Text: Deuteronomy 30:10-20

• Introduction:
  • Historical setting of the text
  • Significance of the text based on past reality                          Numbers 13-14
  • Future implications of the challenge at hand                           Joshua 1-6

1. God gives us help to make wise choices
   1. God seeks to make His Word available to help us                   Deuteronomy 30:10-16
   2. Hearing God’s truth is only the first step                                   Matthew 7:24-27
   3. We choose what we do with God’s truth                                    Romans 1:18-20; James 1:19-25
2. God gives us warnings about our options regarding His Word
   1. God gives us His expectations and benefits                              Deuteronomy 30:16-18;  Joshua 24
   2. God gives us the reality of the options & the consequences   Deuteronomy 30:17-18; Matthew 7:24-27; Romans 1:20-25
   3. God gives us real truth, with a real volition to make our own real options
3. Our response to God’s truth determines our experience of it           Deuteronomy 30:19-20
   1. We choose if we listen to the truth of God available                 Acts 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
   2. We choose how we respond to the truth of God                       Acts 7, 8, 9, 10, 11
   3. We choose how we live in regard to the truth of God we have           Romans 1:26-32
   4. We choose our experience of God’s promises daily                  Joshua 24:14-28
   5. God is sovereign in the fact that He declared it to be so beforehand

• Action Points:
  • What choices am I making for myself about how I receive God’s truth
  • What choices am I making for myself about how I am responding to God’s truth
  • What choices am I making for myself about my future experience of God in my life
  • What do I need to change in order to submit more to the sovereignty of God in my life?