Wednesday Night Bible Study Proverbs 14

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
E more determined in my home.

Speaker 2 (00:05):
Oh, thank you, Jesus, thank you.

Speaker 1 (00:10):
I thank you, Jesus, thank you. I thank you Jesus.
Thank you.

Speaker 3 (00:16):
In my heart.

Speaker 2 (00:19):
Oh thank you, Jesus, thank you, thank you, Jesus, thank you.

Speaker 1 (00:27):
Thank you, Jesus. Thank you. In my home. Hallylujah, We
thank you Jesus. That's what I've been hearing through the
testimony service, thanking God for all that he has done. Mamen,
you may be seated in the presence of the Lord
thinking praise God for my life, my health, and my strength.
I thank and praise God for how he came into

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my life, how he saved me, sanctified me, and filled
me with his holy ghost. I thank Him for all
his many and countless blessings He's bestored upon my soul
and in my life. And I do ask the prayers
of the saints to pray my strength in the Lord. Amen.
Let's get some takebacks from chapter thirteen. Amen. We're in

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a book of Proverbs, and.

Speaker 4 (02:15):
And oh yeah, that.

Speaker 1 (02:23):
Was about the rod will not die beat him and
he shall not die anybody else before we move on.

Speaker 5 (02:34):
Yes, sir.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
M h M, Yes.

Speaker 1 (03:38):
Yes, Amen, that was good. That was good. Amen.

Speaker 6 (03:45):
I know, oh, come on su pam h.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
We talked about well, God imperial edged by vanity, shall finish,
but he to gather as by labor and shelby condition
that we are ambassadors for Christ, so we must show
forth our life ambassador. I wrote, A person said participants

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as still representative sometimes to a foreign country, that a
person I've attackted other that a repeating. That's about all
I can to add. I do have that sus mention,
that correction in a timele and manner correct and the

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time I remember when we were talking about that last week.
I didn't say anything because she moved on. But I
thought about my grandmother, and my grandmother had a way
when she didn't discipline you, then you still knew what
you would be a discipline. We had done something that
she wasn't pleased with once and she told us, I'm

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gonna remember. So her mother said, Nannie over to their
momma Fama, and she called and sent over to hear it.

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Doddie not there.

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She said, you're gonna told you I was gonna get you.
She said, in here, not round arm bilt that was
passed on house came down, keep crying, and she said.

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Mom said coping winning. So you, I asked us, did
she get you?

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And she seen you?

Speaker 1 (05:46):
So I went in.

Speaker 4 (05:47):
It was someone time to fill up take and she
got me. We knew what it was for. But that
was just to their instances when you can't be reminded her.

Speaker 1 (06:07):
Amen. And basically when I was saying discipline in the
timely manner, young, if I got told kai, I was
mainly referring to them because they're like, okay, if I
got told, kay is and I'm gonna get you. And
I wait. Two days later he's looking at me like,
for what what did I do?

Speaker 3 (06:28):
You know?

Speaker 1 (06:28):
But when you of an age that you can understand,
enjoyed that, Amen, Remember you will remember Amen. I enjoyed that. Amen.
We're still contrasting wisdom and foolishness. We did that in
the thirteenth Sister Pam said that four We're gonna do

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that in the fourteenth. And I was thinking about what
Sister Pam said that not to be redundant, and that's
exactly what Solomon is doing. He's redundant. He's like I said,
when he teaches, and he in the same way Proverbs.
He's not saying everything in the same way, but it's

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gonna mean the same thing. So some things we may
skip over and I'll remind you that we've had that
before and add something else to it. It's her house,
but start with chapter fourteenth. It's every wise woman builds
her house, but the foolish plucket is down with her hands.
And I had two thoughts on this. When you first

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read it, you think of and he talks about wisdom
in the house. But if we go back to the
beginning when he talks about wisdom and styles her as
a she, wisdom every wise person. So if you say
a one house makes the home strong, not necessary to

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see if you say a woman and not a wife,
there's a difference between a woman and a wife. Amen.
So when I was studying, I was saying, okay, that
does makes her home strong, But it says every wise woman.
But then you can see your house will be destroyed.
Does that make sense? Amen? The easy read says, well, no,

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that I didn't even do the easy read on that
man not a wife, was personified in the beginning. Again,
wisdom makes her home strong. Wisdom she makes her home strong.
But without she, without her, will destroy these Amen. So

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that in other words, he can make his house strong.
If he can be a bachelor. Amen, she can be single,
and she he that walked, use wisdom in her home. Amen.
But he that is perverse in his ways despise him.

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And easy read says, Ah, he that, But either he
that walketh uprightly fears the Lord vises him walketh the
way we act. Walketh means your character, not walking with

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your two feet is your we're talking about. Say that again.
He that walketh in uprightness, he feareth the Lord. The
beginning of wisdom is to fear the Lord. But he
that is perverse in his ways, he despised. He's not
gonna do what the Lord says. They bring punished. Three.

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When food in the mouth of the foolish is a
rod of pride, but the lips of the wise shall perverse,
perverse them. Amen. Now easier, he says, when food's boasts,
they re talked about that selves. But the words of
the wise people keep that. It starts talking too much,
and that mouth gets them in trouble. Amen, anybody won't

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say anything about that. Praise God, for we're gonna get
through this. Where no oxen are The crib is clean,
but much increase is by the strength of the ox.
And another thing I want to interject to is that
we have to be reminded that Solomon, in all his

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greatness and all his wisdom, is making observations because some
of these things can happen, but that's not necessarily happened.
We go back to raise up a child and the
way it should go, and it will not depart. That's
just a proverb. He's noticed that in some instances, a

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child that's brought and raised up in the fear of
God has a tendency to when he grows up, to
continue to fear God. But we know that we all
have choices to make, and if they choose not to,
it's not because you didn't do what you're supposed to do.
So we can't say, well, they have a choice, they

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can do whatever they want to do. No, what we
need to do is guide them while they're young. Like
we said on last week, you can try to bend it,
you will hurt yourself and do nothing to that tree.
I see a hand. You can draw him to bring

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him to the water, but you can't make him drink. Yes,

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isn't that amazing? And I've heard young people come to
me and say well that's not scripture. And I but
that they've been hearing. See, But then when it comes
down they have to make the choice themselves. Amen, it
must be something they like in there where it's not.
And when they will come to you as scriptures, we're

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gonna see when you see yourself. Somebody already said it
in testimony. When you see yourself and you refuse to
see record, disregard it. You can't do that. You can't
you shouldn't do it, But we do it. Amen. Did
I see another hand?

Speaker 7 (13:52):
All right?

Speaker 1 (13:53):
But that but much increase is by the strength of
an ox And all I got out of that is
when I did went to easy read and say, when
a farmer has no oxen to plow, it's just something
that Solomon observed. If I don't have an ox if
I have an oxen, I don't have a oxen. It's empty.

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So what I got to clean? Amen? Like I said,
when in studying and hearing and listening, it's observations. But
you got a dog pen, but there's no dog in it.
You don't have to clean the pen because there's no
dog in it. It makes sense. I have life. And

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they said, let me write this when a farmer has
no oxen to plow in his field. He don't have
to feed him. You don't have to. You don't have
to clean the crib either, Amen. All right.

Speaker 3 (14:50):
Five.

Speaker 1 (14:52):
A faithful witness will not lie, but a false witness
will utter lies. A faithful person will not tell lies
in court, but someone who says false things always deceives.
You have something. Oh okay, Yeah, you can't trust a liar.

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We talked about that. You can't trust him. A liar.
The scripture says, a liar will not even tarry when
when the Lord see that, Oh you a liar, because
you're gonna try to get your way out of it,
lie your way out. Amen. So this is something solemn

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and observed. A faithful person, he's not gonna tell lies.
I get it all the time. My grandkid said, no, no, no,
you don't have my back if you lying, you lying.
I can't back that up and I can't make it up.
But you weren't with me. Uh uh. I need to

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give it that scripture. A faithful person will not tell lies,
and I need to tell him that. A liar will
not terry in the sight of God. So he's not
gonna get you he's gonna get me because I'm lying
for you. Amen, No, you're not gonna get me into it.
But knowledge is easy to him. That understandeth this. If

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you only pretend that you want wisdom, only pretend scornar
is like a scoffer. You only then you want wisdom,
You're not gonna find it. They know what the answer is,
but they don't want to accept it. And then when
you give him the answer, that's not what I don't think.
That's what I don't think. That's what they are. Well,

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why do you ask me? I really number that they
know everything and you can't tell them anything. And when
you do, it's like you don't understand that was back
in your day, but it's still the same thing. You

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still got to pay money for that car. And when
you tell them, you know that issue and then your age.
So what you want me to do about it? And
so you did not you the vehicle that was given
to you with no payments that because that's not what

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I want. But that fleishness, your brutus mind is saying,
just put stack the money up, and if you want
that type of car, stack the money up and then
relinquish the car that you do that far and you
own somebody else what they want when they want it,

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and when they get it, they complain, still complaining. You
don't think you didn't have a car, No, but you
driving it and you're getting from point A to appointment.
You're going wherever you want to go. But that's not
the kind of car I want. So you don't take
care of him wise, And I told you, the kids
told me, don't call their car a hooptie. But you

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you think you're driving a hooptie. But your hootie is
getting you where you need to go. Working. All you
have to do is put and keep up the maintenance,
change the oil. That's all you have to do. You
don't have to worry about a high insurance me. So,

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there is no wisdom without the fear of the Lord. Amen.
So when you have the when you have the fear
of the Lord, you gain wisdom. Amen. Because that's who
you gonna seek. You seeking God for wisdom, You seeking
the Lord for wisdom. Seven. Go from the presence of
the foolish man, when thou shall perceive it is not

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in him the lips of knowledge.

Speaker 4 (19:15):
Hmm.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
That's a good one. Be careful who you hang around
then I hear somebody say something about that tonight. Be
careful who you hang around, and you need to run
you know the fools. A fool will get you shot.
A fool will get you killed. Amen. I know of

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kids that you know, when they start fighting and things
start happening, they don't run towards it. They run away
from it. But you have some kids, not kids, you
have some people running towards it. And now this thing
is you got this camera instead of you helping, you
filming it because you want to get some numbers on

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your TikTok or you want to get numbers on your Instagram. Amen.
You see how backwards this world is. Now, that's foolishness. Amen.
So you know you need to run from the foolish
man somebody that that's not talking right. Your friends, they

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may call you all kinds of names, but at least
I'm alive. Amen. Mm hm, Yes. Listen. You need to
listen to what your friends, the people you hang around with,

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listen because when they start talking and they when they ask,
like I said, when they talk a whole lot, they
tell who they are. And you'll be saying, did she know?
He did he know?

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He just said that.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
Story back in the day, and they was kind of like.
People was like, you know, you're not bad about that.
I said, look when I was in high school, and
you know you're trying to like like guys girls and
all that kind of stuff. Girls liking guys guys. I'm
not fighting for nobody. Either you want me or you don't.

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We crazy girls fighting girls over one guy, and he's
got it. He can only choose one of us. I'm
my worry way. I said, well, he's my husband. I'm
not working that. I was talking to the person. She said,
well I can't help it, or something about her loving
him and liking him. And I said to myself, did

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she just say that to me for him?

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No?

Speaker 7 (21:51):
I didn't.

Speaker 1 (21:51):
I said, yes you did. You said you had feelings
for him. I said, but you can't have him because
he's mine. Only you can have him is if because
she made the statement that she was gonna come across
that desk and kiss him or hug him, and he said,
and you will meet these. You're gonna you're gonna meet

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this and you're gonna catch these. Praise God, so you
don't have to worry about your honey him and you
standing right there and not speak to you. But Attaki says,
you're supposed to speak to the female first and then
speak to the male. I feel sorry for them, Amen,

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So we have to understand. That's something we have to understand. Amen,
Praise God. And if I want to say, well, baby,
why you let her talk? And he don't even the
man don't even think it. He don't even think nothing.
He don't think that. He don't even know what's going
on from the brothers, especially when especially when you know

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your place with your wife, your wife, you don't have
a problem. And since you don't have a problem, you
don't see it. He's let's go, let's go to the
next word. Uh, the wisdom of the prudence to understand
his way. But the folly of fools is to see
prudent is a wise person. There's an intelligent person. They're discreet,

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one who looks down the road. They kind of surmise
and say jump and do stuff haphazardly. That's a prudent person.
That's what we want to be. We want to be,
we want to take we want to be in charge,
but we don't want to be in charge of research. Amen.
A careful person understands what is right, and he does it.

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But a foolish person he refuses to see himself. And
once he leaves the mirror, he or she, once they
leave the mirror, they forget and go ahead and do
what they need to do. Amen. There's a way that
seemeth about scriptures in the word, somebody thought it was right.

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Saul saw Paul. He thought it was right. He thought
he was doing the right thing, but he wasn't. Amen.
That was verse eight, verse nine. Fools make a mock
of sin, But among the righteous there is favor. What
I have in my notes, the wisdom of a prudent

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is to understand his way. But the folly of fools
is deceived. Fools make a mockery at sin, said, Oh,
that ain't gonna happen to me. But among the righteous
there is favor. Fools think they that they can do that.
They do not need to do anything about their sins.
It's okay, what is sin? I'm not wrong. I'm okay

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the way I am. I don't need a savior. Why
I didn't ask him to come down for me. It's
really amazing the mindset of people. Now, well, they feel
like they're fine, the way they are. Amen. Ten. The
heart knoweth his own bitterness, and a stranger doeth, well,

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I'm sorry, do it not inter meddle with his joy?
The heart knows his own bitterness. We all know our
own grief, but we should be able to bear one
another's burden through empathy. Ah, this is talking about bitterness.

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Whatever a person is going through, we can't say that.
We can say that. We might say that I understand
what you're going through, but you may not understand completely.
Empathy means that you have a somewhat idea because every
everybody don't grieve the same everybody don't express joy the same. Amen.

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So we can't put our feelings in a box because
we're human and everybody have different aspects of how they
express how they feel, and we can't get mad at them.
Empathy means we try to understand. But in Christ, there's

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in Christ. You just don't go overboard. Amen. Now when
I say overboard, now if you have to scream, shout,
kick fuss, but you don't do that, Amen, So it's
not wrong. What'd you say?

Speaker 7 (26:46):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (26:47):
Like when you go on your closet and pray and
scream and holler. Sometimes you gotta do it. You gotta
do what you gotta do, because that screaming and that
hollering is like a pop off valve mine being stuck
a little bit, but that pop off of bal valve
help you to release. And if you don't release, something

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is gonna break. Yeah, you gonna explode from the inside out.
Instead of you pushing it out, Something's gonna e s
explode in you. And we got to have a release.
That's what a pop off valve is, a release. Amen,
And there's nothing wrong with that. Praise God, Uh eleven

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shall the house of the wicked shall be overthrown, but
the tabernaut of explanatory flourish overthrown. That's self explanatory. The
house of the wicked shall be overthrown. It's an observant.
It's an observation because the wicked happens, we're thrown. It

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might be a whole lot of wicked, and it's in there, Bomo.
That's the reason why the Summits was saying, I almost
because I saw how the wicked was prospering. Amen, And David,
the wicked shall bes daddy. So if he said it's
observing that the wicked sometimes will be overthrown, but the

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tabernacle of the upright shall flourish. You could be saved,
Santi Fi feel what the holy ghosts going to church
every time? And in your house is in shambles? Meaning things?
Are you do what I'm supposed to do? Why is
this happening? We understand trials and tribulations. The wicked may
not so he's got grace. It's not fair. It's not fair,

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but you know what I know it fair, amen, I
know everybody know their scripture. There is a way which
seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are
the way of death. That's a man seeing himself. Then
we were talking up above about you know, a man

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seeing himself. You may think you're doing on the good
and straight road, but in the end that road made away.
It's when you talk about a way, it's like we said,
it's the way you live, the way you walk. Saw

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Paul again, He thought he was doing the will of
God and showed him a better way on that Damascus road.
But God had grace and showed him a better way.
What about Hitler? He thought he thought he was doing
the right thing, getting rid of the Jews. The race

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thought that's what we're supposed to do. They they were
the the race, the dominant race, the Aryan race, blond
hair and blue eyes. But in the sight of they're
all precious body. What's that song? Red yellow and the
people of the world. Amen. When you think about that,

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there's no right color, no dominant color. But man is
what even in laughter the amen thirteen. Even in laughter,
the hard thingsful, and the end of that mirth is heaviness.
Things are not always what it's seen. Now that can

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be going through and still smiling. Yeah, that's that could be.
You're supposed to be my friend, but you try to
take my place backstabber. Hmm. That person that's smiling in
your face, they say to you, to face you, to
you of you, that's life, that's a part of life.

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That's life. Yep, that's life. Amen. Fourteen. Anybody won't say
anything on that taber put aboard. I could have put it.
But most of the time it's people you you have
good fellowship with. It's like, wow, you did that to me.

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And when they wrote that that's deep. That that cut
me real deep because you expect that from the enemy,
but not from my brother and my sister, not from
my church brother, my church sister. We don't expect it
from our blood sister, blood brother cousin. What is God?

Speaker 5 (31:48):
M M.

Speaker 1 (31:49):
But yeah, right, even and moving on, it still hurts

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cause we're fleshly beings. Just because I'm safe saint to
fight and feel with the Holy gooest when I get cut,
it hurts, I say, believing. I'm bla believe what you say,
but I'm still b like my man. That was uh
thirteen yeah some and and I I and I when

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I read that, I just said that everything is not
what it seems. You can be sad but you're smiling,
but that's not really how you feel, yes sir, heaviness.

Speaker 8 (33:02):
Yeah yeah, yeah yeah, so yeah, there's the saying you
gotta laugh to keep from crying.

Speaker 1 (33:17):
But after you started stop laughing, here come to tears.
This is something Solomon observed, and I think he went
through some things. Heymen, this is from experience. M. That's

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just like the scripture says enter this house with thanksgiving,
and we say when when praises go up, blessings come down.
We have to have that state of mind. We should
be able to even in even in our lowest, should
be able to give God a praise, and man, I
thought about this story hold on to you. I thought

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about the story about this man that you know. He
when he would work, he had a whole lot of
issues and things was going on at his job. But
when he got to the threshold of his house, he
let all that stuff go. And when he walked into
that teacher used to he didn't bring it home. He

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left it outside the house. The preacher used to say,
leave all that stuff outside. Come in here, come in
the house and give them thanks and praise God. Lift
up your hands and praise Him, and you'll be surprised.
You go outside and it's gone. Somebody else done picked
it up. Amen, I'm talking to myself. Amen, yes, sir.

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And the thing about keeping your mind, staying on the Lord,
that's just like Peter when he was walking on the water.
As long as he was fine, he had his eyes
on that star posting glory, he had his eyes on Jesus.
He was fine. And a lot of times we're fine
if we're just looking straight at Jesus. But sometimes in
life you gotta look that way like ready know that, Amen. Stressful,

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but that's part of life and we already know that. Amen. Fourteen,
and I'm gonna stop at fourteen. The backslider from his
self the bod ways, and a good man shall be
weighed that's abide from his self the backslider. If someone

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turns away, that's a backslider from what is right, he
will receive the punishment that he deserves. This is the
law of the good things that they deserve. Remember, we
are exploring observations of Solomon. I need you to I
need you to remember that because it doesn't always happen

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in that order. Amen, But this is an example of
the law of sowing. The Lord say the sping, and
we're gonna pick up at verse fifteen next Wednesday. If
the Lord say the same.

Speaker 7 (37:43):
Amen. Amen.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
I thank you for your attention, and I hope you
got something out of this.

Speaker 7 (37:50):
Amen, Thank the Lord.

Speaker 1 (38:04):
Thank God for the scripture.