1. Pastor/Teacher - Jim Rickard Tuesday, November 10, 2009 Grace Fellowship Church www.GraceDoctrine.org

2. Doxology Praise God, from whom all blessings flow; Praise Him, all creatures here below; Praise Him above, ye heavenly host; Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.— Amen.

3. Memory Verse Deut 6:4, “Hear, O Israel! The LORD is our God, the LORD is one!” Mark 12:29

4. John 14:27b How do you measure yourself?

5. Our Lord is comparing the everlasting peace, happiness and prosperity that He gives to us versus the fleeting and temporal provisions or status the world gives.

6. KOSMOS “world” or “world order” = Satan’s Cosmic System.

7. DIDOMAI What the world repeatedly gives or provides. False standards!

8. Principles: 1) “The world” is an organized system for recognizing merit, ability, success, wealth, benefit, etc.,

9. … as well as creating standards by which you must live or you measure yourself by.

10. 2) It includes various false systems or means of obtaining peace and security, to the exclusion of God.

11. 3) The KOSMOS has a way of providing things that are attractive and wonderful to the flesh, because they are things that people either want, desire or are attracted to. 1 John 2:15-17

12. Virginia Woolf stated, “The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.”

13. 4) It has a system of giving greatness, success, wealth, various types of prosperity and recognition, peace, happiness, security, etc., all of which feed our Sin Nature’s lustful desires.

14. 5) We desire the things of the world from our Sin Nature, whether we are operating in arrogance or self pity.

15. a) In arrogance we desire for greatness, success and approbation, wanting to be kings over our own fiefdom.

16. b) In self pity we desire to have what others have and feel sorry for ourselves because we don’t have.

17. 6) The world dangles these false promises in front of us, tempting to provide greatness or security if you obtain them.

18. 7) The world creates the illusion that you must have these things and they become standards by which you measure your value or worth, or peace and security.

19. 8) It assigns perceived value, something you want today, that it can give to you. (Ex. Socialism and Communism)

20. 9) Once these standards are established, each person begins to measure their value and worth, prosperity, security, happiness, or the attainment of them.

21. 10) If you measure yourself from the KOSMOS, you are utilizing the devil’s standards and not God’s.

22. 11) In contrast, what comes from God is true value and worth having.

23. Phil 3:16, “Let us keep living by that same standard to which we have attained.”

24. 2 Tim 1:13-14, “Retain the standard of sound words which you have heard from me, in the faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the treasure which has been entrusted to you.”

25. Grace Fellowship Church Grace Fellowship Church Tuesday, November 10, 2009 Tape # 09-079 How Do You Measure Yourself? Upper Room Discourse, Part 311 John 14:27b James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2009