Is God First In Your Life?

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Is God First In Your Life?

• Matthew 2236-38

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Babylonian Captivity and rebuilding the temple

• Began to do Gods work
• Troubled by peoples around them
• Stopped work
• God instructs
• Message of God to Haggai for people

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Haggai 12-4

• 2.Thus speaks the LORD of hosts, saying This
  people says, The time has not come, the time
  that the LORDs house should be built.
• 3.Then the word of the LORD came by Haggai the
  prophet, saying,
• 4.Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your
  paneled houses, and this temple to lie in ruins?

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Haggai 12-4

• Looking at Haggai 12-8
• Look at what the Lord says the people were doing
  vs.2-4

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Haggai 15-6

• 5.Now therefore, thus says the LORD of hosts
  Consider your ways!
• 6.You have sown much, and bring in little You
  eat, but do not have enough You drink but you
  are not filled with drink You clothe yourselves,
  but no one is warm And he who earns wages, Earns
  wages to put into a bag with holes.

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Haggai 15-6

• Looking at Haggai 12-8
• They made time for what was important to them and
  not God, and still were unable to get what they
  needed vs.6

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Haggai 17-8

• 7.Thus says the LORD of hosts Consider your
  ways!
• 8.Go up to the mountains and bring wood and build
  the temple, that I may take pleasure in it and be
  glorified, says the LORD.

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Haggai 17-8

• Looking at Haggai 12-8
• God tells them to Consider your ways! vs.7
• God tells the people what they really need to be
  doing vs.8
• Is there a lesson in this for us today?

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The message for us today

• 1. Are we putting God first in our lives over
  other things?
• 2. Do we let worldly things (even difficult
  things) stop us from proper worship of God and
  the work of the Lord?
• 3. Do we take inventory of our lives and consider
  how it glorifies God?

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1. Is God first?

• Matthew 633 But seek first the kingdom of God
  and His righteousness, and all these things shall
  be added to you.
• Look at previous verses.
• Is this not what Israel was trying to get and
  didnt have enough?
• What is important to you in your life?

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Is God where He should be?

• Can we put a name to things that are putting God
  in second place?
• Are our needs or desires taking priority over
  God?
• It is more needful for us to take care of
  spiritual things then to worry too much about
  physical things to the detriment of our work and
  worship.

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2. Are worldly things our desire?

• The people of Israel let the Samaritans keep them
  from Gods work.
• Instead of fearing God they feared men.
• Romans 831
• 31.What then shall we say to these things? If
  God is for us, who can be against us?

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Romans 121-2

• 1.I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the
  mercies of God, that you present your bodies a
  living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which
  is your reasonable service.
• 2.And do not be conformed to this world, but be
  transformed by the renewing of your mind, that
  you may prove what is that good and acceptable
  and perfect will of God.

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I John 215

• 15.Do not love the world or the things in the
  world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the
  Father is not in him.
• Are we ready to accept correction from God if we
  find we are short in any of these things?

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Deuteronomy 85

• 5.So you should know in your heart that as a man
  chastens his son, so the LORD your God chastens
  you.
• It we wont accept correction, has our hearing
  become dull to the wholesome words of Jesus?
• 2 Timothy 113- Hold fast the pattern of sound
  words which you have heard from me, in faith and
  love which are in Christ Jesus.

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How Long do we give to God?

• Each Week
• 2 hours of bible study
• 2 hours of worship
• 4 hours to God
• 40 hours work
• 7 x 7 49 hrs. sleep
• 2.5 x 7 17.5 eating
• 106.5

• Left with 57.5 hours
• Each Year
• 208 hours a year for worship and study
• 2080 working
• 2548 sleep
• 910 eating
• 5538 total
• 2990 hours left (124 days)

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A Good lesson

• Haggai 112- Then Zerubbabel the son of
  Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the
  high priest, with all the remnant of the people,
  obeyed the voice of Jehovah their God, and the
  words of Haggai the prophet, as Jehovah their God
  had sent him and the people did fear before
  Jehovah.
• Haggai 114-And Jehovah stirred up the spirit of
  Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of
  Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of
  Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all
  the remnant of the people and they came and did
  work on the house of Jehovah of hosts, their God,
  
• So let us learn all the lessons we can.

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3. Do we consider our ways?

• As it said in verse 7, do we look at what we are
  doing and make sure it is for God?
• James 123-25 For if anyone is a hearer of the
  word and not a doer, he is like a man observing
  his natural face in a mirror
• 24.for he observes himself, goes away and
  immediately forgets what kind of man he was.

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James 125

• 25.But he who looks into the perfect law of
  liberty and continues in it, and is not a
  forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one
  will be blessed in what he does.
• Psalms11-2
• 1.Blessed is the man Who walks not in the
  counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path of
  sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful

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Psalms 11-2

• 2.But his delight is in the law of the LORD, And
  in His law he meditates day and night.
• Are we looking at Gods law?
• Are we considering what were doing?
• Being honest with ourselves?
• Making corrections?

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Do we think about things before its too late?

• Calling our brothers and sisters?
• Preparing for bible class?
• Preparing for worship?

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Lets be pleasing to God

• I Thessalonians 41- Finally then, brethren, we
  urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should
  abound more and more, just as you ought to walk
  and to please God
• Let us do the work God has for us, the way He
  wants!