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January 23 - Proverbs 20:15-23 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. Hello, it's Yvonne too.
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  Happy Friday. Happy Friday indeed, and it's
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  the 23rd of January. I'm not sure of the significance
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  of that date, but I'm sure you're about to tell us.
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  No, there is no significance. I was just actually, I was
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  listening to us do our thing last week and I like I am so
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  difficult to communicate with because I speak in circles and
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  jokes and you are such a straight shooter.
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  Oh dear. And there's this thing and I'm
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  going off on a tangent and you just like straight shoot, say
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  anything that needs to be said. So thank you for being like the
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  rational, normal person in our marriage.
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  You're welcome, I. Think to the point where we have
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  a little person come to stay with us, and you have to like,
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  tell the rest of us, whoa, whoa, whoa.
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  We have to talk in a way that's actually understandable to those
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  who are concrete thinkers. I am the interpreter sometimes.
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  So to that end, let's get stuck into the proverbs for today.
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  You just straight shooting alright, pointing at the the
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  Bible. Let us do this.
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  We are reading a whopper. We're reading 9 Proverbs today.
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  So much wisdom for us to sift through and benefit from.
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  Oh, that'll keep us going all weekend.
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  Here we go reading together Proverbs 2015 to 23.
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  Wise words are more valuable than much gold and many rubies.
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  Get security from someone who guarantees a stranger's debt.
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  Get a deposit if he does it for foreigners.
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  Stolen bread tastes sweet, but it turns to gravel in the mouth.
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  Plans succeed through good counsel.
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  Don't go to war without wise advice.
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  A gossip goes around telling secrets, so don't hang around
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  with chatterers. If you insult your father or
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  mother, your light will be snuffed out in total darkness.
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  An inheritance obtained too early in life.
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  It's not a blessing in the end. Don't say I will get even for
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  this wrong. Wait for the Lord to handle the
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  matter. The Lord detests double
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  standards. He is not pleased by dishonest
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  scales. And again.
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  Wise words are more valuable than much gold and many rubies.
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  Get security from someone who guarantees a stranger's debt.
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  Get a deposit if he does it for foreigners.
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  Stolen bread tastes sweet, but it turns to gravel in the mouth.
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  Plans succeed through good counsel.
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  Don't go to war without wise advice.
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  A gossip goes around telling secrets, so don't hang around
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  with chatterers. If you insult your father or
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  mother, your life will be snuffed out in total darkness.
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  An inheritance obtained too early in life is not a blessing
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  in the end. Don't say I will get even for
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  this wrong. Wait for the Lord to handle the
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  matter. The Lord detests double
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  standards. He is not pleased by dishonest
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  scales. And again, we just see that
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  recurring theme over these last few Fridays of the Lord
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  detesting double standards and people being dishonest with
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  their scales and measures and just that that is so far from
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  what the Lord wants for us. The one that really stood out
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  for me was that so often we want to get even for wrongs.
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  We want to to make things right ourselves.
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  But the proverbs say wait for God to handle the matter.
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  God is going to be the judge and the restorer of of peace and
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  justice. Our Father, it is you who has
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  these perfect standards. It's you who is the perfect
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  judge. It is you who is the author of
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  truth and in fact is truth. And so in this proverb, we hear
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  that you detest those that aren't true or would obscure or
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  obstruct truth, and that even when things go wrong and we see
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  people doing that, it's not our place to make things right.
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  It's not our place to seek revenge.
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  But you are a God who will bring all things to balance in the
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  end. So, Lord, we surrender to your
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  truth. We surrender to your perfect
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  judgement. And what's more, we do that in
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  the context of your beautiful grace, that even when we mess
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  up, even when we are the ones obscuring justice and and
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  changing scales and being dishonest, that through Jesus
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  you forgive us and you love us. We're so grateful for you to be
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  the righteous God that you are, but also a loving and forgiving
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  God. And thank you that your love and
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  forgiveness extends to us so generously.
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  So we bask in this and we thank you, and we praise you, and we
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  pray all of these things in your wonderful name, Jesus, Amen.