00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:09 Special Guest Announcement

00:27 Conference Details and Registration

01:47 Childcare and Accommodation

04:50 Daily Bible Reading: Proverbs

06:27 Exploring the Depths of God's Wisdom

11:27 Fitness App Streaks Debate

11:59 The Power of Words

13:09 Wisdom in Moderation

13:54 Being a Considerate Guest

14:50 Loving Your Enemies

15:52 Self-Control and Humility

16:37 Answering Fools with Wisdom

20:37 Avoiding Meddling in Others' Affairs

23:36 Conclusion and Final Thoughts

Hey, Hey, welcome to Monday,

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of the daily Bible podcast.

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Oh, I see what you did there today.

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Molar many.

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Hey.

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Is it because he's coming to our church.

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Yes.

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Wow.

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He's coming.

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He exercises such an influence

that you can't even help.

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Right.

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Replicate him on the podcast,

the transformed conference.

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Wow.

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The transcon.com.

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Nope, that's not it.

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The transformed conference.org.

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Is the website, the

transformed conference.org.

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And it's going to be awesome.

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Or having Dr.

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Mueller come out to speak,

we are having microphone.

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Borrows are sending

pastor come out to speak.

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I'm going to be speaking.

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Uh, it's going to be

a great time document.

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Do you what I'm going to be there?

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You're going to be there

because people are asking.

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Yes, everyone's been,

everyone's been asking.

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Are you going to do that?

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You on the speaker schedule and that's

because I'm the, I'm the background guy.

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Well, I, I just squeaked in to it.

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We were debating and, and well,

everyone in the panel has a doctor

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in front of their names, so we just

thought, let's just keep it to the docs.

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They're smart guys.

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There it is.

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Yeah, no, Dr.

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Mueller is going to be there.

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He's going to be speaking on Sunday,

preaching at our church on Sunday as well.

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So she'd be an awesome time.

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The subject is marriage and family.

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So we're going to think through how to

approach those, uh, those topics I'm

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concerned about both of those things.

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Yes.

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So this is an evergreen conversation.

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Yeah.

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It's going to be so good.

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And both of those, those men.

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Uh, Dr.

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Mueller.

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And Dr.

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FUBARs both have a lot of wisdom.

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Uh, and experience to offer

in this particular regard.

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If you listen to the

briefing, you've heard Dr.

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Mueller speak on the issue of

marriage and family court often.

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Uh, it comes up regularly.

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And one of the things that

I know that he has said.

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More often than not is, is how important

the nuclear family is to society at large.

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That's right.

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And the disintegration of the nuclear

family is a threat to society.

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And we are certainly seeing a lot

of the side effects of that today.

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Yeah.

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Uh, so a couple of people are going to

ask, is there going to be childcare?

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I've got like, I've got

30 kids, pastor Pete.

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You're just like, you.

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Will there be childcare available.

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There is childcare.

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Uh, there is childcare available.

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I don't remember the exact age.

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It goes up to newborns up to age eight.

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There it is newborns to age eight,

you say, well, what do I do with

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my nine to 10, 11, 12 year olds?

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It's bring up and bring them in

and they're going to learn early.

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They will.

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That's good training.

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Yeah, they will.

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So it's, uh, As far as the Costco's right

now, super early registration window,

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which is open until July 31st is $75.

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That's a steal.

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That's a huge deal.

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I would pay six times as

much to do this thing.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So $75, if you registered

some time before July 31st.

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And if you're a couple out there

listening, you're going, Hey,

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we want to be there as a couple.

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Uh, if you registered both of

you at the same time, you get

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25 bucks off the second person.

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So you're getting it for 125 bucks.

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You get access to the

conference for the two of you.

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And just to be clear here, we're

not making money off of this thing.

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Right.

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This is not a for-profit enterprise.

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We're not.

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I'm trying to do this as a way

to serve people, to help get

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some good information out there.

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So people are going to ask

who aren't near our church.

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Is there a live stream option?

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I don't believe we're

going to live stream.

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We may record.

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We may record the sessions

and make them available, but

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there is no live stream option.

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Yeah, that's a bummer.

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Yeah.

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So then if someone wants to attend, then

they, you should, you should join us.

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There's a, you know, you get.

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Pastor PJ's place.

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Totally.

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Everybody's back yard.

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Yeah.

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There's.

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I mean, that's cheap rent too.

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As far as I knew, I don't think

there's a big ticket item there.

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We load it from like four grand,

a night to three grand a night.

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So that's a discount for the, for

the conference only of course, yes.

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For the conference.

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All right.

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Well, there's no reason I can't.

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Shouldn't come there.

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There you go.

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I've got a place to stay.

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I've got a discount

for my couple of rates.

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Yeah.

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I want my kids to come.

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Oh, if I want my, my kids who were

beyond eight years old, if I want

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to have them come to this, is there.

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Uh, do I, do they get.

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The spouse rate too, or is

that something different?

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I, I think it's for everyone that you

register it at one time, everyone,

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after the first person that gets

$25 off their registration fee.

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I concur.

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Yes, that sounds right.

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Yeah.

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Um, but if, if you are at a town in all

seriousness, I mean the area that we

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find ourselves in here in north Texas,

There are a lot of, uh, of churches

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in the air or a lot of churches.

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There are a lot, there are, that's true.

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That's true.

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There are a lot of hotels in the area.

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There are a lot of other things

that, uh, that make it easy

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for you to find lodging in.

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Uh, in the region here, if you

don't end up staying with somebody

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from the, uh, from the church here.

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Yeah, but pastor PJ's house is wide open.

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There's a couple of roof issues as

you've learned at yesterday's podcast.

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So you have to be okay with that.

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Some leaks, if it rains.

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Yeah.

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Well, Yep.

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And we'll hand out tents and you can

go pitch a tent in pastor Rod's yard.

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Yeah.

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It'll be raining there to Darden.

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Leaky roof.

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So, no, we're, we're excited.

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This is gonna be a

great, great conference.

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It's all come together.

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Thanks to mark Cogan.

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Mark Hogan has done much

of the heavy lifting here.

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He has done so much of it.

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Then doubly.

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So yeah.

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He, uh, and Dr.

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Mohler have an existing relationship

as mark served with him.

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Um, and so that's, uh, the,

if I remember right, uh, Dr.

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Mueller was Mark's assistant for

a season, it was Mark's intern.

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Yup.

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Yeah.

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That's how it went.

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Exactly.

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Exactly.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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Well, let's jump into our daily

Bible reading for the day.

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Some some more Proverbs, it looks

like Proverbs 25 and provers 26.

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Uh, so these are, are unique in that

if you look at Proverbs 25 1, these are

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also our Proverbs of Solomon, which the

men of his Akaya king of Judah copied.

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And so we were joking

around before the podcast.

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It's like when somebody

finds the, uh, the uncut.

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Or unreleased music from a celebrity.

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Uh, musician that's passed

away and they're like, oh

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look, the deep tracks are here.

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And we found these.

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And so that's kind of what

happened with Solomon.

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They're like, oh yeah, look at these.

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Well, I wonder because it has a guy, he's

the one who found the law right here.

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He's like, oh, things are gone.

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And then they found him, this is,

that's a travesty number one, but

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number two, I'm glad they found it.

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Cause these are cool songs.

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Proverbs rather.

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Yeah, it's a great proverb.

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I'm glad that these are here.

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Yeah.

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And, and this is consistent with

Hezekiah to your point because Hezekiah

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had great concern to bring revival

and renewal to the nation of Israel.

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And this would have been restorative

in his efforts here as well.

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So, uh, they find these,

they publish them.

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Thank you.

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Has a.

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They are original to Solomon.

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And you say, how do you know that?

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Well, because the scripture

says it is in properties 25 1.

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So this takes us all the way

through chapter 30, it looks like.

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Yep.

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25 through 30.

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Well, not three 30, but 2 30, 2 30.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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And just out of a really cheesy.

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Kids joke, go for it.

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What time is it when

you go to the dentist?

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Two.

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32 30.

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Oh, yeah.

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Uh, there you go.

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It's father's day was yesterday.

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Yeah.

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Wow, same wave.

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Get out of my head.

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All right.

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Proverbs 25 to 33.

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All right.

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Look at this.

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It's here.

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It's the glory of God to

conceal things, but the glory

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of Kings to search things out.

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God's knowledge is forever going to

retain a level of glorious mystery.

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Uh, and that's what he means.

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There is the glory of

God to conceal things.

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There are some things that we will

never be able to understand or wrap

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our minds around if you were with us.

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Uh, last Sunday, we were just preaching

through some, some Hetty things, some,

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some difficult things, the relationship

of God's sovereignty and man's

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responsibility and how all that works.

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Th there's a level of mystery

that God himself owns.

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But there's something honorable and

commendable about applying oneself

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to learn more and more to discover

as much as you can about his ways.

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And that's kind of what, what

Solomon is talking about here.

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It's the glory of God to conceal

things, but, you know, it's.

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It's commendable.

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It's the glory of Kings to.

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I try to discover as much as possible.

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And so this kind of speaks

to us as Christians.

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That our job is not to say,

well, I can't understand God.

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So why even bother trying, let me just

hang out with my, you know, Simple

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easy Christian living book over in

the corner and not stretch myself now.

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There's.

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It's good to stretch yourself.

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It's good to get deep into hard things.

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Theology, pick up a book by the Puritans.

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That will take you deep, real fast.

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Pick up a systematic theology, get log

us, Bible software, whatever it is.

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But challenge yourself, stretch

yourself because it's, there's,

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there's there's reward in doing that.

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Man this, uh, resonates with my heart.

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I feel like this.

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This is one of my favorite verses because

parallel Deuteronomy 29, 29, and almost

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feels like there are certain things that.

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No don't enter, do not do not enter

or traverse this particular path.

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And that's true there.

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The secret things belong to the Lord,

but to the things that he's revealed to

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us, it's for us and for our children.

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But there's a lot of things

that he has revealed.

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Uh, they're not revealed.

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As in there on the surface,

you have to dig deep.

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It's it's the old saying?

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Um, when you rake you get leaves, but

if you dig, you might find diamonds

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and often for us who understand

or pray, read through scripture.

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Um, often the superficial nuggets

that you kind of walk away with

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are helpful and they're good.

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But man, the real cool stuff, the

stuff that starts teasing your

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brain with, how does this work?

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How does this fit?

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That's the, that's the digging.

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I really appreciate verses like this

because it encourages us to do that.

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Which means that we take, we take common

grace knowledge about how the world works.

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We take the scriptural knowledge and

we say, how does scripture speak to

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these things we learn from all of it.

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And you're never going to exhaust that.

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And that's why heaven is

not going to be boring.

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We're going to learn about

God forever and ever.

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In part, because you're never going

to reach the end of who God is because

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he in and of himself is infinite.

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He's eternal.

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Which means you can never reach the

end of his manifold excellencies.

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That's a cool thought.

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Completely.

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Yeah.

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And this is.

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Be encouraged because.

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This happens real time.

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You can go back and read a passage of

scripture that you've read a hundred times

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before, and God can open your eyes to

something that you've never seen before.

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Oh yeah.

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It's all the time.

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Totally.

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In fact, that happened to me.

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Uh, this past week.

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As I was preparing for that sermon on

God's sovereignty and man's responsibility

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with, with the whole section on Caiaphas.

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It struck me for the first time.

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Like this is God's sovereignty and

man's responsibility in real time.

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Action right before us.

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That was such for me, at least.

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I don't know if I communicated

it well enough, but for me.

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At least that was such a helpful.

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Example of how this difficult

doctrine looks in real life.

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Right.

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Th that Caiaphas spoke meaning

and intending one thing.

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And, and he was, that was all he could,

that was all his thoughts were on.

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He wasn't sitting thinking,

well, God superintending my

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words to be something else.

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And he didn't feel like God was

acting upon him to superintendents

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words for something else.

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And yet the reality has got was right.

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And so I'd read that passage

a hundred times before.

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Never seen that come

out in that way to me.

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And so be encouraged to keep

reading, especially through the

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familiar texts, because God is

faithful to, through the spirit.

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Because that's part of the

work of the holy spirit.

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It.

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To help us to see things

we've never seen before.

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I wonder if you'd say it as strongly

as saying, if you don't pursue this.

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Is it sin not to pursue the

greater depth of knowing Christ.

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I think the writer of Hebrews

says so, right, right.

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We sh we should be teachers by now.

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Right.

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But instead you have someone you have

need of someone coming in, teaching

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you the elementary things, right.

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So he doesn't come out

and say, you're in sin.

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As much as he says, this is not right.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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Uh, second Peter three 18 grow

in the grace and knowledge of

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our Lord and savior Jesus Christ.

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It's like, there is a

thrust that direction.

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So maybe we can't be as strong as saying

it's sin, but certainly it is strongly

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encouraged and we would encourage

you plumb the depths of who God is.

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You'll never get tired of that.

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Right, right.

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Well, Hey, look at verse five.

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This one I read and I kind

of shook my head, man.

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This is what Ray Bowman needed to hear.

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Take away the wicked from the presence

of the king and his throne will

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be established in righteousness.

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We're not there yet, but we're

going to find that Ray bone

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doesn't obey that doesn't listen.

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Ray does not listen.

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And, uh, that's going to be

his downfall right there.

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That's going to lead to

a divided kingdom and.

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All kinds of messiness as a

result of that kinds of mess, man.

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Yeah.

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Wow.

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We'll get there when we get there.

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Alright.

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I don't know if he'll

be here for that one.

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I don't know if the past.

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It'll get there.

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If not do it justice.

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We record those, sir.

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Podcasts.

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All of them.

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Okay, we're going to start from scratch.

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We're just going to push pause

on time and start from scratch.

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By the way random apple

just released there.

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Their iOS updates.

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They're all that,

whatever, WWDC, whatever.

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Y developers conference.

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Um, and one thing that they're

gonna have with the fitness app

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now is to pause your streaks.

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So if you go on vacation, which

is a total not true thing, then.

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It's not a real street.

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If you disagree, if you're sick.

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Okay.

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That makes sense on vacation

that then your streak is broken.

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No, cause you take a vacation.

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I see, I think this is

a misuse of the streaks.

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Covers a multitude of offenses while yeah.

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Offenses.

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I'm glad to hear you agree that

it's an offense to have it that way.

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Hey, Tim cook said, let Tim cook.

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Okay.

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At Tim cook.

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All right.

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Versus 11 to 12, a word fitly spoken

is like apples of gold in a setting

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of silver, like a gold ring or

ornament gold is a wiser prover.

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Two we're listening here.

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Just a reminder of how.

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How powerful our words are on

the positive side of things.

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Um, if you're out there and you're like,

man, I'm not big on, I'm not an extrovert.

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I'm.

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Just know that, just an encouraging

word here and there can be, uh,

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can have a massive impact on your

brothers and sisters in Christ.

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Just a, Hey, I want to let you know.

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I really appreciate you.

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Or I saw you serving last week doing this.

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I'm grateful for that.

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That can lift somebody up or, Hey, you

know what I thought about you this week?

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And I, I prayed for you.

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And I want you to know that, like,

that can be such an encouragement

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to somebody so simple, and yet

it's it's has such an impact on us.

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That's a good reminder.

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I mean, it's verse 15 fits that.

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And I, that I underlined this

one in my Bible with patients,

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a ruler may be persuaded.

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And a soft tone will break a bone.

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Do you remember that old

school kids saying, yup.

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Sticks and stones sticks and

stones may break my bones,

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but words will never hurt me.

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That's a straight up lie.

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Yep.

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Unbiblical life from the pit of hell.

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Because it says it right here,

it says it will break a bone.

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So, I don't know who made up that

thing, but they were inspired by

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the devil is what it seems like.

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Yeah.

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Well, verse 16.

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If you have found enough honey,

eat and eat only enough for you.

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Let's do you have your

fill of it and vomited?

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Have you ever eaten so much

that you just felt awful?

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For sure.

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I think we've all been there today

or yesterday, or just sitting

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with this afternoon, perhaps.

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But look at the wisdom of scripture.

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Hey, enjoy the good things

God has given you, honey.

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Honey, is it like the sweetest

thing they had available?

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Yeah.

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Enjoy the sweetest thing God has

given you, but don't, don't ruin it.

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Right?

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Enjoy sufficiently.

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But don't, what's it called?

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Where are you?

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Indulge it deeply.

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What's that called?

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For indulge.

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Overindulge is a Gorge.

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Don't Gorge yourself on, on things

that don't mix because it's ultimately

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not good for you to turn to too

much of a good thing as a bad thing.

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And I think that's the

wisdom of scripture here.

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It applies to so many areas,

but how about eating itself?

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A lot of us could probably

stand to have that reminder.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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How about 17?

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I love for 17.

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We can sell this in your neighbor's house.

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Unless do you have his

fill of you and hate you?

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Well, I think it fits with the honey.

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Right, right.

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I just wrote next to this one,

be mindful of staying too long.

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Yeah, don't overstay your welcome.

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Right.

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If you're at somebody's house

and you've been there for awhile.

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Like maybe take the cues.

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Turning off the lights.

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All right.

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Well, what a great night.

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Uh, yeah, it was a good night.

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Huh?

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Yeah.

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So about that thing we were talking about.

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Okay.

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Here's my alarm code.

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Just set it on your way out.

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We're going to bed.

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There was this rug that I saw on Amazon.

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And I think Amazon knows me.

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It said, live, laugh, leave by nine.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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If I could get it.

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Yeah.

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I didn't want it.

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I didn't want people to

take it the wrong ways.

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I didn't get it, but I did like it.

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I was like, oh, I was

flirting with the idea.

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25 bucks.

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Is it worth it?

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It's a good laugh.

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At least.

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That's funny.

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That's funny.

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Versus 21 through 22, we see a

new Testament principle here on

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loving our enemies with an eye

towards the reward from God.

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Jesus picks this up himself in the

sermon on the Mount and talks about

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the blessedness in treating our

enemies well and not hating them.

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So we see that that is present

in Solomon's wisdom as well.

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Speaking of honey verse 27.

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It's not too good to eat too much of it.

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We've seen this already, but

here's a different reason.

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Why nor is it glorious

to seek one's own glory?

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It's not good to do that.

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Uh, let another one crazy.

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Right?

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And not your own lips.

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In fact, just a few verses before this.

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Jesus adapts verses six and seven.

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Don't put yourself forward in the King's

presence or stand in the place of the

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greats for it's better to be told.

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Hey, come up here.

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That'd be put lower in

the presence of a noble.

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And so this idea here.

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Of being modest and being

lonely and being humble low.

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Uh, whoever humbles himself will

be exalted, whoever exalts himself.

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Uh, we'll basically be

lowered in and humbled.

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So the principles, so why, so, so smart.

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It's just it's.

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This is God, this is the wisdom of God.

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And, and you, you and I

would do well to learn it.

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Yeah.

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Verse 28.

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Self-control.

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Uh, have we hit, we haven't

hit self-control yet in our

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men's and women's Bible study.

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I don't believe, uh,

certainly not the men.

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We don't hit it until August, I think.

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Yeah, but that's that's this is

such a, an apt verse for that.

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A man without self-control is like a

city broken into and left without walls.

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Uh, so that controls is

so important to us speak.

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You're defenseless you are

ruined in, in sin can come in

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and run a muck in your life.

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If you have no self control,

you are a slave to your urges.

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And, uh, and it's like the new Testament

concept of their God is their belly.

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Um, That, that they obey

their lusts in there.

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And there.

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There urges in their sinful

inclinations, and you are left.

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Run over like a city

broken into without walls.

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That's terrible.

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Yeah.

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I don't want that.

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Nope.

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All right.

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Chapter 26, pastor rod.

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I got, I've got a, got you.

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Okay.

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I don't know.

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I've got a, got you for the Bible.

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Okay.

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Verses four and five.

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First Solomon says, answer not a fool.

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According to his folly, lest

you be lacking yourself.

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Dan Solomon says, answer a

fool according to his falling.

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So there gotcha.

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Pastor, rod defend God for us.

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I think we had to rip

this out of our Bibles.

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This is a clear error.

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Clear issue.

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Okay.

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You heard it here.

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First folks.

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So I've heard this

approach in two ways and.

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And I'll let you know which one I favor.

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The first one.

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Is verses four and five.

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Talk about the, the way that wisdom

functions, wisdom doesn't operate in.

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This is always the right way

to act, but wisdom takes wisdom

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to know when to apply wisdom.

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So verse four.

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Answer, not a full according to his

father, unless you be liking yourself.

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So there's a time when you don't

answer him or you don't answer

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a fool according to his folly.

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There is a time though in verse

five, where you do answer a

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full according to his folly.

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And the rationale is different,

less to be wise in his own eyes.

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So there's a reason to answer the

fool and there's a reason not to

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answer the fool and the truly wise

person will discern when to use which

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one it's like having a tool chest

full of different tools, different

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wrenches or sockets, or what have you.

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Uh, the wise person doesn't

just go in there, haphazardly

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and pull different tools out.

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You pick the right tool for the right job.

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That's one way to approach.

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And I like that one a lot.

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Second one is kind of, um, a slight

modification of that same answer.

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And it's the idea here is the,

um, there's, they're saying

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slightly different things.

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So verse four.

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Um, answer not a fool, according

to his folly, which is don't act

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like a fool in your response.

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Don't answer him in the same

way that he's talking to you.

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Unless you be like him yourself,

less, you act less, you play the

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fool in your response to the fool.

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And then verse four, answer a

fool according to his folly.

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So this is saying the

opposite of it, right?

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Let the full know his folly.

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Um, less, he think himself wise.

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So there.

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They're saying slightly different things,

even though they're, they're really kind

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of looking at two sides of the same coin.

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So I think both work, both

compliment each other.

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I slightly favor the first one.

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I think that it's just it's okay.

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It takes wisdom to know

when to apply wisdom.

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Would you add anything else to that?

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Pastor PJ?

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No, I think that's a good explanation.

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Uh, hold a similar position to that.

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So, yeah.

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So not contradicting.

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Taking a different approach

based on context, which right.

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Yep.

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Yeah.

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Verse 11, like a dog that returns to his

vomit is a fool who repeats his folly.

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That gross.

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That is gross.

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That is gross and true dogs.

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Do this.

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And I've seen it.

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I have to.

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It's fascinating.

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I had a gross.

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Yeah.

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It's like a car accident.

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You just, you got to look.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, so interesting.

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None of us would ever do that,

but that's what it's like when we

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continue to get back to our sin over

and over and over again, because

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we don't see the true nature of it.

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Um, and, and that goes back to verse

28 from the last chapter to a man

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without self-control is like a city

broken down with left without walls,

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where he would never intentionally

break down your city walls and, and

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sit there vulnerable to an attack.

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And yet.

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That's what we do when

we continue to go to sin.

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And this is what verse

11 is talking about.

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When we continue to go to our sanity.

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It's as gross and into testable as.

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A fool that that are like a

dog returning to its vomit.

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Um, Verse 12.

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Do you see a man who is

wise in his own eyes?

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There's more hope for a fool than for him.

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The humility that needs to be

accompanying a believer or somebody

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who's a follower of Jesus to know.

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And there's a, there's a limit to my

wisdom and I need a lot of, of other

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people in my life to help me and two.

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Uh, teach me and to guide me to lead me.

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Uh that's that's a wise posture to hold.

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It reminds me of chapter three.

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I don't know if you guys remember reading

this, but verses seven and eight, be.

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Be not wise in your own eyes,

fear the Lord turn away from evil.

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It will be healing to your flesh

and refreshment to your bones.

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There is.

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Great practical benefit to being wise.

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And part of that wisdom is to not

trust in your own perception, your

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own, uh, your own idea of what's right.

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And what's wrong.

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This is what makes wisdom so good.

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Is that it takes us outside of ourselves

and taps into God's eternal wisdom to

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say, God, what do you think about this?

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And it's always going to be better to

say the Lord, you know, better than I do.

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And I'm going to trust what you

say as opposed to trusting my own

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inclination, which is often dangerous.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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How about, uh, verse 20 for lack of

wood, the fire goes out and where

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there's no whisper core link ceases.

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Verse 21 is charcoal to hot

embers and wood to fire.

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So it was a quarrelsome

man for kindling strife.

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In other words, Hey, look, you have

the power to put an end to fighting.

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We've talked about this

before we talked about it.

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As we talked through

Proverbs 18, I believe.

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Um, we have the ability to put an end

to strife and everything else that the

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core link to fighting the argumentation.

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Uh, if, if we'll not give it

fuel, if we won't add fuel to the

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fire, we can diffuse the tension.

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Hmm.

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Help me, uh, cause there's a

verse here that someone might take

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and say, ah, look, look at this.

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Verse 17, whoever metals

and a quarrel, not his own.

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Is like one who takes a

passing dog by the ear.

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So it seems to suggest.

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My drone business.

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Just to get to yourself, you know,

and just kind of walk straight ahead.

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Don't, don't concern yourself

with other people's things.

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Is this something that you would say.

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Is a, is a, is the right

principle to take from that.

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I, I, I don't know.

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What are your thoughts on that?

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I was not a gotcha.

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Okay.

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So I, I would say that that's a qualified.

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Yeah.

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So.

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And again, it takes wisdom

to, to apply wisdom.

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This is one of those areas where I

would say, yeah, generally speaking.

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Uh, mind your business, but don't, don't

put yourself, don't insert yourself

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in someone's arguments or quarrel

that that's unwise generally speaking.

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But I was thinking about the TV show.

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Do you remember that one?

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Whereas a what, what, what would you do?

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And there was that a, that guy that.

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I forget his name.

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I'm sure there's some people who

know that the shoe I'm talking about,

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but anyway, they would put hidden

cameras and they would, they would

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put people in situations where like

there's a guy abusing a woman and.

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They would watch Passerbuys

and see what they do.

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Yeah.

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Well, and that situation,

I think righteousness would

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demand that someone intervene.

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If I saw a man beating on a woman.

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I would intervene.

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Even if I, even if I suspected

the woman was the aggressor,

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I was still stop it because I

don't think that's a right thing.

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In that situation, then this

proverb would make the most sense.

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I would say this problem does not

apply to that situation because that's

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where righteousness is involved.

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I think this is more talking about

the person who just has a tendency

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to get involved in everyone's drunk.

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I want to talk about this.

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I want to be engaged with that.

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I want, I want the scuttlebutt, what's

this got a butter, this situation.

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I think it's talking to that person,

not to the person who seeks to apply

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justice to the world around them.

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Christians are meant to be

salt and light, which includes.

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When appropriate getting involved in.

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Uh, I don't know what the drama,

when you're seeing something go down.

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That gets tricky when you're

watching a robbery take place.

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If you see a guy with a

gun and there's a robbery.

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Um, You know, let wisdom determine

when to apply that wisdom, but I

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that's what I wanted to clarify.

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Yeah.

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And I think that's true.

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And I think this is applying to the

Medlar that the one that wants to be in

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everybody's drama, because we even see

that, I mean, verses 20 and 21 that I

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just read, but even verse 22, the words

of a whisper, like delicious morsels, that

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person that just wants the inside scoop.

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Yeah, it's, they're feeding on

these, the scuttlebutt, right?

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That's so I think that's, what's, what's

in view here, but I agree with you.

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There are times that as believers,

we do need to step up and intervene.

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It takes wisdom to apply wisdom.

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It does.

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It does.

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Speaking of which keep her in your Bibles.

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And how about you, uh, come

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