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>>GOOD EVENING LADIES
AND GENTLEMEN AND WELCOME,
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ONCE AGAIN, TO
SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
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I'D LIKE TO WELCOME THOSE OF YOU
JOINING US ACROSS THE COUNTRY
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AND AROUND THE WORLD -
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THANK YOU FOR BEING A
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ALSO, A WARM WELCOME TO
THE MEMBERS OF THE GRANITE BAY
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CHURCH THAT HAVE COME AND JOINED
US HERE AT THE AMAZING FACTS
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STUDIO AS WE CONTINUE OUR
STUDY IN THE BOOK OF PROVERBS.
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AND FRIENDS, IF YOU'RE JOINING
US FOR THE FIRST TIME, WE'RE
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STUDYING THROUGH THE
LESSON QUARTERLY ON THE BOOK OF
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PROVERBS AND TODAY
WE'RE ON LESSON #6.
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WELL, BEFORE WE BEGIN OUR STUDY,
LET'S JUST BOW OUR HEADS AND
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ASK GOD'S
PRESENCE TO BE WITH US.
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DEAR FATHER, WE THANK YOU
FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO GATHER
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TOGETHER TO STUDY THE BIBLE
AND WE INVITE YOUR PRESENCE.
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WE KNOW THE WORD IS FILLED WITH
WISDOM - PRACTICAL WISDOM FOR
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EVERYDAY LIVING - AND SO, BLESS
OUR TIME TOGETHER THIS EVENING
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FOR WE ASK THIS
IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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OUR LESSON WILL BE BROUGHT
TO US BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
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THANK YOU PASTOR DOUG.
>>THANK YOU PASTOR ROSS.
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AND THANK YOU,
FRIENDS, FOR COMING OUT TONIGHT.
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IT'S A LITTLE FOGGY AND
COLD HERE IN SACRAMENTO.
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WE APPRECIATE THE DEDICATION OF
OUR PRAYER MEETING GROUP TO COME
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OUT AND LET US, SORT OF, HIJACK
OUR PRAYER MEETING TIME FOR
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SABBATH SCHOOL TIME UNTIL WE
GET MOVED INTO OUR NEW BUILDING,
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WHICH SHOULD JUST BE WELL, THREE
OR FOUR MORE WEEKS WE'RE GOING
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TO BE DOING THIS AND THEN WE'LL
BE IN THE NEW FACILITIES DOING
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IT SABBATH MORNING LIKE WE
DID FOR YEARS AND SO THAT'LL BE
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GREAT. AS PASTOR
ROSS MENTIONED, WE ARE
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DEALING WITH THE BOOK
OF PROVERBS NOW, WE'RE IN
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LESSON #6, WHICH IS WHAT
YOU GET IS NOT WHAT YOU SEE .
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AND OUR HOMEWORK, REALLY,
IS THIS LESSON IS ATTACHED TO
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PROVERBS 14 AND 15 AND SO WE'RE
GOING TO TRY AND COVER AS MUCH
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OF THAT - FROM PROVERBS 14:1 TO
PROVERBS 15:33 - I THINK WE MAY
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EVEN COVER THE FIRST
VERSE OF PROVERBS 16.
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MEMORY VERSE IS 1 CORINTHIANS
13:12 AND IF YOU'D LIKE TO
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SAY THIS WITH
ME, THAT'D BE GREAT.
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OH NO, NO - SORRY,
LET ME SAY THAT AGAIN.
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THE MEMORY VERSE IS PROVERBS
14:12 - PROVERBS 14:12 AND THIS
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IS FROM THE NEW
KING JAMES VERSION.
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ARE YOU READY? "THERE
IS A WAY THAT SEEMS RIGHT
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TO A MAN, BUT ITS
END IS THE WAY OF DEATH."
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YOU KNOW, DOING EVANGELISM, YOU
ACTUALLY USE THAT VERSE A LOT
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BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE WILL HEAR
THE BIBLICAL TRUTH PRESENTED AND
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THEY'LL SAY, 'WELL, I KNOW
THAT'S WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS BUT,
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YOU KNOW, I FEEL THIS SEEMS
RIGHT TO ME.' BUT IT CONFLICTS
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WITH THE WORD OF GOD AND HOW
MANY PEOPLE SAY, 'WELL, I'M NOT
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SURE, YOU KNOW, LOTS OF
CHURCHES, LOTS OF RELIGIONS AND
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I DON'T KNOW. I'M JUST
GOING TO HAVE TO FOLLOW
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MY HEART.' YOU
EVER HEARD THAT BEFORE?
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'I'M GOING TO HAVE TO DO WHAT
SEEMS RIGHT TO ME.' YOU'VE GOT
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TO KNOW WHAT THE TRUTH IS.
IT'S PRETTY DANGEROUS TO GAMBLE
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WITH ETERNITY AND SAY, 'I'M
JUST GOING TO KIND OF GO WITH MY
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FEELINGS.' AND THINGS AREN'T
ALWAYS WHAT THEY SEEM TO BE.
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THAT'S WHY THE TITLE OF THIS
LESSON IS WHAT YOU GET IS NOT
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WHAT YOU SEE . YOU
CAN'T WALK BY SIGHT, YOU
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NEED TO WALK BY
FAITH IN GOD'S WORD.
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THERE'S A WHOLE BATTLE GOING ON,
BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL, BEHIND
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THE VEIL THAT WE CAN'T SEE.
THERE'S ANGELS IN THIS ROOM WE
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CAN'T SEE. AND WE
REALLY NEED TO LIVE BY
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FAITH IN WHAT IS UNSEEN
AND NOT BE LIVING BY SIGHT.
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NOW THERE'S ACTUALLY A VERSE IN
1 CORINTHIANS 13:12 WHERE PAUL
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ALLUDES TO THAT AND HE SAYS, IN
THAT PASSAGE, "FOR NOW WE SEE IN
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A MIRROR, DIMLY,
BUT THEN FACE TO FACE.
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NOW I KNOW IN PART, BUT THEN
I SHALL KNOW JUST AS I ALSO AM
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KNOWN." AND IN THE
WORD THERE IT SAYS,
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'NOW WE SEE IN A GLASS,
DIMLY' - OR IN A MIRROR, DIMLY.
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YOU REALLY NEED TO KNOW THAT
IN BIBLE TIMES THEY DIDN'T HAVE
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GLASS LIKE WE DO. THEIR
VERY BEST GLASS WAS WHAT
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YOU WOULD CALL 'TRANSLUCENT'
TODAY. SO WHEN IT EVEN TALKS
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ABOUT THE STREETS IN
THE NEW JERUSALEM BEING LIKE
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TRANSPARENT GLASS, THEY DIDN'T
HAVE ANY TRANSPARENT GLASS.
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THEY WERE REALLY TALKING ABOUT
TRANSLUCENT GLASS BECAUSE - I'M
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TRYING TO THINK IF THERE'S - ANY
OF YOU SEEN, LIKE, HAND-BLOWN
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GLASS FROM JUST, YOU KNOW, WHEN
THEY HEAT THINGS UP THEY DIDN'T
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HAVE A WAY TO ROLL IT AND
FLATTEN IT AND MAKE IT PERFECTLY
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CLEAR LIKE YOUR WINDSHIELD ON
YOUR CAR, WHICH MAY NOT BE CLEAR
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RIGHT NOW BUT, YOU KNOW, WHEN
YOU GET IT FROM THE DEALER IT
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IS. OR LIKE THE WINDOWS IN YOUR
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HOUSE - IT WAS ALL A
LITTLE WARPED AND DISTORTED.
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AND OUR VISION - OUR VIEW OF
GOD TODAY IS A LITTLE DISTORTED.
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WE SEE THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY.
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EVEN AS WE'RE TRYING TO
UNDERSTAND WHAT GOD'S PREPARED,
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PAUL SAID YOU CAN'T
EVEN COMPREHEND THAT.
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AND SO, OUR VISION IS DISTORTED
NOW AND WE REALLY NEED TO GO BY
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WHAT THE WORD OF GOD SAYS
AND NOT BY EARTHLY VISION.
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NOW, IF YOU GO TO PROVERBS
CHAPTER 14 - YOU KNOW OUR LESSON
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IS TO SEE IF WE CAN
GET THROUGH 14 AND 15.
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I'M GOING TO READ A
COUPLE OF VERSES HERE.
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FIRST OF ALL, VERSE 1, "THE WISE
WOMAN BUILDS HER HOUSE, BUT THE
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FOOLISH WOMAN PULLS
IT DOWN WITH HER HANDS."
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NOW, OF COURSE, THAT'S A
PRACTICAL STATEMENT FOR ANYBODY.
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WHAT'S THE MAIN FIGURE -
AND I'M JUMPING AHEAD NOW -
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LAST CHAPTER IN
PROVERBS DEALS WITH WHAT?
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SUPER WOMAN. YOU EVER READ THAT?
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WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT 'WHO
CAN FIND A VIRTUOUS WIFE?'
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AND THEN, ANY WOMAN THAT
READS THAT FEELS INTIMIDATED.
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BECAUSE IT TALKS ABOUT THIS
WOMAN WHO WAKES UP EARLY AND SHE
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GOES TO THE MARKET AND SHE'S
SPINNING CLOTHES FOR HER KIDS
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AND ALL HER KIDS AND FAMILY ARE
WEARING THE BEST AND THEY ALL
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RISE UP AND CALL HER
BLESSED AND YOU'RE GOING, 'WOW!'
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THAT'S A PRETTY HIGH IDEAL.
WHAT IS THE BRIDE OF CHRIST?
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>>CHURCH. >>IT'S A
SYMBOL FOR THE CHURCH,
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RIGHT? AND SO, YOU'VE GOT -
SOLOMON ALLUDES TO THAT IN SOME
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OF THE SPIRITUAL METAPHORS,
I THINK, THROUGH THIS, BUT THE
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WOMEN OFTEN WOULD TAKE CARE OF
THE THINGS AROUND THE HOME AND
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THE MEN WERE
OFTEN OUT IN THE FIELDS.
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AND I COULD SHOW YOU A NUMBER OF
EXAMPLES OF THAT IN THE BIBLE,
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BUT I THINK THAT YOU
PROBABLY AGREE WITH THAT.
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AND SO - BUT IT'S GOT ALSO, I
THINK, A SPIRITUAL ANALOGY THAT
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THE CHURCH OF GOD
SHOULD BE BUILT UP.
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IF IT TURNS IN ON ITSELF, YOU
TEAR IT DOWN AND IT JUST SORT OF
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SELF DESTRUCTS. VERSE
2, "HE WHO WALKS IN HIS
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UPRIGHTNESS FEARS THE LORD, BUT
HE WHO IS PERVERSE IN HIS WAYS
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DESPISES HIM." WHEN
PEOPLE SAY, 'WELL, I LOVE
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THE LORD AND I'M A GOD-FEARING
PERSON.' HOW DO YOU SHOW THAT?
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BY WALKING IN
THE WAY OF THE LORD.
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CAN YOU THINK OF A CHARACTER
IN THE BIBLE THAT SAID HE FEARED
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GOD AND HATED EVIL?
FIRST VERSE IN THE BOOK.
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"THERE WAS A JUST
MAN IN THE LAND OF UZ."
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>>JOB. >>JOB.
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"WHO FEARED THE
LORD AND HATED EVIL."
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HOW DO YOU KNOW
THAT? BY THE WAY HE WALKED.
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THEN IT GOES ON AND TELLS
YOU ABOUT HOW HE PRAYED AND HIS
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RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD.
THE REST OF THE BOOK SHOWS YOU
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ABOUT THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF JOB.
AND SO WHEN A PERSON SAYS, 'I
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LOVE THE LORD AND I FEAR THE
LORD.' THEY'LL DEMONSTRATE IT BY
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THEIR WALK. AND
LIKEWISE, HE THAT IS
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PERVERSE IN HIS
WAY DESPISES HIM.
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SO IF A PERSON SAYS, 'I LOVE THE
LORD.' BUT THEY'RE PERVERSE IN
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THEIR WAY, DOES THE NEW
TESTAMENT SAY 'HE THAT SAYS 'I
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LOVE THE LORD' AND KEEPS NOT HIS
COMMANDMENTS IS A LIAR AND THE
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TRUTH IS NOT IN HIM? SO
IT'S THE SAME PRINCIPLE.
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PAUL IS - OR RATHER SOLOMON
HERE IS SAYING IT'S NOT JUST A
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PROFESSION, IT'S
SEEN IN THE LIFE.
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AND THEN WE GET TO VERSE 3
AND THIS IS REALLY THE TITLE FOR
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SUNDAY, THE
ASSURANCE OF THE FOOL .
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IT SOUNDS LIKE
AN OXYMORON, RIGHT?
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AND IT SAYS HERE, "A SCOFFER
SEEKS WISDOM AND DOES NOT FIND
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IT." NO,
ACTUALLY, I'M SORRY, "IN THE
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MOUTH OF A FOOL
IS A ROD OF PRIDE."
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THAT'S PROVERBS 14:3 - "IN
THE MOUTH OF A FOOL IS A ROD OF
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PRIDE, BUT THE LIPS OF
THE WISE WILL PRESERVE THEM."
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WHAT DOES IT MEAN "IN THE MOUTH
OF A FOOL IS A ROD OF PRIDE?"
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YOU KNOW, THIS IS ONE OF THE
PLACES WHERE ANOTHER TRANSLATION
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MAKES IT A LITTLE CLEARER.
IF YOU LOOK IN THE NEW ENGLISH
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VERSION, WHICH ISN'T A BAD
VERSION, IT SAYS, "BY THE MOUTH
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OF A FOOL COMES A
ROD FOR HIS BACK."
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IT'S BASICALLY SAYING THAT WHEN
A PERSON IS OPENING THEIR MOUTH
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AND SAYING FOOLISH OR RECKLESS
THINGS, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU
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LIVED IN A MONARCHY, YOU
CAN END UP GETTING PUNISHED FOR
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TREASONOUS, RECKLESS THINGS THAT
YOU SAY AND IT'S ALSO TRUE WITH
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CHILDREN, THAT YOUR LIPS
CAN CAUSE YOUR FLESH TO SIN.
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WE TALKED ABOUT THAT, I
THINK, IN OUR LAST STUDY.
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"BUT THE LIPS OF THE
WISE WILL PRESERVE THEM."
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DOESN'T IT ALSO SAY IN PROVERBS
"A SOFT ANSWER TURNS AWAY WRATH
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BUT GRIEVOUS WORDS STIR UP
STRIFE." HAVE YOU EVER SEEN
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SOMEONE DIFFUSE WHAT COULD BE A
VERY ANGRY SITUATION BY SPEAKING
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ANGRY WORDS TO MAYBE A
PERSON WHO HAD A SHORT FUSE?
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WHERE IF YOU HAD SPOKEN IN A
CALM VOICE - AND IT CAN HAPPEN
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IN A MARRIAGE, IT DOESN'T HAVE
TO BE - I WAS DRIVING DOWN THE
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STREET THIS WEEK, STOPPED AT
A LIGHT, I SAW A GUY RACE UP IN
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THE LANE NEXT TO ME, SLAMMED
ON HIS BRAKES, JUMPED OUT OF HIS
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CAR, AND - AT FIRST I THOUGHT
HE'S TRYING TO FIX SOMETHING
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WRONG WITH THE BACK OF HIS CAR
- CLOSE HIS HOOD OR SOMETHING
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BEFORE THE LIGHT CHANGES,
BUT HE WENT - IT WAS A CASE OF
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ROAD RAGE.
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HE WENT TO THE CAR BEHIND HIM
AND I COULDN'T HEAR EVERYTHING
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HE WAS SAYING, BUT HE WAS
SHAKING HIS FIST AND I THOUGHT
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HE WAS GOING TO LIGHT
INTO THE PERSON IN THAT CAR.
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AND THEY WERE TALKING VERY
CALMLY AND HE NEVER DID ACTUALLY
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LAY HANDS ON THE OTHER CAR - AS
I PULLED AWAY, IT LOOKED LIKE IT
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WAS BEING RESOLVED, BUT YEAH, IT
COULD HAVE GOTTEN OUT OF HAND IF
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THERE HAD BEEN
VIOLENT OR HOSTILE WORDS.
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AND THEN IT GOES ON TO SAY - NOW
SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME - I DON'T
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KNOW WHO'S GOING TO HAVE OUR
FIRST SCRIPTURES. OKAY, THAT'D
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BE MATTHEW 7:6, IN JUST A
MOMENT HERE WE'LL GET TO THAT.
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NOW I'M GOING TO READ PROVERBS
14 AND LET'S DO VERSES 6 THROUGH
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8, "A SCOFFER SEEKS WISDOM AND
DOES NOT FIND IT, BUT KNOWLEDGE
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IS EASY TO HIM WHO UNDERSTANDS."
ALRIGHT, LET'S PAUSE RIGHT THERE
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WITH THAT VERSE. "A
SCOFFER SEEKS WISDOM" -
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WOULDN'T EVERYBODY WHO
SEEKS WISDOM FIND WISDOM?
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"A SCOFFER SEEKS
WISDOM" - WHAT'S A SCOFFER?
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YOU KNOW, PETER SAYS, IN THE
LAST DAYS, 'SCOFFERS WILL ARISE
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WALKING AFTER THEIR OWN LUSTS
SAYING, 'WHERE'S THE PROMISE OF
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HIS COMING?'' THEY MOCK THE
SECOND COMING. SEEKING WISDOM -
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CAN YOU THINK OF SOMEBODY IN
THE BIBLE THAT SOUNDED LIKE THEY
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WERE SEEKING TRUTH BUT
IT WAS SORT OF SARCASTIC?
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WHAT DID PILATE SAY TO
JESUS DURING HIS TRIAL?
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YOU CAN LOOK IN JOHN - YEAH -
JOHN 18:38, PILATE SAID TO HIM,
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"WHAT IS TRUTH?"
AND THEN HE WALKED AWAY.
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IT LOOKED LIKE HE WAS SEEKING
WISDOM, BUT IT WAS REALLY
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SCOFFING. HE JUST
SHRUGGED AND HAD A
00:12:15.16\00:12:18.50
SARCASTIC - LIKE NO
ONE CAN REALLY KNOW.
00:12:18.50\00:12:20.66
BOY, CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW
PILATE'S GOING TO FEEL IN THE
00:12:20.66\00:12:23.80
JUDGMENT WHEN HE SEES THAT
HE WAS STANDING BEFORE THE VERY
00:12:23.80\00:12:27.63
ESSENCE OF TRUTH - TRUTH
INCARNATE - AND HE SAID, 'WHAT
00:12:27.63\00:12:31.56
IS TRUTH?' AND
DIDN'T WAIT FOR AN ANSWER.
00:12:31.56\00:12:34.73
TO BE THAT CLOSE TO
THE SOURCE OF TRUTH.
00:12:34.73\00:12:37.16
I MEAN, WOULDN'T YOU ALL WISH
THAT YOU COULD CONSULT AN ORACLE
00:12:37.16\00:12:40.43
SOMEWHERE AND ASK
THEM WHAT TRUTH WAS?
00:12:40.43\00:12:42.50
PILATE HAD JESUS - A CAPTIVE
AUDIENCE, REALLY - AND SAID,
00:12:42.50\00:12:47.26
'WHAT IS
TRUTH?' AND WALKED AWAY.
00:12:47.26\00:12:49.83
JUST SAID IT SARCASTICALLY.
00:12:49.83\00:12:52.00
OH, IT MAKES ME
SHUDDER TO THINK ABOUT IT.
00:12:52.00\00:12:53.83
PROVERBS 14, VERSE 7, "GO FROM
THE PRESENCE OF A FOOLISH MAN,
00:12:53.83\00:12:58.56
WHEN YOU DO NOT PERCEIVE
IN HIM THE LIPS OF KNOWLEDGE.
00:12:58.56\00:13:01.76
THIS WISDOM OF THE PRUDENT
IS TO UNDERSTAND HIS WAY,
00:13:01.76\00:13:05.26
BUT THE FOLLY OF
FOOLS IS DECEIT."
00:13:05.26\00:13:08.90
NOW, THERE ARE SOME OTHER VERSES
THAT - AND THESE ARE NOT EASY
00:13:08.90\00:13:14.43
VERSES, BUT THEY ARE IN THE
BIBLE AND THEY COME FROM THE
00:13:14.43\00:13:17.03
LIPS OF JESUS. GO AHEAD,
READ FOR US MATTHEW 7, VERSE 6.
00:13:17.03\00:13:20.36
>>"DO NOT GIVE WHAT IS HOLY TO
THE DOGS; NOR CAST YOUR PEARLS
00:13:20.36\00:13:25.60
BEFORE SWINE, LEST THEY
TRAMPLE THEM UNDER THEIR FEET,
00:13:25.60\00:13:30.10
AND TURN AND
TEAR YOU IN PIECES."
00:13:30.10\00:13:33.90
NOW THIS IS NOT A HAPPY
VERSE AND I DON'T HEAR TOO MANY
00:13:33.90\00:13:38.20
PASTORS TELLING PEOPLE HOW
TO APPLY THIS VERSE, BUT IS IT
00:13:38.20\00:13:42.20
CLEAR TO EVERYBODY THAT JESUS IS
NOT TALKING ABOUT DOGS AND PIGS?
00:13:42.20\00:13:46.46
WHEN HE'S TALKING ABOUT CASTING
YOUR PEARLS BEFORE SWINE,
00:13:46.46\00:13:50.03
WHAT IS HE TALKING
ABOUT? IT'S A TYPE OF PEOPLE.
00:13:50.03\00:13:56.60
WHEN HE TALKS ABOUT GIVING WHAT
IS HOLY TO THE DOGS, DOGS WAS A
00:13:56.60\00:14:00.46
TERM THAT WAS NOT ONLY USED FOR
DOGS, IN THE BIBLE, DOGS WAS A
00:14:00.46\00:14:03.30
TERM THAT WAS USED BY GOD - WHO
IS OUTSIDE THE NEW JERUSALEM?
00:14:03.30\00:14:06.90
>>DOGS. >>I'VE
HAD PEOPLE READ THAT
00:14:06.90\00:14:08.50
BEFORE WHERE IT SAYS, 'WITHOUT'
- SPEAKING OF THE NEW JERUSALEM
00:14:08.50\00:14:10.66
- 'FOR WITHOUT ARE DOGS'
AND PEOPLE SAID, 'DOES THAT MEAN
00:14:10.66\00:14:13.76
ALL THE DOGS ARE
GOING TO BE LOST?
00:14:13.76\00:14:15.83
I SAID, 'NO, IT HAS NOTHING TO
DO WITH PUPPIES AND CANINES, IT
00:14:15.83\00:14:18.20
HAS TO DO - WE JUST GOT A
DOG IN THE BATCHELOR HOUSE.
00:14:18.20\00:14:21.16
OH MAN, IT'S LIKE
AN ALIEN'S INVADED.
00:14:21.16\00:14:25.06
OH, IT IS. NOTHING'S THE SAME.
YEAH, I WAKE UP IN THE MORNING
00:14:25.06\00:14:30.00
AND I THINK - YEAH, THAT'S
A DIFFERENT SUBJECT - OKAY.
00:14:30.00\00:14:32.43
ANYWAY, BUT YOU
KNOW, DOGS ARE NICE ENOUGH.
00:14:32.43\00:14:34.76
THEY'RE CUTE FOR A WHILE,
BUT HE'S NOT TALKING ABOUT DOGS.
00:14:34.76\00:14:38.10
HE'S TALKING ABOUT WHAT IS HOLY
THAT YOU DON'T GIVE TO THE DOGS
00:14:38.10\00:14:42.06
AND THE PIGS.
YOUR LIFE? YOUR TIME?
00:14:42.06\00:14:46.93
IF PEOPLE ARE GOING TO MOCK
GOD AND GOBBLE UP YOUR TIME AND
00:14:46.93\00:14:50.50
SCOFF WHAT YOU BELIEVE IS
PRECIOUS, YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT
00:14:50.50\00:14:53.83
SOMETIMES YOU'LL ENDURE IT FOR
AWHILE TO WITNESS TO SOMEBODY,
00:14:53.83\00:14:55.70
BUT SOMETIMES THE DEVIL WILL
SEND PEOPLE - I BELIEVE THIS - I
00:14:55.70\00:15:00.53
BELIEVE THE DEVIL HAS HIS
REPRESENTATIVES AND HE WILL SEND
00:15:00.53\00:15:03.13
PEOPLE INTO YOUR LIFE TO
TURN YOU AWAY FROM WHAT'S REALLY
00:15:03.13\00:15:06.86
IMPORTANT. AND I THINK
WE SHOULD LOVE EVERYBODY.
00:15:06.86\00:15:10.00
I USED TO WONDER, 'HOW DID JESUS
DEAL WITH PEOPLE THAT WOULD TRY
00:15:10.00\00:15:13.36
TO MONOPOLIZE HIS TIME BUT
WEREN'T REALLY INTERESTED IN
00:15:13.36\00:15:16.30
CHANGING, THEY JUST WANTED
SOMEONE TO LISTEN TO THEM TALK
00:15:16.30\00:15:20.60
TO THEMSELVES OR
SOMEONE TO COMPLAIN TO.
00:15:20.60\00:15:24.33
SOMEONE ONCE CAME TO JESUS
AND THEY SAID, 'LORD, TELL MY
00:15:24.33\00:15:27.10
BROTHER TO GIVE ME THE
INHERITANCE.' AND CHRIST SAID,
00:15:27.10\00:15:29.20
'MAN, WHO MADE ME A
JUDGE AND RULER OVER YOU?
00:15:29.20\00:15:32.06
I'M NOT THE COURT
EXECUTOR OVER YOUR WILL.'
00:15:32.06\00:15:33.96
AND HE WOULDN'T
GET SUCKED INTO IT.
00:15:33.96\00:15:36.53
BUT THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO WILL
TRY AND DRAW YOU OUT AND TAKE
00:15:36.53\00:15:39.96
WHAT YOU SAY AND
USE IT AGAINST YOU.
00:15:39.96\00:15:42.60
DID PEOPLE FOLLOW JESUS AROUND
AND TRY AND TRAP HIM IN HIS
00:15:42.60\00:15:44.86
WORDS? SO,
SOLOMON IS TALKING ABOUT
00:15:44.86\00:15:49.93
THAT, "GO FROM THE PRESENCE OF
A FOOLISH MAN, WHEN YOU DO NOT
00:15:49.93\00:15:53.66
PERCEIVE IN HIM
THE LIPS OF KNOWLEDGE."
00:15:53.66\00:15:56.06
YOU KNOW WHO YOU SHOULD BE
FRIENDS WITH? THE BIBLE SAYS,
00:15:56.06\00:15:59.66
'HE THAT IS FRIENDS OF A WISE
MAN WILL BE WISE.' SO, YOU KNOW,
00:15:59.66\00:16:03.26
CHOOSE YOUR FRIENDS - I'M
NOT TALKING ABOUT WITNESSING TO
00:16:03.26\00:16:05.80
PEOPLE NOW, WE WANT TO BE
WITNESSES TO EVERYBODY, BUT YOU
00:16:05.80\00:16:08.06
DON'T WANT TO HAVE THE
WRONG KIND OF INFLUENCES.
00:16:08.06\00:16:10.60
BY THE WAY, THERE'S ANOTHER
PROVERB - I'M JUMPING AHEAD, BUT
00:16:10.60\00:16:13.23
IT GOES WITH THIS LAST ONE - IF
YOU LOOK IN PROVERBS 26, VERSE
00:16:13.23\00:16:16.56
4, "ANSWER NOT A FOOL ACCORDING
TO HIS FOLLY, LEST THOU ALSO BE
00:16:16.56\00:16:22.90
LIKE UNTO HIM." AND SO
YOU CAN GET SUCKED INTO A
00:16:22.90\00:16:26.63
MEANINGLESS
ARGUMENT WITH FOOLISH PEOPLE.
00:16:26.63\00:16:29.40
THAT'S WHY IT SAYS, "GO
FROM THE PRESENCE OF A FOOL."
00:16:29.40\00:16:31.80
DON'T GET SUCKED INTO ARGUING
ABOUT FOOLISH THINGS THAT ARE
00:16:31.80\00:16:35.26
NOT PRODUCTIVE AND - DON'T DO
THEM ANY GOOD - DOESN'T DO YOU
00:16:35.26\00:16:39.16
ANY GOOD. SOMEBODY
SAID ONCE, 'IF YOU GET
00:16:39.16\00:16:42.26
INTO A FIGHT WITH A PIG, YOU'LL
BOTH GET DIRTY BUT THE PIG WILL
00:16:42.26\00:16:45.06
ENJOY IT.' YOU
EVER HEARD THAT BEFORE?
00:16:45.06\00:16:49.16
SO I THINK THAT'S SORT
OF A ROUGH RENDERING OF WHAT
00:16:49.16\00:16:53.33
JESUS IS SAYING THERE - AND
SOLOMON. PROVERBS 14, VERSES 15
00:16:53.33\00:16:58.43
THROUGH 18 - OH, BY THE WAY, OF
COURSE, WE'VE GOT VERSE - WELL,
00:16:58.43\00:17:03.60
I'M GOING TO READ VERSE 10, "THE
HEART KNOWS ITS OWN BITTERNESS,
00:17:03.60\00:17:10.93
AND A STRANGER
DOES NOT SHARE ITS JOY."
00:17:10.93\00:17:14.20
THERE'S SOMETHING SOLOMON IS
SAYING THAT YOU ONLY CAN REALLY
00:17:14.20\00:17:17.00
UNDERSTAND. OF
COURSE, GOD KNOWS ALL THINGS.
00:17:17.00\00:17:18.86
THAT'S ANOTHER
ILLUSTRATION OF OUR LESSON TITLE
00:17:18.86\00:17:21.70
THAT
EVERYTHING'S NOT WHAT YOU SEE.
00:17:21.70\00:17:24.30
SOME CERTAIN HEARTS HAVE GONE
THROUGH GREAT TRIAL AND YOU HAVE
00:17:24.30\00:17:28.30
NO IDEA. I WENT TO
GET A HAIRCUT TODAY.
00:17:28.30\00:17:33.33
I KNOW YOU FIND
THAT HARD TO BELIEVE.
00:17:33.33\00:17:34.83
A LADY HAS BEEN CUTTING OUR HAIR
AND OUR KIDS' HAIR SINCE THE
00:17:34.83\00:17:38.53
BOYS WERE VERY YOUNG AND SHE WAS
STARTING TO ASK SOME QUESTIONS
00:17:38.53\00:17:43.06
AND SHE ASKED - SHE KNEW ABOUT
STEPHEN AND NATHAN - SHE SAID,
00:17:43.06\00:17:47.60
'WELL HOW MANY
CHILDREN DO YOU HAVE?'
00:17:47.60\00:17:49.33
AND I SAID, 'WELL, FIVE NOW.
WE HAD SIX AND, YOU KNOW, WE
00:17:49.33\00:17:53.73
LOST ONE.' AND SHE JUST STOPPED
AND SHE STARED AND SHE THOUGHT,
00:17:53.73\00:17:58.56
'YOU KNOW, I'VE' - IT'S
LIKE THERE WAS THIS UNSPOKEN
00:17:58.56\00:18:01.43
COMMUNICATION - 'I'VE
KNOWN YOU ALL THIS TIME.
00:18:01.43\00:18:02.70
IT'S BEEN THESE VERY SHORT
ENCOUNTERS, OBVIOUSLY, WITH ME
00:18:02.70\00:18:05.13
IT'S A VERY SHORT ENCOUNTER FOR
A HAIRCUT, BUT SHE WAS NOT AWARE
00:18:05.13\00:18:10.30
THAT WE'D BEEN THROUGH
A VERY PAINFUL EXPERIENCE.
00:18:10.30\00:18:14.40
AND A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE
- MOST PEOPLE HAVE SOME KIND
00:18:14.40\00:18:16.63
OF SORROW IN THEIR
HEART THAT THEY ONLY KNOW.
00:18:16.63\00:18:19.40
HE'S TALKING ABOUT "A STRANGER
DOES NOT SHARE IN ITS JOY."
00:18:19.40\00:18:23.16
SOMETIMES THERE'S SADNESS AND
THERE'S JOY THAT OTHER PEOPLE
00:18:23.16\00:18:26.30
CAN'T REALIZE - THAT YOU
REALLY ONLY KNOW YOURSELF.
00:18:26.30\00:18:28.73
"THE HOUSE OF THE WICKED WILL BE
OVERTHROWN," - WHAT HAPPENS IF
00:18:28.73\00:18:32.86
SATAN TRIES TO CAST OUT SATAN?
IT SAYS HIS HOUSE WILL NOT STAND
00:18:32.86\00:18:38.00
- "BUT THE TENT OF THE
UPRIGHT WILL FLOURISH."
00:18:38.00\00:18:40.76
NOW WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN A HOUSE AND A TENT?
00:18:40.76\00:18:42.56
WHICH IS BUILT,
USUALLY, MORE FIRMLY?
00:18:42.56\00:18:46.10
>>THE HOUSE. >>THE HOUSE.
00:18:46.10\00:18:48.30
ANY OF YOU READY TO
TRADE IN YOUR HOUSE FOR A TENT?
00:18:48.30\00:18:50.46
ONE WEEK CAMPING OUT'S
ENOUGH, RIGHT? A WEEKEND.
00:18:50.46\00:18:55.46
BUT YOU NOTICE WHAT IT SAYS
HERE, "THE HOUSE OF THE WICKED
00:18:55.46\00:18:58.73
IS NOT AS STABLE AS
THE TENT OF THE UPRIGHT."
00:18:58.73\00:19:02.43
YOU KNOW, THERE WERE SOME PEOPLE
IN JERUSALEM, THEY LIVED IN THE
00:19:02.43\00:19:07.66
HILLS OF JUDEA AROUND THE TIME
OF JEREMIAH, WHEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR
00:19:07.66\00:19:11.10
WAS GETTING READY TO CONQUER
JERUSALEM, AND IT WAS THE SONS
00:19:11.10\00:19:16.63
OF JEHONADAB, AND
THEY LIVED IN TENTS.
00:19:16.63\00:19:20.13
BUT BECAUSE THEY WERE FAITHFUL
TO GOD, JEREMIAH MADE A PROMISE
00:19:20.13\00:19:23.93
TO THEM FROM THE LORD - THEY
PROMISED NEVER TO DRINK WINE, TO
00:19:23.93\00:19:27.40
ALWAYS OBEY THEIR
FATHER, AND THEY LIVED IN TENTS.
00:19:27.40\00:19:30.76
JEREMIAH SAID, 'YOU ARE GOING
TO SURVIVE THE SIEGE BETTER THAN
00:19:30.76\00:19:34.06
THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN HOUSES
IN THE CITY.' AND IT DOESN'T
00:19:34.06\00:19:38.30
TELL THE FOLLOW UP, BUT I'M
ASSUMING THE WORD OF THE LORD
00:19:38.30\00:19:40.53
CAME TRUE THERE.
"THERE IS A WAY THAT SEEMETH
00:19:40.53\00:19:43.20
RIGHT UNTO A MAN" - VERSE 12
- "BUT THE END THEREOF ARE THE
00:19:43.20\00:19:45.93
WAYS OF DEATH." THEN
HE GOES ON AND SAYS, "EVEN
00:19:45.93\00:19:48.73
IN LAUGHTER THE HEART MAY
SORROW," - YEAH, HAVE YOU EVER
00:19:48.73\00:19:55.23
KNOWN OF FAMOUS COMEDIANS
THAT ARE VERY SAD PEOPLE?
00:19:55.23\00:19:58.30
I THINK THE WORLD WAS STUNNED
WHEN THEY GOT NEWS THAT ROBIN
00:19:58.30\00:20:01.90
WILLIAMS, WHO WAS JUST, YOU
KNOW, A BRILLIANT CLOWN, TOOK
00:20:01.90\00:20:06.03
HIS OWN LIFE BECAUSE HE
WAS GOING THROUGH JUST SO MUCH,
00:20:06.03\00:20:08.80
EVIDENTLY, INTERNAL MELANCHOLY
- DEPRESSION - SORROW.
00:20:08.80\00:20:12.40
AND SO SOME PEOPLE - HAVE
YOU EVER BEEN TO - I DON'T LIKE
00:20:12.40\00:20:17.30
GOING TO PARTIES, I'M SORRY.
WELL, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WE GO
00:20:17.30\00:20:22.06
TO THESE FUNCTIONS AND YOU NEED
TO BE THERE FOR WHATEVER REASON
00:20:22.06\00:20:25.00
AND IT'S JUST A
WHOLE LOT OF SMALL TALK.
00:20:25.00\00:20:26.86
AND PEOPLE ARE LAUGHING AND IT
JUST, YOU KNOW - BUT IT MAY NOT
00:20:26.86\00:20:32.26
BE GENUINE JOY. I
LIKE WHEN PEOPLE TALK ABOUT
00:20:32.26\00:20:35.60
REAL THINGS THAT
HAVE ETERNAL CONSEQUENCES.
00:20:35.60\00:20:38.00
JUST THE IDLE CHATTER AND THE
LIGHT CONVERSATION, I'M NEVER
00:20:38.00\00:20:42.20
VERY GOOD AT THAT. "EVEN
IN LAUGHTER THE HEART MAY
00:20:42.20\00:20:44.76
SORROW, AND THE END
OF MIRTH MAY BE GRIEF."
00:20:44.76\00:20:47.86
MIRTH IS LIKE A PARTY -
CELEBRATION - AND NABAL WOKE UP
00:20:47.86\00:20:53.96
FROM HIS WINE AND FOUND OUT THAT
HE NEARLY DIED BECAUSE OF WHAT
00:20:53.96\00:20:58.53
HAPPENED WITH DAVID.
NOAH WOKE UP FROM HIS WINE AND
00:20:58.53\00:21:03.10
FOUND OUT WHAT HAD
HAPPENED WITH HIS SON.
00:21:03.10\00:21:06.53
LOT WOKE UP FROM HIS WINE
- YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:21:06.53\00:21:10.10
IT'S TALKING ABOUT
THAT KIND OF MIRTH THERE.
00:21:10.10\00:21:12.46
THE END OF IT CAN BE GRIEF.
00:21:12.46\00:21:14.56
JUMPING DOWN HERE TO
PROVERBS 14, VERSE 15.
00:21:14.56\00:21:22.86
"THE SIMPLE BELIEVES EVERY WORD,
BUT THE PRUDENT CONSIDERS WELL
00:21:22.86\00:21:27.33
HIS STEPS." NOW DOES
JESUS TELL US THAT WE
00:21:27.33\00:21:30.70
OUGHT TO BE
PRUDENT IN WHAT WE BELIEVE?
00:21:30.70\00:21:33.50
HERE'S A VERSE FOR YOU, MATTHEW
CHAPTER 10, VERSE 16 - CHRIST
00:21:33.50\00:21:37.76
SAID TO HIS FOLLOWERS - THIS IS
FOR ALL OF US, "BEHOLD, I SEND
00:21:37.76\00:21:41.63
YOU OUT AS SHEEP IN
THE MIDST OF WOLVES."
00:21:41.63\00:21:45.06
- DOESN'T THAT SOUND
LIKE A SUICIDE MISSION?
00:21:45.06\00:21:47.56
- "BEHOLD, I SEND YOU OUT AS
SHEEP IN THE MIDST OF WOLVES.
00:21:47.56\00:21:50.96
THEREFORE BE WISE AS
SERPENTS AND HARMLESS AS DOVES."
00:21:50.96\00:21:55.93
HOW MANY ANIMALS ARE MENTIONED
IN THAT ONE PASSAGE THERE?
00:21:55.93\00:21:59.56
YOU'VE GOT THE WOLVES AND
THE SHEEP, THE SERPENTS AND THE
00:21:59.56\00:22:01.96
DOVES. OBVIOUSLY ALL
TOTAL DIAMETRIC OPPOSITES.
00:22:01.96\00:22:07.03
WHAT DOES JESUS MEAN BY THAT?
00:22:07.03\00:22:08.90
HE GOES ON TO SAY, "BUT BEWARE
OF MEN," - IS HE TALKING ABOUT
00:22:08.90\00:22:12.40
SHEEP AND WOLVES AND
DOVES AND SERPENTS, OR PEOPLE?
00:22:12.40\00:22:15.86
SOME PEOPLE HAVE THOSE
CHARACTERISTICS AND HE'S
00:22:15.86\00:22:19.53
SPEAKING, OF
COURSE, IN METAPHORS HERE.
00:22:19.53\00:22:22.26
CHRISTIANS OUGHT TO BE
MEEK. WE OUGHT TO BE HUMBLE.
00:22:22.26\00:22:26.53
WE SHOULD NOT BE
GULLIBLE. IS THERE A DIFFERENCE?
00:22:26.53\00:22:30.86
I'VE KNOW SOME VERY DEAR,
CHRISTIAN PEOPLE THAT MADE SOME
00:22:30.86\00:22:37.86
VERY BAD FINANCIAL AND OTHER
DECISIONS BECAUSE THEY JUST
00:22:37.86\00:22:42.90
TRUSTED PEOPLE AT THEIR WORD
WITHOUT ASKING FOR - WHO WAS IT?
00:22:42.90\00:22:47.83
RONALD REAGAN THAT USED TO
SAY, 'TRUST BUT VERIFY.' WITHOUT
00:22:47.83\00:22:51.13
ASKING FOR SOME VERIFICATION
OF THIS INVESTMENT OR THIS
00:22:51.13\00:22:54.76
AGREEMENT OR, YEAH, I JUST NEED
A PLACE TO LIVE FOR A FEW DAYS
00:22:54.76\00:22:59.23
AND - OR WHATEVER IT MIGHT BE -
AND THEN JUST TOTALLY GET TAKEN
00:22:59.23\00:23:03.10
ADVANTAGE OF.
CHRISTIANS NEED TO KNOW HOW TO
00:23:03.10\00:23:05.93
BE LOVING, BE CHRIST-LIKE,
AND ALSO NOT BE GULLIBLE.
00:23:05.93\00:23:09.50
AND THAT'S WHAT SOLOMON IS
SAYING HERE AND THAT'S WHAT
00:23:09.50\00:23:12.43
JESUS IS SAYING. BE
LOVING, BE KIND, BE MEEK, BUT
00:23:12.43\00:23:17.86
WE ALSO NEED TO BE -
WHY WISE AS SERPENTS?
00:23:17.86\00:23:21.53
WHAT CHRISTIAN WANTS TO BE
COMPARED TO A SERPENT IN ANY
00:23:21.53\00:23:23.70
WAY? HE'S NOT SAYING BE A
SERPENT. WHO'S THE SERPENT?
00:23:23.70\00:23:27.80
>>IT'S THE DEVIL.
>>IS THE DEVIL SMART?
00:23:27.80\00:23:32.30
>>YEP. HE IS. >>AND
WHAT KIND OF ANIMAL DID
00:23:32.30\00:23:35.60
THE DEVIL USE AS HIS MEDIUM?
THE SERPENT WAS THE MOST SUBTLE
00:23:35.60\00:23:39.06
OF ALL THE BEASTS
THAT THE LORD GOD HAD MADE.
00:23:39.06\00:23:42.00
AND THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH
WANTING TO BE AT LEAST AWARE OF
00:23:42.00\00:23:47.33
WHAT THE TACTICS OF THE DEVIL
ARE SO HE DOESN'T PULL ONE OVER
00:23:47.33\00:23:51.26
ON YOU. THAT'S WHAT
JESUS IS TELLING US.
00:23:51.26\00:23:53.16
BE WISE TO HIS PLANS.
PROVERBS 14:16, "A WISE MAN
00:23:53.16\00:23:59.90
FEARS AND DEPARTS FROM
EVIL, BUT A FOOL RAGES AND IS
00:23:59.90\00:24:03.93
SELF-CONFIDENT."
SOMETIMES A PERSON IS MAKING A
00:24:03.93\00:24:08.80
BAD CHOICE OR GOING DOWN THE
WRONG PATH AND THEY REALIZE IT.
00:24:08.80\00:24:12.20
IF YOU'RE WISE, CUT
YOUR LOSSES AND TURN AROUND.
00:24:12.20\00:24:15.56
THAT'S WISDOM. BUT A
FOOL SAYS, 'OH, THIS IS
00:24:15.56\00:24:19.43
WHAT I'M DOING. CAN'T BE WRONG.
00:24:19.43\00:24:21.50
I'M JUST GOING TO PRESS ON.'
SOLOMON SAYS, 'WELL, YOU MAY
00:24:21.50\00:24:24.26
PRESS ON TO YOUR
OWN DESTRUCTION HERE.
00:24:24.26\00:24:26.16
"A WISE MAN FEARS AND DEPARTS
FROM EVIL, BUT A FOOL RAGES AND
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IS SELF-CONFIDENT. A
QUICK-TEMPERED MAN ACTS
00:24:29.46\00:24:31.90
FOOLISHLY, AND A MAN OF
WICKED INTENTIONS IS HATED."
00:24:31.90\00:24:37.00
NOW SOME EXAMPLES OF THIS IN THE
BIBLE: THERE WAS A KING - NOW IF
00:24:37.00\00:24:42.40
YOU WANT THE
REFERENCE, I'LL GIVE IT TO YOU.
00:24:42.40\00:24:44.30
YOU MAY NOT HAVE TIME TO LOOK
IT UP. 1 KINGS 20, VERSE 18.
00:24:44.30\00:24:47.23
SOME OF YOU MAY REMEMBER THE
STORY WHERE THE KING OF SYRIA,
00:24:47.23\00:24:49.90
BEN HADAD, HE WAS ATTACKING THE
KING OF ISRAEL. AT THAT TIME,
00:24:49.90\00:24:54.33
IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED TO BE AHAB.
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, AHAB WON A
00:24:54.33\00:24:56.76
COUPLE OF BATTLES AGAINST SYRIA,
PARTLY BECAUSE ELIJAH WAS IN THE
00:24:56.76\00:25:02.26
KINGDOM PRAYING FOR THEM, AND
THE KING OF SYRIA HAD JUST THESE
00:25:02.26\00:25:06.26
VAST MASSIVE ARMIES
SURROUNDING SAMARIA.
00:25:06.26\00:25:09.73
SAMARIA IS THE CAPITAL OF ISRAEL
- NORTHERN KINGDOM AND - BUT THE
00:25:09.73\00:25:13.76
KING, WHILE HE HAD THE CITY
BESIEGED - YEAH, IT'S A LONG -
00:25:13.76\00:25:17.00
WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO SURRENDER
TOOK YEARS SOMETIMES AND SO,
00:25:17.00\00:25:19.76
DURING THE TIME WHEN HE HAD THE
CITY BESIEGED, HE'S OUT UNDER
00:25:19.76\00:25:22.60
ALL HIS TENTS IN HIS PAVILION
AND HE STARTS DRINKING AND HE
00:25:22.60\00:25:24.73
DRINKS HIMSELF DRUNK. AND
FINALLY, GOD HAD TOLD AHAB,
00:25:24.73\00:25:28.00
'I WANT YOU TO
GO OUT AND ATTACK.
00:25:28.00\00:25:30.30
YOU CAN'T SURVIVE A LONG
SIEGE IN SAMARIA.' AND GOD SAID,
00:25:30.30\00:25:34.86
'AHAB, TAKE THE PRINCES OF THE
KINGDOM AND GO ATTACK.' EVEN HE
00:25:34.86\00:25:37.10
SAID, 'YOU KNOW, WE'RE JUST A
HANDFUL COMPARED TO THIS ARMY.'
00:25:37.10\00:25:40.83
HE SAID, 'I'LL BE WITH YOU.' AND
IT REALLY TOOK FAITH ON AHAB'S
00:25:40.83\00:25:43.46
PART TO SEND THE SOLDIERS OUT
AND HE SAID, 'WHO LEADS THEM?'
00:25:43.46\00:25:45.76
GOD SAID TO AHAB, 'YOU LEAD
THEM.' SO AHAB LEADS OUT THIS
00:25:45.76\00:25:49.53
JUST SMALL CONTINGENT OF
CRUSADERS AGAINST THIS MASSIVE
00:25:49.53\00:25:52.96
SYRIAN ARMY, BUT THE KING OF
SYRIA GOT DRUNK AND HE GAVE THIS
00:25:52.96\00:25:58.86
REALLY DUMB ORDER TO HIS
SOLDIERS THAT THEY HAD TO OBEY -
00:25:58.86\00:26:02.43
HE'S THE GENERAL. HERE'S
WHAT THE ORDER WAS: THEY SAID,
00:26:02.43\00:26:05.50
'THERE'S SOME SOLDIERS COMING
OUT OF SAMARIA.' 'OH, THEY'RE
00:26:05.50\00:26:07.86
ACTUALLY COMING OUT TO FIGHT?'
HE SAYS, 'I TELL YOU WHAT, IF
00:26:07.86\00:26:10.76
THEY COME OUT FOR PEACE, TAKE
THEM ALIVE AND IF THEY COME OUT
00:26:10.76\00:26:14.60
FOR WAR TAKE THEM ALIVE.' HAVE
YOU EVER TRIED TO TAKE SOMEONE
00:26:14.60\00:26:18.63
ALIVE WHO'S COMING TO KILL YOU?
AND THE PRINCES OF ISRAEL JUST
00:26:18.63\00:26:22.73
TOTALLY SLAUGHTERED AND ACTUALLY
WON THIS BATTLE BECAUSE THE BAD
00:26:22.73\00:26:26.16
ORDERS A KING MADE IN HIS
PRIDE AND HIS FOOLISHNESS.
00:26:26.16\00:26:30.73
THAT WASN'T JUST THE ENEMIES
THAT HAD KINGS LIKE THAT.
00:26:30.73\00:26:33.33
KING SAUL COULD BE IMPULSIVE AND
PROUD AND ISSUE SOME OF THESE
00:26:33.33\00:26:39.96
VERY RECKLESS ORDERS.
REMEMBER, WE'RE READING - WE'RE
00:26:39.96\00:26:42.83
GIVING SOME EXAMPLES OF PROVERBS
14 - "A QUICK-TEMPERED MAN ACTS
00:26:42.83\00:26:46.53
FOOLISHLY, AND A MAN OF
WICKED INTENTIONS IS HATED."
00:26:46.53\00:26:50.10
THE EXAMPLE I'M GIVING
YOU IS FOUND IN 1 SAMUEL 14.
00:26:50.10\00:26:54.90
I'M GOING TO READ
THIS TO YOU - 1 SAMUEL 14 -
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ISRAEL IS GOING
AGAINST THE PHILISTINES.
00:26:56.90\00:26:58.96
GOD SAID, 'YOU'RE GOING TO WIN
THE BATTLE.' AND NOW SAUL HAS
00:26:58.96\00:27:03.56
BEEN KING FOR JUST A LITTLE
WHILE, HE'S HAD SOME VICTORIES,
00:27:03.56\00:27:06.06
AND HE'S STARTING TO
FEEL PRETTY SELF-CONFIDENT.
00:27:06.06\00:27:08.40
"AND THE MEN OF ISRAEL WERE
DISTRESSED THAT DAY, FOR SAUL
00:27:08.40\00:27:11.90
HAD PLACED THE PEOPLE UNDER
OATH, SAYING, 'CURSED IS THE
00:27:11.90\00:27:14.46
MAN'" - HE SAYS TO HIS OWN
SOLDIERS - "'CURSED IS THE MAN
00:27:14.46\00:27:17.83
WHO EATS ANY FOOD UNTIL EVENING,
BEFORE I HAVE TAKEN VENGEANCE ON
00:27:17.83\00:27:21.73
MY ENEMIES.'" - THE PHILISTINES
- WELL, BUT TELLING SOLDIERS
00:27:21.73\00:27:26.36
THEY CAN'T EAT IN A BATTLE -
THEY CAN'T EVEN TAKE ANY OF THE
00:27:26.36\00:27:29.90
SPOIL, IS A REALLY DUMB ORDER.
SO, OBEDIENT TO THE KING - "NONE
00:27:29.90\00:27:35.56
OF THE PEOPLE TASTED FOOD.
NOW ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND
00:27:35.56\00:27:38.93
CAME TO A FOREST; AND THERE WAS
HONEY ON THE GROUND. AND WHEN
00:27:38.93\00:27:41.53
THE PEOPLE HAD COME INTO THE
WOODS," - BY THE WAY, WHEN IT
00:27:41.53\00:27:44.03
SAYS IT'S A LAND FLOWING WITH
MILK AND HONEY, IT REALLY WAS.
00:27:44.03\00:27:46.46
THEY'VE GOT HONEY DRIPPING OUT
OF THE HIVES ONTO THE GROUND.
00:27:46.46\00:27:49.03
THERE WAS A PUDDLE OF IT
UNDER A TREE - AND IT SAYS,
00:27:49.03\00:27:52.80
"WHEN THE PEOPLE HAD COME INTO
THE WOODS THERE WAS THE HONEY,
00:27:52.80\00:27:54.76
DRIPPING; BUT NO ONE
PUT HIS HAND TO HIS MOUTH,
00:27:54.76\00:27:56.33
FOR THE PEOPLE FEARED THE OATH."
00:27:56.33\00:27:57.63
BUT JONATHAN, HE HADN'T HEARD
HIS FATHER CHARGE THE PEOPLE, HE
00:27:57.63\00:28:00.76
STRETCHED OUT THE END OF HIS
POLE, DIPPED IT IN THE HONEY,
00:28:00.76\00:28:03.86
PUT SOME IN HIS MOUTH - HIS
COUNTENANCE WAS BRIGHTENED -
00:28:03.86\00:28:06.13
"THEN ONE OF THE PEOPLE
SAID, 'OH, YOUR FATHER STRICTLY
00:28:06.13\00:28:08.86
CHARGED THE PEOPLE WITH AN OATH
SAYING, 'CURSED IS THE MAN WHO
00:28:08.86\00:28:11.50
EATS FOOD THIS DAY.''
AND THE PEOPLE WERE FAINT.
00:28:11.50\00:28:13.43
BUT JONATHAN SAID, 'MY
FATHER HAS TROUBLED THE LAND.
00:28:13.43\00:28:16.96
LOOK NOW, HOW MY COUNTENANCE HAS
BRIGHTENED'" - HIS BLOOD SUGAR
00:28:16.96\00:28:20.00
JUMPED UP - "'BECAUSE I'VE EATEN
A LITTLE OF THIS HONEY. HOW MUCH
00:28:20.00\00:28:22.46
BETTER IF THE PEOPLE HAD EATEN
FREELY TODAY OF THE SPOIL OF
00:28:22.46\00:28:25.50
THEIR ENEMIES WHICH THEY
FOUND!'" - THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN
00:28:25.50\00:28:28.73
A MUCH GREATER VICTORY OR
SLAUGHTER AMONG THE PHILISTINES.
00:28:28.73\00:28:31.03
AND SO, MAKING RASH, WRATHFUL,
IMPULSIVE DECISIONS, SOLOMON
00:28:31.03\00:28:38.10
SAYS, IT USUALLY
DOESN'T END WELL.
00:28:38.10\00:28:40.73
THAT'S WHY SOLOMON SAYS, 'IN
THE MULTITUDE OF COUNSEL THERE'S
00:28:40.73\00:28:43.26
SAFETY.' WHEN A KING JUST STARTS
TO SPURT OUT ORDERS WITHOUT
00:28:43.26\00:28:46.93
TALKING TO OTHER PEOPLE, YOU'RE
GOING TO MAKE BAD DECISIONS.
00:28:46.93\00:28:51.60
AND THEN YOU HAVE, IN PROVERBS
14:18 - NOW SOMEONE'S GOING TO
00:28:51.60\00:28:54.93
LOOK UP FOR ME 1 THESSALONIANS
5:21 - YOU'LL BE READY FOR THAT?
00:28:54.93\00:28:57.30
PROVERBS 14:18, "THE SIMPLE
INHERIT FOLLY, BUT THE PRUDENT
00:28:57.30\00:29:02.90
ARE CROWNED WITH KNOWLEDGE."
WHAT'S THE MOST IMPORTANT THING
00:29:02.90\00:29:06.36
YOU CAN INHERIT -
ACCORDING TO SOLOMON?
00:29:06.36\00:29:08.96
WHAT DID SOLOMON
PRAY FOR? >>WISDOM.
00:29:08.96\00:29:12.83
>>IF YOU GET WISDOM - NOW, YOU
MIGHT THINK, 'IF I'M GOING TO
00:29:12.83\00:29:16.76
PRAY ABOUT AN INHERITANCE, I'M
GOING TO PRAY ABOUT LIKE A BILL
00:29:16.76\00:29:20.53
GATES INHERITANCE, RIGHT?
BUT REALLY, IF YOU PRAY FOR
00:29:20.53\00:29:24.16
WISDOM, GOD KNOWS, THE OTHER
STUFF CAN COME IF YOU SEEK FIRST
00:29:24.16\00:29:29.06
GOD'S KINGDOM. SEEK
FIRST GOD'S KINGDOM AND ALL
00:29:29.06\00:29:32.93
THE OTHER THINGS'LL BE ADDED.
AND THAT'S WHAT SOLOMON DID.
00:29:32.93\00:29:34.53
THIS IS WHAT HE'S
SAYING HERE IN THIS VERSE.
00:29:34.53\00:29:36.60
"THE PRUDENT ARE
CROWNED WITH KNOWLEDGE."
00:29:36.60\00:29:38.70
ALRIGHT, NOW UNDER MONDAY, THE
FEAR OF THE WISE , AND THIS IS -
00:29:38.70\00:29:42.90
LET'S GO TO PROVERBS - LET'S SEE
HERE, PROVERBS 14, VERSE 18 -
00:29:42.90\00:29:49.90
IT'S PART VERSES 6 AND 18 - "BUT
KNOWLEDGE IS EASY TO HIM WHO
00:29:49.90\00:29:54.13
UNDERSTANDS, BUT THE PRUDENT
ARE CROWNED WITH KNOWLEDGE."
00:29:54.13\00:29:58.23
'THE WISE ARE CAUTIOUS,'
WE READ IN PROVERBS 14:15.
00:29:58.23\00:30:04.13
'THE WISE ARE CALM,'
WE READ IN PROVERBS 14:29.
00:30:04.13\00:30:09.06
'THE WISE ARE
COMPASSIONATE AND SENSITIVE.
00:30:09.06\00:30:11.80
HERE IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE
FEAR OF THE WISE AS CONTRASTED
00:30:11.80\00:30:14.80
WITH THE FOOLS
THAT WE WERE LOOKING AT.
00:30:14.80\00:30:17.06
READ FOR US, PLEASE,
1 THESSALONIANS 5:21.
00:30:17.06\00:30:20.23
>>"TEST ALL THINGS;
HOLD FAST WHAT IS GOOD."
00:30:20.23\00:30:23.76
>>YEAH, THAT MAKES US ALSO THINK
ABOUT WHERE JOHN SAYS, 'TRY THE
00:30:23.76\00:30:28.26
SPIRITS TO PROVE WHAT SOURCE
THEY ARE.' AND GOD WANTS US TO
00:30:28.26\00:30:33.43
USE WISDOM - JUDGEMENT -
TO USE THE GIFT OF EVALUATION.
00:30:33.43\00:30:37.20
YOU CAN READ IN MARK CHAPTER
12, VERSES 29 THROUGH 31, "'THE
00:30:37.20\00:30:42.90
FIRST OF ALL THE COMMANDMENTS
IS: 'HEAR, O ISRAEL,
00:30:42.90\00:30:46.73
THE LORD OUR
GOD, THE LORD IS ONE.
00:30:46.73\00:30:49.13
AND YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR
GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, WITH
00:30:49.13\00:30:52.16
ALL YOUR SOUL, WITH ALL
YOUR MIND, AND WITH ALL YOUR
00:30:52.16\00:30:54.70
STRENGTH.' THIS IS THE FIRST
COMMANDMENT. AND THE SECOND,
00:30:54.70\00:30:57.60
LIKE IT, IS THIS: 'YOU SHALL
LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.'
00:30:57.60\00:31:00.93
THERE ARE NO OTHER COMMANDMENTS
GREATER THAN THESE."
00:31:00.93\00:31:04.36
AND SO, IN UNDERSTANDING THE
FEAR OF THE WISE - LOVING THE
00:31:04.36\00:31:09.80
LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, LOVING
YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF IS
00:31:09.80\00:31:12.36
REALLY THE
FOUNDATION OF THAT BIBLICAL -
00:31:12.36\00:31:15.20
THAT BIBLICAL WISDOM
AND THE FEAR OF THE WISE.
00:31:15.20\00:31:18.36
AND, YOU KNOW, I QUOTED A VERSE
BEFORE, BUT I DIDN'T GIVE YOU
00:31:18.36\00:31:22.10
THE REFERENCE: 1 JOHN 4:1 - AND
THAT'S WHERE IT SAYS, "BELOVED,
00:31:22.10\00:31:25.43
DO NOT BELIEVE EVERY SPIRIT, BUT
TEST THE SPIRITS, WHETHER THEY
00:31:25.43\00:31:29.36
ARE OF GOD; BECAUSE MANY FALSE
PROPHETS HAVE GONE OUT INTO THE
00:31:29.36\00:31:32.33
WORLD." IN THE
LAST DAYS, WHAT DOES
00:31:32.33\00:31:35.13
JESUS SAY, IN MATTHEW 24 - THE
FIRST THING HE SAYS REGARDING -
00:31:35.13\00:31:37.86
ABOUT THE LAST DAYS? "TAKE
HEED THAT NO MAN DECEIVE YOU."
00:31:37.86\00:31:42.53
NOT ONLY DOES HE SAY IT IN
MATTHEW 24 AT THE BEGINNING, IN
00:31:42.53\00:31:46.30
THE MIDDLE HE SAYS, "FOR THERE
SHALL ARISE MANY FALSE CHRISTS
00:31:46.30\00:31:48.30
AND FALSE PROPHETS.
AND THEN HE SAYS, 'AND THE
00:31:48.30\00:31:51.96
DECEPTION'LL BE SO EFFECTIVE
IN THE LAST DAYS, IF IT WERE
00:31:51.96\00:31:54.70
POSSIBLE, EVEN THE VERY ELECT
WOULD BE DECEIVED.' SO HOW ARE
00:31:54.70\00:31:58.06
WE GOING TO KNOW
THE TRUE FROM THE FALSE?
00:31:58.06\00:32:00.16
WE NEED TO KNOW HOW TO TEST
THE SPIRITS - TRY THE SPIRITS -
00:32:00.16\00:32:04.93
EVALUATE THINGS. YOU
EVER HAVE ANYONE WRITE YOU A
00:32:04.93\00:32:09.43
LETTER AND TELL
YOU THEY'RE A PROPHET?
00:32:09.43\00:32:11.03
OR SEND YOU A NOTE AND
TELL YOU THEY'RE A PROPHET?
00:32:11.03\00:32:14.06
I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW OFTEN
WE GET LETTERS HERE AT AMAZING
00:32:14.06\00:32:17.46
FACTS - FROM, PROBABLY, SOME
VERY DEAR AND SINCERE PEOPLE.
00:32:17.46\00:32:21.96
AND I'VE GOT A NUMBER OF
CHARISMATIC FRIENDS AND THEY
00:32:21.96\00:32:23.90
BELIEVE THAT, YOU KNOW, A
NUMBER OF MEMBERS IN EVERY
00:32:23.90\00:32:26.86
CONGREGATION, PEOPLE HAVE THE
GIFT OF PROPHECY AND SO THEY'LL
00:32:26.86\00:32:29.00
SAY, 'THE LORD GAVE ME A
PROPHECY FOR YOU, PASTOR DOUG.'
00:32:29.00\00:32:30.83
I USUALLY THANK THEM
AND, YOU KNOW, COULD BE.
00:32:30.83\00:32:34.43
I'M ALWAYS AFRAID WHEN SOMEONE
SAYS, 'I'VE GOT A MESSAGE FROM
00:32:34.43\00:32:36.93
THE LORD FOR YOU.' YOU DON'T
WANT TO DISMISS IT AND SAY, 'OH,
00:32:36.93\00:32:40.36
YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF KOOKS
OUT THERE, BECAUSE WHAT IF THE
00:32:40.36\00:32:42.60
LORD DOES HAVE A
MESSAGE? SO HOW DO YOU KNOW?
00:32:42.60\00:32:45.20
WELL, AT FIRST I LISTEN TO THE
MESSAGE AND I SAY, 'DOES THIS
00:32:45.20\00:32:49.13
MATCH UP WITH THE SCRIPTURE?'
AND THERE'S OUR GIFT WHERE IT
00:32:49.13\00:32:53.50
TALKS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, HOW
DO YOU KNOW THE WILL OF GOD?
00:32:53.50\00:32:55.80
YOU JUST APPLY SOME OF THE
PRINCIPLES IN DECIDING THE WILL
00:32:55.80\00:32:57.76
OF GOD AND THAT CAN USUALLY HELP
YOU SORT OUT IF IT'S FROM THE
00:32:57.76\00:32:59.76
LORD. ALRIGHT, NOW TUESDAY -
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME 2
00:32:59.76\00:33:03.40
CHRONICLES 16:9 - OKAY, YOU'LL
HAVE THAT IN JUST A MOMENT - AND
00:33:03.40\00:33:07.50
IT'S THE EYES OF THE LORD
. THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE
00:33:07.50\00:33:10.93
SECTIONS IN OUR STUDY THIS
WEEK - THE EYES OF THE LORD -
00:33:10.93\00:33:13.66
AND I'M GOING TO
READ PROVERBS 15, VERSE 3.
00:33:13.66\00:33:16.63
NOW WE'VE JUMPED INTO PROVERBS
15 - HAVEN'T COVERED EVERY VERSE
00:33:16.63\00:33:19.20
IN PROVERBS 14, BUT WE GOT QUITE
A BIT. "THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE
00:33:19.20\00:33:24.06
IN EVERY PLACE, KEEPING
WATCH ON THE EVIL AND THE GOOD."
00:33:24.06\00:33:28.66
I TOLD KAREN TONIGHT, I SAID, 'I
WANT TO PUT UP SOME SIGNS IN OUR
00:33:28.66\00:33:34.53
NEIGHBORHOOD.' - WE'VE GOT LIKE
A NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITY WATCH -
00:33:34.53\00:33:37.80
AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR
NEIGHBORHOOD'S LIKE BUT IT SEEMS
00:33:37.80\00:33:40.96
LIKE WE'VE HAD A FEW BREAK-INS -
THERE'S BEEN SOME BURGLARIES AND
00:33:40.96\00:33:43.76
SOME CAR VANDALISM AND THINGS,
BUT I'VE NOTICED THAT WE HAD
00:33:43.76\00:33:46.93
PROBLEMS ON OUR
PROPERTY UP IN THE HILLS.
00:33:46.93\00:33:51.16
PEOPLE WERE SNEAKING ON
AND TRYING TO GROW POT AND
00:33:51.16\00:33:53.76
WE JUST STRUGGLED
WITH IT FOR YEARS.
00:33:53.76\00:33:56.80
I REMEMBER KAREN AND I DRIVING
ALL OVER THE LAND NAILING UP
00:33:56.80\00:33:58.66
SIGNS TELLING PEOPLE DON'T
STEAL FIREWOOD AND OTHER THINGS.
00:33:58.66\00:34:02.20
THEN WE PUT UP SIGNS EVERYWHERE
THAT SAID 'NO POT GROWING.' YOU
00:34:02.20\00:34:05.36
THINK YOU'D KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW,
BUT JUST NOTHING SEEMED TO WORK
00:34:05.36\00:34:09.26
AND IT'S A REAL CONCERN BECAUSE
THEY DON'T CARE MUCH ANYMORE,
00:34:09.26\00:34:14.46
BUT A FEW YEARS AGO, IF YOU WERE
GROWING ON YOUR LAND, THEY'D
00:34:14.46\00:34:16.63
TAKE YOUR PROPERTY AWAY.
AND SO YOU HAD TO REALLY -
00:34:16.63\00:34:19.10
IT WAS SOMETHING WE WORRIED
ABOUT - SO FINALLY YOU KNOW WHAT
00:34:19.10\00:34:22.46
SETTLED IT? THEY
CAME OUT WITH THESE
00:34:22.46\00:34:24.36
WILDLIFE CAMERAS. YOU
KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT?
00:34:24.36\00:34:26.26
MOTION-ACTIVATED WILDLIFE
CAMERAS - WE BOUGHT A FEW OF
00:34:26.26\00:34:28.36
THOSE AND PUT THEM
UP AROUND THE LAND.
00:34:28.36\00:34:30.00
BUT YOU KNOW WHAT I DID
IS - WHAT DID AS MUCH GOOD AS
00:34:30.00\00:34:32.43
WILDLIFE CAMERAS IS - WE GOT
SOME NEAT PICTURES OF BEARS AND
00:34:32.43\00:34:34.36
SKUNKS AND RABBITS AND FOXES AND
ALL KINDS OF THINGS - IS WE PUT
00:34:34.36\00:34:36.80
UP SIGNS AND THE SIGNS SAY
'PROPERTY PROTECTED BY VIDEO
00:34:36.80\00:34:44.53
CAMERAS' - OR WILDLIFE CAMERAS.
EVERYONE UP THERE KNOWS WHAT
00:34:44.53\00:34:48.03
THAT MEANS. WELL
THERE'S TREES EVERYWHERE
00:34:48.03\00:34:49.83
AND YOU CAN HIDE THESE THINGS
AND NO ONE KNOWS 'WHERE ARE
00:34:49.83\00:34:51.66
THEY?' AND THE
THING IS, IF THEY'RE -
00:34:51.66\00:34:53.80
IF ANYONE'S WALKING AROUND
ON THE LAND AND THEY'RE MOTION
00:34:53.80\00:34:56.76
ACTIVATED - WE HAVEN'T HAD ANY
PROBLEMS ANYMORE AND SO I TOLD
00:34:56.76\00:35:00.86
KAREN, 'WE NEED TO PUT
THOSE UP IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
00:35:00.86\00:35:03.03
THIS NEIGHBORHOOD - BECAUSE SOME
OF THE NEIGHBORS DO ACTUALLY
00:35:03.03\00:35:05.86
HAVE VIDEO
SURVEILLANCE - VIDEO SECURITY.
00:35:05.86\00:35:08.06
SO WE NEED TO JUST PUT A
SIGN UP AND THAT'LL FIX IT.
00:35:08.06\00:35:09.76
CAN YOU GO ANYWHERE TODAY WHERE
THERE'S NOT A VIDEO CAMERA?
00:35:09.76\00:35:13.13
HOW MANY OF YOU
HAVE THEM ON YOUR PHONES?
00:35:13.13\00:35:15.96
IT JUST - IT SEEMS
LIKE EVERYWHERE YOU TURN.
00:35:15.96\00:35:21.03
NOW IF, IN OUR CULTURE TODAY -
I GOT ON GOOGLE EARTH - I DON'T
00:35:21.03\00:35:32.53
KNOW IF I SHOULD
SAY THIS. NOW I HAVE TO.
00:35:32.53\00:35:36.50
NO, I CAN SAY IT, IT'S ALRIGHT.
I GOT ON GOOGLE EARTH AND, YOU
00:35:36.50\00:35:40.23
KNOW, YOU'VE SEEN GOOGLE EARTH,
IT'S THIS SATELLITE PICTURES OF
00:35:40.23\00:35:45.70
PROPERTY THAT ZOOM IN AND
EVERY YEAR THEIR RESOLUTION GETS
00:35:45.70\00:35:48.66
SHARPER AND IT GETS
BETTER AND BETTER AND, YOU KNOW,
00:35:48.66\00:35:51.00
PERIODICALLY I CAN'T GO PLACES,
BUT I DO TAKE THESE IMAGINARY
00:35:51.00\00:35:56.00
TRIPS WITH GOOGLE
EARTH ALL OVER THE WORLD.
00:35:56.00\00:35:57.66
I'VE BEEN ALL OVER THE WORLD
JUST ZOOMING IN ON ISLANDS -
00:35:57.66\00:36:00.63
KAREN'LL WALK IN SOMETIMES
AND I'M OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE
00:36:00.63\00:36:03.20
PACIFIC AND I'M SAYING, 'YOU
KNOW, I DON'T THINK ANYONE KNOWS
00:36:03.20\00:36:04.93
ABOUT THIS ISLAND HERE.' LOOKING
FOR A PLACE TO GO AND - BUT I'VE
00:36:04.93\00:36:11.40
ZOOMED IN TO SOME TOWNS AND
YOU CAN LOOK RIGHT INTO PEOPLE'S
00:36:11.40\00:36:15.63
YARDS AND THEY TOOK A BUNCH
OF PICTURES ONE YEAR IN THE FALL
00:36:15.63\00:36:17.96
AND I WAS SHOCKED HOW MANY
PEOPLE I KNEW THAT THEY WERE
00:36:17.96\00:36:21.80
CHRISTIAN HOMES AND
THEY, EVIDENTLY, HAVE MEDICINAL
00:36:21.80\00:36:25.36
MARIJUANA GROWING
IN THEIR BACKYARDS.
00:36:25.36\00:36:28.96
YOU THINK ABOUT
THESE EYES UP IN THE SKY.
00:36:28.96\00:36:31.13
DO THESE
SATELLITES SEE MORE THAN GOD?
00:36:31.13\00:36:34.36
THE EYES OF THE LORD ARE
EVERYWHERE. HE SEES EVERYTHING
00:36:34.36\00:36:37.26
AND THAT'S - GO AHEAD,
GIVE US OUR NEXT VERSE, PROVERBS
00:36:37.26\00:36:39.43
CHAPTER - I'M SORRY IT'S
RATHER 2 CHRONICLES 16:9.
00:36:39.43\00:36:43.33
>>"FOR THE EYES OF THE LORD RUN
TO AND FRO THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE
00:36:43.33\00:36:47.90
EARTH, TO SHOW HIMSELF STRONG ON
BEHALF OF THOSE WHOSE HEART IS
00:36:47.90\00:36:51.53
LOYAL TO HIM."
>>THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE
00:36:51.53\00:36:55.00
VERSES AND I'D LIKE IT BETTER
IF THE SECOND HALF OF THE VERSE
00:36:55.00\00:36:59.16
DIDN'T REALLY
TALK ABOUT BATTLES.
00:36:59.16\00:37:01.26
BUT 'THE EYES OF THE LORD RUN'
- SOME VERSIONS EVEN TRANSLATE
00:37:01.26\00:37:06.30
THAT 'THE EYES OF THE LORD SCAN
TO AND FRO THROUGH THE WHOLE
00:37:06.30\00:37:11.10
EARTH.' NOW GOD SEES EVERYTHING
AT ONCE, BUT WHAT IS GOD LOOKING
00:37:11.10\00:37:14.10
FOR? TO SHOW
HIMSELF STRONG IN BEHALF
00:37:14.10\00:37:17.60
OF THOSE WHOSE
HEART IS LOYAL TO HIM.
00:37:17.60\00:37:21.33
GOD IS LOOKING FOR PEOPLE
THROUGH WHOM HE CAN DEMONSTRATE
00:37:21.33\00:37:26.33
HIS POWER BECAUSE
THEY TRUST IN HIM.
00:37:26.33\00:37:28.60
AND WHEN IT SAYS 'THE EYES OF
THE LORD ARE SCANNING,' YOU KNOW
00:37:28.60\00:37:31.46
WHAT THAT MEANS? HE
IS SEARCHING FOR SOMEBODY
00:37:31.46\00:37:34.30
THAT IS
SEARCHING FOR HIM. >>AMEN.
00:37:34.30\00:37:37.76
>>THAT'S WHY THE BIBLE SAYS THAT
IF WE DRAW NEAR TO THE LORD,
00:37:37.76\00:37:39.30
HE'LL DRAW NEAR TO US.
00:37:39.30\00:37:41.03
WE READ A VERSE A MINUTE
AGO ABOUT PEOPLE SCOFFING - THEY
00:37:41.03\00:37:44.13
SEEK THE TRUTH BUT THEY'RE
SCOFFERS AND THAT'S LIKE PEOPLE
00:37:44.13\00:37:47.10
WHO THEY'RE NOT REALLY HUNGERING
FOR THE TRUTH. THE BIBLE SAYS,
00:37:47.10\00:37:52.10
'IF YOU SEARCH WITH ALL OF
YOUR HEART' YOU'LL FIND ME.
00:37:52.10\00:37:55.33
AND JESUS, WE READ THIS, 'LOVE
THE LORD WITH ALL OF YOUR HEART'
00:37:55.33\00:37:58.40
AND GOD IS WANTING TO SHOW HIS
POWER THROUGH AND TO PEOPLE -
00:37:58.40\00:38:02.60
YOU KNOW, IT JUST MAKES ME SAD.
00:38:02.60\00:38:04.86
YOU THINK ABOUT GOD JUST - IT'S
LIKE HE SAYS TO THE DEVIL IN THE
00:38:04.86\00:38:08.20
BOOK OF JOB, 'HAVE YOU
CONSIDERED MY SERVANT JOB?'
00:38:08.20\00:38:10.43
IT'S LIKE GOD SAID, 'I FOUND
ONE. I FOUND ONE HERE ON EARTH
00:38:10.43\00:38:14.33
THAT TRUSTS ME.' AND IT'S
LIKE HE WANTS TO FIND OTHERS.
00:38:14.33\00:38:17.46
THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID, 'WHOEVER
CONFESSES ME BEFORE THIS EVIL
00:38:17.46\00:38:21.63
AND ADULTEROUS GENERATION
- I'M LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY.
00:38:21.63\00:38:25.73
I WILL CONFESS THEIR NAME BEFORE
MY FATHER IN HEAVEN BECAUSE HE'S
00:38:25.73\00:38:28.10
LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY OUT THERE
THAT REALLY TRUSTS IN ME THAT
00:38:28.10\00:38:31.00
BELIEVES IN ME EVEN WHEN NO ONE
IS LOOKING. THE EYES OF THE LORD
00:38:31.00\00:38:35.83
- IS THERE ANYTHING
THAT IS HIDDEN FROM HIM?
00:38:35.83\00:38:38.03
>>NO. >>THE EYES
OF THE LORD ARE IN
00:38:38.03\00:38:40.43
EVERY PLACE WATCHING
ON THE EVIL AND THE GOOD.
00:38:40.43\00:38:43.46
HE NOT ONLY SEES THE
GOOD, HE SEES THE EVIL.
00:38:43.46\00:38:46.43
GOD SEES ALL THINGS - ALL
THINGS, THE BIBLE TELLS US.
00:38:46.43\00:38:49.63
MATTER OF FACT, I'M JUMPING
AHEAD - THAT'S HEBREWS 4:13,
00:38:49.63\00:38:51.53
"AND THERE IS NO CREATURE HIDDEN
FROM HIS SIGHT, BUT ALL THINGS
00:38:51.53\00:38:57.23
ARE NAKED AND OPEN TO THE
EYES OF HIM TO WHOM WE MUST GIVE
00:38:57.23\00:39:02.23
ACCOUNT." THAT'S
BOTH AN ENCOURAGING AND
00:39:02.23\00:39:05.13
ALSO A FRIGHTENING VERSE - THAT
HE SEES EVERYTHING AND HEARS
00:39:05.13\00:39:08.53
EVERY WORD. YOU KNOW,
IN DOING AMAZING FACTS
00:39:08.53\00:39:14.73
I'VE BEEN AMAZED AT THE
EYES OF CERTAIN CREATURES.
00:39:14.73\00:39:17.96
CHAMELEONS ARE FUN TO LOOK
AT BECAUSE THEIR EYES - YOU'VE
00:39:17.96\00:39:22.16
PROBABLY SEEN THE CHAMELEON -
THEY BARELY MOVE, YOU KNOW, THEY
00:39:22.16\00:39:24.76
CRAWL ACROSS A BRANCH WITH THEIR
TWO LITTLE THINGS AND - BUT
00:39:24.76\00:39:27.46
THEY'VE GOT THESE EYES THAT ARE
IN INDEPENDENT TURRETS THAT IT'S
00:39:27.46\00:39:31.63
NOT LIKE THEY LOOK - AND ONE'S
GOING THIS WAY AND ONE'S GOING
00:39:31.63\00:39:34.16
THIS WAY AND IT'S JUST, YOU
KNOW, LIKE ON THE OPPOSITE SIDES
00:39:34.16\00:39:38.10
OF THEIR HEAD AND THEY'VE
GOT INCREDIBLE FOCUS. WHEN THEIR
00:39:38.10\00:39:40.70
EYES LOCK IN - THEY'VE GOT THIS
STEREOSCOPIC VISION AND THEN
00:39:40.70\00:39:44.10
THEIR TONGUE GOES OUT LIKE
LIGHTNING AND GETS A DRAGONFLY
00:39:44.10\00:39:46.23
OR BUG OR SOMETHING, THEY
ALMOST NEVER MISS. BUT THEY'RE -
00:39:46.23\00:39:51.83
IT ALWAYS LOOKS SO FUNNY THAT
THEIR EYES ARE ALWAYS SCANNING.
00:39:51.83\00:39:55.50
YOU CAN'T EVEN TELL THEY'RE
ALIVE EXCEPT YOU SEE THIS GREEN
00:39:55.50\00:39:57.36
STICK WITH EYES
ON IT MOVING AROUND.
00:39:57.36\00:39:59.33
AND THEN PENGUINS - HAVE YOU
EVER CONSIDERED PENGUINS HAVE
00:39:59.33\00:40:03.80
THE MOST VERSATILE EYES IN
THE WORLD? NOW EAGLES HAVE GOT
00:40:03.80\00:40:06.73
BETTER VISION, BUT A PENGUIN'S
EYE HAS TO GO FROM THE BRIGHTEST
00:40:06.73\00:40:10.56
LIGHT IN THE WORLD - WHEN YOU'RE
AT THE SOUTH POLE WHEN IT'S
00:40:10.56\00:40:14.40
SUMMER DOWN THERE AND THERE'S
SNOW EVERYWHERE AND YOU'VE GOT -
00:40:14.40\00:40:19.36
I MEAN, WE WOULD
GET SNOW BLINDNESS.
00:40:19.36\00:40:21.10
IT'S AS BRIGHT AS - THEIR EYES
CAN CONSTRICT TO A PINHOLE - SO
00:40:21.10\00:40:25.36
THEY SEE - YOU KNOW,
YOUR IRIS CONSTRICTS?
00:40:25.36\00:40:27.40
BUT THEN THEY DIVE IN THE WATER
AND THEY GO FROM VISION THAT
00:40:27.40\00:40:30.10
SEES CLEARLY ABOVE WATER IN THE
AIR - YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS TO
00:40:30.10\00:40:35.43
YOUR EYES WHEN THEY GO IN THE
WATER, YOU NEED A MASK OR YOU
00:40:35.43\00:40:37.43
NEED GOGGLES BECAUSE YOU CAN'T
SEE. THEN THEIR EYE ADJUSTS FOR
00:40:37.43\00:40:40.36
UNDERWATER SEEING AND THEY CAN
DIVE DOWN OVER A THOUSAND FEET
00:40:40.36\00:40:46.36
IN PITCH-BLACK DARKNESS
AND SEE SQUID DOWN THERE.
00:40:46.36\00:40:51.26
THE PUPIL JUST GOES 'BWAA!'
LIKE IT'S ON LSD - IT'S GREAT
00:40:51.26\00:40:54.10
BIG - WHAT A RADICAL DIFFERENCE
- PENGUIN EYES - IT'S PROBABLY
00:40:54.10\00:41:01.00
NOT THE BEST ILLUSTRATION FOR
THE EYES OF THE LORD BUT HE MADE
00:41:01.00\00:41:05.60
PENGUINS. HERE'S
ANOTHER VERSE, JOB 28,
00:41:05.60\00:41:08.46
VERSE 24, "FOR HE" - THE LORD -
"LOOKS TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH,
00:41:08.46\00:41:15.00
AND SEES UNDER THE WHOLE
HEAVENS." THERE'S NOTHING
00:41:15.00\00:41:19.40
THAT IS HIDDEN FROM THE
EYES OF THE LORD. PSALM 33:18,
00:41:19.40\00:41:24.56
"BEHOLD, THE EYE OF THE LORD IS
ON THOSE WHO FEAR HIM, ON THOSE
00:41:24.56\00:41:29.73
WHO HOPE IN HIS MERCY."
NOW WHEN IT SAYS, 'THE EYE OF
00:41:29.73\00:41:32.23
THE LORD IS ON THEM'
WHAT DO YOU THINK IT MEANS?
00:41:32.23\00:41:33.93
ISN'T THE EYE OF
THE LORD ON EVERYBODY?
00:41:33.93\00:41:35.53
JONAH THOUGHT HE
COULD RUN FROM GOD.
00:41:35.53\00:41:37.53
DID THE EYES OF
THE LORD SEE JONAH?
00:41:37.53\00:41:39.00
WAS JONAH DIM TO GOD THERE IN
THE BELLY OF THE FISH OR WAS IT
00:41:39.00\00:41:43.80
JUST AS BRIGHT TO HIM AS
THOUGH IT WAS ILLUMINATED?
00:41:43.80\00:41:46.96
GOD SEES EVERYTHING PERFECTLY.
00:41:46.96\00:41:48.66
HE CAN - SO WHEN IT SAYS 'THE
EYES OF THE LORD ARE UPON THE
00:41:48.66\00:41:51.86
RIGHTEOUS' THAT'S REALLY TALKING
MORE ABOUT THAT HE IS GIVING
00:41:51.86\00:41:56.26
THEM HIS ATTENTION TO
THEIR PRAYERS AND THEIR NEEDS.
00:41:56.26\00:42:00.20
WE THINK ABOUT WHEN SOMEONE
DOESN'T SEE SOMETHING THEY'RE
00:42:00.20\00:42:02.93
BEING NEGLECTED. SO
WHEN IT SAYS 'THE EYES OF THE
00:42:02.93\00:42:05.70
LORD ARE ON THE RIGHTEOUS,' IT
MEANS HE'S WATCHING OUT FOR THEM
00:42:05.70\00:42:08.66
TO PROTECT THEM,
TO PROVIDE FOR THEM.
00:42:08.66\00:42:11.66
"THE EYE OF THE LORD IS ON THOSE
WHO FEAR HIM, ON THOSE WHO HOPE
00:42:11.66\00:42:16.10
IN HIS MERCY."
ZECHARIAH 4, VERSE 10, "FOR WHO
00:42:16.10\00:42:20.50
HAS DESPISED THE DAY OF SMALL
THINGS? FOR THESE SEVEN REJOICE
00:42:20.50\00:42:24.30
TO SEE THE PLUMB LINE
IN THE HAND OF ZERUBBABEL.
00:42:24.30\00:42:28.03
THEY ARE THE EYES OF THE LORD,
WHICH SCAN" - THAT'S ACTUALLY
00:42:28.03\00:42:31.66
THE WORD 'SCAN' THERE - "THE
EYES OF THE LORD WHICH SCAN TO
00:42:31.66\00:42:34.93
AND FRO
THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE EARTH."
00:42:34.93\00:42:37.63
IN REVELATION THERE'S A LAMB
THAT'S ON - AS IT'S BEEN SLAIN
00:42:37.63\00:42:42.30
IT'S ON A THRONE - HOW
MANY EYES DOES IT HAVE? SEVEN.
00:42:42.30\00:42:48.23
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A
LAMB WITH SEVEN EYES?
00:42:48.23\00:42:52.76
THAT'S KIND OF STRANGE,
ISN'T IT? WHO IS THE LAMB?
00:42:52.76\00:42:55.93
>>JESUS. >>WHY
DOES HE HAVE SEVEN EYES?
00:42:55.93\00:42:58.63
YOU KNOW, MOST OF THE
INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE THAT
00:42:58.63\00:43:02.26
COMES INTO YOUR HEAD
COMES THROUGH YOUR OPTIC NERVES?
00:43:02.26\00:43:04.76
I WAS TELLING KAREN TODAY, I SAW
SOMETHING A LITTLE DISTRESSING,
00:43:04.76\00:43:09.56
THAT I WAS DRIVING BACK TO
THE HOUSE, STOPPED AT A TRAFFIC
00:43:09.56\00:43:15.63
LIGHT WAITING FOR THE TURN AND
I SAW A BLIND MAN BEGINNING TO
00:43:15.63\00:43:19.36
CROSS THE STREET BUT HE HAD
MISSED THE CROSSWALK AND HE'S -
00:43:19.36\00:43:22.16
YOU COULD TELL HE WAS BLIND, HE
HAD NO GLASSES ON AND HIS EYES
00:43:22.16\00:43:25.03
WERE SUNK IN AND HE HAD THE
WHITE CANE WITH A RED TIP ON IT
00:43:25.03\00:43:27.20
AND SOME BAGS IN HIS HAND AND
HE'S TAPPING HIS WAY ACROSS THE
00:43:27.20\00:43:29.86
STREET BUT HE'S TAPPING RIGHT
OFF INTO - HE JUST WAS FORGING
00:43:29.86\00:43:34.60
AHEAD BOLDLY - TAPPING OFF INTO
CARS THAT WERE RUNNING, WAITING
00:43:34.60\00:43:39.90
TO TURN AND HE GOT BETWEEN THEM
AND ABOUT THE - I'M THINKING
00:43:39.90\00:43:43.26
'NOW WHAT DO I DO?' I THOUGHT,
'WELL, I DON'T WANT TO HONK AND
00:43:43.26\00:43:45.40
SCARE HIM.' AND HE GOT BETWEEN
MY CAR AND, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY
00:43:45.40\00:43:51.16
WE STOPPED EVEN THOUGH THE LIGHT
WAS GREEN, AND HE GOT IN FRONT
00:43:51.16\00:43:53.50
OF A CAR - A TRUCK - AND THE
TRUCK HONKED AT HIM. I THOUGHT,
00:43:53.50\00:43:58.36
'WELL, THAT'S NOT GOING TO
HELP HIM.' BUT HE MADE IT SAFELY
00:43:58.36\00:44:01.76
ACROSS, YOU'LL BE GLAD TO KNOW,
BUT MOST OF YOUR INFORMATION
00:44:01.76\00:44:06.60
COMES THROUGH YOUR EYES AND WHEN
IT SAYS THE EYES OF THE LORD
00:44:06.60\00:44:11.53
SEE EVERYTHING AND JESUS HAS
GOT SEVEN EYES, THERE'S NOTHING
00:44:11.53\00:44:15.63
THAT HE DOESN'T KNOW, IS
WHAT IT'S TELLING US THERE.
00:44:15.63\00:44:18.50
BOY, AND IF YOU THINK
GOOGLE EARTH SEES A LOT ON THEIR
00:44:18.50\00:44:23.40
SATELLITE SITES, HAVE YOU HEARD
ABOUT WHAT THE MILITARY CAN SEE
00:44:23.40\00:44:26.16
WITH THEIR SATELLITES?
00:44:26.16\00:44:27.96
YOU CAN MAKE OUT - JUST WITH
GOOGLE EARTH, YOU CAN MAKE OUT
00:44:27.96\00:44:32.83
PARTICULAR CARS,
MAKES, AND MODELS.
00:44:32.83\00:44:34.76
I CAN - YOU KNOW, I'VE HEARD
STORIES THAT THE - ON A CLEAR
00:44:34.76\00:44:38.50
DAY, MILITARY SATELLITES
CAN READ LICENSE PLATES.
00:44:38.50\00:44:41.23
I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY DO THAT
BECAUSE THEY'RE ON THE SIDE, BUT
00:44:41.23\00:44:43.26
- SOMETHING THAT SMALL ANYWAY.
I BELIEVE IT. GOD SEES MORE.
00:44:43.26\00:44:47.70
>>AMEN. >>JESUS
SAID IN MATTHEW 6,
00:44:47.70\00:44:51.13
VERSE 22, "THE LIGHT
OF THE BODY IS THE EYE.
00:44:51.13\00:44:55.53
IF THEREFORE THINE EYE BE
SINGLE, THY WHOLE BODY SHALL BE
00:44:55.53\00:44:59.66
FULL OF LIGHT. BUT IF
THINE EYE BE EVIL, THY
00:44:59.66\00:45:02.56
WHOLE BODY SHALL
BE FULL OF DARKNESS.
00:45:02.56\00:45:04.80
IF THEREFORE THE LIGHT THAT IS
IN YOU BE DARKNESS, HOW GREAT IS
00:45:04.80\00:45:07.56
THAT DARKNESS?" WHAT
DOES JESUS MEAN WHEN HE
00:45:07.56\00:45:09.90
SAYS, 'IF YOUR EYE
IS SINGLE?' FOCUSED.
00:45:09.90\00:45:13.66
IF A PERSON'S VISION IS OUT OF
FOCUS AND THEY CAN'T SEE OR IF
00:45:13.66\00:45:17.76
IT'S DULL LIKE ISAAC AND YOU'RE
LIVING IN DARKNESS - GOD WANTS
00:45:17.76\00:45:22.53
US TO HAVE CLARITY. ALRIGHT,
WEDNESDAY THE JOY OF THE LORD .
00:45:22.53\00:45:26.56
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ PROVERBS
15:15. WHO'S GOING TO BE NEXT?
00:45:26.56\00:45:29.26
YOU'LL HAVE THAT
BRIAN IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:45:29.26\00:45:31.03
LET ME READ ECCLESIASTES 1:18.
I KNOW WE'RE STUDYING PROVERBS
00:45:31.03\00:45:34.60
BUT THIS FITS ALONG WITH THE JOY
OF THE LORD. I WANT YOU TO THINK
00:45:34.60\00:45:38.20
NOW - ECCLESIASTES
1:18. WHO WROTE ECCLESIASTES?
00:45:38.20\00:45:41.13
>>SOLOMON.
>>SOLOMON. THE LESSON HERE IS ON
00:45:41.13\00:45:44.06
THE JOY OF THE LORD - THIS
WEDNESDAY - "FOR IN MUCH WISDOM
00:45:44.06\00:45:47.30
IS MUCH GRIEF: AND HE THAT
INCREASETH KNOWLEDGE INCREASETH
00:45:47.30\00:45:52.00
SORROW." WOW, WAIT A SECOND. I
THOUGHT THAT THE MORE YOU KNOW,
00:45:52.00\00:45:58.00
THE MORE JOY YOU'LL HAVE.
YOU EVER HEARD THE EXPRESSION
00:45:58.00\00:46:01.06
'IGNORANCE IS BLISS?' >>UH HUH.
00:46:01.06\00:46:04.20
>>HAVE YOU EVER WISHED YOU
DIDN'T KNOW SOMETHING OR YOU
00:46:04.20\00:46:08.16
HADN'T HEARD OR
HADN'T SEEN SOMETHING?
00:46:08.16\00:46:10.50
ONE REASON CHILDREN CAN ENJOY
LIFE AS MUCH AS THEY CAN IS THEY
00:46:10.50\00:46:13.73
DON'T ALWAYS KNOW THE STRUGGLES
MOM AND DAD ARE GOING THROUGH.
00:46:13.73\00:46:18.16
THEY DON'T ALWAYS KNOW
THE PROBLEMS IN THE WORLD, THE
00:46:18.16\00:46:20.93
DANGERS - YOU'VE EVEN SEEN
KIDS PLAYING ON WAR-TORN STREETS
00:46:20.93\00:46:23.60
LAUGHING. I HAVE
ANYWAY, BECAUSE THEY
00:46:23.60\00:46:27.53
JUST, MAYBE, ARE NOT
ABLE TO COMPREHEND IT.
00:46:27.53\00:46:30.00
SO WHY DOES SOLOMON SAY
THAT THERE AND IT SAYS IN
00:46:30.00\00:46:34.06
ECCLESIASTES 7:12, "FOR WISDOM
IS A DEFENSE, AND MONEY IS A
00:46:34.06\00:46:38.43
DEFENSE: BUT THE EXCELLENCY
OF KNOWLEDGE IS, THAT WISDOM
00:46:38.43\00:46:42.10
GIVETH LIFE TO
THEM THAT HAVE IT."
00:46:42.10\00:46:45.06
WISDOM GIVES LIFE
TO HIM THAT HAS IT.
00:46:45.06\00:46:47.83
WHY DOES HE SAY THAT WHEN
KNOWLEDGE INCREASES, SORROW
00:46:47.83\00:46:50.70
INCREASES? WELL,
SOMETIMES IT MEANS YOU
00:46:50.70\00:46:54.73
HAVE MORE TO WORRY ABOUT
BECAUSE YOU HAVE TOO MUCH.
00:46:54.73\00:46:58.03
GO AHEAD, READ
FOR US PROVERBS 15:15.
00:46:58.03\00:47:00.76
AND THIS IS REALLY WHERE WE WANT
TO TAKE THE DISCUSSION, BUT I
00:47:00.76\00:47:02.96
JUST WANT YOU TO
THINK ABOUT BOTH SIDES.
00:47:02.96\00:47:04.66
>>"ALL THE DAYS OF THE AFFLICTED
ARE EVIL, BUT HE WHO IS OF A
00:47:04.66\00:47:09.00
MERRY HEART HAS
A CONTINUAL FEAST."
00:47:09.00\00:47:12.56
>>SOME PEOPLE ACTUALLY HAVE TO
GO TO A PARTY OF FEAST TO HAVE
00:47:12.56\00:47:15.83
THAT TEMPORARY JOY, BUT IF A
PERSON HAS PEACE WITHIN, THEY'VE
00:47:15.83\00:47:19.86
GOT A PARTY ALL THE TIME.
YOU KNOW ANYBODY LIKE THAT?
00:47:19.86\00:47:23.10
THEY'RE JUST ONE OF THESE
SANGUINE PEOPLE AND THEY JUST
00:47:23.10\00:47:26.06
TAKE THEIR PARTY WITH THEM FROM
PLACE TO PLACE BECAUSE THEY'RE
00:47:26.06\00:47:28.16
JUST HAPPY AND
THEY'VE GOT A GOOD ATTITUDE.
00:47:28.16\00:47:31.53
MRS. BATCHELOR IS LIKE THAT.
SHE'S JUST - IF YOU GET HER
00:47:31.53\00:47:34.80
AROUND PEOPLE IT'S ALWAYS A
PARTY - YOU JUST - RIGHT AWAY.
00:47:34.80\00:47:37.46
PROVERBS 15:17, "BETTER IS A
DINNER OF HERBS WHERE LOVE IS,
00:47:37.46\00:47:42.76
THAN A FATTED CALF WITH HATRED."
00:47:42.76\00:47:45.93
IF YOU'RE LIVING IN A POOR
FAMILY WHERE YOU JUST DON'T HAVE
00:47:45.93\00:47:50.10
MUCH TO EAT, YOU'VE JUST GOT
A FEW HERBS - YOU'VE GOT A FEW
00:47:50.10\00:47:53.86
VEGGIES YOU'VE PULLED - EATING A
POTATO AND AN ONION FOR DINNER,
00:47:53.86\00:47:56.40
BUT YOU'VE GOT LOVE AND
HAPPINESS, YOU'RE BETTER OFF
00:47:56.40\00:48:00.13
THAN IF YOU'RE IN A
MANSION WHERE THERE'S STRIFE AND
00:48:00.13\00:48:03.03
DISTRUST AND ANGER.
SOLOMON WOULD KNOW ABOUT THAT.
00:48:03.03\00:48:07.36
PROVERBS 15:23, "A MAN HAS JOY
BY THE ANSWER OF HIS MOUTH, AND
00:48:07.36\00:48:13.43
A WORD SPOKEN IN DUE
SEASON, HOW GOOD IT IS!"
00:48:13.43\00:48:17.30
NOW I DON'T REMEMBER THE VERSE,
BUT I KNOW THAT SOLOMON SAYS, 'A
00:48:17.30\00:48:21.50
WORD FITLY SPOKEN IS LIKE AN
APPLE OF GOLD IN A SETTING OF
00:48:21.50\00:48:26.20
SILVER.' OR IN
PICTURES OF SILVER - A COUPLE OF
00:48:26.20\00:48:29.76
TRANSLATIONS. THE
RIGHT WORD CAN REALLY CHEER
00:48:29.76\00:48:32.66
A PERSON UP AND A MAN HAS
JOY BY THE ANSWER OF HIS MOUTH.
00:48:32.66\00:48:36.83
SOMETIMES YOU CAN JUST SAY THE
RIGHT THING AND JUST REALLY MAKE
00:48:36.83\00:48:39.66
A PERSON'S DAY
AND ENCOURAGE THEM.
00:48:39.66\00:48:41.46
A COMPLIMENT - A
WORD OF ENCOURAGEMENT.
00:48:41.46\00:48:43.40
IS JOY SOMETHING A CHRISTIAN
SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF OR IS JOY
00:48:43.40\00:48:49.43
SOMETHING GOD
WANTS US TO HAVE. YEAH.
00:48:49.43\00:48:52.03
HOW CAN YOU ADVERTISE FOR PEOPLE
TO BE CHRISTIANS IF YOU'RE
00:48:52.03\00:48:55.60
MOROSE ALL THE TIME AND
NEGATIVE? IT DOESN'T WANT TO
00:48:55.60\00:48:59.36
WIN ANYBODY - DON'T YOU WANT TO
BE AROUND PEOPLE THAT HAVE JOY?
00:48:59.36\00:49:01.76
AND, YOU KNOW, ONE OF
THE REASONS THAT I BECAME A
00:49:01.76\00:49:05.10
CHRISTIAN IS I MET A MARRIED
COUPLE THAT WERE ALWAYS HAPPY.
00:49:05.10\00:49:09.10
EVERY TIME I SAW THEM THEY WERE
PRAISING GOD, THEY WERE SMILING.
00:49:09.10\00:49:12.23
THE PASTOR THAT
BAPTIZED ME, HE AND HIS WIFE,
00:49:12.23\00:49:14.16
THEY REALLY KNEW
THE JOY OF THE LORD.
00:49:14.16\00:49:16.10
AND EVEN THOUGH I KNOW THEY HAD
HEARTACHE AND TRIAL, THEY JUST -
00:49:16.10\00:49:20.36
THEY HAD THIS REAL JOY AND
I SAID, 'YOU KNOW, THEY DON'T
00:49:20.36\00:49:22.73
DRINK, THEY DON'T USE DRUGS
AND THEY'RE HAPPY ALL THE TIME.
00:49:22.73\00:49:25.80
WHAT DO THEY HAVE AND
WHAT ARE THEY TAKING?'
00:49:25.80\00:49:28.63
MY FATHER COULD NEVER UNDERSTAND
MY GRANDPARENTS BECAUSE MY
00:49:28.63\00:49:32.80
GRANDPARENTS NEVER DRANK, BUT
WHENEVER HE WENT OVER TO THEIR
00:49:32.80\00:49:35.66
HOUSE, MY GRANDMOTHER PLAYED THE
PIANO, MY GRANDFATHER SANG, AND
00:49:35.66\00:49:37.96
THEY JUST - YOU KNOW, JUST
GREGARIOUS AND VIVACIOUS AND HE
00:49:37.96\00:49:43.16
SAID, 'HOW DO YOU GUYS HAVE SO
MUCH FUN WITH NO BOOZE?' THAT'S
00:49:43.16\00:49:46.66
WHAT MY FATHER USED TO SAY.
SO CHRISTIANS SHOULD BE HAPPY.
00:49:46.66\00:49:51.70
I THINK BILLY SUNDAY SAID,
'IF YOU HAVE NO JOY IN YOUR
00:49:51.70\00:49:54.80
RELIGION, THERE'S A LEAK IN YOUR
CHRISTIANITY SOMEWHERE.' JOB
00:49:54.80\00:49:59.16
8:21, "HE WILL YET FILL YOUR
MOUTH WITH LAUGHING AND YOUR
00:49:59.16\00:50:03.50
LIPS WITH REJOICING."
LAUGHTER IS NOT A SIN.
00:50:03.50\00:50:06.76
NOW THE BIBLE SAYS WE SHOULD
AVOID FOOLISH JESTING AND, YOU
00:50:06.76\00:50:09.93
KNOW, THERE'S A TYPE OF
HUMOR THAT'S JUST TOTALLY
00:50:09.93\00:50:12.80
INAPPROPRIATE, BUT I
THINK GOD - YOU JUST LOOK AT THE
00:50:12.80\00:50:16.23
CREATURES HE MADE
AND THERE'S STUFF.
00:50:16.23\00:50:19.90
WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS PUPPY AND
AS MUCH AS A CHALLENGE HE IS AT
00:50:19.90\00:50:24.76
TIMES, SOMETIMES HE JUST
GETS THIS - HE JUST GETS FULL OF
00:50:24.76\00:50:29.73
ENERGY AND HE'LL GRAB A SHOE AND
- HE WAS TAKING EVERYONE'S SHOES
00:50:29.73\00:50:32.86
SO WE GAVE HIM HIS OWN SHOE
THAT DIDN'T FIT ANYBODY ANYMORE.
00:50:32.86\00:50:35.26
HE RUNS AROUND THE HOUSE
AND WE JUST START LAUGHING.
00:50:35.26\00:50:37.50
HE RUNS INTO THE WALL AND
HE JUST - ATTACKING THIS SHOE -
00:50:37.50\00:50:41.33
AND SO, YOU KNOW, I THINK GOD
INSPIRED US THIS WAY. YOU KNOW
00:50:41.33\00:50:44.56
THEY FOUND OUT -
THEY'VE DONE A NUMBER OF ANIMAL
00:50:44.56\00:50:46.63
STUDIES AND ANIMALS LAUGH.
YOU KNOW, IT'S EASIER TO SENSE
00:50:46.63\00:50:50.03
IF - DOLPHINS, THEY
LAUGH. CHIMPANZEES - THEY'LL SEE
00:50:50.03\00:50:55.80
SOMETHING HAPPEN TO ANOTHER
CHIMPANZEE AND THEY LET OUT THIS
00:50:55.80\00:50:58.50
SQUEAL AND THEY LAUGH.
THEY'LL EVEN ROLL AROUND.
00:50:58.50\00:51:01.10
AND SO, YOU KNOW, GOD, I THINK,
MADE HIS CREATURES WITH HUMOR.
00:51:01.10\00:51:05.13
NOW PEOPLE STRUGGLE WITH THIS
SO I WANT TO BE CLEAR, THE BIBLE
00:51:05.13\00:51:09.23
SAYS JESUS WAS A MAN OF SORROWS
AND ACQUAINTED WITH GRIEF.
00:51:09.23\00:51:12.86
HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDERED THAT
ONE REASON THAT JESUS WAS A MAN
00:51:12.86\00:51:15.56
OF SORROWS IS BECAUSE OF WHERE
SOLOMON SAID 'IN MUCH WISDOM IS
00:51:15.56\00:51:19.23
MUCH GRIEF?' JESUS
KNEW ABOUT THE BATTLE
00:51:19.23\00:51:22.53
BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL.
JESUS KNEW WHAT HIS FUTURE WAS.
00:51:22.53\00:51:24.43
JESUS KNEW THAT MOST OF THE
PEOPLE HE PREACHED TO WOULD NOT
00:51:24.43\00:51:27.53
ACCEPT HIM. CAN YOU IMAGINE
HAVING THAT KIND OF BURDEN
00:51:27.53\00:51:30.86
ONCE HE REALIZED HIS MISSION
FOR LIFE? HE HAD A LOT OF WISDOM
00:51:30.86\00:51:34.60
THAT JUST PROBABLY SOBERED
HIM UP A LOT. BUT HE WAS STILL
00:51:34.60\00:51:39.60
A PERSON OF JOY.
CHILDREN WERE ATTRACTED TO HIM.
00:51:39.60\00:51:42.03
AND SO, I DON'T WANT YOU TO
ALWAYS PICTURE A JESUS THAT IS
00:51:42.03\00:51:45.46
SAD, EVEN THOUGH IT DOES
SAY HE WAS A MAN OF SORROWS.
00:51:45.46\00:51:48.06
HE WAS ACQUAINTED WITH IT
BUT HE HAD JOY IN HIS LIFE.
00:51:48.06\00:51:51.16
LAST SECTION IS TALKING
ABOUT THE SOVEREIGNTY OF GOD FOR
00:51:51.16\00:51:57.20
THURSDAY - LAST ONE
WE'RE GOING TO COVER.
00:51:57.20\00:51:59.70
PROVERBS - IF YOU LOOK, FOR
INSTANCE, IN PROVERBS 16:1 - AND
00:51:59.70\00:52:03.80
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR
ME PROVERBS 20:24. WHO HAS THAT?
00:52:03.80\00:52:08.06
YOU'VE GOT TO PASS
THE MICROPHONE, OKAY?
00:52:08.06\00:52:10.40
PROVERBS CHAPTER 16:1, "THE
PREPARATIONS OF THE HEART BELONG
00:52:10.40\00:52:14.46
TO MAN, BUT THE ANSWER OF
THE TONGUE IS FROM THE LORD."
00:52:14.46\00:52:18.10
YOU KNOW, REALLY,
GOD CONTROLS EVERYTHING.
00:52:18.10\00:52:23.10
THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE DON'T
HAVE A CHOICE, BUT GOD STILL IS
00:52:23.10\00:52:26.00
SOVEREIGN, MEANING HE CAN WORK
ANYTHING OUT NO MATTER HOW BENT
00:52:26.00\00:52:29.83
WE ARE IN DOING THINGS OUR
OWN WAY, GOD CAN EITHER BLESS
00:52:29.83\00:52:33.10
OR CONFOUND
WHATEVER WE MIGHT PLAN.
00:52:33.10\00:52:34.83
AND WHEN IT SAYS THE ANSWER
IS FROM THE LORD, YOU CAN'T EVEN
00:52:34.83\00:52:39.96
GIVE AN ANSWER
WITHOUT GOD ALLOWING IT.
00:52:39.96\00:52:43.16
WHAT HAPPENED WHEN BALAAM TRIED
TO CURSE WHO GOD HAD BLESSED?
00:52:43.16\00:52:48.26
WELL, HE WASN'T STRUCK DUMB,
ACTUALLY, HE OPENED HIS MOUTH
00:52:48.26\00:52:53.80
AND A BLESSING CAME OUT
EVEN THOUGH HE WANTED TO CURSE.
00:52:53.80\00:52:57.46
THE DONKEY, I THINK PASTOR JOHN
LOMACANG'S GOT A SERMON CALLED
00:52:57.46\00:53:01.76
'DUMB AND DUMBER' TALKING
ABOUT BALAAM AND HIS DONKEY.
00:53:01.76\00:53:04.46
HE STARTS TO ARGUE WITH HIS
DONKEY. BUT THE DONKEY, HE WAS
00:53:04.46\00:53:08.83
ABLE TO SPEAK - BUT HE COULDN'T
EVEN CONTROL WHAT HE SAID.
00:53:08.83\00:53:11.33
AND SO GOD IS ULTIMATELY
SOVEREIGN. AND THIS IS THE VERSE
00:53:11.33\00:53:15.80
I ESPECIALLY WANT YOU
TO REMEMBER. GO AHEAD READ
00:53:15.80\00:53:17.93
PROVERBS 20, VERSE 24.
>>"A MAN'S STEPS ARE OF THE
00:53:17.93\00:53:22.03
LORD; HOW THEN CAN A
MAN UNDERSTAND HIS OWN WAY?"
00:53:22.03\00:53:26.03
>>NOW GOD DOES GIVE US A CHOICE
AND WHAT SEPARATES THE SAVED
00:53:26.03\00:53:29.76
FROM THE LOST IS NOT THAT
GOD HAS NOT WILLED ALL MEN TO BE
00:53:29.76\00:53:33.43
SAVED, BECAUSE THE BIBLE
SAYS GOD IS NOT WILLING THAT ANY
00:53:33.43\00:53:36.83
SHOULD PERISH, BUT GOD KNOWS HOW
TO WORK PURPOSES OUT AND HE CAN
00:53:36.83\00:53:41.30
WORK IN THE HEARTS OF PEOPLE
AND HE CAN LEAD PEOPLE. SO IF WE
00:53:41.30\00:53:44.83
CHOOSE TO COOPERATE WITH THE
SOVEREIGNTY AND THE PROVIDENCE
00:53:44.83\00:53:48.63
OF GOD, THEN WONDERFUL
THINGS HAPPEN FOR ETERNITY.
00:53:48.63\00:53:52.36
SO WITH THAT, I SEE BY THE CLOCK
WE'VE RUN OUT OF TIME, BUT I
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WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT WE
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NEXT WEEK WE'LL BE
STUDYING LESSON #7.
00:54:17.30\00:54:20.63
GOD BLESS YOU UNTIL WE
GATHER TOGETHER TO STUDY AGAIN.
00:54:20.63\00:54:25.90
>>I GREW UP IN A
CHURCH-GOING FAMILY.
00:54:25.90\00:54:28.26
I MEAN, WE WERE
AT EVERY MEETING.
00:54:28.26\00:54:30.13
I SANG IN FOUR OF THE
CHOIRS THERE. I DIRECTED THREE.
00:54:30.13\00:54:34.20
VERY INVOLVED, VERY ACTIVE.
IT ALMOST SEEMED LIKE BUSY WORK
00:54:34.20\00:54:39.23
SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW?
I WENT TO SUNDAY SCHOOL.
00:54:39.23\00:54:42.16
I KNEW ABOUT GOD. I KNEW
ABOUT JESUS BUT I DIDN'T HAVE A
00:54:42.16\00:54:47.00
PERSONAL
RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST.
00:54:47.00\00:54:49.76
MY SENIOR YEAR IN HIGH SCHOOL I
GOT THE NEWS THAT MY FATHER HAD
00:54:49.76\00:54:56.70
BEEN MURDERED. I PLAYED IT
OFF WELL. NO ONE REALLY SAW
00:54:56.70\00:55:01.80
THAT I WAS STRUGGLING WITH
IT. IT JUST REALLY FELT LIKE
00:55:01.80\00:55:09.30
THERE WAS A HOLE THAT NEEDED TO
BE FILLED AND I TRIED TO FILL IT
00:55:09.30\00:55:12.90
WITH DRUGS, WITH
ALCOHOL, WITH PARTYING.
00:55:12.90\00:55:17.10
AFTER COLLEGE I JUST STOPPED
GOING TO CHURCH ALTOGETHER.
00:55:17.10\00:55:22.83
ONE DAY, ON A SUNDAY, BECAUSE I
DIDN'T FEEL LIKE GOING TO CHURCH
00:55:22.83\00:55:26.90
WITH MY MOM, I THOUGHT, 'YOU
KNOW, I SHOULD GET A LITTLE BIT
00:55:26.90\00:55:31.56
OF WORD.' SHE HAD THE SATELLITE
SYSTEM HOOKED UP AND I'M
00:55:31.56\00:55:35.33
FLIPPING THROUGH CHANNELS
AND THEN THE LOGO POPS ACROSS -
00:55:35.33\00:55:38.80
AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS .
00:55:38.80\00:55:41.13
I'VE LISTENED TO A LOT OF
DIFFERENT MINISTERS, BUT HERE
00:55:41.13\00:55:44.03
WAS - THIS WAS THE FIRST
TIME THAT HE'S ACTUALLY SAYING
00:55:44.03\00:55:46.50
SOMETHING WHERE I HAD TO GRAB
MY BIBLE AND ACTUALLY PICK IT UP
00:55:46.50\00:55:49.30
AND I'VE NEVER
HEARD THIS BEFORE.
00:55:49.30\00:55:51.96
LET ME LOOK
THROUGH AND FIND THIS.
00:55:51.96\00:55:53.90
I WENT THROUGH
ALL THE STORACLES.
00:55:53.90\00:55:55.46
I WENT THROUGH ALL THE STUDY
GUIDES AND I JUST COULDN'T GET
00:55:55.46\00:55:58.03
ENOUGH. AND THEN
THE SABBATH CAME UP AND
00:55:58.03\00:56:00.43
HE'S GOING THROUGH THE APPEAL
AND I'M JUST GOING, 'LORD, I
00:56:00.43\00:56:03.83
HEAR YOU. I HAVE
TO GO TO CHURCH.' SO I
00:56:03.83\00:56:07.26
SHOW UP - IT WAS FUNNY, I DIDN'T
FEEL LIKE I WAS GOING TO BE
00:56:07.26\00:56:10.13
JUDGED - ANYTHING
JUDGMENTAL - ANYTHING.
00:56:10.13\00:56:14.16
AND I WALKED IN THE
DOOR AND I JUST FELT AT HOME.
00:56:14.16\00:56:16.60
BUT THERE'S STILL A
PROBLEM. I'M STILL PARTYING.
00:56:16.60\00:56:22.73
I WAS STILL
GOING OUT TO THE BARS.
00:56:22.73\00:56:24.60
AT THIS TIME, I WAS
SELLING COCAINE TO PAY MY RENT.
00:56:24.60\00:56:28.00
SIXTEEN DAYS LATER I FIND MYSELF
IN A LIFE OR DEATH SITUATION.
00:56:28.00\00:56:33.83
I HAD JUST CAME BACK FROM A
LIQUOR STORE AND I GRABBED A
00:56:33.83\00:56:37.66
BOTTLE OF VODKA AND THERE I AM,
HIGH OFF COCAINE, WITH MY BIBLE
00:56:37.66\00:56:43.46
IN HAND, TRYING TO DO A BIBLE
STUDY AND I HEARD AN AUDIBLE
00:56:43.46\00:56:50.10
VOICE 'JUST LOOK AT YOURSELF.'
AND I DID AND I WAS LIKE
00:56:50.10\00:56:56.40
'WHAT AM I DOING?'
AND I GOT ON MY KNEES.
00:56:56.40\00:57:01.43
I SAID, 'LORD, IF YOU DO NOT
TAKE THIS AWAY FROM ME NOW, I'M
00:57:01.43\00:57:05.20
GOING TO KILL MYSELF.' I WAS
GOING TO CONTINUE THIS LIFESTYLE
00:57:05.20\00:57:10.06
AND I WAS GOING TO END UP
OVERDOSING - HAVING A HEART
00:57:10.06\00:57:13.70
ATTACK - WHATEVER IT WAS.
'YOU HAVE TO TAKE THIS AWAY.
00:57:13.70\00:57:18.30
ALL OF IT.' AND THAT DAY HE
LIFTED ALL OF IT AWAY FROM ME.
00:57:18.30\00:57:27.36
IT WAS ALL GONE.
00:57:27.36\00:57:29.20
WHEN GOD DOES SOMETHING IN
YOUR LIFE, HE DOES IT COMPLETE.
00:57:29.20\00:57:42.20
>>DID YOU KNOW THAT NOAH WAS
PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM?
00:57:42.20\00:57:44.86
OKAY, MAYBE HE WASN'T IN
THE ROOM, BUT HE WAS ALIVE AND
00:57:44.86\00:57:48.73
PROBABLY TELLING
STORIES ABOUT HIS FLOATING ZOO.
00:57:48.73\00:57:51.80
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