Put Jesus first
When you wake up in the morning put him first
When you're tired
Put him first
When you've got so much going on and it's so busy and there's so much to do put him first
The reality is that you can make it without the things that are stressing you out
But you can't make it without Jesus
You've got to put Jesus first
Before your job before your desires before your dreams put him first
Put him first in your schedule, then put him first in your finances put him first
Jesus will be first one way or the other the Bible says that one day every knee will bow and every
tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord. That means he is first everybody's gonna acknowledge it one way or another
So why not put him first today
All authorities across the entire
Universe have to bow to Jesus Christ
And as people fall into the ash heap of human history
so-called greats Jesus Christ stands alone
unrivaled
Unparalleled he is supreme
And he is our purpose
He is our purpose
All things were created through him and
for him
Put Jesus first
Because I I've come to tell you that when you put Jesus first
He's able to do a sudden and he is able to do a radical and a complete change
When you put Jesus first he's able to affect a fundamental change in your life
He's able to overthrow certain powers that rule the decisions in our in our and our ways of thinking in our direction
When we put
Jesus first
You know how we know what our priorities are
What do you put your time into
If you don't have time to spend with Jesus, I'm talking regularly. I'm not talking occasionally
I'm talking regularly and you don't give him leftovers you give him the best
Spend time with God
Put him first in everything that you do and you know what some of the upside-down things in your life will turn right-side up
A lot quicker than you think they will man does not live by bread alone
But by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God
Too many times we say these phrases we say Lord I will make time
No, we cannot make time. Or we say Lord I will I will fit you in
No, we will not fit him in
Let me say this instead of trying to
Fit him in or make time for him. Why don't we give our time to him
You see there's a shift of thinking right there because either you hold on to time and you fit him in or you say Lord
This is all my time of the day 24 hours. I give to you that wherever I am
Whatever I'm doing Lord
You're gonna make a way that it doesn't matter if it's in the car if it's in the bathroom or in the shower Lord
I give my 24 hours Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday. I give it to you
Because this this is what I know
That Jesus said that if we seek Him he will be near
That when we seek Him we will find him that when we seek Him he will reward us that when we seek Him he will
Add all these things for us
When we seek Him
Matthew 6:33 seek ye first the kingdom of God and all of these things will be added unto you
In case you've forgotten this let me just remind you that you don't have to seek things and neither do I
We seek God
And he adds the things
Psalm 37:4 delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you
the desires of your heart
You have to open up your hearts and ask Jesus to be your Lord and your savior
Romans chapter 10 verse 9 says that if you confess with your mouth that the Lord Jesus
And believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead you will be saved
Revelations chapter 3 verse 20 says behold. I stand at the door and knock
If anyone hears my voice and opens the door. I will come in
In other words Jesus Christ has to be received
He's not gonna push his way into your life. You're not gonna just change
into a Christian no you have to receive him as your Lord and Savior
Just because your in church doesn't mean you're a Christian
But let me say this
Sometimes we receive him but just a part of our lives
Jesus wants to take every part of your life. We have to say Lord
You are the minister of everything Lord if your kingdom comes it must control every part of my life
And you would admit that even though you love Jesus you haven't really been putting him first lately
There have been some other things that have been crowding ahead of Jesus in your life
He's been on your to-do list, but seems to get pushed further and further
down depending on what else is happening in your life
And for you it's time to take Jesus off of the to-do list and make him the center of your life
It's time to put Jesus first
God wants to be part of our lives in every way. He cannot be a once a week commitment
He cannot be a tick box that we tick. He cannot be on the to-do list
Jesus is not just a religion. He's not just this symbol. He's not just the story or a subject
He is a living God who desires
real
relationship with his people
And he desires to be part of everything that goes on in your life
The things that matter most need to go first
And if you're putting Jesus first
Then he's got to be at the center put Jesus first in your life and everything else will fall into place
When you are our highest priority all of the other priorities will be taken care of
Because through you we have life
Lord through you
We have freedom from sin
Through you oh God your purpose for our life and why you made us why we even exist can come to pass
And you need to make a commitment today to put Jesus first to put Jesus first
To follow him
To have friendship and fellowship with him
and ultimately
to put your faith
in him
Put Jesus first, what does that mean if I had to put something first here are four things
I thought would help if you put something first in your lives. It means these four things number one. It means it's a priority
It's a priority
Number two if he's gonna be first in our lives he has to carry value above everything else
Number three if Jesus is gonna be first in our lives he needs time
And he wants resources
And if Jesus is gonna be first in our lives, he's gotta become our passion
My priority I value him. Lord I give you my time. You are my passion
Make the things that matter most your highest priority do the things that don't matter later
You need to assess your
priorities because many of the things you've been putting first are gonna matter the least but many of the things you've been
that have mattered to you the least are gonna matter the most one day
We have to realize that
Everything that we have all our money all our possessions everything we have and I'm not saying this to be scary
I'm just saying it so we get our priorities in line
I'm saying it to myself as well as you I mean, it could be gone in one hour
So
We want to make sure that Jesus is first
And sometimes when we get too caught up in trying to make money how many people are working
two and three jobs so they can pay for a bunch of stuff that they don't even need
A bigger house a more expensive car this or that a boat a yacht or whatever and
When you're on your deathbed you're not going to ask for your bank balance
There's not one person in here that's gonna say bring my accountant I want to know how much money I got in the bank
You're gonna want some family you're gonna want some people that love you you're gonna want to have peace to know that you're
Gonna meet with Jesus at any moment
That's what we do when we establish priorities we put the things that should be in first place in their proper order
So put Jesus first
To put him first we need to follow him
There is a benefit to following Jesus when we follow Jesus when we put him first
When we follow his instructions where we go where he calls us to go and do what he instructs us to do
There's a benefit he offers more than you can currently hold and a way for you to learn how to hold even more
If we're gonna put Jesus first in our lives we have to love him
We've got to love him
Luke chapter 10 verse 27 it says these words
You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul with all your strength and
with all your mind
Your love must not be mechanical your love cannot be religious when we say love the Lord your God love must come from your hearts
Must be real
See here's the thing don't grow distant from Jesus
All of us have friends all of us have people that that time in life has kind of gotten in the way and
things have grown distant, maybe literally distant or maybe just emotionally or but don't grow distant from Jesus
Don't grow distant from Jesus
You've got to seek Him
He wants to be part of everything in your life, we've got to seek Him
Matthew chapter 6 verse 33 but seek first the kingdom of God and and His righteousness and all
these things shall be added to you proverbs 8:17
I love those who love me and those who seek me diligently
will find me. Isiah fifty five verse six says seek the Lord while he may be found call upon him while
He is near
Hebrews 11:6 says he is a rewarder of those who diligently
seek Him. What does this mean? This means that we've got to make every opportunity possible
To seek the Lord
See if we're gonna put Jesus first it means we have to follow him
We've got to go where he goes. We've got to do what he calls us to do. That means following instruction
We've got to put his word
first John chapter 1 verse 1 says that in the beginning was the word and the word was with God
and the word was God
If you drop down to verse 14, it says and the word became flesh and dwelt
amongst us and he beheld his glory the glory as of the only begotten of the Father in other words. Jesus is the word
That when we put Jesus first we're putting the word first and what does that mean it means that the word becomes my final authority
It becomes the authority that I that I live up to I will I'll be under this authority
I'm gonna be under this word in other words. It's my final authority on you what that says about how I treat my wife
It's my final authority on how I treat my neighbour
It's my final authority on how I do business
It's my final authority on how I give and how I serve and how I love my children raise my children
It's my final authority in how I deal with money
It's my final authority on how I treat my enemies
That if we want a revolution to happen in our lives that brings change his word has to be my final authority
I will live according to the word and this is the thing the word the Bible says is a light onto my path in other words
it illuminates my future
When you put Jesus first it means to share him with others when you put your faith in him
It means to share that faith putting Jesus first means taking the step to make sure that you are all in
Putting Jesus first
Means putting your faith in Jesus
Jesus came and he died for our sin. He died for our shame
He took our our sickness upon himself and he broke the separation between man and God that now whoever believes in Him
Will have everlasting life. It's the Jesus revolution
Puts Jesus first