Building Materials

Pew2You

May 5, 2019

Pastor Dan Fitzgerald

Message Title: Building Materials

Highlights:

What is God Building?
1. You better know what the blueprints are for.
Plans without progress produce frustration. Plans with perspective produce patience.
God’s desire is that we see ourselves as free from sin and alive in Him.
Faith is the currency of heaven and is as necessary to a spiritual life as oxygen is to a natural one.

Discussion Questions:

What is God building in your life? We need blueprints to build and to make progress. Where do you need to seek the Master Builder for greater detail in the blueprints?
Pastor Dan shows us that gold, silver, and costly stones are the by product of applying faith to the process of building with wood, hay, and straw. That gold is the “aha” moments that make a spiritual truth yours personally. Where is the gold in your life? Share some of your “aha” moments of faith.
We were reminded that we are the costly stone and that we are fitted, placed, and purposed by the hand of God. We were made for more than wood, hay, and straw. God’s desire is to effect eternity through your life. What have you been made for? Where has God placed you to effect eternity through your life?

Key Scriptures, Quotes, and Definitions:

1 Corinthians 3:10-16

10 According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it. 11 For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, 13 each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. 14 If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. 15 If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire. 16 Do you not know that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwells in you?

Galatians 4:7 NIV
7 So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.

2 Peter 3:10 NIV
10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything done in it will be laid bare.

Matthew 5:45b NIV
45…He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.

Job 42:5 NIV
5 My ears had heard of you but now my eyes have seen you.