1. God Must Be #1 An Exhortation

2. God Must Be #1 Hebrews 3:13 II Timothy 4:2-4 Matthew 6:33 o Seek First Proverbs 3:9 Deuteronomy 18:4

3. God Must Be #1 Revelation 2:4 Seek first His kingdom and His righteousness…this is not a request or a suggestion; this is a non- negotiable command. God is to be first.

4. God Must Be #1 Exodus 20:3 Monotheism – worship of only one God. I Samuel 5:2-8 Exodus 32:1-6

5. God Must Be #1 Exodus 20:1, 2 Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life; no-one comes to the Father except by me.” John 14:6 Acts 17:22-31

6. SCRIPTURES (New King James)

7. Hebrews 3:13 13 but exhort one another daily, while it is called “Today,” lest any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

8. II Timothy 4:2-4 2 Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. 3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; 4 and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.

9. Matthew 6:33 33 But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.

10. Proverbs 3:9 9 Honor the Lord with your possessions, And with the firstfruits of all your increase;

11. Deuteronomy 18:4 4 The firstfruits of your grain and your new wine and your oil, and the first of the fleece of your sheep, you shall give him.

12. Revelation 2:4 4 Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first love.

13. Exodus 20:3 3 “You shall have no other gods before Me."

14. I Samuel 5:2-8 2 When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon and set it by Dagon. 3 And when the people of Ashdod arose early in the morning, there was Dagon, fallen on its face to the earth before the ark of the Lord. So they took Dagon and set it in its place again. 4 And when they arose early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on its face to the ground before the ark of the Lord. The head of Dagon and both the palms of its hands were broken off on the threshold; only Dagon’s torso was left of it.

15. I Samuel 5:2-8 5 Therefore neither the priests of Dagon nor any who come into Dagon’s house tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod to this day. 6 But the hand of the Lord was heavy on the people of Ashdod, and He ravaged them and struck them with tumors, both Ashdod and its territory. 7 And when the men of Ashdod saw how it was, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel must not remain with us, for His hand is harsh toward us and Dagon our god.”

16. I Samuel 5:2-8 8 Therefore they sent and gathered to themselves all the lords of the Philistines, and said, “What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?” And they answered, “Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried away to Gath.” So they carried the ark of the God of Israel away.

17. Exodus 32:1-6 1 Now when the people saw that Moses delayed coming down from the mountain, the people gathered together to Aaron, and said to him, “Come, make us gods that shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.” 2 And Aaron said to them, “Break off the golden earrings which are in the ears of your wives, your sons, and your daughters, and bring them to me.” 3 So all the people broke off the golden earrings which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron.

18. Exodus 32:1-6 4 And he received the gold from their hand, and he fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made a molded calf. Then they said, “This is your god, O Israel, that brought you out of the land of Egypt!” 5 So when Aaron saw it, he built an altar before it. And Aaron made a proclamation and said, “Tomorrow is a feast to the Lord.” 6 Then they rose early on the next day, offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

19. Exodus 20:1, 2 1 And God spoke all these words, saying: 2 “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

20. John 14:6 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

21. Acts 17:22-31 22 Then Paul stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said, “Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you are very religious; 23 for as I was passing through and considering the objects of your worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, the One whom you worship without knowing, Him I proclaim to you: 24 “God, who made the world and everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands.

22. Acts 17:22-31 25 Nor is He worshiped with men’s hands, as though He needed anything, since He gives to all life, breath, and all things. 26 And He has made from one blood[a] every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, 27 so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28 for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, ‘For we are also His offspring.’

23. Acts 17:22-31 29 Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man’s devising. 30 Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent, 31 because He has appointed a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained. He has given assurance of this to all by raising Him from the dead.”