Are We Trapped? Can We Change?

ARE WE TRAPPED? CAN WE CHANGE…???

By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (YouTube: Wade Hughes) (SEVERAL PARTS)

THINK ABOUT THIS? WHO HAS THE LONGEST MOST POWERFUL TONGUE? The average human tongue is around 3 ½ inches in length. The average adult giraffe has a tongue 18 inches long.

Matthew 15:18 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart; and they defile the man.

HUMANS ARE RESISTANT TO CHANGE. I WILL TELL YOU WHEN YOU WILL CHANGE: YOU WILL CHANGE WHEN THE PAIN OF STAYING THE SAME IS WORSE THAN THE PAIN OF CHANGE.

The sheriff delivers divorce papers? You will change? There is a time when you will not touch that booze, when you are laying in a jail cell and learn your accident has killed others? There is a time when you have a stroke and can’t move one side of your body, then you will change. There is a time when the doctors say cancer has destroyed your lungs and throat, that you will lay aside the tobacco? There is a time when the doctors cut off your toes, then your feet and legs then you will get serious about diabetes.

Matthew 18:8 (NLT2) So if your hand or foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It’s better to enter eternal life with only one hand or one foot than to be thrown into eternal fire with both of your hands and feet.

9 And if your eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. It’s better to enter eternal life with only one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into the fire of hell.

10 “Beware that you don’t look down on any of these little ones. For I tell you that in heaven their angels are always in the presence of my heavenly Father.

*YOUR FOOT= WHERE YOU GO…

*YOUR HAND= WHAT YOU DO… CHANGE?

*YOUR EYES= WHAT YOU FOCUS ON, VALUE SYSTEM…

Proverbs 4:23 (NLT2) Guard your heart above all else, for it determines the course of your life.

WILL WE SUBMIT TO EVALUATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY FOR OUR:

*WILL WE CHANGE OUR HEART, HEAD, HANDS AND OUR EARS?

*TOW KINDS OF TREES: FRUIT TREES? FIREWOOD?

THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF TREES: FRUIT TREES! FIREWOOD TREES. ARE YOU KNOWN AS A KIND, LOVING PERSON?

I hear what you say in your words that you love... I am not asking about what you say. I am asking about what you say Face Book? On the Computers? Who you are in traffic? In the store? In your home?

Matthew 7:15 (NLT2) “Beware of false prophets who come disguised as harmless sheep but are really vicious wolves. 16 You can identify them by their fruit, that is, by the way they act. Can you pick grapes from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 A good tree produces good fruit, and a bad tree produces bad fruit. 18 A good tree can’t produce bad fruit, and a bad tree can’t produce good fruit. 19 So every tree that does not produce good fruit is chopped down and thrown into the fire. 20 Yes, just as you can identify a tree by its fruit, so you can identify people by their actions.

THERE ARE SEVERAL DESTRUCTIVE WEAPONS THAT CAN TRAP AND THAT CAN HINDER GOD’S PLAN. 1. SELF LAID TRAPS. 2. TRAPS LAID BY OTHERS. 3. DEMONIC TRAPS.

Galatians 5:7 Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?

Galatians 5:15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

We are living in an age where our enemy is waging an all-out war against humanity. We must recognize traps and learn to avoid them.

Galatians 5:7 (MSG) You were running superbly! Who cut in on you, deflecting you from the true course of obedience?

Galatians 5:15 (MSG) If you bite and ravage each other, watch out—in no time at all you will be annihilating each other, and where will your precious freedom be then?

DO WE EVER FEEL LIKE WE ARE STUCK IN A RUT?

Luke 21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.

When my son was practicing with his little league baseball team there was a practice field. The practice field was often flooded in the spring. The dual wheeled city trucks would drive through this area. As the trucks would go through the field they would cut RUTS in the wet mud. I love to watch nature. One day I saw a million big fat caterpillars crawling down the tree trunks and crawling across the field. Many of the caterpillars would escape the area.