Introduction

• Titus 2:7-8

Check your motive

• Matthew 22:37 - Being an example should not be our primary goal.
• Matthew 6:1-5, 15 - Be careful of crossing the line and being a showoff.
• Matthew 23:1-5 - The scribes and Pharisees had the wrong motives. See Deuteronomy 6:8. That was figurative language, but were making it literal with their tassels and phylacteries.
• Deuteronomy 11:18
• Numbers 15:39

Think: “What effect will this have on others?”

• Matthew 22:39
• We all know we are not perfect, but we should be operating out of humility.
• I Thessalonians 1:6-8; 2:5-12 - Sometimes we might need to let something go that would normally be our right just to avoid having a bad effect on others.
• II Thessalonians 3:7-12
• Colossians 3:23
• Start out by serving others, but then go above and beyond!

Be like the moon. Reflect the Greater Light.

• Genesis 1:16-19
• Psalms 19:1 - The moon is part of that glory. It is doing its job.
• I Corinthians 11:1
• Matthew 5:14-16