00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:06 Training Your Bible's Yap

01:10 Exploring Premium Bibles

05:20 Bible Reading Habits and Tools

07:37 Proverbs 4: Wisdom and the Heart

11:21 Proverbs 5: Warnings Against Adultery

14:17 Proverbs 6: Practical Warnings and Admonitions

21:29 Conclusion and Encouragement

Hey, welcome to today's edition of the daily Bible podcasts.

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You're back.

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Hey.

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So pastor rod, I've been

trying to train my yap.

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Rod: You're who

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PJ: my, yeah.

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I'm trying to train it.

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Oh, and your Bible.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I'm working because I've got a

full yet Bible, which I have.

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First time I've ever had that.

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So I'm trying to get it

to, to fold over new pipe.

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No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

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No, it's one that I've had.

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I just haven't trained the yard.

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So it had been laying just flat.

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Yeah.

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You're out there listening

to this going, what are they?

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What is this?

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What's what's it?

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Yeah.

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Not Hebrew.

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No, the yap is the cover of your Bible.

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It's the edges that

stick out over the page.

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And so most Bibles have a, a traditional

yap that, that ends maybe just a couple

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centimeters past where your pages end.

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Rod: Yeah.

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It's a small yeah.

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PJ: A full yap and further out such

that if you folded it down from

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either side, they would meet in

the middle and basically close off.

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So I just recently got a Bible.

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A couple of few months ago that has a

full yap on it and you can train your

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yap so that rather than laying flat and

just hanging out over it, actually curls

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down over tech, protecting the pages.

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We're taking the pages in and

it's kind of a cool look on that.

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Rod: I've been doing that recently.

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I've been trying to train my, yeah.

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That's really cool.

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Well, you know, now that you're

bringing it Bibles, I have a, an alert

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on a, I use camel camel, camel.com.

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And there's an alert.

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Doesn't right.

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I don't know what that is.

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You don't know what Campbell county.

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Okay.

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Um, So camel camel, camel will track.

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Amazon prices for you and alert you.

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When the price meets your,

your specified price range.

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Okay.

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So when I, when I find something

I'm like, oh, I want this, but

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I don't want to pay that price.

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I'll track it.

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And I'll just wait months for

the price to get down to the

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nut, the number that I want.

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So I put a price tracker on the Bible that

I have, which is, uh, an ESV journaling

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Bible, interleaved, journaling Bible.

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Yup.

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And I don't know if it's going to

be true when I say this, but as

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of right now, It's only 50 bucks.

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Which is a steal of a deal for this

quality, but it's not leather cover.

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It's a, I don't know, imitation

leather, but it's a great Bible.

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I've been loving.

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It has blank pages between

every other page of the Bible.

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And I've loved that.

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PJ: Yeah.

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If you want to get into the world, I don't

know if we've talked about this before,

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but if you, if you want to get into the

world of some really nice Bibles out

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there, Uh, go to evangelical bible.com.

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Evangelical bible.com.

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There is a, uh, a brand of Bibles

out there called Skylar Bibles.

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S C H U Y L E R.

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Those are some of the most premium

Bibles that are out there, but this side

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actually also has some ESV, Crossway,

premium Bibles on there as well.

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And, uh, I mean, it's, it's phenomenal.

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These are Bibles that you

buy and you have, and they're

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going to last for generations.

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You're going to be able to give

them down from, from generation

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to generation and they do cost.

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I mean, you're looking at spending

anywhere from, depending on the

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Bible that you're looking at

200 to $400 on a Bible there and

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you're going, whoa, that's crazy.

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That's insane.

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But there.

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They're well bound there they're made

with really high quality leather.

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And again, they're going to last

from generation to generation and,

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you know, we're carrying around.

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Things that cost five times that

much in our phone that we write.

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You know, trade in every few

years and we swap that out.

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Th.

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And how much more valuable, how much

more worthwhile is having a good Bible.

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So if you're interested in that

at all, if that moves the needle

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for you, maybe it doesn't.

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But if it does evangelical bible.com.

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It is.

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I mean, you can just spend hours looking

at their Bibles that are on there.

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They're

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Rod: amazing.

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I want to know if I can, cause I

I've thought about this for years.

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I've never, I've never gotten

a Bible that, that classy.

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Um, I think the class has bevel.

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I have, it's still really nice

when it's by it's by Crossway.

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I think it's a calfskin cover.

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Yeah.

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It's at home.

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Um, the only, the only thing I

don't like about it doesn't have

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enough room for me to write.

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So like I love annotating

my Bible writing notes.

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So this is why I love the

current Bible that I'm using.

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But if I'm going to have another

Bible like this, I want to specify.

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I want several ribbons.

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Can I, can I do that?

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Can I make it so that

there's like 10 ribbons?

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So.

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PJ: There's, this is a here's Bible.

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Nerdom for everybody that's listening.

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You guys didn't know you

were getting in for this.

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Here's the thing.

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Um, the Skyler's come with, I think three.

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I think three.

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Yes.

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But, but here's the other alternative if

you're looking at this going, okay, this

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is, this is a little bit out of my comfort

zone right now, out of my pressure injury.

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Now, the other thing that you can

do, and this isn't cheap either,

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but it's a little bit cheaper and

there's a, a breadth of variety.

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You can have a Bible rebound.

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And I've done that before, too.

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There are Bible binders out

there reminders, and they will

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take your existing text blocks.

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So maybe you've got a bunch of

notes already written in a Bible

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that you have that you love.

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Right.

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Um, or we've talked about knowing exactly

physically on the Bible where a passage.

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You like that?

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I love that.

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But maybe your cover's not as

nice or your covers falling apart.

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You can send it to one of these

rebounders and they will find it in

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a nice high quality piece of leather.

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Um, along with that, you can

specify, I'd like to be 5, 6, 7, 10

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Rod: rebuts, 10 ribbons, since I've.

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I'm going to customize it.

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I might as well go for the moon.

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There are some, a wide

margin ESV Bibles here.

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I like this.

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PJ: This is

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Rod: pretty.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Now I, I looked at those a while back.

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It's it's hefty.

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It's big now.

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Rod: This thing is massive.

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I'm okay with that.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Rod: But you know what, now that I know

I can rebind it with something like this.

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Maybe I'll just do that at some point.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Rod: Because I am liking

what I'm doing here.

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This is fun.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Rebound Bible can be really beautiful.

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And, and it's, what's so cool

about that is, is it's custom.

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So you're never walk around and be

like, oh, nobody else has a cover just

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like this one, which is kind of cool.

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That is cool.

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Yeah.

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Rod: I like that.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Here's the thing, whatever you choose

to do your Bible reading with whether

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that's logoff or a physical Bible.

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Make it something you enjoy, like

it should be something that you just

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look at and you go, I can't wait

to pick that up and get into it.

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Um, and if that does make

a difference, It does.

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Totally.

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Yeah.

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I mean.

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Uh, just a, a paperback Bible,

nothing changed about the words.

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Like let's be clear about that.

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There's nothing magical about,

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Rod: can I replace all the pronouns

with my name instead of like that you.

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Yeah,

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PJ: no.

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Rod: No, don't do that.

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PJ: Uh, but, but there is

something about going, man.

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That's a beautiful Bible and I it's soft.

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It, it lays, well, I

want to spend time in it.

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Uh, that's a different experience.

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And if you've never had that

experience, Maybe you should look

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around, maybe you should pick up

a few Bibles and be like, Hey.

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Let me, let me see how that feels.

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And see the difference there.

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It's, it's different.

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Even the way that the text is laid out.

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Yeah, there's a verse by verse layouts.

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There's different text blocks and how

they lay it out and edit it and stuff.

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Um, I know you do.

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I like it for preaching because it's easy

to find it on the page when I'm preaching.

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Um, but for reading I'm with you,

I looked at paragraph style for

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reading because it just flows better.

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So,

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Rod: well, if you want to see one

of these premium Bibles, I know you

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carry one on a Sunday morning, right?

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If you want to see one, maybe

you never held them before.

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But I gotta tell you once

you, once you touch it, It may

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not be the same after that.

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It's true.

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It's like driving a luxury car.

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You're not going to get back in the Honda

civic and feel the same way after that.

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It's just not going to be the same.

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So maybe you don't want to create

any covetousness in your heart.

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If you're anywhere near that, but

it is nice to have a nice Bible.

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PJ: It is you listen, do you have

to have a nice about no, no, no.

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For me, I mean, this is my main tool of

the trade and it's something that I want

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to have and, and I want it to last and.

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Also I happen to have a few kids and I.

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I think it'd be cool to be able

to hand a few of those Bibles out

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by the time that I'm annotating.

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All the

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Rod: correct notes.

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Here's how to correctly

understand everything.

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Right?

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Right.

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Yeah.

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My Bible's 50 bucks.

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I love my Bible and I use my Bible.

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Uh, for reading, but I also

have my log guys right in front

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of me, so I I'm used both.

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So it's not an either or

it's a both and perhaps

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PJ: yup.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, like a, such a good resource too.

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Yeah.

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We keep talking about that and how

we can get some training done online.

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Rod: And sponsored us yet.

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So, um, You know them or Crossway.

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Or evangelical bible.com.

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We quit.

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This is, this is all about the

podcast endorsement where we're

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looking to do this for long-term.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Now.

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All right.

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Well, let's jump into our

Bible reading for today.

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Proverbs four, five and six.

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Let's do it.

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Chapter four.

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This chapter really conveys

that the follow the elements of

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Proverbs in the opening few verses

Solomon reflects the teaching.

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He received from David and

Bathsheba as he grew up.

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Uh, you mentioned that, that you,

because this is a father to a son,

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but there's also these things where

he talks about the mother in a holding

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fast to the mother's teaching as well.

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And so there's, there's both

there, um, that are in view here.

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Uh, and, and that's a helpful thing.

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For us to, to remember as well.

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And so he's reaping the benefits

now of that instruction and he wants

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his sons to have the same rewards.

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And so his instruction.

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Uh, is, is basically this

value wisdom above all else.

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And the theme verse for this

chapter is chapter four, verse

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seven, get wisdom and get insight.

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That's what he wants to send it

to get wisdom and get insight.

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Uh, one of the more famous verses

in Proverbs four is Proverbs four

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verse 23, which is to keep your

heart with all vigilance for,

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from it flow the Springs of life.

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Uh, Jesus will eventually identify

the heart as the source for what

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proceeds out of a person, whether good

or evil Jeremiah called the heart,

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deceitful above all things is equal

set, a main we'll need a new heart.

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And so here in the book of Proverbs,

Uh, the heart takes center stage as

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well as something that we are to watch

and keep in guard, uh, because what

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we allow in is going to end up what

influencing what we produce, what comes

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Rod: out.

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One of the verses that I spent

some time with is verse 18.

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But the path of the righteous is

like the light of Dawn, which shines

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brighter and brighter until full day.

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I think that's a really interesting

analogy and entrusting picture at least.

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I think it's, it speaks to the fact that

the longer you're in your word, the longer

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you walk, the path of righteousness,

the greater, the clarity you have

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about what righteousness truly is.

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And its value upon the

entirety of your life.

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It's one of those things that.

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It's kind of like that experiential

Psalm that says in Psalm 34, I believe,

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taste and see that the Lord is good.

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And this is one of the Proverbs

that says something similar.

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Like the more you walk this path,

the longer you're with it, the

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more and more clear life becomes.

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Because you'll have more of the word

of God and you'll have more of his

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wisdom and insight to draw from.

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Which then makes everything else

comparatively more understandable.

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I mean, that's a great

encouragement to me.

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It was encouraging me

as a, as an older man.

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I'm sure.

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That's gotta be an encouragement to

lots of other people as they read that.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Or how about the way that the

chapter ends in verses 25 to 26?

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Uh, 27 there, let your eyes

look directly forward your gaze.

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Be straight before we ponder

the path of your feet.

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That's such a good reminder as a, as a

reading that, because it reminded me.

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I mean, I, I have to be

intentional about my life.

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I.

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Um, if you just wake up.

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And think you're going to

live a godly life today.

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Yeah, then you're,

you're fooling yourself.

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Um, because our default, our

neutral is always towards the flesh.

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Uh, even as believers in and Lord willing,

increasingly less so as we, we mature

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in Christ, but the flesh is still there.

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And if we don't intentionally pursue

the Lord to pursue our relationship

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with the Lord, by doing things like

spending time in his word every single

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day, praying, memorizing scripture,

being around other believers.

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Then eventually we're

going to veer off course.

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And so that intentionality to say,

no, I need to watch how I walk.

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I need to walk obediently.

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Otherwise, man, sometimes the flesh

speaks in and carries a megaphone.

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And if we want the spirit to be louder

than our flesh, then we have to be

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intentional about making sure that we

are pondering the path of our feet.

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And in walking carefully

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Rod: after the Lord.

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And the idea of walking to is carried

all throughout the scriptures.

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Right?

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And that the idea of walking

rightly walking carefully.

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I mean, this is, this is not just here.

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That's what makes us imagery so powerful.

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Pondering the path of our feet.

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It's gotta be a daily discipline.

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Otherwise you're probably going

to walk in the wrong direction.

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PJ: Yeah.

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One of those wrong directions is

addressed then in chapter five.

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Uh, which is the sin of adultery.

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Um, and, uh, th this, this

idea of sexual sin is, has

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always been a snare to mankind.

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And in Solomon here warrants his

son against it in this chapter,

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which is interesting because.

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Obviously, this was a snare to Solomon.

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This was something that,

that helped him against.

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Um, and yet he is so clear about

it here in the book of Proverbs, as

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he writes these things to his son.

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Uh, he acknowledges Solomon does hear the

forbidden woman's temptation and appeal.

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But pulls the curtain back to reveal her

true nature in her motives there and warns

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against, uh, despising, discipline and

reproof picturing a man at the end of his

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life, full of regrets on his death bed.

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Uh, and you wonder if some of that is

his biography from Solomon autobiography.

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They're saying they're not.

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Aye.

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I'm there.

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I wish I'd done things differently.

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Instead of pursuing her though,

the wise man instead is going

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to be satisfied with the wife.

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The Lord provides him.

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Uh, in her place.

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So.

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Uh, such a good thing at parents

of children, especially in our

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culture, which is hyper-sexualized.

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Uh, T to make sure that we are

teaching them a biblical paradigm,

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a biblical view of what purity

looks like and godliness looks like.

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And even as we talked about

in song of Solomon, that.

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I mean, these are not bad things that

we need to be embarrassed and ashamed

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about, but there to be enjoyed within

the right context in the right place.

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And the world's going to try to

get you to, to pursue those things

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everywhere else, but the right place.

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And so chapter five is such a good

chapter, uh, to help us see the

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true nature, pull back the curtain

and see this in the sweetness.

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At first leads to bitterness and

wormwood, which was a poison that

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would eventually lead to death.

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Rod: Yeah, this does seem to

have a greater slant toward men.

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This is going to definitely feel

like more of a man center type

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issue, but I think there's lots of

application here for women as well.

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Uh, women, please don't read this and say,

okay, this is for my husband to read or

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from my boyfriend or from my son's alone.

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Now ladies, this is a growing problem

for women and it looks different.

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It's not exactly the same.

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Obviously we have different inclinations

and different sensitivities.

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But as you read stuff like this, don't,

don't, don't go by too quickly without

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finding application for your own soul.

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Again, even though the imagery and

the verbs are toward young men,

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there's plenty here for the young

ladies and older ladies as well.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Yeah, one of the, the.

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Helpful mindsets is verse 21 helpful

things to, to curb some of these battles

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in this temptation verse 21, a man's

ways are before the eyes of the Lord.

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And he ponders all his paths.

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So much, so many times

this particular sin.

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Uh, is, is carried out in secrecy and

the idea is, well, nobody else knows.

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And so I'm okay.

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And in verse 21, blows that light up.

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It blows it out of the water.

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A man's ways are before

the eyes of the Lord.

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And he ponders all his paths.

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We talked about in the last chapter

that we need to ponder our paths and be

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intentional about that on a daily basis.

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Well, God is watching our

paths in our steps as well.

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And so such a, uh, Uh, fear inducing

in a fear of the Lord kind of a way.

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Uh, concept that, Hey man, God, we

are living quorum Dale before the

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face of God on a regular basis.

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And he is considering all of our paths.

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Proverbs chapter six.

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Chapter six verses one through 19,

we get into these various practical

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warnings and admonitions that God

gives, uh, to, uh, to his son to Solomon

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or Solomon gives rather to his son.

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Uh, verses 20 through 23, we get

expectations to listen to, and to

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be led by wise teachings and then

verses 24 through 35, some warnings

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again against the sin of adultery.

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Again, there.

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Uh, but some of the practical

things, there's some, some key

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passages here, some key things,

uh, like for six, go to the ant.

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Oh, sluggard.

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Consider her ways and be

wise, he's writing to his son

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about diligence and hard work.

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This is probably a Rehoboam.

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This is.

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That he's talking to them.

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This celebrity.

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He has a mind.

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That's my best guess.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, but you know, we, Josh has

his first job, uh, Oh, so he's, he's

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working for a landscape company and.

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Going lawns and stuff.

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Rod: Right

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PJ: on.

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But he's run into at first,

you know, your first job.

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You're like, oh man, this is so cool.

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I'm excited about this.

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I'm making money, everything.

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Three minutes

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Rod: later, it's like, oh, this is hard.

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My body is sore.

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PJ: Yeah.

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That.

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That day finally came where he was

like that I don't want to go today.

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And I was like, son.

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You got to go.

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You've got a great, because there's going

to be days that you just don't want to go.

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And the sluggard is going to be like,

find them at a tap out and make COVID.

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It seems like.

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Set our society back.

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Years, a million yards with this,

the whole mentality of, oh, I

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don't have to show up to work.

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I can work remotely.

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Yep.

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Wait a minute.

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You expect me to actually have to go

in and have a job in person somewhere.

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How can you do that?

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Don't you know, that's not the way we do.

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Like there's a biblical

hard work is a good thing.

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And parents.

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You teach your kids to work hard and to

do hard things and not to bail them out

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when they don't want to do something, make

them do it, make him suffer a little bit.

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It's going to pay off for them in the end.

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Rod: Yeah.

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Make them do it and then model it.

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I mean, yeah, it's going

to be harder to enforce it.

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If you feel like you're kind

of giving yourself the Slugger.

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Excuses.

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Yeah.

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So, I mean model what you want from your

kids, but also don't, don't be afraid

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to help them feel the pain of, and

the pleasure of a good day's work and

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effort sweating and doing a hard thing.

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That's a good thing.

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PJ: Yep.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Similar, uh, verses 10 and 11, a

little sleep, a little slumber, a

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little folding of the hands to rest

and poverty will come upon you like

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a robber and want like an armed man.

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Uh, so often we think of poverty and

want, and we think materialistically

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and there is that here.

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But, uh, another spin on this passage

that I've thought about in the

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past is, is spiritually speaking.

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If we think to ourselves, man, I

can kind of let the foot off the

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accelerator a little bit and a

little sleep, a little slumber, a

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little folding of the hands of rest.

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Maybe I miss a week of

daily Bible reading.

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Maybe I'm not.

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Going to be there a church

on a Sunday because.

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Ah, it was a late night on Saturday.

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I'm just going to sleep tomorrow morning.

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The poverty can also be spiritual poverty

if we're not disciplining ourselves

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and in pursuing the things that God

has for us to pursue as believers.

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But we're going to find that we will

be spiritually impoverished and this.

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The robber, the enemy is going to come in

and Rob all the joy of our relationship

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with Christ is going to Rob the, the

closeness, the intimacy we feel is going

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to Rob our eternal rewards as well.

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And so we need to be disciplined

spiritually as much as we do.

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You know, practically

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Rod: materialistically.

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I mean, that works in so

many different levels, right?

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If you don't.

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If you don't trim the hedges of your own

relational lawn, the same thing happens.

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You get grow weeds.

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If you don't trim the head, if you're

intellectually not taking care of

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yourself, you're going to, you're

going to be dull and unhelpful.

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I mean, there's so many areas

that works scripture so wise, it

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applies in so many different ways.

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Yeah, it does.

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It does.

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How

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PJ: about the six things?

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The Lord hates seven that

are an abomination to him.

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Rod: Oh,

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PJ: Hottie eyes.

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Uh, pride, right?

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A lying tongue hands that shed innocent

blood, a heart that devises wicked plans,

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feet that make haste to run to evil.

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A false witness who breathes out lies

and one who sows discord among brothers.

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Any of those stand out to you.

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Any of those surprise UPR?

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Rod: Well, you know, the, the, the,

the verbal formula, uh, I did a

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little bit of reading on this, this,

this week, or whenever we actually

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read through this, but I found out

the verbal formula, six things.

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There's seven things that means to

highlight the seventh phrase as the

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crescendo of these other things.

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So it's meant to.

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It's a, it's a weird poetic

device, but that's what it is.

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It's a poetic device to say, look,

six things bad, but the seventh, boom,

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it's kinda, it's supposed to hit you.

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Like that's, that's the thing.

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So the one that stands out for me

then is the seventh one, and I was

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trying to figure out, okay, how

does a seventh fit with the others?

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And of course, one who sows

discord among brothers is really

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guilty of all these things.

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Haughty eyes, a lying tongue.

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Hands that shed innocent blood him enough.

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That's not a particularly if it's not

physical, there's certainly a way to do

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that in the heart as Jesus makes clear.

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So I think, uh, what stands out

the, the one who sows discord among

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brothers, because unity is so valued

and so helpful for the community.

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The person who does these things

is, is offending the Lord.

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At great length.

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Yep.

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What do you think?

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PJ: Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I would agree with that.

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I think.

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We were, um, all along

the same lines there.

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So yeah.

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Well, he turns unity.

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Unity.

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And he turns after some expectations to

listen, to be led by wise teaching, which

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again, he talks about his, his father's

teaching in his mother's teaching.

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There.

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And he turns back to the subject of

adultery and uses some strong imagery.

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Here can a man carry fire next

to his chest and his clothes not

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be burned or can one walk on hot

coals and his feet not be scorched.

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She's talking to the one who thinks about.

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These things as though he's

getting away with it and, and.

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I alluded to this recently in a sermon.

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Um, it just, it's one of those things that

that's head shaking and not something that

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we need to be proud of for where we live.

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But.

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DFW ranked Dallas ranked number one

in Fort worth ranked number two, as

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the list of the most unfaithful cities

in the United States of America.

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That's a distinction I

would like to not have.

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Right.

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Amen to that.

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Um,

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,

this is something that we need to be on guard against, and maybe

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you're listening to this going that

would never happen to my marriage.

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Listen.

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Take heed lest you fall watch, be on

guard against it because to say that

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as one thing, but then it's almost like

you're, you're setting yourself up.

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If you're not always

on guard against this.

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Uh, it's, it's becoming increasingly easy.

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There's there's obscene websites

that are designed to try to

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make, to facilitate this now.

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I mean that one website got hacked, what,

four or five years ago in all of the

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user information got exposed on that.

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Rod: Some prominent people to right.

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Who were.

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I mean the holding hat between hands.

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I mean, I know there, there were some,

uh, Self deaths that occurred as well.

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Yep.

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I mean, it was awful.

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Yeah.

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And the thing is the fact that that

website even exists in our culture.

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Right.

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Uh, it is.

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Is a failure already.

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Right.

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And that's a terrible thing.

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And you're right, man.

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If we're not careful, if we're

not guarding our marriages, no

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one's going to do it for us.

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Devil's not going to do it.

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Culture doesn't care about that.

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You ought to be doing that right.

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Right.

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PJ: It's such a, such a dangerous.

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Uh, D not just it's.

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Yeah.

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It's completely off, off.

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Out of bounds.

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I guess is what I'm looking for.

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There, there, there's no way.

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Uh, there's no realm in which

this is an okay thing to do.

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Um, uh, and so th the, the writer,

Solomon is warning against it as well.

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And it's something that is, is just

as relevant today as it was then, uh,

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if not more so, because of how easy

the world is trying to make it today.

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Rod: And ultimately, even if the

world does become permissive about

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this particular sin area and becomes

much more accepting and says, Hey,

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this is, this is not a big deal.

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Um, God calls it a big deal.

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He does it even if everyone else

is in favor of this and marriage

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changes definitions tomorrow.

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And becomes whatever it does not matter

for Christians, our authority in our.

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Our understanding of marriage

doesn't come from the law.

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It comes from the law of God.

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PJ: Yup.

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Yup.

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Yep.

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Well, there you go.

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There's another three chapters.

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episode of the daily Bible podcast.

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