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Mgmt expert Stephen Covey
7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
Mgmt expert Stephen Covey
Habit 3 "Putting first things first means organizing and executing around your most important priorities.
It is living and being driven by the principles you value most, not by the agendas and forces surrounding you."
We’ve talked about the sermon on the mount as a kind of discipleship training program.
Jesus is preaching a changed mindset due to the availability of the Kingdom of God, through Him.
Beginning in vs 19, Jesus makes clear the struggle we - human-beings created in God’s Image - have with setting priorities in our lives.
Matt 6:19
Jesus says Don’t lay up treasures on earth;
Jesus says Don’t lay up treasures on earth;
Do lay up treasures in Heaven.
:: Scripture has 500 verses about prayer; fewer than that on faith; but over 2000 about money/mammon/materialism.
OBViously important!
Determines our relationship with God, the fulfillment of his purpose in our lives, and our character/righteousness.
He gives us a principle to live by: what you treasure, he says, becomes the object of your heart’s desire.
He goes on to describe the eye as an indicator… sort of like a dipstick shows the oil level in an engine, the eye shows the desire of our heart: an eye can show us to be generous or covetous.
And then he lays down the truth behind it all:
Matt
This is why it is so important to put first things first: To paraphrase Covey: We’ve got to organize and execute our day-to-day lives
with God placed firmly as the first thing!
This is disciple-training because first-things-first is a discipline we must practice: Covey calls it a habit to develop.
Jesus shows us here that it is a mark of godliness / righteousness that we are preoccupied with God and with heavenly treasure rather than earthly treasure.
In v. 25 Jesus tells us how to develop this mark… this Kingdom discipline... into daily habit.
[therefore] Command!
[means stop worrying.]
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physical things.
[means never be worrying.]
[means never be worrying.]
sense is distraction:
Pulled away from devotion to God....
the end of that is:
and also, the end of that is:
Object lessons
Matt 6:26
Jesus doesn’t sugar coat anything.
He identifies the heart of the matter: Faith.
Ultimately, anxiety about tomorrow makes us unfaithful to God.
Matt 6:
Romans 1:17
Seek First: implies a focus; a preoccupation.
A choice of priority.
A discipline; A habit.
1) Kingdom (God’s rule in our life) — an extension of the model prayer… your kingdom come....
2) Righteousness… your will be done.... (Christlike Character)
3) The promise… “all these things...”
Trust God.
Put first things first in the living of your life.
And God will:
far more abundantly that we could ask or think.
Where is my treasure?
What are my priorities in life?
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