Holding  On To Personal Rights

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1. Anger 2. Worry 3. Anxiety 4. Fear 5. Depression

6. Condemnation 7. Unstable Mind 8. Bitterness 9. Deception 10. Guilt

11. Grief 12. Emotional Pain 13. Confusion 14. Addictions

Physical Symptoms Each of the above attitudes also produces excessive stress upon the immune system of the body.  With immune system weakened, the door is opened to sickness and diseases including bacterial infection, viral infections, parasitic invasion, allergies, and antigens.  If you are sick or have a disease it may be because you are holding on to an assumed personal right.

For this article, these are assumed personal rights which have not been delegated to us by God.   Note:  Anger is the result of holding on to assumed personal rights that have not yet been yielded to God which have been violated or are in danger of being violated.  See the partial list below.
 

Right to security Right to be accepted Right to provisions  Right to possessions Right to have my time Right to be educated

Right to be appreciated. Right to have a certain position Right to have safety Right to be healthy Right to my space Right to be heard

Right to have my friends Right to have my music Right to have my schedule Right to have my ministry Right to be right Right to have authority

"And God spake all these words, saying,  I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. Thou shalt have no other gods before me.  Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:  Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me"  (Exodus 20:1-5).

Note it doesn't say "bad gods".  It just says "gods."  In one sense, it can be good gods.  Making a living is good, but if it takes the place of God, then it is wrong!  Reading the Bible is good, but if the Bible becomes a god to us, it is wrong.  It is idolatry.  Evangelism is good, but if we do it rather than listening to God, it is idolatry.

"Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve"  (Matthew 4:10).

"Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:  But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:  For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.  The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.  But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!  No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon"  (Matthew 6:19-24).

"Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?. But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you.  Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness.  I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness.  For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness.  What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.  But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.  For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord"  (Romans 6:16-23)

Note: We will always be a slave to something (The world, self, or God)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    Slaves HAVE NO personal rights of their own.

"Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God"  (Romans 1:1).
"James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, to the twelve tribes which are scattered abroad, greeting"  (James 1:1).
"Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ"  (II Peter 1:1)

Note: This is literally a bond servant, one who has been set free, but who has chosen to stay with his master.

"Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven"  (Matthew 5:3).

"And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.  For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: but whosoever will lose his life for my sake, the same shall save it. For what is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?"  (Luke 9:23-25).

"If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.  And whosoever doth not bear his cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple"  (Luke 14:26-.27).

"Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.  Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.  For we are the circumcision, which worship God in the spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh.  Though I might also have confidence in the flesh. If any other man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh, I more:  Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee; Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.  But what things were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ.  Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ, And be found in him, not having mine own righteousness, which is of the law, but that which is through the faith of Christ, the righteousness which is of God by faith: That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death; If by any means I might attain unto the resurrection of the dead"  (Philippians 3:1-11).

"Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.  Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:  Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world"  (I Peter 5:6-9).

"Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he shall sustain thee: he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved"  (Psalms 55:22).

***The things which we care about are the things we have the tendency to hold on to.

"That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:"  (I Peter 1:7).  It is to test your faith!

"Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you"  (I Peter 4:12)

A. You will be tested by circumstances. (it)

B. You will be tested by people.  (them)

C. You will be tested by your own desires.  (me)

D. You will also be tested by God. (Him)

A.You will be set free from you enemies.

"And Samuel spake unto all the house of Israel, saying, If ye do return unto the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the strange gods and Ashtaroth from among you, and prepare your hearts unto the LORD, and serve him only: and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines"  (I Samuel 7:3).

"For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman: likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant.   Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men (I Corinthians 7:22-23).

B. You will experience the kingdom. 

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.  He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal"  (John 12:22-25).

"Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven"  (Matthew 5:3).

C. You will receive all that God has for you as sons. 

"Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ"  (Galatians 4:7).

"Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come.  He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.  All things that the Father hath are mine: therefore said I, that he shall take of mine, and shall shew it unto you"  (John 16:13-15).