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Deuteronomy chapter 12 verse 8. God says, you shall not

do according to all that we are doing here today. Everyone doing whatever is

right in his own eyes. That is such a dangerous phrase

and such a word of caution that we see at strategic points and

throughout the history of God's people and summarizes what we see in the book of

judges. Everyone doing what was right in their own

eyes and judges is a horrifying book in that sense as it depicts

people doing what is right in their own eyes. And in this way Deuteronomy

chapter 12 verse 8 is a reminder to us today, to every one of us,

not to live according to what is right in our own eyes.

It is never good. This goes all the way back to Genesis chapter 3.

The entrance of sin in the world. It is never good. It is deadly

when men and women decide they know better than God what is right

and good. And I could immediately, right now,

there's so many examples of the way this is playing out in

culture around me, all kinds of redefinition of right

and good according to what we think is right. What seems right to us

that goes directly against the Word of God. But the reality is

in Deuteronomy chapter 12 and all throughout God's Word,

he's God is speaking not just to the culture around us. He's speaking to us.

He's calling us to conform our lives to what is right

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