Day 303: Proverbs 4-6 | Read The Bible In A Year | Bible Study with Commentary by Dr. Manny Arango — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hey Bible nerds, this is Dr. Manny
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8. 0:24family. Welcome to day 303 here at the
9. 0:27Bible department. I'm super super
10. 0:28excited to jump into Proverbs chapters
11. 0:3145 and 6 today. If you have not done the
12. 0:36reading, come on, get your life
13. 0:38together, do the reading. If you haven't
14. 0:40done the reading today, I want you to
15. 0:41stop the video, pause the audio, go get
16. 0:43the reading done, and then come back.
17. 0:46There may be books where you could say
18. 0:48like, "No, I really want to hear what
19. 0:49pastor may have to say first, then I
20. 0:51want to do the reading." But Proverbs is
21. 0:54like the most I would say probably one
22. 0:57of the easiest books of the Bible to
23. 0:58understand it. It means what it says. It
24. 1:00says what it means. And so, uh, I want
25. 1:03you to get the reading done first, then
26. 1:05come listen to the episode. For everyone
27. 1:08who has done the reading, if you have
28. 1:10read Proverbs 4:5 and 6, let's dive in.
29. 1:14All right. First, just context clue. I
30. 1:18may give two context clues today and
31. 1:20then we'll dive into a bunch of nerdy
32. 1:22nuggets. I have six written down. We'll
33. 1:23see how many I get through. Okay. Um for
34. 1:25our first context clue, I just want
35. 1:28everyone to know wisdom literature is
36. 1:30not exclusive to the Bible. Okay.
37. 1:33There's actually a plethora. Uh this is
38. 1:37common. This literature was common
39. 1:38throughout the ancient world. um similar
40. 1:41material to Proverbs, Job, Ecclesiastes
41. 1:45have been found in Egypt, Mesopotamia,
42. 1:47some well over a thousand years older
43. 1:49than what we find here in the book of
44. 1:52Proverbs. Okay. So, this style of
45. 1:54writing
46. 1:55uh putting wise sayings in, you know,
47. 1:59oneliners like that's not uh something
48. 2:02that Solomon invents. That's not
49. 2:04something that's like exclusive to the
50. 2:06Bible. I actually want to uh read you uh
51. 2:09a pro an Egyptian proverb. Uh but before
52. 2:12I do, I'll I'll just say this. In fact,
53. 2:14we'll we'll actually see this later. Uh
54. 2:16some of the material here in Proverbs
55. 2:18finds its origin from outside Israel.
56. 2:21Okay. Uh so this type of literature was
57. 2:25primarily teaching people about how to
58. 2:28live righteous or successful lives or
59. 2:31how to live in harmony with the pagan
60. 2:33gods. Okay. So, this literature is not
61. 2:38exclusive to the biblical text. This
62. 2:39actually widespread throughout the
63. 2:41ancient near east. And uh here's a uh
64. 2:44Egyptian proverb says this, "Do not
65. 2:46stretch out your hand against an old man
66. 2:49and do not speak first to a great man.
67. 2:52Do not begin any dispute with the
68. 2:55hot-mouthed, and do not attack him with
69. 2:58words." These are both taken from uh an
70. 3:01Egyptian hieroglyph uh from the 12th
71. 3:04dynasty. Okay. Um so uh this is 1991
72. 3:09to 1785
73. 3:11BC. Okay. 1991 to 1785 BC. Okay. Uh so
74. 3:19again you could see how that kind of
75. 3:21sounds like a proverb, right? Do not
76. 3:23stretch out your hand against an old
77. 3:26man. And do not speak first to a great
78. 3:29man. Do not begin any dispute with a hot
79. 3:32mouththed. I love hot mouth. That's a
80. 3:34great way to just call someone, you
81. 3:37know, temper, you know, hotheaded, uh,
82. 3:39someone with a temper. Do not begin any
83. 3:41dispute with the hot mouth and do not
84. 3:43attack him with words. So, uh, what
85. 3:47you'll begin to realize is that, uh,
86. 3:50what happens to a lot of these secular
87. 3:52proverbs, they actually do find their
88. 3:54way into the book of Proverbs. And they
89. 3:57kind of get what I call like, uh,
90. 4:00baptized. Uh, they, you know, they'll
91. 4:03take the word ra out of an Egyptian
92. 4:05proverb and, uh, Solomon will put the
93. 4:08word Yahweh in. Uh, because here's
94. 4:11what's like interesting. Truth is truth.
95. 4:14Like here, like this right here, right?
96. 4:16Do not stretch out your hand against an
97. 4:18old man. And do not speak first to a
98. 4:21great man. Like that's true. Whether
99. 4:24it's found in an Egyptian proverb or a
100. 4:27biblical proverb, it's wise. Like that
101. 4:29is a wise way to live life. Actually,
102. 4:32Paul says something very sim similar to
103. 4:34Timothy. He's like, "Hey, hey, hey,
104. 4:36there's guys in the church who are older
105. 4:38than you, and I want to give you wisdom
106. 4:40on how to lead people who are older than
107. 4:42you, how to honor those who are older
108. 4:44than you." James says the same thing in
109. 4:47terms of do not speak first to a great
110. 4:48man. James is going to say, "Hey, when
111. 4:51you show up to a banquet, don't take the
112. 4:52seat of honor." Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
113. 4:54That's presumptuous. You're better off
114. 4:56taking a bad seat and getting moved up
115. 4:59to a seat of honor versus taking a seat
116. 5:01of honor and then having to get moved to
117. 5:03the cheap seats. Okay. So, even though
118. 5:06these words don't find their way in the
119. 5:09Bible, these ideas do. And that's the
120. 5:12thing about wisdom. Wisdom is like it's
121. 5:15universal. Okay? And so, uh, I want to
122. 5:18remind everybody there's this passage
123. 5:20that I love. Pretty sure it's first
124. 5:22Timothy chapter 3. Um, I could actually
125. 5:25Google it really, really quick just to
126. 5:27make sure that I've got the right
127. 5:28passage. I'm actually really glad that I
128. 5:30looked this up in Logos. I said 1
129. 5:33Timothy, it's 2 Timothy. 2 Timothy
130. 5:35chapter 3. Uh and we are going to start
131. 5:38reading in verse 15. Uh it says, "And
132. 5:41how from infancy you have known the holy
133. 5:43scriptures." This is Paul talking to
134. 5:45Timothy. And in speaking of the
135. 5:47scriptures, this is what Paul says,
136. 5:49"Which are able to make you wise for
137. 5:52salvation." Wise for salvation through
138. 5:55faith in Christ Jesus. And then he says,
139. 5:57"All scriptures are God breathed and
140. 5:59useful for teaching." But before we even
141. 6:01get to that part, which is really
142. 6:03popular, verse 16 is very, very popular.
143. 6:05Verse 15 says that the scriptures hold
144. 6:09in them the power of wisdom that
145. 6:12prepares you for salvation. And I think
146. 6:15a lot of times we're trying to offer the
147. 6:18world, the secular world around us,
148. 6:20like, you know, truth. And not to say
149. 6:22that the church doesn't have a lot of
150. 6:24truth to offer, but I think that we have
151. 6:26so much wisdom to offer. And wisdom
152. 6:29prepares people for salvation. Because
153. 6:32guess what the wisest thing is that you
154. 6:34could ever do? Surrender your life to
155. 6:36the lordship of Jesus. But it's hard to
156. 6:38get someone to surrender their life to
157. 6:39the lordship of Jesus if they have a
158. 6:41habit of doing a bunch of unwise things.
159. 6:44And so Dave Ramsey, a great example,
160. 6:47Dave Ramsey just takes practical
161. 6:50wisdoms. 50% of what that man talks
162. 6:52about is straight from the book of
163. 6:53Proverbs. Don't get into debt, you know,
164. 6:56flee from from debt in ways like a like
165. 7:00a gazelle is trying to flee from a trap.
166. 7:02Like this is wisdom. And by offering
167. 7:06wisdom around finances, what begins to
168. 7:08happen is people begin to want to govern
169. 7:10their whole life according to wisdom
170. 7:12because wisdom is there to prepare you
171. 7:15for salvation. And uh I think that
172. 7:18there's wisdom. My pet peeve are
173. 7:21Christians who are deep but not wise.
174. 7:23So, they're spiritual, but they're just
175. 7:25not wise. And the world needs wisdom,
176. 7:28man. People need wisdom on how to
177. 7:29navigate their marriage, how to do
178. 7:31parenting, how to do their finances, how
179. 7:33to navigate business. People need
180. 7:35wisdom. And I actually think that the
181. 7:37best form of evangelism that we have for
182. 7:40a dying world around us, people who are
183. 7:42going to hell is being wise. being wise
184. 7:46people who live wise lives and and who
185. 7:49can make Christ attractive through the
186. 7:53wisdom of our life. Okay, so I know
187. 7:56those are big 30,000 foot ideas uh and
188. 7:59that's kind of, you know, I want us to
189. 8:01wrap our minds around that context clue.
190. 8:03And now let's get into some nerdy
191. 8:05nuggets. Okay, when we look at Proverbs
192. 8:07chapters 4 through 6, there's a couple
193. 8:09things I just want to observe. Okay.
194. 8:11Proverbs 4:1, Proverbs 4:10, Proverbs
195. 8:154:20, Proverbs 5:1, Proverbs 5:20,
196. 8:20Proverbs 6:1, Proverbs 6:3, Proverbs
197. 8:246:20. Just in these three chapters of
198. 8:27the Bible, we get eight illusions or
199. 8:30references to uh my son. Okay? that the
200. 8:35tone of the book of Proverbs is a father
201. 8:39sitting down with his son like pleading
202. 8:42with his son to learn wisdom. Okay? To
203. 8:44learn wisdom. Please be wise. Please
204. 8:48remember my words. Please remember my
205. 8:50teaching. Please remember the lessons
206. 8:52that I want to share with you. I got to
207. 8:54download wisdom into your heart into
208. 8:57your mind. Okay? That's the first nerdy
209. 8:59nugget. It's just these eight times
210. 9:01where it's over and over and over and
211. 9:03over. And you always want to remember in
212. 9:06the Bible, repetition means that things
213. 9:08are important. Okay? When God wants to
214. 9:11emphasize something, he repeats it over
215. 9:13and over and over and over and over. So,
216. 9:16Proverbs 4:1, 4:10, 4:20, 51, 520, 61,
217. 9:2163, and 620 all emphasize the fact that
218. 9:25God is speaking through the author to
219. 9:28give wisdom to a son. Okay. Number two,
220. 9:31Proverbs 4:7 is going to make it clear
221. 9:34that you should pay any cost in order to
222. 9:37attain wisdom. Okay. I'll go to chapter
223. 9:394 verse 7. It says this, "The beginning
224. 9:43of wisdom is this. Get wisdom." I love
225. 9:45that the beginning of wisdom is this.
226. 9:47Get it. Okay. Get wisdom. Um, and I love
227. 9:51this. The second half of the verse.
228. 9:53Though it cost you all you have, get
229. 9:56understanding. Though it cost you all
230. 10:00you have. Get it. It's worth It's worth
231. 10:03all the money you could pay. Go get
232. 10:05wisdom. Go get understanding. Um, it's
233. 10:08funny because wisdom is never going to
234. 10:11go on sale. It's not cheap. Wisdom will
235. 10:13always cost you something. Uh I'll kind
236. 10:15of give you a couple stories of how I
237. 10:17spent a lot in order to gain wisdom. Uh
238. 10:21first first thing just just I just want
239. 10:23to let you know this that people that
240. 10:25graduate with a four-year degree from
241. 10:27college cuz college is expensive. Okay?
242. 10:30Uh the school that I went to I think was
243. 10:32like uh 120 grand for four years. Okay?
244. 10:36So college is expensive and I need you
245. 10:38to know this. People who end up going to
246. 10:40school stay married longer. People who
247. 10:42end up going to college uh end up making
248. 10:45at minimum half a million dollars more
249. 10:47throughout their career. Why? Because
250. 10:50the number one thing that school
251. 10:51provides is not information. It's
252. 10:53wisdom. Wisdom on how to talk to adults.
253. 10:56Wisdom. when you're 17 years old, when
254. 10:58you're 18, you've got to negotiate with
255. 11:00a 45 year old professor on whether or
256. 11:03not, you know, can I take this exam next
257. 11:05week or hey, can I It's the point of
258. 11:09college is not the grades. People are
259. 11:12like, I just don't understand what I'm
260. 11:13going to get out of it. You're going to
261. 11:14get wisdom. That's the point. You're
262. 11:16going to get wisdom and yes, it's going
263. 11:18to cost you, but you should pay the
264. 11:20price. Why? Because wisdom is worth
265. 11:23attaining. Uh there was a season where I
266. 11:25was a youth pastor. We did a youth and
267. 11:27young adult conference three years in a
268. 11:29row. First year 500 youth and young
269. 11:30adults showed up. Second year a
270. 11:32thousand. Third year almost 2,000 youth
271. 11:34and young adults. Well by that third
272. 11:36year that conference was profitable.
273. 11:38There were enough people showing up to
274. 11:40that event that it was profitable.
275. 11:42Right? That conference didn't lose
276. 11:44money. That conference actually uh
277. 11:47gained money. And so what happened
278. 11:49though in the first year is that we lost
279. 11:52$30,000. Okay. In order to get to the
280. 11:54point where it was profitable, I had to
281. 11:57spend $30,000
282. 12:00essentially wasting money. And I
283. 12:02remember I was sitting down with our
284. 12:03executive pastor at the time and he
285. 12:05went, "Did you just lose $30,000 of like
286. 12:08church resources?" And I looked at him
287. 12:10and said, "I didn't lose $30,000. I
288. 12:13spent $30 to learn how to do a
289. 12:15conference." He was like, "Man, your
290. 12:18ability to talk your way out." He's
291. 12:20like, "I should be firing you." Like, I
292. 12:23cannot believe you used $30,000 of
293. 12:24church finances to do some conference.
294. 12:26That wasn't really a win. But guess
295. 12:27what? They let me do it the next year.
296. 12:29You know why? Cuz I quoted Proverbs 4:7.
297. 12:32Though wisdom cost everything you have.
298. 12:35Spend the money. Spend it. Why? Because
299. 12:38in spending it, you are gaining an
300. 12:41understanding of how to do something. I
301. 12:43could go to learn a conference, learn
302. 12:45how to doconference.com
303. 12:47or I could spend $30,000 actually doing
304. 12:50a conference and by the third year we
305. 12:53were profitable because I invested the
306. 12:56resources to learn how to do something.
307. 12:59Get wisdom. Get wisdom. The first
308. 13:02ministry job I ever had, I think I was
309. 13:05getting paid like $22,000 a year. I had
310. 13:08to live with my parents in order to get
311. 13:10the job. Okay? I couldn't even move out
312. 13:12of my parents house. But I learned how
313. 13:14to do hospital visits. I learned how to
314. 13:16do weddings. I learned how to do
315. 13:17funerals. I learned how to run a prayer
316. 13:19meeting. I learned how to preach. I
317. 13:22Well, I gained wisdom. And my pet peeve
318. 13:25are like 20 year olds who like want to
319. 13:28get paid a lot of money to do their job.
320. 13:30It's like first of all, you know, I was
321. 13:32I was at this church called Home Church
322. 13:34and uh I was in Red Deer, Alberta, which
323. 13:37is Canada, and uh the senior pastor's
324. 13:40dad was in the room. And the senior
325. 13:42pastor's father was kind of talking
326. 13:44about how these two dudes that were in
327. 13:46the church, his son now leading the
328. 13:49church in his 40s, maybe 50s, and their
329. 13:52executive pastor, who's also in their
330. 13:5440s or 50s, he said, "Yeah, I hired
331. 13:56these guys when they were 21. you know,
332. 13:58I hired these guys like 30 years ago
333. 14:01because that senior pastor's dad at one
334. 14:03point was leading the church, then
335. 14:05transitioned the church to his son. And
336. 14:07he said, "Yeah, I hired them when they
337. 14:09were 21." And he said, "And I DIDN'T PAY
338. 14:11HIM A DIME." SAID, "I DIDN'T PAY HIM
339. 14:13NOTHING CUZ THEY WEREN'T WORTH NOTHING."
340. 14:15AND I JUST LAUGHED. I WAS LIKE, "MAN,
341. 14:17THIS IS WHY WE NEED OLD PEOPLE. THIS IS
342. 14:19WHY WE NEED OLDER PEOPLE BECAUSE HE JUST
343. 14:21LOOKED AT HE WAS LIKE, "WHY WOULD I PAY
344. 14:23YOU? YOU MAKE MISTAKES. YOU DON'T DO
345. 14:26WHAT I TELL YOU TO DO. YOU DON'T KNOW
346. 14:28WHAT YOU'RE DOING. I'm not going to pay
347. 14:30you anything cuz you're not worth
348. 14:32paying. And you know, my friend who's
349. 14:35the senior pastor's name is Pastor Jacen
350. 14:37Mullen, he said, "Yeah, that's exactly
351. 14:39what my dad said." He said, "But guess
352. 14:41what I did? I made sure that I attained
353. 14:45wisdom so that in five years I did ask
354. 14:49for a salary because at that point I
355. 14:52actually had the experience and
356. 14:54expertise to ask for a salary. You know
357. 14:57how many 22 year olds I've met that want
358. 14:59to negotiate salaries and it's like why
359. 15:02would I pay you? You're you should be
360. 15:05paying me to be around me cuz I'm
361. 15:09successful. And I think that that
362. 15:12offends a lot of young people, but the
363. 15:14reality is that Proverbs says, "Get
364. 15:17wisdom." Although it cost you everything
365. 15:19you have, get wisdom. There's a young
366. 15:22man in the studio with us right now who
367. 15:24like we were paying him to like edit
368. 15:26content. And then, you know, a couple
369. 15:28years ago, we said, "Hey man, like we've
370. 15:30been paying you to like travel with
371. 15:31Pastor Manny and edit content, but you
372. 15:33know, as we go into 2024, we're going to
373. 15:36offer you an unpaid internship in
374. 15:38Dallas." This kid lived in North
375. 15:40Carolina at the time. We're going to
376. 15:41offer you an unpaid internship in
377. 15:43Dallas. We're not going to pay you a
378. 15:44dime. And you know, if you want to
379. 15:47learn, hey man, we're going to take you
380. 15:49off of salary. We're going to ask that
381. 15:52you move your life across the country
382. 15:55and that you would trust us and be a
383. 15:57part of an unpaid internship. And that
384. 15:59kid's name is Chemwell. And he did that.
385. 16:01And you want to know why he did that?
386. 16:03Because the beginning of wisdom is this.
387. 16:06Get wisdom. though it cost you
388. 16:09everything you have, get wisdom. And I
389. 16:11think a lot of us, we think that a check
390. 16:14is more valuable than wisdom. And the
391. 16:16moment you think that money is more
392. 16:19valuable than wisdom, you'll never have
393. 16:22wisdom. And which also means you'll
394. 16:24never have money either because THE
395. 16:26NUMBER ONE WAY TO GET MONEY is to first
396. 16:28get wisdom. There's a lot of young
397. 16:30people 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29.
398. 16:35You've prioritized securing the bag
399. 16:39instead of prioritizing securing wisdom,
400. 16:42which means you jeopardize both, which
401. 16:44means you don't get wisdom or the bag.
402. 16:47And the reality is that if you actually
403. 16:49just prioritize getting wisdom, the bag
404. 16:51would come find you because money finds
405. 16:55wise people and it runs away from
406. 16:57foolish people. You could actually get a
407. 17:00lot of money and if you're a fool, you
408. 17:02don't know how to steward it. And so you
409. 17:04could win the lottery and 95% of the
410. 17:06people who win the lottery for millions
411. 17:08of dollars go broke within three years.
412. 17:11Why? Because money is not the thing that
413. 17:15you need. It's wisdom. Without wisdom,
414. 17:19you will be Allen Iverson in his 50s
415. 17:23made tons of money while he was playing
416. 17:25in the NBA and is broke today. Why is he
417. 17:28broke? Because he got money before he
418. 17:31got wisdom. And now he's in his older
419. 17:34years and he has wisdom and he's hoping
420. 17:37to God that he can now secure more
421. 17:40money. But Proverbs 4:7, get wisdom. Get
422. 17:45wisdom. Get wisdom. It's the chief
423. 17:48thing. I want to ask you a question.
424. 17:50Like, is wisdom the number one thing
425. 17:52you're going after in your life? Because
426. 17:54if it's not, I want to challenge you to
427. 17:56make some adjustments because you need
428. 18:00wisdom. And the world that we live in
429. 18:02will tell you everything else is
430. 18:04important. You know, and and the reality
431. 18:06is that I'm not saying money is not
432. 18:08important, but what I am saying is that
433. 18:10you can have all the money in the world,
434. 18:12but if you don't know how to steward
435. 18:14that money, and if you don't know how to
436. 18:16invest it and maintain it, then you have
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460. 19:17right, back to the episode. Proverbs
461. 19:19chapter 5 is going to talk about sexual
462. 19:22temptation and discipline. I actually uh
463. 19:25want to just give you one little nerdy
464. 19:27nugget that verses 15 through 19 are
465. 19:30actually pretty erotic. And by erotic, I
466. 19:32mean like sexually explicit. Okay, it
467. 19:34says this in verse 15, drink water from
468. 19:37your own sister. That means have sex
469. 19:39with your own wife. This is talking
470. 19:41about bodily fluids. Like this is drink
471. 19:45water from your own sister. Okay. And
472. 19:47that's running water from your own well
473. 19:49should your springs overflow in the
474. 19:51streets. Okay. Like whoa whoa whoa whoa
475. 19:54whoa. You can't be out here. You you you
476. 19:58can't you can't be you can't let you
477. 20:00can't let the banks overflow. Okay. So
478. 20:02this language is purposely erotic on
479. 20:04purpose. And this is what's happening.
480. 20:06You'll see this with the next psalm. Why
481. 20:08do I keep saying psalm? You'll see this
482. 20:10in the next proverb as well. In Proverbs
483. 20:12chapter 6, it'll kind of it's going to
484. 20:14give compelling imagery. Uh I actually
485. 20:17want us to go to Proverbs chapter 6. Uh
486. 20:19it says this in verse 26. A father's
487. 20:22giving his dad advice. Um and I know,
488. 20:24okay, here's here's what you're going to
489. 20:26need to remember. This is a father's
490. 20:29perspective to their son. Okay? And I
491. 20:32know every guy kind of has a
492. 20:34relationship with his son, which is
493. 20:36like, "Hey man, don't tell your mom I
494. 20:37said this, man. But I just got to talk
495. 20:39to you manto man. All right. And
496. 20:40Proverbs kind of has that vibe. Like
497. 20:44mom's wives may not like what Proverbs
498. 20:46has to say, but this is like a dad
499. 20:48talking to his son. Okay. So this is
500. 20:50this is he says avoid adulterous women
501. 20:53at all cost. Okay. Proverbs chapter 6
502. 20:56verse verse 26. He said uh do not lust
503. 20:59actually verse 25. Do not lust in your
504. 21:01heart after her beauty or captivate or
505. 21:04her or let her captivate you with her
506. 21:06her eyes. Okay. Run, flee from the
507. 21:08adulterous woman. Okay. And then it says
508. 21:11this, and I know women may not like
509. 21:13this. You may not like this, but this is
510. 21:14a man's perspective to his son. For a
511. 21:17prostitute can be had for a loaf of
512. 21:19bread. A prostitute be have for a loaf
513. 21:21of bread. But another man's wife prays
514. 21:24on your very life. A dad is essentially
515. 21:27saying, "Bro, IF YOU ARE THIS HOT AND
516. 21:31BOTHERED, go get a prostitute for a loaf
517. 21:33of bread. the price of a loaf of bread.
518. 21:35You could go sleep with a hooker, dude.
519. 21:37Like, what's wrong with you? But another
520. 21:39man's wife, HERE WE GO. THIS IS WHAT
521. 21:41HAPPENS IF YOU HAVE SEX WITH ANOTHER
522. 21:43man's wife. Verse 34, for jealousy
523. 21:45arouses a husband's fury. Like, brother,
524. 21:49you you could go have sex with a
525. 21:51prostitute and just pay pay the the
526. 21:53price. IT'S IT'S A LOAF OF BREAD. IT'S
527. 21:56CHEAP. PROSTITUTES ARE CHEAP. BUT SEX
528. 21:58WITH ANOTHER MAN'S WIFE, YOU'RE GOING TO
529. 22:00AROUSE a husband's fury.
530. 22:03and he will show you no mercy when he
531. 22:07takes revenge. He will not accept any
532. 22:10compensation. He will refuse a bribe,
533. 22:13however great it is. Fury. Okay, it's
534. 22:17smarter. If you have to choose between
535. 22:20sin and you have to choose between
536. 22:23prostitute and HAVE SEX WITH SOMEBODY
537. 22:26ELSE'S WIFE, AVOID ANOTHER MAN'S WIFE AT
538. 22:29ALL COSTS. AGAIN, we may not like this,
539. 22:32but Proverbs is going to say, why? Okay,
540. 22:37why? Why should we avoid having sex with
541. 22:40people's wives? Well, cuz it leads to
542. 22:43being broke. [screaming] Broke. Okay,
543. 22:46Proverbs
544. 22:485, uh, it says this, like if you don't
545. 22:51have self-control over your sexual
546. 22:53desires, here's what's going to happen.
547. 22:55Uh it says, I'll actually start in verse
548. 22:58eight. Keep to a path far from her.
549. 23:01Who's her? The adulterous woman. Okay.
550. 23:04Do not go near the door of her house.
551. 23:06Aka avoid sin. Don't fight it. Avoid
552. 23:10temptation. Don't fight it. Put no
553. 23:12confidence in your flesh. Like don't
554. 23:14even go near the house, dude. Verse 9.
555. 23:17Lest you you lose your honor to others
556. 23:20and your dignity to one who is cruel,
557. 23:24lest strangers feast on your wealth and
558. 23:28your toil enrich the house of another.
559. 23:32Why should you avoid adultery? CUZ
560. 23:35YOU'LL GO BROKE. LIKE LIKE PROVERBS IS
561. 23:38LIKE, "HEY, HEY, HEY, HEY, HEY, HEY.
562. 23:41Before we overspiritualize this, before
563. 23:45we're just kind of like, hey, you know,
564. 23:46because you love the Lord, Proverbs is
565. 23:48going to make it real simple. Hey, don't
566. 23:51do this lest you lose your honor to
567. 23:54others and your dignity to one who is
568. 23:56cruel, lest strangers feast on your
569. 23:59wealth. On your wealth. I was talking to
570. 24:03uh uh a person who's a a mentor, a
571. 24:06spiritual leader in my life, a spiritual
572. 24:08father in my life, a pastor. It was just
573. 24:10kind of a man-to-man moment and we were
574. 24:12talking about another pastor who had a
575. 24:13moral failure and uh this leader just
576. 24:16kind of looked at me and just went,
577. 24:17"They lost a half a million dollar book
578. 24:19deal like over an an affair." I'm sorry.
579. 24:23And I've never had a sexual experience
580. 24:25worth half a million dollars. Never.
581. 24:28Never. And if you really like ask me
582. 24:32like why am I faithful to my wife? I
583. 24:34would say A cuz I love the Lord 100%. B,
584. 24:38because I cannot fathom my son looking
585. 24:42me in the face and not having respect
586. 24:44for me. Okay. And then number three, cuz
587. 24:47I'm too successful to do dumb stuff. I'm
588. 24:51sorry, but I'm not losing my home. I'm
589. 24:55not losing my career over what? Over
590. 24:58over 30 minutes. Over an hour. Over
591. 25:02what? A night? Yeah, right. This is
592. 25:05ridiculous. I remember there was a
593. 25:07season of my life there was this
594. 25:08two-year window where I was just dating
595. 25:10someone who I shouldn't have been dating
596. 25:12and uh every time I would go to this
597. 25:13girl's house, you know, there was street
598. 25:15cleaning that that was on the street
599. 25:18that I parked on where I would go visit
600. 25:20this girl and I would be spending the
601. 25:22night. I was having sex outside of
602. 25:24marriage. I was just an idiot. Just
603. 25:26being an idiot, you know. And um I
604. 25:28remember there was two times where my
605. 25:32car got towed. like I'm leaving her
606. 25:34house at like 5 6:00 in the morning and
607. 25:36I'm coming out to the street and my car
608. 25:38is gone. And uh I remember like having
609. 25:40to go to the city impound like get my
610. 25:43car out and uh you know what after the
611. 25:46second time, you know, I broke up with
612. 25:48this girl. I stopped having sex with her
613. 25:50and I took the receipt of the like $300
614. 25:54that I had to pay to get my car out of
615. 25:57the impound and and I framed it and I
616. 26:00was like the next time I'm I I'm so you
617. 26:05know full of lust that I that I not
618. 26:08thinking straight. I'm just gonna think
619. 26:10about the money I had to spend getting
620. 26:14my car out of the impound. And I think
621. 26:16that there are some of us like you
622. 26:19actually need to come face to face with
623. 26:22the failure that is on the other side of
624. 26:26you making foolish sexual decisions. And
625. 26:31the thing that Proverbs does that no
626. 26:33other book of the Bible does is that
627. 26:35Proverbs paints this imagery for us that
628. 26:39you can't really shake. It's not a law.
629. 26:42Like the there are other books of the
630. 26:44Bible that will explain this in like law
631. 26:46form or like covenant form or
632. 26:48commandment form, but Proverbs doesn't
633. 26:51do that. Proverbs explains things with
634. 26:54the poetry and the imagery that just
635. 26:57makes you go, "Yo, man, I I can't
636. 27:00remember all the super deep reasons, but
637. 27:03I can remember, hey, if I lack
638. 27:06discipline, I will be broke." Okay,
639. 27:08cool. I got you. I got you. And so,
640. 27:11Proverbs is going to say over and over
641. 27:15and over and over, "Hey, son, you got to
642. 27:19practice sexual purity for all kinds of
643. 27:22awesome reasons. But if you don't have
644. 27:23those awesome reasons, let me give you
645. 27:25reasons that I know will motivate you.
646. 27:28Because you don't want strangers to
647. 27:31feast on your wealth or your toil to
648. 27:34enrich the house of another. What good
649. 27:37is it if I spend all these years
650. 27:39building up the Orango name and the
651. 27:41Orango brand and the Bible department
652. 27:43brand and the armor brand and then I go
653. 27:46and I cheat on my wife and now my son
654. 27:48has nothing to inherit and and that is
655. 27:51that would be a shame. That would be a
656. 27:53literal shame. The biggest thing I could
657. 27:56give my son is a good name. And the only
658. 27:59way to give him a good name is to live a
659. 28:01pure life. And I more than money, I
660. 28:05don't want to just leave something to
661. 28:06him. I want to leave something in him.
662. 28:09And the main thing I want to leave to
663. 28:10him is a good name that he can go
664. 28:13anywhere in America and say the name
665. 28:15Orango. And that name opened doors for
666. 28:19him. and I would forfeit my ability to
667. 28:22give him a good name if I would make a
668. 28:24short-sighted decision and go to the
669. 28:27house of adultery or le let the woman of
670. 28:30adultery lead me and man that's a
671. 28:33timeless truth. Can I ask you a hard
672. 28:36question? Are you intimately aware of
673. 28:39the consequences that would befall you
674. 28:43if you were actually to follow your
675. 28:45foolish desires? Because a lot of us are
676. 28:47living in a fantasy and you are living
677. 28:50in best case scenario. You think that
678. 28:52you can sin and get away with it. But
679. 28:54Proverbs causes us to come back to the
680. 28:57reality that no, no, no, no. Your
681. 29:00failures, your faults, your mistakes
682. 29:02will catch up to you. And when they
683. 29:03catch up to you, they will 100% make
684. 29:07sure that your life is nowhere close to
685. 29:11the level of success that you could have
686. 29:13had you led a life that was pleasing to
687. 29:16the Lord. That's not just true for
688. 29:18Solomon and his son. That's not just
689. 29:20true for David and his son. That's true
690. 29:22for me. That's true for you. All right.
691. 29:25Tomorrow we've got Proverbs chapter 7-9.
692. 29:28We're going to be right here for day
693. 29:30304. I'm so so so so so excited that
694. 29:34we're trekking through the book of
695. 29:35Proverbs. Anyone who needs to be shaken
696. 29:38awake with some wisdom. You're going to
697. 29:40get it as we trek through the book of
698. 29:42Proverbs because Proverbs is here to say
699. 29:45things in the most plain way so that you
700. 29:48can live a life of wisdom. I'll see you
701. 29:50right here tomorrow. I love you so much.
702. 29:52Till next time. Peace. Thanks so much
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