Hardened Lungs
IllustrationAnalogy★★★★MANY people smoke day after day, month after month, year
after year and all of a sudden their ability to breathe is impacted
and the lungs become hard. A lung is supposed to be soft and
pliable but when a person smokes like that, their lungs become
hard and the air can’t penetrate them.
You can read the Bible until you are blue in the face, but if it
is being read by a hard heart, the Spirit won’t penetrate it.
The point
As smoking hardens lungs until air cannot penetrate, a hard heart resists Scripture despite repeated reading—the Spirit cannot work through an unreceptive heart.
Scripture
Mark 4:15Hebrews 3:13
Audience
Adults
Tone
Convicting
To tell aloud
under a minute · 81 words