Hello and welcome to a brand new series that we're starting entitled Plain and Simple. It'll be plain, nothing elaborate, nothing complicated. Simple, it'll be easy to understand. We'll be dealing with issues. Issues are important topics that need some attention. The Bible says in Hosea chapter 4 and verse 6, my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee. Our problem is not a shortage of knowledge. Our problem is that we refuse to accept the knowledge that is right before us. We'll be looking at some issues. One of the ones that we're going to look at first, starting today, is the question, am I teachable? Am I teachable? Do you think you're really teachable? We'll look at Job. We'll see that he was a man who was teachable. Stay tuned. We'll have this broadcast in just a minute. In the book of Job, chapter 6, verse number 24, we read that Job said this, teach me and I will hold my tongue and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. Here sits God's greatest example of a believer sitting on a pile of ashes, his body wracked with pain. He had just lost all of his children, all of his personal belongings and his health. The one person who should have been there to help him wasn't much of a help. She just said, why don't you curse God and die? In spite of his heartaches and in spite of his body aches, Job's amazing attitude is seen here when he said, teach me and I will hold my tongue and cause me to understand wherein I have erred. It would be one thing if Job was saying this to God. He was not. He was talking to Eliphaz, one of his critics, who had just told Job that he was being punished by God because of his secret sins. Nothing could be further from the truth. In Job 1 and 8, God said, Job was open to conviction and ready to listen for some truth, even from the mouth of his critics. A critic is a person who expresses an unfavorable opinion. Eliezer's opinion was unfavorable, it was unfriendly, uninvited, and it was untrue. In spite of that, Job said to Eliphaz, teach me to understand wherein I have erred. Job was sincerely teachable. To be teachable is to have a desire to listen and to learn. We're not really ready to listen and we're not ready to learn until we are ready to listen, unlearn, and relearn. Who has the truth concerning the many issues we face today? There are a lot of voices claiming to have the corner on the truth. Is Paul Chappell right concerning the music issue? Is Clarence Sexton right in his change concerning separation? Is David Cloud right concerning the many issues he writes about? A better question is am I teachable or is it a case of don't confuse me with the scriptures I've already made up my mind. I never cease to be amazed that young preachers who have spent 40 minutes in a Bible college classroom listening to their favorite professor teach on the subject and then they come out acting like they're experts on that particular subject. Remember everything you know you have learned from someone else. 2 Timothy 4, 3 and 4 is written of two pastors, about pastors, and it says, they shall turn away their ears from the truth. Why would a pastor turn away his ears from the truth? Perhaps the main reason is the truth is not acceptable. I don't want that right now. That's like Peter who said, far be it from you, Lord, you're not going to die right now. Oh, thou savors the things that be of earth, not the things that be of God. Maybe that's what it is. Perhaps the main reason is the truth is just not popular right now in your circumstance. It perhaps has to do with the pride that would hinder us from asking our critics to cause me to understand wherein I have erred. It is plain and it is simple. The question is not who's right. The question is, am I teachable?