God is faithful in me. If you'll turn to Exodus chapter 13 and if you're new here tonight and don't know, we have notes in the bulletin.

And on those notes tonight, the first sentence is a fill in the blank.

So you might want to get those notes out so you can fill in the blank. So you might want to get those notes out so you can fill in the

blank and then write down whatever the Lord speaks to you. And what we're talking about

tonight, the title of the message is First Things First. This is the first service of 2001. So we want to

learn to put first things first in the first service of 2001.

Ex this chapter 13.

Let me just fill in the blank here.

Has everyone got your notes there? Anyone want to take a guess before we fill this in and see the sentence up there?

I don't know if you see it or not, but here you go.

Oh, okay.

How many verses in the Bible are their own prayer?

Anyone want to guess?

A lot.

Fill in, that's the answer.

If you'll put a lot of verses, okay okay there are 500 verses in the Bible on prayer less than 500

on faith, prayer, less than 500 on faith, and over 2,000 on money and possessions.

Now, no one here would mind if I preached on prayer or faith would you?

Well you shouldn't mind if I preach on money then right?

Since there's four times as many scripture. Jesus talked about money in 16 out of 38

parables. Almost half of the parables. Almost half of the parables he talked about money. So I'm in good company.

If I talk about money and preach on money, I'm in good company, right?

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