PASS THE BUCK! THE BLAME GAME?
By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (YouTube: Wade Hughes)
BLOWING SMOKE? WHO TOLD ON ME?
I WAS TEACHING THE 6TH IN WOODWAY, VIRGINIA. The first day of school the teachers were meeting with the principal. When the floor opened for questions, one teacher complained to the principal that her aid was 2 to 3 hours later every morning. The principal said hour long has this been going on. The teacher said at least two years. The teachers said this was not fair every day. The principal agreed. He said this will not be tolerated this year. Sure enough the lady was been 2 to 3 hours late every day. The principal wrote a very nice note that said: IT HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION THAT SOMEONE IS BEING HOURS LATE DAILY. THIS MUST STOP IMMEDIATELY! The NOT WAS PASSED FRO ROOM TO ROOM. Each person read the note and passed it to the next room. I knew the lady was in the next room. I just tarried by my door. The teacher read the note and passed it to the lady that was always late. In two minutes the aid came out of the room. Fire was coming off her head. She was stomping and swinging her arms. She ran into the office screaming: WHO TOLD ON ME! I DEMAND, I WANT TO KNOW WHO TOLD ON ME? The principal asked her: IS IT TRUE YOU ARE LATE EVERY DAY! She reply: IT IS NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS. He asked again. She said: YES! He said: THE LATENESS IS NOT FAIR TO THE OTHER STAFF. IT STOPS TODAY! She went down the hall, screaming who told on me? In two weeks the lady lost her job. It did not matter who told on her, SHE MISSED THE WHOLE POINT --- SHE BLEW SMOKE TO HIDE HER TARDINESS. It was a lesson she never corrected.
TEXT:
Romans 2:1 Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things. 2 But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things. 3 And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?
LET US CALL BLAME THE VICTIM MENTALLY. In the bible they often used two goat… the one goat was called a scape goat. BLAME CAN BE THE CONSEQUENCE AND SYMTOM OF SIN. THE BIBLE IS CLEAR, DON’T BLAME OTHERS. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR ACTIONS AND WORDS.
**BLAME: NOT TAKING OWNERSHIP OF YOUR ACTIONS. To assign negative judgment. Blame is a learned behavior or emotion. to identify who is responsible for a problem, account of holding responsible, find fault, accusation, to assign responsibility for a fault or a wrong, to accuse for being responsible for something bad or wrong, to hold at fault, blame shifting, TO REFUSE TO BE CORRECT.
Matthew 7:1 Judge not, that ye be not judged. 2 For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. 3 And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? 4 Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? 5 Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
*WHY DO PEOPLE USE THE BLAME GAME? HE WHO BLAMES OTHERS FOR HIS ACTIONS HAS A LONG WAY TO GO ON HIS JOURNEY.
1. Why blame? EGO ISSUES? 2. The way to control avoiding responsibility! 3. TO HINDER BEING CORRECTED. 4. To protecting self from NEGATIVE EMOTIONS. 5. To put down another and edify self, superiority! 6. We tend to want to avoid our responsibilities? 7. Blame could be an attempt to CONTROL other people --- 8. MANIPULATION. Blame can come out of pain.
ADAM AND EVE CLEARLY BROKE GOD’S HEART AND HIS RULES. KNOW THIS: AS LONG AS WE BLAME OTHERS WE WILL NEVER REPENT OR CORRECT THE PROBLEMS.
The trap is set. The serpent was subtil. The serpent caught Eve by herself. My opinion is the serpent knew a little friendly conversation would open the doors to the trap.
Genesis 3:1 Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden? 2 And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: 3 But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die. 4 And the serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 5 For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.
WHO TOLD YOU? CAN’T YOU SEE WHAT HAS HAPPENED? THE SERPENT: IT IS NOT MY FAULT?
Genesis 3:11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat? 12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat. 13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
ADAM SAYS: THAT WOMAN YOU GAVE ME?
Genesis 3:12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
WHEN WE TRY TO HIDE SIN, LAZINESS AND THE LACK OF TRUST WE CAN NEVER PROSPER AND COME OUT AHEAD.
Proverbs 28:13 He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
GOD SAYS WHERE IS YOUR BROTHER: CAIN ANSWERS WITH A QUESTION.
Genesis 4:9 And the LORD said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
HEY, CAIN? WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM? WHY DO YOU HATED YOUR BROTHER.
Genesis 4:5 But unto Cain and to his offering he had not respect. And Cain was very wroth, and his countenance fell. 6 And the LORD said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
WHILE CAIN PASS THE BUCK THEIR WAS NOT REPENTANCE, NO CORRECTION.
Genesis 4:7 If thou doest well, shalt thou not be accepted? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door. And unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.
I AM SORRY I CAN’T SEE? OPEN YOUR EYES? SAMSON'S SENSUAL DESIRES CAUSED TROUBLE. SAMSON KNEW BETTER. SAMSON’S PARENTS TRIED TO WARN HIM. NO! NO! WHEN DID SAMSON REALIZE HE WAS BLIND? SAMSON
Judges 16:16 And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;
Judges 16:20 And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the LORD was departed from him.
Judges 16:21 But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house.
SAMSON WAS BLIND BEFORE HE LOST HIS VISION. SAMSON WOULD NEVER ACCEPT HIS PERSON RESPONSIBILITY FOR HIS MIND SET AND DEEDS… I want her!
Conclusion: THERE IS A TERRIBLE WAR. THE CONFLICT IS REAL: THE BATTLE ISBETWEEN THE FLESH AND SPIRIT. WE MUST LEARN TO LIVE DAILY AND WALK IN THE SPIRIT.
Galatians 5:16 This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh. 17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. 18 But if ye be led of the Spirit, ye are not under the law. 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God. 22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, 23 Meekness, temperance: against such there is no law.
His servant, Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com (YouTube: Wade Hughes)
