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March 6 - Proverbs 21:25-31 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. And it's Yvonne, too.
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  Happy Friday it. Is a happy Friday.
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  It is the 6th of March and we are gone with summer and it's
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  now autumn. Oh.
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  You're being serious. It feels like we've.
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  I thought you must be joking because it feels like we've had
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  the briefest summer. And it's finally arrived.
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  Now that's that's. Exactly right, yeah.
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  Well, maybe where you are the weather is a little bit more
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  predictable, but man, it has been a weird summer.
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  But a lovely autumn so far. Fabulous.
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  I didn't even realise we were in autumn.
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  I feel embarrassed. Well, one thing you do know, we
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  are is coming toward the end of Proverbs 21.
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  So we are going to finish. This has been a long chapter,
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  hasn't? It it has gone, it feels.
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  Like it? For a few weeks.
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  And there's so much goodness to unpack, so we are going to do
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  just that, because that's what we do on Fridays.
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  Yay. So let's dive in together,
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  reading Proverbs 2125 to 31. Despite their desires, the lazy
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  will come to ruin, for their hands refuse to work.
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  Some people are always greedy for more, but the godly love to
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  give. The sacrifice of an evil person
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  is detestable, especially when it is offered with wrong
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  motives. A false witness will be cut off,
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  but a credible witness will be allowed to speak.
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  The wicked bluff their way through, but the virtuous think
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  before they act. No human wisdom or understanding
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  or plan can stand against the Lord.
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  The horse is prepared for the day of battle, but the victory
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  belongs to the Lord. And again.
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  Despite their desires, the lazy will come to ruin, for their
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  hands refuse to work. Some people are always greedy
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  for more, but the godly love to give.
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  The sacrifice of an evil person is detestable, especially when
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  it is offered with wrong motives.
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  A false witness will be cut off, but a credible witness will be
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  allowed to speak. The wicked bluff their way
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  through, but the virtuous think before they act.
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  No human wisdom or understanding or plan can stand against the
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  Lord. The horse is prepared for the
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  day of battle, but the victory belongs to the Lord.
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  Well, there's a few little gems in there today, aren't they?
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  Yeah, I love the second one, that some people are always
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  greedy for more. It feels like the whole world is
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  greedy for more and trying to convince us to be greedy for
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  more. But the godly love to give
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  because we know where our treasure lies, right?
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  And it's not all the stuff that we're told to be collecting now.
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  Yeah. Yeah, so countercultural, but
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  just this different way of living that we are called to.
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  Yeah, and the next one talks about God seeing the motives of
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  the heart and not what we do on the outside, but the way our
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  heart is on the inside. So boy, we need transformation
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  from the inside out, don't we? Yep, absolutely.
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  Our Lord, thank you for your proverbs, thank you for your
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  truth. Thank you that you call us to a
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  different way of being and that way that you call us to freeze
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  us from the crazy race, the rat race that we find ourselves in
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  always seeking and shooting for more.
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  But Lord, give us hearts that want to give, hearts that want
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  to love, hearts that yearn for you.
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  Lord, that's going to take some doing and some changing.
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  So we pray, Holy Spirit, that you would do your work in US and
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  align our hearts to be more like you, our wonderful God, our
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  loving Saviour. And we pray all of this in your
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  name, Jesus, Amen. Amen.