MY FRIENDS, THE CHOICE IS OURS SO CHOOSE YE THIS DAY!!

Sep. 4, 2016

MY FRIENDS, THE CHOICE IS OURS SO CHOOSE YE THIS DAY!!

“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future” Jer. 29:11 (NIV) So why do we try and sabotage God’s plans. Sabotage being defined as “any undermining of a cause.” And in respect to our salvation it would be the cause of God to save us. I remember growing up playing football. Two team captains would flip a coin to be the first to choose for a team. The battle then begins for several hours until one team could claim victory.

My friends, those were some grueling battles, like true gladiators who were determine to win by whatever means necessary. Oh the joy of those memories. Today teams are being chosen. But there is only one team that is willing to win by whatever means necessary and that team is comprised of, “principalities, and powers, and the rulers of the darkness of this age, and spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.”

The other team has only one strategy for winning and that is love. But my friends it is our choice and our decision, but soon time will run out and it will be too late to choose. So “How long will we waver between two [teams] and two opinions? If the [Lord is God, the creator of the universe who has assured victory for all who believe and endure then you are welcome with outstretched arms, life eternal is ours.]

But if the god of this world and the forces of evil’s is more appealing then follow him to perdition.” Friends, we cannot wait to choose any longer, this is life and death decisions that must be made now if we seek God’s kingdom. In addition, God is knocking at our heart “for all to come into harmony with Himself [and]He will receive them if they will put away their evil actions.

By a union with the divine nature of Christ, they may escape the corrupting influences of this world. It is time for every one of us to decide whose side we are on. The agencies of Satan will work with every mind that will allow itself to be worked by him. But there are also heavenly agencies waiting to communicate the bright rays of the glory of God to all that are willing to receive Him. (Ellen G. White Comments, SDA Bible Commentary vol. 4, p 1153, 1154)

We must understand salvation which brings about winning and life eternal. There is no other, name under heaven given among men by which that can happen and that name is Jesus Christ. But my friends where I need you to focus on today is not only that name, but the power that is associated with that name which is God’s Spirit.

And as heirs and joint heirs with Christ who gave it all for us to win, we must seek God’s Spirit with a compelling since of passion and urgency as we move closer to Christ soon return. Because the Spirit “will guide us into all truth and understanding.” But we must recognize this power exist. And maybe that is why we fail to seek such power.

Because this power then brings about a sense of responsibility and a urgency that allows the Spirit to transform us into the image, and Character of Christ, which then requires self to die as we “forsake all others” and then give God our all. All meaning our time, talents, and money as we carry out His commission to spread the good news of the gospel to all the world. But once again, “choose ye this day whom you will serve”