You Can Be Whoever You Choose To Be

2nd Corinthians 10:5-6, “Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.”

One of my favorite sermon by Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) is titled: 'YOU CAN CHOOSE YOUR OWN TEMPERAMENT.' This tremendous truth will change your life if you'll heed its wisdom. This is a great truth!

A crabby woman says to a friend: “I wish I was like Betty, she is always sweet and happy.” The truth is that Betty is as much a crabby sourpuss as the rest of us, but she chooses to be kind to others and work at being nice to those around her.

A man says to a coworker: “I wish I had Bob's work ethic, he labors so hard.” The truth is that Bob is just as much a lazy hound dog as the rest of us, he just chooses to work hard.

The inspired Word of God commands us to love one another (John 15:12).

In Ephesians 6:16 we are commanded to put on the shield of faith.

In 1st Thessalonians 5:16 we are commanded as the Lord's redeemed saints to rejoice evermore.

In verse 17 we are commanded by God to pray without ceasing.

In verse 18 the Bible commands us to be thankful in all things (not necessarily for all things). I am not thankful when the car breaks down, but I can still be thankful that I am able to drive a car, and that I have a vehicle to break down.

In Ephesians 4:32 we are commanded as God's children to be kind one toward another.

In James 5:8 the Bible commands us to have patience. God commands us to have joy.

We are commanded to be peaceful in Hebrews 12:14.

God gives us these spiritual gifts (i.e., the fruit of the Holy Spirit - Galatians 5:22-25), if we will simply CHOOSE to use them. Thus, we can and should CHOOSE to obey these commandments of God. Any child of God CAN CHOOSE to be loving, kind, forgiving, honest, generous, faithful, patient, caring and responsible.

Joy is a decision made by the will. The reason why the Apostle Paul and Silas could sing while in a Roman prison (Acts 16:25) is simply because THEY CHOOSE to have joy. The only reason why some Christians are miserable and full of bitterness is because they choose to be.

We talk about “the patience of Job,” but Job didn't have any more patience  than Peter, James and John. God favors no man; that is, the Lord is not a respecter of persons (Romans 2:11). Job simply CHOSE to use the patience that God gave him.

The only reason why one person is loving and another is unloving is because the first person CHOSE to be a vessel for God's love. We give the Devil far too much credit. The Devil doesn't make anyone angry, bitter or miserable, people CHOOSE to be that way.

Every child of God received as much of the blessed indwelling Holy Spirit as they'll ever get (Romans 8:9). We all have access to the same fruit of the Spirit. Therefore, it is not the possessing of these virtues that makes us different, it is the using of them that makes us different; and the using is done by the CHOOSING.

You can be nice to your spouse if you CHOOSE to be nice. You abusive husbands can be calm, patient and not fly off the handle when your wife is less than perfect, if you CHOOSE not to be harsh with her. The inspired Word of God commands married men in Ephesians 5:25, “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it.” God never commands us to do anything that He has not enabled and empowered us to do. If you love it is because you CHOOSE to love; if you hate it is because you CHOOSE to hate.

Love is a decision caused by the will; and not a response caused by the senses. The world's false love is synthetic, based on temporal beauty. When Hollywood actor Sharon Stone was diagnosed with cancer and doctors gave her only a 1% chance of survival, her scumbag husband abandoned her. That is the world's heathen type of conditional so-called “love.”

The inspired Holy Bible commands us to love our enemies (Matthew 5:44), but that means we must CHOOSE to love our enemies. And for that matter, we must also CHOOSE to love our Christian brothers and sisters, or else we won't. By default we all walk in the sinful flesh, selfish and complaining, gossiping and hating each other as the wicked world does (1st John 5:19). The victorious Christian life must be lived on purpose. That is, we must CHOOSE to live in sweet harmony with the inspired written Word of God (which is the King James Bible).

If you are hot-tempered, you are disobedient to God almighty! You are living in direct rebellion against your Creator, who commands you and me to be kind, tenderhearted and forgiving toward others. Ephesians 4:32, “And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.” How does that passage of Scripture compare with the ungodly neo-evangelical fools for pastors we have today, who regularly kick people out of their wicked churches? Unshakable faith comes from having your faith shaken.

In June of 2025, I and my dear wife Alice were maliciously kicked out of the carnal Family Baptist Church in Pensacola (which is really a worldly social club and theological cult). God's curse is upon Brad Moffett (and his stiffnecked potty-mouthed abusive father Bobby Moffett) for kicking out Tom and Sharon, Perri and his wife, Bobby across the street, Me and Alice and countless others for offending them. What was our great offense?

The short gist of the matter is that the pastor's ungodly meddling immodest wife chooses to wear her worldly pants in public. I never said a single word to her or anyone about women wearing pants in the 45 months that we attended their church, but they (I didn't tell them) found my ministry website and resented my Bible preaching against Christian women who sinfully wear pants. Here is my particular biblical article that greatly offended them. Pastor Brad (age 37) shamefully censured my Bible preaching in his office in April of 2025, in the presence of me and my wife. We were so disappointed in Brad Moffett, who during our meeting proudly and wickedly declared, “I am not a fundamentalist.” No, he's a neo-evangelical fool! When you stand up for what is right ungodly people will get mad at you. The fastest way to get kicked out of a neo-evangelical church today is to just TELL THE TRUTH! I digress.

If every husband and wife would heed this Scriptural advice concerning choosing your own temperament, it would permanently solve your marriage problems. Proverbs 13:10, “Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.” Due to our inherited sinful nature (Romans 5:12), we all tend to be crabby, to complain, to be selfish and allow life to frustrate us. Anybody can be loving, considerate and sweet if you CHOOSE to do so. It doesn't matter what health ailments you may have, nor how old you've grown, not anything else. We can all obey God's commandment to “be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you” (Ephesians 4:32b).

The Christian walk is a supernatural miracle in which we yield to allow God's Holy Spirit to control us as we obey the written Word of God (Galatians 2:20). Cancel your trip to the psychiatrist and instead CHOOSE to do right. God never commands us to do anything that He doesn't give us the wherewithal to fulfil. I decided a long time ago to love everybody. I chose decades ago to be kind, friendly and forgiving toward everyone. I choose to be happy in the LORD as I grow older. By God's grace I'll turn 59 years old on March 5th, 2026. I have decided to be kind at all times. I have decided to love my wife as the Bible commands. Ephesians 5:28, “So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.” I choose to love myself by loving my wife.

“This morning, every single person in this room ought to make a choice to make a choice every moment of your life to love, to have joy, to be content, to have faith, to have patience. I don't know what you're going to choose.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, 'You Can Choose Your Own Temperament'

By God's grace and strength, I choose to be faithful, loving, kind, grateful, humble, forgiving, patient and reasonable with my wife. I choose to be happy, thankful, humble and faithful in my daily Christian walk with God. I choose to rejoice in the Lord at all times, regardless of my circumstances. Paul and Silas chose to sing hymns while in prison in Acts 16.

Stephen chose to praise God while being stoned to death by an angry mob of hateful heathen Jews in Acts 7. Stephen CHOSE to express Christ's unconditional love for the insane mob, crying out for God to please forgive them for their ignorance. Acts 7:60, “And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.” You don't find that kind of faith today in the churches. They just kick unwanted people out the door without even bothering to talk to them first.

No one at Family Baptist Church ever said a word to me and Alice before telling us we that we weren't welcome anymore in June of 2025. After 45 months of attending their so-called church, their leaders didn't even have the decency to talk with us first (as the Bible requires in Matthew 18:15-17). They never cared about us enough to even attempt to reconcile.

I know the reason why they never talked with us. It is because they are wicked worldly neo-evangelicals, and I am a Christ-honoring separated fundamentalist, and they had already made up their minds to reject me 45 months earlier from the very beginning.

Those ungodly Bozos shamefully despise Pastor Jack Hyles (they openly slandered Brother Hyles to me and Alice). What ungodly reprobates! And by extension they hate and despise me because like Brother Hyles, I am a fundamentalist Baptist preacher. Those two religious clowns, Brad and Bobby Moffett (and their meddling immodest wives) are not worthy to tie Dr. Jack Hyles' shoe laces. I mean that with all my heart! Brother Hyles in 55 years of ministry as a faithful pastor never kicked anybody out of attending church.

Pastor Jack Hyles taught me that to lose something in the will of God is to find something better. To Hell with the corrupt Family Baptist Church in Pensacola. They have CHOSEN to serve God in the flesh, Their carnal wives have CHOSEN to wear their worldly pants. Father and son false prophets have CHOSEN to pervert the Gospel, by requiring people to turn away from their past sinful ways to get to Heaven. God's curse is upon the wicked Family Baptist Church in Pensacola (Galatians 1:6-9). Woe unto those wicked brutish pastors who lack good sense and the Holy Spirit of God. They count me as their enemy for telling the truth, which is also why the local churches in Galatia hated the Apostle Paul (Galatians 4:16).

Even though King Saul tried to ruthlessly murder David in 1st Samuel 19, David chose to respond with God's love and respect for the Lord's anointed. David could have taken Saul's life when Saul and his men were sleeping in a cave, but he didn't. Instead, David cut a piece off of Saul's garment to prove that he wasn't trying to kill the king, since he had an opportunity but didn't take it to harm the troubled king. 

Joseph, who had been horribly betrayed and sold into slavery by his ten half brothers decades earlier, could have easily ordered them all to be killed. As governor over all of Egypt, Joseph needed to merely speak the word and his malicious ten half brothers would have all have been executed. But instead Joseph chose to show God's mercy, telling his brothers “But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive” (Genesis 50:20).

This is one of the most helpful and practical Bible truths I have ever learned, that I can CHOOSE to be whoever I want to be in the Lord's power. 2nd Corinthians 10:5-6, “Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.” Some might call that being brainwashed, but the Bible calls it walking in the Spirit. Galatians 5:25, “If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.”