00:00 Baby Cogan is Here!
00:08 Unexpected Changes at Men's Bible Study
01:41 The Importance of Reading and Preparation
04:00 Daily Bible Reading: Proverbs 16-18
04:35 Proverbs 16: Sovereignty and Humility
09:00 Proverbs 17: Wisdom and Compassion
14:00 Proverbs 18: Communication and Community
20:34 Closing Thoughts and Prayer
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Hey everybody.
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:Welcome back to another edition
of the Daily Bible Podcast.
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:Hello and welcome back.
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:It is Sunday, and lemme tell you,
yesterday, Sunday, June 8th was Saturday.
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:We had men's Bible study yesterday.
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:It was yesterday, and Mark Kogan was
supposed to preach at men's Bible study,
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:but for circumstances beyond his control.
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:He couldn't show up and do it.
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:Was it really beyond his control?
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:I feel like he was encouraging
Julia the whole time.
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:I mean it's 'cause his text here, I got
the text, I woke up, I got the text at
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:5:28 AM Yeah, so Julia woke up a few
minutes ago with painful contractions.
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:That's what he said.
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:What he didn't mention is what I suspect.
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:He shoved her awake and said, Julia,
get up, have some contractions.
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:It's time to go fed her spicy food.
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:Maybe.
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:Who knows what he did?
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:I don't know.
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:I don't wanna ask.
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:I just know that she got.
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:She started getting in the groove
of things and next thing a few
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:hours later they got a baby.
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:Yeah, a baby a baby that's half the
size of most of my kids already.
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:Dude, Warren's got big things ahead.
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:He's a beast with the size
and scope of his person.
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:One would expect great
things to come forth with.
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:Totally.
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:Yeah.
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:Mark is a big Churchill fan, I think,
And what did they call Churchill?
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:The lion of something.
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:Tribe of Judah.
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:Was that it?
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:Yeah, I think it was that.
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:Something like that.
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:Yeah.
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:I don't know.
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:Anyways, congrats to Mark and Julia.
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:If you guys love Mark and Julia and
have access to a text or something
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:like that, shoot 'em a text.
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:Just say congrats.
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:We're thankful for them
and excited to meet.
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:I almost called 'em Little Warren,
but we're excited to meet Warren.
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:Warren is he's two feet tall.
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:He's two feet tall already, man.
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:Yeah.
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:That's crazy.
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:Warren is a substantial man.
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:Good job, Julia.
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:Yeah.
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:Yeah.
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:Really, that's when you really
feel for the moms, like they,
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:I don't wanna imagine it.
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:I just know Julia's a rock star.
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:That's what I'm gonna say.
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:She's a rock star.
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:Totally.
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:Yeah, but that left men's Bible
study in need of somebody last minute
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:to step up and preach a message.
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:And here's what I was thinking about, man.
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:This was not just Hey, can you take the
next section of John for me, where you've
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:got one passage that you can look at and
come up with a quick outline in your mind
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:and sticking one passage and preach it.
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:You had the challenge of
taking one verse that listed.
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:Four attributes that we condensed into
three, rightly I think, and then take a
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:topical approach to preach those topics.
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:I thought you did a great
job and I appreciate that.
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:Yeah, I did on Thursday, since I
knew that there was a possibility,
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:I did at least start tinkering in
my mind saying, okay, if I had to
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:do this, what would I do with it?
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:So I had some on-ramp, but as somebody
once asked either John MacArthur or
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:John Piper, I don't know, maybe both.
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:Someone asked, how long did it
take you to write that sermon?
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:They tongue in cheek, say.
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:Sad all my life.
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:Yeah.
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:And I, the longer I do this thing
called ministry and preach and teach
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:and all those things, the more I
understand, oh, that wasn't a joke.
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:He really meant that.
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:Totally.
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:Because so much of what you do when
you're preaching is it's coming
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:through all of your study, all of
your thinking, all of your praying,
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:everything just comes to the head.
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:So even though I did have a
lot less time to put something
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:together, it was still because.
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:Of who God has made me to be and the
things that I've studied in the past
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:that I was able to put something
together that was at least, I think,
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:cohesive enough to be helpful.
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:So to that end, I give glory to God.
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:I think it, it was helpful for
all of us in some way, shape, or
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:form to say all God provided I.
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:Yeah.
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:Yeah, that's a great point.
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:In fact, I was talking with my son on
our way back up about that and and right
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:now Josh has aspirations for ministry.
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:We'll see what the Lord
does with his life.
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:But one of the things that I've
been working on him with is,
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:man, you've gotta be a reader.
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:Like you've got to just take in books.
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:And one of the things I noticed
during your preaching, I.
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:Today was, and I don't know if
they were in your notes, but
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:you had quotes at the ready.
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:And so even with short prep time, you
had quotes at the ready from things that
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:you had read because they stuck with you.
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:And that's part of what you're
driving at there your whole life.
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:Everything that you're taking in
throughout your whole life, your
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:time in the word, your time reading
these other books helps you to
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:be able to think on your feet.
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:And that is not just true for a
preacher, but that's true for all of us.
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:If you're reading good material,
if you're engaging with the word
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:on a regular basis, you're gonna
have those things at the ready for.
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:Extemporaneous conversations that
pop up with a coworker or a family
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:member or somebody who has a question
about something about Christianity.
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:Your answers are going to be informed
by the depth that you've given yourself
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:over to studying the word and studying
other books and resources and stuff.
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:Saw that live in the men's sermon.
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:It was great.
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:Oh, thanks brother.
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:I appreciate that.
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:Yeah.
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:Yeah.
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:Hey, let's jump into
our reading for the day.
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:We are in Proverbs chapter 16,
17, and 18 today, A couple more
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:days of undisturbed proverbs.
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:Yeah.
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:Which I've been enjoying.
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:I think they're, they've been helpful.
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:Do too.
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:Again, too fast from my taste.
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:Yeah.
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:But I love it.
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:And I'm also thankful that scripture is.
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:A library of different kinds of genres.
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:Yeah, I appreciate that.
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:Now that I'm spending a few days
in the proverbs, I'm like, I
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:just need some, I need a break.
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:I love it.
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:It just feels like it's too much too soon.
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:I need a break.
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:And so I'm thankful that there's narrative
and there's poetry and there's proverbs
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:and there's all sorts of different
genres that make interest make scripture
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:far more interesting to me at least.
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:Yeah, for sure.
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:In chapter 16 I think we get
three key verses here, dealing
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:with the sovereignty of God.
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:And so we see that number
one, you see the plaintiff.
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:The plans of the heart belong to man, but
the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.
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:You see something similar down in verse
nine, the heart of man plans his way,
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:but the Lord establishes his steps.
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:And so there we're dealing a lot with
the same concept there, that God is the
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:one guiding, God is the one leading.
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:We have plans, but God is gonna give
us the direction, the answer of.
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:The tongue that's gonna come from him.
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:The other place though, that we see
God's sovereignty that's a little
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:bit more uncomfortable is verse four.
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:The Lord has made everything
for its purpose, even the
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:wicked for the day of trouble.
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:We've talked about this in past episodes
of the Daily Bible Podcast, even last
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:year, and we probably will again.
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:I imagine when we get to Romans
nine 'cause it's a similar
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:idea here, and that is this.
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:Concept that uncomfortable as it
is that God is sovereign over the
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:the destruction of the wicked,
over the judgment of the lost.
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:And this is another place that we see
this in scripture here in Proverbs
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:16, four, that he makes everything for
its purpose, even the wicked purposed
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:by God for the day of judgments.
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:Romans nine would tell us that is
so that we as vessels of mercy might
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:give more glory to God because we.
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:Appreciate his mercy.
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:All the more, it doesn't make it more
comfortable or palatable to us, but
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:it does give us at least a framework
to try to wrap our minds around it.
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:Yeah, and that's the beauty of scripture
is that if you're not constantly
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:challenged by what scripture says,
then it might be that you're actually
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:reading scripture through the wrong lens.
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:Yeah.
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:You're reading it through your own life
and saying this is how I would do it.
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:This is clearly what it means.
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:So I appreciate when scripture confronts
my sensitivities and challenges my
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:thoughts and says, this is the way
that we should understand who God
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:is and this verse to your point is
uncomfortable, but it is who God is.
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:I love verse 20.
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:Whoever gives thought to the word
will discover good and blessed
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:is he who trusts in the Lord.
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:Our trust in the Lord will be
evidenced by how much thought we
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:give to the word, easy to read.
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:And this is probably my contention with
reading so many proverbs so quickly, is
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:that I don't have enough time to give
thought to the word, but a person who
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:truly trust the Lord is spending time to
consider and weigh what God is saying.
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:So it says here, whoever gives thought.
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:And if you give enough thought, if
you spend enough time with scripture.
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:Here's the promise or at
least the proverbial promise.
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:It's no guarantee, but it is the
general way that things work.
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:Whoever gives thought to
the word will discover good.
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:That is true for every text
of scripture, even those that
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:are especially challenging.
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:So don't give up if you're finding
yourself weary of reading, don't give up.
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:Don't just read, think and trust that God
will help you discover good through that.
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:Yeah, that's good that
one's interesting because.
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:It, I had questions when
I got to that verse.
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:Okay.
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:Is this about the word of God or is
this, 'cause it can also mean matter.
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:Somebody who gives thought to a
matter, we'll just give for good.
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:Who gives thought to the thing?
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:Is that to you?
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:To the thing?
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:Yeah.
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:The issue at hand.
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:The word that, yeah.
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:Yeah.
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:The devar.
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:But devar can also mean word of
God, and so I think it's right
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:to see that in here as well.
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:It's just, I guess my question
would be what was that for Solomon?
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:What's the, because for him,
he had the rah at this point.
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:Yeah.
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:And, as the king.
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:He was supposed to be well
versed in it and have it read
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:every year and everything else.
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:And we know that eventually fell
into neglect and led to a lot of
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:debauchery and everything else.
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:But what did that mean for him?
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:Because we read this through our New
Testament eyes, which is appropriate.
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:That's part of progressive revelation.
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:We can look back at a verse like this
and understand something even deeper
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:than perhaps the original author
intended by it from a human perspective
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:and his recipients understood by it
from their human perspective which
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:is a, the part of the privileged
position that we enjoy as the church.
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:I think it's hard to guess what
Solomon had in mind, but I think
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:he was masterful with the word
that he did have whatever that was.
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:Yeah.
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:Clearly he was able to apply justice
because of his understanding of the word.
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:And I would lean on the word just because
it makes better sense of the verse itself.
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:Whoever gives thought to the thing
or the matter, we'll discover good.
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:Maybe that's true, but it is certainly
true that whoever gets thought
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:to the word will discover good.
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:And it's evidence of
our trust in the Lord.
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:Yeah.
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:Yeah.
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:Yeah, we can move on to 17.
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:Just one more quick note on 16
and this is a repeated theme in
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:Proverbs, just God's hatred of pride.
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:Verse 18, pride goes before destruction,
a haughty spirit before the fall.
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:Verse five.
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:Everyone who's arrogant in heart
is an abomination to the Lord.
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:Be assured he will not go and punished.
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:I think this is one of the hardest.
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:Things for us to, to
battle as human beings.
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:I think our natural proclivity is to
be prideful people, arrogant people.
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:I know that I can fall into that
myself and that's why it's so good.
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:And Proverbs talks about having people,
we talked about this recently, who
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:aren't afraid to call you out and to
keep you humble in a good way and.
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:And that's good.
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:If you don't have friends like
that, find some friends that will
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:lovingly help you pursue humility.
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:That's a good good thing because it's
dangerous to be somebody who is given over
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:to Pride and unchecked in their pride.
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:Chapter 17.
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:It is and.
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:This morning in Amos, we're preaching
about this idea that God cares for the
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:needy and he cares that we care too.
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:That's the idea this morning and
so many times reading Proverbs.
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:I guess because I've been in Amos
and focused on this idea of justice
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:and caring for the needy, it shows up
all over the place in Proverbs too.
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:It's.
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:Replete with Solomon saying you
need to care about people who
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:are less fortunate than you.
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:Verse five, whoever mocks the poor
insults his maker and he was glad at
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:calamity, will not go and punished
if pull up to the stoplight and see
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:the panhandler and you take jabs at
that person and mock that person.
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:And this is one of the points that I
want I hope to make this morning, is
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:that part of our call to, to care for
those less fortunate than we are, is to
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:honor the image of God in that person.
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:And I think that's what is going at here.
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:What Solomon's driving at when we.
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:Mock somebody who's in a position
less well off than we are for whatever
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:reason, or we take shots at them.
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:And even sometimes our cynicism, we need
to be careful about cynicism towards
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:people that are in unfortunate positions.
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:It's to degrade somebody who's
been created in the image of God.
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:And I think Solomon is saying we need
to be careful about that because to
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:mock them is to mock their makers.
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:They've got somebody who created them,
and as such there's worth in them that
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:we should recognize and even support and
help in whatever means that we're able to.
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:Amen to that.
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:I like verse six here.
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:Grandchildren are the crown
of the aged and the glory of
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:children is their fathers.
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:You might connect that to what you
read in chapter 16, which says,
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:gray hair is a crown of glory.
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:It is gained in a righteous life.
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:And so one of the cool things that
stands out here is that God is okay
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:with bestowing glory and honor.
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:Where it is due.
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:God is not stingy with it, even
though he's the only one who
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:deserves all glory and honor.
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:God crowns us in many ways with the kind
of glory that's befitting of a creature.
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:And here he's saying grandchildren
and gray hair are a crown.
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:It's a noble good thing that bestows
honor to a people that deserve honor, in
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:this case, grandchildren and the aged or
rather grand grandchildren and gray hair.
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:So if this is your stage of life and
you have grandchildren and you have
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:gray hair or maybe one or the other.
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:This is a good thing.
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:And here's the interesting thing
too, because it's the Old Testament.
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:There is a more, a stronger
connection between a long life
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:and obedience to the word.
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:Yeah.
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:Under the New Testament, we
don't get that same promise.
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:And so you have to read Proverbs
with the eyes of the Old Testament
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:saint who under the Abrahamic
covenants was promised a long life.
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:If they kept the scriptures.
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:Yeah.
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:If they were obedient to the law.
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:So this is not quite a one-to-one
correlation for us, but it is
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:something worth understanding.
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:Oh man, God honors gray hair and
grandchildren, or God honors gray hair.
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:And the grandchildren that come from them.
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:So that's a really cool feature.
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:I think that's neat.
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:You should pay attention to that.
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:Verse 14, we referenced this verse
and so a couple days ago, here it
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:is for us, the beginning of strife
is like the letting out of water.
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:So quit before the coral breaks out.
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:You preached to today as we're recording
this, but yesterday as you're listening
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:to this, everybody at men's Bible study
about one of the qualifications of a
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:man of God is that he's not ignatious.
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:He's not a fighter.
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:He's not.
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:Somebody who's picking fights and
coralling but he's one seeking to
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:find peace whenever that's possible.
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:And here that's I think
what's in view here.
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:You have an opportunity to stop the
fight before the fight breaks out,
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:is what he's basically saying here.
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:You're saying you've got the opportunity,
even if it means, you're gonna walk away
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:going, man they're believing something.
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:That's not true.
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:Okay, but if that's a small thing,
if that's a minor thing, theological
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:triage you referenced with with Al Moler
right then we can agree to part ways.
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:Disagreeing on that matter and not
create a fight, not create tension.
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:And I think this plays a
huge role in marriages too.
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:Not theological triage, but
maybe it's just domestic triage.
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:It's is this really worth the tension?
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:Is this really worth the fight right now?
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:Or can we just let this go and
agree to disagree or have different
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:perspectives on this and realize
it's not gonna change anything
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:about the rest of our lives at all.
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:So we can walk away and not feel
like we've gotta get the last word.
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:And I think fourteen's a huge help
for marriages and just friendships,
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:relationships in general.
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:Yeah.
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:Such a helpful reminder in today's day and
age when being provocative and creating
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:con contention and consternation, I.
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:It gets clicks and views.
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:Yeah.
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:It is one way that people can
get themselves notoriety if
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:they're known as being a fighter,
especially if they're a good one.
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:If you're good at debating and good
at doing a verbal one-upmanship
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:to some other guy or some other
group you're given a prestige.
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:It's an honorable thing, but scripture
says it's honorable to be a peacemaker,
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:and so the beginning of strife
is like the letting outta water.
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:It starts out small, like a little stream,
but soon that thing can be like a flood
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:that overcomes people and damages and
destroys all the things in its past.
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:So there's certainly a time to fight.
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:There is a time to have it out
and to hash things out like men.
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:But by and large the default posture
of a godly man and woman is not to be
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:pug nastious, but to be a peacemaker.
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:That's what qualifies the sons of God.
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:Maybe we need to be more, those that
drop the mic before the mic drop.
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:Maybe that's a good, that's
a good point right there.
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:Sermon title, maybe.
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:It could be.
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:28 is always one that,
that is is humorous.
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:And I think everybody can say, man
I, there's a little bit of me there.
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:Even a fool who keeps
silent is considered wise.
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:When he closes his lips,
he is deemed intelligent.
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:And so that, that's a good word.
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:Sometimes it's better to just say,
you know what, I'm just gonna keep
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:quiet and let everybody think that.
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:That I understand what's going on here.
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:Maybe I don't.
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:Opening your mouth and removing all
doubt that you know nothing, right?
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:Chapter 18.
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:Yeah, 18 one.
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:Whoever isolates himself seeks
his own desire and he breaks
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:Just another reminder that Christianity
is meant to be lived in community.
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:We are brothers and sisters in Christ.
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:We are meant to be a family together.
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:We are not meant to isolate ourselves.
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:We're not meant to withdraw and
say that, that we can do this
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:part of our life on our own.
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:And so as much as you possibly can.
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:Bring your life into the church
and into community with other
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:brothers and sisters in Christ.
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:That's a good thing.
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:You should be doing that.
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:Church is not something we
add to our family's life.
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:We add our family to the life of a church.
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:And this is the principle here.
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:We don't wanna seek our own desires.
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:We don't wanna be, self-serving.
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:We want to.
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:Come into the community of Christ where
we can know others and be known by others,
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:and that's gonna benefit us as believers.
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:Amen to that man.
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:I we could talk a lot about
this because we're, we are so
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:isolating in our current culture.
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:Yeah.
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:Western culture encourages
this mindset mentality.
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:So much so that I don't even
think that we notice it.
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:We are individualized that we rarely give.
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:Do attention and time to the communal
aspect that scripture speaks to us in.
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:In fact, it assumes community
every time it talks to us.
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:By and large, the imperatives are plurals.
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:They're not, Hey, you personally, you
do this, although it's obvious, yes,
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:you should do that, but it's always
the plural you all must do this.
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:The one anothers are considered important
because that's so much of how the New
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:Testament is littered with commandments.
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:Yeah the one anothers of the faith.
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:Isolating yourself and being a
loner, it's easy to justify that
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:and say that's just my personality.
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:I think you need to let your
personality be shaped by Christ
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:instead of shaped by your preferences.
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:I would prefer.
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:To be alone most of the time.
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:That is my personal proclivity.
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:But I have learned by God's
grace that I need people.
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:We need people, and scripture tells
me this, which is why even if I don't
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:feel like it, I'm still gonna say, my
default should be, I wanna be around
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:people because this is good for me
and good for the body of Christ.
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:They need me, I need them.
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:Yeah.
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:Yeah.
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:And by and large, you're gonna see
the model throughout scripture.
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:Is that God leads us into community rather
than lead leading us into isolation.
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:Jesus did withdraw and there are
times for us to withdraw and there
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:are times for us to be alone totally.
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:To focus on our walk with Christ.
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:Amen.
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:By and large the natural course of life
is meant to be lived with other people.
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:That's why when Adam was in the garden,
God said it is not good that he should
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:be alone from that point forward.
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:The ideal was, and the clear
direction was we were meant to
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:live in community with each other.
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:And that begins, yeah, husband
and wife and so forth and so on.
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:But that's all realized in its full
realization in the church itself.
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:Yeah.
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:Let us encourage you,
if you're an introvert.
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:Let us encourage you start small.
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:You don't have to start by being
an ex extrovert or pretending
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:that you're an extrovert.
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:Yeah.
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:Come to things early and stay later.
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:Be one of the last people to leave.
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:That's a really good, easy way to start
inviting more community into your life.
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:Yep.
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:Yep.
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:Yeah.
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:This chapter in 18, just in
general, I think is such a
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:good communication chapter.
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:There's so many principles in this
chapter that just speak to how you have
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:good communication between two people.
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:And if that's an area that you struggle
with in your marriage or you struggle with
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:your family or you just struggle with at
work, there are so many good points in
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:this chapter to, to read through, to say,
okay, yeah, I could start doing that.
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:Like verse two, A fool takes no
pleasure in understanding, but
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:only in, in expressing his opinion.
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:When you're in a conversation with
someone in an argument a conflict, a
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:debate, are you trying to understand
what they're saying or are you just.
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:Only interested in
making your point known.
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:Verse six, A fool's lips walk into a
fight and his mouth invites a beating.
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:That kind of goes back to what we
were just talking about letting out
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:the strife and you're able to stop
things if you need to stop things.
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:There, there's just so many
good points in Proverbs 18.
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:It's the communication chapter.
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:If this is an area that you're weak in
or need to grow in, and this is a good
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:chapter to, to hang out and marinated.
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:And on that note, let's.
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:Let's quickly identify what's
being said in verse 21.
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:This is one of those verses that's
often utilized but let's make sure
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:that we're on the same page here.
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:Death and life are in the power
of the tongue, and those who
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:love it will eat its fruits.
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:I've heard it utilized by some
teachers name it and claim it.
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:If you speak death into your
life, you should expect.
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:Death, you'll enjoy the fruit of
death if you're speaking death.
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:So make sure that you're speaking life.
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:There's even a famous song, speak Life.
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:Speak Life by Toby Mac.
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:Toby Mac.
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:I don't think he's, I don't think
he's trying to misuse the verse,
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:but I think a lot of people might
misunderstand the nature of verse 21.
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:Yeah.
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:Because they're being informed by pro
prosperity teachers, by and large.
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:That's who I'm thinking about.
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:Oh, for sure.
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:Yeah.
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:Yeah.
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:Manifest that.
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:Yeah.
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:That's not what it's about.
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:Yeah.
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:Alright hey, let's what else?
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:Anything else in, in chapter 18 there
that you wanna hit on before we wrap up?
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:It's not what that means.
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:Verse 21, just to be clear
let's say what it does mean.
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:I was giving you a chance to
throw to, to throw it down
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:and tell us what it does mean.
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:Oh, I'm sorry.
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:It does not mean that you can
manifest things into your life.
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:True.
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:It does not mean that in fact.
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:Look at verse 20 as you read, verse 21,
and maybe that'll help you understand it.
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:From the fruit of a man's mouth, his
stomach is satisfied, he's satisfied
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:by the yield of his lips, death and
life from the power of the tongue.
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:And those who love it will eat its fruits.
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:In other words, those who love
using their words, your words
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:are gonna catch up to you.
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:So we're not saying it's altogether.
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:I impossible to influence your
surroundings by the words that
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:you use, but we're not saying
it's a one-to-one correlation.
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:You can't say, if I speak positive
words, positive things are gonna happen.
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:Or if I speak negative words, only
negative things are gonna happen.
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:Our words do shape our reality,
but they're not promises.
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:They're not little vessels
or containers that manifest
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:certain activity on your part.
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:This is not what was that
famous book that came out?
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:The Secret?
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:Remember the Secret?
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:Yeah.
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:This is not the secret.
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:This is God saying, look, if
you love using your words.
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:Things are gonna happen
for better and for worse.
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:If you don't use your words if you
don't use your words, and the fruit of
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:that's gonna be experienced as well.
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:So whether you're a big talker
or a little talker or somewhere
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:in between, the way that you use
your words will have consequences.
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:Yeah.
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:And even as far as your relationships
go, you can be life-giving in your
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:words to another person by building them
up, encouraging them, confronting sin.
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:That's life-giving even.
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:Absolutely.
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:Even there, right?
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:Or you can be somebody that brings
destruction to relationships.
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:If you are critical, if you are
harsh, if you are an angry person,
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:bitter person with your words.
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:And so you're going to experience
life and death in your relationships
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:and you're gonna eat of the
fruit of your tongue in that.
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:If you find that you.
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:Don't have close friends anymore.
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:Maybe you need to start with the types
of words that you're saying and how
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:you're communicating with other people.
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:Precisely, yeah.
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:Yeah, for sure.
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:You used the word in
nine's Bible sa say Sadie.
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:Sadie say You were talking
about food satiety.
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:Yes.
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:I, it was a new one for me.
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:Oh.
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:I get it from satiate or, yeah.
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:To be satisfied, but I'd
never heard it in that form.
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:Satiety.
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:Yeah.
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:I learned it because I, I did
a little bit of reading in food
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:science and how they designed foods
to overcome your satiety signals.
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:Yeah.
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:And that's what makes a Dorito so
delicious is that there are people that
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:are making it to be hyper palatable
so that you want to eat the whole bag.
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:You never feel satisfied.
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:You never feel satisfied.
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:And that means you buy more that's
Lays, but you can't eat just one
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:Pringles, I think it's, is that Lay's?
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:I think it's Lay's.
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:I don't know.
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:Yeah, I know.
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:They all taste amazing.
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:They do.
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:Yeah.
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:Chips are my downfall, man.
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:Oh, good chips.
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:So good.
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:Chip will end me.
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:Nachos, some brisket, nachos especially.
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:I've gone, I've grown accustomed
to brisket nachos in Texas.
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:They're good.
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:All right.
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:Let's pray.
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:God, we we are grateful for the trees
that we are able to draw out of your word.
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:We, we wanna stop right now and just give
you thanks for the birth of Warren Kogan.
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:I.
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:And we are thankful for the
Kogan family and that it was
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:a healthy labor and delivery.
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:And we are just looking forward to them
getting back in and getting to meet Kogan
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:and see Kogan or Kogan getting to meet
Warren and see Warren grow up before us
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:as a part of our church family here too.
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:God we're thankful for the proverbs
and the wisdom that we get to draw
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:from it, and we just pray that
we would be people that do seek.
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:To communicate well in that our speech
would be seasoned and in evidenced of the
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:word of God that dwells deeply within us.
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:And so help us to be a people.
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:The words that we can speak life
in one another's lives as well.
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:We pray in Jesus' name.
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:Amen.
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:Amen.
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:Keep reading Bibles, tuning again
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:of the Daily Bible Podcast.
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:Congratulations, Kogan family.
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:Only three more to go.
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:Bye.
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:Yeah.
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:I would agree with
everything that you said