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June 17, 2025 | Proverbs 25-26
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00:00 Happy Birthday PPJ!

00:06 Office Environment and Updates

00:32 Birthday and Vacation Plans

01:41 Top Five Gifts for Pastor PGE

02:57 Tattoo Talk and Church Challenge

05:35 Proverbs and Wisdom

07:59 Exploring Theological Heresies

08:09 The Mystery of God's Wisdom

08:40 Community and Theological Discussions

09:28 Lessons from Solomon's Proverbs

10:26 The Power of Words and Reproof

11:29 Practical Advice on Hospitality

13:29 Self-Control and Humility

16:31 Handling Conflict and Quarrels

17:51 Concluding Prayer and Reflections

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PJ (2): hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another

edition of the Daily Bible

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Rod: Podcast.

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Hello folks.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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How's the office, by the way?

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How's the office?

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Yeah, I'm not, it's quiet.

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I'm not here.

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It's quiet.

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People are getting so much work done.

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I just feel like we're all buzzing

along, getting everything done

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that we've ever wanted to get done.

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It's happier.

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People aren't upset.

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It smells different in here.

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It smells different in here.

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Hey, so happy birthday

and happy vacation, and.

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Are we missing our anniversary?

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Should I throw that one in there too?

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That's not until August.

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I might as well just

throw it in, in anyway.

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Okay.

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Fair enough.

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Okay, so tell us about

your birthday plans.

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Happy birthday by the

way, and happy vacation.

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Give us some vacation

plans and birthday plans.

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PJ (2): Yeah, so birthday is not until the

25th, but yeah, we are on vacation, which

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is something that we're excited about.

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We're gonna be out in California, staying

with my in-laws for a couple weeks.

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Wow.

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And going up to our ascending church to

see some people up there for the weekend.

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Taking Josh up to Masters

to look at Masters.

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As long as LA is not burning down.

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And good luck with that.

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Yeah, I hear you on that one.

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So nothing major plan aside from

that, just really hanging out

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together as a family and with

my in-laws, so it should be fun.

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Rod: Birthday plans.

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Do you have anything special

planned out for that or does

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Amanda have any surprises?

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She, does she tell you about

the surprise that she has?

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PJ (2): She told me that this

is not gonna be like last year.

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Last year was 40.

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It was a big deal.

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Oh yeah.

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This is just 41.

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Just 41, okay.

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Rod: She mentioned something about

matching back tattoos with an eagle.

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Really, she mentioned it.

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Okay.

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She didn't say she committed to it yet.

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But she was thinking maybe

a matching back then.

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We're

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PJ (2): definitely gonna do that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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No, it's I'm sure we'll grab

dinner out there and, yeah.

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Rod: Okay.

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Give me, I don't know.

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And this, I'm gonna ask for

our top five, but obviously the

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rankings gonna be challenging.

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Hate these.

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Okay.

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No.

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You didn't even, let's go with that yet.

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I Okay.

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You don't know.

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Okay.

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Okay.

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Top five.

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Top five gifts that you appreciate.

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So if someone wants to bless you and

people know you from the pulpit Gotcha.

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In different contexts.

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So Yeah.

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If someone's oh man, I wanna

bless Pastor PGE for his birthday.

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What are some things that are

always a clear, easy hit for you?

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PJ (2): I, this Yeah.

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Amazon Best Buy.

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Those two are easy.

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Okay.

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Gift guards to, to either

those Amazon and Best Buy.

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Those are up there.

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And that Gray Goose restaurant

you like, we do the Blue Goose.

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Is the restaurant that is

knew there was a color.

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That's what it's called.

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Yeah.

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Blue Goose.

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And so we'll go there.

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That's fun.

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We enjoy Hutchins, man.

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Hutchins is a, is always really good.

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A good one.

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Okay.

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That's what, that's four.

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You asked for five.

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Ask

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Rod: for five.

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That's our top five.

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PJ (2): Oh man.

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How

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Rod: about logos credit?

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Do you use that or is that I

do uses logs credit as well.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Yep.

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Very good.

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What about first stuff for your car?

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You have this brand new spaceship

car that you've been using.

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Is there anything that you're looking for?

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Not really.

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PJ (2): It's pretty

self-sufficient on that front.

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So Flies we're good there.

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Yeah, it's good.

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I enjoy golf Dick's.

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Oh, golf.

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Yeah.

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Dick's Sporting Goods.

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I, that's a place that I'll go and

stock up on golf ball to lose fantastic.

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Yeah.

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And your favorite tattoo parlor.

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In case people wanna contribute

to the matching back tattoos.

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Yeah.

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It's you know that, that place

that's over off of that street off of

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Preston that says something like that?

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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That bougie tattoo shop that you go to

somewhere in North Dallas or North Texas.

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Or Texas in general.

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That

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Rod: bougie tattoo parlor,

I'm sure you'll find it.

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It's off of Preston, I'm sure.

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And that's the one that he loves.

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PJ (2): Dude I tattoos, I.

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I have no strong feelings

one way or the other on it.

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I grew up just not in the culture

where my friends were interested

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in it or anything else like that.

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But I like, I, some people are

very opinionated about tattoos.

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Oh yeah.

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And I've told my kids, look, if

you're gonna do it, just know

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that it's, yeah, you got tattoo.

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It's for the rest of your life.

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Not now.

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I'm not looking at Annie right now

going, Hey, why don't you get one?

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No, I'm talking like.

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Oh, I think Josh asked

me about it at one point.

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I was like, and he would do that.

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You gotta make a decision that's

permanent for the rest of your life.

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Yeah.

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And Yeah, I know the Christian

bro thing is to get like a Hebrew

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word tattooed underneath your

neck or something like that.

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That, or on your forehead, wherever.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Like Mike Tyson.

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But I just, all I say I'm not.

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Passionate one way or the other

about tattoos, like it's the

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devil, or, oh, they're super cool.

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I'm just like, oh, okay.

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Like I've never had the

desire for it, so let's say

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Rod: we challenged the

church at:

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You let us pick the tattoo

to put on your back.

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PJ (2): Ah

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Rod: if Amanda hasn't already staked your

claim and you got matching tattoos with

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her, you'd be exempt if that's the case.

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But if not, let us.

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Submit to you, a tattoo for you to hire.

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Oh man.

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I feel like this hit 2000 on

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PJ (2): pastors with props on

Instagram or something like that.

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I, they would love it, man.

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If we, do you imagine if we hit 2000

people, we'll have a conversation.

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Rod: The conversation, we need commitment.

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Did you tell Amanda, Hey, when

we, after we have five kids,

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we'll have a conversation or

did you commit on the Friday?

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No, I said

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PJ (2): we'll have a conversation.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Rod: 2000 people.

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We will

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PJ (2): get you a tattoo for your back.

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I get

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Rod: to

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PJ (2): choose

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Rod: the

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PJ (2): size and location.

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Look,

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Rod: you get to choose size and location.

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Oh, come on.

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Alright.

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It's gotta be someplace that we could

all at least share the joy in it.

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Okay.

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You can't just hide it.

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PJ (2): How

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Rod: often do you

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PJ (2): see your senior pastor's

back on a regular basis, man.

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You theoretically could pull your

shirt and be like, yeah, here it is.

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I theoretically could, I never

will, but I theoretically could.

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Rod: I would think that the most

appropriate tattoo would be a

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picture of your staff, all of your

staff on your back, 'cause you're

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carrying them upon your shoulders

or you know that they're the burden

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PJ (2): on your back.

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So you get to carry.

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So let's say we send Mark out

to plant a church in six years.

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What happens at that point?

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Do we just scrub him out?

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Do I get him removed?

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No.

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As.

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Is as each member of the staff is added,

you add a new person to the picture.

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Oh man.

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I feel like that's the

only right thing at:

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We're gonna have a lot

of people on staff too.

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I don't know that's there's

a lot of room on your back.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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No we're looking forward

to some time away.

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So thanks for holding down

the ship while I'm gone.

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Yeah.

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Don't hold high

expectations for either the

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Rod: podcasts or the sermons.

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That's not true.

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That's not

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PJ (2): true.

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Says that expectations

know the difference.

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Keep your expectations low.

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No, because then I won't.

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Have trouble getting over it.

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Exceed them.

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Hey, let's jump into our reading for the

day, two chapters in the book of Proverbs.

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So we're back here.

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We're back in Proverbs.

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We've been in Psalms, we're jumping

all over the place recently.

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Psalms, we've been in First

Kings second Chronicles from now.

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We're in Proverbs.

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Proverbs, the Wisdom writings of Solomon.

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So chapter 25, these are

the Proverbs of Solomon.

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Notice verse one though, which the men

of he kayak, king of Judah, copied.

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So it seems that these were there,

they were known, and yet they

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weren't really codified until

these men of Hezekiah came around.

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I think it was MacArthur that commented

that this may be in keeping with

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Hezekiah's attempts at the reforms that

he tried to make as Judah was struggling.

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That he, they found these instead of,

Hey, these would be good things for people

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to start practicing if we are going to

turn things around here with our nation.

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And so that's a testimony in and of

itself of the significance of the book

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of Proverbs that it was helpful and

so important in the eyes of Hezekiah

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is he was looking at a godless nation

that he said, if we can get these

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in the hands of people, then we may

start to see the things turn around.

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There's good wisdom there in this book.

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Rod: Amen.

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In fact, every good revival

has, at its heart God's word.

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It either is stoking the flames,

it is feeding the flames.

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Somewhere in this picture, there's

gonna be glory to God, there's gonna

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be a love for Christ and there's gonna

be all sorts of good things, but the

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word is gonna play a central rule.

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That's the case for every

revival that we have on record,

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the word of God plays its role.

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So if you're looking for a revival,

you're gonna find it in large part by

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uncovering and applying God's word.

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PJ (2): Speaking of which, verses

two and three seem to suggest that's

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not an easy task all the time that it

says it's there, it's the glory of God

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to conceal things, but the glory of.

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Kings to search things out.

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It, it seems there, there's different

opinions as to what this verse means,

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but I think one of the things means that

man, God is not gonna reveal everything

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to us, and that's part of his glory.

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There's a mystery there about

him that is always gonna keep us

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mindful of the fact that we are

the creature and he's the creator.

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At the same time, I think he's saying

it's commendable to apply ourselves

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to try to understand as much as we

can to try to search things out.

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It doesn't say it's the glory of kings to

find things out, but to search things out.

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That means that there's a process there,

and sometimes that process will lead

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to more knowledge and sometimes that

process will lead us to our own limits.

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To be able to say, man, I don't

think we can understand any

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more than we know at this point.

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Rod: I think people in

part will invent ideas.

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And I, this is where we go wrong.

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Actually, we go wrong often because

we're trying to figure God out.

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And I think that's a good instinct.

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It's noble instinct

according to Proverbs 25.

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But that can also get us

in a lot of hot water.

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I think of different heresies

that have have been spread

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throughout the ages of the church.

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And part of it is because we're

trying to say out what is God.

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Think about this.

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How does God put these pieces together?

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So we gotta be careful with it.

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It's good.

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In fact, Deuteronomy 29 29 tells us that

the secret things belong to the Lord.

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There are certain things that

we're just not gonna be able

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to pass this side of the veil.

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And maybe even not over

the next side either.

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I don't know what that's gonna be like.

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We'll have all eternity.

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Figure it out.

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But there are things that

are ultimately led to God.

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However, the challenge for us

is not to dismiss things and

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say that's just God's domain.

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Don't even bother thinking about it.

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Don't worry about it.

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You'll, he'll figure it out later.

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You'll understand that.

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No this is a noble thing to say,

okay, how does God think about this?

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How does God want me to understand this?

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And we do that carefully.

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And we do that very judiciously

with the word of God at the center.

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PJ (2): And I would say in community too.

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That's a good point.

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If you're trying to do this on

your own and you find that you

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have a view on something that no

one else shares, you're wrong.

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You're wrong.

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And that's important to know too.

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And so if you're wrestling with

deep topics, heavy things, we've

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been talking about dispensationalism

and covenant theology.

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That's it.

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That's a heavy thing to

wrestle with and talk through.

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Predestination versus free will.

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God's sovereignty, man's responsibility.

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These are heavy things.

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Creation.

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These are things that are deep

and hard for us to understand

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in a lot of different ways.

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Do that with other people, other

believers, with your pastors.

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Don't.

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Hole up with the, a bunch of dead guys

in, in paperback or hardback or on

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Kindle, and draw your own conclusions

without running them through other

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people and saying, Hey I'm thinking

these and here's the questions that I

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have and let's help me reason through

what I'm thinking about right now.

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That's one of the beauties

that we have in the church.

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Verse five, take away the wicked from

the presence of the king and his throne

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will be established in righteousness.

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Ironic, because Solomon wrote that.

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And man, his son could have.

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Taking that information to heart,

we're gonna find out that Ray Bow

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is not gonna listen to that one.

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'cause he's gonna surround himself with

the wicked and choose to listen to them.

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And as a result, his throne is not

gonna be established in righteousness.

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Far from it.

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The kingdom is gonna be

split under his reign.

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Wonder if

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Rod: they were wicked

or if they were just.

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Foolish.

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That could be too, they were

juveniles and that they were his

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comrades, they were his friends.

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And I think that was the mistake

because it was the elders who

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said, here's what you should do.

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And he did not listen to his elders.

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I think you could still apply much

of the proverbs to rebo him, but I

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wonder if it's less wickedness and

more foolishness, and maybe they're

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actually closer related than we realize.

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PJ (2): I'm looking at the word

there in the Hebrew, it's, yeah,

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it's for Wicked or esaw for Wicked.

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So it's, yeah.

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Guilty, wicked person.

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So yeah it's, there may be parallels.

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It is different from the fool.

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We don't know secret things.

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Just like that.

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Verse 11 and 12 he says, A word

fitly spoken is like apples of gold

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and settings of silver, like a gold

ring or an ornament of gold is a

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wise re prover to a listening ear.

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Our words are powerful.

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We've talked about that before in the

book of Proverbs, and here it talks

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about the fact that we can use them

for the good of other people and we

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should try that, that's an important

thing for us to set our hearts after.

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As Christians,

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Rod: I love Sal.

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Verse 12 that you brought up here.

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The, like a gold ring or an ornament

of gold is a wise rep prover.

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Here.

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Here's the key here to a listening ear.

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You are wise to have someone to allow

someone to reprove you, to correct

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you, to rebuke you, you are wise to

invite correction into your life from

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friends or family or someone wise.

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Obviously you don't wanna just receive

it from anybody because the quality

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of the person's obviously gonna have

an impact on the quality of the.

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The rebuke, but man, you don't be

the kind of person who has a hard

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time listening because of your pride.

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Scripture says that you should be the

kind of person who welcomes this into your

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life because this demonstrates wisdom.

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It is like a gold ring

or an ornament of gold.

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That's what it's like when that person

gives you the gift of their reprove.

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You ought to be wise enough to receive it.

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PJ (2): How about verse 17?

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Let your foot seldom be in your

neighbor's house lest he have

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his fill of you and hate you.

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Let's taLk about this one for a second.

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What are we saying here?

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I think what he's saying is be mindful

of staying too long at somebody's house.

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If somebody That's a good,

that's a good counsel.

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If somebody has you over, that's great.

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But it is better.

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You leave too soon than too late.

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Amen.

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You tell me this all the time when

I'm preaching all the time, I, you're

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like, man, you need to all the time,

you need to leave them wanting more.

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That less, finish before they're

finished is what you always say to me.

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So I'm like, okay, man.

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And in that sense, I think

that's good counsel here too.

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When you're going over

to somebody's house.

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Watch the cues, pay attention.

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Think about the family that you're around

and whether or not they're, they've

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got an early morning, the next morning,

they've got kids that need to get to bed.

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Some families, I get it are super chill

and relaxed and they don't mind on this.

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And they're like, Hey we're easy.

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We're flexible.

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Stay as long as you want.

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We're gonna, that's who we are.

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Not everybody's like that.

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And it's good for us to be mindful of

that when we're going over to somebody's

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Rod: house.

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Even when somebody says that.

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No one actually means, Hey, stay

as long as you would, because

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there's a way to abuse that.

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And I think that's the point.

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Christians are nice people.

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Christians are genuine and

kind, and generous, and

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hospitable hos we're co Yeah.

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And so it's up to us as the visitors

to say, I think the prior verse

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is helpful if you found honey.

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Eat only enough for you, lest you

have your fill of it and vomit it out.

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There is a, such a thing as

too much of a good thing.

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Yeah.

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And if you impose on people, man,

this is where it makes hospitality

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really hard for people I love

passages like this because they

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really help us think practically very.

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Detailed, practical ways to

say, how do I love people best?

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I'd rather have them say, I wish that

we had them for longer, rather than

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saying, man, they stayed way too long.

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I wish they, I'm never

gonna do this again.

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What are those things?

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Yeah.

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So yeah, there's too, there's, there is

such a thing as too much of a good thing.

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PJ (2): Yeah, there is.

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There's other good ones in chapter

25, verse 21, 22, talking about r.

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Care for those that are our enemies,

and how if we are kind to them, that it

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is heaping burning coals on their head.

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The Lord's gonna reward us.

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Give them water to drink.

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That's not easy to do to love

people that are unkind towards

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us or who may be our enemies.

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Verse 28.

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A man without self-control is like a

city broken into and left without walls.

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You preached on self-control recently,

and this is this is such an important

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concept that we need to be people who are.

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Self-control, that's a mark of having

the spirit in our lives, is that we

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are someone who is self controlled,

not given to outbursts, not given over

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to, to fleshly lust and cravings, but

somebody who is able to discipline

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themselves to maintain that self-control.

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And if you don't have it, you're

like a city broken and left without

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walls because the enemy can attack

you all day long and will easily.

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Sway you over and win that.

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Rod: Yeah.

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Hey, in your bibles, if you use a

paper Bible, make sure you connect.

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Verse 16 and 27.

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You probably caught this, but both

of them say something very similar.

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I if you found honey, eat only

enough for you lest you have

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your fill of it and vomit it.

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Verse 27, it is not good to

eat too much honey, nor is it

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glorious to seek one's own glory.

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And so there again, you see something of

it's, there is such a thing as too much

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of a good thing, and it's not a good

thing to have too much of a good thing.

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It's a bad thing at that point.

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So in this case, he's saying,

look, don't seek your own glory.

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Don't look for great things for yourself.

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This is what Jeremiah's,

servant, Baruch has told.

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He said, look don't try

to put yourself out there.

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Let God do that for you.

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In fact, Jesus says, whoever

humbles himself will be exalted.

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It's better to be told, Hey, come up here.

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As opposed to, Hey,

you're in the wrong spot.

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Let me put you where you belong right now.

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Scripture has this really

interesting phraseology.

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It says let the person, or let someone

not think too highly of themself.

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That's what Paul says.

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But the corollary to that is also equally

important, even though he doesn't say it.

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It's implied.

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Don't think too low.

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Leave yourself either.

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Each person think of

himself with sober judgment.

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And so I think that verse is helpful

because it's saying don't try to take

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for yourself more than what is warranted.

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Think of yourself in the right way.

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Don't eat too much of the honey.

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Don't read your own press.

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I think about this often.

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People say, Hey, good, great sermon.

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I really love that.

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That was the best sermon I've

ever heard in my whole life.

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And I know people mean well.

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I appreciate that I receive it for

the gift that it is, but I also

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know I have a long way to grow.

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PJ (2): Yeah.

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Yeah.

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The Bible also says, let another

mouth praise you and not your own.

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That's right.

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Alright.

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Chapter 26, then four and five.

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This is one that we come to quite

a bit and a lot of people will

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look at this and be like, look, the

Bible contradicts itself 'cause it

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says answer, not a fool according

to his folly, lest you be like him.

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And then it says in verse five,

answer a fool according to his folly,

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lest he be wise in his own eyes.

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And so it looks like a contradiction

until we understand what's going on

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here in verse four, he's basically

saying, don't become foolish.

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Like the fool is foolish.

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Don't answer him in.

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In like manner, like

fashion, like his folly.

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Instead verse five, answer

him according to his folly.

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In other words, answer him in

response to contrasting, showing

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the wisdom in response to his folly.

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Less he be wise in his own eyes.

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And so we aren't supposed

to retreat from the foolish.

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We also aren't supposed

to engage in, be foolish.

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We are supposed to call them

out of their foolishness, call

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them away from their folly.

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And that's what four and

five is setting up there.

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Rod: Yeah, wise in his

own eyes appears again.

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In verse 12, it says Here, do you see

a man who is wise in his own eyes?

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There is more hope for a fool

than for him, which tells us that

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there are degrees of foolishness

that we need to be aware of.

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And one of the lowest, or most

extreme degrees is where you

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think that you're wiser than God.

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If you're wise in your own

eyes, is because you think

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you're intellectually superior.

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You have greater knowledge, greater

insights than somebody else.

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And therefore scripture says

you're in especially grave danger.

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So be aware of that.

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Yeah.

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PJ (2): Verse 20.

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We've hit this before with the letting

out of water here as compared to fire.

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But again, you have the

power to stop coralling in

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conflict before it breaks out.

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For lack of wood, the fire

goes out and where there's

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no whisper, coralling ceases.

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And so that can have to do

with relational conflict.

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It can have to do with gossip

and spreading things like this.

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We have the ability to put an end to it.

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It's like when you get

the chain email right?

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And you're like, yeah, I'm not.

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I'm not gonna do that.

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Like this thing's gonna die with me.

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That, that needs to be the way it is.

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When we're sensing conflict, building up

in a marriage or in a relationship with

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a child or a relationship with somebody

else in the church, we have the ability

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to put an end to it and walk away.

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As you preached with the men recently,

not to be alistic, not to be.

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Those that, that crave conflict

in, in fighting with each other.

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And so Solomon's en encouraging

that in verse 20 there.

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Rod: Yeah.

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Speaking of whoever medals in a

quarrel not his own is like one who

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takes a passing dog by the ears.

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I think.

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Today's day and age, we have a lot of

access to quarrels that are not our own.

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And prudence would dictate that

we typically avoid those things.

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Yep.

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Unless there's a really good

reason for us to engage.

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Online debates or, Facebook

arguments, Twitter debates, things

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like that generally are unhelpful.

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For sure.

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There is some benefit to them.

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I will admit, especially when you

have helpful takes most of the

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time, it's not worth your time.

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Yeah, I would

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PJ (2): agree.

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I would agree a hundred percent.

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Hey, let's read or let's read.

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We've been reading.

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Let's pray and then we'll be done with

this episode of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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God, thanks for Solomon's wisdom.

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That's now our wisdom because we get

to read it and understand it and apply

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it to our lives through the spirit.

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We pray that we would do that.

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I pray that you would make us a

church that is, that is, as Pastor

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Rod was saying a church of revival.

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And anytime revival is gonna happen, we

need the word of God to be a part of that.

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And so we desire that for our church,

that you would use us to do great things.

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And if we're gonna do that, we've

gotta have your word front and center.

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And so we thank you for it.

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We thank you for timing

it today, in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep reading your Bibles.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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See you.

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Bye.

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PJ: thanks for listening to another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Bible Church in north Texas.

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Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said

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