2. Blessed is everyone who fears the Lord, who
walks in his ways! You shall eat the fruit of the
labor of your hands; you shall be blessed, and it
shall be well with you. Your wife will be like a
fruitful vine within your house your children will
be like olive shoots around your table.

3. Behold, thus shall the man be blessed who fears
the Lord. The Lord bless you from Zion! May you
see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of
your life! May you see your children's children!
Peace be upon Israel!
Psalm 128:1 –6

5. Then Jesus told his disciples, “If anyone would
come after me, let him deny himself and take up
his cross and follow me. For whoever would save
his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for
my sake will find it.”
Matthew 16:24-25 (ESV)

6. 1. Seek first the fear of the Lord

7. 1. Seek first the fear of the Lord
2. Deny self for the sake of the cross

8. 1. Seek first the fear of the Lord
2. Deny self for the sake of the cross
3. True blessing is a mark from God

9. Now the LORD said to Abram, “Go from your
country and your kindred and your father's
house to the land that I will show you. And I will
make of you a great nation, and I will bless you
and make your name great, so that you will be a
blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and
him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you
all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
Genesis 12:1-3 (ESV)

10. 1. Seek first the fear of the Lord
2. Deny self for the sake of the cross
3. True blessing is a mark from God
4. Kingdom men only begins with himself

11. just as Abraham “believed God, and it was counted
to him as righteousness”? Know then that it is those
of faith who are the sons of Abraham. And the
Scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the
Gentiles by faith, preached the gospel beforehand
to Abraham, saying, “In you shall all the nations be
blessed.” So then, those who are of faith are
blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith.
Galatians 3:6-9 (ESV)