Putting God First: Realigning Your Life with Christ

Ephesians chapter two says, no. No. No. It's a gift. It's it's grace. It's nothing that you can do to get yourself there. It's only because god loves us and he forgives us. In fact, if you're here and you're trying to research and figure out what you believe spiritually, it's interesting. You can do a a test, pick any religion in the world. The distinguishing factor to Christianity versus every other religion in the world is the fact that Christianity is not works based. It's grace based. [00:37:28] (32 seconds)  #GraceNotWorks

This is how it happens spiritually speaking. We'll have things in our life like people and situations that get out of alignment, and we try and fix all those things instead of starting with the root issue, which is the one tire that got out of alignment. The very first thing that we have to do to get in alignment is to put God first. And it's important in understanding what he's saying is to put God in alignment is to let go of everything else and trust him. Or if I was to summarize chapter two and this scripture understanding, what it means is to just give up. [00:35:36] (42 seconds)  #PutGodFirst

You ever pick up an offense from somebody? Maybe something somebody just said snarkly or maybe something that was done. Maybe you picked up an offense for somebody else. Somebody did something to your friend, your family member, and then you pick up the offense. And then, like, a week later, it doesn't matter, but you're still carrying that. See, the problem is it's easy to pick up offense. It's really hard to let it go. [00:43:04] (22 seconds)  #LetGoOfOffense

This is what this whole scripture he's talking about all these things. Don't swear. Don't get angry. Don't brawl. Do all these things. And you know what he's saying? He's talking to them about themselves. And what he's saying is, if he was to wrap it all up, if he was to summarize it all down to one thing, it would be this. Keep your side of the street clean. Instead of him saying, here's how to deal with your conflict with this person or that person, every single one of those things was about them. [00:40:12] (34 seconds)  #KeepYourSideClean