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12the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world %u2014the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life.%u201d (1 John 2:15-16)Do you know what those are? Those are the three things we just talked about. The lust of the flesh%u2014pleasure, the lust of the eyes%u2014possessionsand the pride of life%u2014power.What God says through John is, don't love those things, they are not from the Father, they come from the world.Proverbs 21:21 states, \honor.\the right things, God will give you the things the world craves. God will give you life. He'll give you prosperity. He'll give you honor. Those are roughly equivalent to pleasure, possessions, and power. If you value righteousness and love God says, \rest, and I'll give them to you in proper measure to make your life all it can be.\the value system of culture. Praise the value system of Christ.How can I build my life on right and lasting values? How do I go about doing that?a.Assess what's important.\ us discern for ourselves what is right; let us learn together what is good.\See, before we can do what is good we've got to discern what is good. Deciding what's important in one%u2019s life is one of the basic problems in America. As stated earlier, this generation is characterized by incongruent values. That's because we seldom take the time to ask: What do I value? What is really important to me? Several of you I am sure saw the recent study which showed that television shapes children's values more than parents. Now that's sad! But we all knew that was true. A child watches television five hours a day. A child seldom spends that much time with a parent. Television shapes children's values in America today more than parents. But here's the other thing, it's not just the children. We, adults begin to assemble TV, videos and movies present values. What we first may see, we may roll our eyes, or we may even gasp, and then we just kind of keep watching and time passes. We may laugh about it and after a while, we subconsciously embrace it.This is key. Most Americans are basing their lives, their futures, and their children's future on values we didn't even choose. That's not too smart, is it? We're basing our whole destinies on values we're not even thinking about. Stop and decide WHAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT IN LIFE! Then you need to write out your definition of success in your life.