Acts 22:3 I am a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city. I studied under Gamaliel and was thoroughly trained in the law of our ancestors. I was just as zealous for God as any of you are today.

Paul stood up and told the people around him a plain truth – he had learned the Jewish law and ways, even studied them, and kept them!

Yet what did it count as? Nothing!

Sometimes we build up the law and extend the rules just so we can look better than others.

Don’t forget. God made the original law. Don’t even think about comparing yourself to Him!

Hebrews 10:26 If we deliberately keep on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, no sacrifice for sins is left

If we went back to offering sacrifices for our sins, just how far would you go to find a perfect lamb to offer as a sacrifice to get rid of all your sins?

What happens then when you go back and do those same sins again? What do you look for next?

Don’t make Christ’s death on the cross of no consequence! Try to do what is right by trying to obey God – that is all He is asking…

He knows we are not perfect – we just need to try.

1 Corinthians 10:22 Are we trying to arouse the Lord’s jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

When was the last time you tried to make someone jealous, someone who was much bigger or stronger than you?

I can remember doing things like that at boarding school and then paying for it afterward as they got their own back on me!

God is much bigger than we can imagine or wonder at – don’t ever think you can make Him jealous without repercussions!

But, even after that, God still loves you!