00:00 Introduction and Greetings

00:19 Upcoming National Conference

00:47 Travel Plans and Logistics

01:15 Conference Details and Schedule

02:13 Pre-recording Episodes

02:41 Vacation Plans and Preaching in Maine

04:19 Youth Group Activities and Competitions

05:51 Daily Bible Reading: Proverbs 22-24

07:52 Discipline and Parenting Wisdom

10:13 The Timeout Chair: Ineffective Discipline?

10:56 The Case for Spanking: A Biblical Perspective

12:21 Consistency in Discipline: Why It Matters

13:04 Wisdom Literature: Solomon's Compilation

14:26 Proverbs 23: Wealth and Wisdom

19:03 Proverbs 24: Building a Wise Household

22:52 Concluding Thoughts and Encouragement

We are here to take away

your case of the Mondays.

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That's what we're here for.

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Thank you.

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Yep.

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We're.

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We're here to do that.

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I appreciate it.

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Yeah.

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Well, you're welcome.

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You're welcome.

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Yeah.

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It's Monday, it's Monday, June 10th, 2024.

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You're the Lord.

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That's true.

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Yep.

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Here it is.

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It's it's here.

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Uh, big week this week, we've

got national quick conference.

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That's right.

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That's right.

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This week, it is happening

technically this weekend.

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Although we will be back at

church on Sunday morning.

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So don't think that church is not

happening or, and we'd like you

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to be there too for the record.

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We need you to be there.

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If you would be there, we

would really appreciate that.

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Yeah.

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Otherwise, it's just

preaching to an empty room.

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And that would be, that'd be a bummer.

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That would be like COVID all over

again, which was never again.

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Good.

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I don't even say that.

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Yeah, nobody wants that.

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Guard.

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Yeah, but we're taking off.

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Uh, I know my family was taken off.

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I think on Wednesday night, PR

you guys are coming out Thursday.

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Well after, yeah.

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After student ministry, we're

going to go home and take a nap.

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What we're gonna call it sleep.

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And we're gonna wake up really

early and depart somewhere in

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the wee hours of the morning.

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Sounds good.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, it should be a good time.

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I think we're taking almost

30 people from our church down

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there, so that should be good.

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That's awesome.

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I didn't realize it was that many.

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I think 27 is our official number that

are registered for the conference.

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Hopefully they come back.

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Yeah.

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All 27.

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Yeah, that's true.

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Yeah.

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If you're unaware of what this is, this

is a conference that, uh, is, is, I don't

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even know how, when it happens every two

years is that by annually, that's not.

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By newly would be twice a year.

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Um, semi.

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Annually would be twice a year.

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So by annually, Is every two years.

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Every three years.

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I don't know anyways, it's it's

every three years, this takes place.

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At least it has so far.

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We've had one.

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And this is the second one.

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Every three years or every other year.

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Every other year, right?

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Yeah, it happens then there's not one.

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And then it happens again.

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Why is this?

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So it's confusing because

it's Monday and yet it's not.

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It's biennial.

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Bye.

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Bye.

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That is confusing, uses an adjective

in the English language where it

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means taking place every other year.

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Well, Yeah, I reject that language

because I don't understand it.

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That's what grammar.com said, bro.

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Well, grimmer.com.

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Just the messenger.

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Fine.

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Fair enough.

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But, uh, yeah, so that's where

we'll be this week and, uh, as such.

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Uh, you don't know this, but

we are recording a lot of

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these episodes ahead of time.

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Yeah.

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So if something big happens and we're

not talking about it, it's not because

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that, we're not thinking about it.

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Exactly.

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We're just not profits yet.

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We are not, we've not been given

that dispensation and we won't.

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Yeah.

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To our knowledge, to our knowledge.

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Yeah.

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So we're, uh, we're looking for

to that, but yeah, we're, we're

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laying down a lot of these episodes

we did for earlier this week.

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Another for today.

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I was going to do before on

Saturday for more on next Tuesday.

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And then you're going to go on vacation.

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Yes, you're going to leave

us for like three weeks.

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Uh, not quite.

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Now, but a couple of weeks,

we're looking forward to that.

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We're excited about that.

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You're going to be preaching.

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Yeah.

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In Maine.

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I am.

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First one.

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So, yep.

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First of many, it should be a I'm excited.

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I'm excited to hear it.

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I've.

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I've they're not going to be

there well, but I'll listen still.

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I'm not going to let you listen.

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Okay.

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Don't post this one on that.

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It's not going to happen.

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I'm excited about it and I'm

excited to get to cover for you.

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Glad you get a couple weeks off.

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Yeah, me too.

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Let me see, man, it's going to be good.

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Who's doing worship.

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David.

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David Rapido.

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Well, right.

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David and Abe, we're gonna be working

together to, to make it, to make it work.

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So I'm excited to see what

it's going to be like.

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Cause I've never sat on

the other side of it.

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I've been up there every

single week, right.

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Since we started.

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Yep.

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Which is really cool to

think about on the one hand.

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And then the other side,

I'm like, oh, here we go.

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I get to.

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Well, how do they say at T take

your taste, your own dog food,

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eat your own dog food, something

like that, something like that.

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But I get to do that, whatever that is.

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Okay.

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So pastor Rod's going to

be eating some dog food.

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That's right.

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I've got some by the way.

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I need to swing by the

house and pick them up.

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Is.

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Is that how you're staying so lean.

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You know, it's the.

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Yeah, no.

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Bro.

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No.

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No.

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Yeah, Maverick, you keep calling them.

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What do you keep calling him?

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Patrick.

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Patrick.

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That's right.

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That's not it.

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It's a Maverick.

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I like Patrick though.

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Yeah, but that's not his name.

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Yeah.

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Rename somebody's dog.

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You know what I say?

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Do it enough.

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Somebodies kid.

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If I do that enough.

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People will start calling them that.

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And then next thing you know, you're not.

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Any options.

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Well, it'll start responding to the name

and the next thing you know, he'll only

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respond to that name and then it's over.

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Yeah.

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A true north cap is happening.

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Yeah, we're doing a tournament.

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We're going to try to

do an annual tournament.

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And typically it's small group based and

there's act there's a competitive events.

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And then everybody fights for the glory

and honor of having the trophy cup.

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And then you get to hold it for the year

and then there's another tournament.

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And then you keep playing until, I

mean, Every name on there and see

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how many times you put it up there.

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So it's really cool.

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It can be really fun.

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Still working out some of the

game ideas, but I think it's

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going to be really, really cool.

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So my son was telling me about this

because, uh, he didn't, you don't

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know if he knew this about Josh,

but he's somewhat competitive.

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No, really?

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Yeah.

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Your son.

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He is.

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Yeah.

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Your son go figure.

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Weird, but of course it's as the high

school boys would be apt to do when you.

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Talked about this, this last

week at youth, they were pretty

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confident in themselves and oh yeah.

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And I heard that you had said, well,

it's not necessarily going to be

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athletic only that there might be some

math and they were all very excited.

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They called out Ranjeet

and then like, oh, okay.

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What if it's I forgot what

else I said, but anyway, yeah.

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They're feeling really confident

and to their credit, they probably

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have a pretty strong legal yeah.

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brilliant.

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And when my kids are sick, they

go to him for the diagnosis.

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And he's sitting there going,

well, it could be this and it

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could be this and it could be this.

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You can't read scripts yet.

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So, no, he can't.

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He can't until that, until

it gets to that point.

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Yeah.

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Anyways, that should be awesome, man.

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But yeah, our youth group

is rounding into form.

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I feel like that.

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Getting a few more students in with that

promotion Sunday was helpful to fill

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out the body weight a little bit and.

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It does feel better.

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Yeah.

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That's good.

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We can keep it and expand it.

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Yeah, that'd be great.

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That'd be great.

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Well, let's jump into our

daily Bible reading today.

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Proverbs 22, 23, 24, not

28 minutes long today.

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Nope.

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That's our guarantee.

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We.

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In our defense.

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So the program that we use to record

the podcast, it's called a script.

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This is adding to our time.

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And it's great.

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But, uh, they did an update

and they took away our timer.

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So.

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And that first episode, I looked

up to where our timer normally

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is on it and it was not there.

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So.

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I just guessed and we came

out at almost 30 minutes.

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I'm looking at it right now.

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There's there's no timer anywhere.

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You can't see.

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How long are you going?

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There's none.

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That is a dream.

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That's a terrible oversight, but

my phone is going and we've had

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we're at six and a half minutes.

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Okay, so let's jump into the Bible.

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Let's do it.

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Proverbs 22 verse one.

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A good name is to be chosen

rather than great riches and favor

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is better than silver or gold.

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In other words, your reputation matters.

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Uh, we're going to talk about

this again from Solomon's pen

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in the book of Ecclesiastes.

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He's he's going to talk about this in.

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In the context of death, when

he says in Ecclesiastes seven a

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that a good name is to be chosen.

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Similar language here.

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And then he, he talks about it's, it's

better to go to the house of mourning

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than to the house of mirth of joy.

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And what he's trying to get us to

understand is his death is coming

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like a brick wall and we need to

be living now in light of that.

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And in the way that we live our

life is going to impact that

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reputation in, in whatever that

reputation is when we're gone.

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So here.

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Present tense.

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He's saying, look.

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Sun choose a good name

rather than great riches.

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Don't don't sacrifice, your honor.

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Don't sacrifice your reputation.

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Uh, to, to get ahead in life.

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And we can certainly extrapolate

that out and apply that to our

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relationship with Christ and to

say, look, our, our reputation is

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not just our reputation, but in the

world, our reputation as ambassadors

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of Christ is also Christ reputation.

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And so we need to make sure that we are

conducting ourselves in a way not to

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bring dishonor on the name of Jesus in the

way that we interact with our neighbors

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or our coworkers or our family members.

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Uh, just to maybe get ahead in life or

get a cheap laugh or whatever it may be.

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We need to be mindful that we bear

multiple reputations, not just ours,

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but also the reputation of our savior

as we conduct ourselves in this world.

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And part of managing that reputation

is in verse 15, folly is bound

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up in the heart of a child.

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Uh, but the rod of discipline

drives it far from him.

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Part of maintaining a right

expectation or reputation for Christ.

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Is to make sure that your

family does a good job of that.

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Now, of course, your kids are not going

to be saved right out of the womb.

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God willing there'll be saved

somewhere as they're growing up in

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the, in the household of the faith.

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And of course in the church, But

your job as a parent is to help.

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Uh, help drive out the folly that is

laid in, in the sinner's heart, which

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is of course true for all of our kids.

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And it's true for all of us as well,

for those of us who are adults.

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And so here you have scripture

saying the, the rod of discipline.

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That's that's, that's pretty

clear what it's talking about.

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It's it's an item.

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It's a stick using some kind of

disciplinary item to spank your

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children is something against scripture

points to as being a way of wisdom.

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Uh, the way of wisdom.

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Now I have a question.

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And this is for you, pastor Peter.

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I'd love for us to quickly dialogue quick.

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Yep.

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Not 28 minutes worth.

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The Proverbs are what say that

you should spank your child.

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This is the wisdom literature.

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Does this mean I have to spank my child?

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Or is this merely something

that says, Hey, this is a, a

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wise way to approach your kids.

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And maybe I want to do a timeout

instead, or maybe I want to.

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Uh, you know, just give them

a stern talking to, and my

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compelled to spank my child.

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According to scripture here.

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Or does this give me some flexibility

to make a different decision?

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Uh, my, my approach to this as is.

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Like this discipline, it needs to hurt.

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Um, And that's going to look different

for different kids in, in different

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contexts and in different families.

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But I think the most.

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Readily, uh, Uh, available

in an easily applicable.

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Motive discipline is, is corporal

punishment is, is spanking.

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It is.

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Applying that, that force to the

body, to, to inflict pain so that

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the child says, okay, that hurt.

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And it hurt because I did this.

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So I don't want to do that anymore.

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I think there's a reason why in the wisdom

literature that's, what's commended.

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So I think it's, it's probably the

right thing for most people to pursue.

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Um, but is it.

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Is does that say that there's no other

way that you can discipline your child?

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Uh, no, it doesn't say that, but again, I

think the principle that we have to draw

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out of this is discipline needs to hurt.

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Otherwise you run the risk of

your child growing up to love,

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falling in love foolishness.

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So if, if you are going to choose

another method of discipline, make

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sure that it is disciplined, that that

is actually felt by the child that.

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You know, and, and that's,

that's the danger of something

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like the timeout chair.

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I think a lot of times kids

are like, okay, fine, whatever.

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I'm just going to go sit in the timeout

chair and really you're not getting

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after the consequence of their actions.

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And really you're just giving them

time to stew about how angry they

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are, that, that you put them there.

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Uh, so I think that the physical

act of discipline is helpful

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because it's, it's usually quick.

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It's over sooner than later, right?

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And then you have an opportunity

on the back end of it.

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To comfort the child.

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You have an opportunity to comfort them.

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Not by.

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Saying, Hey, it's okay.

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That you sinned, but, but

comfort that their tears.

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Um, to love them and then also to teach

them into, to help them understand why.

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Uh, they, they received the

discipline that they did and why.

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What they did was, was wrong.

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So I would say, I think the best

practice, most, almost 99% of the

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time is going to be spanking a child.

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But the reason why I give that caveat

is, you know, if you find yourself in

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a situation where that, that doesn't

work, because it doesn't work for all

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children there, I've heard of children

that, that sit there and just take

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it and are like that didn't hurt.

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And the hardest, so heart there, then

maybe you have to try to figure out a way.

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Okay.

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There's something that's going to hurt.

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And so I need to figure

out what that looks like.

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Yeah, I would agree with you on that.

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I think, um, Now we, we, uh,

we we've done this and I think

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there's a right way to do it.

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And there's of course, a wrong way.

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So when, when you hear spanking

in your mind, there's a lot

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of images that may come up.

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I just want to say that what

we're talking about is not.

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Uh, again, angry, abusive, discipline.

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We're not talking about

beating your childbirth.

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You're saying that this is

what scripture commends.

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That doesn't command timeouts.

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It doesn't command.

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Hey, no cell phone usage for

an hour or whatever it is.

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Um, that I'm sure you're going

to say, well, they didn't have

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that back then I get that.

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But this is what scripture commence.

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This is what is saying,

this is good and helpful.

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And I would agree it needs

to hurt and needs be painful.

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And typically physical pain to the

rear end is really, really useful

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toward that end because I've seen.

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I just personally, I've got five

kids now and only one of them at

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this point is not being disciplined.

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The others have been, and there

is typically a good change.

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That's discernible after the act is done.

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Yup.

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There is a positive response

because they get it.

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Sin hurts.

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It creates bad consequences.

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And I think that's the ultimate

goal of parenting like this it's

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redemptive and it's purpose.

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It's not meant to be merely punitive.

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Yeah.

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One more note on that parents

it's super important that

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you're consistent with this.

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Uh, because if you're not,

your kid will learn that too.

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And that's almost more hurtful than

it is to not do any discipline at all.

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So be consistent as much as you're not

going to want to, um, Be consistent

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with it and that's super important.

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Because in, and this is earlier.

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Uh, when he says in the same

chapter, Turn up a child for six

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and the way that he should go.

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And even when he is old,

he will not depart from it.

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Uh, there's uh, thoughts that

this is, is referring to the,

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the negative side of things.

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Like if you just let a child.

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You train them up by just letting him

choose the way that he wants to go.

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Uh, then when he's around, he's

going to continue to do that.

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Right.

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And so that's one of the things

that discipline helps avoid.

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The next section, uh, beginning in verse

17 and following, uh, actually goes

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through, uh, the next couple of chapters

are the words of the wise wise men.

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Uh, that were compiled by Solomon.

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So these are statements in sayings

that didn't necessarily originate with

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king Solomon, but he compiled them.

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And in brought them into, uh, into the

compendium of wisdom literature that

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he has here in the book of Proverbs.

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Some have argued, Hey, there's a lot

of similarities between these Proverbs

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and some of the statements and sings

in ancient, near Eastern literature.

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And so maybe these are borrowing

from there and bringing them over the

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main difference here y'all is that

the there's a connection to Yahweh.

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There's a connection to the

covenant, God of Israel.

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That's in view throughout all of this.

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And that's what does differentiate the

wisdom of God from the wisdom of men.

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There may be similar principles.

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Like you may find.

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An unbeliever who says, yeah, I think

it's good to discipline your child, but

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the reason they're disciplining their

child is different than the reason

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that you're disciplining your child.

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And so they may be able to

say, yeah, spare the child.

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Or spare the rod spoil the child.

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And you might say the same

thing, but you're gonna have a

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different understanding of why.

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So that's, we don't need to recoil and be

like, oh no, there's similarities between

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this and ancient near Eastern literature.

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Those similarities are fine.

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But there's a massive difference in

that this is wisdom that is related to,

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and coming from the God of creation.

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The God of Israel, the God that we

serve today versus the minds of humanity

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that because they've got the law of God

written on their hearts, come to some of

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the same conclusions that believers do.

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Man.

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Chapter 23 chapter 23.

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Let's do it.

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Can I start us off with

verse four, go for it.

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Do not toil to acquire wealth,

be discerning enough to assist.

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And I would qualify this because I think

the important part is not that you're

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toiling to acquire wealth, but you're

toiling to acquire temporary wealth.

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Thanks scripture would commend you to

toil, to acquire eternal wealth and

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to have a right standing before God.

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You don't want to be like the fool

and Luke who's toiling to build his

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barns and expand his territories.

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When that very night, his soul is

required of him and he's poor toward

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God, but only rich toward man.

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So toil.

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To acquire eternal wealth.

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Right, right.

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Yeah.

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Because verse five, when your

eyes light on it, it's gone.

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Suddenly it spread sprouts wings.

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Wait a minute.

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Where did they go?

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Why don't I have it.

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Repairs and taxes and all sorts

of neighbors pooping on your lawn.

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I mean, just who knows what happens.

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I thought it was dogs.

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Well, I mean, essentially to them though.

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Okay.

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Cause it's their dogs.

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I agree to disagree.

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Uh, verse 12, seek and pursue

wisdom and knowledge apply your

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heart to instruction in your ear.

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To words of knowledge, this is

just a reset, kind of for Solomon

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as he's going through here.

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He said this multiple times.

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Th throughout the book and here

it is, again, make sure that

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you are doing that verse 13.

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We just talked about it.

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Do not withhold discipline from a child.

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There it is.

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Again.

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If you strike them with

a rod, he will not dock.

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Die.

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I don't like this verse here.

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He's not going to die, bro.

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He's going to be fine.

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Right?

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Just do it right.

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Yep.

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Tears dry.

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She needs it and there'll be okay.

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And let me encourage you.

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If, if you're out there as a young

parent, Or you don't have children yet,

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but you're praying that the Lord will

provide that or you're not married yet.

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And you're thinking about this and,

and this concept of, of spanking

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your children lead you to go, man.

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I that terrifies me.

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I don't want my kid to hate me.

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Can you hear from pastor Ana who have,

have both put this in practice in our

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lives that, that you don't need to be

afraid of that if it's, if it's done.

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Correctly.

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If it's done biblically, if it's

done lovingly, right, your kids

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are not going to hate you for this.

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Uh, in fact, there's, there's things

in the Bible that tell us the opposite

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that they will love you for it.

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Eventually and.

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And so just be encouraged by that.

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I know you're looking at your little

bundle of joy that you're holding

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in your arms right now thinking

I would never, well, you will.

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Uh, and you should, if

you love them, right.

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If you love them.

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And you should, and they

will love you for it.

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Maybe not in the moment, but, um, but

they will love you for eventually.

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Yeah, they will.

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Yeah.

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Uh, verse 20 being out

among the drunkards.

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There's that admonition again, or among

the gluttonous eaters of meat that.

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That's a sin that we don't often talk

about and the church has gluttony.

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Oh, that's an interesting one.

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You're stepping on toes.

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Yeah.

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You're meddling.

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Here we go.

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Yeah.

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Well, yeah.

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Okay.

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I'm ready for it.

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I'm just going to get that.

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Michael Jackson.

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Setting the stage too much.

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Michael Jackson.

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He rubbed his eating popcorn.

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Yeah, you're setting the stage too much.

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No gluttony.

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That's one of those things where it looks

different for different people, right?

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But where you go too far.

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And you're eating to excess and, uh,

you're taking something that the Lord.

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Uh, provided to be enjoyed in

moderation and you're abusing it.

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You're going to far.

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And sometimes food can

become an idol for us.

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Food can become a source of coping for us.

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We feel like, man, I need to

eat my emotions or whatever.

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Yep.

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Or, or drink on that side of things.

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So it's, it's one that we

don't often talk about.

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We do talk about drunkenness and I

think that's one that we point the

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finger at and we can say, yeah, surely

that's bad and we can identify that.

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But, but gluttony is condemned

in scripture as well.

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And I think we need to be careful how

many times we're going to the cabinet and

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maybe we just need to put the fork down.

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Oh, so.

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Uh, verse 23 by truth and do not sell it

by wisdom, instruction and understanding.

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This is my theme verse.

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Whenever I buy a book.

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I will rarely pause to ask myself if this

book's worth buying, I'll just buy it.

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I, because I think scripture commends the.

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I mean, we talked about this before

learning, growing, we should be hungry

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and voracious to learn and grow because

the more we do this, the better we

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can understand and glorify God in

the world that he's made around us.

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And so.

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We should be encouraged to buy things

that are going to support that end.

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So if it's buying expensive software

to help you learn to study your Bible

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better, that's a good investment.

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That's buying a good, uh,

commentary series for your family.

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That's a good investment.

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That's where spending money makes a lot

of sense buying, you know, a TV series,

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you know, buying a complete series

set for a hundred bucks or whatever.

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Okay.

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I know people do that and that's, that's

fine if you want to, but man, take that a

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hundred bucks and buy a series of books.

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That's going to be really good in

your family library by, by some, some

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sources that are gonna be useful to

the family by truth and do not sell it.

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Find reputable resources

and spend money on it.

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That's going to be a bigger ROI

than just about anything else

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that you're gonna spend money on.

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Yep.

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Versus 33 35 then in extended or prolonged

warning against drunkenness talks about

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what the effects of drunkenness are,

uh, in the, the outcome of it as well.

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And so pretty self-explanatory as

you get through there, chapter 24.

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Then chapter 24.

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Verses three and four by wisdom,

a house is built by understanding

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it is established by knowledge.

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The rooms are filled with all

sorts of pleasant and precious.

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Uh, Rich's.

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Uh, wisdom and knowledge are

the foundation of the house.

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They build the house.

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Obviously, we're not talking

about the brick and mortar.

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Uh, yes.

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Wisdom has to be involved there so

that your toilet is not right next

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to your bed or anything like that.

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That would be foolish.

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And, and you want to be careful about

that, but we're talking about building

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the house as far as building that the

household, the family, um, and wisdom

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and knowledge are in such an important

element of that in, in with those things.

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If you are wise in the way that

you were raising your, your

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household, Managing your household.

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And then the, the rooms are going to be

filled with precious and pleasant riches.

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It's going to be a good place to be.

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You're going to make memories.

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You're going to have a good family.

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You're going to love your home.

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And want to be there.

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So some helpful advice there.

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In verses three and four.

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Verse 10, if you faint in the day of

adversity, your strength is small.

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That's the song that we sing.

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Uh, here, the safe.

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I say that's where it comes from.

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Yep.

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Uh, so just know that the, the day of

adversity is intended to showcase your

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weakness and to showcase God's strength.

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And if your strength is indeed small rest

assured that God intends to grow your

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strength by sending you through adversity.

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That's.

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That's part of the, the part of the path.

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Of his growing you so know when

God sends you through adversity.

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It's intentional.

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It's right.

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It's good.

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No suffering is ever wasted

in the life of the Christian.

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Can I back up one verse the devising?

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Nope.

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Okay.

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Well, I'm going to anyways.

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Okay.

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The devising of folly is sin.

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That is such an important one to

you because there are some times

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where we can think about sin and

know that it's wrong and yet make

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plans to sin knowing that it's wrong.

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And even therein is, is sin beginning.

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When, when the planning, when the

conniving, when the thinking about

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sinning is taking place in your heart.

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That here Solomon is saying,

even that is, is sin.

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The devising of folly is sin itself.

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And so sin.

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Uh, sometimes begins way before

we even start to act it out.

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Amen.

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Verses 17 through 18, do not rejoice

when your enemy falls and let not your

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heart be glad when he stumbles, this

is a warning against conceit, which is

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basically what that is concede is exalting

over the downfall of your opponent.

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It is.

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It is flexing over there, suffering and

here Solomon is saying, don't do that.

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Less the Lord.

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See it, and be displeased and

turn away his anger from him.

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It's interesting.

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The motivation there is

still comes back to the self.

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It's like you, you want them

to receive the justice and the

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punishment that they're due.

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Don't gloat too much.

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Otherwise God may pull back on that.

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And, and really to, to

teach you a lesson in that.

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And then interesting.

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Again, sanctified.

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Self-interest it's just,

there's so much in scripture.

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That's shrewdly like, Hey,

don't you want things to go well

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for you, then do what I say.

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I love that.

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I think that's such a cool aspect

that we often, I don't know.

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Uh, under, under cell

in the Christian life.

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I mean, there is godly self-interest

there is a righteous self-interest and

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I think you see a lot in the Proverbs.

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Uh, verse 27, prepare your

work outside and get everything

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ready for yourself in the field.

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Then after that, then build your house.

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Uh, it may not be immediately

clear what this, what this

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means for modern day people.

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But essentially this is saying,

make sure you have sources of

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income, prepare your fields.

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Make sure you have plowing, ready to go.

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You have your seeds ready to plant.

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You have your hit, your field is ready.

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The crops are ready to produce income

so that you can afford to build

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your house and sustain your house.

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I think this speaks to

investing in righteous things.

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But being prepared to, uh, to do

things that are gonna make sense.

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A scripture calls is prudence.

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The idea of being thoughtful and

intentional about the decisions

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that you make and doing.

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So with an eye toward the future,

the Proverbs are very future focused

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thinking about Turnell future,

but also the near term future.

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And so this is a good example for you to

say, okay, I need, I need to make sure

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that I'm providing a financial base.

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I I'm thinking about

the sources of income.

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I'm thinking about how to make sure

that my family is well provided for.

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That's all I got in these, these

three, these three, I think.

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You got any more?

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Uh, no, not that I need to say.

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Okay.

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There's more there though, for sure.

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There's for sure more there, but

we said we wouldn't go 28 minutes.

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We've gone 22 minutes.

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Okay.

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We're done.

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Hey.

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Keeping your Bibles tune in

tomorrow for another episode

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of the daily Bible podcast.

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Bye.