Making The Right Choices

Making The Right Choices

Choose Jesus And Live With Peace

Reject Jesus And Die With Misery

     Everyone has to make a choice in this life about the Lord Jesus. Either you accept Jesus and live with peace or you reject Jesus and die with misery. Deuteronomy 30:16-19 speaks about choosing or rejecting our Lord Jesus; In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it. But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be drawn away and worship other gods, and serve them; I denounce (announce) unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish, and that ye shall not prolong your days upon the land whither thou passest over Jordan to go to possess it. I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing, therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live. 

A Wise Statement About Everyone's Choice Between Life And Death

God's voting for you

The devil is voting against you

And you have the deciding vote

To accept the Lord Jesus and live or reject the Lord Jesus and die

Adam And Eve Had To Choose Between Life And Death

     God offered Adam and Eve the choice between the tree of life or death from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. God warned Adam and Eve that they would die if they ate from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Unfortunately the devil tempted Eve who chose to eat the fruit from the tree of knowledge of good and evil and the curse of sin came upon the world. This sin blocked man from the tree of eternal life until Jesus removed our sins at the cross of Calvary and offered lost sinners His perfect righteousness, salvation, and eternal life. 

     Like Adam and Eve, we all have a choice to make between life with Jesus or death with the devil. Jesus will lead you to heaven and the devil will lead you to hell. Notice the contrast between heaven and hell. In heaven saved saints will be shouting and rejoicing with perfect food, perfect weather, perfect atmosphere, perfect family, perfect mansions enjoying Jesus forever with no troubles or problems. In hell and the lake of fire there is weeping and gnashing of teeth with torment and misery forever. 

     When you make your choice to accept or reject Jesus there is no middle ground (in other words making no decision to accept or reject Jesus amounts to a rejection of Jesus). Jesus said at Matthew 12:30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad. Jesus also said that Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters (you can't serve Jesus and the devil at the same time; You have to choose to either serve Jesus or the devil) for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other; Ye cannot serve God and mammon (the fading riches offered by the devil).

     I pray in Jesus name that anyone reading this will choose salvation and life with Jesus right now. Repent, decide to stop sinning, confess that Jesus is God, and believe the gospel that Jesus died for you on the cross, was buried, and rose again. Joshua 24:15 speaks about the choice between life with Jesus or death with the devil. And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; Whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. 

Why Accepting Eternal Life With Jesus Is The Best Choice For Anyone

Note the benefits below that Jesus offers who is better than anything on this earth

I've never met a person that regretted having Jesus in their life

In infancy Jesus startled a king; In boyhood Jesus puzzled learned doctors

In manhood Jesus ruled the course of nature; He walked on the water

And told the sea to lay down and go to sleep

Jesus healed multitudes without medicine and made no charges for His services

Jesus never wrote a book and yet all the libraries of the world

could not hold all the books about Him

Jesus never wrote a song yet He has furnished the theme

for more songs than all the songwriters combined together

Jesus never founded a college yet all the schools together 

cannot boast of as many students as He has

Jesus never practiced medicine and yet He has healed

more broken hearts than all the doctors have healed broken bodies

Great men have come and gone

But Jesus stands high above every man that ever lived

The Choice Between The Resurrection Of Life 

And the Resurrection Of Damnation

     John 5:28 tells us that everyone has to make a choice to accept Jesus and receive the resurrection of life or reject Jesus and receive the resurrection of damnation. Jesus said Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming in the which all that are in the graves shall hear His voice, And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation. In other words after this life on earth, everyone that ever died will live again forever somewhere, sometime, at some place. If they accept Jesus, they will be in peaceful heaven forever; If they reject Jesus, they will be tormented with the devil forever in the lake of fire.

     Anyone that accepts Jesus will be blessed by the first resurrection of life. Revelation 20:6 says Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection; on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with Him a thousand years. Revelation 20:5 speaks about anyone that ever rejected Jesus saying But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. All the dead people that rejected Jesus will be cast into the lake of fire at the Great White Throne Judgment after the Millennium and experience the resurrection of damnation.

The Choice Between The Bema Judgment Seat Of Christ

And The Great White Throne Judgment

     If anyone accepts the Lord Jesus, they will appear before the Bema Judgment Seat of Christ. The Bema Judgment Seat of Christ is not to determine amounts of punishment but amounts of rewards. When saints get saved, their salvation is fixed the very second that they get saved with a fixed destination to heaven. The Bema Judgment Seat of Christ is about service with rewards or loss of rewards and not about salvation (2 Corinthians 5:10). On the other hand, if anyone rejects the Lord Jesus, they will appear before the Great White Throne Judgment that only determines amounts of punishment (Revelation 20:11-15). All the unbelievers that rejected Jesus will be cast into the lake of fire at the Great White Throne Judgment. 

     Finally note that everyone has a choice between heaven and hell that is eternal. Everyone's choice during this vapour of life on earth determines where you will spend eternity. Reject Jesus and go to hell with no exit; Accept Jesus who is the one door to heaven and receive eternal life with peace. Jesus said at John 10:9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture. My prayer in Jesus name is that anyone that reads the warnings in this bible study will choose Jesus, get saved, and receive eternal life with peace. 

     I have enjoyed writing this bible study today that I pray blesses multitudes all over this earth with great peace and strength. Feel free to email Brother Bob anytime at rz9tlm@gmail.com or write to Brother Bob Malkin, 2233 Pinetree Lane, Apt. N., Reynoldsburg, Ohio 43068. (614) 604-7133. Till we all meet again soon to lift up our Lord Jesus, everyone have a blessed day in Jesus name.