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July 11 - Proverbs 14:19-24 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. It's Friday, it's the 11th of
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  July, and here we are at the end of another week.
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  Happy Friday to you. Yep, you know what that means.
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  We get to sit back and hear some of Solomon's wisdom through the
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  ages delivered to us. And just so we don't get too
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  full of ourselves thinking that we are the holders, the
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  exclusive holders of such wisdom.
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  As I said way back when we first started, the book of Proverbs
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  also draws on a lot of the other wisdom that came from different
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  traditions, such as Egyptian wisdom literature.
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  And there's a lot of overlap, especially in themes of humanity
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  and restraint and justice. So these themes that God had
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  shown and and kind of nurtured in other parts of his people
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  around the world are captured here as well, delivered to us so
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  that we get this incredibly broad, incredibly holistic
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  collection of proverbs. How fantastic.
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  All right, you're ready to keep going.
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  You're ready to keep hearing these droplets of goodness.
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  Excellent. Me too.
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  Let us read together, friends. Proverbs, 1419 to 24.
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  Evil people will bow before good people.
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  The wicked will bow at the gates of the godly.
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  The poor are despised even by their neighbours, while the rich
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  have many friends. It is a sin to belittle one's
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  neighbour. Blessed are those who help the
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  poor. If you plan to do evil, you will
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  be lost. If you plan to do good, you will
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  receive unfailing love and faithfulness.
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  Work brings profit, but mere talk lends to poverty.
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  Wealth is a crown for the wise. The effort of fools yields only
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  foolishness. And again, evil people will bow
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  before good people. The wicked will bow at the gates
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  of the godly. The poor are despised even by
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  their neighbours, while the rich have many friends.
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  It is a sin to belittle one's neighbour.
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  Blessed are those who help the poor.
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  If you plan to do evil, you will be lost.
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  If you plan to do good, you will receive unfailing love and
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  faithfulness. Work brings profit, but mere
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  talk leads to poverty. Wealth is a crown for the wise.
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  The effort of fools yields only foolishness.
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  Our Lord, we see in these proverbs your truth, that when
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  we start to be proud of ourselves, we start to think
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  that we are indeed better than others.
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  We find ourselves in strife, but blessed are those who don't
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  belittle their neighbours, but who help the poor.
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  Lord, help us to keep our feet firmly grounded on the ground
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  and that as we look around us, we can see those people around
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  us who need us, who need the gifts that you have given us.
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  Not that we're so clever with ourselves or the resources that
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  you have blessed us with. Lord, help us always remember
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  that we are your children, blessed beyond measure, and that
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  everything that we have is a gift from you.
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  Or help us live generously, blessing those who need our
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  help, need our support, need our presence, need our encouragement
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  so that we can make this place more like your Kingdom, Lord,
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  where everybody has their needs met.
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  So Lord, grow in us this wisdom that we can be more like You and
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  always look to bless rather than simply be blessed.
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  And we know that no matter what we do and how good or bad we are
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  at blessing others, we are blessed so much more than we
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  could ever fathom. And so we thank you and we thank
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  you for the biggest blessing of all, and that's you, Jesus, and
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  everything you've done for us. So we pray all of this in your
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  saving name, Amen.