Free choice is not something new.
In the garden of Eden, God gave Adam and Eve free choice: the freedom to make a choice of their own freewill. And with their free choice, what did they do? They chose to eat from the tree that God had warned them not to touch. But they did it anyway!
In so doing, Adam and Eve opened a floodgate of evil that not only contaminated themselves and their children, but evil that has contaminated the entire human race, even to this day.
If we will stand up and look back across the ages of human history to Adam and Eve, what do we see? We see a trail of evil that has been in man ever since that day, and the evidence is the behavior of people killing and destroying the lives of people because of the free choice that God has given to people.. It is therefore difficult to see all the good things that many people have accomplished because evil has overshadowed all of the good works of many people.
When we look across the earth now, what do we see? We see the evidence of that same trail of evil, with people killing and destroying the lives of people, because of the free choice that God has given to people.
It is difficult to find a peaceful place upon the earth today. It is also difficult to find peaceful people. Evil, even now, is in every family, every community, every town, city, state, and nation across the earth.
In a passage of the Bible known as the Lord's Prayer, Jesus said, deliver us from evil.
Because of Christ, God gives us another option within the free choice He has given to us. We can choose Christ and be delivered from evil, or we can reject His mercy and grace and remain in evil.
As Christians, we have accepted Christ for our deliverance from evil; and even though we remain within this evil world, this does not mean that we will not touch evil things. We must choose each day, and even by each moment, not to explore the world of evil and go back to a life of evil ways.
When people, however, dabble with evil, they will bring evil upon themselves and upon their children, just like Adam and Eve did in the garden of evil. We should therefore listen to God and do not touch evil, nor explore it just a little bit.
Again, we are warned by the Word of the Lord:
Abstain from all appearance of evil. (I Thessalonians 5: 22)
In the garden of Eden, God gave Adam and Eve free choice: the freedom to make a choice of their own freewill. And with their free choice, what did they do? They chose to eat from the tree that God had warned them not to touch. But they did it anyway!
In so doing, Adam and Eve opened a floodgate of evil that not only contaminated themselves and their children, but evil that has contaminated the entire human race, even to this day.
If we will stand up and look back across the ages of human history to Adam and Eve, what do we see? We see a trail of evil that has been in man ever since that day, and the evidence is the behavior of people killing and destroying the lives of people because of the free choice that God has given to people.. It is therefore difficult to see all the good things that many people have accomplished because evil has overshadowed all of the good works of many people.
When we look across the earth now, what do we see? We see the evidence of that same trail of evil, with people killing and destroying the lives of people, because of the free choice that God has given to people.
It is difficult to find a peaceful place upon the earth today. It is also difficult to find peaceful people. Evil, even now, is in every family, every community, every town, city, state, and nation across the earth.
In a passage of the Bible known as the Lord's Prayer, Jesus said, deliver us from evil.
Because of Christ, God gives us another option within the free choice He has given to us. We can choose Christ and be delivered from evil, or we can reject His mercy and grace and remain in evil.
As Christians, we have accepted Christ for our deliverance from evil; and even though we remain within this evil world, this does not mean that we will not touch evil things. We must choose each day, and even by each moment, not to explore the world of evil and go back to a life of evil ways.
When people, however, dabble with evil, they will bring evil upon themselves and upon their children, just like Adam and Eve did in the garden of evil. We should therefore listen to God and do not touch evil, nor explore it just a little bit.
Again, we are warned by the Word of the Lord:
Abstain from all appearance of evil. (I Thessalonians 5: 22)
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