Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: SSH
Program Code: SSH021509A
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00:34 >>HELLO FRIENDS, I'D LIKE TO WELCOME YOU, AGAIN, TO 00:36 SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR. 00:38 TO THOSE JOINING US ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD, A 00:41 VERY SPECIAL WELCOME TO YOU AND ALSO TO OUR LOCAL AUDIENCE HERE 00:44 IN GRANITE BAY - THE MEMBERS OF THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH - THANK 00:47 YOU FOR JOINING US AGAIN THIS EVENING. 00:48 WE'VE BEEN STUDYING THROUGH OUR LESSON QUARTERLY ON THE BOOK OF 00:51 PROVERBS AND TODAY WE FIND OURSELVES IN LESSON #9 DEALING 00:55 WITH WORDS OF TRUTH. THE PRIME PASSAGE THAT WE'RE 00:58 LOOKING AT IS PROVERBS CHAPTER 22 AND 23. 01:01 WE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO LET YOU KNOW ABOUT A FREE BOOK THAT WE 01:04 HAVE - THOSE JOINING US ONLINE AND ON THE TELEVISION, YOU CAN 01:08 ASK FOR OFFER #187 IS IT POSSIBLE TO LIVE WITHOUT 01:12 SINNING ? WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND THAT TO 01:14 ANYBODY WHO CALLS AND ASKS. THE NUMBER IS 866-788-3966. 01:21 YOU CAN ALSO READ THE BOOK FOR FREE ONLINE AT THE AMAZING FACTS 01:25 WEBSITE - JUST AMAZINGFACTS.ORG. WELL, BEFORE WE BEGIN OUR STUDY, 01:30 LET'S JUST BOW OUR HEADS AND HAVE A WORD OF PRAYER. 01:33 DEAR FATHER, WE THANK YOU THAT WE CAN GATHER TOGETHER TO STUDY 01:35 THE BIBLE. WE RECOGNIZE THAT THE SCRIPTURES ARE FILLED WITH 01:39 PRACTICAL WISDOM FOR EVERYDAY LIVING BUT, EVEN MORE 01:42 IMPORTANTLY, IT DIRECTS US TO THE SOURCE OF ALL TRUE WISDOM, 01:45 AND THAT BEING GOD. FATHER, WE ASK A SPECIAL BLESSING UPON OUR 01:48 TIME TOGETHER. GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND OUR MINDS AS WE OPEN UP THE 01:51 SCRIPTURES, FOR WE ASK THIS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 01:55 OUR LESSON WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. 01:59 THANK YOU PASTOR DOUG. >>THANK YOU, PASTOR ROSS. 02:03 AND THANK YOU, OUR CLASS, FOR YOUR PATIENCE. 02:08 FOR THOSE THAT ARE WATCHING, JUST TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE 02:10 BEHIND-THE-SCENES STORY, MS. BATCHELOR AND I LEFT THE 02:13 HOUSE IN PLENTY OF TIME TO GET HERE FOR THE REGULAR TIME WHEN 02:16 WE RECORD OUR SABBATH SCHOOL PROGRAM, AND THEY HAD A 14-CAR 02:21 ACCIDENT ON THE INTERSTATE. IT DIDN'T LOOK LIKE ANYONE WAS 02:24 SERIOUSLY HURT, BUT IT JUST TOTALLY LOCKED UP INTERSTATE 80. 02:28 AND SO, WE HAD SOME QUALITY TIME TOGETHER JUST PARKED AND I 02:33 CALLED IN AND SAID, 'TELL THEM JUST KEEP ON SINGING.' SO THANK 02:36 YOU FOR WAITING. I'M SORRY THAT WE'RE LATE. 02:38 YOU KNOW, WE PROMISED LAST WEEK THAT WE'D GIVE YOU A LITTLE 02:40 REPORT ON SOME VERY EXCITING THINGS THAT HAPPENED. 02:43 A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, PASTOR ROSS AND I AND THE AMAZING 02:46 FACTS/AFCOE TEAM WERE ON THE ISLAND OF JAMAICA AND WE HAD 02:50 SOME VERY EXCITING EXPERIENCES THERE - DID A WEEK OF PRAYER AT 02:54 THE NORTHERN CARIBBEAN UNIVERSITY AND THEN WE WENT ON 02:57 TO THE CITY OF KINGSTON TO DO A NATIONAL RALLY. 03:01 AND SO, WE JUST HAVE A LITTLE VIDEO CLIP WE'D LIKE TO ROLL IN 03:04 NOW AND GIVE YOU A REPORT ON THAT LITTLE MISSION PROJECT.' 03:08 (MUSIC) >>HERE IN JAMAICA WE'VE HAD SOME REALLY EXCITING 03:14 EXPERIENCES HERE JUST DRIVING AROUND THE COUNTRY. FOR ONE 03:17 THING, WE STOPPED AT A WIND FARM WHERE THEY HAVE THESE BIG 03:20 ELECTRIC WINDMILLS, SO WE COULD VIDEOTAPE AN AMAZING FACT, AND 03:24 THE LADY WHO WAS THE SECURITY GUARD GUARDING THE WINDMILLS, 03:27 SHE WAS A LITTLE APPREHENSIVE ABOUT OUR TAPING THERE. 03:29 SO WE GAVE HER A CAVEMAN BOOK AND SHE SOFTENED AND SAID, 'GO 03:33 AHEAD, VIDEOTAPE.' WHEN WE CAME BACK FROM OUR VIDEOTAPING SHE 03:36 SAID SHE HAD ALREADY STARTED READING THE BOOK. 03:38 SHE HAD BIBLE QUESTIONS, THAT LED INTO A BIBLE STUDY. 03:41 SHE ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE SABBATH. 03:42 THEN SHE OPENED HER HEART. THEN WE HAD PRAYER TOGETHER. 03:49 WE WENT FROM THAT EXPERIENCE, DRIVING DOWN A HOT ROAD ON OUR 03:52 WAY BACK TO THE HOTEL, AND THERE WAS THIS MAN PULLING A ROLLER 03:56 BAG FULL OF VERY HEAVY CAR PARTS DOWN THE ROAD. 03:59 WE ASKED HIM IF HE NEEDED A RIDE. 04:01 HE LOOKED LIKE HE WAS REALLY STRUGGLING. 04:03 HE HAD A LONG WAY TO GO. HE WAS A LITTLE APPREHENSIVE 04:05 BECAUSE I THINK HE THOUGHT WE WERE GOING TO CHARGE HIM. 04:07 AND WE SAID, 'NO, CLIMB IN.' WE FOUND OUT HE WAS A SEVENTH-DAY 04:11 ADVENTIST WHO'S BEEN WATCHING THE PROGRAM FOR YEARS AND HE WAS 04:13 JUST BESIDE HIMSELF THAT HE WAS WITH AMAZING FACTS IN A CAR. 04:17 WE ARE SO THANKFUL. WE HAD NO IDEA HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE BEING 04:20 IMPACTED BY THE MINISTRY ON THIS ISLAND. 04:22 (MUSIC) 04:31 >>WELL, THAT WAS REALLY EXCITING. 04:33 WE HAD A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE THERE IN JAMAICA AND WE WANT TO 04:37 SEND GREETINGS TO OUR EXTENDED CLASS THERE THAT WE KNOW 04:39 TUNES IN AND JOINS US FOR OUR STUDY. 04:42 WELL, AS PASTOR ROSS SAID, WE'RE CONTINUING IN OUR STUDY ON 04:46 PROVERBS. AND I'M LEARNING A LOT. I HOPE YOU ARE. 04:49 I'VE BEEN TRYING TO READ THROUGH THE ENTIRE BOOK OF PROVERBS AS 04:52 WE PREPARE. EVEN THOUGH WE CAN'T ALWAYS GO 04:55 POINT BY POINT THROUGH EVERY PROVERB IN OUR STUDY TIME. 04:59 AND LESSON #9 WORDS OF TRUTH - OUR MEMORY VERSE IS PROVERBS 22, 05:04 VERSES 20 AND 21, AND THIS IS IN THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION HERE 05:09 IN YOUR LESSON. WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY THAT WITH ME? YOU READY? 05:12 "HAVE I NOT WRITTEN TO YOU EXCELLENT THINGS OF COUNSELS AND 05:17 KNOWLEDGE, THAT I MAY MAKE YOU KNOW THE CERTAINTY OF THE WORDS 05:22 OF TRUTH, THAT YOU MAY ANSWER WORDS OF TRUTH TO THOSE WHO SEND 05:27 TO YOU?" WHAT IS WORTH MORE THAN TRUTH? 05:32 I CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING AND - ESPECIALLY IS IT NEEDED IN OUR 05:37 DAY AND AGE NOW WHEN EVERYBODY BELIEVES THAT EVERYTHING IS 05:41 RELATIVE. THERE ARE CERTAIN ABSOLUTES AND 05:44 I BELIEVE IN WHAT YOU CALL 'ABSOLUTE TRUTHS.' I DON'T CLAIM 05:47 TO KNOW ABSOLUTE TRUTH. THAT'S A DIFFERENT THING. 05:49 BUT BELIEVING THERE ARE ABSOLUTE TRUTHS, I THINK, IS CRUCIAL FOR 05:54 A CHRISTIAN IN THIS MORPHINE CULTURE WHERE IT SEEMS LIKE 05:57 EVERYONE SAYS, 'WELL, THAT'S GOOD. AND THAT'S THE TRUTH FOR 06:00 YOU AND I'VE GOT THE TRUTH FOR ME AND EVERYBODY HAS THEIR OWN 06:03 TRUTH AND YOUR TRUTH WILL GIVE YOU YOUR, YOU KNOW, HAPPY END 06:07 AND MY TRUTH WILL BRING ME MY HAPPY END.' AND TO ME, THAT IS 06:13 SO ABSURD BECAUSE YOU WOULD NEVER WANT TO GO TO A BRAIN 06:14 SURGEON THAT HAD THAT APPROACH ON MEDICINE. 06:17 YOU WOULD NOT WANT TO GET ON AN AIRPLANE WHERE A PILOT COMES 06:20 OVER THE LOUDSPEAKER AND SAYS, 'WELL, SOME PILOTS BELIEVE IN 06:22 CERTAIN AVIATION LAWS AND OTHERS BELIEVE IN DIFFERENT AVIATION 06:25 LAWS AND TODAY WE'RE GOING TO TRY SOMETHING NEW BECAUSE I'M 06:28 SINCERE.' SO YOU KNOW THAT THERE ARE ABSOLUTE TRUTHS AND PEOPLE 06:34 MAY NOT UNDERSTAND A LOT, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THERE ISN'T AN 06:36 ABSOLUTE TRUTH. AND GOD IS THE TRUTH. WE HAVE A NUMBER OF 06:41 VERSES AND - JUST TO GET YOU SET UP, SOMEONE SHOULD HAVE 06:45 JOHN 1:14 - AND YOU'LL HAVE THAT IN JUST A MOMENT, OKAY. 06:49 PROVERBS 23:23, "BUY THE TRUTH, AND DO NOT SELL IT, ALSO WISDOM 06:56 AND INSTRUCTION AND UNDERSTANDING." 06:59 ANY OF YOU REMEMBER IN ISAIAH 55 IT SAYS, "HO YE - 07:04 THAT EVERYONE WHO THIRSTS COME YE TO THE WATERS. 07:07 HE THAT HAS NO MONEY, BUY YE AND EAT WITHOUT MONEY AND WITHOUT 07:11 PRICE.' AND HERE IT SAYS, "BUY THE TRUTH, AND DO NOT SELL IT." 07:15 NOTHING IS MORE VALUABLE THAN TRUTH. NOW, WHY IS THAT? 07:19 THINK ABOUT THIS FOR A MOMENT. WHO IS THE EMBODIMENT OF TRUTH? 07:23 >>JESUS IS. >>JESUS IS. 07:26 HE SAID, 'I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE.' SO ANYTIME 07:32 WE EMBRACE THE TRUTH OR ANYTIME WE REJECT THE TRUTH OR WE 07:36 DISMISS THE TRUTH OR WE DENY THE TRUTH, TO SOME EXTENT YOU ARE 07:40 ACCEPTING/DENYING, EMBRACING/REJECTING JESUS, MORE 07:44 OR LESS. AND THAT'S WHY TRUTH IS SO 07:47 IMPORTANT AND HONESTY IS SO IMPORTANT. GO AHEAD, WE'RE 07:52 GOING TO HAVE YOU READ JOHN - THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 1:14. 07:57 >>"AND THE WORD BECAME FLESH AND DWELT AMONG US, AND WE BEHELD 08:00 HIS GLORY, THE GLORY AS OF THE ONLY BEGOTTEN OF THE FATHER, 08:04 FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH." 08:05 >>JESUS - FULL OF GRACE AND TRUTH. 08:07 HE WAS THE EMBODIMENT - HE STILL IS - OF TRUTH. 08:11 AND JESUS SAID - AND WE OFTEN QUOTE THIS VERSE IN JOHN 8:32, 08:15 "AND YOU WILL KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH WILL MAKE YOU FREE." 08:19 YOU KNOW, HOW MANY PEOPLE IN THE WORLD ARE IN BONDAGE, 08:22 LIVING TRYING TO FULFILL LIES. 08:25 YOU THINK SOME OF THE PITIFUL - I MEAN, YOU KNOW, I DON'T WANT 08:29 TO SOUND - I DON'T WANT TO MAKE IT SOUND LIKE CHRISTIANS ARE 08:32 ARROGANT BUT WE'RE CONFIDENT - I AM - ABOUT WHAT I BELIEVE. 08:37 AND I USED TO BELIEVE A LOT OF REALLY BIZARRE THINGS AND THEY, 08:41 YOU KNOW, THEY LEAVE YOU IN BONDAGE. 08:43 THERE ARE DEAR PEOPLE IN THE WORLD AND, AGAIN, I DON'T MEAN 08:47 TO BE CRITICAL, BUT THEY BELIEVE THAT RATS AND MONKEYS AND COWS 08:50 ARE REINCARNATED RELATIVES AND THEY SPEND THEIR LIVES TRYING 08:54 TO GIVE THEM SACRIFICES AND OFFERINGS AND WHAT A 08:56 TERRIBLE BONDAGE THAT KIND OF FAITH IS. 09:00 AND PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN FEAR OF SPIRITS THAT THEY ALWAYS HAVE TO 09:03 APPEASE AND THEY'VE GOT TO WEAR THESE CHARMS AND FETISHES ALL 09:06 THE TIME AND - CEASELESS WORKS AND THINGS THEY HAVE TO DO TO 09:12 TRY TO APPEASE THESE GODS AND DEVILS THEY'RE AFRAID OF. 09:15 AND WHEN YOU KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT GOD AND THE GOODNESS OF 09:19 GOD AND THE LOVE OF GOD AND WHO HE IS AND WHAT HE WANTS, IT IS 09:22 SO LIBERATING. AN EXAMPLE: BEFORE I WAS A 09:27 CHRISTIAN I BELIEVED THAT IF YOU'RE GOOD, YOU DIE AND GO TO 09:32 HEAVEN AND IF YOU'RE BAD, YOU DIE, YOU GO TO HELL. 09:37 SOME OF THE SCHOOLS I WENT TO TAUGHT 'AND THERE YOU BURN 09:39 THROUGH CEASELESS AGES.' SO I HAD TWO CHOICES: 1) I COULD 09:44 NOT - YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT HOW AWFUL THAT IS? 09:49 I MEAN, CAN YOU THINK OF ANYTHING MORE AWFUL THAN THE 09:51 CONCEPT THAT YOU MIGHT BE CONSIGNED - AND THAT MOST OF THE 09:54 PEOPLE IN THE WORLD THAT ARE LOST - WILL BE CONSIGNED TO 09:59 ETERNAL TORTURE. YOU KNOW, THE WORLD WAS 10:01 HORRIFIED WHEN WE HEARD ON THE NEWS A LITTLE WHILE BACK ABOUT A 10:05 CAPTIVE THAT ISIS BURNT TO DEATH. 10:08 AND JUST THE IDEA OF EVEN THE SECONDS OR MINUTES THAT 10:14 THAT TOOK AND THE SUFFERING INVOLVED. 10:17 AND EVERYONE IS HORRIFIED AND THEY SAY, 'HOW BARBARIC THOSE 10:20 PEOPLE ARE.' AND THEN CHRISTIANS WILL STAND UP AND SAY, 'BUT IF 10:24 YOU DON'T BEHAVE, GOD IS GOING TO DO THAT TO YOU FOREVER AND 10:29 EVER AND EVER.' AND WHEN YOU GET DONE SAYING 10:33 'FOREVER' FIFTY TIMES, YOU BETTER SAY IT ANOTHER 10:35 FIFTY TIMES AND YOU HAVEN'T STARTED. 10:37 AND AFTER A BILLION YEARS OF BURNING GO BY, YOU STILL HAVEN'T 10:40 TECHNICALLY BEGUN BECAUSE IT'S FOREVER. 10:43 NOW WHEN I LEARNED THE TRUTH ABOUT WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT 10:46 HELL - THERE IS A LAKE OF FIRE AND THERE IS PUNISHMENT, BUT IT 10:50 SAYS THAT THE WICKED ARE BURNT UP. THEY'RE CONSUMED. 10:52 THEY'RE DEVOURED. THEY PERISH. 10:54 AND EVERYONE GETS ACCORDING TO WHAT THEY DESERVE. 10:57 I SAW THE JUSTICE IN THAT. I EVEN SAW THE LOVE OF GOD IN 10:59 THAT AND I COULD FINALLY BREATHE. AND I COULD FINALLY 11:04 SAY, 'GOD IS A GOD OF LOVE.' AND THAT TRUTH - I JUST REALLY FELT 11:07 LIKE I COULD FINALLY THINK SERIOUSLY ABOUT BEING A 11:10 CHRISTIAN BECAUSE I COULD NEVER LOVE A GOD LIKE THAT BEFORE. 11:13 SO KNOWING THE TRUTH - AND THAT'S JUST ONE OF A THOUSAND 11:15 DOCTRINES. KNOWING THE TRUTH SETS YOU FREE. 11:18 KNOWING THE TRUTH ABOUT HEALTH SETS YOU FREE AND YOU START TO 11:23 REALIZE, 'OH MAN, I'VE BEEN KILLING MYSELF. I HAD NO IDEA. 11:27 AND I WONDERED WHY I WAS FEELING MISERABLE. 11:28 I NEVER MADE A CONNECTION BETWEEN MY HEALTH HABITS AND MY 11:32 DIET AND HOW I FELT.' AND FINALLY I REALIZED THAT. 11:35 I THOUGHT, 'OH MAN, I KNEW - I WISH I KNEW THIS AS A KID.' MY 11:38 MOM JUST TANKED US UP WITH TEA AND TWINKIES BEFORE WE WENT TO 11:40 SCHOOL. AND I USED TO THINK - MAN, I WAS 11:43 BOUNCING OFF THE WALLS, GETTING BAD GRADES AND - I WISH I KNEW 11:46 ALL THAT BACK THEN. SO THE TRUTH SETS YOU FREE. 11:50 AND, OF COURSE, SOLOMON REITERATES THAT SEVERAL TIMES. 11:52 JESUS SAID, 'I AM THE WAY, THE TRUTH, AND THE LIFE.' 11:57 AND YOU CAN ALSO READ IN JOHN 18:37, PILATE SAID TO JESUS, 12:02 'ARE YOU A KING THEN?' AND JESUS ANSWERED, 12:05 'YOU SAY, RIGHTLY THAT I'M A KING. 12:06 FOR THIS CAUSE I WAS BORN AND FOR THIS CAUSE I'VE COME INTO 12:09 THE WORLD THAT I SHOULD BEAR WITNESS TO THE TRUTH. 12:13 EVERYONE WHO IS OF THE TRUTH HEARS MY VOICE.' 12:18 YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU LONG FOR TRUTH AND YOU'RE LOOKING FOR 12:19 TRUTH, THE WORDS OF JESUS RESONATE WITH YOU. 12:22 THERE'S SOMETHING INSIDE THAT IT JUST RINGS A BELL AND YOU GO, 12:24 'THAT'S TRUE.' AND YOU JUST KNOW IT. 12:28 AND, OF COURSE, PILATE, AFTER HE HEARD THAT, IT DID SOMETHING FOR 12:32 HIM BUT HE DISMISSED IT AND SAID, 'WHAT IS TRUTH? 12:35 WHO CAN REALLY KNOW?' HOW SAD, FOR SOMEONE TO STAND IN 12:39 THE PRESENCE OF THE EMBODIMENT OF TRUTH AND SHRUG AND SAY, 12:41 'WHAT IS TRUTH?' AND WALK AWAY. 12:44 CAN YOU IMAGINE HOW HE'S GOING TO FEEL IN THE JUDGMENT WHEN HE 12:46 REALIZED HOW CLOSE HE WAS TO PERFECT TRUTH? 12:50 THE TRUTH INCARNATE AND HE SHRUGGED AND SAID WITH SARCASM, 12:55 'WHAT IS TRUTH?' AND WALKED AWAY. PROVERBS 22:1. 12:59 NOW WE'RE REALLY BEGINNING THIS SECTION. OUR ASSIGNMENT IN OUR 13:02 STUDY TODAY IS PROVERBS 22 THROUGH PROVERBS 24. 13:06 WE'RE BOUNCING - IT'S NOT ALL SEQUENTIAL BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, 13:09 SOMETIMES THERE'S TOPICS THAT SOLOMON TALKS ABOUT AND SO OUR 13:11 LESSON'S DIVIDED UP A LITTLE MORE TOPICALLY. 13:14 PROVERBS 22:1, "A GOOD NAME IS TO BE CHOSEN RATHER THAN RICHES, 13:21 LOVING FAVOR RATHER THAN SILVER AND GOLD." YOU KNOW, HAVING 13:28 A LIFE WHERE YOU HAVE A REPUTATION FOR HONESTY, YOU LIVE 13:33 A LIFE OF INTEGRITY - THERE'S NOTHING THAT CAN BEAT THAT. 13:37 THERE'S NOTHING REALLY MORE VALUABLE THAN THAT. 13:39 THEN TO - AND TO BE ABLE TO PASS THAT ON TO YOUR KIDS, THAT YOU 13:44 HAVE A REPUTATION FOR BELIEVING IN GOD - A GOOD NAME. 13:47 LET ME GIVE YOU SOME OTHER VERSES ON THIS. 13:49 IF YOU JUMP BACK TO PROVERBS 10 - I DON'T KNOW IF YOU REMEMBER 13:52 READING THIS ONE - VERSE 7, "THE MEMORY OF THE RIGHTEOUS IS 13:55 BLESSED, BUT THE NAME OF THE WICKED WILL ROT." 13:59 ECCLESIASTES 7, VERSE 1, "A GOOD NAME IS BETTER THAN PRECIOUS 14:04 OINTMENT, AND THE DAY OF ONE'S DEATH THAN THE DAY OF ONE'S 14:08 BIRTH;" IT TALKS ABOUT A GOOD DAY - A GOOD NAME. 14:11 AND THE REASON HE SAYS 'THE DAY OF ONE'S DEATH' IT'S BECAUSE YOU 14:13 - IT'S WHEN YOU END THE RACE, AS A CHRISTIAN. 14:17 AND SO, FOR A BELIEVER, IF YOU END VICTORIOUSLY, THE BIBLE 14:20 SAYS, 'BLESSED IN THE EYES OF THE LORD IS THE DEATH OF HIS 14:24 SAINTS.' THEN YOU JUMP TO PROVERBS 22, VERSE 8 - NO, I'M 14:30 SORRY, PROVERBS 22, VERSE 3, "A PRUDENT MAN SEES EVIL AND HIDES 14:36 HIMSELF, BUT THE SIMPLE PASS ON AND ARE PUNISHED." 14:41 AND THIS - BY THE WAY, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE NOTICED, 14:44 THERE ARE CERTAIN PROVERBS THAT WE'VE READ THAT, LATER IN 14:48 PROVERBS, ARE REPEATED VERBATIM. NOW THE PROVERBS MAY HAVE BEEN 14:53 EDITED AND COMPILED - PROVERBS OF SOLOMON, IF YOU READ, IT SAYS 14:56 SOLOMON UTTERED THOUSANDS. THERE'S NOT THOUSANDS IN THE 14:59 BOOK OF PROVERBS. SO YOU DON'T HAVE THEM ALL. 15:01 AND SOME OF THEM WERE REPEATED ALMOST VERBATIM, WITH JUST 15:05 SLIGHT DIFFERENCES AND SO WE UNDERSTAND THAT HEZEKIAH AND 15:08 SOME OF THE SCRIBES DURING HIS TIME, THEY ASSEMBLED A NUMBER OF 15:13 THESE, BUT THAT PROVERB WE JUST READ IS REPEATED VERBATIM IN 15:18 PROVERBS 27:12. IT SAYS THERE, "A PRUDENT MAN FORESEES EVIL AND 15:22 HIDES HIMSELF; THE SIMPLE PASS ON AND ARE PUNISHED." 15:25 IT SAYS THAT TWICE. WHAT'S AN EXAMPLE OF THAT? 15:28 A PRUDENT MAN - OR WOMAN - FORESEES EVIL AND HIDES 15:32 THEMSELVES, BUT THE SIMPLE PASS ON AND ARE PUNISHED.' IT MEANS 15:37 THAT YOU LISTEN TO TRAFFIC REPORTS AND YOU AVOID THE 15:40 ACCIDENTS. A PRUDENT PERSON FORESEES IT AND 15:45 THEY FIND ANOTHER WAY AROUND - I TOLD KAREN, AS SOON AS I SAW THE 15:47 BRAKE LIGHTS I SAID, 'I OUGHT TO TURN OFF HERE. 15:50 THAT DOESN'T LOOK GOOD UP THERE.' AND I PASSED ON. 15:53 THE SIMPLE PASS ON AND ARE STUCK. WELL, IT MEANS YOU LOOK 15:57 DOWN THE ROAD AND THERE'S A LOT OF ROADS YOU CAN LOOK DOWN. 16:00 YOU MIGHT LOOK DOWN THE ROAD FINANCIALLY. 16:02 YOU AND I PROBABLY KNOW PEOPLE THAT SAW THAT THERE WAS A 16:05 HOUSING BUBBLE AND THEY DECIDED IT WAS TIME TO SELL THEIR HOUSE 16:10 AT THE TOP OF THE MARKET. THAT'S PRUDENT. 16:12 SOME PEOPLE WHO ARE SIMPLE, THEY MAKE INVESTMENTS AND THEY DON'T 16:15 WATCH THEM AND THEY DON'T THINK AND THEY GO ON AND THEY SEE 16:18 EVERYTHING PULL OUT IN FRONT OF THEM. 16:20 SO LOOKING AHEAD IS JUST - THAT'S WISE. 16:24 THINKING AHEAD - YOU SEE TROUBLE DOWN THE ROAD, GOING AROUND IT 16:30 OR STOP. DON'T GO RIGHT OFF INTO THE MIDDLE OF IT. 16:32 PROVERBS 22, VERSE 8, "HE WHO SOWS INIQUITY WILL REAP SORROW, 16:39 AND THE ROD OF HIS ANGER WILL FAIL." 16:42 NOW, HERE YOU'VE GOT SOWING AND REAPING - OF COURSE THERE'S NOT 16:46 JUST DEALING WITH AGRICULTURE. THERE'S A NUMBER OF PASSAGES IN 16:49 THE BIBLE THAT TALK ABOUT HOW YOU CAN'T PLANT MELONS AND, YOU 16:54 KNOW, EXPECT TO GET STRAWBERRIES. 16:57 WHAT YOU PLANT IS WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO GET. 17:01 GALATIANS CHAPTER 6, VERSES 7 AND 8, "DO NOT BE DECEIVED, GOD 17:06 IS NOT MOCKED; FOR WHATEVER A MAN SOWS, THAT HE WILL ALSO 17:09 REAP. FOR HE WHO SOWS TO HIS FLESH 17:12 WILL OF THE FLESH REAP CORRUPTION, BUT HE WHO SOWS TO 17:16 THE SPIRIT WILL OF THE SPIRIT REAP EVERLASTING LIFE." 17:19 NOW WHAT DOES HE MEAN, 'SOWING TO THE FLESH?' 17:21 FIRST OF ALL, I THINK PAUL IS ALLUDING TO SOMETHING SOLOMON IS 17:24 SAYING HERE. SOWING TO THE FLESH WOULD BE IF 17:27 YOU'RE LIVING FOR THE CARNAL LIFE INSTEAD OF THE SPIRITUAL 17:31 LIFE, THAT'S ALL YOU'RE GOING TO GET. 17:35 AND YOU'LL REAP DEATH FROM THAT. JOB 4:8 - NOW WHO CAME FIRST, 17:40 JOB OR SOLOMON? >>JOB. 17:43 >>SO IT COULD BE THAT SOLOMON READ WHAT JOB WROTE. 17:46 JOB 4:8 SAYS, "EVEN AS I HAVE SEEN, THOSE WHO PLOW INIQUITY 17:50 AND SOW TROUBLE REAP THE SAME." 17:53 DIDN'T JESUS SAY, 'HE THAT LIVES BY THE SWORD, DIES BY THE 17:56 SWORD?' WHAT YOU SOW YOU'RE GOING TO 17:58 REAP AND IT'S OFTEN TRUE THAT PEOPLE DIE THE WAY THEY LIVE. 18:05 AND YOU CAN'T BE SOWING WILD OATS AND PRAYING FOR CROP 18:10 FAILURE. YOU'RE GOING TO REAP WHAT YOU SOW. 18:13 PROVERBS 22, VERSES 17 AND 18, "BOW DOWN THINE EAR, AND HEAR 18:20 THE WORDS OF THE WISE," - WHAT DOES HE MEAN 'BOW DOWN THINE 18:22 EAR?' HAVE YOU EVER HAD TO LEAN 18:24 TOWARDS SOMETHING SO YOU COULD HEAR - A LITTLE MORE CLOSELY? 18:28 I SHOULD HAVE BROUGHT THEM TODAY, I DIDN'T THINK ABOUT 18:30 THIS, BUT KAREN'LL TESTIFY THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU GET A LITTLE OLDER 18:34 AND YOUR HEARING'S NOT AS ACUTE AS IT USED TO BE. 18:37 ANY OF YOU EVER CUP YOUR EARS TO HEAR SOMETHING BETTER? 18:39 IT REALLY WORKS. AND I'VE CAUGHT MYSELF SEVERAL 18:41 TIMES, ESPECIALLY IN A CROWDED ROOM - THERE'S A LOT OF 18:43 BACKGROUND NOISE AND SOMEONE'S TALKING AND I CAN'T HEAR THEM 18:45 AND I GO - IT MAKES A BIG IMPROVEMENT. 18:48 JUST THAT LITTLE BIT WORKS LIKE A PARABOLIC DISH AND IT - SO YOU 18:52 KNOW WHAT I DID IS I THOUGHT, 'I DON'T WANT TO GO AROUND ALL THE 18:55 TIME LIKE THIS SO I WENT AND GOT A PLASTIC SALSA BOWL THAT HAD 19:00 THE SHAPE OF A PARABOLIC DISH AND I CUT IT IN HALF AND I TOOK 19:06 A HANGER AND I MADE, LIKE THE LADIES WOULD WEAR A HAIR BAND, 19:09 AND I'VE GOT IT AND IT'S HANGING IN MY OFFICE AND IT PUTS THESE 19:13 TWO THINGS - I THOUGHT, 'I'M GOING TO PATENT THIS.' I CALL 19:15 THEM 'ELEPHANT EARS.' AND YOU JUST PUT IT - PUT IT LIKE THAT 19:18 AND YOU JUST SET IT ON YOUR HEAD - NO BATTERIES SQUEALING - IT'S 19:22 BATTERY FREE AND WHEREVER YOU AIM YOUR HEAD IT DOUBLES YOUR 19:26 HEARING JUST LIKE THAT. ISN'T THAT RIGHT, DEAR? SHE THOUGHT 19:29 I LOOKED SO CORNY BECAUSE YOU LOOK LIKE MICKEY MOUSE. 19:31 I ONLY WEAR THEM AROUND THE HOUSE BUT I STILL - I'VE GOT TO 19:34 CALL IT IN BECAUSE IT'S SO SIMPLE. 19:36 DON'T HAVE TO HOLD YOUR HAND UP AND YOU JUST TURN AT EVERYBODY. 19:38 YOU LOOK REALLY DOPEY BUT IT WORKS. 19:42 SO WHEN SOLOMON SAYS, 'HE THAT BOWS DOWN HIS EAR,' IT MEANS 19:46 THAT YOU'RE TUNING IN. YOU EVER SEE SOMEONE LEAN OVER 19:49 TO HEAR A CONVERSATION A LITTLE BETTER? 19:52 "BOW DOWN THINE EAR AND HEAR THE WORDS OF THE WISE, 19:56 AND APPLY THINE HEART UNTO MY KNOWLEDGE. 19:58 FOR IT IS A PLEASANT THING IF THOU KEEP THEM WITHIN THEE; THEY 20:03 SHALL WITHAL BE FITTED IN THY LIPS." WHAT YOU HEAR WITH YOUR 20:08 MIND AND IN YOUR HEART WILL COME OUT OF YOUR MOUTH. ALRIGHT, 20:10 NEXT SECTION - SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR ME, IN A MOMENT, 20:13 PROVERBS 23, VERSES 10 AND 11 - WOULD THAT BE YOU, JOHN? 20:17 AND I'M GOING TO READ PROVERBS 22, VERSES 22 AND 23. 20:22 THIS IS UNDER THE SEGMENT FOR MONDAY, ROBBING THE POOR . 20:27 "ROB NOT THE POOR, BECAUSE HE IS POOR... FOR THE LORD WILL PLEAD 20:33 THEIR CAUSE, AND SPOIL THE SOUL OF THOSE THAT SPOILED THEM." 20:37 SOME PEOPLE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE POOR AND IT BACKFIRES, 20:44 IS BASICALLY WHAT IT'S SAYING. 20:46 EVEN COMING OVER HERE TONIGHT, SEQUESTERED IN THE CAR LISTENING 20:51 TO THE TRAFFIC REPORT, THEY HAD LITTLE TIDBITS OF NEWS AND THEY 20:55 TALKED ABOUT A LANDLORD THAT - HOW HE WAS EXPLOITING - HERE, 21:00 SOMEONE LOCALLY - HOW HE WAS EXPLOITING THE POOR, CHARGING 21:04 INCREDIBLE PRICES - VERY UNSAFE CONDITIONS. 21:08 A PLACE FINALLY BURNED DOWN AND HE SAID, 'OH, BUT I COULDN'T 21:11 TAKE CARE OF THE PLACE AND I DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY.' AND 21:14 THEY CAME TO FIND OUT THAT HE WAS BRINGING ABOUT $360,000.00 A 21:18 YEAR AND HE WAS EXPLOITING THE POOR AND THEY LOST EVERYTHING. 21:24 I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE EVER HEARD SOME OF THE TERRIBLE 21:28 STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYING TO GET LEGAL CITIZENSHIP 21:33 AND THEY GET ATTORNEYS THAT CLAIM TO BE IMMIGRATION 21:36 ATTORNEYS AND THEY SAY, 'I CAN TAKE CARE OF EVERYTHING FOR YOU. 21:39 GIVE ME $300.00 AND I'LL GET IT ALL TAKEN CARE OF.' AND, YOU 21:41 KNOW, PEOPLE ARE SO DESPERATE AND THEY NEED HELP AND THEY KNOW 21:44 THEY CAN'T DO IT THEMSELVES AND THEY'LL CASH OUT EVERYTHING 21:48 THEY'VE GOT AND THEY'LL GIVE $300.00 TO THIS ATTORNEY WHO 21:50 WON'T DO A THING OR THEY JUST IGNORE THEM OR THEY SAY, 'OH, 21:54 YOUR CASE IS TOO DIFFICULT.' AND THERE'S NOTHING THAT PERSON 21:56 - TRY AND GET MONEY BACK FROM AN ATTORNEY. AND THEY EXPLOIT THE 22:02 NEED OF PEOPLE AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE POOR. 22:05 GO AHEAD, READ FOR US PROVERBS 23:10 AND 11. 22:10 >>"REMOVE NOT THE OLD LANDMARK; AND ENTER NOT INTO THE FIELDS OF 22:16 THE FATHERLESS: FOR THEIR REDEEMER IS MIGHTY; HE SHALL 22:21 PLEAD THEIR CAUSE WITH THEE." 22:25 >>SO AGAIN, WELL THERE'S A COUPLE THINGS HERE, ONCE HE 22:27 SAYS, 'DON'T REMOVE THE ANCIENT LANDMARKS.' AND WHEN YOU BOUGHT 22:30 PROPERTY BACK THEN, THEY WOULD SET UP STONES OR, YOU KNOW, THEY 22:33 DIDN'T HAVE METAL STAKES, REALLY, TO DRIVE IN THE GROUND. 22:35 SO USUALLY THERE WERE STONES AND SOMETIMES A LARGE STONE, THERE'D 22:38 BE SOME WRITING ON IT OR ETCHING ON IT AND SAY, 'THIS IS A CORNER 22:40 MARKER FOR THESE PEOPLE OR THIS PROPERTY.' SOME OF YOU REMEMBER 22:45 THE STORY IN THE BIBLE WHERE AHAB WASN'T SATISFIED WITH HOW 22:48 MUCH LAND HE HAD FOR HIS GARDEN AND HE WANTED TO TAKE THE 22:52 PROPERTY OF A NEIGHBOR NAMED NABOTH. AND WHEN NABOTH SAID, 22:55 'LOOK, YOU KNOW, THIS IS OUR FAMILY INHERITANCE. 22:57 I REALLY DON'T WANT TO SELL IT.' WORKING WITH JEZEBEL, HE HAD HIM 23:01 KILLED SO THAT HE COULD TAKE HIS LAND. 23:04 AND SO THIS IS TALKING ABOUT REMOVING THE ANCIENT LANDMARKS 23:07 AND ALSO, 'DO NOT ENTER THE FIELDS OF THE FATHERLESS.' YOU 23:11 KNOW THE POOR - FATHERLESS - THEY CAN'T, YOU KNOW, 23:14 SOMETIMES RICH PEOPLE HAVE MORE POWER. 23:17 THEY HAVE MORE INFLUENCE AND THEY CAN EXPLOIT AND TAKE 23:20 ADVANTAGE OF THE POOR THAT DON'T HAVE THE MEANS TO FIGHT THEM. 23:22 HAVE WE SEEN, EVEN IN OUR CULTURE, THAT IF YOU'VE GOT 23:25 ENOUGH MONEY AND YOU CAN AFFORD A REALLY GOOD DEFENSE TEAM, IN 23:31 SOME CASES YOU CAN ALMOST GET AWAY WITH MURDER. 23:35 AND SO, THE - YEAH, THE RICH SOMETIMES CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF 23:39 THE POOR. BUT WHAT DOES IT SAY IN BOTH THESE VERSES? 23:41 'THE LORD WILL PLEAD THEIR CAUSE, FOR THEIR REDEEMER IS 23:46 MIGHTY. HE WILL PLEAD THEIR CAUSE.' DO YOU WANT TO GO INTO 23:49 COURT AGAINST GOD AND TRY AND GO UP AGAINST HIM? 23:52 SO WHEN WE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF PEOPLE, HOW DOES THE LORD FEEL 23:56 ABOUT THAT? >>HE'S NOT HAPPY. 23:59 >>YEAH, YOU'RE GOING TO BE ON THE LOSING TEAM. 24:00 YOU DON'T - IT'S - IT REALLY ANGERS HIM. 24:03 HE WANTS US TO SHOW MERCY TO THE POOR. 24:05 A FEW MORE VERSES ON THIS THEME ABOUT ROBBING THE POOR. 24:08 ECCLESIASTES 5, VERSE 8, "IF YOU SEE THE OPPRESSION OF THE POOR, 24:13 AND THE VIOLENT PERVERSION OF JUSTICE" - WE JUST GAVE A CASE 24:17 OF THAT - "AND RIGHTEOUSNESS IN A PROVINCE, DO NOT MARVEL AT THE 24:21 MATTER; FOR HIGH OFFICIAL WATCHES OVER HIGH OFFICIAL, 24:24 AND HIGHER OFFICIALS ARE OVER THEM." 24:26 IN OTHER WORDS, NOBODY REALLY GETS AWAY WITH ANYTHING FOREVER 24:29 BECAUSE SOMEONE IS ALWAYS WATCHING AND EVEN THE HIGHEST 24:33 OFFICIAL ANSWERS TO GOD AND SO THERE'S GOING TO BE A PAYDAY IS 24:38 JUST WHAT SOLOMON IS SAYING THERE IN ECCLESIASTES. 24:41 EXODUS 23, MOSES ADDRESSES THIS SAME PRINCIPLE, "YOU SHALL NOT 24:46 PERVERT THE JUDGMENT OF THE POOR IN HIS DISPUTE. 24:49 NOW, YOU KNOW WHAT I LIKE ABOUT WHAT MOSES SAID? 24:52 MOSES SAID - CAN YOU HAVE DISCRIMINATION BOTH WAYS? 24:57 CAN YOU HAVE DISCRIMINATION OF GIVING PREFERENTIAL TREATMENT TO 25:00 THE RICH BECAUSE THEY'RE RICH? CAN YOU ALSO GIVE PREFERENTIAL 25:05 TREATMENT TO THE POOR? >>YES. 25:07 >>AND MOSES ACTUALLY ADDRESSES BOTH SIDES OF THAT. 25:11 HE SAID, 'YOU KNOW, YOU'LL NOT SHOW PREFERENCE TO THE POOR. 25:14 IF THEY'RE BEING UNJUST THEY'RE BEING UNJUST AND YOU'LL NOT SHOW 25:16 PREFERENCE TO THE RICH. YOU SHALL HAVE' - ANY OF YOU 25:20 KNOW WHAT THAT FIGURE IS THAT THEY HAVE ABOVE THE COURTHOUSE 25:24 WITH SCALES? >>BLIND JUSTICE. 25:27 >>BLIND - IT'S A LADY THAT HAS A BLINDFOLD ON, MEANING THAT 25:31 JUSTICE IS GOING TO BE WEIGHED BASED UPON THE FACTS AND NOT 25:34 BASED UPON WHO YOU ARE, HOW MUCH MONEY YOU HAVE, WHO YOU KNOW. 25:39 IT'S JUST GOING TO BE BASED UPON THE EVIDENCE AND THAT'S 25:41 WHAT MOSES IS SAYING, PICK JUDGES. 25:43 JETHRO SAID THAT WILL RIGHTLY ADMINISTER. 25:46 WHY DID THEY NOT WANT SAMUEL TO BE THEIR JUDGE ANYMORE? 25:51 BECAUSE SAMUEL'S SONS BEGAN TO TAKE OVER DOING JUDGMENT AND IT 25:56 SAYS THEY TOOK BRIBES AND THE PEOPLE COULD NOT GET JUSTICE. 26:03 THEY SAID, 'GIVE US A KING AND WE DON'T WANT THIS ANYMORE.' 26:08 ZECHARIAH 7:10, "DO NOT OPPRESS THE WIDOW OR THE FATHERLESS, THE 26:14 ALIEN" - STRANGERS FROM ANOTHER COUNTRY - "OR THE POOR." 26:19 - AND THIS IS COMING FROM A PROPHET. GOD DOESN'T WANT US TO 26:22 TAKE ADVANTAGE OF PEOPLE WHO MIGHT BE VULNERABLE. 26:26 MATTER OF FACT, WHAT SHOULD BE THE CHRISTIAN CHARACTERISTIC? 26:28 TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF PEOPLE THAT MIGHT BE EXPOSED OR VULNERABLE 26:32 OR TO GUARD THEM, PROTECT THEM, TAKE THEM IN, CARE FOR THEM? 26:37 THEY NEED A FRIEND. THEY NEED A LITTLE - THEY NEED AN ADVOCATE. 26:40 BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS; THEY'LL BE CALLED THE CHILDREN 26:43 OF GOD. JOB 31: - I LOVE THE BOOK OF JOB. 26:47 I MEAN, WHEN YOU READ THE BOOK OF JOB, YOU KNOW YOU'RE READING 26:49 - YOU'RE READING FROM PEOPLE THAT WERE LIVING 200 YEARS BACK 26:54 THEN. YOU'RE PRETTY WISE. 26:56 THEY WERE PRETTY PROFOUND IN WHAT THEY SAID. 26:57 JOB, NOW, IS PLEADING WITH HIS FRIENDS - JUST TO GIVE YOU THE 27:02 BACKGROUND - AND HE SAID, "IF I HAVE KEPT THE POOR FROM THEIR 27:06 DESIRE, OR CAUSED THE EYES OF THE WIDOW TO FAIL, OR EATEN MY 27:10 MORSEL BY MYSELF" - IN OTHER WORDS, HOARDING THINGS. 27:14 WHEN I WENT TO MILITARY SCHOOL, YOU DIDN'T WANT TO GET UP AND 27:19 WALK AWAY FROM YOUR PLATE BECAUSE YOU NEVER KNEW WHAT YOUR 27:22 FELLOW CADETS WOULD DO. AND IT WAS SOMETIMES LIKE A 27:27 JUNGLE AND A LOT OF KIDS ACTUALLY ATE WITH THEIR ARMS 27:32 LIKE THIS SO THAT NOBODY COULD STAB THEIR ICE CREAM SANDWICH OR 27:37 WHATEVER WAS ON THEIR TRAY. AND I JUST - I REMEMBER THAT ONE 27:41 TIME A CAPTAIN CAME BY AND SOMEONE WAS HOARDING THEIR FOOD 27:45 AND HE PUSHED THEIR FACE RIGHT DOWN IN IT. 27:50 BUT IT'S A PICTURE OF SOMEBODY WHO IS NOT WANTING TO SHARE AND 27:55 THAT'S WHAT JOB IS TALKING ABOUT. 27:58 "OR EATEN MY MORSEL BY MYSELF" - YOU RUN OFF AND HIDE - ANY OF 28:02 YOU EVER SEE A DOG GET SOMETHING AND THEY RUN OFF. 28:05 THEY DON'T WANT ANYONE ELSE SNATCHING IT. 28:07 "OR EATEN MY MORSEL BY MYSELF, SO THAT THE FATHERLESS COULD NOT 28:10 EAT OF IT (BUT FROM MY YOUTH I REARED HIM AS A FATHER, AND FROM 28:16 MY MOTHER'S WOMB I GUIDED THE WIDOW)" - HE'S SAYING 'THIS IS 28:18 WHAT I'VE DONE.' - "IF I HAVE SEEN ANYONE PERISH FOR LACK OF 28:20 CLOTHING, OR ANY POOR MAN WITHOUT COVERING; IF HIS HEART 28:24 HAS NOT BLESSED ME, AND IF HE WAS NOT WARMED WITH THE FLEECE 28:27 OF MY SHEEP; IF I HAVE RAISED MY HAND AGAINST THE FATHERLESS, 28:31 WHEN I SAW I HAD HELP IN THE GATE," - THAT'S WHERE JUDGMENT 28:35 WAS DONE - "THEN LET MY ARM FALL FROM MY SHOULDER, LET MY ARM BE 28:40 TORN FROM THE SOCKET." - JOB IS VOWING BEFORE HIS FRIENDS. 28:43 HE SAYS, 'I HAVE TAKEN CARE OF THE POOR. 28:45 I'VE PLED THE CAUSE OF THE FATHERLESS. I'VE BEEN A DEFENSE. 28:48 I'VE CLOTHED THE NAKED.' AND HE'S SAYING, YOU KNOW - THEY'RE 28:52 SAYING, 'OH, THIS IS HAPPENING TO YOU BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T - 28:54 YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING UNJUST.' AND JOB SAID, 'NO.' BEING 28:58 JEALOUS OF THE WICKED. ANOTHER SEGMENT HERE THAT 29:01 CONJURES UP SOME INTERESTING THOUGHTS. 29:05 THIS COMES FROM PROVERBS 23:17, "DO NOT LET YOUR HEART ENVY 29:10 SINNERS," - NOW HE'S NOT EVEN SAYING OUTWARDLY. 29:13 IN YOUR HEART DON'T ENVY SINNERS - "BUT BE ZEALOUS FOR 29:17 THE FEAR OF THE LORD ALL THE DAY." 29:21 NOW, I WON'T ASK FOR A SHOW OF HANDS BUT I EXPECT, IF YOU'RE 29:26 HUMAN AND YOU'RE AT ALL LIKE ME, WHICH MAY NOT BE THE SAME THING, 29:30 THAT YOU'VE HAD YOUR MOMENTS WHERE YOU HAVE SEEN THE WICKED 29:36 PROSPERING WITH THEIR YACHTS ON THEIR PRIVATE ISLAND SURROUNDED 29:43 BY EVERY PLEASURE AND LUXURY AND COMFORT AND EASE. AND IN YOUR 29:48 QUIET MOMENTS YOU'VE THOUGHT, 'WOW, THAT LOOKS PRETTY NICE. 29:52 WISH I COULD HAVE THAT.' AND - BUT THEY DON'T HAVE GOD. 29:58 AND SO HE'S SAYING, 'DON'T LET YOUR HEART ENVY SINNERS - "BUT 30:03 BE ZEALOUS FOR THE FEAR OF THE LORD ALL THE DAY;" DAVID TALKS 30:06 ABOUT THIS. MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU LOOK IN 30:08 PSALM 37 - WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT SEVERAL VERSES BECAUSE THE 30:10 WHOLE PSALM, REALLY, ADDRESSES THIS PRINCIPLE. 30:12 PSALM 37, I'LL READ VERSES 1 AND 2 AND SOMEBODY'S GOING TO BE 30:16 GOING TO PROVERBS 24:1 AND 2 FOR ME. WHO HAS THAT? 30:20 OKAY, KATRINA, IN JUST A MOMENT. PSALM 37:1 AND 2, "DO NOT FRET" 30:25 - WHAT DOES 'FRET' MEAN? WORRY, BE ANXIOUS - "BECAUSE OF 30:27 EVILDOERS, NOR BE ENVIOUS OF THE WORKERS OF INIQUITY. 30:33 FOR THEY SHALL SOON BE CUT DOWN LIKE THE GRASS, AND WITHER AS 30:36 THE GREEN HERB." JUST PAUSE FOR A MOMENT. 30:39 WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT WHO SOME OF THE RICHEST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD 30:41 ARE - BILLIONS OF DOLLARS - AND YOU'RE STRUGGLING FINANCIALLY, 30:47 YOU NEVER HAVE A FLEETING THOUGHT OF COVETING YOUR 30:52 NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE OR THINK, 'OH, THAT WOULD BE NICE. 30:56 I WISH I HAD THAT.' WOULD YOU WANT TO TRADE PLACES WITH THEM 30:59 IN THE JUDGMENT DAY? WHAT PROFIT IS IT TO A MAN IF HE 31:03 GAINS THE WHOLE WORLD AND LOSES HIS SOUL? 31:06 AND SO, DON'T ENVY THEM BECAUSE, YEAH, THEY MIGHT BE PROSPERING 31:10 NOW, THEY MIGHT BE LOOKING LIKE THEY'RE HAVING A GREAT TIME NOW, 31:12 BUT HOW LONG WILL THAT LAST COMPARED TO WHAT GOD IS OFFERING 31:16 YOU AND ME. IT JUST GOES BACK TO THAT OLD 31:20 ANALOGY THAT YOU WOULD ASK A KID, 'DO YOU WANT A SCOOP OF ICE 31:27 CREAM RIGHT NOW, OR DO YOU WANT FIVE SCOOPS TOMORROW? 31:31 AND SO OFTEN THEY'LL SAY, 'I WANT A SCOOP RIGHT NOW.' YOU 31:35 WANT A NICKEL NOW OR DO YOU WANT A DOLLAR IN A YEAR? 31:39 'I WANT A NICKEL NOW.' AND, YOU KNOW, WE NEVER FULLY OUTGROW 31:42 THAT. BUT YOU'VE GOT TO KEEP THE ETERNAL PERSPECTIVE. 31:46 AND SO, WHEN YOU SEE THE WICKED PROSPERING, WHAT DOES DAVID SAY 31:49 ABOUT HOW LONG OUR LIVES ARE? IT'S LIKE A VAPOR. 31:52 IT'S LIKE A MOMENT. YEAH, THEY'RE FLOURISHING AND 31:56 THEY'RE PROSPERING FOR A MOMENT AND I CAN NAME A WHOLE LOT OF 31:59 VERY RICH PEOPLE THAT ARE DEAD NOW, RIGHT? 32:03 AND THEY DECOMPOSE JUST AS FAST AS THE POOR UNLESS THEY'RE 32:06 EMBALMED OR CRYOGENICALLY FROZEN OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 32:10 SO WHY WOULD YOU ENVY THEM? DAVID GOES ON - NOW DID DAVID 32:14 SEE BOTH SIDES? I MEAN DID - DAVID KNEW WHAT IT 32:18 WAS LIKE TO JUST, YOU KNOW, FOLLOW THE SHEEP AROUND IN THE 32:20 HOT HILLS OR THE COLD MEADOWS OF BETHLEHEM. 32:23 AND HE ALSO KNEW WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO LIVE IN A PALACE WITH 32:26 THE KING AND THEN HE HAD TO RUN FROM THE PALACE AND LIVE IN A 32:30 CAVE. THEN HE WENT BACK TO THE PALACE. 32:31 I MEAN, HE HAD THE WHOLE PERSPECTIVE. 32:35 "REST IN THE LORD, AND WAIT PATIENTLY FOR HIM; DO NOT FRET 32:39 BECAUSE OF HIM WHO PROSPERS IN HIS WAY, BECAUSE OF THE MAN WHO 32:43 BRINGS WICKED SCHEMES TO PASS." DO WICKED PEOPLE SOMETIMES SEEM 32:47 TO SUCCEED IN THEIR WHITE-COLLAR CRIME? 32:49 >>YES. >>AND YOU'RE SAYING, 'WHY DOES 32:52 THE LORD? WOW, THEY'RE JUST PILING ON THE MONEY. 32:55 LOOK AT THAT NICE CAR THEY'RE DRIVING. 32:56 LOOK AT THAT PENTHOUSE APARTMENT IN NEW YORK. 32:58 ALL THEIR CONNIVING, IT SEEMS TO BE PAYING OFF.' DAVID SAYS IT 33:05 MAY LOOK LIKE THEY'RE BRINGING WICKED SCHEMES TO PASS. 33:08 DON'T FRET. DON'T ENVY THEM BECAUSE IT'S A 33:11 MOMENT. IT DOESN'T LAST, RIGHT? "CEASE FROM ANGER, AND FORSAKE 33:17 WRATH; DO NOT FRET" - IT ONLY CAUSES HARM. 33:20 I TOLD KAREN, A FEW MINUTES AGO WHILE WE WERE IN TRAFFIC - YOU 33:23 KNOW, YOU FEEL A LITTLE HELPLESS. 33:28 I KNEW YOU WERE ALL SITTING HERE AND, YOU KNOW, WE COME FROM, OH 33:32 IT'S 15 MILES OR SO TO GET HERE AND I TOLD KAREN, 'I'M REAL 33:40 TEMPTED TO DRIVE OFF IN THE EMERGENCY LANE HERE BECAUSE' - I 33:42 SAID, 'YOU KNOW, I'D JUST TELL THE POLICE THAT I'VE GOT - WE'RE 33:44 GETTING READY BEFORE A LIVE AUDIENCE TO RECORD SOMETHING. 33:46 I'VE GOT TO GO. AND I USED TO JUST - I'D WRING 33:49 MY HANDS AND GET ALL TIGHT INSIDE AND I TOLD KAREN, 'YOU 33:52 KNOW, I MUST BE GROWING BECAUSE I JUST FIGURE GOD'S IN CHARGE. 33:56 IF I CAN'T MAKE IT, I CAN'T MAKE IT. 33:57 AND YOU'VE JUST GOT TO WAIT UNTIL THE LORD WORKS IT OUT. 34:01 FRETTING DOESN'T DO ANYBODY ANY GOOD. 34:04 YOU KNOW WHAT THE NUMBER ONE MEDICATION IS - SOLD - IN NORTH 34:08 AMERICA? ANTACIDS - THINGS RELATED TO 34:12 STRESS AND ULCERS. YEAH, AND DEPRESSION - THAT'S 34:19 ANOTHER BIG ONE. BUT YEAH, FOLKS ARE JUST - "DO 34:23 NOT FRET. IT ONLY CAUSES HARM. 34:25 FOR EVILDOERS SHALL BE CUT OFF BUT THOSE WHO WAIT ON THE LORD, 34:30 THEY SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH." NOW DOES JESUS QUOTE THAT? 34:34 'BLESSED ARE THE MEEK FOR THEY WILL INHERIT THE EARTH. 34:39 FOR YET A LITTLE WHILE AND THE WICKED WILL BE NO MORE' - RICH 34:43 OR POOR, THEY'LL BE NO MORE. YOU NEED TO PITY THEM, DON'T 34:47 ENVY THEM. YOU EVER FEEL SORRY FOR THE 34:51 RICH? NOT VERY OFTEN, DO YOU? 34:54 BUT THINK ABOUT IT, THEY'RE GOING TO BE LOST TOO. 34:57 AND DOES THE LORD LOVE THEIR SOULS? 35:00 YOU KNOW, I THINK WE NEED MORE MINISTRY ALSO FOR PEOPLE WHO 35:03 HAVE MEANS - "FOR YET A LITTLE WHILE AND THE WICKED SHALL BE NO 35:06 MORE; INDEED, YOU WILL LOOK CAREFULLY FOR HIS PLACE, BUT IT 35:10 SHALL BE NO MORE. BUT THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT THE 35:12 EARTH," - THIS IS WHERE JESUS IS QUOTING - "AND SHALL DELIGHT 35:15 THEMSELVES IN THE ABUNDANCE OF PEACE." 35:18 SO YEAH, FOR A LITTLE WHILE, IT MIGHT LOOK LIKE THEY BRING 35:20 WICKED SCHEMES TO PASS AND THE WICKED ARE PROSPERING AND IT 35:22 LOOKS LIKE THEY'VE GOT POWER AND CONTROL AND YOU CAN JUST GET ALL 35:27 WOUND UP OVER THAT. I START THINKING ABOUT POLITICS 35:29 SOMETIMES AND YOU CAN GET EXASPERATED WHEN YOU SEE THE 35:33 THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING BOTH IN OUR COUNTRY AND OTHER PLACES. 35:36 ALRIGHT, SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ FOR US PROVERBS - 35:38 KATRINA - 24:1 AND 2. >>"DO NOT BE ENVIOUS OF EVIL 35:42 MEN, NOR DESIRE TO BE WITH THEM; FOR THEIR HEART DEVISES 35:46 VIOLENCE, AND THEIR LIPS TALK OF TROUBLEMAKING." 35:50 >>YEAH, IT'S NOT ONLY HERE SAYING, 'DON'T ENVY THEM.' IT 35:53 SAYS DON'T BE AROUND THEM BECAUSE WHAT THEY'RE TALKING 35:57 ABOUT, IT'LL VEX YOUR SOUL. AND THEY'RE DEVISING EVIL AND 36:01 YOU GET CAUGHT UP IN THAT. YOU CAN ACTUALLY BE ACCUSED OF 36:04 BEING AN ACCOMPLICE. SO WHEN YOU HEAR PEOPLE 36:07 CONNIVING AND SCHEMING, DON'T EVEN BE WITH THEM. 36:12 DON'T DESIRE TO BE WITH THEM. 'OH, BUT THEY'RE RICH. 36:15 THEY'RE POWERFUL.' IF THEY'RE WICKED, YOU'RE BETTER OFF TO BE 36:18 WITH THE HUMBLE AND THE WISE. "AND THEIR LIPS TALK OF 36:22 TROUBLEMAKING." PROVERBS 24:19 - STILL IN 36:24 PROVERBS 24 NOW. WE'LL BE GOING BACK AND FORTH. 36:27 "DO NOT FRET BECAUSE OF EVILDOERS NOR BE ENVIOUS OF THE 36:32 WICKED; FOR THERE WILL BE NO PROSPECT FOR THE EVIL MAN; THE 36:36 LAMP OF THE WICKED WILL BE PUT OUT." 36:38 RICH OR POOR, THE LAMP OF THE WICKED WILL BE PUT OUT. 36:42 THAT'S VERY SAD. SO YOU DON'T NEED TO ENVY 36:47 SOMEONE ELSE'S SUCCESS. THE BEST REMEDY FOR THIS 36:51 SPIRITUALLY DANGEROUS PROBLEM IS TO JUST REMEMBER WHAT THE REWARD 36:59 IS THAT THE LORD HAS PROMISED US. 37:01 AND WHEN JESUS CAME INTO THE WORLD, COULD HE HAVE COME RICH 37:04 IF HE WANTED? >>SURE. 37:06 >>HOW DID HE COME? >>HE WAS POOR. 37:08 >>YEAH, HE IDENTIFIED WITH THE POOR. WHO WAS IT? 37:12 ABRAHAM LINCOLN USED TO SAY, 'GOD MUST LOVE POOR PEOPLE 37:15 'CAUSE HE SURE MADE AN AWFUL LOT OF THEM.' SO YEAH, JESUS SAID, 37:21 WHEN MARY GAVE HIM A GIFT - YOU REMEMBER WHAT - SOMETIMES IT CAN 37:26 BE ABUSED - THE IDEA OF CARING FOR THE POOR. 37:30 MARY GAVE JESUS THIS GIFT WHEN SHE ANOINTED HIS FEET AND JUDAS 37:33 SAID, 'WHY, THAT OINTMENT COULD HAVE BEEN SOLD FOR THREE HUNDRED 37:36 PENCE AND GIVEN TO THE POOR.' AND JESUS SAID, 'THE POOR YOU 37:40 WILL ALWAYS HAVE WITH YOU.' YOU KNOW, UNTIL THE END OF TIME 37:44 THERE'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE PEOPLE THAT ARE LESS FOR - NOW 37:47 GOVERNMENTS DON'T EVER SAY THAT, DO THEY? 37:51 >>NO. >>THEY SAY, 'WE'VE GOT A 37:52 SOLUTION TO ELIMINATE POVERTY.' BUT JESUS SAID YOU'LL ALWAYS 37:56 HAVE POOR, YOU KNOW WHY? BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE ARE BLESSED 38:00 MORE THAN OTHERS. SOME PEOPLE ARE WISER. 38:02 SOME PEOPLE ARE MORE CAPABLE. SOME PEOPLE ARE MORE TALENTED. 38:04 SOME PEOPLE ARE MORE INDUSTRIOUS. 38:06 IT'S NOT POPULAR TO SAY THOSE THINGS, BUT THEY'RE JUST 38:08 PRACTICAL TRUTHS. SO YOU'RE ALWAYS GOING TO HAVE 38:11 VARIATIONS IN ANY SOCIETY. AND JESUS SAID YOU'LL ALWAYS 38:15 HAVE POOR WITH YOU AND YOU'LL HAVE OPPOORTUNITY TO SHOW LOVE 38:18 AND MERCY. HE SAID, 'ME YOU'LL NOT ALWAYS 38:20 HAVE WITH YOU.' WHAT HE WAS SAYING TO MARY MAGDALENE. 38:23 AND EPHESIANS 5 - TYING OFF THIS SUBJECT ABOUT THE POOR - 38:27 EPHESIANS 5, VERSE 20, "GIVING THANKS ALWAYS FOR ALL THINGS TO 38:31 GOD THE FATHER IN THE NAME OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST." 38:34 SO THE - THE SOLUTION FOR OUR TENDENCY MAYBE TO COVET SOMEONE 38:39 ELSE'S MANSION OR THEIR NICER THINGS OR CLOTHES OR CARS OR 38:45 POSITION OR WHATEVER IT MIGHT BE - IS. 38:49 THANK THE LORD FOR WHAT YOU DO HAVE. 38:50 IT SORT OF SMOTHERS - GRATITUDE FOR YOUR BLESSING SORT OF 38:54 SMOTHERS FRETTING OVER WHAT SOMEBODY ELSE MIGHT HAVE. 38:59 ALRIGHT, WHAT WE PUT IN OUR MOUTHS IS OUR NEXT SECTION. 39:04 GENESIS 3:3 - DOES IT MAKE A DIFFERENCE WHAT WE PUT IN OUR 39:10 MOUTHS? I ALREADY SET IT UP SO YOU KNOW. 39:12 WHY IS THERE SIN IN THE WORLD TODAY? 39:17 THINK ABOUT ALL THE MISERY AND THE SUFFERING AND THE STRUGGLE 39:20 AND THE PROBLEMS BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL AND WHAT TRIGGERED IT 39:23 ALL? GOD SAID, 'YOU ARE FREE TO EAT EVERYTHING I'VE BLESSED. 39:29 THERE'S JUST ONE THING YOU SHOULD NOT EAT. 39:31 DO NOT EAT THAT.' AND THE DEVIL SAID 'GO AHEAD AND EAT IT.' AND, 39:35 EVIDENTLY, ADAM AND EVE THOUGHT, 'DON'T MAKE SUCH A BIG DEAL OUT 39:40 OF JUST A LITTLE SOMETHING TO EAT.' BUT WHERE DID THAT END UP 39:45 GOING? IT DOESN'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE. "BUT OF THE FRUIT 39:50 OF THE TREE WHICH IS IN THE MIDST OF THE GARDEN, GOD HAS 39:52 SAID, 'YOU SHALL NOT EAT IT, NOR SHALL YOU TOUCH IT, LEST YOU 39:56 DIE.'" I DID A SERMON ONCE YEARS AGO CALLED BELOW THE NOSE AND 40:01 ABOVE THE CHIN . IT KIND OF NARROWS IT DOWN. 40:05 SO MUCH OF OUR TROUBLE HAS TO DO WITH - YOU KNOW GOD GAVE US TWO 40:08 NOSTRILS AND TWO EARS AND TWO EYES BUT ONE MOUTH AND MOST OF 40:15 OUR TROUBLE HAS TO DO WITH WHAT GOES IN AND WHAT COMES OUT OF 40:17 OUR MOUTHS. ONE TONGUE AND LOOK AT ALL THE 40:21 TROUBLE IT CAN START. BUT PROVERBS ACTUALLY TALKS 40:24 ABOUT DIET AND APPETITE AND CONTROL OVER THOSE THINGS. 40:29 PROVERBS 23, VERSE 1, "WHEN YOU SIT DOWN TO EAT WITH A RULER, 40:34 CONSIDER CAREFULLY WHAT IS BEFORE YOU; AND PUT A KNIFE TO 40:38 YOUR THROAT" - NOW IS THERE A WORD PICTURE FOR YOU? 40:40 - "PUT A KNIFE TO YOUR THROAT IF YOU ARE A MAN GIVEN TO APPETITE. 40:45 DO NOT DESIRE HIS DELICACIES, FOR THEY ARE A DECEPTIVE FOOD." 40:50 NOW WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? WELL, I CAN EXTRAPOLATE A FEW 40:56 DIFFERENT THINGS FROM THIS PASSAGE. 40:58 FOR ONE THING, WHEN YOU SIT DOWN WITH A RULER AND YOU'RE HAVING A 41:02 FEAST, DON'T BECOME SO PREOCCUPIED WITH THE CUISINE 41:06 THAT YOU - YOU LOSE ALL DIGNITY AND YOU SAY, 'WOW!' 41:11 AND YOU JUST - MAINTAIN CONTROL. YOU'VE GOT 41:14 AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAYBE BUILD A RELATIONSHIP, TO TALK - 41:17 WHATEVER THE PURPOSE OF THE MEETING OR THE MEAL IS AND JUST 41:22 SHOW RESTRAINT IS ONE THING THAT HE'S SAYING THERE. 41:26 ANOTHER THING HE'S SAYING - AND HE SAYS 'PUT A KNIFE TO YOUR 41:29 THROAT IF YOU'RE A MAN GIVEN TO APPETITE BECAUSE SOMETIMES YOU 41:33 MIGHT BE INVITED TO A MEAL AND THERE'S AN AGENDA AND YOU WILL 41:37 PAY FOR THAT MEAL ANOTHER WAY. DO YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? 41:41 AND SO, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW ANYBODY THAT HAS EVER DONE 41:45 SOMETHING NICE FOR YOU, BUT YOU'RE ALMOST AFRAID TO EVER 41:47 TAKE A FAVOR OR A GIFT FROM THEM BECAUSE THEY WILL REMIND YOU OF 41:51 IT. I HAD A RELATIVE THAT WHENEVER THEY GAVE YOU ANYTHING 41:59 OR DID ANYTHING FOR YOU, THEY WOULD ASK YOU ABOUT IT EVERY 42:02 TIME. 'SO HOW'S THAT SWEATER I GAVE YOU?' 42:05 'IT SEEMS TO BE HEALTHY. SWEATER'S DOING FINE.' YOU KNOW, 42:10 I'M JUST - THEY BRING IT UP BUT IT'S LIKE THEN THEY'D ASK FOR A 42:12 FAVOR AND IT'S LIKE YOU'RE PAYING FOR IT - OVER AND OVER 42:17 AGAIN. YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT? 42:19 SO I DON'T WANT TO SOUND UNGRATEFUL BUT SOLOMON IS SAYING 42:22 YOU BETTER BE CAREFUL BECAUSE "DO NOT DESIRE HIS DELICACIES, 42:25 FOR THEY ARE DECEPTIVE FOOD." NOW WHAT ABOUT DANIEL WHEN HE 42:28 WAS IN BABYLON? DID HE HAVE A CHANCE TO EAT FROM 42:32 THE RULER'S CAFETERIA? >>YES. 42:34 >>BUT IT WAS A DECEPTIVE FOOD IN THAT THINGS AROUND THE TABLE 42:38 MAY HAVE HAD A COUPLE OF PROBLEMS. 42:40 ONE, PROBABLY SOME OF THE STUFF HAD BEEN OFFERED TO PAGAN IDOLS, 42:43 BUT BEYOND THAT, IT WAS IN THE UNCLEAN CATEGORY AND THE WINE 42:46 WAS ALCOHOLIC AND DANIEL SAID, 'GIVE US SIMPLE FOOD.' AND SO, 42:50 YOU KNOW, EATING THE WRONG THING. 42:54 YOU EVER NOTICE THAT POOR PEOPLE OFTEN EAT BEANS AND RICE 43:00 AND RICH PEOPLE EAT ESCARGOT - SNAILS, FROGS' LEGS - I 43:06 REMEMBER, I ATE THE WEIRDEST THINGS WHEN I WENT OUT TO DINNER 43:09 WITH MY FATHER. I TELL PEOPLE IN MY TESTIMONY, I 43:11 SAY, 'YEP, I ATE FROGS' LEGS AND I ATE TURTLE AND I ATE SNAILS 43:17 AND I DID ALL THAT WHILE I WAS IN A RESTAURANT. 43:19 THEN I WENT IN THE CAVE AND I ATE BEANS AND RICE - A LITTLE 43:23 RATTLESNAKE AND SQUIRREL BUT MOSTLY - MOSTLY BEANS AND RICE. 43:27 SO IT MAY ALSO NOT BE HEALTHY. IT'S A DECEPTIVE MEAT. 43:31 READ ON IN PROVERBS 23, VERSE 6, "DO NOT EAT THE BREAD OF A 43:37 MISER, NOR DESIRE HIS DELICACIES; FOR AS HE THINKS IN 43:42 HIS HEART, SO IS HE. 'EAT AND DRINK!' 43:44 HE SAYS TO YOU, BUT HIS HEART IS NOT WITH YOU. THE MORSEL YOU 43:47 HAVE EATEN, YOU WILL VOMIT UP, AND WASTE YOUR PLEASANT WORDS." 43:51 NOW THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT EARLIER - A MISER. 43:54 WHAT'S A MISER? SOMEONE WHO HOARDS. 43:56 SOMEONE THEY'RE - THEY'RE GRASPING, THEY'RE THINKING ABOUT 43:59 WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO GET FROM YOU AND SO - IN THE EAST, OFTEN 44:07 RELATIONSHIPS, COVENANTS, DEALS WERE SEALED WITH A MEAL AND IT'S 44:14 ALSO SAYING 'DO NOT BE TEMPTED TO ENTER INTO A BARGAIN.' WHAT 44:18 DID - HOW DID ESAU LOSE HIS BIRTHRIGHT? 44:23 WASN'T IT OVER A MEAL? >>YES. 44:25 >>HE WAS DESIRING HIS BROTHER'S - YEAH, IT WASN'T EVEN GOOD 44:29 FOOD. IT'S JUST - IT WAS RED BEANS. I MEAN, IT MAY HAVE 44:33 BEEN HEALTHY BUT IT WASN'T EXTRAVAGANT IN ANY WAY. 44:37 SOLD HIS BIRTHRIGHT FOR BEANS. AND SO IT MIGHT COST YOU. 44:42 JACOB SAID, 'SURE, SIT DOWN, WE'LL EAT, BUT BEFORE I 44:44 FEED YOU, YOU KNOW THAT BIRTHRIGHT? 44:47 I MEAN, WHAT DIFFERENCE IS A BIRTHRIGHT. 44:49 WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO TRADE ME YOUR BIRTHRIGHT? 44:51 SMELL THE BEANS.' DID ESAU LATER REGRET THAT? 44:56 YEAH. SO THERE'S A LOT OF WAYS YOU CAN 44:59 UNDERSTAND THAT. BUT WHILE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 45:02 WHAT YOU PUT IN YOUR MOUTHS, IT'S NOT JUST WHAT YOU EAT. 45:04 THE BIBLE SAYS, 'WHATEVER YOU DO, WHETHER YOU EAT OR WHETHER 45:08 YOU DRINK, DO ALL TO THE GLORY OF GOD. 45:10 NOW, DOES IT MAKE SENSE THAT IF IT'S POSSIBLE TO EAT AND DRINK 45:15 TO THE GLORY OF GOD? WE ALL AGREE THAT IT IS. 45:18 IT SAYS - WE'RE COMMANDED TO DO IT SO IT MUST BE POSSIBLE. 45:20 IS IT POSSIBLE NOT TO EAT AND DRINK TO GOD'S GLORY? 45:23 SO, NOAH - THE BIBLE SAYS NOAH FOUND GRACE IN THE EYES OF THE 45:30 LORD. THE BIBLE SAYS NOAH WALKED WITH GOD. 45:33 BUT NOAH PLANTED A VINEYARD. AND IT WASN'T A TOTAL ACCIDENT. 45:39 HE MAY HAVE BEEN DEPRESSED, WHO KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED, BUT HE THEN 45:42 LET THE WINE FERMENT AND HE DRANK AND THE BIBLE SAYS THAT HE 45:49 'WAS DRUNK AND BECAME UNCOVERED IN HIS TENT.' NOW SOMEBODY IS 45:53 GOING TO READ FOR ME HABAKKUK 2:15. 45:56 YOU'RE GOING TO DO THAT IN A MINUTE, BRIAN? 45:58 JUST A MOMENT. HABAKKUK 2:15. 46:01 SO DOES PROVERBS ALSO HAVE SOME THINGS TO SAY ABOUT ALCOHOL? 46:06 >>YES. >>IT WASN'T JUST NOAH. 46:09 YOU CAN THINK OF A NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN THE BIBLE - THEY WERE 46:14 DRINKING AND THEY MADE SOME VERY BAD DECISIONS. 46:17 I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS IN THE MOUNTAINS AND I DIDN'T WANT TO 46:20 QUIT DRINKING AND I REMEMBER MY FRIENDS - I HAD A COUPLE OF 46:24 CHRISTIAN FRIENDS THAT SAID, 'DOUG, CHRISTIANS SHOULDN'T 46:26 DRINK.' AND I ARGUED, 'JESUS TURNED THE WATER INTO WINE.' AND 46:29 YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD THAT BEFORE. 46:31 AND THEN, WHEN THEY CONVINCED ME THAT HE PROBABLY MADE GRAPE 46:35 JUICE, THEN I SAID, 'WELL, BUT JESUS SAID IT'S NOT WHAT GOES IN 46:39 YOUR MOUTH THAT DEFILES YOU, IT'S WHAT COMES OUT OF YOUR 46:42 MOUTH.' SO I CAN PUT WHATEVER I WANT IN MY MOUTH AS LONG AS I 46:44 PRAY. HAVE YOU HEARD THAT ARGUMENT BEFORE? 46:48 >>YES. >>BUT HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT 46:50 PEOPLE PUTTING ALCOHOL IN THEIR MOUTH, IT DOES AFFECT WHAT COMES 46:53 OUT? >>YES. (LAUGHTER) 46:55 >>YEAH. ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ FOR US HABAKKUK 2:15. 47:01 >>"WOE TO HIM WHO GIVES DRINK TO HIS NEIGHBOR, 47:04 PRESSING HIM TO YOUR BOTTLE, EVEN TO MAKE HIM DRUNK, 47:08 THAT YOU MAY LOOK ON HIS NAKEDNESS!" 47:11 >>THAT'S WHAT WE JUST READ ABOUT WITH NOAH. 47:13 AND YOU'VE PROBABLY SEEN MORE THAN YOU WANT TO REMEMBER, WITH 47:17 PEOPLE THAT WERE DISHEVELED BECAUSE THEY WERE INEBRIATED AND 47:22 THEY KIND OF LOSE THEIR SELF RESPECT. 47:26 I WON'T GO INTO WHAT I SAW, BUT WE DID A MISSION - LIVED AT A 47:31 MISSION - KAREN AND I WENT BACK TO NEW MEXICO. 47:33 RIGHT OFF THE RESERVATION THEY HAD A NOTORIOUS BAR - IT'S SINCE 47:36 CLOSED, PRAISE THE LORD - CALLED THE TURQUOISE BAR . 47:39 THEY COULDN'T SELL ALCOHOL ON THE RESERVATION BACK THEN, BUT 47:42 IMMEDIATELY ACROSS THE RESERVATION SOMEBODY HAD BUILT A 47:45 BAR. AND A NUMBER OF THE NAVAJO 47:47 PEOPLE STRUGGLED WITH ALCOHOL - AS I'M SURE MANY DO TODAY. 47:50 AND BECAUSE THAT WAS THE FIRST PLACE YOU COULD BUY ALCOHOL 47:55 RIGHT OFF THE RESERVATION, IT WAS RIGHT JUST UP THE ROAD FROM 47:58 OUR MISSION OFFICE. WE JUST - NOT ONLY WERE THERE A 48:02 LOT OF DEATHS - A LOT OF FIGHTING - A LOT OF ABUSE - 48:05 A LOT OF INDIGNITIES. I MEAN, IT WAS JUST AWFUL WHAT 48:09 WE SAW - WHAT ALCOHOL DID TO PEOPLE. WHICH MAKES ME THINK 48:12 OF WHAT SOLOMON IS SAYING IN PROVERBS 23. 48:15 THIS IS PART OF OUR PASSAGE - I KNOW WE TALKED ABOUT THIS 48:18 EARLIER BECAUSE PROVERB - SOLOMON TALKED ABOUT ALCOHOL IN 48:21 AN EARLIER CHAPTER, BUT HE REALLY GETS INTO IT HERE. 48:24 PROVERBS 23:29, "WHO HAS WOE?" - NOW YOU NOTICE WE SAID - IT 48:31 SAYS HERE - HABAKKUK SAYS, 'WOE TO HIM.' WHAT'S 'WOE?' 48:35 IS WOE GOOD OR BAD? >>BAD. 48:39 >>IT'S - IT'S - YEAH, 'OY VEY' IS WHAT YOU WOULD SAY IN HEBREW 48:46 AND THAT'S LIKE WHEN ISAIAH SAID, 'WOE IS ME.' 'OY VEY IZ 48:49 MIR.' YOU EVER HEARD THAT YIDDISH EXPRESSION? 48:52 YEAH, WOE IS ME. AND IT'S THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT 48:56 JESUS SAID WHEN HE SAID, 'BLESSED.' 48:59 IT'S ALMOST LIKE CURSED. IT'S MISERY. "WHO HAS WOE? 49:05 WHO HAS SORROW? WHO HAS CONTENTIONS? 49:09 WHO HAS COMPLAINTS? WHO HAS WOUNDS WITHOUT CAUSE? 49:13 WHO HAS REDNESS OF EYES?" NOW SOLOMON IS DOING SOMETHING 49:17 HERE, FOR THIS PROVERB, HE DOESN'T DO ANYWHERE ELSE. 49:19 HE GETS OUT OF THE CHIASTIC PRO AND CON OF ALL THE OTHER 49:24 PROVERBS AND HE JUST LETS LOOSE AND JUST SAYS, 'YOU WANT TO HAVE 49:27 ALL KINDS OF MISERY AND PROBLEMS' - AND HE JUST - 49:29 THERE'S NOT EVEN A POETIC RHYTHM TO IT ANYMORE AND HE JUST COMES 49:34 ON AS STRONG AS HE CAN. "WHO HAS WOUNDS WITHOUT CAUSE? 49:38 WHO HAS REDNESS OF EYES? THOSE THAT LINGER LONG AT THE 49:41 WINE, THOSE WHO GO IN SEARCH OF MIXED WINE. 49:44 DO NOT LOOK ON THE WINE WHEN IT IS RED, WHEN IT SPARKLES IN THE 49:47 CUP, WHEN IT SWIRLS AROUND SMOOTHLY; AT THE LAST IT BITES 49:51 LIKE A SERPENT, AND STINGS LIKE A VIPER." - SERPENTS AND VIPERS 49:55 IN THE BIBLE, WHAT ARE THEY ANALOGOUS OF? THE DEVIL. 49:59 - "YOUR EYES WILL SEE STRANGE THINGS, AND YOUR HEART WILL 50:04 UTTER PERVERSE THINGS." HOW MANY CRUEL, WICKED, MEAN 50:09 THINGS HAVE FATHERS SAID TO THEIR CHILDREN AND THEIR SPOUSES 50:14 AND WIVES TOO, PROBABLY, WHEN THEY'RE DRUNK? 50:18 YOUR HEART - YOUR EYES WILL SEE STRANGE THINGS. 50:23 "...YOU WILL BE LIKE ONE WHO LIES DOWN IN THE MIDST OF THE 50:26 SEA, OR LIKE ONE WHO LIES AT THE TOP OF THE MAST," - NOW HOW WISE 50:32 IS IT TO TAKE A NAP ON THE TOP OF A MAST IN A BOAT? 50:36 NOW I LIVED ON A COUPLE OF SAILBOATS - ONE ON THE CARIBBEAN 50:40 AND ONE IN THE MEDITERRANEAN - AND WHEN THE BOAT IS ROCKING 50:44 LIKE THIS, WHEN YOU GET UP ON THE MAST - THE MAST IS ROCKING 50:48 LIKE THIS. AND SO THERE'S A WHOLE LOT OF 50:49 TIME THAT MAST IS NOT EVEN OVER THE BOAT. 50:50 YOU FALL OUT OF THE MAST AND YOU'RE IN THE DRINK. 50:53 AND IF YOU'RE AT SEA, YOU COULD DROWN. 50:55 THE BOAT COULD LEAVE YOU BEHIND. 50:56 AND TO SLEEP ON THE MAST - YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE UP THERE 50:58 AS A LOOKOUT HANGING ON FOR DEAR LIFE. 51:01 THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE, YOU KNOW, OSHA-REGULATED CROW'S NESTS UP 51:05 THERE BACK THEN. AND A LOT OF BOATS I WENT ON, 51:08 YOU CLIMBED UP THE ROPE AND YOU JUST HUNG ON FOR DEAR LIFE. 51:10 THERE WAS NO HARNESS WHEN I WAS A KID LIVING ON THESE BOATS. 51:13 THEY HAD NO SAFETY HARNESSES. YOU HAD TO HANG ON WITH BOTH 51:15 HANDS. AND IT TALKS ABOUT THE 51:20 RECKLESSNESS OF WHAT ALCOHOL DOES - HOW MUCH DEATH IT CAUSES. 51:26 "...ONE WHO LIES AT THE TOP OF THE MAST, SAYING: 'THEY HAVE 51:29 STRUCK ME, BUT I WAS NOT HURT; THEY HAVE BEATEN ME, BUT I DID 51:32 NOT FEEL IT.'" YEARS AGO SOMEONE WROTE IN TO DEAR ABBY - ANY OF 51:37 YOU REMEMBER DEAR ABBY ? >>YES. 51:39 >>AND SHE WAS ALWAYS PRETTY HARD ON ALCOHOL AND WHAT IT DID TO 51:43 THE SOCIETY AND PEOPLE THAT DRANK. 51:45 SOMEONE WROTE IN AND THEY SAID, 'YOU KNOW, DEAR ABBY, YOU'RE 51:47 AWFUL HARD ON ALCOHOL AND A LITTLE BIT IS REALLY NOT BAD AND 51:50 JUST A CASE IN POINT, IT RELAXES YOU. 51:54 I WAS HAVING A FEW DRINKS AND I LOST MY BALANCE AND I FELL DOWN 51:57 THE STAIRS AND THE DOCTOR SAYS BECAUSE I WAS DRINKING I DIDN'T 52:00 BREAK ANY BONES BECAUSE I WAS RELAXED.' AND ABBY, OF COURSE, 52:03 WROTE BACK AND SAID, 'YOU REALIZE, OF COURSE, YOU WOULDN'T 52:05 HAVE FALLEN DOWN THE STAIRS IF YOU WEREN'T DRINKING?' 52:08 AND SO PEOPLE SAY, 'OH, YOU KNOW, THEY BEAT ME. 52:11 I DON'T EVEN REMEMBER. 52:13 HOW'D I WAKE - I GOT THIS BLACK AND BLUE MARK - MISSING TEETH - 52:15 I DIDN'T EVEN FEEL IT.' WOUNDS WITHOUT A CAUSE. 52:20 "THEY STRUCK ME, BUT I WAS NOT HURT. 52:22 THEY BEAT ME, BUT I DID NOT FEEL IT." 52:24 YOU KNOW, THE OLD COWBOY MOVIES, BEFORE THEY HAD TO TAKE THE 52:27 BULLET OUT, THEY'D GIVE THEM A SHOT OF WHISKEY BECAUSE THAT'S, 52:29 YOU KNOW, ALL THEY HAD BACK THEN. 'OH, I DIDN'T FEEL IT.' 52:32 "WHEN SHALL I AWAKE, THAT I MAY SEEK ANOTHER DRINK?" 52:39 YOU KNOW WHAT HE'S DESCRIBING THERE? 52:41 PEOPLE THAT BARELY SOBER UP AND THEY GO SEEKING IT AGAIN. 52:44 THAT'S ALCOHOLISM. THAT'S NOT A NEW PROBLEM. 52:47 THAT GOES BACK ALL THE WAY TO THE BEGINNING. 52:51 SO, YOU KNOW, I DON'T WANT TO TAKE THAT FARTHER THAN 52:55 NECESSARY, BUT LET ME GIVE YOU A COUPLE MORE. 52:57 ISAIAH 5:11, "WOE TO THOSE WHO RISE EARLY IN THE MORNING, THAT 53:01 THEY MAY FOLLOW INTOXICATING DRINK; WHO CONTINUE UNTIL NIGHT, 53:04 TILL WINE INFLAMES THEM!" AND SOME PEOPLE WERE FALSELY 53:11 ACCUSED OF BEING DRUNK. I CAN THINK OF TWO CASES IN THE 53:14 BIBLE. YOU KNOW WHAT THEY ARE? >>HANNAH. 53:17 >>HANNAH - WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS POURED OUT THE CROWD SAID TO 53:25 THE DISCIPLES, 'THEY ARE FULL OF NEW WINE.' NOW, THE REASON THEY 53:28 SAID 'NEW WINE' IS THEY WERE MOCKING BECAUSE, WHEN PEOPLE 53:30 WERE STAGGERING UP THE STREETS THEY SAID, 'OH, DRINKING AGAIN?' 53:34 THEY SAID, 'NO, IT WAS JUST NEW WINE.' AND SO IT WAS A SARCASM 53:37 WHEN THEY SAID, 'OH, THEY'RE FULL OF NEW WINE.' YOU SEE? 53:41 YOU UNDERSTAND? NEW WINE WAS NOT ALCOHOLIC AND 53:43 PEOPLE USED TO SAY, 'OH, I WASN'T DRINKING. 53:44 IT WAS NEW WINE.' AND SO THE CROWD WAS MOCKING THE DISCIPLES 53:48 AND SAID, 'OH, I SUPPOSE THEY'RE FULL OF NEW WINE.' MEANING THEY 53:52 WERE DRUNK. BUT THEY WEREN'T. 53:54 THEY WERE FULL OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 53:55 AND LAST SECTION - I'LL JUST READ A COUPLE OF THESE - OUR 53:58 RESPONSIBILITIES . IT SAYS THAT IN PROVERBS 24:11 54:03 AND 12, "DELIVER THOSE WHO ARE DRAWN TOWARD DEATH, AND HOLD 54:07 BACK THOSE STUMBLING TO THE SLAUGHTER." - PEOPLE WHO WERE 54:10 STUMBLING TOWARDS THEIR DESTRUCTION - THEY'RE DRAWN 54:12 TOWARDS DEATH AND YOU WANT TO DO ALL YOU CAN TO SAVE THEM. 54:16 I REMEMBER, YOU KNOW, IT PROBABLY SOUNDS STRANGE TO YOU 54:20 IN TELLING YOU THIS STORY, BUT WHEN WE WERE IN NEW YORK CITY 54:22 DOING SOMETHING - ONE OF A FEW OCCASIONS - AND THE STREETS ARE 54:26 JUST, YOU KNOW, ALWAYS BUSTLING WITH PEOPLE AND TOURISTS AND WE 54:29 WERE NOT FAR FROM THE 42ND STREET AREA WHEN WE DID OUR NET 54:32 NEW YORK PROGRAM. AND I JUST REMEMBER THAT - I 54:36 GREW UP IN NEW YORK CITY AND I WAS STANDING AND I LOOKED AND I 54:40 SAW THE LIGHT HAD JUST CHANGED AND THE CABS IN NEW YORK, THEY 54:42 DON'T - WHEN THE LIGHT'S GREEN, YOU BETTER GET OUT OF THEIR WAY. 54:46 AND THEY JUST - ONE OF THEM JUST CAME - THE LIGHT CHANGED AND HE 54:49 WAS ALREADY ON HIS WAY WHEN THE LIGHT CHANGED SO HE DIDN'T EVEN 54:51 SLOW DOWN - STARTED GOING THROUGH - AND THIS KID WHO WAS 54:54 TALKING TO HIS FAMILY - WASN'T EVEN LOOKING - AND HE DIDN'T 54:56 KNOW THE LIGHT HAD CHANGED AND HE JUST STARTED OFF INTO - RIGHT 55:00 IN FRONT OF THIS CAB AND IF YOU'RE A PARENT, YOU KIND OF 55:03 INSTINCTIVELY GO LIKE THAT. I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF YOU 55:05 REMEMBER BEFORE SEAT BELTS WHEN YOU HAD KIDS IN THE FRONT SEAT? 55:08 AND WHENEVER YOU HIT THE BRAKE, YOUR ARM WENT OUT. 55:11 ANY OF YOU REMEMBER WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT? 55:13 >>YES. >>AND I STILL DO IT TODAY. 55:14 KAREN'S SITTING NEXT TO ME, I HIT THE BRAKES - I JUST - 55:17 I FIGURE I SHOULD CATCH MY KIDS. 55:21 BUT I STOPPED THIS KID AND HIS FAMILY SAW THAT HE WAS - HE WAS 55:27 JUST PLOWING OFF AND I STOPPED HIM AND I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, 'HE 55:30 WOULD HAVE DIED IF I HADN'T DONE THAT.' AND I DIDN'T GET AN AWARD 55:35 OR ANYTHING AND I'M NOT ASKING FOR IT NOW - MAYBE IT SOUNDS 55:38 LIKE I AM. BUT IT'S TALKING ABOUT THERE, IT 55:41 SAYS, "DELIVER THOSE WHO ARE DRAWN TOWARDS DEATH AND HOLD 55:43 BACK THOSE STUMBLING FOR THE SLAUGHTER." 55:46 WOULDN'T ANY OF YOU DO THAT? >>UH HUH. 55:48 >>WHAT ABOUT IF YOU SEE PEOPLE THAT DON'T KNOW THE LORD? 55:51 ARE THEY STUMBLING TOWARDS DEATH? 55:53 ARE THEY PLOWING TOWARDS THE SLAUGHTER? 55:55 AND WE OUGHT TO BE DOING ALL WE CAN TO TRY AND INTERFERE WITH 56:00 THEIR DESTRUCTION, YOU KNOW, BRING THEM TO THE LORD. 56:02 GET THEIR ATTENTION. PRAY FOR THEM. PLEAD FOR THEIR SOULS. 56:05 AND THEN, THE LAST SECTION, AGAIN, IT SAYS - PROVERBS 23:23, 56:11 "BUY THE TRUTH AND DO NOT SELL IT, ALSO WISDOM AND INSTRUCTION 56:15 AND UNDERSTANDING. THE FATHER OF THE RIGHTEOUS WILL 56:18 GREATLY REJOICE, AND HE WHO BEGETS A WISE CHILD WILL DELIGHT 56:22 IN HIM. LET YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER BE 56:25 GLAD, AND LET HER WHO BORE YOU REJOICE. 56:28 MY SON, GIVE ME YOUR HEART, AND LET YOUR EYES OBSERVE MY WAYS." 56:33 SO THERE'S A PLEA THERE. THE LORD SAYS, 'GIVE ME YOUR HEART. 56:36 LOVE THE TRUTH. BUY IT. DO NOT SELL IT. 56:38 LIVE A LIFE OF WISDOM AND YOU'LL BE BLESSED AND OTHERS AROUND YOU 56:42 WILL BE BLESSED. WELL, WE ARE OUT OF TIME FOR 56:44 TODAY'S STUDY, BUT WE DO HAVE A FREE OFFER, MENTIONED AT THE 56:47 BEGINNING. HOPEFULLY YOU SAW THAT. 56:49 AND IT ASKS A VERY PROVOKING QUESTION. 56:51 YOU'LL LIKE THE BOOK. IT'S CALLED IS IT POSSIBLE TO 56:53 LIVE WITHOUT SINNING? SEND IT TO YOU FOR FREE. 56:56 YOU CAN READ IT ONLINE FOR FREE ALSO AT AMAZINGFACTS.ORG AND IF 57:01 YOU WOULD LIKE A COPY OF THIS, IT'S 866-788-3966. 57:07 GOD BLESS YOU UNTIL WE STUDY HIS WORD TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK. 57:12 >>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. 57:15 FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, MAN HAS WORSHIPED GOD ON THE SEVENTH DAY 57:19 OF THE WEEK. NOW, EACH WEEK, MILLIONS OF 57:22 PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE FIRST DAY. 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