Peter and Judas, both deny their Lord. Peter seeks mercy.
Judas seeks death. And God lets him.

	In every age of history, on every page of Scripture, the truth is
revealed: God allows us to make our own choices.

	And no one delineates this more clearly than Jesus. According
to him, we can choose:

	a narrow gate or a wide gate (Matt. 7:13-14)

	a narrow road or a wide road (Matt. 7:13-14)

	the big crowd or the small crowd (Matt. 7:13-14)


	We can choose to:


	build on rock or sand (Matt. 7:2_27)

	serve God or riches (Matt. 6:24)

	be numbered among the sheep or the goats (Matt. 25:32-33)


	"Then they [those who rejected God] will go away to eternal
punishment, but the righteous to eternal life" (Matt. 25:46 NIV).

God gives eternal choices, and these choices have eternal consequences.