CROSSROADS OF LIFE

Crossroads of Life“Show me Your ways, OLORD; teach me Yourpaths. Lead me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of mysalvation; on You I wait all the day.”(Psalm 25:4-5)

WHICH ROAD WILL YOU CHOOSE?

Joshua 24:15

1 Kings 18:21 Jeremiah

6:167:23-24

Matthew 7:13-14

CROSSROADS OF LIFE

“Ponder the path of yourfeet, and let all yourways be established. Donot turn to the right orthe left; remove your foot from evil.”(Proverbs 4:26-27)

A Highway of Holiness

PATHS BEFORE US ((Jeremiah 6:16; 42:3)

Isaiah 35:8 1 Peter

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Psalm 16:11 “You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy; at Your right hand are pleasures forevermore.”Psalm 23:3 “He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake.”Psalm 25:10 “All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth, to such as keep His covenant and His testimonies.”

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Psalm 119:35 ““Make me walk in the path of Your commandments, for I delight in it.”Proverbs 2:8-9 “He guards the paths of justice and preserves the way of His saints. Then you will understand righteousness… justice, equity and every good path.”Proverbs 2:20 “So you may walk in the way of goodness and keep to the paths of righteousness.”

Proverbs 4:11 “I have taught you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in right paths.”

Isaiah 2:3 “Many people shall come and say, ‘Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob; He will teach us His ways, and we shall walk in His paths.’ For out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem.”

Isaiah 26:7 “The way of the just is uprightness; O Most Upright, You weigh the path of the just.”Isaiah 59:8-9 “The way of peace they have not known, and there is no justice in their ways; they have made themselves crooked paths; whoever takes that way shall not know peace.”

A Highway of Holiness

CHOICE:

Hebrews 12:13 “And make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed.”

Way of Destruction

PATHS BEFORE US (Jeremiah 6:16; 42:3)

Matthew 7:13

Psalm 1:1 “Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful;”Proverbs 2:15 “Whose ways are crooked, and who are devious in their paths;”Proverbs 12:15 “The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who heeds counsel is wise.”

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Proverbs 13:15 “Good understanding gains favor, but the way of the unfaithful is hard.”Proverbs 14:12 “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.”Proverbs 15:9 “The way of the wicked is an abomination to the LORD, but He loves him who follows righteousness.”

CHOICE:

Ephesians 4:17 “This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their minds…”

CROSSROADS OF LIFE

Obey the gospel and become a Christian?

Acts 2:36-38, Acts 2:36-38, 41; 4:4; 8:35-41; 4:4; 8:35-

3939Acts 13:45; Acts 13:45;

17:3217:32

Reject the gospel and

be lost?

CROSSROADS OF LIFE

Live in sin?

Ephesians 2:1-2 Ephesians 2:1-2 Romans 6:1-2, Romans 6:1-2,

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1 Peter 4:1-4 1 Peter 4:1-4 James 4:4 James 4:4

2 Peter 2:9-10 2 Peter 2:9-10

1 Peter 2:9-121 Peter 2:9-12

Live above sin?

CROSSROADS OF LIFE

Pay the price or turn away?

Luke 14:25-33 Luke 14:25-33 Luke 9:23 Luke 9:23

Turn away? (family…favor…

promotion… pleasure…

leisure)

Ezra 10:1-4Ezra 10:1-42 Corinthians 2 Corinthians

2:9; 7:9-112:9; 7:9-11

CROSSROADS OF LIFE

Remember God while

young?

Ecclesiastes Ecclesiastes 11:9-12:111:9-12:1

Forget God until later?

1 Corinthians 1 Corinthians 15:33-34; 15:33-34; 1 Timothy 1 Timothy

4:124:12

Crossroads of Life

Be faithful to the end?

Matthew Matthew 10:22; 10:22;

Hebrews Hebrews 10:36; 10:36;

2 2 Timothy Timothy

4:7-84:7-8Don’t stop doing what you can do?

2 Cor. 4:16 2 Cor. 4:16 Psalm 71:16 Psalm 71:16

Titus 2:2-3Titus 2:2-3

“Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my anxieties; and see if there is any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”(Psalm 139:23-24)

Crossroads of Life

Crossroads of Life

Jesus is theWay to life

John 14:6John 14:6John 8:12John 8:12

Which road Which road will you will you take?take?