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Choose You This Day Whom Ye Will Serve,
Contributed by Ed Pruitt on Nov 28, 2017 (message contributor)
Summary: “Now therefore, fear the LORD, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the Gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the LORD!
Some serve the God of society
It is normal for everyone to have some social life because we are social beings and no one cares for a recluse, or a hermit.
Our social life should be the kind that uplifts.
That enlarges life, that swells the heart with joy and brings the finest fellowship.
That brings no pangs of conscience.
No bad after-effects and no headaches the morning after.
There is another kind of social life.
It is artificial.
It is opposed to Christian consecration, it draws away from God and his church.
It leaves a bad taste in the mouth and brings no permanent joy.
Lets look at what it tells us in
Romans 13:13-14
13 Let us walk properly, as in the day, not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust, not in strife and envy.
14 But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, to fulfill its lusts.
And again
Ephesians 5:15-21
15 See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools but as wise,
16 redeeming the time, because the days are evil.
17 Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
18 And do not be drunk with wine, in which is dissipation; but be filled with the Spirit,
19 speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord,
20 giving thanks always for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,
21 submitting to one another in the fear of God.
Time is a great gift of God.
How do you use it?
It can be used to bring joy to others and glory to God or it can be wasted on those things that benefit no one.
Who means the most to the world?
The one who serves society and gets their name in the social columns, or the one who faithfully serves God and others?
We should serve the God of heaven
We should serve him because he is the true God.
He is the one who deserves our service.
The one most high and holy.
The one above all others.
He is our master and we are his servants.
Ye are not your own, ye are bought with a price.
Think of what he has done for you.
If anyone deserves your best he is the one.
There have been blessings all along the way.
His mercy’s are new every morning.
We should serve him because his service is more satisfying.
Bramwell Booth, the great Salvation Army man, was on a train with sir Cecil Rhodes.
He was the man who developed South Africa.
The most prominent man who ever lived there.
General Booth said to him, “are you happy?”
He replied, “I happy? no, no”
“There is only one place to find happiness,” said Booth.
“ That’s at the foot of the cross.
Only there can you find peace and joy”
“Yes I know it” said Rhodes.
“ I’d give all that I have to believe as you do”
God’s service does satisfy.
Try it and you will find it so.
Let us look in
Psalm 103:1-5
1 A Psalm of David.
1 Bless the LORD, O my soul;
And all that is within me, bless His holy name!
2 Bless the LORD, O my soul,
And forget not all His benefits:
3 Who forgives all your iniquities,
Who heals all your diseases,
4 Who redeems your life from destruction,
Who crowns you with loving kindness and tender mercies,
