00:00 Introduction and Greetings

00:18 Changing Up the Podcast Intro

01:09 Nostalgic Food Memories

01:42 The Spread Recipe

03:41 Proverbs Chapter 19 Discussion

04:08 Proverbs on Impulsiveness and Anger

05:36 Truth and Lies in Proverbs

08:24 Generosity and Discipline

10:37 Proverbs Chapter 20 Discussion

12:48 The Importance of Good Sleep

13:53 Choosing Friends Wisely

15:05 God's Sovereignty in Our Steps

16:11 The Wisdom of Old Age

17:47 God's Sovereignty Over Rulers

20:27 The Complexity of God's Ordained Sin

22:02 The Value of Righteousness and Justice

24:40 Managing Household Peace

26:31 God's Unstoppable Plan

Happy Sunday, everybody.

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Hey.

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Hey, Hey.

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I was noticing that this last week, cause

I was, uh, put in all of our podcasts up

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and editing them that that's how I start.

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All of them is, Hey, so you guys

are probably sick of me saying,

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Hey, edgy, but Hey yo, it's Sunday.

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What up?

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I will vary it.

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This is going to be another one of

those that's helpful situations where

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we're going to say, you know what?

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We got to change it up.

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We can't just flavor all of our

conversations with the same seasoning.

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That's true.

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Although there is something about

being known for a particular intro.

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You or, you know, I like your outro.

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Go read your Bible and

pray, stop complaining.

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Is that how you say your Bibles?

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That's the one build that

bridge and get over it.

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Put those together.

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Yeah.

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Read your Bible built a bridge.

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Yeah.

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I, I like, I like some of those

things, those taglines are good.

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Uh, but maybe we need to just flavor,

you know, a little bit of Rosemary

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here in there a little bit of time.

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Uh, a little bit of a what's that

Tony Carrie's Tony Chica dairies.

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Gary's chickpeas.

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That's what, there may come us out of.

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No.

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No, not that.

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It's a green bottle with this

cartoonized cartoon chef Tony spinach.

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Papa is here.

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You're thinking of.

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Chef Boyardee.

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That's probably it.

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Yeah.

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And that's the one.

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Yep.

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I used to eat that when I was

a kid, I loved that stuff, man.

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With the meatballs in, yes.

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That's so good out of the camp.

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I haven't had it for years and

something tells me if I tried it

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today, I probably wouldn't like it.

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Dan.

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We're looking at you.

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Looking for some SpaghettiOs

at church on Sunday.

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I am not.

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He is pastor PG and I would

love to share a can together.

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Hey, I'll eat SpaghettiOs.

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Really?

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I'm not above it.

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I'm not saying I'm above it.

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I just feel like my palate has changed

a little bit since I was a kid.

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Okay.

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But.

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Yeah.

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I mean, come on.

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We survive college on top ramen.

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Like the bagged stuff.

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99 cents for like 10 of them.

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So my dad learned this thing

in prison called the spread.

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I've told you about this.

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Okay.

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It's what I've just, you

just casually dropped that.

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I don't know that everybody

was expecting such things.

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Well, I mean, I've got a varied life.

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Yeah, I thank God for my life.

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And I think.

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Thank God for my dad.

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Uh, so my dad.

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We've learned it called a spread.

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Basically you, you, you cook some,

some top ramen or sit, not some top

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ramen and then the noodle packs, you

can just put a bunch of those packs in.

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And a bang.

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You boil it as usual.

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You buy a bag of chips or two,

ideally the more, the better.

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And then you lay a bed

of chips on the bottom.

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You put the, uh, you put the

noodles on top and then you

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take like a can of roast beef.

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But that on top of that, And

then you kind of flavor it with a

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little bit of salt or pepper here.

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Oh, I forgot a big ingredient.

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You put Manet's in the noodles.

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So it's Matt Manet's noodles with

roast beef on top, on a bed of chips.

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And you'll just have to trust me.

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It is delicious.

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He learned it in prison.

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He brought it home.

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We'd loved it.

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When's the last time you had that.

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Again, probably the same

time I had the SpaghettiOs.

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Okay.

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Dan Mayer, we're looking at you.

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He needs some spread brought to church.

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You know what I'm going to

ask my dad for the recipe.

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In fact, I'll text him during

this podcast to say, dad, I

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need the recipe to the spread.

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He'll know what I'm talking about.

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He'll know.

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No, he'll pick up what

you're putting down.

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I'm sure he will.

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In fact, you probably, he

probably makes it on the regular.

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I'm going to text him right now.

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You probably do your dad.

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Dear Dan, please send me

a recipe for the spread.

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This is why people.

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Tune into our podcast texting right now.

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Let's see.

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Let's see if he comes back during.

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Live.

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During the podcast he might

tell me, and I could share the

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exact recipe with you guys.

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Did you ever see the.

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The Sonic movie.

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The, uh, live-action one or whatever.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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But Jim Carey.

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Yeah, and he's waiting for it

to come back and he's going dot.

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Dot dot.

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dot.dot because.

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The knuckles, the bad guy is, oh,

Watching the text message come back and

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like, you know how the three dots are.

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And reading the text and

he's like dot, dot, dot.

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That's funny.

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So it's really funny.

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I'm just waiting for that.

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When with the response.

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We're all on pins and needles.

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I can imagine he might have to wait.

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I know he works.

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So he may not do to answer

for a little bit, but right.

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Well, fair enough.

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We'll uh, we'll we'll give him some time.

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Okay.

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Well, Hey.

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Uh, let's jump into Proverbs

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Hey, sounds good.

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Hey.

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Let's do it.

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All right.

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Proverbs chapter 19.

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Remember in this section of

Proverbs, we are not looking at.

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Uh, large thematic sections,

but more the individual.

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Um,

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Proverbs that are, are, are not

necessarily related to what follows.

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And so we kind of get this, uh,

this compilation of, of individual

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ones scattered throughout here.

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Uh, partner's 19 to desire

without knowledge is not good.

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And whoever makes haste with his

feet misses his way in, in other

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words, Uh, don't be impulsive.

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Um, is, is basically

what he's saying there.

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Uh, whoever makes haste with his feet

desire, without knowledge, you see

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something you want it, you, you make, make

haste to go in and get that thing without

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really stopping and thinking through.

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Do I really want that?

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Do I really need that?

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Is that something that I should have?

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Is that something that is good for me

or good for my family are good for.

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Me spiritually and, and you don't

take that extra beat and we can be

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so impulsive in, in our society.

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We always hear.

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Yeah.

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It rewards it and it's so much easier

today than it was for Solomon, because on

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our phones, we've got Amazon at the get.

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At the apple store delivery.

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Right.

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And that's even long.

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Sometimes it's like

really two hours hours.

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Couldn't do it faster than that.

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Right.

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So, this is a good reminder to us

that that even when something seems

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to be like, yeah, this makes sense.

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I should do this.

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I should pursue this.

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I should get this.

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It's worthwhile to wait, wait a minute.

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Even to pray about this.

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And, and sometimes we think, man,

can, should I really pray about this?

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It seems so simple.

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Should I pray about

getting this new, whatever?

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Should I pray about trading in my old

phone and in upgrading to a new phone?

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Yeah, you should.

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You should pray and say, God, I examine

the motives of my heart or my motives,

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correct in this are there right in this.

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Do I need to.

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To stop on this.

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Is this something, could I

redirect this money somewhere

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else that you would have me do?

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Um, it's, it's just, it's

helpful for us to pray and we

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can pray about the small things.

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It's one of the blessings that we have in

the open throne, in access to the throne

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that, that we have because of Christ.

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Yeah, versus five and nine boats

speak about the false witness.

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And, uh, the first one says a false

witness will not go on punished.

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Verse nine says a false

witness will not go and punish.

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So they both start with the same thing.

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Verse five ends with, and he who

breathes out lies will not escape.

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Verse nine says he who breathes out lies.

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parish.

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So both work together to form

this idea that the false witness

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is under the judgment of God.

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There's no such thing.

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As someone who ultimately succeeds

in their lives, God will expose them.

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God will bring them to light.

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And so what a good reminder for

us then to be the kind of people

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who are not allowing sin to too.

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To, to kind of, I don't know, find a home

in our hearts where we hide and conceal

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scripture calls us to be people of truth.

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Jesus said that his way is

one of truth, John 14, right?

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He talks about being the

way, the truth and the life.

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And therefore Christians had

to be characterized for this.

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And it's not just because of that, but

just the way that God has designed the

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world lies are going to have their place.

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Of judgment and therefore we

should be the kind of people

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who live with a clean slate.

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People who live under truth,

not trying to hide things, not

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trying to conceal or deceive.

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Let this be a good reminder that those

who lie, aren't going to escape with that.

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And it's such a better place to be

to when we lie in and feel like,

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is this going to be found out?

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Am I going to be found out?

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Like that's, that's such a miserable.

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Place to, to, to have to live.

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Yeah.

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There's another verse coming up soon

that I love that speaks just like that.

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You know, you're always looking over

your shoulder, always wondering, am I.

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I'm going to be found out.

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Somebody's going to catch me.

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It's better to live in truth.

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Right?

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Right.

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How about verse 11?

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We've talked about this,

but just a reminder.

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Good sense.

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Makes one slow to anger and it's his

glory to overlook an offense, man.

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The second part is specially I

think there are so many times where.

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We're where we can stop for a

second and say, man, Do I really

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need to get upset about this.

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Do I really need to lash out about this?

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Do I really need to talk to

this person even about this?

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Or is this something I can just let go?

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Uh, th that that's such a good thing.

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And that's why it's wise.

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Like I talked about with the

impulsiveness, with our decision-making

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materialistically, sometimes we're

impulsive emotionally and in our

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anger can, can be that way as well.

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And so Solomon here is saying, Hey,

don't be impulsive with your anger.

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Don't just immediately lash out,

but Hey, maybe it's wise to.

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Stop for a second and think

maybe I can let this go.

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Maybe I can cover, cover this over.

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Maybe, maybe I can overlook this.

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I think we we've talked about this

in the past, on the podcast, but.

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That, that concept of righteous

indignation or righteous anger

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and how we can know whether or not

we're there or, or not in one good

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barometer is, is your offense.

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Uh, more about you or is it more

about God and his character?

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Is, is your concern more

about the fact that you want

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this person to repent to you?

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Or is it your concern that this

person has sinned against God?

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And you desire that they repent

so that they could be made right

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in their relationship with God.

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Um, that's a good

barometer for us to know.

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When can I let something go or when

do I need to bring something up?

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That's good.

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I've got one for somewhere near the end.

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If you had anything between.

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Uh, I got one.

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So I first 27 is where I was going to go.

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Anything before that.

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Yeah, verse 17, I think is interesting.

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Whoever.

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He's generous to the

poor lends to the Lord.

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Um, that that's always been one that's

stood out to me that, that we, when we

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are generous in an inappropriate way, I

think we have to be wise in this because

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there are ways that are unhelpful.

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Um, that all of us are probably

immediately rushing to about the

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panhandler or this, then what if he

goes and buys more alcohol or whatever?

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But just in general, being somebody

who's generous towards the needy.

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Which could be another way of putting this

is a way to, to put the Lord in your debt.

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Um, not in, in a true sense because

the loader owns a cattle on a thousand

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Hills and he owns even what you're

being generous with, but it means

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that you're going to be in a good

position when it comes to the Lord.

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The Lord's going to bless you and

reward you for that generosity.

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So just something to,

to bear in mind there.

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And since we're in that area,

verse 18, discipline, your son

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for there is hope, do not set your

heart and putting him to death.

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The opposite of disciplining

your son is not indulgence.

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The opposite of disciplining.

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Your son is death.

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That's the idea here, which is

a very powerful way of putting

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this scripture is very clear.

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God wants us to discipline in the

same way that he disciplines us.

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Hebrews chapter 13 tells us

this Proverbs chapter three

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says this that's actually where.

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Hebrews 13 is getting

it keepers 12, rather.

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So make sure that you are

disciplining your children.

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Apart from your discipline.

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There is a, there is no hope,

essentially, because if you

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discipline them, there is hope.

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No discipline, no hope, no

discipline equals death.

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Verse 27, you said.

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Yeah, verse 27 sees to hear

instruction my son, and you will

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stray from the words of truth.

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I found this an important.

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Because what it tells me is

that the posture of a Christian.

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Foster of a believer.

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Is to have a posture of learning,

growing for the rest of your

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life and the rest of your days.

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In fact, I would wager that.

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Your eternal days are going to

be spent learning and growing.

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You'll never reach the end of

your capacity because you'll

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always have more to learn.

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God alone is infinite.

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We are not.

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And therefore, while we begin

learning, all of us have a beginning.

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None of us will have an end.

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Uh, assuming that you're

in, in heaven with Christ.

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You'll always be able to explore

the furthest reaches of who he

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is, and you'll never reach the

end because God is infinite.

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Therefore sees to hear instruction and you

will stray from the words of knowledge.

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But if you continue to hear instruction,

you will continue to grow and

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understand the words of knowledge.

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I think that should encourage you.

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That does encourage us for sure.

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Uh, chapter 20 verse one, wine is a

mocker strong drink is a brawler and

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whoever's led astray by does not wise it.

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In other words, don't get drunk.

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There you go.

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And there's an old Testament

prohibition against drunkenness.

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A wine is a mocker

strong drink, a brawler.

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And that that's interesting.

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I think we can.

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Uh, all picture the, the drunkard who

has made himself a mockery and has

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gotten into fights and been a brawler.

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You think of the bar scenes in movies,

TV shows everything else like that.

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Uh, and so here it traces itself

all the way back to Solomon.

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And even before that, but he's

saying, Hey, just be careful.

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Strong drink is, is not good.

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If it's abused.

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Um, and so the admonition

here not to get drunk.

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You know, it's funny.

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Cause I, the person I immediately think

of is as a character it's Homer Simpson.

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It's.

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Yeah.

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I was raised seeing the show.

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I never got to watch it because

my parents kept me from that.

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But I always, you know, he knew

he was, he was the town drunk,

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uh, along with his other friend.

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What's his face Barney rubble.

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Yeah.

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Isn't that the Flintstones?

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Yup.

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Barney is the guy's name.

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That's all.

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That's all I know.

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Not your friend.

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That's the Flintstones.

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Okay.

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We've got to be real for a second.

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Like wait a minute.

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Maybe I got my cartoons wrong.

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Yeah, I think of that.

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And I think that that's

probably an unhelpful image

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because people laugh at that.

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It becomes a joke and like, As opposed to

that's a warning, that's a warning about

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the kind of person I don't want to be.

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And yet.

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I think, I think there's something

about laughing at a sinful tendency

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that lowers our own defenses

against its inclusion in our lives.

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Because if it's a laughing matter,

then it's not a serious matter.

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And if it's not a serious matter,

then it's, what's the big deal.

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If I have a couple of drinks and I get

a little intoxicated, so I'd be aware.

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Of the fact that all of the media

that you take in, whether it's a

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Simpsons or something else is going

to influence the way that you see

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sin, especially for laughing at it.

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Be aware of what you laugh at,

because it probably will lower

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your sin defenses against it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, we talked about that

not long ago in, in one of our

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sermons, on being discerning

about our entertainment choices.

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That's right.

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Part of the reasons

why they remember that.

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Yeah, verse 13.

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Uh, love not sleep less.

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You come to poverty.

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Okay.

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So let's talk about that for a second.

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It's summer vacation.

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I know a lot of our students are loving.

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Sleep right now.

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Uh, is that a bad thing?

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Pastor, rod, what are your thoughts?

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Yes.

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And no, I think there is a,

it's a Ecclesiastes three.

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There's a, there's a S

there's a time for everything.

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There's a scene asleep.

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There's a time of sleep.

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And in fact, it comes

out every day, every day.

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There's a time of sleep and I

think good sleep is good for you.

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So I'm all in favor of good

sleep because it's a, it's a

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way of showcasing your faith.

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In fact, Um, the, the Lord gives

to his beloved rest and sleep.

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So it's a good and godly thing to sleep,

but there is such a thing as sleeping

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too much oversleeping over resting.

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And of course, when we're doing that,

you're entering into a season of

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laziness or to a place of laziness.

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And that's the thing that

God's warning against.

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So it's not about sleeping so

much as it is about being lazy.

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That's the, that's the tendency

that we have, and that's what

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we need to be on guard against.

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Yeah.

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Uh, yeah, you're right.

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MacArthur preached a sermon

a while back on sleep.

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And that whole idea that, that when

we sleep, we are trusting the Lord.

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No, sir, you sustain our bodies.

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And we need that.

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He runs the universe.

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He alone does.

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Um, so unless you're Al Mohler, you.

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You got to get the sleeping.

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Yeah.

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And even he sleeps like

one or two hours a night.

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At least one or two hours, I

mean, maybe three on, on Sundays

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when he's really pushing it.

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Three and a half.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Uh, verse 19, man, verse 19 is important.

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Choose your friends wisely.

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Whoever goes about slandering

reveal secrets, therefore do not

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associate with a simple babbler.

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Uh, that that's important.

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And you know, parents I'll

speak to you on this one.

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I, I think sometimes we fall into

this mindset of, Hey, my kid needs

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to be friends with everybody.

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No, they don't.

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Um, What we've told our

kids is you should be kind.

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You should be nice to everyone, but you

don't have to be friends with everyone.

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You need to be careful about the friends

that you surround yourself with and be

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careful about those people that are close

to you because you don't want to make

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foolish choices with regards to that.

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And if somebody the old saying right,

fool me once, shame on me, fool me twice.

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Shame on you.

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Yep.

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Um, I like the Bush version

better, but that one's good too.

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W what's that one?

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Uh, full me once.

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Shame on you.

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Uh, for me twice.

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Uh, you could have told me again.

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That is good.

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Yeah.

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Something like that.

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Yeah.

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But you should learn and you

should be watching and go, okay.

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Yeah, I'm going to be kind and nice

to that person, but I'm not going

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to bring the, you know, what, as

far as our friendship goes, we're

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going to stay just acquaintances

and we're going to leave it there.

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We don't need to go any further than that.

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So.

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Uh, be careful about who you

bring into your inner circle.

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Yeah, that's a complicated

one, but that's that's wise.

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I like that.

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Um, Here's one verse 24.

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And hopefully I'm not skipping

anything you want here, but verse 24.

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A man steps are from the Lord.

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How then command understand his way.

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Now, this is a fun one, because

first of all, you see that God

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sovereignly, ordains, all your steps.

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Amen steps are from the Lord.

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When I take a left step versus

a right step, God knows it,

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and God has determined it.

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Um, and yet my experience is that

I'm choosing those steps and I

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think that's a real influence.

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Right?

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We talked about this.

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But the second part is

the fascinating part.

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How then can a man understand his way?

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It's almost like saying the heart is

deep waters who can understand that.

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In fact, verse five, the

purpose of a man's heart purpose

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in a man's heart, rather.

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Is like deep water, but a man of

understanding will draw it out.

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That is to say that sometimes are harder.

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So our hearts are deep and mysterious.

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And the things that we do, we

may not even fully understand.

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I don't know why I said that,

even though it was in my heart.

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I don't know why I did that,

even though it was in my heart.

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God alone really understands the

inner workings of the human heart.

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Not to say a good counselor, couldn't

really help us draw those things out,

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which again is what verse five says.

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But just, I think that should give you a

sense of awe and humility that God alone

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knows who you are through and through.

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And he's also determined your steps.

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First 29.

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Here's one for, uh, for us old guys, the

glory of young men is their strength.

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But the splendor of old

men is their gray hair.

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I want both.

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Thank you very much.

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Well, okay.

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Fair enough, but, uh, yeah.

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The, uh, just a reminder, they're

young guys listening to this,

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if, uh, especially those of you

who might live in my household.

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You know what splendor of old men is?

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Their gray hair.

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There you go.

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Well, here, here's something interesting

in this particular time period, um, old

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age was seen like an accomplishment.

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It wasn't just like, oh,

you took it for granted.

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Like today, most people can

stay alive for 70 years.

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77, I think is the average

life span of most people.

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This is a, this is an achievement.

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And the way that someone

reaches old age, according to

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scripture is by a righteous life.

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And.

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So by and large, when someone got

there, it's because they were living

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a life that was pleasing to God, at

least that's the thinking behind it.

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That's what's behind the Proverbs.

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So.

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Notice here that righteousness is what

allows for someone to gain gray hairs.

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At least that's the thought here.

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And I think the parallel for us today

who live in a culture of Western

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medicine and, you know, supplements

for this and medications for that.

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I think what's behind.

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This is that wisdom is going to

prevent us from making stupid

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decisions and thus consequently

shorting shortening our lives.

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I think that's the,

that's the catch for us.

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And that's the one that should

really help us to appreciate the

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fact that your, it goes after a year.

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I mean, I don't know about you, bro.

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But I felt like there was times

when I celebrated some birthdays

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and I'm like, man, I can't

believe how fast time is going.

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I.

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It's too.

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It's too much.

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I wish I was younger.

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I wish I made these better

decisions when I was younger.

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But time is a gift.

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And we should respect it.

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We should appreciate it and recognize

that the longer we live, the more

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ideally we're growing close to the Lord.

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And if that's the case,

You're not wasting your time.

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You're making progress.

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Yeah, that's a good word.

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Good word, Proverbs 21, verse one,

the King's heart is a stream of

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water in the hand of the Lord.

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He turns it wherever he will.

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Uh, in other words, it's the

loader sovereign over rulers.

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Doctor, we're talking

about that a little bit.

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Uh, even today in, uh, in church,

just this, this mindset that

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God's plan cannot be stopped.

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Uh, no matter what happens.

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And you think back to the fact that he.

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Chose to use Babylon.

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When you think of, of Habakkuk and

the opening of Habakkuk that God

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said to him, and he used Babylon.

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I'm going to bring Nebuchadnezzar and

he's going to do my bidding or later

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on when he calls Cyrus his servant.

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And even just in the book of

Daniel, when Daniel in chapter two,

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acknowledges and worships God, after

receiving the interpretation of

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the dream, it says you are the one

who sets up Kings and removes them.

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And here you see in Proverbs chapter

21, verse one, the King's heart is a

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stream of water in the hand of the Lord.

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He turns it wherever he will.

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And that's something that's

so good for us to remember.

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Uh, especially in a political climate

that we may not really love right now.

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Uh, that, that, that the

heart of the president in our

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vernacular is in the hand of God.

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And he turns it wherever he will.

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And he's really about

accomplishing his sovereign plan.

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And that is not something that.

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Uh, really is ours to fully understand.

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We have to exercise faith.

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We walk by faith, not by sight,

but we serve a God who does see the

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beginning from the end and has ordained

the beginning from the end and is

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working all things in accordance

with the counsel of his will.

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And so that's a comforting thought for

us, including the bad decisions, even

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the bad decisions, the sinful decisions.

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Yeah.

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The wicked policies that are

enacted and erected in R and R land.

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That's hard to wrap your mind around it

is, but, and, and again, And I assume

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you've already been to church and heard

this otherwise, if not, then, then

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you're hearing it before we get there.

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Acts chapter four.

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When, when there Peter

saying, Hey, you know what?

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In that city we're gathered against

the Lord and his anointed, Harriet

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and Pasha, pilot and everything else.

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And then it says to do whatever your hand.

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I had ordain to take place.

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So he's literally talking there about

all of the conspiracy that we're getting

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to in John's gospel here in all of the,

the, the, uh, the behind the scenes stuff

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to set up all of the sin that took place

to betray Jesus, all of the sin that

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took place to arrest him, to falsely

accuse him to lie about what he had done.

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To condemn him to death, the sin

of crucifying, an innocent man

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of killing the son of God, all of

that ordained, according to the

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plan of God that God ordained that

all of that should take place.

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And so there, we see God ordained sin

to bring about the very crucifixion,

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which is the hope and the remedy of sin.

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And so, yeah, it is difficult

to wrap our minds around that.

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And yet it's not without precedent.

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When we look back to the very thing

that is the remedy and hope that all

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of us have, if God is not ordaining

sin, then Christ doesn't die.

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Right.

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And we're left in a big.

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Pit of mess.

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Right.

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And I guess the, the challenge for

us is to recognize that God uses sin.

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Sinlessly God is in no way guilty.

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When he ordained sin.

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And honestly, I don't, I don't know

how to put those pieces together.

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I know that they're both true, but

the way that I go from ABC to D.

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I don't know.

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Yeah, flabbergasted.

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I don't know how to say that, except

to say that that's what scripture

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says and that's what we affirm.

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And you should too.

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And that's the comfort in all of this when

God ordains the ends from the beginnings,

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that includes the dark places in between

the valleys between the mountains.

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And that's the kind of

trust that we have in him.

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He's doing all things according

to the, his good purposes

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of the counsel of his will.

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And ultimately, and this is

the good part of this it's for

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your good and for his glory.

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And that's, that's our hope in this.

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Yeah.

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I think it was Piper who said it

and I, it was helpful at least

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a little bit of a helpful peg

to hold onto with this concept.

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As he said.

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God never makes anyone

sin against their will.

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Uh, when we sin, we sin willfully,

we desire that and we do it now.

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He ordains that to take place,

but it's not like he is taking

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someone that otherwise wouldn't sin.

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And ordaining that they should sin, right?

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Uh, it is, it is part of our

fallen nature to do that.

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It is our default and God is ordaining.

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Those actions, those decisions.

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In accordance with his will, which, which

doesn't solve the whole thing, but it

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at least is, is a little bit cleaner.

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It goes to something to hold onto you.

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Totally.

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And it goes back to what we were saying.

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Every decision that we

make is a real decision.

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It's a true decision, right.

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Even if it is an ordained

decision and again, how those

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things work, not entirely sure.

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Well, let's jump to another,

another passengers we loved.

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That was a good one.

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We got us.

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Got us riled up on that one.

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Yep.

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Um, here's one verse three.

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Uh, we have kind of a modern proverb,

which is to say it's better to ask for

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forgiveness than permission, right?

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That's something that we say.

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Let's just do the thing and then if we

need to apologize for it later, so be it.

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Now verse three says something

similar, except not at all.

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To do righteousness and justice is more

acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.

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In other words, it's better not to sin

than it is to send an ask for forgiveness.

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So it's better for you not to sin.

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Sometimes as Christians, we can so easily

just say, Hey, here's, here's my card.

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Here's my ACE of spades.

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Jesus' blood forgives me.

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I confess I sinned against that person.

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Lord, please forgive me.

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Thank you very much.

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I receive it.

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Uh, and that kind of low view of

Christ sacrifice in his atoning

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work can often callous us to the

seriousness and the weight of our sin.

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It better not to sin.

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And some people would say, well, I don't

want to be a Pharisee and just buckle down

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and do it because they have to, as opposed

to doing it from a heart of love and

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faith and et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

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And I think those are not

mutually exclusive categories.

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Sometimes we obey out of duty.

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But that duty is from faith.

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I, out of a posture of

saying, I trust what God says.

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And even though I don't feel like

it, I'm going to do what God says,

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because I know that's the right thing.

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And he has my best interest at heart.

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So I'm going to do it.

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It's better not to sin against

him than to say, Lord, I need to

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ask for forgiveness because I.

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I sand when I punched

pastor PJ, I got mad at him.

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Please forgive me.

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Now he's on the floor unconscious.

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I don't want to do that.

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I'd rather not sin.

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And it's a good thing.

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Not to sin.

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That's a great thing.

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In that context, not to sin.

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Yeah.

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Verse 15.

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When justice is done, it's a joy to the

righteous, but terror to the evildoers.

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And so that's a, another one kind of

along the lines, we talked about it with

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lying and not having to worry about that.

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If you are doing what is right, then you

can say, yeah, I want justice to be done

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because you don't have anything to fear.

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But it's a terror.

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The concept of justice is a terror.

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It's something that, that should instill

fear in those that have done wrong.

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That they should think, okay.

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When is the shoe gonna drop,

what am I going to be called

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to account on these things?

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And so, uh, Solomon there says for, for

you, if, if you don't want to have to

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fear that then, then live righteously.

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If you live righteously, you have

nothing to fear in that regard.

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So wise, so simple and yet, so wise,

uh, verse 17, whoever loves pleasure.

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We'll be a poor man.

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He who loves wine and

oil will not be rich.

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And I'm also going to have

you pair that with verse 20.

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Precious treasure and oil are

in a wise man's dwellings,

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but a foolish man devours it.

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So there is a way to care for the

things that God has given you.

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Such that you don't love him so

much that you squander all the

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good things that it gives you.

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In fact, wisdom D D demands

that you enjoy the good things.

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God gives you without squandering it.

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Now, whoever loves pleasure.

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So it's not a bad thing to enjoy it,

to appreciate it, to celebrate God

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for it, but to love it to idolize,

it means that you will overspend.

726

You will overindulge and consequently

that's where the bad things happen.

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Precious oil and treasure and a

wise man's I don't devalue resources

728

that God gives you save some.

729

Hey verse 19, and then

back up to verse nine.

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I think we need to address this

for our female listenership here.

731

Okay.

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So first nine, it's better to live

in the corner of a housetop than in a

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house shared with a quarrelsome wife.

734

Verse 19, it's better to live

in a desert land than with a

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course alum and fretful woman.

736

Um,

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The obvious is there's some things

to be said regarding the concept of,

738

I think we see biblical principles

of biblical submission here.

739

Uh, and the concepts of a woman

submitting to her husband as unto

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the Lord and in how all that plays

out in Ephesians chapter five.

741

Uh, and so there, there are

principles there for sure.

742

I think the other thing too is, is

this is a challenge to the men to say,

743

Hey, you know, manage your household.

744

Well, strive to have a peaceful home.

745

That this, this does go two ways here.

746

And so I think that, that if, if

I'm sitting here going okay, How

747

do I not have a quarrelsome wife?

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Well, yeah, maybe it's it's on her,

but then again, I need to also.

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Suspect and inspect myself and

say, am I doing something that's

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provoking her towards that?

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That's not doing something right.

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And we've talked about this recently

with communication and even how we

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have the ability to, to dissolve an

argument before an argument breaks out.

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If, if we will overlook an offense or

how we choose to communicate with each

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other, like Proverbs 18 talked about

that, we talked about in the last episode.

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So, this is not just about the ladies.

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In other words, men, this is about us too.

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And making sure that we are not creating

an environment where we are feeding into

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quarrels and fights with our spouse.

760

Yeah, there's so much good to say there.

761

I mean, it kind of relates back to what

you were saying about choosing a spouse.

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She's going to make, you know,

choosing the right person.

763

Uh, that goes both ways.

764

Men and women don't expect them to be

entirely different than the person that

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you married, even though we're looking

at the trajectory of their lives.

766

That's really good.

767

Um, I appreciated it, man.

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There's so much here that I want

to, I want to point out, but let

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me just, uh, I'll go to this one.

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Uh, I'm going to go to verse 30.

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Okay.

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No wisdom, no understanding, no

counsel can avail against the Lord.

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I take great comfort in that, because

that tells me when I trust him,

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no, one's going to win against God.

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Yep.

776

Like.

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No, no, one's going to say,

ah, I out smarted the Lord.

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Right.

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Hallway is under my control.

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No, one's going to do that.

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Godwin's period.

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End of story.

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Even if in the moment what I'm

experiencing is something that

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looks like it's the contrary,

but I know the fact that Jesus.

785

Uh, that, that God uses all

things, including Jesus life,

786

where it looked like he lost.

787

There was a moment where

his disciples scattered.

788

There was a moment when it looked

like the Romans were going to

789

succeed in taming, his followership

and taming his leadership.

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It looked like all, all had been lost

and yet God created the coolest, best

791

upset in all of human history showcasing.

792

He's got it all under control.

793

And that's where I take verse 30, man.

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No wisdom, no understanding.

795

No counsel can avail against the Lord.

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He's got it under control.

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Yeah.

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In fact, if you're at church this morning,

we're talking about that exact same thing.

799

Wow.

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John chapter 11, verse 50, nor do

you understand this is Caiaphas the

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high priest at the time, nor do you

understand that it's better for you.

802

That one man should die for the people.

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Not that the whole nation should perish.

804

So he said that.

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Meaning one thing, right then verse

51, John gives us the commentary.

806

He says he did not say this of

his own accord, but being high

807

priest that year, he prophesied.

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That Jesus would die for the nation

and not only for the nation, but

809

also to gather into one the children

of God who are scattered abroad.

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So Kaifas thinks, Hey, you guys are afraid

that everybody's going to go after Jesus.

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And, and we're all done now.

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And the Romans are going to come in

and destroy the temple and kick us out.

813

But you know what, here's the solution.

814

Let's just kill them.

815

And they think they're.

816

They're undermining God's

plan and cutting him out.

817

And he's, he's done this Jesus

character is going to be gone.

818

Really.

819

They're playing exactly right into

the plan of God the whole time.

820

Credible.

821

Yep.

822

Yup.

823

So, Hey, keep, bring your Bibles

and join us again tomorrow.

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For another episode of

the daily Bible podcast.

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We'll see you then.

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Bye.