August 23, 2024 • 58 mins
Wisdom for the day-to-day life.
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Ah, God, bless you, God, bless you, God, bless you.
Welcome to the hour of deliverance. I still want to
stop and explain what I have meant by that title,
having given that title, and I'm going to resist and
not do so. I want to deal with Proverbs twenty
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three today. It is an especially important Proverb chapter to me,
and especially the first few verses. I want to stop
and remind you that you're a person of excellence. I
just mind the amount of time I take to explain
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that and to give an understanding of it. And part
of why I do that is because usually people of
excellence are so busy being that that you don't see
the nose on your face. That's an expression that I use.
Don't know that. However, this particular chapter, especially for people
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of excellence. I you, if you're tuned in here, you're
a person of excellence. If you're evangelical, you're a person
of excellence. And you draw people of excellence, even if
they're a drunkard on the street, they catch your attention
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because you're a person of excellence, and people of excellence
catch your attention, and the drunkard on the street that
catches your attention is a person ordained, a person of
excellence living something that is a total lie. And I
shouldn't say that because I always remind you that. How
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in Job one of the guys said, the ear tries
words the way the mouth tastes meat. And just now
I could taste the word of what I just said.
How that, Ah, that's not the whole truth. The way
that you can taste sweetness and salt, that's not the
whole truth the thing that I had just said. People
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of excellence, you can be drawn to the person of
excellence when they're at their worst. I'm going to make
the statement. I'm probably not going to go to the
scriptures to show you the statement, although if you email
me at Rev. Holmes one at gmail dot com, Rev
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without a dot, my last name H O. L M
E S the numeral one at gmail dot com, put
the question a short question please in the subject line,
and I will send you the scriptures. So it's God
telling it to you, not me telling it to you.
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You need the revelation of God, and you need the
revelation from God. Even when I tell you something, you
want to look it up and let the word of
God talk to you about that. Thing. God may give
you a different aspect of it than what he gave me,
and it doesn't mean that what he gave you isn't true.
It doesn't mean what he gave me isn't true. I
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used to I wish I had a big portrait. But
you can imagine not even a portrait, but a scene,
a mountain scene or something. There's so many aspects that
are in there. And I've often told the testimony of
how as a little girl on the Thousand Piece Puzzles,
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they used to have me put together everything green, and
I would do that so quick, faster than what they
meant for me to.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
And.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I would think I had the whole picture because when
I would put everything green, I could see the bushes,
from the grass, from this, from the dead, that's all green.
And I would do it so quick, and I would
show them and I didn't know that I got on
their nerves because I didn't give them time enough. However,
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I thought I saw the whole picture when all I
saw was the bushes and the grass and the things
that are green. And what if we're looking at a
mountain that isn't green, what if we're looking Okay, you
got the idea. This particular chapter is especially important Chapter
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twenty three of Proverbs. It's especially important for people of excellence.
One of the reasons is because who sits to eat
with a ruler? Everybody doesn't get to sit with you
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might get to sit and serve. And even that, you've
got to be a servant of excellence. And go look
at what Jesus had to say about that. And there's
a particular verse in here that we like Churchianity, what
I call I put give the title Churchianity to an
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aspect of something. Jesus said that your doctrines make the
word of God of no effect. And all of us
think we're right in our doctrines. We just do. And
I can show you where that is just not true. However,
I don't want to show what's not true. I want
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to show what is true. You do need to be
aware of what's not true. However, what you want to
have in your heart, your mind, in your knowledge, your understanding,
and in your wisdom. You want to have truth. And remember,
Jesus is not and was not only true. He's the way,
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He's truth, and he is life. Okay, So Proverbs twenty three,
I hope I do something that I usually can't even do,
And that's to do the whole chapter be in the
theologian that I am. I get into the aspects of
the particular scripture or the particular word or phrase. Even However,
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when thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider, not
just consider, consider diligently what is before thee, and not
just consider, like I want to eat. The ruler has
the best food and the best wine, and the best
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this and the best that. No, consider diligently what is
before thee, and put a knife to thy throat. If
that'll be a man given to appetite. Now that that
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phrase means a lot of things, not just if you
can eat a lot, but if you love different types
of things like God. And I'm one of those. I
like to taste the sweetness, and I like to taste.
I like to get what spices are in here, and
what things, what living things were made to use this?
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It's not a negative Oh, oh God, I wish I
hadn't used that example. In Churchianity, we like to use
the word negative for anything that's bad. I want to
remind you you need for electricity, you need positive and
negative charge to have a light. If you only have
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positive charge, you're not going to have light. And I'd
like to apply that that he's the way, the truth.
I gave you the one where it says life. But
the scripture lets you know he's light. The Word of
God lets you know, and psalms he lets you know.
The word is I might say it backwards, so go
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look it up. A lamp to your feet and a
light to your path. Now, this isn't the whole thing
on it like, it's not the whole picture. However, part
of the picture. It's a lamp to your feet to
show you where you're standing. The word some of us
don't even look for the word to do that. We
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look for the word to give us goosebumps. We look
for the word to give us revelation. Yeah, it does,
it does, it does, it can. However, what God gives
me about it and it's not the only thing. But
it's a lamp to your feet to show you where
you're standing. Are you in a good place? Are you
in where are you standing? Are you in a transitional place?
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The word is a lamp to show you, a lamp
to your feet, not just to your head, to your
feet okay, And a light to your path. It shows
you where you're going, so that you know do you
want to stay on that path? Do you want to
switch that path? Do you want to ask God? What? Okay?
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So put a knife to thy throat. If if, if
it's the case. Now, if you're sitting with the ruler
and you consider diligently what's before you, and you're not
a man given to appetite, you don't have to have
the knife at your throat. However you want to pay attention,
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be not desirous of his dainties, for they are deceitful meat.
He's put all these wonderful things in front of you.
They're deceitful meat there to put you on a path
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that can hurt you, kill you, destroy you, and not
necessarily all at once, bit by bit, peace by peace,
ownership by ownership. And then he gets back to God,
lets you know what the ruler might be doing, and
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then he lets you know what you want to do.
Be in the habit of asking God, what is my responsibility?
Give me to see know and understand your heart, your
mind what you would have me do. And he says,
labor not to be rich? Now, what is sitting with
the ruler God to do with laboring to be rich.
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We're just having a meal here. No, no, that's not
how that goes. You meet over food for purposes. And
that I can show you in God's word. Be not
desirous of his dainties, for they are. Hear this, This
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is God's word. This is Proverbs twenty three, verse three,
Be not desirous of his dainties, for they are deceitful meat.
And the word are is in italics, which lets you
know that it's not part of the King James. I'm
reading for King James. It's put there so that the
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English flows. Be not desirous of his dainties, for they
dici deceitful meat. The r is there to make the
English flow better. But even when you take it out,
and I said, but there's no butt in Greek or
Hebrew the way that we use it in English. And
I'm not talking about the behind, but I'm talking about
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the proposition. But in Greek or Hebrew would be therefore
or some such. Anyway, he's letting you know they are
they they deceitful meat, not ABC one two three deceitful meat.
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And even when I say not ABC one two three.
It is part of that, part of the Deceit has aspects,
and it's all because we're laboring to be rich. Wilt
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thou set thine eye upon that which is not? If
something's an illusion, you're gonna set your eyes on an illusion. No,
you've got better sense, You've got better intelligence. You have
a better mind than that. God gave it to you.
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For riches, certainly make themselves wings. They fly away as
an egle toward heaven, not toward you, toward heaven. Eat
thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye.
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God's letting you know that deceitful meat that comes from
an evil eye. I'm right now thinking of job. Pardon
me not jo Joseph when he was in prison and
gave the interpretation the butler and the baker. They both
had a dream and Joseph interpreted them for them. One's
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dream Pharaoh was gonna call him and put him back
in his post. The other he was gonna kill him.
Two because he had a deceitful eye, a plodding eye. Anyway.
Verse six, it says, eat thou not the bread of
him that hath an evil eye. Neither desire, his dainty meats,
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and I'm gonna remind you of when God said a
thing over and over. Now, so far this is twice.
But when God says a thing twice, it's immutable. It's irrefutable.
That's the way it is. You can fast and pray,
Oh God, don't let it be this way, Oh God,
don't let me be No. God said it twice. That's
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how it is. Understand that let the alarms go on
the things he says twice. That is how it is
every time and in every way, whether you see it,
whether you discern it, whether you have goosebumps or a
feeling or not. Etau'm not the bread of him that
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hath an evil eye, neither desire his dainty meets verse seven.
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
I'm gonna let you know. In Churchianity we like to
take that phrase of that verse and isolate it. You
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want it in the context that God has given it.
God is his own best commentary, yes, and he's his
own best interpreter. He's not talking about how anybody thinks
in their heart, so is he. That might be a
true ism right now, what he's talking about is the
person who has the evil eye, and it sets you
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up in front of his dainty meats and made sure
that they were just right, just so, according to what
you just love or would love. Hah, knowing that you're
seeking to be rich, not seeking the Lord. And by
the way you can seek the Lord and be rich,
He'll show you some things. He'll reveal some things to you.
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I left my tissue. I'm gonna use a piece of
paper towel. I don't like dabbing my nose because I
saw doing it on the screen. Looks like you're digging,
and so I don't want to look like that. I
don't want to. I don't want to disgust you or me.
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So I make my little die so that you know
I'm not digging. Okay, So be though, be not desirous.
Back to verse three of his dainties, for they, for
they deceitful, meet labor not to be rich. See, some
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of us don't realize that we're laboring to be rich
when we're having dinner with some folk. When you know
the story of Esther, the children of Israel, not the
whole children, but especially to Sanhedrin and Scott. Anyway, they
sought the Lord afterward to know why such a thing happened. Yeah,
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they got the victory and all of that, and God
gave instruction. However, they wanted to know before God, what
did they do? What did they do to cause that
whole set of circumstances. And when you know the story,
you understand it's not the way we read it in
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the sense that it's not one verse and next verse
and x verse. When you live a thing out, it
takes time and you experience it. So when they finally
got to the place of victory, when God brought them
to the finality of victory, they had wisdom enough. The
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leaders had wisdom enough to seek the Lord to know
what did they do? And now this isn't scripture. This
is historical though, that they realized that they were busy
wanting to sit with the rulers. They wanted to be
in the company they were hobnobbing with what I would
say today, I would put it this way, with the
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politicians and with the leaders and the CEOs. They wanted
to be on that plane and they enjoyed that, and
it made them distracted from things and proverbs. This lets
you know about that that you're laboring to be rich.
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God's already gave the plan how to be wealthy and
full of wealth, and where your attention is to be
for it. I heard someone, I'm not going to go there.
I might go there later. I want to finish the verse,
I mean the chapter. Eat thou not the bread of
him that hath an evil eye. Just don't do it,
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neither desire his dainty meats. Just because I'm not going
to eat with him, doesn't mean that I'm send some
of that to my house. No, don't even want his stuff.
Now here's the verse that church Yanity likes to isolate
and make it that it's about everybody. Right here, in context,
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it's about him that has an evil eye, the one
who wants to hurt you, own you, control you, and
own everything you've got. Verse six twenty three six Proverbs
twenty three six. Eat thou not the bread of him
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that hath an evil eye, neither be neither desire thou
his dainty meats. Verse seven. For as he thinketh in
his heart, so is he the rest of that thought.
That's a colon there. Okay, eat and drink saith he,
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but his heart is not with thee. We like I've
heard so many preachers take as he thinketh in his heart,
so is he, and make it for something good in
the context God being in his own best commentary. God
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be in his own best interpreter verse seven. For as
he thinketh in his heart, so is he eat and drink?
Saith he to thee, but his heart. It's not with
thee the morsel. And here's what God wants you to know.
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Here's God's instruction understanding on the matter. The morsel which
thou hast eaten, thou shalt vomit up and lose thy
sweet words. And then here again, God be in his
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own best commentary. Sometimes we don't get this one. It
looks like a new subject. That's part of pardon me it.
Remember verse eight Proverbs twenty three eight. The morsel which
thou hast eaten, shalt thou vomit up? Only a morsel.
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He's not even talking about finishing the whole meal and
getting to dessert. The more so which thou hast eaten,
shalt thou vomit up and lose thy sweet words. And
this I like to especially pay attention to the next
verse of verse nine. Speak not in the ears of
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a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
It's not that you don't have wisdom. It's not that
your words aren't wisdom. God's letting you know, speak not
in the ears of a fool. And this word a fool,
I'm pretty sure it could sell. Let me look it up.
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Ah oh, I'm okay. I'm not gonna look it up
because I'm not. I thought I was in a thing
that shows tools. Speak not in the ears of a fool,
for he will despise the wisdom of thy words. Don't
be so busy knowing that you're talking wisdom, because wisdom
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isn't wisdom to the fool's ears. I really want to
look up that word full, because there's three words that
the Old Testament uses for the word fool. Remove not
the landmark. See, we don't realize that at the meal
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and the discussion, at the meeting, the board meeting, the
congressional meeting, the political meeting, the whatever meeting, the township meeting,
we don't realize that these are the things that are
being discussed. And God has said a yes. And I
know on these things we think us working it out. However,
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God has let us know, speak not in the ears
of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of
thy words. So here's some of the plans that are
going on. I'm not reading now, I'm letting you know.
Here's some of the plans that are going on. Remove
not the landmark, and it are not into the fields
of the fatherless. That's something that countries do as if
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God didn't say, don't do that, do not do that.
And we make ordinances and laws overdoing exactly that, because
we disgusted over the meal and over how to be
rich and how to be the CEO, and how to
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actually take care of the people while you're getting rich.
Don't remove the landmark Verse ten Proverbs twenty three to ten.
Remove not, remove not the landmark, and enter not into
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the field of the fatherless. For their redeemer is mighty.
You think they're helpless, you think they're hopeless. Huh. God's
letting you know. His word is letting us know, not
just you, me as well, for their redeemer is mighty.
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He shall plead their cause with thee. Oh, he's going
to talk to you about it. He tells you don't
talk to the fool. But He's going to talk to you, fool,
and he's going to talk to the wise as well.
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For their redeemer verse eleven, their redeemer twenty three to eleven.
Remember this, Their redeemer is mighty. He shall plead their
cause with THEE. Verse twelve, God lets us know what
to do. Apply thine ear unto instruction, not new laws
and new ordinances on how to get this done. Apply
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thine ear unto instruction, and thine ears unto the words
of knowledge. I'm thinking of for that first phrase, I'm
thinking of Ecclesiastes. It says wisdom is profitable to direct.
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I'm trying to think of the one about knowledge anyway.
For their redeemer is mighty Verse eleven, twenty three eleven,
he shall plead their cause with THEE. Apply thine ear
unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
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Pardon me, apply thine heart, I said ear. This is
why I love that God always tells me to look
things up when a preacher's preaching it. I just said,
ear the word. God says, apply thine heart unto instruction.
Your heart, and thine ears unto the words of knowledge. Words.
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There's going to be more than one. And remember the
fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. And
then he lets us know withhold not correction from the child,
for if thou beachest him with the rod, he shall
not die. Yeah, there's there's there's so much about that.
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I was coming along. Actually, when I was bringing my
kids along, there was this attitude and disposition that you
don't want to beat the children. And by the way
laws that were made. The scripture has just gone through that,
and I was just letting you know that you'll you'll,
you'll get together and you'll you'll go to make up
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rules and regulations and not even realize God said no,
and there now, don't beat the child. And I'm not
I want us to know what God's word says. I'm
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looking at what verse I stopped in verse fourteen twenty three,
Proverbs twenty three fourteen. I actually I'm gonna read thirteen
and fourteen together withhold not correction from the child, For
if thou beachest him, and that, eh, you did it,
you're doing it, and you might have to do it again.
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If thou beachest him with the rod, For the rod,
you know, like the shepherd's staff, he shall not die,
shall beat him with the rod, saying it again, and
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shall deliver his soul from hell. This is the word
of God. This is the word of God, my son.
And now the father's letting us know. The Father is
letting us know, just told us how to be the father,
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how to be with your child, and even bringing it,
calling us my son. He's letting us know he's there.
He knows what that's like. Remember how the Word tells
us that Jesus was touched with the feelings of our infirmities.
God is father. He understands having to punish your child.
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It doesn't feel good. It is good, and it won't
kill him. It'll deliver his all from hell. If you
beat him with the rod, he won't die. Oh, my son,
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if thy heart be wise? Did I finish that verse?
I'm gonna go back to fourteen, Make sure I finished it.
Make sure I've read it according to the way that
it is. Thou shalt beat him with the rod and shout, shout,
deliver his soul from hell, my son, If thine heart
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be wise, he's saying if, because he's letting you know.
There's fool present, and then there's the wise present. If
your heart be wise. If you're his son, we love
that scripture. If my people, which are called by my name,
we love that part. We love that praise. And don't
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even look at the rest of what he said. Humble
yourselves and pray. We pray. We go to praying and
telling God what to do and how to do it,
when to do it. He said, humble yourselves. That's even
before you start to pray. Of course, that's not what
he said. Humble yourselves and pray. Chain link. One is
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not supposed to be without the other, even though they
are two very separate things. Humble yourselves and pray. Anyway,
back to this Proverbs twenty three, my son, if thine
heart be wise, and remember what he said about the heart,
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because I went back to read the verse, and I
thought ears and ears, and then verse twelve, apply thine
heart unto instruction, apply your heart to instruction. In eleven, No,
that's twelve twenty three twelve, apply thine heart unto instruction,
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and chain link thine ears to the words of knowledge.
So down here, when he says heart, he's letting us know,
my son, Verse fifteen, if thine heart be wise, the
fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, not
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all of it, it's the beginning of it. You want
to be there, And remember God said that if any
like yeah, let him ask of God, Who'll give it
to you liberally and will upbraide you. If thy heart
be wise, my heart shall rejoice even mine. You want
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to make God happy, You want to make God rejoice,
Move in wisdom that He's given and given liberally. Move
in the fear of the Lord. The fear of the
Lord is the beginning of wisdom. It's yeah, three things.
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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of understanding.
And remember it's the beginning of because there's more. There's
more right now, There's more as you grow, and there's
more in different aspects of each of those things, wisdom, knowledge,
and understanding, and the beginning of it is in the
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fear of the Lord. Okay, so you want to make
God rejoice, my son, that makes him rejoice. But here
he's giving some specifics. If thine heart be wise, my
heart shall rejoice even mine. That's something that I have
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asked God since nineteen sixty eight. God, I want to
please you in every way. I want everything I think,
do and say. There I go prophesying. He's the one
who taught me that when I go rhyming, i'm prophesying.
That's not the only time. However, that is a time.
And he lets me know, if thine heart be wise,
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my heart shall rejoice even mine. Yay, my reins the
thing what I control, and He controls all my reins
shall rejoice. You know, when you beat your child with
the rod, it doesn't feel good, and you're not rejoicing
about it. You're just you're doing it because you want
to save his soul from hell. However, there's things that
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we as the parent in charge with authority, there's things
that we do that make our heart rejoice. And here
my reigns shall rejoice. And he said rains not just rain.
He's not just bullying and telling us what to do.
He's giving us what to do. And I like to
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mention the different aspects. And I like to give Ephesians
as an example, even though I think I memorize it
out of order, and God has given the order. But
the aspects of the love of God in Christ Jesus
in Ephesians. It lets us know that we're to go
on to that and be full of that, full of
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the love of Christ. And he says the breath, length, depth,
and height. Please look up the verse so that you
know the order that God has said it in, because
that order is specific, and you want to know where
you are in it. You don't want, Okay, thou shalt
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beat him with the rod Verse fourteen twenty Proverbs twenty
three fourteen and shall. That's a definite statement. Deliver his
soul from hell, my son. If thine heart be wise,
my heart shall rejoice even mine. Ah, God double that
thing he wants you to know. You can make God rejoice.
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You know he makes us rejoice. Yeay, my rains shall rejoice.
When thy lips speak right things. By the way, I
said right, because I was going to say righteousness. When
thy lips speak right things, you're gonna have more than
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one thing to say. I have a saying about myself
that I don't have an off button, and I think
I talk too much. However, God is the one who
gives me much to say. That doesn't mean every when
I think I'm talking too much, I'm not talking too much, however,
you want to understand. Like with Jeremiah, God gave him
a lot to say, wrote it on scrolls till it
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was a book. King didn't like it, destroyed it, and
when God gave it to him again, he gave it
to him with more. Understand that your lips, when my
reigns rejoice the pardon me yes or yea, my reigns
shall rejoice when thy lips He didn't say, my lips,
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When your lips, when my lips, speak right things. And
for me I bring it to the breath, length, death
and height of the love of God in Christ Jesus.
I want to speak all those aspects of right things.
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And what if He's given you to speak of another
aspect of things in Christ Jesus. Because I don't want
to be so busy majoring on the love of God
that I don't have a second major. See because I
kept I would always take second majors in college. That
thing stays in my mind. I don't want so busy
concentrating on what I'm majoring in that I missed some
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other things that need to be majored in or can
be majored in. And all through, all through college, and
in every course, in every degree I always had, I
had to get permission a lot for a second major.
And I'm letting us know here too. Yeay, my reigns
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show rejoice when that when thy lips speak right things,
but not thine heart envy sinners. So you're gonna know
some things about that. You don't just know things about
everything positive. You need to know what the sinner's thinking
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and how they're gonna move and how they're gonna do.
If for nothing else to keep track of, you remember
the word. It's I'm nineteen. The word is a lamp
to your feet and a light to your path. You
don't want to go the path of the sinner. Doesn't
mean you don't want to know what that path is,
because God tells us, and you want to know. Let
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not thine heart envy sinners. He's talking about your heart now,
not your feet walking somewhere your heart, because your feet
are going to take you to where your heart is looking,
where your heart is longing. Let me finish the verse though,
verse twenty three seventeen. I'm a connected with fifteen sixteen seventeen,
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My son, If thine heart be wise, my heart shall
rejoice even mine. Yay, yes, my rain, rain shall rejoice
when thy lips speak right things. Let not thy heart
envy sinners be, but be thou, not pardon me, but
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be thou. He's telling you where to be. Don't envy sinners,
but be thou in the fear of the Lord all
the day long, when you're at the table, when you're
not at the table, when you're sensing his reins, and
when you're not sensing his reins. For surely verse eighteen,
there is an end doesn't mean we see it. The
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word being a light to your feet in the lamp,
pardon me, a lamp to your feet, and the light
to your path doesn't always mean you're going to see
the end of the path. Following him moving in his reins,
you'll be fine. That's why God can tell you if
you're beating with the rod, he won't die and you'll
deliver his soul from hell. Most of us can't even
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see that far. For surely there is an end. Surely
God's let you know. For sure there is an end,
And thine expectations. But I love this. I love this
about you, father. I still love this about you, and
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right now I'm taking it very personally, who are some
issues and realizing with his word they're not issues. It's
the way he says in his word, whereas it there
is an end eighteen Proverbs twenty twenty three eighteen. For
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surely there is an end, and thy expectation shall not
be cut off. It's not over because it looks like
it's over. It's not over because people try to make
this happen and make that happen and it doesn't happen.
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It's not over because you expect did something and it
didn't happen. It's not over. For surely there's an end.
It could be an end to you expecting the wrong thing.
It could be an end to people bullying you to
get to do their thing. It could be an end
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to all the people that mean well and want you
to do their thing. Surely there is an end, and
thine expectation shall not be cut off. Here thou, my son, here,
remember have ears. If your heart where is it? He says,
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If your heart this and your ears that verse twelve,
apply thine heart unto instruction and thine ears unto words
of knowledge. And so he's saying, here, here, my son,
and remember Jesus said my sheep know my voice. Huh,
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because somebody else might be listening and they're not gods,
and they don't hear. Hear thou, my son, and be wise,
yes here, and be wise, not just have ideas of wisdom,
revelation of wisdom. God's always given me relation that I
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always say is so far outside of knowledge and understanding
of what I know and have studied and graded excellently
in He says, hear thou, my son, and be wise,
and guide thine heart in the way. Remember He's the way.
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Guide thy heart in the way, and guide lets you
know that it might not be stepped after step after step.
It might take some guidance. I was giving instruction the
for a truck to be able to get to a
certain place, and I was letting him know. The street
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that you once says this, However, when you go the
way that the map shows you, it winds this way,
and it winds that way, and it winds this way. Guide.
God's letting us know, guide thine heart in the way.
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And I noticed that on that street that winds this way,
and usually a truck doesn't want to have to wind.
I noticed that the specific street crosses right there and
I was concerned because if the trucker sees it, he's gone, oh,
that's the street. However, it's blocks away on a very
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narrow balm street, and there's stop signs that I would
say every other block. I don't know because I don't
use the street. I go to the address of that street,
and I was concerned. Here, God, I'm letting you know
that when God says, guide thine heart in the way,
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it can be just like that that there's going to
be a sign and it says right. I'm talking about
when he says, where do you say if thy lips
speak right things? And there's a street that says right things?
And you know that you want to go to ten
twenty three right things? And you see the street right things,
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only it's one o one and you got to go ten.
You have several blocks to go, and God wants you
to have the wisdom to guide your heart in the way. Way,
follow the map, follow God's map. It was like that
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thing I had noticed. The street is right there. It
crosses I had never known. I've driven it for decades
and didn't notice it before because it's not a street
that I normally use. But I saw that it was,
you know, way too early. And I get to that street,
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blocks down, blocks down, past a couple of landmarks and whatnot.
God wants us to know when you're living a thing out,
especially people of excellence, it's not just boing boing boom. Yes,
the steps of a righteous man are ordered of the Lord.
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You want to know that. Look up that scripture and
know that not the steps you plan, if you planned
them in wisdom. Yes, and then still guide what does
he say? Guide? Guide thine heart in the way. Pay
attention to what your heart is seeing, and not just
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what your eyes are seeing, and not that you know
I'm looking for would I call it? Would I call
it right things? And I see right things? Know that
you're after righteous mess when you get to right things.
And the way if it's windy, and God's given you
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that wind with him, He's given you the wisdom to
guide your heart in the way. And notice he said heart,
because you can see things. Hear thou my son. Now
remember you're supposed to listen. You're supposed to hear. And
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he's talking to his son, not the full Remember the
fool does not want to hear words of wisdom. He's
talking to by son. Hear thou, my son, and be wise.
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That lets you know that just because you hear stuff
doesn't automatically make you wise. God will give you wisdom,
and he'll give you to hear wisdom, and you have
to decide to follow the way of wisdom. You have
to decide to hear. I've noticed about me when people
say certain things to me or say it in a
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certain way, I turn my hearing off. You might be talking,
I'm not hearing. And because I know that about me,
I make an effort not to be that way about
God when God says things to me that I don't
want to hear. Yeah, God says some things and I
don't like it all the time, and I'm always asking him. God,
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set my heart with your heart. Help me to like
your way and to like what you say, and to
like what you're doing. Because some of the things that
I read here, I don't like it. And if I
was God, I wouldn't do it that way. I remember.
Speaker 2 (49:13):
Oh, And since I know that about me, I ask
God to put me in agreement with him, whether I
understand or don't.
Speaker 1 (49:28):
And I love that He gave me For the Philippians four.
You know, be anxious for nothing, because I learned I
get upset. I get anxious, and he said, be anxious
for nothing. Well, I don't want to sin against him.
I don't want to do something he said not do.
And the rest of that verse in Philippians for with
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prayer and supplication, and he says, with thanksgiving, look it
up because I'm not saying it exactly right. But with thanksgiving,
I get upset when I don't like it, and I
notice that I'm not giving thanks However, God says, be
anxious for nothing, and with prayer, let your request be
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made known unto God with thanksgiving. And so I give
myself whole bunch of Thanksgiving scriptures when I find myself
being anxious and upset, and I think it's reasonable to
be upset because just that and me O, no, no,
God said no. His word says, when you hear him, huh,
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hear thou, my son, and be wise and guide thine
heart in the way. Be not among wine bibbs. If
you think it's okay to have a little wine for
your stomach sake or whatever's sake, or a celebration's sake,
he says, be not among wine bibbers. See, everybody that
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drinks wine isn't a wine bibber. You need to know that.
And I'm not saying if you don't, if you don't drink,
start drinking.
Speaker 2 (51:04):
No.
Speaker 1 (51:05):
He lets you know be not among wine bivers. And
he gives you the definition among riotous eaters of flesh
for the drunkard and the glutton. See, God's giving you
the context of what he's talking about. The drunkard and
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the glutton shall come to poverty. Remember he started off
telling you don't labor to be rich. When you're sitting
at that table and it looks like, oh, Danny meets
and all this and that, and you're having these discussions
and these board meetings, and it's that meeting. Uh uh no, no, no, no, no, no,
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hearkennot pardon me for the drunkard Verse twenty one. And
the glutton shall come to poverty. And drowsiness shall clothe.
It's going to be your clothes. Drowsiness shall clothe with rags.
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King James says, a man, it can be a woman too.
And God is the one who gave me the design
for these wraps decades ago before such a thing was
a style. Twenty Proverbs twenty three to twenty one. For
the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty and
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drowsiness shall clothe with rags. Twenty two. Hearken unto thy
father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when
she is old. I'd learned that one buy the truth
and sell it not also with and instruction and understanding
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all three. And remember the breathlen depth and height of
all three, all these aspects. And if there's other aspects
that I didn't just name because I took, I took
the aspects from the love of God in Christ Jesus.
God's got other aspects thy father, verse twenty five, Oh,
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pardon me, I skipped. I'm gonna read twenty four. The
Father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice, and he that
begat at a wise child shall have joy of him.
I know that to be the truth. God's bless me
that way. Thy Father and thy mother shall be glad,
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and she that bear thee shall rejoice. My son, give
thine heart, pardon me, give me thine heart, and let
thine eyes observe my ways. It doesn't mean don't see
you know the other junk that's going on, But give
me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.
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How I do a thing and things. Hello, you'll notice
some things, He'll oh, my yes, Lord, thank you. I
need to hurry along here because there's a whole lot
to this chapter, and I only have a few minutes.
And notice what God connects to what He's not just
being arbitrary when you live it out. These are the connections,
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These are the things you're going to meet up with,
my son, give thine heart, give me thine heart, and
let thine eyes observe my ways. For a whore is
a deep ditch, and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
And notice that there's a deep ditch, and there's a
narrow pit. And notice which one is that which? And
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you think you gave God your heart, and you think
you're observing his ways, And all of a sudden, the
whore gets your attention. He's letting you know ahead of time.
It's a deep ditch. It's a deep ditch. I live
in what they call twin cities. One of the cities.
It has all these ditches in the streets that everything
looks flat except for that. If you don't pay attention,
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you'll be in a deep ditch when it all looked flat. Hello, God,
lets you know here. A whore is a deep ditch.
And most of us don't know the difference between a
horror and a strange woman. And I've had to be
praying on this stuff, between the prostitute, the whore, the adulteress,
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and the I forget what the other one was anyway,
For a whore is a deep ditch. That's God's word.
That's how that is, even if that's not where you
stepped when you were only at the edge and chain
link there. A strange woman is a narrow pit. Can't
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move this way, can't move that way, And it's a pit.
She also lieth and wait for a prey, and increases
the transgression of men. If you transgress, don't keep on going.
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Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? Who
hath babbling? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath the
redness of redness of eyes? They that tarry long at
the wine, They that go to seek mixed wine, look
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not upon the wine when it is read, when it
gets its color in the cup, when it moveth itself. Aright.
I'm from a family that made wine. And at the
last that biteth like a serpent and stineth like an adder,
thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall
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utter perverse things. And I watch this. I'm ending with this.
Yet no pardon, yay, thou shalt be as he that
lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as
he that lieth upon the top of a mass. And
here's what the conclusion of it is. They have stricken me.
They did it. They did it. Not you did it.
They have stricken me. Shalt thou say, And I was
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not sick. They have beaten me, and I felt it not.
When shall I awake, I'll seek it yet again. Twenty three.
He lets you know, don't sit with the don't sit
with the ruler. Put a knife to your throat if
you like dainty meats, cause did none of it's good
for you. Hear him, hear him, hear him. Come in.
Ah, God, bless you, God, bless you, God, bless you.
Welcome to the hour of deliverance. I still want to
stop and explain what I have meant by that title,
having given that title, and I'm going to resist and
not do so. I want to deal with Proverbs twenty
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three today. It is an especially important Proverb chapter to me,
and especially the first few verses. I want to stop
and remind you that you're a person of excellence. I
just mind the amount of time I take to explain
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that and to give an understanding of it. And part
of why I do that is because usually people of
excellence are so busy being that that you don't see
the nose on your face. That's an expression that I use.
Don't know that. However, this particular chapter, especially for people
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of excellence. I you, if you're tuned in here, you're
a person of excellence. If you're evangelical, you're a person
of excellence. And you draw people of excellence, even if
they're a drunkard on the street, they catch your attention
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because you're a person of excellence, and people of excellence
catch your attention, and the drunkard on the street that
catches your attention is a person ordained, a person of
excellence living something that is a total lie. And I
shouldn't say that because I always remind you that. How
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in Job one of the guys said, the ear tries
words the way the mouth tastes meat. And just now
I could taste the word of what I just said.
How that, Ah, that's not the whole truth. The way
that you can taste sweetness and salt, that's not the
whole truth the thing that I had just said. People
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of excellence, you can be drawn to the person of
excellence when they're at their worst. I'm going to make
the statement. I'm probably not going to go to the
scriptures to show you the statement, although if you email
me at Rev. Holmes one at gmail dot com, Rev
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without a dot, my last name H O. L M
E S the numeral one at gmail dot com, put
the question a short question please in the subject line,
and I will send you the scriptures. So it's God
telling it to you, not me telling it to you.
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You need the revelation of God, and you need the
revelation from God. Even when I tell you something, you
want to look it up and let the word of
God talk to you about that. Thing. God may give
you a different aspect of it than what he gave me,
and it doesn't mean that what he gave you isn't true.
It doesn't mean what he gave me isn't true. I
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used to I wish I had a big portrait. But
you can imagine not even a portrait, but a scene,
a mountain scene or something. There's so many aspects that
are in there. And I've often told the testimony of
how as a little girl on the Thousand Piece Puzzles,
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they used to have me put together everything green, and
I would do that so quick, faster than what they
meant for me to.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
And.
Speaker 1 (03:58):
I would think I had the whole picture because when
I would put everything green, I could see the bushes,
from the grass, from this, from the dead, that's all green.
And I would do it so quick, and I would
show them and I didn't know that I got on
their nerves because I didn't give them time enough. However,
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I thought I saw the whole picture when all I
saw was the bushes and the grass and the things
that are green. And what if we're looking at a
mountain that isn't green, what if we're looking Okay, you
got the idea. This particular chapter is especially important Chapter
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twenty three of Proverbs. It's especially important for people of excellence.
One of the reasons is because who sits to eat
with a ruler? Everybody doesn't get to sit with you
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might get to sit and serve. And even that, you've
got to be a servant of excellence. And go look
at what Jesus had to say about that. And there's
a particular verse in here that we like Churchianity, what
I call I put give the title Churchianity to an
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aspect of something. Jesus said that your doctrines make the
word of God of no effect. And all of us
think we're right in our doctrines. We just do. And
I can show you where that is just not true. However,
I don't want to show what's not true. I want
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to show what is true. You do need to be
aware of what's not true. However, what you want to
have in your heart, your mind, in your knowledge, your understanding,
and in your wisdom. You want to have truth. And remember,
Jesus is not and was not only true. He's the way,
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He's truth, and he is life. Okay, So Proverbs twenty three,
I hope I do something that I usually can't even do,
And that's to do the whole chapter be in the
theologian that I am. I get into the aspects of
the particular scripture or the particular word or phrase. Even However,
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when thou sittest to eat with a ruler, consider, not
just consider, consider diligently what is before thee, and not
just consider, like I want to eat. The ruler has
the best food and the best wine, and the best
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this and the best that. No, consider diligently what is
before thee, and put a knife to thy throat. If
that'll be a man given to appetite. Now that that
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phrase means a lot of things, not just if you
can eat a lot, but if you love different types
of things like God. And I'm one of those. I
like to taste the sweetness, and I like to taste.
I like to get what spices are in here, and
what things, what living things were made to use this?
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It's not a negative Oh, oh God, I wish I
hadn't used that example. In Churchianity, we like to use
the word negative for anything that's bad. I want to
remind you you need for electricity, you need positive and
negative charge to have a light. If you only have
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positive charge, you're not going to have light. And I'd
like to apply that that he's the way, the truth.
I gave you the one where it says life. But
the scripture lets you know he's light. The Word of
God lets you know, and psalms he lets you know.
The word is I might say it backwards, so go
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look it up. A lamp to your feet and a
light to your path. Now, this isn't the whole thing
on it like, it's not the whole picture. However, part
of the picture. It's a lamp to your feet to
show you where you're standing. The word some of us
don't even look for the word to do that. We
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look for the word to give us goosebumps. We look
for the word to give us revelation. Yeah, it does,
it does, it does, it can. However, what God gives
me about it and it's not the only thing. But
it's a lamp to your feet to show you where
you're standing. Are you in a good place? Are you
in where are you standing? Are you in a transitional place?
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The word is a lamp to show you, a lamp
to your feet, not just to your head, to your
feet okay, And a light to your path. It shows
you where you're going, so that you know do you
want to stay on that path? Do you want to
switch that path? Do you want to ask God? What? Okay?
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So put a knife to thy throat. If if, if
it's the case. Now, if you're sitting with the ruler
and you consider diligently what's before you, and you're not
a man given to appetite, you don't have to have
the knife at your throat. However you want to pay attention,
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be not desirous of his dainties, for they are deceitful meat.
He's put all these wonderful things in front of you.
They're deceitful meat there to put you on a path
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that can hurt you, kill you, destroy you, and not
necessarily all at once, bit by bit, peace by peace,
ownership by ownership. And then he gets back to God,
lets you know what the ruler might be doing, and
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then he lets you know what you want to do.
Be in the habit of asking God, what is my responsibility?
Give me to see know and understand your heart, your
mind what you would have me do. And he says,
labor not to be rich? Now, what is sitting with
the ruler God to do with laboring to be rich.
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We're just having a meal here. No, no, that's not
how that goes. You meet over food for purposes. And
that I can show you in God's word. Be not
desirous of his dainties, for they are. Hear this, This
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is God's word. This is Proverbs twenty three, verse three,
Be not desirous of his dainties, for they are deceitful meat.
And the word are is in italics, which lets you
know that it's not part of the King James. I'm
reading for King James. It's put there so that the
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English flows. Be not desirous of his dainties, for they
dici deceitful meat. The r is there to make the
English flow better. But even when you take it out,
and I said, but there's no butt in Greek or
Hebrew the way that we use it in English. And
I'm not talking about the behind, but I'm talking about
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the proposition. But in Greek or Hebrew would be therefore
or some such. Anyway, he's letting you know they are
they they deceitful meat, not ABC one two three deceitful meat.
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And even when I say not ABC one two three.
It is part of that, part of the Deceit has aspects,
and it's all because we're laboring to be rich. Wilt
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thou set thine eye upon that which is not? If
something's an illusion, you're gonna set your eyes on an illusion. No,
you've got better sense, You've got better intelligence. You have
a better mind than that. God gave it to you.
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For riches, certainly make themselves wings. They fly away as
an egle toward heaven, not toward you, toward heaven. Eat
thou not the bread of him that hath an evil eye.
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God's letting you know that deceitful meat that comes from
an evil eye. I'm right now thinking of job. Pardon
me not jo Joseph when he was in prison and
gave the interpretation the butler and the baker. They both
had a dream and Joseph interpreted them for them. One's
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dream Pharaoh was gonna call him and put him back
in his post. The other he was gonna kill him.
Two because he had a deceitful eye, a plodding eye. Anyway.
Verse six, it says, eat thou not the bread of
him that hath an evil eye. Neither desire, his dainty meats,
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and I'm gonna remind you of when God said a
thing over and over. Now, so far this is twice.
But when God says a thing twice, it's immutable. It's irrefutable.
That's the way it is. You can fast and pray,
Oh God, don't let it be this way, Oh God,
don't let me be No. God said it twice. That's
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how it is. Understand that let the alarms go on
the things he says twice. That is how it is
every time and in every way, whether you see it,
whether you discern it, whether you have goosebumps or a
feeling or not. Etau'm not the bread of him that
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hath an evil eye, neither desire his dainty meets verse seven.
For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.
I'm gonna let you know. In Churchianity we like to
take that phrase of that verse and isolate it. You
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want it in the context that God has given it.
God is his own best commentary, yes, and he's his
own best interpreter. He's not talking about how anybody thinks
in their heart, so is he. That might be a
true ism right now, what he's talking about is the
person who has the evil eye, and it sets you
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up in front of his dainty meats and made sure
that they were just right, just so, according to what
you just love or would love. Hah, knowing that you're
seeking to be rich, not seeking the Lord. And by
the way you can seek the Lord and be rich,
He'll show you some things. He'll reveal some things to you.
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I left my tissue. I'm gonna use a piece of
paper towel. I don't like dabbing my nose because I
saw doing it on the screen. Looks like you're digging,
and so I don't want to look like that. I
don't want to. I don't want to disgust you or me.
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So I make my little die so that you know
I'm not digging. Okay, So be though, be not desirous.
Back to verse three of his dainties, for they, for
they deceitful, meet labor not to be rich. See, some
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of us don't realize that we're laboring to be rich
when we're having dinner with some folk. When you know
the story of Esther, the children of Israel, not the
whole children, but especially to Sanhedrin and Scott. Anyway, they
sought the Lord afterward to know why such a thing happened. Yeah,
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they got the victory and all of that, and God
gave instruction. However, they wanted to know before God, what
did they do? What did they do to cause that
whole set of circumstances. And when you know the story,
you understand it's not the way we read it in
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the sense that it's not one verse and next verse
and x verse. When you live a thing out, it
takes time and you experience it. So when they finally
got to the place of victory, when God brought them
to the finality of victory, they had wisdom enough. The
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leaders had wisdom enough to seek the Lord to know
what did they do? And now this isn't scripture. This
is historical though, that they realized that they were busy
wanting to sit with the rulers. They wanted to be
in the company they were hobnobbing with what I would
say today, I would put it this way, with the
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politicians and with the leaders and the CEOs. They wanted
to be on that plane and they enjoyed that, and
it made them distracted from things and proverbs. This lets
you know about that that you're laboring to be rich.
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God's already gave the plan how to be wealthy and
full of wealth, and where your attention is to be
for it. I heard someone, I'm not going to go there.
I might go there later. I want to finish the verse,
I mean the chapter. Eat thou not the bread of
him that hath an evil eye. Just don't do it,
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neither desire his dainty meats. Just because I'm not going
to eat with him, doesn't mean that I'm send some
of that to my house. No, don't even want his stuff.
Now here's the verse that church Yanity likes to isolate
and make it that it's about everybody. Right here, in context,
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it's about him that has an evil eye, the one
who wants to hurt you, own you, control you, and
own everything you've got. Verse six twenty three six Proverbs
twenty three six. Eat thou not the bread of him
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that hath an evil eye, neither be neither desire thou
his dainty meats. Verse seven. For as he thinketh in
his heart, so is he the rest of that thought.
That's a colon there. Okay, eat and drink saith he,
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but his heart is not with thee. We like I've
heard so many preachers take as he thinketh in his heart,
so is he, and make it for something good in
the context God being in his own best commentary. God
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be in his own best interpreter verse seven. For as
he thinketh in his heart, so is he eat and drink?
Saith he to thee, but his heart. It's not with
thee the morsel. And here's what God wants you to know.
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Here's God's instruction understanding on the matter. The morsel which
thou hast eaten, thou shalt vomit up and lose thy
sweet words. And then here again, God be in his
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own best commentary. Sometimes we don't get this one. It
looks like a new subject. That's part of pardon me it.
Remember verse eight Proverbs twenty three eight. The morsel which
thou hast eaten, shalt thou vomit up? Only a morsel.
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He's not even talking about finishing the whole meal and
getting to dessert. The more so which thou hast eaten,
shalt thou vomit up and lose thy sweet words. And
this I like to especially pay attention to the next
verse of verse nine. Speak not in the ears of
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a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
It's not that you don't have wisdom. It's not that
your words aren't wisdom. God's letting you know, speak not
in the ears of a fool. And this word a fool,
I'm pretty sure it could sell. Let me look it up.
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Ah oh, I'm okay. I'm not gonna look it up
because I'm not. I thought I was in a thing
that shows tools. Speak not in the ears of a fool,
for he will despise the wisdom of thy words. Don't
be so busy knowing that you're talking wisdom, because wisdom
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isn't wisdom to the fool's ears. I really want to
look up that word full, because there's three words that
the Old Testament uses for the word fool. Remove not
the landmark. See, we don't realize that at the meal
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and the discussion, at the meeting, the board meeting, the
congressional meeting, the political meeting, the whatever meeting, the township meeting,
we don't realize that these are the things that are
being discussed. And God has said a yes. And I
know on these things we think us working it out. However,
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God has let us know, speak not in the ears
of a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of
thy words. So here's some of the plans that are
going on. I'm not reading now, I'm letting you know.
Here's some of the plans that are going on. Remove
not the landmark, and it are not into the fields
of the fatherless. That's something that countries do as if
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God didn't say, don't do that, do not do that.
And we make ordinances and laws overdoing exactly that, because
we disgusted over the meal and over how to be
rich and how to be the CEO, and how to
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actually take care of the people while you're getting rich.
Don't remove the landmark Verse ten Proverbs twenty three to ten.
Remove not, remove not the landmark, and enter not into
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the field of the fatherless. For their redeemer is mighty.
You think they're helpless, you think they're hopeless. Huh. God's
letting you know. His word is letting us know, not
just you, me as well, for their redeemer is mighty.
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He shall plead their cause with thee. Oh, he's going
to talk to you about it. He tells you don't
talk to the fool. But He's going to talk to you, fool,
and he's going to talk to the wise as well.
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For their redeemer verse eleven, their redeemer twenty three to eleven.
Remember this, Their redeemer is mighty. He shall plead their
cause with THEE. Verse twelve, God lets us know what
to do. Apply thine ear unto instruction, not new laws
and new ordinances on how to get this done. Apply
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thine ear unto instruction, and thine ears unto the words
of knowledge. I'm thinking of for that first phrase, I'm
thinking of Ecclesiastes. It says wisdom is profitable to direct.
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I'm trying to think of the one about knowledge anyway.
For their redeemer is mighty Verse eleven, twenty three eleven,
he shall plead their cause with THEE. Apply thine ear
unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
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Pardon me, apply thine heart, I said ear. This is
why I love that God always tells me to look
things up when a preacher's preaching it. I just said,
ear the word. God says, apply thine heart unto instruction.
Your heart, and thine ears unto the words of knowledge. Words.
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There's going to be more than one. And remember the
fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. And
then he lets us know withhold not correction from the child,
for if thou beachest him with the rod, he shall
not die. Yeah, there's there's there's so much about that.
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I was coming along. Actually, when I was bringing my
kids along, there was this attitude and disposition that you
don't want to beat the children. And by the way
laws that were made. The scripture has just gone through that,
and I was just letting you know that you'll you'll,
you'll get together and you'll you'll go to make up
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rules and regulations and not even realize God said no,
and there now, don't beat the child. And I'm not
I want us to know what God's word says. I'm
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looking at what verse I stopped in verse fourteen twenty three,
Proverbs twenty three fourteen. I actually I'm gonna read thirteen
and fourteen together withhold not correction from the child, For
if thou beachest him, and that, eh, you did it,
you're doing it, and you might have to do it again.
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If thou beachest him with the rod, For the rod,
you know, like the shepherd's staff, he shall not die,
shall beat him with the rod, saying it again, and
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shall deliver his soul from hell. This is the word
of God. This is the word of God, my son.
And now the father's letting us know. The Father is
letting us know, just told us how to be the father,
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how to be with your child, and even bringing it,
calling us my son. He's letting us know he's there.
He knows what that's like. Remember how the Word tells
us that Jesus was touched with the feelings of our infirmities.
God is father. He understands having to punish your child.
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It doesn't feel good. It is good, and it won't
kill him. It'll deliver his all from hell. If you
beat him with the rod, he won't die. Oh, my son,
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if thy heart be wise? Did I finish that verse?
I'm gonna go back to fourteen, Make sure I finished it.
Make sure I've read it according to the way that
it is. Thou shalt beat him with the rod and shout, shout,
deliver his soul from hell, my son, If thine heart
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be wise, he's saying if, because he's letting you know.
There's fool present, and then there's the wise present. If
your heart be wise. If you're his son, we love
that scripture. If my people, which are called by my name,
we love that part. We love that praise. And don't
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even look at the rest of what he said. Humble
yourselves and pray. We pray. We go to praying and
telling God what to do and how to do it,
when to do it. He said, humble yourselves. That's even
before you start to pray. Of course, that's not what
he said. Humble yourselves and pray. Chain link. One is
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not supposed to be without the other, even though they
are two very separate things. Humble yourselves and pray. Anyway,
back to this Proverbs twenty three, my son, if thine
heart be wise, and remember what he said about the heart,
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because I went back to read the verse, and I
thought ears and ears, and then verse twelve, apply thine
heart unto instruction, apply your heart to instruction. In eleven, No,
that's twelve twenty three twelve, apply thine heart unto instruction,
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and chain link thine ears to the words of knowledge.
So down here, when he says heart, he's letting us know,
my son, Verse fifteen, if thine heart be wise, the
fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, not
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all of it, it's the beginning of it. You want
to be there, And remember God said that if any
like yeah, let him ask of God, Who'll give it
to you liberally and will upbraide you. If thy heart
be wise, my heart shall rejoice even mine. You want
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to make God happy, You want to make God rejoice,
Move in wisdom that He's given and given liberally. Move
in the fear of the Lord. The fear of the
Lord is the beginning of wisdom. It's yeah, three things.
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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of understanding.
And remember it's the beginning of because there's more. There's
more right now, There's more as you grow, and there's
more in different aspects of each of those things, wisdom, knowledge,
and understanding, and the beginning of it is in the
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fear of the Lord. Okay, so you want to make
God rejoice, my son, that makes him rejoice. But here
he's giving some specifics. If thine heart be wise, my
heart shall rejoice even mine. That's something that I have
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asked God since nineteen sixty eight. God, I want to
please you in every way. I want everything I think,
do and say. There I go prophesying. He's the one
who taught me that when I go rhyming, i'm prophesying.
That's not the only time. However, that is a time.
And he lets me know, if thine heart be wise,
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my heart shall rejoice even mine. Yay, my reins the
thing what I control, and He controls all my reins
shall rejoice. You know, when you beat your child with
the rod, it doesn't feel good, and you're not rejoicing
about it. You're just you're doing it because you want
to save his soul from hell. However, there's things that
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we as the parent in charge with authority, there's things
that we do that make our heart rejoice. And here
my reigns shall rejoice. And he said rains not just rain.
He's not just bullying and telling us what to do.
He's giving us what to do. And I like to
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mention the different aspects. And I like to give Ephesians
as an example, even though I think I memorize it
out of order, and God has given the order. But
the aspects of the love of God in Christ Jesus
in Ephesians. It lets us know that we're to go
on to that and be full of that, full of
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the love of Christ. And he says the breath, length, depth,
and height. Please look up the verse so that you
know the order that God has said it in, because
that order is specific, and you want to know where
you are in it. You don't want, Okay, thou shalt
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beat him with the rod Verse fourteen twenty Proverbs twenty
three fourteen and shall. That's a definite statement. Deliver his
soul from hell, my son. If thine heart be wise,
my heart shall rejoice even mine. Ah, God double that
thing he wants you to know. You can make God rejoice.
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You know he makes us rejoice. Yeay, my rains shall rejoice.
When thy lips speak right things. By the way, I
said right, because I was going to say righteousness. When
thy lips speak right things, you're gonna have more than
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one thing to say. I have a saying about myself
that I don't have an off button, and I think
I talk too much. However, God is the one who
gives me much to say. That doesn't mean every when
I think I'm talking too much, I'm not talking too much, however,
you want to understand. Like with Jeremiah, God gave him
a lot to say, wrote it on scrolls till it
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was a book. King didn't like it, destroyed it, and
when God gave it to him again, he gave it
to him with more. Understand that your lips, when my
reigns rejoice the pardon me yes or yea, my reigns
shall rejoice when thy lips He didn't say, my lips,
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When your lips, when my lips, speak right things. And
for me I bring it to the breath, length, death
and height of the love of God in Christ Jesus.
I want to speak all those aspects of right things.
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And what if He's given you to speak of another
aspect of things in Christ Jesus. Because I don't want
to be so busy majoring on the love of God
that I don't have a second major. See because I
kept I would always take second majors in college. That
thing stays in my mind. I don't want so busy
concentrating on what I'm majoring in that I missed some
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other things that need to be majored in or can
be majored in. And all through, all through college, and
in every course, in every degree I always had, I
had to get permission a lot for a second major.
And I'm letting us know here too. Yeay, my reigns
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show rejoice when that when thy lips speak right things,
but not thine heart envy sinners. So you're gonna know
some things about that. You don't just know things about
everything positive. You need to know what the sinner's thinking
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and how they're gonna move and how they're gonna do.
If for nothing else to keep track of, you remember
the word. It's I'm nineteen. The word is a lamp
to your feet and a light to your path. You
don't want to go the path of the sinner. Doesn't
mean you don't want to know what that path is,
because God tells us, and you want to know. Let
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not thine heart envy sinners. He's talking about your heart now,
not your feet walking somewhere your heart, because your feet
are going to take you to where your heart is looking,
where your heart is longing. Let me finish the verse though,
verse twenty three seventeen. I'm a connected with fifteen sixteen seventeen,
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My son, If thine heart be wise, my heart shall
rejoice even mine. Yay, yes, my rain, rain shall rejoice
when thy lips speak right things. Let not thy heart
envy sinners be, but be thou, not pardon me, but
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be thou. He's telling you where to be. Don't envy sinners,
but be thou in the fear of the Lord all
the day long, when you're at the table, when you're
not at the table, when you're sensing his reins, and
when you're not sensing his reins. For surely verse eighteen,
there is an end doesn't mean we see it. The
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word being a light to your feet in the lamp,
pardon me, a lamp to your feet, and the light
to your path doesn't always mean you're going to see
the end of the path. Following him moving in his reins,
you'll be fine. That's why God can tell you if
you're beating with the rod, he won't die and you'll
deliver his soul from hell. Most of us can't even
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see that far. For surely there is an end. Surely
God's let you know. For sure there is an end,
And thine expectations. But I love this. I love this
about you, father. I still love this about you, and
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right now I'm taking it very personally, who are some
issues and realizing with his word they're not issues. It's
the way he says in his word, whereas it there
is an end eighteen Proverbs twenty twenty three eighteen. For
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surely there is an end, and thy expectation shall not
be cut off. It's not over because it looks like
it's over. It's not over because people try to make
this happen and make that happen and it doesn't happen.
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It's not over because you expect did something and it
didn't happen. It's not over. For surely there's an end.
It could be an end to you expecting the wrong thing.
It could be an end to people bullying you to
get to do their thing. It could be an end
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to all the people that mean well and want you
to do their thing. Surely there is an end, and
thine expectation shall not be cut off. Here thou, my son, here,
remember have ears. If your heart where is it? He says,
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If your heart this and your ears that verse twelve,
apply thine heart unto instruction and thine ears unto words
of knowledge. And so he's saying, here, here, my son,
and remember Jesus said my sheep know my voice. Huh,
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because somebody else might be listening and they're not gods,
and they don't hear. Hear thou, my son, and be wise,
yes here, and be wise, not just have ideas of wisdom,
revelation of wisdom. God's always given me relation that I
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always say is so far outside of knowledge and understanding
of what I know and have studied and graded excellently
in He says, hear thou, my son, and be wise,
and guide thine heart in the way. Remember He's the way.
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Guide thy heart in the way, and guide lets you
know that it might not be stepped after step after step.
It might take some guidance. I was giving instruction the
for a truck to be able to get to a
certain place, and I was letting him know. The street
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that you once says this, However, when you go the
way that the map shows you, it winds this way,
and it winds that way, and it winds this way. Guide.
God's letting us know, guide thine heart in the way.
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And I noticed that on that street that winds this way,
and usually a truck doesn't want to have to wind.
I noticed that the specific street crosses right there and
I was concerned because if the trucker sees it, he's gone, oh,
that's the street. However, it's blocks away on a very
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narrow balm street, and there's stop signs that I would
say every other block. I don't know because I don't
use the street. I go to the address of that street,
and I was concerned. Here, God, I'm letting you know
that when God says, guide thine heart in the way,
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it can be just like that that there's going to
be a sign and it says right. I'm talking about
when he says, where do you say if thy lips
speak right things? And there's a street that says right things?
And you know that you want to go to ten
twenty three right things? And you see the street right things,
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only it's one o one and you got to go ten.
You have several blocks to go, and God wants you
to have the wisdom to guide your heart in the way. Way,
follow the map, follow God's map. It was like that
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thing I had noticed. The street is right there. It
crosses I had never known. I've driven it for decades
and didn't notice it before because it's not a street
that I normally use. But I saw that it was,
you know, way too early. And I get to that street,
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blocks down, blocks down, past a couple of landmarks and whatnot.
God wants us to know when you're living a thing out,
especially people of excellence, it's not just boing boing boom. Yes,
the steps of a righteous man are ordered of the Lord.
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You want to know that. Look up that scripture and
know that not the steps you plan, if you planned
them in wisdom. Yes, and then still guide what does
he say? Guide? Guide thine heart in the way. Pay
attention to what your heart is seeing, and not just
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what your eyes are seeing, and not that you know
I'm looking for would I call it? Would I call
it right things? And I see right things? Know that
you're after righteous mess when you get to right things.
And the way if it's windy, and God's given you
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that wind with him, He's given you the wisdom to
guide your heart in the way. And notice he said heart,
because you can see things. Hear thou my son. Now
remember you're supposed to listen. You're supposed to hear. And
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he's talking to his son, not the full Remember the
fool does not want to hear words of wisdom. He's
talking to by son. Hear thou, my son, and be wise.
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That lets you know that just because you hear stuff
doesn't automatically make you wise. God will give you wisdom,
and he'll give you to hear wisdom, and you have
to decide to follow the way of wisdom. You have
to decide to hear. I've noticed about me when people
say certain things to me or say it in a
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certain way, I turn my hearing off. You might be talking,
I'm not hearing. And because I know that about me,
I make an effort not to be that way about
God when God says things to me that I don't
want to hear. Yeah, God says some things and I
don't like it all the time, and I'm always asking him. God,
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set my heart with your heart. Help me to like
your way and to like what you say, and to
like what you're doing. Because some of the things that
I read here, I don't like it. And if I
was God, I wouldn't do it that way. I remember.
Speaker 2 (49:13):
Oh, And since I know that about me, I ask
God to put me in agreement with him, whether I
understand or don't.
Speaker 1 (49:28):
And I love that He gave me For the Philippians four.
You know, be anxious for nothing, because I learned I
get upset. I get anxious, and he said, be anxious
for nothing. Well, I don't want to sin against him.
I don't want to do something he said not do.
And the rest of that verse in Philippians for with
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prayer and supplication, and he says, with thanksgiving, look it
up because I'm not saying it exactly right. But with thanksgiving,
I get upset when I don't like it, and I
notice that I'm not giving thanks However, God says, be
anxious for nothing, and with prayer, let your request be
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made known unto God with thanksgiving. And so I give
myself whole bunch of Thanksgiving scriptures when I find myself
being anxious and upset, and I think it's reasonable to
be upset because just that and me O, no, no,
God said no. His word says, when you hear him, huh,
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hear thou, my son, and be wise and guide thine
heart in the way. Be not among wine bibbs. If
you think it's okay to have a little wine for
your stomach sake or whatever's sake, or a celebration's sake,
he says, be not among wine bibbers. See, everybody that
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drinks wine isn't a wine bibber. You need to know that.
And I'm not saying if you don't, if you don't drink,
start drinking.
Speaker 2 (51:04):
No.
Speaker 1 (51:05):
He lets you know be not among wine bivers. And
he gives you the definition among riotous eaters of flesh
for the drunkard and the glutton. See, God's giving you
the context of what he's talking about. The drunkard and
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the glutton shall come to poverty. Remember he started off
telling you don't labor to be rich. When you're sitting
at that table and it looks like, oh, Danny meets
and all this and that, and you're having these discussions
and these board meetings, and it's that meeting. Uh uh no, no, no, no, no, no,
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hearkennot pardon me for the drunkard Verse twenty one. And
the glutton shall come to poverty. And drowsiness shall clothe.
It's going to be your clothes. Drowsiness shall clothe with rags.
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King James says, a man, it can be a woman too.
And God is the one who gave me the design
for these wraps decades ago before such a thing was
a style. Twenty Proverbs twenty three to twenty one. For
the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty and
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drowsiness shall clothe with rags. Twenty two. Hearken unto thy
father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when
she is old. I'd learned that one buy the truth
and sell it not also with and instruction and understanding
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all three. And remember the breathlen depth and height of
all three, all these aspects. And if there's other aspects
that I didn't just name because I took, I took
the aspects from the love of God in Christ Jesus.
God's got other aspects thy father, verse twenty five, Oh,
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pardon me, I skipped. I'm gonna read twenty four. The
Father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice, and he that
begat at a wise child shall have joy of him.
I know that to be the truth. God's bless me
that way. Thy Father and thy mother shall be glad,
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and she that bear thee shall rejoice. My son, give
thine heart, pardon me, give me thine heart, and let
thine eyes observe my ways. It doesn't mean don't see
you know the other junk that's going on, But give
me your heart, and let your eyes observe my ways.
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How I do a thing and things. Hello, you'll notice
some things, He'll oh, my yes, Lord, thank you. I
need to hurry along here because there's a whole lot
to this chapter, and I only have a few minutes.
And notice what God connects to what He's not just
being arbitrary when you live it out. These are the connections,
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These are the things you're going to meet up with,
my son, give thine heart, give me thine heart, and
let thine eyes observe my ways. For a whore is
a deep ditch, and a strange woman is a narrow pit.
And notice that there's a deep ditch, and there's a
narrow pit. And notice which one is that which? And
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you think you gave God your heart, and you think
you're observing his ways, And all of a sudden, the
whore gets your attention. He's letting you know ahead of time.
It's a deep ditch. It's a deep ditch. I live
in what they call twin cities. One of the cities.
It has all these ditches in the streets that everything
looks flat except for that. If you don't pay attention,
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you'll be in a deep ditch when it all looked flat. Hello, God,
lets you know here. A whore is a deep ditch.
And most of us don't know the difference between a
horror and a strange woman. And I've had to be
praying on this stuff, between the prostitute, the whore, the adulteress,
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and the I forget what the other one was anyway,
For a whore is a deep ditch. That's God's word.
That's how that is, even if that's not where you
stepped when you were only at the edge and chain
link there. A strange woman is a narrow pit. Can't
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move this way, can't move that way, And it's a pit.
She also lieth and wait for a prey, and increases
the transgression of men. If you transgress, don't keep on going.
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Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? Who hath contentions? Who
hath babbling? Who hath wounds without cause? Who hath the
redness of redness of eyes? They that tarry long at
the wine, They that go to seek mixed wine, look
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not upon the wine when it is read, when it
gets its color in the cup, when it moveth itself. Aright.
I'm from a family that made wine. And at the
last that biteth like a serpent and stineth like an adder,
thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall
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utter perverse things. And I watch this. I'm ending with this.
Yet no pardon, yay, thou shalt be as he that
lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as
he that lieth upon the top of a mass. And
here's what the conclusion of it is. They have stricken me.
They did it. They did it. Not you did it.
They have stricken me. Shalt thou say, And I was
(57:42):
not sick. They have beaten me, and I felt it not.
When shall I awake, I'll seek it yet again. Twenty three.
He lets you know, don't sit with the don't sit
with the ruler. Put a knife to your throat if
you like dainty meats, cause did none of it's good
for you. Hear him, hear him, hear him. Come in.
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