Sermon Title: “What If you stayed in your lane?”

What if..Week 6
Speaker: Lead Pastor Peter Jackson, Foundation Church, Dripping Springs, TX

Stay in Your Lane by Granting God the Definitions

As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy. They are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be generous and ready to share, thus storing up treasure for themselves as a good foundation for the future, so that they may take hold of that which is truly life. —1 Timothy 6:17–19 (ESV)

We try to define value

“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” —Matthew 6:19–21 (ESV)

We try to define people

“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.” —Matthew 7:1–2 (ESV)

Stay in Your Lane by Relinquishing Outcomes to God

Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives to his beloved sleep. —Psalm 127:1–2 (ESV)

Work hard, trust the results to God, and sleep well

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me. —1 Corinthians 15:10 (ESV)

“Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” —Matthew 11:28 (ESV)

Stay in Your Lane by Admitting You Aren’t the Savior

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. —2 Corinthians 5:17 (ESV)

Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. —Philippians 4:6 (ESV)