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February 13 - Proverbs 21:7-12 · 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. Happy Friday.
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  Happy Friday the 13th. Oh, it's an ominous sounding
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  date. That's.
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  Right, but it's going to be a great day.
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  Forget all that superstitious mumbo jumbo, we are in for a
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  fantastic day. Absolutely, as we dive into
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  God's Word together. Oh look at you, your thumbs up
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  dive. In let's.
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  Do it. Yes, we are going to read some
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  more of the proverbs today, still going through chapter 21,
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  but today we are going to read 21, seven to 12.
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  The violence of the wicked sweeps them away because they
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  refuse to do what is just. The guilty walk a crooked path,
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  the innocent travel a straight Rd.
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  It's better to live alone in the corner of an attic than with a
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  quarrel from wife in a lovely home.
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  Evil people desire evil. Their neighbours get no mercy
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  from them. If you punish A mocker, the
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  simple minded become wise. If you instruct the wise, they
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  will be all the wiser. The righteous one knows what is
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  going on in the homes of the wicked.
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  He will bring disaster on them. And again.
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  The violence of the wicked sweeps them away because they
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  refuse to do what is just. The guilty walk a crooked path,
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  the innocent travel a straight Rd.
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  It's better to live alone in the corner of an attic than with a
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  quarrelsome wife in a lovely home.
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  Evil people desire evil. Their neighbours get no mercy
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  from them. If you punish A mocha, the
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  simple minded become wise. If you instruct the wise, they
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  will be all the wiser. The righteous one knows what is
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  going on in the homes of the wicked.
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  He will bring disaster on them again.
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  So much in that. Absolutely.
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  I know you always don't like the quarrelsome wives one.
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  Well, obviously it would also be better to live alone in the
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  corner of an attic if you had a quarrelsome husband in a lovely
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  home. Yeah.
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  Thank you very much. Very patriarchal text, isn't it?
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  But but I think it just goes to say that peace and grace far
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  outstrip other things that we would count as important.
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  And even though the one before that that says the guilty have
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  to walk this crooked path to try and get through with their lies
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  and deceptions whereas the innocent get to travel on the
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  straight Rd. Lovely.
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  And the other thing that really stands out to me is the one
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  about evil people desiring evil and their neighbours getting no
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  mercy from them. It really positions mercy as the
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  antithesis of evil. And mercy and grace go hand in
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  hand in that, don't they? Absolutely.
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  But thank you for your grace that you have shown us.
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  Thank you for your mercy that you continually offer us.
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  Thank You that you make our paths straight as we walk in the
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  light with you. Lord, I pray that you continue
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  to shape our character with your wisdom, Your wisdom that
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  continually turns us to you and everything you've done for us in
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  Jesus. We love you and we're grateful
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  for you, and we pray that we would be beacons of your Kingdom
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  in this world around us. So we offer ourselves to you
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  today and pray that you use us as you will.
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  We love you when we pray all of this in your loving name, Amen.
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  Amen.