What is your First Priority in Life

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• What is your First Priority in Life?

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• Happiness
• God
• Family
• Job
• Security
• ???

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• Mark 1228-30
• One of the teachers of the law came and heard
  them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them
  a good answer, he asked him, "Of all the
  commandments, which is the most important? The
  most important one," answered Jesus, "is this
  Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is
  one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart
  and with all your soul and with all your mind and
  with all your strength.

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• A Challenging Question
• 100's of OT Laws
• 365 prohibitions or negative thou shalt nots
• 248 ordinances or positive thou shalts
• 613 different OT laws.

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• 1. A Challenging Question
• You shall have no other gods before me. -Exodus
  203
• Keep all my decrees and all my laws and follow
  them. -Leviticus 1937
• Do not cook a young goat in its mothers milk.
  -Exodus 3426

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• 1. A Challenging Question
• You shall have no other gods before me. -Exodus
  203
• Keep all my decrees and all my laws and follow
  them. -Leviticus 1937
• Be holy because I, the Lord your God am holy.
  -Leviticus 192

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• 1. A Challenging Question
• Hear, O Israel The LORD our God, the LORD is
  one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart
  and with all your soul and with all your
  strength. -Deuteronomy 64-5

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• One of the teachers of the law came and heard
  them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them
  a good answer, he asked him, Of all the
  command-ments, which is the most important? The
  most important one, answered Jesus, is this
  Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is
  one. Love the Lord your God with all your heart
  and with all your soul and with all your mind and
  with all your strength. Mark 1228-30

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• 1. A Challenging Question
• 2. A Comprehensive Commitment

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• Loving God With All My Heart

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• Loving God With All My Heart
• A. Where We Believe
• For it is with your heart that you believe and
  are justified, and it is with your mouth that you
  confess and are saved. -Romans 1010

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• Loving God With All My Heart
• A. Where We Believe Believing Love

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• Loving God With All My Heart
• A. Where We Believe Believing Love
• Acts 837 Then Philip said, If you believe with
  all your heart, you may. And he answered and
  said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of
  God.

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• Loving God With All My Heart
• A. Where We BelieveBelieving Love
• I Believe You, Lord.

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• Loving God With All My Heart
• A. Where We Believe Believing Love
• I Believe You, Lord.
• B. Where We Desire

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• Loving God With All My Heart
• A. Where We Believe Believing Love
• I Believe You, Lord.
• B. Where We Desire
• One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek
  that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the
  days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the
  LORD and to seek him in his temple. My heart
  says of you, Seek his face! Your face, LORD, I
  will seek. Psalm 274,8

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• Loving God With All My Heart
• A. Where We Believe Believing Love
• I Believe You, Lord.
• B. Where We Desire
• I desire to do your will, O my God your law is
  within my heart. -Psalm 408

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• Loving God With All My Heart
• A. Where We Believe Believing Love
• I Believe You, Lord.
• B. Where We Desire
• Passionate Love
• O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you my
  soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a
  dry and weary land where there is no water.
  -Psalm 631

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• Loving God With All My Heart
• A. Where We Believe
• Believing Love
• I Believe You, Lord.
• B. Where We Desire
• Passionate Love
• I Desire You, Lord.

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• Loving God With All My Heart
• A. Where We Believe
• Believing Love
• I Believe You, Lord.
• B. Where We Desire
• Passionate Love
• I Desire You, Lord.
• C. Where We Vow

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• Loving God With All My Heart
• A. Where We Believe
• Believing Love
• I Believe You, Lord.
• B. Where We Desire
• Passionate Love
• I Desire You, Lord.
• C. Where We Vow
• Covenant Love

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Loving God With All My Heart

• A. Where We Believe
• Believing Love
• I Believe You, Lord.
• B. Where We Desire
• Passionate Love
• I Desire You, Lord.

• C. Where We Vow
• Covenant Love
• This is the covenant I will make with them after
  that time, says the Lord. I will put my laws in
  their hearts, and I will write them on their
  minds. -Hebrews 1016

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• Loving God With All My Heart
• C. Where We Vow
• Covenant Love
• This is the covenant I will make with them after
  that time, says the Lord. I will put my laws in
  their hearts, and I will write them on their
  minds. -Hebrews 1016

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• Loving God With All My Heart
• A. Where We Believe
• Believing Love
• I Believe You, Lord.
• B. Where We Desire
• Passionate Love
• I Desire You, Lord.
• C. Where We Vow
• Covenant Love
• I Commit Myself to You, Lord.