Life is full of decisions and choices, and we make them every day. We wake up and decide what kind of clothing we are going to wear. We choose what kind of food we are going to eat. We pick where we want to go. Whatever choices we make are the result of our desire to do something over another.
On a professional sports team, each player is on that team because they want to play. No one is forcing them to go out and compete; if they didn’t want to play anymore they could just quit and go home. It is their choice to play.
But once a player makes the decision of which team they are going to play for, that is the only team they can play for while they are one under contract. For example, a baseball player cannot play for the opposing team in the same game. You are either on one side or the other.
Becoming a Christian is a choice, just as it is a choice to serve sin. But you cannot serve both. You cannot serve God and the devil. You need to make a decision.
James 4:4 – “Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.”
1 John 2:15-16 – “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.”
You can go left, or you can go right, but you can’t do both.
True Christianity is full devotion to Christ. Not partway, or halfway. Not one foot in the door, one foot out. It is a full, and complete commitment.
Matthew 6:24 “No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.”
Serve means “to be a servant for, to worship, to obey.”
You probably have seen a cartoon at some point, depicting a person with a small angel on one shoulder, and a small devil on the other, each telling the person what they should do. Whatever decision they make is who they obey.
Romans 6:16-22 – “Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness? But God be thanked, that ye were the servants of sin, but ye have obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine which was delivered you. Being then made free from sin, ye became the servants of righteousness. I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have yielded your members servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity; even so now yield your members servants to righteousness unto holiness. For when ye were the servants of sin, ye were free from righteousness. What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.”
Have you made your decision yet? Have you decided who you are going to serve? Nearly every decision one makes will have some kind of reward or consequence, and the choice between good and evil is no different. Doing what is good and right, and serving Christ will result in eternal life. Serving sin will yield the exact opposite-death. Choose wisely. Choose Christ.
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.”
Amen.
In Christ,
Andrew
Teufer Lake King James Bible Church 