Some people say that God is silent on musical instruments in the New Testament and we should be, also. God hasn't been silent on musical instruments. Ephesians 5:19 says, "Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord." Some people say, "See, we are only to use our voices to sing in church." The Bible doesn't even say that. When you read the verse, it doesn't even mention church, but it mentions "in your heart" and "speaking to yourselves."

The most incredible thing about the verse is what the words mean. If a person looked up the word "psalm," here is what they would find: Strong's Greek Concordance says "psalm" means, "to play on a stringed instrument." Vine's word studies says psalm means, "a striking or twitching with the fingers (on musical strings)." I explained that to a man one time and in his ignorance and arrogance he said, "A PIANO DOESN'T HAVE STRINGS!" It seems like some people have to think they are right even when they know they aren't.

Why make an issue with that? Let's point people to Jesus, show them He is the only way to Heaven, and not try to make issues with things that aren't even issues. God does not hate the piano!

God tells us in I Thess. 5:18 that we are to give thanks in everything. If we give thanks constantly to God in everything, we will not ever take God’s wonderful blessings for granted. Why not take some time today and make a list of things that we have a tendency to take for granted, and be thankful to God for those things?

We have a middle-aged couples class, a young couples class, a newly-wed class, a singles class, and even a class for educable slow adults. We already have a class specially for ladies and another one for senior adults. We also have children’s classes for every grade and six teen classes.

Sunday school is a great place to learn, study, grow and become more of what God intends for us to be. Our Sunday school classes start at 9:45 in the morning with food and fellowship for the adults starting at 9:30. I hope you can visit us soon.

In the Bible, Solomon did the same thing. When you read in Ecclesiastes, you will see that he went after everything that was trivial. He went on to say in chapter two, verse ten, that whatsoever his eyes desired, he kept not from them. He spent much of his life in trivialities, and at the end of his life, he said in verse 17, "Therefore, I hated life" When someone spends his life on things that are trivial, he will hate his life and realize he did not find happiness.

Jesus is not trivial! The church is not trivial! The Bible is not trivial! When someone spends his life for those things, he loves his life, and feels fulfilled. At the end of Solomon’s life, he summed up things this way, "Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man." Wouldn’t we be wise to learn from this early, instead of when our life is almost over?

However, if we are to walk with God, we must agree with God. Amos 3:3 says, "Can two walk together, except they be agreed?" If a person is to walk with God, they must agree with God. It is amazing to see how many people talk about having a close relationship with God, and yet don’t agree with God in their life. Have you ever looked at the things in your life to see if God would agree with them? It is something everyone should do.

Walking with God is a great thing, but in order to walk with God, we must first agree with God.

Every Sunday morning, I preach in the jail. I see guys that get out and go right back to the same thing that got them there in the first place. I have seen teenagers and adults go back to the same thing that has messed up their life. Isn't it about time you learned that living in the vomit of the world has nothing to offer? Serving God is great!

Also, there are many people that are single adults that were at one time married. Now they have all the heartache to recover from after a failed marriage, which usually is accentuated by children or child support.

Because of those and other problems, we have started a singles class at our church. It is a good time to fellowship and learn with others that are going through many of the same problems that you have. It is also a time where we can look to the Bible for answers to help those problems. We have class activities, which are times to get to meet other singles and to still enjoy life. If you fit in the single adult category, we would love to have you. If you know someone that needs a class like this, encourage them to come; or let me have their name and address, and I will invite them to come.

My mom helped me get in a class like this twelve years ago, and that was the thing that started turning life around for me. The class meets at 9:45 every Sunday morning.

The greatest truth that you will ever learn is that Jesus loves you. He doesn't love us because of us; He loves us because of who He is. He doesn't love us because we are good, perfect or loveable. In fact, we are not good, but are all sinners. No matter what you have ever done, or ever will do, God loves you. God loves us just because He loves us. God loves every sinner. God loved the whole world enough to send His only begotten Son to die on the cross to pay for our sins. Even though He loves us, He cannot allow us to go to Heaven unless we accept Jesus Christ as our Saviour.

The greatest truth you will ever know is that Jesus loves you. Have you thanked Him for loving you? Have you decided to love Him back? He sure deserves our love, admiration and worship.