Right. Preaching a sermon on going back to the beginning, and we sing this morning with no music. How about that? Just like we went back in the Garden of Eden. No musical instruments, just praising God.

Amen? Alright. I am, again, excited about today. If you have been coming on Wednesday night, you are aware that we started our study on Genesis quite a few weeks ago. I told the congregation when we started our study on the book of Genesis, I said, now look.

Understand, this will not be a quick study. The book of Genesis is going to take us more than a year to get through. We’ll only meet for an hour on Wednesday night. It’s gonna take us more than a year to get through. I think it only took us three weeks to get through chapter one.

So takes a while. When you dig in and you study what’s there and you’re reminded of things that maybe you’d it’s been a while since you considered. So today, I told him Wednesday night, I said, we were in chapter two, but there’s not enough time. I want to do more. So Sunday morning, we will be back in the book of Genesis, and we’re talking about a tale of two trees.

A tale of two trees. Genesis reveals the beginning of creation. That’s what Genesis means, the beginning. It actually means in the beginning. That’s what Genesis is.

In the beginning, it reveals creation. Creation. Understand. Everything that is in this world did not show up randomly. It was created by God.

God created the very first plant. He separated the water and the land. He separated the heavens from the earth. He made the animals, the fish, the birds, the the mammals, the the land creatures, everything that’s there. I wonder sometimes, god, why did you make mosquitoes?

But for some reason, he did. He made all of that, including mankind. He made all of that. He created all of that. It was his creation.

The Bible says when it comes to man, he literally scooped up the dirt from the ground, formed man with his hands, and breathed breath, life into his nostrils. The other things that God created is that he spoke and it happened. He took his time with you. He picked up the dirt. He fashioned mankind in his image, and then he breathed his own breath into mankind to become life.

Now listen. I don’t know about you, but right away that makes me so humble to realize. God could have just said, okay, man, and there’s man. He didn’t have to take time with me. He didn’t have to create me after his image.

I could have been just like any other animal operating on instincts and doing all of those things, but God took his time with me. In Genesis, it reveals the beginning of creation, and it also reveals the first relationship between man and God. It is a intimate relationship. Like I just said, he literally, with his own hands, created you. He fashioned you.

He made you. That relationship that he made was special from the very beginning because we’re the only creation that he did that with. He wanted a personal relationship with us. He made us to have a mind. He made us to have a body.

He made us to have a soul. He made us to have a desire to worship. He made us to have understanding. He made us to all of these things that animals don’t have all of that. God made us that way.

Why? So we could have a relationship with him. That’s why he did that. He didn’t give us all that so we could stand around and say, you know what my IQ is? Mine’s like six.

But anyway, what’s my IQ? How smart are you? Look how great I am. See how wonderful an athlete. God didn’t make us to do all that.

God made us to have relationship with him. That was the very first purpose that God had for us. He made us to have a relationship with him. God created a place. Before he created mankind, he created a place.

Right? He created the Garden of Eden. In the Garden Of Eden, he planted two trees that he named. There’s more than two trees. Don’t get confused.

I know that we think about, oh, there’s two trees in the garden. There were more than two trees in the garden. There were two trees that were specific. There were two trees that were special. And God told us in the scripture about those two trees.

They were ones that absolutely were set apart and different than the rest of them. Scripture says in the middle of the garden, he planted those two trees. Everything else was all around, but in the middle, there were those two trees. Two trees that God calls to grow up, and he named them. He gave those trees for Adam and Eve, and he said, look.

Here’s these two trees that are here. And all these other trees, you can eat from anything there, but don’t eat from this one tree. The two trees that he named were the tree of life. I like the tree of life. It’s a wonderful tree.

It’s a good tree. The tree of life. Right? And he named the tree of life. The tree of life that he placed there basically said, you eat of the tree of life, then if you ate from it, you would not die.

He said, you can eat for everything in the garden, including that tree. That tree, if you ate from that tree, you didn’t have to die. But don’t eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Because on the day that you eat of that tree, you will surely die. Some people say, well, Adam and Eve ate, they didn’t die.

They did die. Not right then, but they did die. They weren’t designed to die initially, but they did die because they ate from the tree. And so there’s a tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and what is the result of that death? Right?

The result of that is death. Now Adam and Eve knew all of this before they ate from that tree. God told them all that. It wasn’t a trick. He didn’t say, hey.

Eat from any tree, but, you know, kinda maybe stay away from that one. No. Don’t worry about it. Just stay away from that tree. No.

No. He gave them the reason why. If you eat from that tree, you’re gonna die. There’s a problem. Don’t eat from that tree.

The one thing god said don’t do, don’t do it. Here’s the the crazy thing. God gave him a choice. He gave him a choice. Every time I read Genesis, I read it and I go, god, why did you do that?

Why did you give us a choice? Why did you make it a choice? Why did you just not even put that tree there, and then we didn’t have to worry about it? Instead, you put it there and then told us, don’t eat that. You gave us a choice.

We had to choose. What are we gonna do? Adam and Eve had a choice. They had everything under their dominion, every plant, animal, everything god said is under your control. Everything.

Just don’t eat from that one tree. The one thing that he said don’t eat from that tree. And I and like I said, I I’m I’m like, god, why? Why don’t you just leave that tree out and then everything would have been good? But then we would not have in our own mind, in our own body, we would not have made that choice to love God, to serve God, to give our life to God.

We would have had no choice, But God made us different from the very beginning. He fashioned us with his own hands. He gave breath with his own breath. He made us different, and he gave us a choice. And he said, you choose.

You make that choice what you’re gonna do. The animals don’t have a choice. They follow instinct. They do whatever they feel like that they’re supposed to do. That if the the food source is here, they follow the food.

If this is the storm is coming, they hide under something, you know, whatever. They just do whatever happens because that’s their instinct. They don’t have a choice. They don’t reason. They don’t think like we do.

But God made us to where we have that opportunity. He made us where we have a choice. Now here’s the thing. This model is still with us today. What do you mean?

We don’t even know where the Garden of Eden is, preacher. How can this model still be with us today? The Garden of Eden was destroyed. We we well, it wasn’t destroyed, but it was hidden when they sinned, and we don’t know where it is. So how can you say that?

I’m talking about the model. The model is a choice. Follow God or follow sin. We have that choice. Every single one of you had a choice today.

Am I gonna get up and go to church or not? You can choose. There are many people that aren’t here today because they’re sick. They have something going on. They weren’t able to be here.

Some people just absolutely said, I just don’t I’m not feeling it today. I’m not going. I made a choice. Every day, we have a choice. When you’re driving down Airport Boulevard and you watch that light start to change, you have a choice.

Slow down or speed up. Right? You know, there there are cameras out there now. They’re getting ready to start sending tickets by mail. So you might better watch out for that.

We have a choice. Floor it and blow through the red light or stop. We have a choice. There’s a sign, a white sign with black numbers on it. Should we drive that speed or however fast we wanna go?

We have a choice. We can do those things. That that’s trivial, preacher. I mean, you’re talking about small stuff. I am.

But you know what? If we think like that with the small stuff, how are we gonna think with the big stuff? If we think about things like that and go, you know, everybody speeds. It’s not a big deal. Well, now they say everybody, you know, uses, illegal drugs.

It’s not really a big deal. Everybody likes to get drunk. It’s not really a big deal. Everybody, you know, has relationships outside of marriage. It’s no big deal.

The world says, it’s not a big deal. Sin is no big deal. Just do whatever you want. But in the very beginning, God separated sin and said, don’t do that. Don’t do that, but it’s your choice.

You can choose to do that. Today, every day, we make a choice. Are we going to walk with God, or are we going to choose sin and eternal separation from God? What are we gonna choose? It’s interesting to see that the tree of life is in the beginning, it’s also in the end.

Tree of life is in the beginning in Genesis, but it’s also in the end in Revelation. Turn with me to Revelation. At the end of Revelation, you will find in, 22, chapter 22 verse one and two. Chapter 22 verse one and two in Revelation. Then he showed me a river of the water of life, clear as crystal coming from the throne of God and of the lamb.

In the middle of its street, on either side of the river, was the tree of life, bearing 12 kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month, and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. The tree of life. It was in the beginning, and it’s in the end of God’s word. Right away, we see that. The tree of the knowledge of good and evil, we don’t see again after the garden.

We only see it in the Garden Of Eden. It’s not mentioned later. So we don’t see that moving forward. The tree of life is mentioned not only in the beginning, but is also mentioned in the end. God always intended for man to have relationship with him.

God always intended that. There was never a time when God said, you know what? I’m gonna make everything including man, and then I’m leaving. I’ll spin the earth up, get it going, and I’m stepping away, and they do what they want. God didn’t create the earth that way.

A lot of people think that. They think, well, even if they believe there was a creation, they believe there was some deity that created all of this, set it in motion, and said, go forth, do well, and they left to go start another world somewhere else. That’s not what Genesis tells us. God wanted a relationship with man from the very beginning. That’s why he created man with his hands.

That’s why he gave him his breath. That’s why he created him in his own image. He wanted a relationship always with man. He never intended for there to be a time when you didn’t have a relationship with him, but he gave you a choice. He created you to be in relationship with him, but he still gave you a choice.

You choose. You get to decide what to do. God always intended for man to have a relationship with him. In the beginning, in the garden, God actually walked with mankind. How do you know that God walked?

Because in Genesis, it says, I heard God walking in the garden. It didn’t say I felt the presence of God. I saw the spirit of God. It says, I heard God walking in the garden. God actually walked with mankind.

He had a one on one personal relationship with Adam and Eve. He was there. They could see him. They could talk to him. They had this personal relationship with him.

You know why? Because sin had not separated him from the world yet. It’s sin. That’s what separated mankind. Until sin came in, there was that walk with God.

It was a personal walk, a personal relationship that was physical. It was there every day until sin came into the world. So in the garden, God actually walked with mankind. He was there. Once mankind gave into the temptations, we were physically separated from God.

Is there anything God can’t do? God can’t allow sin in his presence. He can’t allow sin in his presence. In fact, when he, when Jesus went to the cross and took the sin of the world on him, it says, God turned away because he couldn’t look on the sin that covered his son. When sin happened, it was a separation.

Consider this. What if before sin happened, God and man were standing side by side and sin happened, and suddenly, something like the Grand Canyon opened up. And now God’s on one side and man’s on the other, and there’s this great chasm between us. That’s a wonderful picture to think about today when you think about sin. It’s larger than the Grand Canyon between can you stand on one side of the Grand Canyon and reach out and grab the hand of the person on the other side?

No. You’re physically separated. There’s only one thing that can put the two of you together. That’s a bridge. The bridge today is Jesus Christ.

That’s the bridge that bridge man and god. God designed that from the very beginning. Some people look at the story of creation, and they look at the Garden of Eden, and they say, oh, well, you know, I I mean, I know that that, you know, God created us and all that kind of stuff, But, you know, he didn’t really, expect us to make that that bad choice. He didn’t expect us to to sin when he told us not to sin, and so now there’s been a problem. More on that later.

Have you ever considered the two trees represent today our choice on our everyday walk? Think about it like that. Two trees represent our choice every day. Every day we stand in the middle of of the trees, and we make a choice. Do I follow the choice by taking life from God and walk in eternal life and walk in a way that’s pleasing to God, or do I choose sin?

Which do I do? Perhaps I I wanna choose sin. Maybe I wanna go and do that. I can take part in eternal life that’s mine forever through Christ because we can still take part in that even though there was a separation that happened so long ago. Jesus bridged that gap and gave us the opportunity to accept that eternal life.

Do we choose that? Listen. When I say do we choose that, we know people come in a Baptist church. Typically, people make a decision. They come up front and they say, yes.

I believe in Jesus, and I gave my life to him, and we all celebrate. And we confirm that with them, and we go through baptism. We do all that. That’s wonderful. Daily.

Daily. Do you choose daily to continue to walk in that eternal life? Do you choose daily? The Bible says take up your cross daily and follow him. Do you do that daily?

Every day, we have to choose what we’re going to do. Are we going to follow Christ today, or are we going to go off and do our own thing and and live in a way that’s not pleasing him? What are we gonna do? Are we gonna choose life, Are we gonna choose sin that’s a separation from God? What are we gonna choose every day?

Here’s the thing. Well, real preacher, if I know Jesus as Lord and savior, even though I sinned, he forgives me. And so I’m not really separated away from God because he forgives me of that sin. Yeah. But while you’re in that sin, as soon as you have sinned and you’ve caused that problem, there is a temporary divide until you understand you made that sin and you ask god, please let me come back.

Please forgive me. God’s will he’s standing there. He’s already gonna forgive you. You know he’s gonna forgive you, but you need to ask for that. There is a separation.

How many people just think about this. No hands. How many people are actively committing sin and feel close to God? Think about that. I chose to whatever that you know is sinful.

While you’re committing that sinful act, do you feel close to god? No. You feel separated. You don’t wanna hear god. You don’t even wanna know about it.

You wanna completely be away from it. You know, there are many people that won’t come through the back door of that church or the front door of that church, this church, any church, because when they walk in the door, they get convicted. They don’t want the convicted. They don’t wanna be that close. So in their sin, they’re separated.

Yes. Even if they know Jesus Christ, when you’re sinning, you’re separated from God. When you’re following that walk in sin, you’re separated at that moment. Yes. He provided a way that you can come back to him, but you have to choose.

You have to make that choice. You have to decide. What am I gonna do? These two trees represent a model, a choice that we all have to do every day. Every single day, we have choices.

We get up in our life, we have a choice. Are we gonna honor god and walk in a way that’s pleasing to him today, or are we gonna walk in a way that’s not pleasing to him? And if it was simple enough that we can make that choice the moment we got out of bed and we didn’t ever have to think about it again, wouldn’t that be great? You know what happens? We make that choice, and then, you know, two hours later, there’s another opportunity that comes up.

Am I gonna follow that sin? Am I gonna stay walking with God? What am I gonna do? All day long, there’s stuff. All day long, there’s stuff.

I don’t know about you, but sometimes I’ll get a random text. Middle of the day, things are going great. I’m doing all well. I get a random text. I know well enough not to open that text because I know that that text that just came in or that email that just showed up, there’s something bad on the other side of that.

And I know people who have opened those texts, and you know what happened? Their phone blew up with pornography. Why did that happen? Satan is throwing it out there. Here you go.

I’m giving you that opportunity to send. You can look. I know you you decided you’re gonna walk like this today, but you know how much fun it would be if you did this instead? You know, you can ask forgiveness tomorrow. I’ve heard people say, oh, I’m gonna have fun today.

I’ll ask god to forgive me tomorrow. You just made a absolute choice to step into sin. You made that choice to separate yourself from god. Is that what we’re supposed to be doing? No.

God said, look, eat all the fruit, do all of the things, but don’t do that. And today, if we think about it in that way of a model, the choice is there. Here’s the thing. No one can make that choice for you. You have to make that choice.

You’re the only one that can make that choice. As a parent, we tell our children, don’t do these things. Do this instead. But when they leave the house and they go out into the world, they’re the ones that make the choice, not you. You can tell them all day long, but ultimately, the choice comes down to them.

The choice comes down to them. They make the choice. We can choose every day. No one can make that choice but us, but here’s the reality. There are consequences for our choices.

Some good, some bad, but there are consequences for our choices. When we choose eternal life, we’re strengthened for our daily walk. We’re strengthened every day. We’re strengthened when we walk in God. God lifts us up.

He takes care of us. We’re strengthened as we go throughout our day as we make that choice and we walk with him. When we choose sin, we’re saying, we don’t need God. Oh, come on, preacher. That’s kinda, you know, extreme, ain’t it, to say if I choose sin, I’m saying I don’t need God.

No. It’s not extreme at all. That’s exactly what you’re saying. I don’t need you, God. I know I’m gonna make my own decision.

Don’t follow me. I’m going over here. I’ll come back when I’m done. I don’t want you to be there. You stay over here.

I don’t need you right now. I’m going and doing this thing. I I don’t I I’m I’m just making my own choice. I don’t need god. When we sin and we make that physical choice to sin in our life, we’re saying to god, I don’t need you.

I don’t need you today. I’m making my own choice. I’m doing my own thing. We make the choice. Question is, which choice are you making?

Are you making the choice of following God and walking in that eternal life every day, or are you choosing that other tree? Are you choosing to say, I don’t need God? When we choose sin when we choose sin, we’re saying we don’t need God, and every single day, man struggles with that choice. Man struggles with that choice. It seems like such an easy choice, but we struggle with it.

The world says it’s okay. You remember the story I was telling children and Satan is in that tree going, it’s all good. Try it out. It tastes wonderful. God didn’t really mean you’re gonna die.

That’s what we’re dealing with every day. If our God was not a loving God full of grace, when we choose to sin, we would have to live in it forever. Think about that. Bible says that the wages of sin is death and eternal separation from God. He says that that sin, that choice that we have, the wages of sin is death and eternal separation for God.

But the free gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ, our savior. God provided a way. If he didn’t love us and he didn’t provide a way, he wasn’t merciful, he wasn’t full of grace. When we chose sin, it would be forever. It would be forever.

The trees that we see show every day the struggle the man that mankind goes through and wrestles with. But God, from the very beginning, already knew what was gonna happen. God said, don’t eat from this tree. Remember, God is omniscient. He knows everything.

He knew that Adam and Eve, at some point, were going to make the decision to eat from that tree. He already knew that was gonna happen from the very beginning. He already knew that. And I wanna be clear about something. Eve and Adam made the decision to eat from that tree.

You read the scripture. When Eve took of that tree, she didn’t have to run across the other side of the garden and tell Adam what she’d done and give him the fruit. He was standing there with her. Says she ate and she gave it to him. Oh, this is good.

Try it. Sometimes it makes me think of somebody taking a drink of spoiled milk. Oh, try that. Yeah. It was horrible, but we gave it to somebody else.

And what did they do? Oh, you’re right. Why? Why do we do that? Eve sinned.

So did Adam. He’s standing right there with her when all that’s happening. He sinned. She sinned. They chose sin.

God knew it was gonna happen. From the very beginning, he gave us a way to be redeemed. How many of you just don’t have to raise your hands, but how many of you know that Jesus is mentioned in the book of Genesis? Jesus is mentioned in the book of Genesis. Jesus is the way.

God, from the very beginning, after they made that choice and they sinned and God passed out the punishment, he talked about Jesus. Really? Yeah. Look in Genesis chapter three verses fourteen and fifteen. Genesis chapter three fourteen and fifteen.

Some of you are thinking, I’ve read Genesis three many times. I’ve never seen Jesus mentioned in Genesis anywhere, because it doesn’t specifically say Jesus. The lord god said to the serpent, because you have done this, cursed are you more than all cattle, and more than every beast of the field, on your belly you will go, and dust you will eat all the days of your life. And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him on the hill.

Couple real quick things I want you to see there. Almost anywhere else that you find, you will never see where it talks about a woman’s seed. Seed is from the man. Seed is from the man. But in this part, it says her seed because Jesus was gonna be born through a woman.

Her seed, that’s Jesus. He capitalized. Capitalized. He, meaning Jesus, shall bruise you on the head, and you shall bruise him on the heel. He’s talking about the crucifixion of Jesus.

It’s just a small setback. Right? Yeah. He’s dead, but God’s gonna bring you back to life. It’s just a small setback.

Right there we see God already had the plan from the very beginning of time that when, Satan calls, he brought in the temptation and mankind made the choice to sin. God already had the plan in place to bridge that gap. He already had Jesus lined up to take care of that problem. He already had a way for man to be forgiven of the sin that he had committed in life. God didn’t see what happened and went, oh, man.

Now what? And he doesn’t do that today on anything. Nothing catches him by surprise. There’s nothing that happens and god is surprised. You know, United States Of America was so they were doing so good.

They were following me, and now they’re turning away. Oh, what am I gonna do now? He already knew that was gonna happen. Everything that happens, god already knew and he already has a plan for it. It’s already there.

It’s not something that catches him off guard. From the very beginning, God had the plan for Jesus. We see it in the book of Genesis. God gave us a choice from the very beginning. A choice.

God created mankind. He put two trees in the garden that were named the the garden the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Don’t eat this one. He already knew it was gonna happen. Don and I were talking Wednesday night, and Don said, you know what, brother George?

Even if Adam and Eve never sinned, they didn’t ever choose that tree. When Cain and Abel came along, they’d have been all up in that tree. They would have been the ones if it if it if Adam and Eve didn’t, But they sinned. Sin came into the world. They made a choice.

God gave them that choice, and they made the wrong choice. He knew God knew that we were incapable, unable, whatever, to, live our own sinless life. Only we can choose. He knew we weren’t gonna be able to do that, to live a sinless life. He knew that.

Well, look. If God knew that we weren’t gonna be able to live live a sinless life, why do you even bother giving us the 10 commandments? We’re supposed to try. We’re supposed to try. Every day, we’re supposed to try.

God says we should be perfect. He knows we’re not gonna be perfect. Why does he tell us we’re supposed to be perfect? So we can try every day. We can strive every day to live better than we did the day before.

We can strive every day to live for God in a way that’s pleasing to him. We can strive every day to keep everything that he has put before us. We can strive to be sinless every day. Well, there’s no way. Nobody could be live a sinless life.

Jesus did as fully man. As fully man, he walked on this earth and did not sin. Jesus did it. We don’t do it, but he gave us a way. He knew we would not be able to do it, so he gave us Jesus to pay the price for our sin.

Now think about that. I like to pick on Bill, so I’ll do I’ll use Bill. I said, okay. Look, Bill, don’t sin. But you know what?

I know you’re gonna sin, so Tim’s gonna pay that price for you. He’ll be the one that’ll pay the price. So you you’re gonna sin. I know that, but Tim’s gonna be the one to pay for it. Right?

Well, how’s that fair? I don’t seem fair. It’s not fair at all, but it’s grace. It’s mercy that God gave us. God said, I know Bill can’t live a sinless life, but neither can Tim.

And so I’m sending Jesus, And Jesus will be the one that makes the way for us. He’s the one that’s gonna pay the price for our sin. He went on that cross, and God turned away from him because he was covered with our sin. He’s the one that paid the price. So here’s the thing.

He paid the price for our sin. And when he paid the price for our sin, he gave us reconciliation. We now have that reconciliation. Maybe today you realize, you know what? My whole life I have chosen badly.

If there was a bad choice to be made, that was me. I made that choice. I’ve not done the right thing my whole life. I’ve struggled. I’ve had a hard time.

I’ve never done that. I’ve never made the right choice. Well, there’s still a way to overcome that and make a right choice. Have you ever called upon the name of Jesus, asked him to forgive you, and receive eternal life? Have you ever done that?

You see, this is the amazing thing. God knew we were gonna sin. He gave Jesus to pay the price for our sin. And then all we have to do is accept that gift that he gave us, and we can have eternal life. And you know what it costs?

For us, nothing. For Jesus, it cost him everything. For us, it cost nothing. You you can’t buy it. You you you can have more money than anybody in the world and it doesn’t help you.

You can try to live the best life, do all the things you can for people, be the the most giving person that anybody’s ever seen, it doesn’t help you. You have to call upon Jesus. You see, he gave you another choice. He gave you the choice, you’re gonna sin or not. People sin.

We know the scripture says all have sinned. People sinned. So he gave us that choice, but praise God, he gave us another choice. Then he said, you know what? Even though you sinned, I’m gonna provide you with another opportunity to make the right choice.

You made the wrong choice when you when you sin, but I’m giving you another opportunity to make the right choice. Here’s Jesus’ bridge that crosses this chasm of sin. And all you have to do is choose him and walk across him, and you can join me in eternal life. I’m giving you that opportunity. That’s all you gotta do is call upon the name of Jesus.

Scripture says, that if you confess Jesus as lord and believe that god raised him from the dead, you shall be saved. Call upon the name of Jesus. Ask him to forgive you and accept the eternal life that he gives. So here’s the the real reality. Only you can make the choice.

God gave us a design of choice. From the very beginning, we had a choice. Follow God or sin. Whatever we choose, we have that choice. What are we gonna do?

God knows we’re gonna choose sin. All have sinned. Praise God. He gave us another choice. He said, okay.

Alright. You messed that one up. So already created away from the very beginning, here’s Jesus. He he’s willing to take all your sin, and he has already paid the price for it. You just call upon his name.

You ask to be forgiven of all those things that you did, and you will be saved. If you confess Jesus as lord and believe that god raised him from the dead, you shall, not maybe, not might, not could be, but you shall be saved. So that’s what you need to do. That’s your choice. Will you do that?

Meaning will say, I just don’t think I can. Many will make the choice to reject Jesus, but those who make the choice to accept are rewarded with eternal life, Rewarded with a life together with God, not separated from him. They’ll be rewarded with the payment of their sins being paid in full, knowing that God loves them that much. It’s a choice. No one can make it for you.

I’ve said this many times. If I could make the choice, any person that I ever came in contact with that told me that they never made the confession of faith in Jesus Christ, I will make it for them. But I can’t. Only you can make that choice. On one hand, you choose life eternal with Jesus Christ.

On the other hand, you choose death eternal with Satan. Which one do you choose? Only you can make the choice. Today, I want to tell you this. If you do not choose, then you already chose.

Because if you don’t choose life, you’ve already chosen death. Perhaps you walk out that door and on that very busy street, you don’t see the car that mows you down, and this is your last breath that you ever took. Have you made that choice? Have you made that choice? Perhaps you lay down tonight and your heart stops.

Have you made the choice? Are you ready? Because we don’t know. We’re not promised another minute. So as you consider that choice that needs to be made, have you made it?

And if you’ve made it, have you chosen to follow Jesus? We have a time invitation. After I pray, if god’s put it on your heart that you need to make that decision to choose him, I’m a ask you to come tell me about it. Perhaps you need to come to the altar and pray about something else. You’ve made the decision, but you know you’re still having a hard time making the right choice every day.

Maybe there’s someone in your life that you desperately wanna pray for them. Whatever it is, the altar will be open. Let’s pray.