If I Would Have Just Listened to My Mother and Father

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Judges 14:1-3, Judges 16:18-21 Has there been a time in your life where you had found yourself in bad situation that you wished you had never gotten yourself into? It was a situation that you could have avoided altogether because it was a situation that you had no business involved in the first place. It was a situation that had all the warning signs and all the red flags waving before your very eyes, but you chose to ignore the warning signs and the red flags warnings. And at the end of the situation, you found yourself saying these words to yourself: “If I had just listen to momma and daddy…..” “If I had just paid attention to what momma and daddy was trying to tell me back then……” “If I had just did what momma and daddy had told me to do…..” “If I had just listen, I would not be in prison, I would not be broke and homeless, I would not have dropped out of high school or college, I would not been pregnant out of wedlock, I would not been expelled out of school, I would not have been fired from my job……… If I had just listen to momma and daddy……… You know the bible does tell us in Exodus 20:12 to “Honor thy father and mother that the days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. And in Ephesians 6;1-3 says, “Children obey your parents in the Lord; for this is right. Honor thy father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise; That it may be well with thee and thou mayest live long upon the earth. “If I had just listen to momma and daddy………” In this message, we are going to learn about a man that if he had just listen to his momma and daddy; if he had just paid attention to what his momma and daddy was trying to tell him to do; if he had just did what his momma and daddy had told him to do, he would have had a happy ending to his life story. But instead he had a sad ending to his life story. And this man that I
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