00:00 Intro Stuff

00:18 Welcoming Lewis to the Team

01:21 The Importance of Student Ministry

03:26 Revival Summer Camp Details

04:59 Daily Bible Reading: Proverbs 19-21

21:02 Concluding Thoughts and Prayer

21:52 Outro and Podcast Information

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hey.

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Hello.

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Welcome back.

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And it's probably appropriate now that

Sunday has passed and the announcement

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has been made and it's outta the bag.

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In fact, it was made in main

service and then the parent meeting.

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Following up, pastor Rod, why

don't you tell us about the

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developments in our student ministry?

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I think our listeners might be

interested to hear about those.

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Again, so if you were at church on

Sunday, this is old hat to you, but we're

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excited to welcome Lewis onto our team.

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He's gonna be taking over as student

director for high school and junior

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high under the ministry that is

currently known as True North.

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And we couldn't be more thrilled.

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We love Lewis.

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We've been able to watch

him from a distance.

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Actually, he's been with us

for many more years in what we.

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Been here.

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Yeah.

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We had ministry experience with him.

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He was in my ministry when

he was in high school.

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He was in your ministry, pastor

pj when he was in college.

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Yep.

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And now we have an opportunity to

see him flex his wings under a new

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ministry under student ministry.

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He's leading that now and

it's really cool to see that.

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One of the things that Lewis is

especially gifted at that I particularly

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love is that it's a skilled je.

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He's a careful thinker and that

comes across in his preaching.

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So even though he's young in his

preaching skills, he's really good at

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drawing observations out and and helping

out with making good conclusions.

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I think he's really good at

that, so I appreciate him.

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I'm glad to have him in the saddle.

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I think he's gonna be a very good

leader in that ministry, helping other

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leaders grow, helping our students grow.

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It's gonna be a new chapter

of the ministry, but I believe

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it's gonna be a good one.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And he's stepping into it

is such an important role.

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Student ministry is

something that you value.

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I value.

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We both got our start in, in

ministry and student ministry and you

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served for quite a long time there.

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And it's just such a

important season and time.

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And we don't believe that our job as the

church is to take on the full mantle of

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discipling the students of the families

in our church, but to come alongside you

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use the terminology co champion, right?

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Along with the parents and pointing

them to Christ and helping them in that.

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And that's why we do it.

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And that's why we think it is

so imperative and so important.

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They're facing a lot of unique things.

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And for me as a senior pastor,

lead pastor, when I get up and

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I preach on Sunday mornings I.

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I'm preaching to a room that is facing

all kinds of different situations and

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while I do my best to try to think

through applicational situations and

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circumstances as I'm up there preaching,

a lot of those are gonna be geared

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towards adults because that's the

primary audience that's in the room.

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And so for our students, we still

want them there on Sunday morning.

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Undoubtedly they should be in church.

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Parents.

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Hear us say that as well.

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You're junior high school student, they

should be in church on Sunday morning.

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It's a good time for them to learn

what that's and what that looks like.

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And to worship there, even if they're

not saved, they should still be there.

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This is a good thing for them.

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But it's also good for them to have

in student ministry, a place where

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they can plug in and connect and get

to know what their students and hear

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messages that are more geared and

tailored towards what they're facing

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on a weekly basis in student ministry,

in school, and things like that.

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Absolutely the targeted teaching

makes it worth it all by itself.

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But indeed, we are co championing

the discipleship of your child.

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And so we believe that we play

a significant role, not in

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any way diminishing your role.

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You are the primary disciple.

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We would affirm that.

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But if you're saying is it 60, 40, 30, 70?

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What's the number?

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And I don't know if that's helpful.

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It's more helpful to say, we co

champion the discipleship of your child.

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We are partnering with you to

help accomplish that, and you're

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partnering with us to help

accomplish that on the other side.

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We are excited for this.

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Lewis is on board.

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He's excited to do it.

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Shea's excited too.

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And funny enough, Shaa was also

in a ministry also part of yours.

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Yep.

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So these are people that we've invested in

throughout the years and it's really sweet

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to have a time of harvesting some of that

investment, although not fully, of course.

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We expect Lewis and Shaa to

continue growing and making

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great inroads into ministry.

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A hundred percent we do.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Maybe this would be a good time.

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To touch on revival.

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I know it's coming up here in about

a month and a half, two months now.

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That's right.

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And so what do we, what do

our parents need to know?

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Parents of teens out there that are

listening, students that listen to this

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podcast, give us a plug for revival.

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So revival, in case you're unfamiliar

with the terminology, is just a name

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that we use to brand our summer camp.

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So anytime you hear us talk about revival,

most of the time we're talking about

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our summer camp revival, winter edition.

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Is as a name suggest our winter

camp, our winter retreat.

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So revival this year is gonna be at Latham

Springs, and that's about, I don't know,

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two and a half hours south of us here.

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It's in this huge facility.

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Lots of ground, lots of events

or in activities for them to do.

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There's competitive games.

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There's gonna be preaching and teaching

in part by Pastor Evan from compass,

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Albert Church Hill Country, which is in

New Braunfels and also Lewis this year.

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So it's gonna be a

really, it's a new year.

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It's gonna be a really fun year.

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It's gonna be lots of new things.

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We've never been to this place before.

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When I scouted it a few months ago,

probably six or eight months ago at this

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point, with Pastor Evan from Hill Country.

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We thought it had a lot of potential,

and in fact, if you wanna go to

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the website and see some of the

things that they offer, there's

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some really cool photos there.

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There's a great aerial

view of the whole camp.

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It's huge.

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Lots of things to do.

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We think your kids are gonna love

it, but what they're gonna love

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most we trust is gonna be the

fact that they're gonna have some.

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Great time in the word.

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Great time in small groups discussing

and implementing what they're hearing.

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And this year the theme is holy.

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We're looking at the holiness of God

and its implications for mankind.

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And of course there are legion

applications for us about what it

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means that God is holy and I can't

wait for your students to get involved.

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Yeah.

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That's awesome.

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That's awesome.

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Let's jump into our daily

Bible reading for today.

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Proverbs 1920 and 21.

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I think we've got this,

we've got tomorrow.

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And then are we outta

Proverbs for a minute?

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Or maybe we've got a couple more.

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Anyways, to your point, last yesterday's

episode, we've got this for a little while

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longer and then we're gonna jump back

and I think to, to Chronicles and Kings

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and then we'll come back book wrap up in

Proverbs, and then we go to Ecclesiastes.

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Yeah.

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Yep.

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Ecclesiastes is such a good book, man.

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Yeah.

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And then we go back to Kings and

then we go to finish Proverbs.

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Yeah.

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It's a little bit of inter

intertwining from here on out.

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I remember from this one just still being

in the Old Testament as we're rounding

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the corner into the fall going that

we're not gonna finish the New Testament.

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There's no way we're gonna get through.

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It feels like it.

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It does.

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Sometimes it does.

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Hey, Proverbs 19.

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How about verse two?

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Desire without knowledge is not good.

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And whoever makes haste with

his feet misses his way.

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What this.

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Struck me as this time around is we

need to be suspicious of our desires.

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That, that initial desire that

we have, that initial desire

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to say, I wanna go do this.

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I let's go do this.

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This is encouraging us to, to stop

and to give thought to it, and to

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think about, okay, what's our motive?

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What's the reason behind this?

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Is this really the best use of

our resources our funds, our

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time, and so forth and so on.

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Now, you could pro.

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Have paralysis by analysis.

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If you apply this across the board

okay, do I want to get up and

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go get a sip of water right now?

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What's my motive in

getting a sip of water?

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But really just thinking about

your big picture, your ambitions,

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your dreams, why do you have those?

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What are those?

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What's the knowledge undergirding

those that's leading you to make these

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conclusions and to do these things?

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Because if you run hastily into to

something that you're thinking, this

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is what we need to do, and you make

big decisions without thinking about

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it, then you can end up in a bad spot.

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I would say.

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Man, moving somewhere without

consideration where you're gonna

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go to church moving away from

the church, leaving a church,

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leaving your community group.

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These are all big ticket

items that I would say.

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You need to be really careful, really

slow about making that decision

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before you pull the trigger on that.

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Amen to that.

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Verse 14.

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I love this house and wealth are inherited

from fathers, at least in under normal

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circumstances, but a prudent wife.

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That's from the Lord, the gift of a wife,

a good wife, a prudent wife here, a wise

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wife, we might say is from the Lord.

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Husbands.

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Have you got that?

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Say amen.

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Give your wife a kiss and let her

know that you are thankful for her

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because she is a gift of the Lord.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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You mentioned whenever something is

repeated we need to pay attention to it.

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And there's a verse that's repeated almost

word for word twice that's right in here,

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and that's verse five and verse nine.

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A false witness will not go unpunished.

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And he who breathe out

lies will not escape.

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That's verse five.

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He who breathes out lies

will perish in verse nine.

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So it's pretty much a word for

word concept there, but that's

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just a reminder of the fact that

we need to be people of truth.

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And when we're given a platform to

bear witness to what has happened, we

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need to be p men and women of truth.

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We need to give witness to the

factual events of what took place.

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Because if we don't, then we're

putting our way in ourselves,

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in the way of God's wrath.

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And that's not a place

that anybody wants to be.

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Yeah.

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And again, our words are so frivolous

and carelessly deployed these

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days that it requires us to be.

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Intentional and thoughtful

and even carefully considered

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before we send our words out.

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Sometimes we can accidentally lie or

even just mislead people by our words.

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We shade them in a certain way.

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We use certain adjectives

or nouns or pronouns.

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We can hide the, our, the intentions

of our heart by just being really

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careful with their language.

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And that's not what I'm suggesting.

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What I am suggesting though, is that we

be people who are forthright, honest.

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Let your yes be yes.

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And your no be no mean what

you say and say what you mean.

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Politic politically maneuvering

your words with people is I get it.

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There's times to be gentle and to

be diplomatic in how you deliver

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something, especially if it has a

tendency to be hurtful to somebody or

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trying to deliver criticism or you're

trying to help them see something

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that maybe they haven't seen before.

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I get that, and I'm not suggesting

that you should be cruel or

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harsh in their delivery, but we

should be people who are honest.

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Forthrightness is one of those

things that I feel like people

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just don't appreciate today.

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We don't do that.

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We hide things with words or

we just try to, we say things

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and there's a wink and a nod.

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What do you get what

I'm trying to say here?

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No we need to be people who are just.

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Plain speakers.

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We say what we mean what we

say, and we try our best to

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communicate it in a loving way.

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I think that's a really helpful

posture for Christians who are wise.

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Yeah, for sure.

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Verse 23, the fear of the Lord.

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We talked about this yesterday

in the sermon a little bit

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in our first point there, I.

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Just to come back to that subject I

think the fear of the Lord is something

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that we can so easily misunderstand

as Christians, and even to try to cap

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capture the idea in one sermon point or

even just in one full sermon is a lot.

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But just to clarify again, we are not

fearing condemnation and judgment.

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That is the fear that one

John four eight says that I.

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That we have been freed from

for, I think it's for it.

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That, that we've been delivered from

that perfect love casts out that fear.

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We're not fearing God the

way that the unbeliever does.

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We're not fearing that God is

gonna zap, fry us for our sin.

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We're not fearing God in

the way that we're feeling.

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Condemnation and judgment and shame,

carrying our guilt and shame and sin

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around with us for our whole lives,

rather, we're fearing God in the way that.

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I used the illustration

yesterday in a sermon.

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You you've got, let's take a gun.

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You can look at a gun and say,

okay, that gun can be used for

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a lot of really good things.

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It can be self-defense, it

can provide food, it can do

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all kinds of things like that.

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And yet that gun can also be used

to inflict much harm and damage.

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And so you're gonna approach that

gun in a way that is gonna be.

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Reverential, you're gonna have

a reverence for the potential

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damage that gun could inflict.

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And yet you're still gonna

approach it and use it the way

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that it was intended to be used.

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And when you do that and approach it

the way you should, it's a good thing.

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And that's our relationship with God.

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When we approach God, understanding

that he is good and he's holy and

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he's kind, and he's compassionate,

but he's also a God of power and

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wrath and justice, then it's a good

thing for us to approach him that way.

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And that's gonna impact the

way that we live our lives.

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And the fear of the Lord.

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Verse 23 leads to life.

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It leads to a good thing.

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If you approach the Lord in the

right way, man, it's gonna be a

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good life that you're gonna live.

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And whoever has it rests satisfied and

won't be visited by harm ultimately that's

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a, that's an eschatological promise.

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You are gonna be satisfied for

eternity and you are gonna be

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delivered from harm eternally.

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But even now, if you, generally speaking,

the principle is if you conduct yourself.

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With the fear of the Lord, you're

gonna live a life that's gonna put you

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in the way of blessing much more than

it's gonna put you in the way of harm.

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Amen.

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Verse 27, if I can comment on this

really quickly here, cease to hear

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instruction, my son and you will

stray from the words of knowledge.

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Yeah.

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I think that speaks to the fact that

we have to humbly and repeatedly hear

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the words that we've heard before.

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This is one of the reasons why we

attend preaching every Sunday or

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whatever the frequency is for you.

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You go to a midweek service perhaps

or something at Sunday night.

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We need to hear the same

things over and over again.

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Because we need to be open to

instruction because often A, we forget

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and two, even though we've heard it,

it doesn't mean that we're applying it.

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If we're honest with ourselves, we

need to repeatedly be exposed to

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arguments from scripture to have our

hearts worn down, shaped, and even

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convinced that's the right way to go.

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And so Solomon wisely encourages his son.

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Don't be the kind of person

who closes your ears as though,

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oh, I know this already.

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I've heard this sermon already.

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Oh I already know where the

pastor's gonna go with this.

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Even if it isn't pastoring or preaching,

rather if it's something else, you never

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are gonna learn all that you should learn.

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And especially when it comes to scripture

and especially when it comes to God,

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there is an infinite fountain there that

you will never drink the completion of.

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Therefore stay at it.

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Cease to hear instruction, my son and you

will stray from the words of knowledge.

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Chapter 20.

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Then let's deal with verse one.

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In fact, you talked about this on

Saturday at our men's Bible study as well.

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Wine is a mocker strong drink,

a brawler, and whoever's led

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astray by it is not wise.

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Pierre, why don't you give us a kind

of a synopsis, brief snapshot of that

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first point that you talked about,

because the qualification for the

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Godly man is not to be a drunkard, but

we talked about the fact that doesn't

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mean that you can't have any alcohol.

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So some thoughts on that.

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Concept.

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Yeah, briefly.

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The prohibition for the leader, the godly

leader, AKA, also the pastor and the elder

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is to not be someone who is a drunkard.

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He can't be qualified or

characterized by that.

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Someone should be able to look at

his life and say, that's not true of

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that guy, and it's gonna be evident.

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Paul doesn't give commands that he's

expecting someone to have heart access.

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None of us do.

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He's expecting to look at

the man's life and say, I.

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Can tell based on the

obvious watching of his life.

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He's not a drunker.

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That's what scripture calls us to.

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However, scripture does

say you can enjoy wine.

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He tells Timothy in one Timothy five,

take a little wine for your stomach.

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You're not feeling well.

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Hey, don't just drink water.

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Drink some wine that's gonna help

with, the fermentation or the alcohol

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killing off some of the bad bugs.

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Who knows what he has in

mind, but he does let him say.

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He does let him have

alcohol in the first place.

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The challenge then is to say,

okay, if God is okay with us

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having it, how much can we have?

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And the line he says is drunkenness.

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Some people are gonna draw the

line for drunkenness of slurring

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speech and staggering steps, but

I think the line is actually at

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the point where you get buzzed.

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I think that would be, and my

best understanding of God's

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intention is what he's prohibiting.

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That we should not allow ourselves to

be inebriated by the drink such that

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it controls us and therefore in verse.

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One here, wine is a mock or strong

drink is a baller, a brawler.

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Whoever is led astray

by these is not wise.

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You're not wise because you're allowing

these things to steal your attention

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and your energy such that you're no

longer in control of your faculties.

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And that's exactly what

God is prohibiting.

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Yeah, a hundred percent.

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In fact you said the, one of the things

about getting buzzed that I thought

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was helpful is you said you can't act

or react with sober mindedness, right?

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Because you're.

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You're inebriated to a certain

degree at least on that.

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And maybe you're not gonna blow over

the legal limit on the breathalyzer

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test, but you're still out of your

faculties to be able to respond, to

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act, and react as you put it in a way

that is sober minded to honor the Lord.

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I.

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Yeah.

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H how about verse seven?

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Verse seven jumped out to me because it,

it says this, it says, your righteous

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living is not just for you, but it's also

for your children that you, when you walk

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in integrity, when you live a righteous

life, blessed are your children after you.

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The Bible talks about visiting the sins

of the fathers on future generations of

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children, and here's kinda the opposite.

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It's Hey, if you live a life of integrity

and you set that example for your kids,

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that's gonna be a blessing to them.

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They're gonna be able to look

at a mom or a dad who lived

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a faithful life of godliness.

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And that's going to turn out well for

them because hopefully the idea is

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that train up a child in the way he's

gonna go, which we're gonna get to

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also and he will not depart from it.

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If they're seeing you live that

faithful life, that's gonna be a

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blessing to them in the long term.

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Amen.

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I just think about the way that

it happens when someone dies.

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You end up getting access into their

life access into parts that you may not

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see otherwise because they're a private

person or it's on their computer or it's

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on their bookshelf or what have you.

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There's something so good and so sweet

when you see into the secret places of

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a person's life and you realize they're

exactly who you thought they were.

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Yeah.

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That is such a special gift that you can

give your family, and that just means

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our job, men and women, is to be the

kind of people that live what we say.

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We mean what we say.

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We say what we mean.

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We live with integrity, he says here,

whoever walks in integrity, right?

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It's the righteous who walks, not

just the one who talks about it.

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It's easy to say, you should do this.

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We should live that way.

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It's a whole other to live a life through

and through that conveys the kind of

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integrity that God can be pleased with.

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And of course, we'll bless your children.

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There's so many numerous blessings, but

not the least of which when your kids get

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to look in your life and disperse your.

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Your belongings.

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Let them find things that give testimony

to the fact that you were faithful.

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Yeah.

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Verse 13, there is such a

thing as too much sleep.

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Believe it or not, even though it doesn't

feel like it when you're sleeping.

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There is such a thing as too much sleep.

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Love, not sleep.

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Lest you come to poverty, open your

eyes and you will have plenty of bread.

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How much sleep is too much?

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Yeah, it that's a, I thus says the Lord.

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I don't know.

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Yeah.

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No but it is speaking to Slothfulness,

it's speaking to those things and

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there's wisdom in getting rest.

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This is not about going, Hey, if

you're not waking up at 5:00 AM every

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day, then you're not doing it right.

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There's wisdom to get rest and

get the rest that your body needs.

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And everybody's different on that.

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Yeah.

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Molar operates on three hours of sleep at

night, which I don't know is healthy, but.

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He does it.

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Don't think he does.

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Yeah.

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He figures out how to do it.

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And there's science behind it.

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I know you've read quite a bit

on this subject and thought a

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lot about how to get consistent

sleep and everything else, but I.

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It's in the proverbs it's a good

thing for us to, to sleep well and

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not sleep in a way that we idolize

it in such that it slows us down

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in our pursuit of pro productivity.

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Scriptures does say that he

gives to his beloved rest.

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Yeah.

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He gives to his beloved rest.

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So that's, it's a gift of

God to sleep at Psalm 1 27.

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It's in vain that you rise

up early and go late to rest.

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He gives to his beloved rest.

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Sleep is what the word is.

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I think there.

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So there is clearly a sense in which

this just goes back to the alcohol.

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God gives it as a gift.

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Yeah, it's a good gift that should be

enjoyed, but it should not be overjoyed.

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The poison is in the dose, as some

people often say, and it's incumbent

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upon Christians to be especially

aware of these pernicious sins

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because they can sneak up on us.

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We don't realize we're being slothful and

lazy, but the scripture gives us space

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to say, you ought to think about this.

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You ought to be sober minded enough

to be watchful over your life, to

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not sleep so little that you're not

stewarding your body and not to sleep

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so much that you're being lazy and

you're not stewarding your work well.

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There are hazards on either side

and I think that's the point here.

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Yeah.

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And probably building on that, I.

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As well.

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Same theme, chapter 21, verse 17.

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Then whoever loves pleasure will

be a poor man and he who loves

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wine and oil will not be rich.

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Pleasure is another thing.

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Is it wrong to have pleasure in our life?

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No, it's not wrong to have

pleasure in your life.

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It's not wrong to have

leisure in your life.

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It's not wrong to have things that you

enjoy doing or hobby that you enjoy doing.

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But again, it's gotta be in moderation.

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We've gotta approach it the right

way and make sure that it doesn't

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become something that is enslaving

to us or something that distracts us,

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or something that wastes our time.

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We're really good at wasting time.

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It's not hard for us to sit down and three

hours later get up from the couch and be

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like, I did nothing other than like some

Instagram reels during that three hours.

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We gotta be careful about how we are

redeeming the time that God has given us.

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And and use it well and enjoy the things.

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Enjoy the sleep.

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Enjoy the wine.

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If you drink wine or a beer from

time to time and then enjoy pleasure,

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but don't be mastered by any of it.

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And take them as they're meant to

be, which are blessings from the Lord

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to be respites here and there rather

than something that you live for.

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Amen to that.

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Verse two, actually, verse one and two.

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Let me just do verse one.

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King's heart is a stream of

water in the hand of the Lord.

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He turns it wherever he will.

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I love this because it tells me that.

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P President Trump is not in control

totally at the end of the day, or Elon.

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Elon is not in control,

and especially when they're

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fighting, they're not in control.

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At least in the ultimate sense,

God is the one who's directing

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the affairs of mankind, even

if it doesn't appear that way.

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And at the same time, God's

doing so without sin or flaw.

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He's not participating in evil.

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He's not contributing to evil

as though he were the direct.

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Participant, but he is turning the

hearts of man wherever he will.

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So are you having an issue with your boss?

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Are you having an issue with your spouse?

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Man, pray to the Lord

about that spouse's heart.

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The Lord can easily sway their heart

in the direction that is most fitting

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and suitable according to scripture.

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Verse two, every way of man is right

in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs

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the heart, which tells me simply that.

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Act.

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The act that you commit is important,

but also on top of that, the Lord

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is also weighing your motivation.

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He cares about both.

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Yeah.

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Look at verse 25.

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The desire of the slugger

kills him for his hands.

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Refuse to labor.

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I think the thing that stood out to

me this time reading this is that.

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The difference between the sluggard

and the disciplined person is not the

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desire, but it's the follow through.

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The sluggard can have all the greatest

desires, can have the desire to, to climb

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the corporate ladder, can have the desire

to have the GIC family, can have the

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desire to, to to work hard, can have the

desire to have the house, whatever it is.

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The difference is, are you willing

to put in the work ethic to get.

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From the desire to the reality of that.

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And that's the difference between

the sluggard and the person that

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is enjoying the fruits of their

labor is doing the hard work.

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The desire.

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Both are gonna have, it's the

results of the desire is what

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you're gonna do with that desire.

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That's what differentiates.

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Amen.

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Can I just end with the last verse here?

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Totally.

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In chapter 21 verse 31.

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The horse is made ready

for the day of battle.

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But the victory belongs to the Lord.

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Now, I think that's a great way for us

to end, because what it suggests to us is

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that we should make the horse ready, feed

the horse, exercise the horse, get all the

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things in place get yourself battle ready.

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But at the end of the day,

you're not trusting the horse.

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Some trust in chariots and

some in horses, but we trust in

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the name of the Lord our God.

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Or you gonna sing it?

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I will.

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I saw.

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Alright, let's try it again.

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Some trusts in chariots

and some in horses.

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I'm not gonna sing it.

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Oh, we trust the Lord again.

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Yeah.

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Alright all this to say it's such a

good thing for us to prepare, put, sock

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away money in your savings account.

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Set, set a contingency fund for yourself.

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Get the spare tire and

keep it in the trunk.

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Do all the things that you should do,

but don't put your trust in those things.

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Put your trust in the Lord.

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And how are you gonna

know if they do that?

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How will you know if someone's

trusting in the Lord?

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Has your pja give us a few

indications if you on the spot here?

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Yeah.

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I, this whole thing's on the spot.

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What do you think we're doing?

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Totally.

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We don't prep for this at all.

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I think when you see somebody who's even

keeled, when you see somebody who responds

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to difficulty in a way that their life

is not turned upside down, that's an

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indication they're trusting in the Lord.

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I think when you see somebody who is

quick to give glory to God when things

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go their way, I think that's an example

that they're trusting in the Lord.

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Amen.

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When you see somebody who faces

discouragement by turning to him

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and praying to him and pleading

with him, I think you see somebody

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who's trusting in the Lord.

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That's right.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Amen.

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Pray it up, folks.

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Yeah.

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Let's just do let's do just that

and we will wrap up this episode.

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God, we are thankful for these

nuggets that we get to pull

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outta the book of Proverbs and

and we wanna be a wise people.

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We wanna be a people that does

make the horse ready for battle,

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but trust ultimately in you.

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And so help us to do that.

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And help us to live lives of godliness and

righteousness as a legacy for our family.

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God we want to enjoy the good

gifts that you've given us and

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not be mastered by any of them.

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As we were talking about in this.

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We want to have our desires and

then pursue those desires in

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a way that's godly and right.

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And Lord, help us to live.

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Wisely, I guess is just my request in this

is, which is a big prayer request as we

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think about the world in which we live.

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'cause there's so much that wants to

pull us into the path of foolishness

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rather than in walking with the wise.

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And so help us to be a church

characterized by wisdom, by giving

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ourselves over to your word.

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We pray in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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I would agree with

everything that you said