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November 7 - Proverbs 18:1-6 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here and it's a Friday.
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  Congratulations, you've made it through the end of another week
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  and we are going to do what we always do on a Friday, which is
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  read some proverbs together. Except it's not just me, you
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  know. Backed by popular demand is the
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  wonderful Yvonne. Hello.
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  Everyone, I'm back. Every time I see people, they
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  go, oh, Sean, I love the podcast.
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  I really loved it. When you read with Yvonne, you
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  know, she was just wonderful. So we were chatting this morning
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  and we decided, what if we share Friday readings?
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  And Yvonne said yes, she'll do that because today she got
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  accosted with like multiple people saying how much they
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  loved hearing from her. And how do you, in the face of
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  such adulation, say anything other than sure, I'd love to?
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  They were very kind. So sure you'd love to.
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  So here we are. We are going to read the
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  proverbs together and then reflect on them.
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  You ready? I am.
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  Let's do it. Let us read together Proverbs
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  18, 1:00 to 6:00. Unfriendly people care only
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  about themselves. They lash out at common sense.
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  Fools have no interest in understanding, they only want to
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  air their own opinions. Doing wrong leads to disgrace
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  and scandalous behaviour brings contempt.
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  Wise words are like deep waters. Wisdom flows from the wise like
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  a bubbling brook. It is not right to acquit the
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  guilty or deny justice to the innocent.
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  Fool's words get them into constant quarrels.
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  They are asking for a beating. And again.
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  Unfriendly people care only about themselves.
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  They lash out at common sense. Fools have no interest in
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  understanding, they only want to air their own opinions.
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  Doing wrong leads to disgrace and scandalous behaviour brings
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  contempt. Wise words are like deep waters.
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  Wisdom flows from the wise like a bubbling brook.
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  It is not right to acquit the guilty or deny justice to the
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  innocent. Fool's words get them into
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  constant quarrels. They are asking for a beating.
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  So which one of those proverbs resonated with you, Yvonne?
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  Oh, I I liked the wise words. I like deep waters.
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  Just thinking that this, yeah, just the hidden depths of the of
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  the deep and just thinking you have this wisdom that comes
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  forth from a deep understanding. And that kind of ties in with
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  the other one, which is fools have no interest in
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  understanding. They only want to air their own
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  opinions. It's like this, this waffling
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  busyness, as opposed to that deep well, that deep waters of
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  wisdom. Should we pray about it?
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  Holy Spirit, we need your wisdom, and let your wisdom
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  still our hearts and let you be that depth in us, not of our own
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  wisdom, but your wisdom, which is much less about the things
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  that we say defending our own opinions, but about resting in
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  you and knowing our identity in you and the peace and the
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  generosity and the love that we can share from that place of
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  security in our identity with you.
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  So we thank you for all that you've done for us.
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  We thank you for who you make us our identity as your beloved
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  children. We love you right back.
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  And we pray all of this in your wonderful name, Jesus.
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  I'm in.