morning yet it's about seven minutes after 11 here on the Tuesday Monday evening I'll this video this morning it's an error in trusting in our own abilities the error of trusting in our own abilities I have met some people in my life where God has given tremendous talents They have not only mechanical ingenuity and understanding of mathematics, and they can work quadratic equations. I've met people that are tremendously knowledgeable in electricity. I've met people who are chemists who understand chemicals and the interaction of chemicals. I've met people who have tremendous social abilities and speaking skills. I've also met people that have almost photographic memories. They only have to read something once and they've got it. God has given people some tremendous gifts of human ingenuity. I've met some phenomenal musicians in my lifetime, but there is a grave error when one begins to trust in their own abilities and not remember from whence their talents came. and not remember at all times that those abilities can be taken away from them in a millisecond. We see people that that's happened to. John Denver was a tremendous and he was a pilot, but he went down, his plane went down and crashed and he was killed. There's been other examples of people who had talent, but they became dependent upon drugs like Elvis Presley and Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. Other people have had their lives taken a snatch from them, like John Lennon. And these people, it's not that they weren't talented. It's not that they weren't given certain gifts. The error though is when one begins to trust in our own abilities and they don't give credit to the one that gave them these abilities. You know, I remember having lunch one time with a gentleman who was working on a laser technology and he was so into it, he was trying to explain to me how he was working on bending light. And my little pea brain just couldn't wrap my arms around it, but he was trying so hard to get me to understand that he actually teared up as he was trying to explain it to me. Well, our physical bodies are going to be wearing out. Mine is wearing out. You know, I'm 67 years old and I can certainly feel the results of the decay and the entropy of the human body. If we're one of God's people, one of these days we'll receive a glorified body. And I'm looking forward to that. But one does not have to be a rocket scientist to understand the gospel. It's really a simple plan. But to understand it and embrace it, one must be born again. The wisdom of this world is foolishness and leads man to hell, but the knowledge of Christ has to be revealed. But God has chosen the foolish things to confound the wise. That's why man looks so good in his own eyes. but to those who are born again, our flesh we despise. No one does not have to be a rocket scientist to be born again. This is the work of the spirit being wrought in him. This spiritual understanding in ourselves, we never could afford, but scripture tells us, he that glorieth, let him glory in the Lord. So let us remember not to trust. in the arm of flesh and trust in our own abilities. May the good Lord be with you this day in a special way. God bless.