There Are Two Kinds of Counsel - Part 2

Genesis 3 and the Two Kinds of Counsel

Good morning, you have a Bible turn to Genesis 3 and we're going to be reading Genesis 3 1 through 6. We're continuing our study on basic truths and. The basic truth that God has for us today is the truth that there are two kinds of counsel.

Last week we talked about the counsel of God. This week. We're going to be talking about the counsel of our enemy. So if you do have Genesis 3 1 through 6 ready, go ahead and stand for the reading of God's Word.

Genesis 3 1. Now the serpent was more crafty than any other beast in the field that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman Did God actually say you shall not eat of any tree in the garden and the woman said to the serpent?

We may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden. But God said you shall not eat of the fruit of the tree that's in the midst of the garden. Neither shall you touch it lest you die. But the serpent said to the woman you will not surely die.

For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be open and you will be like God knowing good and evil. So when the woman saw the tree was good for food and that it was a delight to the eyes and the tree was to be Desired to make one wise.

She took its fruit and ate and she also gave some to her husband who was with her and he ate.

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The Deceptive Counsel of the Enemy

Well, we do come before you today acknowledging that you are good and that you are the source of all truth. Pray that you bless our time here today and help us to learn great things from your word. Help us to understand better the schemes of the enemy who is after our souls Lord.

Help us to identify your truth in your son's name. I pray amen. How much my life has been spent? Trying to speak against a certain particular scheme of the enemy, which I am particularly Persuaded is uniquely destructive to our souls.

That particular scheme of the enemy is the scheme of secular psychology. So as I said as we read through the passage today, we're going to find two kinds of counsel that are presented in this passage and.

The two kinds of counsel are the counsel of God and the counsel of our enemy. And we know that our enemy comes to us with many schemes and. As I've and as I've been alive in this earth And interacted with many people is it really is difficult to imagine a greater scheme of our enemy.

And a greater form of counseling that the enemy comes to us to give than the counsel of secular psychology. Now now as you read through the passage one of the things to realize is that the passage starts out with a note.

About the deceptiveness of our enemy. So Genesis 3 1 says this it says the serpent was more crafty than any other beast of the field that the Lord God had made. So we see in this passage as we see that the counsel of our enemy is very deceptive.

You know Satan very infrequently will come to us and say in these exact words I'm trying to deceive you. Okay? Most people when they're trying to deceive you they do not alert you to the reality that they're attempting to deceive you.

They try to do everything they possibly can To present their message in a way that will lead you astray. But it won't alert you to the fact that they're trying to lead you astray. So most people don't come to you and say I'm trying to deceive you when they're actually trying to deceive us.

Second Corinthians 11 14 says this it says no wonder. For even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants servants also describes themselves as servants of righteousness.

Their end will correspond to their deeds. So as I said our enemy when he's attempting to deceive us. He doesn't typically come to us. Alerting us to the reality that he is attempting to deceive us and neither do his messengers.

Alert us to the reality that they are attending to deceive us. False teachers are not generally going to come to you and tell you that they're speaking the words of Satan. They're coming to you presenting to you the counsel of Satan for your consideration.

They don't come to you and ask you to please consider the words of Satan today. Because he may have a point. It's my conviction that there really is no clearer example of Satan's counsel today Than that of modern secular psychology.

So one of one of Satan's most recent schemes in this regard. As I said Satan's not going to come to you and tell you that he is planning on deceiving you. But one of his more recent deceit schemes is to persuade Christians in What might be described as a medical model of counseling?

So today you're predisposed to think that when you hear the words of secular psychologists They are coming and giving you medical information about the nature of your soul. So one of the ways in which so many Christians today have been deceived by the devil Is that they've been persuaded that all of their problems of thoughts behaviors and mood Are basically medical conditions and this this deception has been a deception that's been a long time in making.

So the development of psychology as a field started in the late 19th century and earliest 20th centuries. It initially focused on understanding human behavior through experimental methods as I've said in sermons past secular psychology started out as An alternative to soul care.

It used to be that individuals when they When they perceive themselves as having problems of thoughts behaviors and mood they would go to a Pastor to get pastoral counseling because that because they thought that that was the realm that the Bible uniquely set out to address.

So if you had a problem, you would think I need to go talk to my pastor to address this problem. But as I said the early psychologists, they were trying to develop an alternative form of soul care to this.

That was based on evolutionary assumptions so if if God did not create the world if you are simply the product of random time and chance and That's what you are. You just matter in motion. Then that what that means is that has remarkable entailments for ethics.

So God if God made the world if God created the world if he's our creator He made us and he has certain instructions for us if our lives are devoted to the purpose of glorifying him and giving. Thanks.

Then God in his word has given us what we need in order to know him better. But as I said the early psychologists they set out to provide a materialistic Atheistic alternative to soul care. Which really is the basis of modern psychology now as I said the development of psychology as a field it started in the late 19th and early 20th centuries however in its quest for legitimacy.

The funding pushed towards what might be described as a medical model. The pivotal moment came with the introduction of psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud. Which though not strict strictly speaking medical use medicalized language to describe mental health states.

So when you think about modern psychology today most of the terms that you're going to understand are going to be packaged in this language of medicine. This this was followed by the rise of behaviorism which sought to establish psychology as a hard science.

But it was the advent of psycho pharmacology in the 1950s. It truly marked psychology's parasitic attachment to medicines drugs like chlorine chloropromusine. For schizophrenia seemed to provide a biological treatment at the lining psychology close Closer to medical science for credibility and financial support.

So in the post-world war two era there was an influx of funding for medical health research primarily available through medical channels which Incentivize psychology to adopt medical terminology and practices.

The establishment of the DSM in 1952 provided a concrete medical like classification system for mental disorders. Further entrenching psychology within the medical community. This medicalization was also driven by economic motives.

So insurance companies were more likely to reimburse treatments framed in medical terms. Consequently psychology not only adopted but also expanded medical jargon to describe human experiences effectively turning them into treatable conditions.

Therefore Securing its place and resource was resource within the broader Medical establishment. So here's the point. I'm trying to make here today that our council of our enemy is deceptive. He's not going to come to you and tell you he's trying to deceive you.

But then there has been a great deception that is that has happened to many Christians that many Christians fall Pray to. I would say most Christians are have fallen pray to and are very hostile to Anyone coming along and challenging it and that deception is the deception that?

Counseling is neutral. I guess so there's some kind of neutral counsel there that most of our problems are basically medical in origin. So when you think about the nature of your problem state just think about any problem that you can think about that the Bible might Have an answer to that might address that God might have something that he says says in his word about.

Think about common problems like like anxiety. Think about common problems like depression. Think about common problems like bad behavior and children. Think about common problems like anger. Think about common problems like getting really mad and then getting sad afterwards any problem you can imagine you can imagine today Is going to be cataloged in the DSM, which is the diagnostic statistical manual of mental disorders.

So notice how everything about modern psychology today is packaging normal problems of thoughts behaviors and moods in the language of medicine, okay.

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Problems of thoughts behaviors and moves are described in the language of disorder, right? So it's a problem like anxiety depression. They're described in the language of disorder. They're not described in the language of sin.

They're described in the language of disorder. That sounds very medical doesn't it? So the DSM is as I said, it's a diagnostic statistical manual of mental disorders. It's a widely used manual for diagnosing mental disorders, right?

Essentially pathologizing a wide array of human behaviors, you know pathology. That's the concept of medicine, isn't it? What is pathology? It's a problem of tissue damage or malfunction. We use medical language to describe problems of thoughts behaviors and moods.

These like these are called diagnosis. So if you go to a psychologist even go to a doctor, they're going to diagnose you. If you have a problem of thought behavior of mood, they're gonna give you a diagnosis.

That sounds like you have some kind of medical problem. All the you know, all this diet all these diagnosis is. They're gonna classify certain problems of thoughts behaviors and mood in the language of symptoms.

Okay, so just I just want to give you an example real quick so you can understand what I'm saying. So diagnostic right here's the diagnostic criteria for major depressive disorder. So notice you need five or more of the following symptoms.

Notice how that sounds very medical. It sounds very medical. So you need a depressed mood. One of your symptoms needs to be a depressed depressed mood. Loss of interest and pleasure significant. Unintentional weight loss or weight gain.

Sleep disturbance. Psychomotor changes. Where you're either. Look like you're hyper or you look like you're slow. You like tiredness fatigue low energy these are all described in language of symptoms.

Symptoms they sound very medical. Notice like problems the Bible addresses a sense of worthlessness or excessive inappropriate or delusional guilt. If you feel guilt today. That's described in the language of a symptom of a medical disorder.

Okay? Reoccurring thoughts of death.

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Think about all the characters in the Bible all the individuals that the Bible mentioned who long for death. I Mean you can think of you can think of many you can think of Judas who wanted to kill himself.

You can think of Elijah at a certain point in time. He who longed to die Bible talks about in the in the last days. There will be people who are long did long for death and they won't be able to find it.

All this is described in the language of a medical symptom. So notice these symptoms cause clinically significant distress or impairment and social occupational and other important functioning areas of life.

They're all described in the language of medical symptoms. They're not due to a direct physiological effect of a substance. Etc. Etc. My point here is just to say that Common problems brothers. There's a common problems of thoughts behaviors and mood today.

Are being described by psychologists in this medical terminology? So it's going to be called a disorder. They're going to be described as symptoms. Okay? Then you're going to be given medication to treat these symptoms.

If you go to a doctor today and you have a in in they run all the medical tests on you and those medical tests Are found empty. They're going to give you. They're going to give you some kind of psychotropic drug that they're going to describe in the language of medicine and you'll be forgiven.

You'll be forgiven. If you understand yourself to have some kind of medical problem. Despite the fact that all the medical tests showed that there's absolutely nothing wrong with you. Because they're describing your problem in the language of a disorder which has symptoms which requires Medication and that medication can simply be a tranquilizer.

So so some of the common drugs that are used for anxiety and depression are tranquilizers. Which they give you they treat you like you're a rampaging elephant. Because you have problems of thoughts behaviors and mood, but if they put it in the language of medication.

Then if you push back on that in any way. Then Christians will come to their defense and basically treat you like an ignorant science a flat-earth science denier. That's the way it works. That's the deception that we're having that we have today.

So what do psychologists do they give you therapy? That sounds like a doctor doesn't it they give you therapy. With interventions and recovery. So all this is the language of Medicine and there's great money to be made in propagating this form of deception.

The point here is to say that our counselor enemy is deceptive. He's not going to come to you and tell you I'm trying to deceive you and one of the great ways in which he's currently deceiving us today is Deceiving us into thinking that every problem that you can experience in.

Life.

Has a medical label attached to it. And if you think that there's a matter that your problem of thought behavior and mood is a medical problem. The point is you're predisposed to treat it like you you would treat a cancer diagnosis.

Do you typically blame someone for getting a cancer diagnosis? No. You don't think oh, well, this is your fault, right? Like you like you are committing some immoral act and therefore if you would just repent of that immoral act All the cancer would go away.

So you don't really you don't think that way whereas it relates to most medical problems. But the point here is to say that related to problems of common problems of thoughts behaviors and mood. There's a never-ending list of labels That you are you're going to be given which are going to Encourage you to treat all of those problems in the same way that you would treat a medical problem.

And you know what the problem with that is. The problem with that is that if you treat your problems of thought behavior and mood as if they're medical problems. You're stuck with them for the rest of your life.

If the only hope that's going to be found in curing these things is to take a tranquilizer or some other drug. This this is trying to mask these symptoms. The problem is that you're going to be a customer for life.

There's no hope for actual change and you're taking yourself outside of God's appointed means for dealing with these problems and you're stuck with these Problems which are often sin in your life that you need to deal with and there's going to be no Repentance or hope hope for change to be found for you.

Because you've been persuaded by the enemy that it's not your fault. You're suffering from a medical condition and you're just a biological machine that's running out your programming and that the only hope for you is.

To.

Take some kind of drug that is going to mask some of the unpleasant feelings and thoughts that you might have. So as I said, the counsel of our enemy is deceptive. Satan is pictured in this passage as the most crafty beast of the field.

He comes with the purpose of deceive. To deceive so we see the counsel of our enemies deceptive. Secondly, we see the counsel of our enemy is subversive so notice How Satan launches his strategy to the woman he said to the woman did God actually say You shall not eat of any tree in the garden.

So the his first attack on the Word of God on the counsel of God our enemies first attack on God's counsel Is to question what God has said. It doesn't come out step one saying. Hey, I'm the enemy. I'm trying to seek your death and Trying to destroy you.

You know God. He's liar. Don't listen to him. His first step is to question God what God said to call into question What God's counsel actually was. So he says to the woman good God actually say You shall not eat of any tree in the garden.

You'll see this from you'll see this if you if you have eyes to see and ears to hear that. Many time when many times when heretics are trying to come and advance their false doctrine. They don't come out and say hey, I'm I'm trying to teach something heterodox here.

Their first step is to basically ask questions or saying hey, we're just asking questions. Just trying to have a conversation about this, right? I'm not saying God's wrong. I'm just saying did he really say that I don't know.

Did he actually say this? Now how does modern psychology do this as an alternative form of counseling. Modern psychology is endlessly calling into question the sufficiency of scripture. To deal with basic life problems life problems that people for millennia have been addressing through the scriptures.

Because you live in a time right now. That is predisposed to think that we are we have the pinnacle of knowledge. We have more knowledge than we've ever had in the history of the world in our arrogance today.

We think that we've discovered answers to problems that people have never been able to address throughout the history of the world. And it's amazing when you look at how paralyzed we are by basic Life issues because we have a never-ending list of excuses that we make.

But how does modern psychology do this? Well Modern psychology calls in the question the sufficiency of the scripture by asking questions. The Bible isn't a scientific textbook is it? Did God really say anything about science?

Does God Insert any one of your DSM categories here, and you're gonna have someone and people have made these arguments me non-stop. Though it's insert any one of these DSM categories. Yeah, this yeah, where does the Bible talk about clinical depression?

So if When you put clinical on there that sounds really medical doesn't it? And when you and when you used to the word depression you're predisposed to think of an illness. It doesn't matter that clinical depression just means Sudden unexplained sadness for a to like sudden hopelessness and despair unexplained sadness this distinguished from bereavement.

That lasts for a two-week period. That is basically Crippling like it doesn't matter that this is just a word to describe hopelessness and despair and excessive guilt. If you put clinical depression on it, then you can just look at the Bible and say hey.

Where does the Bible speak of clinical depression. Is the Bible a scientific textbook or isn't it? It's not right? Where does the Bible address oppositional defiant disorder. Where does the Bible address attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Where does the Bible have anything to say about obsessive compulsive disorder? Right you see I could just list any one of these disorders that we've used to that sound medical to classify Human like normal human behavior.

I can use any one of these labels and then I can just call into question the sufficiency of the scripture at that point I can say hey, where does the Bible address any one of these disorders? Oh, it doesn't does it?

Therefore it doesn't have anything to say therefore we need not the counsel of God in this situation. Where does the Bible address autism. Autism is the new like all-purpose? Excuse for all kinds of weird abnormal behavior that people will engage in.

Where's the Bible address autism. Well, I guess it doesn't. I guess it's not sufficient to address people who Have autism right? So any number it doesn't matter like you could take any one of these these the point here is just to say any one of these labels.

You're going to demand that the Bible speak to Those labels in 21st century categories and basically say because it doesn't use these specific words. It has nothing to say but the problem is the problem is that These labels are so comprehensive to the point where they deal with every single problem of thought behavior and mood imaginable and You're going to you're going to take the Bible and you're going to throw it in the trash because it doesn't use these pseudoscientific labels that modern psychology demands.

So where does the Bible address clinical depression, where does it dress worry, where does it address ADHD? Where does it where does it address PTSD? Where is it address PTSD? Show me in the Bible where it used it uses that phrase post-traumatic stress.

Post-traumatic stress disorder. Show me show me where it uses it. Oh, it doesn't. I guess it has nothing to say about fear then, huh? Nothing to say about paralyzing fear that happens after a traumatic event.

Bible has nothing to say about fear. You know, you know that one of the The most common command in the Bible is do not be afraid. The Bible talks about fear hundreds of times. And the Bible says that God did not give us a spirit of fear.

But we are predisposed by the on the basis of this questioning about what God says. To think that if a soldier were to go overseas Kill people see his friends die come back home. That he has to suffer from life-dominating paralyzing fear.

Because he gets the label PTSD and the Bible has nothing to say about it we think it's a medical condition something's happened. You think that he witnessed a scary event and Something happened in his brain to where he's no longer able to regulate his fear and his emotions anymore.

That he's just going to be held captive by a spirit of fear for the rest of his life because he's experiencing some brain problem. He's just some machine that would that took in data from his eyes and Now he's fundamentally mind broken.

That's the way that we're predisposed to think. So did God really. Does God really have any answers or hope or help to give to people who've been through traumatic events? Do you think David suffered from PTSD?

Do you think any of his mighty men suffered from PTSD? Do you think that they were held captive by PTSD for the rest of their life? Is there any indication as you read through the Bible that any of the the soldiers in the Bible ever? Had to learn how to encounter scary situations difficult situations.

Problem is just to say that once you get these labels Psychology is going to come along and endlessly question. Did God really address these modern problems as if These are not common problems that people have experienced throughout the history of the world as if you know modern 21st century man is suddenly encountered new problems and has new answers To things that people had no hope and help for for the entirety of the human experience.

Here's the point. The counsel of the enemy is just to question what God says. So Satan says to the woman did God actually say You should not eat of any tree in the garden. Now notice how the how the woman responds to this the woman responds to this with a temptation to add to God's Word.

So the woman said to the serpent we may eat of the fruit of the trees in the garden. But God said you shall not eat of the fruit of the tree. That's in the midst of the garden. She got that part, right?

Neither. Shall you touch it lest you die? So there's a temptation that we face in response to these kind of questions. In that temptation we might face at times. There's a temptation to add to God's Word.

Things that aren't there as you read through the Bible. We see that the Pharisees felt pray to this temptation In many different respects elevating the traditions of men above the tradition above the counsel of God.

So when God's Word is questioned when God's Word is When the legitimacy the veracity of God's Word the truthfulness of God's Word is called into question. We may have a temptation to try to protect God's Word in order in our attempt to protect God's Word.

What we do is try to expand God's Word to include things that God never meant to Address and so we should be aware of this. But as I said, our Council of our enemies is deceptive and the council of our enemy is subversive.

The Rebellious and Slandering Counsel of the Enemy

And third the council of our enemy is rebellious. So notice what the serpent says the serpent starts out with an attempt to deceive her. First a tactic is to call into question God's Word. His second attack is to outright deny what God has said.

So notice what the serpent says the serpent says to the woman you you will not surely die. How is our world doing this? How are psychologists doing the same kind of thing? You know, the Bible has many verses about anxiety.

Don't be anxious about your life. Why do you worry about your life what you eat what you drink your body what you wear your clothing what you put on he's not life more than.

Food and drink and.

Clothing over and over again. The Bible tells us not to be afraid not to worry. That worry cannot add, you know a cubit to your stature. The Bible tells us that over and over again. What a psychology say Says anxiety is not a sin.

I said it's a medical problem. You know one of the things that one of the issues I've gotten in the most trouble in my life Related to these topics are just common. Just just describing anxiety is fear.

Describing anxiety is sin. Saying this send to worry.

We should trust the Lord.

God gives us enough grace for today. So, you know to worry it's it's not just stupid like worry is stupid. It doesn't do anything for you. It doesn't help you just waste a bunch of time makes you miserable, but worry is not just stupid.

It's sinful. Anxiety is simple. The God who made the heavens and the earth from nothing. It's more than capable of handling. Whatever problem that you think Is so important, you know, most of the times in my life where I've been tempted to worry.

Like in Situation after situation after situation. I'm running these These worried thoughts over and over and over again in my mind. And the problem is I'm removing God from my thoughts. I'm forgetting every I'm engaging in.

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Kind of repetitive form of amnesia where I'm forgetting God's providence to me in the past. Forgetting his provision in the past. I mean there have been many situations. That were that Elizabeth and I have gone through in life.

Where we're encountering a trial that we've gone through before. Where she sees me worried about it simply worried about it and looks at me and says. My wife has learned to be blunt by being married to me.

What are you worried about? We've been here before. God always takes care of it. What are you doing? And I'm thankful to have a woman who's willing to speak truth to me when I'm being stupid. The point is to say that we've been Despite the fact that I can look at my past and I can see that God has provided for me every step along the way.

When I come to a new situation Where I can't figure it out in my mind how we are going to fix this problem. There is a temptation that I routinely face to worry about that and that worry is sin. It's absolutely sin.

It's distrust in God. God has is Way more patient than I would be with myself. But he cares for us and he has provided for us every step of the way, but what a psychology say. It's not a sin. It's a medical problem.

Fear it's not a sin. It's a medical problem if I pick on people who have PTSD. If you're predisposed to respond emotionally to that as if I'm picking on someone who has cancer. Do you know that I got no.

I got in a really bad wreck. I A year ago now Was driving on the interstate. I Passed out while I was driving and I got in a really bad wreck to where I mean, you know, I make fun of Jesus take the wheel but that was kind of a Jesus take the wheel point because I Was passed out and just I ran into a medium.

Do you know that I? Faced all the temptations that anyone might face by going 70 miles per hour on the road and crashing into the medium.

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Faced temptations towards fear. I Knew that we know when I was released to drive again after that experience. That either I could give myself over to fear for the rest of my life and never drive again.

Or I could trust the Lord. And say hey, I'm not gonna be held captive by a spirit of fear with God's grace with his help. I understand. I understand. I could give my. I could work myself up in fear. I could give myself over to flashbacks forever.

I Could be in there. I could embrace that. I could say hey. Like not just I'm afraid right now, but I am suffering from PTSD. I could have went there with it. I could have went there with it never drove again if I would embrace that as a label as a hopeless label.

But Bible says don't be afraid. God hasn't given us a spirit of fear. Bible says that anxiety is sinful. It's not just sinful. It's stupid. By Bible says over and over again do not be afraid. God hasn't given us a spirit of fear.

Bible says that Christians are not those who grieve as Those who have no hope. But if you think of Hopelessness and despair as medical problems put a psychological label on them.

You're not going to turn from them.

But the enemy is very overt in this. My point is just to say that the great enemy of our souls has used a particular Pseudo-scientific kind of mechanism to explicitly deny everything the Bible is said, okay.

He said Sigmund Freud. The time has come when traditional methods of clerical guidance and care of souls must be replaced by scientific methods of psychoanalysts psycho.

Analysis.

Here's Albert Ellis the father of rational and motive behavior therapy. The Bible is full of contradictions myths and superstitions. It can be helpful in some instances for comfort or inspiration. But it's not a reliable source for understanding human behaviors emotions and mental health.

Here's Sigmund Freud again religious doctrines are illusions. They do not emit a proof and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them. Here's dr. Michael Shermer and his book why people believe believe weird things.

The Bible is included as one of those weird things so the Bible is not a science textbook. It's a collection of myths and stories meant to convey moral lessons to use it as a literal guide for. Understanding the natural world.

Human behavior or psychology is to fundamentally misunderstand its purpose. Here's dr. Richard Flynn a psychologist known for his work in intelligence and personality. Much of the morality of the Bible is barbaric by today's standards promoting ideas like the subjugation of women slavery and genocide.

It's hardly a useful guide for modern psychological well-being or ethical behavior. Here's dr. Kathleen Taylor a research scientist in neuropsych Psychology from her book the brain supremacy, okay. The Bible with this ancient text cannot be seen as a comprehensive guide to the complexities of modern human psychology.

It lacks the nuanced understanding of mental health and cognitive processes that contemporary psychology offers. Here's dr. Scott Lillenfeld a clinical psychologist known for his work on pseudoscience and psychology.

Suggesting the Bible alone is enough to deal with the vast for array of psychological disorders. We see today is not only scientifically naive, but could be dangerously dismissive of the need for modern therapeutic interventions.

This Bible say Second Timothy 316 all scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching for reproof for Correction and for training in righteousness that the man of God may be complete equipped for every good work.

What a psalm 19 say the law of the Lord is perfect reviving the soul. The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple the precepts of the Lord are right. Rejoicing the heart the commandment of the Lord is pure enlightening the eyes.

The fear of the Lord is clean enduring forever. The rules of the Lord are true and righteous altogether more to be desired. Are they than gold even much fine gold? Sweeter also than honey and the dripping of the honeycomb.

Moreover by them your servant is warned in keeping them. There is great reward. Psalm 119 105 your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. Deuteronomy 29 29 the secret things belong to the Lord our God.

But the things that are revealed belong to us and our children forever that we may do all the words of this law. Proverbs 35 through 6 every word of God proves true. He is a shield to those who take refuge in him.

Do not add to his words lest he rebuke you and you be found a.

Liar.

Matthew 4 4 but he answered it is written Man shall not live by blood bread alone. But by every word that comes out of the mouth of God John 17 17 sanctified them by your truth. Your word is truth. 2nd Peter 1 3 through 4 his divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness.