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June 8, 2025 | Proverbs 16-18
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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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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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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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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, 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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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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It's speaking to the aged.

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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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Yeah.

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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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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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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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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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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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Yeah.

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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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Alright.

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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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out against all sound judgment.

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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

tomorrow for another edition

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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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Yeah.

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I would agree with

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