Aug. 5, 2024

Proverbs: Two Words

Proverbs: Two Words

We look at two words found in the book of Proverbs

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We look at two words found in the book of Proverbs

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central. Good afternoon everyone.

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It is Sunday, August four, twenty twenty four. It is

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currently five ten pm Central Time, and I am coming

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to you live from the Theology Central studio located right

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here in Abilene, Texas. Now, Proverbs chapter sixteen versus eighteen

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reads like this. Proverbs Chapter sixteen versus eighteen. We read

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these words, pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit

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before a fall. Better to be of humble spirit with

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the lowly than to divide the spoil with the proud.

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Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. Now,

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I know that verse. I have memorized that verse at

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different times in my life, and I just read that

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verse right now to you. However, what I'm doing right

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now is probably in some way, shape or form violating

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that scripture, at least the spirit of the scripture, because

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I am broadcasting purely out of pride, Okay, purely out

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of pride. I think that would be an accurate way.

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I think someone could judge that and it would be

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somewhat accurate, at least a little bit. You see. Many

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of you know I have seizure disorder and neurological issues,

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and they have not Let's just say I've had some

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serious issues recently and it's been bothering me greatly. So

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I have been just struggling. It's not been pleasant lately. Okay,

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so today it was really really bad. I made it.

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I made it through two hours of preaching. You could

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question the how good the second hour was. I just

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uploaded it. It was great. I think the first hour

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I did. Okay, a second hour it was, it was.

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It was not great. So then I came home and

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I'm like, okay, I I basically can't function. I can't

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I can't do anything. So I had to do the unspeakable.

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I had to do the unthinkable. I had to do

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that which should never be mentioned. I had to lay down,

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which only then just created rage inside of me. Anger.

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I wanted to throw things because I'm like, no, you

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don't lay down, you don't rest, you don't take naps.

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That's something you don't do. That's anathema to you. What

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are you doing? So then I'm like, okay, I'm going

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to get back up. Now I have to do something

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to prove a point. I have to turn on the

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microphone and go live just to prove that I can.

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I don't care about anything spiritual, I don't think about

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anything godly. I'm just going to do it to prove

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a point. So, in a roundabout way, pride goes before destruction.

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So so if this completely goes off the rails and

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I just either I fall down here and just you

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hear me live on the air having a seizure, or

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I just start speaking incoherently, or who knows what's going on. Well,

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it's it's going well, it's gonna be my own fault.

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But I just can't.

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I uh.

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I guess my theory is I am in control of

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my seizure disorder. My seizure disorder is not in control

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of me. I control it, it doesn't control me. I

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tell it what to do. It doesn't tell me what

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to do. I'm the boss. It's not the Okay. I

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know it sounds ridiculous arguing against an actual medical condition,

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but there's a lot to that and my mind. So

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I think, I guess what I'm trying to say is

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I guess what you're about to hear is probably an

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exercise and pride. It's probably an exercise in arrogance. It's

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probably an exercise in being stubborn, it's probably an exercise

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in futility. But yet here I am. So we are

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going to see if maybe maybe in spite of myself,

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maybe something can good can come from this. Now. The

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good thing is what we're doing is we're going to

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be doing a sermon review. So I have no idea

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what's about to happen. I just know it's on Proverbs

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chapter nineteen. Here's what happened. I was looking at my iPad,

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you know, I subscribed to like nine million podcasts, and

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I get a notification Proverbs chapter nineteen. And I think,

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and if I remember correctly, it's from first Baptist Church

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in him and Indiana. So I was like, okay, I

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know the church, but it's Proverbs nineteen. Now, theoretically this

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is supposed to be the Summer of Proverbs. It's really

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turned into the summer of Psawm eighty three. So but

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that's okay, that's okay. But I'm like, all right, I've

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got the series for Proverbs. Let's let's just I can

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do a sermon review. I mean, how bad could it be? Right,

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if the sermon is horrible, then you know my analysis hopefully.

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I mean, well, I guess it could be really bad

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if the sermon is bad, But because of my neurological issues,

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my analysis is just as incoherent as the sermon. I

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guess then you're going to be like, wow, okay, yeah,

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I'll be getting emails. Dude, just retire. Just you just

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need to quit. Okay, you're trash, you need to give

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it up. And you may be completely right, but I'm

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willing to risk it out of nothing more than pride. Okay,

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So I can't say that this is very spiritual, but

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at least I'm trying to be very transparent with you.

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But before we get to that, I just noticed, if

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you go to beta dot sermon audio dot com Beta

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dot sermon audio dot com, you have kind of in

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that middle section and they usually have certain things that

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are featured. They now have a section for the Olympics,

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the twenty twenty four Olympics, all the sermons that are

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tagged with the hashtag Olympics. Now, that makes me extremely nervous,

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all right, because a lot of the things that the

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Christian community has been saying about the Olympics is look,

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in some cases it's just absolutely fraudulent. It is false,

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it is misleading, it is slander, it is bearing false witness,

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and it should be condemned. So I'm afraid I've got

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the hashtag pulled up and there are now the good

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thing is are I don't know why the all of

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It discourse? There's a sermon entitled the all of It Discourse.

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But they did a hashtag for Olympics. What does the

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all of it discourse have to do with the Olympics? Okay,

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that is that's crazy. But then I have one There

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is one called Olympic boxing male versus Female. Oh that's

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for me, all right, So that's interesting. We are at

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least in the category Olympics in the last supper, that

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is for me. But then there is one here response

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to Olympic blasphemy, Olympic mockery. All right, So there's a

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current event update. Oh man. So if anybody wants to,

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if anybody wants to dive into that hashtag, uh you can,

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you can. Uh yeah, you can. You can see what

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you can find. You can see what you can find.

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I have I just oh, I have a feeling a

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lot of it is anything that's Actually, I don't know

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why some of these sermons who have the hashtag Olympics.

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My fear is many of them contain just absolute fraudulent information.

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As of this morning, the Christian Post is yet to

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correct their headline. They're still referring to the female boxer

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as a male, even though more and more information is like, no,

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she was born a female. I've read an interview with

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her father talking about her being a little girl and

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she was one to do these sports and he wasn't

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necessarily a fan of that, and all the different things

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about the things she wanted to do. So more and

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more information it seems to continue to confirm that she's

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a girl. Again, people keep arguing about, well, according to

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this supposed one test, and there's lots of questioning the

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validity of said test, and she has an x Y chromosome,

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and we've talked about the different medical conditions that can

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explain that. But I guess no one wants to have

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a substantive discussion about it. But that hashtag is there

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by all means explore that hashtag. I mean it will

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be a part of your sermon's two point oh app

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sermon challenge. Now in this particular case, what we're going

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to do is we're going to be listening to a

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sermon on Proverbs. But it's not going to be from

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the sermons two point oh. App It's going to be

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I think his first Baptist church, Hammond, Indiana. I think

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last year we reviewed sermons from their youth conference. They

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just finished their youth conference about a week ago, maybe,

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and I was going to review some of the sermons

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from it. But I think most of you remember how

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bad last year's well, oh man, last year's sermons were

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so bad. Oh wow. I felt I almost wanted I

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almost wanted to go to Indiana, find the church and

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just tell the kids, Hey, I don't know what's happening,

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but let's just we need to escape Indiana. You need

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to get out of this place because this is a travesty.

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What's happening to you. You need to get away. You'll

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be better living on the streets and living with your Okay,

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that's a little bit of hyperbole, but just some of

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the stuff was problematic. Let's just say there was very

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little gospel, and it was it was moralism is what

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it basically was. But it's a Wednesday evening service and

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they were in Proverbs nineteen, I say, let's listen to it.

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I'm doing this purely out of my own pride, but

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I'm going to do it, but I'm hoping to get

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something from it, and then we can add some content

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to our series on Proverbs, because it was supposed to

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be the summer of Proverbs and it turned into the

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summer of Psalm eighty three. I think maybe the summer

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of twenty twenty four will be remembered as the summer

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we really challenged everyone's theology on prayer. So maybe maybe

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that'll be the only good thing that came from this summer.

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I don't know. Maybe what's getting ready to get ready

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to happen is you're going to remember the summer of

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twenty twenty four because you were listening to a podcast

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live when the podcaster had a seizure. That'll be that'll

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be stories you can tell people, Right, Okay, are you ready?

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You're ready to do that? I'm no, not ready for

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me to have a seizure. Come on, stop cheering. Okay.

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You were like, do it, do it? Have a seizure?

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Have a seizure. You were like, come on, kids, clap,

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have a caizure. Okay, right, all right, so all right, no, no, no,

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are you ready? Let's do this? Did I say Psalm nineteen?

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Now I don't even remember Proverbs nineteen? Did I say

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Psalm nineteen? I don't think I said Psalm nineteen? See

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who knows? All right, Proverbs nineteen, or at least I

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think it is. Here we go.

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If you have your Bible from the Proverbs chapter nineteen. Tonight,

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we're going to talk about two words in the Book

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of Proverbs. One of the words is the word cease.

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It comes up about four or five times in the

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Book of Proverbs. The other one is the word conceit

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or conceit it, And I want you to talk. We're

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going to talk about those two words just real quickly

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in our time that we have together. Thank you for

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being wonderful, wonderful church family, and thank you for caring

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about things of God. How many have a Bible? Would

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you hold it up? You got a Bible and very

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good And let's be ready to turn in there tonight.

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There's several places I want you to turn, so we'll

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kind of work quickly if we can through this this

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study on the word. See several times in the Book

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of Proverbs. God uses Solomon to say, listen, stop this,

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don't do the cease means to stop and don't let

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this happen, all.

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Right, So the first word is cease. Cease, all right.

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It's funny, Proverbs. It's kind of funny that Solomon would

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tell anyone to cease anything. Do you not find that

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a little humorous? Solomon telling you to stop something? Okay, Solomon,

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what do you want me to stop? Do you want

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me to stop a massing, massive amount of wealth? Do

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you want me to stop having physical relations with I

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don't know, a thousand different women. Do you want me

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to cease from idolatry? What would you want me to

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cease from their? Mister Solomon? Okay, but I always find

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it just humorous. But you can draw your own. I

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don't know. I never know. Some ways I see it

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as a positive thing. Some way I see it as

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a negative thing. But there cease, all right. So I'm

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looking at Proverbs nineteen. I wonder if this is going

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to be the word cease is only used in the

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King James. I have a new King James in front

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of me. I'm looking quickly where the word cease shows

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up here? Oh, I see it in verse twenty seven.

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Cease listening to instruction, my son, and you will stray,

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and you will stray from the words of knowledge. Okay,

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I see what it's doing, all right, So there's cease.

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I wonder that's verse twenty seven. So I wonder, I

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wonder if there's if it shows up somewhere else. So

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there's the first word, cease. Cease. All right. We may

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do a little we may do a little mini word

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study here in a minute. But okay, let's just see

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where he goes with this.

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obviously we should cease from that. Let's talk about a

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couple of those areas if we can. Number one, Chapter

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nineteen vers. Number twenty seven. Read it with me, if

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you would please together out loud. Chapter nineteen, verse twenty seven.

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By the way, I forgot our junior age boys and girls, Sir,

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Chicagoland boys and girls are at camp this week, and

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next week will be our high school teenagers going. I

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think we grew to the place we could not have

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them the same week. But I'm very thankful for that,

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and let's continue to pray for them as there.

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cease church camps because I can't stand church camps. Let's

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take a bunch of teenagers. Let's go isolate them and

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doctrinate them and emotionally manipulate them. Okay, I'm not saying

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all camps work that way, but so many follow that pattern.

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that's what he wanted to talk about ceasing. All right,

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twenty seven. All right, so let's see what he does here.

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We're in the middle of their week. We'll be coming

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back either tomorrow or on Friday. But very thankful for

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those who are working their junior age boys and girls.

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get into city Baptist School, which I think is one

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of the more advantageous things for a young person who

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rides their bus to do, if at all possible, is

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to come and get discipled through the Christian school there.

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to the ministry, And I rejoice with that, never underestimate

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what God can do with a child whenever they're nine, ten, eleven,

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twelve years old. So many major decisions are made that

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are just as serious as a person who is thirty

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five to make the decision, and I'm very thankful for that.

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Let's pray for them as we work through our Bible

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study this evening chapter nineteen, verse twenty seven. Let's read together.

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You're ready cease my son to hear the instruction that

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causes thee to err from the words of knowledge. So

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Solomon says in the Book of Proverbs, stop listening to

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bad information, stop listening to things that you shouldn't listen to.

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The first Timothy, Chapter four, verse number one. Now the

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spirit speaketh expressly. That means that Paul is towing Timothy. Look,

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the Spirit of God makes this obvious that in the

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last time some people will air from the faith, they'll

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stop being faithful, and they won't finish their rates. Well.

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Christianity is watching people who one time were faithful who

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are no longer faithful. They've exited for some reason or another.

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they give heed to seductive spirits and then doctrines of devils,

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and then they go on to speak lies in hypocrisy

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and then have their conscious seared with a hot iron.

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What happens usually is what we listened to. Remember the

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apostle Paul says in Galatians, you did run? Well, what's

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the next word? Who who told you that? Who started

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you down the wrong path? Just about anybody who goes

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off into a wrong direction, there's a who that has

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been talking to them. It might be on a blog,

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podcast someplace, might be a friend at work, It might

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be somebody who is feeding information. And I have been

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subject to that. And I think all of us who

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are of age will probably think about times in our

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life where we have gotten so in to assuthing that

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really it hurt us better than helped us. And Solomon says,

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stop listening to questionable things, don't listen to exease my son,

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to listen to instruction that does not come and counter

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counter acts the word of God. Let's look at a couple.

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I always find it interesting when pastors say, you know,

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people start listening or to a blog. That's kind of

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a dated term, okay, but to a blog, to a

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YouTube or obviously to YouTube channel or YouTube content, or

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to a podcast. I always find it interesting because the

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assumption is, see that information out there is fraudulent, don't

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listen to it, but listen to me. See, they put

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their content online, so his sermons serve as a podcast.

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podcast so I can listen to them. I think their

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content is on YouTube, so they have a YouTube channel,

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they have a podcast. So the assumption is, my content

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is good, don't listen to the wrong content. Well, who

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gets to determine the content is right or if the

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content is wrong, because everyone thinks their content is right. Okay,

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so everyone thinks that they're right in their own eyes.

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everyone thinks their content is in line. You can go

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from Joe Olstein to Mark Driscoll, to Bethel Church and

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ready in California, you can go to Kenneth Copeland, Benny

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hen every Oh. They all think they're right, and they

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all think it comes from the Word of God, and

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all of the people who listen to them think it

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comes from the word of God. So I just I

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just find it interesting. You know, don't get caught up

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and listening to, you know, wrong voices, but listen to mine,

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because mine is the right voice. I don't know, maybe

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I'm the only one who finds that somewhat humorous. But

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let's see where he's gonna go with this, all right,

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let's continue, well the verse.

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I think they could back this up as well. How

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about look at let's go to Psalms Psalms one, verse

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number one and two, Psalms one one and two. Can

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we turn there Psalms one one and two and let's

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read that get verses together? Can we please? Are you ready?

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It begins with the word blessed. Ready, blessed is a

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man that walketh not in the council of the ungodly,

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nor standeth in the way of sinners. And then it

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goes on to say, but his delight is in the

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law of the Lord, and in his law doth he meditate?

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There's two good times to think about the Bible, daytime

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and night time. Day and night all the time. But

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he said, there's never a good time to sit in

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the counsel of the ungodly. To learn the way of sinners.

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Don't do that. Let's look at Psalms one hundred and one.

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Can we look at that that one? Psalms one oh one?

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Thank you? Right, hear those pages turning. That's good. Psalms

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on wondering and one. And let's go ahead and look

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at verse number, verse number one. Oh, I think I

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That'd be all right, two and three. Let's all read

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it together. I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. Oh,

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when wilt thout coming to me, I will walk within

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my house with the perfect heart. I will set no

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wicked thing before my eyes. I hate the work of

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them that turn aside. Yeah, he said here, or said,

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I don't want to set anything in front of me

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that is wrong, wicked, and it shouldn't be. Let's go

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to Jeremiah ten, verse number two. Jeremiah earn Psalms go down.

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Go just keep going towards the back of the Bible.

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ten and verse number two. They have all the all

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the men read this, would you please first Jeremiah ten

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to two men. Here we go Thus saith the Lord,

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learn not the way of the Heathen, if the signs

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of the Heaven for the Heathen are dismayed at them.

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Thus saith the Lord, learn not the way of the

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Heathen signs of the heaven the Bible, as we should

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not learn the way of the what heathen. That's a

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good reason why you want to either home educate your

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child to put them in a good Christian school. No

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sense in trying to do that. Now, everybody has difference

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of opinions and they're not here to rattle anyone's cage.

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and that's something we want to step away from for sure.

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Let's look at the Romans, chapter sixteen, Versember nineteen. Romans

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sixteen nineteen. This is.

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word cease, and now he's just going to I guess

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the basic idea is, hey, cease listening to instructions. So

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don't listen to any wrong instruction that will stray, that

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will stray from the words of knowledge. Don't listen to

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anything that's strays. Now again, I understand the spirit of this,

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I understand the concept of this. I just always find

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it humorous that whenever this is preached, it's like, don't

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listen to anybody else but me or who I think

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is okay. And so you'll see in many churches, well,

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pastor should I read this book? Pastor should I listen

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to this preacher? Pastor should I read this commentary? And

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it's like, so you realize what you're doing. You're going

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to put yourself in a situation where all you hear

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is what your pastor agrees with, and you're not going

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to hear anything that disagrees with it. But how do

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you know your like when you said, well, I'm not

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going to read that because that goes against this, or

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that goes against this, Well, then you can never be

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challenged because you're only to listen to that which you

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already agree with. So you are assuming that you already

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know everything, and that everything you believe. That's the only

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way to believe. So I find that I'm not a

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fan of that concept. My thing is, look, I understand,

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you know, don't listen to the instructions, my son, that

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you will and you will stray from the words of knowledge.

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I do understand that. But the words of knowledge, if

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we're going to put this in any way, it would

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come from scripture. So don't listen to anything that strays

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from scripture. But then all these other teachings would all

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claim they're coming from scripture. So how do you know

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your understanding of scripture is so right that you don't

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listen to anything that strays away from your understanding of scripture.

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don't listen to anybody out there who goes basically against

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what we teach. Well, then you're assuming your teaching is

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all basically is infallible, that you you're right in your

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own eyes. The only way to ever be challenged is

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to listen to instruction that goes against how you think again,

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so that you can then be challenged. So what's the

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balance there. I have a hard time with this concept,

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but okay, he's going to continue his approach here. It's

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just interesting just going from scripture to scripture to scripture

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to scripture. I guess that basically supports it. But okay,

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let's see what other scripture.

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He finds there's a new Testament, a new Testament verse

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that I think it gives us admonition Verse number nineteen

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of Romans, chapter sixteen. It says, for your obedience has

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come abroad into all men. He says, you guys, have

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your obedience has been made known. You guys are walking

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with the Lord, and everyone knows you obey the Lord.

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I am glad therefore on your behalf. But yet I

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would have you to have you wise to that which

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is good and simple regarding what evil. So I want

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you to grow more grass rather than go around killing weeds.

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I want you to be more knowledgeable about about about

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good things and less knowledgeable about evil things. Sometimes the

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reasons sometimes if you, if you are like me, there

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have been seasons of your time where you just need

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to stop looking at the news. It just affects you adversely,

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and it's just negative negative, negative, negative negative, and it's

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just not worth it. It creates animosity in your heart,

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frustrations in your heart. He's ill you what once you

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spend little more time being wise to the things that

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are good and less knowledgeable of the things that are evil.

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heard I'm not want to say no and thank you

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very much. No, I'm not interested. I don't want to

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hear about it. And listen when someone comes and tells

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you all the negative things are going on in somebody's life,

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let me just tell you something a secret. They'll tell

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stuff about you to other people. And by the way,

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I just forgot. Brother Moffatt is doing a funeral as

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we speak for his sister in law fell us and

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there's several unsaved people. Let's just ask the Lord to

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help them real quickly. And Brother tam Wonce you come

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lead us in prayer for that real quickly. Let's pray

459
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for brother Moffatt. Miss Moffatt, would you please.

460
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Lord, I pray that you'll bless brother Moffatt, and Lord,

461
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thank you for his love for you and his diligence

462
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to get the Gospel. Lord. And he's with family now

463
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that many who are unsaved, and I pray Lord that

464
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you'll fill them with your spirit. Lord, use him not

465
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only to be a comfort to the family, Lord, but

466
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also to make the Gospel clear. And I pray that

467
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Lord people will trust you tonight, Lord, and please just

468
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bless our dear brother Moffatt and continue to bless pastor Amen.

469
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Thank you.

470
00:27:00.640 --> 00:27:02.799
I'm sorry not to mention it earlier. Just keing of

471
00:27:02.839 --> 00:27:04.759
my mind was talking to you. So we want to

472
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be uh, we want to stop.

473
00:27:08.599 --> 00:27:11.480
Okay, this approach. This is all over the place, This

474
00:27:11.559 --> 00:27:16.559
is all over the place. Okay again, I'm not Here's

475
00:27:16.599 --> 00:27:20.640
what I would say if you take his advice sometimes,

476
00:27:20.720 --> 00:27:22.920
just don't pay attention to the news, don't look to

477
00:27:22.960 --> 00:27:25.799
the news, don't know what's going on. That's fine. Here's

478
00:27:25.839 --> 00:27:27.480
what I would say. If you're not paying attention to

479
00:27:27.519 --> 00:27:29.440
the news, you're not reading the news, you're not keeping

480
00:27:29.480 --> 00:27:32.319
up with the news, then don't be offering your opinion

481
00:27:32.680 --> 00:27:35.039
about things in which you don't know. Because too many

482
00:27:35.079 --> 00:27:38.119
times Christians who don't keep up with anything, research anything

483
00:27:38.319 --> 00:27:41.079
are there very first to be very opinionated about that

484
00:27:41.119 --> 00:27:43.640
which they do not know. And we see that constantly

485
00:27:43.680 --> 00:27:48.640
within Christianity, making comments about news items which they clearly

486
00:27:48.680 --> 00:27:52.599
indicate they have no clue what they're talking about. If

487
00:27:52.599 --> 00:27:56.039
you don't keep up with it, then don't speak about it.

488
00:27:57.480 --> 00:28:01.359
That's simple. Don't speak about it unless you're if you're

489
00:28:01.359 --> 00:28:04.039
not gonna know and you're not gonna research. But this

490
00:28:04.240 --> 00:28:09.039
kind of creates an atmosphere where, Okay, don't listen to

491
00:28:09.079 --> 00:28:12.559
anything that disagrees with us, don't keep up with what's

492
00:28:12.599 --> 00:28:15.279
going on in the world. This kind of creates a

493
00:28:15.519 --> 00:28:23.319
very isolated, insulated, almost withdrawn kind of worldview. I don't

494
00:28:23.359 --> 00:28:25.119
know what's going on in the world. I don't care

495
00:28:25.160 --> 00:28:27.079
what's going on in the world. I don't know what

496
00:28:27.119 --> 00:28:29.400
anybody else is saying because I only listen to what

497
00:28:29.440 --> 00:28:31.960
we say. So therefore I think I'm right because all

498
00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:35.599
I hear tells me that I'm right. There is a

499
00:28:35.759 --> 00:28:39.279
danger in that you place yourself in some form of

500
00:28:39.319 --> 00:28:45.240
an echo chamber, like I often say, listening to things

501
00:28:45.680 --> 00:28:49.319
that I disagree with and I may even get frustrated

502
00:28:49.359 --> 00:28:53.359
with sometimes is of greater spiritual value because it forces

503
00:28:53.359 --> 00:28:56.079
me to go back to the things I believe and

504
00:28:56.200 --> 00:29:00.359
challenge them, question them, you consider them again, and do

505
00:29:00.480 --> 00:29:06.920
extra work. So I you know, I don't I don't

506
00:29:06.920 --> 00:29:08.960
know where the balance is here. Okay, let's see where

507
00:29:09.000 --> 00:29:11.359
he's going to go with this. This is kind of

508
00:29:11.359 --> 00:29:13.960
a He's kind of just I don't know. I don't

509
00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:15.680
know how to I don't know how to really classify.

510
00:29:15.720 --> 00:29:17.920
It's like, okay, we got the word cease. Now let's

511
00:29:17.960 --> 00:29:20.319
just go to all verses that kind of talk about

512
00:29:20.319 --> 00:29:23.839
ceasing a specific thing, which is ceasing listening to well,

513
00:29:24.039 --> 00:29:27.279
anything that seems to go against I guess he would

514
00:29:27.279 --> 00:29:29.079
say the word of God. But again the problem is

515
00:29:30.319 --> 00:29:35.480
you're who gets to determine. Then yeah, I mean if

516
00:29:35.519 --> 00:29:36.720
you say, well, I'm not going to listen to them,

517
00:29:36.720 --> 00:29:38.480
not going to listen to them because they go against

518
00:29:38.480 --> 00:29:39.839
the word of God, Well they would say with nobody

519
00:29:39.880 --> 00:29:41.599
should listen to you because you go against the word

520
00:29:41.599 --> 00:29:43.799
of God. And then it becomes it becomes really a

521
00:29:44.039 --> 00:29:46.200
difficult thing. And how to process this?

522
00:29:47.960 --> 00:29:50.880
Listen to things that are that are counterproductive to God's word? Well,

523
00:29:50.920 --> 00:29:53.119
I think a lot of problems could go away if

524
00:29:53.200 --> 00:29:55.480
we be careful what goes in the eargate and the

525
00:29:56.200 --> 00:29:59.640
eye game. Sure we cannot help, but speak of the

526
00:29:59.680 --> 00:30:04.640
thing which you have that's good and that's also negative too.

527
00:30:04.920 --> 00:30:06.680
All right, let's look another thing real quickly. Let's go

528
00:30:06.720 --> 00:30:09.440
to Proverbs. Back again to Proverbs chapter number twenty. The

529
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next chapter over Proverbs chapter number twenty, and let's look

530
00:30:12.519 --> 00:30:15.000
at this passage of Scripture. If we can verse number

531
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three Proverbs, chapter twenty and verse number three, here's something

532
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we should cease from. Are you ready? It is an

533
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honor for a man to cease from. But every fool

534
00:30:25.519 --> 00:30:31.920
will be meddling. He said, stop creating strife. Some people's

535
00:30:31.920 --> 00:30:35.279
strife is their life. If they can't find drama, they'll

536
00:30:35.319 --> 00:30:38.839
cause it. They'll stir it up. He said, it's a

537
00:30:38.920 --> 00:30:44.039
foolish thing to meddle, and to just stir up adversity

538
00:30:44.359 --> 00:30:48.960
and discontention. He said, every fool does that. How many

539
00:30:49.000 --> 00:30:51.319
of us don't want to be a fool. We don't

540
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want to be a fool. He said, be careful, cease

541
00:30:53.319 --> 00:30:56.200
from strife. Don't let strife be your life. Now you're

542
00:30:56.240 --> 00:31:00.559
going to always have Jude says this in Jude, he said,

543
00:31:00.599 --> 00:31:02.240
I want to write to you about a common salvation.

544
00:31:02.319 --> 00:31:05.119
And I've got to write to you to earnestly contend

545
00:31:05.240 --> 00:31:07.519
for the faith that was once delivered. So there's times

546
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where we have to fight. The Bible says, fight the

547
00:31:10.480 --> 00:31:13.440
good fight of faith. And Paul tells Timothy, I want

548
00:31:13.480 --> 00:31:17.319
you to follow after these things and flee these things

549
00:31:17.359 --> 00:31:20.599
and fight this battle. So there is a lot of

550
00:31:20.680 --> 00:31:23.960
reason quitchie, like men be strong. There is challenges for

551
00:31:24.079 --> 00:31:26.799
us to stand in this evil day. So there needs

552
00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:29.119
to be a time to stand and fight at the

553
00:31:29.160 --> 00:31:33.599
same time, to have strife and have all something going on.

554
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He said, If you got that, if that's what your

555
00:31:35.319 --> 00:31:39.640
life is about, stop it. Quit seize from strife. Those

556
00:31:39.640 --> 00:31:41.440
look at other verse that tells about that as well.

557
00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:45.279
How about chapter twenty two and verse number ten. Twenty

558
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two and verse number ten for the coolar. Would you

559
00:31:48.000 --> 00:31:58.720
mind reading that verse force if you would please? Okay,

560
00:31:58.759 --> 00:32:02.000
said cast out to scorn and contention goes out. There's

561
00:32:02.039 --> 00:32:04.759
almost a you know, because several different personalities in the

562
00:32:04.759 --> 00:32:07.839
Book of Proverbs. A scorner is one of them, and

563
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a scorner usually asks dumb questions, doting questions that stir

564
00:32:12.559 --> 00:32:15.480
up things like you are you getting paid enough here? Well,

565
00:32:15.519 --> 00:32:17.400
I tell you what's rough working here? Boy? You get

566
00:32:17.400 --> 00:32:19.839
you've got a problem with the boss too. That's the scorner,

567
00:32:20.559 --> 00:32:23.400
not someone that brings brings blessing, someone who just stirs

568
00:32:23.440 --> 00:32:25.359
it up. And all of us have either met a

569
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scorner or we've been a scorner at some time or another.

570
00:32:28.799 --> 00:32:31.880
He said, you get rid of a scorner and strife quits.

571
00:32:33.160 --> 00:32:35.559
Every once while. I've seen this happen in the ministry,

572
00:32:35.599 --> 00:32:37.640
and I certainly never want it. But every once in

573
00:32:37.640 --> 00:32:40.480
a while there's someone that just feels like they're an advocate,

574
00:32:41.000 --> 00:32:43.880
uh for they're just the devil's advocate all the time.

575
00:32:44.599 --> 00:32:46.200
But when they go off the scene, all of a sudden,

576
00:32:46.240 --> 00:32:48.720
there's a little bit of peace that comes to that.

577
00:32:48.799 --> 00:32:50.599
We don't like to lose anyone, but every once in

578
00:32:50.599 --> 00:32:52.680
a while, someone who stirs it up. He's like when

579
00:32:52.680 --> 00:32:54.599
they hit the road, Jack, you say, hit the road

580
00:32:54.640 --> 00:32:57.079
and don't come back. You know, just is things are

581
00:32:57.240 --> 00:32:58.480
a little bit calmer now.

582
00:33:00.880 --> 00:33:04.920
There is truth to that. You cast out the scoffer

583
00:33:04.920 --> 00:33:08.279
and contention will leave. Yes, strife and reproach will cease.

584
00:33:08.799 --> 00:33:11.720
Sometimes within ministry you always have the person stirring up

585
00:33:11.759 --> 00:33:19.200
the trouble, causing problems, arguing, arguing, arguing, arguing, arguing, arguing.

586
00:33:19.400 --> 00:33:22.519
Like you could get up there and say it welcome everyone,

587
00:33:22.640 --> 00:33:25.240
it is Sunday, and it's almost like immediately they'll be like,

588
00:33:25.279 --> 00:33:28.160
are you sure it's Sunday. I don't think it's actually Sunday,

589
00:33:28.279 --> 00:33:30.759
because I think four thousand years ago they changed the

590
00:33:30.799 --> 00:33:34.599
calendar and today's actually Monday, So why are you saying Sunday?

591
00:33:34.720 --> 00:33:36.599
You don't even know what you're talking about. And you're

592
00:33:36.640 --> 00:33:40.000
kind of like, oh, my goodness, gracious, you're like, okay,

593
00:33:40.039 --> 00:33:43.359
never mind, just never mind. When people become contentious like

594
00:33:43.440 --> 00:33:48.200
that and strive about everything is sometimes it's best for

595
00:33:48.319 --> 00:33:53.200
them to well, you know, it's kind of like, hey,

596
00:33:53.440 --> 00:33:55.480
just follow me, where are we going. Well, this is

597
00:33:55.519 --> 00:33:58.960
a door and it opens and it goes outside, and

598
00:33:59.079 --> 00:34:03.359
outside there all kinds of stuff out here. So you

599
00:34:03.400 --> 00:34:05.839
go get in your car and you go drive and

600
00:34:05.880 --> 00:34:09.119
go find something elsewhere because we no longer want you here.

601
00:34:09.400 --> 00:34:11.840
And and it sounds mean, but sometimes you got to

602
00:34:11.880 --> 00:34:14.360
say it's time to go, because all you want to

603
00:34:14.400 --> 00:34:17.199
do is strive and fight and argue and strive and

604
00:34:17.239 --> 00:34:20.199
fight and argue and disagree and disagree and disagree and

605
00:34:20.239 --> 00:34:26.079
disagree and disagree, and that that's that's not that I think.

606
00:34:26.159 --> 00:34:29.440
I think really the issue is what makes us. I

607
00:34:29.440 --> 00:34:32.920
think the real question here for me and and I

608
00:34:33.000 --> 00:34:35.599
don't even know if we have a good answer. Why

609
00:34:35.639 --> 00:34:45.119
do you think at times we find ourselves striving strife scoffing?

610
00:34:45.320 --> 00:34:47.079
Why why do you think something to what what is

611
00:34:47.119 --> 00:34:49.440
it inside of us that leads us to strive and

612
00:34:49.480 --> 00:34:52.519
to fight and to argue and to disagree and to fight.

613
00:34:52.719 --> 00:34:55.440
What there I think there? To me, it's it's easy

614
00:34:55.480 --> 00:34:57.920
to say cease it, but there's got to be something

615
00:34:57.960 --> 00:35:00.599
going on. And I think there's something. I think sometimes

616
00:35:00.719 --> 00:35:03.159
because now you don't like the personalities, so now you're

617
00:35:03.199 --> 00:35:04.840
just going to find a reason to argue and fight.

618
00:35:05.119 --> 00:35:08.239
Like if it's just going to be striving and fighting

619
00:35:08.400 --> 00:35:12.760
and striving and fighting, just just it's just go you

620
00:35:12.800 --> 00:35:15.719
know what I'm saying, Like, there's no point, there's no

621
00:35:16.280 --> 00:35:19.679
you know why, just just go Not only in ministry

622
00:35:19.719 --> 00:35:22.960
of friendship, I mean you know, like, if if there's

623
00:35:23.039 --> 00:35:25.679
just going to be striving and fighting, just just go away.

624
00:35:26.000 --> 00:35:27.719
Just go do your thing. I'll go do my thing,

625
00:35:27.719 --> 00:35:30.760
because it's not worth the striving and the fighting. It's

626
00:35:30.840 --> 00:35:33.280
not it's no no, no, no, no, no no no no.

627
00:35:33.400 --> 00:35:37.320
So trying to understand what it is inside of us

628
00:35:37.360 --> 00:35:41.400
that brings it about maybe more of an issue. I

629
00:35:41.400 --> 00:35:43.280
mean he's just looking at you know.

630
00:35:43.639 --> 00:35:43.840
Yeah.

631
00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:45.559
To me, that's a deeper question. I don't have a

632
00:35:45.559 --> 00:35:46.719
good answer for it at the moment.

633
00:35:49.159 --> 00:35:51.920
So you gotta get rid of a scorner. Contentions will stop.

634
00:35:52.039 --> 00:35:53.519
Then the next part of the verse that he just read,

635
00:35:53.599 --> 00:35:58.079
verse ten, strife and reproach, sal sees. Look at one

636
00:35:58.079 --> 00:36:03.039
more verse on this topic, Chapter twenty, Chapter twenty six,

637
00:36:04.159 --> 00:36:07.599
and look at verse number twenty. Would you let's all

638
00:36:07.599 --> 00:36:09.480
read it together? Can we? It speaks of the where

639
00:36:09.559 --> 00:36:12.599
no wood ready, where no wood is there, the fire

640
00:36:12.719 --> 00:36:19.119
go without. Okay, he said, Now where you don't have wood,

641
00:36:19.920 --> 00:36:22.400
when you don't put wood on the fire, you don't

642
00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:25.800
fuel the fire, the fire goes out. He says. If

643
00:36:25.800 --> 00:36:28.880
you can get the tail bearer, the gossip, the critic

644
00:36:29.840 --> 00:36:36.360
to stop, then strifle cease and we'll be able to

645
00:36:36.480 --> 00:36:38.360
will to have some And you've got to have peace

646
00:36:38.400 --> 00:36:41.679
to make good progress. You can make some progress when

647
00:36:41.679 --> 00:36:43.119
you're having to put out fires all the time, but

648
00:36:43.159 --> 00:36:45.719
not as much fire as progress as you can when

649
00:36:45.760 --> 00:36:48.599
things are smooth and you get someone who wants to

650
00:36:48.639 --> 00:36:51.719
be he says, he said, wants you to cease from strife.

651
00:36:52.119 --> 00:36:55.159
Don't let strife be your life. So cease from hearing

652
00:36:55.159 --> 00:36:57.159
things we should not hear. The count productor of the

653
00:36:57.199 --> 00:36:59.599
word of God. Number two, cease from strife. Look at

654
00:36:59.599 --> 00:37:02.599
the third the cease is mentioned chapter twenty three, Would

655
00:37:02.639 --> 00:37:05.559
you please? Chapter twenty three.

656
00:37:07.719 --> 00:37:10.079
He didn't do a lot with that one. That's kind

657
00:37:10.079 --> 00:37:13.280
of interesting. Where there is no wood, the fire goes out,

658
00:37:13.719 --> 00:37:16.719
and where there is no tell bearer, strife ceases. I

659
00:37:16.719 --> 00:37:20.320
think the way the cease the strife ceases is well

660
00:37:20.360 --> 00:37:23.280
that when the tear tell bearer ceases, and a tail

661
00:37:23.360 --> 00:37:27.239
bear is the gossip, the slanderer, the one talking about

662
00:37:27.280 --> 00:37:30.840
people talking about this, talking about this, talking about this,

663
00:37:31.079 --> 00:37:33.280
and some look, there are some things that you don't

664
00:37:33.320 --> 00:37:36.800
need to talk about. Why are you talking about it?

665
00:37:37.119 --> 00:37:40.559
And why are you sharing it now? Typically you're sharing

666
00:37:40.639 --> 00:37:44.679
and you're telling for well, definitely for not. You may

667
00:37:44.679 --> 00:37:47.039
try to argue it's for godly reasons, but usually it's

668
00:37:47.079 --> 00:37:49.159
selfish reasons. You want to see the person hurt, you

669
00:37:49.159 --> 00:37:51.280
want to see the person humiliated, you want to see

670
00:37:51.280 --> 00:37:53.800
the person destroyed. It's all because your pride has been

671
00:37:53.880 --> 00:37:55.920
hurt and you want to take someone down. But the

672
00:37:55.960 --> 00:37:58.559
tell bearer, the gossip, Yeah, that's another thing that we

673
00:37:58.679 --> 00:38:02.159
have to We have to stop the person who's contentious,

674
00:38:02.159 --> 00:38:05.679
the person who strives, the person who scoffs, the person

675
00:38:05.920 --> 00:38:09.519
who just stirs up trouble that's got to seize, and

676
00:38:09.599 --> 00:38:11.960
the tell bearer you have to stop. And the way

677
00:38:12.000 --> 00:38:14.000
the tell bearer you can stop a tell bear is

678
00:38:14.039 --> 00:38:15.800
just you don't listen to the gossip. No, stop that

679
00:38:15.880 --> 00:38:17.480
right there. No no, no, no, no, no no no.

680
00:38:17.519 --> 00:38:19.440
I don't need to know this. Why are you telling

681
00:38:19.480 --> 00:38:22.400
me this? I have no reason to know this. You'd

682
00:38:22.440 --> 00:38:25.280
have no reason to be telling me this. It's none

683
00:38:25.320 --> 00:38:29.280
of my business. There's no reason. And don't come at

684
00:38:29.320 --> 00:38:31.960
me that you're doing so for spiritual reasons. You're coming

685
00:38:32.000 --> 00:38:38.280
to destroy and humiliate someone. Stop, all right? So, yeah,

686
00:38:38.320 --> 00:38:40.840
he kind of did it. He kind of just left

687
00:38:40.840 --> 00:38:42.639
the tell bearer out of that. He just focused on

688
00:38:42.639 --> 00:38:44.840
the word strive. It's the teil bear, it's the gossip,

689
00:38:44.880 --> 00:38:48.639
it's the slanderer, right, okay, So all right, let's see

690
00:38:48.639 --> 00:38:49.760
where else. He goes here.

691
00:38:53.320 --> 00:38:56.960
And verse number four look at it, and here's let's

692
00:38:56.960 --> 00:39:00.519
read it together. Labor not to be rich, ease your

693
00:39:00.559 --> 00:39:04.000
mine own, and really I think it ceased from looking

694
00:39:04.039 --> 00:39:06.639
at things from your own perspective.

695
00:39:09.360 --> 00:39:12.119
Okay. He went to Proverbs twenty three four, I apologize.

696
00:39:12.159 --> 00:39:14.280
It kind of got broken up there. Proverbs twenty three four,

697
00:39:14.599 --> 00:39:18.639
do not overwork to be rich because of your own understanding.

698
00:39:18.880 --> 00:39:25.679
Cease because of your own understanding cease. He's saying, don't

699
00:39:25.719 --> 00:39:29.519
look at it through your own perspective. That's an interesting verse.

700
00:39:29.559 --> 00:39:31.559
Proverbs twenty three four. I'm going to look this up

701
00:39:32.119 --> 00:39:36.119
in a number of English translations. Proverbs twenty three four.

702
00:39:36.920 --> 00:39:39.039
I'm going to look at this Proverbs twenty three four,

703
00:39:42.960 --> 00:39:48.320
Proverbs twenty three four. But is it two separate concepts

704
00:39:48.400 --> 00:39:51.760
or are they put together here? Do not wear yourself

705
00:39:51.760 --> 00:39:54.440
out to get rich. Do not trust your own cleverness.

706
00:39:54.719 --> 00:39:58.360
That's the new international version Proverbs twenty three four. Don't

707
00:39:58.719 --> 00:40:01.159
wear yourself out trying to get rich. Be wise enough

708
00:40:01.159 --> 00:40:05.760
to know when to quit. Do not toil to acquire wealth,

709
00:40:05.840 --> 00:40:09.079
be discerning enough to desist. Do not wear yourself out

710
00:40:09.119 --> 00:40:12.840
to get rich, but wise enough to restrain yourself. Labor

711
00:40:12.880 --> 00:40:16.079
not to be rich, cease from thine own wisdom. I

712
00:40:16.079 --> 00:40:19.079
think the idea here is, Hey, you got to know

713
00:40:19.360 --> 00:40:22.960
don't overwork to be rich. You got to know when

714
00:40:23.000 --> 00:40:25.239
to stop. You got to know maybe when is enough

715
00:40:25.320 --> 00:40:27.679
is enough? You got to maybe know when you're making

716
00:40:27.880 --> 00:40:31.400
that your God. Again, it's interesting this would be in

717
00:40:31.400 --> 00:40:33.519
the Proverbs written by Solomon who is known for his

718
00:40:33.559 --> 00:40:36.760
great wealth. But okay, I you know you can look

719
00:40:36.760 --> 00:40:38.119
at that. But I'm going to write this one down

720
00:40:38.199 --> 00:40:41.199
here in my notebook, here in my journal here weren't

721
00:40:41.239 --> 00:40:51.159
write down Proverbs twenty three four. All right, So this,

722
00:40:51.280 --> 00:40:53.320
to me is not just so much about looking things

723
00:40:53.400 --> 00:40:56.800
through your own perspective. I think this is about ceasing

724
00:40:56.880 --> 00:41:00.320
your own understanding when there's got to be something else else,

725
00:41:00.519 --> 00:41:03.519
helping you determine when is enough is enough? And when

726
00:41:03.559 --> 00:41:06.840
you're working too hard simply to get rich, and how

727
00:41:07.239 --> 00:41:10.119
there's got to be something else other than your own understanding?

728
00:41:10.199 --> 00:41:13.679
Are your own wisdom to be able to determine, well

729
00:41:13.760 --> 00:41:17.960
that balance? How much do you pursue how little? Like

730
00:41:18.159 --> 00:41:19.360
what where is that balance?

731
00:41:21.599 --> 00:41:24.480
There's wisdom, And when the Bible uses wisdom and proverbs,

732
00:41:24.679 --> 00:41:27.079
if it's talking about wisdom is from above, and there's

733
00:41:27.159 --> 00:41:33.760
earthly wisdom. The earthly wisdom is fleshly, it is essential,

734
00:41:34.280 --> 00:41:37.559
it is worldly. So there is a wisdom or there's

735
00:41:37.559 --> 00:41:40.519
a way of looking at things. And really, to some extent,

736
00:41:40.639 --> 00:41:43.880
wisdom is looking at something. Biblical wisdom is looking to

737
00:41:43.920 --> 00:41:47.199
think God's way. There's a way that seemeth right to

738
00:41:47.280 --> 00:41:50.360
a man within there of the ways of death. It

739
00:41:49.880 --> 00:41:54.719
is kind of pinpoint in practicing God's way of doing something.

740
00:41:55.159 --> 00:41:57.639
That's why when you if we in lack wisdom, let

741
00:41:57.719 --> 00:42:00.840
him ask of God. Say God, how do you want

742
00:42:00.880 --> 00:42:03.760
me to do this? Do you want me to engage

743
00:42:03.800 --> 00:42:05.639
in this relationship? Do you want me to pull out?

744
00:42:05.639 --> 00:42:06.880
Do you want me to do this? When do you

745
00:42:06.920 --> 00:42:09.639
want me to do it? Asking God for his perspective

746
00:42:09.719 --> 00:42:13.360
on things, But he says, cease from your own wisdom,

747
00:42:13.800 --> 00:42:16.719
cease from the way you would do things. And once

748
00:42:16.800 --> 00:42:19.119
I meet people and they don't want to discipline their children,

749
00:42:19.679 --> 00:42:22.639
now say, well, you know, I know what the Bible says,

750
00:42:22.679 --> 00:42:24.960
but you know what they're doing. They're they're going their

751
00:42:25.039 --> 00:42:28.320
way and that's going to cause them some problems to

752
00:42:28.400 --> 00:42:31.760
them and to their child. Some folks say, you know,

753
00:42:31.760 --> 00:42:33.719
I just I just don't want to tithe and give.

754
00:42:33.840 --> 00:42:36.519
I just feel like I feel like I don't have

755
00:42:36.559 --> 00:42:38.039
to do that in this day and age. Well, listen,

756
00:42:38.119 --> 00:42:39.480
you can do that, but I think you might want

757
00:42:39.519 --> 00:42:41.639
to really see what the Bible tells you to do

758
00:42:42.840 --> 00:42:43.880
and analyze that.

759
00:42:46.400 --> 00:42:48.880
And just so you know, there's plenty of people who

760
00:42:48.880 --> 00:42:52.000
would look to the Bible and call your question into

761
00:42:52.039 --> 00:42:55.079
probably what you think discipline is or isn't. There's obviously

762
00:42:55.159 --> 00:42:57.920
debates about certain things about the rod and how do

763
00:42:58.000 --> 00:43:01.920
we understand the rod. And there's great disagreement within Christianity

764
00:43:01.960 --> 00:43:04.920
about whether the tithe is a New Testament thing or

765
00:43:04.960 --> 00:43:07.960
not a New Testament thing. So and then who can

766
00:43:08.000 --> 00:43:09.719
you give the tithe to? And who you shouldn't give

767
00:43:09.719 --> 00:43:12.880
the tithe to? Once again, there's lots of voices on

768
00:43:12.920 --> 00:43:15.760
this subject. But I but I guess he would only

769
00:43:15.800 --> 00:43:20.719
want us to listen to him because but there's lots

770
00:43:20.800 --> 00:43:23.519
of different varying views that would all claim to me

771
00:43:23.679 --> 00:43:25.840
coming from the Bible on these subjects.

772
00:43:28.519 --> 00:43:30.840
Because you can do things your way, and the end

773
00:43:30.880 --> 00:43:33.719
or of is going to put some some termination to

774
00:43:33.840 --> 00:43:38.239
some prosperity, to some potential to your own personal, your

775
00:43:38.280 --> 00:43:42.760
personal blessing. So he said, cease from the way you

776
00:43:42.840 --> 00:43:45.199
look at these things, from looking things from your perspective,

777
00:43:45.199 --> 00:43:47.599
and all of us we need to let everything happen

778
00:43:48.119 --> 00:43:51.000
be filtered through what is the best way for God.

779
00:43:51.199 --> 00:43:53.440
Let's look at another concept. OK, say we talked about

780
00:43:53.480 --> 00:43:56.599
ceasing cease from hearing things I shouldn't hear. Cease from

781
00:43:56.679 --> 00:44:00.239
strife and cease from looking at things from my own

782
00:44:00.360 --> 00:44:04.519
perspective and ask for God's way on those situations. The

783
00:44:04.559 --> 00:44:06.960
next the next word real quickly. Our time is going up,

784
00:44:06.960 --> 00:44:10.599
so let's go real quickly at conceit. Conceit. Conceit was

785
00:44:10.599 --> 00:44:13.760
a word that I felt like, I thought I understood,

786
00:44:13.800 --> 00:44:16.719
and I may not understand exactly right now, but to

787
00:44:16.719 --> 00:44:23.000
some extent, it's how someone evaluates themselves, Uh, conceit. It's

788
00:44:23.039 --> 00:44:26.639
like how they see themselves, are their perspective of things.

789
00:44:26.880 --> 00:44:29.079
Let's look at that in context with a couple verses.

790
00:44:29.239 --> 00:44:31.159
Can we go first of all, if we can please

791
00:44:31.519 --> 00:44:35.920
at there's three different times that that that the Bible

792
00:44:35.960 --> 00:44:39.639
says in Proverbs a rich man, a fool, and a

793
00:44:39.760 --> 00:44:42.800
lazy man or a sluggard. When you see the word

794
00:44:42.840 --> 00:44:46.159
conceit in those in the Book of Proverbs, it's referring

795
00:44:46.519 --> 00:44:49.559
to the rich man how he sees himself and his riches,

796
00:44:50.320 --> 00:44:53.599
and and then a sluggard, a lazy man, how he

797
00:44:53.679 --> 00:44:57.719
sees himself and his and his and a fool how

798
00:44:57.760 --> 00:45:01.840
he evaluates himself. Now, all of us have a perspective

799
00:45:02.079 --> 00:45:06.960
of our our way, our thinking, ourselves. The truth of

800
00:45:06.960 --> 00:45:12.079
the matter is it's not always true. You can say, well,

801
00:45:12.119 --> 00:45:13.000
you know, I I.

802
00:45:13.000 --> 00:45:14.159
Care about people, I care about it.

803
00:45:14.159 --> 00:45:16.039
I don't care. Anybody says I know I care about people.

804
00:45:16.079 --> 00:45:18.440
I love that person. I care about that person. You

805
00:45:18.559 --> 00:45:22.079
might say that, but someone else can see that you're

806
00:45:22.119 --> 00:45:26.320
not as caring as you think you are. I'm always

807
00:45:26.360 --> 00:45:28.000
good to people. Someone else might say, you know, I

808
00:45:28.000 --> 00:45:31.559
don't think so. That's your opinion of yourself. That's your

809
00:45:31.880 --> 00:45:35.559
your own conceit, your own view of yourself. I have

810
00:45:35.639 --> 00:45:38.119
got views of myself. You've got views of yourself that

811
00:45:38.280 --> 00:45:43.519
really it's really not not accurate. I'm never rude to people,

812
00:45:44.079 --> 00:45:47.079
and you don't even know you're you're that's your perspective.

813
00:45:47.840 --> 00:45:49.840
If you got someone really real in your world that

814
00:45:49.880 --> 00:45:51.920
can evaluate you, then you might see it differently.

815
00:45:54.320 --> 00:45:57.239
Okay, now I'm gonna take this. This isn't I love

816
00:45:57.280 --> 00:46:01.719
this kind of concept. Conceit it's typical. Is how we

817
00:46:02.360 --> 00:46:06.559
wrongly perceive ourselves? Well, kiss, what if we wrong? If

818
00:46:06.559 --> 00:46:11.760
we cannot clearly evaluate ourselves, then how can we clearly

819
00:46:11.920 --> 00:46:16.400
evaluate if what we believe is true? Therefore, I should

820
00:46:16.400 --> 00:46:19.599
not listen to any other voice. I shouldn't listen to

821
00:46:19.639 --> 00:46:23.119
any other struction, because I perceive that that other instruction

822
00:46:23.239 --> 00:46:25.599
is false and what I believe to be true, Well,

823
00:46:25.719 --> 00:46:31.920
is that not conceit? So I'm interested to know where

824
00:46:34.679 --> 00:46:37.280
where he said two words. So we've got cease and

825
00:46:37.320 --> 00:46:39.920
we've got conceit. This idea of conceit, I think is

826
00:46:40.239 --> 00:46:42.599
something we definitely need to work on. This is interesting,

827
00:46:42.639 --> 00:46:45.920
I'm going to be. I don't know if it's in

828
00:46:45.920 --> 00:46:49.039
Proverbs nineteen. Well, we'll look. We'll look and see where

829
00:46:49.079 --> 00:46:51.280
where the first one is. I was looking at Proverbs

830
00:46:51.320 --> 00:46:53.199
nineteen to see if it was there. It'd be interesting

831
00:46:53.199 --> 00:46:56.280
if cease and conceit was in Proverbs nineteen. It may

832
00:46:56.320 --> 00:46:58.039
not be. Let's see where the second one is.

833
00:47:00.639 --> 00:47:02.519
But the Bible is a rich man, a fool, and

834
00:47:02.559 --> 00:47:06.760
a sluggard see themselves very differently. Just look at these

835
00:47:06.800 --> 00:47:10.519
thoughts real quickly we can. Chapter eighteen, verse number eleven.

836
00:47:13.920 --> 00:47:16.679
Chapter eighteen, verse eleven. Look at this and read it together. Ready,

837
00:47:16.840 --> 00:47:20.039
The rich man's wealth is his strong city and a

838
00:47:20.159 --> 00:47:23.360
high wall in his own conceit. So basically he is

839
00:47:23.400 --> 00:47:27.519
talking about a rich man views his wealth as a

840
00:47:27.559 --> 00:47:29.559
source of security and protection.

841
00:47:32.480 --> 00:47:36.159
All right, Proverbs eighteen eleven. Now the new king James

842
00:47:36.159 --> 00:47:39.280
translates the word esteem. I'm going to reach down here

843
00:47:39.280 --> 00:47:49.119
and grab a King James Bible right here. Proverbs eighteen eleven.

844
00:47:51.079 --> 00:47:59.920
Proverbs eighteen eleven. The rich man's wealth is his strong city,

845
00:48:00.119 --> 00:48:05.440
and as an high wall in his own conceit. So

846
00:48:05.599 --> 00:48:07.800
Proverbs eighteen eleven. Give me a second here, I'm going

847
00:48:07.840 --> 00:48:13.400
to open up the blue letter Bible app Proverbs eighteen eleven. Okay,

848
00:48:13.519 --> 00:48:16.119
remind me later they okay, they're asking for money. Okay,

849
00:48:16.199 --> 00:48:20.480
let's go back here. All right, let's go to Proverbs eighteen.

850
00:48:22.840 --> 00:48:27.119
Where is it? Proverbs eighteen. Let's go to verse eleven.

851
00:48:27.760 --> 00:48:31.559
All right, we didn't do this with a cease, but

852
00:48:31.639 --> 00:48:36.360
that's okay, Proverbs eighteen eleven. In his own conceit, it's

853
00:48:36.599 --> 00:48:39.719
this Hebrew word. It's this Hebrew word.

854
00:48:40.400 --> 00:48:42.079
Strong as Age forty nine oh six.

855
00:48:43.360 --> 00:48:51.000
Mess keith, mass keith, mass keith. It's Strong's definition. Mass

856
00:48:51.079 --> 00:48:56.079
keith a figure carved in stone the wall figurative imagination,

857
00:48:56.280 --> 00:49:00.000
conceit image, picture. So it's the picture. I guess it's

858
00:49:00.119 --> 00:49:03.280
the image you have of yourself, is what he's going with.

859
00:49:03.400 --> 00:49:06.840
This is kind of interesting. It's used. Mass keith is

860
00:49:06.880 --> 00:49:10.039
only used six times so that doesn't give us a lot.

861
00:49:10.119 --> 00:49:13.039
The first time it's used is Leviticus twenty six ' one.

862
00:49:13.320 --> 00:49:16.880
You shall make you no idols nor graven images, neither

863
00:49:17.559 --> 00:49:20.400
neither rear up a standing image. Neither shall you set

864
00:49:20.480 --> 00:49:26.719
up any image that's conceit. Don't set up in image.

865
00:49:26.800 --> 00:49:29.599
The idea is then that would this be the picture,

866
00:49:29.920 --> 00:49:33.800
the image you have of God. Don't set up an image,

867
00:49:33.840 --> 00:49:36.960
because the image will reflect what you picture or how

868
00:49:37.039 --> 00:49:42.800
you see God versus how God is. All right, that's

869
00:49:43.000 --> 00:49:46.159
that's that's kind of interesting, right, what this? We could

870
00:49:46.199 --> 00:49:48.480
do some work on this. Maybe The next passage is

871
00:49:48.840 --> 00:49:51.719
number thirty three fifty two. Then you shall drive out

872
00:49:51.760 --> 00:49:53.639
all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and

873
00:49:53.679 --> 00:49:57.760
destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images,

874
00:49:58.039 --> 00:50:01.239
and quiet pluck down all their high places. You destroy

875
00:50:01.360 --> 00:50:04.840
all these images, You destroy all these idols, because they

876
00:50:04.960 --> 00:50:12.519
are man's conceit, their image, their picture of God. All

877
00:50:12.599 --> 00:50:17.360
right Proverbs seventy three seven. Their eyes stand with fatness.

878
00:50:17.559 --> 00:50:21.599
They have more than their heart could wish. This is

879
00:50:21.800 --> 00:50:25.159
what they perceive their desire. So conceit is how you

880
00:50:25.320 --> 00:50:28.159
perceive things, how you see things. I would never have

881
00:50:28.760 --> 00:50:30.679
I think I would have gone with a different idea.

882
00:50:30.719 --> 00:50:33.559
So I'm learning something here because I would not have

883
00:50:33.639 --> 00:50:36.280
thought of conceit this way. All right, maybe you're not

884
00:50:36.360 --> 00:50:39.719
learning anything, but I am all right. Proverbs eighteen eleven.

885
00:50:39.760 --> 00:50:42.840
The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as

886
00:50:42.880 --> 00:50:47.199
a high wall in his own conceit, so he perceives

887
00:50:47.880 --> 00:50:50.679
something about himself based off his wealth. I think that

888
00:50:50.719 --> 00:50:52.800
maybe is the idea there. You can tell me whether

889
00:50:52.840 --> 00:50:56.000
you agree or disagree. Proverbs twenty five to eleven. A

890
00:50:56.119 --> 00:51:00.000
word fitly spoken is like apples of gold and pictures

891
00:51:00.320 --> 00:51:04.559
of silver. All right, that doesn't really help me much there.

892
00:51:04.840 --> 00:51:08.079
And then Ezekiel eight twelve then said he unto the sun,

893
00:51:08.199 --> 00:51:10.800
to me, son of Man, thou hast seen seen what

894
00:51:10.840 --> 00:51:12.719
the ancients of the House of Israel do in the dark,

895
00:51:12.920 --> 00:51:17.159
every man in the chamber of his imagery. For they say,

896
00:51:17.159 --> 00:51:20.639
the Lord seeth, that's not the Lord hath forsaken the earth.

897
00:51:20.840 --> 00:51:24.559
So conceit is basically the way you picture, the way

898
00:51:24.639 --> 00:51:29.159
you imagine, the way you perceive, the way you see things.

899
00:51:29.480 --> 00:51:35.199
That is your conceit. That that's that's kind of fascinating

900
00:51:35.400 --> 00:51:39.400
to me that I think we could that's that's really interesting.

901
00:51:42.440 --> 00:51:44.320
King, is that true or false?

902
00:51:45.559 --> 00:51:45.920
False?

903
00:51:46.599 --> 00:51:49.360
Bible says that we ought to be careful. Don't don't.

904
00:51:49.400 --> 00:51:52.679
Don't put your stock in riches, because riches go up

905
00:51:52.719 --> 00:51:56.280
and down. They make their self wings and fly away.

906
00:51:57.719 --> 00:51:59.599
Every day. You look at the stock market, what it

907
00:51:59.599 --> 00:52:02.039
says on nine o'clock, It won't say at eleven was

908
00:52:02.079 --> 00:52:03.880
it leven? And won't say at one, because everything's going

909
00:52:03.960 --> 00:52:05.599
to go up and down all day long on the

910
00:52:05.599 --> 00:52:09.400
stock market. It's he says. He says, he tells the uh.

911
00:52:09.559 --> 00:52:11.880
The apostle Paul tells Timothy in first seventy, chapter six.

912
00:52:11.920 --> 00:52:14.800
He says, look, tell these men who have more than

913
00:52:14.840 --> 00:52:16.639
they need, tell these ladies that more than the need

914
00:52:16.960 --> 00:52:21.960
to not to not put your your faith in uncertain riches,

915
00:52:23.119 --> 00:52:27.119
but put your faith in the living God. So uh uh.

916
00:52:27.679 --> 00:52:29.920
A little bit deeper pockets you have is you have

917
00:52:29.960 --> 00:52:33.440
a little more security financially. Don't don't let that be

918
00:52:33.519 --> 00:52:37.119
your protection. It's it's the way you can look at things,

919
00:52:37.159 --> 00:52:39.960
but it's not something. And how many times I just

920
00:52:40.000 --> 00:52:42.519
want to make sure I have enough, I also make

921
00:52:42.559 --> 00:52:46.119
sure i'm I'm secure. Well, if that's all your goal,

922
00:52:46.199 --> 00:52:48.480
you got to be careful now there is prudence and

923
00:52:48.599 --> 00:52:52.360
planning and discernment in that situation. But many times when

924
00:52:52.360 --> 00:52:54.000
we get a little bit more money, all we keep

925
00:52:54.039 --> 00:52:57.480
thinking about is our money, and we and we and

926
00:52:57.519 --> 00:53:00.000
we think that's going to be our security. So that's

927
00:53:00.000 --> 00:53:02.400
that's how a rich man is. He sees his money

928
00:53:02.400 --> 00:53:07.559
as his security. And who really needs to be my security? Yeah,

929
00:53:07.760 --> 00:53:12.239
let your conversation you without competeousness, and be content with

930
00:53:12.320 --> 00:53:15.480
such things as you have, knowing this God.

931
00:53:17.760 --> 00:53:21.599
I think the focus is that it's the wrong perception

932
00:53:22.079 --> 00:53:27.760
that you are conceiving, perceiving in your conceit, you perceive

933
00:53:28.400 --> 00:53:31.639
your riches are these things that they are not. Your

934
00:53:31.679 --> 00:53:36.599
perception is wrong. Conceit is the wrong perception, the wrong understanding.

935
00:53:36.800 --> 00:53:40.280
You don't see things as they really are. You see

936
00:53:40.320 --> 00:53:44.840
things incorrectly, which then goes back to the whole concept,

937
00:53:44.960 --> 00:53:48.079
goes back to the cease cease from instruction. Well, wait

938
00:53:48.119 --> 00:53:50.559
a minute, you gotta be careful because if I'm ceasing

939
00:53:50.559 --> 00:53:53.760
from the instruction I perceived as wrong, is that not

940
00:53:54.000 --> 00:53:58.159
my conceit telling me that maybe I'm perceiving something to

941
00:53:58.159 --> 00:54:01.280
be wrong when it's actually not. Because well, every man

942
00:54:01.400 --> 00:54:03.920
is right in his own eyes. So I don't know.

943
00:54:03.960 --> 00:54:06.440
He's not connecting the two concepts, but I see the

944
00:54:06.440 --> 00:54:10.960
two concepts very much linked together. Right, But this idea

945
00:54:11.000 --> 00:54:13.239
of conceit, I think is fascinating. Let's se if he

946
00:54:13.280 --> 00:54:14.159
expands on this.

947
00:54:17.280 --> 00:54:20.199
Odd, if I have God, he's enough, He'll never leave

948
00:54:20.199 --> 00:54:22.880
me nor forsake me. God does not want to You

949
00:54:22.920 --> 00:54:26.000
can't serve God. And I'm not telling you this to

950
00:54:26.039 --> 00:54:28.719
be frivolous or foolish. I'm telling you this because it's

951
00:54:28.719 --> 00:54:31.320
a biblical principle and you cannot read the same Bible

952
00:54:31.360 --> 00:54:32.880
I'm reading and not see it.

953
00:54:35.800 --> 00:54:39.599
Oh, he's given such a good point, but he's missing

954
00:54:39.679 --> 00:54:43.599
the point by just going after Hey, don't trust in money, no, no, no, no,

955
00:54:43.960 --> 00:54:48.039
don't trust in your perception. Don't trust in the way

956
00:54:48.079 --> 00:54:53.800
you see. Your perception, your image of anything. You could

957
00:54:53.800 --> 00:54:58.440
can be completely wrong. Right, That's just the whole thing

958
00:54:58.480 --> 00:55:00.719
about the heart. The heart is death really wicked into

959
00:55:00.760 --> 00:55:04.840
see full above all things. You cannot trust basically any

960
00:55:04.920 --> 00:55:08.079
perception you have because our perception is always wrong, which

961
00:55:08.119 --> 00:55:10.760
then leads to major hermoneutical issues with then how can

962
00:55:10.800 --> 00:55:12.159
I trust my interpretation? All?

963
00:55:12.199 --> 00:55:13.079
Right, But he.

964
00:55:14.679 --> 00:55:17.519
Gave this idea of conceit, but he's not following through.

965
00:55:17.639 --> 00:55:19.840
He's then kind of going back to just more of

966
00:55:19.880 --> 00:55:22.760
a service. It's this deeper issue of what conceit is

967
00:55:22.800 --> 00:55:25.880
that I he Oh, that's what I want him to

968
00:55:25.920 --> 00:55:26.400
focus on.

969
00:55:30.079 --> 00:55:33.920
And remember there's two things very personal, music and money.

970
00:55:35.719 --> 00:55:38.679
And the largest book in the Bible is a song book,

971
00:55:39.880 --> 00:55:41.840
and music starts in the heart and it should be

972
00:55:41.840 --> 00:55:45.199
for the Lord. But money is mentioned over eighteen hundred

973
00:55:45.239 --> 00:55:48.880
times in the Scripture's Money and Possessions, because it gets

974
00:55:48.880 --> 00:55:52.039
down in in between the psyche of every human being.

975
00:55:52.440 --> 00:55:55.280
It's a rich man in his own conceit, he sees

976
00:55:55.320 --> 00:55:59.760
his finances as security and the strong high wall that

977
00:55:59.800 --> 00:56:03.519
he it protects him. Let's look get another verse in

978
00:56:03.599 --> 00:56:07.880
Chapter twenty eight Versuver eleven. It's on that same topic

979
00:56:08.400 --> 00:56:09.840
once again, you look at it. I hope you will

980
00:56:09.880 --> 00:56:11.880
make time to think about these things and ask God

981
00:56:11.920 --> 00:56:14.000
what he wants us to learn from verse eleven. The

982
00:56:14.119 --> 00:56:17.239
rich man is wise in his own conceit, so the

983
00:56:17.280 --> 00:56:20.400
way he sees himself. But the poor man that hath

984
00:56:20.519 --> 00:56:25.840
understanding does what isn't that something he said? A rich

985
00:56:25.920 --> 00:56:30.239
man will evaluate his status in his own way, but

986
00:56:30.360 --> 00:56:35.000
a poor man with understanding can kind of figure him out,

987
00:56:35.280 --> 00:56:37.599
can kind of evaluate what's really going on there. It's

988
00:56:37.679 --> 00:56:38.960
kind of an interesting thought something.

989
00:56:41.440 --> 00:56:44.239
Okay. Now, wait, so Proverbs twenty at eleven. I was

990
00:56:44.239 --> 00:56:46.599
a little confused because I looked up the Hebrew word,

991
00:56:46.679 --> 00:56:48.599
and I'm like, that same Hebrew word is not in

992
00:56:48.599 --> 00:56:51.159
Proverbs twenty at eleven. All right, So the rich man

993
00:56:51.239 --> 00:56:54.679
is wise in his own eyes, but the poor, who

994
00:56:54.840 --> 00:56:58.559
has understanding, searches him out. So this is the idea

995
00:56:58.599 --> 00:57:01.960
of being wise in his own The translators of the

996
00:57:02.039 --> 00:57:05.039
King James, I think makes it translates it conceit. Let

997
00:57:05.039 --> 00:57:08.079
me reach down and grab my King James Bible again.

998
00:57:08.119 --> 00:57:12.440
I put it back down Proverbs twenty eight eleven. It's

999
00:57:12.480 --> 00:57:16.199
a completely different Hebrew word, though completely different Hebrew word.

1000
00:57:16.480 --> 00:57:19.679
All right, the rich man is wise in his own conceit.

1001
00:57:20.119 --> 00:57:23.239
The rich man is wise in his own conceit. Again,

1002
00:57:23.320 --> 00:57:25.639
the conceit is. Now if we go with the other

1003
00:57:25.679 --> 00:57:28.639
Hebrew word, it's the picture, the image you have her yourself.

1004
00:57:29.000 --> 00:57:32.360
This is a different Hebrew word, the word your conceit.

1005
00:57:32.480 --> 00:57:34.599
Here it's kind of the whole phrase. In fact, if

1006
00:57:34.599 --> 00:57:37.559
you look at the anti linear for Proverbs twenty eight eleven.

1007
00:57:38.000 --> 00:57:40.880
It's actually in his own conceit. But if you look

1008
00:57:40.880 --> 00:57:43.239
at the Hebrew word that's translated that, it's this.

1009
00:57:43.360 --> 00:57:47.320
Strong age fifty eight to sixty nine alien.

1010
00:57:48.239 --> 00:57:52.639
Alien iron iron, it's almost the idea of I. But

1011
00:57:52.679 --> 00:57:55.960
it's used eight one hundred and eighty seven times. Well

1012
00:57:56.360 --> 00:58:01.039
right here, okay, strong definition, it's I. It's a primitive word,

1013
00:58:01.079 --> 00:58:05.639
and I literally or figuratively a fountain landscape, affliction outward

1014
00:58:05.639 --> 00:58:08.880
appearance before think bass color, conceit be. I mean it

1015
00:58:08.880 --> 00:58:11.199
goes a million things, but it really starts with an eye.

1016
00:58:11.239 --> 00:58:15.199
The outline of biblical usage I. I physical eye has

1017
00:58:15.239 --> 00:58:19.920
shown mental qualities, a mental and spiritual faculties spring fountain.

1018
00:58:20.239 --> 00:58:23.199
So I think it's the idea that in Proverbs twenty

1019
00:58:23.239 --> 00:58:25.360
eight eleven you can almost say this, the rich man

1020
00:58:25.440 --> 00:58:29.960
is wise in his own eyes. Once again, the conceit

1021
00:58:30.239 --> 00:58:34.000
is how you see things, how you perceive to have conceit.

1022
00:58:34.440 --> 00:58:37.400
If you are the idea of conceit is you are.

1023
00:58:37.840 --> 00:58:44.920
It's how you see things. It's your wrong understanding of things, others, people,

1024
00:58:45.320 --> 00:58:50.880
truth self. It's your conceit that makes you think you've

1025
00:58:50.880 --> 00:58:55.119
got it all figured out right, which then calls in

1026
00:58:55.199 --> 00:58:58.599
to question everything. Right, So then if I can't trust

1027
00:58:58.639 --> 00:59:02.039
that which, if I can't trust my perception, if I

1028
00:59:02.079 --> 00:59:06.320
cannot trust my own understanding, if all of us think

1029
00:59:06.360 --> 00:59:08.280
we are right in our own eyes, then where do

1030
00:59:08.320 --> 00:59:11.280
we turn? We need an external source. Well, the external

1031
00:59:11.760 --> 00:59:14.599
source is God's word. Now that sounds wonderful, and that

1032
00:59:14.760 --> 00:59:17.920
sounds great. But who reads God's word? I read it,

1033
00:59:18.000 --> 00:59:25.320
So then can I trust my understanding of it? This

1034
00:59:25.400 --> 00:59:26.800
becomes somewhat problematic?

1035
00:59:26.800 --> 00:59:27.039
All right?

1036
00:59:27.039 --> 00:59:28.320
So I got to write this verse down in my

1037
00:59:28.400 --> 00:59:35.800
journal here Proverbs twenty eight eleven. All right, But then

1038
00:59:35.840 --> 00:59:38.840
the next part of that verse is Proverbs twenty eight eleven.

1039
00:59:41.159 --> 00:59:46.440
But the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out. If

1040
00:59:46.480 --> 00:59:49.639
you have understanding, then you seek a matter out, You

1041
00:59:50.199 --> 00:59:53.000
search it out. You just don't immediately perceive. I think

1042
00:59:53.079 --> 00:59:57.199
the thing is we always have to instead of having conceit.

1043
00:59:57.519 --> 01:00:00.960
I think the what's opposite of conceit is humility, and

1044
01:00:01.039 --> 01:00:07.679
humility is the ever awareness. It's the ever present awareness

1045
01:00:07.880 --> 01:00:12.000
that you don't necessarily know, and you cannot necessarily trust

1046
01:00:12.199 --> 01:00:14.760
what you do know, and you cannot trust what you

1047
01:00:14.880 --> 01:00:18.159
have learned in the past. So every time is a

1048
01:00:18.199 --> 01:00:21.440
new way. You've got to challenge yourself, question yourself, and

1049
01:00:21.559 --> 01:00:27.079
question your perception because your perception is inherently flawed.

1050
01:00:29.239 --> 01:00:31.480
I think I need to think more about to even

1051
01:00:31.519 --> 01:00:34.480
explain completely. But we do see the word can see

1052
01:00:34.960 --> 01:00:38.000
how a man sees himself. And he says a poor

1053
01:00:38.039 --> 01:00:40.639
man can come alongside with understanding and really see how

1054
01:00:40.679 --> 01:00:44.199
things really are. And I think that's interesting. It's look

1055
01:00:44.199 --> 01:00:46.519
about the fool real quickly. I think you're familiar with

1056
01:00:46.519 --> 01:00:51.320
this chapter twenty six, verse number five, twenty six vers

1057
01:00:51.400 --> 01:00:55.840
number five. Let's read it together. Can we please answer

1058
01:00:55.840 --> 01:01:01.679
a fool according to his folly and how he sees

1059
01:01:01.800 --> 01:01:04.800
verse Nomber twelve. Let's look at that as well. Seest

1060
01:01:04.800 --> 01:01:08.159
thou a man wise in his own conceit. There is

1061
01:01:08.320 --> 01:01:11.599
more hope of a fool than of him, And a

1062
01:01:11.679 --> 01:01:20.880
fool evaluates himself very differently. He sees himself mister mister, oh,

1063
01:01:20.960 --> 01:01:23.360
it's the guy with Microsoft. I'm struggling with his name

1064
01:01:23.400 --> 01:01:25.960
right now, Bill Gates. You know, he kind of sees

1065
01:01:26.039 --> 01:01:30.239
himself much different, and he sees a world without God.

1066
01:01:30.360 --> 01:01:33.360
He sees a world with a lower population. There's too

1067
01:01:33.360 --> 01:01:37.119
many people being born. When people look at a fool

1068
01:01:37.159 --> 01:01:41.239
that just chose us to reject God. Reject the lore.

1069
01:01:43.960 --> 01:01:47.599
Again so much. I know this is standard church language. Well,

1070
01:01:47.599 --> 01:01:50.440
you always look at everybody else. It drives me crazy.

1071
01:01:50.440 --> 01:01:53.320
We have to look at ourselves in some ways. He's going,

1072
01:01:53.360 --> 01:01:56.639
he's doing the very thing conceit is. See Bill Gates

1073
01:01:56.719 --> 01:01:59.840
is the fool, but he's not right. Everyone else is wrong,

1074
01:02:00.079 --> 01:02:02.920
but we're right. I can't stand that about Christianity and

1075
01:02:02.960 --> 01:02:05.840
about preaching. It's always everyone else is the bad guys.

1076
01:02:05.880 --> 01:02:08.599
We're the We're always the heroes of every story. All right.

1077
01:02:08.800 --> 01:02:12.119
But Proverbs twenty six to five. Answer a fool according

1078
01:02:12.159 --> 01:02:15.599
to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

1079
01:02:16.000 --> 01:02:19.719
Being wise in your own eye is conceit your perception,

1080
01:02:20.039 --> 01:02:26.599
how you see things, you think you're right. Proverbs twenty

1081
01:02:26.599 --> 01:02:29.719
six twelve. I think he says, do you see a

1082
01:02:29.760 --> 01:02:33.039
man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope

1083
01:02:33.039 --> 01:02:34.960
for a fool than for him. See the minute you

1084
01:02:35.000 --> 01:02:37.440
think you're wise in your own eyes, there's no hope

1085
01:02:37.519 --> 01:02:39.599
for you. The minute you think you've got it all

1086
01:02:39.639 --> 01:02:46.079
figured out. So if you can't cease from instruction, that

1087
01:02:46.679 --> 01:02:49.760
because in one hand you want to cease from instruction,

1088
01:02:49.760 --> 01:02:51.239
that would take you away from the Word of God.

1089
01:02:51.440 --> 01:02:53.719
But at the same time, you can't be the one

1090
01:02:53.760 --> 01:02:56.360
determining if that teaching is taking you from the word

1091
01:02:56.400 --> 01:02:58.039
of God or not taking you from the Word of God,

1092
01:02:58.199 --> 01:03:00.679
because you're basing it on your understanding of God's word,

1093
01:03:00.880 --> 01:03:04.039
which could be wrong. So in your own conceit, you

1094
01:03:04.079 --> 01:03:06.280
could perceive that what you think is right when it

1095
01:03:06.320 --> 01:03:09.400
could actually be wrong. I think the I think what

1096
01:03:09.440 --> 01:03:12.840
we have to do is humbly acknowledge that we do

1097
01:03:13.000 --> 01:03:15.920
not have we don't have a corner on the truth,

1098
01:03:16.119 --> 01:03:19.280
and that our understanding is flawed, no matter how good

1099
01:03:19.320 --> 01:03:21.920
we may think it is, and we have to continue

1100
01:03:22.039 --> 01:03:26.039
to pursue and study and listen and be humble enough

1101
01:03:26.239 --> 01:03:29.239
to say what I learned yesterday is of no value

1102
01:03:29.239 --> 01:03:32.119
today because I have to study it again today because

1103
01:03:32.119 --> 01:03:37.199
my previous understanding could be wrong. It's not about Bill Gates,

1104
01:03:37.239 --> 01:03:37.960
it's about us.

1105
01:03:40.559 --> 01:03:44.840
They see themselves much differently, he said, he said, he said,

1106
01:03:45.119 --> 01:03:48.559
it's a fool, a fool has has sees himself very

1107
01:03:48.639 --> 01:03:51.360
much differently. And then it says a person, a man

1108
01:03:51.599 --> 01:03:53.360
in his own canceit. There's more hope for a fool

1109
01:03:53.719 --> 01:03:56.960
that he just judges himself based upon how he feels,

1110
01:03:57.000 --> 01:03:59.079
how he thinks, what he wants. There's more hope for

1111
01:03:59.119 --> 01:04:02.079
a fool than look at the last thought. Real quickly.

1112
01:04:02.079 --> 01:04:04.000
We've talked about the rich man. We've talked about a fool,

1113
01:04:04.320 --> 01:04:07.639
talk about the sluggard. Chapter twenty six and verse number sixteen,

1114
01:04:07.760 --> 01:04:14.719
same chapter, verse sixteen. A lazy person, there's several verses

1115
01:04:14.760 --> 01:04:17.079
before us A slowful man say that there's a line

1116
01:04:17.119 --> 01:04:19.199
in the way, there's a line in the streets. When's

1117
01:04:19.239 --> 01:04:22.519
last time you saw a lion running through Hammond? Okay,

1118
01:04:22.559 --> 01:04:25.800
it just doesn't happen. Okay, most lions are out in

1119
01:04:25.840 --> 01:04:28.599
the wildern someplace. They're certainly not in the streets. But

1120
01:04:28.719 --> 01:04:31.599
to a lazy person, he'll use anything as an excuse

1121
01:04:31.719 --> 01:04:34.800
not to get out there and do something. That's basically

1122
01:04:34.800 --> 01:04:37.840
the thought. A lazy person will come up with anything.

1123
01:04:38.239 --> 01:04:42.320
It could be like, are you kidding me? Really, that's

1124
01:04:42.360 --> 01:04:44.719
why you're not going to go to work. That's why

1125
01:04:44.800 --> 01:04:46.519
you're not gonna do that. No, there's a lion out there.

1126
01:04:46.519 --> 01:04:48.960
I'm nervous if I go outside them, I get by

1127
01:04:48.960 --> 01:04:51.760
a lion in the Hammon. Not gonna happen. Next verse

1128
01:04:51.800 --> 01:04:54.199
if you would please look at verse fourteen. As a

1129
01:04:54.239 --> 01:04:56.519
door turned upon the hinges, so does a slow fell

1130
01:04:56.599 --> 01:05:01.440
upon is what bed? Was just rolling over? Not? Rather

1131
01:05:01.480 --> 01:05:03.519
than get out of bed, Let's roll over and push news.

1132
01:05:03.519 --> 01:05:05.719
And that's what I do anyway. I just push news

1133
01:05:05.760 --> 01:05:08.360
and roll over a little basis. That's a slowful thing

1134
01:05:08.440 --> 01:05:10.880
to do. He said, when it's time to get up,

1135
01:05:10.920 --> 01:05:13.599
probably ought to get up, get going, He said, just

1136
01:05:14.639 --> 01:05:17.679
do that. In verse fifteen, the slowful man hideth his

1137
01:05:17.760 --> 01:05:19.639
hand in his bosom, and grieve him to keep it

1138
01:05:19.679 --> 01:05:21.880
to his take it to his mouth. He doesn't respond,

1139
01:05:21.920 --> 01:05:26.360
doesn't take the responsibility. It doesn't work. Now look verse sixteen.

1140
01:05:26.719 --> 01:05:30.079
The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit and how

1141
01:05:30.119 --> 01:05:35.719
he views. Then seven men can render a reason a

1142
01:05:35.800 --> 01:05:39.039
lazy person, a fool, and a rich man see themselves different.

1143
01:05:39.079 --> 01:05:43.280
Be a lazy person has more reasons and excuses why

1144
01:05:43.320 --> 01:05:46.920
he can't do what he should do. Then seven men

1145
01:05:47.119 --> 01:05:53.960
can think of reasons why.

1146
01:05:51.280 --> 01:05:57.599
Because conceit is our wrong perception of self, of circumstance

1147
01:05:58.000 --> 01:06:02.519
of others, of true it's conceit as we think we've

1148
01:06:02.519 --> 01:06:03.639
got it all figured out.

1149
01:06:08.360 --> 01:06:10.559
That they see themselves and they think of all the

1150
01:06:10.639 --> 01:06:13.800
reasons why and boy friends. One of the things I

1151
01:06:13.840 --> 01:06:17.639
love about to good Christians that good Christians are diligent people.

1152
01:06:18.440 --> 01:06:24.360
They use their time wisely, they're productive, innovative, they use initiative.

1153
01:06:24.880 --> 01:06:26.960
And this church, this is not a perfect church, but

1154
01:06:27.079 --> 01:06:31.039
we have a lot of very hard working people. But

1155
01:06:31.119 --> 01:06:34.119
you know, it just takes a few lazy people to

1156
01:06:34.199 --> 01:06:36.519
real sap the strength out of the rest of us.

1157
01:06:37.679 --> 01:06:40.239
And we don't want to be lazy, want to be innovative,

1158
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we want to use initiative, and certainly don't want to

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make excuses. You've heard me say in recent days. I

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heard this, but a man with an excuse is a

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poor excuse for a man. And people who are good

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at making excuses aren't usually good on anything else. And

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when you find yourself continually making excuses, maybe the problem

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is not all that's going around you. It's it's us.

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It's our perspective of ourself. Everyone. So I'll I'll go

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to a city, or to a state, or to a country,

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and the people say, well, it's just really hard here,

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it's really hard. You don't understand the people here or

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by This area especially is difficult. And you know, I

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want to say it's hard everywhere. It's not a walk

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in the park in ham Indiana. It's not a walk

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in the park in Talbotay, Brazil. It's not a walk

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in the park in the Amazon. It's not a walk

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in the park in Tokyo. I feel like probably everywhere

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you go, it's going to be challenging. But a sluggard

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will come up with more things than his viewpoint of

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why he can't do what he needs to do than

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seven men can think of things two words tonight, What

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was the first one? Cease certain things? We should stop,

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stop listening to things. We should listen to be careful

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about those things. Stop strife, and stop looking at things

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from your perspective, ignoring God's perspective, and then conceit. How

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we see how we see your riches, are our finances

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or materialism, How a fool looks at himself and see

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things his way, and then how slugger looks at things.

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May God help us?

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And that's the end of the sermon. That's a nice

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little study. I think that's obviously like their Wednesday Night

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Bible study. It's kind of interesting. I like the way it.

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You know, I grabbed a journal and was writing everything down,

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so cease and conceit, Cease and conceit, cease and conceit,

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cease having conceit, which is the wrong perception of ourself

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01:08:49.000 --> 01:08:51.119
things around us. Now, there was a lot of other

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01:08:51.159 --> 01:08:54.159
things to see see strife completely. Yeah, we need to

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stop the strife and the arguing and the fighting, and

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that being a tell bearer. Yeah, that all those other things.

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But I just find it interesting if you take the

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cease and the conceit idea, cease listening to any instruction

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that takes you away from the truth, but then conceit

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is your wrong perception of maybe even what truth is

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and what is right and what is wrong. You incorrectly

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01:09:17.159 --> 01:09:27.159
perceive things. We all, by nature have conceit. We all,

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01:09:27.199 --> 01:09:31.760
by nature we perceive things from our own perspective. We

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only see things. It's hard for us to even understand

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01:09:35.159 --> 01:09:38.720
the other person's perspective when we fight. Listen, when we

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01:09:38.760 --> 01:09:41.199
have a disagreement or fighting, Why are we having a

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01:09:41.199 --> 01:09:44.479
disagreement in fighting? We're disagreeing in fighting because we only

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see things from our perspective. We can't see the other perspective.

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We are selfish, self centered, arrogant, conceited people who only

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01:09:52.479 --> 01:09:55.680
see things our own way. But that makes it very,

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01:09:55.800 --> 01:09:58.680
very dangerous then to consider when it comes to God's

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word that in our own conceit, we always perceive we're right,

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01:10:03.119 --> 01:10:05.800
we perceive everyone else is wrong. So how do we

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balance all of that? I don't know, but I've given

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you two words they have and I've given them to

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you through reviewing it, cease and conceit. Now you can

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01:10:16.560 --> 01:10:18.119
do more work on this if you were like I

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don't have a specific assignment to give to you, but

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something to at least consider. I got us into a

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number of passages of proverbs, so I think that is awesome.

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And well, as I started, I'll end I did this

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for one kind of selfish reason. My own pride said,

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you've got to do this. You've got to do this.

1224
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You've got to do this, You've got to do this. Now,

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01:10:41.880 --> 01:10:43.239
when it's all said and done, I don't know if

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I accomplish anything. So now what I'm going to do

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is my own pride. Then I'm going to kick myself, going,

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why did you spend seventy minutes doing that? You should

1229
01:10:50.159 --> 01:10:52.279
have done something better, you should have done Now that

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01:10:52.520 --> 01:10:54.560
was trash. Why did you even do that? You've done

1231
01:10:54.600 --> 01:10:58.039
three hours of bad teaching today, and so now I'm

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just because can I have an accurate person? I don't know.

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If I can't, well, because my pride won't let all right, well,

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then we can get into a whole. But I did

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this for wrong reasons. I did because it was my

1236
01:11:09.119 --> 01:11:11.520
own pride. I wanted to prove that my seizures and

1237
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neurological issues won't stop me so that I'm in charge.

1238
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I don't know if I did anything beneficial. I know

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that I've got, you know, a journal here now with

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cease and conceit and a bunch of cross referencing, so

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01:11:26.119 --> 01:11:28.000
I can go back and do something with this if

1242
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I discipline myself. But I think hopefully it's giving you

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something to consider and think about this evening. Thanks to listening.

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You can email me always at news I f at

1245
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yahoo dot com. That's news, I f at yahoo dot com.

1246
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That's news I f at yahoo dot com. Now, after

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seventy one minutes, I'm really starting to feel the effects

1248
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of probably, why did I do this? I proved a point.

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I may now pay the consequence. We'll see, all right.

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Thanks for listening everyone, Have a great night. God bless