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June 5 - Proverbs 24:15-22 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. Hello friends, it's Yvonne here
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  too. And it's June.
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  Sure is. It's Friday.
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  It's the 5th of June. Great to have your company.
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  Yes, great to be here on on. The Oh yes honey, it's always
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  lovely to have your company, but we have had a very, very rainy
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  few weeks here in Tasmania and our rain gauge literally
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  overflowed for the first time. We got to 150 mils and it kept
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  on coming. Yeah, that was last week.
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  It was. And then there's been more rain
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  this week. So much rain, and when there's
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  rain, sometimes we get these beautiful rainbows even.
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  Yes, well, I'm at the risk of starting a new segment called
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  Friday Funnies. I did actually hear a rainbow
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  joke. OK, I'm just the other day.
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  OK what? Where do bad rainbows go?
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  I don't know where do bad rainbows go?
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  To prism, it's a light sentence, but it gives them time to
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  reflect. Oh butter.
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  Boom, butter tish. See, there you go.
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  That. That's the joke that keeps on
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  giving well. That it just keeps.
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  Going alright. Speaking of keeping on going, we
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  should probably turn our attention now to keeping on
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  going on our way through Proverbs.
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  Such a great segue, Yvonne. Keep going.
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  Talk us. In So today's Bible reading is
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  from Proverbs chapter 24, and we're going to be reading verses
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  15 to 22. Don't wait in ambush at the home
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  of the godly, and don't raid the house where the godly live.
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  The godly made trip 7 times but they will get up again.
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  But one disaster is enough to overthrow the wicked.
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  Don't rejoice when your enemies fall.
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  Don't be happy when they stumble.
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  For the Lord will be displeased with you, and will turn his
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  anger away from them. Don't fret because of evildoers.
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  Don't envy the wicked. For evil people have no future.
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  The light of the wicked will be snuffed out.
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  My child, fear the Lord and the king don't associate with
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  rebels. For disaster will hit them
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  suddenly. Who knows what punishment will
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  come from the Lord and the King? And again.
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  Don't wait in ambush at the home of the godly, and don't raid the
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  house where the godly live. The godly may trip 7 times, but
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  they will get up again. But one disaster is enough to
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  overthrow the wicked. Don't rejoice when your enemies
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  fall. Don't be happy when they
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  stumble. For the Lord will be displeased
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  with you, and he will turn his anger away from them.
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  Don't fret because of evil doers.
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  Don't envy the wicked. For evil people have no future.
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  The light of the wicked will be snuffed out.
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  My child, fear the Lord and the king don't associate with
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  rebels. For disaster will hit them
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  suddenly. Who knows what punishment will
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  come from the Lord and the King? Well, this is just a great
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  reminder that judgement is God's.
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  Yes, I yeah, I found it good to hear the reminder not to envy
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  the wicked. Sometimes you can just look at
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  other people and think, oh, I wish I could get ahead like
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  that. Or it just you know, but it is
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  not the right way. No.
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  And there's always this. You know, the concept of karma
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  is just so deeply entrenched in the human spirit, like if, if we
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  do good things, good things will come.
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  And if they do bad things, surely bad things must come.
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  And we often feel like we should be the agent of making sure that
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  bad things come. And so we think badly about
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  people and we hope that they have misfortune.
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  But here the the wise king says, don't wish misfortune on the
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  evil, that that is something that God will take care of.
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  It's that challenge, you know, the challenge of praying for our
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  enemies, you know, wishing good to those people who harm us
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  intentionally. Not only is it good for our soul
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  and good to free us of that hate, but it's, yeah, puts God
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  back on that throne of judgement, not us.
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  Absolutely. And of course we don't have to
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  worry about karma. We live under a rule of grace.
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  Hot diggity. Which is a way better system.
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  Our Lord, thank you that you are a God of grace and that on that
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  cross Jesus has taken care of karma once and for all and He
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  has covered us in your love and your forgiveness, completely
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  undeserved, but offered to us nonetheless.
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  And Lord, thank you that you are the righteous 1 You are the
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  perfect judge and that that you will make all things right in
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  your time. And Lord, when sometimes it can
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  look awfully tempting and, and, and we can be envious of those
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  who may take shortcuts or or do things that may not be the right
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  way but get good outcomes. Lord, you tell us to rest in you
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  and your ways and not to want any part of that.
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  So Lord, transform our hearts. May they not be shaped by the
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  corrupted world that we live in, but by your perfect Kingdom.
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  So we just offer ourselves again to you, Transform us, use us,
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  shape us to be your instruments because we love you and we want
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  our lives to be in service of you and your Kingdom.
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  We pray all of this in your loving name, Jesus, Amen.