ONE WAY OR THE OTHER (31 OF 32)
Scripture: Matthew 7:13-20
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One Way or the other (31 of 32)
Series: Sermon on the Mount
Robert Dawson
Matthew 7:13-20
C.S. Lewis, famous for the Chronicles of Narnia, spent much of his early life as an agnostic and then an atheist. He constantly wrestled with the idea of God and the Christian faith. One night he met with colleague and friend J.R.R. Tolkien, authored the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Lewis became a Christian.
Like all of us who are truly saved, he knew that was the greatest moment of his life. Years later Lewis was reflecting on that night and wrote these words…
‘‘Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. Taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing (who you are) into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature; either a creature in harmony with God and with other creatures and with itself or else into one that is in a state of war and hatred with God and with its fellow-creatures and with itself. To be the one kind of creature is…joy, and peace, and knowledge, and power. To the other means madness, horror, idiocy, rage, impotence, and eternal holiness. Each of us at each moment is progressing to one state or the other.’’
Life is about decisions. Our decisions are important. Decisions make you and break you. They affect not only how we live our lives today but shape the path in life on which we will one day travel.
There are big decisions we all make in life, decisions that will affect much of our lives.
1. Alcohol and drugs? Pure in our sexuality?
2. What college or type of training will I pursue to prepare me for life?
3. What type of career am I going to pursue?
4. Am I going to marry? If so, who am I going to marry?
If we make the wrong decision in these then our lives have potentially been set up for untold misery and frustration. ...
Series: Sermon on the Mount
Robert Dawson
Matthew 7:13-20
C.S. Lewis, famous for the Chronicles of Narnia, spent much of his early life as an agnostic and then an atheist. He constantly wrestled with the idea of God and the Christian faith. One night he met with colleague and friend J.R.R. Tolkien, authored the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Lewis became a Christian.
Like all of us who are truly saved, he knew that was the greatest moment of his life. Years later Lewis was reflecting on that night and wrote these words…
‘‘Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. Taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing (who you are) into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature; either a creature in harmony with God and with other creatures and with itself or else into one that is in a state of war and hatred with God and with its fellow-creatures and with itself. To be the one kind of creature is…joy, and peace, and knowledge, and power. To the other means madness, horror, idiocy, rage, impotence, and eternal holiness. Each of us at each moment is progressing to one state or the other.’’
Life is about decisions. Our decisions are important. Decisions make you and break you. They affect not only how we live our lives today but shape the path in life on which we will one day travel.
There are big decisions we all make in life, decisions that will affect much of our lives.
1. Alcohol and drugs? Pure in our sexuality?
2. What college or type of training will I pursue to prepare me for life?
3. What type of career am I going to pursue?
4. Am I going to marry? If so, who am I going to marry?
If we make the wrong decision in these then our lives have potentially been set up for untold misery and frustration. ...
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