WEBVTT 00:00.031 --> 00:02.556 [SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, welcome to day three hundred and ten. 00:02.616 --> 00:05.762 [SPEAKER_00]: We are almost at the end of the book of Proverbs. 00:05.802 --> 00:06.363 [SPEAKER_00]: Can you believe it? 00:06.564 --> 00:09.128 [SPEAKER_00]: It feels like that has flown by. 00:09.168 --> 00:13.557 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, we got today in the moral left to dig into the book of Proverbs. 00:13.717 --> 00:18.266 [SPEAKER_00]: I've been loving our time together, studying this book of wisdom. 00:18.306 --> 00:23.035 [SPEAKER_00]: Today we've got three Proverbs, Proverbs 25, 26, 00:23.015 --> 00:30.788 [SPEAKER_00]: And 27, if you haven't done the reading, this is your chance to stop the video pause audio. 00:31.109 --> 00:32.872 [SPEAKER_00]: Go get the reading done. 00:32.892 --> 00:38.621 [SPEAKER_00]: We want this podcast to supplement your Bobber Reading not substitute for it. 00:38.902 --> 00:42.728 [SPEAKER_00]: So go get Proverbs 25 through 27. 00:42.708 --> 01:01.020 [SPEAKER_00]: done and read let's cross it off the to-do list not like a chore but you know what I mean we're gonna cross it off the to-do list and then come back and you can enjoy the episode together for everyone who's done the reading let me jump into context clues then nerdy nuggets and then our Thomas truth. 01:01.000 --> 01:03.622 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to kind of give a big picture. 01:03.662 --> 01:07.086 [SPEAKER_00]: So what are the proverbs actually doing, okay? 01:07.446 --> 01:14.773 [SPEAKER_00]: Obviously, we don't have like historical context or author context or audience context or anything like that today. 01:15.513 --> 01:23.601 [SPEAKER_00]: But what I do want to do is just give you a 30,000 foot idea of what the proverbs are trying to accomplish. 01:24.041 --> 01:30.467 [SPEAKER_00]: And I think I can say it in this one sentence that the goal 01:30.447 --> 01:35.473 [SPEAKER_00]: instruct you on how to think, not what to think. 01:35.994 --> 01:56.438 [SPEAKER_00]: I actually think that's the goal of wisdom, generally speaking, that wisdom doesn't just tell you what to think, but how to think, I don't know if you've ever interacted with someone who's truly wise and you've asked them for advice, if someone's really really wise and you ask them for advice, they'll ask you a million questions. 01:56.418 --> 02:04.018 [SPEAKER_00]: and they'll kind of lead you to an answer, and by the time you get to that answer, you'll feel like you discovered the answer on your own. 02:04.759 --> 02:07.386 [SPEAKER_00]: I do that all the time, okay? 02:07.486 --> 02:13.161 [SPEAKER_00]: My goal isn't to make people dependent on me, and if I just tell people what I think, 02:13.141 --> 02:16.147 [SPEAKER_00]: but never help them to understand how I think. 02:16.468 --> 02:19.695 [SPEAKER_00]: I've trained them to just be dependent on asking me for wisdom. 02:20.216 --> 02:23.883 [SPEAKER_00]: But the goal is not to be wise in my own eyes. 02:24.505 --> 02:29.074 [SPEAKER_00]: The goal is to help another person to actually be wise and attain wisdom. 02:29.054 --> 02:38.812 [SPEAKER_00]: And so we can see that in two little lines that we've got from today's reading and I want to like I like this We're gonna get into my top. 02:39.233 --> 02:41.878 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll try to do top seven maybe top eight. 02:41.898 --> 02:42.238 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll see. 02:42.278 --> 02:42.599 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll see. 02:42.619 --> 02:42.939 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll see. 02:43.280 --> 02:43.480 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll see. 02:43.501 --> 02:47.448 [SPEAKER_00]: I've got 10 written down, but you know Yeah, I don't want this episode to be too long. 02:47.468 --> 02:52.497 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, but I want to give us a proper that really unlocks 02:52.477 --> 02:55.460 [SPEAKER_00]: what the book of Proverbs is doing as a whole. 02:55.920 --> 02:57.242 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's Proverbs chapter 26. 02:57.302 --> 02:58.924 [SPEAKER_00]: So this is our context clue for the day. 02:59.524 --> 03:03.528 [SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs chapter 26 we're going to read verse 4 and then we're going to read verse 5. 03:04.189 --> 03:08.373 [SPEAKER_00]: And from the outside it's going to look like these lines don't agree with each other. 03:08.774 --> 03:18.163 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, Proverbs chapter 26 verse 4 says this, do not answer a fool according to his 03:18.143 --> 03:47.273 [SPEAKER_00]: do not, do not, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don 03:47.253 --> 03:48.195 [SPEAKER_00]: But how to think? 03:48.516 --> 03:57.119 [SPEAKER_00]: And the Proverbs can't teach you how to think, unless it gives you two pieces of advice that are in contradiction to each other. 03:57.540 --> 04:01.490 [SPEAKER_00]: So what is Proverbs chapter 26 actually saying? 04:01.951 --> 04:04.097 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, it's saying sometimes. 04:04.077 --> 04:20.550 [SPEAKER_00]: You shouldn't answer a fool and then sometimes you should which means wisdom is not one size fits all wisdom actually requires that you know the circumstance know what's happening know what's going on that you have an intimate awareness of 04:20.530 --> 04:29.731 [SPEAKER_00]: you know a scenario and then can apply not just general wisdom but specific advice for specific scenarios. 04:30.232 --> 04:34.001 [SPEAKER_00]: So there are times where answering a fool according to his folly, that idea. 04:34.542 --> 04:37.729 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes answering a fool according to their folly, it's a good idea. 04:37.709 --> 04:46.817 [SPEAKER_00]: depends on the situation, that does not mean that truth is relative, that doesn't mean any of that, that's wild, that that idea is crazy. 04:47.477 --> 04:56.065 [SPEAKER_00]: But what it does mean is that I don't have the same answer every time for the seemingly similar situations. 04:56.665 --> 05:06.754 [SPEAKER_00]: I, as a leader, have to take into account that there are different nuances that require 05:06.734 --> 05:19.781 [SPEAKER_00]: and I would say this verse or these two verses are proof that what proverb is really trying to get you to do is to learn how to think, not what, to think. 05:20.262 --> 05:22.667 [SPEAKER_00]: Because that is what it means to actually be wise. 05:22.647 --> 05:25.971 [SPEAKER_00]: Alright, let's dive into our, we're going to say top 10. 05:26.011 --> 05:27.133 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll see how many we can get through. 05:27.493 --> 05:29.977 [SPEAKER_00]: Our top 10, top 10, air quotes, top 10. 05:30.297 --> 05:32.380 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll see how many we can we can handle today. 05:32.860 --> 05:41.011 [SPEAKER_00]: Uh, Proverbs, chapter 25 verse 2 says this, it is the glory of God to conceal a matter. 05:41.432 --> 05:44.115 [SPEAKER_00]: So God likes to conceal stuff. 05:44.095 --> 05:50.366 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, it's the glory of God to conceal a matter, to search out a matter is the glory of kings. 05:50.987 --> 05:56.316 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, now here's another thing that I do when I read Proverbs, obviously, we don't live in a world with kings. 05:56.696 --> 05:59.421 [SPEAKER_00]: So I just kind of substitute the word leader. 05:59.401 --> 05:59.882 [SPEAKER_00]: leader. 06:00.322 --> 06:09.975 [SPEAKER_00]: It by by subbing out the word king and putting in the word leader, it actually helps me to contextualize the Proverbs in a really really helpful way. 06:10.215 --> 06:13.159 [SPEAKER_00]: So, Proverbs chapter 25 verse 2, what does it mean? 06:13.520 --> 06:15.963 [SPEAKER_00]: It means that God hides stuff and we seek it out. 06:16.303 --> 06:17.305 [SPEAKER_00]: It's right, I'm seek. 06:17.785 --> 06:19.948 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so wisdom is worth having. 06:20.188 --> 06:21.510 [SPEAKER_00]: It's worth digging up. 06:21.971 --> 06:23.012 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm bearing. 06:22.992 --> 06:25.596 [SPEAKER_00]: wisdom is always going to be buried is always going to be hidden. 06:25.997 --> 06:28.400 [SPEAKER_00]: The best things in life have to be revealed. 06:28.721 --> 06:30.864 [SPEAKER_00]: They have to be searched out, okay? 06:31.164 --> 06:37.734 [SPEAKER_00]: And you got to kind of know that that like the best ideas aren't just going to appear out of thin air. 06:37.954 --> 06:43.002 [SPEAKER_00]: Like you're going to have to search for the truth and that there's glory in that. 06:43.583 --> 06:45.486 [SPEAKER_00]: God's glory is in hiding stuff. 06:45.906 --> 06:50.333 [SPEAKER_00]: Our 06:50.313 --> 07:03.472 [SPEAKER_00]: When you're frustrated, you should actually realize or remember, not the glory of a leader to find the answer, discovery, that's, there's glory in just discovering things. 07:03.492 --> 07:08.280 [SPEAKER_00]: How lazy would we be if God just gave us all the answers to everything, really, really easy? 07:08.580 --> 07:19.476 [SPEAKER_00]: The muscles that it takes for a little baby bird to break out of its shell, those are muscles that are necessary for schools in development. 07:19.456 --> 07:32.488 [SPEAKER_00]: you know, help kids that were C-section babies because when kids come out of the birth canal, they're actually like shaping their head and their their muscles like right here in the forehead. 07:32.948 --> 07:38.673 [SPEAKER_00]: But in a C-section, by removing the struggle, we actually could weaken the child. 07:39.034 --> 07:40.035 [SPEAKER_00]: And so I love this. 07:40.475 --> 07:41.896 [SPEAKER_00]: God could just give you answers. 07:42.477 --> 07:49.463 [SPEAKER_00]: But it's the glory of a leader to seek it out. 07:49.443 --> 08:00.353 [SPEAKER_00]: Sure, God could just wave a magic wand and dip an e-bopity Boo the answers into my brain, but that's not the glory of there's no glory in that For God and there's definitely no glory in that for me. 08:01.074 --> 08:09.742 [SPEAKER_00]: So of course God could give me the cheat codes on marriage, but there's no glory in that For him there's no glory in that for me in my wife. 08:10.222 --> 08:16.648 [SPEAKER_00]: So the glory of a leader is to find the answers, Discover it because who you become on the process. 08:16.628 --> 08:20.454 [SPEAKER_00]: of trying to find those answers is actually the goal of wisdom. 08:20.854 --> 08:32.011 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, Proverbs chapter 25 verse 11, it's another government says this like apples of gold in settings of silver is a ruling rightly given. 08:32.452 --> 08:39.042 [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to contextualize this one too because I don't give a ruling but I do make decisions. 08:39.022 --> 08:41.647 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, and I can experience decision fatigue. 08:42.047 --> 08:49.120 [SPEAKER_00]: So the same way that I'm taking out the word king and I'm putting in the word leader, I'm gonna go ahead and take out the word ruling and put the word decision. 08:49.600 --> 08:57.975 [SPEAKER_00]: So like apples, and sorry, like apples of gold in settings of silver, is a decision rightly given. 08:57.955 --> 09:00.198 [SPEAKER_00]: I make a lot of decisions every day, but you do too. 09:00.979 --> 09:04.883 [SPEAKER_00]: And when you make the right decisions, oh, man, it's a glorious thing. 09:05.444 --> 09:08.067 [SPEAKER_00]: And so what you want to do is you want to grow your capacity. 09:08.107 --> 09:09.228 [SPEAKER_00]: How do you grow your capacity? 09:09.529 --> 09:12.212 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, that's your ability to make good decisions. 09:12.432 --> 09:19.721 [SPEAKER_00]: The moment I know, like, when I think about someone's capacity, I think about their ability to make decisions, okay? 09:20.261 --> 09:27.810 [SPEAKER_00]: A larger gator is higher on the org chart than can 09:27.790 --> 09:39.446 [SPEAKER_00]: The moment cam is able to make the level of decisions that Elijah can make, he is going to get moved up in the org chart, your ability to make decisions. 09:39.486 --> 09:40.368 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a glorious thing. 09:40.428 --> 09:41.669 [SPEAKER_00]: It's a good thing. 09:42.010 --> 09:44.453 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's an indicator of your capacity. 09:44.894 --> 09:45.214 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 09:45.234 --> 09:46.116 [SPEAKER_00]: Next one. 09:46.136 --> 09:52.785 [SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs, chapter 25 verse 15, through patience, a ruler can be persuaded. 09:52.765 --> 09:58.076 [SPEAKER_00]: So, let's say, let's say about the word ruler, let's put it in the word pastor, put or leader. 09:58.436 --> 09:58.697 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay? 09:59.118 --> 10:02.104 [SPEAKER_00]: Through patience, a leader can be persuaded. 10:02.785 --> 10:05.611 [SPEAKER_00]: And a gentle tone can break a bone. 10:06.092 --> 10:13.086 [SPEAKER_00]: That means that you can do more with a gentle spirit than you can with trying to dominate a leader. 10:13.066 --> 10:19.176 [SPEAKER_00]: right, especially if you're leading in an organization and there's someone who's above you on the org chart. 10:19.596 --> 10:23.042 [SPEAKER_00]: And that means you don't have authority over that person, but you do have influence. 10:23.522 --> 10:26.307 [SPEAKER_00]: And you want to use that influence the right way. 10:26.627 --> 10:27.068 [SPEAKER_00]: It's funny. 10:27.268 --> 10:30.914 [SPEAKER_00]: On our team, Test Gator does a brilliant job of this. 10:31.375 --> 10:34.059 [SPEAKER_00]: She's actually done it two times in the last meetings that we've been in. 10:34.540 --> 10:39.748 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, whereas, you know, sometimes I can tend to go over time 10:39.728 --> 10:47.678 [SPEAKER_00]: and the way that she leads up, somehow it gets me to agree with her, but it's not by strong army me. 10:48.179 --> 10:49.401 [SPEAKER_00]: It's it's finesse man. 10:49.581 --> 10:50.883 [SPEAKER_00]: It's it's killing them softly. 10:51.343 --> 11:06.984 [SPEAKER_00]: Literally, you know, we were talking about a sermon series idea and her ability to like say something that is her getting her way, but she's saying it in a way that's honoring and that makes my guard go down. 11:07.324 --> 11:09.567 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's 11:09.547 --> 11:14.236 [SPEAKER_00]: Especially when you have influence with someone, but you don't have a authority over that person. 11:14.657 --> 11:16.461 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a great proverb, okay? 11:16.962 --> 11:20.288 [SPEAKER_00]: Through patience, a ruler can be persuaded. 11:20.930 --> 11:23.735 [SPEAKER_00]: Through patience, your pastor can be persuaded. 11:24.276 --> 11:25.699 [SPEAKER_00]: Through patience, 11:25.679 --> 11:45.240 [SPEAKER_00]: you know a police officer in your neighborhood can be persuaded you know through patients okay think about someone who is an authority over you and you may have some influence there but no authority that person can be persuaded and a gentle tongue can break a bone I mean a gentle tongue can do more damage 11:45.220 --> 11:51.786 [SPEAKER_00]: then then yell in a screaming and get an attitude or or or disrespecting or dishonoring that person. 11:51.806 --> 11:52.066 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 11:52.087 --> 11:52.327 [SPEAKER_00]: Next. 11:52.627 --> 11:54.769 [SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs chapter 25 verse 28. 11:54.929 --> 11:57.972 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a life verse for Dr. Mani. 11:57.992 --> 11:58.272 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 11:58.613 --> 12:00.014 [SPEAKER_00]: Chapter 25 verse 28. 12:00.494 --> 12:03.637 [SPEAKER_00]: Like a city whose walls are broken through. 12:04.038 --> 12:04.278 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. 12:04.298 --> 12:07.601 [SPEAKER_00]: Like a city with no walls is a vulnerable city. 12:08.042 --> 12:10.003 [SPEAKER_00]: That's a city that's about to get sacked. 12:10.084 --> 12:14.788 [SPEAKER_00]: That's a city that's about to get 12:14.768 --> 12:19.304 [SPEAKER_00]: That's a city that's about to have its citizens carted off in a slavery. 12:19.345 --> 12:21.994 [SPEAKER_00]: That's a city that's under captivity. 12:22.109 --> 12:26.336 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, that, that city is in failure. 12:27.097 --> 12:29.061 [SPEAKER_00]: Big trouble if your walls are broken through. 12:29.642 --> 12:35.151 [SPEAKER_00]: Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control. 12:35.732 --> 12:39.498 [SPEAKER_00]: So if you have no self-control, you're like an unarmed city. 12:39.518 --> 12:43.024 [SPEAKER_00]: You're like, you're like something with no safety. 12:43.364 --> 12:46.750 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, you're a threat to yourself with no self-control. 12:46.730 --> 12:47.831 [SPEAKER_00]: that's what that's saying. 12:48.312 --> 12:49.654 [SPEAKER_00]: That's a good verse. 12:50.014 --> 12:51.916 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, tattoo that one on your chest. 12:51.936 --> 12:52.998 [SPEAKER_00]: That's a good one right there. 12:53.678 --> 12:58.164 [SPEAKER_00]: Like a city whose walls are broken through is a person who lacks self-control. 12:58.725 --> 12:59.966 [SPEAKER_00]: Very, very, very good verse. 12:59.986 --> 13:01.528 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't even need to say anything else about that. 13:01.908 --> 13:08.957 [SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs chapter 26 verses four and five is, again, two verses that seem like they contradict, but they don't contradict. 13:08.937 --> 13:11.463 [SPEAKER_00]: They're actually telling you how to think, not what to think. 13:11.563 --> 13:12.445 [SPEAKER_00]: We already looked at those. 13:12.946 --> 13:25.073 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, number six, Proverbs chapter 26 verse 7 says this, like the useless legs of one who is lame is a proverb in the mouth of a fool. 13:25.053 --> 13:25.554 [SPEAKER_00]: Woo! 13:26.036 --> 13:31.008 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, the Bible is dangerous in the hands of idiots, that's what that's saying. 13:31.329 --> 13:33.675 [SPEAKER_00]: A proverb in the mouth of a fool? 13:34.537 --> 13:37.304 [SPEAKER_00]: Aw, man, because anyway, could quote the Bible. 13:37.786 --> 13:39.269 [SPEAKER_00]: Not everybody has a spirit of wisdom. 13:39.590 --> 13:41.475 [SPEAKER_00]: It's easy to quote the Bible. 13:41.455 --> 13:44.620 [SPEAKER_00]: And there's a whole bunch of people who called the Bible, and they're still fools. 13:45.522 --> 13:48.166 [SPEAKER_00]: Somebody asked him recently about a family member in my life. 13:48.647 --> 13:52.113 [SPEAKER_00]: And I said, yeah, man, that person was manipulative, and then they got saved. 13:52.133 --> 13:53.475 [SPEAKER_00]: Now they're spirits of manipulative. 13:53.696 --> 13:57.943 [SPEAKER_00]: They've always been manipulative since I've known the manipulative. 13:58.263 --> 13:59.726 [SPEAKER_00]: Now they manipulate scripture. 14:00.267 --> 14:03.352 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so this proverb is, that's good, man. 14:03.412 --> 14:05.235 [SPEAKER_00]: It's saying, 14:05.215 --> 14:09.603 [SPEAKER_00]: giving people the Bible is not the thing that's actually going to help them. 14:09.864 --> 14:22.066 [SPEAKER_00]: The Bible is a tool for discipleship and really people need to be disciples and once people are disciples, this will no longer be a weapon in their hands. 14:22.587 --> 14:24.591 [SPEAKER_00]: So the Pharisees have the Bible. 14:24.571 --> 14:51.253 [SPEAKER_00]: and you know it didn't make them any better off you know so you would think that on the Bible Department we would say no the Bible the answer no Jesus is the answer adopting a God like attitudes the answer and the Bible you're just going to you're just going to if you're mean and we give you the Bible now you're just going to be a mean person who quotes the Bible okay if you're a manipulative when we give you the Bible now you're just going to be a manipulative person who quotes the Bible. 14:51.233 --> 14:59.166 [SPEAKER_00]: So, a proverb in the mouth of a fool is like useless legs of one who is lame. 14:59.827 --> 15:03.873 [SPEAKER_00]: It's like, okay, you got, you have legs, but you're paralyzed. 15:04.354 --> 15:08.280 [SPEAKER_00]: And so, they, yes, you have the Bible. 15:08.260 --> 15:17.294 [SPEAKER_00]: but the power of the Bible is axiom and surrender in the person who's using the Bible having a surrendered heart before the Lord. 15:17.854 --> 15:19.136 [SPEAKER_00]: That's a good proverb right there. 15:19.357 --> 15:25.566 [SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs chapter 26 verse 11, as a dog returns to its vomit so fools repeat their folly. 15:25.786 --> 15:26.728 [SPEAKER_00]: That's a good visual. 15:27.128 --> 15:30.353 [SPEAKER_00]: Can you imagine a dog going back to its vomit, licking it up? 15:30.333 --> 15:40.507 [SPEAKER_00]: Can you imagine, you know, let's take, say, and this is the point of progress, by the way, to see your mental image on your mind so that you can't forget it. 15:40.527 --> 15:47.516 [SPEAKER_00]: You may forget a law, you may forget a story, you're not going to forget the image of a dog on the sidewalk, looking up its vomit, okay? 15:47.917 --> 15:50.400 [SPEAKER_00]: So here we go, imagine. 15:50.380 --> 16:09.810 [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine, you know, you dated someone who was an idiot and it ruined your life and you were under their spell and then, you know, you broke up and you got free You are free for six months, eight months, ten months, and all of a sudden they DM'd you out of the blue and now in 48 hours you're back under their spell. 16:10.450 --> 16:11.132 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, guess what? 16:11.472 --> 16:13.435 [SPEAKER_00]: You're a dog looking up vomit 16:13.415 --> 16:14.216 [SPEAKER_00]: that's what you are. 16:14.596 --> 16:23.886 [SPEAKER_00]: A person who goes back to their dumb ways, a person who goes back into a relationship that God rescued them from your vomit vomit vomit liquor. 16:24.206 --> 16:25.488 [SPEAKER_00]: That's your vomit liquor. 16:26.028 --> 16:26.989 [SPEAKER_00]: You're looking up vomit. 16:27.490 --> 16:31.774 [SPEAKER_00]: Can you imagine, can you imagine, you know, just imagine last time you threw up. 16:32.055 --> 16:33.296 [SPEAKER_00]: Just imagine last time you vomit it. 16:33.716 --> 16:35.378 [SPEAKER_00]: Can imagine you go to the toilet, you vomit. 16:35.899 --> 16:40.063 [SPEAKER_00]: And then imagine you go get some Tupperware scoop the vomit up out of the toilet. 16:40.043 --> 16:45.854 [SPEAKER_00]: And then later on, you were hungry, so you microwaved the vomit, got it all hot, you know what I'm saying? 16:45.934 --> 16:48.639 [SPEAKER_00]: And then you got to spoon start it, start eating your vomit. 16:48.900 --> 16:50.723 [SPEAKER_00]: Yep, that's what a lot of us are doing. 16:51.224 --> 16:54.671 [SPEAKER_00]: You got free from porn, now you're back to porn, you're looking up vomit. 16:54.691 --> 16:55.733 [SPEAKER_00]: You microwave and vomit. 16:56.234 --> 17:00.482 [SPEAKER_00]: You got free from a relationship, now you're back in that same dumb relationship, you're looking up vomit. 17:00.462 --> 17:05.572 [SPEAKER_00]: you got free from, you know, spiritual abuse and a church. 17:05.612 --> 17:06.875 [SPEAKER_00]: Now you're back at that same church. 17:07.075 --> 17:08.097 [SPEAKER_00]: You're looking up on it. 17:08.538 --> 17:11.864 [SPEAKER_00]: Just someone who returns to their vomit. 17:11.884 --> 17:21.964 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the image that that God wants you to have when you return back to foolish ways that he through his provenance of power's rescued you from. 17:21.944 --> 17:22.565 [SPEAKER_00]: That's good. 17:22.645 --> 17:28.471 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the point of proverbs to say things in such a way that's like, I can never forget that. 17:28.551 --> 17:32.555 [SPEAKER_00]: That's that's that is a memorable image, man. 17:32.816 --> 17:34.598 [SPEAKER_00]: That that is seared on in my mind. 17:35.098 --> 17:37.381 [SPEAKER_00]: You're never going to forget microwave vomit. 17:37.401 --> 17:38.221 [SPEAKER_00]: You're never going to forget it. 17:38.802 --> 17:43.827 [SPEAKER_00]: Scooping up vomit out the toilet, putting it in the microwave, getting a spoon, slurping that joint up like a soup. 17:44.168 --> 17:45.109 [SPEAKER_00]: You're never going to forget that. 17:46.290 --> 17:50.955 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the whole 17:50.935 --> 18:07.932 [SPEAKER_00]: 17 says this like one who grabs a straight dog by the ears aka about to get bit is someone who rushes into a quarrel not their own so this is essentially the Bible saying my your business mind your business 18:07.912 --> 18:16.482 [SPEAKER_00]: Unless you need to intervene, you know, for godly purpose, but no need to enter yourself into a cruel that has nothing to do with you. 18:16.802 --> 18:23.410 [SPEAKER_00]: We keep moving 27 verse 6 says this, wounds from a friend can be trusted. 18:23.990 --> 18:28.696 [SPEAKER_00]: But an enemy multiplies kisses wounds from a friend can be trusted. 18:29.056 --> 18:34.122 [SPEAKER_00]: One other way that you know that someone's actually your friend is that they should wound you. 18:34.152 --> 18:35.034 [SPEAKER_00]: with their words. 18:35.495 --> 18:37.118 [SPEAKER_00]: They should tell you things that are hard to hear. 18:37.438 --> 18:41.727 [SPEAKER_00]: They should tell you, like, yeah, dude, that girl's bad for you. 18:42.348 --> 18:44.793 [SPEAKER_00]: Hey, man, like, you got an attitude problem. 18:45.314 --> 18:46.757 [SPEAKER_00]: Yo, you'd be late for work. 18:46.777 --> 18:47.719 [SPEAKER_00]: They about to fire you. 18:48.540 --> 18:52.448 [SPEAKER_00]: A good friend tells you about you. 18:52.428 --> 19:03.065 [SPEAKER_00]: and if you're insecure, you'll surround yourself with yes men, you'll surround yourself with height men, you'll surround yourself with people who never wound you who only ever kiss you. 19:03.666 --> 19:11.719 [SPEAKER_00]: But what does the Bible say wounds from a friend can actually be trusted and an enemy, multiplies kisses? 19:11.699 --> 19:13.341 [SPEAKER_00]: enemies love to flatter you. 19:13.502 --> 19:16.366 [SPEAKER_00]: They love to tell you all the things that you're awesome at. 19:16.907 --> 19:18.749 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, and that's not the culture. 19:19.390 --> 19:29.986 [SPEAKER_00]: Nothing wrong with encouragement, but but anytime someone's like overly flattering, there's a small part of me that's like, yeah, what are you trying to convince me of? 19:30.086 --> 19:31.908 [SPEAKER_00]: Why are you trying to win favor with me? 19:32.349 --> 19:33.050 [SPEAKER_00]: What do you want? 19:33.130 --> 19:33.771 [SPEAKER_00]: What's your angle? 19:34.452 --> 19:39.259 [SPEAKER_00]: Whereas when people are able to share harsh truths with me, 19:39.239 --> 19:42.905 [SPEAKER_00]: right there, that tells me this really ships got some substance. 19:42.926 --> 19:46.211 [SPEAKER_00]: This is this got potential for for a real friendship. 19:46.852 --> 19:56.550 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want the kinds of friends who, you know, could watch me, you know, I mean with my zipper down and supplement my teeth and not say nothing. 19:56.570 --> 20:04.183 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're around me and I got something in my teeth and my shirt is misaligned or the buttons ain't like 20:04.163 --> 20:05.005 [SPEAKER_00]: Help me out. 20:05.647 --> 20:06.068 [SPEAKER_00]: Cut me. 20:06.730 --> 20:08.214 [SPEAKER_00]: The wounds of a friend can be trusted. 20:08.335 --> 20:08.776 [SPEAKER_00]: Cut me. 20:09.297 --> 20:12.246 [SPEAKER_00]: I'd rather you wound me than let me be out here. 20:12.266 --> 20:12.928 [SPEAKER_00]: Look to crazy. 20:13.529 --> 20:16.277 [SPEAKER_00]: But there's a lot of people who they don't want wounds of a friend. 20:16.698 --> 20:19.185 [SPEAKER_00]: They just want everybody to tell them how awesome they are. 20:19.165 --> 20:24.693 [SPEAKER_00]: which means there's insecurity there, that person not secure enough to handle the wounds of a friend. 20:25.234 --> 20:31.102 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, here we go, 27, 6, last one, 27 versus 23 to 27. 20:31.803 --> 20:34.848 [SPEAKER_00]: We get a parable here at the end of chapter 27. 20:35.188 --> 20:37.071 [SPEAKER_00]: And for sake it's how I won't read the whole thing. 20:37.251 --> 20:40.336 [SPEAKER_00]: But what it's saying is, hey, man, the economy goes up and down. 20:40.816 --> 20:43.941 [SPEAKER_00]: But if you're going to create financial stability, 20:43.921 --> 20:49.946 [SPEAKER_00]: then there's got to be some things that you have financially that are predictable, okay? 20:50.407 --> 20:53.910 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a level of unpredictable, that's okay, but then there's a level of predictable. 20:54.551 --> 21:00.216 [SPEAKER_00]: But before I started the card, I felt like starting a church was about to be financially unpredictable. 21:00.236 --> 21:02.338 [SPEAKER_00]: And it is, it is financially unpredictable. 21:02.778 --> 21:04.840 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't know how large the church is going to be. 21:04.880 --> 21:13.928 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't know whether or not how much teaching I was going to have to do getting people 21:13.908 --> 21:16.333 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, we don't know how much of venues got a cost. 21:16.353 --> 21:16.874 [SPEAKER_00]: We didn't know this. 21:16.914 --> 21:17.936 [SPEAKER_00]: We didn't know unpredictable. 21:18.678 --> 21:19.559 [SPEAKER_00]: Everything's unpredictable. 21:20.000 --> 21:20.882 [SPEAKER_00]: So you want to know what I did? 21:21.523 --> 21:23.748 [SPEAKER_00]: I did a three book deal. 21:24.249 --> 21:32.345 [SPEAKER_00]: I did a book deal for three books because I needed to create some predictable income because this area is unpredictable. 21:32.766 --> 21:35.511 [SPEAKER_00]: Great leaders, great people. 21:35.491 --> 21:41.348 [SPEAKER_00]: good stewards are always mixing in predictable with unpredictable, okay? 21:41.789 --> 21:50.614 [SPEAKER_00]: And as an entrepreneur as someone who runs multiple businesses who now is starting a church who's got, you know, 21:50.594 --> 22:16.180 [SPEAKER_00]: book deals it like you just want to make sure it says this be sure you know the condition of your flocks give careful attention to your hurts for riches do not endure forever and a crown is not secure for all generations okay it's saying this hey there may be a day where this basket that you got your eggs in that the bottom falls out you got to make sure 22:16.160 --> 22:29.967 [SPEAKER_00]: Are your flots good like are your hurts good and are you not on the field every day because there's some other things There's some other ions you got in the fire, but you got to be someone who make sure that you never abandon the main thing 22:30.233 --> 22:32.838 [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, what is your bread and butter? 22:33.259 --> 22:34.922 [SPEAKER_00]: What makes you money, okay? 22:35.022 --> 22:40.552 [SPEAKER_00]: And that thing, you got to make sure that that thing is secure, that it's okay. 22:41.133 --> 22:47.685 [SPEAKER_00]: You can't overextend yourself in the collect, the core basis of how your business. 22:47.665 --> 22:48.347 [SPEAKER_00]: makes money. 22:48.708 --> 22:50.352 [SPEAKER_00]: Man, what good wisdom? 22:50.653 --> 22:51.675 [SPEAKER_00]: All right, Proverbs. 22:51.936 --> 22:53.019 [SPEAKER_00]: This is our Thomas tree. 22:53.400 --> 22:54.202 [SPEAKER_00]: I got through all 10. 22:54.583 --> 22:55.164 [SPEAKER_00]: That's crazy. 22:55.405 --> 22:56.006 [SPEAKER_00]: We're over time. 22:56.347 --> 23:04.628 [SPEAKER_00]: But says this, Proverbs chapter 25 verse 6 and 7 is a warning around where to sit when you're at a banquet or an event with the king. 23:04.608 --> 23:13.048 [SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs 25 verse 6, 7, do not exalt yourself in the King's presence and do not claim a place among his great men. 23:13.569 --> 23:21.047 [SPEAKER_00]: It is better for him to say to you come up here than for him to humiliate you before his nobles. 23:21.027 --> 23:21.868 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, guess what? 23:22.188 --> 23:26.993 [SPEAKER_00]: Jesus says the exact same thing in Luke chapter 14 for the 7th to 11. 23:27.474 --> 23:45.053 [SPEAKER_00]: So that's our Thomas Truth for the day, because Jesus was clearly familiar with this passage here in Proverbs and interpreted it for us, added some more context, like beefed it up a little bit, and I think it's a great passage. 23:45.073 --> 23:49.077 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm just going to read to you, Jesus's version, okay, of this. 23:49.057 --> 24:00.470 [SPEAKER_00]: Here's what it says in Luke chapter 14, starting in verse 7, when Jesus noticed how the guest picked the place of honor at the table, he told him this parable, when someone invites you to a wedding feast, do not take the place of honor. 24:00.911 --> 24:13.545 [SPEAKER_00]: For a person more distinguished than you may have been invited, if so the host who invited both of you will come and say to you, give this person your seat, then humiliated you will have to take the lesson point in place. 24:13.525 --> 24:20.616 [SPEAKER_00]: But when you're invited, take the lowest place so that when the host comes, you will say that you friend move up to a better place. 24:21.357 --> 24:24.442 [SPEAKER_00]: Then you will be honored in the presence of all the other guests. 24:24.723 --> 24:30.231 [SPEAKER_00]: For all those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who hum with themselves will be exalted. 24:30.311 --> 24:32.355 [SPEAKER_00]: And that right there is a Thomas truth. 24:32.795 --> 24:37.643 [SPEAKER_00]: So Jesus clearly was familiar with the Proverbs 27, 24:37.623 --> 24:48.005 [SPEAKER_00]: and reinterpret it, puts it in a parable form, and then add the Thomas Street at the end, that those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who hum of themselves will be exalted. 24:48.365 --> 24:50.209 [SPEAKER_00]: That's our Thomas Street for today. 24:50.670 --> 24:53.877 [SPEAKER_00]: Tomorrow is our last day in the Book of Proverbs. 24:53.857 --> 24:55.359 [SPEAKER_00]: We got date 3-11 tomorrow. 24:55.419 --> 24:58.623 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to be looking at Proverbs chapters 28 to 31. 24:59.685 --> 25:01.047 [SPEAKER_00]: I am super excited. 25:01.207 --> 25:05.532 [SPEAKER_00]: Cannot wait to camp out tomorrow, Proverbs, and then be done. 25:05.833 --> 25:07.635 [SPEAKER_00]: And then after that, think we got the book of Joe. 25:07.775 --> 25:09.217 [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be fantastic. 25:09.237 --> 25:11.961 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll see you right here, same time, same place. 25:12.382 --> 25:14.665 [SPEAKER_00]: Can't wait to see you, proud of you. 25:14.945 --> 25:15.285 [SPEAKER_00]: Love you. 25:15.786 --> 25:16.387 [SPEAKER_00]: Till next time. 25:16.687 --> 25:17.248 [SPEAKER_00]: Peace!