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One More Night…

Spending one more night with our sins can lead to unnecessary mess, misery, and ruin in our lives. This thought-provoking message emphasizes the importance of breaking free from the bondage of sin and embracing the forgiveness and grace found in Jesus.

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One More Night…

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  1. One More Night… With The Frogs

  2. One More Night… With The Frogs

  3. 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)

  4. 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!

  5. 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)

  6. 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!

  7. 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)

  8. 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!

  9. 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.

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