00:00 Introduction and Welcome

00:11 Rodeo Adventures and Mispronunciations

01:29 Rodeo Clowns and Their Role

02:19 Rodeo Clown Salaries and Bull Riding

04:15 Gold-Plated Tesla and Expensive Belt Buckles

04:52 Transition to Bible Discussion

05:10 Proverbs and Wealth Wisdom

07:45 The Importance of Wise Companions

08:38 Relationships and Influence

11:02 Finding a Spiritually Compatible Spouse

11:21 The Challenge of Spiritual Maturity in Relationships

11:50 Marrying for Who They Are, Not Who They Could Be

12:41 The Role of Trajectory in Choosing a Spouse

13:53 Discipline and Parenting: The Biblical Perspective

14:16 The Importance of Physical Discipline

15:09 Balancing Love and Discipline

16:58 Proverbs on Anger and Understanding

21:01 Contentment and Wisdom in Proverbs

22:08 The Dangers of Social Media and Anger

22:53 The Value of Thoughtful Responses

23:53 Concluding Thoughts and Encouragement

Hey, welcome to Friday's edition

of the daily Bible podcast.

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June 7th.

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That's right.

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2024.

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Welcome.

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Y'all come back now.

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You hear to the podcast.

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You know, it's not my first rodeo anymore.

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You went to the rodeo.

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I went to Salinas rodeo, which if you

see, if you look at how the city's

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name is spelled it's C E L I N a, which

looks like Selena, understandably,

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some people are going to say Selena.

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And some people have told me that

they haven't a good authority,

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that it actually is Selena.

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That's the way I supposed to pronounce it.

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But I can also tell you that's not the

way anyone in Selena pronounces it.

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So who told you this?

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Well, someone who said,

look, I looked it up.

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I asked a local and this person or

that person, Hey, actually, I've

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had two people say this to me.

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So it's more than one, uh, less than five.

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But more than one.

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I think two, probably two.

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I couldn't tell you who they were though.

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Because it has been months now, but

I've, I've listened and I've learned and

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I've figured out no one calls it Selena.

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Unless you, unless you

want to get corrected.

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Anyway, I went to their, their, uh,

Salinas rodeo, their first ever.

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So it's their inaugural, but it was in the

city of Parker, which just for your rough

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and dirty, rough and dirty estimation,

you're at about 45 minutes away.

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I don't understand that.

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I thought I was buying Selena rodeo

tickets that were going to be in Selena.

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That made sense to me.

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If I had known that they're gonna

be in Parker, I probably wouldn't

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have done it, but that set.

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It was so much fun.

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I be a rodeo clown.

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Now I am going to be a rodeo clown.

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And in fact, It was great,

except for that the rodeo.

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I don't know what they call it.

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I guess he was a rodeo clown.

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Mixed jokes during the thing.

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Um, Some of his jokes were off-putting.

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Well, the rodeo clowns are the

ones that distract the bowls.

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Okay.

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Ryder gets thrown off.

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Well, there was a guy dressed like a

clown who would make jokes with, uh,

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with the guy, kinda the MC he would make.

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Make jokes with EMC kind of in the

transitions or between different things.

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And so he'd make some jokes and they

were, I guess they were funny ish.

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They were family friendly.

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I'm using air quotes here.

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Except they were kind of disparaging

about marriage and, you know, I left my

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wife in the ditch kind of kind of jokes.

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Yeah.

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And people laugh because yeah.

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Once again, air quotes, family friendly,

all that said I didn't like that.

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So I could do that job and hopefully

improve upon the, the humor.

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But other than that, man, The, the

stunts and the whole vibe I was,

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I was kind of digging it, man.

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Yeah, no, it's cool, man.

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It is cool.

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So the, the rodeo clowns though,

so the ones that, so the, the

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rider gets bucked off the boat.

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Rodeo clown gets in there

and distracts the bowl.

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So the rider can get out safely.

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Meanwhile, bolt the bulls

going after the rodeo.

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Clown.

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Yeah.

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How much do you think they make?

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I looked this up cause

I was curious about it.

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Let's see, that's a, that's a

very dangerous job and typically

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dangerous jobs pay more.

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But it's only for a few minutes at a time.

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So.

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15 minutes.

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For one event, I'm going to say they make.

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Thousand bucks.

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Okay.

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So annually.

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Th those guys make annual.

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Oh, okay.

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I mean, how many do they do a year?

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What's the irony?

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No idea.

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That's important information.

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But this is like the PBR

professional bull riders association.

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So this is like the MLB.

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Yeah.

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Well, I don't know if the bull ride,

if they're clowns are, but this is the.

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The premier crop.

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Okay.

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A year, a year, 50,000.

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Uh, close 55 to $60,000.

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Okay.

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To dance in front of a bull

and be like, Hey, come get me.

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Instead of the guy on the ground.

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I do it as a side hustle.

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Dude.

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Those bowls are massive too.

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Are one of them look like Arnold

Schwartzenegger in his prime.

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Yeah, that guy had muscles upon muscles.

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I was like, how did they breed this dude?

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Crazy.

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The guy was just like flexing on people.

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Yeah.

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And why do they buck like that?

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Pastor PJ?

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Well, they do it because there's a strap

around their hindquarters and that strap

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is tightened on the animal and that

strap has some burrs in it that are

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less than comfortable for the animals.

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So.

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Right before they open up the gate, that

strap is tightened and then they opened

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up the gate and the rider goes out and

that's, what's causing him to buck.

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It really has nothing to do

with the guy in the back.

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That's why the bowl keeps bucking

after the writer's office.

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Right, right.

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Yeah.

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He doesn't care about flying, right.

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It doesn't even feel right now he's angry.

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So if he sees the rider after he's

bucked off, he's going to go after him.

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You were the one riding me, right?

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Coming after you buddy.

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But they have to go in and

pull the release strap.

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And that's what calms the bowl down.

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I noticed that that's really cool.

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I mean it.

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I was fascinated.

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I loved it.

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I was enthralled.

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Yeah, it's a cool thing, man.

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It is a really cool thing.

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I almost almost bought you a belt buckle.

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Cause I know your birthday's coming up.

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It was a Salinas in our group.

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Almost, I think it was gold plated.

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Yeah.

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I'm like, oh, this will be really funny.

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You know what wasn't funny.

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The price tag, 150 bucks.

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Funny was not 150 bucks funny.

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I was like, you know, it was funny.

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It's not funny anymore.

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Yeah.

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So we can have gold-plated I

watched a, or saw a YouTube video.

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I watched part of it and I was

like, why am I watching this?

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Jerry rigs, everything.

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They're gold plated.

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Uh, Tesla cyber truck for

the rage wallet company.

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And I guess.

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Just giving it away.

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$60,000 to gold plate, this,

this cyber, a lot of gold.

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I'd be afraid to have that part anywhere.

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Right?

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Like.

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Anyway, Hey, come steal this.

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Yeah, shoot me.

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I have money.

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Yeah.

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Whoever they're giving it away.

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It's like, what are you

going to do with that?

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You'd have to put it in a

showroom and, and lock it down.

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I would put it in my living room.

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On a, on a rotating platform.

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Just sell it.

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No, I'd put them on living room.

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Yeah.

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When people come over to take pictures.

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I agree to disagree.

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Okay.

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Proverbs 13 through 15.

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Let's get into the Bible.

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All right.

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All right.

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Again, remember we are in this

section where there's more of these

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assortments of these pithy Proverbs,

but not necessarily are they

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bound in any sort of thematic way.

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So we'll go through and, uh,

and make a couple of notes here.

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Look at verse 11, wealth gained hastily

will dwindle, but whoever gathers

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little by little will increase it.

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I thought about that.

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That's interesting.

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Wealth gained hastily will dwindle.

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Why, why, why would that be?

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Well, I think the answer is because

you don't really appreciate the hard

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work that goes into amassing it.

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Whereas, if you are diligent to work

hard and to save little by little,

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then, uh, you're gonna feel the, the.

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The hurt to spend that a lot more.

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Cause you know, the amount

of work that went into that.

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So I think this is just

wisdom that's going out there.

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There's not necessarily.

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Sinful, uh,

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Actions and view here, although we can

be sinful in the way that we spend our

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money, but it's not necessarily sinful.

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If you get an inheritance that you

might take that inheritance and go

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buy a house, well, that money has

gone to hastily, but maybe that's a

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good thing that you bought the house.

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Right.

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But you're not going to feel

it the same way that you would.

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If you were saving up for your

whole life to buy your first house.

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And, you know, all the hard

work that went into that.

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Have you ever heard of the lottery

at the lottery winners curse?

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Aye.

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Thank you familiar, right?

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The idea here is that by March

people who win the lottery, they

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gained this incredible fortune

in a short period of time.

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They all end up losing it going

bankrupt, and most of them die.

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Yeah.

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And that crazy.

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Yeah.

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The word, the wisdom of God telling us

why, why it is at least in part here,

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wealth gained hastily will dwindle.

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And part of the reason why is,

I think, as you were saying

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here, you didn't work for it.

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You didn't earn it.

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You didn't learn how to handle it.

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And so when you actually have it, you're

not gonna know how to keep it right.

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I think that principle and concept

applies to so many different things.

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I'm thinking about a weight loss surgery.

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I really enjoy, and it was

kind of a guilty confession.

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The my 700 pound life.

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And it's one of my things.

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I just enjoy it.

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I'll watch it.

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Oh, I'm fascinated by it.

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There's this human height psychology,

the way that they get there and often

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the way they get there, there's some

predictable patterns and it's really sad.

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So I don't want to bring it up, but they

get there for one reason or another.

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And, you know, they

weigh this many pounds.

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And so part of their weight loss

journey is that they'll go and

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they'll get this stomach tying

surgery where they have a very small

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stomach and they can eat as much.

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Uh, but the doctor is always going

to say, look, you need to show me

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that you're willing to do this by

losing the first 50, a hundred pounds.

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And many of them are unable

to, they can't even control

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themselves to do it for six months.

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And he says, if you can't do it

now, you're not going to do it

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after when you have a small stomach.

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Cause you can always fight against that

and expand your stomach again and be

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in the same issue that you were before.

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So the principle exists and

it's, it's helpful on a whole.

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A lot of levels.

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If you didn't work for it, you're

gonna have a hard time keeping it.

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If someone gives it to you outright,

which is why our kitchen work.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, that just, yeah.

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Kids should work.

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Yeah.

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Josh has a first job and he's working

hard at the summer months, man.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Great.

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Yeah, my kids still trying to get a job.

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Yeah.

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I think Josh is trying to

get him a job with him.

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Actually.

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It would be great.

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That'd be great.

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And also maybe a little

bit dangerous probably.

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Yeah.

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Hey.

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Uh, verse 13, whoever despises, the word

brings destruction on himself, but he who

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reveres the commandment will be rewarded.

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Um, and so there's a, uh, admonition

from the old Testament about the value

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of paying attention to the word of God,

paying attention to the scriptures.

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Uh, obeying it and not despising it.

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And there's a reward in

obeying the word of God.

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Uh, 1320 talk about 1320 per pastor rod.

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You've got the shirt on right now.

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Proverbs 1320.

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Talk about that verse.

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We love this verse.

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This is our, one of our theme verses

for our most recent men's retreats.

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It says this whoever walks

with the wise becomes wise.

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But a companion of fools will suffer.

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Harm, speaks to the importance of

relationships and the influential

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power that relationships have.

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Uh, someone who walks with people or

books that are wise will become wise.

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That's going to bleed off.

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It's going to influence and

affect the way that person thinks.

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Um, Conversely, the companion

of fools will suffer harm.

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Uh, the, the natural consequence

of being around people that don't

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love the Lord that don't love you

is that they're going to have a

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negative impact on your life now.

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I know some people are going to see

this and say, well, does that mean

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that I shouldn't be friends with

non-Christians that I shouldn't have a,

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you know, neighbors who are Muslims or

Jehovah's witnesses or what have you,

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how might you respond to that pastor BJ?

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I would say.

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No, that's not what this is saying.

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Again, the rest of scripture has

to help us interpret scripture.

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But what this is saying

is your closest friends.

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The ones that have the greatest

hold or greatest influence on your

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life, those should be believers.

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That's right.

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And I'll stand by that.

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At the end of the day.

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I mean, your closest friends need

to be people that, that are going to

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spend eternity with you in heaven.

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Uh, not those that are enemies of God.

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So if you have friends that are

unbelievers, is that a bad thing?

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No.

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In fact, you could argue, we should

have relationships with unbelievers.

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That's part of why we're still

here to be salt and light, right?

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But, uh, the, the go-to, those that

are, are around you and the Mo the most

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intimate companions that you have, the

ones that you look to for counsel or

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guidance, they need to be Christians.

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Yeah, I've, I've read the.

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It's just old saying, I'm

not sure who said it first.

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I'm sure.

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Someone way back when, but they

would say something like you are the

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average of your five closest friends.

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Uh, you, that you were

going to become like them.

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And I think.

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I mean life experience so far attest

to that being more or less true.

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Have you seen that in your life?

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Yeah, I think so.

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I think so.

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And that's.

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Probably what this is.

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Speaking of here, be around people

that are godly, high quality people

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that love the Lord that have your

CX both spiritually and physically.

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And try to minimize the you're being

around fools that are going to harm you.

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Now, I would extend this beyond people.

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I mean, I think about social media

accounts that you follow movies,

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that you watch, books that you read.

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There's so many ways that you

can be influenced by them without

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being in their physical presence.

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I think it's probably worse

today than it's ever been.

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Yeah, I think this also applies.

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To those, listening to this who may be

single, I'm looking at getting married.

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This certainly is something

to consider with marriage.

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Um, not just.

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About believer, unbeliever, certainly

as Christians, we are under a biblical

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obligation to marry believers that that is

God's design, that, that we would not be

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unequally yoked, but that we would marry.

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One believer, marrying another believer.

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But the second thing is too.

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Um, There's a level of,

of variants and maturity.

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That if, if you are a spiritually mature

person, the spouse that you are seeking

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should also be a spiritual, mature person.

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You don't want to marry somebody

who may be believer, but who is.

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Immature in their faith or even it has

foolish tendencies about them because

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they are going to influence you.

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Is that all.

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Youth group illustration of it's

easier to be pulled off the chair.

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To pull somebody up out of the chair.

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Um, and so, yeah.

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I run with the runners, that

whole idea, as you, as you're

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looking for a spouse in life.

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Look for somebody that's pace, keeping

pace with you spiritually speaking.

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And that's somebody that God

is bringing into your life.

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That seems like a really

hard person to find.

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I mean, I agree with you.

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I agree with you, but is there.

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I mean, is there an amount of

disparity that you would say is

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acceptable, like a plus or minus 20%?

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I mean, cause there's not,

I mean, For real though.

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It'd be hard to find someone

exactly where you are.

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Sure.

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Even within your own church, you're

going to have people that are further.

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Behind this or that.

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And by spiritual maturity, we don't

mean, Hey, they've got to know

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the, the doctrines of the tulip.

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They've got to be able

to define these things.

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But, and, and, you know, even

the world understands this too.

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Right.

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And, and ladies, I think this is

something that perhaps you all struggle

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with a little bit more than the men do.

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You got to marry the person that,

that they are not the person

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that you want them to become.

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And so I think spiritually speaking,

there's going to be a, a, a natural

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progression in spiritual maturity,

but you also have to understand that.

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At least initially in your marriage,

you're marrying this person as

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they are, and God may grow them.

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And Lord willing, they

will mature spiritually.

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But, uh, if you're looking at this

person going well, I know I love them.

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And, and, and especially we wrestled

with this a lot with college ministry,

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these ladies in, in college ministry

who were like, I don't want to date that

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guy because I don't think he's going to

be a good spiritual leader in my life.

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It's like, okay, well, that's fair.

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That's a fair assessment, but you also

have to, to look around and find that

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guy that you do think is going to be a

spiritual leader in your life and not

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think, well, eventually he'll be that way.

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Well, What if he's not.

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Um, and so.

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Yeah, I don't know.

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That would you say that

trajectory also plays a role too?

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Like yeah.

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Marry them as they are.

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Not as you hope that they

will be, but saying, okay.

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Based on what I knew about this person,

their integrity, their character, their

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patterns, their habits, their personality.

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It seems like this is the

direction they're going.

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And I want to get on that.

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It's kind of like.

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I'm marrying the vision.

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I see what you're selling.

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I want that that's the

direction I want to go.

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That's what I want to do in my life.

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Would you say that that

plays a role as well?

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Or is this something different?

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Yes.

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I just think it's

dangerous to, to prospect.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, I suppose.

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I guess what I'm, what, I'm what I

feel like I'm chafing against in that

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concept is that no one is static.

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Like everyone's changing all the time.

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Yes.

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And whether they change for the better

or for the worst, I mean, who knows?

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Right.

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That's the, that's the big question, mark.

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You ultimately have to make a decision

based on who they are right now.

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But I am saying.

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My best guess at where we're going.

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This is the that's the end point.

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I don't want to build a castle upon that.

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Cause it's sand, it's

ultimately my best guess.

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But at the same time, I don't want to

say I'm only looking at who you are

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right now without thinking what's this

going to mean for us in the future?

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That's fair.

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Yeah, I can agree with that.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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Chapter 14.

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Wait real quick, real quick.

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Nope.

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We're done.

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Whoever spares the rod.

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You just wanted to say, Rob, I did.

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Pause right there for dramatic effect.

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Yes.

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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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This is an unpopular one, but I think

what we hit on we've hit on it the

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last time we're gonna hit on it again.

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We got to talk.

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Let's give a few seconds to this.

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Talk about it.

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Yeah.

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Discipline disciplining your

children needs to have an impact.

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Um, and physical discipline I

think is appropriate for children.

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I think they, they understand that.

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And so, I mean, for example, for

our kids, we started, I think with

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flicking the hands when they were.

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Super young, they would reach for

something they knew they weren't

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supposed to we'd flick their hand

and they would feel the pain and.

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I know.

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Okay.

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I'm going to punch.

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Right.

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Little pinch on the tush, right in.

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And then it eventually

evolves to spanking.

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And that's good because you want your kid

to associate that pain with that action.

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I don't want.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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I don't want to sin

because sin brings pain.

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Sin brings consequence and

that's a biblical precept.

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Uh, they don't, they're not in

12 by the spirit at a young age.

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And so you can't trust that the

spirit is going to bring that

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conviction on their heart, but.

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Um, Much like.

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W like ourselves, we don't want.

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Pain inflicted in our life.

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So we're going to avoid

pain as much as we can.

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And so you can teach a child to

avoid a pain by avoiding sin.

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And that's a good thing.

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Man notice the way that, the words

that here, whoever spares the rod,

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whoever doesn't give it hates the kit.

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Uh, we often, I mean, I hate

doing this and I, I mean,

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we're, we're still got littles.

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And so we're still in the process of this.

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Uh, we, we do it in a way that

I'm trusting what this word

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says, because in the moment I was

like, I don't want to do this.

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Right.

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This is awful.

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I hate this.

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I hate this process.

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And I tell them that, like,

I don't, I don't like this.

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This is not something we want to do.

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This is that we're doing

this because we love you.

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And we don't want you to,

to think that sin in any way

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brings positive consequences.

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So for any of us who naturally are

inclined to away from this, maybe

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you weren't spanked as a child.

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I was spanked.

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Were you saying pastor PJ?

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I was spanked and I turned out okay.

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For the most part, except for the baggage

that I take with my therapist every

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week, besides that I'm just kidding.

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I don't see a therapist.

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But I was spanked and things are not okay.

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Am I, I know for a fact, My

parents intended to do it.

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Well, they did not do it well,

but I know they loved me and

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they wanted to do it for my best.

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And I turned out okay.

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Um, I remember that and I try to avoid

the excesses and the abuses that I know

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are possible in order to say, what's

the Bible, say the biblical pattern.

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And spanking your kids

is, is an act of love.

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If you can do it that way.

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Now, if you're angry or you're

feeling violent or whatever,

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you're, you're intoxicated.

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Hopefully that's not the case, but

don't obviously don't do it there.

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Right?

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You can do it wrongly, but loving

your kid means that you're diligent

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to discipline you work hard at that.

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Now, remember this is in the Proverbs.

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So that doesn't mean that it's a.

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Like you should do this until they're 25.

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Um, it takes wisdom to apply wisdom,

and that means applying this at the

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right place at the right time and on the

right space on their body, by the way.

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Um, we're we're in favor of the

backside where there's lots of factors.

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Yeah, that the dish or the Kush.

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Um, where it makes sense.

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Other places, the body is

probably not a good, a good idea.

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It becomes potentially if

not altogether abusive.

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So.

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Heads up on that.

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Yep.

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All right, chapter 14.

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Now we can go to 14.

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All right.

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Good.

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Look at verse two.

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Uh, whoever walks in

uprightness fears, the Lord.

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Okay.

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We get that.

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But look at the second part, whoever

is devious in his ways, despises him.

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I mean, our sin can convey that

we not only are disobedient,

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but that we are despising the

Lord that we hate the Lord that.

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That's waiting to think

of our sin that way.

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And that's, that's a good thing for

us to, to think rightly about CNN.

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And to see the ugliness there in.

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Um, Verse 12.

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There's a way that seems right to a man,

but in the end, its way leads to death.

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This speaks to the necessary

humility that we need to be able

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to say, okay, I think this, this is

right, this is what I want to do.

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This is what I think will make me happy,

but then we need to hold it up to God's

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word to say, is this the right way?

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And if it's not, then we need to

be willing to let that go because

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the danger is, if we keep pursuing

that and it's sinful, it's wrong,

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then the dangerous it's going to

lead to, uh, ultimate destruction.

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Lito ultimate death.

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Uh, verse 27, uh, The fear of

the Lord is a fountain of life.

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Just again, the connection of obedience of

the scriptures and the provision of life

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that's found there in its so, uh, helpful.

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Encouragement there.

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Uh, verse 29.

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Talk about being slow to anger

and our understanding Pescara.

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Being slow to anger and having

great understanding is good.

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You should do those things with that.

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Yeah.

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Is that what you're looking for?

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Yeah.

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Being slow to anger is, is such a it's.

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Repeated so many times in the book of

Proverbs and it's such an important

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thing for us not to be angry people.

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And I think more often than

not, this is something that men

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struggle with probably totally.

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Um, and there there's a book

to an acceptable sin, right?

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Yeah.

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Uh, Respectable sins.

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Respectable since there is outrageous.

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Uh, but there's another

one specifically on anger.

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Um, Oh, Bob Jones.

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Yes.

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Um, uprooting anger.

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Thank you.

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Yes.

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Great book.

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If this is an area that you

find yourself struggling with.

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Uh, I would commend that book to you.

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I think it's excellent.

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Maybe you even want to go through that

book with another brother in Christ.

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Yeah.

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Uh, hired sharpening iron.

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Uh, let me add this.

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I find, I find it very interesting,

insightful that the PR the proverb

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connects slowness to anger with

understanding that is you see something

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and you understand things that

someone else who's quick to anger.

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Doesn't see you understand.

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Your able to perceive that perhaps

the reason that you'd be tempted

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to be angry is because you're

not seeing the whole picture.

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And I think that's often the way

that anger works as it, as it kind of

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percolates in our soul, we're taking

offense to something we're seeing

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some kind of slight or perceiving in

any way that actually isn't there.

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We're just so short-sighted.

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And so, so small and our perspective

that we're quick to unleash on somebody.

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When in reality, if we would take a

few moments to think through what's

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happening and why it's happening,

we'd probably diffuse the anger.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Well, and that's the very next

verse in verse 30, a tranquil heart

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gives life to the flesh that, that

what you're just describing there.

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That's what comes to mind with that

tranquility to that, that peacefulness,

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that ability to, to take a beat.

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To evaluate things, to think through

things, because I do have an inner peace.

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I'm not churned up already inside

and in prone towards outburst and

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prone towards anger to begin with.

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Right.

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Yeah.

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All right.

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Chapter 15.

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And I know we're skipping

over a lot and we apologize.

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Sorry.

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Sorry, just for sake of time.

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Be here all day.

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Uh, chapter 15, verse one.

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We were just talking about anger,

a soft answer, turns away wrath,

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but a harsh word stirs up anger.

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This is something that is, is again,

one of those things, the classic, uh,

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helpful for us to remember as we're

engaging with somebody who may be angry.

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If we are calm and our response, that's

a great way to diffuse the anger.

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But if, if we are sharp,

if we are harsh, if we are.

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If we raise our voice in response to them.

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It's it's going to just

pour fuel on the fire.

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And then.

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Verse three.

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The eyes of the Lord are in every

place, keeping watch on the evil and

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the good speaking to the omniscience

of God that he knows all things.

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The omnipresence of God, that

he is everywhere all at once.

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And so there's nowhere that we

can go someone 39 there's nowhere

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that we can hide from the Lord.

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He sees all things and we do live

corn Dale before the face of God.

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Plus rod thoughts on, uh, on

some of the verses in chapter 15.

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Yeah, I like verse 16 here better is a

little with the fear of the Lord than

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great treasure with and trouble with it.

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That is to say it's better to have

a contented existence with maybe.

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Maybe, because you're not willing to

cheat the system, maybe because you're

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not willing to use underhanded tactics.

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You're not going to make as much money

as the next guy or the next woman.

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But it's better to have a

little and fear the Lord.

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Then they have a wealth and

treasure and always have trouble.

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Always looking over your shoulder.

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Always wondering when the

IRS is going to audit.

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Always wondering if the accounting is

going to find out what you're doing.

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No, it's better just to have

what you have and to be content

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with what God has given you.

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Now verse 17, I think connects

with this idea better as a dinner

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of herbs where there's love.

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Then where you have a fat knocks,

you have the best steak in town.

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And you're sitting next to

people that you just can't stand.

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Uh, scripture teaches that it's good to

accept your lot in life to be okay with

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the fact that you don't have the mansion.

653

You don't have the six car garage.

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You don't have what the next guy has,

but what you do have is love, and

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you have a fear of the Lord, man, if

you have those things, you're rich.

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And a salad.

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And it sounds good too.

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So hopefully you put a couple of

chicken breast pieces on it, but yeah.

659

Yeah.

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Yeah.

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How about verse 14?

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The heart of him who has

understanding seeks knowledge, but

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the mouth of fools feed on folly.

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I wrote down next to this social media.

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That so often it's, it's easy

to see something on social media

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and then just run with it rather

than saying, okay, wait a minute.

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Is this true?

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Is it true?

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Right.

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I need to figure out.

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This is really true, right.

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It's fake news.

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And that goes on both sides of

the aisle on that one, but just

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a social media warning there.

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Um, yeah.

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Verse 18.

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Again, anger isn't view here.

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A hot tempered man, stirs up

strife, but he who is slow

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to anger, quiets contention.

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That'd be great for us to

be known by as a church.

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That is, is one where, where

peace is kept and where pieces of

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media did well and effectively.

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And for us to be that we gotta be a

church full of people that are slow

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to anger and, uh, enabled us to really

consider things and weigh things well,

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I like, I think verse 28 connects

with that concept, the heart of the

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righteous ponders, how to answer.

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But the mouth of the

wicked just pours out evil.

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Oh.

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And he pours out evil things.

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Uh, it's kind of, I think of

pardon the term, but I know

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people get diarrhea of the mouth.

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It just says things.

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Yeah, nobody likes that person because

that person just unthinkingly just

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gives a bunch of nonsense, but the

heart of a righteous person ponders how

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to answer, which again, if you think

about the heart it's, it's the center,

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the governor of the whole person.

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And that governor is constantly

filtering and considering and weighing

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the best response to a situation.

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I think that's helpful.

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And even though you probably could

overthink that, I think that's the danger.

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I don't think the wise person is

overthinking, but I do think they

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think more than the average person.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Verse 32, whoever ignores

instruction, despises himself.

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So note that there, that just

from a self-interest perspective,

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sanctified self-interest wants more.

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Yup.

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It's wise to listen to instruction.

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That's all I got.

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You got anything else?

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I mean, I know there's more,

but anything else specific?

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Uh, no.

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No, no, I guess that's efficient.

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I'm sure that they would

probably want us to wrap it up.

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Well, that's why we're going

to do this again next year,

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because we'll hit it again next

year and we'll have more to say.

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Hey, keep, bring your Bibles tune

in again tomorrow for another

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episode of the daily Bible podcast.

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But.