| Leading up to the Olympic Games being held in China | | | | You have the right to spend your time and money |
| we heard a lot about human rights. Suddenly it has | | | | however you please, but then you do not have the |
| gone quite quiet and silent. I wonder why? | | | | right to complain about not being able to meet your |
| In many nations thousands are treated abysmally, | | | | financial commitments. |
| but consider this from a different viewpoint. | | | | You have the right to fill your mind with any rubbish |
| We hear more about human rights today than human | | | | you choose, but constant exposure to wrong things |
| responsibilities. Jesus Christ appeared to concentrate | | | | tends to weaken character, rob a person of |
| more on the latter than the former. | | | | self-respect, and eventually master and enslave a |
| The Bible does not have much to say about human | | | | man. |
| rights. It was not an area Jesus concentrated on. | | | | When it comes to replacing bad habits with good |
| From a personal standpoint, you have the right to | | | | habits, only one person can make that happen. You! |
| treat yourself any way you wish, but do remember | | | | A wise teacher taught, "As a man thinks in his heart, |
| this. "Everything is permissible for me but not | | | | so is he". Another teacher was very careful about |
| everything is beneficial. Everything is permissible for | | | | what he permitted to enter his mind, filtering out |
| me, but I will not be mastered by anything." | | | | what was not beneficial. |
| You have the right to eat chocolate cake and ice | | | | God's Word will keep you from sin, or sin will keep |
| cream every night, but that will not be beneficial, | | | | you from God's Word. |
| especially if you want unblocked arteries, sugar-free | | | | What we think, what we choose, what we do, and |
| blood, and a slim waistline. | | | | how we speak, is who we become. |