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Pursuing intimacy with god through our choices

Pursuing intimacy with god through our choices. CHOOSE THE BEST MATTHEW 7:13-14. MATTHEW 7:13-14.

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Pursuing intimacy with god through our choices

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  1. Pursuing intimacy withgod through our choices CHOOSE THE BEST MATTHEW 7:13-14

  2. MATTHEW 7:13-14 13 “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. 14 Because[a] narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.

  3. DEUTERONOMY 30.19 19 I call heaven and earth as witnesses today against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live;

  4. JOSHUA 24:15 15 But if serving the Lord seems undesirable to you, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”

  5. JEREMIAH 21:8 8 “Furthermore, tell the people, ‘This is what the Lord says: See, I am setting before you the way of life and the way of death.

  6. THREE MAJOR CHOICESIN LIFE THAT YOU NEED TO PUT INTO MAJOR CONSIDERATIONS MISSION

  7. THREE MAJOR CHOICESIN LIFE THAT YOU NEED TO PUT INTO MAJOR CONSIDERATIONS MATE MISSION

  8. THREE MAJOR CHOICESIN LIFE THAT YOU NEED TO PUT INTO MAJOR CONSIDERATIONS MASTER MATE MISSION

  9. GENERAL RULES IN MAKING CHOICES BASED ON THE PASSAGES 1. BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND.

  10. MATTHEW 7:13-14 13 “Enter by the narrow gate; for wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and there are many who go in by it. 14 Because[a] narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.

  11. THERE ARE ALWAYS TWO ENDS TO CONSIDER. DESTRUCTION

  12. WHAT KIND OF DESTRUCTION ARE WE TALKING ABOUT HERE? ETERNAL DEATH HELL

  13. MARK 9:43 43 If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed, rather than having two hands, to go to hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched—

  14. MARK 9:45-46 45 And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame, rather than having two feet, to be cast into hell, into the fire that shall never be quenched— 46 where ‘Their worm does not die,And the fire is not quenched.

  15. MARK 9:49 “FOR EVERYONE WILL BE SALTED WITH FIRE.”

  16. LUKE 13:24-25 24 “Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able. 25 When once the Master of the house has risen up and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside and knock at the door, saying, ‘Lord, Lord, open for us,’ and He will answer and say to you, ‘I do not know you, where you are from,’

  17. LUKE 13:28 28 There will be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God, and yourselves thrust out.

  18. LUKE 13:29-30 29 They will come from the east and the west, from the north and the south, and sit down in the kingdom of God. 30 And indeed there are last who will be first, and there are first who will be last.”

  19. THERE ARE ALWAYS TWO ENDS TO CONSIDER. DESTRUCTION LIFE

  20. Genesis 13:5-13 5 Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks and herds and tents. 6 Now the land was not able to support them, that they might dwell together, for their possessions were so great that they could not dwell together. 7 And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s livestock and the herdsmen of Lot’s livestock. The Canaanites and the Perizzites then dwelt in the land. 8 So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no strife between you and me, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen; for we are brethren. 9 Is not the whole land before you? Please separate from me. If you take the left, then I will go to the right; or, if you go to the right, then I will go to the left.” 10 And Lot lifted his eyes and saw all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere (before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt as you go toward Zoar. 11 Then Lot chose for himself all the plain of Jordan, and Lot journeyed east. And they separated from each other. 12 Abram dwelt in the land of Canaan, and Lot dwelt in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent even as far as Sodom. 13 But the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinful against the Lord.

  21. DEUTERONOMY 28:1-3 28 “Now it shall come to pass, if you diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God, to observe carefully all His commandments which I command you today, that the Lord your God will set you high above all nations of the earth. 2 And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God: 3 “Blessed shall you be in the city, and blessed shall you be in the country.

  22. JOHN 1:1  In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

  23. JOHN 1:14-17 14 And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. 15 John bore witness of Him and cried out, saying, “This was He of whom I said, ‘He who comes after me is preferred before me, for He was before me.’” 16 And[a] of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. 17 For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.

  24. JOHN 6:26-29 26 Jesus answered them and said, “Most assuredly, I say to you, you seek Me, not because you saw the signs, but because you ate of the loaves and were filled. 27 Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.” 28 Then they said to Him, “What shall we do, that we may work the works of God?” 29 Jesus answered and said to them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in Him whom He sent.”

  25. 1 John 5:11-12 11 And this is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. 12 He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.

  26. JOHN 17:3 3 And this is eternal life, that they know You, Father, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent.

  27. JOHN 14:6 6 Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

  28. GENERAL RULES IN MAKING CHOICES BASED ON THE PASSAGES 1. BEGIN WITH THE END IN MIND. 2. CONSIDER THE PATH.

  29. LUKE 14:28 28 “Suppose one of you wants to build a tower. Won’t you first sit down and estimate the cost to see if you have enough money to complete it?

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