Every day we have choices that we must make. We choose what we are going to eat in the morning. We choose what things we are going to work on; maybe you have a handful of different projects that you need to get done sometime, but you must choose one of those to do over all of the others.
So many different choices that we can make. You might be traveling down a road when you reach a stop sign, and have to choose whether you go left, or right. Whatever direction you pick is the choice that you have made. You can’t go both ways. You must choose.
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.”
Once again, 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.”
What have you chosen?
In Christ,
Andrew
Teufer Lake King James Bible Church 