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Intro:
Raise hands?
All of us...
I’m a complainer.
Confession.
Our culture is a culture of complaining.
The more complants the more drama the less complaining the less drama.
We all agree that their is to much drama.
We all agree that we need to stop it.
The number one source of drama in my life is ME/YOU.
When we understand the source, system and solution to drama we can stop the drama.
God:
Stop complaining.
It is natural.
The goal in my life is to complain, complain, complain… Never meet anyone.
AREAS OF COMPLAINTS
Unmet needs - my wants and wishes not being meet
Unfulfilling expectations - god given right
(Religious leaders complained against Jesus)
Unhealthy perspectives - we are opinionated and voice it.
Many times we don’t have the right perspective.
Ungrateful attitudes - it is just never good enough
Complaining does not serve us well.
They contribute to a life full of drama.
THE FACTS ABOUT COMPLAINING:
It is contagious - if your kids complain they caught it from somewhere
It is toxic - it will kill relationships
It is useless - it doesn’t make things better
It angers God - It is a complaint against God
It is unattractive - I’m looking for friends, where do they hang out?
It has consequences - I’m focused on the problem and not the solution.
Health - people that complain about their health have more health problems.
It destroys relationships.
Ill - 1911 Divorce common denominator COMPLAINING
What is complaining?
To express discontent, dissatisfaction or unhappiness.
Complaint
When I’m discontent, dissatisfied or unhappy something rages inside of me.
I’ve just got to get this off my chest.
Is there any hope?
Paul, in prison, gives us hope.
He is in prison for doing good.
What I want to do today is I want to look at a text that to me is blow away powerful.
It's written by the apostle Paul, and if there's anyone who had the right to complain, if there's anybody who had the right to complain, it was certainly the apostle Paul.
The top thing on his bucket list, it was more than a bucket list, it was what he felt called to do.
The number one desire of his heart was to go to Rome as a preacher, to go to Rome to communicate the gospel.
He knew if he could go to Rome and reach the leaders in Rome, that he could have a chance of impacting the whole world.
At the top of his list of things that he wanted to accomplish in life was to go to Rome as a preacher.
Instead, he was arrested and sent to Rome as a prisoner.
The dream is a preacher.
Instead he is a prisoner.
Not just a prisoner, but he was locked up for about two years, locked 24 hours a day, chained to different Roman guards, awaiting his very possible execution.
I'll be honest.
Put me in that place.
I want to go there as a preacher.
I'm there as a prisoner.
I'm locked up.
I've been serving God.
I'm going to be so tempted to complain to God.
This isn't fair.
Why are you allowing this to happen?
I've served you.
I've been faithful.
If I'm the apostle Paul, I've been shipwrecked, I've been beaten, I've been snake-bitten, I've been left for dead.
All I've done is serve you, serve you, serve you.
You know how strategic this city is.
If you just give me a shot at this city, we could make a difference here.
Instead, here I am as a prisoner.
The floor is hard.
The food is bad.
This Roman soldier's body odor is so bad it makes me want to puke even on him right now.
That's kind of what would be going through my mind.
Instead of complaining, instead of whining, instead of telling God why God got it wrong, this is what the apostle Paul penned in a letter to the Christians in Philippi.
Here's what he said. .
Paul said this.
He said to the Philippian believers, he said, "Do everything without grumbling or arguing."
Another version translates it, "Do everything without complaining."
Do everything without grumbling or arguing, "so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation."
That is a very high standard.
Whatever you do, wherever you are, and whatever deed or word, do everything without grumbling or complaining.
There's a lot of very spiritual reasons why we should live without complaining.
There's also a lot of practical reasons.
I want to talk about the spiritual reasons, but I want to spend just a moment and talk about some of the practical reasons.
14 Do everything without grumbling or arguing, 15 so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.”
Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky
Phil 1:
Phil 1:
Do not lie, steal, lust, NO he says complaining
You want to shine?
Stop The Drama of complaining.
Work, school, neighborhood SHINE
HOW TO QUIT:
1. Admit the problem - turn to the person next to you… I complain to much.
Research - the average person complains 15 to 30 times a day.
Complaining is like bad breath you notice it in others.
Ill - Complaining kept the Israelites out of the promise land.
You will die in your wilderness.
2. Ask god for understanding -
Why?
Where did that come from?
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