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MAKING WISE CHOICES IN DIFFICULT SITUATIONS
II CHRONICLES 10
FEBRUARY 11, 1996 A.M. SERVICE
INTRODUCTION
A. OPENING ILLUSTRATION: A SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER TOLD HIS CLASS
ABOUT THE STORY OF LAZARUS AND THE RICH MAN.
HE HIGHLIGHTED
THE PLIGHT OF LAZARUS, AND THE BLATANT NEGLECT OF THE RICH MAN.
ONE WAS PRIVILEGED IN THIS WORLD AND THE OTHER FOUND PEACE IN
HEAVEN.
AFTER THE TEACHER HAD SHARED THESE TRUTHS, HE POSED
THIS QUESTION TO HIS CLASS, "NOW, WHICH WOULD YOU RATHER BE,
BOYS, THE RICH MAN OR LAZARUS?" ONE GUY RAISED HIS HAND AND
REPLIED, "I'D LIKE TO BE THE RICH MAN WHILE I'M LIVING AND LAZARUS
WHEN I DIE."
B. THAT'S NOT UNLIKE MANY OF US IF WE WILL BE VERY HONEST.
WE WANT
WHAT IS EXPEDIENT NOW, BUT WE WANT THE OUTCOME TO BE GOOD
LATER.
C. THE TRUTH IS, CONSEQUENCES ARE A NATURAL PART OF CHOICES.
WE
CAN'T HAVE BOTH WORLDS, WRONG DECISIONS AND GOOD OUTCOMES.
OUR LIVES ARE A SUM TOTAL OF THE DECISIONS AND CHOICES WE MAKE.
D. IN THE BIBLE WE HAVE A STORY THAT ILLUSTRATES THIS WELL.
THE
STORY IS FOUND IN II CHRONICLES 10.
IT IS THE STORY OF A KING WHO
HAD A MAJOR DECISION TO MAKE.
HIS CHOICE WOULD AFFECT AND
ENTIRE NATION FOR YEARS TO COME.
1. HIS DECISION WAS CONSEQUENTIAL.
ILL.
WE ALL MAKE THESE DECISIONS.
OFTEN THEY COME IN CRISIS
TIMES:
COUPLE HAVING TROUBLE IN THEIR MARRIAGE.
TEENS WHO ARE DATING REGARDING SEXUAL PURITY.
PERSON ON THE VERGE OF A CAREER CHANGE.
PERSON WHO IS CONTEMPLATING TURNING HIS LIFE OVER TO
CHRIST.
2. IT IS OBVIOUS HE MADE THE WRONG DECISION.
3. WHAT COULD HE HAVE DONE TO MAKE THE RIGHT DECISION?
I. THE DEMAND FOR CONSEQUENTIAL DECISIONS.
A. THE DEMAND FOR DECISION MAKING IS WRITTEN INTO THE VERY FABRIC
OF OUR LIVES.
1. THERE IS NO WAY REHOBOAM COULD GET AROUND MAKING A
DECISION.
2. THERE IS NO WAY WE CAN ESCAPE IT EITHER.
3. LIFE IS A SERIES OF CHOICES.
B. AS OUR RESPONSIBILITIES INCREASE SO DO THE NUMBER OF DECISIONS
WE HAVE TO MAKE.
ILL.
A PRE-SCHOOLER HAS TO MAKE DECISIONS, BUT THESE DECISIONS ARE
NOT NEARLY AS GREAT AS THE DECISIONS MADE BY THE PARENTS
RAISING THIS PRE-SCHOOLER.
C. AS OUR POSITION OF INFLUENCE INCREASES SO DOES THE
CONSEQUENCES OF OUR CHOICES..
1. CHRISTIAN LEADERS HAVE A TREMENDOUS RESPONSIBILITY WHEN
MAKING DECISIONS BOTH PERSONAL AND CORPORATE.
2. CHRISTIAN LEADERS WILL INCUR A STRICTER JUDGMENT.
D. DECISIONS HAVE TO BE MADE IN SO MANY AREAS.
1. AUTHORITY.
WHO WILL BE THE AUTHORITY IN OUR LIVES?
OURSELVES, OTHERS, OBVIOUS GODS OF THIS WORLD, OR THE
OMNIPOTENT GOD OF THIS UNIVERSE?
2. RELATIONSHIPS.
SUCH AS MARRIAGE.
ONE OF THE BIGGEST
DECISIONS A PERSON WILL EVER MAKE.
MANY MAKE THIS DECISION
WITHOUT CONSIDERING THE CONSEQUENCES.
ILL.
MOST SPEND MUCH MORE ENERGY AND TIME PLANNING THE
WEDDING THAN PLANNING THE MARRIAGE.
YOU MENTION TIME AND COUNSELING TO SOME AND THEY ARE
OFFENDED.
IT WAS VOICED BY SOME A FEW YEARS AGO WHEN I BEGAN
REQUIRING PRE-MARITAL COUNSELING BY OUR COUNSELORS THAT
I WAS TRYING TO CONTROL WHO GOT MARRIED AND WHEN.
OH NO!
THAT'S NOT TRUE! MY NAME ISN'T CUPID.
I JUST DON'T LOOK GOOD
IN RED LEOTARDS.
I'M JUST TRYING TO PREVENT SOME GRIEF IN
SOME PEOPLE'S LIVES.
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT THE INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE.
THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH THE INSTITUTION.
THE PROBLEM
IS WITH MANY WHO ARE GETTING MARRIED.
OFTEN THE WRONG
PEOPLE ARE MARRYING FOR THE WRONG REASONS, AND THE
OUTCOME IS WRONG.
3. TIME.
HOW WE SPEND OUR TIME IS
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