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MARKETPLACE FACTS:Module 510 C

Principle Or Expediency - Which Do You Choose When Your Survival Is At Stake?

Mario Denton

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Overall purpose of this series on Marketplace

To understand and learn from various marketplace facts so that you can: • Be more effective and anointed wherever you are in the marketplace.

• Adapt and benchmark your marketplace practices and principles discussed in this series.

• Use these material to facilitate the work of evangelism.

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Principle or Expediency?

• Expediency...of course!  Isn’t survival the name of the game?  

• Few of us, after all, have the “gift” of martyrdom!

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Principle or Expediency?• Only a fool would die for a

principle...Unless he had grasped the fact that a holy God will ultimately hold him accountable for his actions:

“...Follow the ways of your heart and whatever your eyes see, but know that...God will bring  you to judgment.”  (Ecc. 11:9b)

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What would you do?

• Your best friend’s business is in a free fall.

• It became apparent that without batting an eye they had already chosen a path for survival that was in clear violation of Biblical values.  

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Patently, they had opted for EXPEDIENCY OVER

PRINCIPLE.  

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Principle or Expediency?• In reflecting on this friend’s unwillingness

to trust God in a time of crisis, let’s be reminded of Christ’s question,

“...When the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the earth?”  (Luke. 18:8b)

 

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I wonder.

• When push comes to shove, only a man with a deep abiding faith in God and His promises would even consider choosing PRINCIPLE OVER EXPEDIENCY.

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Daniel was one such man

• He chose to live a Biblically principled life amidst unprincipled, hostile pagans.

• Often his decisions were made at great personal risk

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Daniel was one such man• “The administrators and the satraps

(governors) tried to find grounds for charges against Daniel in his conduct of government affairs, but they were unable to do so. They could find no corruption in him, because he was trustworthy and neither corrupt  nor negligent.”(Dan. 6:4)

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Daniel was one such man

Like Daniel, we are confronted daily with choices between

PRINCIPLE OR EXPEDIENCY.  

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Daniel was one such man

HOW WE CHOOSE WILL BE DETERMINED BY WHOM WE

TRUST AND FEAR THE MOST:  GOD OR MAN.

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Prayer Focus• Father, In the name of Jesus, I

surrender myself to walk in the Word in the marketplace. Your word living in me produces the Life in this world.

• The word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. It makes my way plain before me.

• I boldly and confidently say that my heart is fixed and established on the solid foundation – the Living Word of God! Amen

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Learning, application and commitment: James 1: 22-25

• “Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves.

• Do what it says. • Anyone who listens to the word but does not do

what it says is like a man who looks at his face in the mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.

• But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it - he will be blessed in what he does.” (NIV)

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Learning, application and commitment

• One of the principles that I have learned from this lesson was …

• I intend to apply this principle in my marketplace by: …..

• With the help of the Holy Spirit, I will begin applying this truth immediately.

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Jesus said: Take what I have given you and change the world!

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• Slides compiled by Dr Mario Denton. • Please commit yourself to inform us of the results regarding the

effectiveness thereof should you wish to use this material.

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