Choices
Today some of us want things to change. You have a chance to make a choice that few find. Wide is the path to hell; narrow is the path to heaven few find it. But we can make the choice and find that narrow path today. You guys don’t get a whole lot of choices out here. Mostly what someone wants to donate to someone else that brings it down here. That’s why God has told us to cook you a meal from our homes to bring to you. To give you a better choice other than what is on sale or what not. The most important choice you can make today is the same choice any rich, or famous or intelligent person could ever make. That is to surrender your life to Christ. I’m not talking down to you today about religion. I’m talking to you about relationship with God. The author and perfoctor of all things.
Jesus is speaking;
Matt 11:27 All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
John 7:17 If anyone chooses to do God's will, he will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own.
John 15:16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.
God doesn’t leave us out in the bible at all, Jesus speaks about the poor.
Poor
If you are standing here saying I’m poor how can I make choices? I need to straighten myself up first before I can follow God. Listen to what Jesus has to say about us poor folks;
Matt 5:3 "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Matt 11:5 The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy are cured, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is preached to the poor.
Mat 26:11 The poor you will always have with you,
So if you are waiting for some else to do something for you besides God, Jesus tells us the poor will always be here. Don’t wait to surrender your life to Jesus. Today is your day! Your are just as important as any rich person, to Jesus, He wants to save us.
Mark 12:42-43 a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a fraction of a penny. Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, "I tell you the truth, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others.
This widow gave everything she had, a rich man before her gave 1,000.00’s of dollars before that and claimed to be all that. But this poor lady gave all she had and just slipped to the back of the church and said nothing. And Jesus honored that more than anything else.
Salvation
You are just as important as anyone else in the kingdom of heaven. This world will have you think other wise. Some religious folks would think other wise. But the ones that have a relationship with Jesus that know His voice that love Him and love His people, know that you are just as important as anyone else. Listen to what Jesus says about us;
John 10
1"I tell you the truth, the man who does not enter the sheep pen by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. 2The man who enters by the gate is the shepherd of his sheep. 3The watchman opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 4When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. 5But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognize a stranger's voice." 6Jesus used this figure of speech, but they did not understand what he was telling them.
7Therefore Jesus said again, "I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep. 8All who ever came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. 9I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved.[a] He will come in and go out, and find pasture. 10The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.
11"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. 12The hired hand is not the shepherd who owns the sheep. So when he sees the wolf coming, he abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf attacks the flock and scatters it. 13The man runs away because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.
14"I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— 15just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd. 17The reason my Father loves me is that I lay down my life—only to take it up again. 18No one takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father."
19At these words the Jews were again divided. 20Many of them said, "He is demon-possessed and raving mad. Why listen to him?"
21But others said, "These are not the sayings of a man possessed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?"
Matthew 18:12-14
What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? 13And if he finds it, I tell you the truth, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. 14In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should be lost.
Matthew 11:28
28"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
2 Corinthians 5:17-21
17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 18All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: 19that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. 20We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21God made him who had no sin to be sin[a] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
Romans 8:1
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,
What does this mean? God keeps no records of wrongs for those who are in Christ.
Romans 10:9 That if you confess with your mouth, "Jesus is Lord," and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
John 11:25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies;
John 14:6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
2Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance.
Luke 15:4-7 Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses one of them. Does he not leave the ninety-nine in the open country and go after the lost sheep until he finds it? 5And when he finds it, he joyfully puts it on his shoulders 6and goes home. Then he calls his friends and neighbors together and says, 'Rejoice with me; I have found my lost sheep.' 7I tell you that in the same way there will be more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to repent.
2 Cor 5:21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
1 Cor 15:21-22 For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. 22For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.
Nothing can separate us from Christ
Romans 8:34-39 Who is he that condemns? Christ Jesus, who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us. 35Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36As it is written:
"For your sake we face death all day long;
we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered." 37No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, either the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
You’re just as important as any other person walking this earth right now to God. The God that I server has not forgotten you. He is overjoyed when any of you pray this prayer and mean it in your heart.
Please pray this prayer with me;
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