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Making Wise Choices
  • Joshua 2413-15

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Making Wise Choices
  • Lot chose where to live Gen 131-11
  • He was tormented 2 Peter 26-8
  • and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah
    into ashes, condemned them to destruction, making
    them an example to those who afterward would live
    ungodly and delivered righteous Lot, who was
    oppressed by the filthy conduct of the wicked
    (for that righteous man, dwelling among them,
    tormented his righteous soul from day to day by
    seeing and hearing their lawless deeds)

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Making Wise Choices
  • Lot chose where to live Gen 131-11
  • He was tormented 2 Peter 26-8
  • He and his family were kidnapped
  • God was going to destroy the city
  • Lost members of his family
  • Had children by both of his daughters

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Making Wise Choices
  • David made some bad choices 2 Sam 111-5
  • Decides not to go to battle
  • Commits adultery with Bathsheba and she becomes
    pregnant
  • Tries to cover it up and eventually has her
    husband killed
  • The infant dies
  • Amnon rapes Tamar, Absalom kills Amnon
  • Absalom leads a revolt against his father and is
    eventually killed by David's men

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Making Wise Choices
  • Choosing to serve the Lord Josh 2415
  • And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD,
    choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve

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Making Wise Choices
  • Choosing to serve the Lord Josh 2415
  • Urged to make this decision early in life
    Eccl 121
  • Remember now your Creator in the days of your
    youth, Before the difficult days come, And the
    years draw near when you say, "I have no pleasure
    in them"

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Making Wise Choices
  • Choosing to serve the Lord Josh 2415
  • Urged to make this decision early in life
    Eccl 121
  • Reap what we sow Gal 67-8
  • Do not be deceived, God is not mocked for
    whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. For
    he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap
    corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of
    the Spirit reap everlasting life.

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Making Wise Choices
  • Choosing to serve the Lord Josh 2415
  • Urged to make this decision early in life
    Eccl 121
  • Reap what we sow Rom 623
  • For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of
    God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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Making Wise Choices
  • Choosing to serve the Lord Josh 2415
  • Urged to make this decision early in life
    Eccl 121
  • Reap what we sow Matt 1028
  • And do not fear those who kill the body but
    cannot kill the soul. But rather fear Him who is
    able to destroy both soul and body in hell.

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Making Wise Choices
  • Choosing to serve the Lord Josh 2415
  • Urged to make this decision early in life
    Eccl 121
  • Reap what we sow Gal 67-8, Rom 623, Matt
    1028
  • Salvation only in Christ Acts 412
  • Nor is there salvation in any other, for there
    is no other name under heaven given among men by
    which we must be saved.

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Making Wise Choices
  • Choosing to serve the Lord Josh 2415
  • Urged to make this decision early in life
    Eccl 121
  • Reap what we sow Gal 67-8, Rom 623,
    Matt 1028
  • Salvation only in Christ John 528-29
  • Do not marvel at this for the hour is coming in
    which all who are in the graves will hear His
    voice "and come forth--those who have done good,
    to the resurrection of life, and those who have
    done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.

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Making Wise Choices
  • Choosing to serve the Lord Josh 2415
  • Urged to make this decision early in life
    Eccl 121
  • Reap what we sow Gal 67-8, Rom 623,
    Matt 1028
  • Salvation only in Christ Acts 412, John 528-29

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Making Wise Choices
  • Choosing our friends
  • Friends can be a blessing, but the wrong ones can
    be a curse Prov 1226
  • The righteous should choose his friends
    carefully, For the way of the wicked leads them
    astray.

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Making Wise Choices
  • Choosing our friends
  • Friends can be a blessing, but the wrong ones can
    be a curse 1 Cor 1533
  • Do not be deceived "Evil company corrupts good
    habits."

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Making Wise Choices
  • Choosing our friends
  • Friends can be a blessing, but the wrong ones can
    be a curse Ex 232
  • You shall not follow a crowd to do evil nor
    shall you testify in a dispute so as to turn
    aside after many to pervert justice

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Making Wise Choices
  • Choosing our friends
  • Friends can be a blessing, but the wrong ones can
    be a curse Prov 1226, 1 Cor 1533, Ex 232
  • Choosing a school
  • Parents are responsible Eph 64
  • And you, fathers, do not provoke your children
    to wrath, but bring them up in the training and
    admonition of the Lord.

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Making Wise Choices
  • Choosing our friends
  • Friends can be a blessing, but the wrong ones can
    be a curse Prov 1226, 1 Cor 1533, Ex 232
  • Choosing a school
  • Parents are responsible Eph 64
  • Is it a good school, what about the other parents
    and children
  • What about college
  • Are we ready to be on our own?
  • Are we making time for the Lord?

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Making Wise Choices
  • Choosing a career
  • Above all put the Lord first Matt 633
  • But seek first the kingdom of God and His
    righteousness, and all these things shall be
    added to you.

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Making Wise Choices
  • Choosing a career
  • Above all put the Lord first Matt 633
  • Money can not be the main concern for a career 1
    Tim 66-12
  • Money can not buy happiness or salvation Eccl
    1213
  • Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter
    Fear God and keep His commandments, For this is
    man's all.

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Making Wise Choices
  • Choosing a career
  • Above all put the Lord first Matt 633
  • Money can not be the main concern for a career 1
    Tim 66-12
  • Money can not buy happiness or salvation Eccl
    1213
  • Choosing a mate Deut 73-4, Ezra 91-2 102-3

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Deuteronomy 73-4
  • Nor shall you make marriages with them. You
    shall not give your daughter to their son, nor
    take their daughter for your son. For they will
    turn your sons away from following Me, to serve
    other gods so the anger of the LORD will be
    aroused against you and destroy you suddenly.

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Ezra 91-2
  • When these things were done, the leaders came to
    me, saying, "The people of Israel and the priests
    and the Levites have not separated themselves
    from the peoples of the lands, with respect to
    the abominations of the Canaanites, the Hittites,
    the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the
    Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. "For
    they have taken some of their daughters as wives
    for themselves and their sons, so that the holy
    seed is mixed with the peoples of those lands.
    Indeed, the hand of the leaders and rulers has
    been foremost in this trespass."

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Ezra 102-3
  • And Shechaniah the son of Jehiel, one of the sons
    of Elam, spoke up and said to Ezra, "We have
    trespassed against our God, and have taken pagan
    wives from the peoples of the land yet now there
    is hope in Israel in spite of this. "Now
    therefore, let us make a covenant with our God to
    put away all these wives and those who have been
    born to them, according to the advice of my
    master and of those who tremble at the
    commandment of our God and let it be done
    according to the law.

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Making Wise Choices
  • Choosing a career
  • Above all put the Lord first Matt 633
  • Money can not be the main concern for a career 1
    Tim 66-12
  • Money can not buy happiness or salvation Eccl
    1213
  • Choosing a mate Deut 73-4, Ezra 91-2 102-3
  • They will be your help meet
  • They will be the father or mother of your children

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Making Wise Choices
  • Choosing where to live
  • Remember Lot!
  • Will help or hinder your service to God?
  • Is there a sound congregation nearby?

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Making Wise Choices
  • Choosing how we spend our time
  • Everyone has the exact same amount of time (168
    hours/week)
  • Do we spend adequate time reading our bibles,
    praying, etc.
  • Do we really put God FIRST? Rom 121
  • I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the
    mercies of God, that you present your bodies a
    living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which
    is your reasonable service.

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Making Wise Choices
  • Choosing how we spend our time
  • Everyone has the exact same amount of time (168
    hours/week)
  • Do we spend adequate time reading our bibles,
    praying, etc.
  • Do we really put God FIRST? Rom 121
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