First Things First • 5/15/22

Series: Priorities

Title: First thing first

Date: 5/15/22

Location: Perris Valley Church

 

Romans 12:2 (NASB)

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

 

Matthew 6:33 (NKJV)

But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

 

Here’s point number one in your notes this morning:

God, by his own nature, cannot be second.

 

Point number 2 in your notes is this:

There is always somebody or something helping us write our priority list and put them in order.

 

Point number 3 in your notes is this:

You cannot hide your priorities from God.

 

Exodus 20:3 (NASB)

You shall have no other gods before Me.

 

Point number 4 in your notes is this:

Our behavior is going to show how honest we are about our priorities.

 

Exodus 20:12 (NASB)

12 “Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be prolonged on the land which the Lord your God gives you.

 

Hebrews 10:24-25 (NASB)

and let’s consider how to encourage one another in love and good deeds, 25 not abandoning our own meeting together, as is the habit of some people, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near.

 

Colossians 3:23-24 (NASB)

Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord and not for people, 24 knowing that it is from the Lord that you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve.

 

Proverbs 13:4 (NASB)

The soul of the lazy one craves and gets nothing, But the soul of the diligent is made prosperous.

 

Mark 8:36-37 (NASB)

For what does it benefit a person to gain the whole world, and forfeit his soul? 37 For what could a person give in exchange for his soul?