Welcome to Enjoying the Journey with Scott Pauli. True and lasting joy is only found in Jesus Christ,

and God has designed the Christian life so that those who follow him will not only enjoy the destination,

they can also enjoy the journey. You see, we're all

travelers in this world, and God has many wonderful truths to teach us along the way. For the next

few moments, we turn our attention to the Word of God, the only roadmap for this journey. You'll find

additional studies and resources online at scotpauly.org.

Join us now as we study the scriptures together. It is our prayer that you will enjoy the journey. Someone once said that to find out what's truly important to a person, you have to look at two things.

You have to look at their calendar and at their checkbook.

In other words, what they do with their time and

what they do with their treasure reveals what's most important to them. Well, I want to add

something to that list today. Not only your calendar and your checkbook, but look at your

conversation. I would say, it's not just your time and your treasure that reveals your heart, your tongue

reveals your heart.

As a matter of fact, the Bible says, out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh.

Now, that's true, and we sat down in a prison cell and said to the Apostle Paul, talk about

anything you want to talk about.

Tell us anything you want to tell us.

You'd imagine that he would go into some long diatribe about his missionary journeys, or perhaps

he would negatively begin talking about his accusers and the jailer that's

keeping him, the soldier that's fastened to him. Oh but no my friend. When the

Apostle Paul opens his mouth,

he wants to talk about one thing. He wants to talk about Jesus Christ. We've come in our study to

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