believe me but if you believe me it'll change your life if you believe the scripture that God has made a plan for your life you can never make a better plan than that and you may say well what about all the years gone by if I

chapter 5 I'm showing you a number of scripture passages because your confidence must not be made in whether I speak emotionally to you or challenge you or stir your spirit and your confidence must be based on the Word of

politician or Hollywood person that we think well we can never be that. We don't have those abilities. And sometimes as we look in the scripture we can fall into that and we can think you know think about Daniel or Noah or Job.

restored. Um even when we face people who cannot lead us, let's let let that not stop our search. Let let us be buriants to seek the truth until we find the truth. Go back to the scripture and find the truth. And again there is a

anxious at sin because my Lord commanded me commanded me not to be anxious and so we looked at this principle of and it's it's throughout scripture I think even one of the girls shared this verse right God resists the proud but he will give

intense and remember we don't fight against flesh and blood you guys know from scripture or you should know I'm not talking about fighting against any human being I'm talking about about fighting against Satan and against spiritual uh enemies

this, though. So, I don't want to just give because somebody reached out their hand. I want to give according to what the the scriptures say. And we looked at debt and we looked at that verse that's not often taught on in Romans 13:8. It

throughout scripture so the ministry of John the Baptist in preparing the way for Jesus first coming is a finisher of somebody else preparing a way for the great and terrible day of the Lord which is Jesus's second coming we say that

scriptures that were given of men and women who were broken one of the effects of being broken is that we will stop grabbing turned you with me to Genesis chapter 32 are you a grabber when you

it comes to little. When you bring it home, I'm blowing it away. God says, I am doing this. Hello. And so it's just another of the many examples in scripture that when God is disciplining, God is bringing trials or adversity in

talking about. If you see your kid that's about to run out the street, hey, don't go in the street. Don't play in the street. Don't go near that. Don't do this. And so when you see warnings in scripture, I want you to also just

Okay. Okay. So, if you want to turn to Genesis uh 29, we're going to talk about Leah in the book of Genesis. Uh Rachel and Leah. This is something that I thought a lot about. As you read through the scriptures, hopefully it's we go through

after every day at the end of the day I examine myself and anything I preached that day did I say something to please people did I not say something lest I offend somebody did I leave out something from the scriptures because it would be

part of scripture because it's the only book this almighty God creator of this universe has written for us I believe it and I can tell you after 57 years of studying this book I'm still discovering things in it it's like a well that never ends like a

the scriptures how did Jesus preach and as a it was a new revelation to me that every single time Jesus preached he said Bell did you know that the Sermon on the Mount he sat down and preached the whole thing and even when he got

I want to know Jesus and and you say Paul you've been serving Christ for 30 years you planted churches you're an apostle and one of the you've been used to write scripture and what do you mean do you want to know Jesus he says that's

saying that you won't sin you won't fall into sin or anything like that but you're entitled to a perfect Christian Life to uh and I'll show you that in scripture in a moment but in this sense that we want to focus on today that

you you Jews alone that's what infuriated them that God loves some other people including the Jews as well so I found that as I read the scriptures that I knew Jesus so little and I my passion became to read the Bible to know Jesus Christ better

right right off the bat I'm going to give you the first example and if you fall asleep the rest of this message you at least heard about Jesus your first example in scripture is Jesus himself and when we talk about the New

must always read scripture very carefully every word is important you notice it doesn't say bear witness for me but be witnesses to me you know the difference between bearing witness for Christ and being a witness for Christ bearing Witnesses with my lips I

morning yet people are not wholehearted but I want to tell you if you are really radical and wholehearted and obey everything that the scripture tells you to do when you're converted your life can be completely different

temptations and pain but what we see here in the scripture is if we're willing to go through sufferings then what God produces in our hearts in the end is his love being poured into us let me ask you all of you a question raise

illustration or you know appreciating it doesn't come naturally but I can work on it like the flock of goats and the hair is compar like a flock of goats neck as a tower of David and all of that but we can learn from the scripture like

I studied the Bible and I realized it was not good enough I had to be immersion baptized but I studied the Bible and I was convinced about it and I took it I never did things until I was convinced from scripture but in those 60