00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:15 Read Your Bible Daily!

00:46 Proverbs 27: Wisdom on Planning and Friendship

05:38 Proverbs 28: Living with Integrity

09:40 Proverbs 29: Parental Guidance and Prophetic Vision

12:09 PR Out!

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Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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It is just I today and

for the next two weeks.

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Pastor PJ is out on vacation, which

means you and I will be able to

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spend a lot more time together and

hopefully we can make it something

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good and helpful to you as you continue

along in your daily Bible reading.

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In fact, here's something interesting.

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I know that while Pastor PJ is

gone, he's still going through

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his daily Bible reading, which I

would encourage you to do the same.

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Whether you're on vacation or if

it's just a normal week, spending

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time in the word is O so important

and O so worth the benefits.

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It calibrates, it clarifies,

it helps create good things

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for the rest of your day.

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So I'm grateful that you're here with me

and I would encourage you to spend time

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in your Bible every single day, regardless

of what's happening in your life.

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Always gonna be worth it.

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Always gonna be valuable.

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In fact, one of the best things,

perhaps one of the best things, although

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there's several, is that you get wisdom

from the Bible and where better to

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get wisdom than from the Proverbs.

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And so we're gonna look at

Proverbs 27, 28, and 29 today.

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So follow along with me.

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If you have your Bible, there's a

couple I'd like to point out to your

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attention as you make your way through

some of the final proverbs that we're

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gonna look at starting in chapter 27.

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Proverbs 27, 1 of the first things

that you'll read here is it says,

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do not boast about tomorrow.

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For you.

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Do not know what a day may bring.

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And if you know your Bible, maybe

this reminds you of something that

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James, the brother in in the flesh

of Jesus also said about this.

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He said in James chapter four, verse

13, come now, you who say today

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or tomorrow will go into such and

such a town and spend a year there

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and will trade and make a profit.

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In verse 14, James says, yet you do

not know what tomorrow will bring.

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What is your life for you

are a mist that appears for a

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little time and then vanishes.

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Instead, you ought to say, if the Lord

wills, we will live and do this or that.

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And so James makes a point here

that Proverbs says, in fact, James

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is called the Proverbs of the New

Testament because of how many parallels

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there are in the way that he writes,

and in the Proverbs themselves.

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And the proverbs tell us not to

boast about tomorrow, not to assume

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or presume upon the next day.

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And I think one of the challenges with

living in a modern America with so many

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different technologies and advantages

is we might accidentally do this.

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We're not intending to be boastful, but

we end up looking at tomorrow and the next

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week and the next six months and the next

year, and we make all these huge plans.

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It's not bad to plan.

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Fact.

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Scripture would call us to the prudence

of planning, but there is a kind of

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planning that just takes no account

of the Lord, takes no consideration

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about what God has on our agenda.

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In fact, a long time ago, I learned

to pray a prayer that I would be open

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to God's secret agenda for my life.

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There's the agenda that I create.

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I book my calendar.

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I plan for certain people to come in

at certain times, but God's the one who

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often will drop things into my calendar.

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Apart from my awareness or apart from my.

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Auth authority.

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He'll put things on my schedule

that I never planned for, and

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we ought to be open to that.

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This is the kind of humility that you and

I have to have when we're making plans.

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It's op.

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It's opening our hands to

the Lord and saying, Lord,

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put in my hand what you want.

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Take it from my hand.

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Anything you want out of it.

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It's the ability to plan with an open

hand and an open heart recognizing that

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God's the one who controls our steps.

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He's the one who ordains

the end from the beginning.

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In fact, you might remember

several chapters ago now, I

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think it was in chapter 16.

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That we realized that God's

the one who plans our steps.

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In fact, he says this, the plans

of a heart, rather, the plans

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of the heart belong to man.

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But the answer of the tongue is

from the Lord, which is to say,

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we may plan what we're gonna say.

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We may decide what we're gonna do,

but ultimately, God's the one who's

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controlling in ordaining our steps.

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And verse nine of chapter 16, it says

this, the heart of man plans his way,

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but the Lord establishes his steps.

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So Proverbs 27 verse one, encourages

us to plan with an open hand.

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And to prayerfully commit our

work to the Lord and to recognize

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that he's the one ultimately who

decides what's going to happen.

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So I would encourage you as you're

planning your day to day, to plan

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with humility, let the Lord lead you.

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Let the Lord put plans on your agenda

that you didn't plan for, and let

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him take things away as he pleases.

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Speaking of the things on your agenda,

maybe you are planning on having

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lunch with a friend or planning

on texting somebody and following

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up and seeing how they're doing.

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Proverbs chapter 27, verses five

and six, are one of my favorites

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because it reminds me of how valuable

a really good and true friend is.

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Here's what it says, better is

open rebuke than hidden Love.

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Faithful are the wounds of a friend,

but profuse are the kisses of an enemy.

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This reminds us that there's a kind

of friend who's willing to get into

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our kitchen, a friend who's willing

to get into our grill, a friend

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who's willing to say the hard thing.

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I learned recently that there's a

phrase that some people will utilize.

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To get the truth out of people,

they'll say, what's the last 2%?

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In other words, 98% of the situation, the

product launch, the meeting, the event.

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98% of it can be dealt with

honestly, and can be said truthfully.

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There's things that everybody

notices, but there's always a last

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2% and the 2% that maybe everybody

sees, but nobody wants to say.

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Inviting a friend in your life to

say, gimme the last 2% is so helpful.

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And it's so refreshing because that

person is the one who truly loves you.

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The person who's willing to

tell you the most truth is a

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friend who is truly a friend.

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Indeed, they're the one who are

willing to have open rebuke.

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They're willing to call you

out because they love you.

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They're willing to say,

warning, you're in a bad place.

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Or Danger, what you just said

was unhelpful, or whatever it is.

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Friends are willing to

stab you in the front.

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An enemy, on the other hand,

multiplies kisses, that'll tell you

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all the things that you want to hear.

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They'll flatter and they'll tell you what

is nice, but they're not gonna tell you

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the thing that you really need to hear.

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You need a friend who's gonna

give you the last 2%, find that

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friend and never let them go.

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There's lots of things in Chapter 27.

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I'm sure you're gonna find

helpful and refreshing.

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Spend time with these things.

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They're so good.

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Proverbs chapter 28.

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Starting again at verse one, the

wicked flee when no one pursues, but

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the righteous are as bold as a lion.

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But what this tells us is that there's

a kind of life where you don't have

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to wait for the other shoe to drop.

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There's a kind of life that

where you live by integrity.

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You're never having to look over

your shoulder to wonder when you're

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gonna be found out or when the

issue's gonna come to the surface.

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And this is a good life.

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This is the kind of life that God blesses.

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While the wicked are always looking over

their shoulder, they're always on edge,

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wondering when they're gonna be found out.

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The Christian is two things.

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Number one, living with authenticity.

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They're living with integrity, and

therefore they're as bold as a lion.

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Who they are is who they are.

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You're not gonna find an ulterior

personality behind closed doors.

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You're not gonna find someone

who's acting one way at church

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and acting another way at home.

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You're finding someone that

genuinely is who they are.

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In fact, I think this pairs

really well with verse 13.

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It says this, whoever conceals

his transgression will not

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prosper, but he who confesses and

forsakes them will obtain mercy.

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This is the Old Testament

version of one John one, nine.

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If we confess our sins, he's faithful

and just to forgive us of our sins, and

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it cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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And so let Proverbs 28 encourage

you to live a life of integrity

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and living a life of integrity is

not living a life of perfection.

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None of us can do that.

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None of us have the ability

to walk without a misstep.

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None of us have the ability to talk

without stumbling over our words.

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In fact, all of us know what

it is to stumble and fall.

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And to be embarrassed by that perhaps.

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But scripture calls us not to

perfection, but to the direction of

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godliness, to the direction of holiness.

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And what that means is that we

don't conceal our transgression.

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We don't hide the things

that are true about us.

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And that includes even the ugly

things, the dirty things, confessing

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our sins, forsaken them in honestly,

authent, authe, authentically.

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Owning the things that are true about us,

and that includes even the ugly parts.

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Here's something that stood out to

me that I really want you to see.

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Look at verse 17, Proverbs 28, verse 17.

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And it says this, if one is

burdened with the blood of another.

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He will be a fugitive until death.

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Here's something that's fascinating.

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It says this, let no one help him.

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Now, most Christians if we're

honest with ourselves, we think

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God calls us to help everybody.

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And I guess in a way that's true.

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But notice here in verse 17, it says

that no one should help this person who

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is burdened with the death of another.

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They've committed murder.

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And so their conscience is

burdened by something, namely

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the death of this person.

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And scripture's calling us not to

participate in alleviating that burden.

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It would be unjust of us.

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It would be wrong of us to help

this person, even though they're

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burdened in their conscience for this.

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In fact, we would say the only way

that a Christian could help is to

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call that person to repent and to

submit themselves to the authorities.

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What this tells us is that there is a

time and a place wherein we should not

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seek to comfort and console somebody.

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Just the fact that the category exists

ought to help us think carefully about the

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way that we love others, that we don't.

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Carte blanche offer love and

forgiveness in the way that

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most people define those terms.

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Our job is to think carefully about

the way that love operates in all

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these various circumstances, and

there are times and places when we

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ought not to be helpful in the ways

that you normally are being helpful.

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In this particular case, again,

would be saying, come to repentance.

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Repent of your sin.

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Turn yourself in, and let the

law handle you as it should.

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Let there be justice.

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That's a helpful reminder for us.

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Love is a little more complicated

than just saying be nice to people.

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A Christian understanding of the world

and a Christian understanding of the Bible

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tells us that there's actually a lot more

to it than just being kind to people.

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Verse 18, since we're here and we're

talking about integrity, it says

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Whoever walks in integrity will be

delivered, but he who is crooked

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in his ways will suddenly fall.

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That is to say that if someone is

living a life that is duplicitous where

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there's hypocrisy, they should expect

that someday things will be revealed.

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One way or another, God will showcase who

is honest and true and those who are not.

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That's a good reminder for us and

a good warning on top of that.

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Proverbs chapter 29.

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We're still looking at the words

that Hezeki has been compiled.

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I remember a couple chapters ago,

you may remember this we started

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into a section of the proverbs that

are not directly written by Solomon.

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We find that in chapter 25, these are

the Proverbs of Solomon, which the

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men of Hezekiah, king of Judah copied.

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And so perhaps Solomon had a stash

of these listed somewhere else.

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He wrote them down on some papyrus

and shoved them under his bed.

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We don't know where they were, but

Hezekiah's men found them, copied

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them in order to preserve them.

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And so we're continuing now at chapter 29.

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A couple passages here in

chapter 29 that are good.

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Look at verse 15 with me.

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The rod and reproof give wisdom,

but a child left to himself

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brings shame to his mother.

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Now, sometimes you'll see this,

the proverbs will talk about

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the mother or the father, and it

seems to isolate one or the other.

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Is there a difference?

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Is there some kind of secret meaning

behind the mother verse, the father?

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I think the short answer is no.

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The idea here is that it's a parent.

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It is the parents as a whole.

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It's one referencing both of them.

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You're referencing one, although

you intend to include both.

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And so the idea in verse 15 is

that the rod and reproof that

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is the stick the rod, and.

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Verbal correction, give wisdom,

which is to say you need both.

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You can't have one or the other.

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You need both of them together.

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Scripture commends the use of corporal

punishment, and it's the idea that

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you issue physical pain and verbal

correction and teaching to help

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fill out the whole picture for them.

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So obviously there's

ways to do this wrong.

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There are ways where it turns into

something more than helpful, loving

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correction applied in a right way.

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And we're not talking about that.

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We're not saying that you should abuse

anybody, but scripture does say that

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the rod inner proof, the stick and

the verbal correction give wisdom.

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But a child left to himself brings

shame, which is to say, this is what it

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looks like to not neglect your child.

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This is what it looks like to raise them

in the fear and instruction of the Lord.

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Correction and direction verse 18.

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Where there is no prophetic vision,

the people cast off restraint, but

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blessed is he who keeps the law.

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This tells us that the word of

God has to play a central role

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in the life of God's people.

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Or it's very possible that

God's people cast off restraint.

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They go off and do what they wanna do.

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They unleash themselves

to do all kinds of evil.

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God doesn't want us to do that, and

therefore we need the prophetic vision.

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We need God's word to direct us and

to guide us, and which is why it's so

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important that we're in it every day.

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This bears repeating over and over again.

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You're gonna hear it from me.

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You're gonna hear it from Pastor pj.

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We're never gonna stop telling you

because it's just so helpful for you.

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That's Proverbs 29.

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There's a ton here that we could talk

about, but I'll keep it there for you.

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If you have any questions, please

don't hesitate to reach out.

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We'd love to hear from you, and in

fact, even though Pastor P's not

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here, you're still welcome to text

him if you have his information or

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email him, let him know that you miss

him and that you hope that he comes

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back refreshed and ready to engage.

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But until tomorrow,

thank you for joining me.

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I hope you'll read your Bible

continually and that you'll join me

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again tomorrow for another edition.

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I'll see you then.

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said

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