{"id":747,"date":"2011-09-24T08:56:49","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T13:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=747"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:21:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:21:26","slug":"cheating-is-too-costly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=747","title":{"rendered":"Cheating is too Costly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Matt. 7:24-27, Cor. 1 3:10-15<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Cheating brings you failure in the hour of real testing. Cheating will paralyze the heart throb of your conscience.<!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> I: Cheating gives temporary relief.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Cheating says get it the easy way.<br \/>\n2. Cheating makes us want something we have not earned.<br \/>\n3. Cheat wants to dance without paying the fiddler, a good time at your expense, and a growing church without growing members.<br \/>\n4. Cheating wants the fruit of faithfulness without being faith-full.<\/p>\n<p><strong> II: Cheating is the crown of hypocrisy.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. It wants to be respected by good people while living like the devils children.<br \/>\n2. Cheating carries the constant fear of exposure. (John, I&#8217;m here).<br \/>\n3. Cheating causes us to lose respect for ourselves and project our failure to others.<br \/>\n4. Cheating gives a false sense of security.<\/p>\n<p><strong> III: Cheating will make a fool of you in the hour of testing.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. When the rain began to fall and the wind howls about your door, fear will rage thru your heart like a wild beast.<br \/>\n2. As the sandy foundation begins to crumble, and the house of cheat groans and comes apart, you will be sorry.<br \/>\n3. Cheating will laugh while your head is bowed in shame and defeat.<\/p>\n<p><strong> IV: It is wisdom not to cheat.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Wisdom says dig deep.<br \/>\n2. Wisdom is mindful of the hours of drudgery but it looks to the future.<br \/>\n3. Wisdom refuses to take cheap material.<br \/>\n4. Wisdom won&#8217;t be rushed into taking a short cut.<br \/>\n5. Wisdom does not fear the day of testing and exposure.<br \/>\n6. When the storm breaks and tears at the foundation, wisdom waits out the storm in confidence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to the grace of God which is given unto me, as a wise masterbuilder, I have laid the foundation, and another buildeth thereon, but let every man take heed how he buildeth thereupon. For other foundation can<\/p>\n<p>no man lay than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble. Every man&#8217;s work shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man&#8217;s work of what sort it is.<br \/>\nIf any man&#8217;s work abide which he hath built thereupon he shall receive a reward. If any man&#8217;s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss; but he himself shall be saved, yet so as by fire.&#8221; <strong>Cor. 3:10-15<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt. 7:24-27, Cor. 1 3:10-15 Cheating brings you failure in the hour of real testing. Cheating will paralyze the heart throb of your conscience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1495,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions\/1495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}