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As you can see, the title of my
message is Restoration of a Damaged Soul.
And, of course, I'm speaking to mostly, here,
this morning, our men in our live-in
program who have been terribly damaged inside by
the ravages of sexual immorality.
And I don't know of much out there
that can more quickly destroy an inner life
than sexual sin.
But, I want to say that this message
is just as applicable to any person.
I was thinking about the women in this
room, here, this morning.
And I want to say that your souls
have been damaged as well, because we have
all gone astray.
Turn to Psalm 19, if you would.
I want to look at a few verses
there in Psalm 19, verses 7 through 9.
And, basically, what we have here are six
clauses that all have the name of God
associated in them.
Jehovah, Yahweh, however you pronounce it.
And these are all to do with the
Word of God, the Word of the Lord.
And what I want to say is that
I believe this is one of those passages
of Scripture where the first phrase is really
what it's all about.
And everything behind it is added in as
a support to that phrase.
It could have just been expressed in this
first clause.
The law of the Lord is perfect, restoring
the soul.
That is what I believe David wanted to
express to us.
But then he follows that up with supporting
statements, which we're going to get into.
But I want to skip down to the
last one.
The judgments of the Lord are true.
They are righteous altogether.
And, you know, what I want to say
is that you'll notice these other phrases all
have to do with the work that goes
on inside the soul.
But this last phrase is just a statement
about the Word of God.
And so, you know, I'm not going to
try to make that into a point in
my message here today because it doesn't fit
in that regard.
What I'm going to do is I'm just
going to add that into that first clause
because that's what I believe it's saying.
The law of the Lord is perfect, true,
and righteous altogether, restoring the soul.
I believe that's really what it's saying.
I mean, you know, it certainly isn't wrong
to put it that way.
But that's the way I'm going to say
it here just for the sake of our
message, that the law of the Lord is
perfect, true, and righteous altogether.
And here's the effects on it.
Your soul, if you allow it, if you
apply it to your soul, if you allow
the Holy Spirit to work it into you,
it has the power, the efficacy to restore
your damaged soul.
That's good news.
That is good news.
That we're not hopeless, we're not stuck adrift
in a sea of going nowhere, floundering, as
if things will never get any better.
No, it's not true.
We do have hope, and we have hope
because of the Word of God.
And we have to decide if we believe
the claims that the Word of God makes.
And I want to say to you this
morning, unequivocally, that in spite of all the
empty promises and shallow platitudes that come forth
from psychology, I want to say as clearly
as I know how to say no, that
it's the Word of God that promises to
restore my soul.
How is that going to happen?
It's going to bring wisdom to the simple
person.
It's going to bring a great deal of
inward joy.
It's going to bring spiritual light.
It's going to bring a person into the
proper fear of the Lord.
That's how it's going to happen.
Which just happens to work out pretty well
for a preacher, you know, because you can
lay out those nice little points for a
sermon.
But before I get to that, I want
to just touch on one word briefly.
The law.
The law of the Lord.
Now, realistically, that term just encompasses all of
the Word of God.
It's not meant just for the Pentateuch, the
Torah.
It's not just that.
And it really does refer to the whole
counsel of God.
You know, the whole entire Word of God.
That's what it means.
But I want to just look at that
word just briefly from a different perspective.
And that is law in the sense of
there are just laws in life.
When we think of laws, we think of
speed limits.
We think of rules.
We think of regulations.
Or if we apply it to the Christian
realm, what we tend to think of is
the dos and don'ts, the Ten Commandments and
things like that.
That's what we tend to think of with
law.
But what I want to talk about is
more of the principles of life.
Like, for instance, the law of gravity.
That's a law in the physical realm.
And if we looked at our bodies, for
instance, there are certain laws to do with
our health.
You know, if we abuse our bodies, we're
going to pay a price for it, right?
That's just a law of life.
That was the way that God created our
bodies to operate was that we need certain
nourishment coming into our bodies daily.
And if we abuse that in some way,
let's say we just go on a candy
bar diet, well, you know, we're going to
be sickly.
We're not going to be full of health
and vigor and, you know, and all of
that.
We're just not going to operate the way
that God created our bodies to operate.
Or apply it to a farmer.
You know, if he operates with the laws
of the land, land meaning earth, if he
operates and treats his crops right, whatever that
means, you know, watering them and doing whatever
farmers do, then he's going to end up
with a crop.
But if he doesn't treat his land right,
if he doesn't plow it and disk it
and plant right and all that stuff, if
he doesn't do things right, he may end
up with a crop, but it's going to
be a sickly crop, isn't it?
There's not going to be anything worthwhile there.
Well, it's the same thing for us spiritually.
There are spiritual laws.
And this is one of these spiritual laws
that we're talking about, that the word of
God has the capacity, has the power to
come into a damaged soul and restore spiritual
health.
That's one of the great needs that we
all have, because we have started off from
the very beginning.
We've started off in the negative, in trouble,
spiritually.
And you know what happens is unless we
allow the law to get inside of our
hearts, penetrate our hearts and restructure things and
turn the tide around, unless we allow that
to happen inside of us, we're going to
go down a downward path.
And we're going to get worse and worse
and worse.
We're going to become increasingly more corrupted inside,
more prideful, more self-centered.
In fact, you can just let yourself go
so far that you become literally insane.
Because you will not allow God's word to
take its proper place inside of you, to
rule and reign in your heart and in
your inside world, your inner man.
That's where you'll end up going.
This passage is typical of Scripture.
Listen, I heard someone say one time or
I read it or something that the Apostle
Paul is a terrible writer.
And I know what the guy was saying.
The point he was making is as far
as authors are concerned, the Apostle Paul just
wasn't a good writer.
And that's who he was referring to.
But I would just expand that out to
the whole Bible.
But there's a method in the madness.
God didn't write out Scriptures to coincide with
our logical thinking minds.
He didn't create the Bible to be that
way, to be constructed that way.
He purposely created it to be something that
you have to dig into to get the
truth out of it.
He wanted it that way.
Why?
Because those who are sincere, those with sincere
hearts will get past obstacles.
You'll work your way past that and you
will find the truth and you'll apply it
to your heart.
I'm going to just kind of rework these
phrases in a different order.
And the reason is because, well, it's because
that's the way I want to do it.
Okay, so that's why I'm going to do
it that way.
Now, there is a method to my madness
too.
Let's just look at these phrases.
Number one, I'm going to begin with the
fear of the Lord.
Why am I going to begin with that?
Because that's what the Bible says.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning
of knowledge.
And if the Bible says it, it must
be true, right?
So that's what we'll start with.
The fear of the Lord is clean and
enduring.
Let me read it in a couple other
translations.
Reverence for the Lord is a pure and
lasting way of life.
Another translation says, How sacred a thing is
the fear of the Lord, which is binding
forever.
Now, this phrase is an exceedingly important phrase
in Scripture.
The fear of the Lord.
And, you know, it doesn't say the fear
of the Lord does something.
Actually, it's implied that when you spend time
in the Word, and I'll even show you
here in a second, when you spend time
in the Word, the fear of the Lord
is one of the benefits of that.
That it becomes established within you.
The fear of the Lord.
You know, what I just read to you.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning
of knowledge.
Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
That comes from Proverbs 1.
And the entire first chapter of Proverbs is
all about the Word of God and the
fear of the Lord.
And what it ends up with is the
second half of that chapter is a terrifying
warning.
That if you will not allow me to
come inside of you and straighten out your
wayward thinking, terrible calamity is in store for
you.
That's basically what the first chapter of Proverbs
is all about.
And then the second chapter of Proverbs, I'm
just going to read these first few verses.
My son, if you will receive my words
and treasure my commandments within you.
That's not just talking about someone who reads
their Bible.
That's not referring to someone who memorizes Scripture.
That's referring to someone when the Word of
God comes at them and deals with them,
confronts issues inside of them, they receive it.
They humble themselves before it.
They acknowledge it.
They say, yes, sir.
And they do what they've been told to
do.
They respond.
And whenever you respond to the Word of
God as it comes your way, you are
receiving it inside of you to do its
work inside.
And that is really what treasuring the Word
of God is all about.
It's not memorizing Scripture.
That's a very shallow perspective.
Not that there's anything wrong with memorizing Scripture.
Don't misunderstand what I'm saying.
But that's head stuff.
For it to get down inside of you,
you've got to embrace what it is saying
and let it do its work inside of
you.
Make your ear attentive to wisdom.
Incline your heart to understanding.
For if you cry for discernment, lift your
voice for understanding.
If you seek her as silver and search
for her as for hidden treasures, then you
will discern the fear of the Lord and
discover the knowledge of God.
Then you will.
I want to just read that verse.
Without faith it is impossible to please Him.
For he who comes to God must believe
that He is and that He is a
rewarder of those who diligently or earnestly seek
Him.
It's really saying the same thing.
There is a reward.
There is a reward to those who will
cry out to God for discernment and understanding.
That is describing the cry of a sincere
heart.
God, I want the truth!
I don't care what it will cost me!
Because my soul has been terribly marred by
sin and rebellion!
And I want Your truth!
God, I invite Your truth to come inside
of me and point out everything that has
gone astray from Your narrow way.
The Word of God is prescribed for my
life.
When you have that kind of cry in
your heart, and can I just share with
you, I don't mean to boast or whatever
with all the faults and failures I have
had, but that is what this ministry was
founded on many years ago.
It was that earnest cry for God to
come inside and straighten out this damaged soul.
And that cry has never quit.
In all these many years of ministry, between
my wife and I, both of us, that
cry continues.
God, come inside and heal my damaged soul.
No matter what.
Well, the fear of the Lord is part
of that process, dear ones.
Let me just continue down this list.
We have this list here.
The fear of the Lord is to hate
evil.
There is a litmus test of where you're
at, how much fear you have in your
heart towards God.
That's a good barometer for you.
It lets you know where you're at in
this.
The fear of the Lord prolongs life.
In the fear of the Lord there is
strong confidence.
Why is that?
Because when you fear God, you are allowing
Him to do His work inside of you.
And there is just a confidence that comes
about.
I don't know how to explain that.
Those of you who lack self-confidence, I
don't even like that term, self-confidence.
I don't want to have confidence in myself.
I don't have any confidence in myself.
My confidence is in God.
Those of you who lack confidence, though, here's
your answer, the fear of the Lord.
The fear of the Lord.
And how do you get that fear?
You cry out for it.
You cry out for it and you treasure
God's Word inside of you.
I'm telling you, it just happens.
The fear of the Lord just happens.
The more time that you soak in Scripture
and the more that you allow God to
go inside of you, the depths of your
heart, and do His work inside of you
through His Word, the more the fear of
the Lord becomes established within you.
And the Word of God has the power
to do that.
You know why that is?
It's because by spending time in God's Word,
you are seeing everything as God sees it,
and God is huge in the Bible.
In your thinking, you are huge.
We're all that way.
That's part of the fallen nature, is we
are so huge in our own thinking.
But in the Bible, God is huge.
So when we spend time in the Word
of God, there is a change that goes
on.
You start taking on that perspective where God
becomes bigger and you become smaller.
And everything you see in life just changes.
Your perspectives of it.
The fear of the Lord is a fountain
of life.
And here's the last one.
By the fear of the Lord, one keeps
away from evil.
It's like a wall built around you in
life.
When you have the fear of the Lord
is established within you and evil comes your
way, there's just something, a hesitation.
There's just a hesitation because you know the
price that's involved.
You understand the consequences because you have sat
long in the Word of God and have
allowed the Word of God to reshape your
thinking and perspectives.
So you understand the consequences when that temptation
comes your way.
All right, number two.
God's testimony about Himself is sure.
It has the power to make wise the
simple.
The Bible is the history of God's revelation
of Himself to mankind.
The Bible is the history of God's revelation
of Himself to mankind.
It's the history of God's dealings with man.
What a blessing.
With all the faulty information out there, especially
you go on the Internet, yeah, you can
learn about anything, but you can trust none
of it.
That's pretty good, wasn't it?
It came to me that way.
You can quote me on that, Mike.
But I'll go back 100 years ago and
get a different quote.
C.H. Spurgeon said, What a blessing that
in a world of uncertainties, we have something
sure to rest upon.
We hasten from the quicksands of human speculation
to the terra firma of divine revelation.
That's what I would like to say to
the fool editors of that magazine that Pastor
Jeff referred to that devoted an entire magazine
that goes out to 50,000...
I just lost it.
How many pastors?
Is it 10,000?
50,000 pastors in that denomination that magazine
goes to?
And this is what the leadership of that
denomination says is the way to deal with
sexual sin?
Must have been 15 different articles in there
and every one of them pointing man to
psychology as the answer instead of to the
Word of God.
Woe is you!
As Pastor Jeff said earlier.
God help us.
But anyway, the Word of God is a
revelation of Himself and how He deals with
people.
You know, there's two things I love about
it.
Number one is it tells the story with
complete honesty.
That's one reason you can know this Bible
is true.
That it really is true.
Because no one would tell the story of
its leading advocates and champions and purposely mar
their character.
What fool would do that?
God would.
I say that very reverently, Lord.
Watch what you say around here.
Because God has nothing to hide.
He's not trying to position Himself or whatever.
He just throws it out there.
This is the way man is.
You know, so we get the story of
Jonah.
His prejudice against the Assyrians and the fact
that he would rather run from his call
of duty than to have to go and
minister to people he really didn't care about.
That's the truth of Jonah's story.
We get the story of David.
One of the great champions of God who
became so burned out, hard-hearted, backslidden, however
you want to say it, that he caved
into sexual sin, had one of his best
men murdered.
Just totally went into selfishness.
And God painted that story for everyone to
see.
We get the story of Uzziah just rising
up in pride.
The Bible says it.
He became proud.
Why did he become proud?
Because God blessed his kingdom.
He started off well.
He was doing good.
God's blessings came upon him and the kingdom
of Judah.
And then what happens?
He rose up in pride and he became
so presumptuous he went into the temple and
tried to put himself off as a priest.
Got struck down instantly with leprosy.
Peter.
New Testament story.
Peter's failure.
Making all his big boasts about I'll be
with you to the end, Lord.
And just wimped out when Jesus needed him.
So you know, I love that about the
Bible.
It tells the complete truth.
But also, not only that, it tells the
whole story.
I love reading biographies.
I'm reading right now Jonathan Goforth's story.
And it's nice.
I love to read how God has used
people.
But you're only getting man's perspective.
What I love about the Bible is it
gives you the whole story.
Job, for instance.
Think if Job's wife would have wrote the
story.
You know, it would have been this dumb
fool.
I don't know what in the world he
did to get God mad.
But all of a sudden, everything was taken
from us and our lives were ruined.
And then all of a sudden, everything turned
around.
Whatever!
That's about how that would have read.
But no, we get the whole story.
We get to see in what actually happened
in heaven.
This interchange between God and the devil and
how the devil challenged God.
Let me at him!
So we get to see the whole picture
of what happened.
Or King Saul.
If we only had the human perspective, all
we would see is a madman.
But no, we get the biblical, God's perspective.
And we see that God sent an evil
spirit to torment him because he had turned
away from God.
We get the whole picture.
And we even get to see inside man's
heart.
Like Jeroboam.
God made him the first king of the
northern tribes.
And it says, King Jeroboam said in his
heart, okay, so whatever is going to transpire...
I had transcribe in my mind for some
reason.
What in the world?
Transpire.
Whatever is going to transpire after that is
going on in his heart.
And the Bible takes us right into his
heart and shows us what his thinking was.
He said in his heart, you know, if
I don't do something, all the people from
my kingdom are going to go down to
Jerusalem to worship the Lord.
So I better set up my own worship
centers up here.
And he brought in idolatry.
Shows us right exactly what was going on
inside of him.
Praise the Lord.
Only the Bible can do that.
Alright, now let me just shift gears for
a second.
Just keep all that in mind.
Because this is all for someone.
It's for the simple.
A lot of times, at least in the
NAS, that's translated as naive.
But it really refers to open.
That's really the word that describes this person.
Open.
They are open to whatever comes along.
We had a guy who used to work
here.
And I said this to him.
I used this term to describe him one
time because he was always on a mad
hunt for a wife.
And he fell in love every time we
would travel out there and he'd see some
pretty girl, he fell in love with her.
And I'm telling you, I went through 10
different relationships with him.
Just turned my hair white dealing with him.
And every time I'd have to coax him
through and try to bring his mind into
reality and somehow I managed to get him
through the first 9 and the 10th one
was the final straw.
Go ahead!
No, I really was the Lord's will the
last one.
Praise the Lord.
But, you know, this idea of just being
open inside.
And I was thinking about that.
I said this to him.
I said, you know, now I'm a married
man.
And so, you know, I'm not trying to
put that on him.
But still, there is a principle here.
I said, you could put me in a
room with 25 beautiful, single, Christian girls looking
for a husband.
And you know what?
There is something inside me.
There is a wall that comes up between
me and women.
You know?
I can talk to women and stuff.
But if I feel like since anything isn't
right, there is an immediate wall.
The door is shut.
There's a stop sign all around me.
You know?
And I am that way.
I am not interested.
That's the message that comes out in my,
I don't know how, my countenance or something.
It just comes across around women.
I am not available.
I'm not interested.
I'm a happily married man.
You know?
Not that I've got women flocking all over
me.
That's not.
More delusional thinking, right?
The point I'm trying to make is that
I am, there are no open avenues into
my heart.
Thirty years ago, yeah, that's very much how
I was.
But something has happened inside me.
You know?
And only the word of God.
Not a great marriage.
Only the word of God could do that.
And that change in me is what helped
to create a great marriage.
But it was God's word getting into me
and doing what?
Putting wisdom inside of me.
So that I could see the long term.
So I could look beyond the immediate gratification
or whatever.
I could see the big picture.
I could see God's perspective.
That's what the word of God has done
for me over the years.
It's changed the way that I think.
It's changed my perspectives.
It's brought wisdom where there was just the
simple minded naivety in that sense.
All right.
And number three.
God's commandments enlighten the eyes of the heart.
Well, we know that it's not just saying
our physical eyes, right?
I mean, we understand that's not the point.
It's the eyes of our heart.
The way our heart sees things.
Something happens to change things.
You know, obviously, if an enlightening process is
needed, it's because there's darkness there.
And going back to the opening of the
message, where we were talking about our souls
being diseased, our souls being corrupted, our souls
being damaged.
Well, our souls have become that way because
of the darkness in this world.
You know, the fallen nature is part of
that darkness.
But the word of God goes inside.
I'm going to use the term darkness in
a different way.
But just down inside that dark cavern of
our heart and turns the light on.
Probably the best commentary on this phrase is
Hebrews 4.12 and 13, for that matter.
For the word of God is living and
active and sharper than any two-edged sword
and piercing as far as the division of
soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow,
and able to judge the thoughts and intentions
of the heart.
And there's no creature hidden from His sight,
but all things are open and laid bare
to the eyes of Him with whom we
have to do.
Alright, so there's that verse.
And it's just loaded with very powerful and
profound insights into what the word of God
does and how it operates.
It says it's living and active.
In other words, there's a mysterious energy that
the Holy Spirit uses the word of God
when it goes inside of us, and it
has the efficacy, the power to go inside
and alter the structure of our inner being.
The word of God has that power.
When it says it's a two-edged sword,
what that means is the word of God,
I'll put it to you this way, it
depends on the soil of the heart.
For a sincere person, the word of God
has the power to bring conviction.
To the insincere person, the word of God
brings a word of condemnation.
Maybe warning, but definitely condemnation before it's over
with.
And dividing the soul and spirit, that's just
referring to the difference between the soulish realm
and the spiritual.
We have the capacity for both inside of
us.
We have our fallen nature, which is the
soulish realm.
It's the mind of the flesh.
It's the way we think outside of God
and outside of the Spirit of God.
But then we also have the spiritual womb.
If we have been born again, God has
deposited His Spirit, His seed inside of us.
And that spiritual womb becomes connected with the
Holy Spirit.
And when we allow the word of God
to have its way within us, that becomes
greater and greater inside of us.
I mean, it's just another way of saying
that Jesus Christ has His way within us,
or that we become full of the Holy
Spirit.
They're all expressing the same exact thought.
It has the power to judge the thoughts
and intentions of the heart.
It establishes a structure of righteousness within us
that does something.
When we encounter different things, like Pastor Jeff
gave a perfect, or maybe it was Rose,
no, it was Rose, gave a perfect example
of it, what I'm talking about.
In fact, I think you said it.
Where are you?
I think you said because she has spent
so much time in the Word of God
over the years that when she comes across
something like all the falsehood in that magazine,
there's discernment to tell that it's false.
It's almost like a judge sets up a
throne inside your mind.
And when things come across, it divides.
That's what the word krino, the word for
judge, means.
It's a separation.
And it separates things true.
There's a category over here.
What you're getting here is truth.
When you allow the Word of God to
do its work inside you, your conscience becomes
empowered by the Word of God to discern
between truth and falsehood, and right and wrong,
and so on.
But the bottom line really is allowing it
to do its work inside of you.
It's one thing to read the Bible.
You can read the Bible.
Many of you know the Bible inside and
out before you came here.
You know all the Scriptures.
But what about your life?
What does your life tell us by the
way you were living your life?
Something wasn't right.
So we know that just knowing the Bible,
there's got to be more to it than
that, right?
There's got to be something more.
And it's really what I referred to earlier,
that you have opened your heart to the
Word of God to come in and deal
with you inside.
It's not Scripture memorization, although that's good.
It's not knowing your Bible, although that's good.
And spending time in your Bible, that's good.
And all those things lead to what I'm
describing.
You need those things.
Because you've got to have the Word of
God coming into your mind, that constant nourishment,
spiritual nourishment.
You've got to have that coming into your
soul.
But if it stops right there, all it
will do is make you a Pharisee.
That's all it will do.
It will just make you a Pharisee, a
hypocrite.
That knows the Word of God inside and
out, but hasn't allowed it to do its
work inside.
That is the key.
It really is the key.
There's two things I want to leave you
with.
First of all, a testimony.
Because it says here, the fourth clause, is
that the Lord's precepts rejoice the heart.
And I just want to say to you
that it's my testimony, that not just the
Bible in and of itself, but my time
in the Bible.
What this means to me is a cause
of more joy than anything else I can
think of in life.
I have dear friends.
But if I lost all my friends, if
it was a choice between losing my friends
and losing the Word of God, guys, it's
been nice.
It's been a great run.
We've been good friends, and it's been a
blessing.
But I'll see you later.
I don't say that flippantly.
But when it comes to the Word of
God, my home, which is a dream home,
I don't even know how we ended up
with it.
God just did it.
As much as I love my home, I
would rather go live in an apartment in
some city than to do without the Word
of God.
And my greatest possession on this earth is
my wife.
If I lost my wife, I would be
devastated.
I wouldn't know how to even go forward
in life.
I couldn't imagine life without her.
I wouldn't even know how to think.
How could I do life without my wife
who's been along my side for all these
years?
But it would be worse if I lost
this.
The other thing I want to say, it's
Psalm 1 and 2.
And I'm going to read it again.
I'm going to ask you a question.
And then I'm going to close in prayer.
How blessed is the man who does not
walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor
stand in the path of sinners, nor sit
in the seat of scoffers.
But his delight, his delight is in the
law of the Lord.
And in His law, he meditates day and
night.
He will be like a tree firmly planted
by streams of water, which yields its fruit
in its season, and its leaf does not
wither.
And in whatever he does, he prospers.
So again, we're shown these two different lifestyles,
if I could put it that way.
But here's how I want to put it.
Atmospheres.
Because both create an atmosphere.
Bear with me for a minute.
I want you to see yourself three months
after you graduate from the program.
When you get out there, you're going to
be faced with an enormous temptation to turn
back to the empty cisterns of the world.
It's going to be an enormous temptation to
have television in your home so you can
sit in front of it, to spend time
in the Internet, to do those kinds of
things, to put yourself in those kinds of
environments, your mind, your heart, your heart.
The other option is the Word of God.
It has an atmosphere too.
If you allow the world to be the
dominant influencer in your life, it's going to
be only a matter of time.
Before you end up back in the pig
pen that you crawled out of before you
came to Pure Life Ministries.
Trust me on that, man.
Trust me.
I've been doing this longer than some of
you have been alive.
Do I know what I'm talking about?
And even before that, I had to learn
these things on my own.
I forget what I was talking about.
Got all wrapped up in who I am,
see?
25 years doing this.
Don't forget it.
What was I saying?
Atmosphere.
I knew that.
So old I can't remember what in the
world I'm doing, where I'm at.
Wife has to lead me out to the
car when we're done.
What's your atmosphere going to be like?
What's the reality of it going to be,
man?
And please, guys, please, make a commitment in
your heart.
Let it do its work.
Don't just be shallow.
Let God's Word get inside you and search
you out.
He's trying to get the poison out of
you that has destroyed your inner man, that
has diseased your soul.
Let the Word of God bring health inside
of you.