OWNING YOUR CHOICES
Rob Henry Notes on the Sermon Sunday. My notes do not do this message any justice. This is just a slice of the message that was dropped Sunday. Scroll across to about 31 to get right to the Sermon.
Worship Life Center Church
4930 E main Street Suite 10,11,12
Mesa, AZ 85205
Pastor Stan
We do not mind owning things, but there are very few people that own their choices.
The CHOICE is yours. Life is full of CHOICES, and sometimes we don’t make all the right CHOICES. Sometimes we must own the CHOICES we make to invoke God into our situation.
Flip Wilson use to say the devil made me do it. When really, he needed to OWN HIS CHOICE. When we make a bad CHOICES, we are going to have to OWN THAT CHOICE.
The power of CHOICE is a gift from God. We take it for granted and use and abuse that gift. The gift that God has afforded us is Christ, Salvation and then there is CHOICE. So, it is going to be up to you how you use it.
In a world like ours we must CHOOSE right over wrong. In a world like ours where once they were calling things wrong, are now being called right. Things that was once Un-Godly are now accepted.
We have a CHOICE of believing or not that there is a God.
So often we chose something outside of Christ and expect the reward that resides inside of Christ. So, CHOICEdetermines your position in life.
CHOICE is what dictate what you can and can not do. Our life is CHOICE driven. He gives us the right to CHOOSEhim or not. The most important thing to God is that you CHOOSE Him. Pastor Stan said that if you sit in the barbershop long enough, you will eventually get a haircut. So if you sit in Christ by way of CHOICE long enough, you don’t even have to know all about it, all you have to do is sit in it. God said “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creature, old things have passed away and all things have become new.” Pastor Stan is talking about a lifestyle change, not just a verbal confession. It is you believing by faith in your CHOOSING to CHOOSE God. He said salvation is not just a say, it is a do. You got to walk saved, talk saved, and act saved. That others may see Jesus in you, and all that He is doing. You must OWN YOUR CHOICE. If you own it, then God has a legal right to help you find your way. Its only if you chose Him to help you.
This is what I love about Pastor Stan, He will always come back with Scripture to back up what he is preaching.
Joshua 24:15 And if it seems evil unto you to serve God, choose for yourself this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you live; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. If you do not CHOOSE God, weather you know it or not, you are serving the enemy. So, the devil does not care about you calling him a liar because you are serving him.
Next Pastor Stan speaks about giving the devil credit when he does not deserve any. Pastor Stan said we have a tendency to say “The devil is coming after my finances” when everyone at Macys knows you. So, the devil did not do it, we make conscious decisions to spend our bill or rent money. We do not want to OWN OUR CHOICES. When we own it, we can get God to help us. We will say the devil is coming after my health, but we will not eat nothing healthy. We say the devil is coming against my marriage, when we are spending more time with our single girl friends at the club. We got to OWN OUR CHOICES.
Pastor Stan said, that when we are influence by the devil in every kind of evil way, by the authority given to us in heaven, we can CHOOSE not to.
Pastor Stan testified that it was not until he OWNED his CHOICE back in the day when he got the help he needed. It was not until he took total responsibility for his action when he received his help. Pastor Stan said he ask God why you did not help me when I was crying out. He said he heard a small voice say, YOU DID NOT CHOOSE FOR ME TO HELP. God gave us the right to CHOOSE,, and he will not violate it. So, you hold your issue until you CHOOSEHim. We have a free will and a legal right to CHOOSE what we want. The enemy will try to coach you in making a bad decision.
James 1:12-15 Blessed is a man who perseveres under trial; for once he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love him. 13 Let no one say when he is tempted, I am being tempted by God, for God cannot be tempted by evil, and He Himself does not tempt anyone. 14 But each one is tempted when he is carried away and enticed by his own lust. 15 Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is accomplished, it brings forth death. 16 Do not deceived, my beloved brethren.
He is driven away by His own CHOICE; you are going to have to own it. But Bless is the man who chooses right. We are driven away by our own nature. We are going to have to choose our spirit over our flesh. You got be mindful over people who CHOOSES for you. Because its still your CHOICE to allow them to choose.
Genesis 3:6 When the women saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable to make one wise, she took from its fruit and ate; and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.
1 Timothy 2:14 And it was not Adam who was deceived, but the woman being deceived, fell into transgression.
The Bible says that Adam was with Eve. Adam made a CHOICE. There was nothing the enemy could say to make Adam sin. He made a CHOICE. It doesn’t matter how good it looks, If you are not CHOOSING God, you are CHOOSING the enemy.
Genesis 3:7-12 Then the eyes of both were opened, and they know that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves loin coverings. 8 They heard the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden. 9 Then the LORD God called to the man, and said to him, “Where are you” 10 He said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.” 11 And He said, “Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?” 12 The man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate.”
- Whenever you make a bad decision, you are going to have to own it, and if you don’t own it, the first thing you are going to do is try to cover up what God designed to be good by CHOICE, and you cover it up and make it bad.
- When you do not OWN YOUR CHOICE, the CHOICE that you made, you separate yourself from God.
Adam said that I heard your voice, but I did not see you. Jesus was coming to set him free if he would have own it. Adam blamed God and the Woman.
We got to OWN THE CHOICES we made. If we do not own it, you got to hold it. If you made a bad CHOICE, own it so you can invoke the power of God.
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