cea march meeting: what are your life priorities?

8/7/2019 CEA March Meeting: What are Your Life Priorities?

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Good Morning, SF Bay CEA

Saturday, March 12th, 2011

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Monday, March 14, 2011


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Quick Survey

Single?

Married?

Children?

Work for an Employer?

Have your own business?3



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What are your Lifes Priorities?

How are you doing with them?

How do you keep score?

Would God be pleased with your progress?

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My Journey - 1973 to 1982

I was not brought up in a Christian home

But my parents taught us to live by the Golden Rule

I also believed that What a man sows, he also reapsGalatians 6:7

JT - My Angel Jn 3:16, First business failure (32)

Why God? - Isaiah 40:317



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Isaiah 40:31

...they who wait for the Lord shall renew theirstrength , they shall mount up their wings like eagles,

they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and nfaint.

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Maintaining Biblical Priorities

Interpersonal Relationships within the Family unit

Text-Ephesians 5:15-33 and 6:1-9

Not the purpose of the author-Apostle Paul-Context

Its there-The Priorities of the Christian Life

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Ephesians 5:15-21 (NASB)

15Therefore be careful how you walk, not as unwise menbut as wise,

16making the most of your time, because the days areevil.

17So then do not be foolish, but understand what thewill of the Lord is.

18And do not get drunk with wine, for that isdissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

19speaking to one another in psalms and hymns andspiritual songs,



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Ephesians 5:15-21

singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;

20always giving thanks for all things in the name of ourLord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;

21and be subject to one another in the fear of Christ.



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Ephesians 5:22-33

22Wives, be subject to your own husbands, as to theLord.

23For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ also

is the head of the church, He Himself being the Saviorof the body.

24But as the church is subject to Christ, so also the

wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.



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Ephesians 5:22-33

25Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also lovedthe church and gave Himself up for her,

26so that He might sanctify her, having cleansed her by

the washing of water with the word,

27that He might present to Himself the church in all herglory, having no spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but

that she would be holy and blameless.



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Ephesians 5:22-33

28So husbands ought also to love their own wives astheir own bodies. He who loves his own wife loveshimself;

29for no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishesand cherishes it, just as Christ also does the church,

30because we are members of His body.



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Gods Priorities

1) God

2) Your Spouse Eph 5:22-33



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Ephesians 6:1-4

1Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this isright.

2HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER (which is the

first commandment with a promise),

3SO THAT IT MAY BE WELL WITH YOU, AND THATYOU MAY LIVE LONG ON THE EARTH.



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Ephesians 6:1-4

4Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, butbring them up in the discipline and instruction of the

Lord.



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Ephesians 6:5-9

5Slaves, be obedient to those who are your mastersaccording to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in thesincerity of your heart, as to Christ;

6not by way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but asslaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,



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Ephesians 6:5-9

7With good will render service, as to the Lord, and notto men,

8knowing that whatever good thing each one does, this

he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave orfree.



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Ephesians 6:5-9

9 and master, do the same things to them,and give upthreatening, knowing that both their Master and yoursis in heaven, and there is no partiality with Him.



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Gods Priorities

1) God

2) Your Spouse

3) Your Children

4) Business Eph 6: 5-9



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My Journey - 1983 - 2003

After financial bankruptcy at age 32-Why Trial?

DBL in LA DT 8:18 -M.M.

1989-1992 - IHG - own company1992-1995 - China activities-too early

1999 - Move to Bay Area

1999 - Aslan Group - move in my own strength

2003 - Servant Leadership, incl. CEA26



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Recent Years - 2003 to Present

Lay up treasures in Heaven

Serve my Wife and Family

to SERVE OTHERS

Become Gods Obedient SLAVE

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Gods Priorities-How are theyinterrelated?

1) God

2) Your Spouse

3) Your Children

4) Business



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(Aside) Why did God give youWORK?

It was supposed to be a Blessing-Gen 2

It is a Platform to represent CHRIST

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God did not give us WORK to


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God did not give us WORK toincrease our standard of living,nor get rich (on Earth)

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Do you Live Your Life for theTemporal?

Then your spirit becomes Secular

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B if Lif i f d h


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But if your Life is focused on theEternal?

Seek First Gods Kingdom and His Righteousness

Live your life in SERVING OTHERS

The Secular becomes SPIRITUAL

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Other Factors

Time

Energy

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Time Management?

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Time

Quantitative

Qualitative

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Quantitative Time

with Spouse, with children - example

with Business associates

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Qualitative Time

With children - group time (e.g. church) and familyactivities together

With Spouse - prayer and in Gods Word, and DATES

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Both Quantitative and Qualitative


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Both Quantitative and Qualitativetime is required

Depends upon the season of life-age, children, yearsmarried

But the Priority and Sequence should be maintained

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Energy?

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Energy

Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8

There is a SEASON (cycle) for everything

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Gods Priorities

1) God

2) Your Spouse

3) Your Children

4) Business



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Context & Implications

If you take any of these priorities out of sequence, youwill have problems (two examples)

Gods Priorities are progressive

If your relationship with God is strong, then yourrelationship with your spouse will be stronger...and soon (spouse to children and then Family to Business)



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I will END here...

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Q & A

Lets take 15-20 minutes for your questions.

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