Week 4 | How to Live Long and Prosper
From Psalm 23:6
📖 Psalm 23:6 (ESV) Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
“Sheep can, under mismanagement, be the most destructive livestock. In short order they can ruin and ravage land almost beyond remedy. But in bold contrast they can, on the other hand, be the most beneficial of all livestock if properly managed.”
Philip Keller
How to live long and prosper:
1. on the not .
📖 Psalm 23:6a (ESV) Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
Sometimes a thing can become a “ -thing”.
📖 2 Chronicles 26:15 (ESV) In Jerusalem Uzziah made machines, invented by skillful men, to be on the towers and the corners, to shoot arrows and great stones. And his fame spread far, for he was marvelously helped, till he was strong.
📖 2 Chronicles 26:16 (ESV) But when he was strong, he grew proud, to his destruction…
📖 Psalm 91:14-16 (ESV) “Because he holds fast to me in love, I will deliver him; I will protect him, because he knows my name. 15 When he calls to me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him. 16 With long life I will satisfy him and show him my salvation.”
📖 John 15:5 (ESV) I am the vine; you are the branches. Whoever abides in Me and I in him, he it is that bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.
How to live long and prosper:
2. on the long-term view of .
📖 Psalm 23:6a (ESV) Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me ALL THE DAYS of my life
is not in a with your .
📖 Psalm 112:1-2 (ESV) Praise the LORD! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in his commandments! 2 His offspring will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed.
📖 Exodus 20:5-6 (ESV) You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, 6 but showing steadfast love to the thousandth generation of those who love me and keep my commandments.
How to live long and prosper:
3. on your .
📖 Psalm 23:6 (ESV) and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD forever.
📖 John 14:2-3 (ESV) In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
📖 Romans 8:28 (ESV) And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.
📖 Matthew 8:28 (ESV) But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.
📖 Mark 10:29-30 (ESV) Jesus said, “Truly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands, for my sake and for the gospel, 30 who will not receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions, and in the age to come eternal life.
Series in a Sentence:
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