1. Excellence Things to consider as being excellent and how to develop the quality of excellence

2. Our God Is Excellent The Excellency of our God. Isa.35:2 Excellence of the knowledge of Christ. Phil.3:8 His excellent greatness. Psa.150:2 "the Excellent Glory" - 2Pet.1:17

3. Christians are to TO HAVE A HEART FOR EXCELLENCE Rom.2:18; Phil.1:10 Excellent Moral Life & Principles. Excellence of wisdom to guide one into quality living. Eccl.7:12 The principles of life in Jesus’ kingdom. Matt.5-7 Love: "A more excellent way". 1Cor.12-13

4. Christians are to TO HAVE A HEART FOR EXCELLENCE Excellent Effort. When God made the world it was "very good". Because God does not do half-hearted things and end with junk. Diligence is a very "precious possession". Prov.12:27; 13:4 God has never appreciated laziness or work as "menpleasers"-Col.3:22,23 God wants us to set our hands to a task and "do it with your might". Eccl.9:10; 10:18 There is an internal satisfaction when one accomplishes a task that was entered with excellent effort and continued until accomplished.

5. Christians are to TO HAVE A HEART FOR EXCELLENCE Excellent Goals & Objectives. Righteousness. Phil.3:8,9 The goal is to "know Him and the power of His resurrection". 10 The goal is to "attain to the resurrection". 11 Pressing to the goal with determined commitment. 14

6. Christians are to TO HAVE A HEART FOR EXCELLENCE Excellent Worship. Where God is treated with special homage and reverence. Where the offerings are the best. Heb.11:4; Eccl.5:1 Wanting to give God my best song, prayer, sacrifice, communion, and attention to His word. Wanting my affection and adoration to be expressed more perfectly, more sincerely, than ever before.

7. Conclusion Our lives must be lived in the quality of the Son of God. We have seen the quality in Jesus and in faithful disciples. It is excellence, moral beauty, inner beauty, that must first capture our hearts’ desire. But, God, the Excellent Glory, must be allowed to get our attention, before we can raise our sights. Knowing Jesus is your key to excellence. Do you know Him?