Let Truth Trump Tradition

Let me ask you a question. What's more important to you? Truth or tradition? Do you know how to tell them apart? It's amazing how nothing seems to last longer than a really bad idea. I am so glad I remember. I remember back in the 70s, right, as soon as I started driving, we had the luxury of having Mr. Jimmy Carter as president who decided that the speed limit would be best at 55 miles per hour. Not 50, not 60, 55. Is there a number that represents non decision more than the number 55? And it's. I don't know how many of you have gotten tickets for going over 55, speeding tickets for going over 55. But I think there are probably many of us. And it's just a testament to how bad of an idea 55 miles an hour on the interstate is anyway. At least that's my opinion. Okay. And finally, we have speed limits of 70 miles an hour, which feels like I can finally get there in a reasonable amount of time and get out of this car. Okay, Now, I know a lot of people don't feel that way, but I've driven over a million miles in my life. I hate being in a vehicle. Like, I can think of a whole lot of stuff I'd rather do than be sitting in a car. And some people think I drive fast because I like to drive fast. I actually don't like to drive fast. I just want to get there so I can get out. I don't know if anybody can relate to that or not. Maybe you can, maybe you can't. It's irrelevant. So. But nothing seems to last longer than a really bad idea. Do you ever notice how when you're filling out dates on apps and on the Internet, you can type in the day, you can type in the month, but you gotta scroll back 63 years to find the year you were born.

Could I just go 1961-please- somebody somewhere?

Nothing seems to last longer than a bad idea. Well, in this story.

Not necessarily a bad idea, but what happens in religion is that people start making stuff up and they want to hold other people's feet to the fire on the stuff they made up.

And when I say religion, I'm going to define religion because people say, myron, I know you're a religious person, but really I'm not. I'm not a religious person. Here's what I mean when I say religion, so I'm going to define it. So by religion, I mean something like some rules that somebody said is what you have to do to appease God, right? So that's what I mean when I say religion. So some rules that somebody told me, some group of people, some individual told me I have to do to appease God. But in reality, God does not.

Respond to religion favorably, generally at all. Religion was introduced in Genesis chapter three by the serpent when he said, for God doth know that the day ye eat thereof, then ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil. Satan said, if you will disregard what God said, you will be more like God. So he gave. He's the first one. Like, the first religion in the history of the world was hedonism or humanism. Man becomes God. When you do what you want to do instead of what God told you to do, then you begin to become God. Okay? And you can decide for yourself what's good and what's evil. That's the first religion in the history of the world. Every other religion is some derivative of that when I say religion, some other system.

By which people are telling you, if you do these things, you will be accepted by God. But this is what God says. God says that the justice shall live by faith.

Faith is not an action that I take.

Faith is a gift that I received in order to receive the gift of grace. Wait, what? Wait, what? What just happened? Faith is a gift that I received in order to receive the gift of grace. Grace is a gift. So in order for me to receive the gift of salvation, I need faith. But I can't conjure up the faith. Why? Because I'm a sinner. I'm not a good person. Don't look at me like that. Neither are you.

We're just sinful people now. Fortunately, we can be righteous people. But the righteousness that I do today doesn't undo the unrighteousness I did yesterday or yesteryear or yesterday decade. Right? So doing new good deeds doesn't erase the bad of the old bad deeds. And even if I wound up somehow doing. And at the end of my life doing more good deeds than I did bad deeds, and then when I stand before God, or worse yet, worse yet, the one. This is the one that's like really fingernails on a chalkboard for me when I get to the pearly gates and St Peter opens the door. So that's such a goofy thing to say. St. Peter's not opening any doors. Okay, sorry.

St. Peter, like, anyway. No, that's not how this works. And Peter was not the first pope. So don't get it twisted. If there would have been a pope, if there would have been a pope, a first pope, and there wasn't. That was ordained. Like, there wasn't. If there's somebody that God chose to represent. If there would have been a pope, it wouldn't have been Peter. It would have been Paul. Paul was the apostle to the Gentiles, not Peter. Okay? So let's don't be confused about what the Bible teaches. Anyway, there's a story.

About the religious leaders coming to Jesus, and they're frustrated with him because his disciples are not keeping the tradition of the elders. So Matthew, chapter 15, here's what it says. Then came Jesus. I'm sorry. Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees which were of Jerusalem, saying, why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they wash not their hands when they eat bread. And he answered and said unto them, why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your traditions? For God commanded. Now God's. He's. Jesus is. I'll chase the rabbit in a minute, okay?

For God commanded, saying, Verse 4, Honor thy Father and thy mother, and he that curseth his father or mother, let him die the death. But ye say, whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, it is a gift by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me, and honor not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus you have made the commandment of God by none effect, by your. Of none effect, by your traditions. Hmm. You've made the commandment of God of none effect. It's a couple things. Let me say what he's not saying before I say what he is saying. First of all, Jesus isn't saying tradition is automatically bad. The Bible is a book of traditions. Can somebody get that door for me, please? The Bible is a book of traditions. The Bible is not a book.

The Bible is a book that contains traditions. That's a better way of saying it. The Bible is a book of truth, but it contains traditions. All traditions are not bad. There are some traditions that are really, really, really, really good, but they are still traditions. Some traditions are founded on truth. Some traditions are just founded on somebody's extrapolation or application of truth. Are y' all tracking? So.

When I'm reading this verse that says. That says.

You'Ve made this the truth of God of none effect by your tradition. Let me ask you a question. How many of you are.

How many of you are doing that in some aspect of your life? You're making the truth of God of none effect by your tradition? Let me ask you a better question than that.

When you Discover an old truth in God's word that is new to you, how resistant are you to change?

Hmm. Is that a good question? When you discover an old truth in God's word that's new to you, an old truth in God's word that's new to you, how resistant are you to change? Because that's the degree to which you make the truth of God of none effect by your tradition. So back in 2018, I was looking for a church to go to. It's amazing in a city as big as Tampa. Tampa's a pretty big city. How hard it is to find a church.

That actually is founded on the Bible. Like, they even have Bible in the name, some of them.

And it's just like, what are we doing here? And I remember I was at this church, and I was already a little frustrated with the doctrine, but I like the church. The people seem to be kind. The pastors seem to be actually teaching doctrinally sound principles in context, not just read a verse and holler and three points in a poem and a bunch of motivational speeches with some Bible verses attached. And I'm not being judgmental. I'm just being. This is what I've observed.

And I'm like, okay, cool. But one of the problems I had with him, with the church, was, like, he would give an invitation. He'd say, okay, for those of you who want to give your life to Jesus, come forward. I'm like, okay, I probably shouldn't leave over this. I should go have a conversation with him and say, hey, Pastor, like, I'm a little confused. And, like, I did it in a spirit of humility. I'm a little confused.

Because I really like coming here. But.

Like, it feels like you're teaching people not only something that's not biblically accurate, but it's the exact opposite of what the Bible teaches. And so he was teaching that you get saved like you have. You receive salvation by giving your life to Jesus. And this is really a popular thing that preachers are saying these days. It's like. But it's like, I don't know that anything could be more false. Like, there are very few things that a preacher could say behind the pulpit that are more false than salvation. Is giving your life to Jesus now? Yes, it's a good idea for somebody who has received Christ to give their life to Christ, because according to Second Corinthians, chapter 5, verse number 14, the love of Christ constraineth us. Because we thus judge that if one died for all, then they which Live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them and rose again. So because Christ died for me, I should live for him. So I do give my life to Christ. I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. Romans, chapter one. I mean, Romans chapter 12, verses one and two.

However, that's not a prerequisite for salvation. It's something we do in response to receiving salvation. Salvation is not a gift we give God. Salvation is a gift God gave us. The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. How do we receive that gift? We receive that gift by faith. How do we receive that? Like, where do we get the faith from? Do we conjure it up? Are we just smarter than the people who don't believe? No, we receive the faith as a gift so that we can receive the grace as a gift. How do you know this? Ephesians, chapter 2, verses 8 and 9. It says, for by grace, that's a gift.

Are you saved through faith? And that. That what? That faith is not of yourselves. It is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. So, in other words, God. The scripture teaches me clearly that if I conjured up the faith to believe in Jesus, I would have something to brag about when I stand before God. Are y' all tracking. It's like. It's clearly like, well.

Giving my life here, God, you can have my life now. I'm saved.

That's not. There's nowhere in the Bible that teaches that. And I know, like, I've even gotten some negative comments on YouTube. Not that I care, because a lot of the people who put negative comments on YouTube.

The only doctrine they ever got was from the church they went to, assuming that the pastor studied. They assumed that their pastor studied. But if somebody's saying that, I know they didn't study, because there's no place in the Bible that teaches that salvation is a gift that we receive, not a gift that we give God. Okay, Anyway, so I went to this church. So I went to the pastor, and I talked to him about it, and he's like, yeah, you know what? That. Okay, I see what you're saying. He wasn't resistant, but he was like. It was like, well, yeah, I see. I kind of. Yeah, I get what you're saying. That shows some wisdom. I'm like, okay, cool, I can keep coming here. Well, lo and behold, a few Months later.

Because doesn't get better.

It's interesting that the scripture says, if the foundation be destroyed, what can the righteous do? Like, if you. If. If you're the foundation, if your foundational beliefs are off kilter, nothing you build on is going to stand. Well, so he says, so we're gonna. We're gonna. He makes this announcement, we're gonna celebrate Halloween here at the church.

Like, you're gonna do what?

Okay, Halloween's a pagan holiday, but so is Easter, and so is Christmas. Just cave like, I know some of y' all ain't gonna like that, but they're pagan. They're not biblical at all. They're not. It's not like they're a little biblical. They're not biblical at all. Another conversation for a different day. That's not why I'm saying this. He says, we are going to celebrate Halloween, and some of you aren't going to like it. I get it.

He says, but. But. And some of you are probably thinking, well, why don't you just have Oktoberfest? He said, because people in the community don't know what Oktoberfest is. They know what Halloween is. We're gonna. We're gonna do, and we are here. Our objective is to reach people, and so we are going to have Halloween here at the church. And then he said something that I was just, like, hoping, hoping to make it out of the building alive.

He said, we're going to sanctify it in Jesus name. I said, I'm done. I am done. I will never come here. Like, you can't just make stuff up because you're a pastor. You're going to sanctify Halloween in Jesus name. You are a fucking. Oh, I'm done. D U, n D O N E. However you D U N N however you want to spell Done. I, for one, am done. And this is no longer fun. I'm not coming back here anymore. I'm done. I've not. Didn't set foot back in that place since. And then they ended up closing down any. For another reason, for other reasons. Then I'm like, I found this other church that I really like, some things about it.

And then I get an email.

We'Re gonna have an Easter egg hunt at the church. I'm done. I'm done. Okay? And I know some of you. For some of you, that's not a deal breaker. For me, that's a deal breaker. Like, Easter is not a. I know that y' all believe it is. It's a very Catholic Holiday, but it's not biblical. Okay? Like, you ask the average believer what Passover is, they couldn't tell you to save their grandmother's life, but they know what Easter is. So my daughter was telling me this was many years ago. She's like. When she worked at an office in Pennsylvania, she's like, hey, Dad, I didn't know that Easter was like a holiday where people gave gift baskets to each other and stuff. And she said, this woman came to work and she's like, yeah, I gave this person this basket for Easter, and they gave me this basket for Easter. And Dede said, wow, I didn't know people. She said, this woman, she said, I didn't know that people gave Easter baskets as gifts to people on Easter holiday. I didn't know people did that. And the woman looked at her, shocked. She said, aren't you a Christian?

The two have nothing to do with each other, I promise. So I don't know if you know this or not, but Easter, the origins of Easter are worship of Estar, the sex goddess. That's why there are bunnies, because they reproduce and eggs. It's a whole pagan, like.

Holiday. It's a pagan, lewd holiday. And then we say, Jesus is the reason for the season. No, no, that sounds good and makes you feel better, but it's not true. It's not true. And you say, Myron, what are you saying? I'm saying. Are you saying that I should not celebrate? Here's what I'm saying. I'm saying I don't have shoulds for other people, but it would be a good idea for you to seek the Lord and ask him what he would have you to do. Like, that's not my. My point is not me telling you what to do. My point is all of us allowing God to tell us what to do, whatever that is. Right.

And so I'm sure this is not. Sure this is not going to be my most popular video ever. Oh, well, I'm not running for office, so I don't have to be politically correct.

And so we have all of these traditions that we follow.

And we act as if the tradition itself is the truth, but the truth is the truth. And when the truth punches my tradition in the face and I come to the rescue of the tradition, whose side am I really on?

I get it. So here's the question.

Like, did you know Christmas is a pagan holiday, too? But that's a different pagan holiday that's based on worship of Saturnalia, the sun God, because Jesus wasn't born In December, number one. And there's no place in the Bible that tells us to celebrate Jesus birth. But that's another conversation for a different day. I'm not saying, like, I'm not telling you what to do. I'm just. I'm making you aware of things to get you to ask some questions that maybe heretofore you didn't know to ask.

And maybe so you can see. Not so I can see, because I'm me. So you can see whether or not you have some discomfort in even asking those questions.

Because as I quoted in a video that I recorded earlier today, my good friend Joe Marcifoglio, he said, I would rather have questions I can't answer than answers I can't question.

I don't want to have any answers I can't question. Like, there are people who are afraid to talk to people who have different beliefs than they have because.

But we don't agree, so we shouldn't talk about it. Why? How else could we learn something new if we never talk to anybody that we disagree with? How can I find, like, if I believe something and I'm right, I'm not going to be afraid to talk to people who disagree with me because that'll help me know why I'm right. But if I disagree with people, if I have a disagreement with Ryan Cabrera and I'm wrong, I'm not. Oh, my goodness. But what if I find out when I'm talking to Ryan I'm wrong, then I don't have to change. Oh, no, right. I don't have that. Because if I'm wrong, if I believe something that's erroneous, don't I have a desire to change? I mean, isn't that the point? Like, what do you want out of your life? What do you want? Well, I want things to get better as long as they can stay the same. Well, technically, those are opposing forces.

Either get better or stay the same. They're not going to do both. Okay, so here's the question.

Why do people prefer tradition over truth? Like, why do people elevate tradition over truth? Because that's what Jesus said. Why do you teach for Commandments the doctrine of men, and by doing so you make the truth of God of none effect. Why do people do that? Here's why they do it, number one. Because of who.

They got the tradition from. What does that mean? If you got the tradition from someone that you know, love and respect, you don't want to challenge it. Because if you do, you feel like you're Challenging the people that you know love and respect.

If you find out that something you believed, your whole life is erroneous. But you got it from your mother, whom you love, or your father, whom you love, or your grandmother or grandfather whom you love, or your pastor whom you love, or Sunday school teacher, or a co worker or a friend or a sibling, somebody that you look up to or a mentor. And then you find out, well, wait, this ain't right. You're afraid if I abandon this thing they taught me, then I'm abandoning them. So one of the reasons we abandon or that we put truth above tradition is because the teachers that we had in the past were people that we loved and honored and respected. And so if I love, as long as I love, honor, and respect them, I can't go against what they believed, because if I do now, I'm invalidating their life. No, what you're doing is you're invalidating their belief, having any more negative impact on your life.

Okay, so number one, because of the teachers we got it from. Number two, because of the time that we've been believing it.

Well, I've been believing this for so long, like, I don't even know how to stop believing it anymore.

Where.

I've been believing this, I've been believing. I've had this belief for so long. I remember. I know this is hard for y', all, but, like, religious people are funny. Okay, So I got invited to go speak to a church.

And. And to their Christian school. This is back in the early 2000s, and I was traveling as an evangelist. And I got there, it might have been the late 90s. I got to this church, and the pastor was like, oh, And I had a mustache. I didn't have a beard then. I had a mustache. The pastor was like, oh, I didn't know you had facial hair.

Okay, Right. And, yeah, you know, I teach against that here. So none of my men have facial hair at their church. And so it would really create. Okay, so because I agreed to come speak for this pastor, and because I'm not, I have no desire to create a challenge for him, I said, okay, I'll shave off my mustache. Yeah, I shaved off my mustache. Right? I can grow. It'll grow back. It'll grow back. It will grow back. I'll shave it off. It won't cause you any problems. So, okay, I'll shave it off. But in the moment that I decided to shave off my mustache, I also made another decision. I will never come back to this church again under any circumstance. Not well, unless there's a different pastor who doesn't preach against stuff that Jesus did because Jesus had facial hair. How do I know? The Bible says they plucked out his beard. You can't pluck out a beard that ain't there.

Just saying.

That'S like having a beard was just part of Hebrew culture for men. Why? I don't know why. But in fact, I was reading in the Bible one day and I don't even remember where I read it. I think it was in Deuteronomy, but I'm not sure. It said, thou shalt not round the corners of thy beard. I thought, that's an odd commandment. Right? That's what I thought to myself. But the other conclusion I came to, okay, thou shalt not round the corners of thy beard. So.

They had a beard.

Now, I don't know what round corners are, but I know what a beard is.

And I said, you can't not round the corners of the beards you don't have. And then I started thinking, why would God say, don't round the corners of your beard? In fact, why is it implied that all the men had beards? Because that's what's implied. And then I, living in the age we live in now, the. What is a man? What is a woman age?

A beard. Growing a beard is something that a man can do that a woman can't do and a child can't do, generally speaking, right? Oh, God is now and always has been interested in and has ordained distinction.

And a beard is a very distinct. Like, when you look at me, nobody's looking at me saying, I wonder what her name is. No, they ain't thinking that.

No, nobody's ever had that thought. Right. Okay. Why? Cause there's a difference. And so. But I shaved off my mustache for this, for this joker, for this pastor.

Because I want to. I didn't. This is your church. You started this church. I'm not here to cause you any. And by the way, the scripture says in honor, preferring one another, right? Looking at every man on his own things. Every man also has things. I could have just said, I'm not staying. I'm leaving. But that would have created some that would have had a negative impact on him. My objective is not to have a negative impact on you just because you're goofy, right? And you believe stuff that's not biblical. That's your problem. I'm not going to fix that in a couple days at your church. So I'm going to go ahead and go along with it and Then I'm out of here. And don't invite me back. Cause I ain't coming. Right. Okay. You say Myron. Which sometimes it's just the amount of time, like we. We will repeat behaviors over a long period of time and we will assume that those behaviors are based on truth and they're just based on how long we've been doing them.

Can I get a witness?

And what we have to do is we have to be willing. If you are. If you are unwilling to abandon tradition in the face of truth, the amount of truth that will be revealed to you will be limited.

Why? Because the scripture Jesus himself taught, if any man will do his will, he shall know the doctrine. What is that teaching us? If I want to learn more from God about what he is saying.

I need to be doing the last thing he told me. The last things he told me. If I'm not practicing the principles he's already given me, he's not. Well, I'm going to give you some more principles not to practice.

That's an exercise in futility, y'. All. Tracking. So.

How long have you been trusting in this tradition, which, like how long has the time period been since you've been believing this?

There are so many things that I used to erroneously believe. I used to be one of those Christians who believed you were supposed to be poor. I kind of sort of believed it, but I knew there was something wrong with it. I just didn't know what it was. Right. I didn't know. I remember though, when I was a teenager, I came to Christ when I was a teenager, received Christ when I was a teenager. And I can remember going to this church and we were the poorest people in the church, like my family, we were the poorest of the poor. And I can remember like the preacher had a brand new Chrysler Cordoba. So, like in 1978, brand new Chrysler Cordoba lived in a really nice house. His wife drove this mg.

I think it was an MG Midget. That was the name of the car she drove. And it was a convertible. I'm like, they got these cool cars. They live in this really nice neighborhood in this nice house. And I remember hearing preaching against money. I'm like, dude, you are richer than anybody I've ever seen in my life. Like, I don't even know anybody as rich as you. To me, like, he was just a regular middle class guy who was probably making back in the 70s, like 30,000 a year or whatever. But that was way more money than I. Like, that was way higher lifestyle than I had Ever seen. And, like, he's preaching his money. I'm like, well, okay, so what's the number? That's the too much number. What's the too much number? Right, because clearly there's a too much number. And usually the two. The too much number. Usually the too much number is a number that's associated with somebody else's income, not mine. Can I get a witness? Right. And so when I believed that I was limited, I was limited in what I was able to do because my beliefs held me hostage, because I thought I was believing them because they were true. But the reality is I thought they were true because I believed them. I remember I spoke at a church in Pennsylvania.

And the pastor and the assistant pastor believed, this is one for the ages here. So there's going to be a lot of controversy over this as well. But they believed in predestination and that God chooses us and we don't choose God. And I'm thinking to myself.

Nah, you can't believe that. So I talked to a good friend of mine who, like, I was one of the most solid Bible students I knew, and he's a pastor. And I'm like, david, these people believe this. How could they believe that? He said, because it's in the Bible.

You believe that? Well, you sure? I believe it. It's the Bible. Like, what do you mean? What are you talking about, bro? How could you possibly believe that?

Well, it's in the Bible. Now I'm really confused because my whole life, when I came to Christ, everything was about evangelism. And so it was preached to us in the churches that I came up in. You go soul winning, you knock on doors and you witness to people and you. But it's like even the term soul winning, right? Like, that phrase is only in the Bible once it's in proverbs. It has nothing to do with the gospel of salvation, right? It says.

That he that winneth souls is wise.

But that's not talking about winning people to Christ. That's talking about making friends.

Because our soul is a part of us that relates to other people. Our spirit relates to God, our soul relates to humans, and our flesh relates to physicality, right? Anyway, so I'm thinking, okay, so I was taught. But you. But if you don't preach to them and if you don't teach them the gospel, you are sending people to hell. So. Oh, yeah, it was that intense, right? And so, like, so, so evangelism and conversions became a contest between churches.

Right? And we were all like, who had the most salvations, who had the most baptisms, like, and that's how we could tell, like if your church was really viable. How many people are you reaching? Because like that pastor said to me, we're here to reach people. So we're going to sanctify Halloween in Jesus name. Well, first of all, the primary purpose of the church is not evangelism. It is one of the functions of the church. But it's not the primary purpose of the church. It's one of the functions of the church. The primary function of the church is. The primary purpose of the church is the edifying of the saints for the work of the ministry. But see, people who go to your church feel like the work of the ministry is for the pastor and their job is to come to the service and be served. Well.

But everybody's job in the church is to serve or to minister. Everybody's job in the family is to serve or minister. Everybody's job in the business is to serve and minister. The reason humans are on the earth is so you can have somebody to serve and minister to.

Let's don't get it confused in our heads that we're here for some other reason. We're here to please God and serve people. Don't be confused by that. Don't be confused and think the mission is something else anyway. So everything that we did was about outreach. But if you're taking a function and making it the primary purpose.

It'S going to cause you to do some things that are not ideally, that are not doctrinally sound.

And so.

I started studying this whole idea of predestination and evangelism. Was it predestination or is it evangelism? It's not predestination or evangelism. It's both. They are both biblical doctrines. I am supposed to witness to people and share the gospel of salvation and the gospel of the kingdom with them. It's not my job to get them saved. I can't do it anyway. One soweth another watereth, God gives the increase. It's not my job to create a conversion. It's my job to carry a message and have a conversation and then have enough character that matches the conversation I have so that I don't become a witness that is not credible, so that my testimony is admissible when people are listening to me. Does my life match the words that I'm saying? Are you. Is what I'm saying making some sense? And so.

Like we were guilt tripped into witnessing to people, but you don't have to be guilt tripped people into witnessing. People say, Myron, but if you believe in predestination, why would you witness to somebody? Because God told me to. I witness to people because me witnessing to people is God's chosen method for reaching people. So he told me to witness. So I'm going to witness. I can't create the conversion, but I can carry the message. And I can carry the message and be obedient even though I can't create the conversion. In fact it takes the responsibility for God's part off of me and only puts the responsibility for my part on me.

And so.

What we have to be willing to do regardless of where we find truth.

We have to be willing to yield to it. Wherever we find it and however it finds us, we have to be willing to yield to it. And I'm talking about.

If I believe that God has called me to do a thing and it is my responsibility to do that thing, then it doesn't matter.

Whose face my actions are flying in the face of because this is what I'm here for.

And I can't.

Manipulate and navigate the landscape in such a way that I can eat my cake and have it too. I have to do what God said the way God said it when God said to do it. If I am to consider myself an obedient child of the king. If I'm to consider myself one of the king's kings. And I'd like for my assignment to yield to me, I have to be yielded to God in order for my assignment to yield to me.

When I allow the Bible to just say what it says and mean what it means without me reading anything into it. It gives me the opportunity to operate in my life at a much higher level so that I don't find myself like most error. Most lies in a perpetual self contradiction so that my tradition doesn't end up bumping its head on its tail because I was unwilling to yield to the truth as it found me. So let's not be people who make the truth of God of none effect by our traditions. When the truth finds us and it exposes to us some aspect of our lives that is not yielded to the purpose of pleasing God or serving people.

Let's let the word change us.

Immediately and completely. Hope this Word helps you stay blessed by the best and we'll look forward to seeing you next Thursday on the video. By the way, starting next Thursday our Bible studies will be on a new channel which I'm going to post a short on this channel the day of so you will know exactly where to go. But we're going to post a short on the new channel and it'll tell you where to go for the live Bible study. And actually, the Bible study next week will be recorded because I will be out of town or on vacation. But the video will release on our new channel next Thursday morning at 10am in the meantime, in between time, stay blessed by the best and we'll see you on the next video. Bye for now.

Say it again. You know me, I'm always sidestepping issues, bro.