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Opening
“Outlook” - a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations (from Vocabulary.com
Dictionary)
The outlook that is fashioned or shaped by life experiences leads to death.
Death
in the bible isn’t just physical death.
It also means a state of existence or a place where there is nothing that God gives.
Interpret:
Another thing coming to hurt me
More trouble coming my way
Out to get me
Want the worst for me
Respond:
Put up walls
Keep people out
Shut doors
Death is:
a dead end road.
no good end
no hope
misery and dejection
If I hold on to what the flesh puts in me, then I have death - nothing good from God.
“Life” is, in turn, ALL that God gives and brings: vitality, exuberance, joy,
You Get to Choose
But you don’t know where I come from PT.
I have no choice - its all I’ve ever known.
I can’t change
What are you going to hook your wagon to?
Flesh or God
You are not “locked in”
You get to choose
Hebrew children had had their share of “fleshly shaping”:
Unfaithful fathers
Parents and siblings taken before their time
Hunger
Thirst
Futility
Hear it now: “When are we going to get there?”
“This trip is taking forever!” “Are we close?”
Yet here was Moses telling them they had a choice.
AND YOU HAVE A CHOICE TODAY AS WELL!
CHANGE YOUR MIND TO CHANGE YOUR CHOICE
Flesh Outlook on God
Many see God as the stern, almost vengeful, father.
One who is quick with discipline and likes to withhold good things from His children.
Nothing could be farther from the truth.
Think of how often he allowed Israel to come back.
And all He has ever done is let you walk the path you have chosen .
Let’s consider an example:
Flesh in the Desert
on time in desert: only gave us manna and water.
Let us wander aimlessly for all this time.
Made us carry this box, tent and all the other furnishings.
Left us out here for 40 years.
Spirit in the Desert
Food right there for us each day.
Never got thirsty.
Was with us - right here in our midst - each and every day.
Could have killed off the unbelievers instantly.
Instead, He gave you 40 more years with your families.
Its what you CHOOSE to see.
Its your OUTLOOK.
What is your relationship with God?
Distant
Silent
Fruitless
Fear
Intimidation
Its time to change your outlook.
Here’s what HE says about it:
What does that mean?
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You are chosen by God.
That means he PICKED YOU OUT OF THE CROWD.
Not many of you who do grocery shopping just pick the fruit and vegetables off the top of the pile.
You pick them up, you look at them, and you CHOOSE the ones you want.
Not everyone in this world will spend eternity with God.
But you were CHOSEN to do so.
DECLARATION: I declare that I am hand picked by God.
I am not an afterthought.
I am not second.
He has made me the head and not the tail.
I am special to Him.
Here’s the second thing He says about you:
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You were chosen to be adopted by Him.
Adoption isn’t automatic.
It is a process - a process to bring it about and then the process changes your birthright.
Prospective parents: prepare home, go through the paperwork
Adopted child: acclimate, name change, rights change
DECLARATION: I declare that God has selected me out of the crowd to make me his very own and to give me a very special place in Him.
I understand that becoming fully His is a process that I must go through and I will do so with joy, hope and confidence.
Here’s the third thing He says:
You were chosen to become His child through that adoption.
Adoption makes you a child on par with other birth children.
God has only one birth child: Jesus himself.
ABBA
DECLARATION: I declare that I am a child of God with special access to His favor, presence and protection.
I call Him Daddy and He responds with love and faithfulness.
If you have been adopted and are now His child, then
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