Top 5 Excuses for Not Serving God With Your Time & For Not Loving the Lord Your God With All You Got

Top 5 Excuses so-called "Christians" use to serve God as little as possible while most unbelievers use the same excuses. Larry Wessels, director of Christian Answers of Austin. Texas/ Christian Debater (YouTube channel: CANSWERSTV at https://www.youtube.com/user/CAnswersTV & websites at http://www.BibleQuery.org, http://www.HistoryCart.com & http://www.MuslimHope.com ) presents a short Biblical study on the proper use of time for professing Christians based on Ephesians 5:16, "making the most of your time, because the days are evil." The bottom line is Christians should make plenty of time available for God no matter how busy they are with jobs, family or other circumstances.

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2:05 - Opening video credits & introductory Biblical study. Jesus said in Matthew 22:37-40, "37 And He said to him, “‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’ 38 This is the great and foremost commandment. 39 The second is like it, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ 40 On these two commandments depend the whole Law and the Prophets.”

5:00 - "87% of Evangelical "Christians" Don't Know What the Gospel Is or What Justification is" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im4ozy_EiR4&t=1811s . According to Barna, Gallop & Hunter polls 87% of people claiming to be Evangelical Christians do not know what Biblical justification is (rather believing that God helps those who help themselves). 77% of this same group believe mankind is basically good by nature. With theology like this, 87% of today's Evangelical "Christians" would qualify as Medieval Roman Catholics except without a pope.

8:10 - Parable of the Talents, Matthew 25:14-30

11:07 - Wicked, lazy & worthless so-called Christians. Proverbs 22:13, Proverbs 20:4. See also our video "Unpopular Bible Doctrines #13: Lazy People Condemned by God; God Creates People to be Destroyed" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lHCYWS11Xc .

12:05 - Lazy Christians & their excuses

12:16 - Excuse #1: My family is number one & I must drop everything to put my family first over anything else so God will have to wait until I have more free time. However Jesus said,
"If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be My disciple." (Luke 14:26)

12:50 - Excuse #2: I work at a 40 hours a week job therefore I just don't have time to do much for God. Jesus said, "But he who received the one talent went away, and dug a hole in the ground and hid his master’s money." (Matthew 25:18)

13:11 - Excuse #3: I'm just tired all the time and sort of feeling sick so I can't do much. But 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 refutes this.

14:06 - Excuse #4: I can't afford to spend too much time doing church stuff or Bible stuff because I might miss too many important sports events. But God says, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God ..." (Exodus 20:3-6)

15:00 - Excuse #5: I find Bible studies & preachers to be really dull & boring so it is difficult to spend much time on church stuff. But 2 Timothy 4:2-5 says, "preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort, with great patience and instruction ..."

15:49 - Larry Wessels is very busy working two secular jobs but he still has time for God.

19:15 - The children of Larry Wessels: Daniel, Marlena, Thomas & Gloria

20:40 - Special needs son Thomas suffering from brain damage since birth

23:51 - Special needs daughter Gloria suffering from autism & intellectual disability since birth

25:28 - Youngest son Daniel desktop published the Christian Answers newsletter for 16 years

27:46 - Oldest daughter Marlena, who works a full time secular job, has produced two Christian music CDs of songs she has written & performed herself along with a 8 song music video DVD. Her songs are played on local Christian radio as well. She has her own YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/thatmarlenachristine . Her channel description says "Christian Woman. God has not called me to bury any talent granted to me." Free copies of her music CDs are available by emailing us at [email protected] .

31:57 - Tour of Larry Wessels' family pictures decorating his house. (1 Timothy 5:8, "But if anyone does not provide for his relatives, and especially for members of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.")

36:47 - Larry & Diane Wessels celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary on May 24, 2020.

36:53 - How to subscribe to our channel & receive notifications whenever we post another video.