Why People Fail

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Why People Fail In Living The Christian Life
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Why People Fail

• It is estimated that
• Fifty percent of young people fall away from the
  Lord His church.
• Twenty five percent of adults before they die.
• If this be true think of the souls who are
  going to suffer in eternity.

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Why People Fail

• They are forgetful hearers
• James 123-24
• For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a
  doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural
  face in a glass
• For he beholds himself, and goes his way, and
  straightway forgets what manner of man he was.

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Why People Fail

• They are forgetful hearers
• Lessons listened to NOT allowed to sink deeply
  into the heart are soon forgotten.
• This makes a weak, starving Christian.
• Logical that they will soon fail in living the
  Christian life.

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Why People Fail

• II. They will not consider
• Isaiah 13
• The ox knoweth his owner, and the donkey his
  master's crib but Israel doth not know, my
  people doth not consider.
• Do not consider what God has for His children.

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Why People Fail

• II. They will not consider
• Would not be hard to get people to do right, if
  they would consider.
• No one with sound mind can say
• It is best to live in sin die go to torment
  for ever.

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Why People Fail

• III. By yielding to the world
• I John 215-16
• Love not the world, neither the things that
  are in the world. If any man love the world, the
  love of the Father is not in him. For all that is
  in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust
  of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the
  Father, but is of the world.

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Why People Fail

• III. By yielding to the world
• I John 215-16
• Love not the world, neither the things that
  are in the world. If any man love the world, the
  love of the Father is not in him. For all that is
  in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust
  of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the
  Father, but is of the world.

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Why People Fail

• III. By yielding to the world
• I John 215-16
• Love not the world, neither the things that
  are in the world. If any man love the world, the
  love of the Father is not in him. For all that is
  in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust
  of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the
  Father, but is of the world.

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Why People Fail

• III. By yielding to the world
• Man has always been attracted by materialism.
• There is fleshly pleasure in sin.
• Many had rather live in sin than to have God as
  their Father, for His promise is too far away.

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Why People Fail

• III. By yielding to the world
• Man has always been attracted by materialism.
• There is fleshly pleasure in sin.
• Heb. 1125
• Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the
  people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin
  for a season

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Why People Fail

• IV. By sudden temptations
• Galatians 61
• Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye
  which are spiritual, restore such an one in the
  spirit of meekness considering thyself, lest
  thou also be tempted.

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Why People Fail

• IV. By sudden temptations
• To be overtaken by a fault means that a
  temptation catches up with him and he yields to
  it.
• I Cor. 927 But I keep under my body, and bring
  it into subjection lest that by any means, when
  I have preached to others, I myself should be a
  castaway.

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Why People Fail

• IV. By sudden temptations
• I Corinthians 1013
• There hath no temptation taken you but such as
  is common to man but God is faithful, who will
  not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are
  able but will with the temptation also make a
  way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

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Why People Fail

• IV. By sudden temptations
• I Corinthians 1013
• There hath no temptation taken you but such as
  is common to man but God is faithful, who will
  not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are
  able but will with the temptation also make a
  way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

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Why People Fail

• IV. By sudden temptations
• I Corinthians 1013
• There hath no temptation taken you but such as
  is common to man but God is faithful, who will
  not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are
  able but will with the temptation also make a
  way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

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Why People Fail

• IV. By sudden temptations
• James 112
• Blessed is the man that endures temptation for
  when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of
  life, which the Lord hath promised to them that
  love him.
• Notice the key word

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Why People Fail

• IV. By sudden temptations
• James 112
• Blessed is the man that endures temptation for
  when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of
  life, which the Lord hath promised to them that
  love him.
• Notice the key word

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Why People Fail

• V. By failing to watch
• Matthew 2641
• Watch and pray, that ye enter not into
  temptation the spirit indeed is willing, but the
  flesh is weak.
• Christ His apostles were in the garden of
  Gethsemane.
• He had left them to watch, while He prayed.

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Why People Fail

• V. By failing to watch
• I Peter 58
• Be sober, be vigilant because your adversary
  the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about,
  seeking whom he may devour
• Vigilant means Alert, watchful

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Why People Fail

• VI. By Inattention
• Just not paying attention to how they are living.
• Nor to the dangers lurking to lead them away.
• Satan has snatched many away at a moment of
  inattention.

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Why People Fail

• VI. By Inattention
• II Peter 110
• Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence
  to make your calling and election sure for if ye
  do these things, ye shall never fall
• Some effort is required to live faithfully for
  the Lord

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Why People Fail

• VII. By Neglecting Duty
• James 417
• Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and
  doeth it not, to him it is sin.
• When we know to serve God dont, then we have
  sin.
• Sinning is addictive contagious

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Why People Fail

• One cannot just coast along remain faithful to
  the Lord.
• Choices have to be made daily.
• Hebrews 1125
• Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the
  people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin
  for a season

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Why People Fail

• If the choices one makes doesnt lead to a
  stronger faith, then the wrong choices have been
  made.
• Matthew 633
• But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his
  righteousness and all these things shall be
  added unto you.

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Why People Fail

• What are you putting first in your life?
• If it is not the Lord His church, then you are
  holding on to something that will not last.
• Matthew 1626
• what shall a man give in exchange for his
  soul?

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Why People Fail

• To obey the gospel, one must
• 1. Hear Rom. 1017
• 2. Believe Heb. 116
• 3. Repent Luke 133
• 4. Confess Christ Acts 836-37
• 5. Be Baptized Acts 238
• 6. Remain Faithful Rev. 210

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