June 12, 2025 • 61 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
But when we enter into his gates, he said, enter
my gates with thanksgiving everything that we're going through. Leave
it outside, because he deserves all the praise, He deserves
all the honor. In the name of Jesus. As we
bow our head, Lord, we thank you for this day.
(00:20):
We thank you for a day that was not promised
with God. We just want to thank and praise you
for allowing us to be in your service one more time,
another but Bible study. Lord, we ask that you just
open our ears, give us ears to hear, give us
ears to hear. Not just hear the sound, but allow
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it to resonate within our hearts. In the name of Jesus.
Thank you Jesus, and I'll let the words of my
mouth and the red meditation of my heart be accepted
in thy sight. O Lord, you are my strength and
my redeemer. You may be seated in the presence of
the Lord. Amen. I thank and praise God. So I
give honor to God to each of you who are present.
(01:03):
On this afternoon. We just like to think and praise
God for another Bible study. And we know there's a
lot going on right now. We've had another death, that
another death praise God. But you know God is still God. Amen. Amen.
We've had people that are sick, but God is still God. Amen.
(01:26):
All right, and we're not gonna bore your patience. We're
gonna I am gonna stick to Proverbs twenty one through ten.
Praise God. We're gonna get through one through ten. Amen.
The Lord say the same. But I would like to
get some feedback from Proverbs nineteen. Proverbs nineteen, Amen, Praise
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the Lord. We got some money.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Amen.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
The beginning part, uh, well, we started at the eleventh,
but that beginning part of the chapter was talking about
walking in integrity.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
We talked about knowledge.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
We I I we I don't.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I can't even understand my handwriting. But we said a
quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Knowledge is when you learn
something every day. Wisdom is when you when you something can.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Let it go. Yeah, let it go. Somebody else be ready?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Hey man?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
That's is that all you have? That's all I have?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I wrote that quote down.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Okay, somebody else.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Hey man.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
We had We talked about laziness, how it brings on sleeping,
It will cause you to neglect the things that you
need to pay attention to. And then Therefore, you know
you are lack the things that you need because of laziness.
What are things that you need will get You won't
be able to attain what you need because of laziness.
(03:44):
And you also said that this can be contributed to
your spirituality too, as far as neglecting certain things that
you know you lack what you should have. Also talked
about a father will leave richest and a wise wife
is from the Lord, you know, just saying that a
father will leave something for his children or for the
(04:06):
next generation, and a wife that is wise the Lord
gave her. Let me see. Also we talked about giving
to the poor, because when you get to the poor,
you're actually giving to God. And we also spoke about
the wisdom in giving, how that it's best to be
led by God to know exactly you know, who needs,
(04:28):
who really has a need, uh, you know, rather than
those that are just trying to you know, get over
on you or scheme you. So, yeah, just have wisdom
about that and you know that the Lord lead. You
also talked about, you know, don't avoid discipline your children,
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you know, because and like that, like we always say,
it's easier to build you know, small children than to
be a broken man. Let's see also if you put
if you protect that angry man from punishment, he would
be uh, he'll eventually do it again.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
So it's good to go ahead and.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Give out that punishment right then, so they can learn
from it and they won't be, you know, tempted to
do it again.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
So let them suffer the consequence.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Yeah, just like to make it more plain, like someone
is like a child going to jail. Now, let them
stay in there. Don't try to rescue them, so they
can stand there. That happened to me before, so yeah,
learn from that. Uh, let me see what else? Take
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heed to counsel, because it will make you wise later,
Like you can use that wisdom later. It's gonna come up.
You know, something's gonna happen and you might not need
it then, you know now, but you're gonna need it then.
So yeah, see what else. Ah, there are many devices
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in a man heart, you know, and man makes plans.
But the Lord, you know, his counsel was staying, you know,
regardless of what we decide to do or want to
do or want to happen, you know, God ultimately has
to ultimately say so, and you just have to you know,
accept it. A poor man is better than a liar.
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So it's better to be poor and be without than
to be rich with lies, because you know, a lie
can turn up a whole bunch of stuff. It can
cause a lot of trouble for others. In yourself, fearing
the Lord will help you with your life and you
will have what you need. So just having a fear
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of God would put you in position to attain favor,
to have the things that you need, even if you
do go lacking. But even though you know, even though
you might go lacking, because you fear the Lord, it's
gonna eventually come. So let me see, Oh, you're an
a lazy man will not take care of himself. He wants, uh,
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he wants everything to be easy. And you mean we
compare that to being spiritual as well. You know something,
everything is not going to be easy. Sometimes you got
to put in some work, you know, and shake off
the laziness and do it.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
That's all I am.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
For those of you that are new. We're in a
book of Proverbs, and we're in the twentieth chapter, and
we defined proverbs as a rule of conduct. They were
just a Hebrew They were short contrasts and compared statements
about nature, man and life. And there are like a
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proverbs like we said, train up a child and the
way it should go and it will not depart. However,
that's a proverb, it's a principle. It's not a promise.
But we say that if you put it in them,
they may leave, but they can't. You can't, unlike learn
what you've learned, Hey man. So and then we've also
(08:03):
said that within this Proverbs of Solomon, he's the writer,
there's a lot of comparisons and contrasts, and some of
them is just statements of visuals that he's noticed. And
also they're repeated. It's repetition in proverbs. He may say
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it one way and then switch around and say it
another way, but it all means the same. And we
understand that when we tell our children something and we
say do you understand? And then we have to say
to another those that are teachers, you have to find
ways to make sure the person, the two children that
you're teaching, the people that you're teaching, actually understand what
you're saying. Hey man, I got one more. Come on.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
I want to say this because this is something that
always sticks with me, and I found out through last
week's lesson that it was a selfishness about it because
I used to always say.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Can at all you can and sit on the.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Can and.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Pastor was explaining to us that that's kind of a
selfish way to think of things. So I have to
scratch that from my repertoires. I can't say that anymore
and be willing to accept what the Lord allows. We
are morally obligated to speak the truth, and we must understand,
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as we have faith and know that God knows what
he is doing, that we don't have to help him.
He know what he's doing. So whatever you're going through,
he's gonna He's right there for you. You just have
to accept what he allowed and know and trust that
he knows what he is doing.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I think that it's the other stuff. Somebody already said that.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I think that's it, hey.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Man, And some of you might say, well, why are
we going up to the mics. It's because it's sort
of like a post casts and we had been making statements,
and they may have been making statements within the audience,
but it couldn't be heard, so now we wanted to
be heard. You're not seeing but you're heard, Amen. So
(10:17):
people can get an understanding and people can realize. You know,
when you do Bible study, you can get some back
and forth, and it's good to get back and forth. Amen.
We need to get back to that. It's not we're
not in Sunday School, but it's almost like Sunday school. Amen.
A lot of people don't come to Sunday school. Amen.
So we can just treat you like Sunday school. But
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we call it Bible study, amen, because we are studying
the Bible. Amen. So now we're going to Proverbs twenty
and we're gonna do one through ten. We're gonna try
to get through one through ten tonight, and beginning with
Proverbs twenty and one, whine is a mocker.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is
not why.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Hey man, when you read other versions, it might say
wine and beer make people lose control. They get loud
and stumble around, and that is foolish. And we've seen
people that are inebriated full of that stuff. Amen. Now
there's been some questions, there's been some back and forth.
(11:28):
They say, well, Jesus in a New Testament turn water
into wine. So why is so? Why is he talking
about wine is a marker and strong drink. Wine is
a marker, not Anne, It is a comma. Strong drink
is raging. We have to understand the time in which
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this was written. Amen, Alcohol and excess will make people
do foolish things. And we know we've seen people when
they drink alcohol and they get too inebriated. What they do,
what they say, They step high, they talk a lout,
real loud, and do stuff that they shouldn't do. Wise,
(12:10):
people should have self control and respect from the self.
But when you take something, whether it be wine or drugs,
that actually causes you to be out of yourself and
lose control, that is not wise. So too much will
make you cause you to be make a fool out
of yourself. The negative consequences of indulging in alcohol are
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arguments you u with, You argue with people, and you
argue with yourself. You talk to street lights, you talk
to inanimate objects. You know what a drunk a drunk
person does. Amen, so well, you know, like we said, well,
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Jesus turned water into wine. Wine was a co'm in
beverage and it was an important part of the daily
life in Bible times they drank wine. Amen, So we
must remember, hold that thought and write it down. We
must remember that wine in that day had a lower
alcohol content. People will use that well, Jesus turned water
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into wine. They drank wine in the Bible. Yes, but
it did. It's not made like the wine we have now.
We don't. They didn't add ops, they didn't add other
enzymes to make it stronger. Amen. They used wine for
medicinal purposes, and the wine was a symbol of certain
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things back in the Old Testament. That's one thing we
have to remember because people will tell you, well, you
know it's not wrong. He didn't say it was a sin,
because you know, wine is wine. However, I think in
Sunday School we talked about wine and the difference between
wine and pure alcohol, the strong drink which is made
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of more and had more alcohol content in it, and
all that praise God. So and most of the time,
wine in those days were made from grit, grapes and fruit.
They make it now with grain and other additives. Do
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your research. Wine was, like I said, was used for
medicinal purposes, to ease pain and clean with wounds. Ephesians
five and eighteen says, be not drunk with wine. We're
in it in its excess, but be filled with the spirit. Amen.
A Christian. As Christian, we can consist should consider the
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weaknesses of others. If we go around saying it's okay
to drink wine, it's okay to drink wine, consider your
brother or your sister that was a wino. That wine
can become alcohol. All can become addictive, and they call
it now addiction isn't a disease which you instigated. Amen.
(15:12):
So we have to be careful with that scripture. But however,
the scripture is telling us some people use this as
an escape where you know, a license to do it. Amen.
But we have to understand the contents in which it
was written. I had a question, somebody had a question,
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she'd have been already there.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Drinking causes people not to have control and the kind
of end up letting it all hang out. And I
was always taught that when people really get fully drunk,
and that's when the truth comes out, stuff that they've
been hiding and lying about it just comes running out,
and now you know what they really think about you.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
So that means that means they're not wise and they foolish.
They're foolish. They don't have any restraints. Amen.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
So yes, sir, Yeah, I want to talk to people
they try to use. You know that Jesus turning in
turn the part into wine. I always say, like, think
about his character and who he was, because you know
that they drunk, they already had wine before and they
ran out. Why would he give them something of a
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high potency that would take them over into being drunk.
So if they already had something, he gave them more.
Because you know they always say, well the U the
master of the ceremony. One that did it was like, oh,
you know this is the best. And people always come
from a corner mindset and say, oh oh yeah, they
had to be full, you know, you know, full of
that stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yeah, he gave them some good stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
But I'm like, think about I mean, he's the Word
of God. Think he gonna contrydict that you know, you'll
go to hell for being drunk or drunkness will cause
you to do crazy stuff and all that.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I'm like, he wouldn't do that.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
So I think a lot of people they overlook who
Christ is as a person in his character and goes
straight to the flesh instead of looking at him as
being the word of God holy. He wouldn't get on
people some more drink, and like you said, the content
was low. So even if they did have some stuff
in there where they were, you know, because I always
think about certain people, smaller people, like they say, if
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they drink a lot of liquor, they get drunk faster,
bigger than whatever.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Case.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
But everyone got there on tolerance. But if he was
to get them extra and that was that what made
them get drunk, that would have totally been against.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Who he was. So and I just want to offer
this testimony. I read a story about AA Allen and
he was battling with some medical issues and it had
been said that he died in alcoholic and certain people
that he dealt with and talked with, they understood his
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position in what was going on, whatever was going on
with him. The book that I read never did explain
exactly what he was going on, but the medicine medication
that they gave him kept him in a stupor where
he was not able to preach the gospel like he
needed to or wanted to, so he went back to
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taking alcohol. When and when I read this, and it
says sometimes that alcohol was used as medicinal purposes. It
took the pain away from him, but it didn't give
him that loopy feeling like the medicine that was given
him prescribed him worked. So sometimes we have to take
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it with a grain of salt. Now we as saints
of God, we upstate from it because we know what
can happen. A little Levin if I had to said,
if I would say, you know, it's all right for
you all to drink, you know, well, that's what the
world say. Drink cautiously, drink responsibly. Who's gonna get a
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six pack and drink responsibly and then decide when they
say you do things foolish. You're not gonna stay at home.
You don't want to stay at home. You wanna get
get out, move around. Amen. So sometimes it's just better
just to abstain so you won't have to go through that. Now,
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if you want to do it, that's you. But proverbs
also say warning comes before destruction, and a haughty spirit
before a fall. You got people that will take drinks
or take some type of medication and know you're not
supposed to be driving you they're driving. That's you. That's
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on you. Amen?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
All right?
Speaker 1 (20:06):
So are we clear what? The wine is a mark?
I mean, that's just that's a strong statement. Wine is
a marker. Strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived
thereby is not wise. If you're gonna drink it, this
is what's gonna happen to you. If you're gonna drink
strong drink is this is what's going to happen to you.
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There's no doubt about it. Big, small, whatever, it's gonna happen. Amen.
All right, are we okay with that? Amen?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Two?
Speaker 4 (20:40):
The fear of a king is as the roaring of
a lion, who so provoketh him to anger, sinneth against
his own soul.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
Mm.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
People who refuse to augur argad deserves respect. Any food
can start an argument. Amen. This this this is talking
about Now, we've had this before. We talked about the
king and how he's almost like old lyon. I think
I wrote it down somewhere last week. We talked about that.
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So we're just highlighting it's respecting authority the king. The
word of the king can be a type of metaphor
because we know that we don't have kings right now. Amen,
we don't have, but we do have people in authority, Amen,
So be mindful of how you interact with those that
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are in authority. You can't talk to them any kind
of way. Amen. You cannot disrespect the judge in his
own house, you will go to jail. You cannot disrespect
a police officer, he will take you to jail. You
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cannot and should not disrespect a teacher, or you will
be put into tail or should be put in detention.
Not I'm saying should, because now you get in trouble.
Your teachers has been made and halted from these bad kids.
You take them to the office and they give them
candy chips, time out and send them back to the classroom.
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There's no consequences. So if that's I'm generalizing, they should
be account, give an account for what they've done. Amen.
So uh so we the result is as a roaring lion.
The teacher has the right, the police officer has the right,
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the judge has the right, the parent has the right. Amen.
Is that clear? So it's actually just talking about respect
being respectful. You don't even in the courthouse. You don't
come up in there any kind of way. Now they
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talk about the church, but you go to a courthouse
and you got your mid drifts showing, oh they put
you out, you popping gum, you on your cell phone,
even can you please take your hat off? And then
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when you tell somebody take their hat off in church,
they get they get upset. There is a decorum. I
don't care about you wearing flip flops and and sandals
and stuff when you go to the beach, but there's
a decorum in the house of God. Now I'm not
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saying that. You know, sometimes scripture says come as you are.
We've been living in a society where people don't know
what to do when they come to church. They don't
know how to dress when they come to church. Amen,
But we're supposed to look our best. And their best
may be street district will that might be their best.
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That's all they have. That's all they know. I used
to tell apostle, we're living a day and time. People
were not raised like us. So now we got to respect.
We gotta respect them when they come in. And then
when they and if you notice, when people come in
and they see what's going on, they start pulling, tugging
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like ooh, I shouldn't. But that's all they had. That's
all they knew. And man, so with loving kindness, have
with drawing them. So that's just another part of it.
H Verse three.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
It is an honor for a man to cease from strife,
But every fool will be meddling.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
People who refuse to augle deserve respect. Any food can
start an argument. Now this coincides with those soft words.
It can backfire on you, and the day and time
it can backfire on you. Somebody arguing with you and
you you just not saying anything. They're ready to hit
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and fight because you won't say. Well, you're not gonna
say nothing. You're not gonna fight me. See how far
we've come. You're gonna make me what. Don't let don't
let me. Don't let them take you down. Don't let
them bring you down to their level. Sometime it's hard.
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Even when you walk away, they still on your back,
still in your ear. It's gonna take a lot of restraint,
by any means necessary, avoid arguments. Only a fool will
insist on argument. I used to tell my kids it
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takes to to argue. So somebody need to shut up,
But they backing for somebody shut up. But somebody, somebody's
don't want to be to somebody's they got to have
the last word. I don't know about these kids and
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these parents and you having an argument with your child
back and forth. Back in the day, we would have
got a back in and we didn't even think about
it when Mama said be quiet. We may be saying
stuff in our mind the little birds around our heads
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saying stuff in our minds, but we're not gonna say nothing.
Go to the room, close the door and holler in
that pillow, bite that pillows. And mother's all mean. But
we we wouldn't there. But I'm seeing these kids, little kids,
back and forth. He's he's the devil is. He's in
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the air. He's in his own atmosphere, and it's just
getting worse, AmAm. So by any means necessary, let's avoid arguments.
If we can't resolve something, just somebody has to be quiet.
Now a fool, he won't be quiet. He's gonna keep
talking and keep talking and keep talking. And Lord High Mercy.
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I remember a case where this husband and wife we
talked about that contentious woman. Beware, he was very quiet,
this is a personal story, very quiet. But he married
somebody that was not on his level. She just kept
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talking and kept talking and kept talking and kept whatever
he was doing. He ended up cutting her head off.
And that're right. Somebody knows. He was riding around in
the car with the head. And he was a very
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mild manner brother all because that woman would not shut up,
and he just he just cut her head off. It's real, Saints, yes,
and this is this was what over. It was about
over twenty five years ago. But some of y'all know,
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Praise God. Amen, he got stopped and he I think
I'm not sure, but I think he was the one
that said it was in the back of the car, Amen.
And she was at the house, but the head was
in the car. Amen. Matthew five and twenty five, say
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agree with thine adversary quickly, while thou art in the
way with him. And Romans twelve and eighteen said, if
it be possible, as it much as it lies in,
you live peaceably with all men. And in the words
of our apostle, he used to say, you don't fight
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with a fighting dog. You get as far away. If
I'm gonna live in peace with you. It might be
we may be separated, but we I'm gonna be in
peace over here, and you're gonna be in peace over
there until we all come into the unity of the faith.
But until then we gonna give me my space. You
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have your space, hey man, all right. Four.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
The slugger will not plow by reason of the cold.
Therefore shall he beg and harvest and have nothing.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Some people too lazy to do what they need to do,
so at harvest time they looking for food and find nothing.
We already talked about. This is coincide with Proverbs nineteen
and fifteen. Amen. It teaches the importance of the diligence
and timeliness. A lazy person will not prepare and will
come up short. Every time I thought about the grasshopper
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in the end, what was the name of that movie Hopper?
It was hopper bugs life. The grasshoppers was just doing
whatever they wanted to do. But they got that made
the ants provide them with their food. But the ants
didn't realize they were little and strong, strong, but they
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were more than the grasshoppers. There's only a few grasshoppers.
And you know, any been in the country or wherever
you can see the grasshoppers, they they jump in having
a good time from here from pillar to post, and
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that busy ant is just working, working, working, And when
the winter time comes, you see where do you see
the grasshopper on the fence frozen? So we can't neglect
our responsibilities and they must be done in a timely manner.
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I mean we all can agree to that. Sometimes you know,
we get lazy or lax of daisy, and we don't
want to do what we need to do in a
timely manner. We procrastinate. All of us are guilty of this.
But this is to the tenth power, Amen, and we
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have to suffer the consequences. So the scripture is just
teaching us to be proactive and diligent and take advantage
of opportunities when they are available. I think about that
story that Apostle told about opportunity and the secret to opportunity.
I mean, opportunity was had this long hair, golden hair,
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and when opportunity comes, you were supposed to grab hold
of her hair. But if you procrastinated, await, and she
passed by, passed by you the secret of opportunity. She
was bald in the back, so there's no way you
can grab it. You lost that opportunity. A lot of
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us have lost different opportunities because we procrastinated and do
what we were supposed to do. Hey man, we can't
be cry over spilt milk. But going forward, when opportunities
present themselves, grab hold onto them. Hey man, all right?
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Five?
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water,
but a man of understanding will draw it out.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
All right? Is that five? Okay?
Speaker 1 (33:03):
I skipped that one. I skipped that one completely, unless
it's in the different what's the next verse?
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Most men will proclaim everyone his own goodness, But a
faithful man who can find.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Okay, I did that twice. Read that fifth verse again.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water,
but a man of understanding will draw it out.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Sometimes getting information from someone can be getting like getting
water from a deep well. If you're smart and wise,
you'll find ways to draw it out. Some things and
not be easy to bring to the surface. May be
difficult to access it like the deep well, but wisdom
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will find a way. Have you ever heard the statement
ask the right questions. If you ask the right questions,
you'll get an answer. Sometimes you can ask questions in
a certain way. They don't even realize they're revealing their secrets.
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It has happened to me when somebody is saying something
in one mouth and then you ask them a certain
question and something else come out, and I said that
that's not what you just said. So we have to
be wise and have critical thinking and be able to
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gather information and make informed this just by asking the
right questions. Amen. Uncovering a person's intentions will require careful
observation and discernment because see, they try to hide. People
will try to hide from you their real intentions. By
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descriptions of your sins will find you out and I'm not.
And it's just not just talking about sin. It's just
to talk about you know, people's intentions, whether they good,
better be, whether they be good, or whether they be evil.
There's some things that will happen in our lives and
you think somebody is like, oh right right up here
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with you, but then they say things or you overhear
things and they didn't realize you were listening. Amen. So
it can be deep as a well trying to get
it out, but it's not, it's not. It may be hard,
but you still can get it out, Amen. All right now.
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Six is most men will proclaim okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Breathe that again.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
Most men will proclaim everyone his own goodness.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
But a faithful man who can find you might call
many people your friends, but it is hard to find
someone who can really be trusted. Words are cheap, but
actions tell it all. This scripture is teaching us the valuable,
the valuable lesson of that a reliable friend. This is
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a friend. This is a kind of friend that is
not easily found. It's hard, but it's not impossible. Amen.
Don't be fooled by outward appearances. That's what will fool you.
But actions. Their actions should match their words. A lot
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of people talk out of the side of them at
their mouth, Amen, but your actions speak louder than your words.
What someone does is more important than what they say.
You can talk about how you love your mama. I
think somebody mentioned and did last week. I love you Mama.
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I love you Mama, I love you Daddy. But the
scripture says, if you love me, you will do what
I say. Don't tell me you love me. And every
time I ask you to do something, got something to say.
Don't tell me you love me. And when I come home,
you know, the dishes are supposed to be done, or
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you see things on the floor and you will not
pick it up. And you know, I've been working all
day and you've been at home playing on your games,
not even studying, just relaxing, having a good old time.
You think it's your mama's job. But if you love
your mama, if you love her for real, if you
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love your daddy for real, they shouldn't have to ask
you to do anything. You see it and you need it,
you know it needs to be done. I don't know
what's wrong with this generation. You gotta tell him pinpoint everything.
I know. With my mom, I know how hard she worked.
She worked at night, she was a nurse at night.
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She made sure she had a babysitter there that she had.
She had to go through several of them because some
of them were doing some shisty stuff. And we would
tell her amen, but we finally found one. Amen. But
that's besides the point. When and you know she works hard,
or you know he works hard. I just tried to
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do I tried to do everything I could to help
my mom out. I remember, and she always talks about this.
She went out to do something and you know, you know,
children watched their parents and my mom used to have
this little gate that she put across the kitchen to
keep us out when she's cleaning. So what I did,
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I said, I'm gonna mop this floor for mama. I
think I wasn't even a teenager because I had to
have my older brother take the bucket out of the
out of the tub. It was too heavy for me
to pick up, so he picked it picked it up,
and I had my brothers and sisters. I said, look,
you get behind the gate and I pulled the gate
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clothes and I mopped the floor. When my mom came home,
she was happy, but she was sad because she said
that floor was soaking wet. But she said we all
went to bed, and she said when we got up,
when we got up, the you know, the floor was dried.
And I keep saying, but mommy, y'all was just trying
to help. Amen. So as a young young girl, I
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wanted to help my mom out, even though it was
the job was too big for me, but I still
tried to do it. I said, just like I tell
my grandkids, my little granddaughter, uh jday, I said, do
thing you always want to help help when you don't
have to be asked If you see your your toys
on the floor, pick them up. If you see dirt
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on the floor, you pick it up. You got your
little broom and dustpan to sweep it up. It may
not you may not be able to do the whole floor.
But what you see on the floor, pick it up.
Some of it is yours. Amen, all right, So that's
just that. Let me let's hurry on. Seven.
Speaker 4 (40:39):
This is kind of the just man walking in his integrity.
His children are blessed after him.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
When people live good in honest life, their children are blessed.
This emphasized the importance of parents being a positive example.
A lot of parents that are not positive examples. Do
as I say, not as I do. Hey, man, you
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got preachers, do as I say, not as I do.
You got evangelists, Do as I say, not as I do,
because what I say is up the Bible. But don't
be following me home. We can't be so busy living
our best life and forget about the needs of our children.
I've heard so many times when kids get in their
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high school age, it's time for me to do me. No,
it's not time for you to do you. That's the
worst time for you to do you, But I've heard
it over and over. It's my time to do me amen.
And also we have to be consistent in our walk
of life. You can't be in and out the church
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in front of your kids because they see that. It
confuses them. So if we're not consistent, what do you
expect them to do? And how we treat each other,
how we treat our husbands their daddy, you treat their
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mamas their mothers, how you treat your family in general
and everyday life, how you treat each other. They see
that and when they see that, they will emulate it.
If you have a lot of junk going on in
your house and you cussing at your child and you
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beating up to mama or the mother's beating up the daddy,
that does happen. That makes an impact, a negative impact
on the child, And when they grow up, they think
that's the right type of attitude they need to have,
and they bring it into their lives, into their grown
up lives, they think it's right. Just like when I
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was teaching daycare and the kids was coming in cursing.
It's the language that's all they know. So if they
hear it, they're gonna repeat it. I can't beat them
for that. I can't whoop them for that. I just
have to instruct them. Though that's not a good word,
but that's what they hear at home. Just like when
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you have your kids bouncing and jumping all over the place,
and then when you go to the store, you want
them to be still. You go to somebody else's house
and you want them not to jump on the sofa
where you let them jump on the sofa. You let
them do it at home. So what do you think
they're gonna do. When they get they look at you
like you're crazy. Well, mama, you let me do it.
In their mindset saying why what? Like he said, what
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what I do wrong? I didn't do nothing different you
and somebody else's house. I remind them, this is not
your house. Get out of my refrigerator. They know how
to go in there and just looking great. Now I
got one to live with me. He want to go
get his milk. He'll go get his milk, shake it
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out because I told him you got to shake it up.
And then he run to the drawer and get his straw.
I didn't even realize he saw me get the straw
out the drawer. But he's been watching me. So now
he go get his own straw and get his milk
and get his chair. He don't drink all over the house.
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He get his chair, put his make if his chair
is put up, he'll get his chair, put it down,
and get his milk and just sit there and drink
his milk and put it in the recycle the blue bag,
which is the recyclable bag. He knows that it goes
in the blue bag. Amen. So it just emphasized the
importance of parents being positive examples. We got too many.
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We gotta talk to the people at church, But then
what about the people that are not in church. There's
a lot of people that's not church. They are positive
examples for their family, their their children. But you got
folks that are calling themselves safe, saint to fight and
filled with the holy ghosts that are not positively influence
their children because they do one thing in church and
then they do something they test the lion and test
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the lying living. They're not living the life that they
sing about. They're not living the life that they testify about.
And the kids are looking at them like, oh really,
your kids will tell you that, Well, Mama, why you
do that, I'm gonna do just what you do.
Speaker 3 (45:36):
And I also want to just add to that. You know,
as saints of God. You know when you were saying
about going being in and out of the church even
though our kids are watching, but you have to be
very careful when you do that. You allow spirits to
come into your home. And just just for from me
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from a personal experience, you know, I'll just put it
out there. My Leela, my best friends, we will talk
about certain things and then I didn't realize in my
foolishness and my going back. You allow things to come
in and will attach to your children. And you know,
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even though we got through that, but you have to
be because it's not.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
Just about you. It's about your children.
Speaker 3 (46:32):
And even though they see you and be like, okay,
well you're doing something different at that time, the devil
is a crackhead.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
All he need is a.
Speaker 3 (46:39):
Crack and if he needs if that's that opportunity to
come in through through your children, through your your disobedience.
You're back and forth in and out of the in
and out of church. That's another way that he can
come in, not just for you because he got you.
But now, okay, since you back and forth. Okay, let
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me attach something to your child.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
And as a possibility, your child will never come back
and you just live in safe, sanctified and filled with
the holy ghosts. But they done seen all that you did,
and it's gonna take a miracle. It's gonna take a
miracle for them to say, well you, you said you
were saved back then. So it brings confusion, especially when
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they're young. Oh God, the devil is real, but we
don't realize it. We think he's just a Amen.
Speaker 4 (47:33):
All right, eight, a king that sitteth in the throne
of judgment, scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
Speaker 1 (47:43):
Okay. This emphasized the importance of leaders. Like I said,
we don't have kings, but we do have leaders being
able to maintain justice fairness within their own territory. Amen,
not only discern, but also not afraid to address, yes
and correct the wrong Sometimes we can see it, but
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we don't know how to attack it in a way
where we can get something done.
Speaker 2 (48:15):
Amen, we don't know.
Speaker 1 (48:16):
How to correct it, but we have to be able
to correct the wrongness. It may hurt, like when we
say when we whip our children, this hurts me. Worre
sitting and it hurts you. Some of us couldn't understand that.
But it's the fact the king has the authority to
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rid his kingdom. The leaders have the authority to rid
their kingdom of evil that may destroy its realm or
may destroy the flock. Sometimes you got to put somebody
out for the sake of the whole flock, and then
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you might get the backlash. He don't put me out
to church, but they don't understand why you out laying
cockertry's eggs and a lot of people are feeding it,
feed eating it. Y'all. People think being a leader is
it's just appreciations and it's just you're just sitting up
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on the throne. No, you got to deal with all
these spirits. You gotta deal with people that say they say,
but they're not producing. They're not they're their fruit is like, Okay,
this person's supposed to be an apple tree, but I'm
looking at these peaches where they peaches coming from for
big Amen. So it's not an easy job. So that
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takes prayer, it takes fasting, It takes those that or
with the preacher, with the preacher with the kingdom to
talk to him and let him know what's going on. Now,
some things you won't know, they won't know. We know, Elijah, Elisha, Elisha,
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He said the Lord kept this from me. He know
anythink about the bed baby being dead. It's not perfect.
But we if we work together and pray for the leaders.
That's what the scripture says, pray for the We may
not like him forty seven? Is he forty seven? Forty seven?
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We may not like him, But the script didn't say
whether we liked him or not, said whoever is in charge,
pray for him a man, So no sense of us saying,
but he doing this? And the script well, he didn't
tell us to do nothing but pray. You did your
part when you voted, and you didn't get your vote,
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your vote wasn't counted. But the next thing you do
is pray. Amen, because the justice is gonna suffer with
the unjust in this world. Praise God.
Speaker 2 (51:17):
All right?
Speaker 1 (51:18):
We almost finished nine.
Speaker 4 (51:23):
Who can say I have made my heart clean, I
am pure from my sin.
Speaker 1 (51:31):
This one was a hard one for me because it's
talking about perfection, and it's talking about you know, nobody.
People use this saying nobody's perfect. Who lives that life? Amen.
But I think about David when he said, Lord, creating
me a clean heart and renewing me a right spirit,
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that I might not sin against you. We can only
live that that we know. Don't worry about the stuff
you don't know. Live the life about living holy all
that you know, that's all he gonna get you for
is what you know? Hey man, when you go against
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that Fir Corinthians thirteen says, and we only know in part,
you know, he says, when I was a child, I
spoke as a child, I did that.
Speaker 2 (52:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (52:22):
But then in the tenth verse it says, but when
he that, when that, when that what he that which
is perfect is come. But when that which is perfect
is come, speaking of Jesus, then that which is per
in part shall be done away, Meaning when Jesus comes,
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we don't have nothing else to worry about. But right now,
living in this life, we like those ships. Every once
in a while, we gotta take some stuff off of us.
We're not talking about absolute perfection. Fostor used to explain
it well when when he said, somebody would ask you,
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do you have uh uh such, such, such and such
in your pocket, And they say, oh, no, I don't
think I do. I don't think I don't have it,
and he opens it. Oh, yes, I do, I have it.
You lied, you sinned. He's not talking about absolute perfection.
You gotta go, you gotta break it down like that
because some people go like, who can who can say
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I have made my heart clean? That means mean anyone
can say their heart is pure? Who can say I'm
free from sin? You're free from the sin that you
know of. But every day, every day we'll pull it
off and put it on. Wisdom is when you can
take it let it go. And that's not Bible. That's Walderson, heymen, Emberson, Yeah,
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Walden that scripture.
Speaker 5 (54:01):
You know, she was talking about the it's hard for
a rich man to end into the eye of a needle,
and you know, the disciples like, well, you know how
you know, you know, basically, how is he going in
the end? You know, he got riches, but he said,
you know, it's impossible with men, but with God, all
things are possible.
Speaker 1 (54:21):
It's it's uh, it's easier for a camel to go
through the eye of a needle than a rich man
to heaven. Yeah, not the rich man going through the eye.
Speaker 6 (54:35):
Yo.
Speaker 1 (54:35):
Sorry, you had me confused. Sorry, that's okay, Like you said,
you're not perfect your saf that's a perfect example. He
just misquoted it. That's all right.
Speaker 5 (54:52):
But yeah, but I was trying to say, like he
that whole thing, like it's impossible with men, but with
God and how he does it, you know, the things
we go through, all of that is purified. And I
remember the Apostle say too, you can't perfect something that's
already perfect. You just grow into it, and you might
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be perfect right where you at at that moment. And
it's just like you say, a little more light. You know,
you walk in that light as you grow in truth.
You know, you held accountable to that. So when people
tried to just wipe it out saying you know, hey,
we all seeing everybody seeing, I'm like, no, you can
perfeit where you at at that moment, but as life
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go on, you're gonna have to keep growing not saying
that you you know, like you said, absolute proficion because
people just try to, you know, put that out there
and feel like this, ain't nobody say, ain't nobody doing it? Nobody,
Ain't nobody doing nothing right? Nah, it's some people out
there that really living for the Lord. And they taking
it day by day.
Speaker 1 (55:53):
Perfect. Example, a baby when it's born, it is perfect.
It's perfect. It's got hands, don't know what to do
with it. God eyes can't really see goods, but lately
they open up their eyes and they look like they
can see you. They got a mouth, but they can't talk, feet, legs, everything,
but can't walk. But it's perfect. Amen, all right? Ten verse,
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and we.
Speaker 4 (56:20):
Threw divers weights and divers measures. Both of them are alike,
abomination to the Lord.
Speaker 1 (56:29):
Okay, we've had this before. The Lord hates for people
to use the wrong weights and measures to cheat others.
We've had this before. Those in business who cheat unfair
trade practices, which we are familiar with, the use of
scales to measure that are not calibrated correctly, cheating the consumer.
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Whatever we do, we should be fair. Gas stations used
to do that. They had their libration on their gas
tanks ahead, so so when you get your gas, instead
of it's starting at one sense, it's at five cents.
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That happened to me one time, and I said, wait
a minute, I just put the thing in there. It's
at five cents. I didn't prompt nothing. The calibration was off.
That's how you cheat people. And some of you all
you know, been out in the world and know you
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know what we don't you wait and well, you know,
even waits and measure when you when you go to
the grocery store and they ray your of your meat,
especially your seafood, and it's frozen, are you accounting for
that frozen that ice you putting on there? I'll ask them.
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Even when I used to buy the chitterlings, I said, okay,
there's a lot of water in that. Are you calibrating,
you know, giving me some leadweight because there's water and
you putting the water on the on the scale in
the bag. Sometimes you just have to ask because they
don't they're not gonna tell you. Right you say, you
got thirty three pounds, thirty pounds and you got twenty
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five pounds cause you got five pounds of water, you
got five pounds of ice. Give me the ones that's
thought out, please right there. Give me the strip that
throwt out. You don't have to put the you know,
it makes a difference. So that's basically just just whatever
we do, be fair. If you're gonna car sell it fairly.
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If there's something wrong with it, and you know it's
something wrong with it. Don't don't tell the people, don't
put certain stuff in the engine or in these little
fluid things, and and it looks okay for for for
a parent's sake, and then when you drive off and
use all that up, it's it's it's a mess, hey man.
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That's the reason why they say don't let women go
in and and buy cars and stuff, because they try
to cheat them out. But they don't know. Some of
these women know more than what they know. And you're
gonna ask questions. They gonna look at you like, huh
what Praise God? Especially if we got daddies and brothers,
that's gonna tell you and show you. Or deacons, my
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deacons son will tell me. Don't don't let them fool you.
Let me see that. Get the the oil you putting
in my my vehicle. Let me see you open it up,
because they will make like they opened it. Why I
don't have you more? Why I don't have an oil? Well,
I gave you the I gave you what you said
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you wanted. Yeah, but you didn't watch them. It's a shame.
You gotta watch stuff. But that's the way that But
see the scripture say God hates it. He hates it.
Stand to your feet, Oh Saints of God. You just
don't know, got so much to pray for. And I said, God,
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just take me through this. Those of you that are listening,
I hope you've gotten something out of this Bible study.
And those that are here, we hope you got something
out of this Bible study. You may not have understood
all of it, and you may not be adhering to
all of it, but now you've heard, and we've always
say at UHDT you can't unlearn what you learn. You
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can't turn your back to what you already saw and heard. Amen.
So if there's anybody that needs prayered on tonight, want
to be saved, fell with the Holy Ghost, Maybe you
are saved and you want to be filled with the
Holy Ghost, or if just you need something from the Lord,
you need an extra extra hook. The time is now,
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Praise God. If not, we just thinking, praise God for
those of you that are here. We're gonna say a
mass prayer to your Heavenly Father. We thank you for
the feet of those that are here on tonight. We
ask Lord that you bless them from the crowns of
their heads and the soul of their feets. Lord, meet
them right where there are. Whatever needs they need. You
meet those needs, show them who you are, show him,
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show them your glory in the name of Jesus, and
we thank you for it. In Jesus name, we pray,
Amen and Amen.
But when we enter into his gates, he said, enter
my gates with thanksgiving everything that we're going through. Leave
it outside, because he deserves all the praise, He deserves
all the honor. In the name of Jesus. As we
bow our head, Lord, we thank you for this day.
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We thank you for a day that was not promised
with God. We just want to thank and praise you
for allowing us to be in your service one more time,
another but Bible study. Lord, we ask that you just
open our ears, give us ears to hear, give us
ears to hear. Not just hear the sound, but allow
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it to resonate within our hearts. In the name of Jesus.
Thank you Jesus, and I'll let the words of my
mouth and the red meditation of my heart be accepted
in thy sight. O Lord, you are my strength and
my redeemer. You may be seated in the presence of
the Lord. Amen. I thank and praise God. So I
give honor to God to each of you who are present.
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On this afternoon. We just like to think and praise
God for another Bible study. And we know there's a
lot going on right now. We've had another death, that
another death praise God. But you know God is still God. Amen. Amen.
We've had people that are sick, but God is still God. Amen.
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All right, and we're not gonna bore your patience. We're
gonna I am gonna stick to Proverbs twenty one through ten.
Praise God. We're gonna get through one through ten. Amen.
The Lord say the same. But I would like to
get some feedback from Proverbs nineteen. Proverbs nineteen, Amen, Praise
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the Lord. We got some money.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Amen.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
The beginning part, uh, well, we started at the eleventh,
but that beginning part of the chapter was talking about
walking in integrity.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
We talked about knowledge.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
We I I we I don't.
Speaker 3 (02:37):
I can't even understand my handwriting. But we said a
quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson. Knowledge is when you learn
something every day. Wisdom is when you when you something can.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
Let it go. Yeah, let it go. Somebody else be ready?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Hey man?
Speaker 1 (03:09):
That's is that all you have? That's all I have?
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I wrote that quote down.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
Okay, somebody else.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Hey man.
Speaker 5 (03:23):
We had We talked about laziness, how it brings on sleeping,
It will cause you to neglect the things that you
need to pay attention to. And then Therefore, you know
you are lack the things that you need because of laziness.
What are things that you need will get You won't
be able to attain what you need because of laziness.
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And you also said that this can be contributed to
your spirituality too, as far as neglecting certain things that
you know you lack what you should have. Also talked
about a father will leave richest and a wise wife
is from the Lord, you know, just saying that a
father will leave something for his children or for the
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next generation, and a wife that is wise the Lord
gave her. Let me see. Also we talked about giving
to the poor, because when you get to the poor,
you're actually giving to God. And we also spoke about
the wisdom in giving, how that it's best to be
led by God to know exactly you know, who needs,
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who really has a need, uh, you know, rather than
those that are just trying to you know, get over
on you or scheme you. So, yeah, just have wisdom
about that and you know that the Lord lead. You
also talked about, you know, don't avoid discipline your children,
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you know, because and like that, like we always say,
it's easier to build you know, small children than to
be a broken man. Let's see also if you put
if you protect that angry man from punishment, he would
be uh, he'll eventually do it again.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
So it's good to go ahead and.
Speaker 5 (05:09):
Give out that punishment right then, so they can learn
from it and they won't be, you know, tempted to
do it again.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
So let them suffer the consequence.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
Yeah, just like to make it more plain, like someone
is like a child going to jail. Now, let them
stay in there. Don't try to rescue them, so they
can stand there. That happened to me before, so yeah,
learn from that. Uh, let me see what else? Take
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heed to counsel, because it will make you wise later,
Like you can use that wisdom later. It's gonna come up.
You know, something's gonna happen and you might not need
it then, you know now, but you're gonna need it then.
So yeah, see what else. Ah, there are many devices
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in a man heart, you know, and man makes plans.
But the Lord, you know, his counsel was staying, you know,
regardless of what we decide to do or want to
do or want to happen, you know, God ultimately has
to ultimately say so, and you just have to you know,
accept it. A poor man is better than a liar.
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So it's better to be poor and be without than
to be rich with lies, because you know, a lie
can turn up a whole bunch of stuff. It can
cause a lot of trouble for others. In yourself, fearing
the Lord will help you with your life and you
will have what you need. So just having a fear
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of God would put you in position to attain favor,
to have the things that you need, even if you
do go lacking. But even though you know, even though
you might go lacking, because you fear the Lord, it's
gonna eventually come. So let me see, Oh, you're an
a lazy man will not take care of himself. He wants, uh,
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he wants everything to be easy. And you mean we
compare that to being spiritual as well. You know something,
everything is not going to be easy. Sometimes you got
to put in some work, you know, and shake off
the laziness and do it.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
That's all I am.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
For those of you that are new. We're in a
book of Proverbs, and we're in the twentieth chapter, and
we defined proverbs as a rule of conduct. They were
just a Hebrew They were short contrasts and compared statements
about nature, man and life. And there are like a
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proverbs like we said, train up a child and the
way it should go and it will not depart. However,
that's a proverb, it's a principle. It's not a promise.
But we say that if you put it in them,
they may leave, but they can't. You can't, unlike learn
what you've learned, Hey man. So and then we've also
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said that within this Proverbs of Solomon, he's the writer,
there's a lot of comparisons and contrasts, and some of
them is just statements of visuals that he's noticed. And
also they're repeated. It's repetition in proverbs. He may say
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it one way and then switch around and say it
another way, but it all means the same. And we
understand that when we tell our children something and we
say do you understand? And then we have to say
to another those that are teachers, you have to find
ways to make sure the person, the two children that
you're teaching, the people that you're teaching, actually understand what
you're saying. Hey man, I got one more. Come on.
Speaker 6 (08:49):
I want to say this because this is something that
always sticks with me, and I found out through last
week's lesson that it was a selfishness about it because
I used to always say.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
Can at all you can and sit on the.
Speaker 2 (09:01):
Can and.
Speaker 6 (09:04):
Pastor was explaining to us that that's kind of a
selfish way to think of things. So I have to
scratch that from my repertoires. I can't say that anymore
and be willing to accept what the Lord allows. We
are morally obligated to speak the truth, and we must understand,
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as we have faith and know that God knows what
he is doing, that we don't have to help him.
He know what he's doing. So whatever you're going through,
he's gonna He's right there for you. You just have
to accept what he allowed and know and trust that
he knows what he is doing.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
I think that it's the other stuff. Somebody already said that.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
I think that's it, hey.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Man, And some of you might say, well, why are
we going up to the mics. It's because it's sort
of like a post casts and we had been making statements,
and they may have been making statements within the audience,
but it couldn't be heard, so now we wanted to
be heard. You're not seeing but you're heard, Amen. So
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people can get an understanding and people can realize. You know,
when you do Bible study, you can get some back
and forth, and it's good to get back and forth. Amen.
We need to get back to that. It's not we're
not in Sunday School, but it's almost like Sunday school. Amen.
A lot of people don't come to Sunday school. Amen.
So we can just treat you like Sunday school. But
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we call it Bible study, amen, because we are studying
the Bible. Amen. So now we're going to Proverbs twenty
and we're gonna do one through ten. We're gonna try
to get through one through ten tonight, and beginning with
Proverbs twenty and one, whine is a mocker.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is
not why.
Speaker 1 (11:05):
Hey man, when you read other versions, it might say
wine and beer make people lose control. They get loud
and stumble around, and that is foolish. And we've seen
people that are inebriated full of that stuff. Amen. Now
there's been some questions, there's been some back and forth.
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They say, well, Jesus in a New Testament turn water
into wine. So why is so? Why is he talking
about wine is a marker and strong drink. Wine is
a marker, not Anne, It is a comma. Strong drink
is raging. We have to understand the time in which
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this was written. Amen, Alcohol and excess will make people
do foolish things. And we know we've seen people when
they drink alcohol and they get too inebriated. What they do,
what they say, They step high, they talk a lout,
real loud, and do stuff that they shouldn't do. Wise,
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people should have self control and respect from the self.
But when you take something, whether it be wine or drugs,
that actually causes you to be out of yourself and
lose control, that is not wise. So too much will
make you cause you to be make a fool out
of yourself. The negative consequences of indulging in alcohol are
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arguments you u with, You argue with people, and you
argue with yourself. You talk to street lights, you talk
to inanimate objects. You know what a drunk a drunk
person does. Amen, so well, you know, like we said, well,
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Jesus turned water into wine. Wine was a co'm in
beverage and it was an important part of the daily
life in Bible times they drank wine. Amen, So we
must remember, hold that thought and write it down. We
must remember that wine in that day had a lower
alcohol content. People will use that well, Jesus turned water
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into wine. They drank wine in the Bible. Yes, but
it did. It's not made like the wine we have now.
We don't. They didn't add ops, they didn't add other
enzymes to make it stronger. Amen. They used wine for
medicinal purposes, and the wine was a symbol of certain
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things back in the Old Testament. That's one thing we
have to remember because people will tell you, well, you
know it's not wrong. He didn't say it was a sin,
because you know, wine is wine. However, I think in
Sunday School we talked about wine and the difference between
wine and pure alcohol, the strong drink which is made
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of more and had more alcohol content in it, and
all that praise God. So and most of the time,
wine in those days were made from grit, grapes and fruit.
They make it now with grain and other additives. Do
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your research. Wine was, like I said, was used for
medicinal purposes, to ease pain and clean with wounds. Ephesians
five and eighteen says, be not drunk with wine. We're
in it in its excess, but be filled with the spirit. Amen.
A Christian. As Christian, we can consist should consider the
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weaknesses of others. If we go around saying it's okay
to drink wine, it's okay to drink wine, consider your
brother or your sister that was a wino. That wine
can become alcohol. All can become addictive, and they call
it now addiction isn't a disease which you instigated. Amen.
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So we have to be careful with that scripture. But however,
the scripture is telling us some people use this as
an escape where you know, a license to do it. Amen.
But we have to understand the contents in which it
was written. I had a question, somebody had a question,
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she'd have been already there.
Speaker 6 (15:39):
Drinking causes people not to have control and the kind
of end up letting it all hang out. And I
was always taught that when people really get fully drunk,
and that's when the truth comes out, stuff that they've
been hiding and lying about it just comes running out,
and now you know what they really think about you.
Speaker 1 (15:58):
So that means that means they're not wise and they foolish.
They're foolish. They don't have any restraints. Amen.
Speaker 5 (16:07):
So yes, sir, Yeah, I want to talk to people
they try to use. You know that Jesus turning in
turn the part into wine. I always say, like, think
about his character and who he was, because you know
that they drunk, they already had wine before and they
ran out. Why would he give them something of a
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high potency that would take them over into being drunk.
So if they already had something, he gave them more.
Because you know they always say, well the U the
master of the ceremony. One that did it was like, oh,
you know this is the best. And people always come
from a corner mindset and say, oh oh yeah, they
had to be full, you know, you know, full of
that stuff.
Speaker 1 (16:51):
Yeah, he gave them some good stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
But I'm like, think about I mean, he's the Word
of God. Think he gonna contrydict that you know, you'll
go to hell for being drunk or drunkness will cause
you to do crazy stuff and all that.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
I'm like, he wouldn't do that.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
So I think a lot of people they overlook who
Christ is as a person in his character and goes
straight to the flesh instead of looking at him as
being the word of God holy. He wouldn't get on
people some more drink, and like you said, the content
was low. So even if they did have some stuff
in there where they were, you know, because I always
think about certain people, smaller people, like they say, if
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they drink a lot of liquor, they get drunk faster,
bigger than whatever.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Case.
Speaker 5 (17:34):
But everyone got there on tolerance. But if he was
to get them extra and that was that what made
them get drunk, that would have totally been against.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
Who he was. So and I just want to offer
this testimony. I read a story about AA Allen and
he was battling with some medical issues and it had
been said that he died in alcoholic and certain people
that he dealt with and talked with, they understood his
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position in what was going on, whatever was going on
with him. The book that I read never did explain
exactly what he was going on, but the medicine medication
that they gave him kept him in a stupor where
he was not able to preach the gospel like he
needed to or wanted to, so he went back to
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taking alcohol. When and when I read this, and it
says sometimes that alcohol was used as medicinal purposes. It
took the pain away from him, but it didn't give
him that loopy feeling like the medicine that was given
him prescribed him worked. So sometimes we have to take
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it with a grain of salt. Now we as saints
of God, we upstate from it because we know what
can happen. A little Levin if I had to said,
if I would say, you know, it's all right for
you all to drink, you know, well, that's what the
world say. Drink cautiously, drink responsibly. Who's gonna get a
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six pack and drink responsibly and then decide when they
say you do things foolish. You're not gonna stay at home.
You don't want to stay at home. You wanna get
get out, move around. Amen. So sometimes it's just better
just to abstain so you won't have to go through that. Now,
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if you want to do it, that's you. But proverbs
also say warning comes before destruction, and a haughty spirit
before a fall. You got people that will take drinks
or take some type of medication and know you're not
supposed to be driving you they're driving. That's you. That's
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on you. Amen?
Speaker 2 (20:05):
All right?
Speaker 1 (20:06):
So are we clear what? The wine is a mark?
I mean, that's just that's a strong statement. Wine is
a marker. Strong drink is raging, and whosoever is deceived
thereby is not wise. If you're gonna drink it, this
is what's gonna happen to you. If you're gonna drink
strong drink is this is what's going to happen to you.
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There's no doubt about it. Big, small, whatever, it's gonna happen. Amen.
All right, are we okay with that? Amen?
Speaker 2 (20:38):
Two?
Speaker 4 (20:40):
The fear of a king is as the roaring of
a lion, who so provoketh him to anger, sinneth against
his own soul.
Speaker 6 (20:50):
Mm.
Speaker 1 (20:50):
People who refuse to augur argad deserves respect. Any food
can start an argument. Amen. This this this is talking
about Now, we've had this before. We talked about the
king and how he's almost like old lyon. I think
I wrote it down somewhere last week. We talked about that.
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So we're just highlighting it's respecting authority the king. The
word of the king can be a type of metaphor
because we know that we don't have kings right now. Amen,
we don't have, but we do have people in authority, Amen,
So be mindful of how you interact with those that
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are in authority. You can't talk to them any kind
of way. Amen. You cannot disrespect the judge in his
own house, you will go to jail. You cannot disrespect
a police officer, he will take you to jail. You
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cannot and should not disrespect a teacher, or you will
be put into tail or should be put in detention.
Not I'm saying should, because now you get in trouble.
Your teachers has been made and halted from these bad kids.
You take them to the office and they give them
candy chips, time out and send them back to the classroom.
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There's no consequences. So if that's I'm generalizing, they should
be account, give an account for what they've done. Amen.
So uh so we the result is as a roaring lion.
The teacher has the right, the police officer has the right,
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the judge has the right, the parent has the right. Amen.
Is that clear? So it's actually just talking about respect
being respectful. You don't even in the courthouse. You don't
come up in there any kind of way. Now they
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talk about the church, but you go to a courthouse
and you got your mid drifts showing, oh they put
you out, you popping gum, you on your cell phone,
even can you please take your hat off? And then
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when you tell somebody take their hat off in church,
they get they get upset. There is a decorum. I
don't care about you wearing flip flops and and sandals
and stuff when you go to the beach, but there's
a decorum in the house of God. Now I'm not
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saying that. You know, sometimes scripture says come as you are.
We've been living in a society where people don't know
what to do when they come to church. They don't
know how to dress when they come to church. Amen,
But we're supposed to look our best. And their best
may be street district will that might be their best.
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That's all they have. That's all they know. I used
to tell apostle, we're living a day and time. People
were not raised like us. So now we got to respect.
We gotta respect them when they come in. And then
when they and if you notice, when people come in
and they see what's going on, they start pulling, tugging
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like ooh, I shouldn't. But that's all they had. That's
all they knew. And man, so with loving kindness, have
with drawing them. So that's just another part of it.
H Verse three.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
It is an honor for a man to cease from strife,
But every fool will be meddling.
Speaker 1 (24:51):
People who refuse to augle deserve respect. Any food can
start an argument. Now this coincides with those soft words.
It can backfire on you, and the day and time
it can backfire on you. Somebody arguing with you and
you you just not saying anything. They're ready to hit
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and fight because you won't say. Well, you're not gonna
say nothing. You're not gonna fight me. See how far
we've come. You're gonna make me what. Don't let don't
let me. Don't let them take you down. Don't let
them bring you down to their level. Sometime it's hard.
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Even when you walk away, they still on your back,
still in your ear. It's gonna take a lot of restraint,
by any means necessary, avoid arguments. Only a fool will
insist on argument. I used to tell my kids it
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takes to to argue. So somebody need to shut up,
But they backing for somebody shut up. But somebody, somebody's
don't want to be to somebody's they got to have
the last word. I don't know about these kids and
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these parents and you having an argument with your child
back and forth. Back in the day, we would have
got a back in and we didn't even think about
it when Mama said be quiet. We may be saying
stuff in our mind the little birds around our heads
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saying stuff in our minds, but we're not gonna say nothing.
Go to the room, close the door and holler in
that pillow, bite that pillows. And mother's all mean. But
we we wouldn't there. But I'm seeing these kids, little kids,
back and forth. He's he's the devil is. He's in
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the air. He's in his own atmosphere, and it's just
getting worse, AmAm. So by any means necessary, let's avoid arguments.
If we can't resolve something, just somebody has to be quiet.
Now a fool, he won't be quiet. He's gonna keep
talking and keep talking and keep talking. And Lord High Mercy.
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I remember a case where this husband and wife we
talked about that contentious woman. Beware, he was very quiet,
this is a personal story, very quiet. But he married
somebody that was not on his level. She just kept
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talking and kept talking and kept talking and kept whatever
he was doing. He ended up cutting her head off.
And that're right. Somebody knows. He was riding around in
the car with the head. And he was a very
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mild manner brother all because that woman would not shut up,
and he just he just cut her head off. It's real, Saints, yes,
and this is this was what over. It was about
over twenty five years ago. But some of y'all know,
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Praise God. Amen, he got stopped and he I think
I'm not sure, but I think he was the one
that said it was in the back of the car, Amen.
And she was at the house, but the head was
in the car. Amen. Matthew five and twenty five, say
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agree with thine adversary quickly, while thou art in the
way with him. And Romans twelve and eighteen said, if
it be possible, as it much as it lies in,
you live peaceably with all men. And in the words
of our apostle, he used to say, you don't fight
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with a fighting dog. You get as far away. If
I'm gonna live in peace with you. It might be
we may be separated, but we I'm gonna be in
peace over here, and you're gonna be in peace over
there until we all come into the unity of the faith.
But until then we gonna give me my space. You
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have your space, hey man, all right. Four.
Speaker 4 (29:40):
The slugger will not plow by reason of the cold.
Therefore shall he beg and harvest and have nothing.
Speaker 1 (29:49):
Some people too lazy to do what they need to do,
so at harvest time they looking for food and find nothing.
We already talked about. This is coincide with Proverbs nineteen
and fifteen. Amen. It teaches the importance of the diligence
and timeliness. A lazy person will not prepare and will
come up short. Every time I thought about the grasshopper
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in the end, what was the name of that movie Hopper?
It was hopper bugs life. The grasshoppers was just doing
whatever they wanted to do. But they got that made
the ants provide them with their food. But the ants
didn't realize they were little and strong, strong, but they
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were more than the grasshoppers. There's only a few grasshoppers.
And you know, any been in the country or wherever
you can see the grasshoppers, they they jump in having
a good time from here from pillar to post, and
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that busy ant is just working, working, working, And when
the winter time comes, you see where do you see
the grasshopper on the fence frozen? So we can't neglect
our responsibilities and they must be done in a timely manner.
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I mean we all can agree to that. Sometimes you know,
we get lazy or lax of daisy, and we don't
want to do what we need to do in a
timely manner. We procrastinate. All of us are guilty of this.
But this is to the tenth power, Amen, and we
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have to suffer the consequences. So the scripture is just
teaching us to be proactive and diligent and take advantage
of opportunities when they are available. I think about that
story that Apostle told about opportunity and the secret to opportunity.
I mean, opportunity was had this long hair, golden hair,
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and when opportunity comes, you were supposed to grab hold
of her hair. But if you procrastinated, await, and she
passed by, passed by you the secret of opportunity. She
was bald in the back, so there's no way you
can grab it. You lost that opportunity. A lot of
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us have lost different opportunities because we procrastinated and do
what we were supposed to do. Hey man, we can't
be cry over spilt milk. But going forward, when opportunities
present themselves, grab hold onto them. Hey man, all right?
Speaker 2 (32:44):
Five?
Speaker 4 (32:45):
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water,
but a man of understanding will draw it out.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
All right? Is that five? Okay?
Speaker 1 (33:03):
I skipped that one. I skipped that one completely, unless
it's in the different what's the next verse?
Speaker 4 (33:17):
Most men will proclaim everyone his own goodness, But a
faithful man who can find.
Speaker 2 (33:28):
Okay, I did that twice. Read that fifth verse again.
Speaker 4 (33:37):
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water,
but a man of understanding will draw it out.
Speaker 2 (33:45):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
Sometimes getting information from someone can be getting like getting
water from a deep well. If you're smart and wise,
you'll find ways to draw it out. Some things and
not be easy to bring to the surface. May be
difficult to access it like the deep well, but wisdom
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will find a way. Have you ever heard the statement
ask the right questions. If you ask the right questions,
you'll get an answer. Sometimes you can ask questions in
a certain way. They don't even realize they're revealing their secrets.
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It has happened to me when somebody is saying something
in one mouth and then you ask them a certain
question and something else come out, and I said that
that's not what you just said. So we have to
be wise and have critical thinking and be able to
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gather information and make informed this just by asking the
right questions. Amen. Uncovering a person's intentions will require careful
observation and discernment because see, they try to hide. People
will try to hide from you their real intentions. By
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descriptions of your sins will find you out and I'm not.
And it's just not just talking about sin. It's just
to talk about you know, people's intentions, whether they good,
better be, whether they be good, or whether they be evil.
There's some things that will happen in our lives and
you think somebody is like, oh right right up here
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with you, but then they say things or you overhear
things and they didn't realize you were listening. Amen. So
it can be deep as a well trying to get
it out, but it's not, it's not. It may be hard,
but you still can get it out, Amen. All right now.
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Six is most men will proclaim okay, all right.
Speaker 2 (36:09):
Breathe that again.
Speaker 4 (36:11):
Most men will proclaim everyone his own goodness.
Speaker 1 (36:15):
But a faithful man who can find you might call
many people your friends, but it is hard to find
someone who can really be trusted. Words are cheap, but
actions tell it all. This scripture is teaching us the valuable,
the valuable lesson of that a reliable friend. This is
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a friend. This is a kind of friend that is
not easily found. It's hard, but it's not impossible. Amen.
Don't be fooled by outward appearances. That's what will fool you.
But actions. Their actions should match their words. A lot
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of people talk out of the side of them at
their mouth, Amen, but your actions speak louder than your words.
What someone does is more important than what they say.
You can talk about how you love your mama. I
think somebody mentioned and did last week. I love you Mama.
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I love you Mama, I love you Daddy. But the
scripture says, if you love me, you will do what
I say. Don't tell me you love me. And every
time I ask you to do something, got something to say.
Don't tell me you love me. And when I come home,
you know, the dishes are supposed to be done, or
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you see things on the floor and you will not
pick it up. And you know, I've been working all
day and you've been at home playing on your games,
not even studying, just relaxing, having a good old time.
You think it's your mama's job. But if you love
your mama, if you love her for real, if you
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love your daddy for real, they shouldn't have to ask
you to do anything. You see it and you need it,
you know it needs to be done. I don't know
what's wrong with this generation. You gotta tell him pinpoint everything.
I know. With my mom, I know how hard she worked.
She worked at night, she was a nurse at night.
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She made sure she had a babysitter there that she had.
She had to go through several of them because some
of them were doing some shisty stuff. And we would
tell her amen, but we finally found one. Amen. But
that's besides the point. When and you know she works hard,
or you know he works hard. I just tried to
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do I tried to do everything I could to help
my mom out. I remember, and she always talks about this.
She went out to do something and you know, you know,
children watched their parents and my mom used to have
this little gate that she put across the kitchen to
keep us out when she's cleaning. So what I did,
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I said, I'm gonna mop this floor for mama. I
think I wasn't even a teenager because I had to
have my older brother take the bucket out of the
out of the tub. It was too heavy for me
to pick up, so he picked it picked it up,
and I had my brothers and sisters. I said, look,
you get behind the gate and I pulled the gate
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clothes and I mopped the floor. When my mom came home,
she was happy, but she was sad because she said
that floor was soaking wet. But she said we all
went to bed, and she said when we got up,
when we got up, the you know, the floor was dried.
And I keep saying, but mommy, y'all was just trying
to help. Amen. So as a young young girl, I
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wanted to help my mom out, even though it was
the job was too big for me, but I still
tried to do it. I said, just like I tell
my grandkids, my little granddaughter, uh jday, I said, do
thing you always want to help help when you don't
have to be asked If you see your your toys
on the floor, pick them up. If you see dirt
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on the floor, you pick it up. You got your
little broom and dustpan to sweep it up. It may
not you may not be able to do the whole floor.
But what you see on the floor, pick it up.
Some of it is yours. Amen, all right, So that's
just that. Let me let's hurry on. Seven.
Speaker 4 (40:39):
This is kind of the just man walking in his integrity.
His children are blessed after him.
Speaker 1 (40:47):
When people live good in honest life, their children are blessed.
This emphasized the importance of parents being a positive example.
A lot of parents that are not positive examples. Do
as I say, not as I do. Hey, man, you
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got preachers, do as I say, not as I do.
You got evangelists, Do as I say, not as I do,
because what I say is up the Bible. But don't
be following me home. We can't be so busy living
our best life and forget about the needs of our children.
I've heard so many times when kids get in their
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high school age, it's time for me to do me. No,
it's not time for you to do you. That's the
worst time for you to do you, But I've heard
it over and over. It's my time to do me amen.
And also we have to be consistent in our walk
of life. You can't be in and out the church
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in front of your kids because they see that. It
confuses them. So if we're not consistent, what do you
expect them to do? And how we treat each other,
how we treat our husbands their daddy, you treat their
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mamas their mothers, how you treat your family in general
and everyday life, how you treat each other. They see
that and when they see that, they will emulate it.
If you have a lot of junk going on in
your house and you cussing at your child and you
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beating up to mama or the mother's beating up the daddy,
that does happen. That makes an impact, a negative impact
on the child, And when they grow up, they think
that's the right type of attitude they need to have,
and they bring it into their lives, into their grown
up lives, they think it's right. Just like when I
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was teaching daycare and the kids was coming in cursing.
It's the language that's all they know. So if they
hear it, they're gonna repeat it. I can't beat them
for that. I can't whoop them for that. I just
have to instruct them. Though that's not a good word,
but that's what they hear at home. Just like when
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you have your kids bouncing and jumping all over the place,
and then when you go to the store, you want
them to be still. You go to somebody else's house
and you want them not to jump on the sofa
where you let them jump on the sofa. You let
them do it at home. So what do you think
they're gonna do. When they get they look at you
like you're crazy. Well, mama, you let me do it.
In their mindset saying why what? Like he said, what
(43:47):
what I do wrong? I didn't do nothing different you
and somebody else's house. I remind them, this is not
your house. Get out of my refrigerator. They know how
to go in there and just looking great. Now I
got one to live with me. He want to go
get his milk. He'll go get his milk, shake it
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out because I told him you got to shake it up.
And then he run to the drawer and get his straw.
I didn't even realize he saw me get the straw
out the drawer. But he's been watching me. So now
he go get his own straw and get his milk
and get his chair. He don't drink all over the house.
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He get his chair, put his make if his chair
is put up, he'll get his chair, put it down,
and get his milk and just sit there and drink
his milk and put it in the recycle the blue bag,
which is the recyclable bag. He knows that it goes
in the blue bag. Amen. So it just emphasized the
importance of parents being positive examples. We got too many.
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We gotta talk to the people at church, But then
what about the people that are not in church. There's
a lot of people that's not church. They are positive
examples for their family, their their children. But you got
folks that are calling themselves safe, saint to fight and
filled with the holy ghosts that are not positively influence
their children because they do one thing in church and
then they do something they test the lion and test
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the lying living. They're not living the life that they
sing about. They're not living the life that they testify about.
And the kids are looking at them like, oh really,
your kids will tell you that, Well, Mama, why you
do that, I'm gonna do just what you do.
Speaker 3 (45:36):
And I also want to just add to that. You know,
as saints of God. You know when you were saying
about going being in and out of the church even
though our kids are watching, but you have to be
very careful when you do that. You allow spirits to
come into your home. And just just for from me
(45:58):
from a personal experience, you know, I'll just put it
out there. My Leela, my best friends, we will talk
about certain things and then I didn't realize in my
foolishness and my going back. You allow things to come
in and will attach to your children. And you know,
(46:23):
even though we got through that, but you have to
be because it's not.
Speaker 1 (46:28):
Just about you. It's about your children.
Speaker 3 (46:32):
And even though they see you and be like, okay,
well you're doing something different at that time, the devil
is a crackhead.
Speaker 1 (46:38):
All he need is a.
Speaker 3 (46:39):
Crack and if he needs if that's that opportunity to
come in through through your children, through your your disobedience.
You're back and forth in and out of the in
and out of church. That's another way that he can
come in, not just for you because he got you.
But now, okay, since you back and forth. Okay, let
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me attach something to your child.
Speaker 1 (47:02):
And as a possibility, your child will never come back
and you just live in safe, sanctified and filled with
the holy ghosts. But they done seen all that you did,
and it's gonna take a miracle. It's gonna take a
miracle for them to say, well you, you said you
were saved back then. So it brings confusion, especially when
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they're young. Oh God, the devil is real, but we
don't realize it. We think he's just a Amen.
Speaker 4 (47:33):
All right, eight, a king that sitteth in the throne
of judgment, scattereth away all evil with his eyes.
Speaker 1 (47:43):
Okay. This emphasized the importance of leaders. Like I said,
we don't have kings, but we do have leaders being
able to maintain justice fairness within their own territory. Amen,
not only discern, but also not afraid to address, yes
and correct the wrong Sometimes we can see it, but
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we don't know how to attack it in a way
where we can get something done.
Speaker 2 (48:15):
Amen, we don't know.
Speaker 1 (48:16):
How to correct it, but we have to be able
to correct the wrongness. It may hurt, like when we
say when we whip our children, this hurts me. Worre
sitting and it hurts you. Some of us couldn't understand that.
But it's the fact the king has the authority to
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rid his kingdom. The leaders have the authority to rid
their kingdom of evil that may destroy its realm or
may destroy the flock. Sometimes you got to put somebody
out for the sake of the whole flock, and then
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you might get the backlash. He don't put me out
to church, but they don't understand why you out laying
cockertry's eggs and a lot of people are feeding it,
feed eating it. Y'all. People think being a leader is
it's just appreciations and it's just you're just sitting up
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on the throne. No, you got to deal with all
these spirits. You gotta deal with people that say they say,
but they're not producing. They're not they're their fruit is like, Okay,
this person's supposed to be an apple tree, but I'm
looking at these peaches where they peaches coming from for
big Amen. So it's not an easy job. So that
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takes prayer, it takes fasting, It takes those that or
with the preacher, with the preacher with the kingdom to
talk to him and let him know what's going on. Now,
some things you won't know, they won't know. We know, Elijah, Elisha, Elisha,
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He said the Lord kept this from me. He know
anythink about the bed baby being dead. It's not perfect.
But we if we work together and pray for the leaders.
That's what the scripture says, pray for the We may
not like him forty seven? Is he forty seven? Forty seven?
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We may not like him, But the script didn't say
whether we liked him or not, said whoever is in charge,
pray for him a man, So no sense of us saying,
but he doing this? And the script well, he didn't
tell us to do nothing but pray. You did your
part when you voted, and you didn't get your vote,
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your vote wasn't counted. But the next thing you do
is pray. Amen, because the justice is gonna suffer with
the unjust in this world. Praise God.
Speaker 2 (51:17):
All right?
Speaker 1 (51:18):
We almost finished nine.
Speaker 4 (51:23):
Who can say I have made my heart clean, I
am pure from my sin.
Speaker 1 (51:31):
This one was a hard one for me because it's
talking about perfection, and it's talking about you know, nobody.
People use this saying nobody's perfect. Who lives that life? Amen.
But I think about David when he said, Lord, creating
me a clean heart and renewing me a right spirit,
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that I might not sin against you. We can only
live that that we know. Don't worry about the stuff
you don't know. Live the life about living holy all
that you know, that's all he gonna get you for
is what you know? Hey man, when you go against
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that Fir Corinthians thirteen says, and we only know in part,
you know, he says, when I was a child, I
spoke as a child, I did that.
Speaker 2 (52:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (52:22):
But then in the tenth verse it says, but when
he that, when that, when that what he that which
is perfect is come. But when that which is perfect
is come, speaking of Jesus, then that which is per
in part shall be done away, Meaning when Jesus comes,
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we don't have nothing else to worry about. But right now,
living in this life, we like those ships. Every once
in a while, we gotta take some stuff off of us.
We're not talking about absolute perfection. Fostor used to explain
it well when when he said, somebody would ask you,
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do you have uh uh such, such, such and such
in your pocket, And they say, oh, no, I don't
think I do. I don't think I don't have it,
and he opens it. Oh, yes, I do, I have it.
You lied, you sinned. He's not talking about absolute perfection.
You gotta go, you gotta break it down like that
because some people go like, who can who can say
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I have made my heart clean? That means mean anyone
can say their heart is pure? Who can say I'm
free from sin? You're free from the sin that you
know of. But every day, every day we'll pull it
off and put it on. Wisdom is when you can
take it let it go. And that's not Bible. That's Walderson, heymen, Emberson, Yeah,
(53:57):
Walden that scripture.
Speaker 5 (54:01):
You know, she was talking about the it's hard for
a rich man to end into the eye of a needle,
and you know, the disciples like, well, you know how
you know, you know, basically, how is he going in
the end? You know, he got riches, but he said,
you know, it's impossible with men, but with God, all
things are possible.
Speaker 1 (54:21):
It's it's uh, it's easier for a camel to go
through the eye of a needle than a rich man
to heaven. Yeah, not the rich man going through the eye.
Speaker 6 (54:35):
Yo.
Speaker 1 (54:35):
Sorry, you had me confused. Sorry, that's okay, Like you said,
you're not perfect your saf that's a perfect example. He
just misquoted it. That's all right.
Speaker 5 (54:52):
But yeah, but I was trying to say, like he
that whole thing, like it's impossible with men, but with
God and how he does it, you know, the things
we go through, all of that is purified. And I
remember the Apostle say too, you can't perfect something that's
already perfect. You just grow into it, and you might
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be perfect right where you at at that moment. And
it's just like you say, a little more light. You know,
you walk in that light as you grow in truth.
You know, you held accountable to that. So when people
tried to just wipe it out saying you know, hey,
we all seeing everybody seeing, I'm like, no, you can
perfeit where you at at that moment, but as life
(55:36):
go on, you're gonna have to keep growing not saying
that you you know, like you said, absolute proficion because
people just try to, you know, put that out there
and feel like this, ain't nobody say, ain't nobody doing it? Nobody,
Ain't nobody doing nothing right? Nah, it's some people out
there that really living for the Lord. And they taking
it day by day.
Speaker 1 (55:53):
Perfect. Example, a baby when it's born, it is perfect.
It's perfect. It's got hands, don't know what to do
with it. God eyes can't really see goods, but lately
they open up their eyes and they look like they
can see you. They got a mouth, but they can't talk, feet, legs, everything,
but can't walk. But it's perfect. Amen, all right? Ten verse,
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and we.
Speaker 4 (56:20):
Threw divers weights and divers measures. Both of them are alike,
abomination to the Lord.
Speaker 1 (56:29):
Okay, we've had this before. The Lord hates for people
to use the wrong weights and measures to cheat others.
We've had this before. Those in business who cheat unfair
trade practices, which we are familiar with, the use of
scales to measure that are not calibrated correctly, cheating the consumer.
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Whatever we do, we should be fair. Gas stations used
to do that. They had their libration on their gas
tanks ahead, so so when you get your gas, instead
of it's starting at one sense, it's at five cents.
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That happened to me one time, and I said, wait
a minute, I just put the thing in there. It's
at five cents. I didn't prompt nothing. The calibration was off.
That's how you cheat people. And some of you all
you know, been out in the world and know you
(57:36):
know what we don't you wait and well, you know,
even waits and measure when you when you go to
the grocery store and they ray your of your meat,
especially your seafood, and it's frozen, are you accounting for
that frozen that ice you putting on there? I'll ask them.
(58:04):
Even when I used to buy the chitterlings, I said, okay,
there's a lot of water in that. Are you calibrating,
you know, giving me some leadweight because there's water and
you putting the water on the on the scale in
the bag. Sometimes you just have to ask because they
don't they're not gonna tell you. Right you say, you
got thirty three pounds, thirty pounds and you got twenty
(58:26):
five pounds cause you got five pounds of water, you
got five pounds of ice. Give me the ones that's
thought out, please right there. Give me the strip that
throwt out. You don't have to put the you know,
it makes a difference. So that's basically just just whatever
we do, be fair. If you're gonna car sell it fairly.
(58:50):
If there's something wrong with it, and you know it's
something wrong with it. Don't don't tell the people, don't
put certain stuff in the engine or in these little
fluid things, and and it looks okay for for for
a parent's sake, and then when you drive off and
use all that up, it's it's it's a mess, hey man.
(59:12):
That's the reason why they say don't let women go
in and and buy cars and stuff, because they try
to cheat them out. But they don't know. Some of
these women know more than what they know. And you're
gonna ask questions. They gonna look at you like, huh
what Praise God? Especially if we got daddies and brothers,
that's gonna tell you and show you. Or deacons, my
(59:35):
deacons son will tell me. Don't don't let them fool you.
Let me see that. Get the the oil you putting
in my my vehicle. Let me see you open it up,
because they will make like they opened it. Why I
don't have you more? Why I don't have an oil? Well,
I gave you the I gave you what you said
(59:55):
you wanted. Yeah, but you didn't watch them. It's a shame.
You gotta watch stuff. But that's the way that But
see the scripture say God hates it. He hates it.
Stand to your feet, Oh Saints of God. You just
don't know, got so much to pray for. And I said, God,
(01:00:17):
just take me through this. Those of you that are listening,
I hope you've gotten something out of this Bible study.
And those that are here, we hope you got something
out of this Bible study. You may not have understood
all of it, and you may not be adhering to
all of it, but now you've heard, and we've always
say at UHDT you can't unlearn what you learn. You
(01:00:40):
can't turn your back to what you already saw and heard. Amen.
So if there's anybody that needs prayered on tonight, want
to be saved, fell with the Holy Ghost, Maybe you
are saved and you want to be filled with the
Holy Ghost, or if just you need something from the Lord,
you need an extra extra hook. The time is now,
(01:01:01):
Praise God. If not, we just thinking, praise God for
those of you that are here. We're gonna say a
mass prayer to your Heavenly Father. We thank you for
the feet of those that are here on tonight. We
ask Lord that you bless them from the crowns of
their heads and the soul of their feets. Lord, meet
them right where there are. Whatever needs they need. You
meet those needs, show them who you are, show him,
(01:01:23):
show them your glory in the name of Jesus, and
we thank you for it. In Jesus name, we pray,
Amen and Amen.
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