Coming In Second!

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Coming In Second!
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John the Baptist

• His greatness was overshadowed.
• Luke 316 John answered them all, saying, "I
  baptize you with water, but he who is mightier
  than I is coming, the strap of whose sandals I am
  not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the
  Holy Spirit and with fire.

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Do You Belong In Second Place?

• We are competitive by nature.
• Acts 89-13 Simon the sorcerer

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Do You Belong In Second Place?

• Psalm 86-8 You have given him dominion
  over the works of your handsyou have put all
  things under his feet, all sheep and oxen, and
  also the beasts of the field, the birds of the
  heavens, and the fish of the sea, whatever passes
  along the paths of the seas.  

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Do You Belong In Second Place?

• 1 Peter 29 But you are a chosen race, a
  royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his
  own possession, that you may proclaim the
  excellencies of him who called you out of
  darkness into his marvelous light

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We Are Challenged to Humility

• Mathew 181-4
• Matthew 2025-28

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We Are Challenged to Humility

• God shows us what is good and what He requires of
  us
• Micah 68
• He has told you, O man, what is good
• and what does the Lord require of you
• but to do justice, and to love kindness,
• and to walk humbly with your God?

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We Are Challenged to Humility

• God Has Chosen the weak to be mighty.
  (1 Corinthians 126-31)
• The happiness of Gods people.
  (Matthew 53-10)
• Being humble doesnt make us doormats. (Matthew
  2112)

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Second Place in The Kingdom Is a Place of Honor

• Least in Kingdom greater than John. (Luke
  728)
• Do not grow weary in well doing. (Galatians 69)

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We Are Called to Be in Second Place

• Galatians 220 It is no longer I who live,
  but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now
  live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of
  God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
•  Colossians. 118 And he is the head of the
  body, the church. He is the beginning, the
  firstborn from the dead, that in everything he
  might be preeminent.

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Coming In Second Place

• Second place is where the Christian should strive
  to remain.
• Wont you put Jesus first in your life beginning
  Tonight?