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Proverbs 9:1 – 6
We invite you to join us for worship each Sunday morning at 9:30. You can download our service on iTunes or tune in for “The Good Word” each day on AM 1230 WSAL or on Hoosier Country 103.7 FM just after 8am. The term’s choices and consequences are often used today to explain the relationship between what a person desires and the outcome of those desires. Here is a truth you must learn: all choices are significant! Here is another truth to remember: all significant choices have significant consequences. Like so many other things in life, some of those consequences have immediate but short lived effects. And some of your choices will result in consequences that will affect you for the rest of your life. In Proverbs 9 Solomon shares with us the consequences of significant choices. I want to share with you how one significant choice determines all other choices and consequences.
In any situation there can be only one most significant choice. All other choices do you arrive from that one most significant choice! Let’s look first significant choice which is the invitation to choose= 9:4, 16. So the FIRST significant choice must be salvation! Another way to consider that choice is by asking this question: what will you do with Jesus Christ? That is the most significant decision in any person’s life. All other decisions – all other decisions become minor subsequent choices that will have major impacts on your life. Watch! Here’s how that works! The SECOND significant choice must be *to leave your simple ways. See v. 6. so how does one leave? Notice v. 10, now see 1:7. How does one come to fear the Lord, and gain wisdom, insight, knowledge, and understanding? Look at 2:1-15. Right now you can choose to begin a life of purity by leaving all that is unrighteous and ungodly in your life. Solomon says that in addition to leaving your simple ways you must live and walk in the way of insight which becomes your THIRD significant choice! When used choose to leave your simple ways, you must at the same time live and walk in the way of insight. Another way to say that is for every ungodly/unrighteous thing God leads you to quit, you must at the same time replace whatever you quit with something from Scripture. The point being: you can’t just take something out of your life because that leaves a whole and if you don’t fill it with something righteous and Godly Satan will always fill it, and he generally fills it with something worse. It is important for you to see that throughout the entirety of Scripture that wisdom – with the invitation – provides instruction in what is right and at the same time forbids sin. Learn and remember this truth: Scripture provides all the wisdom, information, and knowledge you will ever need to make all your significant choices the right choices! Want to know something interesting? Everything I just said applies to every person in this room – and to every person in the listening audience the matter where in the world you are!
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