Book of Romans, 14:2-3 - Freedom in Christ | Handling Doubtful Disputations, Pt. 3 (04/03/2022)

I'll come up and sing, try to get Ben to do it, try to get Matt to do it, and so I've decided I shall do it. No, I'm kidding. We'll just have extra time in the word today. How about that? Great to have Georgette with us, and Richard, thanks for coming today and visiting with us, and we've got lots of folks out ill today.

It's an early summer cold, isn't it? It's not even summer yet, but it's going around, so I hope you guys can stay clear of it, but just all it is, and it lasts about a week, though, unless you're Charlotte, and it'd be probably four days, four or five days, hopefully.

She has a strong immune system, we'll see, but so I hope the rest of you guys can get by without this one, but if you don't, you shall survive it, I would think. Well, I think it was a fantastic Sunday school lesson this morning, Bill.

So much of the Bible comes alive when you start seeing the prophecies fulfilled in the newspaper, as I used to say. Of course, now I know it's not newspaper anymore, but for a hundred years, I would say it that way, but we see it so much.

Even this Russian war going on now, you read Ezekiel 38 -39, you think you see that war. There will be a Russian war in the end times, maybe even before the seven-day tribulation period. Scholars have some disagreement on the exact location of what they call the Russian war in the Bible.

I personally don't think it's Armageddon. I think it is a different, it's one that's prior to that. I've thought that pretty much ever since I started studying the Bible, and I still think that, so I don't know that this is it, though, because Putin looks almost too weak for this to be it, because in the biblical Russian war, they literally break out and head all the way down south towards Israel, but what you see is five-sixths of the entire army is destroyed before it gets there by nuclear, something nuclear, and the way you can tell the scripture talks about bodies that they couldn't approach for weeks, and then it took months to clean up after the war, and you couldn't touch the bodies.

They were radiated, they just, it's amazing to see. Now, maybe China gives Russia the support it needs, and it is strong enough, we don't know, but this could be 20 years out in the future, 25 years in the future, we don't know, but it is something that we're watching and with a lot of interest, because it doesn't seem to make much sense, and it is interesting in Ezekiel that it says that this leader from the north, Moscow directly due north from Jerusalem, by the way, but this leader from the north is a person who seems to, at the last minute, have a change of mind, and then he does this attack.

Well, if you look at Putin up until now, you didn't see this coming, really. None of the western world saw this coming, so it's like he had a change of mind, like something changed his mind, and he decided he wanted to do it for no really great reason.

His reasoning is really strange when you read about it, saying he's going to stop fascism in a country whose leader is a Jew. That's really interesting logic, but it's just so bizarre, isn't it? So we've got so many things going on around us.

I was reading a paper Georgette wrote, and I think you're going to, I need to talk to you about it. I don't know exactly what you're going to do. She may get it published. I don't know what she's going to do with it, but it talks about some things going on in her world, in the pharmaceutical world, and things a lot of people don't know about, and they can really affect you.

They can affect your whole life when you start to see the ugly underbelly of things going on in the world system that Satan is the little g-god of, and here we live in it, and right at the end of your Sunday school lesson, you quoted that beautiful passage in Philippians, think on things that are lovely, think on things that are good rapport.

If we don't focus on that, we will be just so down all the time in these days. It's going to be one thing after another moving forward, and I don't say that I think we're in the seven-year tribulation period, but I think we're in the foothills as if they are the mountains.

We're in the foothills headed up that direction, and you're going to see more pestilences. You're going to see more bigger and stronger earthquakes. You're going to see all the things Jesus talked about, rumors of wars, wars and rumors of wars, and he said, and yet be not troubled.

These things must come to pass. The end is not yet, and then he names the things that happen before the end of the age comes, and some of those things have now happened, but not all of them. So we keep watching.

If we see one of the two mosques on the Temple Mount destroyed, we'll probably go find us a nice cave to hide in or something, because we're getting really close at that point. They start building the temple, you got three and a half years to figure out what you're going to do, and then three and a half years into that, when you see the Antichrist offer a swine, a pig on that altar, you'll know it's too late if you hadn't already taken measures.

So that's coming up, and all of it to usher in the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is the most magnificent positive thing that's ever happened in the history of the world, and that's what we had to look forward to, but yet we tend to focus on the negative scary part, don't we?

But the Bible says very clearly that the Lord has ways of protecting his own through times like that, but we do have this kind of conditional, we have to read the scriptures and do what he says to do, but he says he will protect us.

So the thing is, by and large, the church is not even watching for it, because they bought it into a lie that we won't be here during that, which is not true. We shall be. Greatest proof of it is that Paul said very clearly that we who remain, we shall rise up and be changed in the air, but he said very clearly not until after the resurrection, and the resurrection is the last thing on the chronology of the end times.

It's the last, it's the end of the church age, so it happens at the end, not in the middle, not prior, but at the end. So we got to do the things we have to do to be ready, and, you know, there are a lot of people that disagree with that.

I remember when I used to, because I grew up believing a completely different way until I decided to study it myself rather than taking people's word for it or reading. I've read all the books. I know what the books say about it, but you got to ask yourself, okay, do the books fit the scripture, because the scripture is the only authority, right?

Not the textbooks. The scripture is the only authority, so it's all got to fit. If it's God's Word, it doesn't contradict. It all fits. It's all woven throughout all of scripture, and it fits, and that's where we have to study.

Romans 14 and the Weak in Faith

Today, we are continuing our study in Romans chapter 14. If you turn to that chapter, we almost finished up verse one last time. I thought we were actually going to get into verse two, but we didn't quite get there, but we certainly will today.

So I will read Romans chapter 14, verse 1, and give you a little review of what we talked about on that verse, and then we'll go into the next verse. Let's pray first, though. Father, thank you so much for your Word.

Thank you that you have not only given it to us, breathed it into this world, and that you're the author of it and the protector of it, and that you promised to preserve it to the last generation. Thank you that you have, because where would we be if you hadn't given it to us?

Thank you so much that you also gave us your Spirit. You gave us the water of the Word and the Spirit of God, not only in our salvation, acting in our very salvation, but also in our growth, in our growth in grace, from grace to grace, and in this walk, in this life.

And help us to use your Word and help us to walk in the Spirit and to be salt in life. We ask it in Jesus' name. Amen. That's one of the things you talked about in your paper, being salt. That's exactly what we are.

Well, it says, him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations. So that sets the tone for the whole chapter of chapter 14 of Romans. A lot of it is talking about doubtful disputations.

And we've talked about in a couple of previous Sundays, I'm going to give you three points that I've already given you here. First one is we must, we have these things called imperatives. Even in the New Testament, we're under grace, not law.

And yet, if you look at the grammar in the New Testament, there are a lot of imperatives, such as where the Lord would tell us to live a certain way and not to live another way. And it's in the imperative in the grammar, which means just like a command.

Okay. So it's like how he wants us to live. And so a lot of this chapter is talking about imperatives. But what's interesting about it is that legalists will come into the church and create imperatives that number one, don't exist.

They're not in the scripture. Or number two, they take scripture and twist it and take it out of context to create an imperative that's not an imperative. Or it's not for us. Maybe it was for Israel during the time of the law, but it's not for us now.

And they'll take things out of context and create new imperatives. So we have this huge list of rules that we have to keep to be good Christians. And you see billboards out there on the highway, a true Christian obeys.

Well, yeah, sort of. Depends on what you mean by that. Because I don't know anybody in this room in this small church. So I know everybody pretty well, including myself. I don't know anybody that obeys all the time.

So if that's true, none of us are Christians. So the legalists want you to think it's all about doing this, doing that, not doing this, and especially the nots. Like you can't do that. You can't do this.

And I'm an authority on it because this church, the founder of this church back in 1980 was a fundamental independent Baptist legalist. And Charlotte and I were young in our 20s. We didn't know that was not right.

It took us a while to figure it out. And our kids grew up through part of it. And so we learned what it's like to be on that side of the spectrum. And it's not the place to be because the law kills. It's grace that brings life.

It's the spirit that brings life. So the first thing we have to watch out for is we must examine any perceived imperative. If some person brings it into the church, it's something you got to do, or you can't do this.

We have to examine it by its context. If they do try to show us that it's in the Bible, then we have to study the context and make sure that they have that in context. We have to ask who's being spoken to by this passage.

Who is this about? What's the primary interpretation? What's the secondary, the primary application? What's the secondary application if there is one? You have to ask all the questions that are included in the 10 rules of proper Bible interpretation.

And you don't want to cheat on those. And once you've done that, you can decide is this really something that we need to think about obeying in this area or not. Secondly, we must ask the question, is this imperative actually even found in the scriptures?

Because many of them are not even in the Bible. Little rules that legalists like to make in a church, they're not even in the Bible. I will say probably most of them, they get from a scripture that they have abused or misused on purpose.

But some of them are not even in the Bible. And the third thing is the word of God is the only true test. It is the only true authority. So those are things we've sort of covered out of this passage. We've looked at quite a few interesting parallel passages like Philippians 2, 12 through 16, do all things without murmurings and disputings, holding forth the word of life.

So it shows us you always come back to the Bible and you hold that forth when there's a legalism problem in the church. You say, okay, let's see what this says, because we're not going to go by what you say.

We're going to go by what this says properly interpreted. And then in 1 Timothy 1 verses 3 through 7, we talked about the fact that it brings out that nearly always, and also verse 7, 1 Timothy 1 through 4, I guess, 4 through 7, it always comes back to people that are trying to bring you under the law.

For example, that one says in verse 4, to not give heed to fables. Those are things that people present as a Bible truth and it's not even in the Bible. That's a fable. And there's a lot of that going on.

A lot of people are a new uprising and wanting to go to the apocryphal books and count them as if the authority there is the same as the Bible and put it equal because, well, each were found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, so they're equal.

Well, no, they're not equal. And so when you start talking about fables as if they're authoritative scripture, you get in trouble. I've had friends that I've had to talk to about that, and they're doing that nowadays.

And in endless genealogies, we talk about how a lot of the apocryphal books talk about, it lists names of angels that do not appear in scripture. It's just as likely fiction as anything else, but there are people who will spend hours talking about these named angels that are not even in the Word of God, as if it's part of scripture.

Well, it's exactly what Paul foresaw and warned us about, to not take heed to people that want to talk about fables, endless genealogies of angelic beings that don't exist. These things minister questions rather than godly edifying, the Bible says.

And then it ends up saying that these people are desiring to be teachers of the law. So what does it all come down to? They're legalists. Why? Because if you can add a new genealogy and say, well, now you need to memorize the names of these angels to be as spiritual as I am, because I can name them.

It's that simple. It's silly. It seems silly, doesn't it? It's exactly what's going on. So we talked about that. And then we went into 2 Timothy 2, 15 through 16. And we talked a little bit about this amazing passage where it talks about rightly dividing the Word of truth.

You have to understand which dispensation the passage is in, or you'll try to make it say something that's not even applicable in the church age and things like that. So those were interesting discussions.

Now, in 2 Timothy 2, verse 19, last time, I think, to me, the most important part was where it talked about it spoke of a thing called the foundation of God. Remember that? It said, nevertheless, the foundation of God stands sure.

And then it named what it was. And the first thing it talked about was that the Lord knows who are His. Well, what is that? That's predestination, election, foreknowledge, the calling, regeneration, all these things that people don't want to talk about today as part of the foundation of God is that this is sure God knows those that are His, number one.

And the second thing was that the church needs to depart from iniquity. I would call that, if you want to give it a big idea, sanctification. And those are the two things listed there. So the first one, foreknowledge, predestination, has to do with the cause of salvation.

The second one, sanctification, has to do with the effect of salvation. It takes both the cause and the effect for it to be real, for it to be the whole foundation of the Christian faith. But it's listed right there in 2 Timothy 2, 19.

So we talked about that in quite a bit of detail. And we talked about how it tells us that what the Christian needs to do is he needs to be separated, he needs to be sanctified, he is fashioned by God to be fit to do what he's going to do here on this earth, and he needs to be prepared.

So that's kind of where we were. So that brings us to, there was one other, a couple of other little parallel passages in that, under that verse, verse 1 of Romans 14. Let me just touch on those, and then we'll go to the next verse, because we didn't talk about this last time.

There is a passage in Galatians 2, verse 4, that fits with everything we've been talking about in verse 1 of Romans 14. And it says this, and that because of false brothers, unawares brought in, who brought them in, by the way?

Yeah, exactly. They're brought in by Satan. So because they're false brethren brought in unawares, what does unawares mean? It's an old English word, but I mean, we don't use it that way, but what does it mean?

They sneak in and we don't think they're false. We think they're good preachers and teachers, right? So we have that going on here. And why did they come into the church? Well, from their viewpoint, it says they came in secretly to spy out our liberty.

What does that mean? That means we're not living under Moses. We're living under Jesus. We're not living under law. We're living under grace, and we are free. And as Paul said, all things are lawful for us.

Yeah, not all things are expedient, but all things are lawful. And they want to come and say, yeah, except for this. He said, you need to be worshiping on Saturday because that's the actual Sabbath, not on Sunday.

And they'll bring that in and make a big deal out of it. That's what they do. So they are spying out your liberty, and where they see it, they want to demolish it because that liberty is what brings you joy and life and an actual relationship with God rather than living under a set of rules, which is no relationship at all.

It's a religion. And there's a big difference between man's religion and a walk with God. By the way, if you have a walk with God, you don't need the list of things to do and not to do because the Holy Spirit will tell you, I don't want to listen to that music with you.

Turn it off, right? You don't have to have a list of which songs your kids can listen to. You don't have to have a list telling you which place you can go into and which place you should avoid or you should buy stuff from and not.

You don't need people making lists. Ask the Holy Spirit. You want me to walk into this place, and will you go with me? And if not, I'm not going in there. That's how we live. Now, that's a relationship, but it's a continual moment by moment throughout the day deciding to be spirit-filled rather than walking in the flesh.

People don't like to live that way. They'd rather have a list of rules. So Satan easily slips these people in to seek out our liberty, which we have in Christ Jesus. You see, we don't have any liberty when we're not abiding in Christ.

That's why we like to let them bring the law in and the rules because we don't abide in Christ very much sometimes. We just like to get up and pray and take Jesus' hand and say, it's not about you going with me today.

It's about me going with you. What are you going to do today? I want to do that with you. See, we don't approach it that way. We say, Lord, go with me today as I go do my thing. Listen, he's not the disciple.

We are, right? So it's really difficult to live a genuine Christian life in Christ, to walk in Christ, to be holding his hand throughout the day. And that's the only way you can walk on water, by the way, is if you're holding his hand.

And when you let go, you can't. And if you let go and you can't, then you need a set of rules like stay in the boat. You see my point? So here he says, and that because these false brothers come in. Now, what do you think the word brethren means?

Like, are they Christians? Or does it mean a Jewish brother? Most of the legalizers, when this was written, were Jews. So is that like Paul being a Jew? Who's the penman of this? Has God inspired him to write?

But I mean, Paul is a Jew, and most of these legalizers are Jews. Is that what he means by brother? Or does he mean that they appear to be Christians? I think it means they appear to be other Christians.

And you would think that they are, that some are and some aren't, because there's two types of false preachers. There's the one that were foreordained for the foundation world in the book of Jude, that were ordained to the blackness of darkness forever.

And they're just, they were sent by God to test his people and see, you know, to ferret out false believers and all that. Who knows all the purposes for that, but it exists. Those are on their way to hell.

And then there are others who are just, they haven't, like they're teaching something they heard another person teach and they think it's true, but it's not. They hadn't figured it out yet. And they will change and repent of it.

There are those. So some of them are saved. Some of them are not. The point is they're at a point in their life where they want to take our liberty away and bring us into bondage, verse four says. So Galatians 2, five says, to whom we give place by subjection, not for an hour.

So Paul wouldn't let him be in the church for one hour and he'd get rid of it. Now see, we don't do that because we'd like to build numbers. Now you can see we have done that here. It's very effective.

There are no legalists in this room today because of it. But Paul would not put up with these people. He would take the word of God and he would slap them around with it a little bit and say, okay, where do you find that?

Show me that in scripture. And when they couldn't do it, he'd ask them to leave. Or the elders of the church or the deacons would ask them to leave. He wouldn't endure these people even for an hour. But it's kind of interesting where he says to whom we gave not place by subjection even for an hour.

What does this mean, subjection? Well, the Greek word means subordination. And what that tells us is the very thing that I've observed is when they come in, especially if they say I'm a Jew or I'm part Jew, usually I'm half Jew.

They are now putting you, just by saying it, they're putting you as a Gentile under subordination. You need to listen to me because I know the Bible better than you do because I'm a Jew. And they make you feel that way.

And that's where they start. That's the starting place. Paul says, don't allow that. Do not give place by subordination or subjection, not even for one hour, so that the truth of the gospel might continue with us.

So apparently if you let these people come in and take control within a very short period of time, you won't even see the true gospel being preached. The true gospel of even how to be saved will be changed because it'll be, well, yeah, I believe in Jesus and, and they'll add at least one thing.

Well, that's one thing too many, right? To whom give place, not even for an hour. But of these who seem to be somewhat, now what does that mean? They always seem to be important people. Maybe they've had a huge following at some other place in the country where they built a huge church and now they're going around in evangelism.

And because they built a church from six people, Ben and I were talking about one earlier today, years ago when I was a young preacher, he built a church in Atlanta, Georgia from six people to the largest church in Atlanta.

And I went and heard this man preach. He was amazing. It's just amazing preacher. He never moved. He kept his hands right there. And he was such a great speaker that it didn't matter. He didn't need to move around and do anything.

You'd listen to him for an hour and a half and think it was 20 minutes. Curtis Hudson was his name and he's in heaven now. But he, but he said some things that I bought into as a young preacher and preached for maybe 10 years and then found out later it's not even, it's not even true.

It's not the right, this passage he was talking about. It's not what it meant. A little embarrassing on my part. Ben and my son, Ben goes and finds these old tapes when I was 25 and he's got them back there.

And he says, dad, I heard one today. You need to hear it. I said, no, I don't need to hear it. Just delete it. Just delete it. And Bill knows a lot of them and Brayden and Sharon heard all of them. You've heard these sermons that Ben is laughing about back there.

Barely older than I was when I preached them, wouldn't you say? Yeah, you do. Yeah. You would love that. Ben has the ability to destroy his dad. He's got lots of power and the greater part of my inheritance actually.

So, so here in verse six, they seem to be somewhat, they're big, they're big wigs, right? They're big wigs. Look what Paul says about them. But these who seem to be somewhat whatsoever they were, this is in parentheses, Paul is murmuring a little here.

He says, but whatsoever they were, it makes no matter to God because God accepts no man's person. I like the fact that he used scripture to say really what Paul was saying. They don't mean nothing to me, right?

Well, he actually says that. Let's keep going. He says, whatever they were, it makes no matter to me. No, I couldn't see that. He did say me first. It makes no matter to me. Then he says, God accepts no man's person.

So he gives the scripture to back why it doesn't matter to him. For they who seem to be somewhat in conference added nothing to me. What do you think it means in conference? Well, they had big mega churches, not the same, didn't operate the same, but I mean, I recall several sermons where they preached 5 ,000 or more people to us right here in this church.

That's a mega church, right? So, you know, they spoke in conference. Also, it can mean that they spoke with other big wigs and they all stuck together and they all said they agreed the same things and believe the same list of rules you need to be keeping.

He said, no, that matters because Paul said, this is all that matters and it ain't in there. So you don't get to stay here for more than an hour and then you have to leave. Pretty cool passage that deals with all of these, these same things.

How to Handle False Teachers with Gentleness

All right. Now, 2 Timothy 2, 24, let's turn there. And this is sort of the, this is sort of the end of, of Romans 14, one, the little verse we started out with. This is the last parallel passage I had for that, but it's probably the most important.

And a lot of you have heard me speak on this in the last couple of years, a couple of them, five, 10 times probably, because I was in the den sitting there and Charlotte was having a quiet time. She likes to read Charles Spurgeon.

I don't know why she didn't just read my old sermon, but she likes to read Charles Spurgeon. And, and then she'll usually listen to this and she'll read it to me. And we both benefit greatly. He was such a wonderful preacher, prince of preachers.

But one morning she chose just to read me a Bible verse instead of, and it was this one, it was 2 Timothy 2, starting with verse 24 and going down through 26. And you've heard me tell this story and she reads it to me and I'm thinking, why is she reading this to me?

And I have the opportunity, especially because of Tradeway now, where we go out across the country, almost every major city in the country and speak to groups of 50 to 200 or more people. And they all come from Christian radio ads and things.

So they're supposed to be brothers and sisters. And most of them are wonderful, really, truly. I've never met such large groups of wonderful people as we've met through Tradeway. And you get to meet some of them because a lot of times when they come to a Dallas meeting, they'll come visit here Sunday and you get to meet them.

They're just great people. All right. But, but there are, there are those who, you know, have different beliefs than we do here. And I'm not bashful sometimes with why we believe what we believe. And so I'll get into some discussions with people.

So usually in a break, at a break in the meeting, or if it's bad enough, I'll like to raise their hand in front of everybody and ask a question like that. I'll say, you know, I can't answer that in five minutes.

Let me take you to lunch. And I'll take him to lunch. We'll have these talks. And Charlotte knows it. And she has sat through a number of them. And so I think that's why she read this to me. And it says, and that because, I'm sorry, Second Timothy 224, and the servant of the Lord must not strive, but be gentle unto all men.

And I'm thinking, why is she reading this to me? The servant of the Lord must not fight, but it's got to be gentle to all men, apt to teach, and patient. I'm thinking, okay, I'm listening. Thank you very much for choosing this passage.

And she keeps reading. And it's in this verse, actually, God tells us how to deal with false teachers, which is fascinating. And the funny thing is, she started that out, those first few words, I'm going, all right, it's like she's preaching at me.

But I'm thinking, I'm not thinking she's preaching at me, but I'm thinking she's trying to help me. That's really what I'm thinking. She's trying to help me here. She thinks I need help here. And of course, I don't.

And, but then as she continued to read, and I listened, I brought out, or I should say, the Lord brought to my attention so many truths that I had never seen in this passage, that I had seen so many times before.

It's like, I never saw it until the day she read that to me, that I talked about it for two years. And I'm still talking about it, because this was about two years ago, probably. And I'm still talking about it today, because I found some truths here that I'd never seen before, that if you understand them, you will be able to talk to these false teachers so much with more ease, and not, you know how it gets your adrenaline up, and you just feel bad about it, maybe for a whole day.

You might even think about it for a week. Jeannie, you've never done that, have you? No, she's never done that. Dave, you've never seen her do that, or you've never done it either. Well, you don't, pretty much.

Dave is one of the few people that I've ever met that kind of was already doing this stuff. I mean that. But made me angry every time he did it. But so let's look at it for a second. I mean, this is amazing.

So this is how to deal with a lot of what verse one in chapter 14 of Romans is talking about, when you see it happen in the church. Here's how to deal with it. Now the whole chapter of chapter 14 of Romans is going to talk about it, but this is sort of a parallel passage, and I think all the ingredients are here also.

So look at it here. So the servant of the Lord, first of all, you don't look at it as a fight. Now you'll feel like it is if it's about the liberty of your church, right? So I'm defending myself a little, Dave Senior.

I mean, that's why I get a little excited. I'm fighting for the liberty of the church. It's not about me and my opinion, or whether I'm right or you're right, or the other guy's right. It's about liberty of the church.

Yeah, that's what it should be about. It shouldn't be a fight, and like who's going to win the argument. That's what this is saying. It's not about the argument. So it's not about striving, and we have to be gentle.

That's very difficult for some of us. To all men apt to teach. I like that part. The gentle part, not so easy. Patient. Wow, that was difficult. Do you know that it's difficult for some of us to even shut up and listen to the other viewpoint long enough to even hear what they're saying, let alone know if you disagree with it because you already think you know what they're going to say because you've heard it so many times.

That's not being patient, and that's difficult. To just listen. Maybe they have a different twist on their false doctrine that you haven't heard before, or maybe they're going to say, well, I don't believe this anymore.

Wouldn't that be interesting? And you jump on them before they say it and attack them. Well, be patient. All right, so there's some of the basics, but look at this. In meekness, instructing those that oppose themselves.

Well, now there we learned something. That's something new I learned when she showed this to me that morning because I learned all these things. It's like the Holy Spirit taught me all these things in five minutes that I should have seen years ago, and that is our job is not to out-argue them or to win an argument.

Our job is to instruct them. Well, see, they don't think you're there to do that. They're trying to tell you how it should be. They're trying to tell you, well, you've got to keep all these rules in your church or whatever their thing is that is not biblical, that you know is not biblical, and they're trying to make you think their way.

Well, they're arguing with you, right, and you're not supposed to argue back what you're supposed to do. Now watch this. You take this book, and you rightly divide it, and you open it up, and you teach them in context with the proper grammar and the proper word meanings exactly what it does say.