You Have A Choice... (salvation, sin, Jesus Christ, Israel)

[Verna Perry]

...to obey God, live in victory, enjoy His blessings and inherit life OR...to disobey God, live in defeat, forfeit His promises and be punished with everlasting destruction. Your will is a powerful force which determines the course of your life. No one can take it from you. Satan cannot cross the boundaries of your will. He cannot make you sin, neither does he have the power to stop you from obeying God. You alone are responsible for your actions. You alone have the power over your will.

"Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.." Romans 6:12-13.


When you rebel and disobey God it is because you CHOOSE to disobey God. No one can make you disobey Him. When you rebel and fail to walk in obedience to God's Word, it is not because you do not have the power over sin, or because you have no control over your actions. It is because you yield your will to disobey.

• You willfully reject God's will and assert your own will.
• You willfully reject His Word.
• You willfully oppose God and His authority.
• You willfully disregard the blood of Jesus Christ that has made it possible for you to have power over sin and walk in obedience to God.

In the garden of Eden, Adam and Eve had a choice...to obey God's command not to eat of the tree of the KOGAE, and enjoy the blessings that were theirs in the garden of Eden; OR to disobey God, forfeit their blessings and die. Satan had absolutely no power over them to make them disobey. Adam and Eve yielded their wills. They rebelled...they willfully chose to disobey.
The children of Israel were given a choice...to obey God's commandments and enjoy the blessings He had promised in the covenant; OR to disobey God, forfeit the promises and reap the curses. The children of Israel yielded their wills. They rebelled. They chose to disobey. They willfully turned their backs on God, rejected His voice and followed their own wills. Time after time God pleaded with Israel. Yet, they refused to hear Him; they hardened their hearts and chose instead to follow their own way. They rebelled. Instead of taking possession of their inheritance and blessings of God, they chose the curses and death.

Since the power of sin has been broken in our lives [by the shed blood of Jesus Christ] and we have been given power to obey, [by the shed blood of Jesus Christ] we must not allow sin to exert its power over us. Paul told the Romans, in essence, that "You have the power over sin; DO NOT allow sin to have dominion over you...to make you yield to it. You have the power over sin; stop yielding yourselves to sin and yield yourselves to God."

Paul was telling us that THE CHOICE IS OURS!

Since Satan has no power over our wills and cannot make us disobey God, his strategy is to gain control of our wills by tricking, tempting and deceiving us into yielding to him through disobedience. His strategy is to try to cause us to use our wills to REBEL...to oppose God, reject His will and assert our own wills against Him.
Satan knows that if he can cause us to walk in rebellion and disobedience our communication with God will be hindered, we will forfeit the covenant promises of God, live in defeat and reap the penalty of death. REFUSE TO LISTEN TO SATAN'S LIES!

God paid the ultimate price. He sent His only Son Who has made it possible for you to live a life of obedience:

"How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation..."
Heb.2:3.