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Welcome!. Sunday Bible Classes 9:30 AM Worship 10:30 AM 5:30 PM Wednesday Bible Classes 7:00 PM. Bibles and copies of sermons are available Please silence your cell phones. www.SunsetChurchofChrist.net.

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  1. Welcome! Sunday Bible Classes 9:30AM Worship 10:30 AM 5:30 PM Wednesday Bible Classes 7:00 PM Bibles and copies of sermons are available Please silence your cell phones www.SunsetChurchofChrist.net

  2. Psalm 86:10-11 For You are great, and do wondrous things; You alone are God. Teach me Your way, O LORD; I will walk in Your truth; Unite my heart to fear Your name. Songs

  3. 2 Corinthians 4:17-18

  4. One Marshmallow or Two?

  5. Delayed Gratification People who wait for two marshmallows: more thriving marriages greater career satisfaction higher incomes better health

  6. Instant Gratification People who did not wait: less successful marriages lower job satisfaction lower income more prone to bad health generally more frustration with life

  7. Key to Following Christ: The Marshmallow Principle

  8. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:17-18

  9. Self Control God & the Bible LOVE self control Galatians 5:22-23 2 Peter 1:5-8 Titus 1:6-9 Godly people LEARN self control Hebrews 11:24-26

  10. Self Control The world HATES self control II Timothy 3:1-5 Worldly people FEAR self control Acts 24:25

  11. Self Control How do we learn self control? Don’t look at the marshmallow Mark 9:43-48 James 1:12-15

  12. Self Control How do we learn self control? Don’t look at the marshmallow Be mindful of better things Philippians 4:6-8

  13. The POINT: "Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.” Matthew 6:19-20

  14. Lay Up for Yourself a Treasure "He who believes and is baptized will be saved; But he who does not believe will be condemned.” Mark 16:16

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