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The Devil made me do it

 

INTRO:

BLAME

You are driving 100 mph in a 45 mph zone, you lose control, flip your car on a sharp curve, and critically injure yourself, who is at fault? No, not you, the Dept. of Transportation for not making the degree of banking on the curve great enough to keep you on the road at 100 mph.

 

You are going 75 mph in a 55 mph, and you are pulled over, given a ticket that gives you enough points to have your license suspended. Who is to blame? No, not you. The officer should have been a little more sympathetic to your situation.

 

You are wearing a shirt that needs to be ironed. Instead of taking it off, you try to iron with it on and guess what? That’s right, you get burned. Shame on you right? No, it is the company who made the iron who deserves blame because they should have warned you that ironing clothes while they are on your body is dangerous.

 

You pull through McDonalds for some hot, yes hot coffee. While trying to drive your car, eat your Egg McMuffun, you spill your hot, yes hot coffee all over yourself. You moron right? No, it is McDonalds fault for making that coffee too hot!

 

OK, one more. You decide that you need to fix the electrical component in your TV. Without unplugging it, you begin your work. Uh Oh! You guessed it. You get fried! Dumb you right? No, RCA should have told you that you were at risk for electric shock!

 

Here is how deep this gets… A girl goes to a party and she is drinking and gets drunk… she gets raped… we think she shouldn’t have been drinking…We blame her

A man is living on the street begging for money… we say he should get a job… we blame him

 

Blame = Delaying the consequences for sinful behavior. 

 

Responsibility = Accepting the consequences for sinful behavior. 

 

 

WHY:

  -  1  Blame Keeps us from having to change. = We are called by God to change… to be more like his son Jesus. 

As long as I don’t have to take responsibility I don’t have to change. 

 

Matthew 16:24 Therefore if anyone wants to follow me he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. 

 

We are called to die to our excuses and blame…

It says nothing about denying sin or dying to sin… but excuses and blame.

We sin because of excuses, we excuse it through blame.

 

 

People who are successful in every area of life have one thing in common, they believe they have a key part, a responsibility in the out come. If they fail they do not blame but take full responsibility, if they win they take full responsibility… they don’t say it was luck or by coincidence.