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TITLE: Frog In A Pothole
TEXT
: Romans 6:12-17
PROPOSITION
: We can get out of sinful holes.
QUESTION
: How?
KEY
WORD: Ways
READING
: Same

INTRODUCTION:

  1. Every spring - potholes in the roads.

  2. Our lives also get potholes in them.

    1. Problems and troubles, our lives get jarred around

    2. Sin and evil

    3. Wrong direction in our thinking

  3. Frog in a deep pothole - could not jump out - trapped - next day seen in town – He was OK – He was asked how he managed to escape

  4. His answer - "A truck was coming and I HAD TO GET OUT."

  5. Here are three ways to get out of your potholes.

We must choose - not straddle the fence

  1. Exodus 32:26 Who is on the Lord's side?

  2. Joshua 24:15 Choose ye this day

  3. Deuteronomy 30:19 Choose life or death, blessing or cursing

  4. I Kings 18:21 How long halt between two opinions?

  5. Matthew 6:24 Can't serve two masters

  6. Indecision will kill you!

Know where you are - the danger you are in

  1. John 8:34, 44 Servant of sin, your father = devil

  2. Acts 8:23 Bond of iniquity, gall -bitterness

  3. Romans 6:16 Servant of sin or righteousness?

  4. II Peter 2:19 In bondage to sin

  5. Crisis = Not have a clear understanding of situation, distorted reality

Decide to act NOW!

  1. Matthew 12:50 Do the will of the Father

  2. John 7:17 Will to do his will

  3. Ephesians 6:6 Do will of God from heart

  4. Hebrews 4:7 Today, do not harden your heart

  5. There is danger in not acting NOW.

Conclusion:

  1. A boy was pushing father in wheelchair past cemetery - two men inside dividing fish - "Now get those two outside the fence." Father beats son home. Mother says, "Go back and get pa's wheelchair, you know pa can't walk a step."

  2. "Now is the accepted time, today is the day of salvation." 2 Corinthians 6:2

 


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