Mark 10:35-45

Signs Your Sidelined

• Lack of Investment is God’s Work
• Indifference or Frustration in your Faith
• Prayer is a Chore
• God seems Silent or Unfaithful
• Quick to criticize leadership, fellow believers, or the conduct of ministries/church
• Worship has become about the personal “experience” and not about an offering to God
• Developing or have an increase in Doubt

THE GAME

• The Game: ITS ALL ABOUT !!!
  • Romans 11:36
    • “For from him and through him and for him are all things.
          To him be the glory forever! Amen.”
• James and John were playing a different game
  • They were concerned about their glory
    • ““Let US sit at your right and other at your left in your glory”- VS. 37
    • “You don’t’ know what you are asking” – VS. 38
• Understand the Rules ()
  • How can we understand the answer if we don’t understand the question. We don’t’ understand the question because we don’t’ understand the GAME
• Be Reminded of the Rules ()
• Penalties for Cheating ()

THE GAME PLAN

• James and John did not trust the Game plan
  • Their Game Plan for Christ’s glory was ruling on the throne of Israel, separate from Rome
    • They would serve on his cabinet
  • God had a different plan for Christ’s glory
    • Christ already told them 3 times he would die
    • Christ said they would suffer like him
    • The one’s prepared to sit on his left and right in His glory were the criminals He was crucified between
  • Luke 21:12-13- Our Game Plan now is the Gospel
  • We trust God’s plan for redemption, but we don’t trust His plan for:
    • • Justice
      • Inequality
      • Poverty
      • Violence
      • World issues

Be a Player

• Greatest Commandment – Matthew 22:36-40
  • We are called to love and serve God but also each other
    • We can’t do this alone
• Problem with this: People are annoying!
• If you play the game for you, you will be benched.
  • You either don’t know the game or are playing selfishly
• Some of you got hurt playing the game, in resting, your scared to re-engage in fear of getting hurt

PLAY WITH

• The Cross is called the Passion of Christ
  • Do we Serve, Worship, and Love with the same Passion as Christ?
• To Play with Passion means…
  • To play with Determination
  • To Play with Purpose
  • To Sacrifice for the Goal
  • To Play with Focus
  • To have personal investment