem or
respect; merit (a person of great worth)
3.
What
does the word “VALUE” mean to you?
Dictionary: (n)
1) An amount, considered to be a
fair and suitable equivalent for something else
2) The principle, standard or
quality considered worthwhile or desirable
4.
Rhetorical Question: What
do you think about more than anything else on a daily basis?
o
Point 1: What you think about most is what you
value most at that specific moment in time.
o
Point 2: What you value is what you will
subconsciously think about without even trying.
§ Example 1: Music – poor language, sex,
drugs, etc
§ Example 2: Friendships – values,
interests, beliefs, actions, etc
o
Quote: When you squeeze an orange, orange
juice comes out – because that’s what’s inside.
When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside of you. – Wayne
Dyer
§ Mark
7:20 –
What comes out of a man is what makes him “unclean” NIV
§ Mark
7:20 –
And then he added, “It is what comes from inside that defiles you. NLV
·
Defiles = corrupt something: to corrupt or
ruin something
5. God’s Thoughts:
o
How
much does God think about You:
§ Psalms 139: 17-18: “How precious are your thoughts about me, O
God! They are unnumberable! I can’t even count them; they outnumber the
grains of sand! And when I wake up in
the morning, you are still with me!
o
How
much does God love You / What are we worth to God:
§ John 3:16: “For God so loved the world that he gave his
one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have
eternal life”.
§ Ephesians 2: 4-8: “But because of his great love for us,
God who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in
transgressions—it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated
us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming
ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his
kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it
is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this is not from yourselves,
it is the gift of God—“
o
Does
God value you enough to spend time with you:
§ 1 Thessalonians 5: 17: “Pray
without ceasing”
·
Is communication Monologue or Dialogue?
·
If I wave to a person, what is their normal
response?
·
Is prayer communication?
·
In the same way, as we pray without ceasing,
God wants to communicate without ceasing.
6. How do we value and give worth to God
o
What
does Worship mean?
§ (n)
– reverent honor and
homage paid to God or a sacred personage
§ (v)
– To render reverence
and to acknowledge one’s worth and value
§ (v)
– To give worth and
praise
o
John
14:6 “Jesus answered, ‘I
am the way and the truth and the life.
No one comes to the Father except through me.’”
o
John
4:23-24 Yet
a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the
Father in the Spirit and in truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the
Father seeks. God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the Spirit and
in truth.”
§ Truth
– God’s word (Bible)
§ Spirit
– Prayer
o
Romans
12:1 Therefore, I urge
you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a
living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper
worship.
o Matthew 22:37-40: Jesus
replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul
and with all your mind.’[a]
38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And
the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b]
40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two
commandments.”
o Enter into His gate with
thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise.
Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.
