The standard by which God determines goodness is the character of God himself.

As Calvin once said, that when we keep our eyes on the horizontal level fixed on this earthly plane, on the terrestrial sphere,

we begin to think of ourselves more highly than we ought. We begin to flatter

ourselves and consider ourselves as slightly less than demi-gods until once we turn our gaze to

heaven and contemplate just for a single second what kind of being God is. If we do that for an

instant, suddenly our self-image is shattered. And we realize

that if we examine ourselves in light of the character of God, that we must repent in dust and ashes.

People tend to think that they're good, not perfect perhaps, but compared to others, they're doing okay. But that's because they have a distorted definition of moral goodness.

It's good to have you with us for another week of renewing your mind,

and this week will be introduced to several people who encountered Jesus face to face.

And today, we meet the rich young ruler.

While we're doing the broadcast for the radio audience at the same time, we're videotaping these programs.

And the bane of my existence for videotaping is to have some woman come beforehand and put all kinds of makeup all over my face and put powder on me.

And I don't know how people can stand to do that sort of thing

on a regular basis. But on this occasion, the woman who's in charge of makeup also does this

sort of thing for the new golf channel. And we were talking about that golf channel and about how

people are responding in this

country to unique opportunities for instruction by some of the greatest golf teachers in the

world who are now made available to the public at large through the magic of television.

As we were speaking about that, I thought of the one

question that golf professionals are asked more frequently than any other question. And that

question is simply this. What am I doing wrong?

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