Hey everybody, Greg Lorry here. You're listening to the Greg Lorry podcast and my objective is to deliver hopefully compelling practical insights and faith, culture, and current events from a biblical perspective to find out more about our ministry just go to our

website harvest.org so thanks for joining me for this podcast. There's no more time for excuses.

The reason that we don't follow Christ many times is because we offer excuses.

Now you know what an excuse is.

It's something we make up when we don't want to do something as compared to a reason.

I remember when I was in school and I had many great excuses that I made up as to why

my homework was not done. And I remember my teacher telling me,

Greg, Laurie, do you know the difference between a reason and an excuse? I said,

no, not really. A reason is legitimate and an excuse is something you make up because you don't really want to do it.

For instance, you may be at home, just really nothing to do, girls, and some geeky guy calls

you up. You know, he's the guy with a thick glasses and 12 pockets or 12 pens in his pocket and he calls you up and ask you if you would go out with him.

And you say, no, I'm'm sorry I really can't I'm

wallpaper in my house yeah that's the ticket wallpaper in my house and so he

hangs up and then the phone rings again and it's a really cute guy that you just met at school

And he says I was wondering if you could take me to dinner you drive and pay for it. He say I'll be ready in three minutes and boom you're down there. That's because you

want to do it. Well here before us and the Bible is a story that Jesus told to illustrate

the excuses that people make up as to why they do not want to follow

him. Again, not reasons, but excuses. And it's amazing to me that more people do not seriously look into who Jesus Christ was and what he had to say.

They've never read his words, but yet they reject something they've never even examined. I've talked to so many people and I'll tell them well what do you think about Jesus Christ? Oh I don't believe in that. Well really have you read you read the Bible no but you know I've heard

about it you reject something you've never read you reject someone you know nothing

about if the Bible is true and of course we believe it is, eternity

is at stake and that's why this is an alarming thing. For if Jesus is who he

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