The lesson looks at simplicity as a spiritual discipline and encourages us to examine our priorities. How does seeking the kingdom first simplify our lives? What are the distractions that get in the way.

1. The Discipline of Simplicity

2. “This only have I found: God created mankind upright,
but they have gone in search of many schemes.”
Ecclesiastes 7:29

5. Jesus’ message was simple.

6. Jesus’ message was simple.
Love God
Love Your Neighbor

7. Jesus’ message was simple.
Love God.
Love Your Neighbor.
Remember the Lawyer was asking this because it became very
complicated in his mind…

8. If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I
am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic
powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I
have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am
nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be
burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.
1 Corinthians 13

9. Simplicity is a matter of internal priority.
Relationships
Time
Money
Career
Family

10. Seek
fi
rst the Kingdom of God and his righteousness…

11. Seek
fi
rst the Kingdom of God and his righteousness…

12. Warning: The simple life is not a call to abandon all possessions,
be deprived or deprive others God made the earth to be enjoyed!
The simple life helps us understand the value of possessions
and not desire them
Phil. 4:12 – being content with much and with little.
The Lord provides us with what we need The simple life is not
about devising a list of things all people can and cannot have –
legalism

13. The spiritual discipline of simplicity is to intentionally shed
the things of this earth that are keeping you from fully
experiencing the life God desires for you. What are the
things entangling you, holding you back?
What are the practical ways that know you can seek the
Kingdom
fi
rst in your life right now?

14. What am I holding to?
What am I paying attention to?
What has been put into the place where God should be?
What has become an inordinate attachment or addiction?
Simplicity starts with the interrogation of ourselves and what has
taken hold.

15. Simplicity is letting go so that you can make more room in
your life for God. It’s creating margin and space in your life
to breathe more freely and loose the chains of the world.

16. The Discipline of Simplicity

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