Pastor, teacher, and author Adrian Rogers has introduced people all over the world to the love of Jesus Christ,

and has impacted untold numbers of lives by presenting profound truth, simply stated.

Thanks for joining us for this message. Here's Adrian Rogers.

We're speaking on this subject, six positive principles for proper practice.

I want to give you today some principles that will help you to make the moral decisions of your life.

Now I want to say this, listen carefully, there are some great eternal standards of right and wrong that have been set by Almighty God,

settled by the Word of God, no stutter, no stammer, no equivocation, no apology. God simply said

this is right and this is wrong.

Men and women come and go, but the Ten Commandments are here to stay,

and men and women are still being broken trying to break them.

God has given His Word, but having said that,

there are a lot of issues that are not settled by the Ten Commandments, per se.

And why is that? I'll tell you why.

The Bible is not primarily a rule book.

The Bible is primarily a guidebook.

The Bible is not so much a book of minute laws as the Bible is a book of great principles.

And I'm glad that it is a book of great principles. And I'll tell you three reasons before we

ever get into the message. If the Bible were a book of minute rules and laws, you'd need

a freight train to carry it around on. I mean, there

would be so many issues and so many subjects that you'd have to look up, that you could not

carry your Bible as you carry it now under your arm. I'll tell you something else. Another

reason I'm glad. If the Bible were a book of minute laws and rules,

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