(Proverbs 17:24 GN)\xa0 \u201cAn intelligent person aims at wise action, but a fool starts off in many directions.\u201d
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\n(Jeremiah 6:16)\xa0 This is what the LORD says: \u201cStand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls.\u201d
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\n(Luke 21:34) \u201cBe careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you unexpectedly like a trap.\u201d
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\nTitle of Message:\xa0 Faulty Five
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\n(Judges 5:2)\xa0 \u201cWhen the princes in Israel take the lead, when the people willingly offer themselves--praise the LORD!\u201d
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\nThe Faulty Five:
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\n1. Misuse of time.
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(Judges 5:16)\xa0 \u201cWhy did you stay among the campfires to hear the whistling for the flocks? In the districts of Reuben there was much searching of heart.\u201d
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\n(Proverbs 6:10-11)\xa0 \u201cA little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest--and poverty will come on you like a bandit and scarcity like an armed man.\u201d
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\n2. Obstacles.
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\n(Judges 5:17)\xa0 \u201cGilead stayed beyond the Jordan.\u201d
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\n(Luke 14:18-20)\xa0 \u201cBut they all alike began to make excuses. The first said, \u2018I have just bought a field, and I must go and see it. Please excuse me.\u2019\xa0 Another said, \u2018I have just bought five yoke of oxen, and I\u2019m on my way to try them out. Please excuse me.\u2019\xa0 Still another said, \u2018I just got married, so I can\u2019t come.\u2019\u201d
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\n(Philippians 4:13)\xa0 \u201cI can do everything through him who gives me strength.\u201d
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\n3.\xa0 Possessions.
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\n(Judges 5:17)\xa0 \u201cAnd Dan, why did he linger by the ships?\u201d
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\n(Luke 12:15)\xa0 Then he said to them, \u201cWatch out! Be on your guard against all kinds of greed; a man\u2019s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.\u201d
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4. Pleasure.
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\n(Judges 5:17)\xa0 \u201cAsher remained on the coast and stayed in his coves.\u201d
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\n(Romans 6:12,14)\xa0 \u201cTherefore do not let sin reign in your mortal body so that you obey its evil desires\u2026For sin shall not be your master.\u201d
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\n5. Fear.
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(Judges 5:18)\xa0 \u201cThe people of Zebulun risked their very lives; so did Naphtali on the heights of the field.\u201d
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\n(Hebrews 11:6)\xa0 \u201cAnd without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.\u201d
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\n(Ezekiel 36:25-27)\xa0 \u201cI will sprinkle clean water on you, and you will be clean; I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.\u201d
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\nCleanse your past.
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(Hebrews 8:12)\xa0 \u201cFor I will forgive their wickedness and will remember their sins no more.\u201d
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Change your heart.
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(2 Corinthians 5:17)\xa0 \u201cTherefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!\u201d
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Move you to do it.
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(Philippians 2:13)\xa0 \u201cFor it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.\u201d
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