Transcript First Things First

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*We all have Priorities!
*Work
*Home
*Play
*What we eat
*Sports – first place
*The Lord also has Priorities:
*Whose do we honor the most?
*Do we put the Lord’s priorities first or ours?
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*But seek ye first the
kingdom of God, and his
righteousness; and all these
things shall be added unto
you.
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*“And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up,
and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall
I do to inherit eternal life? He said unto
him, What is written in the law? how
readest thou? And he answering said, Thou
shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy
heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy
strength, and with all thy mind; and thy
neighbour as thyself.”
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*“being before all others with
respect to time, order, rank,
importance, etc., used as the
ordinal number of one: the first
edition; the first vice president.”
* Dictionary.com
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*We must love God first because He
loved us first!
* If ye love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray the Father, and he
shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth
him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with
you, and shall be in you. I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to
you. Yet a little while, and the world seeth me no more; but ye see me:
because I live, ye shall live also. At that day ye shall know that I am in
my Father, and ye in me, and I in you. He that hath my commandments,
and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be
loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.
Judas saith unto him, not Iscariot, Lord, how is it that thou wilt manifest
thyself unto us, and not unto the world? Jesus answered and said unto
him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love
him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. He that
loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not
mine, but the Father's which sent me.
* John 14:15-24
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*When we obey Him we love Him!
* “If you love Me, keep My commandments.”
* John 14:15
* If we do not keep His commandments, we don’t love him!
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*We must love Him before family!
*“He that loveth father or mother more than me is
not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or
daughter more than me is not worthy of me.”
* Matthew 10:37
Love Less
*“If any man come to me, and hate not his father,
and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren,
and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot
be my disciple.”
* Luke 14:26
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 15 - “If ye love me, keep my commandments.”
“Do not be afflicted at the thought of my being
separated from you: the most solid proof ye can give
of your attachment to and affection for me is to keep
my commandments. This I shall receive as a greater
proof of your affection than your tears.”
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* Obey His Word!
* John 12:48
– “He that rejecteth me, and receiveth not my
words, hath one that judgeth him: the word that I have
spoken, the same shall judge him in the last day.”
* Must do the Father’s will!
* Matthew 7:21-23 – “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord,
Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that
doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Many will say
to me in that day, Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in thy
name? and in thy name have cast out devils? and in thy name
done many wonderful works? And then will I profess unto
them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work
iniquity.”
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* Obey the will of the Father as did Jesus!
* John 4:34 – “Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will
of him that sent me, and to finish his work.”
* John 6:38 – “For I came down from heaven, not to do mine
own will, but the will of him that sent me.”
* John 6:40 – “And this is the will of him that sent me, that
every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may
have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.”
Are You Doing His Will?
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*Do you faithfully keep these commandments?
* Study – 2 Tim. 2:15; 1 Thess. 4:10-11
* Give as prospered – 1 Cor. 16:1-2; 2 Cor. 9:6-9
* Pray – 1 Thess. 5:17; 1 Tim. 2:8
* Sing – 1 Cor. 14:15; Col. 3:16; Eph. 5:19
* Not forsake the assembly – Heb. 10:25
* Kind to others – Eph. 4:32; 1 Cor. 13:4
* Love one another – Jn. 15:12, 17; 1 Pet. 1:22
* Seek the lost – Luke 10:2; Jn. 4:35
* Help the needy - Luke 12:16-21
* Suffer for righteousness – Matt. 5:10
* Edify others – 1 Thess. 5:11; Rom. 14:19
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*Let us have our priorities in a Godly order!
*Put Christ and His will FIRST!
*Remember Johns admonition to the church
in Ephesus:
*“Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee,
because thou hast left thy first love” (Rev. 2:4).
“Seek Ye First The Kingdom of God”
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