00:00 This Weekend

00:27 Marc Cogan Preaching at Men's Bible Study

02:44 Rangers Game Seats

05:19 Pride Month and the Texas Rangers

05:56 Daily Bible Reading: Proverbs 7-9

10:59 Wisdom's Invitation and Creation Role

15:47 Wisdom vs. Folly

18:40 Closing Remarks and Prayer

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hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello again.

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It's Thursday.

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Yeah, it's Thursday.

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And what do we got coming up this weekend?

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Just, we've got church again this weekend.

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Father's Day is coming up in

a, in about a week and a half.

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So if you've got a dad out

there be tracking that.

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I think they all do.

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It's June.

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Yeah.

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Not all of them are living.

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That's true.

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But I think we all have one.

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Yeah.

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Or not all are reconciled with their dad.

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That's true.

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Yeah.

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There's.

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Broken relationships out there and stuff.

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We do have men's Bible study,

speaking of dads that is coming up.

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Men's Bible study is a Saturday

and we have one Mark Kogan,

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who will be teaching us.

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I can't wait for him to

Mark Hogan, teach On.

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I can't tell you what he's teaching

on 'cause I don't have it in front

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of me, but I know he is teaching

and I'm expecting it to be awesome.

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I think he's teaching

on drunkenness, right?

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Isn't that one of them?

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Yeah, probably.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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We selected him very carefully for that.

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We thought, you know what, there's

anyone who has the experience,

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although, man, what happens?

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He said, even if Julia has the baby.

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He's gonna be there if she's

having the baby while he's

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preaching, I might relieve him.

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I've honestly thought Skin in your pocket.

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No, I would just show up and start

preaching just on the subject.

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Extemporaneous man.

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Extemporaneous.

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I think.

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Wouldn't that be so much fun?

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Because you would never do it on purpose,

but if the opportunity arose and let's

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say I'm scheduled to preach and I go

down and you just have to jump in.

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Yeah, I guess you could take one of

your old sermons and dust it off,

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but I think you might have more fun

just saying, okay, what's this text?

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Okay, I could preach this.

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Lemme just find a couple

things to do with this maybe.

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Yeah.

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I don't know, man, that'd be a

tight spot to be in for sure.

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Yeah.

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Let's see.

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Maybe this Saturday, maybe you

and I might be in that role.

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Maybe.

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We'll, I'll just jump in there.

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Let's talk about these three things here.

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See, and I guess, yeah, I don't know.

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I enjoy the interactive extemporaneous,

like I enjoy q and as and not knowing

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ahead of time what the questions are

gonna be like that, that, that's fun to,

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to think through things on the fly and

be like, okay, the Bible has answers.

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Let's go to the word and let's

think how the strings all

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connect and things like that.

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But yeah, preaching would be difficult.

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It would be more devotional.

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I think you just open your Bible

and start talking through it.

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Yeah.

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What does this mean?

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Or where we see examples does, yeah.

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For this book, the Bible, it

tells you, so there you go.

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There's your sermon.

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Sun Security have your outline.

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Could be a song too.

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It sounds like at the

beginning of a good song.

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It sounds like it.

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Not a drunker, not

violent, not quarrelsome.

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Not greedy.

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There we go.

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That's a lot.

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That's what he's talking about.

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Yeah.

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And then are we meeting in June?

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We are meeting in, or that is June, July.

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July is you, me?

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You knew that, right?

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Yes.

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I do manage his own household.

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Okay.

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Gotta make sure my kids are

in order between now and then.

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That's right.

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Better hope that Josh doesn't

set the building on fire.

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Annie's the one you really need

to pay attention to though.

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She's the firecracker.

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She's the, because she's

the one who's silent.

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She's in the background.

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Not ostentatious, not out there, but.

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Secretly I could imagine her

setting the building on fire.

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She's gonna listen to this and

be like, dad, how did he know?

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Yeah.

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Anyways hey, we've got the Rangers

game coming up next Friday too,

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so next that, that's right.

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I just saw Rangers game.

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Hopefully it's a lot more exciting.

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They've been playing better since

the one that you went to go see.

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I doubt it, man.

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No, they have, I was.

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Shocked.

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Appalled.

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I'm glad we went.

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Flabbergasted.

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Flabbergasted.

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Oh, so we were in seats.

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Get this.

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Did you know you were in seats?

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I didn't finish the sentence, man.

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That is bougie.

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I can believe you paid for seats.

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The, I put a parenthetical there that

you should have picked up on you.

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We were in seats.

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I didn't finish the sentence.

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We were in seats.

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Continue that I did not realize.

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Could not see the screen.

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Why would you even sell those?

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Because the screen, isn't it's not

360, like it doesn't wrap around the

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whole ballpark, so you No, but you

should still be able to see the screen.

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I would argue the screen is so important

to the experience of the game that

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if you can't see it, they should make

it abundantly clear on the ticket.

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You can't see the screen with

the seat, so were you Right.

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Field like.

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I don't know what seats we're in.

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Huh?

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Let me think here.

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So there's the, yeah, I guess

we were right field far, so as,

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almost as high as you could go.

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Okay.

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Like three seats from the top.

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Yep.

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It was section 3 24 25,

somewhere in that region.

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And so you could see the very bottom

most part of the screen, but that's it.

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Yeah, so I basically

useless and worthless.

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So I was thinking, you know what,

if we ever come back, I gotta make

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sure that I can see the screen.

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'cause that adds, I'm gonna just

say at least 25% more enjoyment

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to the game when you could see it.

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You'll be able to see

the screen on Friday.

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So you will be back and you're

gonna be able to see the screen.

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I hope not this Friday, but next Friday.

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Did you check it?

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I, based on that, I think we got the same

tickets we got last year, which are okay.

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Those are good seats.

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My home plate.

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Yeah they were decent seats at least.

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Yeah, I felt, man, I was disappointed.

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So a, after about the fifth inning.

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We scooched on down to seats

where you could see them.

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Yeah.

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And it felt a little guilty

'cause I didn't pay for

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those seats, but I did move.

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Yeah.

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If there was nobody in them okay.

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What's the rule on that?

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I don't know.

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I struggle with that.

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Somebody who shows up to a ball game

in the fifth inning yeah, maybe.

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Maybe you got held up.

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Maybe you got in an accident.

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Maybe you got pulled over.

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Maybe something happened.

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But by and large, like the people

that walk in that and they're

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like, oh, we're here to watch

the rest of the baseball game.

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And they're like, sipping on

their cocktails and stuff.

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I like, get outta here.

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You're not even a fan.

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Go away.

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Yeah.

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There's some, there are some serious fans

in our section, which I was surprised by.

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'cause they're the nosebleeds.

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Totally.

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But that's the fans.

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Yeah.

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Those are where the real fans hang out.

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Is that right?

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Yeah, because who else is going

to the boujee people aren't gonna

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go pay money to go sit up there.

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The people that care about the game

are going wanna go see the game.

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They're not gonna care whether or

not if you're willing to sit up

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there, you care about the product.

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Maybe or you're a family that's looking

to, for something to do during the

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vacation or your family or, yeah.

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Yeah.

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So I was the latter.

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Not the former.

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You're the family.

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No, you're a diehard fan.

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I know that.

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The, yeah.

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Below the surface.

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Hey, speaking of, here's a

connection to June, it is in

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our world's Eyes pride month.

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And the Texas Rangers remain the only

MLB club not to have a pride night.

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I heard that.

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Yeah.

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That made me proud of them.

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Ironically.

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In fact, even so Megan Basham, I don't

know if you guys follow Megan Basham.

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She's a writer for The Wire and

daily Wire, and she's featured

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prominently in other areas.

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She tweeted out recently.

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She pointed that out and she said,

I'm not even a baseball fan, but

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I'm buying a bunch of Ranger swag.

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I'm gonna start cheering for them because

they don't have a pro pride night.

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Wow.

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So there you go.

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Can't say, I agree with everything

Megan says, but I do appreciate that.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That's fair.

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That's fair.

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Alright, let's jump into

the reading for the day.

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Seven, eight, and nine.

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Alright, chapter seven, we have more

on the subject of sexual immorality.

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Pastor Rod, what should that say to us?

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That chapter five, half of

chapter six and all chapter

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seven, all deal with this subject.

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I think maybe it has something

to do with following Jesus.

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Something to do with

following Jesus In what sense?

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It's good.

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You should do the thing.

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Yeah, no, I just think it's, this is,

there's, Ecclesiastes is written by

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the same author, by King Solomon here.

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He said there's nothing new under the sun.

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And I think this particular area of

sin has been a pitfall for mankind.

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From the very beginning and.

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It remains that, and I think in Solomon's

writing a book on Wise Living to his son.

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Now, granted, maybe it's in here

as well because Solomon, this was

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a particular pitfall for Solomon.

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He struggled specifically

with this area of his life.

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And yet he's writing this book

under the Spirit's guidance and

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inspiration to his son, and he's

spending a lot of time focused on hate.

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Focus on being pure.

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You wanna live wise, live pure,

and I think there's something

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for us to take away from that.

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I, I don't know that there's a lot for

us to hash back out in chapter seven

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that we are haven't already covered.

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But this is a, another chapter that

it's putting the sin front and center

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and saying, Hey, pay attention.

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Be careful.

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He does it in a, the form of a parable

in verses 25 through 23 focusing

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in on the seductive dangers of.

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This particular sin and his conclusion

is that we should flee from this sin.

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But this is, again, a chapter that

is, is worth our time to read as they

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all are, and it calls us again to a

danger that is, in particular it's a

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grave threat as we talked about even

yesterday, that it can become ensnaring.

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It can become enslaving

if it's left unchecked.

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Yeah.

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I love chapter seven because

there's so much here.

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There's just it's dripping

with practical advice.

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So looking at the first five verses, one

of the things that you could be guilty

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of as a Christian is saying, yeah,

that's the right thing without having

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the right spirit and response to it.

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And so he says to his son,

dude, don't just hear my words.

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Keep them, keep my commandment and live.

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Bind them.

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Write them, say to wisdom, you're

my sister, that this is the.

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This is the challenge

that all Christians face.

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We know the right thing to do.

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If we're biblical Christians, we have

the Bible, we know what it says, and

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yet whether we do it is entirely other.

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That's a different question and a

different calculation altogether.

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Knowing the right thing and doing

the right thing are different

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things, and that's why Solomon

starts with this Dude, listen up.

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Don't just hear what I'm saying.

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Make sure that it's part of who you are.

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Make sure that you believe it, that

you buy it, and that you do what it

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says because you can give all the

lip service you want, but actually

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doing it's a whole different ballgame.

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And then he says.

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Don't be guilty of the young

man who is simple-minded.

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Don't be a young woman

who's just flitting.

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Flitter.

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Huh.

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Frittering, flitting, dancing about

whatever word you want to use.

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Twittering, Twittering,

X-ing, Facebooking about.

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And he said, I perceived among the simple

and the youth, a young man lacking sense.

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A young person who just doesn't get it.

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And how do you know they don't get it?

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Because they're at the wrong

place at the wrong time.

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They're passing along the street corner

near her street, taking the road in the

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twilight in the evening, so they should

know better, and yet they seem not to.

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And so this could be equally true for us.

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We're at the wrong

place at the wrong time.

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There are certain places that you should

not go because it's fraught with danger.

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There are certain.

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Places and times that you should not be

out because you're gonna put yourself in

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a situation where you're gonna be among

others who don't have good intentions.

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Have you heard your parents say, did

your parents ever tell you nothing good

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happens after 10:00 PM I've heard the

quote, the word people say that, right?

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That's all.

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Parents say some variation of that

because it's true by and large the

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kind of people that you're gonna

be around after a certain hour.

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It's just not helpful.

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People.

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Yeah, it's not a helpful place to be in.

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There's certain drivers on

the road at that time, and

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so the writer here, Solomon.

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It's telling a sun, sun, listen close.

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Don't go to the wrong place.

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Don't be there at the wrong time because

you're gonna find the very thing that

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your sinful heart could probably crave,

which is the kind of person who's

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gonna lead you in the wrong direction.

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So again this psalm rather, this

proverb is dripping with wisdom, which

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is why it's in the wisdom literature.

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Squeeze it for Ellsworth.

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There's a, there's more than

what I just noticed here.

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There's a lot more.

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So have fun in that one.

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Yeah.

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And.

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I think the other appropriate

response to this is the concept

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of taking heed lest we fall.

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If this is something that you're

thinking, I would never, or I could

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never, or I never have, or this is not

an issue for me, I think it's still, I

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imperative that we in, you say, okay,

how can I make sure that I continue

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to guard my way and guard my path?

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Because in verse 26, it says,

many a victim, she has laid low.

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And so this is not just a bunch

of stupid senseless people

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that are going after this.

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The act is stupid and senseless.

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But if you think that you are

above and beyond this, that this

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could never ever happen to you,

pride comes before the fall.

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And this is a particular area that

the enemy delights to tempt us sin.

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So be careful on that and stay

close to the Lord and far from her

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path if you want to avoid that.

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Nothing good happens after 10.

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Is that why we don't have

lock-ins for the youth?

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That's right.

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Alright.

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That's the only reason why.

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There you go.

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Okay.

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Otherwise we would, otherwise, yeah.

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Although maybe Lewis should have lock-ins,

I think we should start doing them again.

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For sure.

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Yeah, definitely.

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Sounds good.

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Alright.

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Chapter eight then.

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Chapter eight, the blessings of

wisdom versus one through 11.

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We've got wisdom's loud invitation,

and I love this because.

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Wisdom is not hidden.

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The wisdom of God is not concealed.

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And this is hard because

it is and it's not right.

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It is in the sense that second

Corinthians chapter four, it tells us

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that the God of this world has blinded

the eyes of the lost to keep them from

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seeing essentially the wisdom of God

and understanding the wisdom of God.

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But for those that desire the

wisdom of God, she is available.

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It is available.

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No one is gonna be able to stand at the

great white throne and say, but I never.

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I never could know, I

never could find you.

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You didn't make yourself knowable.

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I guess that's the thing.

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You didn't make yourself knowable.

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And that's Paul's argument in

Romans chapter one, that God has

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displayed his existence in creation.

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And I think there's an

element of that here in.

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Proverbs chapter eight in the beginning

here, that wisdom is not retreating.

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Wisdom is not hiding in the

caves and under the rocks.

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Wisdom is here and she is available for

those that will turn to her invitation.

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And her invitation is there in verses

four, down through 11 that she's

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calling and saying, come to me.

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Learn sense here for I will

speak and my lips will utter

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what is right and what is true.

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And so this is the beginning of chapter

eight, the the invitation of wisdom.

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Verse 13.

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I love, I just wanna point this,

someone one out real quick here.

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Take the take this for what it's worth.

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The fear of the Lord is hatred of evil.

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I love how polarizing that is because

it reminds us that to truly love

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the Lord, it does require hatred.

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If we truly love the right and the

good, we will of necessity hate

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evil, anything that threatens that

which is right and good and true.

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And so does hatred have a

place in the Christian life?

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Absolutely.

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It does.

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It's not toward people.

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We don't hate people.

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We do hate evil though.

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And sometimes those lines can get blurry.

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But ultimately our hatred and our

fight, as Paul reminds us, is not

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against flesh and blood, but against

the rulers, the principalities and

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powers of this present darkness.

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And so therefore one of the things

that you should look for as you

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mature in crisis, that you have a

growing hatred of that which is evil.

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That'd be a, that'd be a really good

sign as Proverbs eight 15 point out.

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13.

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Eight 13.

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So the statement, God hates

the sin but not the sinner.

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True or false, it's not entirely accurate.

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God has a love for the world in the

sense that God has made his love

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available in Christ for all those who

will repent and bow the knee to Jesus.

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But as we read in Psalm chapter

five, there is a real sense in

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which God hates those who do evil.

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They are his enemies.

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In fact, that's what Paul

says about all of us.

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While we were still

sinners, Christ died for us.

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We were his enemies.

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We were at enmity with God.

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We opposed God.

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All of us at one time stood in the

cross hairs of his righteous indignation

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because we fought against him.

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We were the rebels, and that's what

makes grace so amazing, is that he

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reaches out to save us, to renew

us, redeem us, and call us his own.

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Even while in the very act of our

hatred, he makes us brand new.

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That's what makes the gospel.

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Yeah.

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This is all part of the first

appeal of wisdom, which is verses

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12 there through 21 verse 17.

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Note, it says, I love those who love me

and those who seek me diligently, find me.

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And that's an encouragement to us as

Christians, that if you wanna grow in

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wisdom, if you want to grow in your

knowledge and understanding of the Lord,

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the fear of the Lord, the hatred of evil.

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You will give yourself

over to that pursuit.

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God's promise here is you will find

wisdom, you will grow in wisdom.

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And that's in, in verse 17.

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I love those who love me.

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Cultivating a love for the wisdom of God

will result in finding reward therein.

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After this, in verses 22 through 31, it

talks about wisdom's role in creation.

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And some have taken this and

tried to make this about Jesus.

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That this is wisdom personifying

Christ or Christ personifying wisdom

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eventually that, that, that's what.

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Is being appealed to here.

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I don't take it as such.

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I don't know.

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PR if you have thoughts on that.

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I see why people make the connection, but

I don't particularly make the connection.

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I think it presses it too far.

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And there's a couple things there

that you're, it is just hard

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to see the connection in that.

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Yeah.

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We would not be the first

to make that connection.

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Lots of people do.

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In fact godly men have written about

this particular section, ultimately

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pointing to Christ as being the agent

by which God created all things.

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So it would be true to say that Jesus is

the Creator, and you could say that the

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Father possessed him at the beginning of

the work and that he was utilizing the

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agency of Christ who do his creative work.

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However, I would agree that applying

Proverbs eight to Jesus is problematic.

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For a lot of reasons, but I don't think

you have to put those two pieces together.

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You can say in a generic sense,

Christ is the wisdom of God.

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And he used that wisdom to create

all things and that God the Father,

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used the agency of Christ to create.

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But to say that Proverbs eight is

a reference to Christ as a harder.

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A harder pill for me to swallow.

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Yeah, I would agree.

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Yeah.

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Chapter eight ends with a

second appeal there from wisdom.

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Again, it says in verse 32.

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Now, as sons listen to me and blessed are

those who keep my ways, hear instruction

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and be wise and do not neglect it.

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So again, a call here in chapter

eight for wisdom's appeal here.

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In chapter nine, then chapter Nine's

unique and it's unique because it

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sets up the call of wisdom against

the Call of Folly or foolishness.

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And the Book of Proverbs, a

lot of it is gonna juxtapose

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wise living and foolish living.

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And here in chapter nine, the first 12

verses deal with the Call of Wisdom.

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And you'll note that it's.

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Similar to what we've read

before, verse four, whoever is

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simple, let him turn in here.

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Leave your simple ways, verse six, and

live and walk in the way of insight.

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Do not reprove a scoffer.

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He's gonna go on and give nuggets of

wisdom there in verses five through

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12 that are part of wisdom's call.

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But then if you jump down to verse.

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Verse 13, the woman folly is allowed.

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She's seductive and knows nothing, and

she calls and notice in verse 16, her

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call is the same as the call of wisdom.

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Whoever is simple, let him turn in here.

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And to him who lacks sense, she

appeals to that one as well.

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So this is sanctification personified.

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This is what it looks like

to walk as a believer.

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You're gonna have the foolish call

every single day, and you're gonna

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call, have the call of wisdom,

the call of God every single day.

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And those calls are gonna.

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Sound both appealing and at times they mo

may both look similar to each other, and

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yet it's gonna be on us to do the extra

level of thought and processing to figure

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out, okay, where does this path lead?

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Where does this path lead?

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Which path is the right path to trod?

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Like we talked about, I think in

yesterday's episode, pondering the

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path of our feet before we make any

decision on where we should go so that

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we can discern, are we listening to

wisdom or are we listening to food?

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Foolishness and folly.

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Amen.

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And then probably the most practical

way that we can discern that is whether

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or not we are making it a point to

let God's word dwell richly within us.

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This is what Colossians chapter

three says, we're to let the

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word of Christ dwell richly.

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And honestly, I don't trust my mind.

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I don't trust myself because wisdom

is offered from so many different.

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Areas, especially today, we

have a glut of information.

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You can get knowledge and even

some wisdom from all the various

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platforms that are afforded us.

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Today, more than any other day in human

history, we can access the most brilliant

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and thoughtful minds that walk the planet.

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Not just in our local vicinity, not just

in our neighborhood, at our churches, we

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can hear almost anybody from anywhere.

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And that's a wonderful tool.

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And yet today, more than ever, wisdom is

needed to discern the good from the bad.

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From the ugly.

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Yeah.

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And so Proverbs nine is a warning for us.

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Wisdom and Folly both call out

and they have a very similar call.

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They both call to the same people Group.

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If you're needing wisdom, you need some

understanding here, come listen to me.

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And today you can do that so easily.

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You can listen to a YouTube sermon,

you could listen to a podcast.

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You can listen to an influencer

on TikTok or Instagram or

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any number of these mediums.

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And your job is to be so full of

the word of God that you can have a

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discernment filter that allows you to

take the good and spit out the bad.

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And there's a lot of bad.

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Yep.

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You must be filled with the word

of God to discern that you need the

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wisdom of God to discern all the

information that's coming your way.

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And now it's needed more than ever.

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Yeah.

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Let's pray towards that end.

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God, we do ask that you would give us the

discernment to be able to sort through all

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of the information that does come our way

on a daily basis, whether it be through

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social media or through the websites that

we visit, or through email inbox, or just

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in conversations with other people who are

also influenced by all of these things.

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God, we want to be discerning in

who we give our ears to and who

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we allow it to fill our minds

and influence our thought life.

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God, we know that so much

of what we take in impacts.

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What comes out of us eventually.

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So we want to take in that which is

good for us, that which is in accordance

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with your wisdom, so that we will be

people who can navigate this world in a

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way that pleases you and exalt Christ.

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So we pray this all in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep reading Bibles.

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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said