CHOICES

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CHOICES

• Sunday Service
• 9 Mar 2008
• Cecil Ang

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Scripture Text

• I call heaven and earth as witnesses today
  against you, that I have set before you life and
  death, blessing and cursing therefore choose
  life, that both you and your descendents may
  live. Dt 3019
  (NKJV)

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Freedom to choose

• I have set before you life and death
• Man is created as tri-partite being
• The LORD God formed the man from the dust of
  the ground (body) and breathed into his nostrils
  the breath of life (spirit), and the man became a
  living being (soul).
  Gen 27 (NIV)

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BODY (sense conscious) Touch Taste Sight Hearing S
melling
SOUL (self conscious) Mind Emotions Will
SPIRIT (God conscious) Communion Conscience Intuit
ion
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Freedom to choose

• Enter by the narrow gate for wide is the gate
  and broad is the way that leads to destruction,
  and there are many who go in by it. Because
  narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which
  leads to life, and there are few who find it.
• Mt 713-14 (NKJV)

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Consequences of choice

• That both you and your descendents may live
• As long as the earth endures, seedtime and
  harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day
  and night will never cease. Gen 822 (NIV)

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Consequences of choice

• But if you fail to do this, you will be sinning
  against the LORD and you may be sure that your
  sin will find you out.
  Num 3223 (NIV)
• So, if you think you are standing firm, be
  careful that you don't fall! No temptation has
  seized you except what is common to man. And God
  is faithful he will not let you be tempted
  beyond what you can bear. But when you are
  tempted, he will also provide a way out so that
  you can stand up under it. 1
  Cor 1012-13 (NIV)

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Consequences of choice

• The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the
  earth he has given to man.
  Ps 11516 (NIV)
• Our gracious, forgiving God
• Then he adds Their sins and lawless acts I
  will remember no more. Heb 1017 (NIV)

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Make wise choices

• Choose life (and not death)
• Obedience to God is the key
• If you fully obey the LORD your God and
  carefully follow all his commands I give you
  today, the LORD your God will set you high above
  all the nations on earth. All these blessings
  will come upon you and accompany you if you obey
  the LORD your God Dt 281-2

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Make wise choices

• Christ has chosen death on our behalf

Death Life
Curses Sickness Guilt Needs Hatred Strife Blessings Health Forgiveness Wealth Perfect love Peace
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Choose to tithe give your offerings

• Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me. But you
  ask, How do we rob you? In tithes and
  offerings. You are under a curse -- the whole
  nation of you -- because you are robbing me.
  Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that
  there may be food in my house. Test me in this,
  says the LORD Almighty, and see if I will not
  throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out
  so much blessing that you will not have room
  enough for it. I will prevent pests from
  devouring your crops, and the vines in your
  fields will not cast their fruit, says the LORD
  Almighty. Then all the nations will call you
  blessed, for yours will be a delightful land,
  says the LORD Almighty.
  Mal 38-12 (NIV)

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Choose not to be unequally yoked

• Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For
  what do righteousness and wickedness have in
  common? Or what fellowship can light have with
  darkness? What harmony is there between Christ
  and Belial? What does a believer have in common
  with an unbeliever? What agreement is there
  between the temple of God and idols? For we are
  the temple of the living God. As God has said
  I will live with them and walk among them, and I
  will be their God, and they will be my people.
  
  2 Cor 614-16 (NIV)

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Choose to forgive

• For if you forgive men when they sin against
  you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.
  But if you do not forgive men their sins, your
  Father will not forgive your sins.
  Mt 614-15
  (NIV)
• And his master was angry, and delivered him to
  the torturers until he should pay all that was
  due to him. So My heavenly Father also will do to
  you if each of you, from his heart, does not
  forgive his brother his trespasses.
  Mt 1834-35 (NKJV)

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Choose not to be enslaved by sin

• Everything is permissible for me -- but not
  everything is beneficial. Everything is
  permissible for me -- but I will not be mastered
  by anything. Food for the stomach and the stomach
  for food -- but God will destroy them both. The
  body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for
  the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
  1 Cor 612-13 (NIV)