00:00 PR is Back

00:13 Discussion on Song of Solomon

03:15 Reflections on Time Away

04:01 New Facility Excitement

05:31 Proverbs 4: Pursuing Wisdom

07:52 Proverbs 5: Warning Against Adultery

15:45 Proverbs 6: General Advice and Adultery Warning

17:46 Closing Remarks and Prayer

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He's back.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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It's so good to be back with you all.

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Thank you for waiting.

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Thanks for holding it down.

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I heard good things.

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You heard things because I listened to it.

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Did you?

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I did, yeah.

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Awesome.

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Not all, not every day, but I did

check in to see what's this guy doing?

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We were just talking about Song of

Solomon, which was yesterday's episode.

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And or two days ago, anyways.

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How did how did you think

about Song of Solomon?

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What do you like about Song of Solomon?

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I love that it celebrates the

relationship between a man and a woman.

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Yes.

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That's a good thing, man.

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And if here's the thing, say what

you will about Song of Solomon.

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It is zesty and spicy

in all the right ways.

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And it's a good reminder that marriage

is meant to be physical for sure.

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As long as you can tolerate that,

and I guess tolerates the wrong

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word, as long as you can enjoy it.

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Yeah.

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Sometimes it's a toleration because

you have to push yourself to, to do

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the things that you know you should

do and the things that you really

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wanna do as long as you can do it.

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You should do it totally and

you should engage in that

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kind of physical relationship.

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But my struggle of course is I

think the Song of Solomon has

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to must to point to Christ.

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Yeah.

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I just dunno how that fits.

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I think the disciples on the road to

Emmaus when Jesus says, Hey, remember

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everything you read in the Old Testament?

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That points to me.

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I think that includes Song of Solomon.

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I just dunno how I understand there's

a spiritual component in our earthly

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relationships are ultimately realized

in our heavenly relationship.

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But Christ, I just don't know

how to put those pieces together.

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So here's my 2 cents on it.

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And from that episode I stressed,

one of the reasons why I'm okay with

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this being about the physical act

and it's in the Bible is because.

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This is the greatest physical

act between two people that exist

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on earth that can be enjoyed.

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Yes, exactly.

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Absolutely.

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And it's the definition, or at least a

huge part of the definition physically.

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It is the definition of

what makes two, one flesh.

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Okay.

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So then that connection of

that intimacy is in my mind.

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Where the spiritual connection takes

place, that as close as you can possibly

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get to another human being on earth

and have that physical connection with

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them and the physical act representing

the oneness of the two, that is what

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foreshadows our oneness with Christ,

that there is no closer relationship

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that we will en enjoy with Christ then.

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Then is what is represented

by this in this act.

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And I would amen that all over.

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And I think generally speaking, I

would be inclined to agree with that.

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Where I struggle is where

the fondling takes place.

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Let's just put that out there, just

called, I just think, okay, I understand

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the idea, but let's, those two pieces

they seem not to quite work in my mind.

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And that's why I would say, I think

there's room to, to, in, in my

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mind at least, I think the primary

emphasis of the book is the physical.

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Yes.

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And again, I'm okay with that because

God is celebrating the act, right?

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Yes.

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That he designed for relation.

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Yes.

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So I don't know that we need

to press every detail to say,

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how does this point to Jesus?

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I think the category helps us to

understand our relationship with Jesus.

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I think the subject of the union

between husband and wife helps us to

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understand our relationship with Jesus.

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I think the acts that are being

depicted and described in the book, I

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don't think we need to take those and

all analogize those out specifically

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to, okay, so what does that look

like for my relationship with Jesus?

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That's where I'm like, I think it's the

bigger picture of just the intimacy.

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Yeah.

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And I guess that's probably the best

take and the best place to land.

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'cause it doesn't do a mind very good

to start saying, how does this work?

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I just think okay if it does point

to him, the realization, the ultimate

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experience of that in Christ.

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Yeah.

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My mind can't help but ask the question.

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But you're right.

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It's probably best to just, to stay right

there and just let it lie until either

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A, you're wiser, you have a much greater

understanding and matchy of scripture, or

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you're in heaven and you finally get it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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You're back though.

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You took.

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Some time away to yeah, only a week.

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People thought I was

leaving for like forever.

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I know.

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I told Were you back already?

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No.

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Yeah, it was just a week.

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I told him that.

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I was like, he's gonna be gone for ages.

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For ages and now he's not coming back.

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People are like, why are you back?

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No.

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It almost like they weren't

wanting me back, dude.

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No, it's so good though.

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We, everybody needs that.

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Everybody needs time to, to step

away for a minute and to come back.

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Recharge.

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Yeah.

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Take a refresher.

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Yeah.

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And it was a good vacation 'cause

you were ready to come back to work.

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I was so ready to come back.

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I miss I love my job.

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I was talking to somebody the other day.

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I was saying, man, I.

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I, I love what I do, and it's not, I

don't see it as a drudgery sometimes.

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There's hard parts.

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There's parts of every job that

people are like, ah, that's

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not my favorite part of it.

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And there's certainly parts

here that are similar.

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And by and large, I love what I do.

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Yeah.

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I love that.

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I'm called to it, and I

love, it's a privilege.

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It's a joy.

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It's a, it's a.

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Man.

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Just such a unique blessing

that I get to enjoy as a man.

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It's one of my favorites.

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Yeah.

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We missed you on Sunday, man, but it

was an awesome time at our new facility.

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I was air in spirit.

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Yeah.

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It was great.

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This is actually our first episode

that's airing since we were there.

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Wow.

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So it was great.

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It was the facility showed up and it

was everything that we wanted it to be.

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And more, I would say the facility

showed up it was it was great.

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It was great.

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That's great to hear.

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Can't wait.

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I can't wait to see it.

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Yep.

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I'm all in ready to do it.

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Can't wait to drive there.

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My, my challenge is that I think

my mind's gonna go on autopilot.

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I'm gonna drive to fca.

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You're SCO Frisco, right?

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Yeah.

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I'm hoping I make it to prosper on time.

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The drive to Prosper is better.

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It's nicer.

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Yeah.

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Did you take Outer Loopt

or did you go down?

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I did not.

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You went down Preston Road?

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I took Frontier down to T Oh, okay.

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Yeah.

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Or Custer.

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And then I took Custer straight down.

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All.

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Yeah.

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I think my Google Maps

took me down outer loop.

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Or at least on the way back.

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Yeah.

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When we went the last time, it

took me back home ver via our loop.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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I'm, I wouldn't, I guess

you're in a different place

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than I'm, that makes sense.

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Yeah.

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A little bit further south because

we were Yeah, that's right.

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Yeah.

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But yeah, it was awesome and

it rained and so we enjoyed

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the overhang that kept us dry.

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So nice.

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So nice.

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It was, yeah.

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Good times.

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And it was so quiet, man.

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The air conditioner's not was

just, I didn't hear it anyway.

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At some point you just

stopped hearing things.

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So I never heard the air conditioner.

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When I heard it most, it was during our

pre-service prayer with the other guys.

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'cause we've got some quiet prayers

during the pre-service prayer.

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Oh yeah.

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Garrett, we're looking at you, man.

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And we could hear.

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It was great.

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We heard everybody's prayers.

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Yeah.

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So I never, I still never heard it.

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Yeah.

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I just realized that I

couldn't hear that person.

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I never associated it with the air

conditioner, which makes sense.

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Confident you will.

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When we get to this, the new

place, you'll be like, I'll see.

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Oh man.

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It's so much nicer.

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We'll see.

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Alright, let's jump into our Bible reading

for today, Proverbs four, five and six.

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Chapter four.

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If I could summarize chapter

four for us, it'd be this, no,

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no one becomes wise by accident.

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I think there, there's so many

things in chapter four that are

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so helpful as reminders for us

that we have to work to be wise.

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That it doesn't just happen by osmosis.

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You can't just find somebody

who's wise and become wise

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just by hanging out with them.

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Now there's something to that

and that's there's other.

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Proverbs that we'll talk about

the companion of the wise becomes

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wise, like a men's retreat verse

that we had a couple years ago now.

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But what I'm, what we're talking

about in chapter four is you have

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to work at pursuing the wisdom

that God wants you to have.

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In fact, that's verse seven.

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He says, if the beginning

of wisdom is this, get it.

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It, which implies that you have

to pursue it, that you don't have

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it, that you have to obtain it.

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And the reason why verse eight,

because you need to prize wisdom.

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You need to embrace wisdom.

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You've got to verse 13, keep

hold of, don't let it go.

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Meaning what?

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Meaning it.

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It will be fleeting if you

do release your hold on it.

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If you're not working to keep it.

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If you're not working to maintain it.

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Then you're gonna end up drifting

towards your default, which is

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going to be the foolishness of the

flesh or the wisdom of the world.

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And so if you want the wisdom

of God, I think chapter four

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says, you've got to go after it.

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Amen.

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And I love the, in the end of

chapter four, verse 26, he says,

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ponder the path of your feet.

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I love this because he's encouraging

Christians, believers, not Christians

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at this time, to make their feet level.

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In fact, that's what it

literally says there.

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Make the path of your feet level.

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Carefully consider where to put your foot.

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We are in Dallas and I was in some of

the places that you walk and be a bit,

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there's debris in the road, there's

construction happening, so you gotta

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carefully look at where you walk.

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Otherwise you might trip and fall and

hurt yourself and all those things.

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And life is not too dissimilar.

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Our job is to be careful about

where we place our feet, where we

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place the weight of our lives upon.

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And of course, the call

for us is not to do that.

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According to our own

wisdom and understanding.

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That's what we saw in chapter three.

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We do it according to the

wisdom that God offers.

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And so ponder the path of your feet.

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Then all your ways will be, sure,

this is how we, this is how we

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navigate life by building our lives

upon the rock, putting our foot upon

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the trustworthy words of scripture.

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Yeah, and I.

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Another verse to make note of here

because one of the more famous

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ones in Proverbs is verse 23.

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Keep your heart with all

vigilance for flow from it.

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Flow the springs of life.

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And so that fits in with what you

were just talking about there, that

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this is how we guard our hearts.

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That's it.

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Sounds good to say I

want to guard my heart.

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How do you do that?

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You do that through

pursuing the wisdom of God.

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Alright, chapter five.

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Chapter five.

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We it hits one of the topics that we

talked about on our men's retreat.

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And that is, we talked about being men of

purity, men of godliness when it comes to

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sexual sexual morality, not immorality.

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We don't wanna be immoral, we wanna

be moral in this regards chapter

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five, warning against adultery.

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And in this chapter to sum this

one up, it basically, it comes down

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to this sexual sin is devastating.

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Always no exceptions to that clause.

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It's always devastating.

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And the author, Solomon, writing

to his son goes through and talks

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about a lot, including verses three

through six, how temptation lies.

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I talked about this on Sunday, that one

of the ways for us to avoid temptation

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at the outset of that mountain path

is to go to the end of the path.

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Where does it lead?

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Where am I gonna end up?

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And if we can pull back the

curtain on temptation, then

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that's gonna help us avoid it.

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And here he's saying her lips drip with

honey initially, but they conceal poison

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and her door looks like it's inviting

except the, you walk in through that

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door and you end up down in the grave.

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So sexual sin is devastating always.

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It can't be tolerated in.

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Any shape or form.

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And that's verse eight.

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Keep your way far from her.

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Flee from her.

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It yields overwhelming

regret verses 11 and 12.

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And then his alternative is, be

satisfied with the gift of sex

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and the confines of marriage.

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Ge be satisfied with

the wife of your youth.

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In other words, and remember verse

21, God watches over all our ways.

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Why do you think pr he

throws that in there?

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That, that, that seems like it's

maybe even a non-sequitur because

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it's okay, we're talking about sexual

immorality here in adultery, and

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then all of a sudden there's this

line God watches all of our ways.

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Why would this sin, would that

be a relevant insert here?

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Because God sees not only the actual

physical acts, but the crevices of

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our heart, this ought to sober you.

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I think the idea here is to help

us understand that God is the one

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we live coram de before the face of

God, and in this particular realm.

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It's easy to think.

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Nobody knows.

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It's easy to think you can conceal

your sin, especially today when you

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actually, in some ways can cover your

tracks, at least in a technical sense.

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You might be able to make sure

your B browser has certain settings

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so that you can cover your ways.

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But your job is to remember that

God's the one who's watching this.

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God's the one who not only watches but he

I don't know how to talk about this other

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than how Song Solomon talks about it.

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He enjoys when people do the right thing.

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He's, he invented it, right?

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He designed it for it.

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He designed for it to be something

pleasurable and satisfying and fun, even

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verse 19, to be intoxicated with it.

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There's something really good about

enjoying and savoring and delighting

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in things that God meant to be

savored, enjoyed and delighted in.

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Yeah.

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And he wants to see you do the right

thing, and he takes great joy when people

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do it the way that they're supposed to,

because it reflects his righteousness,

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it reflects his love for his people.

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And so that would be my

initial 2 cents on that.

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Would you add anything to that?

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I think you're dead on that and that's

where I was gonna go with that too.

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And especially in today's culture

in society, when so much of

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this sin is pursued in private.

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The adultery of this day was you

went to the house of the prostitute.

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You didn't go online to the chat room.

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This is, I think you're dead on, i, I this

reminder that, hey, God watches your ways.

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There is no secrecy and this is

a particular sin that, that we

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have to be on guard against in

our society and not just men.

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We grew up in the area of youth groups

where you'd split 'em up and you'd

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have the modesty talk for the girls and

you'd have the purity talk for the guys.

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Yep.

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And never the two should meet

between, and yet this is a sin.

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Is prevalent, not just with men anymore,

but increasingly so with girls and

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women and you've seen that in student

ministry over the years, I'm sure.

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And it's one that in verse 22 is

enslaving and it says there the iniquities

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of the wicked ensnare him and he is

held fast in the cords of his sin.

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This is in particular a sin that is

very difficult to break free from.

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And the writer of Proverbs wants

us to know, don't go there.

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Don't even begin to drift there

because its end is never gonna be good.

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Yeah, the only strategy for the Christian

is not minimizing, but abstaining.

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You are called to abstain from every

form of sexual morality because

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God knows once the dopamine system

is hijacked by this pernicious

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sin, it's really hard to break it.

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So God was wise to say this in

scripture long before we knew about

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the neurochemistry that's behind it.

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But even more than that

I love the positive.

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The negative is important.

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I.

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Don't do this, but the

positive is so good.

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God is saying, Hey, instead of trying

to enjoy this illicit pleasure,

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how about taking delight in the

thing that I made you for enjoying

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it within the marriage context.

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And so we're gonna reaffirm to you, and I

guess, let me just say one more thing too.

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Ladies may not engage in the actual

act that the men, the man does.

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He's more allured by things like that.

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Her thing might be in a book.

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She might be really interested in reading

certain kinds of novels or certain kind of

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literature or even imagining certain kinds

of things that are basically the same.

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Just different, a different, the same.

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Ladies, even though you might not

find yourself in Proverbs chapter

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five, immediately be wary because

your own heart might be pulled

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into something as pernicious, as

evil, just in a different light.

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So just even though this is written

to a young man, they have certain

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struggles that make this make sense.

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But so do you and it's wise to know your

own self and if you're into some of those

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novels that draw your head and heart

away I think that's the same category.

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Totally.

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I would call that the same thing.

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Yeah.

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And that's why Jesus goes after

the heart with this issue.

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He says, you've heard it

commanded, do not commit adultery.

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And all the Pharisees are

sitting out there going, check.

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I haven't done that.

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Yeah.

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He's saying, but I tell you, anyone

who looks with lust in their heart,

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so the issue is the lust of the heart.

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And you're right, whether it's

something visual or something that

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we're reading if the lust of the

heart is inflamed, then we're there.

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We're, we've transgressed where.

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We shouldn't transgress.

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Yeah.

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Or audio podcasts.

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Yeah.

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Books on online where again, we're

just trying to make the point that any

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form and to go back to my major point

abstinence is the call for the Christian.

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Yeah.

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First Thessalonians chapter four that

you abstain from sexual morality.

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That's the goal.

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Yeah.

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Total denial because otherwise even

just a little bit our sin nature loves

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to capitalize on that little bit.

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So don't even allow a foot in the door.

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Abstinence is the best practice.

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And maybe to tie this back in even

more, one more ly deep with the Song

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of Solomon there I, I'm thinking about.

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Maybe you're out there and you're

single and you've been single your

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whole life, or you're single now and

you're going, okay, what about me?

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You're saying that the answer there, the

positive side is to enjoy the wife or the

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spouse that, that God has given to you.

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What if I don't have a spouse?

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What do I do in this situation?

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And that's where I do think there's

a category wherein God gives you the

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grace to find satisfaction in Christ

that is better than satisfaction from.

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This earthly relationship even.

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And again, that's the connection

back to Song of Solomon.

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I think it points to a greater

relationship, a greater

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intimacy, a greater satisfaction

that's ours in Christ.

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It doesn't remove the longing,

it doesn't remove the desire.

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But I do think there's still hope

for that person that this is not

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necessary for the Christian life.

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You don't have to have this

to be a satisfied person and

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a satisfied follower of Jesus.

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And I say that fully understanding

that you may be saying it's easy for

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you to say because you are married.

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Granted in, in, in point, seated.

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However, I think what the

Bible teaches is that there is

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satisfaction to be found there.

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I think the Apostle Paul's a great example

of that, being able to say, you know what?

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Rather than bemoaning my lack of

companionship, I'm looking at my life

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going, look how much time God has given

me to focus on serving him and given

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myself over to the pursuit of the Lord.

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Be encouraged if that's where you

are right now, that your life is

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not missing something that you need

in order to be fully satisfied or

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fully competent to be used by God.

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In fact, Paul would argue you've

got more ground and more potential

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to be used by God because you

are free to, to pursue that.

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So I know that doesn't.

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That, that's a lousy

bandaid in some regards.

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But at the same time, we need

to think right thoughts and true

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thoughts about about our status.

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Amen to that.

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Don't forget Jesus was single,

contrary to some of the myths about

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Jesus having Mary as his wife.

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That's not true.

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No, there's nothing in scripture

that would suggest even the

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remotest possibility of that.

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Instead, he was single and perfectly

satisfied, perfectly happy to be.

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All that God wanted him to be and

to do all that God wanted him to do.

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And if Jesus can do it and this is

what God has called you to, then

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certainly you can do it as well.

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But that, that warning that

is even more important for us.

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Scripture calls us to abstinence and.

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Even within the marriage

context, abstinence from illicit

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sexual immorality is the call.

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And that's the necessity for all of us.

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Yeah.

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Alright, let's jump to chapter six then.

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Chapter six comes in, in, in two

kind of distinct sections here.

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The first half, which is verses one

through 20, contains more general

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proverbs, which is gonna be a lot of what

we're gonna get to starting in chapter 10.

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Really.

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And just advice for life in general.

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And so he talks about things

like avoiding foolish financial

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dealings in the first six verses

there, working hard and avoiding

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sloth avoiding the deceitful liar.

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And then these seven abominations

things that God hates.

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That's the first half.

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The second half then returns to

this subject of sexual immorality,

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specifically adultery again.

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And here in, in this section he

highlights in verses 23 through 25.

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And this is super helpful,

that God's word is.

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Key to victory in this regard.

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The commandment is a lamp in the teaching,

a light that reproves of discipline,

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the way of life to preserve you, to keep

you from the evil woman, from the smooth

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of the smooth tongue of the adulterers.

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Do not desire her beauty in

your heart, and do not let her

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capture you with her eyelashes.

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And so if this is a particular

battle for you, this is a great

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place to start is realizing,

man, God's word is key for this.

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How can a young men keep his way pure

by keeping it according to your word?

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Yeah.

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And then the chapter ends with the warning

that adultery will be, find out, found out

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in the consequences will indeed be dire.

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I love the proverbs.

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So helpful.

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So pithy.

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My only complaint is that we go,

so go so quickly through them.

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We do that.

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I just feel man I wanna

soak this up a little more.

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Yeah.

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And that's why I issued the challenge

a few days ago when we first started

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going through the proverbs to

say, maybe you just wanna take one

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chapter a day, one chapter a day.

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I heard you say that.

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Yep.

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And and marinate in it, and

that's a good thing to, to do.

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Yeah.

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When I was younger, my dad suggested

to me that I read one chapter a day,

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every day for the rest of my life.

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And the chapter according to the day.

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So today's.

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June 3rd as we record he

would say, read chapter three.

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Yep.

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That was one thing that my dad

taught me that I never forgot.

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And I thought that was good.

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And I did that for a season

and I really did enjoy it.

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Yeah, it was fantastic.

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It's so helpful.

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It's kinda like a meta approach to life

where it's go get wisdom, get knowledge.

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How do I do that?

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I go through scripture.

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So it's an encouragement to read more of

the Bible and to get more of God's word.

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Which is always a good posture to have.

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It is.

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It is.

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Let's pray.

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God, we we want that posture.

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We want to always be dependent upon

your word and not the wisdom of men.

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And so we thank you that we have your

word in written form that we can study,

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and I just pray that our time in the

prove proverbs would be rich, that we

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would glean wisdom as we go through

these chapters, albeit more quickly.

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God I pray that we would.

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Grab some and meditate on

them throughout the day.

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In that if there's areas of our life that

are particularly where we need to repent

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or we need to return to you, even as we

talked about on Sunday, that you would

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use this book to highlight those areas and

draw us back to you through your words.

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We pray this 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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We shall see you.

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Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said