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All right, let's grab our Bibles and turn to Luke chapter 8. We're going through the gospel of Luke in a new series

that we're calling the gospel for everyone. And the title of this message is,

The Choice That Changes Everything. Let me start with a question. Why do some succeed

while others fail in the Christian life? And we know people that have walked with the Lord

for years. They have a wonderful, spiritually fruitful relationship with Christ, and we know others

that have crashed and burned. Here's the answer. The answer may surprise you. People fail because they choose to. Oh, it's not a

single choice. It's thousands and thousands of choices made over a long period of time. And in fact,

life has one long string of choices. And a lot of them happen before 9 o'clock in the morning.

It starts with your alarm going off. Are you going to get up or are you going to hit the snooze button? Are you going to

have a healthy breakfast or an unhealthy breakfast? Then it comes on to what you're going to wear.

I don't think guys struggle with this as much as the ladies do. In fact, some guys should struggle with it more. But, you know, you figure out, I'm going to

wear this today, and now you get in your vehicle and you're on the way to school or to work,

and as you're making your way over there, you decide what am I going to listen to, what

I'm going to put on the radio, or what

podcast will I listen to. And then you get to the weekend, and the question comes up, are we

going to church or are we not going to go to church? These choices matter. Why? Because you make

your choices, and your choices make you.

And by not choosing spiritual growth, we in effect choose spiritual decline.

You choose which way you're going to go.

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