There is no happier person in the world than the obedient man.

And there is simply no rationale that can make wisdom out of disobedience of God.

To violate God's commandment is not only immoral.

It's foolish.

I think one of the most intelligent things a person can ever do

is to submit his life to the wisdom of God.

I've come to the place by means of pastoral counseling that I stand

in absolute awe of the practical wisdom of the commandments of Christ for living.

You see, when he says, for example, that fornication not once be named among you as befitting

saints, you can hear the whole case against that by contemporary psychologists of the creative self-expression

and all of that business and the need to participate in these kinds of things to prepare oneself for a fruitful and lasting relationship.

And all of that, all of the arguments that sound very, very wise in terms

of your contemporary culture.

I respect the wisdom and the insight of sociologists and psychologists, clinical and behavioral

psychological, examining, see what happens to people in these kinds of things.

But I'll be honest with you at this point, I have far more respect for the wisdom of God.

That God's commandments, you see, to violate God's commandment is not only immoral.

It's foolish.

God does not give commandments just to be commandment giving, just to show who's boss,

or to restrict us from our creative self-expression. And this is where we are called to be children,

babes in evil, not in knowledge, not an intelligence, not a maturity, or we call to be children,

but babes in evil.

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