00:00 Intro Things

00:06 Rangers Game Plans

00:35 Parenting and Newborn Challenges

01:27 Yearbook Memories

03:54 Bible Reading: Proverbs 22-24

04:00 Wisdom and Discipline in Proverbs

06:55 The Influence of Companions

08:56 Wealth and Contentment

11:03 Pursuing Knowledge and Instruction

11:33 The Insatiable Appetite for God's Knowledge

11:58 The Value of Acquiring Knowledge

12:47 Envy and Compassion: A Christian Perspective

13:34 Wisdom and Strength in Adversity

14:20 Fainting and Adversity: Personal Stories

17:21 Rejoicing Over Enemies: A Biblical View

18:29 The Sweetness of Wisdom

20:40 Diligence and Spiritual Growth

21:13 Concluding Prayer and Reflections

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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What's up folks?

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It is Tuesday.

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Yes it is.

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And Friday of this week we're

gonna be at the Rangers game and

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so we're looking forward to that.

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Hopefully you're planning

on being there with us.

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Look for an email this week with

instructions as to which parking lot

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we're gonna be meeting into tailgate.

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I heard that Julia's gonna be there.

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And I heard that, is that right?

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That Warren is gonna be there?

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Warren gonna, and I heard

that Mark is gonna be there.

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The whole family is gonna be there.

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Warren's actually throwing

out the first pitch.

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I couldn't, I wouldn't be surprised.

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Yeah, he's probably he's

coordinated enough to do that.

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They're looking for a large

size adult uniform to fit him.

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But yeah, he'll be there

throwing out the first pitch.

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No, they're not gonna be there.

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They continue to pray for them as

they're adjusting to life with a

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newborn at home, as those of you that

have done that know what that's like.

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I was talking to Mark about that recently.

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He was just talking about how there's

a skill that's acquired as a, multi

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parent a parent multiple times over.

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I don't know what I'm trying to say there.

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You've had more than one child.

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You know what to expect and what's coming.

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It doesn't change the fact that

little voice that goes off every

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couple hours in the middle of the

night is is a lot to, to adjust to.

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So I pray for them and pray for energy,

pray for patients with their other kids.

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They're gonna need that.

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And patience with one another is there's

a different kind of tire that hits

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when you're a parent of a newborn, but.

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Mark and Julian, we love you guys.

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We're thankful for you guys.

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Continue to pray for Warren

and looking forward to getting

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you guys back at church.

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So That's right.

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Come back soon.

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Come back soon.

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We miss you already.

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Yes, hags.

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Have a great summer.

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Don't ever change.

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Yeah.

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Stay in school.

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Did you sign that stuff when

you were doing year books?

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I'm sure I did, man.

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I don't.

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I don't hags.

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Call me.

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Here's my phone number.

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Did you ever do that?

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I don't think I did that.

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You didn't do that?

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No, I was not that guy.

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I tried to be thoughtful

about what I wrote.

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I, that does not shock me.

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One day I tried to be, I don't

know if I accomplished that.

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I tried to be I haven't found a yearbook

where I've actually written something,

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although get this, I, so I recently

bought my yearbooks from high school

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'cause I didn't buy them at the time.

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Okay.

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But I think maybe two years ago.

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I started looking for them and I

found out you can buy them on eBay.

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Oh wow.

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People have sold their yearbooks

and so I'm like, oh cool.

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Let me just look for it

and see if I can buy.

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So I found, I think my senior

and junior year and I bought the

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yearbook that was belonged to one

of my friends from high school.

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I'm like, oh, this is weird that I

got your yearbook, but I wanted it.

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I never got, I was, I couldn't

afford it when they were

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offering them in high school.

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Yeah.

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So now I have one in my library.

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Fun.

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Did, had you signed it?

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It's funny.

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I was looking for it and I don't think so.

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And if I did, it's.

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I, I can't even read my own handwriting, I

don't think so, but I only glanced at it.

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I don't know if I'm brave

enough to read what I wrote.

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That's funny, man.

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That's funny.

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Isn't that crazy?

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That's a small world moment.

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It's look, there's a

yearbook from, and get this.

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The one who was selling

it was not that person.

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It wasn't them sell.

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So I don't know how we

even left their library.

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Yeah.

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But it's, it was somehow circulated.

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It was being sold by a distributor

who sells old li old yearbooks.

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That's crazy.

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Isn't that weird?

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That's crazy.

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Yearbooks are no joke anymore.

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Like Josh is over at Prosper

High School and everything.

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And their yearbooks over there,

they're like triple digits.

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Yeah, mine was too.

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Yeah, it's crazy.

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I that, that, that's why I couldn't

afford it in high school when I was going.

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Yeah.

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There's no way.

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And they, in 3000 students, it's

like a, it's a textbook size.

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It's massive.

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So do you have yours?

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I do.

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Yeah, you do.

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I do.

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That.

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Surprise me.

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My dad kept them.

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Aw.

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And so he recently gave

us, you bring 'em out, man.

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I think people would love to

see your old yearbook photos.

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I don't think so.

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I think you should.

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I don't think so.

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The frosted tips in the PCA shells

or Definitely need to see that.

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The emo angsty senior picture.

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Definitely photo shoot de wanna see that.

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We had, I think for our

second anniversary, yeah.

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People should see in large poster size

photos what you used to look like.

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I don't think that's true.

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And then we could get glory to God.

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Thank you Lord, that guy.

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Is our pastor.

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I don't think anybody needs that.

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I, you know what you guys weigh

in, if you wanna see Pastor

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Peter, this is not how this works.

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Yearbook photos, send us an

email podcast@compassntx.org.

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See, we're not congregational

at the end of the day.

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We're gonna start though.

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If you wanna be congregational,

send us an email at, oh man.

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Anyways, that's a fun trip down memory

lane that nobody wanted to take.

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So let's jump into our

Bible reading today.

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Proverbs 22, 23 and 20.

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Four.

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We'll let the emails be the disciple.

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Yeah.

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Okay, Uhhuh, Proverbs 22, verse two,

the rich and the poor meet together.

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The Lord is the maker of them all.

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Again, thinking back to Amos and just

that idea of God as the one who creates

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all of us and part of our love for those

less fortunate than us is seeing the

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image of God in them and honoring that.

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How about verse six, pastor, I train up a

child in the way he should go, even when

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he's old, he will not depart from it.

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I've heard people say that this

applies to if you let your kid.

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Do whatever they want.

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Then don't expect them

to do anything different.

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When they get older, they're not

gonna grow out of self-centeredness.

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If you don't discipline them out of

that, then they're gonna be who they are

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from the time that they're in your home.

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I've also heard people say that this is

about the positive side of discipline,

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that you should discipline them by

putting the word in front of them and

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not spare the rod and so forth and so on.

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And when they grow up, they're

gonna be well-behaved people.

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What's your take on verse six?

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I think you're right on

both of those things.

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I both, I think they are both entailed

by the idea that if you train a child

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in a certain way, you shouldn't be.

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It was, it shouldn't be surprised

when they live life in a certain way.

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Yeah.

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If they're raised without discipline,

it should not be surprising if they

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continue to live without discipline

when they're in their teen years.

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And so I think both are fitting.

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Proverbs are interesting because

they're not promises, they're

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not meant to be taken as ironclad

guarantees on God's part.

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They are a commentary about the

way that the world generally works.

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Wisdom is not necessarily

saying thus sayeth the Lord.

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It is.

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An observation about the way

that things typically work out

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under normal circumstances, under

the normal course of things.

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So is it possible that you have a kid who

never got disciplined and never got a lot

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of correction or direction, but still ends

up super sweet and kind totally possible?

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And I've seen, I think, examples of that.

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And rare circumstances, but

ordinarily speaking, what you

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give is what you're gonna get.

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Yep.

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How you raise a kid is what kind

of kid you're gonna end up having.

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Granted, there are variations

because of personalities.

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And we don't only believe that there's a

determined way that a person lives like

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they, they are in a narrow lane that if.

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This is their DNA.

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This is gonna be what their destiny is.

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But there is both a nature

and a nurture component.

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And even though you can't control

the nature that's of the Lord, the

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nurturing component is massive and

we don't know how massive it is.

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But according to Proverbs 22,

verse six, it's so massive that

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you should expect that what you

put in, you're gonna get back.

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Yep.

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In verse 15 is a good.

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Accompaniment to that because it

says folly is bound up in the heart

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of the child, but he, the rod of

discipline drives it far from him.

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That's right.

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And again, to your point, this is the

general principle that if you want the

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child that's gonna grow up and not live a

life of foolishness and folly discipline

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from you, mom and dad is important.

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When they're younger, they need to

know that because it's gonna help them

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avoid those things as they grow older.

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The chapter's broken

right there, verse 17.

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It says words of the wise, and

then it says, incline your ear

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and hear the words of the wise.

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So it seems here that Solomon is

presenting Now some statements that

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aren't necessarily original to him, but

are wisdom statements that existed at

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the time that he's now compiling and.

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In adding into the things that

he's been teaching Solomon here.

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So that's why I think that

the break exists there

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between verse 16 and verse 17.

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But one thing that he draws in

here is verses 24 through 25.

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Make no friendship with a man given

to anger, nor go with a wrathful man

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lest you learn his ways and entangle

yourself and a snare point there.

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Angry people.

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Make lousy friends because

they will, you will.

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Be prone to, to mirror

the friends that you keep.

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And that's why godly

companionship is so important.

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If you surround yourself with

people who are slow to anger, you

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will learn to be slow to anger.

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If you surround yourself with

people that are hotheads and go

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off at a, at the drop of a hat,

you will become like that yourself.

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And I've noticed this when I spend

time with negative people, it's

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very easy for me to fall into a

negative and critical spirit when I'm

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around people that aren't that way.

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And I see that in myself, man.

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It's like shining a

spotlight on my sinfulness.

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It's like bringing it to the surface

and being like, look how wrong

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This is when you're around other

people that don't behave that way.

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When you're around people that sin just

like you sin, then your sin doesn't.

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Come across as bad because you're,

it's like being in a fish in water.

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You're like, what's water?

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I've only known water my whole life.

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But when you're around other people

that don't behave the way that you

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behave then it raises your game.

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It exposes sin.

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And if you're living a godly life, you're

gonna wanna repent of it and put it off.

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So being around angry people, not a

good thing because you will be prone

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to become like them, or to cover up

your own anger or whatever it may be.

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Yeah.

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And I think this encourages you if

you deal with anger, to really resolve

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that, because scripture is telling.

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People not to be friends with you.

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If you notice anger in, you're dealing

with your spouse or your kids or even

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the employees that you work with.

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Scripture's telling them, don't be friends

with that guy because they're going

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to, they're gonna bleed all over you

and they're gonna influence, just like

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you were saying, Proverbs 1320 style.

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They're gonna cause you

harm because of their.

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Own sin.

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And so notice this is a big deal.

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Often I read this once in

the context of my parenting.

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If you're an angry parent, scripture tells

your kids not to be friends with you.

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And I thought I don't want that to be true

of me, Lord, please guard me from being

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a man given to anger or being wrathful.

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So beware beware.

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You don't want people

to pick up your evil.

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And then we, sometimes we call them bad

habits, and maybe it is just a bad habit.

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We don't want people to pick up our

sin, especially those closest to us.

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So be sure that you're guarding your life.

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Chapter 24 verses four and five,

deal with the area of our finances.

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And verse four is interesting.

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He says, do not toil to acquire wealth.

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Now, notice here he does not

say, do not acquire wealth, but

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do not toil to acquire wealth.

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The toil is to, to labor,

to struggle, to grow weary.

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And again, think about Ecclesiastes here.

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This is the same author, and

I think he's bringing some of

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the same realities in here.

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He's saying if you are living for

the sole end of becoming wealthy.

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Healthy, then you're missing it.

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Be discerning enough to desist from that.

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Don't make your goal becoming

somebody who has more money.

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If God gives you more

money, praise God for that.

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If your job puts you in a position

where you are making a good income

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and you're able to support your

family and give to other resources and

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church and things like that, awesome.

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That's great.

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There's nothing wrong with that.

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The wrong, the.

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Error comes in when we are pursuing

that, and that's what we're living for.

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And that's that idea of toiling

there because verse five, when

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your eyes light on it, it's gone.

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You talked about this again on, on

Saturday at our Men's Bible study

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pr, but the idea of not loving money

let's unpack that a little bit for us.

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Yeah.

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The challenge is of course, that

money provides you security.

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It provides you comfort, it

provides you a lot of things that

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God wants to provide for you.

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And that's why Jesus says

you cannot serve two masters.

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You're either gonna love

one and hate the other.

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So money wants your trust,

money wants your allegiance.

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Money will easily take the place of God

because of how much it does for you.

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And therefore, as a Christian,

our job, because we have to deal

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with money, it's like talking to

someone who deals with gluttony.

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You can't tell 'em to stop eating.

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They're gonna have to eat.

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The challenge then is to eat in such a way

that conveys moderation for the Christian.

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The challenge is to make money in

such a way that shows I don't trust

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the money, I don't love the money.

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And so the way I phrased it was, don't

let money make decisions for you.

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And you don't want money

to compel what you do.

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Can should we do this thing well?

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Is it gonna make me money?

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How much money is that gonna cost me?

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There is a prudence and a wisdom of.

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Guarding your checkbook, so

to speak, and making sure that

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you're not spending frivolously.

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But God wants us to be a generous

people because he's been generous to us.

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He doesn't want us to love money or

trust money because money does have

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a tendency to grow and to leave.

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It can easily be acquired.

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It can easily be lost.

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That's why your trust needs to be

in the Lord and not the cash I.

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Yeah.

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Two more verses that I

think go well together.

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Verse 12 and verse 23, verse 12.

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Apply your heart to instruction

your ear to words of knowledge.

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And verse 23, buy truth

and do not sell it.

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Buy wisdom, instruction,

and understanding.

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And here I think that Solomon is

telling us actively pursue these things.

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Actively pursue knowledge and instruction.

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Don't ever get to the place where you

aren't trying to continue to grow in your

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knowledge and understanding of the Lord.

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Don't get to the place where you're.

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Complacent saying I

feel like I know enough.

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I don't need to stretch myself.

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I don't need to get deeper.

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I don't need to go farther.

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I know what I know and what I

know is enough for me right now.

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We should as believers be insatiable in

our appetite for the knowledge of God.

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Are we ever gonna know everything

there is to know about God?

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No.

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But that's our direction, that's our goal.

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We wanna know him.

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In a way that, that is always better

than we knew him last year better than

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we knew him a week ago, even yesterday.

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Apply your heart to instruction

and your ear to words of knowledge.

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Amen to that one.

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I take that verse.

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Literally, I have notifications

on my device that tell me when

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there's sales for books or authors

that I took to, I'd like to follow.

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And so if there's a sale for a book

that I've been looking at, like I

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will rarely pause more than just a

few seconds to say, should I buy this?

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I have a budget set aside just for that.

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Resources to purchase for logos

or even just a paperback book, or

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an audible book or something else.

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I love that we live in such a cool

age, we can access almost anything.

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And so I find it to be incredibly

valuable, especially if you utilize

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those resources and if you treat it like

this, I think it's well worth the cost.

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So if somebody came to

you and was like, Hey.

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Pr I wanna buy a book from you.

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You're not gonna sell it because

you're like, I'm buying truth.

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I'm not gonna sell it.

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I don't sell it, right?

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No secondhand buddy.

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In fact, with Kindle, I don't

even know if I can sell it.

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I don't even own it.

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I just own the rights to

read it, which is which?

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Crazy a challenge.

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Yeah, that's a whole

different conversation.

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Whole different conversation.

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Yeah.

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Eight verses 17 and 18 when tempted

to envy the wake it remember

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the future for them and for you.

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That's such a good one too.

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When you see somebody else that is,

is benefiting, that, that seems to

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be living the high life and you're

looking at them and you're going,

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man, but they're, they've rejected God

or they're worshiping a fault, God.

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Why is God taking care of them?

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Why aren't they?

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Listen, there's a future coming for

them and a future coming for you, and

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you need to remember that and that's

needs to guide your perspective on them.

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And not only should that.

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Kill envy, but it should stir compassion

towards that person in realizing,

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man, I need to pray for their soul.

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Because the riches they're

experiencing right now are the closest

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to heaven that they'll ever be.

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And yet the suffering or the poverty

that you have right now is the

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closest to hell that you'll ever be.

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And so that governs our perspective

of those that are prospering,

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even though we feel like maybe

they shouldn't be prospering.

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Anything else there in chapter 23?

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I'm good.

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Okay.

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24 then.

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Chapter 24.

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Let's let's look at verses five and six

says, A wise man is full of strength.

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A man of knowledge enhances his might for.

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By wise guidance, you can wage war and an

abundance of counselors, there is victory.

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Wisdom makes one strong for the day

of adversity and the more wisdom you.

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Ascertain for yourself.

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The more wisdom you obtain, the

more you buy and do not sell.

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And it's gonna be strengthening you.

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We talked about this a couple days ago

with you stepping in and pinch hitting

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and preaching in men's Bible study.

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Your wisdom that you had acquired over

the years made you adequate for that job.

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Made you able to step in and not skip a

beat and preach a great message that day.

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And so for us as Christians,

there's benefit to us growing in

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our wisdom and in having that, and

that's gonna be a position of might

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rather than a position of weakness

if we neglect to pursue wisdom.

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I don't know that I'd call it

adequate, but thank you for that.

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I appreciate it.

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Verse 10, if you faint, it

was, if you faint in the day of

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adversity, your strength is small.

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Recently something happened where.

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I was interacting with it.

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You fainted?

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I did not faint.

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I have fainted before.

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Have you?

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I have not.

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It's terrifying.

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I bet.

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But I can make you faint.

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Would you like me to try?

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Nope, I don't.

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I actually did this in middle school.

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Some kid was like, oh,

I can make you faint.

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I'm like, that sounds fantastic.

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So he put me up against a wall, had

me hyperventilate, and he basically

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choked me and then I fainted.

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It was terrifying.

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That was only the first time.

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The second time I fainted was when I

was moving some stuff from my church.

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You saw Mouse, a mobile church?

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No.

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Mouse involved.

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Okay.

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It was blood.

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Actually I crushed my finger,

my pinky on something when I was

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rolling it up the ramp to the U-Haul.

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And so my, my, my finger

just gushed open with blood.

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I'm like, oh that's unfortunate.

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But I thought, no big deal.

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So I took it to the sink, started

washing it off in the sink.

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Then I was talking to somebody

at the same time and I said, oh

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man, I feel dizzy all of a sudden.

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It feels sick to my stomach.

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And she said, sit down.

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You're fainting.

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I said, what next thing oh man, Tim, I

hit the ground and they took me to the er.

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'cause they're like, this guy's not well.

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And anyway, so I fainted

twice, never have.

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I'm looking at a picture of, I'm

guessing this is Warren PJ Kogan.

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This is Warren Kogan.

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It's Warren Kogan Warren, that's for sure.

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Warren Pastor.

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Pastor PJ Kogan.

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No, he is a, he's a stout child.

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He's a looker.

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Yeah, he is.

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Wow.

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Look at that.

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I see.

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Mark.

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Do you see Mark?

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I think I do.

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Yeah.

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I think I do too.

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Yeah.

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Maybe I don't.

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Newborns are always hard to tell on that.

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It is.

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Once they're a little bit older,

then you can be like, yeah, you

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look like this parent or the other.

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I feel like moms notice it

pretty quickly and pretty easily.

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Yeah.

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I don't, I It was funny.

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It was funny.

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I was telling you about that podcast where

I was listening about face blindness.

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I think I struggle with face blindness.

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Yeah.

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Anyway, long story short

wouldn't think that's case.

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People are like he's got Mark's nose.

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I'm like, I don't mark's, mark

doesn't have a baby nose to me.

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I don't.

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It's true.

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He doesn't have a nose like that.

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No.

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Mark, close your eyes.

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Let me see.

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Did you know by the way, that the nose

and the ears are the only two parts of

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the human body that never stop growing.

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Yes.

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Which is why for older people they

have big ears and big biggest dude,

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my grandfather on my mom's side, yeah.

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He like, he could have flown away.

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They were massive.

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He, it was huge.

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And I remember that.

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Yeah.

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Just always looking at him

going, your ears are huge.

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And that's gonna happen to all of us.

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If the Lord Terrys and baby Kogan

is already big, he's starting

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he's big in a different way.

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Outta surplus.

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I don't know how, I don't know his

note doesn't look particularly large.

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That's true.

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It doesn't look 98.

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Yeah.

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No.

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Not to see just his whole person.

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So it's hope he's a substantial baby.

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Anyways, where were we?

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You were fainting.

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Oh, fainting.

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Fainting in the day of diversity.

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Yeah.

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I all this to say my point was

it's good to go through adversity

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because it does strengthen you if

you faint in the day of adversity.

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If something bad happens to you

and you're struggling and you're

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saying, where is God, I wanna die.

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This is not the way

things are supposed to be.

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God has you going through that for

the very purpose of strengthening you.

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Adversity is a.

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Good tool in the hands of the

Lord, so don't begrudge it.

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Let the Lord grow you and change you.

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And of course, no one

wants to go through that.

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I understand.

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No one wants to be put in that position,

but just know the Lord is strengthening

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you through that process and it's

incumbent upon you to be patient

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and trust him through that process.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Verse 17 and 18, these are hard verses.

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Do not rejoice when your enemy

falls and let out your heart.

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Be glad when he stumbles, lest

the Lord see it and be displeased

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and turn away his anger from him.

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Who are your enemies, bro?

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The Houston asterisk, that would be

enemies numbers one through 25 man roster.

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Got it.

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No, but this is one of those reminders

to us that we're not to rejoice

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over the downfall of another person.

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And this is hard to reconcile with

some of the prayer imprecatory

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psalms that are prayed.

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'cause there's the desire for the downfall

of some, and yet I guess you're not gonna

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rejo, there's a difference between the

desire for their downfall and rejoicing

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in the outcome of their downfall.

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And th this is clearly laid out as a

distinction here in verses 17 through 18.

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But this is hard 'cause the

human will, human flesh our

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inclination is to fist pump.

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When our enemy gets what's coming

to him, it's why when the guy that

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cuts you off on the road and speeds

off, you drive down the road gets a

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ticket and he pulls, he's pulled over.

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You're thinking, yes, justice is served.

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Exactly.

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And this is saying, don't do that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, that's a tough one because it

seems like there is a right time and

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a place for each of these, right?

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A right time and place to pray for.

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Im implications and other times

to say I'm gonna withhold that

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and let the Lord deal with that.

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Verse 1314, my son eat

honey for its good for.

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And the drippings of the

honeycomb sweet to your taste.

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Good gifts of God are meant to

be enjoyed, but he's talking

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about more than just the honey.

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He's saying, no, that

wisdom is such to your soul.

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If you find it, there will be a future

and your hope will not be cut off.

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The goodness of wisdom, not

only in the proverbs, but then,

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but in all the scripture is

meant to be sweet to your soul.

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And if you've ever known what it's like

to say, oh man, I never saw that before.

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That's so good.

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That's so helpful.

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That's really, I think the.

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I think the expected, normative

experience with scripture because

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you never read it the same way twice.

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If God is growing you, you're a different

person today than you were yesterday.

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So the person that you are today will

read scripture slightly differently,

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and as you continue to expose yourself

to scripture and you continue to think

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and grow and learn, God's going to.

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Make it sweet to your

soul to say, ah, I get it.

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This is new.

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I understand it in a better way.

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So persist.

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You won't get this, you won't

enjoy it unless you persist in it.

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Enjoy the honey.

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It's sweet to your taste.

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It's sweet to your soul.

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God wants you to do that.

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I don't really have much else other

than I was gonna jump in on verses

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33 through three, four, but anything

else in, in 24 that you wanna hit on?

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Yeah.

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How about verse 27?

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Do you have any thoughts about this one?

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I'll read it and you can let

me know if you have I, 'cause

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I've wrestled with this one.

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I think I have.

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An approach to it, but I'd love to

hear if you have anything else on this.

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Prepare your work outside.

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It says in verse 27, get everything

ready for yourself in the field

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and after that, build your house.

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Yeah, the first thought that comes

to mind is the parable Jesus told

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about following him and who does, who

before setting out to build a tower

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doesn't first count the cost right.

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To do that, to make sure he's

got everything that he needs

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before he sets out for it.

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And I think that's some of what's.

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Being encouraged here to be

wise before and undertaking.

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Yeah.

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Looking at MacArthur's Bible commentary

here he comments on it and says,

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first, secure by diligent work and

planning a good living in your field,

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to then build, in other words, provide

a financial base so that all the

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necessities and contingencies are secured.

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Then move on from the tents,

which they were living into a

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house which is more desirable.

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So don't put the cart before the horse.

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In other words, yeah, first things first.

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Yeah.

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I think this is so wise.

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It's just, I was reading it and I

thought, man, that's just so good.

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Yeah.

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It's so simple and yet so profound in its

application that could apply to a million

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different things in our lives a day.

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But I like that one a lot.

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Go ahead.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Versus 33 through 34.

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Just the, we've seen this before,

but just a repetition of it.

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So again, we wanna call attention to

that, A little sleep, a little slumber,

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a little folding the hands to rest

and poverty will come upon you like

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a robber and want like an armed man.

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And so just the reminder that

we should be men and women that

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are diligent and hard workers.

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But I always read this from the

spiritual standpoint as well.

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If we are spiritually thoughtful,

then we will experience spiritual

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poverty and we wanna be careful

against, to guard against that.

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So we wanna be disciplined to do

what we're doing right now, which

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is to spend time in the word of God

every single day and to grow in our

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knowledge and understanding of it.

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Amen.

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Let's pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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God, we thank you so much for, the

ability to read and to understand

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scripture, and to read it in, in

a way that is in our language.

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And we're grateful for that, that

you've condescended to reveal

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yourself to us in such a way.

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And so thank you for that and

and that we get to do that.

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That's a such a great

source of joy for us.

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And I pray that we would see the

scriptures as a treasure, that we

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would see the wisdom of your word

as the honey from the honeycomb.

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That we would find it to be sweet,

that we would desire it as such.

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And even to look at the Bible and say,

man, we can't get too much of your word.

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We can't be, overly filled

with the word of God.

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We can always go to your word and find

more there, so make it desirable to us.

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I pray that you would guard against

our flesh that would lead us away or

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distract us from spending more time

with you, and that we would push

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those thoughts aside and even put

them to death as they need to be.

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And instead say, Lord,

we want to know you more.

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And so we pray that would be true of us.

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We pray in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep you in your Bibles tuning

again tomorrow for another edition

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said