1. Mulligan’s $10.00 each Have you ever wished for a do over or reset button? The second shot is often worse than the first

2. You can never take back what is already done Adam and Eve – Gen. 3:6  Permanent effect  Eve – Gen. 3:16  Adam - Gen. 3:17-19  Eve’s effect on others - 1 Tim. 2:12-14  Adam’s effect on others - 1 Cor. 15:21

3. May try to hide or cover up what was done King David - 2 Samuel 11:4  Permanent effect – 2 Samuel 11:5  Hide by deception – 2 Samuel 11:8  Corrupting the innocent – 2 Samuel 11:13  Hide by greater sin – 2 Samuel 11:14-15  Permanent effect – Uriah, baby and shame

4. Sin may be hidden from men, but not from God David may have thought “I got away with it”  No place to hid – Jeremiah 23:24  All will come to light – Luke 12:2-3  Thoughts and intents – Heb. 4:12-13  Good and evil – Eccl. 12:14

5. Avoid destructive and devastating mistakes before they occur A good heart and sound choices  Evil begins in the heart – Mark 7:21-22  Draw near with a true heart – Heb. 10:22  Ready your mind to know – Acts 17:11  Acknowledge the Lord – Prov. 3:5-6  Discretion/understanding – Prov. 1:11-12

6. Choices turn into habits, good or bad Bad habits take us further into sin  Will grow worse and worse – 2 Tim. 3:13  Seared conscience – 1 Tim. 4:1-2 Good habits strengthen us  Overcome trials – James 1:2-3  God teaches us how to live – Titus 2:11-12

7. May rise above past mistakes In this life  Paul – 1 Cor. 15:10 & 2 Cor. 11:23  Peter – Luke 31-32 For the life to come  Washed, sanctified and justified – 1 Cor. 6:11  Lamb’s Book of Life – Rev. 21:27

8. Mulligan in this life only John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." Luke 16:26 And besides all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed, so that those who want to pass from here to you cannot, nor can those from there pass to us.'