Recently, I read where a city employee in one California city, sued the city for damages after he backed a dump truck into his own parked car. The man’s argument was that because the city’s vehicle damaged his private vehicle, the city owed him $3,600. As ridiculous as this sounds, passing the buck to others has been a basic human trait since the beginning of time.<\/p>\n
When Adam and Eve ate from the forbidden tree, their eyes were opened and they lost their innocence. God asked Adam a simple, yet penetrating question: “Where are you?” (Genesis 3:9 – NKJV). In the past, Adam had intimate fellowship with God, but now he responded with guilt and fear, hiding himself (Genesis 3:10 – NKJV).<\/p>\n
God’s follow-up question was more convicting “Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you that you should not eat?” (Genesis 3:11 – NKJV). Adam then started passing the buck by telling God, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate” (Genesis 3:12 – NKJV). The man blamed God and the woman for his sin. The woman blamed the serpent rather than herself (Genesis 3:13 – NKJV). Ever since that day in the Garden of Eden, we tend to blame others rather than ourselves for our<\/strong> sinful choices.<\/p>\n There’s a simple solution for the “passing the buck” syndrome. When we sin, let’s take immediate<\/strong> responsibility for our sinful thoughts and actions like David “I acknowledged my sin to You, and my iniquity I have not hidden” (Psalm 32:5 – NKJV). When we humbly repent and willingly confess our sins to the Lord, we can rest assured that He will “abundantly pardon” (Psalm 32:5; 1 John 1:9; Isaiah 55:7 – NKJV).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Recently, I read where a city employee in one California city, sued the city for damages after he backed a dump truck into his own parked car. The man’s argument was that because the city’s vehicle damaged his private vehicle, the city owed him $3,600. As ridiculous as this sounds, passing the buck to others … Continue reading “Passing The Buck Syndrome \u2014 The Solution – Bible study”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}