WHO DO YOU FOLLOW?

2. WHO DO YOU FOLLOW? Musician/Group Sports Team/Athlete TV Show/Movie/Actor Video Game

3. MATTHEW 6:24 "No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.” NKJV

4. _________ FEAR Num 13:27-29 Then they told him, and said: "We went to the land where you sent us. It truly flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit. 28 Nevertheless the people who dwell in the land are strong; the cities are fortified and very large; moreover we saw the descendants of Anakthere. NKJV

5. _________ FEAR GOOD NEWS • ___________– fertile land, flowing with milk and honey • ___________– Large and strong people are living there BAD NEWS

6. Num 13:30-33 Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, "Let us go up at once and take possession, for we are well able to overcome it.”31 But the men who had gone up with him said, "We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we." 32 And they gave the children of Israel a bad report of the land which they had spied out, saying, "The land through which we have gone as spies is a land that devours its inhabitants, and all the people whom we saw in it are men of great stature. 33 There we saw the giants (the descendants of Anak came from the giants); and we were like grasshoppers in our own sight, and so we were in their sight."

7. FEAR GO • Caleb wanted to _____– obey God • The followers said ______ NO

8. NUMBERS 14:1-4 So all the congregation lifted up their voices and cried, and the people wept that night. 2 And all the children of Israel complained against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, "If only we had died in the land of Egypt! Or if only we had died in this wilderness! 3 Why has the Lord brought us to this land to fall by the sword, that our wives and children should become victims? Would it not be better for us to return to Egypt?" 4 So they said to one another, "Let us select a leader and return to Egypt."

9. THE RESPONSE – By Godly men Num 14:8-9 If the Lord delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, 'a land which flows with milk and honey.' 9 Only do not rebel against the Lord, nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread; their protection has departed from them, and the Lord is with us. Do not fear them." NKJV THE RESPONSE – By fearful men Num 14:10 And all the congregation said to stone them with stones. NKJV

10. Joshua 24:14-15 – 14 "Now therefore, fear the Lord, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the Lord! 15 And 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."

11. THE CHOICE OF ____________ SERVITUDE Matt 9:9 As Jesus passed on from there, He saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, "Follow Me.“ NKJV

12. THE CHOICE OF SERVITUDE FOLLOW ME • The proposition – _____________ or keep doing what you’re doing. Matt 9:9 …So he arose and followed Him. NKJV • The Decision – he ________ WENT

13. Matt 9:10-13 Now it happened, as Jesus sat at the table in the house, that behold, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat down with Him and His disciples. 11 And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to His disciples, "Why does your Teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?" 12 When Jesus heard that, He said to them, "Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. 13 But go and learn what this means: 'I desire mercy and not sacrifice.' For I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners, to repentance.“ NKJV

14. THE CHOICE OF SERVITUDE THE FINAL CHOICE • ______________________ ONE FINAL THOUGHT CHOOSE FAITH