Our Imperfect Family: Week 1

June 12, 2022

Notes

Our Imperfect Family: Week 1
Self-Direction
Genesis 16

• Stronghold: A pattern of thought and behavior that defies the principles of God’s word and opens our lives to the control of sin and Satan.

• 2 Corinthians 10:3-5

• Self-Direction: Elevating the value of my own desire above the plan of God for my life.

• Genesis 16:1-6

• The stronghold of self-direction begins with a legitimate need or desire.

  • Genesis 16:1

    Genesis 12:2

    Genesis 15:2-6

• It develops into a spiritual blind spot.

  • Genesis 16:2

• We act on a carnal suggestion.

  • Genesis 16:2-4

• We fail to respond to the initial consequence.

  • Genesis 16:4-6

• A singular failure becomes a sinful pattern.

  • Genesis 21:2

    James 1:14-15

• Through observation, the next generation adopts the pattern because they see it as normative.

  • Genesis 26:6-7

  • Generational Sin: When a single moral failure becomes a spiritual stronghold and eventually a predictable pattern of moral failure across multiple generations.