Put First Things First in 2023 (Mark

[@almas9567]

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!,❤

[@rockandsandapologetics7254]

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.

[@darrenmiller6927]

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.

[@SeanMcDowell]

You’re too kind my brother!

[@josephellsworth7297]

More !!!!!!!🙏✝️🙏✝️🙏✝️

[@rainamcgrath6445]

@@SeanMcDowell Terrific message to start off the new year!

[@douglaspedersen3355]

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

[@melissaconner9538]

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.

[@SeanMcDowell]

Awesome, thanks. I’ve posted a few sermons over the past few months.

[@angelbianchi4786]

@Dr. Sean McDowell keep posting them!

[@carlidoepke5131]

Same here! First sermon I’ve heard. Very good.!

[@KyNicoleChannel]

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

[@SeanMcDowell]

Thanks!

[@Wallacetax926]

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

[@faithharper808]

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

[@JD-xh3ex]

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

[@unclepauliestl]

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!

[@carlidoepke5131]

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!

[@SeanMcDowell]

So glad to hear, thanks!

[@seththomas7528]

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

[@johannaquinones7473]

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

[@SeanMcDowell]

Thanks foe the encouragement

[@96redprelude]

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

[@fksthn3235]

yes please 🙏🙏

[@house_d2024]

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

[@joycook3093]

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

[@SeanMcDowell]

Thanks Joy!

[@jesusislord9447]

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👍🏽🥰

[@tommarshall7247]

Excellent- thank you!

[@numac12]

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

[@KCstrick]

Great Word!

[@biddiemutter3481]

Wise man C.S Lewis!

[@glennpesti6519]

Tons of truth brother, amen

[@NiRaSis]

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

[@fksthn3235]

me toooo 🙏

[@carlas5826]

This is SO good.

[@neilrobson8426]

Excellent, thanks very much.

[@inekeaknoeff7761]

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.

[@Rend2be]

Excellent

[@jasonortiz8882]

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

[@bethanyw777]

Excellent message ❤

[@markmorris8410]

Good one, Sean!

[@debrasusan73]

This was GREAT!!

[@debralee1401]

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

[@fiftycalguru]

What an awesome message!

[@waynerobing]

Love it ❤

[@bassterify]

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

[@jeffreyduff861]

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?”

[@SeanMcDowell]

YES!

[@ChildofGod98765]

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! 🥰

[@zhengfuukusheng9238]

We've seen this exact same message posted on hundreds of videos. It's clearly the work of a church shill

[@mchristr]

Dear sister, are you immersed in the local Christian community? One of the Church's missions is to be a place of encouragement in the faith. Let others help carry your burden.

[@fksthn3235]

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

[@justindarnellfpv]

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 🔥🔥🔥

[@SeanMcDowell]

Yes I do!

[@justindarnellfpv]

@@SeanMcDowell indeed 🥳🥳 God bless you bro!! It’s refreshing and challenging to listen to you

[@joshporksandwich]

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

[@SeanMcDowell]

They’re from the state of the Bible 2022. I think I put a link in the description.

[@fernandovergara7791]

Awesome sermon. Can I get it somewhere?

[@JzusLuvzU]

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.

[@brackenbean2828]

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?

[@sonnysteele2616]

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

[@patriciapification]

❤️

[@dreamteamleader9098]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 to reveal the anger. Good 1

[@wmarkfish]

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

[@HolyNarz]

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?

[@SeanMcDowell]

I’ve had a few such debates but focus now on “substantive conversations.” They’re more interesting, and in my view, more helpful today.

[@HolyNarz]

@@SeanMcDowell True, these kinds of debates are not really helpful, so I see your point. I view them more like an intellectuel entertaining battle. I would like to see you in a debate with Matt Dillahunty or maybe just a conversation with him. I guess you hear that often right? So can I see a debate you participated in on KZbin?

[@alantinoalantonio]

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.

[@LifeandLifeMoreAbundantly]

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

[@ironickmusic6103]

Not at all .

[@LifeandLifeMoreAbundantly]

@@ironickmusic6103 okay, next guess, theres an innuendo on the subject..am I right?

[@ironickmusic6103]

Have you watched ?

[@LifeandLifeMoreAbundantly]

@@ironickmusic6103 No. I've seen him twice, years apart, and he basically preached the same message.

[@proletariatpashka1956]

we shouldn't question answered

[@davethebrahman9870]

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.

[@yohanmenny5593]

This is sound reasoning. The passages in Mark are all to do with the divinity of Jesus. The LORD in Isaiah is Yahweh and Jesus is Yahweh. Healings do indicate Jesus divinity. This is theologically exegesis.

[@davethebrahman9870]

@@yohanmenny5593 Prophets perform healing in the OT, and Jesus in Mark 10:18 makes it clear that he doesn’t consider himself God.

[@melissa2807]

@@davethebrahman9870 Then explain the virgin birth - He had no earthly father, only the Holy Spirit of God. Also, no man could possibly be so perfect as to be able to take on the sins of the whole world, pay for them with his death, and himself be resurrected - no mere man could ever be that holy, pious and pure.

[@davethebrahman9870]

@@melissa2807 That’s easy. It didn’t happen. They are just stories. Even is somehow a vigin birth happened, why would you think that the Child was divine?

[@melissa2807]

@@davethebrahman9870 You say that these are just stories, so why were you previously concerned about Sean's exegesis? It shouldn't matter then. You don't believe the Bible, because the Bible talks about the virgin birth. Also, because I am going by the Bible, it also says that the Child was conceived by the Holy Spirit of God passing over Mary. If that doesn't speak to the child being divine, than I don't know what does.

[@davidfayfield6594]

There is no evidence for this god you keep talking about

[@BigIdeaSeeker]

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.

[@deion312]

You say lot of words

[@BigIdeaSeeker]

@@deion312 *so many!

[@CalvinR90]

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.

[@SavedSkeptic]

Then why did they leave? Did they lose faith?

[@CalvinR90]

@@SavedSkeptic no they realize the Bible isn’t true, and that there life has been a lie. There are lots of us