CHARACTER

Pastor Hope Flask

January 26, 2025

Main Scripture: 1 Samuel 16:1-13

Additional Scriptures: Galatians 5:22-25, Matthew 6:22-23

POINTS:

• Our lives will not thrive based on what is happening externally, but internally.

• Unconcious Bias: a prejudice or stereotype individuals hold about certain groups of people that they aren't consciously aware of.

• Main factors for judging others and ourselves based on externals is technology and a lack of moral absolutes.

• We compare ourselves to images in ways that people 200 years ago never did.

• Our lack of moral absolutes, along with our unconscious biases formed from an overabundance of images, is devastating our culture.

• Pornography, deeply trains the heart to look at the externals.

• The Bible says that every heart has the seeds of sin, and those seeds grow in our hearts if we water them.

• When judging others and ourselves we must take the attitude of “But by the grace of God, go I”.

• We must allow the Holy Spirit to change our character to match His.

• What you see is what you shine.

• We must check our unconscious biases of others and ourselves with God’s grace and His word.

• We must hear God say “I recognize you”.