Turn with me this morning to the 13th chapter of the book of Hebrews. The 5th verse of this 13th chapter of the book of Hebrews said, let your conversation be without covetousness. I don't know what may be one of our biggest problems today. Covetousness and be content with such things as you have. For He has said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee, meaning to say that He's going to give us what we need. Always, sometimes we want more. We covetous and we want more, but we never have none of us that I know of ever lacked anything that we needed, clothing or food to eat. It looked kind of slim a few times in our life, We always made it. So that we may boldly say, the Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me. Remember them which have the rule over you, who have spoken unto you the word of God, whose faith follow, considering the end of their conversation. Well, it's not so much what a fellow does, it's what, I mean, what he says, but what he does. That's the end of his conversation, is what he does. And it has been from the very beginning that They have had rule over us that have been given the Word of Life. And we take heed that we would look unto that Word. Always remember that it's not the preacher, but it's the Lord Himself that speaks the Word. if it be a true word. And he said, Jesus Christ then, the same yesterday and today and forever. Sometimes we spew those words out without taking any thought of what it really means, I think. And it goes back to some other scripture here, necessarily stands alone, but God has always been the same. In the old days under the law, he saved the same way that he does under what they had called the age of grace. And that's a misnomer there because all age is the age of grace. So he is the same from the very beginning. always giving the gospel to those that have the rule over you, that they may preach unto you things that are good for you, that are profitable, that are correcting. So, the Lord has not changed. He is eternal. Now he has, in one respect, he came into this world in the beginning of this book of Hebrews. It talks about the Lord coming into the world made a little lower than the angels for suffering death. So in that respect he has changed. Because after death he rose victorious over the grave and sits at the right hand of the Father. at rest. In the seventh day, he rested, and all the works were complete. So in that respect, he has changed. He came as a baby, but born as a man. And his character has changed in that respect also because he is without sin and he has entered into the heaven. That's kind of hard for us really to perceive all of that. If you just stop and think about it, it's most a miraculous thing that he's been so many different things unto his people. So in that respect, he has changed, suffered death. He is made a little lower than the angels that he might suffer death. But then after death, he's victorious. In the beginning of this book also it talks about him being a little lower than the angels, and then it compares him to something in particular, man himself. But he has the preeminence over man. And then it gives another example, that of Moses. Yeah, he's greater than Moses. He's greater in that he is our high priest. Offering up the perfect sacrifice. Jesus Christ the same yesterday and today and forever. Be not carried about with diverse and strange doctrines. You've heard the gospel. Try the Spirit. See if they be true. See if they be of a godly nature. There's going to be strange doctrines. And it doesn't give that as a single either. It is a plural. Many of them. We see them in our day. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace and not with meeks, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein." Well, that's what we're just talking about. We don't have to work in that respect. trying to offer up a sacrifice. The perfect sacrifice has been offered. All the strange doctrines, we've been warned over and over and over in scripture that they're coming. Look for them. That's a promise. So we need to always be on guard and be looking and examine the Word, see if it be true. Word of God. 1 Timothy. 1 Timothy, the fourth chapter. Verse 1, he said, I charge thee therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing in his kingdom. I want to go to 1 Timothy, I mean 2 Timothy. 1 Timothy 4 chapter. Well it should be alright, it was fitting in pretty good. Verse 1, Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in latter time some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils, speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God had created to be received with thanksgiving of them that believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good and nothing to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving for it's sanctified by the word of God and prayer. So it's good for us. We can eat most of those things that our conscience is clear to eat it if it be good to eat. More milk and honey. But I thought about this when I came here. I was thinking about this one thing. I hear more and more nowadays we may just not use meat in our hamburger anymore. Well, that kind of fits here, you know. And marriage is getting to be a thing of the past. As a matter of fact, they're even teaching it nowadays. It may be better just to live together or something. Because, you know, you're going to have trouble doing it anyway. So you need to just go ahead and see if it's going to fit you. all kinds of things now we can't eat. But I'm gonna tell you it's good if it's taken with Thanksgiving. Lord get put all those things in this world. They might sustain. So it's good. to eat it with Thanksgiving. Man be in the right state of mind. It'd be perfectly good. It'd be sanctified. It is for the Lord. We won't get carried away with eating it. But you know, we're warned about being gluttonous also. But These things are good and marriage is good. In the book of Hebrews, we started a little past that. But that's what he said, marriage is good. So, these people, their conscience is seared as with the hot iron, you cannot turn their mind. People think they're going to teach somebody how to do. But if the Lord doesn't turn their mind, it will not be turned. And there isn't any teaching because they already know more than you do. And they can't listen. The groom's been experiencing that by his neighbor. He's threatening to park his truck somewhere else and walk home. Back in the Coburn's book of Hebrews, 9th chapter again, he said, Be not carried about with diverse and strange doctrines. For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace. Now if it's established with grace, it will not be carried away. And it's talking about the heart, the very core of man. if it is established in inherited, in inherited grace. Now they say grace is just laying up there for anybody to just come get it. Well, that's not true. Man can't find it. They say it's an unmerited favor. And certainly that's true. We can't merit it. We can't do anything for it. We can't offer anything. Our little sacrifice is absolutely worth nothing. Matter of fact, it is a smoke in the Lord's nostril. But grace is inherited. It's a gift of God. His good at heart be established in grace. In the book of Colossians, first chapter, verse 5, For the hope which is laid up for you in heaven whereof ye have heard before in the word of the truth of the gospel, truth of the gospel in hearing this. He said a whole lot right here. Which is come unto you as in all the world and bringeth forth fruit. As it doth also in you since the day you heard of it and knew the grace of God. What in truth Man can know the grace of God, but he don't know whether it's true or not. He's always questioning. He said, as ye also learned of Epirus, our dear fellow servant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ. That's where we were. He's over you. He's a faithful minister, though, in that. He said, who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit. Another grace. Another thing to be established in. In the love of Christ. He said, for this cause we also since the day we heard it do not cease to pray for you and to desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of His will." You know, kind of throw that term around too. If the Lord be willing, we need a knowledge of His will. He said of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God. Heart being established, what does it rest in? What does it desire? Increasing in the knowledge of God and strengthened with all might according to His glorious power. We mentioned that lesson in that day of the Lord's power. They're going to be willing. And that's what he's talking about here. His glorious power unto all patience and long-suffering and joyfulness, giving thanks unto the Father which hath made us meet, to be partakers of the inheritance of saints in light, we might say in truth. who had delivered us from the power of darkness and had translated us into the kingdom of his dear son. That one that never changes. That one that offered himself up as a perfect sacrifice and paid for the salvation of his people. He suffered the penalty of the law for his people. Second Corinthians, the sixth chapter, in verse one, he said, we then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that you receive not the grace of God in vain. need to establish it in your heart. For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succored thee. Behold, now is the accepted time. Behold, now is the day of salvation. Give him no offense to anything that that ministry be not blamed. But in all things approving ourselves as ministers of God, in much patience, in distresses, in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings, by pureness, by knowledge, by long-suffering, by kindness, by the Holy Ghost, by love unfeigned, by the word of truth, by the power of God, by the armor of righteousness on the right hand and on the left. No turning to and fro here. but always moving in the same direction by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report, as deceivers and yet true. Be careful. Yet true, as unknown and yet well known, as dying and behold we live, as chastened and not killed. as sorrowful, yet always rejoicing, as poor, yet making many rich, as having nothing, and yet possessing all things. And it's good if we take it with thanksgiving. The Lord is the same. Always the same. He's saved in the Old Testament age. And He's saved in the New Testament age. But exactly the same. It's all by grace. For by grace are you saved through faith. And that, not of yourselves. What would we do if we was? We'd go boast about it. Say, look what we've done. And that's what they're doing. Exactly. But it's all by grace of God. And we don't take that grace lightly because we cannot fully comprehend the whole thing we keep searching to be in the grace of God. That we not be turning back or listening to any kind of strange doctrines but hold to the truth as it was once delivered to our fathers and now he has been told us by Jesus Christ himself. Well, you think you're the only one that knows it. That's what you hear, isn't it? But isn't it strange that Jesus said, he that hears me, hears you. He that receiveth you, receiveth me. And yet we do not boast ourselves in the knowledge, except as the Holy Ghost gives us a knowledge. But that's also why We don't look down our nose at other people, but we pity them. Because we know where we came from. As Isaiah says, look unto the rock from which you are hewn and the hole of the pit from which you are digged. And yes, we know where we came from. But we also know how we came from there. And we're glad to testify of that fact. And he is the same. And I think what James says, for every good and perfect what? cometh down from the father of lights which is above in whom is neither variableness nor shadow of turning but i've you know sometimes i i think i've i've read that and and thought about that verse of scripture and and as though You know, will every good and perfect gift come down from the Father of life? Well, is there others that are not gifts? Are there other good things that are not gifts? There isn't, is there? It's all a gift from God and always has been. It's a gift from God even to the ungodly. He openeth His hand and satisfies the desire of who? Every living creature. And He is the Savior of how many men? All men, but especially of them that believe. And again, in Him we live and move and have our being, and that's true of the ungodly as well as it is the godly. It's just that the godly, JT, give thanks, and the ungodly go on about their way, like those nine lepers that were healed. The 10th one, he came back and worshiped God. I wonder if that's a pretty good analysis of comparison today. How many men give thanks unto God?