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CHOOSE JESUS AS GUIDE “If it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD” (Josh. 24:15).
We All Choose • “God Is My Co-Pilot”. • Who is in control of your life. • Our choice of who is in control determines our destination – Matt. 7:13-14
ME – I’m In Charge Out of the night that covers me, Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be for my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed… It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.
“No body tells me what to do.” • Luke 16:23 – should the rich man have listened to God, or Lazarus? • Dan. 4:30-37 – Nebuchadnezzar • Acts 24:25 – Felix • Acts 26:28 – Agrippa • Luke 15 – the prodigal. • Did you ever sit in dad’s lap and “drive”? • Prov. 14:12; Jer. 10:23
Men – I Trust Them • Prov. 11:14, “In the multitude of counselors there is safety”, but • Gal. 1:10 • Public Opinion – I Sam. 15:24 • Aaron – Exodus 32:21-24. • Pilate – Matt. 27:2-26 • “Even” Barnabas – Gal. 2:13 • “You shall not follow the masses in doing evil…” (Ex. 23:2).
Messiah – He’s Unfailing • Rev. 3:20 – He requests entrance. • His promise – “abundance” – John 10:10 • “Not grievous” – I John 5:3 • 2 Tim. 4:6-8 – Did Paul ever look back? • “No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will hold to the one and despise the other” (Luke 16:13). • Who guides your life?