#2 CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES...
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
This is part two, I do it in two parts...
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.
INTRODUCTION:
MY MOM AND CULL APPLES... What many would have thrown away, my mom would peel and
cut the apples and make apple sauce, apple butter, apple jelly.
Your choice: throw it away, or keep the good?
CHOICE:
The act of choosing, care in selecting, to select freely, to make a decision,
CHOICE MEANS THE BEST PART OF MEAT/MILK...
CONSEQUENCE:
The conclusion, aftermath, conclusion, development, outcome, product
IMMEDIATE:
No intervention, present, being near at hand.
DELAY:
Put off, to stop, to hinder for a time, to cause to be slower, slack
FEW PEOPLE EVER RECOGNIZE THE ROLE OF CHOICES NOT JUST IN HISTORY BUT
IN THE FUTURE... THE CHANGE? THE CHANGE WAS NOT NEW PEOPLE?
THE CHANGE WAS A NEW ATTITUDE...
I. THERE ARE TWO SISTER RAISED IN THE SAME HOME BY THE SAME PARENTS...
ONE MAKES THE CHOICE TO WORRY, THE OTHER SEE THE BENEFITS OF MAKING
JESUS CHOICES...
A. One sister is known a the BUSY-BEE, WORRIED HOUSEKEEPER...
HER CHOICE... Dust bunny chaser...
Luke 10:41 And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled
about many things:
B. MARY MADE THE CHOICES TO BE WITH JESUS...
42 But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be
taken away from her.
C. MARY'S CHOICES HAD GREAT BENEFITS...
1. She washed Jesus' feet
2. She was a learning student at Jesus' feet
3. Mary fell at Jesus' feet FOR COMFORT when her brother was death...
D. MARY'S CHOICES BROUGHT THE GOOD PART...
Are our choices bringing benefits and favor...
II. TWO WALKING TOGETHER CAN MAKE A CHOICE...
THERE IS TRUTH BEYOND OUR CHOICE...
A. UNITY?
Amos 3:3 Can two walk together, except they be agreed?
A. Two mmen have heard the negative message, they make a choice to walk away from Jerusalem.
B. While they are walking away, they discuss THE NEGATIVE...
Luke 24:13 And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was
from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs.
[14] And they talked together of all these things which had happened.
C. CLEOPAS SAYS: ARE YOU THE ONLY ONE THAT HAS NOT HEARD THE BAD NEWS?
Join in the bad news discussion with us... OUR CHOICE?
Luke 24:18 And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou
only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in
these days?
D. WE MADE THE CHOICE... WE TRUSTED... ED? PAST TENSE...
WE MADE THE CHOICE... WE DON'T BELIEVE ANY ANY MORE...
Luke 24:21 But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside
all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.
E. GOD CAN OPEN OUR EYES TO SEE THE TRUTH BEYOND OUR CHOICES...
Luke 24:31 And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.
[32] And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by
the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
III. SOMETIMES WE MUST MAKE THE DECISION OR CHOICE BY FAITH...
THE MAN IS SCREAMING TO THE TOP OF HIS VOICE...
A. The blind man heard tat Jesus was coming... Listen, Jesus is getting closer and closer.
B. The blind man starts yelling and yelling: OVER HERE JESUS, I AM OVER HERE!
C. The crowd is cruel and says be quiet...
D. THE BLIND MAN MAKES A CHOICE: I WILL NOT BE QUIET...
OVER HERE JESUS!
Mark 10:49 And Jesus stood still, and commanded him to be called. And they call the blind man,
saying unto him, Be of good comfort, rise; he calleth thee.
[50] And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus.
[51] And Jesus answered and said unto him, What wilt thou that I should do unto thee? The blind
man said unto him, Lord, that I might receive my sight.
[52] And Jesus said unto him, Go thy way; thy faith hath made thee whole. And immediately
he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.
E. Down through the ages there have been ways we IDENTIFY BLIND PEOPLE...
A white cane? A beggars cup and sunglasses?
F. IN JESUS DAYS BLIND PEOPLE WORE A CERTAIN COLORED COAT TO IDENTIFY
THEY WERE BLIND, SO PEOPLE COULD SEE AT A DISTANCE... BLIND PERSON AHEAD...
G. THIS BLIND MAN MADE A FAITH CHOICE BEFORE JESUS GOT TO HIM...
I AM TAKING OFF MY COAT... I KNOW JESUS IS GOING TO HEAL ME...
H. Jesus saw his faith, and healed him....
IV. THERE WAS A LADY, SHE WAS VERY WEAK... HER CHOICE WAS THE GOOD DOCTORS...
NOW THE CHOICE HAS TO CHANGE, THERE IS NO MONEY---
SOMEONE TOLD HER ABOUT JESUS... SHE HEARD WHERE JESUS WAS...
SHE MADE A CHOICE...
A. The sick, weak woman made a choice, today I am going to find Jesus...
B. 12 long years, 12 years of weakness and suffering...
12 long years in the OUTTER COURT...
Luke 8:43 And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living
upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,
[44] Came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: and immediately her issue o
f blood stanched.
C. Today, I AM GOING TO TOUCH HIM...
D. Today, I will PRESS AGAINST THE CROWD...
E. Today I am going home HEALED!!! MY CHOICE!
V. OFTEN ONE CHOICE LEADS TO ANOTHER CHOICE, AND EACH CHOICE SINKS
THE HOOK A LITTLE DEEPER...
A. THE ENEMY CAUGHT EVE BY HERSELF... EVE MAKES A CHOICE...
In the isolation, a divided house, the enemy can catch Eve off guard...
B. Eve talked to the SUBTIL, sneaking beast... Eve's choice is open this discussion...
This is the beginning of the end.
C. EVE TWIST WHAT GOD SAYS: God said don't eat... Eve says: GOD SAID DON'T TOUCH...
D. EVE MAKES A CHOICE... EVE LOOKS AT THE TREE... LOOKS GOOD...
THE LURE, THE TRAP IS SET...
Genesis 3:6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant
to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat,
and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.
E. EVE MAKES THE CHOICE TO SHARE...
F. Adam and Eve make the choice to HID FROM GOD...
G. MAN SEEMS DOOMED UNTIL GOD'S CHOICE AT CALVARY.
VI. I WISH WE HAD A DONKEY TO EXPOSE OUR CHOICES...
THE PREACHER MAKES A CHOICE...
THE PREACHER CAN NOT SEE THE CONSEQUENCES OF HIS CHOICE AND DECIDES
TO KEEP BEATING THE DONKEY...
A. THERE IS A TIME TO QUIT BEATING THE DONKEY...
MAKE THE CHOICE TO SEE THE PROBLEM AND CORRECT IT...
B. PREACHER THIS CHOICE IS GOING TO COST YOU...
Numbers 22:21 And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his DONKEY, and went with the
princes of Moab.
[22] And God's anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of the Lord stood in the way for
an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his DONKEY, and his two servants were with him.
[23] And the DONKEY saw the angel of the Lord standing in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand:
and the DONKEY turned aside out of the way, and went into the field: and Balaam smote the ass, to
turn her into the way.
[24] But the angel of the Lord stood in a path of the vineyards, a wall being on this side, and a wall
on that side.
[25] And when the DONKEY saw the angel of the Lord, she thrust herself unto the wall, and crushed
Balaam's foot against the wall: and he smote her again.
[26] And the angel of the Lord went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn
either to the right hand or to the left. [27] And when the DONKEY saw the angel of the Lord, she fell
down under Balaam: and Balaam's anger was kindled, and he smote the DONKEY with a staff. [
28] And the Lord opened the mouth of the DONKEY, and she said unto Balaam, What have I done
unto thee, that thou hast smitten me these three times?
C. LOOK AT THE PREACHER'S REBELLIOUS CHOICES:
1. BEAT THE DONKEY
2. HIT THE PREACHER'S FOOT ON THE WALL
3. BEAT THE DONKEY AGAIN...
4. THE DONKEY FALLS DOWN...
D. DUMB PREACHER--- YOUR CHOICES ARE A DONKEY CAN SEE MORE THAN YOU
CAN... THE DONKEY MAKES BETTER CHOICES...
E. THERE IS A TIME TO MAKE THE CHOICE THAT FRUSTRATION IS STUPID...
QUIT BEATING THE DONKEY...
CONCLUSION:
Are we evaluating our daily choices?
You are a sum total of your daily choices.
I used to love to get those do it yourself hot dogs at the gas station. I made a mean hot dog.
I would eat the hot dogs and be sick for 3 days.
One day I had a revelation, instead of begging God for relief...
QUIT EATING HOT DOGS... IT WAS A MIRACLE... CHANGE MY CHOICES...
His servant, Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com
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