SOME THINGS WE

CANNOT ESCAPE!
No matter how much we try or wish
we cannot escape these things.
 INTRODUCTION:
Many today, including Christians, try to evade what
they feel is an imposition on their personal lives.
They either turn their backs on their responsibility
and ignore such; or they try to get someone else to
take care of it; or else they attack such as being an
insidious effort to destroy some aspect of their
personal liberty.
Of course many people find other ways to get out of
doing what is right.
 PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY...
God has ALWAYS held man accountable to Him
From the very first in the Garden of Eden...
Genesis 2:15 ...Then the LORD God took the man
and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep
it. 16 And the LORD God commanded the man,
saying, "Of every tree of the garden you may freely
eat; 17 "but of the tree of the knowledge of good
and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat
of it you shall surely die."
 PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY...
Our accountability always involves our
responsibility
Our responsibility for our salvation is the
reason why we are accountable to God...
2 Corinthians 5:10 ...For we must all appear
before the judgment seat of Christ, that each
one may receive the things done in the body,
according to what he has done, whether good
or bad.
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It is personal
The parent cannot choose for the child...
Ezekiel 18:20 ..."The soul who sins shall die. The son
shall not bear the guilt of the father, nor the father bear
the guilt of the son. The righteousness of the righteous
shall be upon himself, and the wickedness of the
wicked shall be upon himself.
Nor can we make an valid declaration of neutrality...
Matthew 12:30 ..."He who is not with Me is against
Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters
abroad.
Each person is responsible for his/her own conduct
 PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY...
But mankind tries to shift the blame
Adam tried to shift it to Eve and God; and Eve tried
to shift it to the serpent...
Genesis 3:11 ...And He said, "Who told you that you
were naked? Have you eaten from the tree of which
I commanded you that you should not eat?" 12
Then the man said, "The woman whom You gave to
be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate." 13
And the LORD God said to the woman, "What is this
you have done?" The woman said, "The serpent
deceived me, and I ate."
 PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY...
Saul tried to pin his sin on the people...
1 Samuel 15:15 ... And Saul said, "They have
brought them from the Amalekites; for the people
spared the best of the sheep and the oxen, to
sacrifice to the LORD your God; and the rest we
have utterly destroyed."
Preachers do it when they become too afraid to
preach the truth...
 PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY...
2 Timothy 4:1 ...I charge you therefore before God
and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living
and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom: 2
Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of
season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all
longsuffering and teaching. 3 For the time will come
when they will not endure sound doctrine, but
according to their own desires, because they have
itching ears, they will heap up for themselves
teachers; 4 and they will turn their ears away from
the truth, and be turned aside to fables.
 PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY...
Parents are responsible for training their children...
Proverbs 22:6 ...Train up a child in the way he
should go, And when he is old he will not depart
from it.
Not only to prepare them to earn a living, etc
But, foremost, to prepare them spiritually!
Ephesians 6:4 ...And you, fathers, do not provoke
your children to wrath, but bring them up in the
training and admonition of the Lord.
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Bible study (home and at church)
Worship (not a playtime)
Give them an example to imitate in your own life...
All saints are responsible for their souls salvation...
Philippians 2:12 So then, my beloved, just as you
have always obeyed, not as in my presence only,
but now much more in my absence, work out your
salvation with fear and trembling;
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Romans 1:14 ...I am a debtor both to Greeks
and to barbarians, both to wise and to
unwise. 15 So, as much as is in me, I am ready
to preach the gospel to you who are in Rome
also. 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of
Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation
for everyone who believes, for the Jew first
and also for the Greek.
 NO ONE CAN ESCAPE GOD...
Psalms 139:7-12 ...Where can I go from Your Spirit?
Or where can I flee from Your presence? 8 If I
ascend into heaven, You are there; If I make my
bed in hell, behold, You are there. 9 If I take the
wings of the morning, And dwell in the uttermost
parts of the sea, 10 Even there Your hand shall lead
me, And Your right hand shall hold me. 11 If I say,
"Surely the darkness shall fall on me," Even the
night shall be light about me; 12 Indeed, the
darkness shall not hide from You, But the night
shines as the day; The darkness and the light are
both alike to You.
 NO ONE CAN ESCAPE GOD...
He is omniscient to know our weaknesses and that we
need His gospel...
Romans 3:23 ...for all have sinned and fall short of the
glory of God,
Ephesians 1:3 ...Blessed be the God and Father of our
Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every
spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, 4 just
as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the
world, that we should be holy and without blame
before Him in love, 5 having predestined us to adoption
as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the
good pleasure of His will,
 NO ONE CAN ESCAPE GOD...
He is omnipresent to know when we do sin...
Proverbs 15:3 ...The eyes of the LORD are in every
place, Keeping watch on the evil and the good.
Jeremiah 23:24 ...Can anyone hide himself in secret
places, So I shall not see him?" says the LORD; "Do I
not fill heaven and earth?" says the LORD.
 NO ONE CAN ESCAPE GOD...
He is omnipotent to be able to save all, unlike all
humanity who cannot save one soul without Him...
1 Timothy 4:10 ...For to this end we both labor and
suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God,
who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who
believe.
 NO ONE WILL ESCAPE DEATH
Of course, we are speaking of physical death.
Hebrews 9:27And inasmuch as it is
appointed for men to die once and after this
comes judgment,
 CONCLUSION:
We cannot sneak away and hide from the Almighty
in some cave, forest, or building.
We cannot hide from Him any of our activities,
words, or thoughts.
Hebrews 4:13 ...And there is no creature hidden
from His sight, but all things are naked and open to
the eyes of Him to whom we must give account.
Since we cannot escape these things, we should
embrace and respect them in our lives.