God’s Game Plan

1. God’s Game Plan

2. Game Plan • A strategy for achieving an objective • Merriam-Webster’s Online Dictionary • Blueprint • Road Map • Recipe • Formula • Basic Steps

3. You shall have no other gods before Me. • "You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth; • "You shall not take the name of the LORD your God in vain, for the LORD will not hold him guiltless who takes His name in vain. • "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. • "Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the LORD your God is giving you. • "You shall not murder. • "You shall not commit adultery. • "You shall not steal. • "You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor. • "You shall not covet your neighbor's house; you shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's."

5. Fiery Serpents • Num 21:4-9 4 Then they journeyed from Mount Hor by the Way of the Red Sea, to go around the land of Edom; and the soul of the people became very discouraged on the way. 5 And the people spoke against God and against Moses: "Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? For there is no food and no water, and our soul loathes this worthless bread." 6 So the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and many of the people of Israel died. 7 Therefore the people came to Moses, and said, "We have sinned, for we have spoken against the LORD and against you; pray to the LORD that He take away the serpents from us." So Moses prayed for the people. 8 Then the LORD said to Moses, "Make a fiery serpent, and set it on a pole; and it shall be that everyone who is bitten, when he looks at it, shall live." 9 So Moses made a bronze serpent, and put it on a pole; and so it was, if a serpent had bitten anyone, when he looked at the bronze serpent, he lived.

6. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes. • Deut. 12:8, Judges 17:6, 21:25 • Lawyers question Jesus about divorce • Matt. 19:3-9

7. 4 And He answered and said to them, "Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning 'made them male and female,' 5 and said, 'For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh'? 6 So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate." 8 He said to them, "Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. 9 And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery."

8. Everyone did what was right in his own eyes. • Deut. 12:8, Judges 17:6, 21:25 • Lawyers question Jesus about divorce • Matt. 19:3-9 • Rich Young Ruler • Matt. 19:16-22

9. 20 The young man said to Him, "All these things I have kept from my youth. What do I still lack?" 21 Jesus said to him, "If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me." 22 But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions.

10. What is your objective? • How will you reach your objective?