God's Will: Blueprint or Game Plan?
Message #1

December 3-4, 2005
Dr Larry Osborne

So What’s The Difference?

• A Blueprint: Spells everything out in great detail.
• A Game Plan: Sets general guidelines with an occasional specific play.
    _{^{Matthew 28:18-20     Acts 13:1-4  compared with  Acts 16:6-10  &  15:36-40}}

How To Follow God’s Game Plan For Your Life

1) Play by the rules!
       _{^{Luke 6:46-49     Proverbs 3:5-7}}


2) Use your brain!
       _{^{Romans 12:1-2     1 Corinthians 2:10-16  &  Philippians 2:13     Proverbs 19:2-3}}


3) Relax and remember. . .

  You have lots of freedom.
       _{^{1 Corinthians 7:8-35      Psalm 37:4}}

  How you live is far more important than
     where you live.
       _{^{Compare Lot in Sodom (Genesis 13:5-11   Genesis 18:17-19:30)
       with Daniel in Babylon (Daniel 1-6)}}


  God draws straight lines with crooked sticks.
       _{^{Psalm 37:23-24     Proverbs 16:3
       cf. Solomon’s blind spots & God’s response  (1 Kings 3:1-14)}}


  A valley doesn’t mean a wrong turn.
      _{^{1 Peter 4:19     1 Corinthians 16:8-9     Mark 4:35-41  &  Exodus 14:1-31}}

God’s Simple Game Plan
    _{^{Matthew 22:36-40}}

• Love God & love your neighbor.