Everybody's but is different but is still defines the limits of your life.

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1 An end; a limit; a bound. It is used particularly for the larger end of a thing, as of a piece of timber, or of a fallen tree; that which grows nearest the earth. It is not often applied to the bound or limit of land; yet butted, is often used. Everybody's but is different but is still defines the limits of your life.

2 An The end; unlimited a limit; God a bound. can be It limited is used in particularly his Blessing for of the your larger life end of because a thing, of as your of a But!. piece of timber, or of a fallen tree; that which grows Psa 78:41 nearest Yea, the earth. they turned It is not back often applied and tempted to the bound God, or limit of land; yet butted, is often used. and limited the Holy One of Israel. Everybody's but is different but is still defines the limits of your life.

3 Some Here peoples are some but is buts so big that they Limit can t God s fit Blessing through heavens in our lives gates! I Mat would 7:13 Give Enter my ye life in at to the Jesus strait Christ gate: but... for wide, I would is the go gate, to church and broad But..., is the way, I would that leadeth start a business to destruction, But...I and would many Go there back be to which school go in But..., thereat: I would get married but..., I would work on my marriage Mat 7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which but... I would serve in the children s ministry but..., I would Tithe leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. but..., The list is endless.

4 King Almost Agrippa's Almost Making winning Almost it to Heaven and but winning was and to being big are to two lost fit different forever through are heavens things! two Gates! 1Co different 9:24 Do things! you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but Act [only] 26:27 one receives (KJV) King the prize? Agrippa, So run believest [your race] thou that the you prophets? may lay hold I know [of the that prize] thou and believest. make it yours. Act 26:28 Then Agrippa said unto Paul, Almost thou persuadest me to be a Christian. Saved!

5 There are so many Big Buts that can t fit into heaven! There is the rich mans But! Luk 18:18 18:22 And Now a when certain Jesus ruler heard asked these him, things, saying, he Good said Master, unto him, what Yet shall lackest I do thou to inherit one thing: eternal sell life? all that thou hast, and distribute unto the Luk poor, 18:19 and thou And shalt Jesus have said treasure unto him, in Why heaven: callest and thou come, follow good? me. none is Luk good, 18:23 save And one, when that is, he God. heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he was Luk very 18:20 rich. Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do Luk not 18:24 kill, And Do not when steal, Jesus Do saw not bear that false he was witness, very sorrowful, Honor thy he father said, and How thy hardly mother. shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God! Luk 18:21 18:25 And For it he is said, easier All for these a camel have to I kept go through from my a needle's youth up. eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

6 There is the to busy But! Luk 14:16 Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many: Luk 14:17 And sent his servant at supper time to say to them that were bidden, Come; for all things are now ready. Luk 14:18 And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.

7 There is the business mans But! Luk 14:19 And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them: I pray thee have me excused.

8 The Relationship There But is the is not Relationship limited to But! marriage. Some Luk won t 14:20 follow And another Christ said, because I have of married friends a wife, or girlfriends and therefore I or cannot boyfriends! come. Mat 10:37 He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me. Mat 10:38 And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me. Mat 10:39 He that findeth his life shall lose it: and he that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.

9 Many need to learn a lesson from the book of Ruth! If none come with you will you still follow Jesus! Rth Isa 50:7 1:15 For And the Naomi Lord said, Jehovah See, will your help sister-in-law me; therefore has gone have back I not to been her people confounded: and to therefore gods; have return I set after my your face sister-in-law. like a flint, and I know that I Rth shall 1:16 not be And put Ruth to shame. said, Urge me not to leave you or to turn back from following you; for where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge. Your people shall be my people and your God my God. Rth 1:17 Where you die I will die, and there will I be buried. The Lord do so to me, and more also, if anything but death parts me from you. Rth 1:18 When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she said no more.

10 Don t let your But keep your literal But out of Heaven! Luk 14:23 14:25 Then Now huge the master crowds said were to going the servant, along with Go out [Jesus], into the and He highways turned and and said hedges to them, and urge and constrain [them] to yield and come Luk in, so 14:26 that If my anyone house comes may be to filled. Me and does not hate his [own] father Luk and 14:24 mother For [in I the tell sense you, not of one indifference of those to who or were relative invited disregard shall taste for my them supper. in comparison with his attitude toward God] and [likewise] his wife and children and brothers and sisters--[yes] and even his own life also--he cannot be My disciple.

11 Some peoples problem is the head But. They are always butting heads with God! Pro 16:25 There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

12 Some Felix peoples missed his problem hour of is the Visitation Convenient from God But. and They missed will serve heaven God because when it s a wasn t more convenient Convenient for time. him. Act Luk 24:25 19:42 As and Paul said, discoursed "If you, even on righteousness, you, had only known self- control this and day the what judgment would bring to you come, peace--but Felix was now afraid it is and hidden said, from "That's your enough eyes. for now! You Luk 19:43 may leave. The days When will I find come it convenient, upon you when I will your send enemies for you." will build Act an embankment 24:26 At the against same time you he and was encircle hoping you that and Paul hem would you offer in on him every a bribe, side. so he sent for him frequently and talked with him. Act Luk 24:27 19:44 When They will two dash years you had to passed, the ground, Felix you was and succeeded the children by Porcius within Festus, your walls. but They because will Felix not leave wanted one to stone grant on a another, favor to the because Jews, you he left did Paul not recognize in prison. the time of God's coming to you."

13 God is not the God of all convenience. The call of God does not come with a sealy posture pedic mattress! Some with their convenient but will say " I'll start coming to church and getting my life right when my life is not so busy. If they keep putting God off both them and their convenient but will end up in Hell! Luk Jer 8:20 9:58 The And harvest Jesus said is past, unto the him, summer Foxes have is ended, holes, and and we birds are of not the saved. air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

14 Some of us have a Lazy But! Pro Ecc 26:13 15:19 11:4 He The who slothful way observes of the man slothful the saith, wind There man [and is is as waits a a lion hedge for in the all of way; thorns: a lion but conditions the is in way the to of streets. be the favorable] righteous will is made not sow, plain. and he who regards the clouds will not reap.

15 Some of us have a Sorry But! Mat 6:14 For if you forgive people their trespasses [their reckless and willful sins, leaving them, letting them go, and giving up resentment], your heavenly Father will also forgive you. Mat 6:15 But if you do not forgive others their trespasses [their reckless and willful sins, leaving them, letting them go, and giving up resentment], neither will your Father forgive you your trespasses.

16 Some peoples but is so big in their mind they think How could God ever put my life back together again! You may have a Big But but Gods But is Bigger than yours! Eph 2:7 That in the ages to come he might show the exceeding Eph 2:4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved riches us, of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Eph Jesus. 2:5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, by (grace ye are saved;) Eph 2:6 And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in yourselves: it is the gift of God: heavenly places in Christ Jesus: Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of Eph 2:9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.

17 God but into Moses' Life! Exo 3:1 3:3 Now And Moses Moses kept said, the I flock will now of Jethro turn his aside, father-in-law, and see this the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came great sight, why the bush is not burnt. to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. Exo 3:4 And when the LORD saw that he turned aside to see, Exo 3:2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out God of called the midst unto of him a bush: out and of the looked, midst of and, the behold, bush, the and bush said, burned with Moses, fire, Moses. and the And bush he was said, not Here consumed. am I.

18 God doesn't God's call but the was qualified, bigger than he qualifies Moses' But! the called Exo 4:15 You can speak to him and tell him what to say. I will Exo 4:10 4:12 (GNB) Now, go! But I Moses will help said, you "No, to speak, LORD, and don't I will send tell me. you I have what never to been say." help both a good of speaker, you to speak, and I haven't and I become will tell one you since both you what began to do. to speak Exo 4:13 4:16 to me. But He I Moses will am a be poor answered, your speaker, spokesman "No, slow Lord, and and please hesitant." speak send to someone the people else." Exo for you. 4:11 4:14 Then At this LORD you the will said LORD be to became him, like God, "Who angry telling gives with man him Moses his what mouth? and to said, say. Who "What makes about your him brother deaf or dumb? Aaron, Who the Levite? gives him I know sight that or makes he can him speak blind? well. It In is I, fact, the he LORD. is now coming to meet you and will be glad to see you. God's but was bigger than Moses' But!

19 If you are a child of God, God is going to continually But in our lives to correct us when were straying from him. Heb Jon 1:3 1:17 12:6 But For Jonah the LORD Lord ran away corrects provided from and a the great disciplines LORD fish and to swallow everyone headed for Jonah, whom Tarshish. and He He loves, went Jonah down and was He inside to punishes, Joppa, the where fish even three he scourges, found days and a ship every three bound son nights. whom for that He port. accepts After and paying welcomes the fare, to he His went heart aboard and cherishes. and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the LORD. Psa 119:67 Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now Your word do I keep [hearing, receiving, loving, and obeying it].

20 Because of God butting in Josephs life he was able to say to his Sometimes other peoples but Buts into your life and tries to brothers. define the limits of your Life. They don't believe your dream and are Gen jealous 50:20 But that as you for have you, a ye dream thought and evil they against don't. me; So they but do God some meant underhanded it unto good, things to bring to to try pass, to mess as it you is this up! day, to save much people alive. Gen 39:21 37:19 But And the they LORD said was one with to Joseph, another, and Behold, showed this him dreamer mercy, and cometh. gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison. Gen 37:20 Come now therefore, and let us slay him, and cast him into some pit, and we will say, Some evil beast hath devoured him: and we shall see what will become of his dreams.

21 Because Gods But is Bigger than yours he is going to continually But into your life! Deu 23:5 Nevertheless the LORD thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the LORD thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the LORD thy God loved thee.

22 Because Gods But is Bigger than yours he is going to But in and fight your Battles! 1Sa 7:10 And as Samuel was offering up the burnt offering, the Philistines drew near to battle against Israel: but the LORD thundered with a great thunder on that day upon the Philistines, and discomfited them; and they were smitten before Israel.

23 Because Gods But is Bigger than yours he is going to continually But in and deliver you! 2Sa 22:18 (GNB) He rescued me from my powerful enemies and from all those who hate me--- they were too strong for me. 2Sa 22:19 When I was in trouble, they attacked me, but the LORD protected me. 2Sa 22:20 He helped me out of danger; he saved me because he was pleased with me.

24 Gods But is forever Faithful to heal, preserve and save you! 2Th 3:3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall establish you, and keep you from evil.

25 If you want to break out of the Limits of your life. You have to get off your but and quit your excuses and stand for the Lord. You can't walk with him sitting on your Buts! Jas 1:22 (NIV) Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. (get off your buts) Jas 1:23 Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror Jas 1:24 and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. Jas 1:25 But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it--he will be blessed in what he does.