Put First Things First in 2023 (Mark  

I learned that reading the Bible gives the Holy Spirit something to work with. He can only bring to mind what we have placed in our mind. If we focus on Jesus and His Word on a daily basis, we begin storing things up that the Spirit can bring to our remembrance, even if it's a verse we haven't sat down and memorized, because it's still there. But we can't just read the Bible when we feel like it, and we can't just read it. We need to study it and meditate on what God is saying to us. Thank you Sean.

Oh my gosh! That moment when you knew you were a sinner and you cried out to God for grace? Wow! That is the first thing first! Amen!,❤

Sean McDowell is one of the best preachers living today. I love to hear this guy preach the word. God gave him a gift for preaching.

Wow. I've listened to many of your interviews, which are great, but this is the first sermon of yours I've heard. Amen! Thank you so much for this sermon! God bless you.

You’re such a gifted communicator Sean. Thank you so much for what you do!

One of best sermons I’ve heard. 2023 the year of putting first things first. Amen

So so good! Make JESUS your priority. All else will seem as nothing ♥️✝️

Thank you Dr Sean Mcdowell for breaking down these scriptures. staying focused on God is so important when we are seeking more of Jesus.

Excellent, excellent sermon! Jesus is God! And God died for us. Will be looking for more sermons! I am loving your interviews and other content, too! Thank you for being faithful!

I love to hear preaching from apologists who believe the Bible to be true 🥳😊 there is an authority here that isn’t puffed up knowledge, it’s God said it so it’s true 🔥🔥🔥

Sean please post more sermons if you can. This was amazing. I will share this with my wife! Thank you for this! AMEN!

You remind me of someone.... Yeah, Jesus ! The fact that you took time to have lunch with that guy and didnt ask him why he left the faith , but instead sat down and listed to him👍🏽🥰

watching from Shanghai. Thanks for sharing all that you do.

God bless you❤ thank you for your work for the Kingdom. What a blessing it is!

Love Sean! Such a great and important message for us all. When we get lost or twisted in our direction. Come back to the truth and that is Jesus. Place him first!

Making second things first....many nowadays prophets prophecy sweet things over people and future....about our destiny and more emotion soothing things. I often think they do this so people will give more money.

Really enjoyed the sermon. I appreciate the old and new wine skin explanation. Very well communicated.

And there is the pearl, revealed with a simple question, “Can you tell me when you realized you were a sinner and called our to Jesus to save you?”

Thank you for this insight, Sean!! What a great message to go into the new year meditating on. Blessings!

Even though I’m ashamed and discouraged I will trust in God. Even though it’s difficult, I will continue to walk with faith not by sight. I lost my job as a social worker at Forsyth hospital because I declined the vaccine. I declined because of my pre existing health condition lupus, and heart disease. I was denied my medical/religious exemption. I want to go back to the hospital but the mandate is still in place for hospitals that participate in Medicare and Medicaid all employees must have covid 19 vaccine. I get harassed constantly and mocked for sharing my testimony and for asking for prayers but prayers are all I want and I also want to bring awareness of how vaccine mandates are ruining many ppls lives. I’m now waitressing and I’m so thankful but not making nearly enough to get by. My husband passed away three years ago. I’m all alone. I’m a single mother. Both of my sons are autistic, they require a lot from me because they are non verbal. Every month is a struggle, to not end up on the streets. I’m tired of struggling putting food on the table it’s so discouraging. But even as I’m put down and mocked because of situation. I still have faith that our Heavenly Father will provide he has THIS FAR! Faith over fear. Please pray for me and my boys! God bless! 🥰

Tons of truth brother, amen

I just learned so much from this sermon. Love the line, intentions dont matter if not rooted in truth. Bam.

more love from Burundi in Africa, Thank you Dr Sean.

Wise man C.S Lewis!

Great message...looking forward to the book....

Great Word!

Excellent- thank you!

Excellent

Excellent, thanks very much.

This is SO good.

Great message to bring in the new year. I think its wonderful how you talk with "deconstructed" believers.

Great video , what an encouragement, thank you saint !!!

This is such a wisdom nugget! Something to really think about and apply in 2023.

Beautiful message Sean! Thanks for sharing. Where did you get the stats from the begining of the message?

Excellent message ❤

wow Thank you so much,, this was so awesome so truthful Praise God Almighty Amen ✝🙏

Hey brother! I love the content especially the one with you lifting 315 like nothing 😂💪🏼. In all seriousness though thank you for sharing everything that God has shared with you, I wanted to ask if you have a message on failure and how to deal with it.

This was GREAT!!

Love it ❤

Sean McDowell, that was amazing. Quick question though. I’ve been in ministry for a decade now, (and actually got to sit in on one of your lectures at New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary when I was 19!) and I have a struggle between knowledge and relationship. I’m very dyslexic and have never enjoyed study, but apologetics is so interesting that I can study for hours! But I find myself having to go back and forth between spending time in scripture for knowledge, and then spending time in scripture for relationship. I see many people stick to one side or the other on that pendulum. I believe to be completely to one side is useless. the fully relationship side for others mainly being “I don’t really read my Bible or go to church because my relationship with God is my relationship.” And the polar opposite being a legalistic Bible thumper. I think I do decent at staying close to the middle, but at times it seems like I can’t do both at once. The knowledge side pushes me into the relationship side often, but I’m shooting for all the time. Any advice? What works for you?

Good one, Sean!

What an awesome message!

Awesome sermon. Can I get it somewhere?

How do you feel about the living waters school of evangelism?

🤣🤣🤣🤣 to reveal the anger. Good 1

Not 1st things 1st but 1st things always.

Guys, how do you relate one's goals in life and asking God to help you throughout accomplishing them? I'm speaking on healthy goals that don't put God aside of course.

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I just discovered you and I think it would be interesting to see you in a debate with an atheist about the truth of christianity. You said that you love to discuss with atheist but I am not able to find a debate with you and an atheist on youtube. Is there any reason for that?

Haven’t listened yet, but.. my guess is that SM will say that ‘we’ need to ‘love’ homosexuals more. am I right?

we shouldn't question answered

This is terrible reasoning. The passages in Mark are nothing at all to do with the divinity of Jesus. The ‘Lord’ in Isaiah is Yahweh, as is the ‘κυριος’ of the LXX. Healings do not indicate divinity in the Bible. This is all just theologically forced exegesis.

By design Christians are the guy playing his music too loud. The call to proselytize and the certainty with which they go though life makes it necessary. And as for those who have left the faith and experienced joy (and most of these, like Sean, would have said they’d be sad to lost faith before they became faithless), it is common with any kind of perspective shift to experience elation- even with trivial things like new hobbies, social groups, a girlfriend, new music this is true. Christians are just so damned hung up on being right and needing everyone else to join their cause. Just embrace diversity, let people be people and enjoy one and love one another.

Sean just to let you know there are many Christians who leave the faith. BELIEVED they needed Jesus and that they were SINNERS. Needed Jesus to forgive them of their sins, believed they DESERVED hell and yet still left the faith and now no longer believe it’s TRUE.

There is no evidence for this god you keep talking about