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Athey Creek | Audio Podcast

Love The Lord Your God by Brett Meador

Athey Creek | Audio Podcast

Athey Creek Christian Fellowship

Athey Creek, Jesus, Pdx, Scripture, Religion & Spirituality, Through The Bible, Bible Teaching, Portland, Oregon, Christianity, Day By Day, Brett Meador, Church, West Linn

4.9771 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

One of the Pharisees thinks he has finally come up with the ultimate question to trap Jesus when he asks which commandment is the most important. As Jesus answers this question in Matthew 22:34-40, we see the importance of love and why choosing to love God is the biggest and best decision we will ever make.

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0:00.0

I want you grab your Bible and turn with me to Matthew chapter 22.

0:08.0

During World War II, it was Winston Churchill, who was faced with a difficult decision.

0:16.0

You know, the British intelligence, their secret service had just broken the Nazi code and informed

0:23.4

the Winston Churchill that the Germans were going to bomb a little place called Coventry.

0:29.9

But the problem was his alternatives were, number one, do you evacuate the citizens and save hundreds

0:36.0

of lives at the expense of indicating

0:39.3

to the Germans that their code was broken? They would have known that if he'd evacuate the town.

0:46.5

The second alternative was to take no action, which would maybe end up killing hundreds in the town

0:51.4

of Coventry, but the information would continue to flow, and the British

0:56.9

would possibly save many more lives. And as it turns out, Churchill chose the second option.

1:05.7

More than 400 people died in Coventry from that bombing, which was heartbreaking. And it was a

1:10.8

controversial decision, of course. But in retrospect, as we look back on people died in Coventry from that bombing, which was heartbreaking. And it was a controversial

1:11.2

decision, of course. But in retrospect, as we look back on history, he was not only able to save

1:16.7

tens of thousands of lives, but they kept the information from the Germans flowing. And it would be

1:21.1

one of the things that would ultimately help lead to the end of the war. And it was, you know, in retrospect, turned out to be the right decision.

1:29.9

But that's the thing about decisions.

1:31.9

When you make a decision, you don't always know if you're making the right decision.

1:36.4

And, you know, time will tell and stuff like that.

1:38.9

But we're faced with making decisions every day.

1:42.0

Some of them seem like no big deal.

1:43.6

You chose to come to the 10 o'clock

1:45.2

service today. You got up out of bed. That's great. You chose to get up out of bed and you chose

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