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June 3, 2024 - Proverbs 1-3
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00:00 Introduction and Sports Talk

00:33 Baseball Season Insights

01:57 Football and Hockey Comparisons

03:15 Mosquito Problems in Texas

04:25 Introduction to Proverbs

05:51 Proverbs Chapter 1: Wisdom and Warnings

11:56 Proverbs Chapter 2: The Pursuit of Wisdom

15:07 Proverbs Chapter 3: Blessings of Wise Living

19:29 Trusting in the Lord

20:23 Conclusion and Next Steps

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Rod:

Buddy

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PJ: welcome to Monday's edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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Welcome back everybody.

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It is the big day in the big game.

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The big game.

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Yeah, baseball is God's favorite sport.

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How do you know that?

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Because in the beginning,

And to be ready for that.

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We're not ready yet, bro.

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Okay.

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Who are they even playing?

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They're playing the Detroit

tigers, who is that?

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They are the baseball

team in Detroit, Michigan.

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Okay.

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So basically nobody's well, we

were going for cheaper tickets.

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And so you kind of have to go when they're

playing a bad team to get cheaper tickets.

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All right.

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So they're pretty likely to win that.

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I hope so.

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I mean, Tragedy.

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They haven't been great the

season, but I hope they win.

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Yeah, it would be great.

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So they're not looking at

a repeat this year then.

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I don't man.

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Listen, I'm as, as true blue as

any ranger, sand is out there.

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It's.

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It's not looking great so far.

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Rod: How does that happen?

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PJ: They're the same team.

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Aren't they?

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By and large, they've been

obliterated by injuries.

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So, uh, So many of the, so much of

their pitching staff is injured.

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Their star third baseman is injured.

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They like.

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And I don't want to put it all on that.

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They just haven't played well

as a team like offensively,

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they haven't played well.

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They, they kind of caught fire in a

bottle last, but last season, lightning

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in a bottle, whatever the phrase is.

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Um, like they, they played over

their skis and it was awesome to

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watch and they were a great team.

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Don't get me wrong, but like nobody

expected them to do that last year.

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Wow.

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Okay.

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So, so don't expect to repeat this year.

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Is that your expectation?

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I'm cheering for a repeat this

year and I I'm holding out hope.

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Right.

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Okay.

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But, uh, but not likely, but it's, in

fact it's been, I don't, I don't, I'm not

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going to throw a random number out there

because it'd be totally unfounded, but it

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has been years since anyone has repeated

back to back world to your championships.

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Um, one of the hardest things to do.

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Okay.

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Um, you think about it?

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It's 162 game season.

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That's a lot.

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And to come out on top and then

to survive the playoffs as well,

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where it's a best of seven series as

you're going through these playoffs.

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You'd like that.

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Like, it's crazy.

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I like that.

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I wish I wish more teams did that.

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Cause then you would know these

guys are really the best team.

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Right?

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Well, every, every sport does except

for football, football, football

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is what I was thinking about.

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Um, Yeah.

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And.

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The hockey playoffs

are going on right now.

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I'm a big.

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Dallas stars, hockey fan as well.

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And that's that's.

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I don't know.

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I don't want to anger the

footballers out there because they

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get super angry really easily.

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They're they're kind of a fragile.

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But thanks for the hate emails.

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I'm just saying.

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I think hockey is, is pretty

physically demanding as well.

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And they still do a best of seven series.

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So the football guys, they need, they

need six days off in between games to.

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You know, lick the ruins and

put band-aids on, but yeah.

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Um, somebody's going to be like everyone

booked was Lucas 60 mile an hour.

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Car wreck.

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Look, I get it.

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I get.

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Just don't come at me with that, whatever.

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Yeah.

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Whatever it may be because I'm

a Dallas Cowboys fan and, and

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we just don't when things so.

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Rod: They choke every playoff.

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It seems right.

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They, they make it to the playoffs and

then they just choked for whatever reason.

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PJ: Right.

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What I've read

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Rod: so far, right?

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PJ: Yeah.

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And a lot of the blame goes

to the quarterback and your

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neighbor right or wrong.

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You should go talk to them on.

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Stop.

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Okay, quick call them my neighbor.

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He's not my neighbor.

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He lives in the same.

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Housing development.

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This is the Jesus moment.

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Who is my neighbor?

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Lord really?

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Is he my neighbor?

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Plus he slumming it over here

because he's, he bought this

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house while they're building like

his complex ass mansion in the.

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The boonies.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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So, um, Hey, it's still

been raining like a lot.

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More than I expected and

more than we got last year.

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It's been a pretty good season so far.

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Yeah.

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Except that I just am.

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Once it goes away, I think the

mosquitoes are just going to come out

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and they're just going to come at us.

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Rod: Yeah, they do.

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They do cause a problem.

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They make it hard to go outside.

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Even if you can tolerate

the heat or the rain.

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Yeah, the mosquitoes, they

there's, they're all over there.

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PJ: Yeah.

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I found some, the other day we

were out walking and they were out.

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And I was man, you are

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Rod: like a bird.

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PJ: So

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Rod: what's the best mosquito.

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Treatment.

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How do you, how do you guys

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PJ: handle that?

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You have one you can't.

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I mean, like if you call your, your

insect company, your pest control company.

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They'll do.

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The honest ones will tell you, there's

not really much you can do for mosquitoes.

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Like they can spray, but the

spray doesn't last very long.

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And then mosquitoes multiplies so

quickly that it's, there's not a whole

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lot that you can do for what's a bummer.

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Um, so the best defense is your

hand to smack them and SWAT them.

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And.

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It's a very poor defense or find

somebody who they like better than

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you and always be next to them.

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Take them with me.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, so.

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Uh, summer here in Texas.

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Great things, fun things.

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Hey, how about we jump

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Rod: into Proverbs.

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This is exciting.

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It makes you really pumped

to go through the, one of my

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favorite books of the Bible.

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It's just so.

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Everything's on the bottom shelf

and that's exactly how I need it.

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Yep.

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PJ: Yeah, it is that that's

a good description of it.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Proverbs written a majority of

it, at least by king Solomon.

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Uh, he didn't write the entirety of it.

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We do find some Proverbs

that were written by others.

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Uh, a gag is one I think down towards

the end is, and a couple others.

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Proverbs 31 wasn't written by a Solomon.

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It was written by somebody else.

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I'm Liz Lemons recording

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Rod: his mom.

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I forget.

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Yeah, so interesting enough.

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PJ: All of that to say, not all of

them are written by Solomon, but

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the book opens up from Solomon.

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And one of the cool things about the book

of Proverbs as well is it's written from

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the perspective of a father to his son.

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Uh, which is just awesome.

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One of the things that we are

definitely about here at compass

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Bible church, north Texas, is having

strong, godly men in the home.

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And, uh, you get an example of that.

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Here was Solomon.

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Writing these things to his

son, encouraging his son to.

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Uh, to obey the Lord and to

fear the Lord and to, uh, to,

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to pursue wisdom from the Lord.

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So, uh, pretty neat to see that

modeled by Solomon it's something

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that would be good for us, but

this morning we're in problems.

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One through three.

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I don't know that Rehoboam listened,

but he at least got the opportunity.

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True.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, well, and was Ray bone, the

one that was in view here who knows.

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Rod: Oh, it

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PJ: must've been one of the middle

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Rod: east.

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PJ: Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, he didn't, didn't do a great job.

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That's for sure.

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Provers one problem is one

it opens up and this is the.

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The chapter that lays out for us,

the purpose of the book there in

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the first seven verses or so, which

is to instruct in wisdom and yield,

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then a life of wise living, or to put

another way that the fear of the Lord.

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Uh, verse seven, the beginning

of, or the fear of the Lord is the

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beginning of knowledge and fools

despise wisdom and instruction.

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So that the parallelism there would

be then to fear the Lord is to not

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despise wisdom and instruction,

but to, to embrace those things.

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So.

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This is written not just to make us a more

skillful at living it, I've heard wise

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living his wisdom is described that way.

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It's skillful living or

living in inaction there.

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Um, it's, it's not just for

that purpose, but it's it's

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for the express purpose of, of.

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Increasing our fear of the Lord,

such that our relationship with

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the Lord would be better because

of this book than it would be.

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Did we not spend time in this book?

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So the opening seven verses there.

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So give us the theme

and purpose of the book.

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Rod: Yeah, don't forget also

some, uh, Proverbs nine verse 10.

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Um, so we just read

Proverbs one verse seven.

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The fear of the Lord is

the beginning of knowledge.

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And Proverbs nine 10, you have the

more familiar refrain of the fear of

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the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

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Um, So you, and you're at least

in your notes there, you'll

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probably want to connect those

two verses because they often are.

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They're helpful together.

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PJ: Yep.

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Verses eight through 19 of chapter one.

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Um, the instructions here from

Solomon go to the evil, the

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wicked that are out there.

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And he says this basically in this

section, which is to resist the

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lure of sinful company company

for its its end is destruction.

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Solomon does a really good job as a dad

and, and this is helpful for us men.

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Uh, to expose the ends of temptation.

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He'll do this a lot with what he

refers to as the forbidden woman,

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and that has to do with, uh, with

sexual immorality and adultery.

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Uh, but he does it here just in general.

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He says, look, don't,

don't go with sinners.

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When sinners try to entice you

and say, Hey, come with us.

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And this is going to be great.

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And it's going to be fun.

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He says, don't do this because

in the end they're really

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creating their own destruction.

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They're really setting

a trap for themselves.

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Uh, through pursuing

their sinful ways and.

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So he's, he's warring

the sun at the beginning.

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He says, look, Here's what you

need to do to, to find wisdom.

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Then he shifts and says, don't go with

the sinners because this is the bad

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way he's laying out the two ways here.

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And then finally in verses 20 through

33, he says, instead, obey wisdoms, call.

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Uh, wisdom is the one that's calling

out to you, beckoning to you.

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And she's the one that

you should pursue in.

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And the rest of the chapter kind

of goes into that and the dangers

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then of ignoring that call.

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So one of the things you'll

notice as you read through the

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Rod: Proverbs it's.

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It's geared very much

toward a male perspective.

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So as a female, Oh, as

a daughter or a woman.

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Um, how does that change?

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If anything, what does that change?

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And my understanding and my interpretation

of these passages and application.

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PJ: Yeah.

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You know, it's interesting.

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I think.

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I think there's less of a gap in

some of these issues that are being

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addressed in today's youth in culture.

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Then there was traditionally, I think,

back in the nineties and the eighties.

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And even before that, but this is

the air that you and I grew up.

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In youth groups and stuff, you would

have the split nights and the guys

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would get the sex talk and the girls

would get the modesty talk, right?

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Yeah.

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And I think that the lines are being

blurred increasingly, uh, there, I think,

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I don't think that that the one is as much

just a male issue that they're struggling

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with in the one, a female issue.

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So I think there's in that sense,

everybody needs these things.

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Everybody needs to pay

attention to these things.

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These.

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These, these trues are not

just true gender specific.

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These are biblical trues that

hold true across the board here.

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Um, and, and so I, that

would be my short answer.

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What are your thoughts on that?

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Rod: I would agree with that entirely.

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I would just say it's, uh, don't, don't

let the, um, don't let the leaning

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toward the son or, you know, your

father says this, your father says

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that don't let that dissuade you from

taking advantage of all that's said here

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it's, there's a ton squeeze the orange.

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There's going to be a lot of juice

that comes out of these Proverbs.

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And part of the thing that you're

seeing here is in the Proverbs,

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there's a, there's a, a literary

technique called concreteness.

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That's being utilized.

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Derek Kidner talks about this in his

commentary on these passages here.

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Concreteness is the idea that, uh,

they're using tangible and specific

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language to convey abstract principles.

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And so it, it wouldn't, it wouldn't be as

powerful to say son or daughter or stepson

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or whoever else, you know, labor's kid.

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He's just using the sun.

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It's, it's meant to convey the warmth

and intimacy of a familial context where

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a person is supposed to understand this.

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It's an a, in other words, this is

for your good, I care about you.

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I have a vested interest in your success.

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I'm not lying to you.

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I'm not trying to cheat you.

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I want you to understand this.

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So if you're a woman and you're

a daughter, you're single,

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you're not, I mean, some of the

stuff doesn't immediately apply.

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Don't count yourself off.

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This is very applicable to your

agent state, no matter what.

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PJ: Yup.

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Yeah, one thing here in chapter one,

before we jump into chapter two.

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Just that.

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To pay attention to you is, is

especially if you're somebody

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who's younger listening to this.

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Uh, there's this temptation to think, you

know what I'll really pursue these wise

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precepts in, in wisdom living or biblical

living, or I'll pursue my relationship

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with the Lord later on in my life.

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And, and, and he really warns

against such a mindset here.

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Uh, in the opening chapter in

verses 24 and following, he says

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personifying wisdom, he says, I've

called and you refuse to listen.

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I stretched out my hand.

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No one heated.

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And then in, in a pretty tragic picture

in verse 28, it says then they will

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call upon me, but I will not answer.

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They will seek me diligently, but will

not find me because they hated knowledge

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and did not choose the fear of the Lord.

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So young people listening to this, let

me just encourage you and exhort you.

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Number one, you're

doing great job already.

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If, if you are listening to

this and you are doing your

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daily Bible reading, great job.

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Awesome, indeed.

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But, but don't fall prey to the

mindset of, oh, well that one scene

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that I've gotten my life, I'll

get over that later on in life or.

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You know what I'll take my faith

seriously later on in life.

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Because the warning here

is it may be too late.

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At that point.

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You may not have that opportunity.

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So lean into wisdom is being made

available to you right now, by evidence

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of the fact that you're listening to this.

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You've got a Bible on your phone or a

Bible in your lap, lean into that and

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take advantage of that now, while you can.

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Today's a

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Rod: day right today.

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If you hear his voice in that heart, in

your heart, as they did at the waters of

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Meribah, uh, this is that's the constant

refrain in the book of Hebrews today.

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As the day of salvation don't

delay now includes wisdom as well.

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PJ: Yeah.

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We'll chapter two, we get into the,

the, uh, the focus on acquiring wisdom.

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Verses one through five acquiring

wisdom in the fear of the Lord,

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it is not a passive pursuit.

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So it's not something that just because

you go to church, you're going to be

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made wise just because you, you listen

to the daily Bible podcast, you're

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going to be wise just because your eyes.

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Uh, taking the word of God.

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You're going to be wise.

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There's a, there's an active

pursuit that's involved.

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We have to diligently pursue these things.

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Mind the truth of God's word.

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This is going to involve things like

meditating on the text, turning it

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over in our minds throughout the day.

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It's going to involve

scripture memorization.

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It's going to involve self-control

discipline, godliness.

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It's gonna involve all these

things that are going to really be

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what produces wisdom in our life.

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It's not something that you just turn on

the tap and it's, it's injected into us.

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And then we've got wisdom.

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It's something that involves our

participation in this as well.

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And that's what Solomon is encouraging his

son to, to make sure that he's, he's doing

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there in the first five verses at least.

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Verses six through 11, then we get

into the protection provided by wisdom.

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Uh, that, that wisdom is there too

to protect us verses 12 through 15

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from wicked men verses 16 through

19, then from the forbidden woman.

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And here's the first

introduction of this concept.

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Uh, the wise living is there to help us.

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Avoid what he talks about in chapter

one, the sinners who will entice us.

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And so if you want, like we talked

about in Psalm one 19, how can, how

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can a young man keep his way pure by

keeping it according to your word?

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This is a similar concept.

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The wise living that comes through

taking in the word of God is

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going to protect us and sanctify

us as we go throughout our lives.

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Verses 20 through 22, then we

get the outcome of the wise and

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the wicked summarized for us.

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Uh, the wise will walk in the way

of the good and keep to the path

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of the righteous, the upright

they're going to inhabit the land.

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And they're going to remain there.

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Think about Israel.

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Think about how important

the land was to them.

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Uh, for us, maybe there's the disconnect

there, but, but for Israel too.

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To say, man, I'm going to

be here in the land forever.

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That had such huge implications,

Abrahamic, covenant implications,

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other things like that.

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The wicked on the other hand, they're

going to be cut off from the land.

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And the treasure treasures

will be rooted out of it.

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That was a, that was a

terrifying concept for them.

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So that's another thing for

us to keep in mind as well.

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Rod: Yeah, I would only add

as we work through these here.

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Um, kind of experiencing it

with you guys as I listen to

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pastor PJ, talk through this.

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Um, some of you guys might've

read this over and over again.

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I mean, I don't know what number

time I'm going through Proverbs.

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Um, it's gotta be up there, but

as I read it and I'm thinking.

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There are things in here that

I have read faster than I

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wanted to, as you're docking.

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I'm like, oh yeah, I should

study that a little more.

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I should think about that a little longer.

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Um, so we're, we're going through

these Proverbs pretty fast.

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I mean, we're hitting

three, three chapters a day.

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And especially after we, after chapter

nine, Now you're going to see that

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there's a lot of short, pithy phrases

that you're going to read and be

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like, oh, I wonder what that means.

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And you're gonna have to.

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Um, just keep making progress because

you have three chapters to get through.

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I would encourage you as you make your

way through this book, this time around,

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maybe carve out a day or two, where

you can just pick a couple of verses

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to dig deeper in there's so much here.

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We're we're, we're just

skimming the surface.

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Yeah.

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We're raking the leaves.

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Uh, but some of this deserves some, some

good digging and I would encourage you if

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you have time and you have opportunity.

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Uh, this would be a good book to dig into,

at least for some of the one-off sayings

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that are going to be challenging for

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PJ: you.

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Yep.

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Yep.

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I would agree with that.

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Well, chapter three, then.

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Uh, we get into the blessings and

rewards of wise living, at least in

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the first portion here verses one

through 12, some of the blessings that

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he talks about long life and peace in

verse two, verse four favor with man.

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Uh, verse six straight paths.

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In other words, that that we're

going to be walking in the way

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that the Lord wants us to walk.

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Uh, verse eight healing and refreshment

in verse 10, provision and abundance.

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Uh, pastor rod talk about, cause we

see it time and time again in the

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book of Proverbs that the promise

of long life and peace we are not

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those that are ascribed to the

health, wealth and prosperity gospel.

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No, we don't.

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But the book of Proverbs talks about some

rewards, financial rewards, life health.

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How do we balance that with our rejection

of the false gospel of the health,

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wealth and prosperity theologians?

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Rod: So two things then number one,

remember that the original audience of

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the Proverbs is the people of Israel.

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They had some really concrete.

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Blessings that were contingent upon

their obedience or the covenants.

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Land seed and blessing.

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That was part of the promise that

God gave them if they were to obey.

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So this had a very

different effect on them.

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There, there was a real sense in

which their obedience to ya'll way.

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Would mean their financial

and social prosperity, they

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would be militarily strong.

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They would have a strong social unit.

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They would experience these blessings.

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For the Christian A.

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Day then we're, we're not Israel.

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As you've said several times

recently, we're not Israel.

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And therefore, when we read

these things, we can't take this

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to the bank in the same way.

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We can't say, well, God promises

that if, you know, train your

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child up in the way he should go.

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And when he's old, he will

not depart from a guarantee.

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This is going to be the way it

is even an old Testament, Israel,

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that wasn't always the case as

we're going to see soon with the.

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With the Kings.

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King still when a straight,

even their kids that were

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raised under godly leadership.

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That said then how do we understand this?

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Generally speaking, this

is the way life works.

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Generally speaking.

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This is the way God operates.

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That does not mean of course that God,

in any way, abdicates his role as God,

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he can always change the puzzle pieces.

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He can always.

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Uh, rearrange what's happening

on the play board, so to speak.

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And so therefore by and

large, you work hard.

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You're going to get rewarded for that by

and large, you discipline your children.

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They're going to be obedient, respectful.

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They're going to do the

right thing by and large.

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However, we don't live in a world where

everything's mechanical and formulaic.

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Therefore, as we read these, we

understand these not to be infallible

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promises, but general guidelines about

God, how God operates among humanity.

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PJ: Yep.

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Yeah.

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That's good.

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That's a, an encouraging

perspective to have on here.

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Verses 13 through 24, then we get more,

more blessings that are given here.

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Uh, Verses 14 and 15 there

there's gain and profit.

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That's better than riches.

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Um, in, in pursuing wisdom in trusting

in the Lord, verse 16 again, long life.

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Verse 17 pleasantness and peace.

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I don't know anybody that would say I

like an unpleasant and chaotic life.

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Uh, verse 22 license.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, exactly.

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Uh, there's a life in a dormant.

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Uh, beauty.

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Uh, in living a wise life verse 23 there's

security and steadfastness in verse 24.

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There's sweet sleep.

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In pursuing wisdom.

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And so Solomon is making wisdom

out to be something that is

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quite attractive for his son.

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As he's trying to exhort

a son, Hey, pursue wisdom.

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And chapter three is he's in a

sense, answering the question.

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Why, why would I want to pursue wisdom?

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And the answers are because look, this

is everything that wisdom does for you.

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And, uh, and that that's something

Solomon knew because again, Solomon

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was the wisest man who had ever lived.

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So he's reflecting on his life, his reign.

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Thinking, man, these are some of

the things that I've experienced

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as a result of pursuing wisdom.

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Rod: I think one of the cool things

is, I mean, some of the famous

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verses that we, we always quote.

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Verses five through eight.

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I, I find it interesting that wisdom.

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Is is not necessarily the thing

that you think is wise or right.

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It's what God thinks it's wise and right.

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Verse seven, being out.

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At wise in your own eyes.

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So Solomon acknowledges that there's a

form of wisdom or worldly wisdom that

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says, well, Hey, if you really want to

succeed, do ABC and D but he acknowledged

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at the same time that that's going to be

contrary to what God's wisdom says, which,

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which takes us back to the very beginning

here, fearing the Lord is the way that

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we pursue true and genuine wisdom.

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It's gotta be biblical.

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It's gotta be textual and that's gonna,

it's gonna fly in the face of some of

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the common wisdom that the world offers.

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And today it's a little more.

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I don't know, I guess, with

the, with the stoicism movements

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and, you know, the, the, I don't

know, the alpha male movement.

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There's a lot of.

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Proximity to biblical truth,

but it's not quite the same.

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It's not it's it's approximate,

but it's not precise.

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And therefore it takes even

more wisdom to discern.

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What about what this guy is

saying is accurate and what about

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it is not, what's not biblical.

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It takes wisdom to have wisdom

and it starts with having a fear

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of the Lord and knowing his word.

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PJ: Yeah.

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In fact, trusting God.

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Uh, is how this chapter ends.

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Uh, because we're supposed to trust God

as the chapter keeps going verses 25

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through 26 in the face of the judgment

of the wicked, that, that God is going

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to be the one that, that judges God is

going to be the one that brings justice.

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We're going to trust God verses 27 through

28 in expressing generosity towards our

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neighbor and not turning a neighbor away.

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When we have something in our

possession to be able to get

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we're going to trust the Lord.

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Uh, that, that he will continue to

provide for us verses 29 through 30.

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We're going to trust the Lord

and releasing offenses that have

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been done against us by another

neighbor verses 31 through 33.

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We're going to trust the Lord in, in,

in meeting out justice in his due time.

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Versus 34, 3 35.

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We're going to trust the Lord in

the fulfillment of his promises.

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So trust in the Lord with all your heart,

do not leaning your own understanding that

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the way it ends in verses 25 through 35.

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There's some very practical ways about

what that looks like to trust him.

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Uh, as we, uh, as we seek to

obey him in that regard, Amen.

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We'll keep reading your Bibles.

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Uh, tomorrow we got three more

chapters of Proverbs, so we'll.

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And tune in with us as we

continue the daily Bible podcast.

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I'll see you then.

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Bye.

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