Main Idea: You cannot pull yourself out of sin. 
Verse: “…no one will be declared righteous in God’s sight by the works of the law…” (Romans 3:20 NIV). 
Illustration: A little monkey fell in the quicksand. As he was sinking into the sand, a monkey on the bank started giving him advice. He said,
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2011
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    SIN IS LIKE QUICKSAND
In his book, Homesick for God, Joel Gregory described a horrible pit from which Tony Chain was rescued. 
Tony and J. R. Hounchell went hunting the first day of duck season in 1981. They were in an area called Duck Flats, northeast of Anchorage, Alaska. Hours before, 10 feet
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "Our real enemies are the people who make us feel so good that we are slowly, but inexorably, pulled down into the
                    
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                    Contributed by Jimmy Chapman on Nov 18, 2006
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Some years ago the late Dr. Donald G. Barnhouse was traveling from Alabama to Florida. Feeling a tire going flat, he pulled to the side of the road and inwardly groaned at the thought of removing hundreds of books in the trunk, so as to reach his spare tire. Seeing a jeep coming over the hill, he
                    
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                    Contributed by John Slythe on Feb 21, 2003
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    A man became lost in his travels and wandered into a bed of quicksand.  
Confucius saw the man’s predicament and said, “It is evident that men should stay out of places such as this.”
	Next, Buddha observed the situation and said, “Let that man’s plight be a lesson to the rest of the world.”
	Then
                    
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                    Contributed by Troy Borst on Jun 24, 2009
                
                
                
                    iGoogle Widget: ‘Things to Ponder’
	Have you ever asked a dumb question?  I have to admit that I have.  On my last trip out of town, I had to make a bank deposit in Virginia.  For some reason, out of my mouth came, “Can I deposit here in Virginia even though I live in Florida?”  I bank with a
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on May 5, 2002
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    LISTEN MY CHILE
I know you think you been raised ’cause you grown now
but a mama always got to wonder
what else can I say to my child who is black?
I know what you’re thinking
She’s been talkin’ my whole life,
it’s time to let well enough alone, to trust me, to let me be,
but you know your mama,
                    
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