1. Take Responsibility For Yourself
Subtitled: Stop Playing the “Blame Game”

2. Gen 3:8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
Gen 3:9 And the LORD God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou?

3. Gen 3:10 And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
Gen 3:11 And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?

4. Gen 3:12 And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
Gen 3:13 And the LORD God said unto the woman, What is this that thou hast done? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.

5. Six Areas In Which We Play the Blame Game
1. The Tendency to Blame Other People
2. The Tendency to Blame God
3. The Tendency to blame the Devil

6. 4. The Tendency to Blame Circumstances
5. The Tendency to blame our “sickness” or mental condition
6. The Tendency to blame our ethnicity or so called orientation

7. 1. The Tendency to Blame Other People

8. a) Everybody else is doing it

9. Jas 4:4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

10. 2Co 6:17 Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

11. b) Rev ________ says it’s okay.

12. c) Why should I try to live right when I see so many hypocritical Christians, including preachers who are always sinning?

13. d) I know that I am in sin but my sin is not as bad as _______________.

14. e) It’s the way that I was Raised

15. f) I was abused as a child

16. g) They have it coming to them (self justification for losing temper or other acts of vengeance)

17. h) They don’t deserve your forgiveness, love and respect

18. i) I was driven to do this.

19. j) God gave me the wrong spouse

20. 2. The Tendency to Blame God

21. 3. The Tendency to blame the Devil

22. 4. The Tendency to Blame Circumstances

23. 5. The Tendency to blame our “sickness” or mental condition

24. 6. The Tendency to blame our ethnicity or so called orientation