October 12, 2025 • 18 mins
Listen, my son, to your father’s instruction
and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. 9 They are a garland to grace your head
and a chain to adorn your neck. 10 My son, if sinful men entice you,
do not give in to them. 11 If they say, “Come along with us;
let’s lie in wait for innocent blood,
let’s ambush some harmless soul; 12 let’s swallow them alive, like the grave,
and whole, like those who go down to the pit; 13 we will get all sorts of valuable things
and fill our houses with plunder; 14 cast lots with us;
we will all share the loot”— 15 my son, do not go along with them,
do not set foot on their paths; 16 for their feet rush into evil,
they are swift to shed blood. 17 How useless to spread a net
where every bird can see it! 18 These men lie in wait for their own blood;
they ambush only themselves! 19 Such are the paths of all who go after ill-gotten gain;
it takes away the life of those who get it.
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and do not forsake your mother’s teaching. 9 They are a garland to grace your head
and a chain to adorn your neck. 10 My son, if sinful men entice you,
do not give in to them. 11 If they say, “Come along with us;
let’s lie in wait for innocent blood,
let’s ambush some harmless soul; 12 let’s swallow them alive, like the grave,
and whole, like those who go down to the pit; 13 we will get all sorts of valuable things
and fill our houses with plunder; 14 cast lots with us;
we will all share the loot”— 15 my son, do not go along with them,
do not set foot on their paths; 16 for their feet rush into evil,
they are swift to shed blood. 17 How useless to spread a net
where every bird can see it! 18 These men lie in wait for their own blood;
they ambush only themselves! 19 Such are the paths of all who go after ill-gotten gain;
it takes away the life of those who get it.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/faith-love-trust--3493635/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mhm. Listen, my son, to your father's instruction, and do
(00:38):
not forsake your mother's teaching. They are the garland to
grace your head, and and a chain to adorn your neck.
My son, if sinful men entice you, they do not,
do not give into them. If they say, come along
(00:59):
with us, let's lie in wait for innocent blood. Let's
ambush some harmless soul. Let's swallow them alive, like the
grave and hole, like those who go down to the pit.
(01:22):
We will get all sorts of valuable things, and fill
our houses with plunder casts lots. With us, we will
all share the loot. My son, do not go along
with them. Do not set foot on their paths, for
(01:46):
their feet rush into evil. They are swift to shed blood,
how useless to spread a net where every can see it.
These men lie in wait for their own blood. They
(02:07):
ambush only themselves. Such are the paths of all who
go after ill gotten gain. It takes away the life
of those who get it. That's an interesting passage for
(02:32):
the time that we're in right now, when so many,
so many officials are after ill gotten gain by way
of taxes. Now, don't get me wrong, there are fair
(02:56):
taxes that that we should that that we can tribute
into so that the welfare of of everyone who resides
in an area can benefit from. There are taxes that
pay for benefits for those who have run into shall
(03:17):
we say, some bad luck, that need a helping hand
to come back from something something disastrous. Those sort of
taxes are fair and were, and we should make sure
that we contribute to our community in a fair way.
(03:41):
We should support programs that help the needy and help
those get back on their feet again, or maybe support
those that can never do for themselves. There's nothing wrong
with any of that, but when government puts it in
(04:09):
regulations that only feed one mouth or a small group
of mouths instead of the masses, then we might have
had some problems, and we should be looking at those
things and how those things can be ill gained. There's
(04:34):
more to life than money. And I'm sure that your
fathers and the fathers of our community and the mothers
of our community have taught us that They've offered us
the instructions and the teachings to show that there there
(04:55):
is more to life than just gaining money. There there's
more to there's more than just gaining riches that we
can't take. Those riches with us anyway, those physical riches
(05:18):
we can't take with us. There are riches that we
can take along with us after we pass on from
this life. But those riches are brought to us by
goodwill and honestly spreading love to all those who we meet.
(05:41):
Do you remember this saying if you can't say something nice,
then don't say anything at all, meaning don't insult a
person just because you can, and saying something nice may
be helping that person by a uplifting criticism. Do you
(06:07):
remember those teachings? Well, it seems that many in our
society have seemingly forgotten a lot of those. But how
want to get onto another teaching that our mothers and
fathers gave to us, and that is prayer. They told
(06:33):
us to pray every night before we go to sleep,
to pray for those people who we love. And how
many of us in our adulthood still pray. Now, I'm
(06:55):
not going to get into what was taught to us
about in childhood about praying for those people who we love,
into remembering and in schools, at least at the time
I was in school, we were taught to pray for
those who were downtrotten, and to remember those who needed
(07:20):
God's help at the time. Now, there's nothing wrong with
any of those and we should include those sort of things,
and we should include moments of gratitude when we found
such happiness or success or fulfillment. We should be voicing
(07:42):
those things to our heavenly Father. I want to talk
to you about a different kind of prayer because this
type of prayer is more spiritual, because it involves teaching
yourself that you can have a meaningful relationship with God,
(08:08):
that He is with you every step that you take,
and it mentions that some of this in psalms. One
of my favorite psalms lines from the psalms that Lord
protect me, send your Angel so that I am protected
(08:31):
from dashing my foot on the stone or probably misquoted it,
like I do everything else. But the idea is that
that particular psalm, you're asking for God's protection. Oh what
if you didn't just simply ask for his protection, that
(08:54):
you've asked God out of friendship, if you may hold
his hand as you walk. What if you taught yourself that,
and then after you teach yourself that, go and teach
your children that what if we were to do that?
(09:17):
Why can't we don't need to have even though hete
you know, sitting here preaching into a microphone and broadcasting
this to millions of people out there, as I should
be because I was ordained and told and made a
(09:40):
commitment to God that I would spread his word and
his love. So I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing.
But to be totally honest, you can find God's love
without a member of the clergy. You don't need to
(10:01):
find an ordained person to put a blessing upon you.
You only simply need to ask God for his blessing
and he will be there. He's listening. There's this thing,
(10:21):
this power about love, and what amazes me about love
that not even God can force us. He can't just
wave around and say you're gonna love me. He can't
(10:43):
do that. The only way to start to love God
is if you recognize it inside of yourself first. You can't.
God can't force you to love him. It doesn't work
(11:08):
that way. It's an interesting force about love that the
only way you can love is if you offer it
from withinside yourself. Now, why why he did? Because we're
(11:28):
going to assume that God designed it that way. But
why would he do design it that way? Because unlike
hierarchies that they want you to go through them to
find salvation, God designed it differently. You don't have to
(11:51):
go through the hierarchy to find that salvation. You have
to turn and look inside yourself. The closer you look
into you, the more you will find God. You can
(12:11):
have your own personal relationship with God without the help
of a priest or a minister. Matter of fact, let's
look at that word minister and ministry. A minister is
(12:34):
a person who is there to offer you service, offer
you help. A ministry is that body and work of service,
that body even work a service that is to be
(12:54):
an offered to those who you help. There's nothing real
fancy about it or anything like that. It just means
to serve a body of a work that serves. So,
(13:22):
how do you want to serve your fellow human being?
And are you willing to serve your fellow human being?
Because simply because they're your fellow human being and God
created them and they're your brother and sister and God
and therefore God exists inside of him. Well, at the
(13:43):
same time, you're showing service and love to a fellow
human being. Your service and love is being given to
God because it's all inside of us. It doesn't matter
that you found holy orders ordained however you want to say.
(14:08):
It doesn't matter. God put himself into each and every
one of us, and God gave us the ability to
turn towards Him or to turn away. See, it is
a choice. So those who would plunder and fill their
(14:35):
homes full of that plunder have made a choice. They
would steal and spill the blood of others in order
for them to personally gain. But there's another way. We
(15:00):
don't have to follow these men and plunder. As our
fathers and mothers have taught us to turn away from them,
and we turn away from them, we turn back towards God,
(15:21):
and we turn to a life of service instead of
being servents to those who cause harm. A life of
service that helps others to find love inside their own hearts.
(15:44):
A life of service that fulfills our souls so that
we feel enlightened and bright inside. That's but God wants
for us that with the instructions that I'm sure your
(16:05):
father gave and what your mother taught you to be,
so you can wear that grace on your head or
as a chain around your neck, so that people can
see by your actions that you hold faith in God.
(16:34):
A moment of prayer because we all need to build
our relationship with God and learn to serve all of
those who are around us, so that we can speak
to God about those things that we have done with
gratitude because He gave us the ability to do it. Lord,
(17:05):
we are all grateful that you have given us the
ability to serve you. We are grateful that you have
given us the love inside of us so that we
can spread it around. We are grateful that you have
given us a choice of free will to turn away
(17:26):
from harm intentionally harming people, and to find value in
things outside of shiny objects. You have given us the
ability to turn away from greed and turn to serving
(17:49):
others so that we may be fulfilled. We are grateful
for those things that you have given us. We are
grateful for the protection that you have given us so
that we can serve all others around us.
Mhm. Listen, my son, to your father's instruction, and do
(00:38):
not forsake your mother's teaching. They are the garland to
grace your head, and and a chain to adorn your neck.
My son, if sinful men entice you, they do not,
do not give into them. If they say, come along
(00:59):
with us, let's lie in wait for innocent blood. Let's
ambush some harmless soul. Let's swallow them alive, like the
grave and hole, like those who go down to the pit.
(01:22):
We will get all sorts of valuable things, and fill
our houses with plunder casts lots. With us, we will
all share the loot. My son, do not go along
with them. Do not set foot on their paths, for
(01:46):
their feet rush into evil. They are swift to shed blood,
how useless to spread a net where every can see it.
These men lie in wait for their own blood. They
(02:07):
ambush only themselves. Such are the paths of all who
go after ill gotten gain. It takes away the life
of those who get it. That's an interesting passage for
(02:32):
the time that we're in right now, when so many,
so many officials are after ill gotten gain by way
of taxes. Now, don't get me wrong, there are fair
(02:56):
taxes that that we should that that we can tribute
into so that the welfare of of everyone who resides
in an area can benefit from. There are taxes that
pay for benefits for those who have run into shall
(03:17):
we say, some bad luck, that need a helping hand
to come back from something something disastrous. Those sort of
taxes are fair and were, and we should make sure
that we contribute to our community in a fair way.
(03:41):
We should support programs that help the needy and help
those get back on their feet again, or maybe support
those that can never do for themselves. There's nothing wrong
with any of that, but when government puts it in
(04:09):
regulations that only feed one mouth or a small group
of mouths instead of the masses, then we might have
had some problems, and we should be looking at those
things and how those things can be ill gained. There's
(04:34):
more to life than money. And I'm sure that your
fathers and the fathers of our community and the mothers
of our community have taught us that They've offered us
the instructions and the teachings to show that there there
(04:55):
is more to life than just gaining money. There there's
more to there's more than just gaining riches that we
can't take. Those riches with us anyway, those physical riches
(05:18):
we can't take with us. There are riches that we
can take along with us after we pass on from
this life. But those riches are brought to us by
goodwill and honestly spreading love to all those who we meet.
(05:41):
Do you remember this saying if you can't say something nice,
then don't say anything at all, meaning don't insult a
person just because you can, and saying something nice may
be helping that person by a uplifting criticism. Do you
(06:07):
remember those teachings? Well, it seems that many in our
society have seemingly forgotten a lot of those. But how
want to get onto another teaching that our mothers and
fathers gave to us, and that is prayer. They told
(06:33):
us to pray every night before we go to sleep,
to pray for those people who we love. And how
many of us in our adulthood still pray. Now, I'm
(06:55):
not going to get into what was taught to us
about in childhood about praying for those people who we love,
into remembering and in schools, at least at the time
I was in school, we were taught to pray for
those who were downtrotten, and to remember those who needed
(07:20):
God's help at the time. Now, there's nothing wrong with
any of those and we should include those sort of things,
and we should include moments of gratitude when we found
such happiness or success or fulfillment. We should be voicing
(07:42):
those things to our heavenly Father. I want to talk
to you about a different kind of prayer because this
type of prayer is more spiritual, because it involves teaching
yourself that you can have a meaningful relationship with God,
(08:08):
that He is with you every step that you take,
and it mentions that some of this in psalms. One
of my favorite psalms lines from the psalms that Lord
protect me, send your Angel so that I am protected
(08:31):
from dashing my foot on the stone or probably misquoted it,
like I do everything else. But the idea is that
that particular psalm, you're asking for God's protection. Oh what
if you didn't just simply ask for his protection, that
(08:54):
you've asked God out of friendship, if you may hold
his hand as you walk. What if you taught yourself that,
and then after you teach yourself that, go and teach
your children that what if we were to do that?
(09:17):
Why can't we don't need to have even though hete
you know, sitting here preaching into a microphone and broadcasting
this to millions of people out there, as I should
be because I was ordained and told and made a
(09:40):
commitment to God that I would spread his word and
his love. So I'm doing what I'm supposed to be doing.
But to be totally honest, you can find God's love
without a member of the clergy. You don't need to
(10:01):
find an ordained person to put a blessing upon you.
You only simply need to ask God for his blessing
and he will be there. He's listening. There's this thing,
(10:21):
this power about love, and what amazes me about love
that not even God can force us. He can't just
wave around and say you're gonna love me. He can't
(10:43):
do that. The only way to start to love God
is if you recognize it inside of yourself first. You can't.
God can't force you to love him. It doesn't work
(11:08):
that way. It's an interesting force about love that the
only way you can love is if you offer it
from withinside yourself. Now, why why he did? Because we're
(11:28):
going to assume that God designed it that way. But
why would he do design it that way? Because unlike
hierarchies that they want you to go through them to
find salvation, God designed it differently. You don't have to
(11:51):
go through the hierarchy to find that salvation. You have
to turn and look inside yourself. The closer you look
into you, the more you will find God. You can
(12:11):
have your own personal relationship with God without the help
of a priest or a minister. Matter of fact, let's
look at that word minister and ministry. A minister is
(12:34):
a person who is there to offer you service, offer
you help. A ministry is that body and work of service,
that body even work a service that is to be
(12:54):
an offered to those who you help. There's nothing real
fancy about it or anything like that. It just means
to serve a body of a work that serves. So,
(13:22):
how do you want to serve your fellow human being?
And are you willing to serve your fellow human being?
Because simply because they're your fellow human being and God
created them and they're your brother and sister and God
and therefore God exists inside of him. Well, at the
(13:43):
same time, you're showing service and love to a fellow
human being. Your service and love is being given to
God because it's all inside of us. It doesn't matter
that you found holy orders ordained however you want to say.
(14:08):
It doesn't matter. God put himself into each and every
one of us, and God gave us the ability to
turn towards Him or to turn away. See, it is
a choice. So those who would plunder and fill their
(14:35):
homes full of that plunder have made a choice. They
would steal and spill the blood of others in order
for them to personally gain. But there's another way. We
(15:00):
don't have to follow these men and plunder. As our
fathers and mothers have taught us to turn away from them,
and we turn away from them, we turn back towards God,
(15:21):
and we turn to a life of service instead of
being servents to those who cause harm. A life of
service that helps others to find love inside their own hearts.
(15:44):
A life of service that fulfills our souls so that
we feel enlightened and bright inside. That's but God wants
for us that with the instructions that I'm sure your
(16:05):
father gave and what your mother taught you to be,
so you can wear that grace on your head or
as a chain around your neck, so that people can
see by your actions that you hold faith in God.
(16:34):
A moment of prayer because we all need to build
our relationship with God and learn to serve all of
those who are around us, so that we can speak
to God about those things that we have done with
gratitude because He gave us the ability to do it. Lord,
(17:05):
we are all grateful that you have given us the
ability to serve you. We are grateful that you have
given us the love inside of us so that we
can spread it around. We are grateful that you have
given us a choice of free will to turn away
(17:26):
from harm intentionally harming people, and to find value in
things outside of shiny objects. You have given us the
ability to turn away from greed and turn to serving
(17:49):
others so that we may be fulfilled. We are grateful
for those things that you have given us. We are
grateful for the protection that you have given us so
that we can serve all others around us.
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