1. CHOICES Sunday Service 9 Mar 2008 Cecil Ang

2. Scripture Text “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 descendents may live.” Dt 30:19 (NKJV)

3. Freedom to choose I have set before you life and death … Man is created as tri-partite being “The LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground (body) and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life (spirit), and the man became a living being (soul).” Gen 2:7 (NIV)

4. SOUL (self conscious) Mind Emotions Will BODY (sense conscious) Touch Taste Sight Hearing Smelling SPIRIT (God conscious) Communion Conscience Intuition

5. Freedom to choose “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. Because narrow is the gate and difficult is the way which leads to life, and there are few who find it.” Mt 7:13-14 (NKJV)

6. Consequences of choice That both you and your descendents may live … “As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.” Gen 8:22 (NIV)

7. Consequences of choice “But if you fail to do this, you will be sinning against the LORD; and you may be sure that your sin will find you out.” Num 32:23 (NIV) “So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall! No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.” 1 Cor 10:12-13 (NIV)

8. Consequences of choice “The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth he has given to man.” Ps 115:16 (NIV) Our gracious, forgiving God “Then he adds: Their sins and lawless acts I will remember no more.” Heb 10:17 (NIV)

9. Make wise choices Choose life (and not death) Obedience to God is the key “If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God…” Dt 28:1-2

10. Make wise choices Christ has chosen death on our behalf DeathLife Curses Sickness Guilt Needs Hatred Strife Blessings Health Forgiveness Wealth Perfect love Peace

11. Choose to tithe & give your offerings “Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me. But you ask, ‘How do we rob you?’ In tithes and offerings. You are under a curse -- the whole nation of you -- because you are robbing me. Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. ‘Test me in this,’ says the LORD Almighty, ‘and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it. I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your fields will not cast their fruit,’ says the LORD Almighty. ‘Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be a delightful land,’ says the LORD Almighty.” Mal 3:8-12 (NIV)

12. Choose not to be unequally yoked “Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and Belial? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols? For we are the temple of the living God. As God has said: ‘I will live with them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.’” 2 Cor 6:14-16 (NIV)

13. Choose to forgive “For if you forgive men when they sin against you, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. But if you do not forgive men their sins, your Father will not forgive your sins.” Mt 6:14-15 (NIV) “And his master was angry, and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay all that was due to him. So My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his trespasses.” Mt 18:34-35 (NKJV)

14. Choose not to be enslaved by sin “Everything is permissible for me -- but not everything is beneficial. Everything is permissible for me -- but I will not be mastered by anything. Food for the stomach and the stomach for food -- but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.” 1 Cor 6:12-13 (NIV)