1. PUTTING
GOD
FIRST

2. PUTTING GOD FIRST
• We have to be careful not to let them
become more important or more of a
priority than our relationship with GOD.
• The first of the Ten Commandments
states we will have no other gods
before Him. 3 “You shall have no other
gods before Me.” Exodus 20:3
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3. PUTTING GOD FIRST
• Deuteronomy 5:8-9 (NLT) says,
“You must not make for yourself an
idol of any kind, or an image of
anything in the heavens or on the earth
or in the sea. You must not bow down
to them or worship them, for I, the Lord
your God, am a jealous God who will
not tolerate your affection for any other
gods.”
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4. How many of the things that
occupy our time, money, thoughts
and attention have taken the place
where God is supposed to be?
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5. DISTRACTIONS FROM TRUTH
• Anything can become a god to us —
anything we worship or put an
excessive amount of time into.
• Even your feelings can become a god if
you allow them to control you.
• “Am I bowing down to God and His
Word or to my feelings?”
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6. ANOTHER CHALLENGE
• Living in a world full of humanism and
people not wanting God and His Truth
to interfere with their lives and routines.
• It seems we have an epidemic of
selfishness in our world today, and this
creates all kinds of unhealthy situations.
• When people refuse to honor God and
follow His wisdom in their decisions.
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7. ANOTHER CHALLENGE
• Worry, resentment and bitterness,
sickness & disease reside in their bodies
• In our culture, this behavior causes a
decline in our moral standards and
attitudes.
• But the good news is we don’t have to
settle for this way of living. In Christ,
we can enjoy our lives—abundantly!
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8. WHAT IS ABUNDANT LIFE?
It’s a LIFE.
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9. WHAT IS ABUNDANT LIFE?
• Abundant life for a person begins with
- a new birth
- a new relationship with God
- new motivations
- and a new relationship with mankind.
The process of Christian maturity for that
person continues with learning to live
abundantly, being cleansed from sin, and
learning to fight spiritual battles.
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10. WHAT IS ABUNDANT LIFE?
• Christian salvation and maturity is not
reliant on the self-efforts of rituals,
devotion, meditation, good works,
asceticism, and self-control over desires,
but by believing in the redemption from
sin through the death and resurrection
of Jesus Christ.
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11. ROMANS 3:24 (NIV)
And are justified freely by his
grace through the redemption that
came by Christ Jesus
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12. 1 CORINTHIANS 15:3-4 (NIV)
3 For what I received I passed on to
you as of first importance: that
Christ died for our sins according
to the Scriptures, 4 that he was
buried, that he was raised on the
third day according to the
Scriptures
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13. WHAT IS ABUNDANT LIFE?
• Through faith in divine agency, the
working of the Holy Spirit, God
transforms a person's desires to be
more in conformity with God's will
(Eph2:8–10, Rom. 12:1–2).[16]Abundant life
teaches prosperity and health for the
total human being, including the body,
mind, emotions, relationships, material
needs, and eternal life.
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14. WHAT IS ABUNDANT LIFE?
• Other elements are faith, prayer,
evangelism, and concern for human
worth in the areas of spiritual
oppression, poverty, disease, hunger,
injustice, and ignorance.
• In order for these teachings to have an
impact on a person's fullness of life, it is
essential for that person to align their
goals with God's goals.
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15. WHAT IS ABUNDANT LIFE?
• Abundant life teachings may include
expectations of physical and material
prosperity and good health and
well-being, but may also include other
forms of fullness of life, ‘kabuuan ng
buhay’ including eternal life, when
persecuted or in suffering.
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16. WHAT IS ABUNDANT LIFE?
• For a Christian, fullness of life is not
measured in terms of "fun" and "living
large," or in terms of wealth, prestige,
position, and power, but measured by
fulfilled lives of responsibility and self-restraint,
and the rewards and
blessings that accrue over a lifetime of
pleasing God.
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17. WHAT IS ABUNDANT LIFE?
• Abundant life according to the Bible
itself has promises of wealth, health,
and well-being.
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18. WHAT IS ABUNDANT LIFE?
• Conditional promises. According to
James 1:17, God gives only good and
perfect gifts, so God only gives gifts and
blessings that are compatible with that
person's abilities and God's goals for
that person.
• The source of abundant life is identified
as the Spirit of God .
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19. GALATIANS 5:22-23,
"the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy,
peace, longsuffering, gentleness,
goodness, faith, meekness,
temperance".
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20. WHAT IS ABUNDANT LIFE?
• Fulfilling this purpose and experiencing
abundant life go together, as described
by Matthew 6:33,
"But seek you first the kingdom of God,
and His righteousness; and all these
things shall be added unto you."
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21. JOHN 10:10 (GW):
“A thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy.
But I came so that my sheep will have
life and so that they will have
everything they need.”
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22. The key to having God's
'abundant life' is keeping Him
in His rightful place in our priorities
and putting God First.
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23. WHAT IS ABUNDANT LIFE?
• The Kingdom of God is a present
reality. It’s what we’re to be doing on
the earth right now.
• The power of God is the present resource.
• It’s the energy you get to do what God
wants you to do once you’re surrendered
and submitted to His will.
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24. WHAT IS ABUNDANT LIFE?
• God’s glory is the reason.
• It’s not the reality or the resource.
It is the present reason for everything.
• It’s all for God’s glory.
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25. ROMANS 11:36 (NLT)
“Everything comes from Him and
exists by His power and is
intended for His glory”.
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26. WHAT IS ABUNDANT LIFE?
• “I have so much, and yet I feel unfulfilled.
• I’ve got a good family. I’ve got a good job.
I’ve got great kids. I’ve got good friends.
Why am I so unfulfilled?”
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27. WHAT IS ABUNDANT LIFE?
• It’s because you were made for more
than this!
• You were made for more than survival.
You will never find fulfilment in life until
you begin to live in God’s Kingdom, by
God’s power, and for God’s glory.
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28. How do you live a fulfilled life —
the kind of life that you were
designed by God to live?
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29. 1 THESSALONIANS 2:12 (GW)
“You should live in a way that
proves you belong to the God who
calls you into His kingdom and
glory”.
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30. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO LIVE IN
GOD’S KINGDOM?
• It means you make God’s agenda your
agenda.
• You make God’s will your will.
• You care about what God cares about.
• Whatever you want God to bless,
put him first in that area.
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31. “YES LORD”
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32. What does it mean
to put God first in your life?
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33. FIRST
you need to put God first in…
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34. FINANCES
• If you want God to bless your
finances, even during a recession,
you must tithe.
• There’s no other alternative.
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35. What do you need to change
so that God is first in your finances?
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36. WHAT IS TITHING?
• TITHING IS RETURNING
(not giving) THE FIRST
10% OF OUR INCOME
TO GOD’S CHURCH.
• Tithe means 10%.
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37. LEVITICUS 27:30
A tithe of everything from the
land, whether grain from the soil
or fruit from the trees, belongs to
the LORD; it is holy to the LORD
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38. WHAT IS TITHING?
• Returning (frequent; habitual) —
Technically you are not giving.
• You can’t give what isn’t yours.
• It belongs to God.
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39. WHAT IS TITHING?
TITHING IS GIVING GOD
MY FIRST AND BEST
SO HE CAN BLESS THE REST.
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40. WHAT IS TITHING?
FIRST
• Most important.
• Having a higher rank, significance,
or authority than others in the same
category
REST
• freedom from mental or emotional
anxiety)
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41. PROVERBS 3:9-10
9 Honor the Lord with your wealth,
with the first fruits of all your
crops; 10 then your barns will be
filled to overflowing, and your
vats will brim over with new wine.
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42. WHAT IS TITHING?
• WEALTH, the state of
having plenty of
money or possessions
• KAPERAHAN;
KADATUNGAN
• FIRSTFRUIT
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43. WHAT IS TITHING?
IT IS THE LAW
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44. GENESIS 4:4 (NLT)
4 Abel also brought a gift—the best
portions of the firstborn lambs
from his flock. The LORD accepted
Abel and his gift.
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45. EXODUS 23:19 (NLT)
19 “As you harvest your crops,
bring the very best of the first
harvest to the house of the LORD
your God.
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46. MALACHI 3:10 (NLT)
10 “Bring all the tithes into the
storehouse so there will be enough
food in my Temple. If you do,” says the
LORD of Heaven’s Armies, “I will open
the windows of heaven for you. I will
pour out a blessing so great you won’t
have enough room to take it in! Try it!
Put me to the test!”
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47. “WHY TITHE?”
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48. WHY TITHE?
• TITHING PROVIDES FOR GOD’S WORK
THROUGH THE CHURCH.
“Bring the whole tithe into the
storehouse, that there may be food in
my house… “Malachi 3:10
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49. WHAT IS A CHURCH?
• CHURCH is a building for public worship,
especially in the Christian religion;
• English Bible is ekklesia.
• Greek words kaleo (to call), with the
prefix ek (out). Thus, the word means
"the called out ones”.
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50. WHAT IS A CHURCH?
• " However, the English word "church“ does not
come from ekklesia but from the word
kuriakan, which means "dedicated to the Lord.“
This word was commonly used to refer to a
holy place or temple.
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51. TITHING
TEACHES ME TO
PUT GOD FIRST.
The purpose of tithes is to teach you to
always put God first in your lives.
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52. DEUTERONOMY 14:23 (TLB)
23 Bring this tithe to eat before the
Lord your God at the place he shall
choose as his sanctuary; this applies to
your tithes of grain, new wine, olive
oil, and the firstborn of your flocks
andyou always to put God first in your
lives. herds. The purpose of tithing is
to teach
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53. “Dahil alam nila, sa KANILANG
sipag at tiyaga nakamit NILA iyon,
kaya kung ano ang mayroon SILA,
akala nila sa KANILA, hindi sa
Diyos.”
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54. SEEKGOD
the truth will set us free
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55. WHY TITHE?
• SEEK Him 1st in the morning, WORSHIP Him
1st day of the week, FAST 1st month of the
year. And the 1st of EVERYTHING HE
gives to us!
• It requires faith to give 1st. It doesn’t require
faith to give last.
• True faith in God
• Never realized that you are robbing God.
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56. MALACHI 3:8-9
8 "Will a man rob God? Yet you
rob me." But you ask, 'How do we
rob you?' "In tithes and offerings.
9 You are under a curse — the
whole nation of you — because
you are robbing me.
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57. MATTHEW 23:23 NLT
23 "What sorrow awaits you teachers of
religious law and you Pharisees.
Hypocrites! For you are careful to tithe even
the tiniest income from your herb gardens,
but you ignore the more important aspects
of the law—justice, mercy, and faith. You
should tithe, yes, but do not neglect the
more important things.
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58. TITHING
BUILDS MY
FAITH IN GOD
…Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty,
"and see if I will not throw open the
floodgates of heaven…. Mal. 3:10b
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59. What do you need to change
so that God is first in your finances?
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60. I WILL GIVE GOD
MY FIRST AND BEST
SO HE CAN BLESS
THE REST.
NOT JUST FINANCIAL
BLESSINGS
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61. WHAT DO YOU NEED TO CHANGE
SO THAT GOD IS FIRST IN YOUR FINANCES?
• By bringing to God your Tithe which
is 10%, You are making God your first
and that you are giving your best to
Him and He will bless the 90% that
remains in you and when you used it,
it will met all your needs.
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62. PUTTING
GOD
FIRST