Welcome to a special edition of the blog and May blog podcast. This is a Sweater Vest dialogue with James White and Douglas Wilson.

The topic of this month's sweater vest is God's law. What do we do with it? How do we apply it today?

If you're interested in reading more from Doug on this, please head to cannon press.com and look for the book

Empires of Dirt. You can get empires of dirt at cannon press.com. dot com.

Well, Doug Wilson, I think from talking with you in the past, you may have attended a few vacation Bible school sessions when you were a kid. Am I?

Yes, I have done so.

Yes.

You plead guilty.

Yes. And did you ever memorize Psalm 119 11 as a child? Yeah. So we all probably know the verse and we applied it to memorizing scripture.

Your word if I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee and so on so forth.

And then at some point, hopefully for me, maybe even in Bible college,

you read the context, which VBS isn't always all that good at the context thing.

That's not always the first thing that's emphasized and you find out that this is a massively long acrostic poem using every possible word for commandment, ordinance, statutes,

precepts, all this stuff.

And you discover that you think about it,

wow, that's that that's that's

that's almost would only have had a certain

amount of God's revelation

and it included Leviticus and Deuteronomy and all sorts of stuff like that.

And you discover there's, the Psalmist loved a lot of stuff that evangelicals just aren't taught to love,

God's law.

Right.

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