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0:00Hey Bible nerds, this is Dr. Manny
0:02Orango. Welcome to the Bible department
0:04podcast powered by Arma. We are walking
0:08through the entire Bible in a year. You
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0:24family. Welcome to day 304 here on the
0:27Bible department podcast. I'm your host
0:28Dr. Manny Rango and we are continuing
0:31our trek through the book of Proverbs.
0:33Today we've got Proverbs chapters 78 and
0:369. If you have not done the reading, how
0:40about you stop the video, pause the
0:42audio, GO DO THE READING. INCREDIBLE
0:45PROVERBS TODAY. Now you you could
0:47probably assume from the length of the
0:49episodes the past two days, you could
0:51tell I love a proverb. PROVERBS HATE TO
0:53SEE ME COMING. OKAY, I love proverbs cuz
0:56I love wisdom. Uh, and so my goal today
0:59is to make sure that THE EPISODE IS NOT
1:00as long as they have been in the past.
1:02We've got 10 days in Proverbs. Today is
1:06the third day of 10 days of us camping
1:09out and getting wisdom. All right. So,
1:12I'm going to give you some big picture
1:14context clues. Then I'll give you as
1:16many nerdy nuggets as I can. And then
1:18I'll obviously leave you off with the
1:19time of the streets. Okay. So, the big
1:21context clue is that we're coming to the
1:24end of an entire movement or section.
1:26So, Proverbs chapters 1-9
1:29really focus on like uh word pictures.
1:33And the big word pictures or imagery
1:36that chapters 1-9 are supposed to leave
1:38us with is lady wisdom and lady folly.
1:41Okay? Lady wisdom, lady folly. They both
1:43are trying to seduce you. They're both
1:46trying to win your heart. They're both
1:48trying to get you to fall in love with
1:49them. Okay? and Proverbs chapters 1-9
1:52are trying to get you to bind your heart
1:56to wisdom to fall in love with lady
1:59wisdom. Okay, so wisdom and folly are
2:02both going to be personified as women
2:05because this is a dad trying to give
2:07advice to his son and he's essentially
2:09saying you're going to fall in love with
2:10with somebody and uh you're going to
2:13love a woman somewhere. I want you to
2:16reject folly. I want you to love wisdom,
2:19which is going to mean that all of your
2:22romantic relationships from that point
2:24on are all going to be wise because
2:26you've fallen in love with wisdom before
2:28you fall in love with anybody. Um, so
2:31once we get to chapter 10, the tone of
2:34Proverbs is going to completely shift.
2:36Okay, the first nine chapters are
2:38different from the rest of the book.
2:40They are designed as educational poems,
2:42parents instructing their children on
2:44how to live wisely. These are the wisdom
2:46traditions that are passed down from
2:48generation to generation. They are of
2:50course longer than the short apherisms
2:54that Proverbs is most famous for. Okay?
2:57So once you get to chapter 10, it's just
2:59going to be oneliner after oneliner
3:00after oneliner. These kind of fit
3:03together as poems like as a whole. Okay?
3:06The the chapters kind of flow together.
3:08You can see themes. Okay. Uh so uh the
3:13the book of Proverbs is going to shift.
3:15Just want you to know. Um I'll actually
3:17kind of give you an outline of the book
3:19that will probably be really really
3:20helpful. Uh Proverbs chapter 1-9 are
3:23nine wisdom poems attributed to Solomon.
3:26These are thought to be written by him
3:28during his reign. They take the form of
3:30a parent instructing a child and focus
3:32on the choice between wisdom and folly.
3:35Okay. Proverbs chapters 10 to chapter
3:3822:1 16 are sentence sentence sayings
3:43attributed to Solomon. They are
3:45aferisms. Okay, apherisms associated
3:48with Solomon thought to be written by
3:50him. [snorts] These are the more
3:51traditional wisdom material. Okay, made
3:54up of short memorable sentence sayings.
3:57Proverbs chapters 22:1 17 to 24:22
4:02are the words of the wise. Another
4:04collection of apherisms, but these are
4:07on the face of it anonymous. Though, as
4:10will be discussed when we get there,
4:12they seem incredibly similar to an
4:14Egyptian work of the 12th century BC
4:17named the wisdom of Ammon, Aman mope.
4:22Chapters 24 23-34,
4:25another anonymous collection of
4:27apherisms. And then Proverbs chapters
4:2925-29, more sentence sayings of Solomon.
4:33Uh these are another collection of
4:35apherisms associated with Solomon but
4:38not included in his earlier collection
4:40rather they were collected during the
4:42reign of Hezekiah in the 8th century uh
4:46or early 7th century BC. And then you
4:49got Proverbs chapter 30 which are going
4:52to contain the sayings of a man by the
4:54name of Agur Agur.
4:57These are the collected apherisms of an
4:59unknown wise man named Agger the son of
5:03Jac. And then Proverbs 31 which we know
5:06as the proverbs the the a wife of noble
5:11character. Okay. These are the sayings
5:13of the mom of King Lemuuel. the
5:17affirmisms
5:18in acrossic poem written by a gentile
5:21king named Lemuuel based on the sayings
5:24of his mother. Who these were like who
5:27they are and where and when they were
5:29written is completely unknown. We have
5:31no information about Lemuuel or his
5:34mama. So that's a breakdown of just the
5:36book. Okay. And that's enough context
5:39for us to get into today's content. All
5:42right. Six dirty nuggets that I got for
5:44you for today. Okay. The first is
5:46actually something I was supposed to say
5:47yesterday. I didn't get to cuz I was
5:49rambling about, you know, prostitutes
5:52costs a loaf of bread and don't mess
5:54with a married man's wife and blah blah
5:56blah blah blah. Okay, I want to go back
5:58to chapter 6. I know today we're focused
6:00on chapter 7-9, but I want to go back to
6:02chapter 6. Okay. Uh chapter 6 vers 1-
6:0711. Okay. These are good. This is good
6:09stuff right here. This is chapter 6 1.
6:13My son. Okay, my son. If you have put up
6:16security for your neighbor, if you have
6:19shaken hands and pledge for a stranger.
6:21Okay. Hey, that's unwise. That sounds
6:23unwise. You have been trapped by what
6:25you said, ins snared by the words of
6:28your mouth. So essentially, this dad is
6:30saying you got to be careful who you go
6:31into business with. You got to be
6:33careful about how you manage your
6:36financial dealings, how you do business.
6:39Okay? because now you're ins snared by
6:41the words of your mouth, by the
6:42contract, by the pledge. So do this, my
6:45son, to free yourself since you have
6:47fallen into your neighbor's hands. Go to
6:49the point of exhaustion.
6:52If you ask me right now, do I think most
6:54people do anything to the point of
6:55exhaustion? I would say no. They they
6:58don't. Um there's actually been moments
7:00where I have fallen asleep in this
7:02chair. Cam, who's filming with me, can
7:04attest. There are moments where I will,
7:07in order to produce 365 episodes of a
7:10podcast, you have to push yourself to
7:12exhaustion. There are moments where I
7:14I've recorded sick. I've recorded coming
7:17straight off the road. We'll land at the
7:19airport, come straight to the studio to
7:21record content to the point of
7:23exhaustion. And there was one time where
7:26I was sitting in this chair at this
7:28table with all my books and I just kind
7:30of like like literally leaned back and
7:34was just like like snoring and Cam came
7:36and like woke me up and was like, "Yo,
7:38PM, I'mma take you home, man. Like I I
7:41got I come on, man. Like this is elderly
7:43abuse, bro. I just feel like I I'mma be
7:46judged by God like if I keep you in the
7:48studio." You know what I'm saying? To
7:49the point of exhaustion. And And here we
7:52go. Let's keep reading. Okay. to the
7:53point of exhaustion. Most people haven't
7:56even seen exhaustion. They they never
7:58even met exhaustion. Them and exhaustion
8:00are are not friends. Okay? And give your
8:04neighbor no rest. Okay? Allow no sleep
8:07to your eyes, no slumber to your
8:10eyelids. Free yourself like a gazelle
8:13from the hand of the hunter, like a bird
8:16from the snare of the fowler. Go to the
8:18ant, you slugard. Okay? consider its
8:21ways and be wise. Be wise. It has no
8:26commander, no overseer, no ruler. My
8:30biggest pet peeve like with I don't know
8:33people right now is like if your boss
8:35doesn't tell you to do it, you don't do
8:36it. What do you ants don't even need a
8:39boss? You tell me you need a boss. You
8:41need somebody to like like whip you into
8:44shape. Like that's crazy. Like there's
8:46got to be a motivation that's in you
8:49that makes you want to succeed, that
8:51makes you want to win. You got to be
8:53self motivated. Okay? It has no
8:55commander. It has no overseer. It has no
8:56ruler. Yet, it stores its provisions in
8:59summer and gathers its food at harvest.
9:01How long will you lie there, you
9:03slugard? When will you get up from your
9:06sleep? Here we go. I've committed this
9:08to memory. A little sleep, a little
9:10slumber, a little folding of the hands
9:12to rest, and poverty will come on you
9:15like a thief and scarcity like an armed
9:18man. Proverbs is going to I know this is
9:20offensive to our current secular
9:24worldview, but proverbs is going to say,
9:26"Yeah,
9:28poverty,
9:29one one of the factors, not the sole
9:33factor, one of the factors for poverty
9:36is laziness." that if if people are
9:40lazy, they will be poor. Now, I'm not
9:43saying all poor people are lazy. I don't
9:46don't twist my words. Don't don't don't
9:48get in the comments and fight, okay? I'm
9:49not saying all poor people are lazy. All
9:51I'm saying is that we cannot
9:54overcorrect. We can't say because all
9:56poor people are not lazy, then that
9:58means that no poor people are lazy.
10:00Well, that's just ridiculous. Proverbs
10:02saying, "Hey, there are some people who
10:05are poor because of sleep. They like
10:08sleep. They like they folding of the
10:10hands and and poverty will come on you
10:13like an armed man." And it is the job of
10:16a good dad to make his children scared
10:18of poverty 100%. So if Proverbs is a
10:23father's heart, a father's perspectives
10:25to his children, it is the job of a good
10:27dad to to make his children very very
10:30very aware. That's why it's very very
10:32dangerous to spoil children, okay?
10:35Because they have to be they have to
10:37love hard work. They have to enjoy hard
10:39work, okay? I enjoy what I do. This is
10:42my dream job. The reason I would fall
10:44asleep in this chair is cuz I love what
10:47I do. And so there are some people, it's
10:49not that you're lazy, it's that you're
10:51not living in purpose. And at some point
10:53maybe just maybe you're going to have to
10:55like make some sacrifices and unsecure
10:58the bag so that you can actually operate
11:01according to your purpose so that you
11:03can wake up with a sense of I love my
11:06job. You your your work does say
11:09something about your identity and God
11:12has a purpose for your life. And if
11:14you're just if you feel like your your
11:16job is a waste of your gifts and talents
11:20then it's going to be really hard to get
11:21you motivated. You are going to need a
11:22commander. You are going to need an
11:25overseer. You are going to need a ruler.
11:27But I've tried my best to hire people
11:30who I don't really need to oversee or
11:33rule or be a commander for them cuz
11:35they're self motivated. But I can only
11:38hire people for their purpose. The
11:40moment I try to hire somebody and get
11:42them to do something that they're not
11:44really designed and put on this planet
11:46to do, I'm going to have to constantly
11:49get them to like focus on the job. Okay.
11:52All right. Chapter 7:2. I want you to
11:54see this cuz it's going to be all
11:56through the book of Proverbs. Wisdom
11:57guards. Wisdom protects. Okay. When you
12:00adopt wisdom into your life, it protects
12:02you. It's like it it it secures you.
12:05Okay. Number three, third nerdy nugget.
12:07Okay. Chapter 7:7. It says this, I saw
12:11among the simple. I noticed among young
12:14men a youth who had no sense. Okay, so
12:16who is the book of Proverbs for? It's
12:18for young people. It's for youth. It's
12:20for children. Now, everything that we
12:22know about the knowledge of good and
12:24evil actually makes it so that the
12:27knowledge of good and evil is a good
12:29thing. Okay? There's only two groups of
12:30people who don't have the knowledge of
12:32good and evil. And you'll see why this
12:34connected to children in just a second.
12:36There's only two groups of people that
12:37don't have the knowledge of good and
12:38evil. Well, the first is pretty clear.
12:40It's sociopaths. Okay? If you if you
12:42don't know the difference between mowing
12:43the lawn and hacking somebody's limbs
12:45off and putting them in a deep freezer,
12:47you're crazy. Okay? Which means you
12:49don't have the knowledge of good and
12:51evil. You don't have the ability to
12:52discern the difference between what's
12:54good and what's evil. You're that's a
12:56sociopath. That's a psychopath. Okay?
12:58That's a serial killer. That person's
12:59nuts. The second group that doesn't know
13:01the difference between good and evil are
13:03children. So when the Bible says, "I saw
13:06among the simple," that doesn't mean
13:08like like people who aren't intelligent.
13:10That means people who are innocent. I
13:12saw among the innocent. Okay? My son
13:14right now, you know, literally last week
13:18pulled his penis out of the ice cream
13:19shop. I'm not joking. Just pulled his
13:21pants down, whipped it out. I WAS LIKE,
13:22"WHOA, HEY, BROTHER. WHOA, WHOA, WHOA,
13:25WHOA, WHOA, WHOA." I was like, "Hey,
13:26hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. You got to
13:28keep your underwear on, bro. Like, you
13:30got to keep your shorts on. Like you
13:32can't you can't we can't do this not at
13:35not at Somi Somi, bro. Not at the ice
13:37cream shop. Not where we get Earl Grey
13:39ice cream. You can't do that in here.
13:41Well, why would he do that? He would do
13:43that because he doesn't have the
13:44knowledge of good and evil. Okay, so
13:46when the Bible says that Adam and Eve
13:47are naked and unashamed, actually what
13:50the Bible is saying is that they've not
13:52yet taken of the knowledge of good and
13:55evil. And what happens when they do? The
13:57moment they take of the tree of the
13:58knowledge of good and evil, they go from
13:59a childlike state, from an innocent
14:01state, from a simple state to
14:04understanding shame and understanding
14:07that they are naked and that it's a
14:09problem. Okay? So, the Bible's actually
14:12telling us they go instantly from
14:15childlike innocence to adult
14:18understanding by taking the knowledge of
14:21good and evil. which means that the
14:24knowledge of good and evil in and of
14:25itself is not bad. However, when taken,
14:29it is bad. But when God thinks you're
14:33ready for it, he would want to give it
14:35to you. So, there's a difference between
14:37taking knowledge and receiving
14:40knowledge. And actually, I would say
14:42that the whole what we have in the
14:44Garden of Eden is a test to see whether
14:46or not Adam and Eve will trust God for
14:50his timing on when he thinks it's
14:53appropriate to give them the knowledge
14:55of good and evil. So, the knowledge of
14:57good and evil is not an inherently bad
14:59thing. How they went about getting that
15:01knowledge is the problem. So when
15:05Proverbs opens up and says, "Hey, our
15:08job is to give you the knowledge of good
15:10and evil, is to help the simple, to help
15:13youth, to help the young." It's us
15:15saying, it's it's Proverbs saying, "I
15:18want to bring you back into the Garden
15:20of Eden so that you can go from being
15:23innocent to being wise without sinning
15:28against the Lord." There are two ways to
15:30get wisdom. The first is experience. You
15:33know, there are guys, there are a
15:34plethora of guys on the team who are
15:36divorced and guess what? They have a
15:39bunch of knowledge around marriage, but
15:41it was through a very painful
15:43experience. The other way to get
15:45knowledge is through wisdom, which is
15:48not experience. It's saying, you know
15:51what, the fear of the Lord is the
15:52beginning of wisdom. Okay, how does the
15:53fear of the Lord work? It's not just me
15:55being in awe of God and me getting
15:57humility. It's also me being able to
16:00know what's going to happen if I sin. So
16:04think about the fear of the Lord. When
16:06Adam and Eve eat of the tree of the
16:07knowledge of good and evil, they feel
16:09fear and they hide from God. What
16:11happens when you have the fear of the
16:13Lord is you essentially say, "Mm, I can
16:16see around the corner. If I eat of that
16:19fruit, I am going to be afraid of God
16:21and I'm going to hide from him.
16:23Therefore, I'm going to take the fear
16:26that I will experience in the future and
16:28apply it to my life right now so that I
16:30have some restraint. And so, anyone who
16:33doesn't have fear is crazy. My dad has
16:37struggled with a drug addiction cuz he's
16:39not scared of anything. And if you ask
16:41me, I would say I'm very, very scared.
16:43I'm scared of losing my ministry. I'm
16:45scared of losing my marriage. I'm scared
16:47of drugs. I'm scared. I have the fear of
16:50the Lord, which isn't just being scared
16:52of God, but it's being afraid in the way
16:55that the Lord is afraid, which means the
16:57Lord knows the future. And wisdom says,
17:00I don't need to experience divorce to
17:03get the knowledge of what that does. I
17:05could talk, I could get wisdom, and it
17:08will make me afraid of divorce so that I
17:11never have to go through divorce. Okay?
17:13I'm gonna operate today with the kind of
17:16wisdom that helps me to navigate
17:18tomorrow. Okay. I want the future Manny
17:21Orango to be happy with what present
17:23Manny Orango is deciding to do today.
17:26Okay. So that I want to give language
17:28around simple youth young children. Son,
17:32why is this language so prevalent in the
17:34book of Proverbs? is prevalent because
17:37Adam and Eve had a test of whether or
17:39not they were going to take the
17:40knowledge of good and evil or wait to
17:42receive the knowledge of good and evil.
17:44And wisdom literature, not just
17:46Proverbs, but wisdom literature
17:48throughout the Bible is trying to offer
17:50the knowledge of good and evil to people
17:53who are not trying to just take it, but
17:55who are ready to receive it. All right,
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18:51a copy today. All right, back to the
18:54episode. Chapter 9 7-9. Okay, chapter 9
18:597-9 has one of my favorite little
19:01lessons. It says this, "Whoever corrects
19:03a mocker invites insults. Whoever
19:05rebukes the wicked incurs abuse." So,
19:07this is saying, "Do not give dumb people
19:10advice." That's what this is saying. And
19:13then verse eight, do not rebuke markers
19:15or they will hate you. Rebuke the wise
19:18and they will love you. Okay? If you
19:20rebuke a wise person, they will love
19:23you. So, anyone who's easily offended,
19:25you're operating in foolishness. Anytime
19:28someone gives me correction, I'm really
19:30not easily offended. Why? Why am I
19:32easily offended? Because the fear of the
19:33Lord creates humility. And humility
19:35creates confidence. And if I'm truly
19:36confident, I have no insecurities. You
19:38can criticize. You can you can give me
19:40all the feedback you want. No, I have no
19:43qualms with with rebuke because I'm
19:45wise. Verse 9, instruct the wise and
19:48they will be wiser still. teach the
19:50righteous and they will add to their
19:52learning. A secular way or just a
19:55natural way to say this is this. A word
19:57to the wise is sufficient. Part of the
19:59way that I judge whether or not people
20:00are wise is do they accept wisdom? If I
20:03say something wise to a wise person, a
20:05wise person hears it and goes, "That's
20:06wise." If I say something wise to a
20:08foolish person, they're confused by it
20:10and then I stop talking. So Jesus says,
20:13"Do not cast your pearls to swine." I
20:15think there's a lot of us who have a
20:18gift of wisdom and your frustration is
20:20that you keep trying to give wisdom to
20:22people who are not ready to receive it
20:24and not God doesn't even give wisdom to
20:26people who aren't ready to receive it.
20:28But why do you think that you can just
20:30force wisdom down people's throats?
20:32There are people who are not ready to
20:34receive wisdom and that's okay. I'll say
20:36this, no one accepts advice when they're
20:39winning. Let life beat that person up
20:42enough to get them to a place of
20:43humility. And guess what'll happen?
20:45They'll come back to you and they'll
20:47want wisdom. People have to come face to
20:50face with rock bottom. They have to get
20:53to failure. And you want to know what
20:54failure does? Failure will humble you
20:57real good. It'll get you nice and ready
20:59for wisdom. And so there's lots of you,
21:01especially if you have like a discerning
21:02or prophetic spirit about you. You'll
21:05begin to discern that somebody needs
21:06your wisdom. But you should also discern
21:09they're not in a place to receive
21:10wisdom. And you got to get them to a
21:13place. love them to the place where they
21:15are ready to receive wisdom. There are
21:16all kinds of things that I want to tell
21:18my son, but he's four and so that's not
21:21age appropriate. In the same way that I
21:23love my son not for just where he's
21:25going to be, but for where he is.
21:27There's a lot of us, especially pastor
21:28and leaders, you can't just love people
21:30for the potential that they have. You
21:31got to love them for who they are right
21:33now. Okay? And and you got to love them
21:36into the person that they're going to
21:37be. And they might not be able to handle
21:39the wisdom that you have for them at the
21:40moment. Okay? Last nerdy nugget, chapter
21:438 22-31 is a creation poem. Okay, so we
21:47saw a lot of creation poems in the
21:49Psalms. Okay, in chapter 8:es 22-31
21:53gives us another creation poem. Okay, it
21:55actually says wisdom was the first of
21:58God's works. Okay, it says the Lord
22:00brought me forth as the first of his
22:02works before the deeds of old. I was
22:04formed long ago at the very beginning
22:06when the world came to be when there
22:09were no watery depths. We see the the
22:11the proverb is shining light on Genesis
22:14chapters 1, okay? And giving a creation
22:17poem. So we saw this with the Psalms and
22:19now we're seeing it here in Proverbs.
22:21And then you know what? I'll give you
22:22one last one there. The knowledge of the
22:25Holy One is something that is going to
22:27be talked about and I'm trying to find
22:30the exact verse where it was. Proverbs
22:34chapter 9 10 it says, "The fear of the
22:36Lord is the beginning of wisdom." We
22:38already know that part. But then
22:40Proverbs 9 adds to it says and knowledge
22:42of the holy one is understanding.
22:45Knowledge of the holy one is
22:48understanding. I would say this by by
22:50knowing God you know everything else.
22:53Okay. So knowledge of the holy one means
22:55that I know his character. I know his
22:58attributes. I know the character and the
23:00nature of God. Knowledge of the holy one
23:02means that I I'll say it this way. I
23:04don't look at the sun to study the sun.
23:07But by the light of the sun, I can see
23:10everything else. And I don't study God
23:12just to see God, but he he he lives in
23:15unapproachable light. And so when it
23:17says the knowledge of the holy one, what
23:19we're really saying is I I get to know
23:21God so that I can understand everything
23:22else. And uh if you ask me what do I
23:25think the most you know the most
23:27important thing to study is I'd say
23:29theology because no awtoer says this no
23:33person can rise above their idea of God
23:35and so really you may think you have a
23:38wisdom issue but you may actually have a
23:40I don't really know who God is issue and
23:43the moment you begin to really know who
23:45God is the moment you can apply that to
23:47your life and actually find wisdom.
23:48That's the last thing I'll leave us with
23:50and that gets us into our timeless
23:51truth. So, let's talk about lady wisdom,
23:53lady folly. Okay. The thing that the
23:57book of Proverbs is trying to get you to
23:58see is that lady folly only tells you
24:03how things are pleasurable in the short
24:05term. Lady wisdom is making you fight
24:08for delayed gratification. And so, the
24:11ultimate test of wisdom is going to be
24:14whether or not you make decisions for
24:16the short term or decisions for the long
24:18term. Making decisions for the future is
24:22going to be the ultimate test of wisdom.
24:24So I want to ask you a hard question. Do
24:26you have impulse control? Do you live
24:30with delayed gratification? Okay. If you
24:34struggle with impulse control and
24:36delayed gratification, it doesn't matter
24:38how many of these proverbs you read,
24:39it's not actually going to get down into
24:42the fruit of your life. Because the key
24:45that unlocks all of this is do I live
24:49for the for the moment or am I living
24:51for my future? Okay. Everything that
24:55folly brings to you is quick gain, quick
24:58riches. Okay. And people who want to get
25:01rich quick never get rich. Okay. You
25:04know when whenever when I first started
25:06investing, wise people in my life were
25:08like just plan on owning that house for
25:1030 years. If you own it for 30 years,
25:13you will make money. But if you want to
25:15flip it, if you want to like buy a house
25:17and like flip it in two years, you're
25:18gonna struggle. If you want to own
25:21stocks and keep them for 30 years,
25:24you're going to make money. But if you
25:25just want to like, you know, flip, you
25:28know, day trade, you're going to lose
25:29money. Okay? So, you got to be someone.
25:33If if you're just thinking about, you
25:35know, how oh god, how how how can I have
25:38sex right now? you're going to end up
25:40doing something. You're going to end up
25:41selling your birthright for a bowl of
25:43soup because you're allowing the the the
25:46need of the moment to drown out the
25:49long-term strategy. And so, the thing
25:53that unlocks your ability to really get
25:56the wisdom that God has for you is
25:59short-term versus long-term thinking,
26:01impulse control versus delayed
26:03gratification, and making decisions for
26:05the present versus making decisions for
26:06the future. And that is a timeless
26:09truth. You are going to have to control
26:12your impulses and rest in some delayed
26:16gratification. That is the thing that
26:18would make you go to college for 4
26:19years. That is what will make you do a
26:21master's program. That's what will make
26:22you get a doctorate. That's what would
26:24make you choose marriage. That is what
26:26would make you be okay with having a
26:29toddler because you're thinking about,
26:31hey, one day I'm going to marry this
26:33this boy off or marry this girl off. I'm
26:35living for them in my 20s and 30s. It's
26:38the thing that would make you want to
26:40save for retirement even when you're in
26:41your 20s and 30s. It's the thing
26:43long-term. The book of Proverbs is going
26:46to make you focus on what are you trying
26:49to accomplish with your whole life. And
26:51you've got to begin to control impulses
26:53and delay your gratification if we are
26:56going to see any of this wisdom actually
26:58take root in your life. That isn't just
27:01true for Solomon and his son, David and
27:03his son. That's true for you and I.
27:05THAT'S OUR TIMELESS TREAT. TOMORROW WE
27:07GOT DAY 305. WE'RE GOING TO be in
27:09Proverbs chapter 10 and 12. The tone of
27:12the Proverbs is going to change. Okay,
27:14we're at a hinge point. When we get out
27:15of chapter 9, once we get into chapter
27:1710, the sayings are going to be short
27:20sentence sayings are going to be more
27:21aferisms. It's going to be awesome. I
27:23can't wait to see you tomorrow. Same
27:25time, same place. So proud of you.
27:27Choose wisdom. See you tomorrow. Peace.
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