What is the most important decision you will have to make in life?

[Robert Gwin]

What is the most important decision you will ever have to make? I would imagine that many would answer this question differently. No doubt those who are Christian would say, the decision to serve God. If you feel that way then you are very well aware of your Spiritual need Mat 5:3


If you have made that decision, keep a regular schedule of Bible reading and study, and your love for Jehovah will grow, and your faith in Him will become stronger. Put Him first in your life, and you will never regret it.

satan does not want you to do this, he promised Eve that if she used her own talents for herself, she would be happy, yet the Bible clearly states that if you focus on material goals you will actually stab yourself all over with many pains 1 Tim 6:9, 10. Have you ever known anyone who has done that?

 

[Bob Estey]

What is the most important decision you will ever have to make? I would imagine that many would answer this question differently. No doubt those who are Christian would say, the decision to serve God. If you feel that way then you are very well aware of your Spiritual need Mat 5:3


If you have made that decision, keep a regular schedule of Bible reading and study, and your love for Jehovah will grow, and your faith in Him will become stronger. Put Him first in your life, and you will never regret it.

satan does not want you to do this, he promised Eve that if she used her own talents for herself, she would be happy, yet the Bible clearly states that if you focus on material goals you will actually stab yourself all over with many pains 1 Tim 6:9, 10. Have you ever known anyone who has done that?

The most important decision would be to walk with the Lord, but another important one is to hang on to one's virginity till one is lawfully married.

 

[Wrangler]

The most important decision anyone has to make, the most basic decision, is the decision to THINK.

To not be driven by one's emotions, peer pressure, coercion or propaganda, like NPC (meme), etc. Socrates said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." Truer words were never spoken! Scripture puts it this way, OT = You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart; NT = Ask and You Shall Receive. What to ask is the question and that requires more than a modicum of thought.

There is another thread on Truth. Such queries require the choice to think. It begs the question, how do we know what is true? And given this truth, what action should we take? But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD. Joshua 24:15

 

[Robert Gwin]

The most important decision would be to walk with the Lord, but another important one is to hang on to one's virginity till one is lawfully married.

We agree that is the most important decision on can make, and as you know your secondary statement is paramount to that sir. Of course most of us miss the mark on that, I know I sure did. Another reason we can be so very thankful for the ransom sacrifice.

 

[Pearl]

We agree that is the most important decision on can make, and as you know your secondary statement is paramount to that sir. Of course most of us miss the mark on that, I know I sure did. Another reason we can be so very thankful for the ransom sacrifice.

Many of us lost our virginity before we were born again.

 

[Robert Gwin]

The most important decision anyone has to make, the most basic decision, is the decision to THINK.

To not be driven by one's emotions, peer pressure, coercion or propaganda, like NPC (meme), etc. Socrates said, "The unexamined life is not worth living." Truer words were never spoken! Scripture puts it this way, OT = You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart; NT = Ask and You Shall Receive. What to ask is the question and that requires more than a modicum of thought.

There is another thread on Truth. Such queries require the choice to think. It begs the question, how do we know what is true? And given this truth, what action should we take? But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD. Joshua 24:15

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I agree with your finish Wrangler, like you I feel that the most important decision we can make is to serve Jehovah as said Joshua at 24:15

 

[Wrangler]

I agree with your finish Wrangler, like you I feel that the most important decision we can make is to serve Jehovah as said Joshua at 24:15

My church has been big lately about the idea of acting with INTENTION.

Serving can be like a log going down the river, just kind of going with the flow. Or serving can be intentional, which requires will, which requires a firm decision, which requiring thinking about how one will conduct themselves in life.

 

[Pearl]

My church has been big lately about the idea of acting with INTENTION.

Serving can be like a log going down the river, just kind of going with the flow. Or serving can be intentional, which requires will, which requires a firm decision, which requiring thinking about how one will conduct themselves in life.

Serving can be great or small. Serving can be front of house or back stage. Serving can be seen or invisible.

 

[Brakelite]

What is the most important decision you will have to make in life?

To die.

 

[Robert Gwin]

Many of us lost our virginity before we were born again.

I wonder about that maam, I truly do not know, but no doubt God holds that exclusive class to a much higher degree I would imagine. If you were in God's shoes would you select someone to be a King or Priest over others in His Kingdom who was a serious sinner? Remember, one of the most favored persons, who was given many privileges but who sinned seriously was not allowed the privilege of building the temple, or how about Moses who took credit for bringing water from the rock, was not allowed to enter into the promised land.

Like I said, I do not know, but it seems unlikely to me.

 

[Robert Gwin]

My church has been big lately about the idea of acting with INTENTION.

Serving can be like a log going down the river, just kind of going with the flow. Or serving can be intentional, which requires will, which requires a firm decision, which requiring thinking about how one will conduct themselves in life.

All of course are expected to serve in the Congregation Wrangler, I think Jesus made that rather clear with his parable of the talents.

 

[Pearl]

Many of us lost our virginity before we were born again.

I wonder about that maam, I truly do not know, but no doubt God holds that exclusive class to a much higher degree I would imagine. If you were in God's shoes would you select someone to be a King or Priest over others in His Kingdom who was a serious sinner? Remember, one of the most favored persons, who was given many privileges but who sinned seriously was not allowed the privilege of building the temple, or how about Moses who took credit for bringing water from the rock, was not allowed to enter into the promised land.

Like I said, I do not know, but it seems unlikely to me.

What do you actually mean @Robert Gwin I do not know what you are getting at. I am not 'a serious sinner' as you imply. Do you really expect everybody to keep their virginity in tact until they become Christians? How silly.

I was married before I became a Christian- so DUH I wasn't a virgin. So where is that a sin? And when I became a Christian ALL my sin was forgiven and forgotten by God. And he loves me.

And his Holy spirit lives in me.

Can you say the same?

 

[Jay Ross]

All of course are expected to serve in the Congregation Wrangler, I think Jesus made that rather clear with his parable of the talents.

Oh Robert, you probably have the wrong main character in this parable. The Good and Faithful servants are Satan's agents while he is in the Bottomless pit and the Parable make this very clear because when he is released from the Bottomless Pit he tell the servant who would not oppress his neighbours that he, Satan, could not have the harvest because he was not responsible for tending the ground or watering the seeds or even scattering the seeds so that they would grow and produce heavy heads of new growth, 30, 60 or even 100 times what was initially scattered.

The JW are not the only denomination where this miss use of the parable of the Talents has been used by the "teacher" within those denominations.

You also, as a JW teacher, are miss using this parable to bring about the wrong outcome. I have no desire to to join in Satan's Joy, because we know that his final place with be in the Lake of Fire.

 

[Pearl]

Most important decision I made is to let go and let God.

 

[Robert Gwin]

What do you actually mean @Robert Gwin I do not know what you are getting at. I am not 'a serious sinner' as you imply. Do you really expect everybody to keep their virginity in tact until they become Christians? How silly.

I was married before I became a Christian- so DUH I wasn't a virgin. So where is that a sin? And when I became a Christian ALL my sin was forgiven and forgotten by God. And he loves me.

And his Holy spirit lives in me.

Can you say the same?

My apologies maam, as a moron I didn't even contemplate that, as I lost mine way prior to marriage, and relating what you said basically to mine, and the vast majority of individuals to losing theirs out of wedlock. I certainly deserve the DUH, and am trying to pry my foot out of my mouth.

I use the term serious sins for sins that if practiced, will nullify one from inheriting the Kingdom of God 1 Cor 6:9-10 but those certainly can be forgiven v11.

In saying what I did, I wasn't even thinking that I was implying you were a serious sinner, but I certainly see how that was so, I truly appreciate you bringing that to my attention, and will do my utmost to think things through better before I respond, however a bit of warning in advance, it is hard for an old dawg to change his ways, but keep reminding me if I get out of line, that is the best way for an individual to improve, you truly are a Pearl maam.

 

[Pearl]

My apologies maam, as a moron I didn't even contemplate that, as I lost mine way prior to marriage, and relating what you said basically to mine, and the vast majority of individuals to losing theirs out of wedlock. I certainly deserve the DUH, and am trying to pry my foot out of my mouth.

I use the term serious sins for sins that if practiced, will nullify one from inheriting the Kingdom of God 1 Cor 6:9-10 but those certainly can be forgiven v11.

In saying what I did, I wasn't even thinking that I was implying you were a serious sinner, but I certainly see how that was so, I truly appreciate you bringing that to my attention, and will do my utmost to think things through better before I respond, however a bit of warning in advance, it is hard for an old dawg to change his ways, but keep reminding me if I get out of line, that is the best way for an individual to improve, you truly are a Pearl maam.

@Robert Gwin
Thank you Robert. You are a star and the first paragraph of your post made me laugh. Be blessed by the LORD.

 

[Philip James]

What is the most important decision you will have to make in life?

'Choose Life therefore that you might live'

Pax et Bonum

Christ is risen!
Alleluia!

 

[Robert Gwin]

Oh Robert, you probably have the wrong main character in this parable. The Good and Faithful servants are Satan's agents while he is in the Bottomless pit and the Parable make this very clear because when he is released from the Bottomless Pit he tell the servant who would not oppress his neighbours that he, Satan, could not have the harvest because he was not responsible for tending the ground or watering the seeds or even scattering the seeds so that they would grow and produce heavy heads of new growth, 30, 60 or even 100 times what was initially scattered.

The JW are not the only denomination where this miss use of the parable of the Talents has been used by the "teacher" within those denominations.

You also, as a JW teacher, are miss using this parable to bring about the wrong outcome. I have no desire to to join in Satan's Joy, because we know that his final place with be in the Lake of Fire.

As the parable stated sir, the truth will be known in the judgment.

 

[Jay Ross]

As the parable stated sir, the truth will be known in the judgment.

Yes, and that judgement is still over 1,000 years into our future at the final judgement.

If our understanding is wrong about the parable of the Talents, then what else do we have wrong with respect to other parts of the scriptures.

You also teach that Christ was given dominion over the earth in 1914 and that at that time he was given a grown. It is my understanding that you are probably out in this understanding by around 130 years as Satan, the beasts and the Little horn are all still active on the face of the earth today and they are preparing for the time when they will be judged and locked up in a cistern/pit for many days to await the time of their punishment in the Lake of fire when their good and faithful servants will become active to oppose the people of the earth from entering into relationship with God in his everlasting kingdom.

Now I may probably see the judgement of the heavenly hosts of Satan the beasts and the Little Horn at the same time as the kings of the earth are judged on the earth in our near future, as I am nearing the time that is set for me to die, and again my understanding is that that will happen in around 22 years time, but I know that I am already seeing the signs of the kings of the earth being drawn towards being assembled at a single place to be judged, because the whole earth has witnessed the sign and wonders that herald the beginning of the drawing of the kings of the earth to the time of their judgement.

This judgement will confirm that I am right in my understanding and that the going away of the "man" will commence.

Oh well, we will see this unfolding in the near future judgement.

 

[Robert Gwin]

@Robert Gwin
Thank you Robert. You are a star and the first paragraph of your post made me laugh. Be blessed by the LORD.

Thank you maam!