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Our Old Testament Bible passage is Psalm chapter 16 year the word of the Lord.

Keep me safe.

God, I run for dear life to you.

I say To God Be My Lord without you.

Nothing makes sense.

These God, chosen lives all around.

What Splendid friends they make.

Don't just go shopping for.

God, gods are not for sale.

I swear, I'll never treat God names, like, brand names, my choices.

You God.

First and only, now I find, I'm your choice.

You set me up with a house and yard, then you made me, your are the wise counsel God gives when I'm awake is confirmed by my sleeping heart.

Day and night.

I'll stick with God.

I got a good thing going and I'm not letting go, I'm Happy from the inside out and from the outside in, I'm firmly formed you canceled my ticket to hell.

That is not my destination.

Now you've got my feet on the life path.

All radiant from The Shining of your face ever since you took my hands, I'm on the right way.

Our new testament reading is Paul's letter to the Galatians.

Chapter 5 verses 1 and 13 through 25.

For Freedom Christ, has set us free stand firm.

Therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.

For you were called to Freedom brothers and sisters.

Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for self-indulgence, but through love become enslaved to one another For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment.

You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

If however, you bite and devour one, another take care that you are not consumed by one, another live by the spirit I say, and do not gratify the desires of the flesh for what the flesh desires is supposed to the spirit and what the spirit desires is opposed to the flash for, these are opposed to each other to prevent you from doing what you want.

But if you are led by the spirit, you are not subject to the law.

Now, the works of the flesh are obvious sexual immorality, impurity debacle free idolatry sorcery, and middies strife, jealousy and anger Quarles dissensions, factions Envy, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these.

I'm warning you as I warned you.

Before those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God by contrast.

The fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness generosity faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.

There is no law against such things.

Those who belong to Christ have crucified, The Flash with its passions and desires.

If we live by the spirit, let us also be guided by the spirit.

This is the word of the Lord.

Text Peter.

If you are at all familiar with the Christian faith, you have probably heard that we are called to love one another as we love ourselves.

We do this because God first loved us unconditionally and our God is available to all.

That's amazing news in a world.

That is often divided.

When we allow the holy spirit to guide us and show us the love of Christ and we can show that to others.

We might just see that their world will open up.

George Knight, says David, the writer of our Psalm is grateful to God for guiding his thoughts and for leaving him to Yahweh.

Yahweh has been leading him even in the night hours and motivating his kidneys, to help him think the illogically.

The English translation here says heart.

But the Hebrew says kidneys, those organs may be the most sensitive and possibly the most vital part of the human frame.

The ancient world accepted as fact that all our inward parts are involved in our thinking and feeling, and that each part can stand for and work for the others.

Some suggest that the kidneys were the seat of our conscience.

However, what is meant, is that God uses the whole of our being feeling in imagination, reasoning, logical, thought.

And even his digestive system to instruct him in his faith and spiritual way of life.

A year-and-a-half ago, I developed a large kidney stone that turned into three surgeries and a month of pain.

Perhaps some of you can relate to that it's physically made sense to me.

How kidney is greatly affect the entire body in a similar way.

God uses our whole bean to help us to understand and follow God, then serve others with Grace.

William Barclay tells us, it was Paul's position that the way of grace, and the way of law are mutually exclusive, the way of law makes salvation dependent on human achievement, the person who takes the way of Grace, simply passed them self and their sin upon the mercy of God.

Something interesting about the Apostle Paul was that his theology was very ethical and practical.

He believed it wasn't much good to teach something to someone unless you can make it practical to their lives.

For example, we don't have to feel constrained by the law because Grace and Abel's us to want to make God proud of our words and actions and focus on our commitment to serving others.

Our church wired were Bible studies.

Have us discussing many different timely news topics.

Recently, we've discussed forms of government many different forms of government around the world, their original purposes and yes, they're distortions to take this a step further.

You may know that monarchy is a government by one and began in the interest of efficiency for government by committees.

As we may know, as Presbyterians has always had its occasional drawbacks.

Oligarchy means government by the few and can be justified by arguing that maybe only a few are actually fit to govern aristocracy means government by the best, but the best is left to be defined.

Plutocracy means government by the wealthy and it's justified by the claim that those who had the biggest stake in the country, have a logical right to rule it, but they are not always the best leaders.

Democracy means peep government of the People by the people for the people.

Christianity may be the only true democracy because in a Christian State, everyone would think as much of their neighbor as they do themselves.

Christianity is not meant to give freedom to sin, but by the grace of God, the freedom not to send.

In the end, selfishness does not exalted person, it destroys them and those around them causing the individual to see others as Rivals rather than brothers and sisters, self-centeredness inevitably leads to using others for one's own needs.

While the self is ultimately Never Satisfied, always unfulfilled.

Paul warns us about several such pitfalls in life during his time, a perversion of sexual activity was common and fertility.

Cults.

And also prostitution, primarily among the poor today that could translate to pornography addiction and human trafficking.

Impurity can be thought of, you know, as an unclean wound.

A tree that has never been pruned or material that needs to be sifted or refined here though, we are referring to ceremonial uncleanliness which prevents a person from approaching their gods.

What Paul means by impurity is a person being unfit to come before God the soil and of our lives with the things that separate us from Christ.

The barkery.

democracy is like not being able to control, one's self to the extent that a person, no longer cares, how they affect their loved ones, or even God, sometimes this can come in the form of addictions.

Idolatry is worshiping human-made gods or putting material things between us and God.

The Temptations of money.

Power or Creature Comforts are common.

Sorcery or witchcraft in this context, actually means the abuse of drugs, believe it or not like a slow poisoning.

This was also very common in the ancient world.

Belladonna is a plant, containing a toxin that in doses too small to kill and mediately dilates the eyes.

You may also know this as Nightshade when a human is attracted to another their eyes dilate seen this happen.

To another person triggers of subconscious attraction response, so Belladonna was used as a love potion.

The problem behind this was manipulation God does not want us to manipulate others in any way honesty and communication is the healthy way to go if possible.

Enmity is being characteristically hostile to others versus caring for others.

The way that Jesus demonstrated there is obviously a lot of hostility in our world today.

Strife, Strife is like rivalry - competition and interest in arguing goes against Godly conflict, resolution and Harmony.

We may see this today in domestic or political disputes.

Jealousy can be very common, especially in cases of low self-esteem.

Basically don't obsess over something.

Someone has that is not meant to be yours.

Anger in this context is like, quick, violent bursts of temper.

It is normal to feel anger.

It's okay.

But what we do with that makes all the difference, Harbin Road as a clinical psychologist, specializing in the treatment of angry men.