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    What's in A Birthday?: I. We Can Be Mixed Blessings To Others

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    This document discusses different perspectives on birthdays and life. It notes that while birthdays can be joyous, they also remind us of our mortality. Birthdays are not always positive and can be used to harm others or boast, as in the biblical examples of Pharaoh and Herod. However, biblical heroes ignored their own birthdays and instead celebrated God's accomplishments. Overall, life can be seen gloomily, dully, or brightly depending on one's purpose and relationship with God.

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    What's in A Birthday?: I. We Can Be Mixed Blessings To Others

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    This document discusses different perspectives on birthdays and life. It notes that while birthdays can be joyous, they also remind us of our mortality. Birthdays are not always positive and can be used to harm others or boast, as in the biblical examples of Pharaoh and Herod. However, biblical heroes ignored their own birthdays and instead celebrated God's accomplishments. Overall, life can be seen gloomily, dully, or brightly depending on one's purpose and relationship with God.

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    This document discusses different perspectives on birthdays and life. It notes that while birthdays can be joyous, they also remind us of our mortality. Birthdays are not always positive and can be used to harm others or boast, as in the biblical examples of Pharaoh and Herod. However, biblical heroes ignored their own birthdays and instead celebrated God's accomplishments. Overall, life can be seen gloomily, dully, or brightly depending on one's purpose and relationship with God.

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    What's in A Birthday?: I. We Can Be Mixed Blessings To Others

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    This document discusses different perspectives on birthdays and life. It notes that while birthdays can be joyous, they also remind us of our mortality. Birthdays are not always positive and can be used to harm others or boast, as in the biblical examples of Pharaoh and Herod. However, biblical heroes ignored their own birthdays and instead celebrated God's accomplishments. Overall, life can be seen gloomily, dully, or brightly depending on one's purpose and relationship with God.

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    What’s in a Birthday?

    For some a birthday is a joyous event, especially for the young. Birthdays mean presents and
    being the center of attention. Birthdays mean surprises and all the cake we can eat.
    Through out it all, whether we are ready or not, birthdays will come.
    Birthdays don’t slow down, they speed up. Then one day we wake up and say, “Where has my
    life gone?”
    “Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour,
    that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away” (James 4:14).

    I. We Can Be Mixed Blessings To Others


    “And it came to pass the third day, which was Pharaoh’s birthday, that he made a feast unto all
    his servants: and he lifted up the head of the chief butler and of the chief baker among his
    servants. And he restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into
    Pharaoh’s hand” (Gen. 40:20-21)
    In this incident, Pharaoh used his birthday as an occasion to show his power over his servant. He
    showed his power by restoring his butler. While this is true, we too, could sometimes might use
    our birthday celebrations to boast or to embarrass somebody.

    II. We Can Be Harmful To Others


    “But when Herod’s birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodias danced before them, and
    pleased Herod. Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she would ask.
    And she, being before instructed of her mother, said, Give me here John Baptist’s head in a
    charger. And the king was sorry: nevertheless for the oath’s sake, and them which sat with him
    at meat, he commanded it to be given her. And he sent, and beheaded John in the prison. And his
    head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother.”
    (Matt. 14:6-11).

    This incident reminds us that not all birthday celebrations create happy moments for everybody.
    It could be a day where some are happy, while some are not.
    III. We Can Be Blessings To Others
    A. God’s Heroes Of The Faith Seemed To Ignore Their Birthdays
    There’s no record in the Bible wherein prophets, apostles and heroes of faith celebrated
    their own birthdays, but rather they celebrated other noteworthy accomplishments. In
    these celebrations, they emphasized not their own, but God’s accomplishments. These are
    the following:
    a. The Passover
    b. The Day of Atonement
    c. Pentecost
    B. Three Perspectives On Life
    1. The gloomy perspective
    a. Life can be worse than death if there is no purpose, direction or accomplishment
    b. Death can be worse than life if there is no hope in eternity
    c. Life or death can be miserable to those who live it selfishly
    d. Life or death can be miserable for those who life it godlessly
    2. The dull perspective
    a. Death can be better than life if we know the Lord (Eccl. 7:1)
    b. Death can be better than life if that is what God chooses for us
    c. Death can be better than life if that is what gets us to Christ
    d. Death can be better than life if we die in the Lord
    - For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain. (Phil. 1:21)
    3. The bright perspective
    a. Life can be better than death if the Lord blesses our life.
    b. Life can be better than death if we are serving the Lord
    c. Life can be better than death if we are bringing other’s to the Lord
    d. Life can be better than death if we meet the Lord in the air

    As We Live Our Lives:


    I. We Can Be Mixed Blessings To Others
    II. We Can Be Harmful To Others
    III. We Can Be Blessings To Others

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