But those choices set in motion a series of events which shape your life and the lives of your children and grandchildren after you. Let them do this with joy and not with groaning, for that would be of no advantage to you. Copyright 1996, Steven J. Cole, All Rights Reserved. You can’t escape from living near sinners (Canaan was almost as bad as Sodom), but some people and places are exceedingly wicked. And so he shall do for the tent of meeting, which dwells with them in the midst of their uncleannesses. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. Lot wasn’t just deciding for himself. B There is a point along the Continental Divide high in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado at which the waters of a small stream separate. It’s a wholesome experience I would recommend to everyone! He had left his family and friends in Ur to go with Abram to the promised land. But he is also free to do the right thing, as ... making the right choices, to create the mind of Christ in us. Next we find him living in Sodom (14:12). ... Whoever is not with me is against me, and whoever does not gather with me scatters. But not so with you. ‣ And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him. Jesus went up on the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. We must base our choices on God’s Word, not on the assumptions of our culture. And from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. See how great this man was to whom Abraham the patriarch gave a tenth of the spoils! Verse 11 states the problem: Lot “chose for himself....” He and his family paid an awful price. Bible Verses About Right and Wrong Choices. We go through life putting out 25 cents here and 50 cents there, in small deeds of faithfulness and obedience. We can procrastinate as long as possible, but eventually the time will come when a decision has to be made. Lot chose Sodom because he saw the lush valley and thought he could prosper there. The saying is trustworthy: If anyone aspires to the office of overseer, he desires a noble task. There are many examples of people making wise or foolish decisions in the Bible. Man has a responsibility to make wise choices and works with God in the process of sanctification. ‣ ... Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. It’s like handing a five-year-old a loaded gun and saying, “Guns aren’t dangerous, just the people who use them.” True, but irrelevant. ‣ Therefore, brothers, pick out from among you seven men of good repute, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, whom we will appoint to this duty. But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.” And what they said pleased the whole gathering, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? I say this in order that no one may delude you with plausible arguments. You yourselves are our letter of recommendation, written on our hearts, to be known and read by all. 3. Decisions are tough because of the consequences that linger afterwards. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and eat with him, and he with me. The things he saw and got didn’t bring him the lasting happiness he expected. Are you more prone to withdraw from the world or to join in with it? All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. There will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” And as he sat on the Mount of Olives opposite the temple, Peter and James and John and Andrew asked him privately, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign when all these things are about to be accomplished?” And Jesus began to say to them, “See that no one leads you astray. God’s Word helps you make the right choices … The answer is in verse 18: “Abram moved his tent and came and dwelt by the oaks of Mamre, which are in Hebron, and there he built an altar to the Lord.” We see again the two things that marked Abram’s life of obedient faith, the tent and the altar: Abram the pilgrim, just passing through; and, Abram the worshiper, bearing witness to a pagan world. Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding. Growing Closer to Jesus. There is a sense, of course, in which that is true. So he had no need, as Lot did, to choose by sight. We must put fellowship with God above the approval of the world in all our decisions. W Matthew 27:3-5 “Then Judas, which had betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought again the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders, Saying, I have sinned in that I have betrayed the innocent blood. He wanted to live the good life in Egypt. Topical Bible Blessed be the name of the Lord.” It enabled Paul to be content with much or with little, because Christ was his sufficiency. Early in the morning he came again to the temple. Lynn Beisner says there is scant evidence in the bible that supports fetal personhood. Him will he instruct in the way that he should choose. There is a backlash now against so-called affirmative action, because white males are claiming that their rights have been infringed upon. 1. Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it? ... Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right. 9 So give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong. And when the chief Shepherd appears, you will receive the unfading crown of glory. The main focus of the Bible is on helping us make godly choices in our spiritual lives. And you show that you are a letter from Christ delivered by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. One of the ways it does this is by showing us how people make the wrong decisions, even when they have the opportunity to make right choices. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God. 3:16,17; 1 Cor. n . But here Simeon is getting at the principle which enabled Job, when he lost all his worldly possessions, to say, “The Lord gave and the Lord has taken away. But it’s right there, in those little 25 cent choices, that our lives take their direction. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Examples of decision making in the Bible. But Abram graciously yielded his rights and trusted God to give him his portion. Then he moved his tents near Sodom (13:12). The force that is in the world—dominant, popular, and widespread—is contrary to God. This was to show God's righteousness, because in his divine forbearance he had passed over former sins. Right and Wrong Isaiah 5:19-25 I. Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. L Contact me: openbibleinfo (at) gmail.com. Your marriage and family b. The herdsmen of Lot and of Abram were quarreling because there wasn’t adequate land to support all their flocks. Too much has been said about abortion without adequately considering the Bible teaching. The Scriptural principle of Right and Wrong. Behold, I stand at the door and knock. Fifth, trust the Lord with your decision. Since we have these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from every defilement of body and spirit, bringing holiness to completion in the fear of God. F. B. Meyer says that God wanted Abram “to feel as free in the land as if the title deeds were actually in his hands” (Abraham [Christian Literature Crusade], p. 50). Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. I’ve seen many Christian families make a decision to move because the husband is offered a better-paying job. G M The Bible is the perfect standard of right and wrong (2 Tim. W ouldn’t it be great if there was a great hand from heaven pointing to the right decision? He lost his wife, barely escaped with his own life and his two daughters, and goes off the Old Testament page hiding in a cave where his daughters make him drunk and commit incest with him. One of the flags from the American Revolution shows a snake with the motto, Dont tread on me! We need to pay serious attention to the biblical warnings about wealth. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them. Put not your trust in princes, in a son of man, in whom there is no salvation. Whom God put forward as a propitiation by his blood, to be received by faith. Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. He is first, by translation of his name, king of righteousness, and then he is also king of Salem, that is, king of peace. And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. We deny ungodliness and worldly desires in light of the blessed hope of Christ’s return (Titus 2:11-13), trusting that His promises concerning eternity are true. Bible Verses about Right and Wrong, Distinguishing 1 John 4:1-3 Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God ; because many false prophets have gone out into the world . 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