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Excuses, Excuses

Excuses, Excuses

Romans 1:18

Have you ever served on a church committee and you get together and you pick names and you go to those people and they said “Now, I’d like to take that class but..” and here comes the excuses, God knew there would be excuses so here he says “You can look around and see the hand work of God” Many times we hear excuses and many times, they’re just excuses. The one that stays at the top of my list is the man that said he couldn’t come to church because he had dandruff. I looked up the word excuse and it means a reason presented for default in duty. A defense, a pretext. Excuses are not genuine, they are a pretext. I heard about a fellow that said he couldn’t come to church because it was too far to walk and too close to drive. So he just wasn’t going to show up. We hear excuses for people not coming to Christ and people not wanting to serve Christ and we’re going to try to deal with those tonight. But I want you to know, when we stand before God on Judgment Day, excuses aren’t going to stand up. God says everyone will give an account of himself unto the Lord. Excuses are not new; they came into the world with man. I went way back into the first of the Bible and I saw that we have two people living in the world and we have some excuses. When Adam and Eve sinned, God came down and asked them to give an account. The first time, Adam blames Eve. (Gen 3:12) We always have our excuses and he’s blaming the woman. I do that, when things don’t go right at our house I say, “Hazel it’s your fault” some of you men do that too, it’s dangerous but we do it anyway. Let’s see what the woman had to say in Gen. 3:13. She couldn’t blame Adam so she blamed the serpent which was Satan. So we know that excuses have been here from the very beginning.