Key Scripture:
1 Corinthians 3:10
According to the grace of God given to me, like a skilled master-builder I laid a foundation, but someone else builds on it. And each one must be careful how he builds.

Question #1
Are little things causing big problems?
Galatians 5:9
You should know that “just a little yeast works its way through the whole batch of dough.”

Question #2
Do you have a sandy situation?
Matthew 7:24-26 NIV
Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand.

Matthew 7:27 NIV
The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.

John 16:33
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”

Question #3
Are you built to last?
Hebrews 3:4 NLT
For every house has a builder, but the one who built everything is God.

Key Scripture:
Genesis 2:24 - NLT
24. This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.

Key Point #1: GOALS

Ephesians 5:22 - NLT
22. For wives, this means submit to your husbands as to the Lord.

Ephesians 5:21 - NLT
21. And further, submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.

Ephesians 5:25 - NLT
25. For husbands, this means love your wives, just as Christ loved the church. He gave up his life for her

Key Point #2: GUARDRAILS

Genesis 15:4 - NLT
4. Then the Lord said to him, “No, your servant will not be your heir, for you will have a son of your own who will be your heir.”

Genesis 16:2 - NLT
2. So Sarai said to Abram, “The Lord has prevented me from having children. Go and sleep with my servant. Perhaps I can have children through her.” And Abram agreed with Sarai’s proposal.

Key Point #3: GOD

Matthew 6:33 - NLT
33. Seek the Kingdom of God above all else, and live righteously, and he will give you everything you need.

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 -  NLT
4. Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud 5. or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable, and it keeps no record of being wronged. 6. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever the truth wins out. 7. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

Jeremiah 29:11 - NLT
11. For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord . “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.

Mark 4:26-27 NLT
“Jesus said, “The Kingdom of God is like a farmer who scatters seed on the ground. Night and day, while he’s asleep or awake, the seed sprouts and grows, but he does not understand how it happens.

Mark 4:13 NLT
Then Jesus said to them, “If you can’t understand the meaning of this parable, how will you understand all the other parables?

Sample Soil #1 "What got ON it?”

Mark 4:1-2 NLT
Once again Jesus began teaching by the lakeshore. A very large crowd soon gathered around him, so he got into a boat. Then he sat in the boat while all the people remained on the shore. He taught them by telling many stories in the form of parables, such as this one:

Mark 4:3 NLT
“Listen! A farmer went out to plant some seed.

Mark 4:4 NLT
As he scattered it across his field, some of the seed fell on a footpath, and the birds came and ate it.

Hosea 4:6
“my people, are destroyed for lack of knowledge“

Sample Soil #2 “What got UNDER it?”

Mark 4:5-6 NLT
Other seed fell on shallow soil with under-lying rock. The seed sprouted quickly because the soil was shallow. But the plant soon wilted under the hot sun, and since it didn’t have deep roots, it died.

Sample Soil #3 “What got IN it?”

Mark 4:7 NLT
Other seed fell among thorns that grew up and choked out the tender plants so they produced no grain.

3 “Bad Seeds"
The worries of this life.
The deceitfulness of wealth.
The desire for other things.

Mark 4:8 NLT
Still other seeds fell on fertile soil, and they sprouted, grew, and produced a crop that was thirty, sixty, and even a hundred times as much as had been planted!” 

Mark 4:9 NLT
Then he said, “Anyone with ears to hear should listen and understand.”

James 1:21 NIV
humbly accept the word planted in you, which can save you!

Luke 10:25 NIV On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?”

Luke 10:26 NIV “What is written in the Law?” Jesus replied. “How do you read it?”

Luke 10:27 NIV He answered, “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’ and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.

Luke 10:28 NIV “You have answered correctly,” Jesus replied. “Do this and you will live.”

Romans 3:20 NLV No person will be made right (Justified) with God by doing what the Law says. The Law shows us how sinful we are.

Luke 10:29 NIV But he wanted to justify himself, so he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” Because he knew he wasn’t loving like that

"justify himself” Literally in the Greek "Make himself righteous & innocent"

Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing but Grace will stop sin!

“Where sin abounds, Grace super abounds”

2 corinthians 5:17 NLT This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!

2 corinthians 5:18 NLT And 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.

2 corinthians 5:19 NLT For 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.

2 corinthians 5:20 NLT So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!”

2 corinthians 5:21 NLT For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.

God’s holiness, God’s righteousness and God’s justice demands that you enjoy all the benefits of the cross. — dIncluding your acquittal, deliverance, healing, prosperity...

Romans 3:23-24 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.