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Introduction: Mistakes are apart of our everyday life. We have all made them. We have tried our best to make that perfect cake only to find out that we left out a main ingredient. I never will forget when I was learning how to bake homemade bisques I was excited.
I had everything I needed for them to turn out like my mothers. I had everything all planned out. I had my 2 cups of flour, 1 teaspoon of baking powder, 1 ½ tsp of sugar, ½ teaspoon of salt, and ½ teaspoon of baking soda, ½ cup of all vegetable oil and 1 cup of milk.
It was all measured out and ready to be prepared but the one thing I had forgotten was the order in which I was to prepare it. Needless to say my very first batch of bisques was not that good.
You see the order in which it was to be prepared had as much to do with my success as the ingredients.
The mistake that many people make is that they have the ingredients they are just trying to do it in the wrong order.
Our Text Suggest 5 Mistakes that Sinners Make
when trying to put their life together
Romans 10:14
Israel Rejects the Gospel
14 How then shall they call on Him in whom they have not believed? And how shall they believe in Him of whom they have not heard? And how shall they hear without a preacher?
I. Sinners make the Mistake of Rejecting Him
A. They don’t call on Him because they have rejected Him
1. They will not call on him because they Reject God.
1 Samuel 8:7
7 And the Lord said to Samuel, “Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them.
2. They will not call on him because they reject God’s Word
1 Samuel 15:23
23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, And stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the Lord,
He also has rejected you from being king.” ,
1 Samuel 15:26
26 But Samuel said to Saul, “I will not return with you, for you have rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord has rejected you from being king over Israel.”
3. They will not call on him because they reject God’s knowledge
Hosea 4:6
6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I also will reject you from being priest for Me;
Because you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children.
4. They will not call on Him because they have rejected God’s Son
Mark 8:31
31 And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
31 And He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.
B. They Reject Him because of their characteristics
1. They reject Him because they are Hostile to God
Jude 15
15 to execute judgment on all, to convict all who are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed in an ungodly way, and of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners have spoken against Him.”
3. They reject Him because they are Easily ensnared
Ecclesiastes 7:26
26 And I find more bitter than death
The woman whose heart is snares and nets,
Whose hands are fetters.
He who pleases God shall escape from her,
But the sinner shall be trapped by her.
4. They reject Him because they are enticed
Proverbs 1:10
10 My son, if sinners entice you, Do not consent.
C. They Reject Him because of Christ
1. They Reject Christ In doctrine.
Mark 8:38
38 For whoever is ashamed of Me and My words in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him the Son of Man also will be ashamed when He comes in the glory of His Father with the holy angels.”
2 Timothy 1:8
Not Ashamed of the Gospel
8 Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me His prisoner, but share with me in the sufferings for the gospel according to the power of God,
2. They reject Christ In practice.
Philippians 3:18
18 For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: ,10
Titus 1:16
16 They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work.
3. Rejecting Christ is A characteristic of false teachers.
2 Peter 2:1
Destructive Doctrines
2 But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction.
Jude 4
4 For certain men have crept in unnoticed, who long ago were marked out for this condemnation, ungodly men, who turn the grace of our God into lewdness and deny the only Lord God and our Lord Jesus Christ.
4. Rejecting Christ is the spirit of Antichrist.
1 John 2:22-23
22 Who is a liar but he who denies that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist who denies the Father and the Son.
23 Whoever denies the Son does not have the Father either; he who acknowledges the Son has the Father also. ;
1 John 4:3
3 and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God. And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard was coming, and is now already in the world.
5. Christ will deny those guilty of Rejecting Him
Matthew 10:33
33 But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My Father who is in heaven.
2 Timothy 2:12
12 If we endure, We shall also reign with Him. If we deny Him, He also will deny us.
6. Rejecting Christ Leads to destruction.
2 Peter 2:1
Destructive Doctrines
2 But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction. ;
Illustration: When you don’t reject him you have access to call on him
Psalm 118:21-25
21 I will praise You, For You have answered me, And have become my salvation.
22 The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone.
23 This was the Lord’s doing; It is marvelous in our eyes.
24 This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice and be glad in it.
25 Save now, I pray, O Lord; O Lord, I pray, send now prosperity.
II Subject: Sinner make the Mistake of Not Believing
A. Not Believing causes us to sin
1. Proceeds from An evil heart.
Hebrews 3:12
12 Beware, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God; .
2. Slowness of heart.
Luke 24:25
25 Then He said to them, “O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
3. Hardness of heart.
Mark 16:14
14 Later He appeared to the eleven as they sat at the table; and He rebuked their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they did not believe those who had seen Him after He had risen.
Acts 19:9
9 But when some were hardened and did not believe, but spoke evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them and withdrew the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus. .
4. Disinclination to the truth.
John 8:45-46
45 But because I tell the truth, you do not believe Me. 46 Which of you convicts Me of sin? And if I tell the truth, why do you not believe Me? .
5. Judicial blindness.
John 12:39-40
39 Therefore they could not believe, because Isaiah said again:
40 “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts,
Lest they should see with their eyes,
Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn,
So that I should heal them.”
6. Not being Christ’s sheep.
John 10:26
26 But you do not believe, because you are not of My sheep, as I said to you. .
7. The devil blinding the mind.
2 Corinthians 4:4
4 whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them. .
8. The devil taking away the word out of the heart.
Luke 8:12
12 Those by the wayside are the ones who hear; then the devil comes and takes away the word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be saved. .
III. Sinners make the Mistake of Not Hearing
IV. Sinners make the Mistake of Not obeying
V. Sinners make the Mistake of Not Sharing
C. They will ultimately be punished
1. They will be Pursued by evil
Proverbs 13:21
21 Evil pursues sinners,
But to the righteous, good shall be repaid.
2. They will be Overthrown by evil
Proverbs 13:6
6 Righteousness guards him whose way is blameless,
But wickedness overthrows the sinner.
3. Their Wealth of, acquired by the just
Proverbs 13:22
22 A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children,
But the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous.
4. They Will be punished
Proverbs 11:31
31 If the righteous will be recompensed on the earth,
How much more the ungodly and the sinner.