Our decisions determine our destiny, so let's learn how to make good choices! In this message, Pastor Jamie kicks off a new series about choices. 

“We are all born looking like our parents, but we all die looking like our decisions.”
 
What does the Bible say about making choices?
1. You can choose. 
Deuteronomy 30:19 “Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. Now I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, so that you andyour descendants might live!”

Decisions turn thoughts into actions. 

James 1:15 “Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.”

You can either take a thought captive, or you can let it take you captive. 
 
2. You are good at making bad decisions. 
Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it?”

Prov 4:23 “Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.”

Your good intentions won’t stop you from making bad decisions. Only good decisions will stop bad decisions. 
 
3. Your choices will affect others. 
There is no such thing as a personal choice – it will affect someone, somewhere, somehow. 
Exodus 34:6-7
Ezekiel 18:19 
The sins of the father may create a predisposition but not a permanent destiny.
 
Ephesians 5:15-17 “… Don’t act thoughtlessly, but understand what the Lord wants you to do.”
Current culture is a current – it will sweep you away if you go with the flow .
Find out God’s plan for your life and that vision will make your decision. 
 
Are you willing to submit your choices to God?