Who temperature this?
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Don't we care for a land so blue, single, brown?
A bring you more than a song, for a song in its hill
Is not what you have required
You're such much deeper within, you're the way things appear
Floating into my heart
I'm coming back to the heart of worship
And it's all about you, it's all about you Jesus
I'm sorry Lord for the thing I've made
And it's all about you, it's all about you Jesus
I'm coming back to the heart of worship
And it's all about you, it's all about you Jesus
I'm sorry Lord for the thing I've made
And it's all about you, it's all about you Jesus
I'm coming back to the heart of worship
And it's all about you, it's all about you Jesus
I'm sorry Lord for the thing I've made
And it's all about you, it's all about you Jesus
I'm bringing you more than a song, for a song in its hill
Is not what you have required
You're such much deeper within, you're the way things appear
Floating into my heart
Worthy is the Lamb of God said
Holy, holy is he
Sing the new song, till heaven shifts off
With his mercy to sing
Worthy is the Lamb of God said
Holy, holy is he
Sing the new song, till heaven shifts off
With his mercy to sing
Holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty
Who was, that is, and is to come
With all creation I stand
Rest through the king case
Who are by the bed
And tower of the Dorian homes
I stand by
Golden-grey walls of living color
Freshest of iron, rose of gold
Blessing and God has strengthened, through you come with me
To you the only wise King
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty
Who was, that is, and is to come
With all creation I stand
Rest through the king of kings
Who are by the bed
And tower of the Dorian homes
Fill with wonder, O struck wonder
At the mention of your name
Jesus, your name is power
Love of the living water
Such a marvelous mystery
Holy, holy, holy Almighty
Who was, that is, and is to come
With all creation I stand
Rest through the king of kings
Who are by the bed
And tower of the Dorian homes
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty
Who was, that is, and is to come
With all creation I stand
Rest through the king of kings
Who are by the bed
And tower of the Dorian homes
A little bit of color
A splash of color, a hint of color
A bit
I have all the answers
I take my answers
Okay, so the worksheet works
Goes from upper left to lower right
That's how it works
We're going to go all the way down
The left hand side to the box
Then we're going to go to the
Lightning bolt in the middle
And then we're going to go all the way
Down the right hand side
Kind of like three rows, if you will
And it's going to go quick
So be ready
It's going to go by kind of fast
All right
So if you'll look right in the top
Of your lightning bolt
On the top, on the upper part
Right there, there should be
A little space sideways
Should be a line
Line space sideways
You see a space?
It's right on the top there
Got green lines right there
Oh, in that box
Lightning bolt box
In the top of the lightning bolt
Not the black lines
Green lines up here
Going up and down the vertical
So I'm going to give you the
Reference that goes right there
Okay, yep
On the side, sideways
Sideways
Okay, the reference is
Matthew 5.34
Okay
All right
So I'm going to read
Matthew 5.33 through 34
And then we're going to go down
The left hand side
And look at the verses
On the left hand side
Okay, so this is what it says
This is taking place
If you're wondering what my
Geography in the background here
You got water coming up
From the left hand side
Like a shoreline
You got like a big cliff edge there
Because this takes place
During the Sermon on the Mount
Jesus standing up high
Talking to thousands of people
On the shoreline
Okay
And it says this
Again, you have heard
That the ancients were told
You shall not make false vows
But shall fulfill your vows
To the Lord
But I say to you
Make no vow at all
Either by heaven
Or for it is the throne of God
Or by the earth
Or by the footstool of his feet
Or by Jerusalem
Or by the city of the great king
We'll stop there for a minute
Okay, so notice it says
Again, you have heard
That the ancients were told
All right, so who were the ancients?
If you're talking about
Matthew
This book of the Bible, by the way
The book of Matthew was written
Probably in Hebrew
Written by a man who was
Testifying to Jews
Okay, so people who were of
Jesus' nationality
All right
And so their ancients
Who do you think they would be
Talking about?
Give me some ancient Jews
Moses, perfect, right?
So Moses is the one I was
Looking for, that's easy
But you could have said Noah
Right, Noah goes back
Abraham, Jacob, Lot, Isaac
All of them, right?
So Jacob would be a really good one
Because he's kind of the
Founder of the nation
Jacob's name was changed to Israel
And then if you were in Israelite
That means you came out of Jacob
Okay, but we're really looking
For Moses right at this moment
And so we're going to go back
To some of those books
So the first one
I'll read it to you first
Then you can summarize it
In the verses and in the blanks
And then put the reference, okay?
So the first one
Is in Leviticus 1912
Okay, and this is what it says
It says
I'm in the wrong book
Hold on
Leviticus, there we go
19 and 12, all right
It says, you shall
And you shall not swear falsely
By my name
So as to profane the name
Of your God
I am the Lord
So just as he said
The ancients were told
I'll get you in one second, Haley
Just as he said
The ancients were told
Don't swear falsely by my name
All right, so on the black blanks
On the left-hand side on the top
Are you with me now?
That way you're going to ask me
Where I'm at?
Okay, yep
On the upper left-hand side
You should see three blanks
And the three blanks says
Don't swear falsely by my name
Six words
And then the reference
Leviticus 19 and 12
Get it?
On the upper left-hand side
Six blanks
Don't swear falsely by my name
The six black lines
And then right under that
Leviticus 19 and 12
That's what I just read
And who wrote the book of Leviticus?
It was Moses, that's right
He's the one who put it down on paper
Or whatever they had
Probably more like papyrus
Really dense material
Okay, so don't swear falsely by my name
Was a command that they had gotten from Moses
And they were living by
Remember that by this
Before the New Testament
That's all they had to live by
Was the Old Testament, right?
Now they're in the New Testament
And Jesus is saying
You heard from the ancients
Don't swear falsely by my name
Leviticus 19 and 12
Then also
It sort of repeats
But is a little bit different
In the book of Numbers
And who wrote the book of Numbers?
Anybody know?
Moses, that's right
Still Moses
Still a very long time ago
And what they would consider
The leader of their nation
In his era for sure
He's the one who led them out of Egypt
Lived right up to the edge of the promised land
And so on
And so in Numbers 30 and verse 2
It says
If a man makes a vow to the Lord
Or takes an oath to bind himself
With a binding obligation
He shall not violate his word
He shall do according to all
That proceeds out of his mouth
And so
Moses was saying
Do or fulfill your vows
That's the next three blanks
So right there
You can put fulfill
If you like that word
Because it's bigger
And it kind of has to do with vows
Or you can just put do
Because that's the word that Moses uses
Kind of cool
Do your vows
Okay
And the reference was Numbers 30 verse 2
So it's do your vows
Or fulfill your vows
Numbers 32
30 colon 2
Okay
And we got one more
So this is all what they would have been thinking
Yeah, we've heard it
We've heard it
This is where we heard it
Okay
And now we got Deuteronomy
And who wrote the book of Deuteronomy?
We know it by now, don't we?
Moses
Okay, so can anybody tell me
This would be a big one for somebody to get
Can anybody tell me what the book of Deuteronomy is made up of?
Oh
Why is it called Deuteronomy?
Does anybody know?
Deut
It's two
It's the two final speeches of Moses
Okay
So we actually taught through this entire book as a church
Right
So the two final speeches of Moses are in the book of Deuteronomy
That's what they are
And so part of the last words that Moses gave Israel to live by
Is what I'm about to read to you
Deuteronomy 23
And it says this
When you take a vow to the Lord your God
You shall not delay to pay it
For it would be sin in you
And the Lord your God will surely require it of you
I'm going to skip 22
Then it says in 23
You shall be careful to perform what goes out from your lips
Just as you have voluntarily vowed to the Lord your God
What you have promised
Okay
So there's kind of like three things in there
The first is the next three blanks
And he said do not delay
Do not delay
He also said voluntarily vowed
That was your choice
You made a choice to make that vow
You didn't have to do that
Do not delay
Then voluntarily vowed
And then voluntarily pay
Okay
Electro candy
Alright
At the very top in the lightning bolt
The reference for that one was Deuteronomy 23
Versus 21 and 23
Okay
So at the very top in the lightning bolt
The first thing I said I read you a verse from Matthew
Jason did you write it down?
What was it?
One out of two
One out of two I knew that
That was good good catch
Alright
The first three blanks on the left hand side
Natalie did you write it down?
What you got?
Perfect
Coming back
One out of two
No zero out of two
But she's going to eat them anyway
Okay
Let's see
Three blanks above numbers
Chapter 30 verse 2
Kashan did you get it?
Yep
That was fun
Okay
Alright
So what we've got is Jesus
Making reference to how they've been taught this
Notice the word ancient there
He said since ancient times
You have been taught this
Under the word ancient
Next time goes much
If something is ancient
Then that means there has been much time
From when it started being taught to now
Okay
He said you heard this since ancient times
So much time
Also next to the word times
As you can imagine
Many times
So understand these are
Jewish men primarily
Not only right
But primarily Jewish men who are hearing this
There were also women and children
The children five to nine years old
Had already heard dozens of times
That if they made a vow
They should not swear falsely
They should do their vows
They should not delay
They voluntarily vowed
So they should voluntarily pay
They have heard that
Dozens of times already
But by the time they are 30 years old
And becoming a responsible man in their society
They have heard it hundreds of times
In fact the Pharisees that were present
Memorized the whole book of Deuteronomy
From the first word to the last word
Memorized
They could recite the whole thing
Which meant they could recite
Deuteronomy 23, 21, and 23
And it was common for them to do that
When they were preaching or teaching
Which meant that everybody that was there
Had much time to hear the verses
And had been in their literature and stories
Right?
You think of pre-Christian literature now
If somebody read something then
These commands would have been in it
You follow?
Also every time they went to the synagogue
Various verses were read
And it would be common to have almost
Every single Sabbath day
Which for them was Saturday at that time
For some verse of these three to be read
You follow?
So they had heard it 52 times a year
If they are 40 years old
They had heard it maybe
Let's say 50 times a year for 40 years
That's 2000 times one of those three verses
I just read to you
That's many times
Okay?
So then if you look in between those two triangles
There's some little blanks there
And the question that goes in there is
What would you do?
Okay?
And then on the bottom
It says I
And you're going to write in there
Had you heard this many times
And for much time
What would you do?
So then you write in the box
What you would do
If you were like them
And you could say
Well you had heard
Don't swear falsely
By His name
Do your vows
Do not delay
Voluntarily vowed
Voluntarily pay
If you do
That's been taught to you
Thousands of times
I would
What? What would you do?
Put it in there
Yours is going to be different
Than anybody else's
Because you've got to have something in the box
To get the object lesson out of the whole story here
What would
Had you heard it many times
And for much time
What would I do?
That's right
This is what the crowd was thinking
As Jesus was saying that
He says you have heard it said
Right?
I'll read the verse
Again you have heard that the ancients were told
You shall not make false vows
But shall fulfill your vows to the Lord
So they said yeah
We have heard that
Thousands of times
In fact most of them went yeah
That's in Deuteronomy
He's quoting Deuteronomy 23
Yeah he's quoting Numbers 30
Yeah he's quoting Leviticus 19
Right?
And they said well based on that I know what I have to do
Okay?
Now we're moving to the lightning bolt in the middle
It divides the page
And you'll see there are blank black lines on the top
Jesus said but I say to you
That's what goes on the blank black lines
But I say to you
Now the but I say to you is important
Because this is a teaching method that Jesus was using
If you have your Bibles open
And you look back
You'll see that he did this several times
In the Sermon on the Mount
So it's been said but I say to you
It's been said but I say to you
For example back in verse 28
You have heard in 27
You have heard that it was said
You shall not commit adultery
But I say to you
And then he goes on to teach on it
Right?
In verse 22
You have heard that the ancients were told
You shall not commit murder
And whoever commits murder shall be liable to the court
But I say to you
That everyone who is angry with his brother and so on
So this formula of Jesus is saying
You know all this and you could even say
And because of that you would do
And whatever you put in the box
But Jesus is saying but I say to you
Something more
Right?
When he said it was about adultery
It was a man angry in his heart with his brother
Is guilty before the court
Right?
For committing murder
And he said
But I say to you
A man committing adultery
But a man who lost in his own heart toward another
Is guilty of adultery
So basically every time it's more extreme
He's taking the next step
He's saying you've got to go further
Than you've ever gone before
But I say to you means you've got to go further
And then over on the right hand side
Where there's blanks
There's a big blank, a little blank
Then a big blank, two little blanks
You see it there
It's kind of on the cliff space
Yeah, kind of looks like that
Okay
Verse 34
But I say to you
Make no oath at all
That's what goes in the blanks
Make no oath at all
That's what Jesus said
Now is that the natural or logical outflow of these verses?
If you were living a
Is that what you put in the box?
Did you put I would make no oath at all?
Or did you put I would keep my oaths?
See the difference?
And somebody might put I would make no oath at all
That's a possibility, right?
But the verses were correcting them in the way of saying
If you're going to make an oath, make it right
Now he goes on a little further
He says
But I say to you make no oaths at all
Either by heaven, for it is the throne of God
Or by earth, for it is the footstool of his feet
Or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great king
And you see a big knot circle there
And there's the head with a little mullet
And the heaven and earth
So you don't make any oaths or promises
Based on anything else
Right?
So you don't say
On my dead mother's grave
Or if I don't do this, I'll give you money
Right?
You don't make oaths
Jesus said make no oaths at all
But does that sound like a step up?
Jason, if I say to you
If you make an oath, you've got to keep it
And then I come back later and I say
Make no oaths at all
Does that sound like a step up?
Right?
If I haven't written this before
And you come up to me and say
Keep your oaths
And then I come back in the Bible and say
Make no oaths at all
It feels like you're going against your word
Right, it's almost like a contradiction, right?
So what is he saying?
And that's where we get it, okay?
And it goes a little further
Verse 36
Nor shall you make an oath by your head
For you cannot make one hair white or black
And notice your head with your mullets in the circle there
Then 37
But let your statement be
Yes, yes
Or no, no
And anything beyond these is of evil
Alright, and so you see two boxes there
And yes goes in both boxes
Yes equals yes
And the next box, no equals no
And then the final equation
Anybody want to take a stab at it and guess it?
Anything else or anything more equals evil
Very good
And in the word it actually says anything beyond these
So anything different, anything going beyond that
So it seems like if I said to you
If you make an oath you've got to keep it
Then I sound like I don't trust you, right?
Like what are you saying exactly?
I'm not going to keep my word?
I said I was going to do it
I said I made a promise, right?
So then I say well I'm going to keep it
And I'm like okay, you've got to keep it
Well I'm going to keep it
Okay, I really want you to believe I'm going to keep it
I believe you but I'm saying you're going to keep it
And there's a contrast, there's a struggle
So then what you do is you say well I'm going to keep it
Or else I'll do this, right?
This can be my penalty if I don't keep what I say
And then you go oh man if that's your penalty
And it's enforceable by law
So you're going to sacrifice your deposit
Or you're going to have to pay money
Or you're going to have to give up something
No TV for a month or whatever
Then you're like well yeah
Now I really believe you're saying what you're saying, right?
Jesus is saying you can't do it that way anymore
You cannot decide whether or not you're going to keep your oath
By what it's going to cost you
You cannot decide whether or not you're going to keep your word
By what it's going to cost you
You can't say well I know I promised I would be there at seven
But something came up and now I'm not
In the back of your mind you know
The person that you promised you were going to be there at seven
They may not think you're going to be there
They might be sad that you're not going to be there
They may think well next time he promises me he'll be there at seven
They might not trust you
But you're willing to risk that
Because you think something important came up
See, Jesus said you can't do that
Whatever you say, that's it
Now I want you to think about who God is
Remember our lesson from last week
Proverbs chapter 8
The first thing on the list to wisdom
Does anybody remember what it was?
The first thing on the list
I happen to have the paper right here
Psalms, it was Proverbs 8.32
But this one's blank
But fortunately I remember what it was
Does anybody remember?
They have their paper stuffed in their Bible
Blessed are you if you keep my ways
So if you do what God does, you'll be blessed
God will take care of it
So when God speaks, what happens?
God said let there be light, what happened?
There was light, right?
Technically God said light be
That's what it actually says in the Hebrew language
It says light be and light sprung into existence
As if it was waiting there to do exactly what God said
Waiting just outside existence
And it started, it began
It became
God is a creator and He creates with His voice
And if you say I'll be there at seven
Then you have created with your voice a condition
Which means you will be there at seven
Not you might be, not you will be if you can
Right?
That's why we did a lesson months ago about willfulness, right?
That's why you say if the Lord so wills
Meaning I could be wrong
I'm saying I'm going to be there at seven
But I could be wrong and God could be saying something different
Bless you, I think
Anyway, so God could be doing something different
So God could not let me be there at seven
Or Jesus could come again before then
I wouldn't be there at seven
So you say if the Lord wills, I'll be there at seven
But if there's nothing else
If the Lord doesn't cause a miraculous intervention to stop me from being there
Then you're there
Or the alternative
Don't say you'll be there
It says let your yes be yes and your no be no
God's ways are like this
Has God ever made a promise that He didn't keep?
No
Never been a promise that God didn't keep
Now there are promises He hasn't kept yet
Right?
They're still in the works
But God doesn't make promises and not keep them
So we're like God
You're made in the image of God initially
But you're flawed because of your sin
But now you've been reborn
You're following the Lord
When you say you're going to do something
You do it
To what extent?
How far does it go?
What does it have to cost me?
What if it costs me my life?
What if I have to die or risk death
In order to be there like I said I would
Or show up for that person like I said I would?
Then you die or risk death
Or in the first place
You don't say you're going to do it
Why?
Because you're created in the image of God
And you belong to Him
And you're following His example
Blessed are you if you keep His ways
One of His ways is He does what He says
He keeps His promises
He creates with His voice
And the list goes on
So on the left side you have the commands
By the time Jesus was preaching in this day
That had been changed to
If a man said I'll pay you 50 gold on payday
Which was never gold because that's worth way too much
If a man said I'll pay you 50 minas
Like small copper coins on payday
And he couldn't or he didn't
Then there was a fine or a penalty or interest
Like a late fee was built in
But otherwise no big deal
But if a man said I'll pay you 50 minas on payday
Or on the house of God
Or on the altar
Or in the name of God
Or on my head
Then if he didn't do it
It was punishable under law
He could be put in debtors prison
He could be killed
For blaspheme
That's the day they were living in
I ask you are we living in the same kind of a day?
There are so many people today that say they'll do whatever
And they don't do it
You can't
You can't be like that
You must be like Jesus commanded us to be
Which is your yes is yes
Your no is no
Somebody says can you do this?
You say no
That settles it
Or you shouldn't have said no in the first place
They say can you do this?
You say yes
That settles it
You do it
If you have to get help from others
If you have to get a third job
If you have to bleed, sweat
If you have to wake up late, go without sleep
Go without eating
If you can't be that firm about what you say
Then don't say it
And that's what Jesus was teaching
It is a step up from
Well if I don't do it I'll take a penalty
If I don't do it people will mistrust me
Or whatever
You keep your promises
I find it interesting that in the Christian world
We see some men and women who will go the distance
They'll do what it is that God called them to do
No matter what it takes
And they say I'll be there and I'll do it
Alicia's here tonight leading worship with congestion in her chest
Feels like crap, rather be home sleeping
Right?
Fighting it off
I'm here teaching
And I've taught a number of times when I've been sick
RJ's had to preach for the first
I don't know
20 times he preached
It seemed like the enemy was after him
And a lot of times he would get sick right before
And yet he did it anyway
Right?
But you get sick working a Pizza Hut job or whatever
And you call off
While you're serving the Lord you said I would be there
Right?
And in fact most employers have emergency time off planned
So you can call off a certain number of times
When I was at Pizza Hut
If you missed three times in six months you lost your job
Met a lot of minimum wage employees
And the rules were if you missed three times
And you're like but I called off but I had a doctor's note
But what it doesn't matter
We need people who actually can and want to work
And the restaurant doesn't run if the people don't show up
And everybody was like freaked out by that
I had a person had a doctor's note twice
The third time they called off because they want to play football in their backyard
And then they lost their job
And they're like what?
I can't believe I lost my job I had a doctor's note twice
And yet the restaurant has to run and we can't hold your spot for you
Because you said you would be here and you're not here
But I was sick
Yeah I understand that
Two times you were sick and one time you were playing football
And I get that I feel bad about that
But you knew the rules you understand
Voluntarily took the job knowing the rules
Now you don't have the job you can get a job somewhere else
And the next job you get I suggest you show up on time
Every day in uniform
Don't take time off
It's not back then
Sometimes now I think it is and things are changing
But back then it wasn't reasonable to be sick three times and miss work in six months
And now with COVID things have changed
Right?
But people can work when they're sick
They just can't work when they're contagious
Or they shouldn't
And some jobs you can if you don't work with people
Bottom line is Jesus was taking it a step further
He was not backing it down
The one verse I didn't read to you and I'll close on this
Deuteronomy 23, 22
Which is in between 21 and 23 which I did read to you
Deuteronomy 23, 22
I'll read it right out of the Bible
This is the last thing we're going to close on
23, 22 says this
21 you'll recall says
When you make a vow to the Lord your God you shall not delay to pay it
For it would be sin in you
And the Lord your God will surely require it of you
22 says, however if you refrain from vowing
It would not be sin in you
You shall be careful to perform what goes out from your lips
Just as you have voluntarily vowed to the Lord your God
What you have promised
Notice that the second part of that it says
You shall
Be careful to perform what goes out from your lips
Just as you have voluntarily vowed
Just as you have voluntarily vowed to the Lord your God
In other words, you should be careful to perform whatever goes out from your lips
Is the let your yes be yes and your no be no
But they had let that go
And the question is do we live in a time where people have let it go
You know that there was a time a couple hundred years ago
That nobody ever signed a contract
It wasn't cell phones or even telephones
Two hundred years ago it wasn't even telephones
Right, what year was that invented? Maybe
Now, two hundred years ago we didn't have telephones
Right, telegram
Right, so it wasn't somebody in California providing something for
So you went down to the store to buy what you needed
And you couldn't pay for it and you told them you'd pay for it when you had the money
There was no contract
There was no sign on the dotted line, you said you'd pay
Everybody knew you'd pay
But now, two hundred years later
You're thinking, always thinking about how they can get out of their commitments
And that's not how it works
In the kingdom of God, you do what you said you would do
Or otherwise you don't say you would do it
You say, but I messed up, I forgot, I didn't put on my calendar
Or I didn't know I had another commitment
You're responsible for that, you have to know if you had another commitment
Right, so you shouldn't say yes without first checking your calendar
Or if you don't keep your own calendar with your parents, your grandparents, or your wife or your husband
First checking to make sure
And if you're a man in the room and you didn't check your calendar or check with your wife first
And you made a commitment and now you have to go back to your wife and say, I'm sorry, now I'm double booked
And when I do that, I either find a way to make sure both works
Or I take the hardest road
Right, because that's what you do, that's what men do
And if you're an adult female, you understand that when the appointment comes
When the calendar is scheduled, when it's on there
You have to be there, or you have to reschedule it
Right, you said you'd be there
And by the way, doctor's office is now charging fees when you miss your appointment
And you don't renew your license plates until you get a ticket
And the list just goes on and on
Keep your commitments, let your yes be yes, your no be no, that's what he was talking about
And anything other than that
Like for example, if you would say, I know I should do this
But I don't want to have to do it, so I'm not going to keep my commitment
Anything other than that is considered as evil
Okay, I'm pulling all these out here
Let's see
I'm going to get a bunch out because I'm going to use these up so I can buy new candy bars next week
There we go
That'll be enough
Okay, so if your paper is at least half filled out, I'm bringing you candy
So show me your paper
Okay
All right, so we're going to close in prayer
And then there are cookies and snack cakes and lemonade and cafeteria
And I'll meet you there, let's pray together
Father in heaven, this road that you set us on
If we were to try to walk it without Jesus
Would be virtually impossible
We would get it right sometimes and wrong sometimes
And when we got it wrong, the price to be paid would be too high
When we got it wrong, we'd be too alone, we'd be too trapped outside
We'd be too stuck in the darkness
But Lord, now when we walk this road and do what it is
That we try to do what it is that we're supposed to try to be the person we're supposed to be
Make our yes, yes and our no, no
When we screw that up, you're there with us
You're in us and you can help us keep our promises
And make it turn out the way it's supposed to
And even correct us in the moment
I think about the times where I said to myself
Well, I'm going to say I'll do this
And you said, don't do that
And I couldn't think of any reason at all why I shouldn't say so
But in my spirit, you were correcting me and saying don't
And then when the time comes, there was something going on at that time
That was completely outside my control and there was no way I could do it
I thank you Lord that you protect godly men and women to try to follow you
I also know that we get it wrong sometimes
We're going to make commitments
Sometimes we do it quick and we're not quite ready
Whatever, we jump on ahead of you
And I also know that Jesus' blood on the cross pays for that
It covers it
And so it's an impossible thing for a human being to say and do everything that they say
And then it's an impossible thing for a human being to not say
Because this life runs on commitments
It runs on I'm taking care of my wife, I'm taking care of my kids, I'm taking care of my job, I'm paying my bills
I'm following the law, following the rules
It runs on commitment in a lot of ways
And that's because without that, we would have a hard time relating with other people
Because they want from us all the time and we have to know when to say no
And they want from us and we have to know when it's right and we say yes
And we need that wisdom
And just as we talked about the wisdom from Proverbs 8
And one of the things is following the ways that you've set before us
And one of the ways that you've set before us is this way
That our yes be yes and our no be no and anything more than that is evil
We love you Lord
We ask you to help us stand firm and do what's right and keep our commitments
And we pray all this in Jesus' name
Amen