KINGDOM IMPACT

Part 3 - THE BATTLE FOR 1ST PLACE

November 23, 2025
@TravisHearn @ImpactChurch

THE BATTLE FOR FIRST PLACE

#1 — THE BATTLE FOR FIRST IS A BATTLE FOR THE HEART

THE FIGHT FOR FIRST PLACE IS REAL

“For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.”
Matthew 16:25 (NIV)

#2 — MONEY IS THE GREATEST RIVAL FOR FIRST PLACE

“Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
Matthew 6:21 (NIV)

“No one can serve two masters. Either you will hate the one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money.”
Matthew 6:24 (NIV)

THE TITHE.

TITHING IS AN ACT OF WORSHIP.

TITHING MEANS GIVING GOD HIS 10%.

AN “OFFERING IS ANYTHING ABOVE THE TITHE.

“The purpose of tithing is to teach you always to put God first in your lives.”
Deuteronomy 14:23 (TLB)

“A tithe of everything... belongs to the Lord; it is holy to the Lord.”
Leviticus 27:30 (NIV)

“Will a mere mortal rob God? Yet you rob me. “But you ask, ‘How are we robbing you?’ “In tithes and offerings. You are under a curse—your whole nation—because you are robbing me. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it.”
Malachi 3:8-10 (NIV)

“Honor the Lord with your wealth, with the firstfruits... then your barns will be filled to overflowing.”
Proverbs 3:9-10 (NIV)

#3 — THE TITHE IS THE PROOF OF TRUST

TEST ME IN THIS

“If you love me, obey my commandments.”
John 14:15 (NLT)