04/17/16; Associate Minister Marcell Lyles

Have you ever been stood up on a date?
Been the only one to show up to a party?

3 Things you learn about yourself when you make Excuses:

1) Who Are You- which were you in making excuses (work, significant other, made other plans) are you already busy?

2) Don't Get Passed By- (once the servant came back with the report) the host asked his servant to and invite those that were in the streets the homeless, blind and disabled. Sometimes this can be us in our Spiritual walks.....(we are blind to different things the Lord is trying to show us, and we are lame when we don't walk away from things the Lord is telling us to LET GO)

3) Will You Accept the Invitation- The whole point of the celebration was to accept Jesus salvation.....a parable of Him inviting the Jews (Pharisees to know the Lord and have salvation, however they rejected Him...so He went to those that were afflicted and bruised to accept salvation)

What we do is get so wrapped up in ourselves that we have messed up in our relationship with Him....not til you give it to Him AND allow Him to flip the switch on we will have the same problems.