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345 | Conversations - Proverbs 10 · The Woman at the Well Ministries Podcast

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  Music.
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  Hello, friends, and welcome back to another podcast of Woman at the Well Ministries,
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  where we believe that all of us have to come to Jesus like the woman at the
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  well in John chapter four.
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  about God and to strengthen in your daily walk with Jesus Christ.
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  Living her life for Christ. She's a happy girl.
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  She's a happy girl.
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  In this episode of the Woman at the Well Ministries podcast,
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  join Kim Miller and Erica Close in a conversation as we walk with Jesus.
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  In today's conversation, we continue a series on the book of Proverbs,
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  and in today's podcast, we're discussing the lessons learned in Proverbs chapter 10.
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  Well, hello, everyone. My name is Erica Close, and I am here with Kimberly Miller.
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  Thank you. I am so glad you have decided to join us in this podcast of Woman
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  at the Well Ministries as we walk through Proverbs chapter 10.
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  And in this Proverbs, we're talking about moral virtues.
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  And it's like one right after the other that we are told, and each one of them
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  has such great wealth and wisdom and truth.
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  So walk with us now as we read this in your hearing. The Proverbs of Solomon.
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  A wise son maketh a glad father, but a foolish son is heaviness of his mother.
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  Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivereth from death.
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  The Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish,
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  but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
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  He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand, but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
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  He that gathereth in summer is a wise son, but he that sleepeth in harvest is
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  a son that causeth shame.
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  Blessings are upon the head of the just, but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
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  The memory of the just is blessed, but the name of the wicked shall rot.
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  The wise in heart will receive commandments, but a prating fool shall fall.
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  He that walketh uprightly walketh surely, but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.
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  He that winketh with the eye causeth sorrow, but a prating fool shall fall.
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  The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life, but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.
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  Hatred stirs up strifes, but love covereth all sins.
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  In the lips of him that hath understanding, wisdom is found,
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  but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
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  Wise men lay up knowledge, but the mouth of the fool is near destruction.
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  The wise man's wealth is his strong city. The destruction of the poor is their
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  poverty. The labor of the righteous tendeth to life, the fruit of the wicked to sin.
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  He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction, but he that refuseth reproof erreth.
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  He that hideth hatred with lying lips, and he that uttereth a slander is a fool.
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  In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin, but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
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  The tongue of the just is as choice silver, the heart of the wicked is little worth.
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  The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die. eye for want of wisdom.
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  The blessing of the Lord it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
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  It is as sport to a fool to do mischief, but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
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  The fear of the wicked it shall come upon him, but the desire of the righteous shall be granted.
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  As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more, but the righteous is an
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  everlasting foundation.
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  As vinegar to the teeth, as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.
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  The fear of the Lord prolongeth days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened.
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  The hope of the righteous shall be gladness, but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
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  The way of the Lord is strength to the upright, but destruction shall be to
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  the workers of of iniquity.
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  The righteous shall never be removed, but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.
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  The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom, but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
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  The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.
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  I believe you could sum this entire chapter up as sin is not profitable comfortable
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  and righteousness gives you much.
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  Absolutely. There's a lot to be unpacked in here, and it talks about,
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  you know, the joy of a mother and a father is a son that follows after the Lord, and we know that.
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  And we know that anyone in our life that is not following the Lord
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  is troublesome and worrisome to us because we want everyone to know the joy
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  of the Lord that comes from walking in his presence.
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  And then he talks about how he just won't let the.
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  He won't let the righteous starve. He supplies what it is they need.
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  And just before that, he says that the treasures of the wicked, they get nothing.
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  And we all know that where you
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  just spin yourself into a hole as you do deceitful things to gain money.
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  He says that he casts away the substance of the wicked.
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  You know, so often we see that those who have much but end up doing the wrong
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  thing sometimes lose it all.
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  And it says, you know, he becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand.
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  If they're not doing, if you're not doing the right thing with what you have, the Lord could take it.
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  But it says the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
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  Those that are diligent to follow the Lord, the Lord honors that.
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  Because he tells you that the wise man stores up in the summer.
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  And so what he's saying is those who work with a diligent hand,
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  those who will work as they're told to work and provide for themselves as God
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  has given them the ability to do so,
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  they're the ones that are going to be okay and those who store up instead of
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  just party all night and sleep all day,
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  they're the ones that are going to get the blessings in this world.
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  This passage makes me think about how, you know, we as believers and as Christians.
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  Know, and if we don't know, we should know, that when we know the Lord,
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  it doesn't mean then that every single thing comes easy to us,
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  that we get to sit back and just take in the blessings of the the Lord,
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  but the Lord calls us to diligence.
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  He calls us to work, right? We are workers for the Lord, and we're going to
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  work, but we are blessed amazingly in the work that we do for him.
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  Amen. And I love that he says blessings are upon the head of the just.
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  As he goes further in there, he talks about how violence is what comes to those
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  who have this froward mouth and those Those Who Speak Wickedness.
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  And he talks about how the memory...
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  Of the just, it's blessed. They have good memories. Their life is good.
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  They're not haunted by their deeds or their thoughts.
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  But those that are not just, the wicked, not so much.
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  And those that are wise in heart, it says they will receive commandments.
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  They're receptive. deceptive. They're teachable, right?
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  So they're able to be taught, but a prating fool, that prating word is like a babbling fool, right?
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  Somebody that just goes on and on and on and doesn't listen and isn't able to
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  receive instruction, they're going to fall, right?
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  God's desire for us is that we're teachable and that we're just.
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  And then in verse 9, that we walk uprightly. When we walk in his ways,
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  we can walk securely and surely.
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  When we walk without him, it gets scary.
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  Because we're walking outside the protection of the Almighty God.
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  We're walking outside of the plan that he has for us. And his plan is a good
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  plan, is to prosper us and to give us a hope and an expected end.
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  But we're walking outside of that. We're willy-nilly, and we're praying for the devil.
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  And he says that hatred stirs up strife, but love covereth all sins.
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  And it doesn't mean that you can get by with sinning. It just means that the
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  Lord loves you regardless, because nothing will separate you from the love of God.
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  And that if we confess our sins, he's faithful and just to forgive us our sins
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  and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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  And in our relationships, we need to bestow grace and mercy.
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  Especially if we are a child of the most high God, because he says,
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  they'll know you're my disciples.
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  Because you have love one for another. And the love that you have for one another
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  displays the wisdom that you have, the understanding that you have.
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  In verse 13, it's talking about correction, right? It says, in the lips of those
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  who have understanding, wisdom is found.
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  Like, we will speak, we will share with others, we will speak that the wisdom
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  that we have and the understanding that we had.
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  But it literally says for a rod, like a switch, right? It's for the back of
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  him that's void of understanding.
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  Those that don't have understanding and don't have wisdom need correction.
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  They need to be turned to the ways of the Lord. They need to understand.
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  But if they don't understand, they're not going to see. Amen.
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  In verse 14, it talks about what you store up, right?
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  It says, the wise men store up knowledge, but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
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  And then 15 talks about the rich man, right? There are so many things we have
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  in this world that we could choose to store up or to hoard, right?
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  Or to spend our time on. Or to seek.
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  Or to seek. We can spend our time and our energy seeking after money and seeking
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  after financial security and seeking after fame or,
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  you know, fortune,
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  whatever it might be.
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  But the blessed thing to store up is knowledge.
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  If we go back to what we read in Proverbs 9, the knowledge of the holy, right?
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  The knowledge of the holy God has more value than any other thing.
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  Amen. Hallelujah. I love how the Bible just intertwines and weaves itself.
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  And Romans 6.23, he says, For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God
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  is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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  In verse 16 of Proverbs 10, he says, The labor of the righteous tendeth to life,
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  but the fruit of the wicked to sin.
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  Those who are living in the love and light of Jesus are living life, and they have life.
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  But those who are fleshly and sinful, they have destruction and death.
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  That is in the way of life, they keep the instructions that the Lord says,
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  and he does what needs to be done.
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  But those that are sinful and wicked, they don't do that.
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  They have lying lips, and they utter slander, and they're foolish,
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  and there's so much going on in their lives that that have nothing to do with
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  Jesus. They just made no room for him.
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  And so all of their fruit and all of their actions and all of their life is
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  something that is contrary to what wisdom and what following after God would be.
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  And we have to check our actions, Erica, to make sure that we're in alignment
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  with what God says they should be and that our heart is pure.
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  I love that you just said, check your actions, because as I was reading and
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  you were talking, and I was thinking this whole chapter to me feels like.
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  One of those like self-check quizzes that we used to have in magazines when
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  we read magazines 20 something years ago, right?
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  And you were like, how many A's did you get? Or how many B's did you get?
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  And it told you something, right? But every single one of these proverbs is a contrast.
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  There's each one of these that we've read is like one way, the Lord's way,
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  one way, not the Lord's way.
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  And you just said we need to check ourselves.
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  But when we check ourselves, we check ourselves against the word of God.
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  And as we look at this, we need to see where we land.
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  Like look at verse 19, in the multitude of words, there wanteth not sin,
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  but he that refraineth his lips is wise.
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  Are we people who babble on with a multitude of words or do we refrain our lips
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  when we don't have anything to say?
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  That's like A or B, which one do you want? Well, you know, We want to refrain
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  our lips because that's the one that's wisdom.
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  This is like the wisdom check.
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  And I think that we will find as we continue to go through Proverbs,
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  that's what most of Proverbs is.
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  It's a check. Where are you on this?
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  And he says in verse 20 that the words we speak, the tongue of the righteous,
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  is like something that's greatly valued, like silver.
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  But the heart of the wicked, it's worth very little. and
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  he's he's telling you look there
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  is a way that seemeth right unto man but the end there of his destruction turn
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  from that way and turn your eyes upon jesus he also moves on to tell us that
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  as a whirlwind passes so is the wicked no more but the righteous is an everlasting lasting foundation.
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  As you begin to look at what the Lord is saying, he's telling us that the foundation,
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  what Jesus Christ is a foundation that we can stand upon.
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  And he has so much to say about how the blessings of the Lord,
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  it adds to you. It makes you rich.
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  It gives you what you need. It also talks about how that living a life outside
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  of the protection of Jesus without him being the center of your will,
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  that produces fear and anxiety and anxiousness.
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  But he tells us in verse 25.
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  Where we have this righteous, everlasting foundation, we see that in verse 24
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  when he says that the desire of the righteous is going to be granted.
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  If you're walking in the ways of the Lord and you're doing what he asked you
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  to do and in his commandments, the things that you want and the things that
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  you do are going to line up with what he has for you.
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  And I think the things that he has for us, when our lives line up with that, we know.
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  This chapter has that verse about, as vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes.
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  Those are things that burn, right? You would know if you were eating vinegar
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  and you would know if you had smoke in your eyes.
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  And it says those things are like a sluggard to them that send him.
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  So we're not supposed to be a sluggard. But when When we're not doing the things
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  that the Lord has asked us to do, we're going to know it.
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  We're going to feel the burn in our lives.
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  And it's our job to ask for forgiveness and turn and correct.
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  Because 27, 28 say that the fear of the Lord prolongs our days,
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  but the years of the wicked are shortened.
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  But he says something extremely profound in verse 28 when he says that the hope
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  of the righteous shall be gladness. Those who are walking after the Lord, they're excited.
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  They know the joy comes in the morning. They know that they have a hope and his name is Jesus.
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  They know that daily he's loading them with blessings. They know that he's in control.
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  So come what may, they understand he's the fourth man in the fire,
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  that he'll be the one that shuts the lion's mouth.
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  They understand that he's going to provide the way because he is the way.
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  But those who do wickedness are just waiting for the shoe to drop,
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  the hammer to come down upon them, and they are expecting to perish because
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  the wages of sin is death.
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  Every drug dealer in the world is just waiting to be caught.
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  And they live every day wondering if this will be the day.
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  I think that's one of the things that so many of these Proverbs show us is that
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  we can't get away with things.
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  We may think that we are getting away with things, but the Lord sees all,
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  the Lord knows all, and there's consequences for the things that happen.
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  There's always going to be a consequence.
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  There's always going to be a return on every one of our actions.
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  So if we are having positive actions, we'll get a positive return.
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  If it's a negative action, there's a negative return.
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  And we need to, as Christians, but even just as humans and adults,
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  really understand that, that none of us is immune to the consequences of the
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  things that happen in our lives.
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  And sometimes we're just not immune to the consequences of things that happen
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  in other people's lives that affect us.
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  But when we are walking the path that God has ordained for us,
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  we are going to be in a place that he can bless.
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  And even if those consequences of other people get near us, we will still be
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  under his hand of blessing and his hand of protection.
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  You know, I think one of the saddest things is that people who are not saved,
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  people who who are serving sin,
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  living for themselves and wicked, they don't understand that they're like a fugitive in this world.
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  They're like running all the time from something and to something,
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  trying to fill that void, trying
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  to find that satisfaction that we are given when we come to the Lord.
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  And he sets free those who come to him. And those who are set free by Jesus are free indeed.
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  And we don't run, we walk in peace.
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  We live in the joy of the Lord. We're surrounded by the blessings.
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  And when problems come our way, we know we're not alone and we know the battle's
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  not ours. It belongs to the Lord.
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  But that's not so for the wicked fleshly living sinner.
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  They're just a fugitive in this
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  world. And the scripture tells us that they're never going to inhabit.
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  They're always going to be a fugitive. They're never going to be at home and at peace.
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  But the righteous shall never be removed. They can be steadfast,
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  always abounding in the work of the Lord.
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  The last two verses talk about speech.
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  It talks about the things that we say, the mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom.
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  Those that are justified in Christ that know Christ are going to bring wisdom
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  into the world, but those with a forward tongue, with an evil tongue.
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  That tongue will be cut out. That tongue will not bring goodness into the world.
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  And 32 talks about the lips of the righteous know what is acceptable,
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  but the mouth of the wicked speaketh forwardness.
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  I think that if we could just end here on any note, it's that we need to make
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  sure that the things that we say honor the Lord that we know,
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  that the things that we say are reflecting
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  the presence of the Lord in us and the wisdom of the Lord that we have.
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  He's given us the words and the understanding and the knowledge of the holy.
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  He's given us what we need.
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  It's our job to share that with others.
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  As we come to a close in this time of our study of Proverbs chapter 10,
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  I'm reminded of the song, Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus.
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  Jesus, the things of this world will grow strangely dim in the light of his glory and grace.
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  We must turn our eyes upon Jesus and away from the world.
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