00:00 D-Day
00:42 Modern Warfare and Technological Advances
02:58 AI and Its Implications
06:46 Proverbs: Wisdom and Insights
10:40 Proverbs 11: Pride, Humility, and Righteousness
13:04 Proverbs 12: Discipline, Kindness, and Wisdom
19:25 Conclusion and Prayer
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Everybody welcome back to another
edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.
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:Hello.
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:It is Friday, June 6th, 1944.
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:Nope, that was a long
time ago, but significant.
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:Because it is D-Day and today is our
day that we set aside to remember
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:the invasion of the beaches there
in Normandy, France which really
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:set up a big shift in World War ii.
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:And man, there, there's a lot that
has been published about this.
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:A lot of YouTube history channels
that are so good that, that do a lot
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:of videos on this Band of Brothers.
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:The series that was put out there
was done about the airbornes.
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:Troops that went in behind enemy
lines, even before the ships landed
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:and helped to clear out some of
the German artillery and things.
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:But yeah, significant day.
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:And even this morning, yes, as I record,
so Thursday morning, Mueller was talking
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:about the strike that was carried out
by Ukraine on these Russian bombers.
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:And just how warfare has changed so much.
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:And it's now you've got these unmanned
aerial vehicles that are carrying out
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:these strikes and launching these strikes.
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:And it used to be war meant we're putting
the resources of human beings on the line.
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:And now that's still happening.
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:This war in Russian Ukraine has cost
the lives of over a million people now.
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:But.
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:It's also if this happened today,
this would never happen this way.
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:You would have these drones
go in and clear people out and
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:other things happen in that way.
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:And on the one hand it does spare
some lives, but on the other hand,
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:it really distorts the perversions
and the atrocities of war because
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:you don't have to see it anymore.
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:You've got a guy in a joystick
that's sitting in a room that's
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:flying this this mission instead of.
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:Your 18-year-old sons that are out
there, as these boats are hitting
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:and the doors are opening up and
bullets are flying all over the place.
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:It's a different generation for sure.
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:And I'm not speaking of that as one
that's experienced this, that my
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:generation has been a generation of peace.
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:Your generation by and large PR
has been a generation of peace as
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:far as our country is concerned.
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:There have been wars that have
been fought, but nothing that, that
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:hit this way, the way it did for
the, I think this is the greatest
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:generation, is what they refer to
them as that fought during World War.
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:Two.
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:Yeah.
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:With good cause they're called that
we live in a different timeframe
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:and in fact, I would imagine that
warfare is gonna look dramatically
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:different in the coming years.
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:So much more so will be done virtually
and digitally versus in person
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:and physically as we were used to.
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:So gone of the glory days of what
warfare used to look like, at least for.
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:The more developed nations.
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:I know Ukraine and Russia are
having their own problems, but
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:to your point, that was done.
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:They're offensive against some
of their bombers was through
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:drones, which is again, some kid
on a joystick, which is amazing.
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:You tell your kids all the
time, like video games aren't
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:gonna do anything for you.
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:But unless they're in the military and
they're operating a drone, perhaps it
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:could, but even that will become obsolete
fairly quickly with the advent of ai.
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:Yeah.
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:It'll become a much more programming
oriented mission as opposed to someone.
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:Manually controlling a thing
via a joystick of sorts.
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:So we are only on the precipice,
the very cusp of a dramatic shift in
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:how we understand war and warfare.
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:Speaking of ai, did you see Gavin
Orland's video that he released recently?
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:It's queued up in my podcast.
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:Yeah.
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:I have not gotten to it yet.
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:I have 30 podcasts queued up at any
time, and so I'll see one and I saw his,
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:I'm like, oh, I wanna listen to that.
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:But right now I'm listening to.
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:A podcast about facial recognition and
why some people are terrible at it.
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:By the way, I'm really bad at it,
which is why I'm like, oh, I wanna
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:know why I'm bad at this thing.
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:Anyway, so I'm listening to that.
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:But his is at one, two, there's three
down, and I've got, I got that one ready.
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:I scrubbed through some of it and
listened to some of it on the way it's
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:interesting and you've got obviously the.
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:The keyboard warriors in the
comment section that are like,
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:I work in AI and there's no way
this is gonna happen, and no way.
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:Oh, totally.
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:The people are commenting on his
video and saying, I don't believe him.
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:Yeah.
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:Don't ignore, ignore this.
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:This isn't actually
gonna happen and stuff.
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:I don't believe them.
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:Anyone who knows anything about AI is
sounding the alarm and that ought to give
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:all of us who are not AI enthusiasts.
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:Great.
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:Cause for alarm as well.
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:Totally.
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:No one is.
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:Is neutral about it, right?
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:Everyone is saying we're in a very
precarious spot because we don't know how
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:it works and we don't know where it goes.
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:This podcast as you'll find out,
one of the things that they talk
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:about as a harbinger of the Times
is they believe that by:
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:gonna have AI robot plumbers.
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:That are gonna be showing up to take
care of the clog in your toilet at your
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:house or clear the sink out or whatever.
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:And it's talking about, from
the economy, what's AI gonna do,
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:it's gonna take away these jobs.
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:And you've got plumbers that are
like, they're never gonna take my job.
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:They can't do it the same
way, and everything else.
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:And there's probably truth
to that, but, some truth.
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:It's fascinating.
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:You know who loves AI at our church?
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:Who is the biggest proponent?
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:I think even more than you.
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:No, even more than you.
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:This, the name's gonna shock you.
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:You ready?
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:Let me guess.
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:Annie Burner.
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:No.
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:Dan Mayer.
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:Dan Mayer.
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:Dan is ready to have ai, everything.
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:He wants the.
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:Robot Butler.
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:He wants them made.
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:Oh, up for that.
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:Yeah.
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:Yeah.
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:He wants to the microchip in his brain.
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:He's ready.
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:He's anything, AI, bring it on.
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:I want it all.
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:Is that what he says?
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:Huh?
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:All right.
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:Something like that.
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:Or AI is the devil and
I don't want any of it.
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:It's one of those two, one of two things.
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:Hard to know which one he is
talking about on any given day.
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:Yeah.
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:It's gonna change everything, man.
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:Again I listened to a lot of this stuff.
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:I've been following a lot.
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:I'm excited about it.
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:Yeah.
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:But I am hearing growing
alarm in those who are.
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:Promoting and encouraging.
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:Its utility.
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:So it's not from people who
are saying, don't use it.
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:Yeah.
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:It's from people who are
saying, let's use it.
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:But boy, Pandora's box has been
opened, and the way that you close
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:it is impossible Now, and again, to
reiterate, we don't know how it works.
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:We don't understand what's behind it.
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:We don't understand how it
comes up with the answers.
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:It does, which is shocking to me because.
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:The programmers are saying we have an
idea we're, it's a large language model.
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:It puts together words that seem like
it's the next logical best word for the
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:occasion, and it does a great job of it,
but how it does, what it does is still
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:a black box, which is amazing to me.
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:Why do we even bring it
out in the first place?
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:And from what I've heard is
because we don't wanna be behind.
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:And everybody's worried about that.
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:Yeah, exactly.
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:And yet one of the ar the points that
somebody made was, we can stop ai.
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:I.
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:But the ones that have the
ability to stop it, don't want to.
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:And because the, it's like
having nuclear weapons, right?
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:Nobody's gonna say, let's all destroy
all of our nuclear weapons and we'll
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:just get rid of nuclear technology.
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:Yeah.
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:You're gonna think no way
you someone's gonna use it.
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:Yeah.
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:You're not gonna destroy all
your, our enemies are gonna
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:use it if we don't use it.
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:Exactly.
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:And that's, they're saying that about AI
too, which is fair and I think accurate.
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:Yeah.
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:But it is frightening to think about
where it could go and and either
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:limitations are gonna be put in
place 'cause people are gonna come
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:to their senses much like nuclear.
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:Limitations have been put in place.
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:Or people are gonna say, Nope, hands off.
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:Let's just see what happens to this thing.
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:Unlike nuclear.
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:The common man has access to ai.
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:True.
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:I would doubt, and I'd be shocked if
anything changed in terms of man's access.
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:Seems like it's only gonna open up
more and more, which is why in today's
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:day and age we don't need more ai, we
actually need more divine intelligence.
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:Di ooh.
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:So let's jump into the words.
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:Is that gonna preach pj?
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:Huh?
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:Is that gonna preach?
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:It might, man.
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:It might.
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:Let's jump into the word.
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:Let's hear some di sounds good.
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:Proverbs 10, 11, and 12
for our reading today.
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:You're gonna notice a shift when you get
into Proverbs 10 today, and that is that
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:these are proverbs, the way that most
of us think about the Book of Proverbs.
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:The first nine chapters
are largely thematic.
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:You can look at each chapter and
determine what that chapter is about.
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:Starting in chapter 10, it's really
difficult to draw any connections
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:and have any consistent themes.
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:For most of the rest of the book
of Proverbs you're gonna find it.
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:Individual statements.
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:Sometimes two or three lines will be
connected in the same theme, but by and
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:large it's gonna be a statement here.
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:And then changing subject to a statement
here, and then another statement there.
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:And that's what proverbial literature
is, even in the world's point of view.
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:It's not long drawn out prose that's
geared at one particular theme.
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:It is more poetic and
it's wisdom literature.
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:It's gonna be nuggets here, nuggets there.
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:And that's what we find
here starting in chapter 10.
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:And so in in chapter 10, we, we really
probably for the sake of the podcast
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:I think we've done this in the past,
pr just kind highlight various ones
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:that jump out to us from each of
these chapters rather than trying
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:to summarize the chapter as a whole.
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:'cause again, like I just said it's
hard to do that for most of these.
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:It's, it is, yeah.
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:I, there's several that stood out to me.
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:I'll just, I'll stick with one and not
even the one that stood out the most, just
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:the one that I'm looking at right now.
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:Hatred stirs up strife, but
love covers all offenses.
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:And the reason that one stood out
is because it sounds a lot like
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:something in the New Testament.
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:I love the fact that it is.
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:It's obvious for anybody who knows
that things, anything about having
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:a relationship that it's easy to
get offended, to get upset, and
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:to let hatred create more hatred.
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:Somebody has to take the blunt end of
that drama and say, I'm gonna cover that.
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:And it honestly is gonna be
the one who's more mature.
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:Doesn't mean that person has to
repeatedly expose himself, but love
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:covers the offense, which means that
there's most of the time an opportunity
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:for you to say, this is gonna come
to an end and I'm gonna take the hit.
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:I don't have to have the last word.
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:I don't have to be the kind of person to
to bring up old news in order to throw
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:it in your face and use it against you.
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:I'm just gonna cover it and let it go.
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:I think that's great and
helpful and poignant.
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:Poignant.
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:Thank you, poignant for us today.
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:It never that, that never grows
old love covers all offenses.
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:Yeah.
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:In fact, it's similar to another
proverb that's gonna be coming up
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:either later today or tomorrow.
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:I can't remember about the.
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:Stopping the quarrel before it
breaks out the, like the leak.
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:Yeah.
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:That's a good one.
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:That's happening.
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:And it's the same idea there.
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:You have the ability to stop the argument.
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:You have the idea, you have
the ability to stop the fight.
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:And We'll, I'll talk in marriage
counseling a lot about being
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:willing to take the l for the
sake of the unity of the marriage.
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:Yeah.
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:And that's, you may be right in
the end, but you can take the l in
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:this one for the sake of the fact
that you love your spouse and you
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:don't wanna be intention with them.
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:And if this is not a situation
where you need to correct a sin we
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:shouldn't take an L and let sin go.
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:Go on, un confronted, but if there's
an ability to go, okay, you know what?
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:That.
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:Okay.
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:You can have the last word.
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:I don't need to get my 2 cents in here.
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:Yeah, let's just reconcile
and let's move on with things.
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:No, let hatred stir up.
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:Trife.
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:Yeah.
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:That's a good thing.
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:Yeah.
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:How about verse 23?
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:Doing wrong is like a joke to
a fool, but wisdom is pleasure
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:to a man of understanding.
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:I.
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:Think about social media on this,
our entertainment industry, so much
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:of that celebrates wrongdoing and
turns it into a joke and thinks that
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:is just about being entertained by
foolishness, by sin, by debauchery.
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:Instead, the contrast is wisdom is
pleasure to a man of understanding.
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:Even First Corinthians one comes
to mind when Paul talks about.
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:The foolishness of the world, right?
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:The folly of the world that they
wanna celebrate, that the wisdom
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:of God, the things that, that we
take pleasure in as Christians.
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:The world looks at that and says, why
would you ever want to go after that?
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:And you think about the
world's reaction to the gospel.
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:Not only do they think it's foolish,
but they'll think, man it's boring.
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:Why would you give up your
Sundays and go to church?
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:Why would you read the Bible?
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:I've never been able to get into that.
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:It doesn't entertain me.
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:Verse 23 is saying, wisdom is
pleasure to a man of understanding.
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:If you have understanding,
which we understand as.
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:Christians comes through the spirit
in dwelling within us, then you're
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:gonna delight in the wisdom of God
more than you're gonna delight.
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:Delight in the debauchery and
foolishness of the world around you.
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:Chapter chapter.
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:Anything else in chapter 10?
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:I know there's a lot, but
any others that you wanted to
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:Let's do chapter 11.
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:Chapter 11.
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:Chapter 11.
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:We we, again, same situation here.
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:And so we have a lot of these
proverbs that are laid out here.
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:One common theme that we should probably
deal with now that is gonna show up time
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:So look at verse two.
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:When pride comes, then comes disgrace.
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:With the humble is wisdom.
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:And so Solomon with his son,
is gonna encourage humility.
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:He's going to talk about
pride preceding destruction.
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:He's gonna talk about the prideful
man whose way is right in his own
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:eyes, but leads to destruction.
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:Those are verses that will come
across in the book of Proverbs.
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:And here's one in verse two, where
it's dealing with that that subject.
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:Verse four, how about this one?
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:Riches do not profit in the day of wrath.
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:But righteousness delivers from death.
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:Here you hear a little bit
of Ecclesiastes in Solomon.
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:Remember Solomon wrote
Ecclesiastes as well as Proverbs.
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:And so in Ecclesiastes, he gains all
of the riches that he possibly could.
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:He withheld nothing from his
eyes that his heart desired, and
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:in the end he said it's vanity.
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:And so here we're seeing a little bit
of that here he's saying it's part of
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:the reason it's vanity is because in
the end, riches can't overcome death.
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:Riches can't get you beyond the grave.
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:And here he's.
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:Specifically going after the wrath of God.
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:You can't pay off your debt with
God, with the riches that you
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:might have in your bank account.
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:Instead, you need a righteousness
which delivers from death.
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:And as Christians, we read that and
say, we need the righteousness of
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:Christ that delivers us from death.
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:I think verse 17, because it highlights
a Godly self-interest, there is such
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:a thing as a Godly self-interest,
and I think verse 17 showcases it.
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:Take a look, a man who is
kind, benefits himself.
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:But a cruel man hurts himself.
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:So it's almost as if Solomon is
saying, look, son, you could do things
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:a good way that are gonna benefit
you and everybody else around you.
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:Or you can be stupid and hurt yourself.
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:Which one do you want?
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:Don't be stupid.
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:And clearly you're right.
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:He doesn't want us to be stupid.
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:He's saying it's good
to be kind to people.
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:It's such a elementary, so basic.
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a lot of different ways.
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:It's gonna sound a whole lot like.
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:Proverbs, I think 15 one, A soft answer
turns away wrath A, a harsh word.
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:Stir up anger.
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:Here he's saying, look, if you're kind,
you're gonna do good for yourself.
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:People like a kind person, they
like doing good to a kind person.
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:But if you're cruel, if you're known
for being violent or aggressive,
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:you're the kind of person who's
always looking to stir up a fight.
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:You're always just trying
to do evil things to people.
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:You're gonna hurt yourself.
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:In the end, God will see to it.
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:In fact, this is wisdom, but certainly
it's also righteousness and that
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:Son, be wise and do good
to yourself by being kind.
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:Chapter 12, you mentioned the word stupid.
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:Here's the word stupid in the Bible.
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:Even though it's not a bad
word, scripture uses it.
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:This is one of those words where I would
say, look, there's a context to use it.
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:It's okay.
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:There's a time when, and it's
okay, and there's a time when it.
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:As other words might be, we classify
it a little bit differently.
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:We still don't encourage our kids to use
it, but we'll typically say if you're
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:describing an in inanimate object, if
you're trying to get out the garage
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:door and the door won't open and you're
like, man this door is just being
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:stupid, versus a person being stupid.
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:This is talking about a person.
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:This is talking about a person, the fool.
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:Actually, whoever loves
discipline loves knowledge 12 one.
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:But he who hates reproof is stupid.
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:And they're stupid because they're
not seeing the benefit of the reproof.
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:They're not seeing the benefit of
the fact that the reproof is going
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:to be there to make them wise.
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:And that's a repeated theme in the book
of Proverbs, talking about how reproof
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:is good to the person that uses it.
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:We were just talking about
this in the context of.
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:Of our relationship and just the church
culture at large, you need the ability
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:in, as leaders in the church to be able
to sit down with someone and say, Hey I
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:have a problem with what you just did.
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:And I don't think what you just did
or said or the way you communicated
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:that was right, and you need to
hear that and we need to hear that.
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:And we all need this in our lives.
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:You need to have somebody who can put
the finger in your chest and say, I,
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:I don't think what you did was right.
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:And if you don't have that, or
if you have that and you despise
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:the person who does that, then.
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:The Bible's saying you're stupid, right?
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:Yeah.
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:In fact here's one helpful note that the
NET utilizes, NET is a NAT study Bible.
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:Highly recommend that we like that.
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:It says here the word baar.
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:The one that's used for stupid
is also defined as brutish.
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:It normally describes dumb
animals that lack intelligent
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:sense or intellectual sense.
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:Here it describes the moral fool who is
not willing to learn from correction.
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:He's like a dumb animal.
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:So the term here functions as a hypo.
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:Catis.
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:Yeah, I know how to say that word.
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:Yeah, that one implied comparison.
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:So don't be a dumb animal.
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:There you go.
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:Be a wise God-fearing man.
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:Speaking of dumb animal, verse 10.
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:You like this concept, right?
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:Because you're often talking about how
we treat animals, but verse 10, whoever's
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:righteous has regard for his beast.
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:So I need to take care of my dog.
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:Patrick deserves to get a
walk every now and then.
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:Patrick.
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:Yeah, Maverick.
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:Yeah.
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:Him too.
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:Yeah.
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:Both of them.
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:Yeah, both of them do.
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:Yeah.
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:Yeah.
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:Just an interesting one 'cause we don't
often think about the Bible, talking
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:about our relationship with how we should.
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:Treat animals, and yet here
it is in Proverbs:
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:I think that ha, I keep on stumbling over.
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:Not stumbling.
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:I keep on spending time with passages
like that because I just feel
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:like they're so often overlooked.
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:And yet to be an image bearer
means to have care for the
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:things that God cares about.
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:And God clearly cares
about the animal kingdom.
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:I.
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:It says he closed the grass with
lilies and with beautiful flowers.
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:He also cares for the birds.
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:If a bird falls from a
tree, he knows about it.
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:He knows.
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:And so if God cares about creation,
I can't escape for the fact that God
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:expects us to care about his creation
as well, because it's from him.
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:We are his stewards, we're his vice
regents, and so he's given us dominion
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:over those things to care for them.
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:Yeah.
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:He created them.
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:Otherwise, if they, if he didn't
care about, like why create them?
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:If they were just superfluous and it
didn't matter what we did with them.
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:Totally.
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:There's some that are like
that, like mosquitoes.
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:I don't think, I think you
can slap those, are they?
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:Yeah.
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:That's a good point.
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:Yeah.
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:Some I do call pests and I
will gladly utilize the spray.
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:Yeah.
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:As necessary.
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:In fact, recently I found.
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:A wasp nest above my garage.
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:And like a man, I pulled
out that raid spray.
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:Just nailed it.
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:Nailed that dude.
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:Yeah.
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:You didn't know it hit him.
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:You should use the gas method.
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:Have you seen that?
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:The gas.
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:Oh, the bowl.
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:You put a bowl, gas, gasoline.
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:I don't.
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:And put it up and the nest
just falls into the bowl.
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:I saw something about that.
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:Does that work?
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:Have you tried that?
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:Nope.
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:Nope.
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:The spray works much better.
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:I think you should try it.
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:Let me know.
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:No.
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:'cause I can be 20 feet
away with the spray.
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:That's true.
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:I don't have to get right
up on it with the gas.
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:Hey, verse 16.
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:The vexation of a fool is known at
once, but the prudent ignores an insult.
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:And this is good and this is evergreen.
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:I feel like that because we're so quick
to be defensive if somebody comes at
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:us or does something wrong to us and
this isn't even talking about notice,
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:this isn't talking about reproof.
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:This is talking about ans insult.
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:This is talking about somebody
that's not trying to help you, but
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:somebody that's your opponent and
they lob an insult at you and hear.
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:Solomon says, look, you can be a fool and
vent your anger right away at that person.
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:Or you can ignore it and shake it off and
be like, I don't have to respond to that.
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:I can tell you exactly when a
lot of us will encounter this.
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:You ready for this one when
you're driving on the road?
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:Yep.
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:And you're not going fast
enough for the guy behind you?
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:And so he takes his truck and he
zooms by you with the obvious intent
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:of saying, you're going so slow.
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:I can barely stand your existence.
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:And so they drive by you
with aggression and anger.
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:Everything in me wants to say, I've
got four cylinders here, buddy.
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:I can't go that fast, but I try so much.
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:I tough to talk myself down from that.
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:You just calm down.
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:You got a church sticker on your car.
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:It's okay.
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:Yeah.
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:You can and if I am holding up traffic,
I should move to the slow lane.
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:Man, I takes, it takes so much
for me to calm myself down,
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:but man I resonate with that.
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:I don't want my vation
to be known at once.
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:'cause that's foolish behavior.
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:Instead, I wanna overlook the
insults of what that guy who
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:drove around me is trying to say.
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:Yeah.
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:How about verse 25?
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:Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down.
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:But a good word makes him glad.
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:I love this because it's a good reminder
of the importance of community for us as
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:the church that that anxiety is gonna be.
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:Something that all of us encounter in
battle, whether it's car troubles or
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:concerns about health, whatever it may be.
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:Work.
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:Kid troubles.
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:It's just you're going to feel anxious
and yet you need people in your life.
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:Health issues.
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:Yeah.
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:You need people in your life just like
that person that's gonna put their
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:thumb in their chest to reprove you.
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:Computer virus, you.
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:Ai, you need people in your life
that are gonna encourage you.
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:And that's what 25 is talking about.
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:It a good word, is gonna help that
person who's anxious and that good word
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:so often needs to be words of truth
that are pointing them back to the
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:realities of the Bible in scripture.
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:And so good wisdom there from Solomon and.
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:In proverb chapter 12.
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:Yeah.
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:We should be the kind of people
to deliberately say good words.
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:Yes.
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:We are just so quick to and easily
able to complain and to tell you
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:what's wrong with everything.
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:Have you ever met someone like that
who just says oh, this is awful.
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:That's awful, and they're
always raining on your parade.
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:Christians ought not to be that way.
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:We ought to be people of joy.
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:Yeah.
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:And that ought to be evident
in the way that we talk.
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:Yeah.
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:Randy Alcorn makes that
point in his book, happiness.
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:He says Christ Rainy.
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:Alcorn.
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:Randy Alcorn.
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:Randy.
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:Not rainy.
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:Not rainy.
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:Okay, Randy?
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:Yeah.
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:He says Christians should be
some of the happiest people in
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:the world because of our future.
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:Because we know what's secure.
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:We know what's coming, and so
part of our witness is people
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:seeing the joy in our life.
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:That's good.
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:So I Amen to that.
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:We should be, yeah.
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:Hey, let's pray and then we'll
be done with this episode.
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:God, we thank you so much for a book
like Proverbs that gives us these pithy
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:statements for us to hang our hat on to,
to digest, to chew on, to think about
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:how we can take and apply to our lives.
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:And so I pray that we would do that.
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:And we're not gonna be able to do
that with every single verse that
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:we read during this time, especially
as we read them more quickly.
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:But Lord, help us to pick one or two
and to think about how we can take
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:that and apply that to our life.
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:And so we do thank you for community.
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:We do thank you that we live amongst
brothers and sisters in Christ
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:who can speak good words to us.
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:And we wanna be those that do
just that for others as well.
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:So we pray all this in Jesus name.
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:Amen.
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:Amen.
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:Keep in your Bibles, tune in
again tomorrow for another edition
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:of the Daily Bible Podcast.
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:We'll see you.
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:Bye.
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:You can find out more information
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:you against tomorrow for another
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:Yeah.
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:I would agree with
everything that you said