God’s Plan for Faith, Family & Finances Be The BaconThe most important thing for your kids or grandkids isn’t safety, education, are they a good person, career, income, family, etc. 1.SoulThe most important thing is their soul!Where is their soul headed?How is your soul?You don’t have to duplicate. You can create. Bad dad; Bad mom; rough childhood; raised by families on TV; abused, neglected. Break the curse. Some of you have been told you are illegitimate; a mistake made at a point of weakness; that you are problems to be managed.You need to be made well so that you’re kids are well. You need to grow spiritually so that your kids have an example to follow. Deut. 5 lays out the 10 Commandments.We cannot honor the 10 Commandments without forgiveness and Grace. Salvation leads us to new pursuits and new desires. We must love with our heart, soul, and strength. Because I love God I’m compelled to obey him. I began obeying him. God loves me before I recognize him as father. We respond to God’s love, God chases us. Church, Prayer, Scripture and Obedience come from the response of his love. At salvation the Law of God becomes written on our heart. Duet. 6:4-5 Listen, O Israel! The Lord is our God, the Lord alone.[a] 5 And you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength. 6 And you must commit yourselves wholeheartedly to these commands that I am giving you today.All your heart, soul and strengthThis is a love beyond just a decision. It’s a hunger a desire that comes from being with God. This can only come through salvation. You need the Gospel in your life. Duet. 6:7 You have to learn in order to teach from Love. What does loving God do to your relationships?2.Christ Centered HomeIn a Christ centered marriage you no longer expect your spouse to be your savior. That’s Jesus job alone. With your kids you don’t need them fulfill your unfulfilled dreams. And now you have the ability to forgive when people mess up. You can forgive because you have been forgiven of so much!Now instead of trying to change your husband to be perfect. Or your wife to stop or start…. Now instead of a romantic pedestal of Disney happily ever after perfection you have a God who is with you through the dark mysterious deep woods of life. Christ is the Center of your home and all your relationships. He is the filter that you see the world through. 3.#New Focus We want you to feel comfortable talking to your kids, grandkids, wife, and husband about God. What you do today will change your family for generations. You get what you are. So you need to be… a believer. Not 10%- Fully Committed.4.Be the Bacon.Question: In a bacon and egg breakfast, what's the difference between the chicken and the pig?Answer: The chicken is involved, but the pig is COMMITTED!Die to self. Salvation is killing the flesh and living for God the father. It’s never too late to adjust your destiny. Some of you are going to have to change what you’re doing. How you are living. How you evaluate and make decisions. It’s worth it!To Start God’s plan you have to start at step 5.#1 SALVATION are you committed?Philippians 3:4-11 NLT4 though I could have confidence in my own effort if anyone could. Indeed, if others have reason for confidence in their own efforts, I have even more! 5 I was circumcised when I was eight days old. I am a pure-blooded citizen of Israel and a member of the tribe of Benjamin—a real Hebrew if there ever was one! I was a member of the Pharisees, who demand the strictest obedience to the Jewish law. 6I was so zealous that I harshly persecuted the church. And as for righteousness, I obeyed the law without fault. 7 I once thought these things were valuable, but now I consider them worthless because of what Christ has done. 8 Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ 9 and become one with him. I no longer count on my own righteousness through obeying the law; rather, I become righteous through faith in Christ. For God’s way of making us right with himself depends on faith. 10 I want to know Christ and experience the mighty power that raised him from the dead. I want to suffer with him, sharing in his death, 11 so that one way or another I will experience the resurrection from the dead!6.#DEATH TO SELFIEYou will not be able to live in God’s will and follow God’s plan without committing to it first. 2 Corinthians 5:13-17. 13If it seems we are crazy, it is to bring glory to God. And if we are in our right minds, it is for your benefit.14Either way, Christ’s love controls us.c Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life.d 15He died for everyone so that those who receive his new life will no longer live for themselves. Instead, they will live for Christ, who died and was raised for them.16So we have stopped evaluating others from a human point of view. At one time we thought of Christ merely from a human point of view. How differently we know him now! 17This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!18And all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him. 19For God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of reconciliation. 20So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!” 21For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.
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