The "Me-First" Movement
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Selfishness defined - A self-centred concern for oneself, without due regard to the needs of others.
Scripture treats selfishness as an aspect of sin and urges believers to care for others as well as themselves.
Selfishness is a characteristic of the sinner
For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit.
But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Whoever isolates himself seeks his own desire;
he breaks out against all sound judgment.
The Example of Jesus:
For even Christ did not please himself but, as it is written: “The insults of those who insult you have fallen on me”. Romans 15:3
Let no one seek his own good, but the good of his neighbor.
Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil. For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow. But woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up! Again, if two lie together, they keep warm, but how can one keep warm alone? And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him—a threefold cord is not quickly broken.