Choosing Faith: The Power of Our Decisions

### Quotes for Outreach

1. "We make our choices and our choices make us. In other words, there's something you didn't have a choice over. I mean, let's acknowledge those first. You didn't choose to be born. You didn't choose where to be born or what time in history to be born or what country to be born in or who your parents would be. But you do choose how to live. And I'm saying to you, we make our choices and then our choices make us." [39:49] (25 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "I'm telling you, your life will be so much better if you'll follow God, follow Jesus, trust him. Now, that doesn't mean you're not going to have any problems. It will not solve all your problems, but it'll give you someone bigger than your problems. Amen. I'm preaching about 82% better than y'all are responding. Oh, a long time that we have said, it's not just church. Come on, preach it. It's not just church. It's life. And so every day, make the right choice and make every day count." [42:36] (32 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "If God is on your side, you got the advantage. Oh, the odds are in your favor if God's fighting for you. And he said, oh, you won these battles in Canaan in the promised land. Why? Because the Lord was fighting for you. If God be for you, who can be against you? The king of the universe has all these holy angels at his disposal. He can dispatch them to battle in your behalf, to keep you safe. I'm just telling you, God's fighting for you today." [45:15] (35 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "I'm telling you, if you've said, as for me and my house, God is for you and he's fighting for you. In fact, you just think about all the times that God fought for you. I wish I had time to preach it, but in Joshua 12, just make it a Joshua 12, it lists 31 kings that were defeated. And by it, it says one, it says King of Jericho, one King of Jerusalem, one King of AI, one. And it's like an Israel spreadsheet, one, one, one, one, one, and then it equals 31. And it's just like God's showing Joshua, I gave you 31 victories and the Canaanites won none. I fought these battles for you." [48:27] (44 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "I'm saying to you, I love her. She loves me. And we have a relationship. She said, I do. And I said, I do. And we do. Amen. And I'm just telling you, that's what it's like when you make a commitment to one another. And hear me, God wants you to make a commitment to him. And here's the verse I think that really describes it. John 14, 15, if you love me, keep my commandment. Here's how I heard that growing up. You better keep those commandments. You better keep it. You better keep the commandment. You better not break his commandment. You better love God. That's not what the verse says. The verse says, love me. And if you love me, you'll keep the commandment. And if you don't love him, you're never going to keep the commandment." [55:45] (49 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


### Quotes for Members

1. "And I started thinking about even what the secular world says about living longer. The secular world says, stop smoking. You'll add a lot of years to your life right there. Just stop smoking. Get a good night's sleep. Your brain can't function without getting proper sleep. Physical activity. A body in motion stays in motion. Manage stress. Avoid overeating. You can't avoid eating. You have to eat to live. And yet your diet has a lot to do with your health. Positive relationships. Let me tell you, the people you hang out with are like buttons on an elevator. They'll take you up or they'll take you down. And so positive relationships. Avoid drunkenness. I'm just telling you what the world says. This is what your doctor says or what the secular world says. You can get this online. Avoid drunkenness. Binge drinking will destroy your health. And I'm telling you, drunkenness and binge drinking will destroy more than your health. It'll destroy your family." [41:20] (56 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "Joshua 23, 11. So diligently watch yourselves. Love. See, that's the emphasis. Where's your love? Where's your loyalty? Love the Lord, your God. Verse 14. You know, with all of your heart and all of your soul, that none of the good promises, the Lord, your God made to you has failed. Everything was fulfilled. Not one promise has failed. And so you think about the promises of God and how he has worked in your life." [48:27] (26 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "And so I want you to know, if you're talking about legacy Everybody say legacy There is no success without a successor And you gotta think about your own family And your own legacy And I'm begging you right now Look at this Joseph in verse 32 He died He said when y'all leave Israel Don't leave my bones here You take my mummified body With you And when you get to the promised land You bury me there He knew it By faith he believed it And then it says about Eleazar In verse 33 That he died And he was buried One day you're gonna die And they're gonna do something With your bones and your remains And it's called a last will and testament What's your legacy going to be?" [01:04:01] (42 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "And it's important that you remember Look at where you are today And he rehearses and recounts for them Abraham's story Coming from Ur of the Chaldeans And then the story of Isaac The miracle birth at 100 For Abraham and 90 for Sarah And he talks about parting the Red Sea And parting the Jordan and Jericho And he told the story We've got to keep telling the stories Of what God has done in our life Did you know that the way that we started as a church That we were part of Bethel Baptist Up in York County And there was a flood And the flood wouldn't allow the members to get there So 38 members in Hampton got together And said we're going to start Little Bethel That was our name, Little Bethel 38 people And then they went over to Todd's Lane And changed the name to Liberty And then Pastor Wilder came And the church started growing They only had three acres And they were out of room So they relocated the church Found 50 acres on a peninsula Surrounded by water That's a miracle We got lots of water and very little land Bought the very first piece of property In the middle of seven pieces of property With no promise of getting the other But in faith they bought it And then the frontage Here on Big Bethel Road It was owned by two brothers One wanted to sell it to the church One didn't And the one who wanted to sell it to the church Became terminally ill And on his deathbed He begged his brother to sell the property To the church And they first built a gym And did set up and take down In the gym And then they did set up and take down In a dining hall And when Tammy and I came 18 years ago This was a gravel parking lot Long before we had this worship center here And I'm just telling you Oh, it's a miracle story And every campus has a miracle story And you have a miracle story Keep telling the stories Listen, whatever the blessing That you have received You ought to give God praise for it Here it is Psalm 115 verse 1 Not to us, O Lord He says it again Not to us But to your name Be the glory" [01:00:45] (60 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "And so I want you to get it nailed down. Listen, the way you view God is going to have everything to do with what kind of relationship you have with God. And a lot of people, they've got in their mind this angry God. He's angry at the world every day just because you're mad at the world every day. Doesn't mean God's mad at the world every day. Yes, he's holy, but he is also love. And he created all of us and made us all in his image. If God had a refrigerator, your picture would be on it. And I'm telling you, your view of God is going to have everything to do with what kind of relationship you have with him." [57:08] (37 seconds) (Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)