06/25/2023 - Part 3 - Life Choices – Life’s Choices (Audio Not Available)

Grace Place Atlanta COGBF 4700 Mitchell Street Forest Park, GA 30297 Website: atlantacogbf.org Email: info@atlantacogbf.org Phone: (404) 241-6781 Wayne D. Mack, Pastor / Pastor Wayne D. Mack Sermon Notes June 25, 2023 Life Choices – Life’s Choices Luke 6: 46-49 Build on the Rock “But why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do the things which I say? 47 Whoever comes to Me, and hears My sayings and does them, I will show you whom he is like: 48 He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently against that house, and could not shake it, for it was founded on the rock. 49 But he who heard and did nothing is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream beat vehemently; and immediately it fell. And the ruin of that house was great.” 46 This Sunday we are back for Round III of a dose of encouragement on the importance of facing our choices and in many cases to reexamine the choices we have made in our lifetime as well anticipating the choices we will make. We’re coupling today’s message with our celebration of Personal History Day – a day that we put on display the artifacts and interests of our lives that tells a deeper more colorful story of who each one of us is – especially outside of church. In another way, the artifacts we display are also a representation of the choices we’ve made in life as well as the choices we’re currently living out. So, in brief, I want to share two perspectives on making choices: • Why we make poor choices? • Why we make good choices/decisions? And I’ll wrap up on How do we live with and through making BAD choices/decisions? First . . . Why we make poor choices? • The flesh . . . • Desperate -- Sarah, Saul • Selfish – Samson, Prodigal Son • Deception – Adam and Eve • Disobedience – House on Sand. Luke 6:46 “But why do you call Me ‘Lord, Lord,’ and not do the things which I say? 46 49 But he who heard and did nothing is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream beat vehemently; and immediately it fell. And the ruin of that house was great.” • Ignorance/Uninformed – Peter’s Denials Now, shifting gears . . . Why we make good choices/decisions? Why we make good choices/decisions? In reality, the question should be “How we make Good Choices?” • Adhere to God’s Principles – that is where we exercise our sense of Right and Wrong; Reap what you Sow. A saved person’s Third Ear ~ the Holy Spirit. Hebrews 5:12-14 Spiritual Immaturity vs. Maturity 12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food. 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. 14 But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses. • Humbly Listened and Obeyed – House on the rock • Slow Down (Almost) … Be anxious for nothing • Leave Room for God . . . Hannah; Romans 12:3 • Trust God • Obey God How do we live with and through making BAD choices/decisions? • Trust God – Ps. 52 • Obey God -- 1 Samuel 15:22 So Samuel said: “Has the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, As in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, And to heed than the fat of rams. • Repent – Admit! Change course Life Choices – Life’s Choices END . . .