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>>HELLO FRIENDS, I'D
LIKE TO WELCOME YOU BACK TO
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ANOTHER STUDY HOUR -
SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
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WE'VE BEEN STUDYING THROUGH THE
BOOK OF PROVERBS AND TODAY WE
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FIND OURSELVES ON LESSON
#5 DEALING WITH THE BLESSINGS
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PRONOUNCED ON
THOSE WHO ARE RIGHTEOUS.
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WE'D LIKE TO WELCOME THOSE
ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND
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THE WORLD THAT ARE JOINING US
THROUGH THE VARIOUS TELEVISION
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NETWORKS AND ALSO THOSE OF YOU
WATCHING ONLINE AT THE AMAZING
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YOU WOULD LIKE TO FOLLOW
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ALONG WITH OUR STUDY TODAY
BUT YOU DON'T HAVE A LESSON
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QUARTERLY DEALING WITH PROVERBS,
YOU CAN DOWNLOAD TODAY'S LESSON
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AT THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE.
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AGAIN, THE TITLE OF THE BOOK
IS 'ALONE IN THE CROWD.' WELL,
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BEFORE WE GET INTO OUR STUDY
THIS EVENING, I'D LIKE TO ALSO
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WELCOME OUR LOCAL CONGREGATION
FROM THE GRANITE BAY - THANK YOU
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FOR COMING OUT. LET'S BEGIN WITH
A WORD OF PRAYER. DEAR FATHER,
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WE THANK YOU FOR THE WONDERFUL
OPPORTUNITY TO STUDY YOUR WORD.
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WE THANK YOU FOR THE BOOK
OF PROVERBS THAT HAS SUCH GREAT
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WISDOM - PRACTICAL GUIDANCE FOR
EVERYDAY LIVING. SO WE ASK YOUR
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BLESSING AS WE OPEN UP YOUR
WORD. GUIDE US INTO A DEEPER AND
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A FULLER UNDERSTANDING OF TRUTH,
FOR WE ASK THIS IN JESUS' NAME,
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AMEN. >>AMEN.
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>>I'D LIKE TO INVITE DOUG
BATCHELOR TO COME FORWARD AND
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LEAD US IN OUR STUDY THIS
EVENING. THANK YOU PASTOR DOUG.
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>>THANK YOU PASTOR
ROSS. HELLO EVERYONE.
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WELCOME TO OUR LOCAL STUDY GROUP
AND OUR FRIENDS THAT I KNOW ARE
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WATCHING FROM
ALL OVER THE WORLD.
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AND JUST A FEW DAYS BEYOND
THE TAPING OF THIS PROGRAM,
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WE'RE GOING TO BE WITH
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WE'RE LOOKING
FORWARD TO THAT EXPERIENCE -
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AND IT'D BE MY FIRST OPPORTUNITY
TO PREACH THERE. I WAS THERE
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YEARS AGO ON VACATION AND THEN
IN ABOUT FOUR WEEKS OR NOT LONG
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AFTER THIS BROADCAST, WE'RE
GOING TO BE IN THE PHILIPPINES
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AGAIN, TO DO A MEETING
ALL AROUND THE WORLD AND IT'S
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AMAZING THAT, IN THE
PHILIPPINES, THEY WATCH THE
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SABBATH SCHOOL PROGRAM.
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AND SO, IT'S JUST SO ENCOURAGING
TO KNOW THAT, WHILE WE'RE IN A
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COMPARATIVELY SMALL STUDIO HERE,
WE HAVE A LARGE CLASS AND WE'RE
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VERY THANKFUL THAT YOU'RE
TUNED IN. I DON'T KNOW IF I'VE
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MENTIONED, IT'S INTIMIDATING TO
TRY TO TEACH PROVERBS BECAUSE,
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HERE, YOU'RE TAKING THE WORDS OF
WHO IS OSTENSIBLY THE WISEST MAN
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WHO EVER LIVED, BESIDES JESUS,
AND I'M GOING TO EXPLAIN IT.
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AND SO YOU ALREADY FEEL LIKE
YOU'RE AT A LOSS BECAUSE YOU'RE
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TRYING TO EXPLAIN THE WORDS OF
THE WISEST MAN WHO EVER LIVED.
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BUT WE'RE GOING TO DO OUR
BEST AND TODAY, AS PASTOR ROSS
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MENTIONED, WE'RE ON LESSON #5
DEALING WITH 'THE BLESSINGS OF
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THE RIGHTEOUS' AND WE HAVE
A MEMORY VERSE THAT COMES FROM
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PROVERBS 10, VERSE 6. AND
IF YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES, I
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ENCOURAGE YOU TO SAY IT ALONG
WITH ME. WE'LL SAY IT OUT LOUD.
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PROVERBS 10,
VERSE 6. ARE YOU READY?
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"BLESSINGS ARE ON THE
HEAD OF THE RIGHTEOUS,
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BUT VIOLENCE COVERS
THE MOUTH OF THE WICKED."
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NOW I SHOULD PROBABLY MENTION
RIGHT HERE AT THE OUTSET OF OUR
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LESSON, THAT WE'RE GOING TO
BE DOING OUR BEST TO BE COVERING
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THE PASSAGES THAT GO FROM
PROVERBS 10, VERSE 1 ALL THE WAY
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THROUGH PROVERBS 13 SO
WE'VE GOT A BIG ASSIGNMENT.
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WE'RE GOING TO TRY AND COVER
PROVERBS 10, 11, 12, AND 13 IN
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OUR TIME. AND THE
WRITER OF THE LESSON HAS
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DONE A PRETTY GOOD JOB OF TRYING
TO CATEGORIZE SOME HIGH POINTS
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THAT ARE
MENTIONED HERE IN THE STUDY.
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THE LESSON TITLE, OF COURSE,
IS 'BLESSINGS OF THE RIGHTEOUS.'
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NOW, I THOUGHT THAT IT'D
PROBABLY BE GOOD TO START WITH A
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DEFINITION BECAUSE WE'RE
GOING TO TALK A LOT ABOUT THE
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RIGHTEOUS AS
OPPOSED TO THE WICKED.
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AND WHEN YOU LOOK UP THE WORD
'RIGHTEOUS,' IT MEANS 'A PERSON
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OR CONDUCT THAT IS
MORALLY RIGHT, GOOD JUSTIFIABLE,
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UPSTANDING, LAWFUL,
EXCELLENT, AND VIRTUOUS.
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THAT'S SORT OF A - IS A SUMMARY
OF WHAT'S ALL POURED INTO THAT
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WORD 'RIGHTEOUS.' AND I KIND OF
COME FROM THE HIPPIE ERA AND WE
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USED TO SAY, 'RIGHTEOUS' IN,
KIND OF, HIPPIE JARGON AND YOU
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HAVE TO DETACH
YOURSELF FROM THAT.
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YOU KNOW, THEY'D SAY, 'THAT
WAS A REALLY RIGHTEOUS CONCERT.'
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AND, OF COURSE, IF IT WAS
THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS IT MADE
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SENSE, BUT OTHER THAN THAT
IT DIDN'T MAKE ANY SENSE AT ALL.
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BUT ANYWAY, RIGHTEOUSNESS,
IN THE BIBLE IS, OF COURSE, THE
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OPPOSITE OF WRONGESSNESS AND
SO, IT'S EVERYTHING THAT IS BAD.
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PROVERBS, HERE SOLOMON
IS CONSTANTLY CONTRASTING
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APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR FOR A
BELIEVER FROM THAT WHICH IS
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INAPPROPRIATE AND - JUST IF YOU
LOOK UNDER SUNDAY'S LESSON, IT
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SAYS, 'RIGHTEOUSNESS IS
HOLISTIC.' AND I'M JUST GOING TO
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READ THROUGH ONE -
PROVERBS 10, VERSES 1 THROUGH 7.
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I WANT YOU TO NOTICE SOMETHING
HERE: "A WISE SON MAKES A GLAD
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FATHER BUT A FOOLISH SON
IS THE GRIEF OF HIS MOTHER.
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TREASURES OF WICKEDNESS PROFIT
NOTHING, BUT RIGHTEOUSNESS
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DELIVERS FROM DEATH." -
VERSE 3, "THE LORD WILL NOT
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ALLOW THE RIGHTEOUS SOUL TO
FAMISH, BUT HE CASTS AWAY THE
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DESIRE OF THE WICKED. HE
WHO HAS A SLACK HAND BECOMES
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POOR, BUT THE HAND OF
THE DILIGENT MAKES RICH.
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HE WHO GATHERS IN SUMMER IS
A WISE SON; HE WHO SLEEPS IN
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HARVEST IS A SON
WHO CAUSES SHAME.
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BLESSINGS ARE ON THE HEAD OF THE
RIGHTEOUS, BUT VIOLENCE COVERS
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THE MOUTH OF THE WICKED.
THE MEMORY OF THE RIGHTEOUS IS
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BLESSED, BUT THE NAME OF THE
WICKED WILL ROT." - OR DECAY.
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NOW, DID YOU NOTICE SOMETHING
THAT APPEARED THROUGH THOSE
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SEVEN VERSES? >>CONTRAST.
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>>IT'S A THREE-LETTER WORD
THAT'S IN ALMOST ALL THE VERSES
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EXCEPT 5 - YEAH. IT'S 'BUT.'
YOU EVER ASK SOMEONE, YOU KNOW,
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'COULD YOU HELP ME WITH
SOMETHING?' THEY SAY, 'AW MAN
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I'D JUST LOVE TO HELP YOU.
I WOULD - I - 'BUT' - AND THEN
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WHAT DOES THAT
MEAN AT THAT POINT?
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IT MEANS, 'UH THAT
CHANGES EVERYTHING, DOESN'T IT?'
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AND SO HE'S MAKING A
TOTAL OPPOSITE CONTRAST AND IT'S
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JUST THE POLAR
OPPOSITES OF BEHAVIOR.
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IT TALKS ABOUT THE WISE
SON AND THE FOOLISH SON.
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TREASURES OF
WICKEDNESS BUT RIGHTEOUSNESS.
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"THE LORD WILL NOT ALLOW THE
RIGHTEOUS SOUL TO FAMISH, BUT HE
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CASTS AWAY THE
DESIRE OF THE WICKED."
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AND SO HE CONTINUES TO
CONTRAST THESE TWO THINGS.
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NOW ALL OF THIS IS REALLY
SUMMARIZED IN 'LOVE FOR GOD AND
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LOVE FOR YOUR FELLOW MAN.' A LOT
OF THIS HAS TO DO WITH BEHAVIOR
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AND HOW WE TREAT EACH OTHER AND
THAT, REALLY, IS SUMMED UP IN -
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WHAT ARE THE TWO GREAT
COMMANDMENTS JESUS SUMMARIZED?
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LOVE THE LORD WITH ALL YOU
HEART, MIND, SOUL, AND STRENGTH
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- >>AND YOUR
NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.
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WHERE DOES THAT PASSAGE - WHAT
IS JESUS QUOTING WHEN HE SAYS,
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'THOU SHALT LOVE THE LORD WITH
ALL YOUR HEART, MIND, SOUL, AND
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STRENGTH.' IS THAT THE FIRST
TIME IT APPEARS IN THE BIBLE OR
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IS JESUS SIMPLY
QUOTING SCRIPTURE? DEUTERONOMY
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CHAPTER 6, "HEAR O ISRAEL: THE
LORD OUR GOD, THE LORD IS ONE!
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YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD
WITH ALL YOUR HEART, WITH ALL
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YOUR SOUL, AND
WITH ALL YOUR STRENGTH."
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AND THEN 'THOU SHALT LOVE YOUR
NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.' DID JESUS
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MAKE THAT ONE UP? HE'S
QUOTING LEVITICUS - JUST
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THINK ABOUT THE WAR IN 1918
- HE'S QUOTING LEVITICUS 19:18.
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SO WHEN JESUS SAID, 'A NEW
COMMANDMENT I GIVE UNTO YOU,' -
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I'VE HAD A LOT OF DEAR
CHRISTIANS SAY, 'WE DON'T HAVE
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TO KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
ANYMORE BECAUSE JESUS GAVE A NEW
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COMMANDMENT.' WHY DID JESUS
CALL THAT A NEW COMMANDMENT?
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BECAUSE IT'S FROM THE OLD
TESTAMENT. BECAUSE IT WAS A
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NEW CONCEPT FOR THEM THAT THE
WHOLE LAW COULD BE SUMMARIZED
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IN THE SIMPLE PRINCIPLES OF
'LOVE FOR GOD AND LOVE FOR YOUR
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FELLOW MAN.' LOVE IS THE PERFECT
DEFINITION OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
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LET'S FACE IT, IF YOU REALLY
LOVE GOD AND YOU LOVE YOUR
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NEIGHBOR, WILL
YOU DO WHAT'S RIGHT?
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AND SO, WHEN YOU BREAK THESE
THINGS DOWN THAT SOLOMON IS
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TALKING ABOUT, THAT KIND
OF SUMS IT UP PRETTY WELL.
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ALRIGHT - AND I BELIEVE I'VE GOT
SOMEONE WHO IS GOING TO READ FOR
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ME, IN A MOMENT. WE'RE
GOING TO JUMP TO MONDAY -
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PROVERBS 13:14, WHO'S
FIRST IN LINE? MRS. BATCHELOR.
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OKAY, WE'LL GET TO YOU IN JUST A
SECOND. NOW, THIS IS THE SECTION
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DEALING WITH - AND IT'S THE
LONGEST SECTION, I'LL TELL YOU
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RIGHT NOW, IT'S DEALING
WITH THE MOUTH OF THE RIGHTEOUS.
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IN FACT, YOU'LL NOTICE THAT,
EVEN IN THE FIRST FEW VERSES
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THAT WE READ IT SAID, 'BLESSINGS
ARE ON THE HEAD OF THE RIGHTEOUS
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BUT VIOLENCE COVERS
THE MOUTH OF THE WICKED."
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DOES THAT REALLY MEAN VIOLENCE
COVERS THEIR MOUTH OR THAT
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VIOLENT WORDS WERE IN THEIR
SPEECH? MATTER OF FACT, IN THE
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BOOK OF PROVERBS - AND THIS IS
IN THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION -
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YOU'LL FIND THAT THE
WORD 'MOUTH' IS USED 50 TIMES,
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THE WORD 'LIPS' OCCURS 41
TIMES, AND 'TONGUE' 19 TIMES.
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NOW, THIS WEEK, KAREN WAS
READING 'ADVENTIST WORLD' AND
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SHE SAID, 'HERE'S A GREAT
AMAZING FACT, DOUG.' AND I USED
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IT OR, AT LEAST PART OF IT,
DURING OUR 'BIBLE ANSWERS LIVE'
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PROGRAM. SO I WANT TO GIVE
CREDIT TO WHOEVER THE AUTHOR IS.
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I DO APOLOGIZE, I
DON'T HAVE IT WRITTEN HERE.
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IT'S ABOUT THE
MARVELS OF THE HUMAN VOICE.
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THE CALL OF A HOWLER MONKEY'S
VOICE CAN BE HEARD UP TO THREE
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MILES AWAY, BUT AN
ELEPHANT'S VOICE IS DEEPER.
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THE SONG OF A HUMPBACK
WHALE CAN CROSS AN OCEAN.
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BUT OF ALL THE VOICES ON EARTH,
NONE IS AS VERSATILE AS THE
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HUMAN VOICE. EACH
PERSON'S VOICE USES A
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MARVELOUS SOUND-PRODUCING
MECHANISM THAT IS MORE INTRICATE
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AND COMPLEX THAT
ANY MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.
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MUCH RESEARCH AND STUDY HAS GONE
INTO ATTEMPTS TO UNDERSTAND THE
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HUMAN VOICE AND SCIENTISTS HAVE
TRIED, IN VAIN, TO REPRODUCE IT
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WITH COMPUTERS, BUT IT
ALWAYS SOUNDS UNNATURAL.
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ANY OF YOU HAVE ANY OF THESE
COMPUTER PROGRAMS THAT WILL,
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LIKE, READ TO YOU AND THEY
ALWAYS SOUND VERY (ROBOT NOISES)
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NO EMOTION IN THE WORDS, NO
NUANCE IN THE WORDS, AND EVEN
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THE VERY EXPENSIVE ONES,
YOU CAN QUICKLY TELL IT'S A
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COMPUTER-GENERATED VOICE.
A HUMAN VOICE CAN PRODUCE A
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RANGE OF SEVERAL
OCTAVES IN SOUND.
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THE AVERAGE
PERSON - TWO OCTAVES.
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SINGERS CAN GO FOUR OCTAVES
AND - THAT'S, OF COURSE, A GOOD
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SINGER - A FEW RARE PEOPLE
- BY USING JUST TWO WEDGE-LIKE
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PROJECTIONS OF LIGAMENT AND
MUSCLE CALLED 'VOCAL CORDS.'
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THESE SOUNDS ARE AMPLIFIED BY
BUILT-IN RESONATORS IN OUR HEAD
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CALLED 'SINUS CAVITIES.' IT'S
AMAZING THAT IN ORDER TO SING A
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HIGH C, A SOPRANOS VOCAL CORDS
MUST VIBRATE - OPEN AND CLOSE -
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1,200 TIMES PER SECOND.
ON THE OTHER HAND, A BASS
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SINGER'S LOWEST NOTE ONLY
REQUIRES 40 VIBRATIONS PER
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SECOND. BESIDES
SINGING, OUR VOICES ARE
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CAPABLE OF PRODUCING THE MOST
COMPLEX VARIATIONS IN SPEECH.
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TO CONTROL SPEECH SOUNDS,
72 SETS OF MUSCLES WORK WITH
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SPLIT-SECOND TIMING. IN
TALKING FOR ONE MINUTE, THE
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TONGUE, JAW, AND LIPS MAKE
AT LEAST 300 SEPARATE MOVEMENTS.
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AT THE SAME TIME - I'M BECOMING
VERY CONSCIOUS OF WHAT I'M DOING
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RIGHT NOW, EVEN
AS I'M READING THIS.
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>>(LAUGHTER) >>AT THE SAME TIME,
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OUR VOCAL CORDS ARE VIBRATING
AND OUR RESPIRATORY MUSCLES
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FORCE OUT THE RIGHT AMOUNT
OF AIR AND IF THIS ISN'T COMPLEX
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ENOUGH, JUST THINK OF THE MANY
INFLECTIONS A VOICE IS CAPABLE
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OF MAKING - RANGING UP TO
NEARLY 500 AUDIBLE PITCHES.
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ONE CAN VARY THE TONE
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TREMENDOUSLY FROM A
SHOUT TO A DELICATE WHISPER.
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TRAINED SINGERS CAN HOLD A
NOTE FOR A LONG TIME, WHEREAS AN
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AUCTIONEER CAN SPEAK
IN HYPER-FAST STACCATO.
00:12:24.80\00:12:27.50
THEN IT GOES ON TO SAY -
YOU KNOW THE BIBLE SPOKE ABOUT
00:12:27.50\00:12:30.46
ONE MAN THAT
SPOKE UNLIKE ANY OTHER?
00:12:30.46\00:12:33.10
YOU REMEMBER WHEN
THEY WENT TO ARREST JESUS?
00:12:33.10\00:12:35.26
THEY CAME BACK AND SAID, 'NEVER
A MAN SPAKE LIKE THIS MAN.' AND
00:12:35.26\00:12:38.73
SO THERE'S A LOT
OF POWER IN WORDS.
00:12:38.73\00:12:41.20
WE'VE PROBABLY ALL SEEN OR HEARD
STORIES WHERE SOMEBODY WAS IN A
00:12:41.20\00:12:45.26
FOOTBALL GAME OR A BOXING MATCH
OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND THEY
00:12:45.26\00:12:49.70
WERE JUST DOWN AND OUT - ABOUT
TO LOSE - AND SOMEBODY, A COACH
00:12:49.70\00:12:52.16
OR SOMEBODY, GAVE THEM A PEP
TALK - THEY WENT AND THEY TURNED
00:12:52.16\00:12:55.06
EVERYTHING AROUND BECAUSE THEY'D
BEEN INSPIRED BY THE MEANINGS OF
00:12:55.06\00:12:59.00
THESE VIBRATIONS THAT GO THROUGH
THE AIR, WE CALL 'WORDS.'
00:12:59.00\00:13:01.56
SO WORDS CAN
ACCOMPLISH GREAT GOOD.
00:13:01.56\00:13:03.83
THEY CAN ALSO
ACCOMPLISH GREAT HARM.
00:13:03.83\00:13:07.63
HOW MANY OF YOU CAN REMEMBER
SOMETHING SOMEONE SAID THAT WAS
00:13:07.63\00:13:10.66
CUTTING AND PAINFUL TO YOU
YEARS AGO, BUT YOU'VE FORGOTTEN
00:13:10.66\00:13:14.83
MILLIONS OF CONVERSATIONS THAT
WERE, SORT OF, MEANINGLESS - BUT
00:13:14.83\00:13:19.03
JUST A FEW WORDS. AND
CAN YOU ALSO REMEMBER SOME
00:13:19.03\00:13:21.43
VERY KIND WORDS AND LOVING
WORDS THAT TOUCHED YOUR HEART.
00:13:21.43\00:13:26.06
WE DON'T KNOW
WHAT JESUS LOOKED LIKE.
00:13:26.06\00:13:28.50
WHAT WE KNOW ABOUT
JESUS IS WHAT HE SAID.
00:13:28.50\00:13:31.63
HE WAS CALLED 'THE WORD.'
KAREN AND I, YEARS AGO - IT WAS,
00:13:31.63\00:13:35.56
ACTUALLY, AN 'IT IS WRITTEN'
PARTNERSHIP MEETING WHERE GEORGE
00:13:35.56\00:13:39.26
VANDEMAN, I THINK, WAS
INTRODUCING MARK FINLEY
00:13:39.26\00:13:41.23
AS HE WAS MOVING
INTO THAT POSITION.
00:13:41.23\00:13:43.30
AND PAUL HARVEY WAS
THE SPEAKER AT THIS EVENT.
00:13:43.30\00:13:47.13
ANY OF YOU REMEMBER THE
RADIO COMMENTATOR PAUL HARVEY?
00:13:47.13\00:13:49.83
THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE YOUNGER,
YOU MISSED OUT, BUT EVERYBODY
00:13:49.83\00:13:53.00
WOULD STOP AROUND NOON, ALL
AROUND THE COUNTRY, TO LISTEN TO
00:13:53.00\00:13:56.26
WHAT PAUL HARVEY WAS GOING TO
SAY DURING LUNCHTIME BECAUSE HE
00:13:56.26\00:13:58.80
JUST - TREMENDOUS POWER OF
WORDS AND - AND HE JUST GAVE A
00:13:58.80\00:14:02.33
WONDERFUL TALK AT THAT OCCASION
ABOUT WHAT A GIFT SPEECH IS AND
00:14:02.33\00:14:07.13
HOW POWERFUL WORDS ARE AND WE
SHOULD USE THEM CAREFULLY TO DO
00:14:07.13\00:14:10.53
GOOD BECAUSE WE DON'T REALLY
APPRECIATE HOW LASTING THE
00:14:10.53\00:14:14.13
INFLUENCE OF OUR WORDS ARE.
THERE'S A PROVERB I HEARD YEARS
00:14:14.13\00:14:18.63
AGO, I THINK IT'S ATTRIBUTED
TO ISLAM AND MOHAMMAD, THAT THIS
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MAN HAD BEEN GOSSIPING
ABOUT EVERYBODY IN HIS TOWN.
00:14:23.60\00:14:26.56
THEY WENT TO MOHAMMAD
AND SAID, 'WHAT SHALL I DO?'
00:14:26.56\00:14:28.86
AND HE SAID, 'WELL, YOU NEED
TO GO GET A BAG FULL OF GOOSE
00:14:28.86\00:14:31.66
FEATHERS.' AND HE SAID, 'DURING
THE NIGHT WHILE YOU'RE VICTIM'S
00:14:31.66\00:14:37.46
SLEEP - THE ONES YOU'VE BEEN
TALKING ABOUT, GO TO THEIR DOORS
00:14:37.46\00:14:39.86
AND PLACE A GOOSE FEATHER AT THE
DOOR OF EVERYBODY THAT'S ASLEEP
00:14:39.86\00:14:42.40
THAT YOU'VE BEEN GOSSIPING
ABOUT.' AND SO HE DUTIFULLY DID
00:14:42.40\00:14:46.23
THAT AND HE CAME BACK IN THE
MORNING EXHAUSTED AND HE SAID,
00:14:46.23\00:14:49.06
'WELL, NOW WHAT SHOULD I
DO?' AND HE SAID, 'WELL, NOW GO
00:14:49.06\00:14:51.06
COLLECT THE FEATHERS.' HE
SAID, 'WELL, THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE.
00:14:51.06\00:14:53.20
THEY'VE ALL BEEN BLOWN
AWAY BY NOW.' HE SAID, 'EXACTLY.
00:14:53.20\00:14:55.70
THAT'S WITH YOUR WORDS - ONCE
YOU SPEAK THEM, YOU CAN NEVER
00:14:55.70\00:14:57.96
RECALL THEM.' ANY OF YOU EVER
SEND A TEXT MESSAGE BY ACCIDENT
00:14:57.96\00:15:01.26
AND THEN YOU HAVE TO SEND A
FOLLOW-UP MESSAGE THAT SAYS,
00:15:01.26\00:15:03.70
'DISREGARD THAT MESSAGE.' AND
ALL THAT DOES IS MAKE EVERYONE
00:15:03.70\00:15:05.63
LOOK AT THAT ORIGINAL MESSAGE
MUCH MORE CAREFULLY, RIGHT?
00:15:05.63\00:15:09.33
SO ONCE YOU SPEAK THOSE WORDS
AND THEY GO OUT INTO SPACE,
00:15:09.33\00:15:13.93
SOMEONE TOLD ME THAT IF
YOU HAD THE RIGHT EQUIPMENT -
00:15:13.93\00:15:17.23
SOPHISTICATED ENOUGH - THAT YOU
COULD GO TO SOME DISTANT PLANET
00:15:17.23\00:15:22.30
AND YOU COULD TUNE THAT
EQUIPMENT TOWARDS EARTH AND YOU
00:15:22.30\00:15:27.76
COULD HEAR FREQUENCIES THAT HAVE
COME FROM EARTH'S RADIO 50 YEARS
00:15:27.76\00:15:30.26
AGO. THAT ONCE THEY GO OUT INTO
SPACE, THEY CONTINUE ENDLESSLY.
00:15:30.26\00:15:34.90
THEY GET A LITTLE THINNER BUT
THEY JUST KEEP GOING AND GOING
00:15:34.90\00:15:37.60
AND GOING. AND YOU
EVER WONDER HOW WE CAN
00:15:37.60\00:15:40.86
TALK TO PEOPLE ON
THE MOON WITH OUR RADIOS?
00:15:40.86\00:15:43.63
JUST THINK ABOUT THAT.
WORDS - THOSE VIBRATIONS -
00:15:43.63\00:15:47.36
WHAT DID GOD USE
TO CREATE EVERYTHING?
00:15:47.36\00:15:49.40
>>HE SPOKE. >>HE SPOKE.
00:15:49.40\00:15:51.13
SO, WITH THAT IN MIND -
BETTER GET BACK TO OUR LESSON -
00:15:51.13\00:15:56.96
THE POWER OF WORDS. ALRIGHT.
00:15:56.96\00:16:00.50
KAREN, WHY DON'T YOU GO AHEAD
AND READ PROVERBS 13, VERSE 14.
00:16:00.50\00:16:04.80
>>ALRIGHT, "THE LAW OF THE WISE
IS A FOUNTAIN OF LIFE TO TURN
00:16:04.80\00:16:09.43
ONE AWAY FROM
THE SNARES OF DEATH."
00:16:09.43\00:16:11.70
>>NOW THAT'S IN PROVERBS
13:14. YOU NOTICE WORDS?
00:16:11.70\00:16:15.73
FOUNTAIN OF LIFE - IF YOU
READ IN PROVERBS 10, VERSE 11,
00:16:15.73\00:16:20.76
"THE MOUTH OF THE
RIGHTEOUS IS A WELL OF LIFE,
00:16:20.76\00:16:25.06
BUT VIOLENCE COVERS
THE MOUTH OF THE WICKED."
00:16:25.06\00:16:28.56
SO HERE, IN OUR ASSIGNMENT FOR
TODAY, WE'VE GOT BOTH PROVERBS
00:16:28.56\00:16:31.00
10 AND PROVERBS 13, IT TALKS
ABOUT HOW A MOUTH COULD BE A
00:16:31.00\00:16:34.56
FOUNTAIN OF LIFE, ESPECIALLY IN
THE DESERT REGIONS THAT - WHERE
00:16:34.56\00:16:39.56
THE BIBLE ORIGINATED,
WATER WAS VERY PRECIOUS.
00:16:39.56\00:16:42.46
READ IN PSALM 36:9, FOR EXAMPLE,
"FOR WITH YOU IS THE FOUNTAIN OF
00:16:42.46\00:16:49.50
LIFE; IN YOUR
LIGHT WE SEE LIGHT."
00:16:49.50\00:16:53.26
AGAIN, THE WORD OF GOD,
IT'S LIKE A FOUNTAIN OF LIFE.
00:16:53.26\00:16:56.23
HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER THE
STORY OF THE WOMAN AT THE WELL?
00:16:56.23\00:16:59.13
AND JESUS SAYS TO HER IN JOHN
4:13, "WHOEVER DRINKS OF THIS
00:16:59.13\00:17:05.00
WATER WILL THIRST AGAIN, BUT
WHOEVER DRINKS THE WATER THAT I
00:17:05.00\00:17:08.73
SHALL GIVE HIM
WILL NEVER THIRST.
00:17:08.73\00:17:10.83
BUT THE WATER THAT I SHALL
GIVE HIM WILL BECOME IN HIM A
00:17:10.83\00:17:13.53
FOUNTAIN OF WATER SPRINGING
UP INTO EVERLASTING LIFE."
00:17:13.53\00:17:17.80
YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY THAT EVERY
LIKES TO TALK TO IS USUALLY AN
00:17:17.80\00:17:25.90
ENCOURAGING PERSON. WE'D
ALL LIKE TO HAVE A FRIEND
00:17:25.90\00:17:29.16
OR SOMEONE YOU CAN TALK TO THAT
THEY'RE A GOOD LISTENER, AND
00:17:29.16\00:17:32.03
THEY CAN BE
POSITIVE AND ENCOURAGE YOU.
00:17:32.03\00:17:34.80
THOSE PEOPLE ARE
IN PRETTY HIGH DEMAND.
00:17:34.80\00:17:36.93
THERE ARE FOLKS THAT WILL -
THEY'LL GO VISIT THEIR DOCTOR -
00:17:36.93\00:17:41.20
I'VE HAD DOCTORS SAY BEFORE,
'SOME PEOPLE WILL SET UP AN
00:17:41.20\00:17:45.36
APPOINTMENT AND THERE'S REALLY
NOTHING WRONG BUT THEY JUST WANT
00:17:45.36\00:17:47.23
SOMEONE TO TALK TO.' IT'S A
PRETTY EXPENSIVE CONVERSATION.
00:17:47.23\00:17:50.53
BUT IF SOMEONE HAS SOMEBODY THAT
WILL ENCOURAGE THEM, THEY BECOME
00:17:50.53\00:17:56.83
A WELL OF LIFE. AND JESUS, HE
SAID, 'I AM THE WATER OF LIFE.'
00:17:56.83\00:18:01.40
OF COURSE, IT'S HIS WORDS
THAT GIVE US THAT WATER OF LIFE.
00:18:01.40\00:18:04.73
IT'S REFRESHING. WHO
WAS IT? DAVID - THAT SAID,
00:18:04.73\00:18:07.96
'AS THE DEER PANTS AFTER THE
WATER BROOK, SO MY SOUL PANTS
00:18:07.96\00:18:11.03
FOR THEE' - OR LONG'S AFTER
THEE. AND THAT'S HOW WE OUGHT
00:18:11.03\00:18:15.66
TO BE FOR THE WORD OF
GOD - TO HUNGER AND WHAT?
00:18:15.66\00:18:18.13
>>THIRST >>THIRST
FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:18:18.13\00:18:20.50
OKAY, YEAH, IN A MOMENT WE'RE
GOING TO HAVE SOMEBODY READ
00:18:20.50\00:18:23.86
PROVERBS 13:13.
>>THIRTEEN - TRIPLE THREE.
00:18:23.86\00:18:27.16
>>OH, MAYBE IT'S 13:3, THANK
YOU. YEAH, THAT'LL BE NEXT.
00:18:27.16\00:18:29.66
PROVERBS 10 - I'M GOING TO READ
VERSES 13 AND 14, "WISDOM IS
00:18:29.66\00:18:35.00
FOUND ON THE LIPS OF HIM WHO HAS
UNDERSTANDING, BUT A ROD IS FOR
00:18:35.00\00:18:40.76
THE BACK OF HIM WHO IS
DEVOID OF UNDERSTANDING.
00:18:40.76\00:18:43.80
WISE PEOPLE STORE UP KNOWLEDGE,
BUT THE MOUTH OF THE FOOLISH
00:18:43.80\00:18:48.13
IS NEAR DESTRUCTION."
00:18:48.13\00:18:49.76
A COUPLE WAYS YOU CAN TELL
A FOOLISH PERSON IS A FOOLISH
00:18:49.76\00:18:53.96
PERSON: ONE IS BY WHAT THEY
DO AND THE OTHER IS BY WHAT?
00:18:53.96\00:18:58.10
>>WHAT HE SAYS. >>WHAT THEY SAY.
00:18:58.10\00:19:00.33
YOU KNOW, CONCERNING JESUS IT
SAID 'HE WAS A PROPHET MIGHTY IN
00:19:00.33\00:19:03.43
DEED AND IN WORD.' AND SO, YOU
KNOW, A LOT OF THE ESSENCE OF
00:19:03.43\00:19:09.06
WHO YOU ARE IS SUMMED UP IN
WHAT YOU DO AND WHAT YOU SAY.
00:19:09.06\00:19:12.03
AND I THINK WE ALL KNOW THAT
THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE THAT WILL
00:19:12.03\00:19:14.96
TALK THE TALK BUT
THEY DON'T WALK THE WALK.
00:19:14.96\00:19:17.40
WELL PROVERBS - SOLOMON IS
SAYING THAT YOU CAN IDENTIFY,
00:19:17.40\00:19:20.90
SOMETIMES, A FOOLISH PERSON, BY
THE WORDS THEY SPEAK. MATTER OF
00:19:20.90\00:19:24.93
FACT - WELL, I TELL YOU WHAT,
I DON'T WANT TO KEEP RON HANGING
00:19:24.93\00:19:28.00
WITH HIS VERSE. GO AHEAD
AND READ PROVERBS 13:3 FOR US.
00:19:28.00\00:19:32.06
>>"HE WHO GUARDS HIS MOUTH
PRESERVES HIS LIFE, BUT HE WHO
00:19:32.06\00:19:36.30
OPENS WIDE HIS LIPS
SHALL HAVE DESTRUCTION."
00:19:36.30\00:19:39.30
>>NOW, ISN'T THAT KIND OF
COUNSELING US TO BE CAREFUL WHAT
00:19:39.30\00:19:43.96
WE SAY? YOU CAN
ALSO READ IN PROVERBS
00:19:43.96\00:19:47.36
10:19, "IN THE MULTITUDE OF
WORDS SIN IS NOT LACKING, BUT HE
00:19:47.36\00:19:52.96
WHO RESTRAINS HIS LIP IS
WISE - HIS LIPS IS WISE."
00:19:52.96\00:19:57.00
YOU KNOW I - PERIODICALLY WE
GET - WELL, WE GET A LOT OF MAIL
00:19:57.00\00:20:01.50
HERE AT AMAZING FACTS - MATTER
OF FACT, PASTOR ROSS MIGHT
00:20:01.50\00:20:04.73
CORRECT ME BUT I THINK WE
GOT A REPORT - YOU KNOW, WE JUST
00:20:04.73\00:20:07.33
STARTED A NEW YEAR AND WE'RE
DOING SOME REPORTING AND OUR
00:20:07.33\00:20:10.33
CORRESPONDENCE DEPARTMENT - I
THINK THEY ANSWERED SOME 42,000
00:20:10.33\00:20:13.80
E-MAILS AND LETTERS.
CAN YOU IMAGINE THAT?
00:20:13.80\00:20:17.66
THE PEOPLE ON OUR TEAM - WE
GET QUESTIONS AND WE ANSWER THEM
00:20:17.66\00:20:21.60
ALL. THEY MAY NOT
BE GOOD ANSWERS BUT
00:20:21.60\00:20:24.30
WE ANSWER THEM ALL AND WE
TRY AND WRITE EVERYBODY BACK.
00:20:24.30\00:20:28.23
AND, YOU KNOW, I, OF COURSE,
CAN'T DO IT ALL MYSELF SO WE
00:20:28.23\00:20:30.10
HAVE A GREAT TEAM
THAT HELPS WITH THAT.
00:20:30.10\00:20:32.53
BUT PERIODICALLY WE'LL GET
A LETTER AND SOMEONE WILL SAY,
00:20:32.53\00:20:36.70
'PASTOR SAID 'SUCH AND SUCH'
AND HE MISSPOKE' OR 'HE SAID
00:20:36.70\00:20:40.70
SOMETHING WRONG' OR - AND - OR,
YOU KNOW, 'HE MADE THIS LITTLE
00:20:40.70\00:20:45.33
QUIP' YOU KNOW, IF YOU DON'T
WRITE OUT YOUR WHOLE SERMON AND
00:20:45.33\00:20:47.90
YOU'RE PREACHING OR TEACHING
SOMEWHAT EXTEMPORANEOUSLY,
00:20:47.90\00:20:50.36
THINGS SLIP. AND I HAVE TO
WRITE - AND I QUOTE THIS VERSE:
00:20:50.36\00:20:55.46
"IN THE MULTITUDE OF
WORDS SIN IS NOT LACKING."
00:20:55.46\00:21:00.43
A LOOSE TRANSLATION WOULD BE,
'IF YOU TALK A LOT, THERE'S MORE
00:21:00.43\00:21:04.50
CHANCE YOU'RE GOING TO SAY
SOMETHING WRONG.' "BUT HE WHO
00:21:04.50\00:21:07.53
RESTRAINS HIS LIPS IS WISE."
MATTER OF FACT, THERE'S ANOTHER
00:21:07.53\00:21:12.66
VERSE I QUOTE WHERE SOLOMON
SAYS, 'EVEN A FOOL IS COUNTED
00:21:12.66\00:21:16.76
WISE WHEN HE
RESTRAINS HIS LIPS."
00:21:16.76\00:21:19.63
SO IF A FOOL WANTS TO CREATE THE
SENSE OF WISDOM, JUST DON'T SAY
00:21:19.63\00:21:24.86
ANYTHING AND YOU CAN MAYBE KEEP
PEOPLE THINKING YOU'RE A LOT
00:21:24.86\00:21:28.70
SMARTER THAN YOU ARE.
SO A LOT COMES OUT BY JESUS
00:21:28.70\00:21:32.83
SAID, 'OUT OF THE ABUNDANCE
OF THE HEART, THE MOUTH SPEAKS.
00:21:32.83\00:21:36.46
I WANT READ A VERSE FOR YOU
- THIS IS NOT PROVERBS, THIS IS
00:21:36.46\00:21:38.83
ECCLESIASTES -
BUT IT IS SOLOMON.
00:21:38.83\00:21:41.83
SO IF YOU GO TO ECCLESIASTES 5 -
ECCLESIASTES 5 - NOW, OF COURSE,
00:21:41.83\00:21:46.56
THIS IS A SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY,
SOME OF YOU ARE GOING TO BE
00:21:46.56\00:21:50.66
WATCHING US IN THE MORNING
BEFORE YOU GO TO CHURCH AND THIS
00:21:50.66\00:21:53.43
IS GOOD COUNSEL, "WALK PRUDENTLY
WHEN YOU GO TO THE HOUSE OF GOD;
00:21:53.43\00:21:59.86
AND DRAW NEAR TO HEAR RATHER
THAN TO GIVE THE SACRIFICE OF
00:21:59.86\00:22:05.10
FOOLS, FOR THEY DO NOT
KNOW THAT THEY DO EVIL."
00:22:05.10\00:22:08.36
WHAT IS THE SACRIFICE OF FOOLS?
00:22:08.36\00:22:10.46
WHEN HE SAYS, 'DRAW NEAR TO
HEAR RATHER THAN' - WHAT DO YOU
00:22:10.46\00:22:15.03
SUPPOSE THE
'RATHER THAN' FROM HEARING?
00:22:15.03\00:22:17.86
>>SPEECH. >>TALKING.
00:22:17.86\00:22:19.43
KEEP READING AND
YOU GET THE CONTEXT.
00:22:19.43\00:22:21.00
"DO NOT BE RASH WITH YOUR MOUTH,
AND LET NOT YOUR HEART UTTER
00:22:21.00\00:22:26.63
ANYTHING HASTILY BEFORE GOD.
FOR GOD IS IN HEAVEN AND YOU ON
00:22:26.63\00:22:31.60
THE EARTH; THEREFORE
LET YOUR WORDS BE FEW.
00:22:31.60\00:22:34.83
FOR A DREAM COMES THROUGH MUCH
ACTIVITY AND A FOOL'S VOICE IS
00:22:34.83\00:22:39.90
KNOWN BY HIS MANY WORDS."
THAT OUGHT TO REALLY MAKE A LOT
00:22:39.90\00:22:43.80
OF PASTORS PONDER. IT DOES
ME. YOU'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL.
00:22:43.80\00:22:47.73
"WHEN YOU MAKE A VOW TO GOD, DO
NOT DELAY TO PAY IT; FOR HE HAS
00:22:47.73\00:22:53.20
NO PLEASURE IN FOOLS. PAY
WHAT YOU HAVE VOWED-BETTER
00:22:53.20\00:22:56.10
NOT TO VOW THAN
TO VOW AND NOT PAY."
00:22:56.10\00:22:58.26
SO ALL OF THIS - IN THE FIRST
FIVE VERSES OF ECCLESIASTES 5 -
00:22:58.26\00:23:02.40
IS TALKING ABOUT THINGS RELATED
TO 'BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU SAY' AND
00:23:02.40\00:23:06.56
'YOU CAN SNARE YOUR SOUL WITH
YOUR LIPS,' SOLOMON ALSO SAYS.
00:23:06.56\00:23:13.43
SO, OKAY, BACK TO PROVERBS.
00:23:13.43\00:23:15.96
SPEAKING - LET ME SEE, LET'S GO
TO PROVERBS 11:2 - WE'RE STILL
00:23:15.96\00:23:19.80
TALKING ABOUT SOME OF THESE
PROVERBS THAT DEAL WITH SPEECH.
00:23:19.80\00:23:23.33
PROVERBS 11, VERSE 12, "HE WHO
IS DEVOID OF WISDOM DESPISES HIS
00:23:23.33\00:23:29.53
NEIGHBOR, BUT A MAN OF
UNDERSTANDING HOLD HIS PEACE."
00:23:29.53\00:23:33.80
SO, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES -
WHEN IT SAYS HE DESPISES HIS
00:23:33.80\00:23:37.96
NEIGHBOR, THAT MEANS HE'S
GOSSIPING ABOUT HIS NEIGHBOR -
00:23:37.96\00:23:40.30
"BUT A MAN OF UNDERSTANDING" -
DOESN'T SAY EVERYTHING HE KNOWS
00:23:40.30\00:23:43.66
OR SEES OR HEARS.
HE KEEPS IT TO HIMSELF.
00:23:43.66\00:23:46.56
PROVERBS 11:13 - NEXT VERSE - "A
TALEBEARER REVEALS SECRETS, BUT
00:23:46.56\00:23:53.23
HE WHO IS OF A FAITHFUL
SPIRIT CONCEALS A MATTER."
00:23:53.23\00:23:57.23
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN?
00:23:57.23\00:23:58.53
YOU EVER HAD A FRIEND YOU
CONFIDED IN AND YOU MAYBE TOLD
00:23:58.53\00:24:05.43
THEM SOMETHING THAT THEY THOUGHT
WAS REALLY INTERESTING - YOU
00:24:05.43\00:24:08.03
SAID, 'NOW LET'S - THIS IS
OFF THE RECORD, LET'S KEEP THIS
00:24:08.03\00:24:10.10
BETWEEN US' OR 'JUST SOMETHING
I WANT YOU TO PRAY ABOUT.
00:24:10.10\00:24:12.06
IT'S PERSONAL.' AND THEY SAY,
'OH YEAH, YOU CAN TRUST ME.' IF
00:24:12.06\00:24:14.43
YOU EVER HEAR A REPORTER
DOING AN INTERVIEW AND YOU SAY
00:24:14.43\00:24:20.33
SOMETHING OFF THE RECORD, FORGET
ABOUT IT. NO SUCH THING. I DID
00:24:20.33\00:24:28.26
AN INTERVIEW WITH A REPORTER
AND THEY ASKED A QUESTION.
00:24:28.26\00:24:30.56
I SAID, 'WELL, IF THIS IS OFF
THE RECORD I CAN...' HEADLINES -
00:24:30.56\00:24:33.33
THAT'S THE FIRST THING THEY'LL
SAY, YOU KNOW, THEY JUST WIN YOU
00:24:33.33\00:24:36.63
OVER, BUT YOU WANT TO BE VERY
CAREFUL OF WHAT YOU SAY AND YOU
00:24:36.63\00:24:40.30
NEED TO HAVE - IF YOU WANT TO
HAVE FRIENDS, YOU NEED TO KNOW
00:24:40.30\00:24:43.16
HOW TO, WHEN IT SAYS 'CONCEAL A
MATTER' YOU NEED TO KNOW HOW TO
00:24:43.16\00:24:47.23
KEEP PEOPLE'S CONFIDENCE
AND NOT SAY EVERYTHING YOU KNOW.
00:24:47.23\00:24:50.16
I KNEW THIS SISTER, SHE WAS A
CHRISTIAN - ACTUALLY WORKED AS A
00:24:50.16\00:24:54.80
POSTMASTER IN A SMALL TOWN AND
PEOPLE WOULD TRY TO ENGAGE HER
00:24:54.80\00:24:59.66
IN GOSSIP WHEN THEY CAME TO PICK
UP LETTERS AND DROP LETTERS OFF
00:24:59.66\00:25:02.86
OR GET POSTAGE AND THEY'D TELL
HER THINGS AND THEY'D TRY AND
00:25:02.86\00:25:06.30
DRAW HER AND SHE WOULD NEVER
EVER SAY ANYTHING NEGATIVE ABOUT
00:25:06.30\00:25:09.76
ANYBODY. AND YOU JUST COULDN'T
GET HER TO DO IT. SHE WAS JUST
00:25:09.76\00:25:13.50
CONVICTED BY CHRIST THAT IF YOU
CAN'T SAY SOMETHING NICE ABOUT
00:25:13.50\00:25:16.90
SOMEBODY, DON'T SAY ANYTHING AT
ALL. AND I JUST REALLY ADMIRED
00:25:16.90\00:25:20.50
HER BECAUSE NOT ALL OF
US HAVE THAT MUCH RESTRAINT.
00:25:20.50\00:25:26.83
JESUS SAID, YOU KNOW, MATTHEW
12:36, "BUT I SAY TO YOU THAT
00:25:26.83\00:25:32.96
FOR EVERY IDLE WORD MEN MAY
SPEAK, THEY WILL GIVE ACCOUNT OF
00:25:32.96\00:25:36.70
IT IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT.
FOR BY YOUR WORDS YOU WILL BE
00:25:36.70\00:25:40.36
JUSTIFIED, AND BY YOUR
WORDS YOU WILL BE CONDEMNED."
00:25:40.36\00:25:43.50
AND ONE REASON - WAIT A
SECOND, THAT'S NOT FAIR.
00:25:43.50\00:25:46.93
WE'RE SAVED BY GRACE, WHY
WOULD WE BE JUDGED BY OUR WORDS?
00:25:46.93\00:25:49.40
YOU KNOW WHY JESUS
CAN JUDGE US BY OUR WORDS?
00:25:49.40\00:25:52.50
'OUT OF THE ABUNDANCE OF
THE HEART THE MOUTH SPEAKS.
00:25:52.50\00:25:57.50
AND SO WHAT COMES OUT OF YOUR
MOUTH IS REVEALING WHAT'S REALLY
00:25:57.50\00:26:01.13
IN YOUR HEART. AND SO YOU'RE
BEING JUDGED BY YOUR HEART.
00:26:01.13\00:26:03.80
AND SO, ONE OF THE WAYS WE
CAN DO JUST A LITTLE SELF-TEST -
00:26:03.80\00:26:10.06
IT SAYS IN, WHAT IS IT? 2
CORINTHIANS 13, 'LET EVERYONE
00:26:10.06\00:26:14.03
PROVE HIMSELF WHETHER HE BE
IN THE FAITH.' ONE WAY TO PROVE
00:26:14.03\00:26:17.66
YOURSELF IS TO SAY,
'AM I TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE?
00:26:17.66\00:26:20.73
AM I SAYING NEGATIVE THINGS?
WHAT'S COMING OUT OF MY MOUTH?
00:26:20.73\00:26:23.20
AM I BEING ENCOURAGING?
AM I BEING POSITIVE?
00:26:23.20\00:26:26.43
AM I UPLIFTING
CHRIST WITH MY WORDS?
00:26:26.43\00:26:28.43
DO I GLORIFY GOD WITH MY SPEECH
OR DO I SOMETIMES HAVE THE LIPS
00:26:28.43\00:26:31.83
OF A FOOL AND SAY THINGS
THAT ARE BRINGING PEOPLE DOWN.
00:26:31.83\00:26:36.33
NOW, THAT BRINGS US TO PSALM
141, VERSE 3. THIS IS PROBABLY
00:26:36.33\00:26:42.80
SOMETHING YOU COULD SAY AS A
PRAYER, "SET A GUARD, O LORD,
00:26:42.80\00:26:47.03
OVER MY MOUTH; KEEP WATCH
OVER THE DOOR OF MY LIPS."
00:26:47.03\00:26:50.43
AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO SOMETIMES
STRUGGLES TO CONTROL WHAT I SAY?
00:26:50.43\00:26:55.66
IN SPITE OF THAT BEAUTIFUL
LITTLE SPEECH I MADE ABOUT NOT
00:26:55.66\00:26:58.66
GOSSIPING, I REMEMBER ONE, I DID
A WORSHIP ON GOSSIP AND BEFORE
00:26:58.66\00:27:06.50
AN HOUR WENT BY, I
CAUGHT MYSELF GOSSIPING.
00:27:06.50\00:27:09.00
HOW CAN YOU CHANGE
SOMETHING LIKE THAT?
00:27:09.00\00:27:13.26
SO WHEN YOU PRAY, "SET A GUARD,
O LORD, OVER MY MOUTH" YOU'RE
00:27:13.26\00:27:17.20
ASKING FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT TO
JUST BE IN YOUR HEART AND GUIDE
00:27:17.20\00:27:20.60
YOU IN YOUR SPEECH, BECAUSE IF
YOU DON'T HAVE THE HOLY SPIRIT,
00:27:20.60\00:27:22.73
YOU'LL SAY THE FIRST
THING THAT COMES TO YOUR MIND.
00:27:22.73\00:27:24.86
AND IT'S REALLY A MIRACLE
WHEN GOD CAN CHANGE YOUR SPEECH.
00:27:24.86\00:27:28.70
I THINK I'VE PROBABLY SHARED
WITH YOU BEFORE, PRIOR TO MY
00:27:28.70\00:27:33.06
BEING A CHRISTIAN, I KNEW ALL
THE CURSE WORDS AND I USED THEM
00:27:33.06\00:27:39.40
ALL TOO. AND ONCE I
BECAME CONVICTED THAT
00:27:39.40\00:27:42.43
WAS WRONG, I JUST HAD TO PRAY
AND SAY, 'LORD, YOU'RE GOING TO
00:27:42.43\00:27:44.83
HAVE TO HELP ME BECAUSE
IT JUST - IT'S ENTRENCHED.
00:27:44.83\00:27:47.33
IT'S LIKE, IF I SHOULD
TELL YOU TO TRY TO CARRY ON A
00:27:47.33\00:27:50.30
CONVERSATION AND DON'T USE THE
WORDS 'THE,' 'A,' OR 'IT,' COULD
00:27:50.30\00:27:54.20
YOU DO IT? THAT'S
WHAT IT'S LIKE FOR A
00:27:54.20\00:27:58.23
PERSON THAT GROWS UP CURSING;
IT'S LIKE YOU'RE TAKING OUT ALL
00:27:58.23\00:28:01.46
THE SUPERLATIVES IN
THERE - THEY'RE VOCABULARY.
00:28:01.46\00:28:05.53
I SAID, 'LORD, IF I'M GOING TO
CHANGE THIS, IT'S GOING TO TAKE
00:28:05.53\00:28:08.26
A MIRACLE.' AND I PRAYED AND
I JUST FELT - I GOT TO THE POINT
00:28:08.26\00:28:11.36
WHERE IF FELT
ABSOLUTELY HELPLESS AND THEN
00:28:11.36\00:28:13.33
THE HOLY SPIRIT DID SOMETHING.
00:28:13.33\00:28:16.10
HE SET A GUARD ON MY LIPS AND
I NOTICED EVERY TIME I WAS ABOUT
00:28:16.10\00:28:18.63
TO SAY ONE OF THESE WORDS
I WOULD KNOW AHEAD OF TIME.
00:28:18.63\00:28:20.83
AND THE ONLY THING I CAN LIKEN
IT TO IS LIKE THERE WAS A BIT IN
00:28:20.83\00:28:25.66
MY MOUTH - LIKE A RIDER WITH
REINS AND THE LORD WOULD PULL ON
00:28:25.66\00:28:28.63
MY TONGUE AND IT WOULD JUST
STOP - LIKE AN EMERGENCY BRAKE.
00:28:28.63\00:28:31.50
AND THAT WAS
ACTUALLY VERY EXCITING FOR ME.
00:28:31.50\00:28:34.06
IT WASN'T A BAD THING - THAT
TOLD ME GOD WAS REAL BECAUSE
00:28:34.06\00:28:35.96
WHENEVER I GOT READY TO SAY IT,
IT'S LIKE THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS
00:28:35.96\00:28:38.66
DOING SOMETHING FOR ME
I COULDN'T DO FOR MYSELF.
00:28:38.66\00:28:40.50
SAME THING WITH
GOSSIP - IT'S THE SAME THING.
00:28:40.50\00:28:44.36
THE HOLY SPIRIT HAS TO DO THAT.
ONE MORE TIME - 141, VERSE 3 -
00:28:44.36\00:28:48.50
IT'S A GOOD PROMISE, "SET A
GUARD, O LORD, OVER MY MOUTH;
00:28:48.50\00:28:50.80
KEEP WATCH OVER
THE DOORS OF MY LIPS."
00:28:50.80\00:28:53.26
THAT'S A PSALM - I WONDER WHAT
THE MELODY WAS. PROVERBS 11:9,
00:28:53.26\00:28:57.56
"THE HYPOCRITE WITH HIS
MOUTH DESTROYS HIS NEIGHBOR, BUT
00:28:57.56\00:29:01.00
THROUGH KNOWLEDGE THE
RIGHTEOUS WILL BE DELIVERED."
00:29:01.00\00:29:05.20
PROVERBS 12:6, "THE WORDS OF
THE WICKED ARE, 'LIE IN WAIT FOR
00:29:05.20\00:29:10.93
BLOOD,' BUT THE MOUTH OF
THE UPRIGHT WILL DELIVER THEM."
00:29:10.93\00:29:14.50
YOU KNOW, I THOUGH - I'LL READ
YOU A LITTLE STATEMENT FROM THE
00:29:14.50\00:29:19.96
BOOK 'COUNCILS FOR
THE CHURCH' PAGE 81,
00:29:19.96\00:29:23.13
"THERE ARE MANY WAYS WHEREIN WE
MIGHT ACKNOWLEDGE OUR LORD AND
00:29:23.13\00:29:27.20
MANY WAYS WHEREIN
WE MIGHT DENY HIM.
00:29:27.20\00:29:29.53
WE MAY DENY HIM IN OUR WORDS,
BY SPEAKING EVIL OF OTHERS, BY
00:29:29.53\00:29:33.40
FOOLISH TALKING, JESTING, AND
JOKING, OR IDLE UNKIND WORDS OR
00:29:33.40\00:29:38.50
BY PREVOCATING -
SPEAKING CONTRARY TO THE TRUTH.
00:29:38.50\00:29:42.40
IN OUR WORDS WE MAY CONFESS
THAT CHRIST IS NOT IN US.
00:29:42.40\00:29:46.06
THAT'S ONE OF THE MOST TELLING
THINGS IS WHEN YOU'RE HEART
00:29:46.06\00:29:49.60
CHANGES - 'OUT OF THE ABUNDANCE
OF THE HEART' OUR WORDS'LL
00:29:49.60\00:29:52.33
CHANGE. OKAY,
TUESDAY, 'THE HOPE OF THE
00:29:52.33\00:29:56.16
RIGHTEOUS.' ALL THROUGH THE
PROVERBS - YOU KNOW, AS YOU READ
00:29:56.16\00:30:00.50
THROUGH THESE SECTIONS, IT
JUST JUMPS FROM ONE SUBJECT TO
00:30:00.50\00:30:04.13
ANOTHER AND SO IT'S
REALLY VERY INTERESTING.
00:30:04.13\00:30:07.63
PROVERBS 11:1, "DISHONEST SCALES
ARE AN ABOMINATION TO THE LORD,
00:30:07.63\00:30:14.63
BUT A JUST
WEIGHT IS HIS DELIGHT."
00:30:14.63\00:30:17.46
NOW, WHY DID HE SAY THAT? IS
HE TALKING ABOUT THE BATHROOM
00:30:17.46\00:30:19.80
SCALE WHERE YOU
CHECK YOUR WEIGHT?
00:30:19.80\00:30:21.83
WHENEVER YOU - AND HOPEFULLY
YOU DON'T HAVE A DISHONEST SCALE
00:30:21.83\00:30:26.56
THERE BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT HELPING
YOURSELF. BUT IN - WHEN YOU WENT
00:30:26.56\00:30:30.93
TO THE MARKET IN BIBLE TIMES, AT
EVERY CASH REGISTER THERE WAS A
00:30:30.93\00:30:35.63
SCALE BECAUSE YOU OFTEN
BOUGHT THINGS BY THEIR WEIGHT.
00:30:35.63\00:30:39.53
AND THEY HAD ONE OF THOSE -
YOU'VE PROBABLY SEEN THEM, THE
00:30:39.53\00:30:42.56
LITTLE - THE LITTLE BALANCE -
YOU'VE PROBABLY SEEN THE JUDGES
00:30:42.56\00:30:46.00
ABOVE COURTHOUSES - THE
BLIND LADY JUSTICE WHERE SHE'S
00:30:46.00\00:30:48.80
BLINDFOLDED - SHE'S
HOLDING UP THE SCALES.
00:30:48.80\00:30:50.60
WELL, THEY'D PUT A LITTLE
WEIGHT, LIKE A ONE OUNCE OR HALF
00:30:50.60\00:30:53.73
OUNCE SIDE AND THEN THEY'D PUT
THE EQUAL AMOUNT OF THE PRODUCT
00:30:53.73\00:30:57.13
YOU'RE BUYING ON THE OTHER SIDE
AND YOU'D KNOW EXACTLY HOW - BUT
00:30:57.13\00:31:00.93
IF YOU ARE AN UNJUST MERCHANT,
THEY'D DRILL OUT THOSE WEIGHTS
00:31:00.93\00:31:05.43
SOMETIMES - IT'D SAY '1-OUNCE'
ON IT BUT THEY'D PUT LEAD IN IT
00:31:05.43\00:31:07.73
OR THEY'D HOLLOW IT OUT SO IT'S
ACTUALLY LIGHTER SO YOU'RE NOT
00:31:07.73\00:31:11.83
GETTING AS MUCH PRODUCT. AND SO
YOU'RE BEING DECEIVED AND THEY
00:31:11.83\00:31:16.76
HAD ALL THESE LITTLE TRICKS.
IT'S LIKE THE - YOU'VE HEARD
00:31:16.76\00:31:20.90
ABOUT THE BUTCHER THAT - HE
HAD - HE WASN'T TOTALLY HONEST.
00:31:20.90\00:31:24.43
AT THE END OF THE DAY A LADY
CAME IN, SHE SAID, 'I'M HAVING
00:31:24.43\00:31:27.30
COMPANY, I NEED TO HAVE THE
FATTEST CHICKEN THAT YOU'VE GOT.
00:31:27.30\00:31:30.50
WELL, HE HAD ALREADY STARTED
CLEANING OUT THE COUNTERS.
00:31:30.50\00:31:32.60
HE SAID, 'WELL, LET ME GO BACK
AND I'LL SEE WHAT I'VE GOT.' AND
00:31:32.60\00:31:35.50
HE CAME OUT - AND HE ONLY
HAD ONE CHICKEN BACK THERE.
00:31:35.50\00:31:37.66
EVERYTHING ELSE WAS GONE.
AND HE CAME OUT AND HE SAID,
00:31:37.66\00:31:40.46
'THIS IS OUR BIGGEST CHICKEN.
SHE LOOKED AT IT AND SHE SAID -
00:31:40.46\00:31:43.43
SHE PUT IT ON - OR HE PUT IT ON
THE SCALE AND HE PUT HIS THUMB
00:31:43.43\00:31:48.30
ON THE SCALE SO IT LOOKED
HEAVIER THAN IT ACTUALLY WAS.
00:31:48.30\00:31:51.56
AND SHE SAID, 'OH, TWO POUND
CHICKEN.' SHE SAID, 'YOU KNOW, I
00:31:51.56\00:31:55.06
THINK I NEED SOMETHING A LITTLE
BIGGER.' HE SAID, 'ALRIGHT, I'LL
00:31:55.06\00:31:58.16
BE RIGHT BACK.' SO HE GOES OUT,
WALKS BACK TO THE FREEZER, COMES
00:31:58.16\00:32:00.86
BACK - SAME CHICKEN - THROWS
IT UP ON THE SCALE, PRESSES A
00:32:00.86\00:32:03.93
LITTLE HARDER WITH HIS THUMB.
SHE SAID, 'YOU KNOW, I'M STILL
00:32:03.93\00:32:07.46
NOT SURE THAT THAT'S GOING TO
BE ENOUGH.' SHE SAID, 'I'LL TAKE
00:32:07.46\00:32:10.10
THEM BOTH.' UNJUST SCALES WILL
BACKFIRE, BUT A JUST WEIGHT IS
00:32:10.10\00:32:20.30
HIS DELIGHT.
PROVERBS 11:2, "WHEN PRIDE
00:32:20.30\00:32:24.03
COMES, THEN COMES SHAME;
BUT WITH THE HUMBLE IS WISDOM."
00:32:24.03\00:32:29.16
ISN'T IT HARD TO
TEACH A PROUD PERSON?
00:32:29.16\00:32:31.66
YOU EVER TRY AND TEACH SOMEBODY
THAT SAYS, 'OH, I KNOW, I KNOW,
00:32:31.66\00:32:33.86
I KNOW?' THEY'RE
CALLED 'TEENAGERS.' NO.
00:32:33.86\00:32:38.03
WHEN A PERSON SAYS THEY KNOW
EVERYTHING - WHEN YOU'RE HUMBLE,
00:32:38.03\00:32:42.26
THERE'S WISDOM - YOU'RE
TEACHABLE. AND GOD'LL GIVE YOU
00:32:42.26\00:32:47.23
WISDOM IF YOU'RE WILLING TO
LEARN. WITH PRIDE COMES SHAME.
00:32:47.23\00:32:51.83
ISN'T THAT SOMETHING LIKE
THE VERSE THAT SAYS, 'A HAUGHTY
00:32:51.83\00:32:54.73
SPIRIT COMES BEFORE A FALL?'
CAN YOU THINK OF SOME EXAMPLES
00:32:54.73\00:32:58.20
IN THE BIBLE WHERE PEOPLE
WERE SHAMED BY THEIR PRIDE?
00:32:58.20\00:33:02.66
PETER BOASTED, 'THOUGH ALL THESE
FORSAKE YOU, I'LL NEVER FORSAKE
00:33:02.66\00:33:07.63
YOU.' WHO DID IT THE WORST?
PETER. IT WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN
00:33:07.63\00:33:11.26
NEAR AS BAD IF HE
HADN'T BOASTED ABOUT IT.
00:33:11.26\00:33:13.16
PROVERBS 11:3, "THE INTEGRITY OF
THE UPRIGHT WILL GUIDE THEM, BUT
00:33:13.16\00:33:19.53
THE PERVERSITY OF THE
UNFAITHFUL WILL DESTROY THEM."
00:33:19.53\00:33:23.93
PERVERSITY, HERE, IS OBVIOUSLY
THE OPPOSITE OF INTEGRITY.
00:33:23.93\00:33:27.60
SOMEONE SAID, 'INTEGRITY' - OR
CHARACTER - 'IS WHO YOU ARE WHEN
00:33:27.60\00:33:32.53
NO ONE'S WATCHING.' A PERSON OF
INTEGRITY IS JUST AS HONEST WHEN
00:33:32.53\00:33:35.93
NO ONE IS WATCHING AS THEY
ARE WHEN PEOPLE ARE WATCHING.
00:33:35.93\00:33:39.00
THAT'S WHAT REAL INTEGRITY
IS. IN PROVERBS 11:5, "THE
00:33:39.00\00:33:45.73
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE BLAMELESS
WILL DIRECT HIS WAY ARIGHT, BUT
00:33:45.73\00:33:50.10
THE WICKED WILL FALL
BY HIS OWN WICKEDNESS."
00:33:50.10\00:33:53.33
NOW SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR
ME 2 CORINTHIANS 4, VERSE 18.
00:33:53.33\00:33:58.70
YOU'LL HAVE THAT IN
JUST A SECOND? OKAY?
00:33:58.70\00:34:00.33
NOW, BEFORE WE GO ANY FARTHER, I
WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT THE VERSES
00:34:00.33\00:34:03.13
THAT WE JUST READ, PROVERBS
11:1, 3, 5 AND I'M GOING TO READ
00:34:03.13\00:34:10.03
PROVERBS 11:4 - I'M
MIXING THEM UP HERE -
00:34:10.03\00:34:12.20
IT TELLS YOU WHAT
THE POSITIVE SIDE IS.
00:34:12.20\00:34:16.60
THIS IS UNDER TUESDAY, 'THE HOPE
OF THE RIGHTEOUS.' IT SAYS, 'HIS
00:34:16.60\00:34:19.60
DELIGHT, GOD'LL GUIDE THEM,
HE WILL DIRECT THEM, HE'LL SHOW
00:34:19.60\00:34:24.00
THEM THE WAY.' SO IT'S NOT JUST,
YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES PEOPLE READ
00:34:24.00\00:34:28.73
PROVERBS, IT'S LIKE THE CUP
HALF EMPTY OR THE CUP HALF FULL?
00:34:28.73\00:34:32.06
IF YOU READ WHERE IT SAYS "THE
RIGHTEOUSNESS OF THE BLAMELESS
00:34:32.06\00:34:37.63
WILL DIRECT HIS WAY ARIGHT, BUT
THE WICKED WILL FALL IN HIS OWN
00:34:37.63\00:34:40.20
WICKEDNESS." YOU
COULD LOOK AT THAT AND SAY,
00:34:40.20\00:34:43.16
'OH MAN, THE WICKED ARE GOING
TO FALL. I DON'T WANT TO FALL.'
00:34:43.16\00:34:45.20
OR YOU COULD LOOK AT IT AND SAY,
'FORGET ABOUT THE WICKED, I'M
00:34:45.20\00:34:48.20
GOING TO LOOK AT WHAT THE
PROMISE OF THE RIGHTEOUS IS.
00:34:48.20\00:34:50.60
SO YOU COULD LOOK AT ALL THESE
PROVERBS AND LOOK AT THE CURSES
00:34:50.60\00:34:52.63
THAT ARE IN THEM AND YOU COULD
FEEL, 'WOW, PROVERBS IS A REALLY
00:34:52.63\00:34:55.23
NEGATIVE BOOK.' OR YOU COULD
LOOK AT ALL THE PROVERBS AND
00:34:55.23\00:34:58.06
SAY, 'LOOK AT ALL THE PROMISES
THAT ARE IN THEM' AND SAY IT'S A
00:34:58.06\00:35:00.96
REALLY POSITIVE BOOK.
EVERY ONE OF THESE THINGS THAT
00:35:00.96\00:35:03.26
IS SEPARATED BY THE WORD 'BUT,'
YOU COULD READ THE POSITIVE SIDE
00:35:03.26\00:35:06.36
OF THAT OR THE
NEGATIVE SIDE OF IT.
00:35:06.36\00:35:09.23
THERE'S A LOT OF PROMISES IN
HERE THAT ARE PROMISED TO THE
00:35:09.23\00:35:11.83
RIGHTEOUS AND I THINK THAT'S
WHAT THEY'RE WANT US TO FOCUS
00:35:11.83\00:35:14.63
ON. AND THEN AGAIN, IT SAYS
IN PROVERBS 11:7, "WHEN A WICKED
00:35:14.63\00:35:18.96
MAN DIES, HIS EXPECTATION
WILL PERISH, AND THE HOPE OF THE
00:35:18.96\00:35:23.36
UNJUST PERISHES." BUT IT'S
TELLING YOU, OBVIOUSLY, THAT YOU
00:35:23.36\00:35:27.16
DO NOT PERISH. IT REMINDS
US OF THAT JOHN 3:16 VERSE.
00:35:27.16\00:35:31.63
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ
FOR US 2 CORINTHIANS 4:18.
00:35:31.63\00:35:35.80
>>"WHILE WE DO NOT LOOK AT THE
THINGS WHICH ARE SEEN, BUT AT
00:35:35.80\00:35:39.13
THE THINGS WHICH ARE NOT SEEN.
FOR THE THINGS WHICH ARE SEEN
00:35:39.13\00:35:42.10
ARE TEMPORARY, BUT THE THINGS
WHICH ARE NOT SEEN ARE ETERNAL."
00:35:42.10\00:35:46.93
>>AND SO HERE HE'S HIGHLIGHTING
- PAUL IS TALKING ABOUT -
00:35:46.93\00:35:49.26
PROVERBS IS TELLING YOU THAT THE
WICKED PERSON AND THE FOOLISH
00:35:49.26\00:35:54.30
PERSON IS - THEY'RE
LOOKING AT JUST WHAT
00:35:54.30\00:35:56.93
THE IMMEDIATE VISIBLE RESULT IS.
00:35:56.93\00:36:00.36
SOLOMON IS SAYING, 'IF YOU'RE
REALLY WISE, YOU'LL REALIZE
00:36:00.36\00:36:02.96
THERE'S A GOD AND THAT
THE RESULTS GO BEYOND THAT AND
00:36:02.96\00:36:05.80
SOMETIMES THE REWARD ISN'T
IMMEDIATE, BUT IF YOU'RE DOING
00:36:05.80\00:36:11.00
WHAT'S RIGHT HE'LL DIRECT YOUR
PATH, HE'LL DELIVER YOU, YOU'LL
00:36:11.00\00:36:14.36
BE THE DELIGHT OF GOD,
HE'LL SHOW YOU HIS WAY.
00:36:14.36\00:36:19.23
THERE'S ALL THESE PROMISES AND
YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE THAT BECAUSE
00:36:19.23\00:36:22.66
YOU'RE NOT LOOKING AT
THOSE THINGS WHICH ARE SEEN.
00:36:22.66\00:36:24.93
ALRIGHT, AND THEN IN A MOMENT
I'M GOING TO HAVE SOMEBODY READ
00:36:24.93\00:36:28.13
PSALM 41:1 AND 2, BUT LET
ME READ PROVERBS 11:8, "THE
00:36:28.13\00:36:34.13
RIGHTEOUS IS DELIVERED FROM
TROUBLE," - ANYONE WANT TO CLAIM
00:36:34.13\00:36:37.46
THAT PROMISE? THAT'S
PRETTY ENCOMPASSING, ISN'T IT?
00:36:37.46\00:36:41.10
IS THERE A TIME OF
TROUBLE COMING TO THE WORLD?
00:36:41.10\00:36:44.10
IS THERE GOING TO BE A
TIME OF TROUBLE UNLIKE ANY OTHER
00:36:44.10\00:36:47.40
TROUBLE? WHO SAID THAT? >>JESUS.
00:36:47.40\00:36:49.73
>>JESUS - MATTHEW 24 AND JESUS
IS QUOTING DANIEL 12, 'AT THAT
00:36:49.73\00:36:58.00
TIME MICHAEL WILL STAND UP' -
I THINK THIS IS VERSE 1 - 'THAT
00:36:58.00\00:37:00.46
GREAT PRINCE THAT STANDS FOR
THE CHILDREN OF YOUR PEOPLE, AND
00:37:00.46\00:37:03.10
THERE'LL BE A TIME OF TROUBLE
SUCH AS THERE NEVER HAS BEEN
00:37:03.10\00:37:05.70
SINCE THERE WAS A NATION
EVEN UNTO THE SAME TIME.'
00:37:05.70\00:37:07.96
GREAT TIME OF TROUBLE. HOW'D YOU
LIKE THAT PROMISE 'THE RIGHTEOUS
00:37:07.96\00:37:11.43
IS DELIVERED FROM TROUBLE?'
THAT'S WHERE YOU GET THE WORD
00:37:11.43\00:37:14.73
TRIBULATION, IT'S
LIKE 'TROUBLE-ATION.'
00:37:14.73\00:37:17.63
BUT THE WICKED, THEY
DON'T HAVE THAT PROMISE.
00:37:17.63\00:37:22.66
"AND IT COMES TO
THE WICKED INSTEAD."
00:37:22.66\00:37:24.60
NOW, CAN YOU THINK OF SOME
EXAMPLES IN THE BIBLE WHERE IT
00:37:24.60\00:37:27.73
LOOKED LIKE THE RIGHTEOUS
WERE ABOUT TO BE DESTROYED BUT
00:37:27.73\00:37:30.63
INSTEAD IT
BACKFIRED ON THE WICKED?
00:37:30.63\00:37:33.60
ALL PRIME THE PUMP
AND GIVE YOU A COUPLE.
00:37:33.60\00:37:36.16
MAYBE YOU CAN THINK OF SOME.
YOU REMEMBER WHEN PETER WAS PUT
00:37:36.16\00:37:40.46
IN PRISON BY HEROD THE
KING? HEROD KILLED JAMES.
00:37:40.46\00:37:45.06
HE PUT PETER IN PRISON. HE
WAS GOING TO EXECUTE PETER?
00:37:45.06\00:37:49.76
BUT WHAT HAPPENED? >>ANGEL.
00:37:49.76\00:37:52.53
>>AN ANGEL CAME, PETER'S
DELIVERED. DID YOU READ THE END
00:37:52.53\00:37:56.33
OF THE CHAPTER?
WHAT HAPPENS TO HEROD?
00:37:56.33\00:37:58.76
ANGEL OF THE LORD
STRIKES HIM, HE DIES.
00:37:58.76\00:38:02.00
SO THE ONE WHO WAS GOING TO BE
THE PERSECUTOR, HE ENDS UP DYING
00:38:02.00\00:38:06.43
AND THE FISHERMAN, WHO WAS
IN THE TOP SECURITY PRISON, HE
00:38:06.43\00:38:09.90
CONTINUES LIVING AND PREACHING.
HOW ABOUT MORDECAI AND HAMAN?
00:38:09.90\00:38:15.00
YOU KNOW THE STORY OF
ESTHER? SO AN EDICT IS MADE TO
00:38:15.00\00:38:19.76
EXTERMINATE ALL OF GOD'S PEOPLE
ON A CERTAIN DATE, BUT GOD
00:38:19.76\00:38:25.03
INTERVENES AND THE GALLOWS THAT
HAD BEEN BUILT TO HANG MORDECAI,
00:38:25.03\00:38:31.33
WHO ENDS UP GETTING
HUNG ON THOSE GALLOWS?
00:38:31.33\00:38:34.63
>>HAMAN. >>HAMAN.
00:38:34.63\00:38:36.73
WHO BUILT THEM?
IT JUST BACKFIRED.
00:38:36.73\00:38:38.96
"THE RIGHTEOUS IS DELIVERED
FROM TROUBLE AND IT COMES TO THE
00:38:38.96\00:38:42.00
WICKED INSTEAD." DOES THAT
REALLY HAPPEN IN THE BIBLE?
00:38:42.00\00:38:44.53
>>DANIEL.
00:38:44.53\00:38:45.46
>>ALRIGHT, THERE'S
ANOTHER ONE, DANIEL.
00:38:45.46\00:38:47.73
THE POLITICAL ENEMIES OF DANIEL,
THAT WANTED HIM EATEN BY THE
00:38:47.73\00:38:52.10
LIONS, DANIEL MAKES IT THROUGH
THE LIONS' DEN - GOD SHUTS THEIR
00:38:52.10\00:38:55.90
MOUTH - BUT
WHAT HAPPENS TO THEM?
00:38:55.90\00:38:57.80
>>THEY'RE THROWN IN.
00:38:57.80\00:38:59.66
>>AND THE EGYPTIANS, WHO WERE
GOING TO ENSLAVE THE ISRAELITES,
00:38:59.66\00:39:05.03
THE ISRAELITES GO FREE AND THE
EGYPTIANS GET SWALLOWED BY THE
00:39:05.03\00:39:08.66
RED SEA. THE SOLDIERS THAT THREW
00:39:08.66\00:39:11.96
SHADRACH, MESHACH, AND ABEDNEGO
IN THE FURNACE, THEY SURVIVED
00:39:11.96\00:39:16.26
THE FURNACE BUT THE
SOLDIERS GET BURNED UP.
00:39:16.26\00:39:18.53
YOU CAN JUST LOOK AT - THERE'S
MANY, MANY EXAMPLES IN THE BIBLE
00:39:18.53\00:39:22.76
HOW THE LORD STEPS IN - JEREMIAH
- KING ZEDEKIAH PUTS HIM IN A
00:39:22.76\00:39:27.40
PRISON BECAUSE HE'S PROPHESYING
THAT NEBUCHADNEZZAR IS GOING TO
00:39:27.40\00:39:32.23
COME AND THERE'S
GOING TO BE GREAT SLAUGHTER.
00:39:32.23\00:39:35.06
AND THE GUY IN THE DUNGEON,
JEREMIAH, IS ONE OF THE ONLY
00:39:35.06\00:39:39.40
ONES THAT FINDS MERCY FROM
NEBUCHADNEZZAR AND HE LIVES
00:39:39.40\00:39:41.83
AFTER THE WHOLE
SIEGE AND THE WAR IS OVER.
00:39:41.83\00:39:44.43
ZEDEKIAH HAS HIS EYES
PUT OUT AND HE DIES IN JAIL.
00:39:44.43\00:39:46.83
I MEAN, THE LORD
CAN TURN THINGS AROUND.
00:39:46.83\00:39:49.96
WHAT MADE THE DIFFERENCE?
GOD DELIVERS THE RIGHTEOUS.
00:39:49.96\00:39:52.86
NOW DOES THAT MEAN
RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE NEVER PERISH?
00:39:52.86\00:39:56.46
>>NO. >>YEAH IT DOES.
00:39:56.46\00:40:00.70
IN THE LONG RUN. THEY
NEVER PERISH ETERNALLY.
00:40:00.70\00:40:05.73
THEY MIGHT DIE, BUT CAN YOU
REALLY KILL A RIGHTEOUS PERSON?
00:40:05.73\00:40:09.13
>>NO. >>YOU CAN KILL THE BODY.
00:40:09.13\00:40:11.20
JESUS SAID, 'DON'T BE
AFRAID OF HIM WHO KILLS THE BODY
00:40:11.20\00:40:13.26
BUT THEY CAN'T TOUCH YOUR SOUL.
FEAR HIM WHO CAN DESTROY SOUL
00:40:13.26\00:40:16.80
AND BODY IN HELL.' ALRIGHT, IT
GOES ON TO SAY IN VERSE 11 - I'M
00:40:16.80\00:40:22.76
SORRY, VERSE 17 OF CHAPTER 11,
"THE MERCIFUL MAN DOES GOOD FOR
00:40:22.76\00:40:26.76
HIS OWN SOUL, BUT HE WHO IS
CRUEL TROUBLES HIS OWN FLESH.'
00:40:26.76\00:40:31.83
WHAT KIND OF
MAN? >>THE MERCIFUL.
00:40:31.83\00:40:35.00
>>"THE MERCIFUL MAN DOES GOOD
FOR HIS OWN SOUL" AND IT MAKES
00:40:35.00\00:40:38.10
YOU THINK ABOUT THAT
VERSE IN MATTHEW 5:7,
00:40:38.10\00:40:40.06
"BLESSED ARE THE MERCIFUL."
MERCY COMES TO THE MERCIFUL.
00:40:40.06\00:40:44.40
ALRIGHT, YOU'RE GOING TO
READ FOR US, I THINK, PSALM -
00:40:44.40\00:40:46.93
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ
PSALM 41, VERSES 1 AND 2.
00:40:46.93\00:40:49.63
>>"BLESSED IS HE WHO CONSIDERETH
THE POOR; THE LORD WILL DELIVER
00:40:49.63\00:40:54.13
HIM IN TIME OF TROUBLE.
THE LORD WILL PRESERVE HIM AND
00:40:54.13\00:40:57.93
KEEP HIM ALIVE, AND HE WILL BE
BLESSED ON THE EARTH; THOU WILL
00:40:57.93\00:41:03.00
NOT DELIVER HIM UNTO
THE WILL OF HIS ENEMIES."
00:41:03.00\00:41:07.23
>>WELL THAT'S A LOT OF PROMISES.
00:41:07.23\00:41:08.83
IT'S SAYING THAT IF YOU'RE
MERCIFUL TO THE POOR, GOD SAYS,
00:41:08.83\00:41:12.73
'I'LL DELIVER YOU IN THE TIME OF
TROUBLE' - THERE'S ANOTHER TIME
00:41:12.73\00:41:15.36
OF TROUBLE PROMISE - THE LORD
WILL PRESERVE HIM AND KEEP HIM
00:41:15.36\00:41:18.43
ALIVE, HE WILL BE BLESSED ON THE
EARTH, YOU WILL NOT DELIVER HIM
00:41:18.43\00:41:22.73
TO THE WILL OF HIS ENEMIES.
THAT'S JUST SAYING THAT A
00:41:22.73\00:41:25.83
RIGHTEOUS PERSON - GOD
PROMISES TO TAKE CARE OF THEM.
00:41:25.83\00:41:29.50
NOW, AGAIN,
THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS.
00:41:29.50\00:41:31.76
WE ALL KNOW AND WE'VE READ OF
RIGHTEOUS PEOPLE THAT MAYBE DIED
00:41:31.76\00:41:34.33
IN CONCENTRATION
CAMPS, OR THEY DIED IN WAR.
00:41:34.33\00:41:37.23
THEY MIGHT BE ON A
PLANE THAT CRASHES.
00:41:37.23\00:41:39.26
IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT A RIGHTEOUS
PERSON IS NEVER GOING TO
00:41:39.26\00:41:42.46
EXPERIENCE ANY KIND
OF CALAMITY OR TROUBLE.
00:41:42.46\00:41:44.86
BUT, BY FAR AND LARGE, YOU'LL
SEE THAT GOD BLESSES THOSE THAT
00:41:44.86\00:41:52.16
TRUST IN HIM.
THAT DO FOLLOW HIM.
00:41:52.16\00:41:55.06
MARK 11:26 - IN THE LORD'S
PRAYER IT SAYS, "BUT IF YOU
00:41:55.06\00:42:00.33
DON'T FORGIVE, NEITHER WILL YOUR
FATHER IN HEAVEN FORGIVE YOU."
00:42:00.33\00:42:04.23
SO WHEN IT'S TALKING ABOUT BEING
MERCIFUL, IT DOESN'T JUST MEAN
00:42:04.23\00:42:06.86
TO THE POOR. CAN WE
SOMETIMES BE UNMERCIFUL
00:42:06.86\00:42:09.80
IN NOT FORGIVING OTHERS FOR
SMALLER OFFENSES THAN WHAT GOD
00:42:09.80\00:42:13.90
FORGIVES US OF? YOU
KNOW THE PARABLE OF THE
00:42:13.90\00:42:19.03
UNMERCIFUL DEBTOR? MATTHEW 18?
00:42:19.03\00:42:22.86
MAN OWES THE KING 10,000 TALENTS
- CAN'T PAY - KING SAYS, 'OKAY,
00:42:22.86\00:42:29.06
YOU KNOW THE RULES, YOU'RE GOING
TO A DEBTOR'S PRISON, EVERYTHING
00:42:29.06\00:42:31.40
YOU HAVE IS GOING TO BE SOLD'
- BIG DEBT - AND THE MAN SAYS,
00:42:31.40\00:42:35.80
'HAVE PITY ON ME.
00:42:35.80\00:42:37.20
GIVE ME TIME AND I'LL PAY IT ALL
BACK.' HE SAYS, 'OKAY, I'M GOING
00:42:37.20\00:42:40.30
TO FORGIVE YOU.' HE
FORGIVES THE WHOLE THING.
00:42:40.30\00:42:42.10
HE GOES OUT AND HE FINDS A
FELLOW SERVANT THAT OWES HIM A
00:42:42.10\00:42:44.60
HUNDRED PENCE - SMALL AMOUNT
- AND HE TAKES HIM BY THE THROAT
00:42:44.60\00:42:49.76
AND HE PUTS HIM IN A DEBTOR'S
PRISON FOR JUST AN INSIGNIFICANT
00:42:49.76\00:42:52.43
AMOUNT - COMPARED TO
10,000 TALENTS IT'S NOTHING.
00:42:52.43\00:42:54.80
AND AT THE END OF THAT PARABLE,
IT TURNS OUT THAT THE UNMERCIFUL
00:42:54.80\00:43:00.13
DEBTOR - HE GOES BACK TO
THE KING AND THE KING SAYS, 'YOU
00:43:00.13\00:43:02.83
WICKED SERVANT, I FORGAVE
YOU THAT WHOLE DEBT BECAUSE YOU
00:43:02.83\00:43:05.46
ASKED ME. SHOULDN'T YOU HAVE
ALSO HAD MERCY ON YOUR FELLOW
00:43:05.46\00:43:07.96
SERVANT AS I HAD PITY ON YOU?'
AND SO HE PUTS HIM BACK IN JAIL
00:43:07.96\00:43:12.93
TO SUFFER THE PENALTY FOR
THE ORIGINAL OFFENSE BECAUSE HE
00:43:12.93\00:43:17.23
WOULDN'T FORGIVE HIS BROTHER.
NOW WHAT'S A GOOD REASON FOR US
00:43:17.23\00:43:21.20
TO BE MERCIFUL TO OTHERS?
I - HOW MUCH MERCY DO WE GET?
00:43:21.20\00:43:27.30
FROM THE - WE'RE LIKE THAT
SERVANT IN THE STORY WHEN YOU
00:43:27.30\00:43:31.00
THINK ABOUT HOW
MUCH WE'VE BEEN FORGIVEN.
00:43:31.00\00:43:32.96
AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S HARD FOR
US TO BE PRETTY SHORT WITH OTHER
00:43:32.96\00:43:38.90
PEOPLE. IT DOESN'T
MEAN YOU NEVER HOLD A
00:43:38.90\00:43:41.33
PERSON
ACCOUNTABLE FOR WHAT THEY DO.
00:43:41.33\00:43:43.36
ALRIGHT - AND THEN HE CLOSES
THAT PARABLE IN MATTHEW 18 BY
00:43:43.36\00:43:47.33
SAYING, 'SO, LIKEWISE, WILL MY
HEAVENLY FATHER DO UNTO YOU IF
00:43:47.33\00:43:51.03
YOU EACH, FROM YOUR HEART,
DOES NOT FORGIVE EVERY MAN HIS
00:43:51.03\00:43:54.20
BROTHER HIS TRESPASSES. AND
SO THE LORD WANTS US TO FORGIVE.
00:43:54.20\00:43:57.60
WEDNESDAY, 'THE
TRUTH OF THE RIGHTEOUS.'
00:43:57.60\00:44:02.16
NOW THIS EMPHASIS IS ON TRUTH.
PROVERBS 13:3, "HE WHO GUARDS
00:44:02.16\00:44:08.46
HIS MOUTH PRESERVES HIS LIFE,
BUT HE WHO OPENS WIDE HIS LIPS
00:44:08.46\00:44:13.03
SHALL HAVE DESTRUCTION."
PROVERBS 13:5, "A RIGHTEOUS MAN
00:44:13.03\00:44:18.76
HATES LYING, BUT A WICKED MAN IS
LOATHSOME AND COMES TO SHAME."
00:44:18.76\00:44:24.80
SO, AGAIN, WE'RE BACK ON WORDS,
BUT IT'S TALKING ABOUT - NOW
00:44:24.80\00:44:27.96
IT'S TALKING NOT JUST ABOUT
CHATTER AND IDLE WORDS, IT'S
00:44:27.96\00:44:30.70
TALKING ABOUT LYING
AND TRUTH AND SO ONE OF THE
00:44:30.70\00:44:34.10
CHARACTERISTICS OF
THE RIGHTEOUS IS WHAT?
00:44:34.10\00:44:36.90
>>TRUTH.
>>HONESTY AND WHAT THEY SAY.
00:44:36.90\00:44:40.83
NOW, I HAD A SERMON YEARS AGO,
CALLED 'THE TRUTH ABOUT LYING.'
00:44:40.83\00:44:45.80
ACTUALLY, IT WAS A TWO-PART
SERIES BECAUSE IT'S A BIG
00:44:45.80\00:44:47.86
SUBJECT. AND,
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, EVEN
00:44:47.86\00:44:51.16
CHRISTIANS - THERE'S A LOT
OF WAYS YOU CAN BE DISHONEST
00:44:51.16\00:44:54.93
WITHOUT TELLING
A BOLD-FACED LIE.
00:44:54.93\00:44:56.96
YOU CAN BE DECEPTIVE WITH YOUR
BODY LANGUAGE - WITH A SHRUG OF
00:44:56.96\00:45:02.76
THE SHOULDERS - BY ONLY
TELLING HALF A TRUTH THAT MIGHT
00:45:02.76\00:45:07.06
DELIBERATELY LEAD A PERSON TO
WHAT YOU KNOW IS GOING TO BE A
00:45:07.06\00:45:10.46
FALSE CONCLUSION. CHRISTIANS
OUGHT TO BE CRYSTAL CLEAR.
00:45:10.46\00:45:13.20
ELLEN WHITE WROTE, IN THE
BOOK 'MY LIFE TODAY' PAGE 331,
00:45:13.20\00:45:19.66
"LYING LIPS ARE AN
ABOMINATION TO HIM.
00:45:19.66\00:45:23.13
HE DECLARES" - AND, BY THE WAY,
THAT'S A QUOTE FROM THE BIBLE,
00:45:23.13\00:45:25.90
'LYING LIPS ARE AN ABOMINATION
TO THE LORD.' "HE DECLARES THAT
00:45:25.90\00:45:28.73
INTO THE HOLY CITY THERE WILL
IN NO WISE ENTER ANYTHING THAT
00:45:28.73\00:45:31.30
DEFILES OR WHATSOEVER WORKS
AN ABOMINATION OR MAKES A LIE.
00:45:31.30\00:45:37.16
LET TRUTH TELLING BE HELD
WITH NO LOOSE HAND OR UNCERTAIN
00:45:37.16\00:45:42.20
GRASP. LET IT
BECOME PART OF THE LIFE.
00:45:42.20\00:45:45.20
PLAYING FAST AND LOOSE WITH THE
TRUTH IN DISSEMBLING TO PROMOTE
00:45:45.20\00:45:50.40
ONE'S OWN SELFISH PLANS
MAKE A SHIPWRECK OF FAITH.
00:45:50.40\00:45:54.86
HE WHO UTTERS UNTRUTH SELLS
HIS SOUL IN A CHEAP MARKET.
00:45:54.86\00:45:59.36
HIS FALSEHOODS SEEM
TO SERVE IN EMERGENCIES.
00:45:59.36\00:46:03.36
HE MAY THUS SEEM TO MAKE
BUSINESS ADVANCEMENTS THAT HE
00:46:03.36\00:46:06.73
COULD ONLY GAIN - THAT HE COULD
NOT GAIN BY FAIR DEALING, BUT HE
00:46:06.73\00:46:10.03
FINALLY REACHES THE PLACE
WHERE HE CAN TRUST NO ONE.
00:46:10.03\00:46:12.76
HIMSELF A FALSIFIER, HE HAS
NO CONFIDENCE IN THE WORDS OF
00:46:12.76\00:46:17.13
OTHERS." YOU KNOW,
IF YOU MEET SOMEONE
00:46:17.13\00:46:19.90
THAT DOESN'T BELIEVE ANYTHING
ANYONE ELSE SAYS, IT MIGHT BE
00:46:19.90\00:46:22.00
THAT THEY ARE NOT ALWAYS
CLEAR WITH THE TRUTH AND SO THEY
00:46:22.00\00:46:25.66
SUPERIMPOSE ON OTHERS
THEIR OWN CHARACTERISTICS.
00:46:25.66\00:46:29.03
SO THE LORD
WANTS US TO BE HONEST.
00:46:29.03\00:46:32.13
ONE OF THE CHARACTERISTICS
OF RIGHTEOUSNESS IS TRUTH.
00:46:32.13\00:46:36.86
JESUS IS THE ESSENCE OF
TRUTH AND IF WE'RE GOING TO BE A
00:46:36.86\00:46:41.93
PEOPLE THAT ARE GOING TO BE
SHARING THE BIBLICAL TRUTH WITH
00:46:41.93\00:46:44.93
PEOPLE, SHOULD WE BE HONEST TO
SOMEONE ABOUT LITTLE THINGS LIKE
00:46:44.93\00:46:49.93
WHEN WE'RE GOING TO PAY THEM
BACK OR WHERE THEIR MISSING RAKE
00:46:49.93\00:46:55.40
IS? OR, YOU KNOW,
JUST TAKE YOUR PICK.
00:46:55.40\00:47:01.30
NOW, YOU KNOW, WE GET
INTERESTING QUESTIONS.
00:47:01.30\00:47:03.86
'BIBLE ANSWERS LIVE' - IF, YOU
KNOW, IF A 5-YEAR-OLD WANTS TO
00:47:03.86\00:47:11.56
UNDERSTAND THE BIRDS AND BEES
AND ASKS MOMMY AND DADDY SOME
00:47:11.56\00:47:14.13
DIRECT QUESTIONS, IT DOESN'T
MEAN YOU'VE GOT TO TELL HIM
00:47:14.13\00:47:16.50
EVERYTHING ALL AT ONCE. YOU
KNOW, EVEN JESUS SAID TO THE
00:47:16.50\00:47:19.63
DISCIPLES, 'THERE'S MANY THINGS
THAT I STILL HAVE TO SAY TO YOU,
00:47:19.63\00:47:21.93
BUT YOU'RE NOT ABLE TO BEAR
THEM.' AND SO, YOU KNOW, PARENTS
00:47:21.93\00:47:25.53
WILL SHARE CERTAIN TRUTHS
AS PEOPLE CAN HANDLE THEM.
00:47:25.53\00:47:28.43
BUT CHRISTIANS SHOULD NEVER
BE DISHONEST BECAUSE, YOU KNOW,
00:47:28.43\00:47:32.30
WHEN YOU START TELLING YOUR
KIDS, 'WHERE'D THOSE PRESENTS
00:47:32.30\00:47:34.93
COME FROM?' 'SANTA
CLAUS.' AND YOU MIGHT BE
00:47:34.93\00:47:37.56
THINKING IT'S A GREAT FAMILY
JOKE AND, YOU KNOW, I KNOW
00:47:37.56\00:47:40.86
THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT
JOKE INNOCENTLY ABOUT THAT BUT,
00:47:40.86\00:47:43.10
YOU KNOW, SOMEDAY YOU'RE GOING
TO BE TELLING THEM, 'OH, THERE'S
00:47:43.10\00:47:46.70
REALLY NO SANTA CLAUS AND YOU'RE
TELLING THEM THE STORY ABOUT
00:47:46.70\00:47:48.83
JESUS THEY'RE GOING TO SAY, 'HOW
DO I KNOW THAT HE'S NOT LIKE
00:47:48.83\00:47:50.86
SANTA CLAUS? IT'S JUST, YOU
KNOW, A MORE ELABORATE FABLE.'
00:47:50.86\00:47:53.33
AND SO, IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO
JUST ALWAYS SPEAK THE TRUTH, NOT
00:47:53.33\00:47:59.36
ONLY TO YOUR
CHILDREN, BUT TO EVERYBODY.
00:47:59.36\00:48:01.10
THE TRUTH IS A - WHO WAS IT,
MARK TWAIN THAT SAID, 'PEOPLE
00:48:01.10\00:48:08.76
HAVE SUCH A HIGH REGARD FOR THE
TRUTH BECAUSE IT'S SO RARE IN
00:48:08.76\00:48:11.36
THE WORLD.' IT'S SUCH A RARE
COMMODITY. SO THAT SHOULD BE ONE
00:48:11.36\00:48:16.16
OF THE CHARACTERISTICS
OF THE RIGHTEOUS.
00:48:16.16\00:48:17.93
ALRIGHT, THEN - THERE ARE
SEVERAL PROVERBS THAT DEAL WITH
00:48:17.93\00:48:21.00
RICHES. NOW DID
SOLOMON KNOW ANYTHING
00:48:21.00\00:48:24.26
ABOUT THAT SUBJECT? >>YEAH.
00:48:24.26\00:48:26.26
>>JESUS EVEN REFERRED TO SOLOMON
- HIS WEALTH - AND PART OF HIS
00:48:26.26\00:48:31.60
WEALTH WAS NOT ONLY THE SPLENDOR
OF HIS PALACE, BUT HIS ATTIRE.
00:48:31.60\00:48:35.30
THE QUEEN OF SHEBA, WHEN
SHE SAW EVEN THE APPAREL OF HIS
00:48:35.30\00:48:38.06
SERVANTS, HER BREATH WAS
TAKEN AWAY. IT WAS BREATHTAKING.
00:48:38.06\00:48:41.63
AND JESUS SAID, 'EVEN SOLOMON IN
ALL OF HIS GLORY WAS NOT ARRAYED
00:48:41.63\00:48:45.70
LIKE THE FLOWERS OF THE
FIELD.' BUT - SO HE WAS RICH.
00:48:45.70\00:48:49.26
EVERYTHING IN HIS KINGDOM WAS
GOLD. PROVERBS 13:11, "WEALTH
00:48:49.26\00:48:54.06
GAINED BY DISHONESTY WILL BE
DIMINISHED, BUT HE WHO GATHERS
00:48:54.06\00:48:58.50
BY LABOR WILL INCREASE."
HAVE YOU MET ANYBODY BEFORE THAT
00:48:58.50\00:49:02.76
WANTS TO GET RICH QUICK? OR
HAVE YOU MET SOMEBODY BEFORE
00:49:02.76\00:49:05.73
WHO HAS A SCHEME HOW
YOU CAN GET RICH QUICK?
00:49:05.73\00:49:08.16
IT USUALLY INVOLVES GIVING
THEM YOUR MONEY FOR SOMETHING.
00:49:08.16\00:49:09.90
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD A PROGRAM
ON THE RADIO AND IT SAYS, 'I'VE
00:49:09.90\00:49:15.56
MADE MILLIONS AND I WANT
TO SHOW YOU HOW TO DO IT TOO?'
00:49:15.56\00:49:18.20
YOU KNOW, THOSE THINGS ARE
USUALLY HOW THEY CONTINUE TO
00:49:18.20\00:49:22.23
MAKE MILLIONS, NOT
HOW YOU MAKE MILLIONS.
00:49:22.23\00:49:24.86
THEY'RE SELLING YOU SOMETHING.
BUT WHO ARE THE ONES THAT END UP
00:49:24.86\00:49:30.13
REALLY BEING MILLIONAIRES? THE
ONES WHO WIN THE LOTTERY OR THE
00:49:30.13\00:49:34.03
ONES WHO, THROUGH CAREFUL
PLANNING, SAVING, SPENDING,
00:49:34.03\00:49:38.93
WORKING SAVE IT? "BUT
HE WHO GATHERS BY LABOR
00:49:38.93\00:49:43.23
WILL INCREASE." NOW
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR
00:49:43.23\00:49:46.96
ME PROVERBS 13:4. I'LL
LET YOU GET ALL LINED UP.
00:49:46.96\00:49:51.10
I'M GOING TO READ - I'M
GOING TO JUMP AHEAD OF YOU.
00:49:51.10\00:49:53.16
I'M GOING TO READ PROVERBS 13:7
AND THESE ARE ALL ABOUT RICHES.
00:49:53.16\00:49:56.93
"THERE IS ONE WHO MAKES HIMSELF
RICH, YET HAS NOTHING;" - CAN
00:49:56.93\00:50:00.96
YOU THINK OF SOMEONE IN THE
BIBLE THAT WAS RICH IN TEMPORAL
00:50:00.96\00:50:03.83
THINGS BUT REALLY DIDN'T HAVE
ANYTHING? THERE WAS A SHORT MAN
00:50:03.83\00:50:07.90
THAT CLIMBED A TREE - THAT'S A
CLUE. ZACCHEUS - IT SAYS HE WAS
00:50:07.90\00:50:13.13
VERY RICH, BUT WAS
HE SATISFIED? >>NO.
00:50:13.13\00:50:15.83
>>HE FELT POOR - AND WHEN
HE FOUND JESUS WAS HE READY TO
00:50:15.83\00:50:19.16
UNLOAD HIS RICHES BECAUSE
HE HAD FOUND REAL RICHES?
00:50:19.16\00:50:21.90
YOU KNOW THE RICH YOUNG RULER?
JESUS SAID, 'SELL WHAT YOU HAVE,
00:50:21.90\00:50:25.36
GIVE IT TO THE POOR,
YOU'LL HAVE TREASURE IN HEAVEN.
00:50:25.36\00:50:27.30
TAKE UP YOUR CROSS AND
FOLLOW ME.' HE COULDN'T DO IT.
00:50:27.30\00:50:29.96
HE WENT AWAY SAD BECAUSE
HE HAD GREAT POSSESSIONS.
00:50:29.96\00:50:33.30
IT MAKES YOU THINK OF THIS VERSE
THAT SAYS, "AND ONE WHO MAKES
00:50:33.30\00:50:37.96
HIMSELF POOR, YET
HAS GREAT RICHES."
00:50:37.96\00:50:39.93
JESUS SAID TO THAT YOUNG
RULER, 'YOU'LL HAVE TREASURE IN
00:50:39.93\00:50:42.70
HEAVEN.' ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ
FOR US PROVERBS 13, VERSE 4.
00:50:42.70\00:50:46.36
>>"THE SOUL OF THE SLUGGARD
DESIRETH, AND HATH NOTHING; BUT
00:50:46.36\00:50:51.96
THE SOUL OF THE
DILIGENT SHALL BE MADE FAT."
00:50:51.96\00:50:54.86
>>ALRIGHT, NOW WHEN IT SAYS
IN THE BIBLE, 'MADE FAT,' THAT
00:50:54.86\00:50:57.96
ACTUALLY IS TRANSLATED, 'BE MADE
RICH.' IN THE HEBREW'S MIND,
00:50:57.96\00:51:03.76
WHEN IT TALKED ABOUT FAT, IT
TALKED ABOUT THE RICHNESS OF THE
00:51:03.76\00:51:08.16
LAND. IT MEANT THE
CREAM AND THE MILK.
00:51:08.16\00:51:10.26
IT WAS TALKING ABOUT THE HONEY -
JUST THE VERY BEST OF THE LAND.
00:51:10.26\00:51:13.03
AND IT'S JUST TALKING
ABOUT ONE WHO HAD AN ABUNDANCE.
00:51:13.03\00:51:17.20
"A LAZY MAN DESIRED AND HE
HAS NOTHING, BUT THE SOUL OF THE
00:51:17.20\00:51:21.66
DILIGENT SHALL BE MADE RICH."
THAT'S THE NI - NEW KING JAMES
00:51:21.66\00:51:25.23
VERSION OF THAT. PROVERBS 13:8,
"THE RANSOM OF A MAN'S LIFE IS
00:51:25.23\00:51:30.03
HIS RICHES, BUT THE POOR
DOES NOT HEAR REBUKE." SO I'M -
00:51:30.03\00:51:37.93
SOLOMON WAS AWARE THAT RICHES
CAN SOMETIMES GET YOU OUT OF
00:51:37.93\00:51:42.73
TROUBLE. IT'S NOT NECESSARILY
APPRECIATED, BUT IS IT SOMETIMES
00:51:42.73\00:51:49.66
TRUE THAT IF A PERSON'S WEALTHY
THEY CAN AFFORD A ROOM FULL OF
00:51:49.66\00:51:52.73
ATTORNEYS THEY MIGHT GET A
DIFFERENT KIND OF JUSTICE THAN
00:51:52.73\00:51:55.50
THE PEOPLE WHO
GET A PUBLIC DEFENDER?
00:51:55.50\00:51:59.46
I WONDER IF HE
WAS ALLUDING TO THAT.
00:51:59.46\00:52:01.96
ALRIGHT, THEN
THURSDAY IS OUR LAST SECTION.
00:52:01.96\00:52:04.93
'THE REWARD OF THE RIGHTEOUS.'
SOMEONE'S GOING TO LOOK UP FOR
00:52:04.93\00:52:09.13
ME PROVERBS 13:13 - AND YOU'LL
HAVE THAT IN JUST A SECOND?
00:52:09.13\00:52:13.46
I'M GOING TO READ PROVERBS 13:9,
"THE LIGHT OF THE RIGHTEOUS
00:52:13.46\00:52:18.66
REJOICES, BUT THE LAMP OF
THE WICKED WILL BE PUT OUT."
00:52:18.66\00:52:22.60
WHO WANTS TO REJOICE?
THIS WHOLE LESSON'S ABOUT
00:52:22.60\00:52:25.30
RIGHTEOUSNESS. ARE
THE RIGHTEOUS THE SAD ONES
00:52:25.30\00:52:28.33
OR THE HAPPY ONES?
THEY'RE THE HAPPY ONES.
00:52:28.33\00:52:30.73
JOHN 3:16 - IT'S IN OUR LESSON
- "FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD HE
00:52:30.73\00:52:36.46
GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON THAT
WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM SHOULD
00:52:36.46\00:52:39.50
NOT PERISH BUT" - THERE
YOU'VE GOT THAT BUT AGAIN -
00:52:39.50\00:52:42.10
CONTRASTING -
PERISH OR EVERLASTING LIFE?
00:52:42.10\00:52:45.26
WHAT ARE THE TWO
CHOICES THAT THE WORLD HAS?
00:52:45.26\00:52:46.76
LIVE FOREVER OR PERISH.
00:52:46.76\00:52:48.90
AND THEN - GO AHEAD,
READ FOR US PROVERBS 13:13.
00:52:48.90\00:52:52.63
>>"WHOSO DESPISETH THE WORD
SHALL BE DESTROYED: BUT HE THAT
00:52:52.63\00:52:56.70
FEARETH THE
COMMANDMENT SHALL BE REWARDED."
00:52:56.70\00:52:59.06
>>SO, YOU KNOW, THIS SECTION
IS TALKING ABOUT THE REWARD.
00:52:59.06\00:53:02.86
'THE RIGHTEOUS REJOICE, THEY
WILL BE REWARDED.' AND THEN IT
00:53:02.86\00:53:07.80
SAYS IN PROVERBS 13, VERSE 20,
"HE WHO WALKS WITH WISE MEN WILL
00:53:07.80\00:53:11.93
BE WISE, BUT THE COMPANION
OF FOOLS WILL BE DESTROYED."
00:53:11.93\00:53:16.23
AND SO YOU'VE GOT
THE TWO EXTREMES THERE.
00:53:16.23\00:53:18.96
YOU'VE GOT THE ONES WHO REJOICE
- THEY'RE REWARDED, THEY'RE WISE
00:53:18.96\00:53:21.96
- AND THEN YOU'VE GOT
THE ONES WHO ARE DESTROYED,
00:53:21.96\00:53:24.63
THEIR LIGHT IS PUT
OUT, AND THEY PERISH.
00:53:24.63\00:53:27.36
IT JUST MAKES YOU THINK ABOUT
THE FINAL APPEAL THAT MOSES MADE
00:53:27.36\00:53:31.03
WHEN HE STOOD BEFORE ISRAEL AND
HE SAID, 'HEAR, O ISRAEL, I SET
00:53:31.03\00:53:34.53
BEFORE YOU THIS DAY TWO
OPTIONS:' - I'M PARAPHRASING -
00:53:34.53\00:53:38.00
'ON ONE HAND I'VE GOT LIFE AND
GOOD AND BLESSING; ON THE OTHER
00:53:38.00\00:53:41.00
HAND I'VE GOT DEATH AND EVIL AND
CURSING.' YOU'VE GOT THE WAY OF
00:53:41.00\00:53:44.10
THE RIGHTEOUS - LIFE, GOOD, AND
BLESSING, OR YOU'VE GOT THE WAY
00:53:44.10\00:53:47.90
OF THE WICKED -
DEATH, EVIL, AND CURSING.
00:53:47.90\00:53:49.90
NOW, WOULD THAT EVER
SEEM LIKE A DIFFICULT CHOICE?
00:53:49.90\00:53:52.86
BUT WHAT CHOICE IS
MOST OF THE WORLD MAKING?
00:53:52.86\00:53:56.00
THEY'RE MAKING THE FOOLISH
CHOICE OF EVIL - YOU KNOW,
00:53:56.00\00:54:03.03
SELFISH GRATIFICATION,
DEATH, EVIL AND CURSING.
00:54:03.03\00:54:06.83
AND SOLOMON SAYS THE WISDOM
IS 'DO WHAT THE RIGHTEOUS DO AND
00:54:06.83\00:54:09.66
YOU'LL END UP WITH BETTER
LIFE NOW AND ETERNAL LIFE -
00:54:09.66\00:54:13.76
LIFE, GOOD, AND
BLESSING - FOREVER.
00:54:13.76\00:54:16.66
SO YOU CAN SEE THAT
IN ALL THESE PROVERBS.
00:54:16.66\00:54:19.63
IT'S CONTRASTING THE LIFE OF THE
RIGHTEOUS WITH THE LIFE OF THE
00:54:19.63\00:54:22.23
FOOLISH AND THE WICKED AND
THERE'S REALLY NO CONTRAST - OR
00:54:22.23\00:54:24.90
THERE'S NO
COMPARISON - BETWEEN THE TWO.
00:54:24.90\00:54:27.36
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THANK YOU SO
MUCH FOR JOINING US.
00:54:54.53\00:54:56.00
GOD BLESS YOU AND WE'LL
STUDY TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK.
00:54:56.00\00:55:01.23
>>AMAZING FACTS - CHANGED LIVES.
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>>NOBODY WAS THERE TO DEFEND ME.
NOBODY WAS THERE TO PROTECT ME.
00:55:09.03\00:55:15.80
MY QUESTION WAS: 'WHY
DID THAT HAPPEN TO ME GOD?
00:55:15.80\00:55:19.66
WHY DIDN'T YOU INTERVENE?'
ONCE I HIT MY TEENAGE YEARS,
00:55:19.66\00:55:24.63
EVERYTHING JUST
STARTED COMING OUT.
00:55:24.63\00:55:27.60
I FELT EMBARRASSED ABOUT WHAT
HAD HAPPENED BECAUSE FOR SO LONG
00:55:27.60\00:55:32.10
I FELT IT WAS MY FAULT.
THERE WERE TIMES THAT I PRAYED
00:55:32.10\00:55:35.80
BUT IT WAS PRAYERS OF RESENTMENT
AND ANGER AND JUST YELLING AT
00:55:35.80\00:55:40.50
GOD. I WAS SO
CONFUSED, SO DEPRESSED
00:55:40.50\00:55:45.30
AND I COULD NOT BEAR
ANY MORE OF THE PAIN.
00:55:45.30\00:55:48.66
YOU KNOW, WHAT'S
THE POINT OF LIVING?
00:55:48.66\00:55:51.06
IT'S MIGHT AS WELL JUST DIE.
00:55:51.06\00:55:54.13
I STARTED CUTTING MYSELF BUT
I HEARD A SMALL, STILL VOICE AND
00:55:54.13\00:55:59.70
IT SAID, 'STOP! GIVE
ME A SECOND CHANCE.' AND
00:55:59.70\00:56:06.73
RIGHT THERE I JUST FELT
SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.
00:56:06.73\00:56:11.26
I FELT A PRESENCE THERE AND I
PUT EVERYTHING DOWN AND I WENT
00:56:11.26\00:56:16.23
TO MY ROOM AND I
JUST STARTED CRYING.
00:56:16.23\00:56:18.53
I REALIZED THAT ME AND
GOD CONNECTED SO WELL AND I NO
00:56:18.53\00:56:23.43
LONGER SAW HIM AS JUST A
GOD THAT NO LONGER CARED, BUT I
00:56:23.43\00:56:27.36
ACTUALLY SAW HIM AS A
FATHER AND I CONTINUED PRAYING.
00:56:27.36\00:56:31.10
ONE DAY I WAS SLEEPING. MY
MOM CAME TO THE BED AND SHE
00:56:31.10\00:56:36.66
SAID, 'CONNIE, HE'S
HERE. HE'S IN TOWN AND THE LORD
00:56:36.66\00:56:40.70
IMPRESSED ME THAT YOU
NEED TO FACE THE SITUATION.
00:56:40.70\00:56:44.70
IT'S TIME FOR YOU TO FORGIVE.'
WHEN SOMETHING SO DRASTIC AND SO
00:56:44.70\00:56:51.00
PAINFUL HAS HAPPENED,
FORGIVENESS IS VERY HARD BECAUSE
00:56:51.00\00:56:56.73
YOU'RE VULNERABLE. YOU
LET GO OF THAT EGO - THAT
00:56:56.73\00:57:00.46
PRIDE - THAT HAS TAKEN
OVER YOU FOR SO MANY YEARS.
00:57:00.46\00:57:03.90
I PRAYED AND WHEN WE CONFRONTED
THE SITUATION IT WAS THE MOST
00:57:03.90\00:57:09.53
AMAZING MOMENT WHERE WE COULD
PRAY, WE COULD CRY, AND WE COULD
00:57:09.53\00:57:13.93
FORGIVE. AND
BECAUSE OF THAT, I'M ABLE TO
00:57:13.93\00:57:16.80
HELP OTHERS AND TELL OTHERS
THAT THERE IS HOPE AND THERE IS
00:57:16.80\00:57:21.10
SOMEONE THAT DOES CARE.
>>TOGETHER WE HAVE SPREAD THE
00:57:21.10\00:57:31.76
GOSPEL MUCH
FARTHER THAN EVER BEFORE.
00:57:31.76\00:57:35.10
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
>>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED THE
00:57:35.10\00:57:45.13
HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. FOR
THOUSANDS OF YEARS, MAN HAS
00:57:45.13\00:57:49.13
WORSHIPED GOD ON THE
SEVENTH DAY OF THE WEEK.
00:57:49.13\00:57:51.93
NOW, EACH WEEK, MILLIONS OF
PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE FIRST DAY.
00:57:51.93\00:57:56.16
WHAT HAPPENED? WHY DID
GOD CREATE A DAY OF REST?
00:57:56.16\00:57:59.93
DOES IT REALLY
MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP?
00:57:59.93\00:58:02.80
WHO WAS BEHIND THIS GREAT SHIFT.
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00:58:02.80\00:58:06.23
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