I Made A Commitment

The Many Commitments

Intro: The many commitments we make to our jobs and that’s a high priority, commitments to family and you already know how family is. Commitments to even friends and acquaintances, even enemies.

Some of us are commited to so many different things, we are spread so thin that the most important commitments in life we tend to lose sight of.

What am I to do with all these commitments?

Prioritize My Commitments

My First Commitment- Father, Son, Holy Spirit

Father

Proverbs 3:15 NKJV

15 She is more precious than rubies, And all the things you may desire cannot compare with her.

Proverbs 3:5 NKJV

5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding;

Pro

prov 3:15

Matthew 22:37 NKJV

37 Jesus said to him, “ ‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’

Mat 22:

Committed to Trust God, and love Him with every fiber of our being.

Son

john

John 12:25–26 NKJV

25 He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 26 If anyone serves Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there My servant will be also. If anyone serves Me, him My Father will honor.

John 12:25 NKJV

25 He who loves his life will lose it, and he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life.

John

Committed To follow Jesus commands, teachings, and lifestyle.

Holy Spirit

Romans 8:16 NKJV

16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,

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Holy Spirit is our connector to the Father, if we don’t commit to Him we have no connection to the Father.

I Made a Commitment to My Wife and Children

My Wife

Ephesians 5:25 NKJV

25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for her,

I’m committed to love her and give my life up for her.

My children

Ephesians 6:1–4 NKJV

1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 2 “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with promise: 3 “that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth.” 4 And you, fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the training and admonition of the Lord.

eph 6:1

I Made a Commitment to My Ministry

Acts 4:32

Acts 4:32 NKJV

32 Now the multitude of those who believed were of one heart and one soul; neither did anyone say that any of the things he possessed was his own, but they had all things in common.

How much commitment was it to have all things in common?

Acts 5:1–4 NKJV

1 But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession. 2 And he kept back part of the proceeds, his wife also being aware of it, and brought a certain part and laid it at the apostles’ feet. 3 But Peter said, “Ananias, why has Satan filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and keep back part of the price of the land for yourself? 4 While it remained, was it not your own? And after it was sold, was it not in your own control? Why have you conceived this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men but to God.”

You have not lied to men but to God...

-It’s not about the money, it’s the principle.

#1 Unless you are committed to the first, nothing else will work

#2 I have to be committed to wife even more than my children...

#3 I have to honor God’s ministry and sheppard the people He put under me.