No Excuse (5 of 7)
Series: Divine Dynamite
Bob Ingle
Romans 1:18-20
Have you noticed that all of us are experts at making excuses? Even though we never read a book about it, or took a class on it, or had a mentor for it, we are professional excuse makers for our behaviors, or mistakes, or oversights, or habits.
Just this week, I read about a woman in New Zealand who was stopped for speeding and it was discovered that she'd been driving without a license for 25 years. This is how she explained herself to the judge. She said:
'I only drive on roads that have very little traffic, and none of those roads lead to an office where I could apply for a driver's license'. Believe it or not, that excuse sounded perfectly rational, logical, and believable in her head.
The truth is all of us have made our share of excuses over the years, right? In our flesh, our go to reaction to having light shined on any kind of sin, mistake, or error of our own is to make some kind of excuse to deflect guilt or blame. You can trace this excuse making tendency all the way back to the Garden of Eden. God finds Adam and Eve hiding after they have disobeyed God and sinned by eating the forbidden fruit. God says, 'Adam, why did you do it?' Adam says, 'That woman, God! That woman You made for me made me do it. It's her fault! I think she's defective God. You should probably start working on woman 2.0.' So God says, 'Why did you do it Eve?' Eve says, 'That snake, God! That snake that You made and put in the Garden. He's a smooth talker and got me confused.' Of course, the snake didn't have a leg to stand on. Even the first two people who had the best of everything knew how to create excuses when their sin and mistakes came to light. God, of course, didn't accept their excuses.
We're continuing our study of Romans this morning, and Paul has begun his letter to the Christian church in Rome by reminding them what the Gospel of Jesus Christ is and what it does.
Romans 1:16-17 ...
Series: Divine Dynamite
Bob Ingle
Romans 1:18-20
Have you noticed that all of us are experts at making excuses? Even though we never read a book about it, or took a class on it, or had a mentor for it, we are professional excuse makers for our behaviors, or mistakes, or oversights, or habits.
Just this week, I read about a woman in New Zealand who was stopped for speeding and it was discovered that she'd been driving without a license for 25 years. This is how she explained herself to the judge. She said:
'I only drive on roads that have very little traffic, and none of those roads lead to an office where I could apply for a driver's license'. Believe it or not, that excuse sounded perfectly rational, logical, and believable in her head.
The truth is all of us have made our share of excuses over the years, right? In our flesh, our go to reaction to having light shined on any kind of sin, mistake, or error of our own is to make some kind of excuse to deflect guilt or blame. You can trace this excuse making tendency all the way back to the Garden of Eden. God finds Adam and Eve hiding after they have disobeyed God and sinned by eating the forbidden fruit. God says, 'Adam, why did you do it?' Adam says, 'That woman, God! That woman You made for me made me do it. It's her fault! I think she's defective God. You should probably start working on woman 2.0.' So God says, 'Why did you do it Eve?' Eve says, 'That snake, God! That snake that You made and put in the Garden. He's a smooth talker and got me confused.' Of course, the snake didn't have a leg to stand on. Even the first two people who had the best of everything knew how to create excuses when their sin and mistakes came to light. God, of course, didn't accept their excuses.
We're continuing our study of Romans this morning, and Paul has begun his letter to the Christian church in Rome by reminding them what the Gospel of Jesus Christ is and what it does.
Romans 1:16-17 ...
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