Our choices and the actions that follow them will determine our destiny.

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Our choices and the actions that follow
them will determine our destiny.

• Self deception is far easier than most realize!
  (Gal 67-8)

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Our choices and the actions that follow
them will determine our destiny.

• Galatians 67-8 (NKJV) - Do not be deceived, God
  is not mocked for whatever a man sows, that he
  will also reap. 8For he who sows to his flesh
  will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who
  sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap
  everlasting life.

3
Our choices and the actions that follow
them will determine our destiny.

• It is very possible to know a principle of
  righteousness but then "reason" in such a way as
  to not apply it to yourself.

4
Our choices and the actions that follow
them will determine our destiny.

• We can become overconfident because we have
  hidden things from those around us or even worse
  have surrounded ourselves with people who dare
  not cross us!

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Our choices and the actions that follow
them will determine our destiny.

• We can become overconfident because we have
  hidden things from those around us or even worse
  have surrounded ourselves with people who dare
  not cross us!
• The lesson of Judas is one of destiny. How did he
  end up where he did?

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Our choices and the actions that follow
them will determine our destiny.

• We can become overconfident because we have
  hidden things from those around us or even worse
  have surrounded ourselves with people who dare
  not cross us!
• The lesson of Judas is one of destiny. How did he
  end up where he did?
• After the ascension of Jesus the first order of
  business was to replace Judas. (Acts 115-17)

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Our choices and the actions that follow
them will determine our destiny.

• Acts 115-17 (NKJV) - And in those days Peter
  stood up in the midst of the disciples
  (altogether the number of names was about a
  hundred and twenty), and said, 16Men and
  brethren, this Scripture had to be fulfilled,
  which the Holy Spirit spoke before by the mouth
  of David concerning Judas, who became a guide to
  those who arrested Jesus 17 for he was numbered
  with us and obtained a part in this ministry.

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Our choices and the actions that follow
them will determine our destiny.

• Very pointedly the destiny of Judas was stated.
  (Acts 124-25)

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Our choices and the actions that follow
them will determine our destiny.

• Acts 124-25 (NKJV) - And they prayed and said,
  You, O Lord, who know the hearts of all, show
  which of these two You have chosen 25to take part
  in this ministry and apostleship from which Judas
  by transgression fell, that he might go to his
  own place.

10
Our choices and the actions that follow
them will determine our destiny.

• And so it will be true with us that we go to our
  "own place." Where will it be?

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What kind of man was Judas?

• Was Judas a puppet of God or did he make a choice?

12
What kind of man was Judas?

• Was Judas a puppet of God or did he make a
  choice?
• God knew that there would be a betrayer before
  Judas was born. (Zech 1112 Psa 419)

13
What kind of man was Judas?

• Zechariah 1112 (NKJV) - Then I said to them, If
  it is agreeable to you, give me my wages and if
  not, refrain. So they weighed out for my wages
  thirty pieces of silver.

14
What kind of man was Judas?

• Psalm 419 (NKJV) - Even my own familiar friend
  in whom I trusted, Who ate my bread, Has lifted
  up his heel against me.

15
What kind of man was Judas?

• Judas demonstrated his character long before he
  betrayed Jesus. (Jn 124-6)

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What kind of man was Judas?

• John 124-6 (NKJV) - But one of His disciples,
  Judas Iscariot, Simons son, who would betray
  Him, said, 5 Why was this fragrant oil not sold
  for three hundred denarii and given to the poor?
  6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor,
  but because he was a thief, and had the money
  box and he used to take what was put in it.

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What kind of man was Judas?

• God did not make Judas evil but rather chose to
  put an evil man there for His own means.

18
What kind of man was Judas?

• God did not make Judas evil but rather chose to
  put an evil man there for His own means.
• How could Judas then be blamed by God?

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What kind of man was Judas?

• God did not make Judas evil but rather chose to
  put an evil man there for His own means.
• How could Judas then be blamed by God?
• If the event was determined, then how could Judas
  be blamed? (Lk 2221-22)

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What kind of man was Judas?

• Luke 2221-22 (NKJV) - But behold, the hand of
  My betrayer is with Me on the table. 22 And truly
  the Son of Man goes as it has been determined,
  but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed!

21
What kind of man was Judas?

• Judas was used the same way God used Pharaoh.
  (Rom 917-19)

22
What kind of man was Judas?

• Romans 917-19 (NKJV) - For the Scripture says
  to the Pharaoh, For this very purpose I have
  raised you up, that I may show My power in you,
  and that My name may be declared in all the
  earth. 18 Therefore He has mercy on whom He
  wills, and whom He wills He hardens. 19 You will
  say to me then, Why does He still find fault?
  For who has resisted His will?

23
What kind of man was Judas?

• How does God harden hearts?

24
What kind of man was Judas?

• How does God harden hearts?
• Does he take a good man and make him a bad one
  and then send him to hell?

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What kind of man was Judas?

• How does God harden hearts?
• Does he take a good man and make him a bad one
  and then send him to hell?
• Consider how God hardened Pharaoh

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What kind of man was Judas?

• How does God harden hearts?
• Does he take a good man and make him a bad one
  and then send him to hell?
• Consider how God hardened Pharaoh
• He made demands of a proud man. His reaction was
  predictable "You cannot tell me what to do!

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What kind of man was Judas?

• He did not punish immediately. Pharaoh then
  though he could get away.

28
What kind of man was Judas?

• He allowed Pharaoh to go the wrong way. If God
  does not dominate our lives, sin will. (2 Tim
  313)

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What kind of man was Judas?

• 2 Timothy 313 (NKJV) - But evil men and
  impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving
  and being deceived.

30
Judas went to the place he choose.

• Did Judas choose to go to hell?

31
Judas went to the place he choose.

• Did Judas choose to go to hell?
• He did not verbally or directly think that he was.

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Judas went to the place he choose.

• Did Judas choose to go to hell?
• He did not verbally or directly think that he
  was.
• As Joshua pointed out to Israel, your actions
  will choose a destiny. (Josh 2415)

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Judas went to the place he choose.

• Joshua 2415 (NKJV) 15And if it seems evil to you
  to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves this day
  whom you will serve, whether the gods which your
  fathers served that were on the other side of the
  River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land
  you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will
  serve the LORD.

34
Judas went to the place he choose.

• He chose a course of action in which the only
  result would be punishment by God.

35
Judas went to the place he choose.

• This is how the majority of the world chooses
  hell.

36
Judas went to the place he choose.

• This is how the majority of the world chooses
  hell.
• Did Adam and Eve say "Let us be cast out of the
  garden and die!

37
Judas went to the place he choose.

• This is how the majority of the world chooses
  hell.
• Did Adam and Eve say "Let us be cast out of the
  garden and die!
• Did Lot want the fate his family experienced? He
  still made a choice! (Gen 1310-11)

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Judas went to the place he choose.

• Genesis 1310-11 (NKJV) - And Lot lifted his
  eyes and saw all the plain of Jordan, that it was
  well watered everywhere (before the LORD
  destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah) like the garden of
  the LORD, like the land of Egypt as you go toward
  Zoar. 11Then Lot chose for himself all the plain
  of Jordan, and Lot journeyed east. And they
  separated from each other.

39
Judas went to the place he choose.

• Did king David want the misery that plagued him
  the latter part of his life?

40
Judas went to the place he choose.

• Did king David want the misery that plagued him
  the latter part of his life?
• Pilate was a man of poor character suited for the
  role he would play.

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Judas went to the place he choose.

• Did king David want the misery that plagued him
  the latter part of his life?
• Pilate was a man of poor character suited for the
  role he would play.
• Judas may have though he could do evil and bring
  about good and be right with God! (Rom 38)

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Judas went to the place he choose.

• Romans 38 (NKJV) - And why not say, Let us do
  evil that good may come?as we are slanderously
  reported and as some affirm that we say. Their
  condemnation is just.

43
Judas went to the place he choose.

• Moses made a choice to be with God. (Heb
  1124-26)

44
Judas went to the place he choose.

• Hebrews 1124-26 (NKJV) - By faith Moses, when
  he became of age, refused to be called the son of
  Pharaohs daughter, 25 choosing rather to suffer
  affliction with the people of God than to enjoy
  the passing pleasures of sin, 26 esteeming the
  reproach of Christ greater riches than the
  treasures in Egypt for he looked to the reward.

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Judas went to the place he choose.

• Consider destinies people choose.

46
Judas went to the place he choose.

• The drunkard never saw his end when he took that
  first drink rather he saw the drink! (Prov
  2331-32)

47
Judas went to the place he choose.

• Proverbs 2331-32 (NKJV) - Do not look on the
  wine when it is red, When it sparkles in the cup,
  When it swirls around smoothly 32 At the last it
  bites like a serpent, And stings like a viper.

48
Judas went to the place he choose.

• The drug addict never imagined the slavery that
  would follow.

49
Judas went to the place he choose.

• Parents who think more of their ideal of
  parenting than of God's will have a destiny.
  (Prov 101, 1725)

50
Judas went to the place he choose.

• Proverbs 101 (NKJV) -The proverbs of Solomon A
  wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son
  is the grief of his mother.

51
Judas went to the place he choose.

• Proverbs 1725 (NKJV) - A foolish son is a grief
  to his father, And bitterness to her who bore
  him.

52
Judas went to the place he choose.

• The Christian that soften stands on spiritual
  principles to find immediate relief from conflict
  but do not see the end result for the church. (1
  Cor 39-10)

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Judas went to the place he choose.

• 1 Corinthians 39-10 (NKJV) - For we are Gods
  fellow workers you are Gods field, you are
  Gods building. 10 According to the grace of God
  which was given to me, as a wise master builder I
  have laid the foundation, and another builds on
  it. But let each one take heed how he builds on
  it.

54
Judas was well suited for the place he went.

• Our lives and their destinies are not accidents.

55
Judas was well suited for the place he went.

• Our lives and their destinies are not accidents.
• There is a "fitness" concerning our destiny. (Lk
  962)

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Judas was well suited for the place he went.

• Luke 962 (NKJV) - But Jesus said to him, No
  one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking
  back, is fit for the kingdom of God.

57
Judas was well suited for the place he went.

• When one falls away and is marked they have made
  a choice in spite of God.

58
Judas was well suited for the place he went.

• When one falls away and is marked they have made
  a choice in spite of God.
• Who does not enter the kingdom? Consider the
  foolish virgins. (Mt 2510)

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Judas was well suited for the place he went.

• Matthew 2510 (NKJV) - And while they went to
  buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were
  ready went in with him to the wedding and the
  door was shut.

60
Judas was well suited for the place he went.

• What is your attitude about God and His gifts?

61
Judas was well suited for the place he went.

• Does worship bore you? This may be an indication
  that you are not fit for heaven?

62
Judas was well suited for the place he went.

• Does worship bore you? This may be an indication
  that you are not fit for heaven?
• Has the unseen become more important to you than
  the seen? Judas failed miserably here. (1 Tim
  66-10)

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Judas was well suited for the place he went.

• 1 Timothy 66-10 (NKJV) - Now godliness with
  contentment is great gain. 7For we brought
  nothing into this world, and it is certain we can
  carry nothing out. 8And having food and clothing,
  with these we shall be content. 9 But those who
  desire to be rich fall into temptation and a
  snare, and into many foolish and harmful lusts
  which drown men in destruction and perdition.

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Judas was well suited for the place he went.

• 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds
  of evil, for which some have strayed from the
  faith in their greediness, and pierced themselves
  through with many sorrows.

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Judas was well suited for the place he went.

• Our desire for heaven is not automatic! (Col 31)

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Judas was well suited for the place he went.

• Colossians 31 (NKJV) - If then you were raised
  with Christ, seek those things which are above,
  where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God.

67
Judas was well suited for the place he went.

• It takes work!

68
Judas was well suited for the place he went.

• It takes work!
• On the other hand Pharaoh did what he wanted to
  and went to the place that suited him. (Rom
  922-23)

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Judas was well suited for the place he went.

• Romans 922-23 (NKJV) - What if God, wanting to
  show His wrath and to make His power known,
  endured with much longsuffering the vessels of
  wrath prepared for destruction, 23 and that He
  might make known the riches of His glory on the
  vessels of mercy, which He had prepared
  beforehand for glory,

70
Judas went to the place Divine justice demanded.

• Divine justice is something the world does not
  want to think about.

71
Judas went to the place Divine justice demanded.

• Divine justice is something the world does not
  want to think about.
• God will render unto us according to the morality
  we choose. (2 Thess 16-9)

72
Judas went to the place Divine justice demanded.

• 2 Thessalonians 16-9 (NKJV) - since it is a
  righteous thing with God to repay with
  tribulation those who trouble you, 7and to give
  you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord
  Jesus is revealed from heaven with His mighty
  angels, 8in flaming fire taking vengeance on
  those who do not know God, and on those who do
  not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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Judas went to the place Divine justice demanded.

• 9 These shall be punished with everlasting
  destruction from the presence of the Lord and
  from the glory of His power,

74
Judas went to the place Divine justice demanded.

• Will God be fair? Yes!

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Judas went to the place Divine justice demanded.

• Will God be fair? Yes!
• Look at God's justice in our salvation.

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Judas went to the place Divine justice demanded.

• Will God be fair? Yes!
• Look at God's justice in our salvation.
• Look at what He did to save us. (Rom 323-25)

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Judas went to the place Divine justice demanded.

• Romans 323-25 (NKJV) - for all have sinned and
  fall short of the glory of God, 24 being
  justified freely by His grace through the
  redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God
  set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through
  faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because
  in His forbearance God had passed over the sins
  that were previously committed,

78
Judas went to the place Divine justice demanded.

• Will God's love overlook our sins?

79
Judas went to the place Divine justice demanded.

• Will God's love overlook our sins?
• What place have you chosen?

80
Judas went to the place Divine justice demanded.

• Will God's love overlook our sins?
• What place have you chosen?
• It is folly to say you are living one way today
  but will somehow find a different destiny!
  (Prov 126-33)

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Judas went to the place Divine justice demanded.

• Proverbs 126-33 (NKJV) - I also will laugh at
  your calamity I will mock when your terror
  comes, 27 When your terror comes like a storm,
  And your destruction comes like a whirlwind,
  When distress and anguish come upon you. 28 Then
  they will call on me, but I will not answer They
  will seek me diligently, but they will not find
  me.

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Judas went to the place Divine justice demanded.

• 29 Because they hated knowledge And did not
  choose the fear of the LORD, 30 They would have
  none of my counsel And despised my every rebuke.
  31 Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their
  own way, And be filled to the full with their own
  fancies. 32 For the turning away of the simple
  will slay them, And the complacency of fools will
  destroy them

83
Judas went to the place Divine justice demanded.

• 33 But whoever listens to me will dwell safely,
  And will be secure, without fear of evil.

84
Judas went to the place Divine justice demanded.

• How many who choose adultery return?

85
Judas went to the place Divine justice demanded.

• How many who choose adultery return?
• Sin is deceptive and powerful.

86
Judas went to the place Divine justice demanded.

• How many who choose adultery return?
• Sin is deceptive and powerful.
• When we daily choose God we will have a rich life
  free from the terrors of the hypocrites. (Prov
  281)

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Judas went to the place Divine justice demanded.

• Proverbs 281 (NKJV) - The wicked flee when no
  one pursues, But the righteous are bold as a lion.

88
Judas went to the place Divine justice demanded.

• Take one day at a time and deal with all issues
  as God's will dictates.

89
Judas went to the place Divine justice demanded.

• Take one day at a time and deal with all issues
  as God's will dictates.
• If we will slow down and chose rather than be so
  busy to do what comes naturally, we will find the
  Lord's way.