“Excuses, Excuses, Excuses!!”

Ben Bailey

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Introduction:

A. They all with one accord began to make ____________ (Lk. 14:18).

B. Satan is the _________ of excuses (Jn. 8:44; Gen. 3).

C. Man’s excuses have never __________ God (Moses—Ex. 3-4; Saul—1 Samuel 14-15; Felix & Agrippa—Acts 24,26).

D. Tonight we want to discuss three categories of excuses: man’s excuses for not serving, man’s excuses for not assembling and man’s excuses for not obeying.

I. Excuses Christians make for not serving God.

A. I just don’t have the ________.

B. My ________ conflicts with serving God.

C. ___________ & ____________ keeps many from being servants.

D. Service is just too _____________ of me.

II. Excuses Christians make for not assembling.

A. The Bible _________ says I have to go all the time.

B. My ___________ came in at the last minute.

C. God ____________ why I wasn’t at services.

D. The services are not _____________ for me.

III. Excuses non-Christians make for not obeying.

A. I am just too ___________.

B. What about the __________ on the cross.

C. I will do it some other ___________.

D. Obeying the gospel will __________ my dear parents.