Everyone can't come with you! Proverbs 12 | A Proverb A Day Challenge

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, everybody, Welcome back to the Amani Talks podcast. You're
here with your host Amani on the podcast where we
discuss our Christian based topics and deepening our relationship with
the Lord. And you already know what we getting into.
Sad day. It is July. What it is July twelfth,
and we are continuing on in our Proverb a Day series.
So we are going to be reading Proverbs twelve today

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of course, because what else would we be reading. I mean,
we want to start off our day with some wisdom, right, Yeah,
we want to get that daily dose of wisdom in
the morning to start our day off. Happy Saturday to everybody. Okay,
let's continue and read Proverbs twelve. Bro. When I tell y'all,
my Bible is falling apart, I put these tabs on

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years and years and years ago. Tabs are being off,
sticky notes, all this stuff my cover bought to fall off.
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Put that drop that link in the comments for me.

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Thank you all right, Proverbs twelve. Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge.
But he who hates correction is stupid. Wait, hold the phone.
We just started. We just got here. We just cracked
open our bibles. Not stupid child. I don't think I've

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ever seen that that word stupid in the Bible. Not
stupid child, Salomon said, I'm done playing with y'all. We
twelve chapters deep. I can't say no other way. You
don't like correction, you stupid? No, that's nuts, okay. Verse two.
A good man obtains favor from the Lord, but a

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man of wicked intentions he will condemn. A man is
not established by wickedness, but the root of the righteous
cannot be moved. An excellent wife is the crown of
her husband, but she who causes shame is life rottenness
in his bones. The thoughts of the righteous are right,
but the counsels of the wicked are deceitful. The words
of the wicked are lie in wait for blood, but

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the mouth of the upright will deliver them. The wicked
are overthrown and are no more, but the house of
the righteous will stand. I know that's right. A man
will be commended according to his wisdom, but he who
is of a perverse heart will be despised. Better is
the one who is slighted but has a servant than
he who honors himself but lacks bread. Don't let that

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go over, y'all, head. Let me repeat that one better
is the one who is slighted but has a servant
than he who honors himself but lacks bread. You know what,
that's the definition of cap A righteous man regards the
life of his animal, but the tender mercies of the
wicked are cruel. He who tills his land will be

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satisfied with bread, but he who follows frivility is devoid
of understanding. The wicked covet the catch of evil men,
but the root of the righteous yields fruit. The wicked
is ensnared by the transgression of his lips, but the
righteous will come through trouble. A man will be satisfied
by good or with good, by the fruit of his mouth,

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and the recompense of a man's hands will be rendered
to him. The way of a fool is right in
his own eyes, but he who heeds counsel is wise.
A fool's wrath is known at once, but a prudent
man covers shame. He who speaks truth declares righteousness, but
a false witness deceit. There is one who speaks like
the piercings of a sword, but the tongue of the

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wise promotes health. The truthful lip shall be established forever,
but a lying tongue is but for a moment. Deceit
is in the heart of those who devise evil, but
counselors of peace have joy. No grave trouble will overtake
the righteous, but the wicked shall be filled with evil.
Lying lips are an abomination to the Lord, but those

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who deal truthfully are his delight. A prudent man conceals knowledge,
but the heart of fool proclaims foolishness. The hand of
the diligent will rule, but the lazy man will be
put to force labor. Anxiety in the heart of man
causes depression, but a good word makes it glad. The
righteous should choose his friends carefully, for the way of

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the wicked leads them astray. The lazy man does not
roast what he took in hunting, But diligence is man's
precious possession, and the way of righteousness is life and
in its pathway, there is no death. Proverbs twelve came
out the gates swinging. Okay, So Proverbs twelve continues on
with what we saw from Proverbs eleven and Proverbs ten.

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And these are just why sayings from Solomon, I mean,
not just these are why sayings from Solomon. The verse
that really stands out to me, I would say, one
of the key verses to Proverbs twelve is verse fifteen.
So let's read that again. The way of a fool
is right in his own eyes, but he who heeds

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counsel is wise. And I like that verse because that
verse reminds me it's imperative that we as Christians have
other Christian people around us that can mentor us, people
that we can look up to. Not to say that
you idolize anybody in your church. There are just people.
You are to go to church for the Lord, not
for people. But we need those relationships that can tell

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us when we're doing something wrong. Because it's saying the
way of the fool is right in his own eyes.
We as singular people, we can always look at what
we're doing and say, I'm not doing anything wrong because
it sounds and feels good to us. But there is
wisdom and having a group of people around you, a
godly group of people that can really give it to
you straight and tell you what you're doing right and

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what you're doing wrong. It says he who heeds counsel
is wise, and counsel isn't necessarily a counsel. It's not
necessarily a group of people, but just counsel in general.
If you are open to criticism, you're open to grow.
If you're open to having someone that knows a little
bit more than you telling you what you should be doing,

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that's wise. A lot of times we think that we
have it all figured out, We think that we can
do this life alone, and our wisdom is shown when
we are open to learning from other people. We're open
to being counseled. Another verse that really stood out to
me was verse twenty six. The righteous should choose his

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friends carefully, for the way of the wicked leads them astray.
If Proverbs is telling us that our friends have the
power to lead us astray, that lets me know that
people are impressionable. People can be followers, people can be
people pleasers. And that's why, going back to what we

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were just talking about, two minutes ago. It's wise for
you to have Christian people around you, people who really
do love the Lord. And I think sometimes we we
think that, well, just because they're not Christian doesn't necessarily
mean that they're a bad person. It doesn't make them evil,
it doesn't make them wicked, wrong, sis wrong. If you

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are not in God's family, you are evil. Before you
were saved, you were evil. Before I was saved, I
was evil. We all are born into evil, and the
only thing that makes us righteous is our faith in
the Lord. And people who don't have faith in the
Lord are not righteous, and therefore they are evil. There

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is only a or b. It's black or white. There
is no middle ground with that. None of us are good.
If you are not for God, you are against God.
So yaboo, your unsaved friends are evil, Your unsaved family
members are evil. Now is that to say that we
can't be around them at all? No, We're around evil

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people all the time. There are more evil people in
the world then there are saved. And we know that.
The Word tells us. Why does the gate to hell
the road to heaven is narro. It's a narrow path.
Most people will go to hell, so most people around
you are evil. We just have to We're in the world,
not of the world, right. So that's why the Bible

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tells us several times to choose our friends wisely, and
that reminds me of a scripture one Corinthians fifteen thirty three.
Do not be misled. Bad company corrupts good character. The
people who are around you will end up influencing you.
We talked about this before. You cannot think that you
are bigger than the program. You cannot think that your

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will is so strong that the people around you will
not influence you. Yes, they will, because that's how we
are hardwired. Like I said, before any of us were saved,
we were evil. Evil is our default. It's always easy
to go back to the default. It's our flesh. That's
who we are. We love sin, our flesh our who

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we are. Love sin. We have to fight against it
every single day, and that's why we die to ourselves
every single day. So you mean to tell me that
you can hang out with people who are drinking and
smoke in every single day, But as a Christian you're like, Oh,
it doesn't bother me. I can be around that. Yeah,
maybe for now, until you start Okay, let me get
a little sin, Let me get a little puff. Bad

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company corrupts good morals. I think that's my standout key
verse for Proverbs twelve. The righteous should choose his friends carefully,
for the way of the wicked leads them astray. And
I don't know about y'all, but when I go astray
from God, he can restore anything. He can restore your time,

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he can restore missed opportunities, he can restore lost purpose.
The Lord can restore anything that he wants to. But
I don't know about you. I don't want to be
in a constant cycle of straying and then restoration. I
just want to build. I don't want to have to
keep recouping and restoring. I don't want that to be
my relationship with God, a constant cycle of struggle and restoration.

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I just want to build. I don't want to keep
getting knocked back down and you know, taking three steps
forward and two steps back or four steps back. Like, no,
I want to progress with the Lord. So yeah, I
will choose my friends wisely. And that's something about your
walk with Christ that I don't think that we talk
about enough. When you are newly saved, as an adult.

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Or let's say that you were saved when you were
younger and you straight away and you came back as
an adult. You are not going to be able to
keep those old friendships boom. You are not going to
be able to no matter how hard you try, no
matter how much you want to. You have loyalty to
these people, you've been friends for years. You will not
be able to keep them. And how could you when

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your life does a onet eighty and you were not
doing the things that you used to do with those
same friends. What's either gonna happen is they're either a
gonna leave of their own accord because they like, well,
she's no fun anymore, or B they're gonna hang on.
They're gonna be like, WHOA, let's keep going out, let's
go here, let's go smoke a little hooka, let's go
da da da dah. And then you're gonna find yourself

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constantly compromising, and then you're going to end up being
put in a position to where you're uncomfortable, and then
eventually you will you know, you'll leave that friendship. You'll
leave those relationships if you're wise and if you're lucky enough,
well not lucky enough if you are covered okay enough
to leave without having harmed yourself. And when we are

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a new creation in Christ, the old things can't always
come with us. They can't always come with us. And
that's why it's saying here you should choose your friends,
because the people that you hang around is a choice.
The friendships that you make and you foster and you
grow when you put time and energy into too, that's

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a choice. Choose your friends. Look at who was following God,
look at who was reading their Bible, look at who's
actually living out their faith. Those are the people that
you choose to be friends with. But you can't keep
the same people around from when you was back in
your party days. They either gonna fall off because you're
not fun anymore, or you're eventually gonna have to break

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that up if they don't want to eventually repent and
you know, following your footsteps kind of we should be
an example to our old relationships. But at some point
you gotta preach to them, pray to them, and be like, Okay,
I've done all I can do. I can't stick around
here anymore. I can't stay here anymore. But yeah, from

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Proverbs twelve. I would say that those two verses are
definitely my key verses. Those are the ones that definitely
stuck out to me. I like things that are really practical,
things that I've seen, you know, in my own life,
things that I think that we as Christians will all
universe silly experience. And I will say though, those two
verses definitely speak to that. If you guys have any

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verses that stuck out to you in Proverbs twelve, put
it in the comments, and I would love to see
what you guys really pick up on. And you know,
we'll really stuck out to you. But I will see
you guys later when we read Proverbs thirteen on July thirteenth.
All right, I'll see you guys. Bye,