Judah Smith: First Place

JUDAH SMITH: FIRST PLACE

Jesus is the Alpha and Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End

Revelation 1:8

Revelation 22: 13

There is desire to be successful. If you want to be the head in the Kingdom of the Lord, you have to learn to be the tail. If you want to win as the follower of Jesus Christ, you must lose.

In the beginning, God…. God is so first He was before first. The beginning was not when God came about, He was there before the beginning was even there. There is nothing second about the God that we worship.

God must be first in your everything: in your social life. Fear is the result of inability to realize his first-ness. His perfectness casts it all away. He must be the first person that we turn to when we have difficultness and problems. Your walk with Jesus should not be all about putting yourself first.

Jesus was born, died, rose again first. He was the first born of all creations, then all creations must live to realize and recognize his first-ness. Even ocean and animals realize that creator is the creation of all things.

If we implement that Jesus is first in our daily life, it will change the way we live life. Let God be the captain of my ship. We would not worry that much because He is the first one that will consider what will happen to your future, even before you think of it. He is the first to think.

Two significant implications of having Jesus as the first:

1. If Jesus is first, Jesus is always more

Ephesians 2:19 His Love is so much more you cant comprehend it.

Romans 5:17 how much more will those who receive God’s abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ

Romans 5:20 But where sin increased, grace increased all the more,

He is more than every condemnation that you have, than every sickness. Do not have a just enough mentality. It is inconsistent with his character. He is an abundant God that is so filled, so big that...