Crossroads of Life 1 Crossroads of our Lives

Crossroads of Life 1

Crossroads of our Lives Show me Your ways, O LORD; Teach me Your paths. Lead me in Your truth and teach me, For You are the God of my salvation; On You I wait all the day. (Psalm 25: 4 -5) 2

Joshua 24: 15 1 Kings 18: 21 Matt. 7: 13 -14 Jeremiah 6: 16 7: 23 -24 Which Road will we Choose? 3

Crossroads of our Lives Ponder the path of your feet, And let all your ways be established. Do not turn to the right or the left; Remove your foot from evil. (Prov. 4: 26 -27) 4

Isaiah 35: 8 Matt. 7: 14 Highway of Holiness Paths before Us Jer. 6: 16 (42: 3) 5

Highway of Holiness Ps 16: 11 You will show me the path of life; In Your presence is fullness of joy; At Your right hand are pleasures forevermore. Ps 23: 3 He restores my soul; He leads me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake. Ps 25: 10 All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth, To such as keep His covenant and His testimonies. 6

Highway of Holiness Ps 119: 35 Make me walk in the path of Your commandments, For I delight in it. Pr 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. Pr 2: 20 So you may walk in the way of goodness, And keep to the paths of righteousness. 7

Highway of Holiness Pr 4: 11 I have taught you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in right paths. Isa 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. 8

Highway of Holiness Isa 26: 7 The way of the just is uprightness; O Most Upright, You weigh the path of the just. Isa 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. 9

Highway of Holiness CHOICE: Heb 12: 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be dislocated, but rather be healed. 10

Matthew 7: 13 Way of Destruction Paths before Us Jer. 6: 16 (42: 3) 11

Ps 1: 1 Blessed is the man Who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, Nor stands in the path Way of Destruction of sinners, Nor sits in the seat of the scornful; Pr 2: 15 Whose ways are crooked, And who are devious in their paths; Pr 12: 15 The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, But he who heeds counsel is wise. 12

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

Way of Destruction CHOICE: Eph 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 mind… 14

Acts 2: 36 -38, 41; 4: 4; 8: 35 -39 Obey the gospel; be a Christian? Acts 13: 45; 17: 32 Reject the gospel & be lost? Crossroads of Life 15

Eph. 2: 1 -2 Romans 6: 1 -2, 4 -6 Live in sin? 1 Pet. 4: 1 -4 James 4: 4 2 Pet. 2: 9 -10 1 Pet. 2: 9 -12 Live above sin? Crossroads of Life 16

Lk. 14: 25 -33 Lk. 9: 23 Pay the price, or turn away? Ezra 10: 1 -4 2 Cor. 2: 9; 7: 9 -11 Turn away? (family…favor… promotion… pleasure…leisure) Crossroads of Life 17

Eccl. 11: 912: 1 Remember God when young? 1 Cor. 15: 33 -34; 1 Tim. 4: 12 Forget God until later? Crossroads of Life 18

Matt. 10: 22; Heb. 10: 36; 2 Tim. 4: 7 -8 Be faithful to the end? 2 Cor. 4: 16; Psa. 71: 16; Titus 2: 2 -3 Stop doing what you can? Crossroads of Life 19

Crossroads of our Lives 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. (Psa. 139: 23 -24) 20

Jno. 14: 6 Jno. 8: 12 Jesus is the Way to Life Which road will you take? Crossroads of Life 21