“You shall have no other gods before me.”

This Family Study Guide covers the First Commandment and is designed to help families learn more about developing a relationship with God.  We will compare the results of obeying the First Commandment to the results of violating the First Commandment. God wants to be first in our lives because of His love for us. When we put our trust in the only true God, we learn to look to Him for direction, protection, healing and our everyday needs.

• “…For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you” (Matthew 6:32-33 Matthew 6:32-33 [32] (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knows that you have need of all these things. [33] But seek you first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added to you.
  American King James Version×).
• We must learn to love and think like God before we will be truly like Him. If we are to be like God, we must first learn more about what He is like (read 1 John 3:1-3 1 John 3:1-3 [1] Behold, what manner of love the Father has bestowed on us, that we should be called the sons of God: therefore the world knows us not, because it knew him not. [2] Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. [3] And every man that has this hope in him purifies himself, even as he is pure.
  American King James Version×). 
• The First Commandment is foundational in building a relationship with God. What are some of the blessings or results that come from putting God first in our lives?