all right well it's great to be back here first of all thank you pastor shelly as always for
sending me down here i had a lot of fun last week shooting machine guns eating red steak i mean what
is better and more baptist than that that was awesome so great to be back here again we're here
in roman's chapter one and it's not for the reason you think you go to roman's chapter one everyone's
like oh here we go it's out of my sermon not what you think go to verse number 20 verse number 20
the bible reads for the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen
being understood by the things that are made even his eternal power and godhead so that they are
without excuse and the title of my sermon is god does not accept excuses we see a group of people
in roman's chapter one that god says they are without excuse any excuse that they would bring
to him is not going to be accepted by god and go to roman's chapter three i'll read for you
proverbs 21 verse 2 the bible says every way of a man is right in his own eyes but the lord pondereth
the hearts everything that mankind does we all think what we do is right naturally everyone
thinks that the way that they're living is right everyone thinks that the way that they believe is
right especially here in texas you knock on the door and they all know that they're going to heaven
but is that really the case when you start asking what they believe no a lot of times they believe
the wrong things but every way of man is right in his own eyes but the lord pondereth the hearts
you know the bible does tell us what the heart of man is like i'll read for you jeremiah 17 9
the bible says the heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked
who can know it the bible tells us that man's heart is wicked yet everything that man does
he thinks that he's right he thinks that his ways are right you're there in romans chapter three
and the bible tells us what the world in general is like is every way of man actually right look at
verse number 10 as it is written there's none right just no not one there is none that understand it
there is none that seeketh after god they are all gone out of the way they are together become
unprofitable there is none that doeth good no not one their throat is an open sepulcher with their
tongues they have used deceit the poison of asps is under their lips whose mouth is full of cursing
and bitterness their feet are swift to shed blood destruction and misery are in their ways and the
way of peace have they not known there is no fear of god before their eyes does that sound like a
very godly group of people no but that is how the bible describes the world at large wicked feet you
know swift to shed blood just mouthful of cursing and bitterness you know mankind is wicked mankind
is sinners and even though the way of our own eyes is right in our own mind that's not actually
the case the fact is that we're without excuse today go back to roman's chapter one and number
one i want to lay down this foundation that god does not accept the excuses of the unsaved number
one god does not accept the excuses of the unsaved let's look at verse 18 for the wrath of god is
revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in
unrighteousness because that which may be known of god is manifest in them for god hath showed it
unto them so we see here in roman's 118 that we have a group of people that god is very angry with
in fact the bible uses the word wrath that reminds me of john 3 36 where the bible says he that
believeth on the son hath everlasting life and he that believeth not the son shall not see life
but the wrath of god abideth on him god is angry today at the fact that people are unsaved he's angry
at them why is god angry at them look at verse 19 because that which may be known of god is
manifest in them for god hath showed it unto them he's angry because god has revealed himself to all
of his creation why don't you believe in him that which may be known of god is manifest in us why
because god hath showed it unto us so god has every right to be angry at people that would deny him
at people that would not believe in him because he's like hey i made it manifest to you guys i've
put it in you to you guys who i am look at verse 20 for because the invisible things of him from
the creation of the world are clearly seen being understood by the things that are made even his
eternal power and godhead so that they are without excuse he's saying hey you're without excuse for
not believing in me because that which may be known of god is manifest in you i showed it to you
and the invisible things of the creation of the world should be able to clearly show you that
there's a god and the bible says there's two things that we could understand by creation
itself it says his eternal power and godhead anyone can look at creation and realize wow someone
really powerful made this and it's god every single person in the universe can get that just
by looking outside so it's it's absolutely unexcusable you have no excuse not to believe
in god he says they are without excuse it doesn't matter what kind of excuse they want to bring to
god of why they don't believe in him that excuse is not going to be accepted by god i'll read for
you psalms 19 one the heavens declare the glory of god and the firmament showeth his handiwork
when you look outside at the heaven it declares god's glory you can tell that there is a creator
just by looking outside at the creation and you know creation is not enough to get someone safe
but creation is enough to show someone that there is a god and the thing is the bible says that this
has been revealed to every single person every single person has known this everybody has the
five senses and can observe this world in this universe and tell that it was created go to
matthew chapter 7 matthew chapter 7 matthew chapter number 7 and let's start reading in verse number
7 the bible says ask and it shall be given you seek and ye shall find knock and it shall be opened
unto you for everyone that asketh receiveth and he that seeketh findeth into him that knocketh
it shall be open you know i believe that every single person in this world that is seeking truth
and that asks god for truth is going to find it jesus said you will find it and notice he says if
you knock it'll be opened unto you well i want to read for you john 10 verse 9 jesus said i am the
door for by me if any man enter in he shall be saved and shall go in and go out and find pastor
hey if you knock on that door of salvation you're going to be saved every single person hey no one's
without excuse if you are seeking the truth god makes a promise that you will find it i believe
that no matter where you are in this world if you're in the most remote place i believe that if you
genuinely sincerely want to seek the truth of god that he'll make sure to send a soul winner in
your path he'll make sure that you find out the truth if you are genuinely a person that seeks
truth i believe that with all my heart let's keep reading verse number nine or what man is there of
you whom if his son ask bread will he give him a stone or if he ask a fish will he give him a
serpent if ye then being evil know how to give good gifts unto your children how much more shall
your father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him you know if i as a sinful
person if my little daughter bethany asked me for an m and m i'm gonna give her an m and m and i'm
just a i'm just a sinful person i could just give her that good gift how much more god in heaven if
he hears if he hears someone praying the prayer of god i want to know who you are god please reveal
yourself to me god i just want to know the truth i don't care what it is just please show me the
truth is he not going to answer that prayer he absolutely will answer that prayer if anybody is
seeking for truth they're going to find it matthew let's uh let's go to let's go back to romans and
i'll read for you psalm 14 1 the bible says the fool has said in his heart there is no god they
are corrupt they have done abominable works there is none that doeth good the bible doesn't say that
the sincere person has said in this heart there is no god that the person who's looking for truth has
said that there is no god the bible says that the fool has said in this heart that there is no god
you know that's why i'm against ministries like christian apologetics and christian apologetics
is basically just trying to get people to believe the bible using logic and reason and hey i'm not
against you know preaching creation we should preach everything in the bible i'm not against
showing how the bible clearly matches up with science and clearly matches up with the reality
of our world but what i am against is a ministry that's completely dedicated to atheists that's
completely dedicated to people that are not seeking the truth that's completely dedicated to a people
where god says that he's manifested him in all of us he showed it all to all of us that which can be
seen you know the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen being
understood by the things are made even his eternal power and godhead god's revealed himself to the
world i'm not going to spend my whole time banging my head against the wall trying to use logic and
reason against atheists people who have no logic and no reason hey god has already revealed that
to them they rejected it that's why they're fools that's why they're without excuse and you know i
believe that there's atheists every once in a while that get saved and like i said i'm not against
preaching those things but i am against an entire ministry dedicated to that why because it's a
fruitless ministry because it's a waste of time and some people may not like that but i've always
believed that i've always believed that christian apologetics debating atheists doing like that it's
things like that is stupid and it's a waste of time romans chapter one already told us that god
has revealed it unto them it's their choice that they have rejected the fact that there's a god i
mean everybody believes that there's a god even if they're unsafe you have to be a fool not to
believe there's a god and that's what these people are and you know what the atheists of this world
they give excuses today of why they don't believe in god they give an excuse and they say well i
don't want to believe in that old foggy religion because science science is their excuse that they
use to reject the bible but you know what god's not accepting their excuse because guess what god
created science you idiot science is biblical and i'll show you that go to colossians chapter one
colossians chapter one science in the first law of thermodynamics the law of conservation of energy
states that energy is always conserved it cannot be created or destroyed in essence energy can be
converted from one form into another so science would tell you that energy can't just come out
of nowhere energy can't just be created by itself it has to have a source it has to transfer that
energy from one thing to another okay but then they also tell you they believe the big bang theory
that everything was created from nothing that all the energy in the entire universe breaks this first
law and came from nothing sounds like an excuse sounds like you don't actually believe in science
we'll go to Colossians chapter one and in verse 16 we know the source of where it all came from
verse 16 the bible says for by him were all things created talking about jesus christ that are in
heaven and that are in earth visible and invisible whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities
or powers all things were created by him and for him and he is before all things and by him all
things consist hey energy cannot be created or destroyed it must be transferred you know who the
person you know who the source of all energy is the lord jesus christ he's the creator you say oh
that's so unscientific you believe in a god that created everything really because my my belief
actually matches the first law of thermodynamics atheists it doesn't match science sounds like
you're using an excuse to reject god but guess what god's not going to accept your excuse another law
of science is biogenesis that says life cannot come from non-life that's pretty simple right
i mean have you ever seen something come to life by itself never in the history of the world has
something ever been observed coming to life by itself ever it's never been witnessed well let's
see what the bible says in genesis 124 i'll just read for you well you turn to leviticus 15 genesis
124 says then god said let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind cattle
and creeping thing and beasts of the earth each according to its kind and it was so so we don't
see life coming from non-life hey we see cows coming from cows we see human beings coming from
human beings we see trees coming from trees guess what the bible matches science sounds like these
people are using an excuse you know what else science says wash your hands wash your hands let's
see what the bible says leviticus 15 13 and when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue
then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing and wash his clothes and bathe his flesh
in running water and shall be clean notice there how it said running water did you know that in
the 1860s in the civil war when doctors were cutting off limbs from from victims in the civil
war do you know that they would take their instruments their saws after chopping off
someone's leg and they would just dip it in a basin of water a stagnant basin of water and then
they'd go to the next person dip next person dip that's disgusting you know how many how easy it is
to spread disease like that no wonder they all died pretty much right but hey that was in the 1860s
that was not that long ago i mean that was america was born before that yet people weren't even
washing their hands with running water until pretty recently bible says wash your hands with
running water sounds like the bible matches science sounds like science you know isn't all
cracked up to be what these god-hating atheists say it is it's an excuse you want to know the
truth they hate god just like romans chapter one tells us here's a famous atheist richard dockins
he says the god of the old testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction
jealous and proud of it a petty unjust unforgiving control freak a vindictive
bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser a misogynistic homophobic racist infanticidal genocidal
filicidal pestilential megalomaniacal sadomasochistic capriciously malevolent bully
sounds like a person who just doesn't believe in god right no he believes in him he just hates him
he uses all this fake you know talk about science and that oh you know i can't i can't believe the
bible because science no he revealed his heart the thing is he hates god and you know that's
most atheists most atheists hate god so why would i take all of my time when i could be going and
preaching the gospel to the unsaved catholic that wants to know the truth you know to the unsaved
baptist that wants to know the truth to the unsaved whatever religion hey at least the people that are
not reality deniers atheists are reality deniers they see creation they deny it they deny the
creator they deny reality why because they hate god not because of any legitimate excuse and you
know what god is not going to accept their excuses go back to roman's chapter one well let's see what
he thinks verse 21 because that when they knew god they glorified him not as god neither were
thankful but became vain in their imaginations and their foolish heart was darkened professing
themselves to be wise they became fools and changed the glory of the uncrumpable god into
an image made like to corruptible man and to birds and four-footed beasts and creeping things
wherefore god also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts to dishonor
their own bodies between themselves so you know they knew the truth of god they changed it into a
lie they worshiped and served the creature more than the creator they rejected the truth of god
and you know what god did he gave them up to uncleanness through less of their own hearts he
gave them up to all this sick filth later on in the chapter it talks about people who go so far
down this road that god gives them up even to the most sick things imaginable like homosexuality
something that only an animal could do something that you could only do if you've been given over
to a reprobate mind it's the punishment of god for denying reality for rejecting him he's not
giving these people he's not accepting any of their excuses he's giving them over to reprobate mind
as a punishment he does not accept their excuses go to romans chapter two you know not only does
god not accept the excuses of the atheists of the unbelievers you know he doesn't accept the excuses
of the unsaved religious people of this world too you know if you're unsaved and you're religious
you're really no different than the atheist that's unsaved too you're both going to hell when you die
you know god's not going to give you that excuse either look at romans chapter two and look at verse
17 i want you to pay attention to the fact that romans chapter two is written primarily to the
jews now are the jews unsaved or saved unsaved absolutely unsaved look at verse 17 i want to
prove that this is written to the jews behold thou art called a jew sounds like it's written to the
jews and rest us in the law and make us thy boast of god who who rests in the law and makes their
boast of god jews verse 18 and knowest his will and approves the things that are more excellent
being instructed out of the law thou that make us thy boast of the law through breaking the law
dishonest thou god for the name of god is blasphemed among the gentiles through you see how he's
separating these these two people so it's obviously pretty clear that romans chapter two the emphasis
is talking to the jews now let's go back to romans two verse one and let's see how this
chapter starts out it starts out by saying therefore thou art inexcusable oh man whosoever
thou art that judgest for wherein thou judgest another thou condemnest thyself for thou that
judges doeth the same things you know the jews thought that they were special just because they
had god's law the jews probably were judging the atheists and the reprobates for doing all these
sick things you know that they're just as unsaved as the sodomites they're just as unsaved as the
atheists hey you know you're judging them you're doing even some of the same things that they're
doing do you not realize that you are without excuse as well jews unbelieving jews that also
reject the truth look at verse 2 but we are sure that the judgment of god is according to truth
against them which commit such things and think is thou this oh man that judges them which do such
things and do is the same that thou shalt escape the judgment of god and you know the jews answer
to that would have been yes they think that they're going to escape the judgment of god just because
they're jews they think that just because they have the law of god hey just because people who
are religious just because they sit in a baptist church just because they wear a suit and tie
just because they have a bible at home hey just because daddy's a pastor you think that that's
going to make you without excuse do you think that that's going to make you escape the judgment of
god hey if you're unsaved it doesn't matter if you're religious or not if you're unsaved you're
going to hell when you die and god's not going to accept any excuses from you you know outsolding
all the time i hear hey why are you going to heaven it's like well my great great grandma was
a baptist pastor that's not a good enough excuse that's not a good enough excuse you know there's
people that teach that the jews are excused just by having the law i'll read for you a quote that's
right john hagi he said the law of moses is sufficient enough to bring a person into the
knowledge of god until god gives him a greater revelation everyone else whether buddhist or bahai
needs to believe in jesus but not jews but not jews so a pastor here in the new testament in 2020
is telling a whole group of people to reject the new testament that the old testament is enough to
bring them to truth and that they don't need to believe in jesus christ that is wicked as hell
that is the most anti-semitic thing anyone can tell is to tell the jews that don't believe in
jesus christ hey you'll be just fine by rejecting jesus christ that's wicked they're going to burn
in hell forever if they reject jesus christ they will burn in hell forever they are inexcusable
they had the law they were more inexcusable than the gentiles they had more given to them than
anyone else they had all the prophets they had jeremiah they had isaiah they had ezekiel
they had moses they had abraham they had the word of god all of it pictured jesus christ the old
testament every page is picturing jesus christ and the lame of god the messiah came to this earth he
came unto his own and his own received him not the jews rejected jesus christ and they are without
excuse the jews are without excuse today but you know what every unsaved baptist every unsaved
person in this world that calls himself a religious person if they're not saved they're just as without
excuse as those people god is not going to accept any of their excuses look at verse four of romans
chapter two or despises thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and long suffering not
knowing that the goodness of god leadeth thee to repentance hey jews aren't you supposed to know
that the fact that god gave you all these prophets and gave you the law and gave you the lord jesus
christ don't you know that this is supposed to lead you to repentance from changing your mind
into trusting in the law and into trusting jesus christ doesn't shouldn't this be obvious to you
john higgie would say no and you know what the jew said no too verse five but after thy hardness
and impenitent heart treasurous up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of
the righteous judgment of god who will render to every man according to his deeds you know every
time a jew hears a verse from the new testament you know every time a jew is given the gospel
every time a jew is revealed truth about jesus christ you know that they're treasuring up
wrath against the day of wrath unto themselves you know that every time that we go out soul winning
and we preach someone the gospel and they reject it you know they're just making hell that much
hotter for themselves it's a sad thought you know i just preach the gospel to a catholic in spanish
or i'm not sure if he was a catholic um i don't remember what church he went to but you know what
the sad thing is he wasn't saved and i showed him what the bible says and he couldn't get it he
rejected it hey you know that guy's one step closer to hell he's the one step closer from being given
over to rebate mine and he's making hell that much hotter for himself if he does not accept the truth
they're without excuse today the unsaved whether the atheist or the religious they're both without
excuse today it's a sad thought verse 24 for the name of god is blasphemed among the gentiles
through you as it is written for circumcision verily profiteth if thou keep the law but if
thou be a breaker of the law thy circumcision is made uncircumcision it doesn't matter if the jews
physically kept the law of circumcision because as soon as they break god's commandments their
circumcision is made uncircumcision james 2 10 says for whosoever shall keep the whole law and
yet offend in one point he is guilty of all any person that's trusting in their ability to keep
the law to get saved hey you've broken the whole law your circumcision is made uncircumcision it
doesn't matter if the jews have the law it doesn't matter if they have the right religion it doesn't
matter if they think that they're children of abraham if they're trusting in the law they're
going to go to hell when they die along with every baptist that believes repent of your sins you
know along with everyone that believes what john getch the vice president of west coast baptist
college teaches anyone thinks that you have to completely reject or turn away from your sins to
be saved anyone that believes that garbage unsaved and you're without excuse verse 27
and shall not uncircumcision which is by nature if it fulfill the law judge thee who by the letter
and circumcision thus transgress the law he's saying hey the gentiles even though they're
uncircumcised you know if they keep the righteousness of the law they're going to be saved they're going
to be justified you say how could someone uncircumcised keep the law i mean they're not
or uh yeah they're not following circumcision we'll go to romans 3 romans 3 verse 21 how are the
uncircumcision keeping the law verse 21 but now the righteousness of god without the law is manifested
being witnessed by the law and the prophets even the righteousness of god which is by by faith of jesus christ
unto all and upon all them that believe for there is no difference that's how you can keep the law
while being a gentile and while being uncircumcised is by trusting in jesus christ
by trusting in the one who actually did keep all the law and actually was perfect
and never sinned hey the unsay the uncircumcised gentiles that believe in jesus christ they're
going to be justified you know who's not the people who had the law of god the people that
were revealed all the truths of god and rejected the messiah and rejected jesus christ without
excuse today matthew chapter 7 turned to roman's chapter 10 i'll read matthew chapter 7 verse 22
many will say to me in that day lord lord have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name have
cast out devils and in thy name have done many wonderful works and then will i profess unto
them i never knew you depart from me ye that work iniquity people that are trusting in their works
you know when they die they're going to have excuses that they're going to bring to god
about why are why is god not letting me into heaven why is god sending me to hell hey do you
not know that i did so many great works for you do you not know that i cast out devils in your name
you don't know how many great and wonderful works i did he's gonna say depart from me i never knew
you your excuse of your filthy rags is not good enough to make you saved the only thing that's
going to make you saved is trusting in what jesus christ did roman chapter 10 verse 13 you say well
maybe they just have an excuse maybe they just haven't heard the gospel verse 13 actually let's
read uh let's start in verse 15 and how shall they preach except they be sent as it is written
how beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace and bring glad tidings of
good things but they have not all obeyed the gospel for isaiah saith lord who hath believed
our report so then faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the word of god but i say have they
not heard yes verily their sound went into all the earth and their words unto the ends of the
world hey the word of god has gone out to the whole world the gospel has gone out to the whole
world and we already read in matthew chapter 7 that if someone knocks the door is going to
be opened unto them if someone asks god's going to answer them if someone in this world wants to know
the truth god will reveal it unto them god will make sure a soul winner gets them god will make
sure they see a bible way to heaven video on youtube god will make sure that a person who
genuinely wants to know the truth will be able to hear the truth but you know what that leaves everybody
everybody without excuse the atheist is without excuse the unsaved baptist is without excuse
but now that i've laid down that foundation i want the rest of the sermon to apply to us
because you know what saved christians make excuses too and just like god does not accept
any excuses from the unsaved from the atheist for the religious unsaved god doesn't accept our
excuses either our excuses are lame as well number two there's no excuse for our sin go
to genesis chapter three genesis chapter three we'll start reading verse nine right after eve
has eaten of the forbidden fruit and the lord called unto adam and said unto him where art
thou and he said i heard thy voice in the garden and i was afraid because i was naked and i hid
myself and he said who told me that i was naked has thou eaten of the tree where have i commanded
thee that thou shouldest not eat and the man said the woman whom thou gave us to be to be with me
she gave me of the tree and i did eat and the lord god said unto the woman what is it that thou has
done and the woman said the serpent beguiled me and i did eat notice when adam and eve were both
confronted with their sin both of them made an excuse for it and you know what saved christians
do when their sin is confronted they make excuses for it you know when you go to correct your child
and you call them out on disobeying you and you call them out on their mistake you know what they
often do but but but but but but mom no it doesn't work like that do you accept their excuses
absolutely not neither does god let's see does god accept their excuse look at verse 16
unto the woman he said i will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception
in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children and thy desire shall be to thy husband and he shall rule
over thee and unto adam he said because thou has hearkened under the voice of thy wife and
hast eaten of the tree of which i commanded thee saying thou shalt not eat of it hearst is the
ground for thy sake in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life did he accept their
excuses did he say oh don't worry about it no he actually cursed them both he actually cursed man
and woman and even today in 2020 we all see the repercussion of their sin their excuses didn't
matter hey we're all sinners because of them right and excuses do not matter with god let's look at
another example let's go to first samuel chapter 13 first samuel chapter 13 we're going to look at
king saul who is a saved man and he gives some excuses as well let's read uh first samuel 13
verse number 10 and it came to pass that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering
or i'm sorry uh verse five and the philistines gathered themselves together to fight with israel
30 000 chariots and 6000 horsemen and people as the sand which is on the seashore and multitude
and they came up and pitched in mcmash eastward from beth-aven when the men of israel saw that
they were in a straight for the people were distressed then the people did hide themselves
in caves and in thickets and in rocks and in high places and in pits and some of the hebrews went
over jordan to the land of gad and gilead as for saul he was yet in gilgal and all the people
followed him trembling and he tarried seven days according to the set time that samuel had appointed
but samuel came not to gilgal and the people were scattered from him and saul said bring hither a
burnt offering to me and peace offerings and he offered the burnt offering so what happened there's
the philistines a great host that's coming against saul and his army and everyone's terrified i mean
put yourself in this situation i can understand how maybe they're going through a little bit of
fear they have this huge army coming after them and their priest isn't even there to do sacrifices
unto the lord to try to get lord the lord's favor on their side well let's look and and we saw what
Saul did he decided to make the offerings himself now was that right is the question absolutely not
stay there and i'll read for you hebrews five one the bible says for every high priest taken from
among men is ordained for men in things pertaining to god that he may offer both gifts and sacrifices
for sins verse four and no man taketh this honor unto himself but he that is called of god as was
erin so in the old testament the levites were ordained to be the priests of god and they were
ordained to do the work of god by performing the sacrifices by doing all the offerings for the lord
no man can just take that honor on himself hey you can't just go start a church and ordain yourself
adam panen god has an order for things you don't just bring the honor on yourself god ordains
people for positions of leadership and guess what king saul was ordained the king of israel but you
know what he was not he was not ordained high priest it was not his job to make sacrifices to
god it was his job to lead the the battle that was his job and he thought that well samuel isn't
here yet and you know all these people are scared so i'm just going to go ahead and do it myself
let's see what happens verse 10 and it came to pass that as soon as he had made an end of offering
the burnt offering behold samuel came and saul went out to meet him that he might salute him
and samuel said what hast thou done and saul said because i saw that the people were scattered from
me and that thou camest not within the days appointed and that the philistines gathered themselves
together at mcmash therefore said i the philistines will come down now upon me to gilgal and i have not
made supplication unto the lord i forced myself therefore and offered a burnt offering do you see
the excuses just pouring out of his mouth he's like well you weren't here yet all the people were
scared you know i wanted to i wanted to inquire of god he even makes it spiritual all right i mean he
was breaking god's law because he's so spiritual and you know a lot of people when they break god's
commandment they try to just make it look like it's a spiritual reason you know well you know i know
i'm divorced and the bible says not to get remarried but bible does say it's better to marry than to
burn and you know i just don't want to be in the state of lust and so i'm just gonna break god's
commandments that way i could be more spiritual it's like that's not how the bible works that's
not how christianity works you don't get to break god's commandments and make excuses for it so much
the more giving spiritual excuses for it it does not fly and you'll see that in this chapter
it does not fly look at verse 13 and samuel said to sal that was done foolishly that was not kept
the commandment of the lord thy god which he commanded thee for now would the lord have
established thy kingdom upon israel forever but now thy kingdom shall not continue the lord have
sought him a man after his own heart and the lord h commanded him to be captain over his people
because thou has not kept that which the lord commanded thee did god accept his excuse absolutely
not samuel had to tell him look you would have been established as the king but now the kingdom's
got to be taken from you and it's going to be given to someone who is a man after god's own
heart and that man ends up becoming king david you know it's very interesting king david later
in his life he committed a great sin too but when he was told when he committed adultery and when he
had uriah the hittite murdered and he was told by the prophet thou art the man you know what he said
he said i have sinned and did god take away his reign did god take away his kingdom no he didn't
he had mercy towards him you know people that make excuses towards god when they sin you're more
likely to receive less mercy from god when he sees that you're just making excuses to him he's going
to come down harder on you and when you sin it's better just to be humble and we'll get a little
more to that later but let's look at another example i'm getting a little ahead of myself first
first samuel 15 let's look at another excuse saul gives in first samuel 15 verse 1 samuel also said
unto saul the lord sent me to anoint the king to be over his people over israel now therefore
harken thou unto the voice of the words of the lord thus saith the lord of hosts i remember that
which amelek did to israel how he laid wait for him in the way when he came up from egypt now go
and smite amelek and utterly destroy all that they have and spare them not but slay both man and woman
infant and suckling ox and sheep camel and ass what is the instruction hey go to the amelekites
and completely wipe them out every living thing wipe them out and why did god have him do such
uh an order well the bible talks about how these nations were doing just like the most wicked and
sick things you can imagine they were sacrificing children they were just complete reprobates
obviously god would not just wipe out an entire nation of people that are righteous like in
Sodom remember he was saying hey if there's 10 righteous in the city I'll spare it for the city
these were extremely wicked nations and he tells Saul go and completely wipe them out everything
that's breathing even the animals just get them off the face of the earth and let's see what he
does verse 14 he doesn't he doesn't do it and Samuel said what meaneth then this bleeding of
the sheep in mine ears and the lowing of the ox which I hear I'm sorry let's let's go back one
verse and Samuel said to Saul and Samuel came to Saul and Saul said unto him blessed be thou of
the Lord I have performed the commandment of the Lord and Samuel said what meaneth then this bleeding
of the sheep in mine ears and the lowing of the oxen which I hear so Samuel comes and checks on
him hey did you do what God told you to do did you wipe out all the Amalekites he's saying yes I've
I have followed God's commandments and Samuel's saying then why is it that I'm hearing the lowing
of sheep right now the lowing of cattle right now why is it that I'm hearing these things it's like
you know uh son did you turn off the xbox and the mom could like still hear you playing xbox or
something like that right it's just like it's sad that he's trying to hide this when obviously he
could see the cattle's right there you know what he gives an excuse he gives an excuse let's look
at verse verse number 22 verse 22 and Samuel said hath the Lord oh I'm sorry verse 20 and
Saul said unto Samuel yea I have obeyed the voice of the Lord and have gone the way which the Lord
sent me and have brought Agag the king of Amalek and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites but the
people took of the spoil sheep and oxen and chief of the things which should have been utterly
destroyed to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God in Gilgal so his excuse this time was to blame other
people his excuse for disobeying God's commandment this time was other people you see Christians do
this all the time especially teenagers when they get caught in sin hey it's just well peer pressure
well they were all doing it too you know it's like hey why did you drink well everyone else was
drinking too that's not an excuse you can't blame other people for your own sin look at verse 22
and Samuel said half the Lord is great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the
voice of the Lord behold to obey is better than sacrifice and to hearken than the fat of rams
you know Saul thought hey I'll just take all of these animals and I'll just make a sacrifice to
God for it but think about it is that really going to please God when God wanted all of those animals
dead and slain right there no if anything your sacrifice is just a testament to God that you
disobeyed him that you didn't think highly enough of his word to actually obey what he said to do
and doesn't matter how spiritual you try to make your excuse if you're disobeying God's commandments
he's not pleased with that it's like oh you know well my wife is unsaved and she doesn't want to
follow God so I'm just going to divorce her and move to Phoenix Arizona so I could serve God
no that's not going to be pleasing to God that's just going to be a testament to God that you
decided to break his commandments on divorce and remarriage God is not pleased when we break his
commandments especially especially when we make excuses for it and I mentioned this earlier but
go ahead and turn to first Peter chapter 1 first Peter chapter 1 verse 13 wherefore gird up the
loins of your mind be sober and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at
the revelation of Jesus Christ as obedient children not fashioning yourselves according to the former
lust in your ignorance but as he which hath called you is holy so be holy in all manner of
conversation because it is written be ye holy for I am holy notice he calls us obedient children
God's commandment to us as obedient children is hey he's holy we need to be holy now that's a
hard commandment obviously right because we're sinners but think about it how much disobedience
do you tolerate from your children do you tell your children well son it's okay to disobey five
percent of my commandments no you tell them it's unacceptable to disobey my commandments at any
time now obviously we show grace to our children when they're humble but you know what if they're
going to make excuses for their sin the grace is not there at that time is it it's the same thing
with God when when Saul is making excuse after excuse for his sin God ends up just removing him
as king he does not show grace unto him he removes him he comes down on him hard you know but there's
a group of Christians today called like the hyper grace movement or the free in Christ bro type
movement where they're like this where they think that sin is just totally excusable that because
Jesus died on the cross we're just excused we could do whatever we want has anyone ever heard
of this man named Joseph Prince has anyone heard of him okay you've heard of him so he is in let's
see what country he's in he's in singapore mega church 24 000 members 24 000 people this is a huge
huge church and i heard about this guy way back in 2015 of people i knew here in texas that were
listening to him so this guy infects even the state we're living in right now with his doctrine you
know what he said he said that the holy spirit never convicts you of your sins i challenge you
to find a scripture in the bible that tells you that the holy spirit has come to convict you of
your sins you won't find any challenge accepted go to john chapter 16 john chapter 16 you won't
find a scripture in the bible that says the holy spirit convicts us of our sin okay let's see if
that's true john chapter 16 verse 7 nevertheless i tell you the truth it is expedient for you that
i go away for if i go not away the comforter will not come unto you but if i depart i will send him
unto you what's the context we're talking about the holy spirit the comforter and when he is come
he will reprove the world of sin and of righteousness and of judgment you know what the holy spirit has
come to do to convict you of your sin to tell you you're wrong about doing that hey you're wrong for
lusting after a woman in your heart you're wrong for doing drugs you're wrong for doing alcohol
that's what the holy spirit convicts us of doing what a wicked thing to say the holy spirit never
came to convict us of our sins that's garbage you know so many christians today the free in christ
bro mentality will tell you oh you want to get a tattoo well hey you're excused just as long as
the holy spirit hasn't convicted of you that of that of you yet you have an excuse so people today
are able to bring their excuses for their sin by saying well you know i know i'm living in
fornication but the holy spirit hasn't convicted of me yet how exactly does that work how exactly
does the holy spirit convict you of something do you get a burning in the bosom like the mormons do
when they read the bible no you know how the holy spirit has convicted us of sin by the word of god
by showing us that we've all broken god's commandments by showing us that we do not
measure up to his be holy for i am holy standard but you know what just because we don't measure
up to it that doesn't give us an excuse to just go and break god's commandments oh you know we're
in the new testament so you know leviticus 19 where it talks about printing marks upon your body
that's okay now because the holy spirit hasn't convicted me of that yet well what about in
leviticus 20 or in leviticus 19 where it says to not prostitute your daughter to cause her to be a
whore has the holy spirit not convicted you of that too would it be acceptable for you to use that
excuse to sell your daughter as a prostitute and just say well the holy spirit hasn't convicted me
of that yet because that's what the type of mentality that false prophets like joseph prince
bring in people and that's why people today think that we're legalists and think that churches like
ours are crazy people think that we are crazy for believing the word of god and for believing the
law of god even the ifb has gotten so out of their mind that they think we're crazy crazy for
believing leviticus 2013 they think that we are crazy for believing the sodomites should be put
to death hey even though the holy spirit has convicted the sodomites of that in the bible
let's go to leviticus chapter 2013 what does it say what is the holy spirit revealed what is
the holy spirit convicted about sodomites verse 13 if a man also lie with mankind as he lied with a
woman both of them have committed an abomination they shall surely be put to death their blood
shall be upon him hey you know what the holy spirit says should happen to sodomites is that
they should be stoned to death that's what the holy spirit has to say about that subject and you
know the rukminites they think we're so crazy for believing that the word of god should be applied
today because they believe that only the old testament applies to the jews and that leviticus
chapter 20 was given to the physical nation of israel therefore you can't apply it in the new
testament that's what that's garbage that's garbage that's the type of mentality that comes
from an unsaved mind there's no excuse for sodomy sodomites don't get to just pull out the card and
say well the holy spirit hasn't convicted me of that yet yes he has but you know what the holy
spirit has also convicted all of us of all of our sin too and you know what you better not go around
making excuses for your sin you know you kids when your parents confront you with your problems
when they tell you you've done wrong you say yes sir yes ma'am i've sinned that's the attitude you
should have not come at them with this garbage mentality of bringing excuses you know what god
doesn't accept it and neither will your parents it's a stupid mentality to have giving excuses
god does not accept the atheist excuses today god does not accept the unsaved religious people's
excuses you know what he doesn't accept our excuses either when we sin go to go to matthew 25 while
you're turning there i'll read for you james 4 6 the bible says but he giveth more grace wherefore
he sayeth god resisteth the proud but giveth grace unto the humble you know the best attitude you
could have when you sin is to come before god humbly confessing your sin asking him for forgiveness
that's when grace is going to abound towards you these people like joseph prince this hyper grace
mentality they don't know what grace is they've turned the grace of god into lasciviousness is
what they've done no grace is when you acknowledge that the holy spirit has convicted you of something
and you acknowledge that you also messed up and did that sin but you come to god humbly asking him
for forgiveness hey that's that's grace right there because he said be holy for i am holy i'm not
holy but god's gracious to me and to you and we humbly ask him for forgiveness but not only does
god not accept our excuses when we sin number three tonight is that god does not accept our excuses to
not serve him god does not accept our excuses to not serve him matthew 25 let's read this parable
in verse 14 the bible says for the kingdom of heaven is as a man traveling into a far country
who called his own servants and delivered unto them his goods you know jesus christ came to
this earth and he left us with the ministry of reconciliation second uh corinthians 4 1 i believe
it is says therefore seeing we have received this ministry we have faint we faint not so we've
received the ministry we've received the great commission which is i'll read for you the great
Great Commission, Matthew 28 verse 19, the Bible says, "Go ye therefore and teach all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them to
observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you. And lo, I am with you always, even unto the end
of the world. Amen." So you know what? God has came and you know, Jesus Christ is in a far country
now. He's in heaven right now, but he's left his servants with his goods. He's left us with his
church. He's left us with his gospel. He's left us with the great commission, with work to be done
for him. Let's look at verse 15 of Matthew 25. "And unto the one he gave five talents, and to the
other two, and to another one, to every man according to his several ability, and straightway
took his journey. Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and
made them other five talents. And likewise, he that had received two, he also gained two." So notice,
these people that have received the talents from their Lord, what are they doing with it?
They're profiting. They're making their master profit. They're multiplying their master's goods,
making profit. A picture of us going out and multiplying ourselves by getting people saved,
by bringing forth fruit, by bringing profit to God. Stay there, and I'll read for you.
First Corinthians 12, 7, the Bible says, "But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man
to profit withal, for to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom, to another the word
of knowledge by the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another the gifts of healing."
And he goes on giving a list of all these spiritual gifts that God has given us. You know,
one talent that God has given every single person in this room is the gospel of Jesus Christ.
You know, and some people have more, some people have these spiritual gifts, and you know, you may
be the five-talent guy, you may be the ten-talent guy. There's people in this world that are like
20 or 30-talent guys, in my opinion. But you know what? Every single person is that one-talent guy
for sure. Everyone has been committed to the gospel. Look at verse 18. So we just saw the first two,
they were pleasing to their Lord, they brought him profit. Verse 18, "But he that had received one
went and digged in the earth and hid his Lord's money. After a long time, the Lord of those
servants cometh and reckoneth with them. And so he that had received five talents came and brought
other five talents, saying, 'Lord, thou deliverest unto me five talents. Behold, I have gained beside
them five talents more.' His Lord said unto him, 'Well done, thou good and faithful servant. Thou
has been faithful over a few things. I will make thee ruler over many things. Enter thou into the
joy of thy Lord.' He also that had received two talents came and said, 'Lord, thou deliverest
unto me two talents. Behold, I have gained other two talents beside them.' His Lord said unto them,
'Well done, good and faithful servant. Thou has been faithful over a few things. I will make thee
ruler over many things. Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.'" So notice, it wasn't necessarily
the quantity of profit that these people brought forth that determined whether or not they were
going to be pleasing in the Lord's sight. What determined it was whether or not they brought
profit at all. Because hey, the one guy who only brought forth two more talents had the same answer
given to him as the guy that brought five more talents. Hey, if we go out and preach the gospel,
if you only get 30 people saved a year, you know what? God is going to be pleased with you
just as much as he would for the person that goes and gets 100 people a year saved. He's going to
be pleased with us if we're profiting, if we're doing what he's told us to do. And you know,
not everybody is the five talent guy. Not everybody is the 10 talent guy. Not everybody
has the circumstances in life to where they can go so many as much as other people. You know,
women that are raising young children are probably not going to be able to go out and preach the
gospel as often as the young single guy can. Right? That's why the apostle Paul was single.
He even said it's because I could do more work for God. Right? But hey, no matter what,
when you're bringing profit forth for God, he's going to be pleased with you. But let's see you
this other person in verse 24. "Then he which had received the one talent came and said, 'Lord,
I knew thee that thou art a hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where
thou hast not strode.'" You know what he just did? He gave an excuse. He gave an excuse for why he
was not profitable to his master. Let's see if his master accepts that excuse. "And I was afraid,
and went and hid thy talent in the earth. Lo, there thou hast, that is thine. And his Lord answered
and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not,
and gather where I have not strode. Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers,
and then in my coming I should have received mine own with usury. Take therefore the talent from him,
and give it unto him which hath ten talents, for unto everyone that hath shall be given,
and he shall have abundance. But from him that hath not shall be taken away even that
which he hath. Notice he was given the one talent, and when he did not bring profit to his master,
you know what his master thought of him? That he was a wicked and slothful servant. And you know
what? Sadly today there's very few Christians, although we've all been given the one talent of
the gospel. Although Jesus Christ gave the great commission to every single saved person on this
planet, sadly the majority of Christians today are the one talent guy that have buried their talent
in the earth. You know what Jesus thinks of them? Wicked and slothful. You know in Revelation he
talks about the churches that have left their first love that they need to repent and do the
first works. He says hey you better repent quickly or I'm going to come and take that candlestick
from you. Notice how it says that it's going to be taken from him and given to him that has lots of
talents already. And you know what? Churches today that do not preach the gospel are going to die.
Churches today that do not go out and be profitable for the Lord. And hey, even if all you have is
that one talent, even if the only ministry a church has is going out and preaching the gospel,
Jesus is going to be pleased with that church. Hey, it doesn't matter if you have the day where
you go and shoot the machine guns. It doesn't matter if you have the day where you go out to
a nice steakhouse. Hey, what matters is preaching the gospel. That's what God cares about. He doesn't
care about anything else. That's what pleases him. You know what? Sadly today, Baptist churches have
forsaken preaching the gospel. There's very few people, there's very few churches in this world
that go out and preach people the gospel. You know what they do? They leave door hangers on people's
doors. They do bus routes and take them into some Sunday school where the kids dance around and eat
ice cream and cake for the whole time. They're burying their talent in the earth. God's given
all of us that talent to profit. He's given us gifts. You know, in Ephesians it talks about how
he's given gifts of pastors and teachers and evangelists for the edification of the saints.
What are we doing? Why are we in this building right now? What are we doing coming together in
the name of our Lord Jesus Christ? Hey, we're building an army of people to go out into the
community and to preach them the gospel, to get them here, to baptize them, and to teach them all
things whatsoever Christ has commanded. That's what we're doing. You know, today a lot of Christians
make excuses for why they can't preach the gospel. I've heard so many excuses. Oh, you know, my leg
hurts. You know, I'm just not called to that ministry. I don't have enough time. You know,
I have too big of a family. I have too small a family. You know what? You can make any excuse
you want to make, but at the end of the day, Jesus Christ is going to say to you, "Thou wicked and
slothful servant," if you don't go preach the gospel. Is that what you want Jesus Christ to think of you?
Your excuses don't work with God. It doesn't work with anyone. This person, he gave that lame excuse
to his master. God didn't accept it. You know what's sad? When I was preaching one time at
Sure Foundation Baptist Church in Spokane, Washington. I was driving back that night
from Spokane to Vancouver and I made this wrong turn. I ended up going just like
way out in the middle of the country, way off the beaten path from where I was I was meaning to go.
We were just in this tiny itty-itty bitty town. I'm talking there's maybe like 75 people that
live there, if that. And you know what I saw when I was in that town? Mormons on their bicycles,
preaching the gospel. You know the Mormons go to every nook and cranny of this earth to make
people two-fold more the children of hell than themselves. You know how many Baptists have that
kind of dedication? Not very many, sadly. You know how many of us have the talent though? All of us,
any single person can go and become a missionary, can go and do great things for God, you know,
or you can get tons and tons and tons and tons of people saved just right here in Houston. You guys
have eight million people in this city. That is insane. That is a huge, huge city. Do you know how
long it would take to knock every door in this city with this group of people? We probably couldn't
do it in our lifetime. You know what though? You know why we can't? Because of wicked and slothful
Christians. That's why. Because if everybody who had that talent was in this room right now
and was out with us preaching the gospel, we would not have that problem in this country.
We would not have that problem. It's a disgusting thing to see. The excuses that people give when
it's eternity on the line. Our life is a vapor. Are you going to let a bum leg cause you to not
preach the gospel? Are you going to let your back pain cause you to not preach the gospel? Hey,
I'll push you in a wheelchair if I have to. You need to get out soul winning. And you know what?
This excuse of, oh, you know, well, I'm a lady, so I'm not, I'm not called to go soul winning.
That's a garbage excuse too. Ladies sometimes think that they're just excused from going soul
winning. You know what? That's your ministry too. You know what? If you're a lady and you never
preach the gospel, you're wicked and slothful. And if you're a man and you never preach the gospel,
you're wicked and slothful. And you know what? Children, you need to learn how to preach the
gospel because you're called to work too. This is a, this is a job for man, woman, boy, and girl.
And you know what? It doesn't matter how much work you do. If you're going out and you're profiting
for God, he's going to be pleased with you. Well done, thou good and faithful servant.
The problem is not that we have a lack of 10 talent people in America. The problem is not that
we lack all these apostle Pauls in America. The problem is that we have all these one talent people
that bury their talent in the earth. That's the problem. We would get a lot more done for God
if the one talent people would stop making excuses for not serving God and would get to work. Don't
be a wicked and slothful church. Let's make sure that this church always, always preaches the gospel.
God's not accepting excuses today from the atheist. God is not accepting excuses today from the unsaved
religious people. He's not accepting excuses today for our sin. And hey, he's not accepting our
excuses for not serving him today. There's no good reason not to do it. If anyone had an excuse,
hey, maybe it would have been the apostle Paul who was stoned, shipwrecked, beat. I mean, he went
through so much, but you know what? He said, none of these things move me. Neither count on my life,
dear unto myself. He didn't count his dear little life, you know, so precious to himself. He just
kept preaching gospel anyways. And that's why he was qualified to write one of the most powerful
verses in the Bible. I'll read for you first Corinthians 15 verse 58. Therefore my beloved
brethren be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord for as much as you know
that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. You know, that's a really challenging verse when you
sit down and think about what that's saying. Hey, you always have to be steadfast. You always have
to be unmovable. You always have to be abounding in the work of the Lord. Well, what about all my
excuses? Nope, it doesn't work. There's not a place in this verse that has room for an excuse,
is there? Hey, if anyone could have had it, it would have been the apostle Paul, but he didn't
make excuses. And that's why God was able to use him so greatly. But you know what? Even if all you
are is that one talent person, you need to stop making excuses too, because your labor is not in
vain in the Lord either. No matter how few in number of people you get saved compared to someone
like the apostle Paul, that's not in vain. Those are souls that have an eternity ahead of them
as well. We need to be a church that does not make excuse. Let's have a word of prayer. Lord,
thank you so much for this day. Thank you for all that you do for us. I just pray that you'd help us
to all build a strong foundation that when trials and tribulations come in our lives,
we wouldn't make excuses to want to quit serving you or excuses for our sin, but that we would just
be steadfast and unmovable. I pray that you'd help this church to always be a soul-winning
church. And in Jesus' name, we pray. Amen.