Bible Study Proverbs 20:21-30

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You bless us as we delve into your word of God. Amen,
help us to just get gain strength and insight and
what you would have us to be. Now, let the
words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
be acceptable.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
In your sight.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Oh Lord, you are my strength and you are my redeemer.
You may be seeing the presence of the Lord.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Amen.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Amen, I appreciate God. I give honor to God.

Speaker 2 (00:26):
Tonight. I thank God for.

Speaker 1 (00:30):
Those that are here, thank God for our associated pastor,
thank God for just being here. Thank God for the
encouraging testimonies. Your testimony has truly, truly, truly encouraged me.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Amen.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
I just think in praise God, because you know, we
take a lot of things for granted, and we're living
in a day and time of uncertainty. And if our
were to sing a song, was would be the there's
a storm out or with the ocean and it's moving
this old way.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Amen.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
I took a few days off, didn't do very much,
just kind of reflect, meditated, and I was talking to
the person I was with and I told him I
didn't look at the news very much, and stuff started
popping up my phone on my watch, and then on

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her phone and on her watch. And I said, what, Lord,
have mercy bless us. We live in a dark day,
but He's already told us wars and rumors of wars

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when we left without an excuse.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
Amen.

Speaker 1 (01:54):
So we just thank God and praise God for everybody
that's here on tonight. Thank God, Gods that may be
listening and maybe listening. Praise God.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
Maybe listening, and.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
Thank God for the Book of Proverbs. Hey man, I
did get a little rest, I still stayed up half
the night, couldn't go to sleep, and wake up at
five o'clock, six o'clock in the morning. Said, we're trying
to act like teenagers. I just can't sleep right now.

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So whatever sleep I get a few minutes. The few
hours I get, it seems to be okay because I
can't take a nap during the day. If I do,
I've taken a nap around what six o'clock, eight o'clock,
then I'm still up half the night because you done
took a thirty minute, twenty minute hour.

Speaker 2 (02:59):
So you can't win for losing.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
However, I'm still here, Amen, And I praise God for
all his many and countless blessings he has bestowed upon
my soul. I think it praise God, because I was
listening to a preacher this weekend and it just blessed
my soul.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
It's not that I hadn't heard it before.

Speaker 1 (03:17):
But when you hear it from coming from somebody else,
it looked sounds a little bit different.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
And you know how we just.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Sing songs to edify and to encourage ourselves. We sing them,
we sing them. But he said we can't not only
sing them, we have to live through them. We got
to live them. So when he said he's pulling me
through or through it all, through it all, amen, you

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can think about different songs that pop up in your mind,
and that was the one that kept coming to my
mind through it all and pulling me through.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
He's pulling me through.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
I may be resistant, pulling back some, but he said,
you can do it.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
You can do it.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Praise God. He didn't leave you this far. He didn't
bring you this far to leave us. And I've come
too far to turn around.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
Amen. So let's get in.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
I've given you time to find your notes. We're gonna
be starting at the twentieth verse, but the twenty first verse,
but we want to get some feedback from eleven through
nineteen eleven through twenty eleven through twenty all right, I've

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given you all time. He should be up popping. She'd
have been at the mics already.

Speaker 2 (04:58):
Amen.

Speaker 3 (05:05):
Amen, So the note that I have from last week.
Our actions speak louder than our words, and you are
known by your actions. Don't close your eyes to what
you see or your ears to what you hear, and

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be cautious of when co signing.

Speaker 2 (05:29):
A dip for a stranger. It's a high risk, high risk.

Speaker 1 (05:34):
Amen, you're wise if you don't do that. Now, if
you have the money, you have it. You roll it
like that, and that's what you want to do. Hey,
but you do it at a high risk, especially if
you don't know it. You know, we've talked about co signing,
but the last time we talked about co signing was

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about somebody.

Speaker 2 (05:54):
You knew this.

Speaker 1 (05:55):
We're talking about a stranger, Praise God, somebody you don't
fully know.

Speaker 2 (06:00):
Anybody else if not okay?

Speaker 4 (06:13):
Verse eighteen say every purpose is established by counsel and
with good advice, make ward is just basically saying, don't
just go out half cocked. Make sure you're getting good advice.
Make sure that you're established with wise counsel. Don't just
ask anybody for advice because everybody don't have good advice,

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and everybody is not a good counsel. So make sure
you know who you're talking to. The advice that they
give you is good advice. And even when you get that,
the best counsel you can get is gonna be from God.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
Because somebody can tell you something good, but ask God
is that the right advice?

Speaker 4 (06:53):
Because like you were saying, a lot of stuff that's
going on right now, the wars and different things like that,
it's like it's a big thing because you just can't
make up your mind to go do something that's gonna
affect more than you. So make sure that it's established
with wise counsel.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Amen. That's what happens.

Speaker 1 (07:09):
Sometimes we don't We just think about how it affects us,
just me myself, and I don't know what We don't
realize how it affect other people.

Speaker 2 (07:20):
Amen. Amen, all right. Twenty one.

Speaker 5 (07:29):
An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning, but
the end thereof shall not be blessed.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
An inheritance, Remember prodigal.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
That's all I could say. If your wealth was easy
got to get it would not be worth much to you.
You notice how when people use your stuff, get your stuff,
not just use it, but get your stuff. They don't

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care how much toilet paper they pull off the row,
how much toothpaste, how long they let the water run
until they get their own. You go to their house,
cut those lights out. Why are you running that water?

Speaker 2 (08:30):
Why you grazing in my refrigerator?

Speaker 1 (08:34):
When I say grazing, they open up the door and
just be just be looking. Yeah, so we know what
Prodigal did. He said, give me what was mine. Actually
what he was asking for was really not is At
that time his daddy wasn't dead, his brother was still alive,

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so he really didn't have the right. But you know,
for peace sake, he got his stuff because you know,
parents know what's going on.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
He'll be back. I don't know when he's gonna be back,
but he'll be back.

Speaker 1 (09:07):
So he got it so quickly and hastily he didn't
know what to do it. What think about the people
that win these lotteries, get money just like that, get
a trust fund just like that, They just spend it
on any and everything. I remember my my one of
my relatives got a settlement and uh, my side of

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the family.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
We like seafood.

Speaker 1 (09:30):
And when she got when she would get her check,
she just load up on lobsters and crab legs and
just have herself. Not a sea ball, seafood boil, just
just seafood because that's.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
What she liked. But she was young, and you know
she get it.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
You know they had it fixed up where she got
it in increments when she was a certain age, and.

Speaker 2 (09:51):
Uh, that's what she did with it. She splurged it. Amen.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
So if you if you get your wealth easy, when
you get it to you know, it will not be
worth much to you because you think you you like kids,
think money grows on trees. Just write a check, But
you have to have money in the bank to write
a check. They don't understand that. Hey man, just write
a check. Mama, I can't write a check on what

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I don't have. Just go to the ATM and stick
your card in it.

Speaker 2 (10:25):
Use your use your card.

Speaker 6 (10:32):
Even if you have the money, if you're not replenishing.

Speaker 2 (10:34):
It, that part you don't think about that.

Speaker 6 (10:38):
Bro You steady deducted, you said abducted, and nothing is
coming in.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
Nothing's coming in.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
Someoneique called me and told me Addie is with her
in Austin, and she's telling everybody in the office that
her parents are rich because she has a piggy bank
at the house that's about halfway full, and their eyes.

Speaker 2 (11:03):
Oh, you got all the money in the world. But
when you.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
Add that up, it may be fifty dollars. So I
just had to share that.

Speaker 1 (11:13):
Yeah, my granddaughter, she got her first check and she
was telling me how much it was.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
She said, I'm rich. Now, I'm rich.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
I said, I'm gonna let you have your glory, cause
you're gonna find out you not. But I'm gonna let
you have that orna, let you have your space. I'm
not gonna say, oh, girl, that's nothing. When you start
paying bills and you got one bill to pay, Praise God,
you just got one bill to pay, just one. Amen,

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So all right, twenty two. Anybody else have a coment
twenty two.

Speaker 5 (11:53):
Say not thou, I will recompense evil, but wait on
the Lord and he shall save thee. Yes, that's what
I was working on that let you last week, but
I put it in the wrong spot and I kept
saying that's not sounding right. But easy Red says, don't

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ever say I'll pay them back.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
For what they did to me. Wait for the Lord.
He will make things right. Maybe not in our time right,
But whatsoever man soeth that shall he also read, that
shall he also reap?

Speaker 2 (12:37):
That shall he also reap.

Speaker 1 (12:39):
You may it not, may not be in your lifetime,
but it's not our business. And it's hard as for
us as humans to like want don't want to get back.
You want to get back at somebody. We want to
see them hurt just like they hurt us. This is
an advice taking. You can't take personal revenge. We have

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to wait on the Lord with patience and trust God's
timing and his justice. He said, vengeance is mine. Praise
God Hebrews ten and thirty. For we know him that
has said vengeance belongeth unto me. I will recompense, saith,

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the moderator.

Speaker 2 (13:27):
Says.

Speaker 1 (13:28):
The preacher, saith the Lord. And again the Lord shall
judge his people. We cannot recompense evil for evil. If
somebody do us wrong, we have to be sweet and
nice to him.

Speaker 2 (13:43):
And it's hard. Oh it's hard. It can be hard.

Speaker 1 (13:49):
But sometimes certain people it makes me feel like they
already know what they've done, and when you treat them
special and sweet they can't do anything but like cringe
because you're building heating holes of fires over their heads.

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They knew what they know what they did. And why
is she treating me so nice? Even in family situations
when when the children are acting off and you're just
real sweet to him and talking nice to him. Maybe
pick up something from the store from him. Ooh, it's
like mama, Mama's up to something. No, I love you unconditionally,

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but payday is coming after Awhile amen, time and chance
happening to us? All amen, Praise God?

Speaker 2 (14:45):
All right?

Speaker 5 (14:47):
Twenty three divers Weights are an abomination unto the Lord,
and a false balance is not good. We we re
He's you know, people just do people dirty and and
Solomon has to keep reminding. The Lord hates for people
to use wrong weights and cheat others. We don't like

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we said, we don't use weights anymore, and it's.

Speaker 1 (15:12):
Wrong to use scales that are not accurate. The calibrations
of all are off. The Lord hates people using the
wrong weights and measures to cheat others.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
The Lord hates when you your mouth is cheating others. Yeah,
come on, get up there.

Speaker 4 (15:38):
When you talk about the weights and the balances, it
makes me. Think about those the truck drivers when they
they go, they drive so far, then they got to
go through those ws and they actually try they figure
out different ways to try to make their weights seem
less than what they have because you're not supposed to
travel down those roads if you got a certain amount
of weight or whatever. And then like you say it

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in the stores when you're weighing stuff, I was weighing, uh,
some potatoes in the self checkout at the store a
couple of days ago, and it said the associated is
on the way when I put it on there, and
when she came, the potatoes were half way on her
and half way off. But I swear I didn't do
that like that, and that's why I didn't. But it

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looked like I was trying not to and it was
only two potatoes, and it looked like I was trying
to cheat the scale, but I didn't realize that it
wasn't sitting on there right, and that she came and
did it, and I have bananas, but I did so
she said I'm go ahead and do that for you too,
And so when she said that, I said, she think
I'm trying to actually.

Speaker 2 (16:38):
Uh, you know, make a mess. With the ways.

Speaker 1 (16:42):
Yeah, and it happens, and they ain't be messing with
the waves. Watch what they they put their hands on
the scale. It's a lot of time. They say, you
stand back. And I remember when no, like my family,
they love fruit. And when I had my family coming

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from New York came in and we went to grocery shopping.
They said we're gonna split up, and one of my
cousins said, I'm fruit.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
Detail.

Speaker 1 (17:12):
That was when everything wasn't bagged up. You can pick
what you wanted. And she and I went over there
and she was pulling the stems off the grapes and
stems off the crate the cherry.

Speaker 2 (17:23):
She said, they wait that ways, that has way to it,
I said, she said. She said, I'm not paying for
what I'm not gonna eat. I'm not gonna eat that.

Speaker 1 (17:35):
So she spent her time just get them all off
the stem and then before she waited them.

Speaker 2 (17:41):
Amen. Yes.

Speaker 6 (17:45):
The picture that I came in my mind when we
because we talked about it in verse ten was I
don't know if you guys remember the movie The Karate Kid,
the second one when he went back to Korea wherever
Mioggi was from, and you know how the guy he

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was fighting against, they was kind of like the power
people in that area.

Speaker 2 (18:10):
And he had his kids and Daniel.

Speaker 6 (18:15):
He was walking through the marketplace and they was faking
they had fake weights because when he went in, it
fell and he was feeling it. Daniel was feeling like
this feels funny. And then he just broke the weight
and all the people, you know, they start talking in
their language because they were like cheat, cheat, cheek, So

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they was manipulating the waights to make it seem like
it was more and it was basically some get some
type of plastic or whatever because he just broke it.
But if it was a weight weight, you wouldn't be
able to break it.

Speaker 1 (18:51):
So as many times as we've heard Solomon say this,
there must have.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
Been an issue. It had to be an issue.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
Heymen, Like we said, we revisal, we're visiting verse ten,
and then we had it in the earlier chapters.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
You know those in business.

Speaker 1 (19:06):
Who cheat, yes, and the unfair trade practices, which makes it,
oh my goodness, when I don't know how they do this.
I don't know how they do this. So I'm just saying,
because I know when you get a bag of chips.
You think your chips are supposed to be the full

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sixteen ounces and in its air and half of it's
even some of the products that we buy that are
canned or sprayed, they're not to the top. Have you
ever looked at you inside your fabrics off in a
bottle and and somebody somebody did the spray kit the

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spray spray cans and put their flashlight behind them and
instead of it's it's half full.

Speaker 6 (20:01):
When you said that, I about I sprayed for breeze
in my classroom.

Speaker 2 (20:05):
So I bought a double uh, a double.

Speaker 6 (20:08):
Thing and it was the downy one and I gave
it to my partner teacher and she she I gave
it to and she was like, missus Rogers. She said,
I know you got a whole bunch. Why you give
me the one that you uh.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
The last one?

Speaker 6 (20:21):
Like, you know, why you're giving me a one that
you already used? I said, I just opened that package.
She said, miss Rogers, this said. When I held it
up to the light, I said, you got That was
the first time I had ever seen it. I said,
you got to be It was literally not even half
in the bottle.

Speaker 1 (20:40):
I was like wow, And we're fighting against a big conglomerate.
We what can we do? You all know, I mean
I was born in the fifties.

Speaker 2 (20:54):
Yeah, make you own.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
We're gonna have to be like the pioneer woman. Hey man,
that there's something things we can make our own.

Speaker 2 (21:01):
Phrase.

Speaker 1 (21:01):
God, I forgot what I was getting ready to say. Oh,
I was born in the fifties and candy bars were
like ten cents, five cents, ten cents. Now they had
dollar two dollars and something and smaller. The cereal boxes

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are smaller. And I told you all about the crackers,
and they I guess they forgot that.

Speaker 2 (21:35):
The packaging.

Speaker 1 (21:36):
I guess they didn't want to waste money making new packaging.

Speaker 2 (21:39):
And so I know.

Speaker 1 (21:40):
Apostle went to open up one and he had to
open it, open it, wrap.

Speaker 2 (21:44):
It was wrapped maybe four times.

Speaker 1 (21:47):
Then you get to the crackers and they that little,
the boxes a little how many's ever?

Speaker 2 (21:59):
He like?

Speaker 1 (22:00):
He liked the honey buns. Honey, you don't Apostle have
big hands. The honey vines was big as big as
his hand. Now you can put two of those honey
buns in his hand. I asked you to get the
big ones, I said, this the big ones. Yes, So
you know, Solomon had something going because he was saying,

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you know, but whatever we do, yeah, in word or deed,
we need to be fair, honest and have integrity.

Speaker 2 (22:34):
Heymen, some things we're gonna we just we just have
to if we don't make it ourselves. Were just at.

Speaker 1 (22:40):
The mercy of the court, mercy of the land.

Speaker 2 (22:46):
Just pray that the Lord.

Speaker 1 (22:47):
Bless us to let it last, let it stretch.

Speaker 2 (22:52):
Amen.

Speaker 1 (22:53):
I thought about my mom when you know, we we
we we had to have it of saying that we
were rich. And I was talking about how my mom
made this meal and it was so good, and I said,
how did you make Why did you make it like that?
She said, I was trying to make it with six
of us at that time. I was trying to make
it stretch. That's what they say, they trying to make

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it stretch.

Speaker 2 (23:17):
So all right. Twenty four.

Speaker 5 (23:23):
Man's goings are of the Lord. How can a man
then understand his own way? The Lord goides our step,
and we never know where it will lead us sometimes
Psalms one, nineteen one oh five. The word of Thy

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word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light
into my path.

Speaker 2 (23:48):
The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord.

Speaker 1 (23:53):
That's Psalms thirty seven and twenty three, And he delighted
in his way. Sometimes we don't know what direction the
Lord is trying to take us, because to us, my
thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways. My ways,
as high as they have it is from. So sometimes
were trying to figure it out, but we can't. Why

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these certain things happen. We don't know because man's going
are the lords? And how can a man understand his
own way? Sometimes we don't understand what we're doing. Why
are we doing it?

Speaker 2 (24:31):
Why am I going this way? Why?

Speaker 1 (24:35):
Why did what my car usually I usually go this way?
Why did I decide to decide that? You have decided
to do that. God decided it so you would would
not get in that accident. When we were traveling, we
got held up and we had just got on the road,
and like I said, we got held up a little bit.

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And right when we were getting ready to asked this truck,
this eighteen wheeler, we heard the sound. I just jumped
it sound like somebody shot somebody. But his tire blew out,
And if we had he been closer to him to it.
I don't know it was a hem or her that
was driving, you know. We and then the guy really

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did a good job and kind of navigating it. But
sometimes it's collateral damage from the rubber right that pops off.
We weren't on that side, but it's it. I mean,
he's a little bit, but thank God. And we had
just prayed give a safe passage for danger scene and
unseen Praise God.

Speaker 2 (25:39):
Amen.

Speaker 1 (25:40):
So the Lord is the one that guides our steps,
even though we don't know something half the time what
we're doing.

Speaker 2 (25:48):
It's him, amen.

Speaker 1 (25:50):
Or as hot as the heavens are higher than the earth,
so are my ways higher than your ways, and my
thoughts your thoughts, Amen.

Speaker 2 (26:02):
Twenty five.

Speaker 5 (26:05):
It is a snare to the man who devoureth that
which is holy, and after vows to make inquiry, think.

Speaker 1 (26:13):
Carefully before you promise or give something to God. Later
you might wish you had not made that promise. Revisit Jeapith.
Don't make no rash vows.

Speaker 2 (26:31):
Amen. We talked about this before.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
When thou shallt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God,
thou shalt not slack to pay it, For the Lord
thy God will surely require it of THEE and if
it would be a sin in THEE.

Speaker 2 (26:47):
If you don't do it, it's gonna be a sin.

Speaker 1 (26:50):
He's advising against making rash vows. Being impulsive sometimes when
we're going through things we're in Paul, if we say
things impulsively, that's why.

Speaker 2 (27:03):
We got to go back to being slow.

Speaker 1 (27:06):
Being slow, amen, slow to here, I mean slow to speak.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
Amen. We have to think.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
Carefully before we make decisions. Come on, come on up there,
come on, come on, give it to us.

Speaker 4 (27:39):
Well, I'm just gonna tell her myself. I said, well,
I'm not gonna drink no soda this week. I said
that Sunday. Mama sent me to the store Monday morning.

Speaker 3 (27:47):
I walked in.

Speaker 4 (27:48):
They said right there and kept Big Red two ninety
nine for a six packet. The sixteen ice bottles got
me a So I got the Big Red and uh
Nita to say, I don't have one every day, and
I was I was standing over the sink of washing dishes.
I was like, now, you're gonna have to do better
than this. And I know there wasn't nobody but the devil,

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because he said, promise God, you ain't gonna do it.

Speaker 2 (28:13):
And then you won't drink it.

Speaker 4 (28:14):
I'm looking like I didn't even make it a day,
so I ain't I'm not even fin this.

Speaker 2 (28:19):
Right here at earth.

Speaker 4 (28:20):
Don't be rash to make a vow. You're like, well,
cause you're gonna be real conscious of it. Then I'm like, no,
I'm gonna do this on my own. I ain't fit
the promise God, nothing like that gonna look. I ain't
fit a doe over no big red.

Speaker 2 (28:33):
And that's that's serious.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
Some people don't really realize the little things that we say.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
Right, I'm not gonna do that anymore.

Speaker 1 (28:43):
Because you're in trouble right now, But once trouble is
over and and and everything's unpassed, you forgot that. You said, Mama,
I'm not gonna do that anymore, but you start, you
do it again.

Speaker 2 (28:56):
Amen. So he's advising us to.

Speaker 1 (29:00):
Not make rash viows and and stop being impulsive and
and and then you can't commit when you're impulsive.

Speaker 2 (29:09):
I thought about Apostle, what.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
He told the preacher, the preacher how much he was
gonna give him, and when uh the Moors did the
the uh the flashback of what the history they said,
he didn't have it and neither did we. And it
was the truth. So but he was like, if we

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don't have it, he don't have it. The Lord is
gonna make away. And the Lord didn't make away. He
brought it down. Ay man, But don't be making no
rise of decisions or no rash impulsive decision on something
I don't have.

Speaker 2 (29:50):
And you don't have it either. But that's what you
call faith. Amen.

Speaker 1 (29:57):
Like I said, revisit jepards. The Lord didn't. He didn't
approve of sacrificing. But because of the area that they
lived in, and they.

Speaker 2 (30:05):
Picked up on that.

Speaker 1 (30:06):
Lord, whatever comes out the first thing that comes out
of my door, I will sacrifice it to you.

Speaker 2 (30:14):
He locked it down and he had to do it.
Praise God. Amen. He didn't consider that, you know not.

Speaker 1 (30:23):
The sheep didn't come out the first thing, but the
daughter came out beating that tambourine. You can't sacrifice the tambourine.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
Praise God. Twenty six.

Speaker 5 (30:37):
A wise king scattered the wicked and bring it the
will over them, like a farmer who separates we from
the chaff. A wise king with decide who is wrong
and crushed them. It's just giving you the idea of
the authority a king has or a leader has. When

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I was doing my it was seeing the wheel refers
to the threshing wheel, and the chaff is the worthless
part of the grain. And when they they're they're going
through the threshing wheel or they use the the yeah,
they throw it up and let the wind blow the
chaff away.

Speaker 2 (31:17):
Amen. So he's just.

Speaker 1 (31:19):
Telling you that the the authority that a king has,
the king or the leader should be the one who
separate the chaff from the wheat with the.

Speaker 2 (31:28):
Help of trusted counselors. Amen.

Speaker 1 (31:31):
A wise leader will desern and expose those who are
wicked or out of order. The leader slash king must
be just in fair And this is this, this this
scripture is really important in today's time. And I've said
it before, but I'm gonna say it again. Sometimes people

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feel like a leader and a king has it easy,
but they don't because they have to make some decisions
and when somebody is wrong, depending on the severity of
the wrongness, they may have to make an example so
that others will fear a man and he can't hold back.

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I've been listening and seeing so many testimonies of people
in the church doing some doggish stuff, and the preacher knows, and.

Speaker 2 (32:34):
We've had the scripture before.

Speaker 1 (32:36):
If somebody don't cover it up, we can't cover it
up because if we cover it up, that person is
subject to do something else to somebody else. And see
a lot of this stuff is coming out now, but
it's been happening. And for sake of my friend, my relative,

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the shoe fits.

Speaker 2 (33:03):
And we have to do that that we have to keep. Now.

Speaker 1 (33:07):
The scripture says that the wheat and the tear grow
up together. That's outside, that's the world. But in the
church we have his permission. You can come to a
church all you want, but if your life is wrong
and you're pedophile, I can't put.

Speaker 2 (33:25):
You over the kids, over the children's ministry. And it's
not being.

Speaker 1 (33:35):
Actually, we could get in trouble. You did First of all,
you did it to yourself. I'm just giving an example.
You did it to yourself, and the law says you
cannot be around children. So why would I go against
the law because you saved saint to fight in field.

Speaker 2 (33:54):
With the Holy ghost? For real?

Speaker 1 (33:58):
For real, there's a lot of people professing and still
messing around, and we as when I when I said leaders,
but also trusted counselors.

Speaker 2 (34:11):
See a lot of people, don't. We got that that.

Speaker 1 (34:13):
Thing in us where we don't want to be a snitch,
We don't want to tell on anybody.

Speaker 2 (34:21):
And then you get mad.

Speaker 1 (34:22):
At the leaders because they don't say nothing.

Speaker 2 (34:27):
And you know, you're.

Speaker 1 (34:32):
Supposed to be one of his trusted counselors, the doorkeeper
of the house of God.

Speaker 2 (34:41):
Usher have that right?

Speaker 1 (34:42):
You hear people talking and saying stuff that they're doing,
and and wait a minute, aren't you over the children's ministry.
You just happen to see stuff on they phone. You're
not trying to see it, but you see it. And
sometimes what they say and how they talk and talking
under kids clothes.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
I've seen it happen.

Speaker 1 (35:09):
I know one time I was at the other church
and and and one of my girls you know, they know,
and they start feeling out and stuff. And one of
them had one of them you know how they say,
the coat bottle. She had a cold bottle shape. And
this brother said something about with the way she was looking.
I looked at him, I said, why are you talking
like about her?

Speaker 2 (35:30):
Like that? To me? I'm the mom. Well, I'm just saying, no,
you keep that to yourself.

Speaker 1 (35:38):
You shouldn't even said that, because the scripture says, if
it is in your mind, you think about it, you've
seenn already.

Speaker 2 (35:51):
Man.

Speaker 1 (35:51):
So brother, I need to, you need to. I need
to pray for you. Stay away from my child.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
Please. You gonna catch hands.

Speaker 1 (36:01):
That's the kids saying you're gonna catch You're gonna catch hands.
The dad's catch these hands. You're gonna catch somebody who
wasn't gonna catch. I wasn't gonna do it, So I
didn't say catch hands. I'm saying catch hands, not me.
Don't let her daddy hear hear about it.

Speaker 2 (36:20):
Or or have the spirit of Ceci.

Speaker 1 (36:22):
The Lord said he'll forgive you for anything, but you
forget about that willful sin.

Speaker 2 (36:29):
Raise God.

Speaker 1 (36:30):
Cec was one that just she ready to fight in
a minute, bless her Lord Jesus.

Speaker 2 (36:35):
All right, twenty, let me go ahead.

Speaker 6 (36:42):
I had something to say about that too as well.
It's sometimes it's not always people being a snitch, but
when they have hitting iniquities in them, sometimes they don't
want to bring out in other people because sometimes things
will come back.

Speaker 2 (37:00):
Then they stuff get uncovered.

Speaker 6 (37:02):
Yeah, so a lot of people covered other people saying
so their's won't come uncovered.

Speaker 2 (37:08):
Yeah, you're right. We ran into that.

Speaker 1 (37:09):
Even that he here we read Oh Lord have mercy.
Everything started coming out, and I made the statement of
integrity means you're gonna do right, whether I'm in your
presence or not. And if you are testifying that you
saved and this other person is just coming to church,

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why are you trying to immolate what they do? You
should be the one be an example. And they looking
at me like.

Speaker 2 (37:37):
I'm being mean. No, I'm not being mean.

Speaker 1 (37:41):
You said you would say, they're not professing, but they're
gonna if they want to do certain things, they need
to add here.

Speaker 2 (37:51):
And if they don't want to add here.

Speaker 1 (37:52):
And then some some folks add stuff going on under
the cover, and we still didn't find out until after
the fact. But who who gets blamed leadership? Because you
should have known? Amen, Praise God. You think the church

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is bad? You know when nowadays, young folks, be sure
your sins will find you out.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
There's nothing hidden.

Speaker 1 (38:23):
All that stuff you posted on Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram and
all these other platforms, it doesn't die. And you say, well,
I come to church, and y'ah, we got all of
these rules and stuff. Okay, when you go to a job,

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you represent them. If they have any you have anything
derogatory on your social media platforms, you're not eligible for them.
And in Texas, they don't have to hire you, and
they don't have to tell you why. And if they
do tell you why, they might not like your brown shoes.
I remember that in business law. He said you might
have a brown shoes and we like black and that's

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the reason why we can't use you. And you can't
do anything about it. Amen, So we gotta be careful.

Speaker 2 (39:17):
Amen. We we as leaders.

Speaker 1 (39:20):
And when I say select kings slash leaders, because we
don't have kings, but we have leaders. Leaders doesn't mean
the preacher, the pastor those that are over auxiliaries and
they know something, they see something, they don't check it.

Speaker 2 (39:36):
We have to check it.

Speaker 1 (39:37):
We can't be like the world and let things pass
by because people start looking at leadership. You mean they
let they let that go on. That's what they say.
Even when we first started the church and people on
the outside didn't know what was going on, and they
would see different people coming in the church and they

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they just assumed they were members of the church. And
it was saying they let them do that, they let
them come to church like that. They didn't do nothing.
They're a visitor and if you would stay in your
own lane, you wouldn't know they were a visitor. And
since you don't go here, it's not your business.

Speaker 2 (40:20):
Amen.

Speaker 1 (40:21):
So leadership has to suffer a whole lot because we
won't do what we supposed to do.

Speaker 2 (40:26):
Amen.

Speaker 1 (40:26):
We just overlooked and expect the preacher to do everything. Now,
I'm not saying when somebody come to church and they
not dressed properly, you gonna throw something over them them.
Don't do it because you will. And yeah, praise God.

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And it's all right to you know, tell somebody you
know is to reverence the house of God, can you
please remove your hat?

Speaker 2 (41:00):
You know?

Speaker 1 (41:00):
If they don't do it, hey, but you can be
nice and it's oh, I'm sorry they because.

Speaker 2 (41:04):
They don't know.

Speaker 1 (41:07):
Some people don't know because they've gone we've gone so
far to the left. People don't know how to dress
when they come to church, and nowadays they are doing
whatever they want to do. Ain't nobody saying nothing. Praise God, Amen,
But thank God for a hold of thisess. Praise God.

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Uh twenty seven, let's finish.

Speaker 5 (41:35):
The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord,
searching all the inward parts of the building.

Speaker 1 (41:42):
Your spirit is like a lamp into the Lord. He
is able to see into your deepest parts. There's nothing
hidden that the Lord can't see.

Speaker 2 (41:51):
You're in a person. Your spirit reveals who you truly are.

Speaker 1 (41:56):
I don't care what you say, how you talk, it's
gonna come out. He's able to see into your deepest parts.

Speaker 2 (42:06):
You're in a part.

Speaker 1 (42:07):
Our spirit is like a light, and the Lord knows
our light. Hey man, there's nothing hidden from him. Twenty eight.

Speaker 5 (42:19):
Mercy and truth preserve the king, and his throne is
upholden by mercy.

Speaker 1 (42:25):
The king who is loyal and true will keep his power.
Loyalty will keep his kingdom strong. A king or leader's
success is determined by their loyalty and their faithfulness, their
integrity and compassion for the people. In turn, the people
will show their love. They will support and defend. Aymen,

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you can say you love me all you want to,
but I need somebody to defend. Don't let people just
be talking about your leader, talking about your leader, and
you know what they're saying is not true, but you
still listen, you shut it down. Shut it down. You

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got even your boss. You know your boss is nice
to you, He.

Speaker 2 (43:15):
Does things for you.

Speaker 1 (43:15):
If you don't know anything else about anybody, well how
he treated somebody else.

Speaker 2 (43:20):
Leave it alone, you walking in other men's affairs. Amen.

Speaker 1 (43:26):
So if you have somebody that is thoughtful and determined
to make sure you make it to heaven, support him,
back them up.

Speaker 2 (43:36):
Amen, all right? Twenty nine.

Speaker 5 (43:43):
The glory of young men is their strength, and the
beauty of old men is the gray head.

Speaker 2 (43:49):
Don't nobody want to be gray head anymore.

Speaker 1 (43:52):
We admire a young men for this strength, but we
respect the old man for his gray hair, because gray
hair represents wisdom.

Speaker 2 (44:02):
This acknowledges that young men.

Speaker 1 (44:04):
Are strong and full of vitality, possessing lots of energy
and agility, and the oldest wise full of insight, endowed
with experience. Both can coexist together, Amen, respect each other.
Both have their excellencies and usefulness.

Speaker 2 (44:25):
They all have. We all have our part. Amen.

Speaker 1 (44:29):
I thought about the when Apostle used to say, you
put an old I believe back in the day they
might may have had two young mules together.

Speaker 2 (44:39):
This and all this ain't gonna work. It's not gonna work.

Speaker 1 (44:42):
So you put an old and a young one together,
because the farmer learned never to put two mules together
that on the same page. They both gonna get their
heads knocked off because they see that green grass and that,
but they don't they see the grass, but they don't
see the bob wire fence. But that old one he

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can lean on that young one. Now we're not going
there and then and the old one can can show
him how to work better with the work. Work, work, uh,
smarter and not harder. While you just jumping around and jumping,
you're gonna be tired at the end of the day.

Speaker 2 (45:27):
I think about even us.

Speaker 1 (45:29):
We make so many trips back and forth from one
room to the other, when we could have gathered up
everything we needed and made one trip. Do Okay, we
get we're getting our steps in. We're not out in
the element, so we're getting our steps. We're gonna use

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that as an excuse. But in time passed before we
were getting our steps in. We we we wasted time.
We we we went back and forth to many times
when we could have gathered everything together.

Speaker 2 (46:02):
Why didn't you just one piece of clothes?

Speaker 1 (46:07):
Oh, here's two more, gather up all your clothes before
you bring into the laundry room. Hey man, all right, oh,
praise God. Thirty This is the last one.

Speaker 5 (46:23):
The blueness of a wound cleanseth away evil, So do
stripes the inward parts of the belly.

Speaker 2 (46:31):
All right, My nurses might be able to help me
on this.

Speaker 1 (46:35):
A beating can remove evil and make you completely clean.
Solomon is using imagery of physical pain to illustrate how
we can be effective negatively or positively. Discipline is a
good thing. It couldn't be a good thing. It can
lead to positive changes. The trials and difficulties experienced in life.

Speaker 2 (46:59):
Can lead to personal growth. We may not want to want.

Speaker 1 (47:05):
To feel it, but that's what it does. Amen, And
we talk about when a wound is a certain color,
it's either uh infected or it's moving towards healing. Amen,

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help me out, nurse. That's right, that's right, that's all
I I I.

Speaker 2 (47:34):
I mean, hey, Uh.

Speaker 1 (47:36):
Pressure can either burst pipes or pressure can make diamonds.

Speaker 2 (47:45):
Mhm.

Speaker 1 (47:47):
In order to get a good diamond, you get gotta
be under pressure. That's a good thing. But if you
hold on to too much, you can bust some pipes.
Some of us have experienced that in the cold winters
when it's not that the pipes, the pipes may be
a little bit weak. But when you get that ice

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in there and ice expands, it's gonna find any weak spot.
And when it melts, you gotta you gotta miss. So
through this, through it all, we learn to trust in Jesus,

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and we learned to trust in God. And we are completed.

Speaker 2 (48:34):
We have completed Proverbs twenty. Amen.

Speaker 1 (48:40):
I have enjoyed you all. I said that some of
the scriptures we were just gonna just but we went
through all of them because sometimes we need that reminder.
And then even when we were reminded of certain things,
we added more to it.

Speaker 2 (48:56):
Amen.

Speaker 1 (48:56):
So I thank God for Proverbs, and I hope that
you've gotten something out of it. I hope those that
are listening got something out of it. You know, some
of it was a little comical, but you know, hey,
Solomon was kind of comical in certain things, so if
he can be comical, we can be comical too.

Speaker 2 (49:14):
But take all things and stride.

Speaker 1 (49:20):
It's it's it's amazing how we can make this appliable
to our lives now. And sometimes we look at the
word of God, and we think it's old fogy. Oh no,
it's it's it's it. It would work today. And we
know about this cheating and stuff.

Speaker 2 (49:36):
It's it's it was.

Speaker 1 (49:37):
They were cheating back then, but they cheating us now.
Hey man, So we have All we can do is
be wearing pray or make our own make our own soap,
make our own detergent, make our own cereal. We don't
have to use red dye, make our own skittles, make

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our own pops.

Speaker 2 (50:02):
Using our own using fresh ingredients. Amen. Every where there
is a will, there is a way.

Speaker 1 (50:10):
And you know what, if we don't learn some of
this stuff, some of us is gonna be left and
we're gonna be left with the red dye because we
don't know what to do. And I just appreciate Apostle
because I used to say back, I said, you know what,
if something should happen, we wouldn't have any problems because
he knew how to he knew how to farm. I'm

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glad I picked up some things. I haven't picked up
all things, but now I have to google things because
my tomatoes are gone.

Speaker 2 (50:41):
They but it was too hot, not too hot.

Speaker 1 (50:45):
But when I had them in the container kept filling
up with water, so they got water logged. So I
should have instead of putting them in a container, I
should have put him in the ground, you know. But
I didn't. I learned, But my peach tree, I'm learning.
I'm learning with the peaches that you know. I need
to clothe some of them off while they're real little.
Because if you got twelve on one vine, it's not

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a vine limb. You get twelve on one limb, and
when they get big, your fast tree is.

Speaker 2 (51:20):
Pam's fast tree.

Speaker 1 (51:21):
The limbs are on the ground because you got too
many peaches on there. And I'm trying, and Cousin was
out there helping you. I got one, here's another one,
here's another one. But they little bitty they waited.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
Amen.

Speaker 1 (51:35):
So I just think in praise God for the concepts
that King Solomon is trying to convey to us. And
I just appreciate you all for your input, and we'll
be ready for the Lord say the same. We'll be
ready to start chapter twenty one.

Speaker 2 (51:51):
Amen.

Speaker 1 (51:51):
Let's stand to our feet, Praise God. Anybody here needs
something from the Lord, Praise God. We have people that
are out We need you to continue to pray for
those that are sick and shut in. Oh, it's just
a lot going on. And I thank God for the encouragement.
I thank God for the testimonies. I thank God for

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when you all say, especially since the more she'll say,
this house is a house of refuge.

Speaker 2 (52:21):
You know.

Speaker 1 (52:21):
And it just it don't take a whole lot. We
just need to use what we have. Amen, and I appreciate.
I appreciate you to the highest.

Speaker 2 (52:30):
Amen.

Speaker 1 (52:31):
Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you for
those that are here, for the feet of those that
are here. We ask you, Lord to just bless them
from the crowns of their heads to the soles of
their feet. Meet them right where they are. Whatever they need, Lord,
I need. We want you to bless them, Oh God,
and give them strength in their bodies whatever is ailing them.
Lord Jesus, give them insight on what to do and

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how to do. And we want to thank you in advance,
Lord Jesus for what you're going to do. And Jesus
his name, we pray, Amen and Amen mm hm