Well, I received an anonymous
question that I want to deal with today. Here's the question. What is worse, doing something
wrong, when you know it's wrong? Or not doing it, but for the
wrong reasons? Which is worse doing something
wrong when you know it's wrong, or not doing it, but for the
wrong reasons? They say, I know that in the
heart you're committing it either way, so it's equal. But is it
worse to do the actual action or to be deceptive and act like
you wouldn't do it, even though if there weren't something holding
you back, you would? Is it worse to do the actual
action or to be deceptive and act like you wouldn't do it,
even though if there weren't something holding you back, you
would? When you have a question like
this, you have to consider some things. because you don't know
where they're from, you don't know what the motive is, you
don't know. The first thing I always ask
myself is, is this a hypothetical question where the person is
just confused and they're just looking for an honest answer? And then secondly, is this person
vainly attempting to justify themselves in their sin against
God? The person may be thinking, well,
if I'm guilty either way, then why not gratify the lust of my
flesh? Why not just go on with that?
And then thirdly, I have to ask myself, is this an attempt to
entangle me in my words? Generally, when folks came and
asked the Lord a question, that was what they were doing, was
trying to entangle Him in His words. These are considerations
you have to ask yourselves when you get an anonymous question. Well, first of all, I will give
a general answer to the question. James chapter one. James chapter
one. Yes, it is worse to commit the
act. It is worse to commit the act.
Sin in the heart and sin in the act are both sin. That is true. They're both sin, but they are
not equal. Sin in the act is worse than
sin in the heart. Listen to the progression that
James gives here in James 1.13. He says, Let no man say when
he's tempted, I am tempted of God, for God cannot be tempted
with evil, neither tempteth he any man. In other words, don't
try to say, well, God made me do this. God doesn't make us
sin. That's what the gist of that
verse says. But every man is tempted when
he's drawn away of his own lust and enticed. There's the heart.
There's the nature, there's the sin nature, the lust in the heart. Then, when lust hath conceived,
it bringeth forth sin. There's the act, there's the
act. And sin, when it is finished,
bringeth forth death. There's the end, death. So you
see the progression. Which would be worse, to think
about murder or to actually murder? That's pretty easy to understand. If that boy up there would have
just thought about it and stopped with the thought, that would
have been the end of it. But he committed the act. Sin
in the heart only affects you. Sin in the heart affects somebody
else. Or sin in the act affects somebody
else. It always affects somebody else. Now, David sinned with
Bathsheba the moment he looked upon her. The sin was in his
heart. The Lord said, you've heard that
it was said by them of old time, thou shalt not commit adultery.
Thou shalt not commit the act. But I say to you that whosoever
looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery whether
already in his heart. It starts in the heart, it's
a sinful, that's what the sin nature is, it's the heart. He
says, if your right eye offends you, pluck it out, cast it from
you. If your right hand offends you,
cut it off. He said it's profitable for you
to lose one of your members than for your whole body to be cast
into hell. In other words, stop it. Look
away and end it when it comes into your heart. Just don't go
on through with it. If David would have looked away,
confessed his sin to God, asked forgiveness right then, that
would have been the end of it. That would have been the end
of it. But his sin would have affected no one else. But instead
he acted upon his lust. He committed the act of adultery
with Bathsheba. The result was he impregnated
her. Then he sinned more by trying to cover his sin. He got her
husband Uriah drunk trying to get him to go down to her house
so that they would think the child was Uriah's. And then when
Uriah was so faithful that he slept outside David's doorstep,
then David sinned more. He sent Uriah to the forefront
of the battle so he would be killed, and he was. And then
David's sin affected his entire house for years to come. beginning
with the child that was born to Bathsheba. That child died.
Turn over to 2 Samuel 12, verse 7, and listen to God, what He
said. He sent the prophet Nathan to
tell David, and in verse 7, Nathan said, David, thou art the man.
Thus saith the Lord God of Israel." Now listen to this. The Lord
God always means, when you see the words Lord God, it means
God is our covenant God. He says, Thus saith the Lord
God. This believer's sin is much more
convicting because it's in the face of the great covenant mercies
that God's given us. Now listen to how God views it. This is why it is so bad against
God. Listen to this, verse 7. I anointed
thee king over Israel. Believer, God has anointed you. He's anointed you. He's anointed
you with the Holy Spirit. You've been born of God. And
He's made you a king and a priest under our King Christ and our
High Priest Christ. That's what He's done for us.
And then He says in verse 7, And I delivered thee out of the
hand of Saul. God's graciously bound the strong
man for His people. He's bound Satan. He's bound
our wicked, depraved sin nature. He's delivered us out of the
hand of all of our enemies. Then he says in verse 8, And
I gave thee thy master's house, and I gave it to you, thy master's
wives into thy bosom, and gave thee the house of Israel and
of Judah. God's given us our master's house. He's made us
partakers of Christ's house. Christ our master. He's given
us His house. He's given us a bride. the bride
of Christ, a multitude of brethren. He's brought us into a house
that's God's own house. He's done that freely for His
people. Verse 8, And if that had been too little, I would
moreover have given unto thee such and such things. He says,
He says, My grace is boundless. He said, Out of my fullness you've
received grace for grace. I give more grace. He said, I
would have given you Much more than this. This is God speaking. This is what God is saying to
every believer when we sin against Him. Verse 9, Wherefore hast
thou despised the commandment of the Lord to do evil in his
sight? After all this good, after all
this great, free, abounding grace, God choosing you freely by His
grace, not according to any good in you, God giving you to Christ,
Christ coming and fulfilling all righteousness for you, making
you perfect in Him, now why would we want to sin, despise God's
Word? despise His word and sin against
Him. He says, Thou hast killed Uriah the Hittite with the sword,
and hast taken his wife to be thy wife, and hast slain him
with the sword of the children of Ammon. Sin, all sin, every
sin, every form of sin in the heart and sin in the action is
despising the commandment of God. That's what it is. It's
despising God and our Father who's shown us all this grace.
That's what it is. Verse 10. Now therefore the sword
shall never depart from thine house. Now therefore. The sword shall never depart
from thine house, because thou hast despised me, and hast taken
the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife. Thus saith the
Lord, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine
own house, and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and
give them unto thy neighbor, and he shall lie with thy wives
in the sight of this sun. For thou didst it secretly, but
I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun. Now
look at this, and David said unto Nathan, I've sinned against
the Lord. And Nathan said unto David, the
Lord also has put away your sin, and you shall not die. Christ
took all the sin of David, all this sin he did. When Christ
entered into covenant suretyship for David and before the world
began, he took all this sin. He knew what David was going
to do. He took all this sin and was willing, entered into a surety-ship
engagement to go to the cross and stand before God Almighty
as guilty David. When we're thinking about this
thing of sin, which is worse, to think about it or to actually
do it? Both are sin. Both are against
God. But then to do it, we ought to
remember God has come and He stood in the place of guilty
Cheryl. He's come and He stood in the place of guilty Eric,
of guilty Melinda. He stood there in place of guilty
Clay. He stood there for me and paid
my sin. That won't make a believer say,
well, then I'll just go ahead and do this. He's already paid
for it. That makes a believer say, I don't want to do this. I don't want to do it. That's
our motive, be constrained by the love of God, by the love
that He's shown us. He said, your sin's forgiven.
I've put it away. You will not die. You will not
die. But because he did this, and
Davidson was fully forgiven, but verse 14, how be it? Because
by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies
of the Lord to blaspheme. We don't want to do that. We
don't want to give occasion so that the enemies of the Lord
can blaspheme. The child also that is born of thee shall die.
God is a faithful father to His child. He put all His sin away.
He had no sin. This is David whom God said is
a man after My own heart. This is the one God used to pen
the Psalms. This is the one God made king
over Israel. This is the one God showed all
this great grace to. But as a faithful father, He
chastened him. He chastened him because he was
wrong in his sin. He was wrong in what he had done.
And so, David's sin caused much agony in his house for years
to come. For years to come. God's forgiven
his child of our sin, but God will chasten his child in loving
correction. When Moses saw his glory, he
said he keeps mercy for thousands. He forgives iniquity and transgression
and sin. He will by no means clear the
guilty. His Son has come and borne it so that now there's
no condemnation for his people. He's put the sin away. But he
says he will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon the children
and upon the children's children until the third and to the fourth
generation. Our sin, our acts of sin, have
a lasting effect upon us and upon our whole house. That's
right. There are folks who made bad
judgments, bad errors in judgment when they were younger in their
life, who it's caused them to have terrible problems in their
own bodies, and it's caused terrible problems to their families, it's
caused terrible problems to brought children into this world, done
different things, it's caused great problems in their families,
and it goes on, it affects every generation. So yes, sin in the
heart is sin. Sin in the act is worse, because
it not only affects me, it affects others. And it's a despising
of the commandment of God. All right? But now secondly,
that's the first general answer to the question. Yes, sin is
worse in the act. But now let me ask a few questions.
The Lord Jesus usually answered questions with questions. And
he did so getting to the heart of the matter, to the heart of
what was behind the question. So I'm going to answer with a
few questions of my own and try to pry into the heart just a
little bit. First of all, if you know both are sin, why are
you worried about the lesser of two evils? If this person
says, I know both are sin, why are you concerned about which
one's less of a sin? What's worse, doing something
wrong when you know it's wrong? Yes. That's sin. Doing something
wrong when you know it's wrong is sin. They say, or not doing
it but for the wrong reasons. That is sin too. I know that
in the heart you're committing it either way so it's equal.
It's not equal. But both are sin. Is it worse
to do the actual action or to be deceptive and act like you
wouldn't do it even though if there weren't something holding
you back, you would? Being deceptive and acting is an active sin. That's hypocrisy. What is holding
you back? What is holding you back? That's
my question at this point. What's holding you back? Is it? I'll tell you what it is. Tell
you what it is. In the flesh, it's the fear of
hurting yourself. That's what it is. It's not about
somebody else. You might be afraid of hurting
mother and daddy, but that's just an extension of self. Might
be afraid that it's gonna cause some immediate consequence right
now. That's just worried about self.
Might be afraid that it might be thinking it's my will that's
holding me back. I'm too good for not doing this. The grace of God, the love of
Christ, that's the right reason that the believer's constrained.
The grace of God, the love of Christ, that's the right reason
the believer is constrained and restrained. But anything else
is the wrong reason. And that too is sin. It's sin. Do you understand the point I'm
making here? The lesser of two evils It may
not be as bad as another evil, but it's still evil. It's still
sin. Why would a person want to know
what's worse or what's less sin when both are sin? When both
are sin. That's like asking, which is
worse, to die in a plane crash or to die in your bed asleep
at night? Well, who really cares? You're going to be dead either
way. Both are death. And whether I sin a great sin
or I sin a little sin, it's death either way. The act of sin as
well as the act of covering up the sin are both worthy of eternal
condemnation. So why be concerned about the
lesser of two evils? Then secondly, here's my question. Instead, why not confront the
real problem? Why not confront the real problem? The problem here is the heart. The problem here is the heart.
The heart's defiled. The first scripture that came
to my mind when I heard this question was, the heart is deceitful
above all things and desperately wicked. Who can know it? That's
the first thing I thought about when I heard this question. The
question has a lot of flesh in it. The question has a lot of
confusion in it. The question has, and that's
all sin does. I'm not saying the person is
lost. I'm not saying they may be a believer. They may be, as
David was, forgiven of their sin, but like David was trying
to cover up his sin and justify himself and do all these steps
to get himself out from under this defiled conscience he had
come under. That's where this question is
coming from. The problem is sin in the heart.
That's the problem. Let me just quote this to you.
The Lord said, those things which proceed out of the mouth come
forth from the heart, and they defile the man. Out of the heart
proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts,
false witnesses, blasphemies. These are the things which defile
a man. They defile the man, make him
dirty. The thoughts of the righteous
are right. The counsels of the wicked are deceit. When we start,
when our mind and our conscience is defiled, when the old man
begins to reign in us, we become polluted in our thinking, defiled
in our thinking. Our conscience becomes defiled
in everything we're thinking. This person speaks of acting
and of being deceptive about the sin of the heart. Acting
and being deceptive about it. Let me give you something to
really to be honest about. A believer that's been born of
God has had their conscience purged so that we don't have
to act and we don't have to be deceptive. We are very deceptive. We are very, very deceptive.
Most Most. Well, I'll say many. I'll leave
most to you to decide, but I'll say many. Many of us, of the things we do not
sinning, not doing the things that we letting the lust of our
heart come forth, are for the wrong reasons. They're for the
wrong reasons. It's because we feel like we'd
be embarrassed, it'd embarrass our family, you know, we'd get
caught, whatever. And those are just all wrong
reasons. They're wrong reasons. But we know, this is what we've
been taught, we know that the all-seeing eye of God knows all. We're not deceiving Him. We're
not fooling God. So there's no point of putting
on an act and being deceptive. This is something else we know.
I could tell you this right now. You're going to hear a lot of
talk in the next few days about what happened up there in Connecticut.
The outward evil you saw happened right there in that school. is
in every one of the hearts of every person sitting right here,
right now. I don't care if you've been saved
by the full, free, sovereign grace of God or not. That evil
is in every heart right here, right now. And the only thing
that is restraining you and me is God's grace. That's it. If He took His hand off of us,
we would do whatever lust is in our heart. That's all the
old man of flesh is. He's capable and God's taught
us what we're capable of. God's made us honest with ourselves. I know people will say that I
wouldn't do something like that. You don't know yourself and you
don't know God. That's just so. Sin is murder
against God. Not only would you do what that
happened up there, you'd crawl up to God's throne and yank Him
off His throne and kill Him if you had the opportunity to. He
came to this earth and that's exactly what we did. God didn't
make any man do that. God took His hand off of men
and men did exactly the lust of their hearts and what was
in their hearts to do. And it was to kill God and get
Him off His throne so that we could go on in a charade of religion
acting and being deceptive as if we're God. That's what sin
is. When Satan tempted Eve in the
garden, he said, if you eat this fruit, you'll be as God. And
that's what we want. When we can't get it, we may
pull out a gun and try to get it. When we can't get it, we
may go underhanded behind somebody's back and cheat them and rob them
somehow or do something else. But we're going to try to be
gods over one another, and we'll try to be gods over God. That's
the sin of the heart. That's what the heart is. God,
and only God, can subdue that nature that's in us by creating
a new man and showing us the great things He's done for us
in love and grace and mercy, and keeping us restrained by
His hand of grace. And God gets all the glory for
that. If you and I do not do any of the evil, or if we do
that which we ought to have done, All we've done is what we ought
to have done. And God gets all the glory for
making us do that, making us willing to even do that or not
do the evil deed. So we've been freed from the
burdensome bondage of denying we're sin, of trying to keep
up some charade of self-righteous, this self-righteous act of deceiving
others about what we're capable of doing. We can at least be
honest with one another about it. We know by painful heartbreaking
experience what we're capable of doing. So the real question
this person needs to ask themselves is this, and I'm addressing this
question as if it's somebody, I don't know if it's somebody
sitting here, it came through the website and it's anonymous
and I don't know who it came from, but I'm addressing it like
it is a believer sitting here right now. And I'm saying to
you this, answer the real question, why am I deceiving myself? Why
am I trying to keep up an act? Why am I trying to find out what's
lesser of two evils? So here's the third question
I ask. Instead of concerning yourself about which is less
evil, why not repent from it and confess your sins to Christ?
Just repent from it and confess your sins to Christ. All a sinner
is is sin. All a believer is in our whole
nature is sin. We don't just confess to God,
to Christ, acts of sins. We're continually praying to
God, Lord, forgive us our sin. Because whether I know I've sinned
in the act or not, I have sinned. I know I've sinned because whatever
the new man is, there's that old man so that sin and unbelief
is mixed with everything I do. So I have to constantly... Believers
are continually repenting to God. Look at Psalm 51. Let me read this Scripture to
you while you turn there. Listen to this carefully. If
we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth
is not in us. That's what I just said to you
when I said if a man says it's not so about himself, he don't
know himself. He don't know himself. He's deceived
himself. If we confess our sins, He's
faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness. Faithful to do it and just to
do it because those that will come to Him and truly be honest
with God, it's because Christ has already put away all their
sin and they're forgiven already. And God is just to forgive them
of their sin because Christ paid all their sin debt. And He's
faithful to do it because He's satisfied with His Son. And if
we say we have not sinned, we're making Him a liar and His Word's
not in us. My little children, these things
right I unto you that you sin not. Don't commit the act. Don't go out and do it. Try not
to think evil thoughts. But if, when, any man sin, we
have an advocate with the Father. The believer has an advocate
with the Father. Jesus Christ the righteous, and
He's the propitiation. He's the seat of mercy where
full satisfaction is made, where the blood's been sprinkled, where
we can come to God in Him, in His blood. And He's full satisfaction
for our sins. And not for ours only, but for
the sins of His elect throughout the whole world. Maybe this question
comes from somebody from out of this congregation. I don't
know. And maybe they'll hear this. If they're the chosen child
of God, called and made honest by God's grace, given Him a new
heart, this is so of them too, wherever they are. The elect
of God scattered throughout the world. But let's hear what David
did when he was convicted in his heart of the real issue.
Psalm 51.1 is to the chief musician of Psalm of David when Nathan
the prophet came unto him after he had gone into Bathsheba. He
said, Have mercy upon me, O God, according to thy lovingkindness,
according to the multitude of thy tender mercies. He came pleading
no contest. He came not pleading any good
in himself, only his sin. That's it. That's what you're
asking for when you say, I need mercy. Blot out my transgressions. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity. Cleanse me from my sin. For I acknowledge my transgressions
and my sin as ever before me. Against thee, thee only, have
I sinned and done this evil in thy sight, that thou mightest
be justified when thou speakest and be clear when thou judgest.
As long as we keep making excuses for ourselves and trying to choose
between the lesser of two evils or commend ourselves because
we've only done the lesser sin, we haven't repented. We're still
trying to justify ourselves. But when we take sides with God
and acknowledge our sin and say, God, You're just. You're just. You're just. and everything you
condemn me with, you're just. That's when we've truly turned
to God and come to God and taken sides with God. That's when we'll
find mercy. That's when we'll get this burden
to be lifted off our heart. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity
and sin did my mother's conceive me. See, he not only acknowledges
the act was sin against God, he's acknowledging here that
his whole sin nature is sin. He's saying to God, if I hadn't
even done this act, Father, I still need mercy because it's just
what I am. Behold, thou desires truth in the inward parts, in
the heart, in the new man. In the hidden part, thou shalt
make me to know wisdom." Is He making you to know wisdom this
morning? Is God speaking to your heart and teaching you? Whoever
asked this question, they've been burdened. They've been burdened
and they've been heavy laden with this and it's been bothering
them. This is God speaking right here, showing us through one
of His children that went through the same thing, how that God
forgives us. Come to Him. Be honest with Him.
He says, Purge me with hyssop and I'll be clean. Wash me and
I shall be whiter than snow. Make me to hear joy and gladness
that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice. Are your
bones broken? Sometimes we start trying to
want to run ahead of God. Sometimes we start wanting to
take this grace that God's given us and boast about what God's
given us and think we're somebody because we got this grace that
God's given us. And so when we start running
out, God has to break our bones. He has to break our bones. I've
read before where the shepherd, if the sheep was running out
in front of the shepherd, little sheep, you know, would stay behind.
He'd just take the sheep and just dislocate its shoulder.
on purpose. Painful, just like our chastening
is painful. But then that sheep has to be
carried. And that sheep, when it finally gets to where it can
walk again, has to stay close to the Master. And in the process,
what it's learned to do is to follow the Master and to stay
close to the Master. Hide thy face from my sins. Blot
out all mine iniquities. Create in me a clean heart. There it is. O God, renew a right
spirit within me. Cast me not away from Thy presence.
Take not Thy Holy Spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of
Thy salvation and uphold me with Thy free spirit. None of his standing had changed.
He was still holy and just and righteous before God, in Christ
Jesus. But he's saying, this is what
I need you to do for me in my heart, because I want this. I want to know this vital union.
I want to know the joy of being in one with you, in harmony with
you. He says, then I'll teach transgressors thy ways. See,
after we learn this, then we go teach sinners what we've learned.
We go teach sinners what we've learned. Sound like I'm talking
to you by experience? Does it sound like I'm? Clay,
you're speaking like you kind of know what you're talking about.
My bones have been broken. They're being broken. And sinners
shall be converted unto Thee. Deliver me from blood guiltiness.
Look down here. He says, and then my tongue shall
sing aloud of Thy righteousness. I'll stop singing about, well,
I didn't do the worst of the evil. Then I'll start singing
about His righteousness. Lord, open thou my lips and my
mouth shall show forth thy praise, for thou desirest not sacrifice.
He doesn't desire you to try to pick out which is the lesser
of two evils and then just do the lesser and say, well, look
how good I've done because I didn't do the other. He don't require
sacrifice. There's no more offering for
sin. You don't delight in burnt offering. You can't make up for
anything you've done. All you can do is come to God
with a broke heart and a contrite spirit, confess your sin to Him,
and say, Lord, I just trust you. The sacrifices of God are a broken
spirit, a broken and a contrite heart, O God, that I will not
despise. I got one more thing, and I'll hurry here because I'm
out of time. I do want to say that every believer
should live our lives to glorify God in all that we do. Believers
in their inmost souls delight to do the will of God. Our joy,
our happiness, it's not merely receiving good from God, but
it's in rendering active service to God. We desire to obey and
serve our Heavenly Father in all things and do His will at
all times, not reluctantly, but cheerfully. God's will's our
joy, His will's our delight. Look at 1 Corinthians 6.18. This is speaking particularly
of fornication, but it's true of every sin. We need to flee
every sin, but he says here something about fornication. Verse 18,
flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is
without the body, but he that commiteth fornication sins against
his own body. What? Know ye not that your body
is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which you have
of God? God the Holy Spirit dwells in
you, believer. We're born of God, created in the righteousness,
true holiness of Christ, made one with Him. Verse 19, you're
not your own, you're bought with a price. It cost God giving His
only begotten Son. He had to pour out judgment upon
Him in place of His elect. You think about that. That was
something the Father had to do. And then the son had to be forsaken
of the father he loved, bearing the pain in his very soul. That is a selfless act of love
for worthless sinners like us. Verse 20, therefore, glorify
God in your body and in your spirit, in your heart and in
your body. We glorify God by declaring God
just, by taking sides with God always in the condemnation of
our sin. We glorify God by delighting
in his mercy, by resting in Christ who has fulfilled the law for
every believer. And we glorify God by seeking
not merely to avoid God's disapproval, but actively living to please
God in everything we think and do. I forget now where it is,
Philippians 3, Philippians 4, where Paul said, whatsoever is
good, whatsoever is honest, whatsoever is pure, whatsoever is true,
think on these things. Be honest about this. If you're
sitting here and you ask this question, you know that this
question that you ask It has consumed your thoughts. It is
this problem, whatever it is, whatever this sin is that you've
thought about or that you have done, it's plagued you, it's
burdened you. That's what sin does. It just
weights us down and it bogs us down and it clouds our thinking
and it pollutes our minds. So rather than think on... When you go to Christ and He's
purged you of your sin and He's made your conscience to be purged
to where you have the joy of salvation again, Go forward thinking
on things that are pure, thinking on things that are holy. If we
just got up in the mornings and took a passage of Scripture,
set up us a reading routine, and got up every morning and
took just one verse or one phrase out of this book, and read it,
and thought about it, and really set our hearts on it, and go
through the day thinking about that, we've got ourselves set
in a good direction when we start out. And I guarantee you through
the day, God will bring something in your path and show you just
exactly what that Scripture is teaching, and He'll teach it
to you by experience. And that way we're going through
our day with a positive direction, not just getting up, running
behind the moment we get up and just scratching and clawing and
biting and devouring from the get go. And then all through
the rest of the day, that's unprofitable. You children, make your house,
try to make your house a place where you and your family and
your brothers and sisters and your mother and father can worship
God. Try to make it a quiet, if you have to, say 30 minutes
a day when we're all at home, we're gonna have our quiet time.
And everybody goes to their corner in the house somewhere, and nobody
communicates with anybody, and everybody hushes, and everybody
gets quiet. And go and seek God's face. Go and read His Scripture.
Go and look into His Word. And young ladies, help your mamas
get ready with the supper so that the house can be ready when
daddy gets home. And men, help your father with
what needs to be done outside and the things to be done. Don't
sit around playing video games like a lazy bum. Help them do
something. What I'm saying is the end of
it is to create an environment where you can have some peace
and harmony and quiet and time to where you can actually think
about God and look into what God's done. When it's just chaos
all day long, even in the home, you can't do that. I like a quiet
play. I like someplace I can go to
and get quiet and get alone and get with God and just and see
what he's done and remember what he's done. That's that's try
to do that amongst yourselves in your house. Even if you're
not a child of God, even if you don't have any any any Interest
whatsoever just for the sake of your mother and father what
that does so much for you. Just do this for him Anyway,
let's try to help them Anyway, we do this and your other brothers
and sisters that do they do love the Lord and do believe him Just
do just do that try to help one another. Maybe it gotta be gracious
to you All right. Amen