Day 305: Proverbs 10-12 | 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 305 here at the
9. 0:26Bible department. Today we are diving
10. 0:28into Proverbs chapters 10, 11, and 12.
11. 0:32This is the more classic kind of
12. 0:35Proverbs that people are used to. The
13. 0:38short wisdom sayings, Proverbs chapters
14. 0:411-9
15. 0:43had a poetic storytelling kind of a
16. 0:46flow, themes that carried through. And
17. 0:49these are just oneliners, one hit
18. 0:52wonders. Okay. So, this entire section
19. 0:55of the book is going to feel this way
20. 0:57from Proverbs chapter 10 all the way to
21. 0:59Proverbs chap 22:1
22. 1:0216 is going to feel like these one-hit
23. 1:04wonders, these oneliners, these just
24. 1:07these hard-hitting, memorable oneliners.
25. 1:10Okay, so uh if you haven't done the
26. 1:12reading for the day, how about you stop
27. 1:14this video, pause the audio, go get the
28. 1:16reading done. I mean, I quite enjoy
29. 1:19reading Proverbs, but I love wisdom. I
30. 1:23love love love wisdom. And uh I hope by
31. 1:27the end of uh our time together through
32. 1:29Proverbs, you love wisdom as well.
33. 1:32Because if you don't love wisdom, that
34. 1:34means you love foolishness. So, we don't
35. 1:36want to love foolishness. All right. The
36. 1:39only context clue I really have for you
37. 1:41is that we have a difference of the type
38. 1:45of proverb that we are reading. Okay,
39. 1:47from Proverbs 1-9, we are reading a
40. 1:50narrative, storytelling, poetic kind of
41. 1:53a flow. And you can feel it soon as you
42. 1:55start Proverbs chapter 10, you can feel
43. 1:58like, oh, okay, yeah, that was a
44. 2:00distinct section. And now I'm in a new
45. 2:02section. And these are short sentences
46. 2:05drawn from long experiences. Okay, when
47. 2:08people think of proverbs, this is what
48. 2:10they typically think of, these short,
49. 2:12memorable sentence sayings. All right.
50. 2:15So, here's what I'm going to do today.
51. 2:17I'm just going to give you my top for
52. 2:20our nerdy nuggets, okay? For our nerdy
53. 2:22nuggets today, I'm just going to give
54. 2:23you my top 10 proverbs from these three
55. 2:27chapters. Top 10. So, we're going to
56. 2:29kind of like rapid fire through these.
57. 2:32Not going to give super super long
58. 2:34explanations. Just going to read the
59. 2:36verse, encourage you, and and then and
60. 2:39then move to the next one. Okay? And I'm
61. 2:41going to try to move through 10. I know
62. 2:43that's lofty. I should have said five or
63. 2:45seven or something, but no, I think I
64. 2:46can do 10. Okay, here's Dr. Manny's top
65. 2:4910 proverbs from today's reading. Okay,
66. 2:52uh I want you to grab your Bible. Let's
67. 2:54go to Proverbsap 10 verse4. Proverbs
68. 2:57chapter 10:4. And while you're there, go
69. 3:00ahead and grab verse 22. Proverbsap 10:4
70. 3:04and Proverbs chapter 10 verse 22. Cuz
71. 3:07man,
72. 3:08this is good right here. Uh I think they
73. 3:11go together. These these two oneliners
74. 3:13go together. Proverbs 10:4, "Lazy hands
75. 3:16make for poverty, but diligent hands
76. 3:19bring wealth." Lazy hands make for
77. 3:21poverty. Diligent hands [snorts] bring
78. 3:23wealth. Is it a guarantee? No. Does it
79. 3:26mean that every lazy person will be
80. 3:30poor? No. Some lazy people have rich
81. 3:32parents and it is what it is. Does it
82. 3:33mean that every poor person is lazy? No.
83. 3:37But does it mean that there is overlap
84. 3:39between laziness and poverty? Yes.
85. 3:43Diligent hands bring wealth. Does that
86. 3:45mean every diligent person is wealthy?
87. 3:47No. Does that mean that every wealthy
88. 3:50person is diligent? No. But is there
89. 3:52overlap? Yes. There's enough overlap for
90. 3:55this proverb to say that lazy hands make
91. 3:58for poverty and diligent hands bring
92. 4:00wealth. What I get out of that is, hey,
93. 4:03make sure I'm fighting laziness at every
94. 4:07stage. And there's different kinds of
95. 4:08laziness. There are people who, you
96. 4:11know, are workaholics, but they're still
97. 4:12lazy. Okay? So, they'll put in tons of
98. 4:15work and effort at their job because
99. 4:18their work or their professional life is
100. 4:20actually easy for them. But when it
101. 4:22comes to like their emotional life or
102. 4:24their marital life or their life as a
103. 4:26parent, they don't put in equal amounts
104. 4:29of work because in those areas they're
105. 4:31lazy. And so I have prided myself as a
106. 4:35hardworking person. I remember the first
107. 4:37time that a leader kind of looked at me
108. 4:39and was like, "Yeah, but you know,
109. 4:42you're lazy when it comes to your
110. 4:44marriage. You're lazy when it comes to
111. 4:47things that have to do with the home.
112. 4:49You're lazy when it comes to Tia and
113. 4:51Theo. You're lazy. And I remember the
114. 4:54first time Uncle Jimmy Rollins, like I
115. 4:56had preached like four times and I call
116. 4:58him Unk. I call him Uncle Jimmy. You
117. 5:00know, I was just ready to go home and
118. 5:01crash. And he was like, "You better grab
119. 5:03a 5-hour energy at the airport. Your son
120. 5:06does not care that you preach four
121. 5:07times. He does not care." And it's lazy
122. 5:10to use preaching four times as an excuse
123. 5:12to go home and not be a good parent and
124. 5:15to just check out and not engage with
125. 5:17your son. Okay, that's lazy. If you're
126. 5:19going to be hardworking on Sunday
127. 5:22mornings at the church, then guess what?
128. 5:24You're going to be hardworking when you
129. 5:26get home, when you engage with your wife
130. 5:28and your son. Okay? So, lazy, diligent.
131. 5:32I think that it goes well with verse 22
132. 5:34because here's what verse 22 says. The
133. 5:36blessing of the Lord brings wealth
134. 5:39without painful toil for it. So,
135. 5:42Proverbs is shy about wealth. Proverbs
136. 5:45is not going to operate under the
137. 5:48assumption that wealth is like evil or
138. 5:50wealth is bad. Actually, the Bible
139. 5:52operates from this place that greed is a
140. 5:55problem that idolatry is a problem. So,
141. 5:58if money is something that creates greed
142. 6:00in you or if finances or financial
143. 6:03security is an idol for you, then then
144. 6:06God has an issue with that. But he has
145. 6:08no problem with wealth. Actually, the
146. 6:10Bible never says that money is evil or
147. 6:12money's bad. that says the love of money
148. 6:15is bad, which again is greed and
149. 6:17idolatry. Okay, so number one, Proverbs
150. 6:2010:4. Number two, Proverbs 10:22.
151. 6:25Number three, Proverbs 11:4. Proverbs
152. 6:2911:4 says this, "Wealth is worthless in
153. 6:33the day of wrath." Okay, again, Proverbs
154. 6:37is actually giving a pretty holistic
155. 6:39view on wealth. says, "Hey, you know,
156. 6:42God brings a blessing of wealth.
157. 6:44Diligent hands create wealth, but let's
158. 6:46be clear, wealth is worthless on the day
159. 6:49of wrath, but righteousness delivers
160. 6:52from death." Hey, don't just go after
161. 6:53being wealthy. Make sure that you go
162. 6:55after being righteous. Okay, I love
163. 6:57that. That's a good good reminder, and
164. 7:00it's a good counterbalance. I guess the
165. 7:02way that I've thought about it is this.
166. 7:03If a plane's crashing, it doesn't matter
167. 7:05if you're in first class. Okay? So,
168. 7:08you're dying. Okay? Everybody dying.
169. 7:10Okay. So, the goal of this proverb is to
170. 7:13help people to go, hey, wealth is
171. 7:15worthless in the day of wrath. Hey, once
172. 7:18once God cracks the sky and comes back,
173. 7:21you're not going to be able to take your
174. 7:23riches or your wealth with you. So,
175. 7:25wealth is worthless in the day of wrath.
176. 7:27So, make sure that you stored up some
177. 7:29treasures in heaven, okay? Where moth
178. 7:31and rust don't destroy, where thieves
179. 7:32don't break in and steal. Okay? That's
180. 7:34why it says righteousness delivers from
181. 7:36death, not wealth. That's three. Let's
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205. 8:37episode. Proverbs 11 24- 26 says this,
206. 8:43"One person gives freely yet gains even
207. 8:46more." That's the counterintuitive
208. 8:49nature of generosity right there. One
209. 8:51person gives freely yet gains even more.
210. 8:54Another withholds
211. 8:56unduly but comes to poverty. That verse
212. 8:59right there essentially says generosity
213. 9:02leads to wealth, not the other way
214. 9:03around. Wealth doesn't lead to
215. 9:05generosity, but generosity leads to
216. 9:07wealth. But stinginess leads to poverty.
217. 9:10Are all stingy people poor? No. Are all
218. 9:13poor people stingy? No. But is there
219. 9:16overlap? Yes. Okay. So remember,
220. 9:19Proverbs are not telling you how things
221. 9:21work all the time. It's not a law of
222. 9:25nature. It's not like gravity. But
223. 9:27Proverbs is telling you a general rule
224. 9:29of thumb. Uh let's keep going. Verse 25.
225. 9:32A generous person will prosper. Whoever
226. 9:35refreshes others will be refreshed. This
227. 9:37is saying this this how society works.
228. 9:39Generous people are attractive people.
229. 9:42I've won favor by just being a generous
230. 9:44person. One of the first things we did
231. 9:46when we got to Houston is I decided,
232. 9:47yep, I'm going to buy season tickets to
233. 9:50the Houston Rockets. Why? Cuz I'm not
234. 9:52planting a church from a poverty
235. 9:54mindset. I'm planting a church from an
236. 9:56abundance mindset, from a wealth
237. 9:58mindset. And to me, I want to be able to
238. 10:00invite people to go see the Houston
239. 10:02Rockets with me. So, I bought two
240. 10:04tickets. And I'm able to say to anybody
241. 10:07on our team, "Come, come go to a game
242. 10:08with me." Especially, not anybody, men
243. 10:12on our team, come go to a game with me.
244. 10:15Well, that's generous. That's just me
245. 10:16being generous. An executive pastor at
246. 10:18my old church so told me that uh he
247. 10:21always used to give his kids when they
248. 10:23were in high school a pack of gum. He
249. 10:25sent them to school with a pack of gum
250. 10:26every morning. He said, "Cuz guess what?
251. 10:28The kid with gum makes friends cuz you
252. 10:31can give gum away. He didn't give them
253. 10:32gum so their breath could be fresh. He
254. 10:34gave them gum so that they could win
255. 10:36favor with other people because
256. 10:39generosity
257. 10:40always attracts people. People love
258. 10:44being around givers. They love being
259. 10:46around generous people. People do not
260. 10:48like being around stingy people or
261. 10:50people who take. Okay? People who
262. 10:53withdraw more than they deposit. No one
263. 10:55likes being around that person. Okay?
264. 10:57But people love being around a generous
265. 10:59person. I want you to think about this.
266. 11:01What emotion do you think people feel
267. 11:03when they see your name on their caller
268. 11:05ID? When they look at their phone and
269. 11:07you're calling, do you think they get a
270. 11:08pit in their stomach like, "Ah, this
271. 11:10dude about to ask me for something or do
272. 11:12you think they rejoice like, "Yo, this
273. 11:14person's about to encourage me." And uh
274. 11:16I got some friends in my life who as
275. 11:18soon as I see their name on my phone,
276. 11:20they're calling me. I'm like, yo, every
277. 11:23time they call me, they encourage, they
278. 11:25make a deposit. They're generous. And
279. 11:27that means I always answer the phone.
280. 11:29There's some people,
281. 11:31they are low capacity, but high
282. 11:34maintenance. That's the opposite of
283. 11:36generous. Here's what generous is. Low
284. 11:38maintenance and high capacity. It means
285. 11:41that you don't require a lot of
286. 11:42attention, but you're someone who gives
287. 11:44a lot of value. Okay, that is a general
288. 11:47rule. I I could say right there, Gary
289. 11:50Vee, I don't know if you know who Gary
290. 11:51Vee is genuinely just trying to teach
291. 11:53people how to do that, right? You don't
292. 11:55even need to be a Christian to access
293. 11:56that level of wisdom that you should be
294. 11:59generous. Why do we make this entire
295. 12:01podcast free? Well, it's because I
296. 12:04believe that the more you share the the
297. 12:09world of the generous get bigger and
298. 12:11bigger, get larger and larger. Okay. So,
299. 12:13uh, Proverbsap 11 24 to 26. Uh, and then
300. 12:19last one, people curse the one who
301. 12:21hoards grain, but they pray God's
302. 12:23blessing on the one who is willing to
303. 12:25sell. Okay, so Proverbs 11:es 24- 26
304. 12:29essentially saying, hey, the world of
305. 12:32the generous man brings blessing. People
306. 12:35want generous people to flourish because
307. 12:37they understand that if that person
308. 12:39flourishes, we all flourish. Okay. So,
309. 12:41Proverbs 10:4, Proverbs 10:22, Proverbs
310. 12:4411:4, Proverbs 11:24-26.
311. 12:49Okay. And then uh Proverbs 10. So, we're
312. 12:52going to go back to Proverbs 10. Okay.
313. 12:54Uh Proverbs 10 24. Proverbs 10 24 and
314. 12:5925. Oh, no, no, no, just 24. Sorry, just
315. 13:0324. It says this, "What the wicked dread
316. 13:05will overtake them. What the what the
317. 13:07righteous desire will be granted." Say,
318. 13:10I want you to think about this. This is
319. 13:11the first time that we have a riddle.
320. 13:13This is more like a riddle. You got to
321. 13:15have to figure out the riddle. Okay?
322. 13:17What the wicked dread will overtake
323. 13:19them. What the righteous desire will be
324. 13:23granted. Okay? So, we have to ask the
325. 13:25question, what do the wicked dread and
326. 13:28what do the righteous desire? And it
327. 13:31would seem as though it's the same thing
328. 13:33because that's how the riddle works. And
329. 13:35the answer is Yahweh. That's the answer.
330. 13:39You got to figure out the real. You have
331. 13:40to think about it for a little bit. The
332. 13:41answer is Yahweh. What do the wicked
333. 13:44dread? The the presence of God. Why?
334. 13:46Because they're wicked and they know
335. 13:48that Yahweh means wrath. Okay. What do
336. 13:51the righteous desire? Yahweh. And so
337. 13:54both will get what they what they the
338. 13:56the the wicked will get what they dread.
339. 13:59One day Yahweh will come on the day of
340. 14:01the Lord. Yahweh will come. And what
341. 14:05will happen? Yahweh will overtake the
342. 14:07wicked. They'll die. But what will
343. 14:09happen to the righteous? The righteous,
344. 14:11what they desire will be granted. And
345. 14:13then next verse kind of goes along with
346. 14:15it. When the storm is swept by, the
347. 14:17wicked are gone. It may look like the
348. 14:19wicked are prospering, but their lives
349. 14:21are not set up to withstand trouble, to
350. 14:24withstand storms, to withstand hardship.
351. 14:27Okay? But the righteous stand firm
352. 14:29forever. The righteous aren't shaken by
353. 14:32storms. Okay? because they're righteous
354. 14:35and they're building their life not just
355. 14:37for this world but for eternity. All
356. 14:39right, I got through five. Let me see
357. 14:41how many more I can get through before
358. 14:43our time runs out today. Proverbs
359. 14:45chapter 10 verse 8. Proverbs chapter 10
360. 14:48verse 8 says this and it goes along with
361. 14:51verse 17 of the same chapter. So
362. 14:54Proverbs chapter 10 verse 8 and 17 says
363. 14:58this in verse eight, the wise in heart
364. 15:00accept commands. Okay. But then verse 17
365. 15:03says, "Whoever heeds discipline shows
366. 15:06the way to life, but whoever ignores
367. 15:08correction leads others astray. The wise
368. 15:11in heart accept commands." The wise in
369. 15:14heart, they accept commands. They they
370. 15:17And then it says this, "But a chattering
371. 15:19fool comes to ruin." I always can tell
372. 15:21whether or not someone's in a position
373. 15:22to accept based on how much they're
374. 15:25listening to the ratio of how much
375. 15:26they're talking. So the wise in heart
376. 15:28accept commands. They know how to heed
377. 15:30discipline. They're easy to correct,
378. 15:33easy to give advice to because you give
379. 15:36them advice, they pivot, they change,
380. 15:38they apply it. What's verse 17 say?
381. 15:40Whoever heeds discipline shows the way
382. 15:42to life. But whoever ignores correction
383. 15:45leads others astray. I don't want to be
384. 15:47someone who ignores wisdom, who ignores
385. 15:50correction. Actually, the way that I
386. 15:52would say it is like being easily
387. 15:54offended will lead you to a place where
388. 15:58you where you ignore correction and
389. 16:01where you don't want to be challenged,
390. 16:03where you don't like commands. Nothing
391. 16:05worse than an insecure person who's
392. 16:08always offended when you have something
393. 16:10to say that will help them ultimately.
394. 16:12Let's see if we can get a couple more
395. 16:14in. Proverbs 11:1. It's a good one.
396. 16:18Okay. the Lord to test dishonest scales,
397. 16:20but accurate weights find favor with
398. 16:22him. Obviously, God, what you begin to
399. 16:25see through Proverbs is wealth is not an
400. 16:28issue for God. But what does God have an
401. 16:30issue with? Injustice, ill gotten gain.
402. 16:33He's like, "No, no, no, no, no.
403. 16:34Dishonest scales means that you're
404. 16:37using, you know, would be kind of like
405. 16:38it's a way to get over on on on people."
406. 16:41Okay. Dishonest scales. It's it's like,
407. 16:43hey, what what the Lord actually has an
408. 16:45issue with is a lying and cheating and
409. 16:50using shady methods to get wealthy,
410. 16:53okay? Get rich quick schemes like that
411. 16:57stuff, God is just like, "Yeah, no, I'm
412. 16:59not in that." And so anyone who's trying
413. 17:01to convert you to like be a part of
414. 17:03their pyramid scheme or sorry their
415. 17:04multi-level marketing, you know, thing,
416. 17:07like if it's dishonest, if it's getting
417. 17:08over on somebody, you know, if I got to
418. 17:10cheat on my taxes to do it, I I'm
419. 17:12probably I'm not going to do it because
420. 17:14God says like he hates dishonest skills.
421. 17:16And uh at some point, you can't love
422. 17:18wealth so much that you're willing to
423. 17:20compromise on your character because one
424. 17:23of the things that Proverbs has got to
425. 17:24make clear is that your name, like
426. 17:26having a good name is to be valued.
427. 17:29Okay. So, dishonest scales. God has an
428. 17:31issue with injustice. Especially if that
429. 17:33injustice is taking advantage of the
430. 17:35poor. All right. So, I I wanted that put
431. 17:37in there because if we just cherrypick
432. 17:40the proverbs that sound like, "Yeah,
433. 17:42man, God is pro wealth." Then that's not
434. 17:45actually helping us. There's a very very
435. 17:47holistic picture that God's creating
436. 17:49here in the Proverbs on how we're
437. 17:52supposed to engage with money in the
438. 17:54marketplace as business leaders. And and
439. 17:57one of the things that God says verse
440. 17:5911, sorry, chapter 11, verse one, the
441. 18:02Lord hates the son of skills. Okay? But
442. 18:05accurate weights find favor with him.
443. 18:07God wants you to win, but he doesn't
444. 18:08want you to cheat to do it. Okay? He
445. 18:10doesn't want you to lose your character
446. 18:12to do it or compromise your morals to do
447. 18:14it. Uh let's see how many more I can get
448. 18:16done. Proverbs 12, uh verse 11 is a good
449. 18:20one. Proverbs 12 11. It says this,
450. 18:23"Those who work their land will have
451. 18:25abundant food, but those who chase
452. 18:27fantasies have no sense." That's a good
453. 18:30one. Work the land don't chase
454. 18:32fantasies. Okay, there are people who I
455. 18:37ask them their dream and they tell me
456. 18:39and I'm like, "Okay, so what are you
457. 18:40doing to get there?" And and they're
458. 18:42like, "Oh, nothing." And I'm like, "Got
459. 18:43it." There's not a dream then. It's a
460. 18:45fantasy. You're living in fantasy. you
461. 18:48know you there's nothing realistic about
462. 18:50what you're saying and the way that I
463. 18:53know that I'm operating in faith and not
464. 18:55a fantasy is that faith without works is
465. 18:58dead. I guess the other way that I can
466. 19:00say this faith without corresponding
467. 19:02action is a fantasy. It's a fantasy.
468. 19:05There's some people actually they have
469. 19:07dreams and their dreams they're dreaming
470. 19:10not to get to work but they're dreaming
471. 19:12to keep them from work. They're they
472. 19:14they spend all this time dreaming up
473. 19:16what they're gonna do, who they're going
474. 19:17to be, almost like they're caught up in
475. 19:21dreamland. And it's like you can't get
476. 19:23them to get busy doing something. But
477. 19:27who's who's actually going to have
478. 19:29abundant food? Those who work their
479. 19:31land. Get work the land. It's one thing
480. 19:34for me to dream about Arma. It's another
481. 19:37thing for me to get in the studio,
482. 19:39record some courses, learn how to get,
483. 19:42you know, salesunnel together, run some
484. 19:44ads, get a podcast, you know, put the
485. 19:47ads in the middle of the podcast and
486. 19:49work the land. It's one thing for me to
487. 19:52have a pipe dream like, oh, I'm going to
488. 19:54plant a church one day. It's another
489. 19:55thing to move to Houston, start meeting
490. 19:58people, start evangelizing,
491. 20:00start attracting Christians who are not
492. 20:04been to church, get them active that get
493. 20:07them get them from dormant, you know,
494. 20:10active like to work the land. Get to
495. 20:14work. Wake up. There's a lot of us,
496. 20:16we're just living in fantasies. One day
497. 20:19I'm gonna one day. What about today?
498. 20:22What are you going to do today? What
499. 20:24about right now? A whole bunch of people
500. 20:26who it's like they're they tell me about
501. 20:29all their future goals and then I I look
502. 20:31at them and I'm like, "Okay, so you got
503. 20:33a dream of being an entrepreneur."
504. 20:35Fantastic. You're a bad employee today,
505. 20:38though. Hey, stop with the fantasies.
506. 20:41Work the land. Work your land. And guess
507. 20:45what? The best land is to work. This is
508. 20:46where we're going to pivot to our Thomas
509. 20:48tree. Guess the best land to work right
510. 20:50here. The soil of your own soul.
511. 20:52Everything every everything that I've
512. 20:55reaped in my life has come out of the
513. 20:58the toil of getting my my heart turning
514. 21:02my heart into good ground. Making sure
515. 21:05that my heart is not thorny, rocky, or
516. 21:08shallow, but that I'm good ground. And
517. 21:11um there's other proverbs that we could
518. 21:13look at. There's, you know, I've got a
519. 21:15bunch of proverbs listed here that we
520. 21:16just don't have time to get into. So, we
521. 21:18didn't hit 10. It was wishful thinking.
522. 21:20It was a fantasy. But I want to leave
523. 21:23you with this timeless truth. First of
524. 21:24all, the proverbs are already timeless,
525. 21:26but just the timeless truth that the
526. 21:28best land of work is the ground of your
527. 21:31heart. It's the wellspring of life
528. 21:33protect your heart above everything.
529. 21:35It's the wellspring of life. Like, does
530. 21:37love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,
531. 21:39goodness, generous, self-control? Do all
532. 21:41the fruits of the Holy Spirit grow out
533. 21:44of the soil of your soul? Because if
534. 21:46they don't, then that means you got to
535. 21:48work the land. You got to work the land
536. 21:51of your heart because it doesn't matter
537. 21:54how great of an employee or talented of
538. 21:56an employee I could recruit if my own
539. 22:00soul is not producing the fruit of the
540. 22:02Holy Spirit great employees are not
541. 22:04going to stay. So what good is it if I
542. 22:07recruit them but then it can't keep
543. 22:08them. Okay. So, the biggest ROI that
544. 22:11I've had as a pastor, as an
545. 22:13entrepreneur, as a leader, as as a faith
546. 22:17leader, as a business leader, has been
547. 22:19cultivating the soil of my own heart.
548. 22:23And I would say, man, Proverbs 12:1,
549. 22:27those who work their land, not just the
550. 22:30land of their business or their family
551. 22:32or No, no, no. But their land, like what
552. 22:35me and my therapist do, okay? couple
553. 22:38times out of the month. This land called
554. 22:41this plot of land called Manny Orango. I
555. 22:43was made from the dirt and to the dirt I
556. 22:46will return one day. And my job is to
557. 22:48work this plot of ground until this plot
558. 22:51of ground produced a harvest of
559. 22:52righteousness. And that's not just true
560. 22:54for Solomon. That's not just true for
561. 22:57the context of when these proverbs were
562. 22:59written. But that's true for you. That's
563. 23:01true for me. That's timelessly true. All
564. 23:03right. Tomorrow we got day 306. We're
565. 23:06going to be looking at Proverbs chapters
566. 23:0813, 14, or 15. I love Proverbs. Maybe
567. 23:11tomorrow I'll do a top 10 again. And
568. 23:14maybe I'll say it's top 10, but won't
569. 23:16get to 10 because there's no way to get
570. 23:17to 10 in a 20-minute episode. But
571. 23:19anyway, we'll see. I love you. I'm proud
572. 23:22of you. Especially if you're on a
573. 23:23streak. I'll see you right here
574. 23:24tomorrow. Same day, same time, same
575. 23:26place. Let's look at Proverbs chapter 13
576. 23:29and 15 tomorrow. Love you guys. Peace.
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