The longest Psalm in the Bible is Psalm 119. It has been called the Psalm of the Scriptures because it concentrates on one thing, the amazing sufficiency of God's word for our lives.

Open to Psalm 119 today and open your heart to the Lord as we join Scott Pauli in this study. It is our prayer that through God's truth, you will find

all you need.

There is both a positive and a negative side to obedience.

I mean by that that in scripture there are the thou shouts and the thou shalt nots.

And let's just be real for a moment.

Our rebel hearts don't like either one of them.

We want to do what we want to do, and we don't want anybody else to tell us what to do.

But if you want to know God's best, if you want to live in God's blessing,

then you must be willing to be an obedient Christian. That's really the heart of Psalm 119. Here we are in the heart of the Bible,

in Psalm 119, and God uses it like a dagger, or should I use the Bible analogy, like a sword,

to cut right to the heart of the matter. Blessed are the undefiled in the way who walk in the law of the Lord.

Blessed are they that keep his testimonies and that seek him with the whole heart,

they also do no iniquity they walk in his ways.

Do you hear the positive and the negative?

On one side, we're not to be defiled.

We're not to do iniquity. In fact,

God's very explicit. Do no iniquity. Does your Bible say no? Psalm 119, verse 3. This is God's intent. No iniquity. That doesn't mean you're going to be sinless until you get your,

your glorified body someday and see Jesus

face to face, but it does mean you should sin less and less. That's what First John teaches us.

God doesn't want us to sin. If we sin, we have an advocate with a father, but God's intent,

God's heart is that we be so near to him and walk in such holiness in the presence of God

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