The Ultimate Choose Your Own Ending Story
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I teach tonight for you to understand a process.
This message could be very heavy if you don’t understand this.
Also, God preferred way of dealing with people is that they learn from their own study and the preached word of God.
So if somewhere along the way, you find yourself farther down the pathway than you realized, repent.
17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
If we judge ourselves, we will not be judged!
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23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Title: The Ultimate Choose Your Own Ending Story
Subtitles:
Somethings got to die
The journey of a white lie
There is a lot of confusion about sin...
Society is on a mission of pacify the church.
Only in the past 100 years has there been a push for peace at all cost - NEVER GODS INTENSION.
Things you need to know about sin:
In a pacified church, sin will never be dealt with.
34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
God’s righteousness (judgement) will always outweigh his mercy
If that was not the case, then everyone would go to heaven.
Peace can only come through righteous war.
Categories of sin (reverse order)
Blasphemy - sacrilege against God or that which God considers holy.
Against Holy Ghost unforgivable
against all else, forgivable BUT is God struggles with this…
28 Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme:
29 But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal damnation:
Abomination - that which is morally repugnant to God
Idolatry (Deuteronomy 27:15)
Whatever you place above God, your calendar and pocketbook tells the story
Witchcraft, divination and sorcery (Deuteronomy 18:10-12)
Games/movies with spells, witches, magic, divining, Ouija board, tarot card, horoscopes,
Homosexuality and effeminacy (Leviticus 18:22, 20:13)
Transgender, cross dressing (Deuteronomy 22:5)
5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman’s garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the Lord thy God.
Adultery (Ezekiel 22:11)
Bestiality (Leviticus 18:23)
Incest (Leviticus 18:6-18)
Human sacrifice (Deuteronomy 18:10)
Eating unclean animals (Leviticus 11:10-12)
health, over eating
False weights and measures (Proverbs 11:1)
Lying and deceit (Proverbs 6:16-19)
intentionally truthful
Fasle witness(Proverbs 6:16-19)
Wicked imaginations(Proverbs 6:16-19)
Pornography, inventions for perversion and wickedness
Oppressing the poor (Proverbs 28:3)
Murder (Proverbs 6:16-19)
abortion, euthanasia, premeditated murder,
Pride (Proverbs 16:5)
amazed at this one making the list…
Sower of discord (Proverbs 6:16-19)
all these others are actions, this one God hates the person that does this.
Sin - Everything else
Sin is bad, we have to stop doing it!
With every sin there is a way of escape!
13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
God let’s us choose our own ending!
Take a journey
Sin: little white lie… stretch the truth
9 Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
God hates the lie and will judge the unrepented lier!
So the wages of sin is death.
The price for you embellishing the truth is you die - because something has got to die!
First opportunity to create your own ending.
Exit sign called conviction...
REPENT!
Sin is gone, no proof of it. All is well!
Conviction comes first through the power of the Holy Ghost…
If ignored, then should come through preaching, personal study, godly friends.
What is repentance?
Saying sorry?
Godly sorrow
Confession (race to the one you hurt before they have to come to you).
Make right through restitution.
Ex 22:5, Lev 6:4-5, Num 5:6-7, Lk 19:8, Mat 5:23-24, Eze 33:15, Prov 3:31, Lk 3:8
Recommitment - Stop sinning
If you do this, then the sin is blotted out! Heb 8:12, 10:17
Removed as far as the east is from the west! Ps 103:12
If there is still no repentance…
Ignored the Holy Ghost, friends, teaching and preaching, Word of God, prophetic insight
Then confront openly with witnesses.
Next opportunity to create your own ending.
Public correction before the church.
Next opportunity to create your own ending.
Still no repentance?
Titus 3:10 (KJV 1900)
10 A man that is an heretick after the first and second admonition reject;
17 Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them.
Moving into serious problems.
Refuses to repent…
Now this person has to be marked AND avoided.
Before this point it was all about the person repenting.
Now we have a new aspect added… we are praying the person repents BUT it it’s more about the church learning from the sin of the unrepented one.
20 Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.
Yet… we still have the opportunity to create our own ending.
BUT if you ever find yourself here, the chances of you making the correct choice is slim because a spirit of pride has taken over…
This individual has become (by their own choice) a heretic and a blasphemer.
Heretic: someone who refuses to comply to scriptural teaching.
Blaspheme: to speak evil of, slander or abuse
Anyone who abuses, slanders, hurts, malign, takes advantage of a brother or sister.
1 Blessed is the man That walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor standeth in the way of sinners, Nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
Understand: the pathway to a reprobate mind begins with sowing discord among the brethren!
Next step for the heretic: turn them over to satan
1 Timothy 1:20 (KJV 1900)
20 Of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.
Is there hope for them?
5 To deliver such an one unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.
What is done is the body is released to satan and they will experience chaos and trouble in their lives at such a level that it drives them to the alter.
Modern prayer: “God do what you have to do to save them…”
BUT this is the next opportunity to create your own ending.
If a person continues to not repent…
If they just live in their sin and not harm the body of Christ, they will live in a backslidden condition with God calling for them.
If they continue to blaspheme, God sends them a strong delusion and turns them over to a reprobate mind or sears their conscience.
2 Thessalonians 2:11–12 (KJV 1900)
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
Why do you sear a steak? Lock in the flavor…
God sears the mind, locking in the ugliness of who that individual is so that the body of Christ will be unaffected.
When this happens:
They have chosen the end to their story and there is not hope.
You can’t even mourn for that person.
God killed Aarons son’s Nadab and Abihu and Moses had to tell his brother, don’t even cry for you sons…Lev 10
God told Samuel not to weep for Saul in 1 Sam 16
No point in crying for someone with a seared conscience!
Conclusion:
Pathway to reprobation
White lie
ignore conviction
Ignore correction
Ignore friends
Ignore pastor
open correction - ignored
Heretic
Continue to blasphemer
Reprobate
Things to be called out:
sexual immorality
faithlessness
discord
all other sin...
A little fear saves a lot of judgement!