Title: UNCONVENTIONAL CHOICE
"God uses unlikely people, to accomplish unlikely tasks, in unconventional ways!"
Are YOU His next UNCONVENTIONAL CHOICE?
John 15:16. “You did not choose Me, but I chose you. I appointed you that you should go out and produce fruit and that your fruit should remain, so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you.”
2 Timothy 2:20-23 “Now in a large house there are not only gold and silver bowls, but also those of wood and clay, some for honorable use, some for dishonorable. So if anyone purifies himself from anything dishonorable, he will be a special instrument, set apart, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work. Flee from youthful passions, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart. But reject foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they breed quarrels.”
Is there such a thing as an almost Christian? -Someone who is almost saved -almost living for Christ
Almost will- not put you in right standing with God. Almost will- allow you to miss the greatest transformation of your life. Almost will-prevent you from being the Unconventional Choice that God desires to use.
How to become an UNCONVENTIONAL CHOICE for God to use:
V. 21- “So if anyone purifies himself from anything dishonorable, he will be a special instrument, set apart, useful to the Master, prepared for every good work.”
Romans 16:17- “Now I urge you, brothers, to watch out for those who cause dissensions and obstacles contrary to the doctrine you have learned. Avoid them,” 2 Timothy 3:1-5. "But know this: Difficult times will come in the last days. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good, traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to the form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid these people!” Ephesians 5:11 “Don’t participate in the fruitless works of darkness, but instead expose them.” How will the world know we are an unconventional choice for God, if we are no different than the world?
V. 22 “Flee from youthful passions, and pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace, along with those who call on the Lord from a pure heart.” 1 Corinthians 13:11 “When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put aside childish things.”
V. 23 “But reject foolish and ignorant disputes, knowing that they breed quarrels.” "Ignore the stuff and ignore the people that does not benefit your qualifications."