Choose Life

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Title: Choose Life ------------------- Date: 3/12/2001
Keywords: "choose" "death" "life"
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Passages:

Deuteronomy 30:19-20*

19. "I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants,

20. by loving the LORD your God, by obeying His voice, and by holding fast to Him; for this is your life and the length of your days, that you may live in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give them."

Proverbs 16:1*

"The plans of the heart belong to man, But the answer of the tongue is from the LORD."

Proverbs 16:4*

"The LORD has made everything for its own purpose, Even the wicked for the day of evil.

Questions

1. Moses called the tribes of Israel to make a decision. Who would be affected by the decision they were to make?

 

2. Who do your decisions affect?

 

3. How is God affected by your choices according to the two passages from Proverbs?

 

Practical help

Pornography is your decision, but remember, you're not the only one it affects. It's damage spreads to those you know and love – even if they don't know about your Internet activities. God cares about the innocent and will right all wrongs in the end.

How is it that God can allow you to make a decision as harmful as pornography? The answer has to do with the nature of love, which requires the freedom to choose. Love is never forced.

Once we make our decision, God will honor it. If we choose evil, He is free to give us over to it. Later, when He judges wickedness, no one will be able to say that God forced them. The choice is ours until we act, then God, unbound by our responses, proceeds with His righteous plans.

Galations 6:7-9*

7. Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap.

8. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

9. Let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary.

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*"Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE®, © Copyright The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission."