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November 14 - Proverbs 18:7-12 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. And it's Yvonne here, too.
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  And it's Friday and boy, backed by very, very popular demand.
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  Honey, you are back for some proverbs.
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  Excellent. I'm happy to be back for Proverb
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  Do. You know, it's very exciting
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  when I do this a lot. And then you come and and I'm
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  just so delighted that you are feeling comfortable enough to
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  sit here with a microphone and now you've got your very own
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  microphone. How does that feel?
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  It feels a little bit daunting, I'm not going to lie.
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  I'm trying really hard to hold it still and not make too many
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  strange ruffling noises. And yeah, I'll get a microphone
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  stand for you, so that's not an issue.
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  But that is for next week. How about today we are going to
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  go back in time in a time machine, the Sean and Eve on
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  time machine. That's going to take us all the
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  way back to the feet of King Solomon.
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  And we're going to hear his words of wisdom shared
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  throughout time as we read these proverbs together.
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  You ready? I'm ready.
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  Alright, let us read together Proverbs 18 seven to 12.
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  The mouths of fools are their ruin.
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  They trap themselves with their lips.
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  Rumours are dainty morsels that sink deep into one's heart.
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  A lazy person is as bad as someone who destroys things.
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  The name of the Lord is a strong fortress, the godly run to him,
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  and a safe. The rich think of their wealth
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  as a strong defence. They imagine it to be a high
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  wall of safety. Haughtiness goes before
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  destruction. Humility precedes honour.
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  And again. The mouths of fools are their
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  ruin. They trap themselves with their
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  lips. Rumours are dainty morsels that
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  think deep into one's heart. A lazy person is as bad as
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  someone who destroys things. The name of the Lord is a strong
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  fortress. The godly run to him and are
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  safe. The rich think of their wealth
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  as a strong defence. They imagine it to be a high
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  wall of safety. Haughtiness goes before
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  destruction. Humility precedes honour.
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  Boy, these all really fly in the face of conventional wisdom,
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  don't they? Which one of these resonates
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  with you through that eye roll? Do you know, it was the one with
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  the rumours? I just describing them as these
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  dainty morsels that sink deep into your heart.
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  And it's just, you know, if you hear a really juicy rumour like
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  it, really, it can be hard not to pass that along.
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  It just has these hooks. Lord, with this wisdom, we come
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  before you and we hear in this proverb that it's not our wealth
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  that will save us, it's not the popularity of the things that we
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  have to share with each other, rumours and gossip that will
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  save us. But it's your name.
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  Your name is a strong fortress and when we run to you, we are
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  safe. So Lord, help us be humble, help
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  our eyes be fixed ever on you and all the temptations of this
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  world that would pull us to a different kind of wisdom.
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  Let them fall on deaf ears and let our hearts be ever captured
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  by you, our wonderful God, better than any rumour, and your
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  love better than any other security that we would fall
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  into. So we love you back.
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  We pray all of this in your precious name, Jesus, Amen.