Planted: Planted in serving

• Pastor: Zach Gryder
• Location: Highridge Parker County

Sermon notes

• We’ll be in Matthew 25

His master replied, ‘You wicked, lazy servant! So you knew that I harvest where I have not sown and gather where I have not scattered seed? Well then, you should have put my money on deposit with the bankers, so that when I returned I would have received it back with interest.

— Matthew 25:26-27 (NIV)

Judgment day:

1. What did you do with Jesus?
2. How did you live your life on earth?

• Not everyone will experience heaven the same way.
• Judgement day for believers is an awards ceremony.
• It’s how you will experience heaven based on how you lived.
• Accepting Jesus is the starting line.
• “What did you do with what I gave you?”
  • Abilities, money, talents, passion, desires, etc.

How do we steward the gifts that God has given us?

The end of all things is near. Therefore be alert and of sober mind so that you may pray.

— 1 Peter 4:7 (NIV)

• We need to live with an eternal perspective.
• We get so focused on the temporary results of “How does today affect tomorrow” that we don’t think about eternity.
• When is the last time you did something that had an eternal impact?
• Again, WHAT DID YOU DO WITH WHAT HE GAVE YOU?
• Start asking this every day:
  • WHAT AM I GOING TO DO TODAY THATS ETERNAL?
  • Maybe it’s praying for someone
  • Maybe it’s inviting someone to church
• We have lost this lens.

Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. 9 Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling.

— 1 Peter 4:8-9 (NIV)

• We love one another even when it’s hard.
• Serving others is how we serve God.

Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. If anyone speaks, they should do so as one who speaks the very words of God. If anyone serves, they should do so with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.

— 1 Peter 4:10-11 (NIV)