{"id":2018,"date":"2014-12-21T05:27:37","date_gmt":"2014-12-21T11:27:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=2018"},"modified":"2014-12-21T21:36:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-22T03:36:49","slug":"the-undecided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=2018","title":{"rendered":"The Undecided"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kings 1 18:17-24<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our world is in a state of indecision. Christianity limps thru the spiritual marked shopping, but never giving a verdict. Even when the sentence is passed, the penalty is nonely carried out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I: &#8220;How long halt we between his options?&#8221; verse 21.<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. Elijah faced three kings of people; those sold out to God (very few) the servants of God (many) and a multitude of undecided.<br \/>\n2. Elijah addressed himself to the undecided.<br \/>\n3. The undecided were crippled!<br \/>\n4. They were trying to stay on the good side of Baal and God.<br \/>\n5. The undecided looked back more than forward.They have put their hands in the plow but are plowing a crooked row!<br \/>\n6. To them, religion was a matter of opinion, not conviction.<br \/>\n7. We chance our opinions, but our convictions change us!<br \/>\n8. A way of life that is not fit to die by is not worth living with!<\/p>\n<p><strong>II: &#8220;If the Lord be God.&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. Bring your limping to an end! Indecision will kill it.<br \/>\n2. Hot or cold? Lukewarm people makes even God want to vomit. <strong>Revelations 3:16<\/strong>.<br \/>\n3. We can get just enough religion to make us miserable.<br \/>\n4. No man that has tasted of the waters of God spiritual spring can be satisfied with a cistern full of wiggle tails!<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: &#8220;To whom shall we go?&#8221;<br \/>\n<\/strong>1. The crows had gone away.<br \/>\n2. Jesus asked, &#8220;Will ye also go away?&#8221;<br \/>\n3. Peter asked, &#8220;To whom shall we go?&#8221; <strong>John 6:67-68<\/strong>.<br \/>\n4. Victory comes when our minds are yielded to God&#8217;s will for us.<br \/>\n5. We ought to decide who has the best program for life and death, time and eternity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;All to Jesus I surrender. All to Him I freely give.&#8221; Time, Talent, Tithe.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Valli-vista Baptist &#8211; February 1974<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kings 1 18:17-24 Our world is in a state of indecision. Christianity limps thru the spiritual marked shopping, but never giving a verdict. Even when the sentence is passed, the penalty is nonely carried out. I: &#8220;How long halt we between his options?&#8221; verse 21. 1. Elijah faced three kings of people; those sold out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2018"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2021,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2018\/revisions\/2021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}