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For I take no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Sovereign LORD.
Repent and live!
Choose Life:
Thanks ________, please keep your Bible’s open to this passage as we will look at it together.
Introduction
My favourite restaurant as a teenager was Sizzler!
I loved it.
When I moved to Sydney I found out that there is one near Kogorah.
It was exciting to go there, to get all you can eat, then walk over to the salad bar! Mmmm! Caesar salad, with crunchy bacon bits!
Chips!
Fruit Salad.
Seafood.
Soup!
Then In the corner of my I, I see the soft drinks with free re-fills, mmm.. What will I have?
Sprite!
Coke! Raspberry fanta!
Orange Fanta!
So many options!
Some people, like my wife love mixing the different drinks together!
There are just so many choices for dinner and drinks at sizzler!
Then after you eat your 5 different salads and your three soups, your cheesy garlic bread.
Then!
You go and see the dessert bar.
Oh man.
I always feel so confident when I get to the dessert bar.
There’s the apple crumble!
There’s the custard.
And friends, I must confess.
I have a weakness.
It’s the Chocolate Mousse.
I actually think I have an addiction to chocolate mouse!
But it’s the second bowl that defeats me.
There are so many choices when you go to sizzler!
So many options to choose from.
That is nothing like the christian faith.
That is the complete opposite to the christian faith.
Love and Obedience Linked.
Love and Obedience Linked.
It is not one of many options.
It is not the better of many options.
Like Islam is the apple crumble (halal of course), the jelly is buddhism, the ice-cream is atheism and the chocolate mousse is Christianity.
And because I choose mouse and you choose ice cream that we are both fine.
No! The Bible tells us that there are only two options.
There is choosing life, and there is choosing death!
But that is the complete opposite to the christian faith.
It is not one of many options.
It is not the better of many options.
Like Islam is the apple crumble (halal of course), the jelly is buddhism, the ice-cream is atheism and the chocolate mousse is Christianity.
And because I choose mouse and you choose ice cream that we are both fine.
No! The Bible tells us that there are only two options.
There is choosing life, and there is choosing death!
Context
I hope you’ve been enjoying reading through Deuteronomy in your REAP Journals this week.
The passage that was just read is the end of the book of Deuteronomy,
The Israelites were about to head into the promised land.
Moses was about to die.
And what he is about to say is his famous last words.
Moses was about to die.
These are his famous last words.
Linking Sentence
What would your last words be?
Would your last words to me be “choose the Jelly not the Mouse”.
I joke, but what would really be your famous last words?
Moses here wants to encourage the people to make the most important decision in their life!
Let’s quickly look at it, before heading of to your discussion groups.
Point 1: Two Options In This World
Friends, there are only two options in this world
Let’s look at what Moses has to say.
Follow along from verse 11. “Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.
It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, “Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?”
Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, “Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?”
No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it.
15 See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction.
16 For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.
It is not too difficult!
God helps us in it.
Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.
12 It is not up in heaven, so that you have to ask, “Who will ascend into heaven to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?”
13 Nor is it beyond the sea, so that you have to ask, “Who will cross the sea to get it and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?”
14 No, the word is very near you; it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it.
15 See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction.
16 For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.
17 But if your heart turns away and you are not obedient, and if you are drawn away to bow down to other gods and worship them, 18 I declare to you this day that you will certainly be destroyed.
You will not live long in the land you are crossing the Jordan to enter and possess.
19 This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses.
Now choose life, so that you and your children may live 20 and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him.
For the LORD is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
Nobody needs to go up to heaven to find it out for us.
But someone did in fact come down from heaven to tell us about it.
Jesus did!
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The word is very near to us, we have God’s Words here right in front of us, teaching us the truth!
15 See, I set before you today life and prosperity, death and destruction.
16 For I command you today to love the LORD your God, to walk in obedience to him, and to keep his commands, decrees and laws; then you will live and increase, and the LORD your God will bless you in the land you are entering to possess.
What is actually the difference between life with prosperity and death with destruction?
What does it actually look like to choose life?
The Book of Deuteronomy is full of detailed ways that God’s People in the old testament could choose life, but Moses summarises it here.
to love the LORD your God,
to walk in obedience to him,
and to keep his commands, decrees and laws;
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