Lets Go Shopping
A. We all know what a trip to the grocery store is like. Browse
the Ailes Picking some things and putting them into our shopping
carts.
Some times we decide we don't want what we chose and we put them
back.
Life is much the same way. We Pick and Choose What we Want out
of Life; Where and How, With Whom we Want to Live our Lives.
The Point of all that is, YOU HAVE A CHOICE.
In the Supermarket of Life you have a choice as to what you put
in your Shopping Cart.
When it comes to making our Choices, Some choose wisely.
David made lots of Bad choices and caused Many Regrets. But in
the end he chose Wisely and never regretted that right choice.
When you choose for God you will never Regret that Choice.
A choice for God is a choice for Nobility and the Ability to Choose
not to live in Sin.
When you choose to stand Shoulder to Shoulder with God in His
Word. You become a person after God's own heart and He will Bless
and Keep You.
Joshua 24:15.
As a Leader of God's People Joshua set the Biblical Standard.
The example to
Always choose God.
Not everyone Makes Wise Choices when they Determine what Life
will be.
Do you think Judas Iscariot made Wise Choices in Life?
Matthew 26:14?16, 47. Judas chose to live for Money and the Things
Money could buy.
To make a quick Buck he went to the High Priest and asked, "What
are you willing to give me if I deliver Him to you?" And
they counted out to him thirty pieces of silver. So from that
time he sought an opportunity to betray Him."
Judas Made an Evil Choice and then Worked hard to fulfill His
Perverted Dream for Riches. Did you ever do that?
Remember what Jesus said about the Choices we make in Life?
Mark 8:35?38.
What is your Price, What do you Choose? A place of Honor, Prestige
in the community. Is that your 30 Pieces of Silver?
What's your Price for Dishonoring Jesus in the market place where
you live?
What will you give in Exchange for your soul? 30 Pieces of Silver?
Thats the
the price of a Crippled Slave.
Choices are Important. Every Choice you make about God, is a Life
and Death Choice.
(1) Proverbs 1:24?29.
2 Peter 3:9.
(b) God wants all to be saved. He allows you to put your choices
back on the shelf.
(2) Did You ever do that in a Supermarket? Before you get to the
Check-Out Counter
put a choice back on shelf
(a) Sometimes, people get to Lifes Check-Out Counter and
they Put back their
choice to take God's Gift of Righteousness. Its Called falling
away.
(b) 2 Peter 2:20. That choice can make you worse in the sight
of God than
before you came to God.
But God does allow you to Repent and to Put Righteousness back
into your Shopping Cart. That means you can Choose to put Sin
back on the shelf.
2. You have to Pay for what you Put in your Basket.
1. Romans 6:23.
(1) Ever put Item in shopping Cart and then Decide you couldn't
afford it and Put it back before checkout.
(1) That's a wise choice when it comes to Sin. Put it Back on
the shelf before Checkout
1. Before you choose Sin or Righteousness. You need to Always
Count the Cost.
2. In the Supermarket of Life, once you checkout there are no
Refunds, Exchange
(2) You have to pay the price. No Food Stamps, No Bounced Checks,
No Free Rides.
1. Every item is Clearly Priced.
2. Matthew 10:37?38. Thats the Price. So If not willing
to pay dont pick it up.
(2) Guess what? Eventually, you will have to Check Out of the
Supermarket of Life.
(1) When you're through shopping you will have to Stand at Check
Out Counter.
1. What will you have in your Shopping Cart? What will you have
Chosen?
2. A Box of Worldliness; Can of Fornication; Jar of Defiance,
Rejection of God?
3. That will cost you more than an Arm and a Leg. That's a price
you cannot afford
(2) Why not try a Bottle of Righteousness; Pound of Earth Salt;
Sack of Love; New batteries for your dimmed light of the world?
1. One day Well all check out of the Supermarket of Life.
What price you Pay?
2. Forgotten you Bill Fold? No way to Pay for the Choices you've
Made? Not enough money in Wallet to pay the Bill. What are going
to do?
(3) Your Shopping Cart is Full. What will you do?
1. Romans 3:23.
2. We are all Left at the Checkout stand, stuck with a bill we
cannot pay. Guess what? You have a Friend whose name is Jesus.
3. He paid the Price. On the Cross hangs a Bill, Invoice, "PAID
IN FULL." Will you accept His offer or Will you pay the Penalty
for Your Wrong Choices?
d Acts 20:32.
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