The Top Ten: The First Commandment
Integrity Bud Wrenn 6.26.11
Exodus 20:3 (NLT) 3 “You must not have any other god but me.
Matthew 6:10 (NLT) May your Kingdom come soon. May your will be done here on earth, just as it is in heaven.
How do I set kingdom priorities?
Matthew 6:19-24 (NLT) "Don't store up treasures here on earth, where they can be eaten by moths and get rusty, and where thieves break in and steal. [20] Store your treasures in heaven, where they will never become moth-eaten or rusty and where they will be safe from thieves. [21] Wherever your treasure is, there your heart and thoughts will also be.
[22] "Your eye is a lamp for your body. A pure eye lets sunshine into your soul. [23] But an evil eye shuts out the light and plunges you into darkness. If the light you think you have is really darkness, how deep that darkness will be! [24] "No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.
Mindset shift 1: physical to spiritual.
The tension: perspective .
Next Step: Pray for Kingdom vision.
Matthew 6:19-20 (NLT) "Don't store up treasures here on earth, where they can be eaten by moths and get rusty, and where thieves break in and steal. [20] Store your treasures in heaven, where they will never become moth-eaten or rusty and where they will be safe from thieves.
Mindset shift 2: Sight to Faith.
The tension: trust.
Next Step: Develop daily Kingdom focus.
Matthew 6:21 (NLT) Wherever your treasure is, there your heart and thoughts will also be.
2 Cor. 5:7 (NLT) That is why we live by believing and not by seeing.
Mindset Shift 3: Urgency to Importance.
Tension 3: activity.
Next Step: Maximize what really matters.
Matthew 6:22-23 (NLT) "Your eye is a lamp for your body. A pure eye lets sunshine into your soul. [23] But an evil eye shuts out the light and plunges you into darkness. If the light you think you have is really darkness, how deep that darkness will be!
Mindset Shift 4: Greed to generosity.
Tension 4: stewardship:
Next Step: Embrace work to give instead of work to live.
Matthew 6:24 (NLT) "No one can serve two masters. For you will hate one and love the other, or be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.