Life is Full of Choices

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Life is Full of Choices

• Choose what to wear, eat, discuss...
• 2 Tim 223 But foolish and unlearned questions
  avoid, knowing that they do gender strifes.
• Some Choices Never Exist
• Some Choices Seldom Exist
• Some Choices Always Exist
• Which ones should we be discussing and which ones
  are a waste of time?

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Choices (Never Exist)

• Saved by faith or works? James 217-18
• Intelligence or Emotion in religion?
• Matt. 2238-39
• Illustrations or reading texts in pulpit?
• Illustrations must illuminate (Parables)
• Reading is not preaching Neh. 88, Lk. 416-22
• Values Clarification (life boat strategy)

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Choices (Seldom Exist)

• Live or die for Christ? Phil.121-24
• Seldom pick our punishment (2 Sam. 2412-15)
• Dying is more dramatic (Lk. 923, Rom. 121)
• Obey God or government?
• Acts 529
• 1 Pet 213-17
• Obey God or husband?
• Col. 318
• Acts 51-2

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Choices (Always Exist)

• Serve God or Idols?
• 1 Kings 1821
• Josh. 2415
• Obey God or not? Deut. 3019-20
• Accept truth or lies? Ps. 11930
• Sow to the flesh or to the spirit? Gal. 67-8
• We will avoid the choices that need to be made if
  we always debate the hypothetical

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Manipulating Marriage

• Can you divorce your lawful spouse for the
  Gospels sake? (wife or heaven?)
• Mark 1029-30, 1 Cor. 710-15
• If a wife divorces her husband because he
  goes into fulltime preaching is he justified?
• If that same husband leaves preaching one
  year later for secular work is he justified?
• Can you stay with your unlawful spouse and still
  obtain heaven? Matt. 199