RUN THE PLAYBOOK

ARE YOU TRYING TO WIN AT ALL THE WRONG THINGS?

KISS.....KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID

GET BACK TO BASICS : the gospel

COACH 5TH GRADE….LOSING….JUST BEAT THE UNDEFEATED TEAM.

MT 6:33 BUT SEEK FIRST

LAUNDRY BASKET

Main thought*****

YOU WILL ALWAYS BE SEARCHING FOR SOMETHING IF YOU DON’T HAVE SOMEONE…..JESUS.

For SOME of you HEAR JESUS 1ST TIME….. is going to grab your heart for the 1st time

1000 TIME BUT FOR REAL

KNOW JESUS BUT STRAYED…..RECOMMIT

OTHERS…..deaf ears…hard heart

WHO OR WHAT you LOVE the most determines HOW YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE!!!

WHO DO YOU LOVE? MAHOMES…..TAYLOR SWIFT…..FORTNITE (WATCH HOURS OF OTHER PEOPLE PLAYING IT YOUTUBE)

LOVE MY WORK….SPEND MY TIME AND ENERGY THERE, maybe to the detriment of family

WHO OR WHAT you LOVE the MOST determines HOW YOU LIVE YOUR LIFE!!!

TRUE LOVE……L**RA…….pick nose

TRUE LOVE CAN’T QUIT

AGE 17 MET jESUS

BIBLE – PHONE ……no tik tok-----snapchat……CALL THEM OUT ILL BRING THEM UP AND EMBARRASS

John 3:16 ESV

16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

JESUS IN MY PLACE

Mark 16:15 ESV

15 And he said to them, “Go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole creation.

The word gospel literally means “good news” and occurs 93 times in the Bible, exclusively in the New Testament. In Greek, it is the word euaggelion, from which we get our English words evangelist, evangel, and evangelical. The gospel is, broadly speaking, the whole of Scripture; more narrowly, the gospel is the good news concerning Christ and the way of salvation.

1 COR 10:31

31 So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.

IS YOUR WORK FOR THE GLORY OF GOD OR FOR YOU?

1 Corinthians 3:5–15 ESV

5 What then is Apollos? What is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, as the Lord assigned to each. 6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth. 7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God who gives the growth. 8 He who plants and he who waters are one, and each will receive his wages according to his labor. 9 For we are God’s fellow workers. You are God’s field, God’s building. 10 According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master builder I laid a foundation, and someone else is building upon it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. 11 For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw— 13 each one’s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. 14 If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.

JESUS IN MY PLACE

Romans 8:3–4 ESV

3 For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh, 4 in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.

John 3:16 ESV

16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

THIEF PIC

“How does the thief on the cross fit into your theology? No baptism, no communion, no confirmation, no speaking in tongues, no mission trip, no volunteerism, and no church clothes. He couldn’t even bend his knees to pray. He didn’t say the sinner’s prayer and among other things, he was a thief. Jesus didn’t take away his pain, heal his body, or smite the scoffers. Yet it was a thief who walked into heaven the same hour as Jesus simply by believing. He had nothing more to offer other than his belief that Jesus was who he said he was. No spin from brilliant theologians. No ego or arrogance. No Shiny lights, skinny jeans, or crafty words. No haze machine, donuts, or coffee in the entrance. Just a naked dying man on a cross unable to even fold his hands to pray.” For God so loved the world he gave his only begotten son so that whosoever believed in him would not perish but have everlasting life. John 3:16 I read this today and was reminded of the simplicity of the Gospel.

Romans 3:23 ESV

23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

The first verse on the Romans Road to salvation is Romans 3:23, “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God.” We have all sinned. We have all done things that are displeasing to God. There is no one who is innocent. Romans 3:10-18 gives a detailed picture of what sin looks like in our lives.

Romans 3:10–12 “10 as it is written: “None is righteous, no, not one; 11 no one understands; no one seeks for God. 12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless; no one does good, not even one.”” The second Scripture on the Romans Road to salvation, Romans 6:23A “23 For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

teaches us about the consequences of sin: “For the wages of sin is death.” The punishment that we have earned for our sins is death. Not just physical death, but eternal death! The third verse on the Romans Road to salvation picks up in the middle of Romans 6:23b: “But the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”

ROMANS 5:8 declares, “But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”

Jesus Christ died for us! Jesus’ death paid for the price of our sins. Jesus’ resurrection proves that God accepted Jesus’ death as the payment for our sins. The fourth stop on the Romans Road to salvation is

Romans 10:9 ESV

9 because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.

Because of Jesus’ death on our behalf, all we have to do is believe in Him, trusting His death as the payment for our sins - and we will be saved! Romans 10:13 says it again, “for everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” Jesus died to pay the penalty for our sins and rescue us from eternal death. Salvation, the forgiveness of sins, is available to anyone who will trust in Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior. The final aspect of the Romans Road to salvation is the results of salvation.

Romans 5:1 ESV

1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Through Jesus Christ we can have a relationship of peace with God. Romans 8:1 says, “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus." Because of Jesus’ death on our behalf, we will never be condemned for our sins.

Finally, we have this precious promise of God from

Romans 8:38-39: “For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

“God, I know that I have sinned against you and am deserving of punishment. But Jesus Christ took the punishment that I deserve so that through faith in Him I could be forgiven. With your help, I place my trust in You for salvation. Thank You for Your wonderful grace and forgiveness - the gift of eternal life! Amen!”