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“Our Best Excuses” Morning Worship, July 13, 2013

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Seeking the Lost: Our Best Excuses, sermon presented by Wayne Cornwell on July 13 at Highland Heights church of Christ, Smyrna TN.

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“Our Best Excuses”Morning Worship, July 13, 2013

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Coming August 3

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ForeignBelgium – Luk & Holly Brazle

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FergusonNew Zealand – Lance & Kristen

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What’s the Big Deal?• Hell is real!• It last forever!• Once there, no way out!• Your friends and loved ones will go there unless …

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A Lesson in Math• The power of one• “Go ye means Go me”• We have the best gift to share

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The Power of OneYear 1 - 1 Year 2 - 2Year 3 - 4Year 4 - 8Year 5 - 16Year 6 - 32

Year 7 - 64 Year 8 - 128Year 9 - 256Year 10 - 512Year 11 – 1,024Year 12 – 2,048

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The Power of OneYear 13 – 4,096 Year 14 – 8,192Year 15 – 16,384Year 16 – 32,768Year 17 – 65,536Year 18 – 131,072

Year 19 – 262,144 Year 20 – 524,288Year 21 – 1,048,576Year 22 – 2,097,152Year 23 – 4,194,304Year 24 – 8,388,608

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Our Best Excuses

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Luke 14:16-2416 Then He said to him, “A certain man gave a great supper and invited many, 17 and sent his servant at supper time to say to those who were invited, ‘Come, for all things are now ready.’

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Luke 14:16-2418 But they all with one accord began to make excuses. The first said to him, ‘I have bought a piece of ground, and I must go and see it. I ask you to have me excused.’

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Luke 14:16-2419 And another said, ‘I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them. I ask you to have me excused.’20 Still another said, ‘I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.’

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Luke 14:16-2421 So that servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, ‘Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and the maimed and the lame and the blind.’

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Luke 14:16-2422 And the servant said, ‘Master, it is done as you commanded, and still there is room.’ 23 Then the master said to the servant, ‘Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

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Luke 14:16-2424 For I say to you that none of those men who were invited shall taste my supper.’”

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Our Best Excuses

I don’t want them in

our churchThey won’t change their sinful lifestyle

I’m afraid it will change our

relationship

I’m too timid

I don’t know my neighbor well enough

Our family relationships are strained enough already

They might ask questions

I can’t answer

I don’t h

ave tim

e

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Our Best Excuses

I am afraid of being rejected!

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Our Best ExcusesWe all recognize these as excuses,

not reasons!

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Exodus 4:10Then Moses said to the LORD, “O my Lord, I am not eloquent, neither before nor since You have spoken to Your servant; but I am slow of speech and slow of tongue.”

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Judges 6:15So he said to Him, “O my Lord, how can I save Israel? Indeed my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the least in my father’s house.”

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Jeremiah 1:6Then said I:

“Ah, Lord GOD!Behold, I cannot speak, for I am a

youth.”

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Our Best ExcusesWe all recognize these as excuses,

not reasons!God has answers to all our

excuses!

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Exodus 4:11,1211 So the LORD said to him, “Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes the mute, the deaf, the seeing, or the blind? Have not I, the LORD? 12 Now therefore, go, and I will be with your mouth and teach you what you shall say.”

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Judges 6:16And the LORD said to him, “Surely I will be with you, and you shall defeat the Midianites as one man.”

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Jeremiah 1:7,87 But the LORD said to me: “Do not say, ‘I am a youth,’ for you shall go to all to whom I send you, and whatever I command you, you shall speak.8 Do not be afraid of their faces, for I am with you to deliver you,” says the LORD.

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Genesis 18:13,1413 And the LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Shall I surely bear a child, since I am old?’ 14 Is anything too hard for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.”

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Our Best Excuses We all recognize these as excuses,

not reasons! God has answers to all our excuses! If God is for us, who can be against

us?

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Romans 8:31What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

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Hebrews 13:5,65 Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” 6 So we may boldly say: “The LORD is my helper; I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

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Philippians 4:13I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

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Our Best Excuses We all recognize these as excuses,

not reasons! God has answers to all our excuses! If God is for us, who can be against

us?

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#relenlesspursuit

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