I moved out here four years ago from Pennsylvania, in northern Pennsylvania. I grew up there my whole life. My wife is from Pennsylvania. We enjoy snow, and God sent us out here to the desert. So it's been an interesting adjustment.

My family and I grew up in a cold climate and every Christmas we enjoyed a progressive dinner where we got together with all my family. I come from a multi-generational line of bricklayers and farmers in the north country of Pennsylvania. And we'd all get together and go from house to house and eat different aspects of the Christmas meal as we drive and you know we face the blizzards and people would get stuck in the snow and it was always a really good time. So then we move out here and we're here about six months and It's Christmas and we're looking outside and there's some Christmas lights on the palm trees. It just did not look like Christmas.

So we're feeling homesick and everything else. It's like, you know what? God has provided us with this great Christian family. And I think we should do a progressive dinner. So we decided we have a heritage Baptist progressive dinner and we all got the families together, the seven of us back then when we first got together.

And we started out on this progressive dinner and we're going house to house and having a great time. I've been here about six months, I'm starting to get acclimated. I know some of the mountains that I can see, north, south, east, west, right? We're kind of in a central area, Litchfield Park, and we're to go to the next house. And I start driving, and of course the sun is going down, down and I'm following this brother and I get lost in traffic so I lose him.

And by now it was very quickly turning dark and I couldn't see the mountains. I had lost my orientation. But I know where I'm going, so I'm driving, and I'm driving. And the numbers on the streets are getting smaller and smaller. And I'm trying to go to Surprise.

I'm trying to go to the far end of the city until I find out, oh, I am in downtown Phoenix. And I'm supposed to be at the opposite end. And so we make some decisions. And we find some phone numbers. And we do some calling and find out where we are.

To make a long story short, we never made it to the house. We missed the meal that was prepared for us and the fellowship. We just picked it up on the next house. But I thought about how often times we go through our Christian life that way and I think part of what we're dealing with here is I Knew where I wanted to go Okay, I had no idea how to get there My the grid in my mind was reversed and is actually going the wrong way that I wanted to go. I'm going to ask this question this afternoon.

How do you know what pleases God? How do you know What pleases God? We can all say, okay, we all agree, you know, the chief end of man is to glorify God, to know Him, to make Him known. We all have our statements, right? To bring honor to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

How are we going to do that? How are we going to do that? My challenge for us this morning this afternoon is that we would take all of scripture to every aspect of life I'm going to challenge you with three reasons as to why we must do that Let's go to Lord in prayer father. God. We thank you for your mercy.

We thank you for your grace, Father. We pray for the illumination of your Holy Spirit, that you'd open our eyes, our eyes right here, this group of people, Father, that you'd open the eyes of our heart that we would see good things from your word that we would understand more and more the centrality of you the centrality of your word and how that must be lived out in every facet of life. Holy Spirit You are the one that must open our eyes to this and give us the conviction to grow in increasing love for You and in love for one another. In Jesus' name, Amen. Turn with me in your Bible to 2 Timothy chapter 3, a verse that's been looked at.

We're going to dive into it. 2 Timothy 3, starting in verse 15. And that from childhood you have known the holy scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. All scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. The first reason we must take all of scripture to all of life is because Scripture is inspired.

Scripture is inspired of God. I want you to look at that verse 16 again. And I want you to see the first word. What is that first word? A-L-L, All.

And that simply means that all of scripture. It was referenced earlier today. When that was written that would have been the Old Testament. Now that we have the completed canon, it certainly refers to all of scripture, all of the 66 books of the Bible. We're talking about the totality of God's word.

This book right here, all of it, Pas graphe, all of scripture, that is, the sacred writings of God. In verse 15, Scripture is called holy Scripture, holy, that which is set apart as God's writing. What other book makes those claims? There's only a few of all the religions in the world, there's only a handful that even make that claim. We know this to be the truth.

God says that all of his writing, all of scripture belongs to him. This is his book. Theologians use the word plenary, that means all of it referring to the entire revelation as a whole as well as to the smallest of the parts without distinction. All scripture, All scripture, next word, is given by inspiration. Thepnuchtas, that is the breath of God, literally.

All Scripture is the breath of God. We know Scripture, Jesus quoted it in Matthew 4, for man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. All Scripture is inspired. It is the breath of God. The breath of Almighty God speaks to the origin of Scripture.

That God himself has revealed something about himself. And as God is the one who revealed it Without God's revelation. We would not know it Revelation speaks to that which has been disclosed 1st Corinthians chapter 2 verse 9 says but is written I is not seen nor ear heard nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love Him. But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.

For what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of a man which is in him? Even so, no one knows the things of God except the spirit of God." Brothers and sisters, this is a book that is divinely revealed by the heart of God. Things that if God had not informed us, had not revealed us, we never would have known. Just as you don't know what that brother or that... You don't know what they're thinking in their heart unless they tell you.

We would not know what it was that God wanted us to know, except for the fact that God, through the advent of his Holy Spirit, chose to breathe out, to breathe out his words. The word breath there is closely associated with the Spirit. The Greek and even Hebrew concepts tie those two, the breath and the Spirit, together. And we see verses that talk about this, that we have the breath of God, the living Word of God, the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. Very closely related.

John 16, 13 says, However, when he, the Spirit of Truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth. For he will not speak, speaking of the Holy Spirit, for he will not speak on his own authority but whatever he hears he will speak and he will tell you things to come. And so this prophecy was given and the apostles, the holy men of God received that and were given the holy writ. They were moved by the Holy Spirit. 2 Peter 1, verse 20 says, knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of any private interpretation.

It is not of anyone's individual explanation of reality. It is not given by an independent or their own explanation of reality. For no prophecy ever came by the will of men, but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the Holy Spirit." So holy men were spoke as they moved. The word moved there is a very picturesque word. It speaks of the wind blowing the sail and moving the boat.

So holy men were breathed upon by the Holy Spirit in such a way that God superintended the inscripturation of the holy scriptures, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words, the inerrant, infallible, perfect Word of God, and those autographers was penned through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Brothers and sisters, what we have in our hands is God's holy word. Inspiration is that supernatural influence of the Holy Spirit. Whereby the sacred writers were divinely inspired in their production of scripture, being restrained from error and guided in the choice of the words they used. This is the power of God's word.

The product of inspiration is the product of a perfect standard, a perfect revelation a perfect word from God That's objective truth that's propositional revelation its objective you can read it It's not dependent upon your will or my will or anyone's interpretation. It's right there for the world, for mankind to see. But it takes something very important for us to get a hold of. For us to rightly discern the word of truth that takes the Holy Spirit illuminating, turning the lights on to the spiritual words of this book. Okay?

To produce subjective convictions. Convictions that are like hooks that come out of the word of God, and the Spirit of God uses the word of God to arrest our soul, to arrest our conscience, and to drive within a supernatural conviction about the word of God. So right now, when you hear a sermon, pray. God, what is it that you want me to learn from this message? Pray.

Because you can hear a word, and if it's not combined with faith and the Holy Spirit, your heart can be hardened and you can walk out. Do not harden your hearts brothers and sisters. Be in prayer that the Holy Spirit would be opening, would be illuminating the spiritual words of truth, the spiritual words of this book. Father, we need you to open our hearts. We need the Spirit of God.

We must take all of scripture to all of life because it is inspired by God. Second reason we must take all of scripture to all of life because of the next word. Scripture is profitable. All of scripture is given by inspiration of God and it is profitable. It is useful.

It is useful. If you didn't know, after lunch I locked my keys in my car with the car running just now. And all my other keys in my pocket were not profitable in opening the door. They weren't useful. They didn't work.

And I couldn't get the car on. We had a friend visiting us and she's waiting to go and I had to switch the car seats and I was kind of in a hurry and I locked all the doors. None of my tools that I had were profitable to open that door. God's word is useful. It's vital.

It is the key that unlocks the door. It is God's revelation of reality. It is the truth. It is the answer for our wicked hearts. It is the perfect tool that we need from God.

Jeremiah said it this way, Jeremiah 23, 29, is not my word like a fire says the Lord and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces it hammers those rocks it does exactly what God has commanded his word to do it is useful it is profitable it is advantageous. This is a very powerful word. We often use the word, Scripture is sufficient. It is sufficient. The Reformers refer to this as Sola Scriptura.

John Armstrong states, what was called the formal principle of the Reformation that formed the direction of the emerging Reform movement. What this means is simply that the Church should not preach, teach, command, or practice anything contrary to the written scripture of the biblical canon. Very specific, the Bible. That's in the negative sense. In the positive sense, it's also true that the church must preach, that the church must teach, and must command and practice that which is revealed in scripture." Clearly revealed in scripture.

The Westminster Confession, the whole council of God concerning all things necessary for his own glory, man's salvation, faith and life is expressly set down in Scripture unto which nothing at any time is to be added, whether by new revelations of the Spirit or traditions of men. You need to see this from God's Word. Look at 2 Timothy chapter 1. I know We looked at this this morning, but we need to see this. We need the Holy Spirit to take hooks and to drive our consciences that we would have convictions as Paul wrote under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit and commanded us today to hold fast.

I'm in 2 Timothy 1.13. Hold fast the pattern of sound words. Of sound words. All scripture is breathed out by God. Let us eat the Word of God and live the Word of God.

Now look what it says, which you have heard from me in faith and love which are in Christ Jesus. Verse 14, that good thing which was commanded to you, keep by the Holy Spirit who dwells in us. So we keep the objective Word of God, but the supernatural working of the Holy Spirit in our hearts, that we can walk in the Spirit, that the Word of Christ may dwell on us richly, richly expounding upon us. All of Scripture, We're not prejudiced against the Old Testament. The Old Testament is profitable.

The New Testament is profitable to guide us into all of life. This is the pattern that we must see. Brothers and sisters, do you believe this? Are you with me? Are you with this truth?

I want to expand then four truths that will explode your life as you follow God. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable. We're going to get specific now in ways it's profitable. What's the next word? All Scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for teaching.

That is the construction of truth. It is advantageous for the instruction of truth, for the building of truth. The prophet Isaiah asked this question, Who will he teach knowledge? Isaiah 28 verse 9. And whom will he make to understand the message?

Those just weaned from milk, those just drawn from the breast. Verse 10 of Isaiah 28, For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept, line upon line, here a little, there a little. For with stammering lips and other tongues he will speak to this people. To him he said, This is the rest with which you may cause the weary to rest. And this is the refreshing, Yet they would not hear, they would not listen.

Verse 13 That is what this means. Taking this truth and applying it to your life, and this truth and applying it to your life, and constructing your life on the Word of God. Constructing the church on the Word of God. Hear a little, layer a little, inch by inch by inch, always progressive, always growing and taking your understanding of all of Scripture and simply obeying God and living that out into every facet the Scripture directs you to go into. All of Scripture to all of life.

Here a little, there a little. Isaiah continues, he says, Therefore hear the word of the Lord, you scornful men, who rule this people who are in Jerusalem, because you have said, we have made a covenant with death and with shi... Oh we are in agreement when the overflowing scourge has passed through it will not come to us. Why? Why did they doubt God's word?

For we have made lies our refuge and under falsehood we have hidden ourselves. You see, God's word unearths the lies that we believe because we're sinners by birth and sinners by choice. The lies hear a little, bear a little. This is the book that is profitable to light your path to build truth. Next word, it is profitable for reproof, that is the tearing down of lies.

So it's profitable for the erection of truth, the construction of truth, as well as the tearing down of lies. Now this is a painful process at times, isn't it? It's painful. I was seminary trained. I was trained how to plant a church.

I was trained to go out and the first thing you do, you get a 5013C. And the brother Mark Hubler asked me, Jason, will you look at that? And I said, I will look at that. And of course, you know, I had a question in my heart. Yeah, I think that would be worth searching out.

And it took me about a good nine months to really grapple through this. It was line upon line. It was precept upon precept. It was here a little, there a little. It was this idea in my head is torn down and in its place truth is brought forth.

It's transformation. It's just one issue. It must be like that with everything where God's Word is continuing to remove the falsehoods that we believe. Coming to the light so that our wicked thoughts and our wicked motives and our wicked ideas can be exposed and be cleansed and be changed. The third explosive truth is that God's word is profitable for correction.

And this word correction is beautiful. Correction has the idea of displacing error with the truth. Okay? It's displacing error with the truth. And the best illustration I can have for this is when your child disobeys.

My child disobeys. And you come and you put your, this is the armor on the child, and you put your armor on the child. And you correct them. You bring them for where they are. You correct them and you reprove them.

And there's a confession, a repentance. And then there's a bringing back to the right path. That's correction. It's the whole thing. It's the arm around, it's the confrontation, and it's the reconciliation, it's the right direction then.

A Biblical correction always results in right thinking, in the right direction. It's a wonderful word, world. It's a wonderful word, communicating that God, he comes and he seeks to save that which was lost. We weren't looking for God. He came looking for us to correct us, to bring us back, to call us back.

Correction. Brothers and sisters, men, are you being corrected by the word of God? Are you continually being corrected? Line upon line, precept upon precept. None of us have our theological eyes dotted on our tedious cry.

I used to hate that statement. Line upon line, precept upon precept. It's an always continual growth in Christ's likeness. Proverbs 9-8, you're not correct. A scoffer lest he hate you.

How do you respond when someone corrects you? Oh, they had the audacity to correct me. To correct me. Unbelievable! Or is that the response?

Or is it rebuke a wise man and he will love you? The wise man looks for that two percent, ninety percent nugget of truth that's in there. He says, thank you. I value God's word and truth so much I want you to correct me and I invite this in my life. Proverbs 10 17, He who keeps instruction is in the way of life, but he who refuses correction goes astray.

This is an inescapable proverb. It's Proverbs 9 12. They're all inescapable. If you're wise, you're wise for yourself. But if you scoff, you alone will bear it.

That's another way of saying we are under the chastening hand of God. There's been generational scoffing at God's wisdom. And now we are bearing the consequences of scoffing at God. And this is true collectively, it's true individually. If you are not being corrected by God's Word, you're going to bear the consequences of not.

Brothers and sisters, let us be continually corrected by the book, corrected by God's Word. However, God communicates that to you. Fourth, Scripture is profitable for instruction in righteousness. That is making right choices. Why do you do what you do?

What motivates you? What instructs you to make the right choices in life? I talked to one person and they simply said, well, I have a red light and a green light in me. My conscience, or some would say maybe the Holy Spirit. I have a red light and green light in me and if I sense it's the red light I don't do it.

If I sense it's the green light I do it. Some people get religious and say, if it's the Holy Spirit, you know, how do you know what is right and what is wrong. Scripture is uniquely qualified to guide us and to direct us into every choice we make this right in the face of God. Isn't that good news? This is how we do it.

It's not just I know where I'm going, you know, I'm just, no, I am saved and I've got a mission to occupy until I'm there. This is how you do it. You take All of scripture, each rightly interpreted in its parts, and you apply it to the situations of your life. All of scripture, to all of life, because it is profitable, God's word is profitable, to guide and direct us into right thinking, right living, right choices. It instructs us, step by step, line upon line, precept upon precept, into righteousness.

Hallelujah! That the man of God may be complete, that is completely well-rounded, full, thoroughly equipped for everything! Oh, how many men here would like to be ready for everything? They call it what the utility of the man meant like tools right we got some guys in here and man they've got some of these brothers they got tool belts on tool belts. I mean I have a couple tools and they bring their tools and they get it done in like you know what would take me 16 hours they're doing it in like 20 minutes because they get the right tool.

This is what we need. How would you guys like to have the right, this is it. This is what we need for living rightly with God. And the power of the Holy Spirit by the grace of God in Jesus Christ. All scriptures given by the inspiration of God is profitable.

Four, doctrine, reproof, correction, instruction, and righteousness. Sola Scripture calls us to take all of scripture for all of life. The nature of Scripture necessitates it, the probability of Scripture requires it. And thirdly, the scope of Scripture demands it. The scope of Scripture demands that we take all scripture to all of life.

Scripture makes a universal appeal. Scripture makes a universal appeal that in every square inch of God's world, God's word is to be obeyed. This is my Father's world. This world was created by my Father's word. And my Father spoke words that in all of His spoken world, His words would be obeyed, would be revered, would be honored, would be loved and cherished.

God's Word calls us all to account of God's Word. Scripture in the Great Commission, Mark 16 and 15, and he said to them, the Lord Jesus, the incarnate Word of God, calls His world, all of it, by saying, Go into all the world and preach the Word to every creature and call every creature to repent and believe in the Word. That's the message of the Good News. That's the glorious commission we've been given. That all of the world, that in all of the world, the Word of God is obeyed.

The time is fulfilled, the kingdom of God is at hand, repent and believe in the Gospel. I think it's just, I think there's an irony there that the Lord Jesus had to call us to believe good news. Think about that. When I hand out tracks, I often say, would you like some good news? And I, and I never have anyone say no maybe if they see what it is Right gospel means good news Repents and believe we are so lost and so in our sin that God has to say I have good news for you Stop believing how you're believing and repent and believe in the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

Acts 17 verse 30. Look at this in your scriptures. Acts 17 verse 30. Acts 17, 30. Truly these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent.

Why? Because he has appointed a day on which he will judge the world by his word, by his righteous standard, The law of God. God has called all men everywhere around the globe to repent because He will judge the whole world by His law, by His righteous standard, by His righteousness. How do you know that? By the man whom he has ordained.

He has given assurance of this to all by raising Jesus Christ from the dead. Jesus is alive. He died according to the four ordained plan of God. He fulfilled the righteous requirements of the law. Jesus died taking our sin.

He who knew no sin became sin for us. That we, law sinners, could become the righteousness of God in Jesus Christ and substitutionary atonement and God calls all men everywhere to repent because he will judge the world according to his word And he's given assurance to every person by raising Jesus from the dead. That's why I'm a Christian. Because I lost, I'm a lost sinner. I believe Jesus rose from the dead.

I believe that Jesus rose from the dead and this will happen. That is the power of the Gospel. The power of the Gospel is that all men are accountable to God. The great commission is that all men are accountable to the Word of God without distinction to all of scripture, to all of life. Salvation then is the supernatural work of God, monergistic regeneration, when God turns the light on in a lost sinner and they see their sin and they weep I've transgressed God's law.

I deserve judgment in hell And God opens our eyes to see the glorious cross of Calvary where sin has been paid for by the grace of God. The gospel then turns us from looking from the inward grown eyeballs that we have to look at ourself. The Gospel enables us by the grace of God to take our eyes off looking at ourselves and look at God and look at His Word. And for the first time a believer, though, is able to live out by the grace of God the commands of God out of a love that's been cleansed by the Spirit. The Gospel turns us then.

The Gospel then gets us rightly related to God. This is true salvation. 1 Thessalonians 2.13 Paul says when there's true salvation it's time for rejoicing. For this reason we also thank God without ceasing because when you receive the word of God which you heard from us you welcome that not as the word of man But as it is in Aletheia as it is in truth as it is in reality The next phrase first Thessalonians 2 13 the word of God What's so special about the word of God? Which also effectively works in you, who believe.

You know what a believer is? A believer is someone who believes and the Word of God is effectually working in them. The Word of God is not effectually working. You're not in a good situation. You're not believing.

There's no, you know, Most of scripture, especially the Greek tense, is an ongoing activity. It's much more about believing than believed. I believed when I was five years old and now therefore I have not believed. Are you believing right now? Yes, conversion is in an instant, but the result is ongoing.

Because you're a believer, you believe. And because you believe, you're believing. And because you're believing, you're going to take all of Scripture to all of life. Hebrews 4, 12, look at this, for the word of God is living and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit and of joints and marrow. And it is a discerner.

It is a way of the thoughts and the intents of your heart. It weighs the motivation, God's word weighs the motivation of your heart, of your inner thinking. Okay verse 13 don't stop there. And there is no creature hidden from his sight, but all things are naked and open to the eyes of Him, to Him to whom we must give an account. New King James translates it literally, to whom we must give word.

We're gonna give word to the God who created us as to how we treated his word. Because this book is sharper than any two-edged sword. Two-edged sword brothers and sisters, it cuts both ways. It cuts both ways. It cuts the person hearing and the person preaching.

You know, It discerns the heart. It takes away self-righteousness, legalism. Because when you begin to align with God's standard, we can have our expressions of faith. There's some standards in my life that I can do 100% of the time. I can always wear a tie when I preach.

It's not that hard, okay? But there's very few commands that I can do a hundred percent of the time. Love God, love your neighbor as yourself. I usually don't get too judgmental about people with that one, because it cuts me as I challenge you. See how that works?

It's a double-edged sword, and it pierces my heart. It questions my motives as it questions yours. Let us be looking into the Word of God. God says, all things are naked before me. And you're going to give an account.

I'm going to give an account. You're going to give word to how you treat it, to how you lived out, to how you obeyed God's Word. What are you doing with God's Word brothers and sisters? What are you doing with God's book? What are you doing with the inerrant Holy Bible?

Oh? I have my quiet time. Well. That's great. Oh, but it's more than just a quiet time It's a feast time.

I am starving in the morning, and I gotta get the word It's it's I am I need to eat the word we need to live the word we need to love the word We need to Psalm one meditate on the word day and night. That's what brings about the fruit. Psalm 1 19, Thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against God. It's the continual meditating, the continual musing on the Word of God, the Word of God, which is always bringing correction, instruction. We're proof.

We need this. We need this because we are in a war. We're in a war against our flesh, against the devil, and against this world. 2nd Corinthians 10, 4 to 5, For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty in God, For the pulling down of strongholds. What can pull down strongholds?

What can pull down fortresses? What can pull down nations? Praying men and women of God. Praying men and women of God who take the spiritual words of God, the sword of the spirit which is the word of God and live it out even to the point of death. Denying themselves, taking up the cross, following the word, the living word, the logos, and living that out.

What does that look like? It looks like casting down every argument and every high thing that exalts itself against the true knowledge of God. It takes on every thought, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of Jesus Christ. That kind of gets personal. Every thought you think is to be filtered through the Word of God for the glory of God to bring obedience to the Church of Jesus Christ.

This is very important. This is very important, incredibly important, as Paul said in 2 Timothy, just up from our text, 2 Timothy 4 verse 3 and 4. The time will come when they will not endure sound words, they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves, teachers, and they will turn their ears away from the truth and be turned aside to fables. Be watchful. Be watchful.

For there is a time now when this goes on. There are many indicators that God is not significantly affecting the faith of a majority of those who confess Christ in the scope of their lives. We can point to many things. Divorce rate nearly the same as the world. It has been reported that only half of American's Protestant pastors have even the most basic biblical worldview.

According to Barna, only 9% of born-again teens believe an absolute truth. Losing 80% of those who confessed to be born again, losing those children to the world. Only 90% of parents who regularly attend church do not read the Bible, pray other than at meals or do any type of service with their children during a typical month outside of the church. The families that are going to church, 90% are having no authentic expressions of faith outside of praying before a meal and going and doing a church program. This is where we're at.

And guess what? We, in this room, are all deeply affected by this. We are deeply affected by the things that we've seen. We've lived in this water. Yes, we're trying to swim out of it.

But we must recognize The vain philosophies of the American culture so blinded the hearts and minds of believers that we've lost our way. We know where we're going sometimes, but we don't know how we're going to get there. The scripture warns, Beware, lest anyone cheat you through philosophy and empty deceit, according to the tradition of men, according to the basic principles of the world and not according to Christ. Colossians 2.8. How can this be?

One of the secular gods, and we're mentioning many of them, one of the secular gods that so does this is the secular teaching of compartmentalization. Compartmentalization says there are different compartments that we can put truth into or reality into. It rearranges the furniture in our brain. So it says in this compartment we will have religious truth. We'll have facts or truth about God.

And over here we'll have maybe truth about education. And this was presented in many different ways. And over here we'll have a belief system about work, about employment. And over here, we'll have a category. We'll title this politics.

And none of these interrelate. And we live. And so on Sunday, we're in this box. Sunday morning, we're over here. And then we come to Monday, and we're in this cubicle.

And we live in these cubicles. So Monday, you know, I do basically what I want when I want, how I want to do it. You know, this is my time to work, or you know, Saturday rolls around and it's vacation. You know, So our choice is that we just gauge it by the cultural standards. And we live a fragmented life of compartmentalizing these compartments in our brain.

And the danger of this is, this is fundamental to our thinking. See, it's an assumption, it's a presupposition, we presuppose these things because we're inculturated into it, okay? And so when we hear truth, we put it in a category! You see a problem with this? We put it in this category so we can have an orthodox confession over here, but we have no orthopraxy because it doesn't go in that category.

See, the way I live out my life is over here. The way I think about certain things about God is over here. I tell you story, I worked as a mental health worker with inner-city kids in Philadelphia. It was my job description at a religious boy's home to provide moral instruction to kids from broken homes. And they needed it.

And everybody could see they needed it. And so I had started A Bible study for moral instruction for those who needed it. So we did a Bible study. And it was going well. And it was interesting.

And I was called into the office of my boss, and my boss said to me, he said, Jason, I really appreciate and admire your Christian faith. But, as you know, you cannot live out that faith, you cannot instruct these kids in Bible study. Yes, I know we're a religious organization, but you cannot bring your faith into the workplace that's what he told me and I said sir I'm sorry I am a Christian and I will bring my faith into my workplace I can't do anything else but that, I am a Christian. And we kind of exchanged some words. It was peaceful.

We smiled at each other, and I went on my way and continued to instruct the kids, maybe not in the most formal sense, but with the word of God because it is the standard for morality. That's a classic experience of compartmentalization. He said, you can have your faith. He appreciated my Christian faith as long as it was in this category. But don't bring that category here.

That is where it would get offensive. That's where it caused problems. But that's where it was needed! It didn't do any good if I just left my faith at home! That's where it was needed!

Those kids needed to know about Jesus Christ! And now he was the answer for their life. Compartmentalization blinds our eyes. Compartmentalization weakens our conviction for truth. Because really what we're saying when we compartmentalize is saying, truth doesn't matter.

And so, you know, the turn of the century with compartmentalization growing, compartmentalization, I believe, birthed a strong hold for relativism. And we could get into a lot of history on that. But relativism, which is truth doesn't exist. So compartmentalization, say, doesn't really matter. You just keep it over there.

Relativism, then, is the child of that, which says, it doesn't matter. It doesn't exist. You can do what you want, when you want, and how you want to do it. You better not tell me what you think, mister, because I don't believe in your book anyway. Secularism, relativism, compartmentalism.

We've grown up with this. We've been taught that faith should not mix with politics, that beauty is all in the eye of the beholder, that we have freedom of religion in the private world, that should not extend to public life, and that there's a separation between the church and the state. Brothers and sisters, let me suggest here that the confession of the modern church is part of scripture to part of life. We're going to take part of our Bibles and we're going to apply it to part of our life. And we're going to stand in those circles.

And we're just going to be going with the flow. Our challenge this morning is to take all of scripture to all of life. To stand in sola scriptura. To simply obey the Bible. To unearth, to tear down, I'm calling an account, to tear down the false gods of secularism, of compartmentalization, of relativism, to do as Titus 1.16 says, Titus 1.16, they profess to no god but in works deny him.

Okay? They profess orthodoxy, but in their orthopraxy they deny Him. Our methods communicate the message. If we believe the message, we must have a biblical practice. If we have no response to the message, faith without works is dead.

Faith is a response to God. A response to God is directed by the Word of God. Yes, this takes discernment. We lack discernment. It's a big problem of being biblically illiterate.

We go after gnats and swallow camels. Yeah, we need discernment to weigh out the camels and the gnats, to take the logs out of the eye. But Jesus says, first take it out, then you'll see clearly. He just doesn't say, leave it in there. It takes a lot of discernment.

But brothers and sisters, this is the call of God to do exactly this. That we do not fall into the trap of professing to know God, to say prayers that get us in an orthodox sense. But it works to deny him being, here it says, abominable, disobedient and disqualified for every good work. It's the opposite, see, it's the opposite of the sufficiency of scripture. So an orthodoxy without a match orthopraxy is disobedience.

An orthodoxy without an orthopraxy is disobedience. Having right belief without a right practice is disobedience. You know, I can believe in the holiness of God and go date in the spirit of fornication. And I have a problem. I have two things that are completely incongruent.

Welcome to modern Christianity. This is our problem. The answer? Right here. Don't do that.

How big is your God? Is He able to do this? Is He able to transform us? I say yes He is able to do this. Yes He is able to transform us.

Isaiah 66 5 says this, Hear the word of the Lord, you who tremble at His word. Let us be those who tremble at the word of God, who reveal the word of God, and let us see the beauty of God's design. The beauty of God's design in the Gospel as we talked about being rightly related to God. This is where the rubber meets the road here. As I'm going to make some applications now, the rubber meets the road here.

Okay, At this point, all scripture to all life, what I preached up so far, I had ten years of education in Bible college and seminary and all of that, and they could say what I just said, okay? And then the sermon ends and you go home. You see that? But brothers and sisters, it's not just all of scripture, it's all of scripture into all of life. And so that means we make then the leap on the practical, the application, the outworking, That we understand that salvation is fundamental in the Gospel, that now we're rightly related to God.

And because we're rightly related to God, that changes everything on the horizontal plane. Everything. All our relationships, which is primary to the gospel, rightly related to God, are transformed, they're renewed, they are changed, and they can never be the same. Ephesians 4.30, 1, let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor And evil speaking be put away from you with all malice. Malice just covers the rest.

Evil and ten. Let them be put away from you because you've seen and experienced the gospel. Ephesians 4 32, and be kind to one another, tender hearted, tender hearted, forgiving one another even. And God, Christ is forgiving him. You see, that transforms every relationship that you're part of.

It is the gospel that brings this transformation in our life. God's word speaks to relationships. Relationships, as I said in my Bible, I began to be very convicted that the context of ministry is not in the program, it is in all of life. And I thought, well God, could you say this one way? And I just, as I studied my Bible, I just kept seeing over and over, yes God has.

It's called the one another. The one another is God's program for His church. Love one another. Be kind to one another. Forgive one another.

Be tenderhearted to one another. Reprove one another. Correct one another. And modest one another. Be hospitable to one another.

Love God, love one another. Relationship. The gospel goes right in there and changes it and transforms it. That's what the Church of Jesus Christ is to be about. A relational community that is fed on God's Word.

God's Word speaks to relationships. God's Word speaks to how we deal with conflict. We cannot deal with conflict how we used to deal with it in our past. We cannot just write off people. We can just not, we just can't not forgive or speak evil or malicious.

And when we do, we need to be corrected. We need to repent and evidence our true faith and live out God's Word in our life, the marks of the Gospel. Brothers and sisters, all of Scripture to all of life, God's Word speaks to politics. Yes, it does. God's Law speaks to politics.

1 Timothy 1.8, but we know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully. Okay, so can we use the law lawfully? I think we could. Do we have the faith enough, the courage to use the law lawfully? Knowing this, that the law is not made for a righteous person, but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly and for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers of mothers, for manslayers, for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine.

Does the word instruct us what to do with sodomites, with perverts, with fornicators, with child molesters? Yes, it does. We say, well, I don't know how that fits. Okay, so we'll just sidestep the standard then. And let's go to psychology.

And let's go to therapy. And let's, Oh, we've made great strides, haven't we? By just getting those guys into therapy. Boy. No.

The word of God has answers. The word of God speaks to politics. The word of God speaks to law. Oh, we don't want to legislate our morality. God, help us if we legislate without morality.

Law is simply morality enforced. Morality is law enforced. God's word speaks to politics. God's word speaks to what we would call education. We prefer the passing on of our faith.

You really want to implode the secular gods of our culture. You want to know why Deuteronomy 6, I mean think about the compartmentalization of life. Now you want to talk about a radical explosion of worldviews that happens when you take Deuteronomy 6 and as a father, as a parent, you say, these words which I command you today will be central in my heart. They shall be in your heart and you shall teach them diligently to your children all the time, everywhere. You mean in this box, in this box, in this box, all the time, everywhere, when you get up, when you walk by the way?

See secular gods are just blown out of the water. We say, Hallelujah, praise God, my family is now under the jurisdiction of the Word of God, where it ought to be. But it doesn't stop there. When you walk, when you lie down, and you shall bind them as signs on your hand, and they shall be as frontals between your eyes and you shall write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates." There's a further expansion and a witness of the Word of God. That is, families take God's Word and live it out all the time in their heart, in the core of their thinking, in the core of their being, we're instructing our children by God's grace and God's mercy alone, by the Spirit's power, instructing our families in the Word, and that's lived out in the public arena, in the gates.

The Word of God. God's Word speaks to education. I love creative Christianity. We don't have to try to create a plan. God's Word speaks to the family.

You know God has a plan on how to communicate the faith from one generation to the next? In creative Christianity, I like that, we have to think of a plan. I sat in classes where we sat down as men and we thought of plans on how we could communicate the faith from one generation to the next in our programs. And we sidestep God's plan. God has a plan.

It's called the family. And in the family, God's word speaks to family. And I went and talked with a brother and he says, He says, you can't apply the word of God to those personal issues. You gotta apply God's word to these persons because that's where the word is needed. Right there in the home.

And so as we embrace, we get into Genesis one and we see the family mission statement for the family. God made the family. He gave that family. He uniquely created a man to be the family leader. He uniquely created the woman to be the helpmate, the suitable companion for the man to help the man fulfill his mission.

And the woman uniquely created to be the taken from man, woman, taken from the man, helpmate who would bring companionship and actually she received her glory from her husband, 1 Corinthians 11, and together they would take dominion by ruling over creation as vice-regents of God and being fruitful and multiplying upon the earth. That's the family mission statement. It's given to all people of all times. And we say God's Word doesn't speak to birth control? Absolutely.

God is in control of birth. God is in control of it. He says, I open the womb, and I close the womb. And you be fruitful and multiply. So what do I do?

I trust God. He opens the womb, he closes the womb, we have responsibility. We plant the seed. God brings life. Let us renew our minds of a secular, godless way of looking at this sacred subject.

God gives life. It's not just A and B come together and it produces C. Mechanical is no, it's God gives life. And that is sacred to the heart of God. And all of scripture bears that out.

God speaks to these issues. God speaks to the roles. God speaks to our gender for who we are as male and as female. God speaks to order in the home, husbands as the head, wives submitting uniquely to their husbands, as in the Lord, as the Gospel then comes and brings focus of God's beautiful design for our family. I love this stuff, I love it so much.

The more you get into it, the more you enjoy it. It's like listening to Mozart. You just hear how each piece just compliments each other. As you live out God's beautiful design, it's like, oh, this is just so beautiful. You know, it's wonderful how God created in the harmony of his design all these things to work together.

God's word speaks to His church. That should be axiomatic. It should be obvious. God's word speaks to His church. I think a primary way to hear this whole seeker-sensitive thing is purpose.

1 Timothy 3.15. But if I am delayed, I write so that you may know how you ought to conduct yourself in the household of God, which is the Church of the Living God, the pillar and ground of the truth. God's purpose, one of the main purposes for the church, is that the Church of Jesus Christ would support God's truth. That God's people would be about the business of supporting the truth of the Word of God. That's one of the reasons where we, where should you go to find truth?

The Word of God. Where is that Word supported? The Church of God. The Church's role is to support the truth. How do we do that?

By right believing and right living. This is going to evolve all of scripture to all of life, involve our relationships, involve the private issues of our life. Let's go back to Titus as Titus is going to give us a wonderful admonition. In Titus chapter 2, and you have to see how this is contrasted. We look to Titus 2.1.16.

They profess to know God, but it works to deny Him. Then he says in chapter 2, But as for you, Speak the things which are proper for sound doctrine. Speak sound doctrine. And this is the doctrine that the church is to uphold and to support. Speak the things that are proper for sound doctrine.

And Then he talks about the intergenerational nature of the church. And he speaks to the different generations that make up, that constitute the church. And he says, the older men be sober, reverent, temperate, sound in the faith, in love, in patience. The older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanders, not given to much wine, teachers of good things. That they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children, to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands.

Why? Now this why, this that is the infinitive that follows everything that's before it. That the word of God may be not blaspheme, that God's word may not be spoken about. That means if these things are not in practice, and this is orthopraxy, not the specific details of what that looks like in each person, but the pattern of sound doctrine, This is it right here. So in a church, sound doctrine must be spoken to the intergenerational nature of the assembly, that the older men, that they are acting and thinking and behaving in this way, that the older women are acting and thinking and behaving in this way, and that the older women have a relationship with the younger women.

They're not out having their own class and doing their own tea parties. They're involved in taking the faith and applying it to the younger ladies. And the younger ladies are to be taught that the sphere of their home, that the sphere of their life is in the home. They're to be obedient to their husbands, to be raising their children. Why?

Because God is beautiful and God designed it that way. He made Adam to work in the field and to be the family leader, to provide, to protect, and to direct his family into the Word of God. He made Eve as the helpmate to help him to accomplish that mission that was given, to take dominion, be fruitful, multiply, by uniquely creating her as woman. And Adam called his wife's name Eve because she's the mother of the living. That is her unique qualification.

She is the pathway of life. And in our society, we don't know the role of women. Oh, this is beautiful. This is beautiful. Do you understand, brothers and sisters, how wonderful this is that we can see this?

Most people on the sidewalk, they don't know. They don't know. The women don't know why they're women. They don't know why God made the bodies they made. They don't know.

Most men don't know why they're men. They have no clue. But we know because we have light, and that light gives life. The church then is to speak these things into sound doctrine. The church then is up to hold the pattern of sound words and the church is to discipline those who will not conform to the pattern of sound words.

In the Reformation, one of the marks of the true church was church discipline. Today, church discipline is a mark of a cult or a heresy or the dreaded L, the legalist. No, it's because we love God's word, we love God's beauty, we love God's church. Beautiful stuff! Let us speak the things for sound doctrine.

Let us live these out. We could go on and on. We could go, children, obey your parents. Every page, every verse, every jot and tittle of scripture is to be lived out to the fullest. And to explode upon the meaning for truth, for reproof, for correction, bringing back to that truth, and for instruction on right thinking, no matter the issue.

You know, I mean anything, the arts, the entertainment. Beauty is all in the eye of the beholder. Blah! Hogwash! Beauty is all in the eyes of God!

God created it and He said it was toed my whole very, very good. God is the standard of beauty. God is the standard of thinking. God is the standard of my choices for entertainment. God is the standard of all life, of all of life.

God's Word, all of scripture for all of life. The time is fulfilled. The kingdom of God is at hand. Jesus said, repent. Believe the good news.

He says that to sinners, because we're slow to hear. Believe the truth. Believe the good news. I want to close. I think this is very, must be very dear to our hearts.

This is Paul addressing the Ephesian elders and leadership. We didn't get in, I mean you can go to any issue. This is key for Reformation. All the scripture to all of life, leadership, and we're having some great discussions on that. Paul said this, Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men.

When I stand before the bima seat of Christ, I want to hear well done and good and faithful servant. Paul said, I am innocent of the blood of all men. Why? Why was that? He says, for I am not shunned.

I am not flinched. Paul says, I didn't even flinch. I am not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God. All of scripture. Paul says, I have not even flinched to declare the whole truth.

Paul says, you can kill me, but I will not stop preaching the word of God. That's what we need. That's what we need. Brothers and sisters, will you accept this challenge? Will you accept this challenge?

If 12 people, 12 families, said, I'm going to take all of scripture, all of life, I'm going to die until I get it there by the grace of God. God could use those 12 people. 12 disciples turned the world upside down. Why? Because they followed Jesus Christ.

They didn't flinch. They just turned the other cheek and they kept loving and they kept forgiving and they beat him and they kept loving and they kept forgiving and they kept persevering. Let us do the same in Father example, by the grace of God and by the grace of God alone. I close with this poem written by Sister Huddleson. We're Christians, my family and I.

We will follow Christ till we die. He is Lord, or at least I thought, till later his advice I sought. What you wear and what you speak, is it not my heart you seek? Think about your children's schooling. Am I really ruling?

Are you indeed loving your wife? I see between you both this strife. Does she follow you as head? Just as in my word I've said. Family planning, and TV, is it all through Christ you see?

Did my dearest see this too? God said this must start with you. So We kneeled and cried while we prayed, not knowing how far that we'd strayed. The Lord revealed so much to us that we'd inadvertently failed to trust. With repentance we vowed anew.

Father, we now are sure what to do. I, the head of house and wife, all of scripture to all of life." Father, without you we can do nothing. Oh God, open the eyes of our heart that we would see good things from your word. Father, show us the beautification of your word. Show us the beauty of your design in all of our lives, Father.

And may we not flinch or even or shun to declare to eat up all of your word and to live it out into everywhere your kingdom come your will be done for your glorious namesake in Jesus name amen Brother Scott? Any questions? Hope you didn't miss the proposition. If you missed the proposition, we got major problems. Any questions?

Any questions? And please do raise your hand, because I think we're still recording this stuff too and don't you just drives you crazy when you listen to CDs and they ask you question but you can't hear what it is so please wait for a microphone and get it to you regarding preaching all of Scripture in the context of church How do you handle passages that address more difficult or mature subject matter in the context of a family-integrated service? You know, I've done that many different times. You said preaching. Paul makes one of the most beautiful applications.

I didn't get there. This sermon could go on in many parts. I could keep going. Second to before one, I charge you Therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ would judge the living and the dead and his appearing in his kingdom." Pretty high stuff, right? And what's the command he gives to this?

The application that Paul gives? Preach the word! Be ready. In season and out of season. Convict, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and teaching.

Isn't that beautiful? That's what you do. You preach the word. You use wisdom. How would you handle passages like 1 Corinthians chapter 7?

We have a mixed audience here. 1 Corinthians chapter 7, the priest's message on a husband and wife. And in my illustration was children fighting over a toy. They're not to fight over toys. That's mine, no that's mine.

You don't fight over toys. No. This is what God has given you. God's given you the toy to use, to enjoy. Now think about that in relation to 1 Corinthians chapter 7.

I just communicate. I didn't miss a beat in colorfully communicating that. My oldest is nine on down and it just went whoo. I mean they had no idea what I'm talking about. Now I know some of the teens here are sort of, you're thinking, alright.

But I've done things like that before. I mean, you have to be careful about some of that. In general, it's not a problem. I mean, we preach the word in season and out of season. We just went through Genesis, and we told the stories.

When I'm doing a narrative sermon, I tell the story. See, the dad then, he can deal with that at home. I mean, I want to be sensitive, right? We don't want to overdo anything. Illustrations are powerful.

You know, you don't illustrate certain things. And so you just tell the story and then let the families, let the father, you know, that it is, it's the word, you know, and it's beautiful. Some subjects, you know, we do have, we do believe that there is a time for gender specific teaching. You know, we have time with, I have time with the men to speak to the men. And we get down and we pray and bear our hearts and get into the specifics that men need to talk about.

And we have ladies that get together and do that as well that would not be appropriate in the congregation. And of course the one-on-one is always powerful. Thank you. You can say a lot without saying too much if you just think about it and use creative. Be creative.

Any other questions? All of scripture to all of life. Right. Is there any area of life that scripture does not speak to? We say yes, but you really think about that.

That gets difficult, doesn't it? There's a lot of application, that question right there brings up a lot of questions. You know, as to how that works itself out. It's a big process. You know, because It's kind of the catalyst that needs to take effect into every area of life.

Kevin gave a great challenge on a vision, which I'm right, my heart is right with him, on training leaders. The academics in the context of a relationship in the local assembly with elders. That has some questions to it. It's not going to happen overnight. I mean there's some things that need to happen.

What does that look like? That's an example that's just huge. Brother Bill. Jason, You did a good job illustrating the concept of compartmentalization, where we only let God into certain aspects of our life. Do you think the church today, not intentionally, but maybe inadvertently, allows us to compartmentalize by not really hitting us where we need to be hit?

Absolutely. Absolutely. That is a very important concept and there's many ways we could go at that. One thing is the program mentality. To get together and purpose to do something and have a plan is not wrong.

But the program mentality is, and you see this, my ministry is this compartment. This is my department. I teach the eight year old Sunday school class. This is my ministry. And ministry can actually be confined to a box.

And so you hear this work out in many people's lives. What's your ministry? Oh, I head up the, or I serve in the, right, junior church or whatever it is. What is ministry? Ministry is meeting needs in the power of the Holy Spirit.

That's ministry. So absolutely, if we can find ministry to a box, then we don't get into real ministry, which is all of scripture to all of life, which is fleshed out in the needs. And part of that need is to rebuke men for their slothfulness, for their idolatry. And if we live in a world of compartmentalized boxes, Our society encourages this. You know, garage door openers.

The man goes to work in a cubicle. He gets in the cubicle of his car. He pushes a button. He goes into the cubicle of his garage. Never has to wave to his neighbor.

And then he lives in the cubicle of his house. And he lives there like a rat in a treadmill. And he never gets out of the cubicle. And so church then can be just another cubicle. So we actually live this out in our fragmented society, which reflects that worldview, and There's no connection points.

And so God's word to all of life says, all that. And so, what do we do to try to break that down? One thing for us has been our men's meeting. As we say, men, where is your heart? And to get into men's lives, to get them thinking about all scripture and all of life.

For women, women's ministry can be the same thing. I do women's ministry. It's right here. Or there's a lot of comments on Titus 2 that are funny, because people try to think Titus 2 in the program, right? And how it works in the program.

No, Titus 2 is in life. That means there's relationships between women that enable them to function in discipleship roles. So it's not a program. I mean, again, if you have a plan and a purpose to do something, it's not a problem. But if that's your only paradigm for ministry, you can actually facilitate compartmentalization in the church and never get to the issue of this person's really hurting, they're spinning around in the program.

I mean, how many people have we seen like that? They're really hurting. They're spinning in the program. In the church, they're held in high esteem because they never miss a Sunday. Yes.

We can hide behind an awful lot, can't we? Real men will run to accountability. Real men will run there. I want to be accountable. I want this in my life.

Amen. Any other questions? Brother? I've got a mic switch here. Thank you.

Jason, I'd like to ask a couple questions how you would approach Well as you conduct your life. What is your heart approach to Scripture? What is your interpretive approach to Scripture and what is your? Application approach based on my heart approach heart heart heart my heart do you prepare your heart Oh approach scripture and how do you interpret scripture to make sure you're correctly understanding it and then lastly in light of those two how do you put into practice what's your approach in your practice with life before God? Very important, yes.

And I mean I'll just take a quick shot. Psalm 119, 169, Let me cry. Let my cry come before you, O Lord. Give me understanding according to your word. Let my cry.

Proverbs 2, Proverbs 2 is probably the best one. If we... Because it's going to cost. Look at Proverbs chapter 2. What is a hard approach to scripture?

And by God's grace this is what I desire to have my heart do. My son, if you receive my words and treasure my commandments within you so that you incline your ear to wisdom and apply your heart to understanding. Yes, if you cry out for discernment and lift up your voice for understanding, if you seek her as silver and search for her as for hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of the Lord and find the knowledge of God, for the Lord gives wisdom and from his mouth comes knowledge and understanding." There's a lot that goes into the then. You see there's a conclusion there. How do we search for treasure?

If you knew there's a buried treasure, what would you do to get it in that lot over there? You do a lot. I think that's a good example of a heart for God. And so It's like the number one thing, be enamored with the word above all things, to want to just suck it and eat on God's word. That would be my approach to the heart.

The other one was the interpretive approach. Normal, literal, grammatical, historical, cultural exegesis, exegetically interpreting the word of God, by the grace of God the best I can, you know, in their original, the literal grafé where they inspired the Greek, the Hebrew, the Aramaic. And so using the tools and the abilities that I have to get into that word the best I can, to understand what the author's intent, the exegetical, what it meant back there back then in that culture, what that word meant to that audience, what God was trying to communicate, a literal, normal, hermeneutics, and by God's grace we're all inconsistent, but seeking to apply that normatively and literally to every passage of scripture would be my, I guess, my hermeneutics, my grid for that. And then the last question was... The application?

I mean, do the word. Trust and obey, keep repenting, walk by faith, not by sight. Okay, it would look like here is the exegetical. What is the exegetical? What is the theology of what God is saying?

1 Corinthians 11, here's this issue of headship, which is the awesome passage on headship and the beauty of that. And then it's worked out into a cultural context. And many of my like-minded brothers here, we're not only going to agree on the expression of that head-covering passage, right? But we understand the heart of God, we understand the theology of God, right? And then we understand that there needs to be an application.

And so we work out that application with grace and mercy and understand, here's the camel, here's the gnat. Let's see how we can best apply that in our culture. And so, you know, where Scripture is clear, When God says, jump, I need to jump. When God says, repent, I need to repent and keep repenting. So I hope that helps.

Brother Royal? Your name Royal? Roland, sorry. Brother Roland. In light of what you said about the compartmentalization aspect, I was thinking as you were talking, and this isn't a question, it's just a comment, If we're too busy to do what God commands us to do, then we're too busy.

Because Jesus said the thing about deceitfulness of riches, choking out the word, and I can't remember the rest of the verse. But would you say that that's true in the sense of, You know, because sometimes you talk to people and they say, well, you know, I'd like to get involved, but I'm so busy. Oh yeah. And I think, you know, the folks in the New Testament, the early New Testament church, they had the same issues that we have to deal with. How am I going to feed my family?

How am I going to do it? And yet we see something totally different in the book of Acts. Busyness is an idol. What is your perspective on time? I ask people, I say, do you have time for God?

I think that's a great question to ask people. Going door to door, what not, do you have time for God? You can just get right to the point. Many people say no. They value time more than God.

They value what they have to do more than what God's word says. The compartmentalization is very tricky. It's nothing new. Even in ancient Israel, the question was, oh, the God of the Hebrews, he's just a god of the mountains. They compartmentalize the god of the mountains, god of the hills.

So it's nothing new. It's always been here in different religious forms. We just need to be aware that in our brains we just kind of tear down the walls for compartmentalization. And we tear down the walls that would prohibit us from getting into the Old Testament and Seeing the Old Testament is profitable that we take all of Scripture to all of life We have like two minutes. Is there another question brother?

This will be our last question then we'll go to break Jason question for you. Mr. Brown was talking about that one of the fourteen points was how we as men can be equipped to be spiritual leaders in the home. What practical fellowship found to carry that out or to, you know, to equip the men of your fellowship? Yeah, that's an excellent question And you can ask some of the men.

And back to Brother Craig's question. One thing for me that I do, we have a men's meeting the first Friday of every month. And we started with that from the very beginning. The week of the men's meeting, I set time aside to get before God in my face. Like time, okay?

To take in the word and pray. As if Puritan said, to pray till I pray. To pray through my heart so that I actually can know God's heart for a moment in time. That's so important for me. That thing carries over into that men's meeting.

That's a practical obligation. We call the men then to pray, to account, to get on their face, to humble themselves before God. When our men's meetings are going well, the spirits moving, and there's repentance and humility and just a flow of grace, things are sweet. Things are happening. Okay?

When that's stifled, it's not sweet, and it's not happening. Humility, humble. And so that's just a practical way. You start taking this book and you apply it to life, and whoa! Man, the lights come on.

1 Corinthians 14, you know, it's not life, ask the pastor after the service during the fellowship meal. No, it's ask your husband at home because he is the God-ordained teacher for your family as the head of your household. And so you start grappling with those concepts. And those are our practice. And so our practice, see, matches the doctrine.

The orthopractic and orthodoxy come together. And so our means reflect the message. And all of that is directed to put the responsibility on the man, because Adam abdicated his responsibility, and is cursed for that in the field. The woman, she usurped her authority and is cursed in the home. Her desire is to then rule in that desire that she has for her husband.

So the curse is this gender war that confuses that. Well, you start doing jurisdictional thinking and applying scripture to men and women that everything directs the man to be responsible. He can speak and ask questions, right? The wife is not. And everything directs the woman to be in submission, and things start happening.

You know, you call it like Scott said, you pull the rug out from under a man, boy, he's going to rise to that challenge. And we've seen that. Another example, during that sharing time in the assembly, for the first year and a half I think maybe a handful of men shared. We just kept working on it and working on it. I was teaching on it and teaching on it.

I did the sharing, almost all of it, that whole time during our communion and all that. And then all of a sudden, I mean, it's just like the lights went on. Now I can't get the guys to shut up. That's just a practical example of how, you know, the church and the home, you know, the beauty, the beautiful harmony that God has for that to work together. They build on each other, you know.

And then you talk about accountability and you've got brothers meeting with brothers and asking the hard question, brothers, where is your heart? Have you looked at it? And it just encourages the body in mutual edification and love. It's hard. It's a lifelong process.

My elder elder has a question. I don't have a question. I wanted to add to that. I was at that first prayer meeting and I've been at many after that. And I would say one of the key things that Jason did as a pastor that made a real difference in the environment, the practical sort of thing that you're talking about, is that he led by example.

As it says in 1 Peter, he was an example to the flock. And so the first man to repent at our prayer meetings is Jason. And so that opens up that vulnerability and shows us that example of what it means to be a man, to repent before God and get our hearts right with God. And that's been very powerful. And additionally, he has offered some formal training to us as far as exigencies go.

The one claim of fame I will have is that I can lead in repenting. I'm pretty good at that. I can repent. I've got a lot of sin to repent of. So, amen.

Well, we're going to take a 15-minute break here, and then we'll come back for When's It Right to Leave a Church? Just an awesome message, and So you're dismissed.