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April 17 - Proverbs 23:1-7 · 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. What date is it?
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  It is Friday the 17th of April and there's some joy that comes
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  at the end of the week. Oh yes, because it's Friday.
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  Yes. I'm like, what am I missing?
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  What's the 17th? Well, I'm also pretty sure it
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  might be the start of school holidays.
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  Well, that is a very joyous thing.
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  Happy, happy, happy days. Well, for those of you who are
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  on school holidays and for those who are the workers, good job
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  you still get the weekend and a nice relax and I hope the
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  weekend ahead is filled with some rest and relaxation.
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  Is that our plan? Seldom.
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  Seldom. Well, irrespective of our plans,
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  we have got some incredible wisdom here to read, to learn
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  from and to share. You ready?
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  I'm ready. Let's do it.
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  Let's read together Proverbs 23 one to seven.
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  While dining with the ruler, pay attention to what is put before
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  you. If you're a big eater, put a
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  knife to your throat. Don't desire all the delicacies,
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  for he might be trying to trick you.
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  Don't wear yourself out trying to get rich.
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  Be wise enough to know when to quit.
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  In the blink of an eye, wealth disappears, for it will sprout
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  wings and fly away like an eagle.
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  Don't eat with people who are stingy, don't desire their
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  delicacies. They are always thinking about
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  how much it costs. Eat and drink, they say, but
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  they don't mean it. And again.
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  While dining with a ruler, pay attention to what is put before
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  you. If you're a big eater, put a
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  knife to your throat. Don't desire all the delicacies,
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  for he might be trying to trick you.
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  Don't weigh yourself at trying to get rich.
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  Be wise enough to know when to quit.
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  In the blink of an eye, wealth disappears, for it will sprout
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  wings and fly away like an eagle.
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  Don't eat with people who are stingy.
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  Don't desire their delicacies. They are always thinking about
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  how much it costs. Eat and drink, they say, but
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  they don't mean it. Boy, these 3 extended proverbs
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  are all talking about reining yourself in, aren't they?
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  Yeah. And I think just being whether
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  it's whether you're dining with someone who has plenty like
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  ample or someone who is really careful about what they have,
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  it's, it's more like looking for like a hidden cost.
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  Just checking that, you know, in those first ones when it's
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  saying he might be trying to trick you, It's just like make
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  sure it doesn't come with expectations of, you know,
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  almost like a bribe or just I, I guess looking at the subtext.
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  And even with the the obsession of our modern Society of chasing
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  wealth, saying ah, don't do it, know when to quit because that
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  wealth will sprout wings and fly away.
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  Oh. Absolutely.
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  I like in the message translation that part where it
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  says riches disappear in the blink of an eye.
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  Well, sprouts wings and flies off into the wild blue Yonder.
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  So yeah, just I'm so fleeting is some of these things.
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  Yeah, don't. Don't bother spending your life
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  in pursuit of something like that.
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  Yeah. Oh Lord, you offer us something
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  so much more worthwhile to spend our life pursuing.
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  You offer us this, this new Kingdom, this different Kingdom
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  where love and generosity and sharing and inclusion are the
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  values. Lord, I pray that you transform
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  our hearts to be less captivated by the priorities that the world
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  shoves down our throats and tells us are important so that
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  we can restrain ourselves, that we can look at the subtext
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  beyond the things that we see, and that we can wisely choose
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  you and your ways every time. Thank You that you look beyond
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  everything and you choose us, and you love us and you uphold
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  us. We just worship you and come
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  before you with such grateful hearts.
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  And pray all of this in the name of Jesus, Amen.