Pastor, teacher, and author Adrian Rogers has introduced people all over the world to the love of Jesus Christ,

and has impacted untold numbers of lives by presenting profound truth simply stated.

Thanks for joining us for this message. Here's Adrian Rogers.

The title of the message today is flawed appetites and fatal attractions. Nobody wants to take the blame

for anything. I've been talking about challenges to the cross, and this is perhaps one of the

biggest. The fact today that the word sin is old-fashioned. Nobody wants to take any personal responsibility.

Man may be ill, not evil. Man may be sick, not sinful. If there's anything wrong, it has to be somebody else's fault. It's the environment,

heredity, its glands, its circumstances, it is society. Some even try to blame God. They say, God god this is the way you made me or god you created these

circumstances so i'm just a helpless victim it is as old as the Garden of Eden.

When Adam sinned against God, God came walking in the midst of the garden, and what did Adam say?

Well, God, the woman you gave me.

Now, Lord, is either your fault or hers.

It's not mine.

I mean, you gave her to me. God, the woman, you gave me.

She caused me to sin. And when the Lord turned to Eve, what did she say? The serpent beguile me.

And, of course, the serpent didn't have a leg to stand on.

But everybody wants to blame somebody else for what they do.

And very frankly, this is a real problem. There are cigarette smokers who are suing the tobacco industry.

And believe me, I have not one good word to say for these peddlers of poison,

the tobacco people. But people are suing the tobacco people because smoking has made them sick.

Well, folks, can you read what's on the package?

I mean, good night.

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