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Okay, Luke chapter 14, no good excuses, why will you say no to God. I'm going to talk a little bit about

excuses. Now you know what excuses are. Those are what we come up with when we really don't want

to do something. An excuse is a reason that shows up after you've decided to not do something.

It's really a lack of desire. An excuse is just a polite way of saying, I really don't want to do it. One person defined an excuse as the skin of a

reason stuffed with a lie. So we might classify an excuse as sort of a fancy lie, a lie dressed up for dinner,

if you will. And we come up with them all the time. Oh, I can't do that. I'm so sorry.

And we're going to see some excuses before us here in Luke chapter 14. But take the gym.

You know, when it's time to get up in the morning and go to the gym, we come up with all the

excuses. Oh, there were four drops of rain last night. I don't think I can go. My back hurts

a little bit. You know, the business model for gyms is built on this simple fact. Most of the

people that sign up are never going to come back again. 67% of people that join gyms never use the gym.

So we know what it's like to offer up those excuses.

Now, the first excuse we know of in human history happened in the Garden of Eden

with our first parents, Adam and Eve.

God had created Adam and Eve and put them in

an absolute paradise. They were just to enjoy what the Lord created and walk in fellowship with him.

And the coolest thing of all, as the sun was setting, the Lord would show up each and every day

walking through the garden in the cool of the day.

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