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May 29 - Proverbs 24:8-14 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. Hello, it's Yvonne 2.
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  Happy Friday. Thank you, friends.
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  Honey, you've got to say hello, friends.
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  Hello friends, I think you have the trademark on that phrase at
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  the moment. No, it's everyone's to enjoy and
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  share. Oh.
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  Hello everyone. Oh, hello friends.
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  Great to have your company. It's the 29th, we are almost
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  done with May and it about to be June.
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  Wow, and it feels like winter is upon us in our neck of the
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  woods. And particularly we've walked
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  into the room where we're recording and the heating has
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  not been on here and it's a wee bit chilly.
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  A little bracey. What are some of our other
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  euphemisms for cold? Don't say cold.
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  We say it's fresh, it's brisk. Yes, a little nippy.
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  Yes, but very seldom cold. Yes, Yeah.
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  No admitting that it's cold. That's yeah.
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  But cold, warm, fresh or or bracing, we are going to go back
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  to a warmer part of the world. When I imagine King Solomon, I
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  imagine him being warm. Yeah, I'm picturing.
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  Yeah, definitely sunshine and dates.
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  So we're gonna sit as he chews on some dates and sprout some
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  knowledge to us via this ancient text.
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  Proverbs 24 8 to 14. A person who plans evil will get
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  a reputation as a troublemaker. The schemes of a fool are
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  sinful. Everyone detests a mocha.
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  If you fail under pressure, your strength is too small.
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  Rescue those who are unjustly sentenced to die.
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  Save them as they stagger to their death.
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  Don't excuse yourself by saying look, we didn't know, for God
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  understands all hearts and he sees you.
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  He who guards your soul knows you knew he will repay all
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  people as their actions deserve. My child eat honey for it is
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  good and the honeycomb is sweet to the taste.
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  In the same way, wisdom is sweet to your soul.
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  If you find it, you will have a bright future and your hopes
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  will not be cut short. And again.
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  A person who plans evil will get a reputation as a troublemaker.
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  The schemes of a fool are sinful.
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  Everyone detests a mocha. If you fail under pressure, your
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  strength is too small. Rescue those who are unjustly
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  sentenced to die. Save them as they stagger to
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  their death. Don't excuse yourself by saying
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  look, we didn't know, for God understands all hearts and he
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  sees you. He who guards your soul knows
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  you knew he will repay all people as their actions deserve.
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  My child eat honey for it is good and the honeycomb is sweet
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  to the taste. In the same way wisdom is sweet
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  to your soul, if you find it, you will have a bright future
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  and your hopes will not be cut short.
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  Well, that's a spicy 1, isn't it?
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  Haha oh I loved the ending. Talking about wisdom being sweet
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  for our souls and just ah. If you find it you'll have a
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  bright future. I love that part.
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  That is lovely. Yeah, I, I actually really
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  appreciate the part before that says, you know, so often we try
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  to convince people of things, right?
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  We we play tricks and we we try to make excuses that sound
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  really convincing and can convince people that we were
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  actually in the right when we know in our heart of hearts we
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  should have been doing things slightly differently.
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  And this just says God sees through to the heart of it.
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  Yeah, there's a fair bit of accountability in that section,
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  isn't there? Just yeah, we always have
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  someone who who knows our actual intentions.
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  And even when our intentions are no good, if we come with
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  repentant hearts, Jesus has won forgiveness for us.
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  And I think that is just the the beautiful kind of tie in there
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  that even though God understands our motives, which are often not
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  great, we are forgiven people. And I guess when it says he sees
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  us, isn't just he sees what we've done that's wrong, but
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  just that he sees us like he gets us, he understands us and
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  he loves us. Oh Lord, thank you that your
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  wise, all knowing eyes see us and they see us in our broken
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  state and they see us tempted and challenged by the
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  difficulties of life. But at the same time, when you
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  look at us, Father, you see Jesus and you see his
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  perfection, one for us and given freely to us.
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  Ah, we just thank you for this paradox that we might be broken
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  people, but we are whole and perfect in Christ.
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  So we thank you and we thank you for your wisdom that helps us to
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  understand the truths about you thought.
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  I pray that your wisdom may be the thing that resonates in our
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  minds today and draws US ever closer to you and living in the
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  truth of the promises that we have in you, your forgiveness
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  and your grace. And we love you and we're
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  thankful for everything that you've done for us.
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  And we pray this in that saving name of Jesus, Amen.
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  Amen.