When Scripture Doesn't Work

It was just yet, you're getting very good account of yourselves, and I was really, really proud of you. Our family has been kind of overwhelmed with celebrating. They had a wedding last week. Remember, I come in and we had to leave the wedding and today is Shirley's 80th birthday. And so we've been celebrating that over the last couple of days. We leave in the morning to go to Nevada till Friday, come back Friday, and we've got another wedding, another grandchild, getting married on Saturday. And so all of these celebrations and then we're getting into December Shirley and my 60th anniversary is coming up the 8th of December. But the kids said with December coming on and all of these celebrations and the kids coming from different places and everything they wanted to celebrate our anniversary early. And so the anniversary celebration we shifted instead of the 8th of December was shifted to the 27th of November 27th of November is next week and the elders were kind enough to let us use the downstairs. And in the afternoon at 1:30 we're having a just a potluck celebration that bud and we want to invite him both churches. Anybody want you don't have to wear that but just anybody wants to come. It'll just be an old fashioned potluck. We're not even taking a theme. What comes is what you get and about 2:30 or maybe a quarter to 3 right in there after What is done eating but before everything gets too late, we're going to do some reflection on the 60 years and we would love for any of you that want to come. Don't feel obligated. It's a no gift that just we're going to eat we're going to play games, we're going to do some reflected in that. We're inviting both churches, they're inviting out there this morning, we're inviting here and we would just love to have you join us if you're of a mind to again. But we don't want you to feel home and he's going to think we don't like him if we don't go.

No, we did that for the 40th, I had promised her over the years that I would take her to those of, you know, who my, you know, my wife, you know, she's a little bit ambitious at times. And then one of the first days in Hawaii, she got hit by a roller and ended up getting on the lower part of your back, bumper about size of a grapefruit half and had to take her to emergency and she could barely move around the rest of the week. But we we did. Okay. They gave her a shot for pain and she has a very low pain medication level. And she gave, they gave her a shot for pain and she started to die. So then they had to give her a shot for the shot. But other than that it was quite a long time. We were, we were just really would love to have you. And today is my last day. In this stretch, we've had had the privilege of being with you for a month then I want you to know how much I appreciated and how much I have enjoyed being with you and sharing the word of God with you. You're much upon my heart and will continue to pray for you and you pray for us. Do you wonder what a pastor prays for before message?

One of the things that I pray for everybody cuz they say God, please fill me with your spirit and don't let me embarrass you because you never know what the quite the quality is going to be and I just don't want to embarrass God. I certainly have done this morning. We're looking at an interesting subject. We're asking the question what we doing scripture doesn't work I've also, you'll probably notice sometimes I have subtitles on my messages, the subtitle is discovering life's Commandments. But we want to look at several things when we think of this subject, we're really, particularly when we get into the final one, that we're going to be covering this morning, it's going to take some concentration. And one time, when I was in college, I came into the English class and the teacher had written on the board, a saying that has stuck with me all these years. 70, some years, she wrote on the board, he who will not face reality will of necessity wrestle with fantasy. Now think about that, he who will not face reality will of necessity wrestle with fantasy until you come to reality. You're not going to be able to deal with what you're going to be needing to deal with. Then also background back in the sixties college student, brought me a little book and it was called Brooks and there ended up being about four of these little things. And it was kind of philosophical Diddy's by a fellow. At least has been named was pie at Haim and one of the things, one of them again that I have held on through the years is problems, worthy of attack. Prove their worth, by striking back. Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by striking back that many of the things that we grappled with don't yield easily, you've got to keep at it, we like quick Solutions. We like easy solutions, but it always doesn't come that way. But he who will not face reality will of necessity wrestle with fantasy. So, one of the things that we're trying to do this morning, is to force ourselves to really look at things and discover, what is fruit in our spiritual lives. What's going on? Now in scripture doesn't work, I've got actually a nine things. Eight of them were going to touch on real quick and then we're going to labor on the 9th one. The the first aid are fairly easy to grab. But number 9, we're going to have probably have to scratch are mine. A little bit, but when scripture doesn't work, one area where scripture won't work if it's not mixed with faith. If scripture is not mixed with faith, it will not work. Hebrews 42 says for good news came to us just as it did to them. He's going about Believers unbelievers. He said the good news came to us just as it did to them, but the message they heard did not benefit them. Because they were not United by faith. With those who listened. If you don't believe the word of God, it won't do you any good. The truth has to be mixed with faith. Assuming that something is true, right? And best simply, because God said it, and then acting on that firm Assurance, we have to believe God and everything around us and off and everything within us. And our old nature is yellow line. That can't be true. Don't believe, God. God doesn't understand why God didn't know about this or whatever it has to be mixed with faith. Number 2, When you don't allow the scriptures to bring you to Jesus. When you don't allow the scriptures to bring you to Jesus John 5 38 and 39. And Jesus is addressing the religious leaders and you do not have his word abiding in you for you. Do not believe the one whom he has sent. I noticed the next Rays you search. The scriptures is any of these religious leaders you search the scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life and it is they that bear witness of me. If you don't allow the scriptures to bring it to Jesus, they won't work. They won't do their job. The scriptures are to bring us to cry. We talked about the Cristo centricity of the Bible, the christ-centered net and AJ Simpson said, every verse in the Bible, either points to Jesus work points to a verse that points to Jesus Christ, is the center of the scriptures and here were some religious people who search the scriptures, you can come to Sunday school every week. You can go to women's or men's Bible Fellowship. You can do anything you want, but if you don't allow the scriptures to bring it to Jesus, they're not going to do their job. The third is when is not really scripture. Many things are quoted a scripture that really hard scripture, my dad was a good one on this. He didn't know much about the Bible but he had a lot of sayings. And so he would say things like what the Bible says don't cry over spilled milk. I miss that burps and I work if you're trying to do something really isn't going to work. Then misinterpretation, when you read something and you're taken direction that God intended to go, it's not going to work. And then number five misapplication. Maybe not a truth but you're not applying it correctly. Let me give you an example. Proverbs 22:6. Train up a child in the way he should go. Even when he's old, he will not depart from it. A lot of Christian parents have beaten themselves, bloody because their kids have continued to make bad decisions. Not by misapplication. And many will will hold on to that when they're old, when they get done with the things I wanted to to stand in. And they said the people that the kids in the general church church kids that people come to church when they're hatched matched and dispatched. Her parents will bring them to get the kids Chrissy, and then I'll come back when they get married and then I'll be back for the for the funeral time. And it's kind of interesting because they talked about confirming people into the church. Where are most often is confirming them out in the more liberal denominations. Once they finish that they don't come back again until they're wanting to get their kids christened or something of that nature. But the problem with this is a misunderstanding of the nature proverbs. That Proverbs are not promises. Proverbs are probables all else equal. This is how it will turn out but the problem is that all things are not always equal. But if you consider it a promise, Proverbs 16:7 for instances, when a man's ways please, the Lord he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him. Now, if you make that a promise of Bedrock statement, that means of Jesus ways. Didn't please God? Because his enemies were never at peace with it now all else equal, if you're a good neighbor things will go. Well if you're a good citizen you go it'll go well but all things are not always equal and you got to watch so that you don't miss apply scripture. Number 6, when scripture, when scripture is consciously follow me now cuz we were in the tough one when scripture is consciously or unconsciously overridden

When scripture is consciously or unconsciously overridden, this is where we want to focus this morning. The passage of scripture that we're going to be really taking a long. Look at is Matthew chapter 6, 22 224 where we read the eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eyes are bad, your whole body would be full of Darkness.

if the light not fall on here, if The Light Within You is, Darkness How great is that darkness? No, man can serve two masters of the old hate, the water, love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You can serve both God and money. Most of us have not processed this verse much and it because it takes some real thought. Now, we have to realize that in language, there are more Concepts than there are words. We have fewer vocabulary words than we have Concepts, and so we'll have the same word used for different concepts. Not usually it's not usually, it's not confusing, c.s., Lewis talks about the insulating quality of context. Usually you can stay in in context, but sometimes it will get a little bit confusing. When we were, we were try sometimes when some event happened to use it as an object lesson or that. And at that time, we were raising goats. And when we had a kid born quite often, we would bring him to the kids to Sunday school and we had a family at that time. Who would drop the kids off for Sunday school? And then go for coffee, come back an hour later and pick up the kids, and this particular my daughter-in-law had a child first first child. And when the kids got in the car, they said when the parents picked them up now, parents hadn't been here. But they got in the car and they said, Cindy brought the kids to Sunday school this morning.

The parents thought she brought the baby, the new baby she had.

They were talking about the goat skit. I said, Cindy brought the kid to church to Sunday school this morning. He looked a little bit like a dog.

They had the wrong kid and there again, your whole almost all of you. Maybe, Bob and Joanne might be different cuz I had goats. But all of you, when you think of kid, you think of the human child, if you're among goat people, when they hear, we were kid, they would use the word cared about their kids. And so we got to make a distinction in the how the word is used. And the word I mean, if your eye is good, But if your eye is bad, we have to say, what is a talking about here actual Oregon? We had a, I had an associate and I and I had a glass eye. And sometimes he would lose it. And then part of the youth activity was to find Tim's, I but the actual organ, but also it may be used as Focus. Keep your eye on the ball. Well, do good, you put your eye on the ball and keep your eye on the ball of your keep your focus or to pay attention. I hear a look, kind of interesting, I officiate a wedding in about a month ago and it was one of those.

Crazy things. The couple was so and I never dreamed that this would be true of them, but they were so concentrated on the pictures That everything was kind of posing for the pictures. The photographer was taking And my granddaughter is getting married next September. And she told her fiance at our wedding its eyes here. You look at me during the during the ceremony, so it's pay attention. Maybe use this weirdness. The eye on the prize.

People wearing it. It can be an opening or a center, the eye of a needle, the eye of a hurricane.

It can also be used on how we see things our perspective, how we see things our perspective. And that's what we're that's what this versus talking about is talking about our perspective, it's talking about how we see things our goals guide us. Our life Commandments drivers. We we kick in automatically now, I know, I don't really like and you can help me out on this. I don't really, like the term. I don't think we've quite captured it with life commands, but in the years that I've worked with that, I haven't been able to find anything better. The life Commandments are what we believe in our heart of hurt hearts. At when simple application of biblical truth. When simple application of biblical truth does not result in Victory, it's often because of faulty life Commandments. Faulty, how we see things in her heart of hearts. Now we want to discover and this is where we're concentrating today. We want to discover and develop some skills in recognizing and discovering our life Commandments.

A look at what how to recognize what's hindering us? And how to replace the faulty life, commandment with Biblical Victory if RI is bad. Our whole body is going to be full of Darkness. If RI is good, it'll all be full of light and sometimes we're going to have to change our whole perspective. How we see things

if we're going to change things and we're talking about,

personal congruity a Harmony between what we say our stated beliefs and our actions or lifestyle

And often we don't our perspective is what we value or how we act will be determined by how we look at things, how we see things. And often we don't realize how we see thinks we're talking about how we see things in our heart of hearts. And with this, take some self evaluation. Try this won't be easy. Try. Evaluating yourself as you would if you were studying someone else. Seeking an honest answer to how you see things. If you don't know somebody, but you spend an afternoon with them. And at the end of the afternoon, we were to ask you. Okay? How do they see things? You would probably be able to identify all they really like baseball. They my mother-in-law had a what would be actually my grandma in law? How to Pastor come with their, with their, the pastor, and his wife came with her son, her grandson and his wife and afterward. She said, Logan, there's something wrong with that, man. Nobody else saw the grandma dead. She said, is his password. He never talked about. Jesus, never talked about the Bible, talk about baseball talked about other things. But if you, if you look at somebody You can tell what's important to them. I think you probably have realized over this month, you probably realize it. Surely is important to me. How many times has she come up in the message? Just Flowed out of it, why? Because it's important to me. It has been wisely, said, you cannot not tell your story. And so if you watch somebody and you listen to what they say and you pay attention, you'll pretty soon know how important politics is to them, how important money is to them. How important is status is to them, you'll be able to absorb all of this. So learn to look at yourself and say, if I were to look at me, what would I say is important? Now again, it really doesn't make much difference what we say. We're looking for the reality of it. Our perspective. Our life commandment is not primarily intellectual. For instance, if we were to take a good church like this and we were to give a Biblical marriage test. I would venture would probably get pretty good grades. And yet how many really good marriages? Do we find I was watching a good church with and I had 24 college kids there at the time and I asked them, how many really good marriages do, you know, And one of the qualifications had to be that they knew them well enough to make an evaluation because sometimes you assume that everything is okay. And I had that happen to me. I've had people to tend to here that I thought a man, they really got it together. They don't need me for anything. And I don't even realize there's a problem, until then I was divorcing. Hitman the guy ends up committing suicide, you know, I totally missed it. I wasn't there. So it's not, it's not primarily what we intellectualize is, what we believe in our heart of hearts Francis. If you were to ask me, do I believe in eating healthy? And watching your weight and stuff. You'd have to say, so-so. I have wrestled with the last 12 pounds for about 2 years. And it is he two years? I've probably lost 45 lbs. For net, gain of one. You know, I lose a day Louis game, lose game. You say, do I really believe?

Or whatever, regardless of what I say. It's what I do that's going to really tell you what my actual life commandment. So my life commandment is really, I need another piece of cake and but we we are looking for what we think to be true in our heart of hearts. These are life Commandments in our life Commandments determine what we actually do. Accurate life Commandments are life, commands that are true to scripture and therefore serve well. And our taxes, the the eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light. An inaccurate life. Commandment our life Commandments that are not true to scripture and therefore cause complications in our lives. All of us have some of these All of us even have some Dilly's. Some really interesting ones. In our heart of hearts. If your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of Darkness. If then The Light Within you, you know, how you see things the light is in. You is Darkness. How great is that Darkness? How do we identify our life Commandments? It's not as easy as we would think. Some of our life Commandments are deliberately chosen. Many probably most of them are in call cated or form slowly and even unconsciously. I want I tend to be a little bit.

I'm not outgoing like my wife is. And I would get complaints from my church members. Is that was pastoring them faster. You never let us in on what you struggle with. You never let us know when you're having problems or that and one night I decided I would Bet this was back. Still in the days of evening service. I came to evening Services. I said luck. I'm empty. I need you to give me something. I scared them to death. And I took a life commandment. I said I'll never do that again.

But it was a bad life commandment because the problem wasn't that I was more open and honest with them. The problem was I did nothing to prepare them for it. Boom, dump it on. But it from that day on, I wouldn't open myself to them anymore. I wouldn't be vulnerable. I wouldn't be honest. That would be a bad life Commandments say and yeah, that would be one that I deliberately chose but many or even most of ours are inculcate. If young lady grows up and ever since she was this tall, she's heard that men are only interested in one thing.

And she buys into that, which is likely because she hears it from mother. She hears it from grandmother, she hears it from here. Here there. What's the likelihood that she's going to have an easy time, developing an intimate relationship with her husband.

She has a faulty life Commandment that she's not even realizing she just automatically is looking at things a certain way. I was once with a couple and they have an argument.

And he would walk off to cool off. Good move. By and large. To come back and discuss it in a more rational frame in line. But in this case, it was bad move.

Her father. When she was a young girl had walked off. Things got heated you walked off. Never came back. A first husband. Had they gotten in? Tight discussions. He walked off and never came back. Free adopted life. Commandment That. If the guy walks off, At the end. and didn't make the difference in the people or how they had to approach it, see those are life Commandments were just absorbed and so,

There, most of them are inculcate order, forms slowly, formed unconsciously. And the basis of our life Commandments are often based on lies told by Satan. Or by people of influence in our lives people that we trust people of influence in our life. It may even be a reaction to people, we don't even like or respect. But with taking a life command. Now, life Commandments taken as a whole makeup. Your worldview. How you see the the world? How can we identify our life command? Look at your actions and behavior, seeking an honest answer to how you see things.

A problem is indicated when we seek Victory or change and we're unable to identify or to apply the teachings of scripture. Not generally, you'll find it's caused by one of four problems. One is ignorance. You're having trouble making progress because you just don't know what the scripture teaches. And you need to learn what the Bible says. The second is rebellion, you'll learn what it says, you don't like it and you rebelled against it, the third and unfortunately this is real common. One laziness Lazy. You heard of the two fellows they having the big argument about which one was the laziest. And I felt a said, I'll give a quarter to the laziest guy here at 2 and we're laying there and the one guy jumps up and says it's me give it here. The other guy rolled over and said, drop it in my pocket.

I have a lot of time, we're just lazy. We don't want to put in the time and the energy that it takes and then the fourth one is the faulty life Commandments. So if we look at our behavior and our life, we look at our behavior and it isn't because of ignorance. It isn't that I don't know what the scripture teaches because I'm in Rebellion against the scripture and it isn't because I'm laziness lazy. Now, if it's one of those three things get with it face reality and take care of it. You're not going to don't don't hide from dealing with your laziness by looking for a life commandment. How do you know? If it's one of those three things, a lot of times we want to deal with something that isn't in order not to avoid dealing with what I did. So it have to process those things for and then when you look at it, look at your behavior or your conduct, Because Behavior conduct indicates what your life commandment is.

What clearly conforms to scripture are our positive life Commandments and we usually don't worry much about the positive ones because they serve as well. We like where they take us if it does, good things for us. That which does not clearly conform to scripture are our negative life Commandments. Now life Commandments and intellect It generally generally speaking, our life Commandments have little to do with intellect. A gap between the intellect and stated belief in our conduct indicates life, commandment problem. But it's usually a problem of the heart. Deep in our hearts. We see things differently than how God describes them. So our Guiding Light is really Darkness. If we're if we in our heart of hearts, we see things different than how God for. If then The Light Within You is Darkness, how great is that? If we diagnose the problem, if it's not, but caused by ignorance Rebellion or laziness, look at the problem behavior in his Tsum. That there's a faulty life, commandment behind it. Pray for wisdom. James 1:5 says, if any of you lacks wisdom he should ask God who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. Then it goes on for 6. But when he asked, he must believe and not doubt because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea blowing and tossed by the wind that man should not think that he will receive anything from the Lord. He's a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways that Echoes where Jesus was saying, when he said, you can serve two masters.

And I know this will take it down a little more simple for you that conduct indicates belief. So we might call it the tale of the two tongues. You have two Titans that tongue in your mouth. And the tongue in your shoes. Your conduct indicates belief. So ask the question. What does my contacts aimed indicate? I believe, if I just look and see where I wear my tongue in, my shoe takes me, it'll indicate where I need to go a personal example. Let's start with a African example. In one of the villages in Africa. They had trouble that the operators of the heavy equipment Went deaf. They couldn't hear. And so they began holding a hearing protection seminars, and they found they weren't getting anywhere. They said they ran a study on it and they discovered that driving the heavy equipment was the indication that you had the highest position in the village.

Therefore, going death was an indication that you were somebody. So they could run seminars and they wouldn't have any success that have to convince them that they have to change their life commandment before they could get anywhere. I think for my own background, I found myself when I went to a party less, I was invited to a party. I would find, I always was real careful to do. I would help sweep, but help do dishes. I'd help do all this different stuff. And at times, I even worked against what they were trying to accomplish. Maybe they had invited a nephew or knuckle, or something like that and they were hoping that have opportunity to talk with them about some problem or whatever. And here I was in washing dishes

And until I realized that what was really driving me was, I had such a low self concept that I wanted to make sure that they wouldn't regret having invited me to the party.

And so by doing dishes or helping sweet for whatever, they would be, they wouldn't regret having invited me. Not until I realized that now, I'm still inclined to help but until I realize that it was just compulsive Behavior. I could not not do it now I can look at it now and say, okay what's best? Is it best that I help wash dishes, or should I be working the crowd or whatever? Whatever should be going on, but see that was a life Commandment that I had taken and that drove me. And so, when scripture isn't accomplishing, what it ought to accomplish, we need and it's not laziness is not Rebellion, I'm not missing applying or anything like that. Then I need to look at it and say, okay, is the light that's in made Darkness identify what it is and then change it and replace it. How can we do that? We can list Alternatives that come to mine. Okay? This is what's going on. Okay, here's alternative. So for what it might be We can evaluate the options which of the alternative seems most real and applicable to you. Now, the devil will try to take you off on the easiest one or different one than where the where the real problem lies. But you sure you can trust your gut. You can trust the feeling that you get there, that this probably is the thing that I really believe wrong. I really believe contrary to what God teaches. And then replace the faulty life. Commandment with truth. Ask yourself, how is this believe different from what God says and then allowed God to replace the faulty life, commandment with truth. And John a 31 and 32 to the Jews who had believed in him. Jesus said, if you hold to my teaching you are really my disciples, then you will know the truth. And the truth will make you free roam in 611 and 12. In the same way count yourselves to be dead in two indeed to send but alive to God in Christ. Therefore do not let send rain in your board will bought a so that you may obey its evil desire. Now, I realize that this is a faulty life commitment. I need to replace it with truth and live that out. We need to realize that change takes place in 4 steps. The first step is knowledge. Most of the crowd here is probably old enough that they they know what driving a standard transmission. That furnishes, a good illustration. So you're going to teach a kid to drive, I taught six kids to drive standard transmission and it's interesting because the first thing I have to know is where the gears are. So you explain the H pattern in that to them that's knowledge.

Now about every kid thinks they're going to jump in and just take off that watch Dad and Mom do it all their lives but that brings us to step two and that's awkward. Awkward. So the kid gets in her, he was convinced it's all going to go smooth but he gets in there.

But if he keeps working on that at this is the process of change. If he keeps working on that, he'll reach the third and that's conscious So, we moved from just now, as you knowing something, we know what the scripture teaches, but we're awkward in doing it. And then conscious is the third now. Conscious is. We're aware of every movement. Everything that we do, but it's smooth. I know I've been unconscious and pushing in the clutch and letting it out at such a speed as I apply the gas in Swan. But now it's smooth but I'm very conscious. The fourth and this is where for where we're seeking to grow in our Christian Life. 4th is when it's integrated. So we go from knowledge to awkward and integrators when it's automatic. Most of you who drove here today, you couldn't tell me anything about driving here unless I mediate your pulled out in front of you, But it's all integrated. You don't even think about driving. You just drive it back. You can even switch between your vehicles and not even think about it and do the right thing in the right. Rake, usually, we need to realize that as we start, what does the scripture teach? Now, I'm going to have to I'm not going to feel to be smooth. It's interesting, we took a poll and it's very route. We took a poll to the past, your old team and leadership team got together and decided what, how, how should we streamline the service in that? And we thought that we should do away with the greeting time. But before we made, all the changes that we in her Infinite Wisdom. We should do, we decided to take a poll And what I guess what came back that people wanted to retain. The greeting time. But it's interesting because most of them said that when they first started attending, they didn't like it very well though. It was awkward. They felt ility. But after a little bit of that awkwardness and Consciousness, and it became integrated and they recommended, we retain it. And so we did but you'll find that as you do, you catch a truth that God gives there that you're not going to be real smooth, be able to just do it. You're going to go from knowledge to conscious to to awkward to conscious to integrated. But after a while you just think, right? You think all right on it. and I think of the lesson of the compass, I was asked to go to Dallas Texas and then evaluate a church and another fella went along with me and we got into Dallas and took a taxi cab to the hotel, is kind of funny that Texas Sun. The taxi cab driver. You could have taken a magic marker and did write down his face because the side that was in the sun all the time. Was it Brown is going to be the side. There was here. We just as white is going to be, but we got to the hotel anyway and of a native. And they said, oh, you go east 2 blocks and then go north another block and that's where you're going. So, I looked at my friend and said, let's go, and I started to walk this way and he said, hey, he said East this way? And we argued about it. And both of us during heatedly, we were convinced. We had life Commandments going on, but we decided that we'd ask a native and here was somebody from Dallas and we said, which way is north Neither of us, right? They point we went and sure enough we got there.

We need to go somewhere else. We're not too bright we again, are you? We can ask the native we again got there. I think it happened three times and I said enough. We are standing outside of a sporting good store. We went in. I bought a compass.

And then we play the game with each other. Which way is north. So I would State what? I thought he would stay with. He thought, then we look at the compass. And adjust. It was interesting. We were there several days and by the end of the week, both of us felt that North was North. We had acclimated say, we looked at the compass and initially, we looked at was that can't be right. Can't be right. My two sons were having an argument yesterday at our house because Bayview Edison takes a funny curve right there and you're sure that that should be North. But it isn't North goes right up our drive. And I actually now we lived there. 10 years and I actually sort of feel that that's North and I know that the sun is in the right spot. So I'm able to adjust my life commandment, but if you trust the compass, when North doesn't feel like North when you're identifying and you pick a life commandment, you say that really doesn't follow the scripture. Trust your compass acclimate. Emotions will eventually catch up with the truth and you'll actually feel the truth is truth. You'll actually be able to restructure the whole thing by the grace of God. And this is all part of our growing process. So if you're grappling with something is not Rebellion, it's not ignorance and it's not laziness look to see, is there a life commandment, this will make a difference in your health, that will make a difference in your relationships, but most of all it's going to make a difference in your relationship with God, and you'll find that the scripture will work. And so, if there's something that you're absolutely know, the scripture, now getting this application, will mislead you I had a young lady and she began to go downhill, spiritually and I couldn't figure out why. And I talked with her and our pastor at the time, preach the message. And there was an amusement park that she really liked. And he I think misapplied and said that it was a sin to go there. Now what he was looking at, it was a waste of money and a waste of time and what not and but she really like that. So she felt she had an argument with God No, I would agree with her and said him, okay, if it's okay, but you can't afford argue with God, you've got to determine what God says and then really give yourself told vein him to doing what he wants the readjust in your life, but you'll find that this is going to help you to break into some of the areas and where you need a mental and emotional, and a heart adjustment more than just a head adjustment. Because even in your head, you might even believe the right thing, but you still are doing the wrong thing because your life commandment is directing you in the wrong direction all the time, even though you could biblically pass the test, So look at your shoes, your tongue in your shoe, with the tongue in your mouth. And ask yourself, which way are you going to your page of been patient? This has been a long and grappling message but something I trust that you'll be able to really taken and look out when the scripture isn't working and ask him, I misinterpreting in my relief, didn't ask all those questions and if if it isn't and if it's one of those, just take care of it. But if not, then look for what is the life commandment? What am I? What do I believe? In my heart of hearts not in my head? But in the heart of hearts, what do I believe? That's contrary to the scripture and then make that adjustment and go through that knowledge awkward conscious integrated to where we feel like God knew what he was talking about. Because he does. Heavenly Father, we just pray that you would look deeply into our hearts. How thankful we are for your grace.