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NORTHEAST HOUSTON COMMUNITY CHURCH

!!!!! Sermon – The Power of Choices

*Scripture:   Deut 30:15-20*

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Deut 30:15-20

I have been trying to devote this month to providing some godly and scriptural encouragement for us to begin the New Year with.

The type of year each of us will have will depend on the choices we make.

I believe all of us want to have a happy New Year.

I have learned that if I want lasting happiness (joy) it can only come from a right relationship with God.

There is no doubt that sin can provide pleasure and even happiness but it truly is only for a season.

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Choices you and I make are a gift of God.

God has given man the ability to make decisions on his own that will affect his~/her life.

The power to choose is very great and we make choices all day every day.

To choose is to decide.

Before we lie down at night we make a choice~/decide as to what time to set the alarm, then we choose the time we eventually get up.

We choose our clothes, our breakfast, the route to work, our speed; well I think you get the picture.

We make hundreds or maybe thousands of choices each day.

A robot or puppet cannot make choices therefore God did not make us like them.

The power to choose is a gift of God and like all power in the hands of man it is subject to abuse.

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Some of our choices are good ones and some are bad ones.

I don’t think any of us purposely desire to make bad choices.

To minimize bad choices and to maximize good ones it is imperative that we first have good information (knowledge) then we must understand that information (understanding), and thirdly we must properly apply information and understanding to get wisdom.

Definitions:     Wisdom = Judgment; knowledge (intelligence)

Stupid c*:* lacking intelligence or reason *:*

Fool     1*:* a person lacking in judgment or prudence

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In short; if a person desires Joy and happiness and the way to obtain it is given to them then the first of the three ingredients has been satisfied (knowledge) If the information is explained clearly to them then the second ingredients has been satisfied (understanding).

Only that person can add the third being wisdom.

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The making of bad choices due to incorrect or lack of knowledge can be called “stupid” But the deliberate ignoring of knowledge and having  the knowledge made clear to your understanding either through your own intelligence or through teaching and a person choose to make bad choices, renders that individual to be placed in the category of being a fool.

/Prov 4:7          *7 *Wisdom is the principal thing; Therefore get wisdom.

And in all your getting, get understanding.

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