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.
a. Problems and troubles
b. Sin and evil
c. Wrong direction in our
thinking
3. Frog in a
deep pothole - could not jump out - trapped - next day seen in town - OK -
asked How? – answer - "A truck was coming and I HAD TO GET OUT."
4. Here are
three ways to get out of your potholes.
I. 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 bless or
curse
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!
II. 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
III. 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, pa can't walk a step."
2. "Now is the accepted
time, today is the day of salvation."
II Corinthians 6:2