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๐๐ซ๐๐ฒ๐๐ซโ Psalm 34:1-5
๐๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฉ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ซ๐โ Joshua 24:15
๐๐ข๐ญ๐ฅ๐ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ฌ๐ฌ๐๐ ๐โ Choices and Responsibility
Every waking day ๐๐จ๐ ๐ ๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ฌ ๐ฎ๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐จ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐ซ๐ญ๐ฎ๐ง๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฆ๐๐ค๐ ๐ง๐๐ฐ ๐๐ก๐จ๐ข๐๐๐ฌ. Those choices can result in positive or negative impacts on our lives.
Today is a product of choices you have made in the past.
Even some of the blessings and curses we experience are results of decisions made by our ancestors.
Often we refuse to take responsibility for our own lives and choices we have made.
When things go wrong we find it easy to blame God for everything.
God gives each of us 24 hour every day, we all have that same window of opportunity.
๐๐ก๐๐ญ ๐๐ข๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐๐จ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฅ๐๐ฌ๐ญ ๐๐ ๐ก๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฐ๐ข๐ง๐๐จ๐ฐ?
Sleep? Watch TV? Online shop? Gossip?
Did you do any exercise? Did you read a book? Did you learn something new?
No matter what you did with your 24 hours, all of your choices were made by you.
It is an input/output situation. Whatever we invest our time in we can expect results in that area.
We cannot sow corn and expect to reap potatoes.
๐๐ ๐ง๐จ๐ซ๐๐ง๐๐ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ ๐๐ก๐จ๐ข๐๐. Often, we do nothing and hope life just works out.
James 2:26 KJV
For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.
We have to make the decision to work towards our goals.
Hosea 4:6 KJV
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children.
๐๐จ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ซ๐๐ฃ๐๐๐ญ ๐ค๐ง๐จ๐ฐ๐ฅ๐๐๐ ๐. Your decisions will not only impact you, they will impact your children.
What do you do with your income?
Buy cigarettes and alcohol? Or do you save and invest?
God told us that there is a seed in everything He gave to us.
๐๐จ ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐๐๐ญ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐.
If we had an orange and ate the seeds we would not be able to plant them to grow more oranges in the future.
Similarly, if we blow all of our income without thinking about tomorrow we will perish.
The world needs solutions to problems. Don’t be a part of the problemโ bring the solution.
How do we provide a solution with a lack of knowledge?
Galatians 6:7 KJV
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.
Disciplining your children is a big investment. If you do not discipline a child then you will pay in the future when your child is not equipped.
It is likely that you will worry about them constantly, whether you’re a christian or not.
There is a reason that some churches in England are sat empty or filled with the older generation, that is because those parents did not instill the importance of God to their children.
We need to grow as children of God.
๐๐ก๐๐ญ ๐๐ก๐๐ง๐ ๐๐ฌ ๐๐จ ๐ฐ๐ ๐ฐ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ฆ๐๐ค๐ ๐ข๐ง ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฅ๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ฌ?
Get wisdom and get knowledge.
Take responsibility.
John 3:16 KJV
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
God gave us the provision but we have to make the ๐๐๐๐๐๐ to believe.
Hebrew 9:27 KJV
And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment:
Why do we pray at a funeral? It is too late.
We have the choice today whilst we are alive!
Joshua 24:15
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
๐๐๐๐ข๐๐ ๐ญ๐จ๐๐๐ฒ ๐ฐ๐ก๐๐ซ๐ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐๐ง๐ญ ๐ญ๐จ ๐๐ ๐ญ๐จ๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ซ๐จ๐ฐ.
Wisdom does not come with age, wisdom is acquired. Make the choice to sow good seeds.
Deuteronomy 30:19 KJV
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:
Message delivered by Deacon Judah Senoo.