As John Alley says, “We are Australian and we are civilised people. We do not skimp on morning tea.”

Morning tea is a good time to hang out with your mates, no matter how young they are.

After the break, Apostle John continued the teaching.

The soul is the command centre of the whole being. It is the soul that is either soaking in or rejecting.

The heart grows at the root of the soul. That is where the values are. The words of the mouth come from what is in the heart.

“The worth and excellency of a soul are to be measured by the object of its love .” Henry Scougal, The Life of God in the Soul of Man

What we love shows the value or worthiness of our soul.

Hebrews 4:12. The word of God is living and active.
We have to seek the word of the Lord
We read the word because we have a yearning to know the Lord.
While we are doing that, God intervenes in our hearts to remove the sins and thoughts that beset us

We need to seek ever increasing maturity in the Lord.

1 Peter 1:3-23
The prophets searched and inquired carefully but they received revelations in the searching.
We must not be conformed to the passions of our former ignorance. We must purify our souls by obedience to the truth. Love one another earnestly.

2 Peter 1:3-11
If we are diligent in pursuing the Lord, there will be richly provided for us an entrance into the eternal kingdom. If we do these things we will not fail.