1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:16,000 Praise the Lord Church. Today's Church Service is all about will we choose God's best? 2 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:26,000 Today's main scripture is Romans 8 verse 38 through 39 and this is the ESV version. 3 00:00:26,000 --> 00:00:30,000 As you have it, please say amen. It says, 4 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:39,000 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, 5 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:47,000 nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, 6 00:00:47,000 --> 00:00:55,000 will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. 7 00:00:55,000 --> 00:01:00,000 So God loves us and has the very best in store for us. 8 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:11,000 Once saved and now following him, there is nothing stopping us from loving God and nothing stopping God from loving us. 9 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:17,000 We have a choice to choose God's best, which is filled with deep love for us, 10 00:01:17,000 --> 00:01:23,000 because God's best is his will, his plan, and his purpose in our lives. 11 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:28,000 Just like a loving parent wants the best for his children, 12 00:01:28,000 --> 00:01:35,000 God wants the first, the utmost, top-notch, best prize for his children. 13 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:42,000 It is his choice over our second best choice, because he knows all and we don't. 14 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:51,000 Will we choose his best that is made and carved out of love for us? 15 00:01:51,000 --> 00:02:00,000 Our second scripture is Matthew chapter 6 verse 24, and this is taken from the NIV version. 16 00:02:00,000 --> 00:02:03,000 Once you have it, please say Amen. 17 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,000 No one can serve two masters. 18 00:02:06,000 --> 00:02:11,000 Either you will hate the one and love the other, 19 00:02:11,000 --> 00:02:16,000 or you will be devoted to one and despise the other. 20 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:20,000 You cannot serve both God and money. 21 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:27,000 We must understand if we want God's best, we cannot practice sin. 22 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:32,000 We cannot straddle the fence with sin and expect the Lord to bless us, 23 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:38,000 because light and darkness cannot coexist. 24 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:46,000 If we are choosing God's best wholeheartedly, then we will be devoted to him and despise sin. 25 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:51,000 If we are willing to love God, to surrender ourselves to him and follow him, 26 00:02:51,000 --> 00:02:54,000 then our sinful fleshly nature. 27 00:02:54,000 --> 00:03:03,000 We will see greater fruitfulness in our spiritual walk and in our physical life. 28 00:03:03,000 --> 00:03:13,000 Our last scripture is Deuteronomy 30 verse 19 through 20, 29 00:03:13,000 --> 00:03:18,000 and this is taken from the NASB version. 30 00:03:18,000 --> 00:03:20,000 Once you have it, please say Amen. 31 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:26,000 I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, 32 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:33,000 that I have placed before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. 33 00:03:33,000 --> 00:03:39,000 So choose life in order that you may live, you and your descendants. 34 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:47,000 By loving the Lord, your God, by obeying his voice and by holding close to him. 35 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:52,000 For this is your life and the length of your days, 36 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:58,000 so that you may live in the land which the Lord swore to your fathers, 37 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:03,000 to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, to give them. 38 00:04:03,000 --> 00:04:06,000 So the choice is ours to make. 39 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:09,000 But we must understand the consequences. 40 00:04:09,000 --> 00:04:11,000 There are good and bad consequences. 41 00:04:11,000 --> 00:04:16,000 If we choose Christ, his best, by staying vigilant to him, 42 00:04:16,000 --> 00:04:22,000 by being obedient, surrendering ourselves, loving the Lord, trusting in him, 43 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:25,000 knowing that God has the best in store for us, 44 00:04:25,000 --> 00:04:29,000 we will be restored whole, complete in him, 45 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:33,000 because he alone can make us content. 46 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:40,000 But if we choose the negative consequence and choose our own way, 47 00:04:40,000 --> 00:04:42,000 we will feel empty. 48 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:46,000 So our points today are, one, choose. 49 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:51,000 We have to choose between our second best or God's best. 50 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:54,000 Our second point today is surrender. 51 00:04:54,000 --> 00:05:01,000 We must submit ourselves to Christ in order to be fruitful and prosper in this journey called life, 52 00:05:01,000 --> 00:05:04,000 and in our spiritual walk with him. 53 00:05:04,000 --> 00:05:09,000 Our final point today is consequence. 54 00:05:09,000 --> 00:05:16,000 We, our choices, have consequences, whether godly or ungodly, good or bad. 55 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:23,000 Will we choose to forge our own path that leads to pain, devastation and heartache, 56 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:30,000 or will we choose God's way, the best way, the godly consequence, 57 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:37,000 that is filled with contentment and wholeness that only God can ever fill? 58 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:40,000 The choice is up to us to decide today. 59 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:48,000 So, if you have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, then this message will help you. 60 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:53,000 But if you don't have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ, 61 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:56,000 then I invite you to give your heart to the Lord today. 62 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:00,000 To receive Him into your heart, go to Romans 10, 9 through 10. 63 00:06:00,000 --> 00:06:11,000 It says that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 64 00:06:11,000 --> 00:06:19,000 For with the heart one believes on to righteousness and with the mouth confession is made on to salvation. 65 00:06:19,000 --> 00:06:26,000 If you said this prayer with sincerity, you are saved and now have eternal life with Jesus. 66 00:06:26,000 --> 00:06:34,000 You are saved from all your sins, past, present and future sins you may commit. 67 00:06:34,000 --> 00:06:39,000 This truth is not a free past to sin anytime. 68 00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:48,000 Instead, Jesus gives you power over all wrong choices and empowers you to spread the gospel to others. 69 00:06:48,000 --> 00:06:54,000 You are saved forever and your name is written in the book of life.