Why Memorizing Scripture Matters

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thirty four truth eight six six three four eight 7884. Last week I asked a question to you all. And we had some very good discussions on this about prayer. What did he pray for? What do you do while you pray?

How do you wait? What does that look like? What do you ask God for? All those kinds of things. And In that same vein, I want to press a little deeper here.

Into a topic today that I think you all might find very meaningful. And it was spurred on by this interaction I saw on Capitol Hill recently. And I was watching this not because of the Political side of it as well, but I'm a political junkie, but I was more interested in the biblical and the scripture. side of what I saw. During a congressional hearing a pastor Was testifying in explaining that her position on a public policy was rooted in Christian teaching.

This is a woman who was a Methodist minister. And she referenced Matthew 25, the passage where Jesus talks about caring for the hungry, the stranger, the prisoner. powerful words and words that Christians have quoted for centuries when talking about compassion. But then one of the members of Congress, Michael Cloud from Texas. opened the Bible and read the very passage she had cited, and he asked a simple question, Who is the You in that passage?

If you know Matthew 25, you know that... what he's asking. Jesus is describing people Who fed the hungry, welcomed the stranger, visited the prisoner? The question is: who is Jesus speaking to? Individuals, disciples, governments, societies, believers, non-believers?

It's a basic interpretive question. the kind you ask when you actually open the text. And the pastor struggled to answer it. And then Representative Cloud brought in another passage, and he asked her, If you do you are you familiar with Romans 13?

Well, she wasn't. Where Paul talks about governing authorities being established by God, 2 Corinthians 9, where Paul says giving should be done willingly, not under compulsion. She wasn't familiar with that scripture either. And as the conversation unfolded, something became obvious the Congressman had the Bible opened. The pastor who cited the passage didn't seem ready to deal with the text.

Now let me ask you. Before we go any further. Nope, nope, nope. understand where I'm going with this. lambast this pastor.

This this woman who's a pastor. I don't we that's a conversation for another time Anybody can have an uncomfortable moment under the questioning it in Congress and so forth. That happens. But the exchange exposed something important about the moment we're living in. We're surrounded by people who quote Scripture.

Politicians quoted. Activists quoted Commentators quoted People on social media quote it. You've heard this with Judge Nutt. We all quote that one. Everybody wants to throw that one out there as a way of pardoning a lifestyle.

For example. But is that what the scripture teaches? You see, Quoting scripture. and knowing Scripture are two very different things. In fact, the First person recorded in Scripture, To quote them the word of God out of context with who?

It was Satan himself. When he tempted Jesus in the wilderness, he quoted Psalm 91, but he tried to twist it to serve his own agenda. And Jesus answered every temptation, The same way. It is written. Three words.

Not I feel, not I think, not this is my interpretation, not this is what the Lord told me. He said, it is written. Because you can't say it is written if you don't actually know what is written. You can't recognize a twisted scripture if you never learned the straight one. And that's why memorizing scripture.

Matter. Psalm 119 says, I have hidden your word in my heart. The King James says, Thy word have I hid in my heart, that I may not sin against thee. Hidden, not bookmarked, not something we plan to Google later. but hidden in the heart.

Because if someone twists scripture Or they lift a verse out of context, or builds an argument around something the Bible never actually says. A lot of people think that this is in the Bible: the Lord never gives you more than you can handle. Do you realize how many times I have heard that lobbed at me? and Gracie threw our jerty.

Well, the Lord never gives you more than He can handle, more'n you could handle. And they all, and I misspoke there because the actual thing is the Lord never gives us more than he could handle, but he always gives us more than we could handle. He asked a blind man to see, a deaf man to hear, a man with a withered hand to stretch it out, a lame man to walk. He asked a man that was dead to come out of the grave. He always gives us more than we can handle, but he never gives us more than he could handle.

But yet somehow that gets twisted around, doesn't it? Paul told believers In 1 Thessalonians, test everything. Hold fast. What is good? But how do you test something against scripture if you don't know scripture?

Well, you can't.

So let me ask you something very simple today. You ready? Really simple. Do you Memorize Scripture. Do you commit it to memory?

If so, Do you remember the first scripture you learned? Do you remember the first? passage of Scripture that you memorized. Maybe it was John 3.16. By the way, if you memorize scripture.

Please. Call and I want to hear how many people actually memorize scripture. 866-348-788. eighty four eight six six. thirty four.

Truth. Do you memorize Scripture? Do you remember the first verse that you learned? Maybe it was Psalm twenty-three. Maybe something a parent or Sunday school teacher had you repeat until you could say it without looking.

All right, now that's question number one. And two, I guess. And the next question is When's the last time you intentionally memorized a Scripture? Not highlighted it. not underlined it, not posted it on social media.

actually committed it to memory. Do you think that's important? Do you think it's essential to us as believers that we memorize Scripture? If scripture's going to guide our lives, It stands to reason it would have to live somewhere deeper than just a bookmark. Do you memorize scripture?

What was the first Scripture you memorized. Mine was 1 Thessalonians 5:15, see ye that none render evil for evil. Repay that which is good. That that I learned that when I was in I think I was probably four. in nursery school.

at the church in um where we went in in in Atlanta, Georgia. And what passages stay with you over the years? And that's something I want to be able to spend some time with. 866-34-TRUTH. eight six six three four eight.

7884. If memorizing scripture is something that you think is important.

Something you think is necessary. What is that like for you? I've seen people that can memorize enormous swathes of scripture. And I I'm I'm amazed with it. You remember um Remember uh was it Jack Van Empey?

Remember him? A lot of people may not remember him or anything, but I was always amazed that God memorized the entire New Testament and most of the Old Testament. committed it to memory, I don't know that I'll ever make it to that level, you know, but I understand the draw for it. And the more we walk with Christ, the more we want to be in His Word. And so when I saw this pastor This woman who's a pastor In front of Congress, going in there trying to get Congress to start following Scripture.

and say this is what we need to do. And the congressman pushed back and said, that's for you to do. The Government has a different role. You're trying to com do it under compulsion. And that goes against Scripture itself, what they're that's not charity.

That's taxes. And he just laid it out for her very calmly, but he opened up his Bible. See? Came in there as a pastor. I don't know that she brought her Bible.

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We're talking about memorizing scripture today. Not a topic you probably expected to hear, but I'm seeing this more and more. Everywhere I look. Politicians, people who You know, from all walks of life, and they're always. Throw in a scripture verse.

And particularly if they're trying to Um Coerce somebody into something. And they want to throw a scripture. But just because somebody's throwing a scripture at you. doesn't mean that they are using it properly. Satan did that with Jesus.

Jesus responded properly. It is written. It is written. It is written. First thing that Satan said was, Hath God said He questioned the veracity of the word of God.

And I'm amazed at how many people in our culture Well use Scripture to further their own agenda. without properly exegeting it and understanding. There's a poor understanding of hermeneutics to go into this. And they'll just say these things and blanket, you know, like I said earlier, and then they assume that it's in there. Like the Lord never gives you more than you can handle, kind of thing.

And that's the kind of thing that we as Christians are going to find ourselves very, very. Pressed upon. to be able to Talk about this. and respond back to. You know, we're admonished in Scripture to go and be ready at a moment's notice to share.

to give a defense of the gospel. And Peter talks about this, and to be able to do this, to articulate this. And I also understand the passage where Jesus said, don't worry when you're called in front of these people because the Spirit will give you the words. And I understand that, but the context of there was not these guys winging it. You know, they were constantly immersed in the things of God.

And that's my point. Are we doing that as believers? And I don't be Let me give you this picture here. We have horses out here in Montana. I got one horse named Hank, that I'm uh I'm a little bit concerned about right now.

I had to pick up 40 pounds of horse laxative the other day. you know when you pick up 40 pounds of horse laxative what kind of day you're going to have. And uh but Hank's an older horse, and and I'm having to watch him a little bit. But I feed the horses hay in the winter time. We have not had a heavy winter here in Montana.

Normally, we've got like feet of snow on the ground this time of year. But we haven't had it and the wind has blown a lot of it off and so they've been grazing and I watched them eating. But what they're eating is not good, it's not nutritious for them. It's okay for them, it's old grass, but it doesn't have the nutrition to be able to fight against the heavy winters. And just out of point, you want to see your livestock in the wintertime with snow on their back.

You know, because that means they're insulated. And that's good. That's what you want. But they're not going to get insulated if they don't have good food. And if they're eating and it looks like they're eating, I still don't miss going out there with hay, even though they can get access to a lot of the older grass that's still out there.

from the su left over from the summer, and they'll nibble up stuff and they'll they're eating. But I'm still going to bring some hate to them. Because what I'm bringing to them has more nutrition. than what they're eating. And They look like they're eating.

They probably have full bellies, but it's not protecting them. It's not sustaining them. It's not nutritious for them. They need the hay that I'm going to bring them.

So my question to you is. Do you see the picture of what's going on in in so many of our churches? that what they're being fed is not nutritious for them. And you'll hear things, for example, God loves you just as you are. Have you heard that?

Have you heard that from ministers and from television preachers and people with big pulpits? God just loves you just as you are. Does he? Is that accurate? Is that what Scripture says?

So if you identify as such and such, You don't have to change that? Just Be be who you are. He loves you. They had a congressman out there and Texas now who's running for office who said God is non-binary. And, you know, they're just going through his litany of things that he.

espouses. about abortion care for transgender people. Because God Blunts that. Scripture affirms that. And he's, by the way, he went to seminary.

He's a Presbyterian in the PCUSA church.

Now they've going in some very different directions than their founding. A lot of people don't realize that Princeton University was a Presbyterian seminary that was started very, very conservative. But those days are long gone. Is he right? And if he isn't right.

How do we know? What does Scripture teach us? What does it say? And if we don't know Scripture, how do we know? How are we going to respond to this?

And so we'll be like those horses that are, that are, they look like they're eating. They're eating. They look like they're Stomachs are, you know, full and they're content with it. But when the hard winters come, They won't they won't make it. They don't have the nutrition.

to fend off and to be strong. when it's twenty below outside. And blow it so it's fine when it's fifty degrees. But it's not fine when it's twenty below. And that's why I go out there and feed them hay, because I never know what the weather's going to be like out here.

And I want to make sure those horses can get through the winter. And by the time the summer comes and the good grass comes, they they're good to go. And poor old Hank, I'm having to watch him. And um I don't know how many of you all have. have to give laxatives to a horse.

I told Hank I'd stand beside him, but I wouldn't stand behind him. And he's a good horse. He's a little old, and his teeth are. Um his teeth are a little bit bad. 'Cause he's old.

And so we're going to have to float his teeth and grind them down a little bit because he can't grind up the hay very well. He can do newgrass okay, but he can't grind up the hay. to get the protein and the nutrients out of it.

So we're going to have to do that as well. But right now we're just trying to work on the the the sand that's accumulated in his gut 'cause he he gobbled up a lot of sand while he was eating somewhere. We we got him a couple of years ago, so he he's obviously been building up to this for a long time. and I noticed he was not putting on the weight that I wanted him to put on.

So you have to give them good food. Does your pastor give you good food? Does your church provide you sustenance? to deal with the adversity, the the harshness of life? When these horses are out there, they don't come into a barn, they stay out year-round, just like the cows do.

And when and deer and elk and everything else. And when and when they're out there and it's Two or three feet of snow and it's Well below zero. You'll find out just how good of food they've been eating at that point. And the same thing is for believers when the chips are down. When it's harsh conditions, you find out what they been.

Eating on. what they've been feeding on. Because that's what's going to come out. Thy word have I hid in my heart, that I may not sin against thee. 86634 TRUTH, 866-348-7884.

And so my simple question is, Do you memorize Scripture? And if you do, why? If you don't, why not? What was the first one you did? Why is this important to you?

What is something you want to see? How would you change this? These are all things that are worthy of our time discussing because if we don't hide this in our hearts, If we are not meditating on thy law every day, as scripture says. Then what are we thinking about? What are we putting into our minds and our hearts?

What comes out of us in the midst of crisis? is what we've been putting in.

So you go back and you look at Job, for example. Though he slay me yet I will praise him. That came out of him. in the midst of great harshness, when his wife was telling him to curse God. She said, just curse God and die.

I don't know why she felt this need to have him curse God and then die. But She obviously felt like that was part of it, but Job wouldn't do that. And The things that came out of him were the things that had gone into him. What about you, 866? 34 Truth, 866-348-7884.

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This is Peter Rosenberger. Glad to be with you, 866-34-TRUTH, 866-348. seventy eight eighty four. We're talking about memorizing the Word of God. Why is that even important to us today?

And this was all brought on about studying the word so that you're prepared at a moment's notice. to respond to what the world is doing. A lot of people quote Scripture. Do they really understand it? And how are you going to understand it if you don't spend time in it?

And people are very, very flippant to take scripture out of context. I talked about this last week, Jeremiah 29, 11. People throw that around all the time. I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, the plans to prosper you and all that. And people look at that as God's seal of approval of whatever plan that they are looking at doing.

Lord wants me to prosper. Lord knows the plans he has for me. He wants me to go out and be successful. This, they have no idea the context of that. And you have to go back to Jeremiah twenty nine four for that.

which is God through the prophet Jeremiah saying to the people that were in captivity of Babylon, Hey, Y'all be still. I put you here. Get married? Build a house, have kids, have grandkids, build plant your vineyards. You hang out, you're going to be there for about 70 years.

I'll come back and get you when I'm ready. For I know the plans that I have for you.

Well, that's a whole different meaning than what people do, isn't it? See that how context matters? And when we cherry pick things and then the culture uses them And we're not prepared to give a defense of this and be able to help properly educate. And I saw this in Congress. You know, when this congressman from his name was Congressman Cloud from Texas.

What up against this woman pastor, Methodist minister, and he pulled out his Bible, she didn't have hers. and he referenced certain scriptures she didn't know em. And that was very, very telling. And I thought, wow. How many?

Christians are prepared to do this. How many of us are prepared? to respond with scripture. What does the Word of God say? If somebody took your Bible away today, How much scripture would you still have left?

Have you ever thought about that? If you couldn't see How much scripture? would you have in your memory And I've watched this with my mother, who has lost her vision as she's gotten older. She can't read anymore. She can't see.

And so she Mm-hmm. depends on the m the memorization she had of scripture. And she's she's got it. I mean, it is immersed in her. And I watched this with my father all the way up.

to what he died. Scripture, scripture, scripture. And he he immersed himself into it. Do we? Do you?

866-34-TRUTH, 866-348-7884. I've done a lot of events. I've spoken and played the piano and led services and so forth at nursing homes and and senior living and so forth over the years. and I never ceased to be amazed. Never cease to be amazed.

At how many people? who are looking out the window listlessly.

Some of them are just Drooling. They're vacant in their eyes. But if I'll start a scripture They'll finish it. If I start the Lord's Prayer, they'll say it with me while never moving their facial expressions, while never changing. It's astonishing.

That How long that permeates into them even when Alzheimer's and Parkinson's are are ravaging their minds. If you want to know something that will endure. It's the Word of God. How do we know that? Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word, Scripture says.

is eternal.

So why are we not putting that word into us? On a regular basis, do you memorize scripture? And if so, Why? And if not, why not? What was the first one you did?

Chuck. In Greenville, Ohio. Chuck, welcome to the program. How you doing today, sir? What do you know?

What do you know today, Chip?

Well, I know I can remember scripture that I learned a while back, but I'm Being seventy six now, it's really super difficult to memorize. What's the scripture you memorized a while back?

Well, do you remember the first one you ever memorized? Yeah, right after I got saved and I was in evangelism explosion and it's basically scriptures concerning salvation when we would go to visit people in their homes. on Monday night. That had visited the church. Right.

Yeah. And what was the scripture? Do you remember any of them? Yeah, like uh Romans 323, Romans 623 John three hundred sixteen Um I mean Uh Ephesians uh two eight nine and so on, so forth and Every now and then, you know, I I uh I used Psalm twenty seven, uh Isaiah Forty one, thirty and thirty one, I think. I used to know a whole lot more And I used to have a whole lot more Uh Cross-references that I've remembered.

But I learned it. a lot of them when I was in middle age. And now they're a lot harder to recall.

So what do you what do you first off Do you agree or disagree that it's important for us to push ourselves to memorize scripture? Oh, yes, then the younger the better.

So Based on what you've just told me, it would be in our best interest as believers to make sure our children are learning Scripture. Yeah, absolutely. I I uh heard of some Oh well um a neighboring church where they were I think it was in Iwanis. But it was the uh children's and youth group And some of the uh y young people and children had learned Two and three and four hundred uh Versus And I I just thought that was fantastic. I love that.

Do you, by the way, on evangelism explosion? D. James Kennedy, my father and D. James Kennedy were in seminary about the same time. My dad was about a year behind him, I think.

Maybe two. And the same seminary. And he, that same denomination now that they grew up in. Is the one that this pastor out, I mean, this, well, I guess he was a pastor, but he was a seminarian. that's running for Senate in Texas.

But that denomination has drifted so far To the left, and it's a strange set of circumstances that here's this denomination that helped shape so much of this country that has gone to the point where this guy's up there calling God non-binary and that transgender abortions and all that kind of stuff. Same thing that put out D. James Kennedy's and what later became Evangelism Explosion, that same denomination that educated him has drifted that far left. And I would suggest to you. that it is The lackadaisical approach to the Word of God that's done this.

Here's what the scripture says, here's what the text says. It is written. And I think, you know, and I know as you get older, it's harder to remember. Do you do you have an easier time remembering it if it's set to music? Um I think so.

I love scripture that's set to music. Let me go over here to the keyboard here. Do you know what that is? Do you know what that is? Yeah, but thy loving kindness.

I didn't even have to say it, and you knew it. Isn't that great? What music can do? Yeah. Yeah.

It sure is. I love that. It's just, you know, that's the power of good music. Set to scripture and it stays with you forever and ever. I love what this one.

Those See, is that, did I get that right? Is that, do you know that one? Yeah. I love you, Lord, and I lift my voice to worship you.

Now this is a dive Word is a lamp. to my feet. Yeah. Hello yeah, good old two. And then you got, I love you, Lord, and I lift my voice to worship you.

I mean, see how easy it comes to you? You know, when you do this, and that's the importance of memorizing this and singing it and singing these hymns that have the text in it, because this will come out. Did you find, Chuck, and I you're probably on the road there because I can hear a little traffic there a little bit, but did you find that in the harder times of your life? That those things come back to you. and they stabilize you.

Yeah, Keith Green did a lot of that. A lot of his songs were Scripture like that. But um Right now, my my wife, I I'm a caregiver and I'm going to get her supper right now. That's what the so I apologize for. No, no, listen, from one caregiver husband to another, I don't ever apologize for that.

What are you getting for dinner tonight?

Well, uh tonight, um Or We're kind of. splurging a little bit, but it's it's what she can eat And it's what she likes the best. going to Texas Longhorn, but I get The chopped steak, which is not expensive, it's like about a fifteen dollar meal. But she gets two meals out of it. And and are you getting the chopsteak as well?

Yeah, if I don't she'll get on me. Yeah. Well, how are you doing as a caregiver for her, by the way? Um How you holding up with that? But it's better.

Uh Yeah, I I ha have had some really hard times and I get tired but It still uh is I'm glad to be able to do it. I thank the Lord.

Well, uh how long have you been doing it? Um Bounce. About five or six years.

Well, one of the scriptures that has sustained me in my journey with this is Philippians 1:6. And when it gets a little gnarly, and I'll leave you with this as you go get you some good chopped steak tonight. He who began a good work in you We'll bring it to completion. At the day of Christ Jesus. That's the ESV.

I learned it in the old version. He who began a good work in you is faithful to complete it to the day of Christ Jesus. That's a good word for us as caregiving husbands, isn't it? As we take care of our wives, knowing that our Savior is taking care of his bride as well, we have a Savior who understands our journey, Chuck. I appreciate the call very much.

Very much I appreciate the call.

Well, we're up against the block. Hold on, I'll kick you through the brick. You're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com. Uh Welcome back to Truth Talk Live. This is Peter Rosenberger, 866-34-TRUTH, 866-348-7884.

Chuck had one more point to make before we went to the break. Chuck, sorry about that. Thanks for sticking on hold. I know you're getting a good dinner for you and your wife tonight, but what was that last point you wanted to make? Oh, I was just gonna say I d I just thank the Lord he's he's enabled me and and kept me going, but uh the In Ephesians, where it says, Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the church.

and gave himself for her And that that really is Has motivated me a lot and give me direction when other people would say, you know, you're doing too much. And uh It's helped me a lot that way.

Well, when people are telling you to do cancer. She ha she she's the Lord's shielder, I believe, but look it looks like. From her last test, last several Lord healed her from a lung cancer nodule, but she's still got COPD and she's got a food aversion where she really has uh trouble connecting her mind with What she can eat.

So she's, it's hard sometimes to. or something that she can Visualize eating.

Well I I um I'll go back to what people tell you that you're doing too much. Uh compared to what? What are they comparing you to? That you're doing too much? That's a question I would ask them because I've been doing this 40 years.

So I will take criticism in direct proportion to how much people help me. Yeah. Well, even even my daughter, that she loves her mom and You know, we We at one point here a while back, we were living right behind them and in a little house Uh nearby. And she didn't mean it in a in a uh in a bad way, but she just said, Dad, She said, I'm glad you love mom, but I couldn't do all of what you're doing.

Well, and I kind of realized then that I couldn't. I couldn't really depend on anybody else to help out. I would share that with you, but and that's why we are. Caregivers, because other people will, wherever you find somebody who's going through something, there's always a caregiver that's going to step in. At some point.

Now, sometimes they leave. I don't know. There's so many different scenarios here, but. There are other people that let people be caregivers. But in your case, the only thing I would give you is my own experience is that healthy caregivers make better caregivers.

So, Chuck, it's important for you to stay healthy. Yeah, um I I keep I keep trying. That's That's part of the battle.

Well, that is, and I'm with you too. I'm right there with you, bud, because I've got to stay healthy too. My wife does not benefit if I'm fat, broke, and miserable. You know And so there's there's no math to that. And so, and neither does yours.

So, we've got to be healthy because we're being good stewards. And it does say, Husbands love your wives as Christ loved the church, who poured out his life for her. That's another verse to memorize. And what does that mean? What does that look like?

And I don't own this. You didn't cause this to your wife. You can't cure it. But you are a steward of it, and you are entrusted with her care. And so you keep looking after her, but look to your source As caregivers, we have to have an inexhaustible source.

that fuels us. I can't pour it out of an empty basin. I've got to drink as I pour. And so do you, Chuck. You've got to be able to drink from that inexhaustible sustenance of God to be able to pour into your wife like this.

She's not your source, he is. And that's something to keep in mind as you go through this journey. And I do appreciate you taking the time to call. You go get a good chopped steak dinner, all right? Yeah, thank you.

God bless you. You too, Chuck. Thanks so much for taking the time to call. And I think that's a good question. Yes, sir.

I appreciate Chuck calling today, and I appreciate him taking the time. And his thoughts were good. I mean, it is hard to remember. As we get older, our memory fails a little bit. That's why it's important that we do this now.

Don't wait so that we can test things that are going on in the world around us. It's going to get more and more obfuscated. Um You know, Jesus in Matthew 22:29, you are wrong because you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God. If you don't know the scriptures. You know, uh People will twist things around, 2 Peter 3:16.

There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction as they do the other scriptures. How many people do you see that are ignorant and unstable twisting to their own destruction as they do to other scriptures? They take scripture and they just twist it around. to accommodate whatever lifestyle they want to do. If we don't know our scriptures, how are we going to speak to it?

Solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil. Hebrews five, fourteen. Scripture doesn't tell believers to accept everything that sounds spiritual. It tells us the opposite. 1 John says, test the spirits.

Paul says, test the spirit, test everything. You know, the Bereans examine the scriptures daily. Why? Because false teaching often uses biblical language while abandoning biblical truth. If you'll notice, That's the first thing again that Satan did.

was twist around, And then when he tempted Jesus, To twist around scripture.

Well, if you are the Son of God, then do this. If you are. And if we're not prepared. If we don't have the Scriptures in us, That we can respond to that, and we are consumed with the things of God. We're not going to make it.

We're going to easily be pulled by the snout. into all types of error. And you could see that everywhere. And it was amazing to watch a sitting member of Congress correcting a pastor. In the halls of Congress, right there on.

cable news and and C-SPAN and everything else. But Second Timothy two fifteen, do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth. How are you going to be able to rightly handle it if you don't handle it? Get into your scriptures. Get into the Word of God.

Read it. Let it consume you. And watch the difference of your thinking. And watch what happens when you look around you and see the culture, and you'll start hearing things and seeing things you probably just let go before because they're not compatible. Scripture and this world are not compatible.

Okay? They are not going to get along. They are not going to shake hands. When good compromises with evil, who wins? You don't compromise this.

And and so If we don't take this seriously, We will get picked off. We will get picked off. It's just. It's inevitable. And that's something I would not like for us to have happen to us, and for certainly for me.

And I looked at Chuck's situation. He's taking care of his wife. the only place he's going to be able to draw that kind of strength. is from the Word of God. God has revealed everything that Chuck needs to know.

as far as spiritually to take care of his wife and his word. That's a bold statement, isn't it? But I've been taking care of my wife for forty years.

So yes, I understand that statement. That's what sustains me in this. That is what Anchors me so that I don't get into despair over this. You can't go through the things that we've gone through. Without despair, unless you're anchored in something that lifts you up.

My glory and the lifter of my head, the psalmist said. And these are things that are important. And if music helps you do it, by all means. Go get songs that just constantly reinforce that. And it's easy to remember when the moment hits you and you it's hard for you to think.

And that's the passion I have for this, and that's the lesson I learned from watching this member of Congress correcting a pastor. who, if she's going to call herself a pastor that's a separate conversation, we can have that another time but if she's going to do it You'd think that they want to know their scripture. But if she's going to do it, chances are. She probably does it. And that's why she got into that mess.

And that's why a politician was able to pull out his Bible right there. in a hearing room in the House of Representatives and take her to class. And I don't know that she'd been challenged very much on that. She wasn't used to it. And it probably was good for her.

Maybe maybe she learned a lesson. Hey, do you uh do you struggle as as a caregiver? I do a radio program on this network. every week for family caregivers. And you just heard Chuck calling in and taking care of his wife.

Do you struggle with that? Do you know somebody who does? Do you know what to say to them? Do you know how to be a source of encouragement to him? Do you know how to talk to a caregiver?

Well, guess what, I do. And I speak fluent caregiver. And I'm offering you what I have to be able to. If you're doing that right now, I've got things for you right now. But if you know somebody's doing it, I've got things you could share with them.

Friends don't let friends care give alone. You go out to substack caregiver dot substack. Caregiver.substack. Substack is like an online newsletter. I've got audio, video, print.

All kinds of things out there available for you.

Some of it is a subscriber base for free.

Some of it is a paywall, but there's tons of stuff out there. My podcast. Hope for the caregiver? There's almost a thousand episodes. It's free.

Just go out. I mean, that's a wealth of information. I've got books. My new book is called A Caregiver's Companion: Scriptures, Hymns, and 40 Years of Insights for Life's Toughest Role. And all it is is a quote that I've said over the years, married with a scripture or a hymn stanza that punctuates what the point of it is.

And then it gives you a place to write your thoughts there, too. It's my journal for 40 years, the things I've learned. The hard way. And it's something that you can incorporate in your life right now, right today.

Okay, healthy caregivers do indeed make better caregivers and today's a great day to start. Peter Rosenberg.com. It's all there. We'll see you next time.