Man's Gospel Excuses & God's Answers
This collection is a listing of 12 common objections or excuses people sometimes have in response to a gospel presentation and the answers God gives in Scripture. Use either as a stand-alone collection or in conjunction with "Growth in Our Gospel Message" found in the "SMBMS: Treasury" collection. For more information go to www.soulmanna.net/bible_memory_system
12 verses
Mike Davidson
Aug. 8, 2020
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1 Peter 1:8KJV
Excuse: I Don’t Have Salvation Feelings -- Answer: God’s Order in Salvation (Fact – Faith – Feeling)
“Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory; 9Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.”
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2 Corinthians 6:1-2KJV
Excuse: Procrastination with Salvation -- Answer: Urgency of Present Opportunity
“We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain. 2 (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)”
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Ezekiel 36:26–27KJV
Excuse: I Couldn't Live the Christian Life -- Answer: True – But God Will Enable You
“A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh. 27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.”
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Job 27:8KJV
Excuse: What About the Hypocrites? -- Answer: Won't Escape God's Judgment
“For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, When God taketh away his soul?”
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John 3:36KJV
Excuse: World Religions–Morally Equivalent -- Answer: Christ Is Only Way into Heaven
“He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life: and he that believeth not the Son shall not see life; but the wrath of God abideth on them.”
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John 3:6-7KJV
Excuse: I’ve Always Been a Christian -- (I’m Too Good to Be Lost) -- Answer: You Must Be Born Again
“That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.”
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John 5:28–29KJV
Excuse: Don’t We All Go to Heaven? -- Answer: No, God Judges Sin
“Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, 29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.”
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Luke 16:27-28KJV
Excuse: Loved Ones in Hell -- Answer: They Wouldn't Want You There Too
“Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house: For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.”
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Matthew 18:8KJV
Excuse: Hard to Give Up (Particular) Sin -- Answer: No Sinful Pleasure Is Worth Hell
“Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.”
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Matthew 24:35KJV
Excuse: Scripture Is Full of Errors -- Answer: God’s Truth Doesn't Change & Is Totally Dependable
“Heaven and earth shall pass away; but my words shall not pass away.”
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Matthew 9:12-13KJV
Excuse: God Could Never Forgive Me (I’m Too Bad to Be Saved) Answer: Christ Came to Save Sinners
“But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”
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Romans 2:14-15KJV
Excuse: Will God Judge the Heathen? -- Answer: All Fall Short of Light Given (This is Why We Send Missionaries)
“For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves: 15 Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)”