Scribes and Pharisees thought they had caught Jesus in a sin.

He was eating without washing his hands. Caught up in their rituals, these guys trampled on the Son of God.


The one who had healed the sick, cast out demons, raised the dead, calmed the storm, walked on water, and fed a multitude of people with a little boy's lunch didn't follow the tradition of the elders.


Jesus quoated the prophet Isaiah, calling them hypocrites because they honored God with their lips, but their heart was far from him. Do we do that? Jesus said it is not what goes in us but what comes out. We can try to clean up on the outside, but forget about the real issue: the heart.


The Bible tells us the heart is deceitful. When the heart is wrong, everything is wrong. We need to give all our wrongs to God and allow Him to change us. We need to get into His Word.

If Socrates would enter the room, we should rise and

If Socrates would enter the room, we should rise and do him honor,” said Napoleon Bonaparte. “But if Jesus Christ came into the room, we should fall down on our knees and worship Him.” King David left us superb examples of worship. I wish I could copy all of them.


 
Psalm 95:1-8 O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.
The sea is his, and He made it: and his hands formed the dry land.
O come, let us worship and bow down: let us kneel before the Lord our maker.


 

For he is our God; and we are the people of his pasture, and the sheep of his hand. Today if ye will hear his voice,
 
Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:

Not that I’m against education, it’s just that on cable news too many intellectuals crowned with impressive degrees try to tell everybody how to live. Sometimes they inject a phrase of scripture, especially if they’re running for office. “Read the whole book,” I yell.   1 Corinthians 3:19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness. And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.   In the book of Acts the disciples were ordinary men without special education in the accepted schools, yet they turned the world upside down for Christ. Though the church must be identified with the needs of the world, it must not imitate the wisdom of the world.

God is concerned about the trials of His people. We need not faint in storms of life because He has a successful plan to bring us through it.   Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.   We don’t always know God’s plan or how to pray, but the Spirit intercedes so that we might live in the will of God in spite of suffering. The Spirit “shares the burden”. God’s perfect plan has two purposes: our good and His glory.   Through it all; through it all; I’ve learned to trust in Jesus. I’ve learned to trust in God. Through it all; through it all; I’ve learned to depend upon His word.