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One More Night… With The Frogs

One More Night… With The Frogs

Spending One More Night With Our Frogs It means unnecessarily spending one more night with our sins: “Tomorrow” meant keeping all those frogs around a little longer… More mess, stink, misery, & ruin! Keeping sin in our lives even “a little longer” will make a further and unnecessary mess of our lives (Prov. 6:27-28)

Spending One More Night With Our Frogs It means unnecessarily spending one more night with our sins: “Tomorrow” meant keeping all those frogs around a little longer… More mess, stink, misery, & ruin! Keeping sin in our lives even “a little longer” will make a further and unnecessary mess of our lives (Prov. 6:27-28) We say it won’t affect us, but it does. Sin makes a mess of ourselves and our lives. Not something we can play with! Sin is destructive and corruptive in nature - Our hearts and minds, our relationships, and our daily lives. “Sin takes you farther than you meant to go, keeps you longer than you meant to stay, and costs you more than you meant to pay!” Sin brings bondage, heartache, sorry, regrets, shame, guilt, misery, and more. Only freedom is found in Jesus!

Spending One More Night With Our Frogs It means unnecessarily spending one more night with our sins: One more night with the frogs results in carrying around the weight of guilt of sin longer than necessary: Those who haven’t obeyed the gospel – Lost! No fellowship with God, full guilt of sin, all mistakes still on your record. There’s no forgiveness, no grace, and no mercy. Those who are Christians – Returning to bondage again, living in guilt, profaning sacrifice of Jesus, forsaking His help Instead of condemnation, we can have justification. Instead of being guilty, we can be forgiven. Instead of being dead, we can be alive. Instead of being lost, saved (Col. 2:12-14) The problem isn’t a problem of opportunity. We can be healed. Like Moses, God has basically said “When?” What will your answer be? (Jeremiah 8:20-22)

Spending One More Night With Our Frogs It means allowing our hearts to grow hard and callous to the gospel and salvation: Pharaoh’s decision was a pivotal... Saying “tomorrow” laid the foundation for more procrastination & defiance Your conscience may be bothering you, but when we say “tomorrow” we are searing it (I Tim 4:2) Paul describes people who went on sinning, knowing it was wrong, until they burned the sensitivity away. This happens when we allow sin to continue in our lives… this happens when we put off obeying the gospel of Christ. Our conscience is like a voice in our head… With each refusal to listen, we diminish its volume. Eventually it will go away!

Spending One More Night With Our Frogs It means allowing our hearts to grow hard and callous to the gospel and salvation: When we say “no” or “not now” our hearts get hardened by the deceitfulness of sin (Hebrews 3:13) Each refusal is a step away from God. Each step makes it easier to deny God. Each step makes Satan’s lies more real. The longer the “frogs” exist in our life the more defiled our conscience becomes. Right & wrong is skewed (Ti 1:15) It’s rarely a huge step into the depth of sin and unfaithfulness… those little steps add up. It gets harder to return to God! The answer is full obedience to Jesus… repentance in Him… submission to His gospel. This the way a “good conscience” will respond (I Peter 3:21)

Spending One More Night With Our Frogs It means taking an unnecessary eternal risk with our souls: Imagine all the heartache and ruin that could have been avoided if Pharaoh would’ve said, “Right now!” Our procrastination is worse than Pharaoh’s… Ours has eternal consequences for our salvation (2 Cor. 6:1-2) Not just an issue about our “tomorrow” but about our eternity Do you believe in Heaven? Do you believe in Hell? How can we put off our salvation if we really believe in those places? Procrastination with salvation makes our eternity uncertain… Will we wind up being saved or not? If we are putting it off one thing we can know… right know we’re lost! Saying “tomorrow” is to say “not today” – There’s only one day of salvation… “Today!” Tomorrow doesn’t really exist!

Spending One More Night With Our Frogs It means taking an unnecessary eternal risk with our souls: When we say “tomorrow’ we are ignoring the uncertainty of our lives (James 4:13-17) Tomorrow is uncertain because of the frail nature of our physical life. We’re like vapors & flowers (I Peter 1:24) Tomorrow is uncertain because Jesus could return at any time… His return will be like a thief in the night (2 Peter 3:9-10) Saying tomorrow is tantamount to playing “Russian Roulette” with our souls. It’s a risk that is never rational or worth it! We say “tomorrow” because we feel we have “reasons” but often those reasons are just excuses! Not good enough? Too young? Too much to change? Too old? Not enough to offer? Not enough Bible knowledge? Often these are used to avoid doing what we know is right.