Choices

• Life is Made of Choices
• Joshua 24:13-15
• Some things we are given …
• Our past choices brought us to where we are
• Applying yourself in school opens many opportunities
• You live in a country of great opportunities
• It’s up to you to decide what to make of them…
• Which path will you choose?
• Joshua 24:14-15 "Now therefore, fear the LORD, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, … Serve the LORD!
• 15 And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, … But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."
• 1st Choice: Your Spiritual Relationship with God
• Matthew 11:28-30 Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.30 For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."
• Remember God in Youth
• Ecclesiastes 12:1 Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, Before the difficult days come, And the years draw near when you say, "I have no pleasure in them":
• Obeying the Gospel
• Romans 6:17-18 But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered.18 And having been set free from sin, you became slaves of righteousness
• Obeying the Gospel
• Hearing the Gospel – Romans 10:17
• Believing It – John 3:16; Hebrews 11:6
• Repenting of past life – Acts 17:30
• Confessing Jesus as Lord – Matt. 10:32-33
• Baptized for forgiveness of sins – Gal. 3:26-27
• 2nd Choice: Personal Character and Integrity
• Proverbs 1:8-9 My son, hear the instruction of your father, And do not forsake the law of your mother; 9 For they will be a graceful ornament on your head, And chains about your neck.
• Respecting your parents
• Ephesians 6:1-3 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.2 "Honor your father and mother," which is the first commandment with promise:3 "that it may be well with you and you may live long on the earth."
• Integrity: Choosing to do what is right
• Proverbs 11:3 The integrity of the upright will guide them, But the perversity of the unfaithful will destroy them.
• Proverbs 19:1 Better is the poor who walks in his integrity than one who is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.
• Proverbs 20:7 The righteous man walks in his integrity; His children are blessed after him.
• 3rd: Your Choice of Friends …
• Proverbs 1:10-14 My son, if sinners entice you, Do not consent.11 If they say, "Come with us, Let us lie in wait to shed blood; Let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause; …
• Voices you will hear …
• Proverbs 1:15-19 My son, do not walk in the way with them, Keep your foot from their path; 16 For their feet run to evil,…19 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain; It takes away the life of its owners.
• Choose friends carefully
• Proverbs 22:24-25 Make no friendship with an angry man, And with a furious man do not go, 25 Lest you learn his ways And set a snare for your soul.
• Connect with godly friends
• 1 Corinthians 15:33 Do not be deceived:"Evil company corrupts good habits."
• Life is Made of Choices
• Joshua 24:13-15