00:00 Intro Things

00:03 Men's Bible Study and Marc's Pregnancy

02:45 Discussion on Breakfast Options

03:40 Diving into Proverbs

04:01 Spiritual Diligence and Financial Wisdom

05:34 Righteousness and Sin

06:23 The Company You Keep

07:17 Disciplining Children

09:13 Fear of the Lord and Devious Ways

10:14 Concluding Thoughts on Proverbs

18:07 Final Prayer and Farewell

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hey.

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Happy Saturday and men, we

hope that you're gonna be

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at Men's Bible study today.

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I also hope that Mark's gonna

be at Men's Bible Study today.

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Yes, we do.

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Because Mark is the preacher

for men's Bible study today.

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That's right.

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At least in theory, he is in theory,

but he and Julie are also pregnant.

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And as far as I know, last time

he and I talked, they're on

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the cusp of having that baby.

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And whether Mark delivers or she

delivers, we're not sure yet.

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I don't think he, they're both pregnant.

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They're both pregnant.

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I don't think so.

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Fuck.

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People take issue with me whenever I

do this and I think the two are one.

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I'm just saying what scripture says.

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They are pregnant together.

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It is as much Mark's baby

as it is Julius baby.

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Yes.

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Even if she's carrying it.

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But Mark is incapable of being pregnant.

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No one who hears that.

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Thinks that, I intend to say that in

our culture, that's not true in our,

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I'm saying in our Christian context,

the people that I'm saying this to

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are not people that are saying, oh,

is Mark identifying as something else?

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But we're posting this out on the

Innerwebs When for a Christian audience,

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for believers who are listening to it.

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But AI is out there, man.

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And who knows what AI

is gonna do with that?

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I'm I, just to be clear, I do not

think that Mark can have a baby.

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Okay.

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Unless you qualify a sermon as a baby.

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And again, to bring this back around,

I'm hoping he can deliver The baby

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called his sermon this Saturday morning.

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This got really weird.

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And if not, I'm gonna have to

deliver a baby on the quick.

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This is, this got even weirder.

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Yeah, so men, you should be there.

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This was at minimum to see either

Mark have a baby or me have a baby.

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Yikes.

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All I gotta say is this is

really inconsiderate of Julia to

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go into labor right around him

preaching in men's Bible study.

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She ought to be confronted

is what I think.

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I think so too.

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I'm just gonna say let's be gracious.

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Let's confront her after she has the baby.

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Because we value our lives well on that.

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Yeah.

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Among many things.

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Yeah.

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If she's incapacitated, maybe at the

hospital when she's holding Warren in

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her arms, we could say, Hey, it was

really inconsiderate for you to do this.

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We really have appreciated.

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If you did this at a different

time, especially if she has like IVs

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and then she can't come after us.

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Exactly.

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Yeah.

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She's bedridden for a few days.

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Yeah.

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Actually, I wouldn't be

surprised if Julie's I got this.

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Hold this baby for me.

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Mark gets up.

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Works you over.

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We'll send Louis.

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Oh, okay.

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Anyways, yeah, no, man.

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We want you there on Saturday

for men's Bible study.

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Today for men's Bible study.

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Should be a great time as we continue

our study of the qualifications

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of a godly man, which are yes,

the qualifications of an elder.

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But again, as you've heard us say

multiple times that we believe

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these are qualifications that.

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Every man of God should be striving

after and to exemplify in their lives.

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Some character related ones, I think

that Mark is gonna be covering or

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you're gonna be covering today.

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One of us will one of us will.

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And it should be a, a good time and

good discussion afterwards oh, for sure.

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Yeah, I was just talking to

Mark about these qualities.

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They're fun there, there are a lot

of fun to think through, to apply.

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You'd be crazy not to go to this

thing and we're gonna have some

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breakfast there for you, so please

register if you haven't already.

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We're doing breakfast burritos again.

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Yes, but not from Valerie's oof chick.

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Sadly not.

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Yes.

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Okay.

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I don't know if we're

doing breakfast burritos.

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I know it's Chick-fil-A though.

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Okay.

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And here's the reason why.

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'cause I know some of

you're caring about this.

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'cause I care about, I want

good food there too, right?

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There's, there are a few places

that are willing to be open

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that early for us, right?

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And since we meet early,

we need to have it early.

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It's just Chick-fil-A's the

best deal in the game right now.

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Yep, that's true.

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Jordan Low though.

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He, for setup a few weeks ago,

brought McDonald's breakfast burritos.

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Oh, they were good.

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They're good, man.

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They're okay.

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So McDonald's breakfast.

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Top notch.

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It's so good.

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I can't find a better breakfast sandwich.

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Especially the McGriddle.

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Ooh, no, that is so good.

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Sausage McMuffin with egg.

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It's great.

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No, I, yeah, a hundred percent.

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I love that too.

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Yeah, I could eat like

10 of each of those.

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Yes.

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So good.

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Yeah.

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And yeah, we shouldn't.

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Shouldn't do that.

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Yep.

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All right.

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Let's jump into our text today.

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We're still in the book of Proverbs,

and we are in chapters 13, 14, and 15.

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And if you were with us yesterday,

we're gonna embrace the same style

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here again, because we're not dealing

with thematic chapters, and so we can't

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say chapter thirteen's about the theme

and subject of finances and chapter.

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Fourteen's about the theme and

subject of, how to treat your

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spouse, and so forth and so on.

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We're gonna highlight some

nuggets here as we go through.

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One that, that stood out to

me in chapter 13 verse four.

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The soul of the sluggard craves

and gets nothing while the soul of

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the diligent is richly supplied.

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This is not just referring to.

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The desires, the fleshly desires.

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This is referring to something

spiritual, that there is a spiritual

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component to Slothfulness and there's

a spiritual component to diligence

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that is is worthy of our being made

aware of and paying attention to.

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We want to not only crave things

physically, but spiritually, there's

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something about that, that we have

to be careful against, spiritual

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sloth and and make sure that we are

pursuing a spiritual diligence as well.

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Amen to that.

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Verse 11 says, wealth gain, hastily

will dwindle, but whoever gathers

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little by little will increase it.

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And I think this makes a really

good case for slowly learning how

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to build financial discipline.

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And that would include us and

of course include our kids.

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Some people suggest giving kids

an allowance to help them learn

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how to utilize the money that

God gives them, but whatever you.

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Whatever you think about this, getting

rich quick is a bad move, not just because

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it's often accompanied by circumstances

that are risky and inherently unwise, but

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on top of that, because if you get it.

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If you're one of those people

that play the lottery and you

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strike it rich, you're gonna be

potentially qualified for verse 11.

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Wealth gain, hastily will

dwindle and that's true.

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Have you ever heard of the

lottery winner's curse?

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Yep.

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Most of them die and lose

it all, which is terrible.

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That's sad.

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We don't want that.

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Scripture's wisdom is, look, if

you're gonna have wealth, you

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need to learn how to utilize it.

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Need to learn how to wield the tool.

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'cause that's ultimately what it is.

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It's a tool to be wielded and therefore,

learning how to wield it requires.

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His financial sense and financial muscles.

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So verse 11, such a good verse.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Let me back up to verse six.

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Righteousness guards him whose way is

blameless, but sin overthrows the wicked.

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Notice that sin is the actor here.

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Our sin is that which reveals and exposes

us and brings destruction upon us.

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And so when we look at, and we talked

about this a little bit last week,

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again, when you look at that sin,

that at the outset looks so appealing,

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looks so tempting, we need to remember

a verse like Proverbs 13, six.

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That sin is that which overthrows.

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It's victim is the wrong word.

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'cause that makes us passive.

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It, it overthrows the

wicket, the evil the sinner.

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And so we need to look at sin

for its true nature, it is

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destructive and we need to avoid it.

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I'm gonna do what you did.

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I'm gonna do it even further.

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Chapter 13 verse.

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Three.

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You're like, let's go back

to chapter 12 from yesterday.

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We're gonna jump back all

let's jump's back even further.

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I'm just kidding.

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I don't wanna do that.

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We would be remiss not

to include verse 20 here.

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Whoever walks at the wise becomes

wise, but a companion or the

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companion of fools will suffer harm.

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Sounds like a good men's retriever.

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We should do this one.

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This would be good.

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Maybe a t-shirt.

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I would be fantastic.

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Okay.

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Proverbs 1320.

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Let's put it right on the front of it.

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Yeah.

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Green walking with the wise means

we become like the people that

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we spend the most time with.

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And so this is one of those verses that

remind us that who you give your life to.

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With your time, your energy and your

resources is going to inevitably

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shape you into a kind of person.

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And if you're with wise people, and

if you're with wise resources like

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your Bible or with Wise readings

from people who wrote about the

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Bible, you're gonna become wise.

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But spending time around the.

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The Companion of Fools

Becoming a Companion of Fools.

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And there's a lot of ways to do

that in your music, your podcast,

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your movie, watching choices.

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Spending time with fools will

result in harm to your own life.

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So again, Solomon talking

to his son, be wise.

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Spend time around people who are

wise and you'll be like them.

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Spend time around those who are

foolish and suffer, and sadly, you

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will suffer for that consequence.

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Yeah.

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Verse 24 is one that

is again, thematically.

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Gonna show up time and time again in

the book of Proverbs, and that is the

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subject of disciplining our children.

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Whoever spares the rod hates

his son, but he who loves him

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is diligent to discipline him.

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And this is this is one of those

things that's real hard for

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especially first time parents.

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Because that kid is so cute and, cuddly

and they're the baby for the longest time.

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And then there's that.

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When do we get into the stage of

disciplining them and what does that

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look like and how do we do this?

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Yep.

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Talking to new parents and others

that have said, Hey, how do you keep

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your toddler or the one that's just

learning how to do things from doing

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the same thing over and over again

when you tell them, no, don't do that.

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You begin to afflict and

inappropriate measure the rod.

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And that teaches, that corrects,

that disciplines the child and

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that is gonna, graduate over

time as that child gets older.

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And eventually you're going to even move

beyond physical discipline when your

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son's a teenager and it's too hard to

get him over your knee anymore, dude.

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But the point is that we need to afflict

some sort of pain because pain teaches.

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And that is a biblical principle.

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That is not something for us to be

embarrassed by, but it's a truth, it's

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an act of love to inflict harm, to

inflict pain in appropriate measure.

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To teach our children.

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Don't do that because it's

bad for you to do that.

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Yeah.

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You might have heard the phrase,

spare the rod, spoil the child.

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That is not a biblical phrase

in that's not the verse.

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This is the verse.

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Yeah.

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This is the one that you've heard of.

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At least people will truncate it

and try to make it more pithy and

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more proverbial than it already is.

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But whoever spares the rod hates his son.

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This is a call, by the way.

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This is what God does for us.

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If you're his child he

doesn't spare the rod for you.

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He disciplines you because he's a father

who delights in his children, and every

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father and mother who cares about their

kids will do this because this is what

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God the preeminent father does for us.

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So this is a loving thing to do.

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And that also will preclude then that

you're doing this in anger or that

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you're doing this because you are

frustrated or because you are embarrassed.

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This is an act of love for the child.

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Yeah.

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And not a, an act or a

reaction in anger or hostility.

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Yeah.

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Chapter 14, verse two says, whoever

walks in uprightness fears the Lord.

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We're gonna talk about the fear of

the Lord this coming Sunday, tomorrow.

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But he who is devious in

his ways, despises him.

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So two things on about that,

especially the second part.

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Here he is devious.

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That word means to try to hide from

someone's sight, to go off track

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something that is crooked or cunning.

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So when we conceal our sin or when we

think that we are sinning in secret

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again, we have to remember that the eyes

of the Lord roam to and fro the eyes of

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the Lord are always we're living corrum

deo before the eyes of God at all times.

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And when we are devious

in our ways, we despise.

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God.

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And I think none of us in our hearts

as believers would say that we hate

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the Lord or we despise the Lord.

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And yet the way that we act,

when we give quarter to sin in

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our life is to do just that.

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It's just to despise the Lord and

thinking that we are concealing

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a wicked or evil way from him.

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It's almost a double layer there

We're sinning against him by thinking

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that he doesn't know, and we're also

sinning against him in the act itself.

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And so that's a, a sobering

verse in verse two, for sure.

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Verse 12.

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There is a way that seems right to a

man, but its end is the way to death.

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This is why we do the Bible podcast.

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We want to know what God's word says.

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Oh, we don't wanna be entrusting

our own senses or our own wisdom.

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We don't want to give ourselves

only to either artificial

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or well human intelligence.

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We wanna trust divine intelligence

and we need God's word to do that.

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And the reason I wanna highlight

this well-known passage is because

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God says it twice, and if he

says it twice, I had to listen.

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Pretty closely to it.

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So you're gonna see this

one again in two chapters.

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There's a way that seems right to

amen, but its end is the way to Death

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is also found in chapter 16, verse 25.

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Yeah, chapter 13 is an interest, or

verse 13 is an interesting one we just

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talked about Chapter 13, verse 13.

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Even in laughter, the heart may ache.

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And the end of joy may be grief.

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Sorrow and joy can coexist in a person.

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And I think that just is a good

reminder to go a little bit deeper.

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You may see somebody at Sunday that

gives you the surface answer and looks

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like they've got a smile on their face.

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And I think it's wise of us to probe

a little bit deeper, to ask good

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questions, diagnostic questions.

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And yeah we should let our yes.

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Be yes and our no, be no.

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As we talk with people at church

and not try to put on a fake face

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100, but say what you mean to say.

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But John Mayer.

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We also should be willing to dig a

little bit deeper because sometimes the,

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what presents initially is not really

what's going on in a person's life.

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There are a ton of things that

I have in chapter 13, so I'm

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just gonna, or chapter 14 too.

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14 is what I meant to say.

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Yeah.

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So I will I'll stop talking 'cause there's

a lot here that I wanna talk about.

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There, there is a lot.

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I think it would be good

for us to hit on verse 14.

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Let's do it.

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The Backslider.

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How about after that?

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We do verse 15, 16, 17.

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18.

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18 and 20.

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Yeah.

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Since we've just been going in order,

basically just read the whole thing.

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Yeah.

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The backslider sometimes.

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Part of someone's testimony.

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We'll talk about, man I was

backsliding, backslidden 25 years.

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Yeah.

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For such a long time.

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I think it, we need to be soberly

attentive to the way that the

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Bible describes the backslider

and there's other situations.

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But look, just at this verse right

here, the backslider in heart will

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be filled with the fruit of his ways.

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A good man will be filled

with the fruit of his ways.

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And so here, if we think about

the book of Proverbs, the

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backslider is playing the fool.

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In verse 14, the backslider is

contrasted with the good man.

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In, in, in other passages, the good

man is contrasted with the fool.

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And so here the backslider is the fool.

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He is the.

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Evil person in this scenario.

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And his fruit is the fruit of

wickedness, the fruit of his evil ways.

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And yet the good man is contrast.

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It will be filled with the

fruit of his good ways.

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And so I think it's helpful for us to be.

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To just take an honest assessment

of the backsliding period of time

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that we will often attach to our

lives and be like, okay, were you

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backslidden or were you unregenerate?

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And because a lot of times there's that

moment that's after the backsliding

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that somebody's and then I came back

to the Lord at this moment, and that's

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when my life totally changed and I

was of a devoted fellow of Christ.

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It's or.

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That's when you got saved.

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And this backsliding wasn't really

that you were backsliding in the sense

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that you were still saved and drifting.

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It's, you were backsliding, you were

drifting far away from the Lord because

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you weren't with the Lord to begin with.

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And I think in verse 14, he's contrasting

the backslider with the good person,

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which would imply that the backslider is

the evil person in this context, I think.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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I think you and I are on

the same page about this.

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When we would take issue with the

usage of the word backslider as

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it applies to a Christian today.

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Sure.

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And part of the reason why is because

you don't see this in the New Testament.

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The word was distinct

to Old Testament Israel.

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The backslider was the rebel, the one

who was going the wrong direction.

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And as we believe in a disparate we

believe in differences in the covenants,

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we would say that the backslider might

have been a term that was utilized

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in Old Testament Israel, but you

don't see it in the New Testament.

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What you have are disciples.

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You have goats, you have sheep,

you have those who are on the

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right, who are righteous, those who

are on the left, who are wicked.

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And so it's a little clearer for us.

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Even though you might have a

period of rebellion that period of

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rebellion we, I would be hesitant

to utilize a term backslider.

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I'd be much more comfortable saying

You were rebelling against the Lord

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and whether that communicates you

were right with him and rebelling,

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or whether you are wrong with him

and just enjoying your rebellion.

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I don't know.

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Yeah.

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I don't know.

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The Lord does, but I don't think

backsliders a very helpful term.

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Yeah, that's fair.

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That's fair.

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There's a lot more to your point

in chapter 14, note in verse 21,

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whoever despises his neighbor

is a sinner, but blessed is the

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one who is generous to the poor.

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We're gonna talk about

that on Sunday as well.

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We're talking about justice in the book

of Amos, and so we're gonna be diving into

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a little bit of our relationship to that.

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So there's a little bit of a teaser

for you to show up tomorrow at church.

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In fact, we may even hit on Proverbs 1421.

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Certainly during your community

groups, you probably will.

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But yeah, there's a lot of good rich

truths here in Proverbs chapter 14.

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Any before we move on to 15 that you're

like, Hey, we have to hit this one.

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I tried to get us back

to 15 a few minutes ago.

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Okay, fine.

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Let's go on to 15.

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Pastor Rod's done with the Bible.

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He doesn't wanna talk about it anymore.

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There's so much to talk about.

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Why are you leaving already?

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Why are you getting up?

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Why are you so angry?

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Proverbs 15, one, a soft answer.

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Pastor Rod turns away wrath,

but a harsh word stirs up anger.

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Was that a soft answer

or was it a harsh word?

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I don't know.

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I don't know.

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I feel like it was an honest word.

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Yeah.

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That's harsh.

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Yeah.

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No, thi this one is this one.

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I, I.

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I think we all know this

by experience, right?

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Oh yeah.

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Even I think about customer service.

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How often does it really help you to

just go off on the customer service

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agent on the other end of the phone,

who has nothing to do with the

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fact that your flight got canceled?

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Yeah.

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And yet you feel vindicated and at

the end of it, they're super motivated

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to help you, and accommodate you.

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And yet, if you're soft with that

person, then it can, that old the secular

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proverb, you win more flies with honey.

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Then vinegar.

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Something about vinegar.

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Yeah, something like that.

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Yeah, something like that.

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Anyway, similar concept here but

this applies to relationships, right?

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Somebody comes at you angry.

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If you will be gentle in response,

you will often diffuse that conflict.

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Dude, I was in customer service.

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I was on the receiving end of that, and

so a few times I remember getting so

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mad with a customer because they were

treating me like I was the guy who was.

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At the heart of their problems.

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Yeah.

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One guy yelled at me.

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Yeah.

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Like he just straight up, dude, I'm sorry.

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Tore me a new one.

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I didn't mean it was, I was so mad

at faster PI mean, this guy that

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I don't wanna talk about 'cause

he might be on the podcast anyway.

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Yeah.

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Treat your customer service agent nicely.

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It's part of our witness.

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Even if they don't know that you're a

believer, it's still part of your witness.

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Oh man.

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Could you imagine if he was a Christian?

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If he was an elder at a church

and he is oh, I just ripped this

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new guy to shreds because I was

angry at whatever this thing was.

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Anyway, yeah.

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Yeah.

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That's a good one.

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That's a good, that's a good word.

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Hey, there is severe discipline

for him who forsakes the way.

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Whoever hates reproof will die.

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I love the frankness and the

strength of passages like this.

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They're so small, so subtle, so again,

elementary, but so pithy and so helpful

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as I think about the kind of direction God

the father gives to us as his children.

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Now, again, this is Solomon

talking to one of his sons.

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Maybe r Boem.

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Certainly he needed to

hear this, but he didn't.

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There's severe discipline

for him over sakes of way.

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So it's not just wise to do good.

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It's also protective.

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Again, there's a godly sense of

self-interest here that he appeals

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to, and I think that's really cool.

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Yeah.

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We've covered some of the ones

dealing with anger, like verse 18,

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a hot tempered ministers of strife.

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We've talked about these before, but

just to point out again, there's.

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Thematic things coming

through here, verse 22.

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Without counsel, plans fail, but

with many advisors, they succeeded.

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That just means we need

other voices in our life.

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That's how God designed us.

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He designed us to live in community,

to say, Hey, I'm thinking about making

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this change in this job, or I'm thinking

about buying this house over here.

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I'm thinking about doing this

over here with my family.

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What are your thoughts on this?

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And getting other people to

weigh in and help you see

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some blind spots in your life.

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That's a good and biblical

thing for us to do.

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Amen to that.

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If people are afraid to say things to you

because of your response that's on you.

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Yeah.

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You're gonna suffer for that.

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Certainly we need lots

more voices in our lives.

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Look at verse 15.

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Now, this one stood out to me.

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I memorized it 'cause I'm like, oh, I

just gotta, I gotta squeeze this lemon for

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all the juice that it's in, that's in it.

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Here's what it says.

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All the days of the afflicted

are evil, but the cheerful of

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heart has a continual feast.

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Something about the disposition of

our internal person, where even if

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we're going through difficult times,

we can still choose to possess a.

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Cheerful heart and therefore

have a feast in the middle of

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the desert, as it were, Psalm 23.

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Even though I'm surrounded by my

enemies, you prepare a table before me.

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You give me something to eat, you

sustain me, you supply me even in

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difficult times, and I think that's

what verse 15 is giving us the sense

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of God's providing, even when there's

challenging circumstances that accost

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us, and that's always gonna be the case.

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We're always gonna be either exiting

an affliction or preparing to go

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into some kind of affliction, but you

don't have to respond in that way.

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Let's be done.

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There's a lot more there, but we're

up on 20 minutes on this episode yeah.

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Okay.

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You kept on talking, so let's pray.

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God, thanks for your word, and I

just pray for the people that are

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listening to this and for all of us

that we would really dig into your

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word and mind it for what it's worth.

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And so we thank you for the opportunity

that we have to read it, to understand

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it, to understand about who you are

and some of your thoughts as we read

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the pages of your word in the Bible.

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And so what a privilege that is.

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And remind us of that every day

we pray in Jesus' name, amen.

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Amen.

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Keep in your bibles.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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See you.

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Bye.

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edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said