Sunday Service (2)

Sunday Service: How to be No. 2?

(01-09-2022) Sis. Precy

=How to be No. 2?=

Why would a person aim for number 1?
•No one remembers the person who came second, the world always remembers the best.

"How to be No. 2 when God is No. 1"

*Matthew 10:37
"37 "Anyone who loves his father or mother more than me is not worthy of me; anyone who loves his son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;

+Priority

*Luke 14:26
"26 "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his father and mother, his wife and children, his brothers and sisters--yes, even his own life--he cannot be my disciple."

"What does no. 1 mean?"

"Being number one has become an obsession, as if automakers would lose the right to do business if they could not attach the label to any of their products or brands."
-Vince Socco (Chairman, Toyota Motor Phils)

Number 1
-satisfied but tired.
-will do everything to maintain.
-ego inflated.
-#FeelingSuccessful

Number 2
-accepting or hurting.
-will strategize to be on the top.
-bitter.
-#EpicFailed

"Don't let failure go to your heart, and don't let your success go to your head."
-Will Smith

How to be No.2 when God is No. 1?
1. Turn your focus to God.
*Colossians 3:2
"2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things."

"When God is not your no. 1, who/what is the third party?"

2. Walk in the ways of God.
*Proverbs 14:12
"12 There is a way that seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death."

3. Override self-reliance.
*Isaiah 55:9
"9 "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts."

"Be settled being No. 2,
Make Jesus No. 1"

*Hebrews 12:2
"2 Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God."

"LOOK UNTO JESUS!"