TITLE: Choose for yourselves this day
TEXT: Joshua 24:14-15
PROPOSITION: Man is given the freedom to choose and the responsibility that goes with such choices.
QUESTION: What?
KEY WORD: Features
SCRIPTURE READING: Same

1. INTRODUCTION: Man is "free moral agent" = free to choose.
2. With choice comes responsibility of that choice.
3. There are three features of our choice to notice.

The choice is inescapable.

1. We have a choice of master. Matthew 6:24
2. Our choice is narrow – God or Mammon; Right or Wrong; Good or Evil
   Obedience or sin – Romans 6:17
3. Israel had to choose between idols and God.
4. We have a choice of causes.
   Moses had to choose – pleasure of sin vs. suffer with God’s people
   David had to choose – run in fear or stand up to Goliath
5. We have a choice of destinies – Matthew 7:13-14 (wide / narrow)

The choice is individual.

1. Created individually; judged as individual.
2. No passing the buck, blaming others, you choose.
3. Your choice is independent of:
   Family – Friends – Popular
4. Elders, preacher, can not make it for you.

The choice is immediate.

1. Some choices can be delayed – Education, Marriage
2. This choice can not be delayed.
3. Can not put off – Not to choose = a choice.
4. When there are only two options – Not choosing A = Choosing B.
5. Felix and Agrippa – delayed – THEY CHOSE!
6. Now is the time to choose.