2011.11.6 .attitudes of success part 5

Teachability’s BlessingsWisdomProverbs 19:20 Listen to adviceand accept instruction, and inthe end you will be wise.

Teachability’s BlessingsProverbs 6:20 My son, keep yourfathers commands and do notforsake your mothers teaching.

Teachability’s Blessings22When you walk, they will guideyou; when you sleep, they willwatch over you; when youawake, they will speak to you.

Teachability’s BlessingsProverbs 19:16 He who obeysinstructions guards his life, buthe who is contemptuous of hisways will die.

Teachability’s BlessingsExtended life and prosperity

Teachability’s BlessingsProverbs 3:1 My son, do notforget my teaching, but keep mycommands in your heart, 2forthey will prolong your life manyyears and bring you prosperity.

Teachability’s BlessingsProverbs 4:20 My son, payattention to what I say; listenclosely to my words.

Teachability’s Blessings22for they are life to those whofind them and health to a manswhole body.

Teachability’s BlessingsHonor

Teachability’s BlessingsProverbs 13:18 Whoever heedscorrection is honored.

Why Do We Struggle with Teachability?1. We want to have our own way.

Why Do We Struggle with Teachability?Proverbs 1:30-... since theywould not accept my advice andspurned my rebuke,

Why Do We Struggle with Teachability?31they will eat the fruit of theirways and be filled with the fruitof their schemes.

Why Do We Struggle with Teachability?Proverbs 22:15 Folly is bound upin the heart of a child, but therod of discipline will drive it farfrom him.

Why Do We Struggle with Teachability?•Folly:•Arrogance:

Why Do We Struggle with Teachability?Ecclesiastes 9:3 This is the evilin everything that happensunder the sun: The same destinyovertakes all.

Why Do We Struggle with Teachability?The hearts of men, moreover,are full of evil and there ismadness in their hearts whilethey live, and afterward theyjoin the dead.

Why Do We Struggle with Teachability?•Madness:

Why Do We Struggle with Teachability?2. We all feel like we know how to make it in the world.

Why Do We Struggle with Teachability?Ephesians 2:3 All of us also livedamong them at onetime, gratifying the cravings ofour sinful nature…

Why Do We Struggle with Teachability?and following its desires andthoughts. Like the rest, we wereby nature objects of wrath.

Why Do We Struggle with Teachability?Common mental models:We not only have our mental models. We ARE our mental models.

Why Do We Struggle with Teachability?3. We may be too lazy to change.

Why Do We Struggle with Teachability?Proverbs 19:16 He who obeysinstructions guards his life, buthe who is contemptuous of hisways will die.

Strategies to Dodge Correction1. You ignore it.

Strategies to Dodge CorrectionProverbs 13:18 He who ignoresdiscipline comes to poverty andshame, but whoever heedscorrection is honored.

Strategies to Dodge Correction DisciplineProverbs 10:8 The wise in heartaccept commands, but achattering fool comes to ruin.

Strategies to Dodge Correction2. Being wise in your own eyes.

Strategies to Dodge CorrectionProverbs 26:12 Do you see aman wise in how own eyes?There is more hope for a foolthan for him!

Strategies to Dodge CorrectionProverbs 12:15 There is a waythat seems right to a man but inthe end it leads to death.

Strategies to Dodge Correction3. Resists: Stiffen your neck.

Strategies to Dodge CorrectionProverbs 29:1 He who is oftenreproved, yet stiffens his neckwill be suddenly broken beyondhealing.

Strategies to Dodge Correction4. We scorn it; ridicule; mocking; disdaining.

Strategies to Dodge CorrectionProverbs 29:1 He who is oftenreproved, yet stiffens his neckwill be suddenly broken beyondhealing.

Strategies to Dodge CorrectionTitus 3:2 For we also once werefoolish, disobedient, deceived, and enslaved by various lusts andpleasures.

Strategies to Dodge CorrectionWe lived in malice andenvy, hateful, hating oneanother.

Keys to Teachability•Change our mental models.

Keys to TeachabilityRomans 12:2 Do not beconformed to this world, but betransformed by the renewing ofyour mind so that you may provewhat is God’s will, hisgood, pleasing and perfect.

Keys to Teachability•Change our action models.

Keys to TeachabilityMatthew 28:19 …Go and makedisciples of all nations, teachingthem to obey everything…

Keys to Teachability•Real growth comes from application.

Keys to TeachabilityEzra 7:10 Ezra had devotedhimself to the study andobservance of the Law of theLord, and to teaching its decreesand laws in Israel.

Keys to Teachability•Real growth comes from precept or pain.

Keys to TeachabilityPsalm 119:67 Before I wasafflicted I went astray, but nowI obey your word.

Keys to Teachability71It was good for me to beafflicted so… that I might learnyour statues.

Keys to Teachability2 Timothy 3:16 All scripture isGod-breathed and is useful forteaching, rebuke, correction, and training in righteousness.

2011.11.6 .attitudes of success part 5

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