Sorry Not Sorry : week 1

Levi Lusko - Fresh Life Church

Get Your But(t) Out Of It

Working on the art of the apology.

We hurt people that are closest to us.

We let people down.

We don't live in a perfect world.

James 3

If you could become the master of your tongue, you would never make mistakes.

It's not do you fail, it's how do you fail?

How you respond to the sin in your life is the most important thing about you?

Do you fail well?

Do you move forward in the correct direction?

The inability to apologize is what neutralizes so many of our relationships.

"I'm sorry."

Are two of the most abused and misused words in our vocabulary.

A non-apology is NOT an apology.

Our relationships require apologies.

2 Corinthians 7:10

There's more than one way to say sorry.

If we can figure out how to own our failures, they won't be able to control us.

3 elements that are necessary in a proper apology

1. responsibility

2. regret

3. remedy

Genesis 3:6-21

Phrase for week 1 : "Come clean."

We're all infected with sin.

We're sinners by nature & by choice.

Not focusing on what they did, rather what they did next.

Big picture : God said don't do something & they did it anyway...now it becomes relatable.

You can't be clean, if you won't come clean.

You will never be free of your guilt until you admit what you did.

1. You need to get your but(t) out of the trees your hiding among

The devil will condemn you over what he tempted you to do.

When you sin, run to Jesus.

When you sin, don't hide.

Hiding never helps!

Numbers - your sin will find you out!

God is the worst to play hide & seek with!

Sin gives you a false sense of assurance.

God gently asked, "where are you?" when he could have just killed him on the spot.

God wanted to give Adam a chance to confess.

Sin will make you think God is out to get you.

When you hear the voice of God you may hear a siren...it's not a police siren, it's an ambulance siren!

Proverbs 28:13

2. You need to get your but(t) out of the excuses you're hiding behind

We always lose when we try to excuse.

If there's an excuse in your apology then it's a sorry excuse of an apology.

Admit guilt and then shut up!

BUT is not allowed in our apologies.

When you add but into your apology anything you said before it you don't believe, you mean everything you say after it.

You can either apologize or give an excuse but you can't do both.

I'm sorry AND I won't do it again!

3. You need to get your but(t) out of those fig leaves you're hiding under

God can't clothe what you try to cover up!

Sin makes you do things that are stupid.

They covered themselves with fig leaves, which have been called itchy.

God hates hypocrisy.

Say you washed the outside of your dirty dish and continued to eat out of it, that's disgusting!

But it's the same with sin...you covering it up may make it look okay on the outside, but really you're dirty on the inside still.

God had such a better plan.

Jesus is the Way, the Truth and the Life!