The Great Choice
Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve.
Joshua 24:15
The Sermon on the Mount presents us with the most crucial of spiritual choices. Its ethical truths bless those who believe and obey Christ but judge those who reject Him.
The spiritual choice, which you must not ignore or postpone, concerns the way of salvation. There is one true way to be right with God, and there are many false ways. It is wrong to say that all roads lead to heaven—only one does. You must reject all of the works–oriented ways people have devised to reach heaven and embrace the one way God Himself has provided—faith in His saving grace as displayed in the atoning death of His Son (Acts 4:12; 1 Tim 2:5-6).
MacArthur, J. (2001). Truth for today : A daily touch of God's grace (Page 234). Nashville, Tenn.: J. Countryman.
Lessons Learned: We cannot serve more than one master (Mat 6:24). As Christians, we can only follow one Lord and Master, Jesus Christ. We must commit fully. Trying to serve more than one master results in us serving no one. Choosing not to decide is still making a choice, but the wrong choice, because God will not tolerate luke-warm Christians (Rev 3:15-16). Never compromise.
Applications: Commit fully to follow Jesus Christ and be conformed to His image. Study the Bible and Pray for the Holy Spirit's help in concentrating on the only road to heaven, the one where we walk with Christ. Love God only and do not love the world. "Do not love the world or anything in the world . . . the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does - comes not from the Father but from the world" (1 John 2:15-16).
Prayer Subjects: Pray for a commited heart. Pray for the resolve to not compromise my convictions or beliefs in the face of opposition or persecution from this sinful world. Pray that I would continue to walk with Christ and to trust him to be with me and strengthen me always.
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Joshua 24:15
The Sermon on the Mount presents us with the most crucial of spiritual choices. Its ethical truths bless those who believe and obey Christ but judge those who reject Him.
The spiritual choice, which you must not ignore or postpone, concerns the way of salvation. There is one true way to be right with God, and there are many false ways. It is wrong to say that all roads lead to heaven—only one does. You must reject all of the works–oriented ways people have devised to reach heaven and embrace the one way God Himself has provided—faith in His saving grace as displayed in the atoning death of His Son (Acts 4:12; 1 Tim 2:5-6).
MacArthur, J. (2001). Truth for today : A daily touch of God's grace (Page 234). Nashville, Tenn.: J. Countryman.
Lessons Learned: We cannot serve more than one master (Mat 6:24). As Christians, we can only follow one Lord and Master, Jesus Christ. We must commit fully. Trying to serve more than one master results in us serving no one. Choosing not to decide is still making a choice, but the wrong choice, because God will not tolerate luke-warm Christians (Rev 3:15-16). Never compromise.
Applications: Commit fully to follow Jesus Christ and be conformed to His image. Study the Bible and Pray for the Holy Spirit's help in concentrating on the only road to heaven, the one where we walk with Christ. Love God only and do not love the world. "Do not love the world or anything in the world . . . the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does - comes not from the Father but from the world" (1 John 2:15-16).
Prayer Subjects: Pray for a commited heart. Pray for the resolve to not compromise my convictions or beliefs in the face of opposition or persecution from this sinful world. Pray that I would continue to walk with Christ and to trust him to be with me and strengthen me always.
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