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OFF Track
At this point in your journey, you notice fewer cars on the highway
Where did everyone go?
One by one they started taking their eyes off the God’s map and onto their own exits
What got you off track?
Tripped up - HINDERED
Gold – DEMAS this loved this present world –
Don’t allow the cares of this WORLD (life) to choke the WORD
glory,
FLESH – girls – SAMSON
Bible Examples – Samson, David, Martha, Eve, prodigal son, ISRAEL, EVERYBODY
Personal application – where are you?
Which track are you on?
Wrong turn, Wrong choice(s) Bad Decision, - career, relationships, (ran with the wrong crowd) or calling, business or finances or ministry
LOST your way –
Avoid the exit lane of selfishness
Proverbs 14:12 (NLT)
12 There is a path before each person that seems right, but it ends in death.
· We get off track when we try to run our own lives.
· We make poor choices, we go in the wrong direction, or we are silent when we should speak.
off ramp of quitting - deception to your direction
(grass is greener) another church
OFF track = Anything not in God’s will
· Not necessarily evil – disguised as good –
o just enough to keep you from God’s best (or at all)
· whether
· the wrong track (place) or
· the wrong time or even going
· the wrong direction!
A – The RACE track of busy-ness
· D is for drag.
R is for RACE
· Type of track is this?
– a big circle!
· Looks like a big highway!
only better!
· It’s still paved, but much wider – the turns are banked!
· No speed limits!
· Simple rules – get through the day – drive fast, turn left
· No lines – it’s a free for all – just don’t wreck
How did you get on this track?
Life got in the way
RACES go nowhere fast
· spinning your wheels
· False sense of accomplishment
· Past speed to velocity.
With direction vs 10,000 steps on a treadmill.
· NASCAR – Cars race 500 miles in an oval and go nowhere
· Don’t trust your odometer.
20 years in church
· Don’t t trust your own resume
· 1 years’ experience 10 times over vs 10 year’s actual experience
· Don’t believe your own press
· What you or your friends say about you.
· What does God say?
He is the standard for knowing who and where we are in life.
Be a Mary vs Martha
Avoid the BUSY street and the rat RACE
Busy Street
· busy is a 4-letter word, - BUSY is the enemy’s most successful weapon because it is disguised as good.
· BUSY ness – keeps you running, wastes your time, drains your energy, spends your money
· Yes, we need to have a life, but if we fail to consult God, we can easily become over committed to non-essential activities
· busy-ness are things you allow due to poor management, stewardship, and discipline.
· Creatures of habit
The RAT race
· Sporting events, overtime, the kids, the job, the house, the bills, the weather, the stock market, committees
· Everyone has the same 24 hrs. in a day – where are your priorities?
· Where do you spend most of your time and energy?
· How much room does the Kingdom have in your schedule?
PIT-stop relationship = Hi and bye
· The racetrack driver doesn’t have time to stop for anything
· no time for Bible, prayer or church –
· I’ll try to check in at Christmas or Easter
· Therefore, the things of God are used as tools to them to the next lap
· Say a quick prayer for me, lay hands on me, prophecy over me, bless me, anoint me
Where is the church?
A pit stop
Where is Jesus?
Pit crew
· Jesus is no longer even in the car anymore
· There is No room in the car for Jesus – because only the driver has a seat
· Jesus is now just a means to your ends, kept in your back pocket
· just give me what I need to keep going –
o fill me with fuel and change my tires every now and then –
o give me a squirt of a sport drink and I will be on MY way
· Jesus loves you enough to give you what you want, but you miss out on His best
· He tries to talk to you the few times you pull in because you need Him, but His face turns to sadness in the rear-view mirror as you peel away to catch up with the other racers.
B – NO-Track = OFF ROAD = doing your own thing
Prefers to another way = MY way vs the HI way
The ROAD
· Type of track is this?
– NONE! It’s wide-open spaces full of grassy fields, terrain with trees, hillsides, rocks, rivers and ravines as far as the eye can see!
· The world is your oyster!
· Woo-hoo!
The off-road driver sings – “Don’t fence me in!”
· I’ve got to be free, I’ve got to be me
The CAR
· The off-road driver has traded in his faith mobile for an ATV, whether it is a dune buggy or a four-wheeler.
· Unlike the faith mobile, the off-road vehicle has little to no protection from the elements.
· It has a smaller fuel tank
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