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Solomon_s Final Warning_ Ignore This and You_ll Regret It Forever · truthunedited

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  Speaker 1: Imagine being given the chance to sit face to face
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  Speaker 1: with the wisest man who ever lived, the one who
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  Speaker 1: had it all, saw it all, and understood the deepest
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  Speaker 1: truths about life. What if he looked you in the
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  Speaker 1: eye and told you exactly how to avoid the mistakes
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  Speaker 1: that lead to regret, emptiness, and destruction. Would you listen
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  Speaker 1: or would you keep chasing the same things that have
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  Speaker 1: left so many lost, broken and confused. The world to
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  Speaker 1: day is filled with distractions, bad advice, and people making
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  Speaker 1: the same foolish choices over and over again, believing that success, pleasure,
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  Speaker 1: or popularity will bring fulfillment. But history has already proven
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  Speaker 1: them wrong. King Solomon, the man who had unmatched wisdom,
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  Speaker 1: wealth and influence, left behind life changing lessons that cut
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  Speaker 1: through the deception and reveal what truly matters. He wasn't
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  Speaker 1: just a king. He was a man who experienced the
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  Speaker 1: highest levels of success and still ended up saying it's
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  Speaker 1: all meaningless. That's why his words are more relevant today
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  Speaker 1: than ever, because in a world where people are constantly
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  Speaker 1: chasing things that don't last, Solomon's wisdom forces us to
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  Speaker 1: ask are we wasting our lives? Are we running after
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  Speaker 1: things that won't matter in the end. If you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to fall into the same traps, if you don't
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  Speaker 1: want to wake up one day filled with regret, then
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  Speaker 1: these ten lessons from Solomon will shake you awake. They
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  Speaker 1: will challenge you, convict you, and most importantly, they will
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  Speaker 1: guide you toward a life that actually matters. Before we
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  Speaker 1: get started, like this video and share it with that
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  Speaker 1: friend who keeps making bad decisions but never listens to anyone.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe Solomon can get through to them. Solomon had everything,
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  Speaker 1: gold beyond measure, palaces that took people's breath away, and
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  Speaker 1: a kingdom that stood as the wealthiest and most powerful
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  Speaker 1: of its time. If there was ever a man who
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  Speaker 1: understood money, it was him. And yet, after experiencing all
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  Speaker 1: that riches could offer, he came to a shocking conclusion.
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  Speaker 1: Money never satisfies. Imagine that having access to unlimited wealth
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  Speaker 1: and still realizing that it doesn't bring true fulfillment. Solomon,
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  Speaker 1: the king who had everything, warned us not to chase
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  Speaker 1: after riches, but to chase wisdom instead. Why Because while
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  Speaker 1: money can buy temporary comfort, wisdom leads to lasting success.
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  Speaker 1: Think about how the world sees wealth. To day, society
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  Speaker 1: pushes the idea that if you have more money, you'll
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  Speaker 1: have more happiness. People destroy their health, sacrifice their families,
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  Speaker 1: and sell their integrity just to climb the ladder of success.
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  Speaker 1: They work endless hours, stress over promotions, and obsess over
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  Speaker 1: their bank accounts, thinking that once they reach a certain number,
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  Speaker 1: they'll finally feel secure. But Solomon exposes this as an illusion.
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  Speaker 1: In Ecclesiastes five ten, he says, whoever loves money never
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  Speaker 1: has enough. Whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This, too,
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  Speaker 1: is meaningless. The more you chase it, the more it
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  Speaker 1: slips through your fingers. Have you ever seen a person
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  Speaker 1: who's obsessed with money actually feel like they have enough.
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  Speaker 1: No matter how much they make, they always want more.
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  Speaker 1: It becomes an addiction, one that can never be fully satisfied.
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  Speaker 1: But Solomon offers a different path. In Proverbs three thirteen
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  Speaker 1: to fourteen, he says, blessed are those who find wisdom
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  Speaker 1: those who gain understanding, for she is more profitable than
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  Speaker 1: silver and yields better returns than gold. Did you catch
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  Speaker 1: that wisdom is more profitable than silver? It gives you
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  Speaker 1: better returns than gold. In other words, if you chase wisdom,
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  Speaker 1: success follows naturally. Wisdom teaches you how to manage wealth,
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  Speaker 1: how to invest wisely, and how to build something that lasts.
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  Speaker 1: Wealth without wisdom is dangerous. It can be wasted, misused,
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  Speaker 1: or even become a curse. But when wisdom leads, prosperity
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  Speaker 1: comes as a result. Look at how this plays out
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  Speaker 1: in real life. There are people who win the lottery
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  Speaker 1: and end up bankrupt within a few years. Why because
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  Speaker 1: they never had wisdom in the first place. They had money,
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  Speaker 1: but they didn't know how to handle it. On the
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  Speaker 1: other hand, there are those who may not have been
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  Speaker 1: born rich, but gained wisdom through discipline, learning and seeking God,
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  Speaker 1: and as a result, they built businesses, established strong families,
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  Speaker 1: and created legacies that lasted beyond their own lifetime. That's
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  Speaker 1: the difference between chasing money and chasing wisdom. And here's
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  Speaker 1: the part that most people miss. Wisdom brings the kind
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  Speaker 1: of wealth that money can't buy. It gives you peace
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  Speaker 1: of mind, It protects you from making foolish decisions. It
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  Speaker 1: keeps you from falling into traps that destroy others. Have
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  Speaker 1: you ever met someone who has all the money in
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  Speaker 1: the world but is completely miserable. They're stressed, paranoid and
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  Speaker 1: afraid to lose what they have. That's because they chaste
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  Speaker 1: money instead of wisdom. But the person who seeks wisdom first,
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  Speaker 1: they live with confidence. They make decisions that bless their
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  Speaker 1: future instead of ruin it. Solomon isn't saying that money
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  Speaker 1: is evil. He's saying that money without wisdom is meaningless.
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  Speaker 1: Wealth that isn't guided by godly principles leads to destruction.
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  Speaker 1: But wisdom, wisdom gives you everything you need for a
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  Speaker 1: successful life financially, emotionally, spiritually. If you have wisdom, you
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  Speaker 1: will always have enough because wisdom teaches you how to
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  Speaker 1: use what you have in a way that honors God
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  Speaker 1: and blesses others. So now the question is what are
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  Speaker 1: you chasing. Are you spending your life running after money,
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  Speaker 1: thinking that once you reach a certain level you'll finally
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  Speaker 1: be happy, or are you pursuing wisdom knowing that when
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  Speaker 1: you have wisdom, everything else falls into place. Solomon's warning
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  Speaker 1: is clear. Chasing money leads to emptiness, but chasing wisdom
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  Speaker 1: leads to true success. The choice is yours. If wisdom
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  Speaker 1: is the key to success, then the people you surround
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  Speaker 1: yourself with determine whether you will actually live wisely or foolishly.
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  Speaker 1: Solomon didn't just warn us about chasing money, so warned
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  Speaker 1: us about the kind of people we allow into our lives.
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  Speaker 1: Why because your relationships will either push you toward wisdom
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  Speaker 1: or pull you into destruction. The people you spend time
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  Speaker 1: with shape your thoughts, influence your decisions, and even determine
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  Speaker 1: the course of your future. You might think you can
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  Speaker 1: separate yourself from their influence, but whether you realize it
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  Speaker 1: or not, you become like the people you surround yourself with.
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  Speaker 1: Solomon makes this clear in Proverbs thirteen twenty. Walk with
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  Speaker 1: the wise and become wise. For a companion of fools
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  Speaker 1: suffers harm. Notice he doesn't say a companion of fools
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  Speaker 1: might suffer harm. He says they will. It's a guarantee
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  Speaker 1: if you keep close company with fools, people who don't
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  Speaker 1: fear God, who make reckless choices, who pull you into sin,
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  Speaker 1: you will eventually suffer the consequences. It's not a matter
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  Speaker 1: of if, but when. And yet so oh many people
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  Speaker 1: ignore this warning. They think I can handle it, I
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  Speaker 1: won't let them influence me. But that's the deception. Bad
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  Speaker 1: company corrupts good character. It always does. Look around at
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  Speaker 1: the people in your life right now. Are they leading
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  Speaker 1: you toward wisdom or away from it? Are they pushing
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  Speaker 1: you to grow, to seek God, to become better? Or
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  Speaker 1: are they dragging you into gossip, negativity, bad habits, and
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  Speaker 1: destructive behaviors. Solomon's wisdom is simple but powerful. If you
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  Speaker 1: want to be wise, walk with the wise. If you
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  Speaker 1: surround yourself with fools, you will suffer harm. This truth
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  Speaker 1: is more relevant today than ever before. We live in
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  Speaker 1: a world where people are more connected than at any
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  Speaker 1: other time in history, Yet most people are lonelier than ever.
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  Speaker 1: Social media gives us access to thousands of people, but
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  Speaker 1: it also exposes us to bad influences at every turn.
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  Speaker 1: The content we consume, the people we follow, the voices
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  Speaker 1: we allow to shape our thinking, all of these play
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  Speaker 1: a role in who we become. And here's the hard truth.
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  Speaker 1: Many people are surrounding themselves with fools without even realizing it.
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  Speaker 1: Think about it. Who are you listening to? Who are
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  Speaker 1: you allowing to speak into your life? Is it people
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  Speaker 1: who fear God who live with integrity, who encourage you
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  Speaker 1: to grow in wisdom? Or is it people who live
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  Speaker 1: recklessly who gossip, who pull you into sinful conversations who
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  Speaker 1: drain your energy and lead you into confusion. Solomon is
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  Speaker 1: warning us that we cannot afford to be careless with
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  Speaker 1: our relationships. The wrong influences will not just slow you down,
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  Speaker 1: they will destroy you. Ecclesiastes four nine to ten gives
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  Speaker 1: us another layer to this wisdom. Two who are better
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  Speaker 1: than one because they have a good return for their labor.
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  Speaker 1: If either of them falls down, one can help the
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  Speaker 1: other up. But pity anyone who falls and has no
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  Speaker 1: one to help them up. Solomon isn't just telling us
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  Speaker 1: to avoid bad influences. He's telling us to pursue the
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  Speaker 1: right ones. You need people in your life who will
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  Speaker 1: lift you up when you fall, who will encourage you
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  Speaker 1: when you're struggling, who will hold you accountable when you're slipping.
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  Speaker 1: A true friend, a godly mentor a wise companion. These
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  Speaker 1: are some of the greatest gifts you can have in life,
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  Speaker 1: But most people settle for less. They allow toxic friendships
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  Speaker 1: to continue because they're afraid of being alone. They tolerate
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  Speaker 1: negativity because they don't want to create conflict. They keep
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  Speaker 1: following the wrong crowd because it's easier than standing alone.
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  Speaker 1: But Solomon's wisdom is clear. Who you trust and associate
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  Speaker 1: with will determine your destiny. Surround yourself with wise, godly people,
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  Speaker 1: and your life will reflect that wisdom. Surround yourself with
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  Speaker 1: fools and destruction is inevitable. So now it's time for
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  Speaker 1: a reality check. Who are you walking with? Are they
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  Speaker 1: sharpening you, making you stronger, pushing you toward wisdom? Or
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  Speaker 1: are they pulling you into foolishness, distracting you from your
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  Speaker 1: purpose and leading you toward harm. This is not a
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  Speaker 1: small decision. This is one of the most important choices
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  Speaker 1: of your life, because, whether you realize it or not,
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  Speaker 1: the people you walk with to day are shaping the
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  Speaker 1: person you will become to morrow. Choose wisely. Most people
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  Speaker 1: spend their entire lives chasing things that don't matter, running
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  Speaker 1: in circles, trying to grab hold of success, status, and pleasure,
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  Speaker 1: only to find themselves empty in the end. Solomon, the
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  Speaker 1: wisest man who ever lived, came to a brutal conclusion.
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  Speaker 1: After experiencing everything life had to offer, after gaining more wealth, knowledge, power,
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  Speaker 1: and pleasure than any human in history, he looked at
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  Speaker 1: it all and declared meaningless. Meaningless everything is meaningless. These
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  Speaker 1: were not the words of a poor man struggling through life.
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  Speaker 1: These were the words of a king who had it all,
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  Speaker 1: but realized that without God, none of it mattered. Everything
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  Speaker 1: people chase fame, fortune, admiration, entertainment, it all fades. The
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  Speaker 1: house you stress over one day, some one else will
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  Speaker 1: live in it. The money you work over time for
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  Speaker 1: it will be spent and forgotten. The approval you crave
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  Speaker 1: from others, the people you want to impress to day
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  Speaker 1: won't even remember you in a few years. Solomon understood
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  Speaker 1: something most people don't realize until it's too late. No
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  Speaker 1: matter how much you gain in this world, it will
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  Speaker 1: never satisfy your soul. He spent years indulging in pleasure,
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  Speaker 1: surrounding himself with every luxury imaginable, throwing the most extravagant parties,
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  Speaker 1: and experiencing every thrill life could offer. And after all
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  Speaker 1: of it, he sat down, looked at his life and said,
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  Speaker 1: I denied myself nothing my eyes desired. I refused my
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  Speaker 1: heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my labor.
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  Speaker 1: Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done
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  Speaker 1: and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless,
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  Speaker 1: a chasing after the wind. Imagine reaching the pinnacle of success,
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  Speaker 1: having everything you ever wanted, and realizing that none of
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  Speaker 1: it truly mattered. This is the trap most people fall into.
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  Speaker 1: They spend their best years chasing things that don't last.
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  Speaker 1: They devote their time, energy, and motions to things that
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  Speaker 1: are fleeting. They focus on temporary achievements while neglecting eternal purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Solomon's warning is clear, stop wasting your life on meaningless things.
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  Speaker 1: Focus on what actually matters before you wake up one
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  Speaker 1: day and realize you wasted your entire life. He gives
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  Speaker 1: a solution in Ecclesiastes twelve thirteen. Fear God and keep
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  Speaker 1: his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.
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  Speaker 1: After years of searching, testing, and experiencing everything under the sun,
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  Speaker 1: this was his conclusion. Nothing else matters except knowing God
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  Speaker 1: and obeying him. The careers, the fame, the entertainment, it's
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  Speaker 1: all a distraction if it's not rooted in God's purpose.
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  Speaker 1: People today are drowning in distractions social media, endless entertainment,
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  Speaker 1: chasing status, comparing lives with others. It all leads to emptiness.
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  Speaker 1: Solomon's wisdom cuts through the noise if it doesn't bring
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  Speaker 1: you closer to God, if it doesn't align with His purpose,
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  Speaker 1: if it doesn't have eternal value, it's meaningless. It's a
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  Speaker 1: waste of time, a chasing after the wind. Life is short,
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  Speaker 1: but most people live as if they have all the
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  Speaker 1: time in the world. They put off their relationship with God,
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  Speaker 1: telling themselves they'll pray more later, they'll read the Bible later,
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  Speaker 1: they'll get serious about their faith later. But later never comes.
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  Speaker 1: Days turn into years, and before they know it, life
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  Speaker 1: has passed them by, filled with distractions, regrets, and wasted opportunities.
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  Speaker 1: Solomon is screaming at us through the pages of Scripture.
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  Speaker 1: Wake up, stop wasting time. There is a bigger purpose
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  Speaker 1: for your life, but you won't find it chasing after
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  Speaker 1: what the world tells you is important. The only way
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  Speaker 1: to live a meaningful life is to fear God and
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  Speaker 1: keep his commandments. That is what truly lasts. What are
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  Speaker 1: you spending your time on? Are you focused on things
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  Speaker 1: that will matter one hundred years from now, or are
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  Speaker 1: you caught up in things that will disappear the moment
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  Speaker 1: your life is over. Solomon had everything, and he tells
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  Speaker 1: us it all fades. God is the only thing that
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  Speaker 1: remains choose wisely before time runs out. Solomon spent his
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  Speaker 1: early years pursuing wisdom, but in his later years he
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  Speaker 1: fell into one of the greatest traps known to mankind,
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  Speaker 1: lust and immorality. He had everything a man could ever desire, power, wealth, influence,
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  Speaker 1: and knowledge, but his greatest downfall wasn't war, political failure,
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  Speaker 1: or financial ruin. It was his inability to control his
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  Speaker 1: own desires. The very man who wrote the Fear of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord is the beginning of wisdom Proverbs nine ten
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  Speaker 1: ended up ignoring his own advice and chasing after the
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  Speaker 1: very things he once warned against. He had seven hundred
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  Speaker 1: wives and three hundred concubines, yet despite having an endless
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  Speaker 1: supply of pleasure, his heart was never satisfied. Instead, lust
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  Speaker 1: led him away from God, and it all ended in destruction.
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  Speaker 1: In Proverbs five three to five, Solomon gives a chilling
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  Speaker 1: warning for the lips of an adulterous woman drip honey,
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  Speaker 1: and her speech is smoother than oil. But in the
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  Speaker 1: end she is bitter as gall sharp as a double
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  Speaker 1: edged sword. Her feet go down to death, her steps
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  Speaker 1: lead straight to the grave. He wrote the words in
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  Speaker 1: his younger days knowing the dangers of lust, but ironically,
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  Speaker 1: he later became the living example of the very destruction
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  Speaker 1: he described. He thought he could control his desires, but
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  Speaker 1: his desires ended up controlling him. The women he surrounded
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  Speaker 1: himself with turned his heart away from God, just as
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  Speaker 1: Deuteronomy seventeen seventeen warned the king must not take many wives,
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  Speaker 1: or his heart will be led astray. Yet Solomon, the
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  Speaker 1: wisest man in history, ignored this and fell deeper into sin.
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  Speaker 1: Lust is never satisfied. It always demands more. At first,
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  Speaker 1: it starts small, a glance, a thought, an innocent flirtation,
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  Speaker 1: but it grows. Solomon didn't wake up one day and
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  Speaker 1: suddenly decided to take one thousand women into his life.
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  Speaker 1: It was a slow process, one small compromise after another,
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  Speaker 1: until he was completely consumed. Ecclesiastes seven twenty six reveals
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  Speaker 1: the bitter truth he learned too late. I find more
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  Speaker 1: bitter than death. The woman who is a snare, whose
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  Speaker 1: heart is a trap and whose hands are chains. The
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  Speaker 1: man who pleases God will escape her, but the sinner
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  Speaker 1: she will ensnare. Solomon calls lust and immorality more bitter
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  Speaker 1: than death itself. That is how dangerous the sin is.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't just steal your time or damage your reputation,
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  Speaker 1: it enslaves your soul. In today's world, Solomon's warning is
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  Speaker 1: more relevant than ever. We live in an age of
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  Speaker 1: instant gratification, where temptation is always one click away. Social media, entertainment,
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  Speaker 1: and culture all glorify lust and immorality, making it seem normal,
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  Speaker 1: even harmless. But what Solomon teaches us is that lust
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  Speaker 1: is a trap. It promises satisfaction but delivers destruction. It
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  Speaker 1: starts as a small indulgence, but soon demands everything from you,
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  Speaker 1: your peace, your self, control, your relationship with God. Look
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  Speaker 1: at the world around you, broken marriages, addictions, people chasing
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  Speaker 1: momentary pleasure while sacrificing long term joy. Why because they
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  Speaker 1: believe the lie that lust will make them happy. Solomon
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  Speaker 1: chased after pleasure more than anyone else in history, and
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  Speaker 1: at the end of his life he didn't call it
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  Speaker 1: a blessing. He called it meaningless Ecclesiastes two one to eleven.
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  Speaker 1: He realized that the pursuit of pleasure, apart from God,
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  Speaker 1: only leads to emptiness. Jesus took this warning even further
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  Speaker 1: in Matthew five twenty eight. He said, anyone who looks
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  Speaker 1: at a woman lustfully has already committed adultery with her
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  Speaker 1: in his heart. Lust is not just about physical actions.
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  Speaker 1: It starts in the mind, and if you don't take
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  Speaker 1: control of it early, it will control you. Paul also
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  Speaker 1: warns in First Corinthians six eighteen, flee from sexual immorality.
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  Speaker 1: All other sins a person commits are outside the body,
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  Speaker 1: But whoever sins sexually sins against their own body. Sexual
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  Speaker 1: sin isn't just another mistake. It has unique consequences. It
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  Speaker 1: corrupts the soul, destroys relationships, and distances you from God.
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  Speaker 1: Solomon's life serves as a warning no matter how strong
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  Speaker 1: you think you are, you cannot play with lust and
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  Speaker 1: expect to win. He was the wisest man in history,
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  Speaker 1: yet he still fell. He had direct encounters with God,
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  Speaker 1: yet he still compromised. If Solomon wasn't immune to its dangers,
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  Speaker 1: neither are we. That is why the Bible repeatedly tells
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  Speaker 1: us not to fight lust, but to run from it,
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  Speaker 1: because it is one of the most deceptive and destructive
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  Speaker 1: traps the enemy uses. So how do we escape? The
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  Speaker 1: answer is in Psalm one hundred nineteen, verse nine. How
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  Speaker 1: can a young man keep his way pure by living
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  Speaker 1: according to your word? It starts with a commitment to
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  Speaker 1: God's truth. It requires discipline, accountability, and a heart that
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  Speaker 1: seeks purity over pleasure. James four seven says, submit yourselves
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  Speaker 1: then to God. Resist the devil and he will flee
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  Speaker 1: from you. The only way to defeat temptation is to
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  Speaker 1: fill yourself with the presence of God. The more time
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  Speaker 1: you spend in prayer, in scripture, and in worship, the
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  Speaker 1: less power sin will have over you. If Solomon were
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  Speaker 1: here to day, he would plead with us to take
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  Speaker 1: his warnings seriously. He would tell us that all the
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  Speaker 1: pleasure in the world is not worth losing your soul.
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  Speaker 1: He would remind us that only one thing truly satisfies
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  Speaker 1: a life fully surrendered to God. Solomon's life was filled
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  Speaker 1: with both wisdom and warning, and if there is one
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  Speaker 1: lesson that continues to shape the world today, it is
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  Speaker 1: the power of words. Throughout his writings, Solomon constantly warns
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  Speaker 1: about the dangers of an uncontrolled tongue. He understood that
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  Speaker 1: words have the power to build or destroy, to heal,
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  Speaker 1: or to wound, to bring life or to bring death.
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  Speaker 1: He wrote in Proverbs eighteen twenty one, the tongue has
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  Speaker 1: the power of life and death, and those who love
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  Speaker 1: it will eat its fruit. This means that what we
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  Speaker 1: say does not just affect others, it directly affects our
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  Speaker 1: own future. Every word we speak plants a seed, and
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  Speaker 1: eventually we will reap the harvest of what we have spoken.
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  Speaker 1: Are not harmless. They can shape destinies, open doors, or
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  Speaker 1: slam them shut. Solomon contrasts the speech of the wise
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  Speaker 1: and the speech of the foolish in Ecclesiastes ten twelve fourteen, saying,
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  Speaker 1: words from the mouth of the wise are gracious, but
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  Speaker 1: fools are consumed by their own lips. At the beginning,
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  Speaker 1: their words are folly. At the end, they are wicked.
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  Speaker 1: Madness and fools multiply words. He paints a clear picture.
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  Speaker 1: A fool does not know when to stop talking. He
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  Speaker 1: speaks without thinking, He argues for the sake of arguing,
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  Speaker 1: and in the end, his own words destroy him. We
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  Speaker 1: live in a time where words are more powerful than ever.
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  Speaker 1: Social media has given every one a platform, but instead
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  Speaker 1: of using words to build others up, most people use
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  Speaker 1: them to tear others down. Gossip spreads faster than truth,
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  Speaker 1: insults a throne without consequence, and reckless words destroy relationships, putations,
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  Speaker 1: and futures. Solomon warns about this in Proverbs ten nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: When words are many, sin is not absent. But he
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  Speaker 1: who holds his tongue is wise. The more we speak
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  Speaker 1: without thinking, the more likely we are to sin. The
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  Speaker 1: wise person knows when to speak and when to be silent. James,
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  Speaker 1: the brother of Jesus, took this wisdom even further in
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  Speaker 1: James three five to six. He compares the tongue to
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  Speaker 1: a small spark that can set an entire forest on fire.
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  Speaker 1: The tongue is a small part of the body, but
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  Speaker 1: it makes great boasts. Consider what a great forest is
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  Speaker 1: set on fire by a small spark. The tongue also
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  Speaker 1: is a fire, a world of evil among the parts
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  Speaker 1: of the body. It corrupts the whole body, sets the
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  Speaker 1: whole course of one's life on fire, and is itself
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  Speaker 1: set on fire by hell. The imagery is terrifying. One small,
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  Speaker 1: careless word, one lie, one rumor one angry outburst can
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  Speaker 1: destroy lives in ways we never imagined. Think about the
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  Speaker 1: conflicts that have started because of words. Marriages, have ended
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  Speaker 1: because of things said in anger. Friendships have been destroyed
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  Speaker 1: because of gossip. Careers have been ruined because of reckless speech.
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  Speaker 1: Entire wars have started because of insults. If words have
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  Speaker 1: the power to cause such destruction, why do so many
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  Speaker 1: people speak without thinking? The Bible gives a simple answer.
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  Speaker 1: Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks
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  Speaker 1: Luke six forty five. Your words reveal your heart. If
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  Speaker 1: your heart is filled with bitterness, your words will be sharp.
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  Speaker 1: If your heart is filled with pride, your words will
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  Speaker 1: be arrogant. If your heart is filled with love, your
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  Speaker 1: words will be kind. Solomon understood that self control over
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  Speaker 1: our speech is one of the greatest signs of wisdom.
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  Speaker 1: He wrote in Proverbs twenty nine twenty do you see
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  Speaker 1: someone who speaks in haste? There is more hope for
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  Speaker 1: a fool than for them. This means that those who
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  Speaker 1: constantly talk without thinking are setting themselves up for failure.
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  Speaker 1: The wise person listens more than they speak. Proverbs seventeen
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight says even a fool is thought wise if
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  Speaker 1: he keeps silent and discerning, if he holds his tongue.
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  Speaker 1: This is a powerful truth. Sometimes the most intelligent thing
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  Speaker 1: you can do is say nothing at all. But Solomon
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  Speaker 1: also understood that words are not just dangerous, they are
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  Speaker 1: also powerful tools of blessing when used correctly. Proverbs sixteen
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  Speaker 1: twenty four says gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to
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  Speaker 1: the soul and healing to the bones. This means that
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  Speaker 1: just as words can destroy, they can also so heal.
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  Speaker 1: A kind word can change someone's entire day, a word
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  Speaker 1: of encouragement can restore hope. A sincere apology can repair
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  Speaker 1: a broken relationship. So how do we apply this wisdom
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  Speaker 1: to our lives today? The first step is to develop
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  Speaker 1: self control over speech. This means resisting the urge to
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  Speaker 1: respond in anger, refusing to gossip, and thinking before speaking.
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  Speaker 1: The second step is to fill our hearts with truth,
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  Speaker 1: so that our words reflect wisdom rather than foolishness. Colossians
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  Speaker 1: four to six gives a simple but powerful instruction. Let
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  Speaker 1: your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt,
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  Speaker 1: so that you may know how to answer everyone. Imagine
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  Speaker 1: how different our relationships, our workplaces, our families, and even
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  Speaker 1: our churches would be if everyone followed this wisdom. Lastly,
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  Speaker 1: we must remember but that God hears every word we speak.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus warned in Matthew twelve thirty six. But I tell
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  Speaker 1: you that everyone will have to give account on the
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  Speaker 1: day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken.
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  Speaker 1: This is serious. Our words are not just temporary sounds
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  Speaker 1: that disappear. They are recorded in eternity. One day we
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  Speaker 1: will stand before God and answer for the things we
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  Speaker 1: have said. If Solomon were here to day, he would
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  Speaker 1: remind us that our words are one of the most
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  Speaker 1: powerful weapons we carry. They can either be a tool
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  Speaker 1: for building or a weapon for destruction. The choice is ours.
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  Speaker 1: Will we be wise and use our words to bring life,
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  Speaker 1: healing and encouragement, or will we be fools and let
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  Speaker 1: our mouths bring destruction upon ourselves and others. The difference
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  Speaker 1: between a wise person and a fool often comes down
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  Speaker 1: to one thing, the ability to control the tongue. Pride
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  Speaker 1: is one of the most dangerous traps a person can
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  Speaker 1: fall into, and Solomon knew this well. He had seen
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  Speaker 1: how prideful rulers fell from power, how arrogant men ruin
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  Speaker 1: their own lives, and how those who refused correction eventually
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  Speaker 1: faced destruction. Proverbs eleven two warns when pride comes, then
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  Speaker 1: comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom. The contrast is clear.
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  Speaker 1: Pride leads to downfall, while humility opens the door to wisdom.
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  Speaker 1: No matter how much knowledge a person has, no matter
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  Speaker 1: how successful or powerful they become, the moment they allow
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  Speaker 1: pride to take over, they are on a path to destruction.
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  Speaker 1: Humility is the foundation of wisdom. A person who is
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  Speaker 1: humble knows they do not have all the answers. They
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  Speaker 1: are willing to listen, willing to learn, and willing to
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  Speaker 1: accept correction. Solomon emphasizes this in Proverbs twelve fifteen, saying
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  Speaker 1: the way of fools seems right to them, but the
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  Speaker 1: wise listen to advice. A fool thinks they already know everything,
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  Speaker 1: a wise person knows there is always more to learn.
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  Speaker 1: This principle is repeated throughout scripture. Proverbs fifteen thirty three
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  Speaker 1: says wisdom's instruction is to fear the Lord, and humility
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  Speaker 1: comes before honor. If a person desires to be wise,
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  Speaker 1: they must first humble themselves before God. Without humility, wisdom
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  Speaker 1: is impossible. Without humility, a person cannot grow, cannot improve,
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  Speaker 1: and cannot be used by God for greater things. This
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  Speaker 1: is why humility is also the key to promotion. Solomon
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  Speaker 1: makes this point in Ecclesiastes four thirteen, where he says,
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  Speaker 1: better a poor but wise youth than an old but
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  Speaker 1: foolish king who no longer knows how to heed a warning.
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  Speaker 1: Think about that, A young, inexperienced person who is humble
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  Speaker 1: enough to listen and learn is better off than a
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  Speaker 1: powerful king who refuses to change. A person's success is
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  Speaker 1: not determined by their current position, but by their willingness
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  Speaker 1: to be corrected. A leader who stops listening is on
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  Speaker 1: the road to failure. A worker who refuses to grow
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  Speaker 1: will never advance. A person who rejects instruction is choosing stagnation.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus himself reinforced this idea in Matthew twenty three twelve.
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  Speaker 1: He said, for those who exalt themselves will be humbled,
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  Speaker 1: and those who humble themselves will be exalted. God does
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  Speaker 1: not promote the proud. He does not elevate those who
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  Speaker 1: think they are better than others. He lifts up the humble.
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  Speaker 1: James four to six puts it even more plainly. God
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  Speaker 1: opposes the proud, but shows favor to the humble. Imagine
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  Speaker 1: that pride does not just lead to failure, it makes
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  Speaker 1: you an enemy of God. A person who is prideful
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  Speaker 1: is actively resisting God's will for their life, and because
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  Speaker 1: of that, they will never experience true success. This is
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  Speaker 1: especially dangerous in today's world. We live in an era
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  Speaker 1: of self promotion, where everyone is encouraged to make themselves
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  Speaker 1: look as important as possible. Social media has turned life
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  Speaker 1: into a competition for attention, and people are more concerned
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  Speaker 1: with appearing successful than actually being wise. But Solomon warns
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  Speaker 1: that this type of arrogance is a trap. Proverb sixteen
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  Speaker 1: eighteen gives one of the most well known warnings in scripture.
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  Speaker 1: Pride goes before destruction a haughty spirit before four a fall.
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  Speaker 1: If a person allows pride to control them, they are
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  Speaker 1: setting themselves up for failure. The Bible is full of
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  Speaker 1: examples of people who were destroyed by their own pride.
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  Speaker 1: King nebucud Nezzar was one of the most powerful rulers
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  Speaker 1: in history, but in Daniel four he was humbled by God.
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  Speaker 1: He stood on his palace rooftop and said, is not
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  Speaker 1: this the great Babylon I have built as the royal
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  Speaker 1: residence by my mighty power and for the glory of
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  Speaker 1: my majesty Daniel four thirty. He took full credit for
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  Speaker 1: his success, and in that moment God took everything away
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  Speaker 1: from him. He was driven from his kingdom, lived like
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  Speaker 1: an animal, and lost his mind until he finally humbled
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  Speaker 1: himself before God. Then and only then, was he restored.
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  Speaker 1: In contrast, the Bible also gives examples of those who
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  Speaker 1: were elevated because of their humility. One of the greatest
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  Speaker 1: examples is Joseph. He was sold into slavery, falsely accused,
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  Speaker 1: and thrown into prison, but through it all he never
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  Speaker 1: became arrogant or bitter. He remained humble, and because of
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  Speaker 1: that God raised him to become the second most powerful
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  Speaker 1: man in Egypt. In Genesis forty one sixteen, when Pharaoh
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  Speaker 1: asked if he could interpret dreams, Joseph did not take credit.
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  Speaker 1: He said, I cannot do it, but God will give
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh the answer he desires. That humility positioned him for promotion.
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  Speaker 1: Another example is Moses. The Bible describes him as more
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  Speaker 1: humble than anyone else on the face of the earth
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  Speaker 1: numbers twelve three. Because of this, God used him to
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  Speaker 1: lead an entire nation out of slavery. Moses was not perfect,
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  Speaker 1: but he never tried to exalt himself. He relied completely
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  Speaker 1: on God, and because of that he became one of
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  Speaker 1: the greatest leaders in history. This is a lesson that
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  Speaker 1: Solomon himself struggled with. Even though he wrote extensively about humility,
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  Speaker 1: there was a period in his life when he became arrogant.
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  Speaker 1: He accumulated extreme wealth, built massive palaces, and took one
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  Speaker 1: thousand wives and concubines. He pursued his own desires instead
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  Speaker 1: of listening to God, and in the end, his kingdom
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  Speaker 1: suffered because of it. In First Kings eleven eleven, God
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  Speaker 1: told Solomon, since this is your attitude, and you have
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  Speaker 1: not kept my covenant and my decrees which I commanded you,
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  Speaker 1: I will most certainly tear the kingdom away from you.
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  Speaker 1: Solomon's wisdom was unmatched, but even he could not escape
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  Speaker 1: the consequences of pride. So how do we apply this
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  Speaker 1: lesson to day? First, we must recognize that humility is
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  Speaker 1: not weakness. It is wisdom. The world tells us to
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  Speaker 1: promote us, to prove that we are the best, to
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  Speaker 1: never admit fault, But God's way is different. The truly
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  Speaker 1: wise person does not seek to prove themselves. They seek
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  Speaker 1: to learn, they seek to grow. They seek to glorify
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  Speaker 1: God rather than themselves. Proverbs twenty two four says humility
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  Speaker 1: is the fear of the Lord. Its wages are riches
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  Speaker 1: and honor and life. Humility is not just a spiritual virtue,
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  Speaker 1: It is the key to success in every area of life. Second,
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  Speaker 1: we must embrace correction. The moment we stop listening is
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  Speaker 1: the moment we stop growing. If someone corrects you, do
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  Speaker 1: you get defensive or do you take it as an
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to improve. Solomon wrote in Proverbs nine to nine,
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  Speaker 1: instruct the wise, and they will be wiser. Still, teach
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  Speaker 1: the righteous, and they will add to their learning. The
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  Speaker 1: wise love correction because they know it makes them better. Finally,
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  Speaker 1: we must trust that God exalts the humble in his timing.
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  Speaker 1: You do not need to force your way into success.
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  Speaker 1: You do not need to prove yourself to others. If
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  Speaker 1: you remain humble, keep learning, and walk in obedience, God
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  Speaker 1: will elevate you at the right time. As first Peter
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  Speaker 1: five six says, humble yourselves therefore under God's mighty hand,
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  Speaker 1: that he may lift you up in due time. Solomon's
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  Speaker 1: wisdom is clear. Pride will destroy you. Humility will open
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  Speaker 1: doors that arrogance could never unlock. The choice is yours.
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  Speaker 1: Will you walk the path of wisdom or will you
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  Speaker 1: let pride lead you to destruction. Hard work is one
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  Speaker 1: of the most underrated principles in today's world. Everywhere you look,
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  Speaker 1: people want short cuts, quick success, instant fame, and wealth
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  Speaker 1: without effort. But Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived,
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  Speaker 1: knew the truth. Diligence leads to success, while laziness leads
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  Speaker 1: to destruction. In Proverbs six six to eleven, he paints
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  Speaker 1: a picture of wisdom through one of the smallest creatures
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  Speaker 1: on earth, the ant. He says, go to the ant,
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  Speaker 1: you sluggard, consider its ways and be wise. It has
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  Speaker 1: no commander, no overseer or ruler. Yet it stores its
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  Speaker 1: provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. The
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  Speaker 1: ant does not need someone telling it to work. It
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  Speaker 1: does not wait for motivation or external pressure. It simply
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  Speaker 1: does what is necessary, knowing that the reward will come
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  Speaker 1: in due time. Compare that to the person who always
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  Speaker 1: puts things off, waiting for the right time to take action.
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  Speaker 1: Solomon warns in Proverbs twenty four thirty to thirty four.
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  Speaker 1: I went past the field of a sluggard, past the
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  Speaker 1: vineyard of some one who has no sense. Thorns had
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  Speaker 1: come up everywhere, the ground was covered with weeds, and
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  Speaker 1: the stone wall was in ruins. I applied my heart
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  Speaker 1: to what I observed and learned a lesson from what
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  Speaker 1: I saw. A little sleep, a little slumber, a little
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  Speaker 1: folding of the hands to rest, and poverty will come
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  Speaker 1: on you like a thief, and scarcity like an armed man.
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  Speaker 1: The lazy person does not wake up one day and
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  Speaker 1: find themselves in disaster. It happens little by little choice,
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  Speaker 1: by choice, a little compromise here, a small delay there,
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  Speaker 1: and before they know it, their life is overgrown with weeds,
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  Speaker 1: wasted time, missed opportunities, and deep regret. This principle applies
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  Speaker 1: to every area of life. In work, laziness leads to
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  Speaker 1: financial struggle. In relationships, laziness leads to brokenness. In spirit life,
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  Speaker 1: laziness leads to a weak and ineffective faith. Solomon understood
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  Speaker 1: that hard work is not just about making money. It
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  Speaker 1: is about building a life of excellence and honor before God.
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  Speaker 1: This is why Ecclesiastes nine ten gives one of the
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  Speaker 1: most powerful commands regarding work, Whatever your hand finds to do,
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  Speaker 1: do it with all your might. Solomon does not say
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  Speaker 1: work hard when you feel like it. He doesn't say
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  Speaker 1: give your best effort when others are watching. He says,
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  Speaker 1: whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all
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  Speaker 1: your might. Whether it is your job, your ministry, your
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  Speaker 1: responsibilities at home, give it everything you have. Do not
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  Speaker 1: do things halfway, Do not settle for mediocrity. Work with
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  Speaker 1: all your might, and God will bless the work of
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  Speaker 1: your hands. Jesus echoed this same principle in Luke sixteen ten.
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  Speaker 1: He said, whoever can be trusted with very little can
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  Speaker 1: also be trusted with much, And whoever is dishonest with
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  Speaker 1: very little will also be dishonest with much. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: if you're faithful in the small things, God will entrust
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  Speaker 1: you with bigger things. But if you're lazy and careless
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  Speaker 1: with the little responsibilities you have now, why would God
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  Speaker 1: promote you? Why would he give you more when you
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  Speaker 1: are not handling what you already have. This is why
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  Speaker 1: so many people remain stuck in life. They keep praying
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  Speaker 1: for breakthroughs, but they are not working diligently with what
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  Speaker 1: God has already given them. They want success, but they
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  Speaker 1: are not willing to be disciplined. They want financial blessings,
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  Speaker 1: but they refuse to develop good work habits. They want
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  Speaker 1: strong relationships, but they are too lazy to invest time
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  Speaker 1: and effort. Faith without works is dead. You cannot ask
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  Speaker 1: God to bless your efforts if you're not putting in
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  Speaker 1: any effort at all. Consider the difference between Joseph and
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  Speaker 1: the lazy servant in Jesus's parables. Joseph was sold into slavery,
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  Speaker 1: falsely accused, and thrown into prison, but no matter where
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  Speaker 1: he was, he worked diligently. In Potiphar's house. He was
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  Speaker 1: so faithful that he was placed in charge of everything
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  Speaker 1: in prison, he was so diligent that he was given leadership,
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  Speaker 1: and when the right time came, God elevated him to
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  Speaker 1: the second most powerful position in Egypt. Genesis thirty nine
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  Speaker 1: three through four says his master saw that the Lord
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  Speaker 1: was with him, and that the Lord gave him success
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  Speaker 1: in everything he did. Joseph found favor in his eyes
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  Speaker 1: and became his attendant. His hard work was noticed, and
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  Speaker 1: God honored him for it. Now, compare that to the
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  Speaker 1: lazy servant in Matthew twenty five fourteen to thirty, The
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  Speaker 1: Parable of the Talents. This servant was given one talent
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  Speaker 1: by his master, but instead of working with it, he
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  Speaker 1: buried it in the ground. When the master returned, he
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  Speaker 1: made excuses, I was afraid, so I hid your talent
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  Speaker 1: in the ground. But the master did not accept his excuse.
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  Speaker 1: He took the talent away and called him a wicked
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  Speaker 1: and lazy servant. The lesson God does not reward laziness.
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  Speaker 1: The person who refuses to work, refuses to grow, refuses
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  Speaker 1: to use what God has given them, will lose even
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  Speaker 1: the little they have to day. The world is full
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  Speaker 1: of people who want rewards without work. They chase overnight success,
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  Speaker 1: short cuts and hacks to wealth and prosperity. But Solomon
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  Speaker 1: warns in Proverbs thirteen four the soul of the sluggard
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  Speaker 1: craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent
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  Speaker 1: is ritch supplied. The lazy wants success, but they never
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  Speaker 1: get it because they refuse to work for it. But
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  Speaker 1: the diligent, the ones who show up every day, who
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  Speaker 1: give their best effort, who do not quit when things
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  Speaker 1: get hard, will be rewarded. This does not mean hard
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  Speaker 1: work alone is enough. God is the one who ultimately
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  Speaker 1: brings success, but he expects us to do our part.
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  Speaker 1: Proverbs ten to four says lazy hands make for poverty,
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  Speaker 1: but diligent hands bring wealth. God blesses the work of
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  Speaker 1: the diligent. He multiplies the efforts of those who are faithful.
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  Speaker 1: Hard work is not just about personal gain, It is
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  Speaker 1: about honoring God with your efforts. So what does this
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  Speaker 1: mean for you? First examine your work ethic. Are you
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  Speaker 1: giving your best or are you cutting corners? Are you
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  Speaker 1: diligent or are you procrastinating? Colossums three twenty three says
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  Speaker 1: whatever you do, work at it with all your heart
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  Speaker 1: as working for the Lord, not for human masters. Whether
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  Speaker 1: you are working for a company, running a business, serving
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  Speaker 1: in ministry, or taking care of your family, do it
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  Speaker 1: for God. Second, stop making excuses. Many people blame their
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  Speaker 1: lack of success on circumstances, but Solomon makes it clear
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  Speaker 1: most failure comes from laziness. Proverbs twenty two thirteen says
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  Speaker 1: the sluggard says there is a lion outside, I shall
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  Speaker 1: be killed in the streets. In other words, the lazy
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  Speaker 1: person always has an excuse. There is always a reason
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  Speaker 1: to avoid hard work, but the diligent person pushes forward
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  Speaker 1: despite the challenges. Finally, trust God's timing. Diligence does not
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  Speaker 1: always bring instant results, but in due time God rewards
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  Speaker 1: those who are faithful. Galatians six' nine reminds us let
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  Speaker 1: us not grow weary in doing, good for at the
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  Speaker 1: proper time we will reap a harvest if we do
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  Speaker 1: not give. Up solomon's wisdom is clear hard work leads to,
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  Speaker 1: success while laziness leads to. Destruction the question is are
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  Speaker 1: you willing to put in the? Work will you be
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  Speaker 1: like the diligent, ant storing up for the, future or
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  Speaker 1: will you be like the, sluggard making excuses and watching
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  Speaker 1: opportunities slip. Away the choice is. Yours your heart is
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  Speaker 1: the control center of your entire. Life everything you, think,
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  Speaker 1: say and do flows from what is inside of. It
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  Speaker 1: that is Why, solomon the wisest man to ever, live
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  Speaker 1: gave one of the most urgent warnings In proverbs four twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Three above all, else guard your, heart for everything you
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  Speaker 1: do flows from. It notice the words above all. Else
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  Speaker 1: solomon had, wealth, power, knowledge and, influence but he did
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  Speaker 1: not say guard your money or guard your. Reputation he,
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  Speaker 1: said guard your, heart because whatever owns your heart controls your.
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  Speaker 1: Life in today's, world people guard their phones with, passwords
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  Speaker 1: they guard their homes with security, cameras they guard their
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  Speaker 1: bank accounts WITH PI n. Codes but when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to their, hearts they leave the doors wide, open allowing
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  Speaker 1: anything and everything to. Enter they let toxic relationships shape.
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  Speaker 1: Them they let entertainment pollute their. Minds they allow, bitterness,
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  Speaker 1: resentment and unforgiveness to take, root and then they wonder
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  Speaker 1: why their lives are filled with, confusion, pain and. Regret
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  Speaker 1: solomon warns In ecclesiastes seven, nine do not be quickly
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  Speaker 1: provoked in your, spirit for anger resides in the lap of.
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  Speaker 1: Fools how many people to day are ruled by their.
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  Speaker 1: Emotions one moment they are filled with, joy the next
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  Speaker 1: they are drowning in. Anxiety one moment they are, confident
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  Speaker 1: the next they are insecure and. Fearful why because they
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  Speaker 1: have not guarded their. Hearts they allow the words of
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  Speaker 1: others to define. Them they let negativity take root and
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  Speaker 1: shape their outlook on. Life they absorb the anger and
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  Speaker 1: bitterness of the world and wonder why peace always feels
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  Speaker 1: out of. Reach this is Why jesus said In luke
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  Speaker 1: six forty, five a good man brings good things out
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  Speaker 1: of the good stored up in his, heart and an
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  Speaker 1: evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored
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  Speaker 1: up in his. Heart for the mouth speaks what the
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  Speaker 1: heart is full. Of whatever you store in your heart
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  Speaker 1: will come out in your actions and. Words if your
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  Speaker 1: heart is filled with, wisdom faith and, love your life
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  Speaker 1: will reflect. It but if if your heart is filled with, bitterness,
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  Speaker 1: pride and, selfishness your life will show. It think about
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  Speaker 1: what you consume. Daily what kind of music do you listen,
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  Speaker 1: To what kind of movies AND tv shows do you?
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  Speaker 1: Watch what kind of conversations are you? Having are they
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  Speaker 1: filling your heart with, wisdom, encouragement and godliness or are
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  Speaker 1: they feeding, negativity, lust and. Anger what you let into
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  Speaker 1: your heart today will shape who you become. Tomorrow the
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  Speaker 1: enemy knows, this which is why his strategy is not
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  Speaker 1: just to attack your. Mind he wants your. Heart if
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  Speaker 1: he can corrupt your, heart he can control your. Life
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  Speaker 1: proverbs twenty three seven, says for as he thinks in his,
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  Speaker 1: heart so is. He if the devil can fill your
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  Speaker 1: heart with, fear you will live in. Anxiety if he
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  Speaker 1: can fill your heart with, doubt you will never step
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  Speaker 1: into your god given. Calling if he can fill your
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  Speaker 1: heart with, unforgiveness you will remain trapped in your. Past
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  Speaker 1: this is Why solomon repeatedly warns about the dangers of
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  Speaker 1: an unguarded. Heart In proverbs six twenty, seven he asks
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  Speaker 1: can a man scoop fire into his lap without his
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  Speaker 1: clothes being. Burned many people believe they can allow toxic
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  Speaker 1: things into their lives without. Consequences they think they can
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  Speaker 1: entertain lustful thoughts without it affecting their. Actions they believe
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  Speaker 1: they can hold on to bitterness without it destroying their.
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  Speaker 1: Relationships they assume they can keep ungodly friendships without being.
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  Speaker 1: Influenced But solomon, says, no if you play with, fire
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  Speaker 1: you will get. Burned this is what happened To solomon.
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  Speaker 1: Himself even though he was the wisest man on, earth
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  Speaker 1: he ignored his own. Advice he allowed his heart to
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  Speaker 1: be led astray by his many wives who worshiped false.
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  Speaker 1: Godds First kings eleven four says As solomon grew, old
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  Speaker 1: his wives turned his heart after other, gods and his
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  Speaker 1: heart was not fully devoted to The lord His. God
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  Speaker 1: as the heart Of. David his father had been the
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  Speaker 1: man who once had direct encounters With, god the man
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  Speaker 1: who built the temple In, jerusalem the man who Wrote
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  Speaker 1: proverbs And, ecclesiastes fell because he did not guard his.
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  Speaker 1: Heart and this is the warning to. Us it does
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  Speaker 1: not matter how much success you, achieve how much knowledge you,
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  Speaker 1: gain or how strong your faith is right, now if
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  Speaker 1: you do not guard your, heart you can still. Fall
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  Speaker 1: so how do you guard your? Heart, first be mindful
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  Speaker 1: of what you allow. In be careful about what you,
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  Speaker 1: watch what you listen, to and who you surround yourself.
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  Speaker 1: With psalm one hundred, one verse three SAYS i will
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  Speaker 1: set no wicked thing before my. Eyes if something is
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  Speaker 1: polluting your mind and leading you away From, god remove. It,
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  Speaker 1: second fill your heart With god's. Word psalm one hundred,
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  Speaker 1: nineteen verse eleven SAYS i have hidden your word in
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  Speaker 1: my heart THAT i might not sin against. You the
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  Speaker 1: best way to guard your heart is to fill it with.
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  Speaker 1: Truth if you are constantly meditating on, scripture there will
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  Speaker 1: be no room for, fear, doubt or. Deception, third pray for.
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  Speaker 1: Discernment Ask god to reveal anything in your heart that
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  Speaker 1: does not. Belong In psalm one hundred thirty, nine verses
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  Speaker 1: twenty three to twenty, Four david, Prayed search, Me god
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  Speaker 1: and know my. Heart test me and know my anxious.
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  Speaker 1: Thoughts see if there is any offensive way in, me
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  Speaker 1: and lead me in the way. Everlasting do not assume
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  Speaker 1: that your heart is always in the right. Place Ask
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  Speaker 1: god to search it. Forth forgive, quickly and let go of.
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  Speaker 1: Offenses nothing poisons the heart faster than, Bitterness jesus said
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  Speaker 1: In mark eleven twenty. Five and when you stand, praying
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  Speaker 1: if you hold anything against, anyone forgive them so that
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  Speaker 1: Your father In heaven may forgive you your. SINS a
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  Speaker 1: heart filled with unforgiveness cannot be filled With god's. Peace,
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  Speaker 1: finally guard your. Relationships proverbs twenty seven nineteen, says as
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  Speaker 1: water reflects the, face so one's life reflects the. Heart
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  Speaker 1: the people closest to you have a direct impact on your.
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  Speaker 1: Heart if you surround yourself with, negativity, gossip and, ungodliness
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  Speaker 1: it will eventually shape. You but if you surround yourself
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  Speaker 1: with people who Love, god seek, wisdom and pursue, righteousness
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  Speaker 1: you will be. Strengthened at the end of the, day
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  Speaker 1: your heart determines your. Future if you guard, it you
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  Speaker 1: will walk in, wisdom peace and. Purpose if you leave it,
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  Speaker 1: unprotected you will be influenced by the, world the, flesh
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  Speaker 1: and the. Enemy solomon learned this lesson the hard. Way
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  Speaker 1: will you coming From solomon's wisdom about guarding the, heart
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  Speaker 1: there is another lesson that is just as, critical learning
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  Speaker 1: to listen before. Speaking in today's, world people love to,
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  Speaker 1: Talk everyone has an, opinion everyone wants to be. Heard
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  Speaker 1: social media has made it even. Worse people argue, online
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  Speaker 1: speak without, thinking and destroy relationships just to prove a.
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  Speaker 1: Point But, solomon the wisest man to ever, live warned
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  Speaker 1: In proverbs nineteen, twenty listen to advice and accept, discipline
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  Speaker 1: and at the end you will be counted among the.
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  Speaker 1: Wise the key to wisdom is not found in speaking,
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  Speaker 1: more it is found in listening. FIRST a fool speaks
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  Speaker 1: before they, understand but the wise listen. First too many
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  Speaker 1: people react before they. Reflect they jump to conclusions before
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  Speaker 1: they have all the. Facts they assume they know everything
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  Speaker 1: when they haven't taken the time to truly. Listen proverbs
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  Speaker 1: eighteen thirteen warns to answer before. Listening that is folly and.
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  Speaker 1: Shame think about how many problems in life could be
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  Speaker 1: avoided if people just paused and listened before. Responding how
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  Speaker 1: many relationships have been broken because someone spoke in anger
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  Speaker 1: instead of listening with. Patience how many bad decisions have
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  Speaker 1: been made because someone refused to seek wise. Counsel solomon
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  Speaker 1: takes this even further In ecclesiastes five two to. Three
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  Speaker 1: do not be quick with your. Mouth do not be
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  Speaker 1: hasty in your heart to utter anything Before. God god
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  Speaker 1: is in, heaven and you are on. Earth so let
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  Speaker 1: your words be. Few. YOU a fool's voice is known
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  Speaker 1: by his many. Words this is a lesson in both
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  Speaker 1: humility and. Wisdom the more you, talk the more you
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  Speaker 1: reveal your. Foolishness but when you, listen when you pause before,
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  Speaker 1: speaking when you choose your words, carefully you demonstrate. Wisdom
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  Speaker 1: how many people to day ruin their, relationships, careers and
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  Speaker 1: reputations simply because they can't stop talking and start. Listening
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  Speaker 1: there are people who have lost job opportunities because they
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  Speaker 1: didn't listen during an interview and instead tried to impress
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  Speaker 1: with empty. Words there are marriages that have ended because
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  Speaker 1: one spouse refused to truly listen to the heart of the.
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  Speaker 1: Other there are friendships that have fallen apart because someone
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  Speaker 1: spoke out of, turn assuming the worst instead of listening to.
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  Speaker 1: Understand james Echoes solomon's wisdom In james. Nineteen everyone should
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  Speaker 1: be quick to, listen slow to, speak and slow to become.
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  Speaker 1: Angry notice the order quick to, listen slow to. Speak
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  Speaker 1: that is the opposite of how most people live to.
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  Speaker 1: Day many people are quick to, speak slow to, listen
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  Speaker 1: and quick to become. Angry this is why arguments. Escalate
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  Speaker 1: this is why misunderstandings. Happen this is why relationships. Break
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  Speaker 1: when people stop listening and start. Assuming they open the
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  Speaker 1: door to unnecessary conflict and foolish. Mistakes before making big,
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  Speaker 1: decisions before speaking in, anger, pause seek, wisdom. Listen solomon
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  Speaker 1: was given divine wisdom By, god and even he emphasized
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  Speaker 1: the importance of listening before. Speaking how much more do,
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  Speaker 1: we as flawed humans need to apply. This how many
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  Speaker 1: of life's regrets come from words spoken in. Haste how
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  Speaker 1: many apologies have been necessary because someone reacted before. Listening
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  Speaker 1: consider How jesus. Lived he was the son Of, god
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  Speaker 1: yet he never spoke. Carelessly he, Listened he asked, questions
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  Speaker 1: he allowed people to explain themselves before. Responding In matthew
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  Speaker 1: twenty two forty, six When jesus asked The pharisees a
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  Speaker 1: question about The, messiah it says no one could say
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  Speaker 1: a word in, reply and from that day, on no
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  Speaker 1: one dared to ask him any more. Questions his words
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  Speaker 1: carried weight because he listened first and spoke with. Wisdom
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  Speaker 1: The bible even warns about talking too. Much proverbs ten
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  Speaker 1: nineteen says when words are, many sin is not, absent
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  Speaker 1: but he who holds his tongue is. Wise have you
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  Speaker 1: ever said something you instantly? Regretted have you ever made
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  Speaker 1: a promise you couldn't keep because you spoke too? Soon
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  Speaker 1: have you ever gossiped about someone and later realized you
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  Speaker 1: didn't know the full. Story talking too much always leads to.
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  Speaker 1: Trouble this lesson is also important in. Prayer many people
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  Speaker 1: pray as if they are Giving god a, speech listing
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  Speaker 1: all their requests and, complaints but never pausing to. Listen
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  Speaker 1: ecclesiastes five one warns guard your steps when you go
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  Speaker 1: to the house Of, god go near to, listen rather
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  Speaker 1: than to offer the sacrifice of. FOOLS a foolish person
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  Speaker 1: talks too. Much even in the presence Of, GOD a
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  Speaker 1: wise person knows when to be silent and. Listen this
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  Speaker 1: does not mean we should never. Speak it simply means
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  Speaker 1: we should speak. Wisely words have. Power proverbs eighteen twenty
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  Speaker 1: one says the tongue has the power of life and,
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  Speaker 1: death and those who love it will eat its. Fruit
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  Speaker 1: your words can either build up or tear. Down they
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  Speaker 1: can bring peace or start a. War they can encourage or.
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  Speaker 1: Destroy that is why it is so important to listen.
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  Speaker 1: First so how do we apply this? Lesson, first develop
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  Speaker 1: the habit of active. Listening don't just listen to, Respond
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  Speaker 1: listen to. Understand don't assume you already know what someone
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  Speaker 1: is going to. Say give them your full. Attention proverbs
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  Speaker 1: twenty five eleven says a word fitly spoken is like
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  Speaker 1: apples of gold in settings of. Silver this means that
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  Speaker 1: the right words at the right time are. Priceless but
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  Speaker 1: if you don't listen, first you won't know what the
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 1: right words. Are, second learn to pause before. Speaking when
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  Speaker 1: you feel the urge to, react take a. Breath think
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 1: before you. Speak ask, yourself will this build up or tear?
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  Speaker 1: Down is this wise or? Foolish AM i speaking out
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  Speaker 1: of emotion or? Wisdom solemnon warn In proverbs twenty nine
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  Speaker 1: twenty do you see someone who speaks in? Haste there
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  Speaker 1: is more hope for a fool than for. Them, third
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  Speaker 1: seek wise counsel before making major. Decisions proverbs twelve fifteen
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  Speaker 1: says the way of fools seems right to, them but
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 1: the wise listen to. Advice do not be so arrogant
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  Speaker 1: that you reject. Correction surround yourself with wise people and
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 1: listen to their counsel before making important. Choices, fourth practice
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  Speaker 1: self control in. Speech proverbs seventeen twenty seven to twenty
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  Speaker 1: eight says the one who has knowledge uses words with,
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 1: restraint and whoever has understanding is even. Tempered even fools
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  Speaker 1: are thought wise if they keep silent and. Discerning if
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  Speaker 1: they hold their. Tongues sometimes the best response is no
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  Speaker 1: response at. All, fifth apply this to your relationship With.
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  Speaker 1: God don't just, pray, listen spend time in silence Before.
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  Speaker 1: God let him speak to your, heart ask for, wisdom
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 1: and then wait for his. Direction psalm forty six ten,
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 1: says be still and know THAT i Am. God some
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 1: answers come not in the, noise but in the stillness
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 1: at the end of the. Day the difference between a
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: wise person and a fool is not, Intelligence it is
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 1: the ability to. Listen the fool is quick to speak
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 1: and slow to. Understand the wise person listens, first thinks,
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: carefully and speaks with. Purpose, solomon with all his, wisdom
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: understood this. Truth the question is will You after all
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: the Wisdom solomon shared about choosing, words, carefully guarding the,
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 1: heart and seeking wisdom above, riches he comes to his
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  Speaker 1: final and most important, lesson the ultimate conclusion of everything
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: he learned in his. Life after a lifetime of, wealth, power,
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 1: pleasure and endless pursuit of, Meaning solomon gives us one
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 1: final truth that outweighs everything. Else Fear god and keep his,
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 1: commandments for this is the whole duty of Man ecclesiastes twelve.
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  Speaker 1: Thirteen this is not just, Advice it is a. Warning
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  Speaker 1: nothing else in life truly matters if we do not
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  Speaker 1: Fear god and live in obedience to. Him solomon had.
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 1: Everything he was the wealthiest king in, history owning more
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: gold and treasures than any man could. Count he built
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: the most magnificent temple For, god and had a throne
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: unlike any. Other he had wisdom that leaders from around
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: the world came to. Hear he experienced every, pleasure owned,
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  Speaker 1: lands built, cities and wrote poetry that is still studied to.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 1: Day and yet at the end of it, all he
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 1: looks back and calls everything. Meaningless he repeats it over
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 1: and over In ecclesiastes, meaningless, Meaningless everything is Meaningless ecclesiastes one.
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  Speaker 1: Two what does he? Mean he is not saying that
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 1: life has no, value but that everything we, chase, money, success,
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: entertainment even wisdom, itself is meaningless Without. God many people
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: to day spend their entire lives chasing, success believing that
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 1: once they reach the next, level once they get that,
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 1: promotion that, degree that, house that, relationship they will finally be.
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 1: Satisfied But, solomon the man who had more than, anyone
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 1: tells us it will never be. Enough no amount of
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 1: money can bring, peace no amount of fame can bring eternal,
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  Speaker 1: Joy no amount of pleasure can fill the emptiness inside
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 1: the human. Soul psalm one hundred twenty seven one echoes this.
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  Speaker 1: Truth unless The lord builds the house the builder's labor in,
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  Speaker 1: vain everything done apart From god will ultimately amount to.
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 1: Nothing but what does it mean to Fear. God fear
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  Speaker 1: in this sense does not mean being afraid Of god
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  Speaker 1: like he is a monster waiting to destroy. Us it
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 1: means deep, reverence awe and absolute submission To his. Authority
• 1:06:36
  Speaker 1: to Fear god means to recognize who he is and
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 1: respond in. Obedience solomon warns us In proverbs one, seven
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 1: the fear of The lord is the beginning of, knowledge
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 1: but fools despise wisdom and. Instruction true wisdom begins when
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  Speaker 1: we acknowledge That god is the ultimate source of. Truth
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: keeping his commandments is not just about following a list
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: of religious. Rules it is about living a life that
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 1: aligns with his. Will jesus said In john fourteen, fifteen
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 1: if you love, me keep my. Commandments obedience To god
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 1: is the proof of our love for. Him it is
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 1: not about, legalism but about. Devotion we obey because we
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 1: trust That his ways lead to. Life, solomon after experiencing
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 1: everything the world had to, offer came to the realization
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 1: that the only thing that truly mattered was Obeying. God
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 1: everything else in this world will, fade, money it will
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: be gone the moment you. Die, fame people will forget
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 1: your name in a generation or two, pleasure it lasts
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 1: only for a. Moment even wisdom and knowledge they are
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  Speaker 1: only useful for this short. Life First john two seventeen
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  Speaker 1: confirms this. Truth the world and its desires pass, away
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  Speaker 1: but whoever does the will Of god lives. Forever everything is,
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  Speaker 1: temporary except for what we do For. God jesus reinforced
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  Speaker 1: this same truth when he told the parable of the
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  Speaker 1: wise and foolish builders In matthew seven twenty four to twenty.
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  Speaker 1: Seven the wise man builds his house on the, rock
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  Speaker 1: while the foolish man builds on the. Sand when the
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  Speaker 1: storms of life, come only the house built on the rock.
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  Speaker 1: Remains what is the rock obedience To god's. Word everything
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  Speaker 1: else is sinking. Sand, careers, relationships. Possessions all of it
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  Speaker 1: will eventually collapse if it is not built on the
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  Speaker 1: foundation Of. Christ solomon's conclusion is a wake up. Call
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  Speaker 1: the world tries to tell us that, success, wealth, pleasure
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  Speaker 1: and personal happiness are the ultimate goals of. Life But
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  Speaker 1: solomon had all of these, things and in the end
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  Speaker 1: he realized they were worthless Without. God he warns us
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  Speaker 1: in a Clean ysiastes twelve. Fourteen For god will bring
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  Speaker 1: every deed into, judgment including every hidden, thing whether it
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  Speaker 1: is good or. Evil in the, end everything we do
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  Speaker 1: will be judged By. God our achievements won't, matter our
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  Speaker 1: bank accounts won't, matter our popularity won't. Matter the only
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  Speaker 1: thing that will matter is whether we lived For god
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  Speaker 1: or for. Ourselves so how do we Apply solomon's final?
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  Speaker 1: Lesson first we must evaluate what we are living. For
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  Speaker 1: what is consuming your, thoughts your, goals your. Energy if
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  Speaker 1: it is anything other Than, god it is. Meaningless matthew
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  Speaker 1: six thirty three gives us the. Solution seek first The
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  Speaker 1: kingdom Of god and his, righteousness and all these things
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  Speaker 1: will be given to you as. Well when we Put god,
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  Speaker 1: first he takes care of everything. Else, second we must
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  Speaker 1: dive up a deep reverence For. God do you truly
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  Speaker 1: honor him in your daily? Life does your heart submit
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  Speaker 1: to his? Will or do you only follow him when
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  Speaker 1: it is? Convenient true fear of The lord is not
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  Speaker 1: just about going to church or reading The. Bible it
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  Speaker 1: is about recognizing That he is the ruler of your
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  Speaker 1: life and obeying him even when no one is. Watching
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  Speaker 1: psalm thirty, Three colonate, says let all the earth fear The,
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  Speaker 1: Lord let all the inhabitants of the world stand in
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  Speaker 1: awe of. Him if we truly Fear, god it will
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  Speaker 1: be evident in every part of our. Lives, third we
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  Speaker 1: must commit to keeping his. Commandments this does not mean
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  Speaker 1: following a. Checklist it means Making god's word the standard
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  Speaker 1: for your. Life james one twenty two tells, us do
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  Speaker 1: not merely listen to the word and so deceive. Yourselves
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  Speaker 1: do what it. Says it is easy to read The,
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  Speaker 1: bible but applying it is what changes. Lives at the
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  Speaker 1: end of, Everything solomon makes it, clear Fear, god keep his.
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  Speaker 1: Commandments everything else is. Meaningless no, career no, relationship no
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  Speaker 1: possession will ever compare to the joy of knowing and Obeying.
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  Speaker 1: God jesus said In mark eight thirty, six what good
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  Speaker 1: is it for someone to gain the whole world yet
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  Speaker 1: forfeit their. Soul solomon gained the whole, world and at
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  Speaker 1: the end of his life he realized the only thing
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  Speaker 1: that mattered Was. God the question now is will you?
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  Speaker 1: Listen will you waste your life chasing temporary? Things or
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  Speaker 1: will you build your life on the fear of The.
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  Speaker 1: Lord solomon had to learn this lesson the hard. Way
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to the time to shift your focus is.
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  Speaker 1: Now what you do today will determine whether your life
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  Speaker 1: life is built on the rock or on. Sand will
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  Speaker 1: you choose wisdom or will you chase the? Wind the
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  Speaker 1: choice is. Yours after Everything solomon experienced riches beyond, measure
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  Speaker 1: wisdom greater than any, man power that could not be.
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  Speaker 1: Challenged his final words to us are not about how
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  Speaker 1: to build an, empire how to achieve, success or how
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  Speaker 1: to gain. Influence his last and greatest warning is, simple
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  Speaker 1: Fear god and keep his. Commandments everything else is. Meaningless
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  Speaker 1: he spent his life chasing everything the world has to,
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  Speaker 1: offer only to find out that it all led to.
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  Speaker 1: Emptiness he urges us not to make the same. Mistake,
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  Speaker 1: yet how many people today are Repeating solomon's, mistakes thinking
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  Speaker 1: they will somehow get a different. Result the reality is
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  Speaker 1: that most people will ignore these. Lessons they will continue chasing,
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  Speaker 1: money trying to fill their hearts with things that can never.
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  Speaker 1: Satisfy they will waste their time on, distractions feeding their
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  Speaker 1: souls with meaningless entertainment instead of Seeking. God they will
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  Speaker 1: surround themselves with bad, influences ignoring the wisdom that could
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  Speaker 1: have saved. Them from. Destruction they will keep making reckless,
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  Speaker 1: decisions letting their emotions rule them instead of seeking. Understanding
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  Speaker 1: they will ignore the warnings about sexual, sin, pride and,
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  Speaker 1: laziness believing that they can handle it on their. Own
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  Speaker 1: they will refuse to humble, themselves choosing stubbornness over. Wisdom
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  Speaker 1: they will allow their tongues to destroy their relationships and their,
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  Speaker 1: futures speaking without, thinking refusing to, listen and spreading negativity
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  Speaker 1: instead of. Truth and in the, end they will find
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  Speaker 1: themselves exactly Where solomon found, himself, empty, regretful and realizing
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  Speaker 1: too late that they were chasing the. Wind but you
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  Speaker 1: don't have to follow that. Path you don't have to
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  Speaker 1: Repeat solomon's. Mistakes the difference between wisdom and foolishness is a.
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  Speaker 1: Choice the wise inherit, honor but fools get only Shame
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  Speaker 1: proverbs three thirty. Five The bible makes it clear that
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  Speaker 1: there are two paths in, life one that leads to
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  Speaker 1: life and one that leads to. Destruction jesus spoke of
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  Speaker 1: this same choice In matthew seven thirteen to, fourteen saying
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  Speaker 1: enter through the narrow, gate for wide is the, gate
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  Speaker 1: and broad is the road that leads to, destruction and
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  Speaker 1: many enter through. It but small is the, gate and
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  Speaker 1: narrow the road that leads to, life and only a
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  Speaker 1: few find. It most people choose the broad. Road most
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  Speaker 1: people follow the, crowd live for themselves and Ignore god's.
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  Speaker 1: Wisdom but only a few will take the narrow, path
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  Speaker 1: the path of, wisdom, obedience and true fuls filment In.
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  Speaker 1: God so which path will you? Choose will you be
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  Speaker 1: like the fool who ignores these, lessons convince that you
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  Speaker 1: can do life your own, way or will you be
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  Speaker 1: among the few who take these warnings seriously and seek
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  Speaker 1: wisdom while you still have. Time proverbs four seven tells
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  Speaker 1: us wisdom is the principal. Thing, therefore get, wisdom and
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  Speaker 1: with all your, getting get. Understanding everything you do in
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  Speaker 1: life will either bring you closer to wisdom or push
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  Speaker 1: you further into. Foolishness there is no in. Between if
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  Speaker 1: you apply these ten, lessons your life will be different
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  Speaker 1: from ninety nine percent of the people in this. World
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  Speaker 1: you will not fall into the traps that most people fall.
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  Speaker 1: Into you will not waste your time chasing things that don't.
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  Speaker 1: Matter you will not destroy your future with reckless. Decisions
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  Speaker 1: you will not live in constant, regret looking back at your,
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  Speaker 1: life wondering where you went. Wrong, instead you will walk in, peace,
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  Speaker 1: security and true. Success not the kind of success the world,
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  Speaker 1: offers but the kind that only comes from walking With.
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  Speaker 1: God the world is full of people who claim to be,
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  Speaker 1: wise but livers. Fools james one twenty two warns, us
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  Speaker 1: do not merely listen to the word and so deceive.
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  Speaker 1: Yourselves do what it. Says wisdom is not just knowing
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  Speaker 1: the right, thing it's doing the right. Thing many people
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  Speaker 1: will hear these lessons and agree with, them but only
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  Speaker 1: a few will actually apply. Them that is the difference
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  Speaker 1: between wisdom and. Foolishness so which of these lessons hit
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  Speaker 1: you the. Hardest what area of your life do you
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  Speaker 1: need to change to? Day let us know in the.
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  Speaker 1: Comments are you chasing money instead of? Wisdom are you
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  Speaker 1: wasting time on meaningless? Things are you struggling to control your,
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  Speaker 1: words your, thoughts or your. Emotions whatever it, is now
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  Speaker 1: is the time to surrender it To. God if you
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  Speaker 1: The book Of proverbs And. Ecclesiastes these books are filled
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  Speaker 1: Study let's close with a. Prayer Heavenly, father we come
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  Speaker 1: before you in, humility knowing that without your wisdom we are.
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  Speaker 1: Lost your word tells us In proverbs two, six for
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  Speaker 1: The lord gives wisdom from his, mouth come knowledge and.
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  Speaker 1: Understanding we do not seek the wisdom of this, world
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  Speaker 1: which fades and leads to. Emptiness we seek your, wisdom
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  Speaker 1: the kind That solomon spoke, of the wisdom that brings, life,
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  Speaker 1: discernment and true. Success, lord we ask that you fill
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  Speaker 1: us with your, wisdom not just as, knowledge but as
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  Speaker 1: a guide in every decision we. Make give us the
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  Speaker 1: ability to see through, deception to recognize, distractions and to
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  Speaker 1: walk in the path that leads to. Righteousness, father we
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  Speaker 1: pray for, discernment the ability to know what is truly
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  Speaker 1: important and what is. Meaningless the world tempts us with,
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  Speaker 1: vanity with, status with, pleasure with quick. Success but your
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  Speaker 1: word reminds us In james three, seventeen but the wisdom
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  Speaker 1: that comes From heaven is first of all pure then peace, loving, considerate,
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  Speaker 1: submissive full of mercy and good, Fruit, impartial and. Sincere
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  Speaker 1: teach us to desire that kind of. Wisdom help us
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  Speaker 1: to filter everything through your truth so that we are
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  Speaker 1: not led astray when the enemy whispers, lies when culture
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  Speaker 1: pushes us to, compromise when our own hearts deceive. Us
• 1:19:00
  Speaker 1: remind us to lean not on our own, understanding but
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  Speaker 1: to trust In you with all our. Hearts proverbs three five. Six.
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  Speaker 1: Lord for those who feel stuck in, vanity trapped in
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  Speaker 1: the pursuit of, wealth, fame or, pleasure open their eyes
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  Speaker 1: as you did For. Solomon help them to see that
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  Speaker 1: everything apart From you is. Meaningless for those battling the
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  Speaker 1: chains of lust and sexual, sin remind them Of solomon's
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  Speaker 1: warning In proverbs five three through five that what looks
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  Speaker 1: sweet at first leads to. Destruction strengthen them to resist
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  Speaker 1: temptation and to walk in. Purity for those struggling with,
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  Speaker 1: laziness remind them that hard work is a gift From,
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 1: you and that diligence leads to. Blessing wake them up
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  Speaker 1: from spiritual slumber and give them a renewed hunger for
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 1: purpose and. Productivity for those bound by pride who refuse
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  Speaker 1: correction or think they know, best soften their. Hearts teach
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  Speaker 1: them the humility That solomon spoke, Of for when pride,
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  Speaker 1: comes then comes, Disgrace but with humility comes Wisdom proverbs eleven.
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  Speaker 1: Two let them see that true strength is in surrendering
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  Speaker 1: to your. Ways and for those who have made bad,
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  Speaker 1: decisions who look back at their lives with, regret feeling
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  Speaker 1: they have wasted too much, time remind them that it
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  Speaker 1: is never too. Late your grace is greater than any,
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  Speaker 1: mistake and you can restore what has been. Lost give
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  Speaker 1: them the courage to start fresh to, day to choose wisdom,
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  Speaker 1: now and to trust that you are leading them to
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  Speaker 1: a better. Future lord above, all teach us to fear
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  Speaker 1: you in the way That solomon finally. Understood ecclesiastes twelve
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  Speaker 1: thirteen tells us Fear god and keep his, commandments for
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  Speaker 1: this is the whole duty of. Man may this truth
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  Speaker 1: be in graved in our. Hearts may it guide our,
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  Speaker 1: choices our, relationships our, work and our. Purpose may we
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  Speaker 1: never be so consumed with the things of this world
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  Speaker 1: that we forget that our true calling is to Know
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  Speaker 1: you and to glorify. You we thank you for the
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  Speaker 1: lessons you have given us Through solomon's. Life we ask
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  Speaker 1: that we not just hear, them but that we apply.
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  Speaker 1: Them let us be among the few who walk in
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  Speaker 1: wisdom while the world chooses. Foolishness give us strength when
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  Speaker 1: it is, difficult discernment when we are, confused and peace
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  Speaker 1: when we surrender everything to. You we trust, You, lord
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  Speaker 1: we honor, You we give you all the glory In jesus. Name.
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  Speaker 1: Amen stay, strong stay, wise stay close To, god stay.
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  Speaker 1: Blessed