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I want to be a kid again.
I want to go back to the time when............
~* Decisions were made by going "eeny-meeny-miney-mo."
~* Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, "do over!"
~* "Race issue" meant arguing about who ran the fastest.
~* Money issues were handled by whoever was the banker in "Monopoly."
~* Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening.
~* It wasn't odd to have two or three "best" friends.
~* Being old referred to anyone over 20.
~* The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was cooties.
~* It was magic when dad would "remove" his thumb.
~* It was unbelievable that dodgeball wasn't an Olympic event.
~* Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot
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*INTRODUCTION:* (INSPIRE – You Have to be Believed to be Heard)
Choices - Election coming
Poet Robert Frost wrote of having to choose between two roads that diverged in a yellow wood.
Frost wrote that he did well to choose the less frequently traveled road.
About 3,500 years ago, the psalmist wrote something similar as he described two paths on which one could live life: the way of the ungodly and the way of the righteous (Ps.
1:1–2).
The way one chooses makes all the difference.
Thomas Nelson, Inc., /Word in Life Study Bible [computer file], electronic ed., Logos Library System/, (Nashville: Thomas Nelson) 1997, c1996.
<<Robert Frost’s Poem Here>>
*TEXT:*
Psalm 1:1-6
1 Blessed is the man
who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked
or stand in the way of sinners
or sit in the seat of mockers.
2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
and on his law he meditates day and night.
3 He is like a tree planted by streams of water,
which yields its fruit in season
and whose leaf does not wither.
Whatever he does prospers.
4 Not so the wicked!
They are like chaff
that the wind blows away.
5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous.
6 For the LORD watches over the way of the righteous,
but the way of the wicked will perish.
/NIV/
*MESSAGE:* (INFORM)
I.
Blessing (v.1-3)
A. Blessing Involves Discernment
Psalm 1:1
1 Blessed is the man
who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked
or stand in the way of sinners
or sit in the seat of mockers.
/NIV/
Must be “blessable” -- avoiding the steps that lead to sin
1. considering sin (walking)
“Listening”
Listening to the wrong advice can kill you! <<Ex: Eat poison ivy to become immune>>
2.
contemplating sin (standing)
“Loitering”
Get you into trouble
3.
being comfortable in sin (sitting).
Watch that first step!
“Living” lazily in sin
Seat of the mocker = the seat of judgment.
Judging God’s word by your own desires and experience
<<Homosexuality, Premarital Sex, Living together before marriage, Pornography>>
Acts 17:11
11 Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true.
/NIV/
Trans: There is another way!
It involves living by the Word of God.
B.
Blessing Involves Delight
Psalm 1:2
2 But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
and on his law he meditates day and night.
/NIV/
Meditate “Day and Night”
My friend, God has no plan or program by which you are to grow and develop as a believer apart from His Word.
You can become as busy as a termite in your church (and possibly with the same effect as a termite), but you won’t grow by means of activity.
You will grow by meditating upon the Word of God—that is, by going over it again and again in your thinking until it becomes a part of your life.
This is the practice of the happy man.
McGee, J. Vernon, /Thru the Bible with J. Vernon McGee/, (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers) 2000, c1981.
The Bible contains the wisdom that created the world.
It is the best manual for your life.
A father was approached by his small son who told him proudly, "I know what the Bible means!"
His father smiled and replied, "What do you mean, you 'know' what the Bible means?"
The son replied, "I do know!"
"Okay, said his father.
"So,son, what does the Bible mean?"
"That's easy, Daddy.
It stands for 'Basic Information Before Leaving
Earth.'
How much time does it take to read from Genesis to Revelation?
If you would read the Bible at standard pulpit speed (slow enough to be heard and understood) the reading time would be seventy-one hours.
If you would break that down into minutes and divide it into 365 days you could read the entire Bible, cover to cover, in only twelve minutes a day.
Is this really too much time to spend reading about God?
--James S. Hewett, Illustrations Unlimited (Wheaton: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc, 1988) pp.
43-44.
But 22 percent of evangelicals report that they never read the Bible outside of church.
-- Barna Research Group, May 9, 1991.
"To Verify," Leadership.
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