Priorities

Priorities

Living a goal oriented life

Christians ought to be like the Master

A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.

(Luke 6:40 ESV)

whoever says he abides in him ought to walk in the same way in which he walked. (1 John 2:6 ESV)

So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. (Psalm 90:12 ESV)

The Master had an end in mind

Jesus said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always here.(John 7:6 ESV)

So they were seeking to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet

come.(John 7:30 ESV)

These words he spoke in the treasury, as he taught in the temple; but no one arrested him,

because his hour had not yet come. (John 8:20 ESV)

The Master had an end in mind

He said this to show by what kind of death he was going to die. (John 12:33 ESV)

Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own

who were in the world, he loved them to the end. (John 13:1 ESV)

When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven, and said, “Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son

may glorify you, (John 17:1 ESV)

There is value in prioritizing life

Brothers, join in imitating me, and keep your eyes

on those who walk according to the example

you have in us. (Philippians 3:17 ESV)

Gives us direction for

daily decisions


Brothers, I do not consider that I have made it my own. But one thing I do: forgetting what lies

behind and straining forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 3:13-14 ESV)

Focuses our energy for real effort


Examine yourselves, to see whether you are in the faith.

Test yourselves. Or do you not realize this about yourselves, that Jesus Christ is in you?—unless indeed you fail to meet the test!

(2 Corinthians 13:5 ESV)

Provides a yardstick for evaluation


“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter

the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

(Matthew 7:21 ESV)

Leads to obedience of God’s objectives


To one he gave five talents, to another two, to another one,

to each according to his ability. Then he went away…

(Matthew 25:15ff ESV)

Helps us effectively to use God’s gifts


We gain confidence in the fact that God’s goals are our

goals.

everyone who is called by my name, whom I created

for my glory, whom I formed and made.”

(Isaiah 43:7 ESV)

God’s kind of Person

Why were you re-created?

To be God’s kind of person

For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own

doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast. For we

are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God

prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them. (Ephesians 2:8-10 ESV)

and he died for all, that those who live might no

longer live for themselves but for him who for their

sake died and was raised. (2 Corinthians 5:15 ESV)

So whether we are at home or away, we make it our

aim to please him. (2 Corinthians 5:9 ESV)


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To be God’s kind of partner

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

(Ephesians 5:25 ESV)

In the same way husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife

loves himself. (Ephesians 5:28 ESV)

Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them. (Colossians 3:19 ESV)


To be God’s kind of partner

Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit in everything to their

husbands. (Ephesians 5:24 ESV)

However, let each one of you love his wife as himself, and let

the wife see that she respects her husband.



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...Parent


To be God’s kind of parent

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline

and instruction of the Lord. (Ephesians 6:4 ESV)

Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged.

(Colossians 3:21 ESV)


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...Parent

...Partaker


To be God’s kind of partaker

by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you

may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire. (2 Peter 1:4 ESV)

from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped,

when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.



…. Partner

...Parent

...Partaker

...Proclaimer


To be God’s kind of proclaimer

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy

nation, a people for his own possession, that you may

proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of

darkness into his marvelous light. (1 Peter 2:9 ESV)


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...Parent

...Partaker

...Proclaimer

...Professional


To be God’s kind of professional

Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and

not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will

receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.

(Colossians 3:23-24 ESV)


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...Parent

...Partaker

...Proclaimer

...Professional

...Player


To be God’s kind of player

In the same way, let your light shine

before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to

your Father who is in heaven. (Matthew 5:16 ESV)


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...Parent

...Partaker

...Proclaimer

...Professional

...Player

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