What Are You Going To Do About It?

TITLE: WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

SCRIPTURE: ST. JOHN 8:1-11

There have been many obstacles and hurdles that we have faced and overcome over the course of our lifetime.

• If a job was not going well, we were faced with a decision to make - either stay with the job or seek other employment

• In an effort to make a decision we had to ask our self – What Are You Going To Do About It?

• Perhaps we found our self in a volatile relationship or in a relationship that was not healthy for us

• In an effort to make a decision we had to ask our self – What Are You Going To Do About It??

• Perhaps we found our self in a dark place in life

• In an effort to make a decision we had to ask our self – What Are You Going To Do About It??

• Perhaps we had our eye on a promotion opportunity that would significantly increase our income but it required us to go back to school or relocate

• In an effort to make a decision we had to ask our self – What Are You Going To Do About It??

The prevailing question that must now be asked is whether or not those who are yet out of the ark of safety have experienced enough of the terrors of sin to see the need to change? For although change is possible, it will never be actualized until there is a willed consent to move in a different direction. And by now, it should be understood that after trying and failing time and time again to grasp the pleasures of sin, the only way to have anything different from what you have had is to be different from what you have been.

• It takes the power of Jesus Christ to change you and make you new

• Even Jesus himself said in ST. LUKE 10:19 “BEHOLD I GIVE UNTO YOU POWER TO TREAD ON SERPENTS AND SCORPIONS AND OVER ALL THE POWER OF THE ENEMY”

• Listen to what He says next -- “YOU MUST DO THE TREADING UPON SERPENTS AND SCORPIONS”

• It’s up to you and me to put the devil under our feet

• We can’t defeat him if we don’t do the work to place the devil beneath our feet

I want to talk to us this morning about making some real changes in our lives. For those that are saved, make some changes to do better. Those that don’t know the Lord for the pardon of their sins, I pray this message will challenge you to make the necessary changes. No matter where we are this morning, I want you to wrestle with the question – What Are You Going To Do About It??

The devil shows you pleasures without consequences. And this is really the only thing he can do –

• Show you pleasures without consequences of your choice

• Make promises but not guarantees!

Which is why you must first be honest with yourself and admit that as much fun as you thought you were having, even if it made you happy, you fell short of having real joy. If you would admit it, you will draw the conclusion it only carried you so far; but dropped you short of the fulfillment that you expected would come from the experience.

• And fellas, some of that so called fun, now has you writing a check every month for the next 18-21 years

• And sisters, some of the so called fun has you providing for children with no help from the father’s, you caring for your children all day and night while he is still out at the club whispering lies to in some other women’s ear

But for some reason, the devil still has you doing the same thing you have been doing for a while now, still looking for something different to happen. And now he has you living like you don’t have good sense thinking that after things have gone wrong for the last 15 years you have a real chance of things working. That is the definition of insanity – to do the same thing over and over and expect a different result.

• This is what you call a slave to your predicament!

• Somebody who does the same things over and over and really don't want to, but can't help it because they feel they have no other alternatives

• And this is the power of sin

• It causes you to feel that you have no choice but to obey your passions

• I stopped by to ask you – What Are You Going To Do About It??