Discernment

I did something with the men's...we had a men's club here a few years ago, and I did something in that group. I had a fake Confederate money, you know, from the Confederacy back in 1863. And I had a real bill of Confederate money. Now, neither worth much, of course. Actually, the ones just had historical value, so it's worth a little money, not much. The fake one's worth nothing. And then I held them up and passed them around and said, can you tell the difference? And we ended up with about 50%...well, it wasn't even that many. Some said it's this one, some said it's that one, and some said, I have no idea. How would you even tell what's real and what's not real? Yet, if you knew the criteria, there's a criteria that you look at to say, okay, this is real and that's not real. It was obvious. You don't know it. There's no way of telling whether one was real and one was not. You know, when they teach people at banks how to consider if a bill is counterfeit or not, they first teach them what a real bill looks like. You don't teach them what the counterfeit looks like. You teach them what the real, actual money looks like. So anything that doesn't look like this, meet all this criteria, it's counterfeit. And I think it's a very good lesson, the idea that we have to look at what's genuine. We have to figure out what's genuine before we can figure out what's fake. What's real before what's fake? Because so much in the world, whether it's our... You know, it's whether our spiritual beliefs, it's our belief in reality, our belief in what's wise or foolish, all the decisions we're making. So much of the time, we're basing our decisions on things that are fake. We just don't know it. And I don't mean conspiracy theories. I mean, it's not real in the way God designed it. Now, we live in a fake world because the God of this world is Satan. So it's all fake. It's all made up. It's not what God wants. And here we are coming out of that. And we just spent eight days celebrating coming out of that. And I really enjoyed or I learned. I appreciated all the messages we had at Gatlinburg this year. I got something out of every one of them. I can't say anything new, but just something that triggered a thought or maybe said, yeah, I need to think about that more. I just I appreciated it. And so we're always trying to look at what's the difference and how do I discern it? That's what discern means. It means to look at something and be able to tell what's right, what's wrong, what's fake, what's not fake. We're talking about discernment today, the difference, being able to tell the difference between truth and error, good and bad, and what is wisdom and foolishness.

You see, it's possible and we have to be very aware of this because I've known people who aren't aware of this and they don't understand what's happening in their lives. It is possible to have a lot of godly knowledge. It's possible to know a lot of the truth in this book and not discern what's right and wrong in everyday life.

I've known people who could explain frontwards and backwards why you don't have an immortal soul.

I have books at home from Protestant theologians who can prove there is no everlasting burning hell and you don't have an immortal soul and you don't go to heaven. And they actually do it in detail that's greater than what we do. But they don't believe in the Sabbath, which seems to me just as easy to prove.

We can have a great deal of knowledge, but are we discerning how that knowledge applies in the decisions we make every day? Philippians 1. And I just thought I'd cover this since we just spent time discerning, learning discernment.

And now we have to go apply that discernment because now we have to go back into the real world that we live in.

Philippians 1. And let's go to verse 9. Paul says, And this I pray, one of Paul's personal statements he makes to people in his letters, This I pray that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment. In other words, your love that God's teaching us, he's telling those people, what God is teaching you and love, remember, isn't just about the physical emotions.

This is agape here. It's about the core of who you are as a human being because it comes from God. It's the core of who he is. So that this will just keep growing and growing in knowledge and all discernment. He could have just said knowledge, but he didn't. The ability to discern that, to look at it, and then be able to look and say, This is real and this is not. This is true. This is not. And you and I will be doing that our whole lives. We're always struggling with what's wise and what's not wise, what's good and what's not bad. That's part of the learning process we're going through. He said that you may approve the things that are excellent, that you may be sincere and without offense till the day of Christ. He said so that you can be sincere. That's a fascinating word in Greek, but basically it means it's almost like the word integrity. It's not exactly the same, but in other words, you don't have any cracks in you. If a pot is sincere in pottery, that meant there was no cracks in it. It's together. It's one thing. I talked about integrity today, but I ended up with discernment because there is a certain connection between the two aspects of character, although they're not exactly the same. Verse 11, being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God. I want to read this from the New International Version. Sometimes it's a little inconsistent in its translations, but every once in a while it will get something where it really captures the meaning of the words into English. So verse 9 says, This is my prayer that you love me about more and more in knowledge and depth of insight. Now that is a good description of what it means to have discernment. Depth of insight, able to look at things beyond the surface and have a depth to understanding. He says, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ. So we have to be able to discern what is best, what is good, what is godly, and become pure in our discernment.

Filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ to the glory and praise of God. I want to go through three steps to learning how to have better discernment. Because we tell you all the time about how to study your Bible so you can learn knowledge. We teach all the time how to learn knowledge. You are doing your studying, your prayer, your discussing things. You are learning knowledge all the time. But discernment is something different. As I said, I've known a few people through my life that have remarkable biblical knowledge in the church and live lifestyles that are absolutely wrong, filled with sin.

However, they are so self-righteous they can't have a relationship with anybody. They have all this knowledge, but they are self-righteous about the knowledge. And they can't have a relationship with anybody. They end up alone sometimes. They can't even belong to a church. There is nobody who is as good as them. And the knowledge isn't the issue. It's the discernment of how that becomes applicable to our lives.

Because the more we really understand where our knowledge comes from, the more humble we become. Because we don't get it, God gives it to us. God has to give us this knowledge. God has to give us an understanding. And God actually has to give us discernment. We have to keep submitting and looking how to grow in those ways. The first one is, let's go to 2 Corinthians 13. Okay, you're presented with something. And this isn't just spiritual. We should use this in everyday applications of things we know. I don't know about you, but I don't care what news story I read, and I don't care where it comes from. I'm usually thinking, I don't know if that's true or not.

Part of it probably is, I don't take anything in face value hardly anymore. Everybody has an agenda. Everybody has their own ideas. Everybody is putting their own spin on everything. Sometimes I'll look at something and say, that can't be true. I'll do a little research and find out that actually part of that is true. Then I'll look at something and say, oh, that's probably true.

Do a little research and find out that, well, actually 90% of that isn't even true. And yet it came out in a major news source. And it takes a lot. Sometimes people will ask me questions. What do you think about this and this news story? My answer is, I have no idea.

I have no idea what the truth is. Because truth isn't part of what's going on in the world that we live in. Everybody has their own concepts, ideas, agendas, and everything's being twisted to fit that. So when we look at this concept of discernment, we're not just talking about spirituality. We're talking about how we discern our lives and what's around us. 1 Corinthians 13. Or 2 Corinthians, I'm sorry. 2 Corinthians 13. And let's look at verse 5.

Now this is interesting because this has to do with criteria. Examine yourselves as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourselves. Do you not know yourselves that Jesus Christ is in you? Unless indeed you are disqualified. Now this is the middle of something that Paul is writing to the church there at Corinth. And this is just a thought amidst a bunch of thoughts. But of itself it makes a point. Examine yourselves to whether you're in the faith and test what?

Test yourself. When it comes to discernment, we will test everything sometimes but ourselves. We'll test everything but ourselves. We'll examine everything but ourselves. And what Paul says, okay, whatever you're dealing with, first, examine yourself and find out if you are being truthful.

Sometimes we can be so motivated by a preconceived idea, our own emotions, that we won't be truthful. We're being motivated by that and we're not seeing what's really happening. Or we can make judgments about somebody that's just not true. But we'll believe it. And we're not believing it because we're a liar. We're believing it because we haven't tested not only what's real, but we haven't tested ourselves. And he gives us the criteria. He says, oh, I've got to examine myself and test myself. What's the criteria? That Jesus Christ is in you. That's what he said.

We have in the life of Jesus Christ the criteria to know whether we're being counterfeit or not. I mean, our discernment starts with that. Discernment starts with, okay, am I being honest with myself? Am I being honest with what God tells me to do? Am I judging this situation the way Jesus Christ would judge it? And so discernment starts with yourself because sometimes we want something to be so true that we'll believe it even when it's not.

Because we want it to be true. We want it to be true that there's somebody that's going to come along and save our country. And somehow the economy is going to work okay. And there's going to be no wars. And we're going to go back to, you know, Walmart being stocked all the time and cheap stuff. That's a low expectation of life. But it's not true. It's our expectation. It's our hope. And so we can hope in physical people to do that, and they can't. That's what the last eight days has taught us. It sets our minds on. The world can't be fixed until Satan's removed.

It can't. So we start with an examination of ourselves, or we can begin to accept a counterfeit. Here's the greatest problem, and I say this from my own experience. Our greatest problem with discernment is we don't discern how when we're being a counterfeit. It's hard because you just trust yourself, right? We trust ourselves. And many times we're being a counterfeit. So we start with examine yourself in the relationship and the example of Jesus Christ. This is what Paul says.

That's what you do. Test yourself. Examine yourself. How do you measure up here with Jesus Christ? Now we'll go on to the real other problem, because that has to be right first. So discernment starts there. It starts with examining ourselves and then going into, okay, the situation, the facts. Many times in life, you never get all the facts, do you? You never get all the facts. So you look at where am I spiritually first? Now I can have discernment from God to know what's right here.

You know, it's very interesting in Acts 17. We look at this sometimes when we miss something in it, because it's an often quoted passage. Acts 17, verse 10. Because we use it to say we need to follow this example by studying our Bibles. Verse 10 of Acts 17.

Now we read that and say, okay, they studied their Bibles, studied their Bibles. But what's interesting is we miss something here. They just didn't do this independently. They had been trained and prepared to receive Paul's message. And if you don't see it, you miss it here. They were in the synagogue. Now let's say we need to go to synagogues to be trained. I'm saying they were prepared with the scripture. It's interesting him teaching in the pagan world. They weren't as easy to convert. And when they did convert, they brought all kinds of other problems with them. That's why once you get into the 50s and 60s in the church, and Paul's writing to the churches, they're pretty much a mess. They were predominantly pagans. They weren't predominantly Jews anymore. And they were dealing with all different issues that the Jews didn't deal with. These Jews had been prepared, but it also was many of the Greek. In other words, the people there that weren't Jews in that first beginning of that church in Berea were people who had already been trained in the synagogue. They already had given up paganism. They had already come into Judaism and then realized there was a problem with Judaism. They had to move out of that. And they were kicked out of it. At the feast in Gatlinburg, Scott Ashley gave a really good presentation on why there has to be some kind of temple in Jerusalem before the tribulation starts. And he went through the basic scriptures and showed it and so forth. But you know, I talked to people, and they said, well, when they start that, well, we participate in that. No. But it's a temple. They'll have Levites there, which they will. They have the red heifer. They do. They have all the utensils already created. The Israeli government has spent a lot of time helping that happen. Although, as he brought out, a majority of Israelis don't want a temple. They're so secularized they don't want a temple. It's just a small group that wants it. But you know who wants it more? There's actually more evangelical Christians in the United States who want that temple, and they're the ones sending them the money. And the reason why is, if the temple comes, Jesus will come back. So we've got to build the temple first. So they're motivating this to do something for a totally different reason than the Orthodox Jews are. But why won't we participate in it? Because Judaism, which was an extension of what God had given ancient Israel, had reached a point where it rejected the Messiah and God created the Church. We can't go back into Judaism. These people had to leave Judaism. They had to discern that. But the training they got was from there. That's why they were able to look at the Scriptures and say, Oh yes, Jesus is the Messiah. Where the majority of the Jews did not see that. And they don't to this day. They just don't see it to this day. They can't. But I just want to bring that out in terms of their discernment. We think, where did their sermon come from? Paul comes along and says, here's a Bible. Read it. He didn't have a Bible. There was no New Testament when Paul showed up in Berea. He showed up and all he had was, let me tell you about Isaiah. And then, of course, the pagans are saying, who's Isaiah? But these people knew who Isaiah was. So they were able to have the discernment because first they got the Scripture. They believed the Scripture and the God of the Bible. The second point is in 1 Thessalonians.

And this is similar to what he says there, what we just read. But he says it a little different. So let's go to 1 Thessalonians 5. This is an interesting statement by Paul, where sometimes he would go into such depth. You know, in Romans he can spend four chapters explaining three points, because they're very important. Then sometimes there was this pithy little statements. He would just write them out. And each one of them, if you really think about it, you could spend hours trying to discern what that really means.

But here, in this list of sort of pithy statements in 1 Thessalonians 5, it actually starts in verse 15, where he gives them this little introduction. Then verse 16 is the start of the pithy statements, where he joins always, pray without ceasing, and everything give thanks. Boom, boom, boom, these statements of this is what the Christian life is all about. But notice verse 21. Test all things.

Hold fast to what is good. In other words, you're going to have to discern this, and you do that by testing it. Which the Bereans did, right? So the first point leads into the second point. So we have that first point that we are to examine, but then we have to test it. Does this measure up? We examine this, we can see where there might be some truth in it, then we have to see how it measures up.

We have to test it. Look at all the Scriptures. I mean, if I pull out the Scripture that says, oh, there's numerous Scriptures, there's numerous verses I can pull out, and if I just read you that verse, it looks like everybody goes to an everlasting burning hell. And you'll see people just stand on that verse. That's what it says, I believe my Bible. Okay, let's test it with all the other verses.

And so if we have 80 verses that says one thing and two that says something else, you use the 80 to interpret the two, not the two to interpret the 80. Which actually is a basic concept of exegesis of the Bible. You bring that out to a trained Protestant minister, and you say, well, that's true, that's what we're taught. Then how do you come to the conclusion you do? You're using two to interpret the 80. You have to reverse that. The 80 is what you do.

You test them, see? You test things. You look at them. So once again, we have to know, we have to be looking for and praying for the true qualities. The true qualities of truth always comes out from God through the Bible and from God through Jesus Christ. Okay? It always comes through those two things. The Bible is our criteria. And then Jesus Christ, that person we can look at and see as example, as the Son of God, the eternal Son of God, we look at Him and say, okay, that's our criteria. We have those two criteria.

So we always examine and we always test. 1 John 4, 1. 1 John 4, verse 1. It's a very simple sermon, but we've just left where we received an awful lot of knowledge and insight and vision. But now we're going to have to make sure, as we go through into the real world we live in actually not the real world, the fake world of Satan.

We're trying to get to the real world of God. We have to be able to examine and test everything that's thrown at us. I've seen people baffled by the argument that the Bible can't be true because a loving God would never have killed all the children in Sodom and Gomorrah. And that argument has turned to a multitude of young people in the Protestant world against the Bible. That's right, a loving God wouldn't do that. It can't be true.

He also wouldn't kill everybody in the flood. It can't be true. That's not what our God does. My God doesn't do that. Your God might do that, but my God loves us. That's why God won't judge LGBTQ because why? Because He loves them. See, you have to examine why God would kill people in Sodom before you can argue the other point. But once you believe those things, that's where you end up.

That's why they have to learn, and it's very hard for them because it's all emotion. You have to learn to examine and test on a criteria. That's why they're shocked when you go to the teachings of Jesus and read something Jesus said. Well, He didn't say that. Yes, He did. It's right here. He couldn't have said that. Yes, He did. It's right here in your Bible. And then they'll get angry and almost hysterical.

If you ever see, watch the YouTube where there's ministers that go into college campuses and have these discussions, it's amazing. They'll just bring out a simple quote of Jesus, and you have all these people saying, You're not Christian! You're not Christian! That's what He says. And they just won't even listen to Him. They're hysterical. Because now their whole worldview crumbles. If that's true, everything they believe is not true. And yet we're told to examine and test. First John 4, verse 1. This is important. This is a whole sermon in itself, so I'm just going to mention it.

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world. He's saying here, test the spirit behind something. What is their motivation? Why are they doing what they're doing?

I've seen even good teachings, but I didn't trust the person teaching. Not because they weren't perfect. You're never going to find a perfect minister, right? You're never going to find a perfect person. If you're looking for a perfect person to tell you the truth, just go live by yourself. Of course, you're not perfect either, so we're all doomed, right? So I'm not talking about looking for perfection. And I'm not saying look for somebody who's truthful 100% of the time. All human beings have flaws in what we say. We just do.

I mean, some of the New Testament writers had troubles with each other because they had conversations. I mean, Peter and Paul had an argument, okay? We're all learning and growing together, but when someone is teaching, look for the spirit behind it. Because God doesn't motivate positive change. Now, I say that the knowledge may be right, but positive change doesn't come through pride. It doesn't come through hatred. It doesn't come through selfishness or self-righteousness or bitterness. It doesn't come from that. It comes from something else. So sometimes we have to be careful to examine the spirit by which something's coming, where it's coming from.

You may actually be able to say, you know, that's true. Okay, this point is true, but separate it from the spirit in which it's done. If you understand what I'm saying, sometimes you have to separate what's being said from the spirit which is done because that spirit will eventually produce wrong. It will eventually go someplace, that person will eventually, even if it's not their intention, will go someplace they should not go. So test the spirits.

And then our third point is in Hebrews 5, verse 14. When you get through this, I thought, man, I almost have the scientific method. If you remember studying the scientific method in school, that sort of a spiritual, I mean, I don't know if I can call it spiritual scientific method, but it's similar in some ways. Hebrews 5. And verse 14. But solid food, he's talking about spiritual solid food, he's using an allegory here. For solid food belongs to those who are of full age.

That is, those who by reason of use, okay, they've examined, they've tested, and they've used the right criteria, the Bible and Jesus Christ. The Bible and Jesus Christ are the criteria. So by reason of use, examining and testing, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. Exercise. We have to learn and do.

And sometimes we do wrong. Sometimes we misunderstand. And you know what we do? We're supposed to go to God and say, I've learned to look at this different now. I've examined and tested and found out I was wrong. I ask you to forgive me so I won't do that again. You see how the process will always lead us back to God. Because we're always with the same criteria. If we're always using that criteria of the Bible and Jesus Christ, we'll always end up in the same place, back to God, even when we've fallen down, even when we've stumbled, even when we've sinned, even when we made a bad decision.

We go back and say, that doesn't work. I'm sorry. Teach me better. Help me. So we don't stay locked into the failure. You can't stay locked into failure. So God's forgiveness is about unlocking that to say, I learned, I won't do that one again. I won't make that mistake again. But you have to be exercised. Here's the problem. I can remember all through my life, I've done all kinds of exercise programs. Going to the gym, boy, that one really helped. About three months, four nights a week, I went to the gym and I worked out.

I'm lifting weights, I'm riding the bicycle, I'm doing all these things. And then after about four, three, four months, I started doing it twice a week, and then once a week, skipping a week once in a while. Last time I got on an exercise bike, my knees were so bad I couldn't even ride it. I thought, what changed? Oh yeah, it's been four years since I've been on an exercise bike. Probably longer than that. Exercise means that you habitually do this. You have to habitually exercise this. If you've already done exercise programs or diets, you know, some fail, some don't, or done it and given it up, you understand.

Once you stop doing it, it becomes easy not to do it. It becomes really hard to go back and restart it. Once you know to do good, say you have examined, you have tested, you have proved something that's good, and then you do it. And then you stop doing it. It gets very hard to go back. That's what human nature is.

We have to continue to exercise. Now, the opposite of that is true. The more you exercise good, the more difficult it is to go back. You talk to people who've been through, I know my dad was a habitual smoker, chain smoker, and he would talk about what it was like to give up chain smoking, and how for a long time after that, he always wanted to go back. And then it got to the place just smelling smoke, made him sick, right?

He reached another point in life where he never wanted to go back. But there's that battle in between, and you and I are in these battles all the time. And we have to be careful as we exercise. Every step backward you take means that it's a little harder to take the next step, but you've got to keep doing it. You can't use a failure as an excuse for a life. You say, oh, now my whole life's a failure.

No, you had a failure. You made a bad decision. You did something stupid. You were unwise. Maybe you even sinned. You have to say, no, I have to keep moving forward. I have to exercise this.

And you have to ask God for help and guidance and direction to keep moving. Because if you go backward far enough, you almost have to go through terrible trials to move forward. You just can't. The bad has to happen to make you move forward. Once you find out you have lung cancer, all of a sudden, stop smoking seems important. But it's a little late. You're going to suffer a terrible penalty for not stopping earlier.

So we have to exercise. Now, in all this, I should bring up a sub-point here. We apply this spiritually, but we also have to apply this concept in wisdom and foolishness. What is wise? What's a wise decision and what's a foolish decision? And it's fascinating because there's so much in the Bible about wisdom and foolishness. And, you know, you can... I've seen people do all kinds of wise and foolish investments, right? Don't ask me about investments because I have very little wisdom to give you, except be real careful. I worked for a minister one time.

He said, here's what I tell people when they come to me about investments. He said, I invested one time in this town I lived in, a new bank started. So I invested all my extra money in a new bank. I thought, how could that go wrong? Then they went under and they weren't covered by FDIC. So he said, I lost my savings. You know, he was young and he says, don't invest in banks. He says, everything else is on your own because I don't know. Just don't invest in small banks. And I was left about that, so I've never invested in a small bank.

But everybody makes wise decisions or unwise decisions when it comes to money, right? You buy a car, what a good deal, then you find out, yeah, they sold at that price because it was a lemon. And now you've got to pump so much money into it to just keep it running. Or there's things that are beyond our control. You can invest in certain things and certain things happen and all of a sudden it's worthless.

They're not worth as much as you paid for it. But there's still criteria you use that smart people use so that most of their investments at least do something good. Now, I can't... Nobody can invest for the collapse of the economy, which could happen. But what I'm saying is there's wise investments, there's unwise investments. There's wise cars to buy, there's unwise cars to buy. There's criteria that you use for those decisions. There's a wise house to buy. Sometimes people say, well, no, I'm not going to buy. I'm just going to rent. And you know, it used to be if you're renting, you're throwing money away. There's lots of economists now that say, but the way prices of houses are, it's better to rent and save the extra money.

And invest it. What's wise? I have no idea.

The important thing is, it's the same thing. Examine and test and exercise.

Learn from what you do, from the good things you do and the bad things you do. But wisdom is learned the same way as we grow spiritually.

It's the same process. Examine, test, exercise. Learn. Repeat step one. Repeat step one. That's how we learn wisdom.

It just isn't poured into us.

It is a learned process. We have a great example.

In the first kings that won't go there, where Rhea Boalem became king of Israel. Jeroboalem was an enemy of his father Saul, of Rhea Boalem's father, or not Saul, I mean Solomon. And he came along and said, There's too much taxes on the people and we want you to take the taxes off. He went to examine that and test that. He said, well, let me look at it. He examined it. Yeah, there's too many taxes. He tested it and he got advice.

And all the older wise men of the advisors to the king said, Yeah, you got to take some of these taxes off the people. All the young guys said, that was his advisors, tax them and we'll all be richer. So guess what he did?

He taxed them so they could all be richer and ten of the tribes left Israel or left Judah and said, You're on your own. We're not going to be with you anymore.

El came down and they were fighting over taxes.

And it was because he was motivated by his own. He hadn't examined himself.

His decisions were not motivated by what was good or wise for the people or what God wanted.

It was wise because he got a benefit.

And so even when it comes down to wise physical decisions, as opposed to foolish physical decisions, the first examination is of us. Why am I doing this?

What is the purpose for me doing this?

And I would have money. It doesn't matter. All our decisions in life. Why am I doing it?

What is the benefit? What is the results on other people?

What are the results on other people?

And we all become, as we get older, we don't do certain things not because it would be evil. We don't do them because other people wouldn't benefit from it.

That's part of what getting married and having kids is, right?

You don't buy the new fishing pole or the new, you know, giant screen TV or whatever it is you want.

You buy shoes, right? You buy shoes because those kids need shoes.

So it's not an unwise decision, but yeah it is.

So we always have to examine ourselves even in the context of wisdom and foolishness.

So we've looked at spiritual discernment as the ability to see the differences between truth and error, good and bad, and wisdom and foolishness.

And there's three steps in that. One is we have to examine. We have to examine.

And in that examination we have to look at ourselves. And the criteria is always the Bible and Jesus Christ. That's the criteria.

Because Christ shows us what God is, okay, what he thinks, how he acts.

Two, we test. We have to be sensitive to even the spirit behind something.

What is the spirit behind something? What is the motivation behind it?

Because there may be truth, but there may be a hidden danger in that truth. You keep the truth, you don't follow the spirit.

And three, exercise. It's not to discern good and evil and do the evil means nothing.

If you discern evil as evil and continue to do it, eventually you will think evil is good and good is evil. It will change your discernment.

You can't discern something is wrong and keep doing it.

It is actually the cognitive dissonance of now. Well, we all do it all the time. So we all know the stress of that.

The craziness. Well, that's probably not the right thing to do, but it's what I want to do. And you do it.

And you suffer because you do it long enough. And what are you going to do?

You either suffer until you break down or you'll simply stop suffering by rejecting the good. That's what happens. So we have to exercise it. So we're home. We've got a glimpse into the spirit, the real spirit world, the reality of God, what God wants to give to us in the future and what he wants to do in our lives now. So between now and Passover, let's be very sensitive to make sure that we're not buying any counterfeits.