Day 306: Proverbs 13-15 | 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 306 here at the
9. 0:27Bible department. Today we are looking
10. 0:29at Proverbs chapters 13,14 and 15. And
11. 0:34if you can't tell, I love the book of
12. 0:36Proverbs. I love wisdom. I think that
13. 0:39there is such great benefit to just
14. 0:42leading a life of wisdom. So, I've been
15. 0:46really, really, really enjoying our
16. 0:48journey through the book of Proverbs.
17. 0:50I'm going to try to actually give you my
18. 0:52top 10 today. All right. So, no intense
19. 0:55context clues. Uh obviously the book of
20. 0:58proverbs doesn't work that way. There
21. 1:00are not really like a historical moment
22. 1:04where we can attach these sayings of the
23. 1:07wise. I may try to give you some just
24. 1:10some context for maybe wisdom literature
25. 1:12in general or the book of proverbs in
26. 1:14general tomorrow or the next day. But
27. 1:17for today, I really do want to get
28. 1:19through my nerdy nuggets aka Dr. Manny's
29. 1:22top 10 verses of the day. Okay? like TRL
30. 1:26style. I'm so old. I just said TRL.
31. 1:29Anybody, if you remember what TRL is,
32. 1:32like let me know in the comments if
33. 1:34you're watching this on YouTube. Okay,
34. 1:35if you know what TRL means, tell me like
35. 1:38what it stands for. What does the T
36. 1:40mean? What does the R mean? What does
37. 1:41the L mean? And uh put that in the
38. 1:43comments and uh prove that you're a
39. 1:46millennial. Okay, let's see. Let's see.
40. 1:48Cam is Gen Z. He's in the studio with
41. 1:50me. Do you know what TRL is? HE DOESN'T
42. 1:52KNOW. CAM DOESN'T know what TRL is
43. 1:55because he's too young. So, TRL. Okay.
44. 1:57So, you know, TRL was the top 10 music
45. 2:00videos of the day. Okay. And if you know
46. 2:02what it stands for, put it in the
47. 2:04comments. BUT 106 AND PARK, BABY. We're
48. 2:07going to do top 10 Dr. Manny's top 10
49. 2:09Bible verses from Proverbs chapters 13
50. 2:12to 15 today. And we're going to get
51. 2:13through all 10. Okay. We tried to do
52. 2:15this yesterday. I think we only got
53. 2:16through like six or seven, but today
54. 2:18we're going to actually get through 10.
55. 2:19ALL RIGHT. STARTING AT NUMBER ONE, AND
56. 2:21THESE are no in no particular order. The
57. 2:24order is I'm going to start at, you
58. 2:26know, the earliest verse in chapter 13
59. 2:28and go to the last verse of chapter 15.
60. 2:30So, it's not an actual top 10 in terms
61. 2:33of like popularity or how much I like
62. 2:36them, just in order of how they appear
63. 2:38in scripture. Okay. So, Proverbs chapter
64. 2:4113:3
65. 2:43and uh it says this, all these are these
66. 2:45are just my favorites as I did the
67. 2:47reading today. Proverbs 13:3, "Those who
68. 2:50guard their lips,
69. 2:53preserve their lives, but those who
70. 2:55speak rashly will come to ruin." Um,
71. 2:59it's funny because I think that the
72. 3:00enemy loves to attack you at the point
73. 3:03of your greatest strength. And so, I
74. 3:05would say probably my greatest weakness
75. 3:07for years was my tongue. You know, just
76. 3:11having a sharp tongue, that's also my
77. 3:13greatest gift. So, if there's anybody
78. 3:15out there who your greatest gift and
79. 3:17your greatest weakness kind of go hand
80. 3:18in hand, you're not alone. That doesn't
81. 3:21make you weird. That actually is quite
82. 3:22normal for the enemy to want to
83. 3:25neutralize your strength with a
84. 3:28corresponding weakness. Okay. So, Pastor
85. 3:31Robert Moo, okay, my pastor in Dallas,
86. 3:34really, really helped me with this one.
87. 3:35He said, "Manny," he said, "Man, a
88. 3:38serial killer and a surgeon are both
89. 3:40using a knife to cut people." But he
90. 3:43said, "A serial killer is obviously, you
91. 3:45know, ruining that person's life and is
92. 3:47going to kill them and going to go to
93. 3:49jail, you know, if they're caught
94. 3:50forever. It's going to go to prison
95. 3:51forever." But a surgeon is actually
96. 3:55going to get asked to do it again and
97. 3:57again and again because it's not the cut
98. 4:00that brings that brings death. It's the
99. 4:03ability to to use the tool. And he said,
100. 4:06"Words cut, man. Words cut." And every
101. 4:09time you use your words, you're either
102. 4:11going to be a serial killer or you're
103. 4:13going to be a surgeon. And he's like, "I
104. 4:15want you to just get surgical with your
105. 4:16words." And uh he really helped me. And
106. 4:19uh another person in my life, Pastor
107. 4:21Jimmy Rollins, remember him saying to
108. 4:23me, "You've been trying to be filtered
109. 4:25your whole life. You don't need to be
110. 4:26filtered. You need to be tactful." And I
111. 4:29just began in the last probably two to
112. 4:30three years really, you know, realizing
113. 4:34the power of words and the power of
114. 4:37using precise words and the power of not
115. 4:40just saying it out of passion, but
116. 4:43really doing the hard work to define
117. 4:46words and to use the right words and uh
118. 4:49to be tactful, to be surgical and not
119. 4:53just be loose or flippant or careless
120. 4:56with words. And I would say that if you
121. 4:58if I just examine my own leadership
122. 5:00style, you know, in my early 20s, my
123. 5:04late 20s, my early 30s, I would have
124. 5:06said I was a I was a passionate leader.
125. 5:09I was an energetic leader. I I was I was
126. 5:12a lot of the things that I am now, but I
127. 5:14was also a leader who lacked hair,
128. 5:18precision, precision, and tact with when
129. 5:21it came to words. And uh and so Proverbs
130. 5:2413:3, woo, speaking my language, those
131. 5:27who guard their lips preserve their
132. 5:30lives. That there's something about
133. 5:32speech and talking that's that's
134. 5:35completely connected with the quality of
135. 5:37your life. Okay? And but those who speak
136. 5:40rashly will come to ruin. Sometimes you
137. 5:43just got to be quiet. Sometimes you just
138. 5:45got to say nothing until you are in a
139. 5:48position where you can be tactful.
140. 5:51Sometimes we're trying to be tactful,
141. 5:53but you're angry or you're offended or
142. 5:55you're too emotional. And so, honestly,
143. 5:59if there's something that's just added
144. 6:00great value to my life and has kept me
145. 6:03from ruining relationships over the last
146. 6:06couple years, it's been Proverbs 13:3.
147. 6:09And the two leaders in my life that have
148. 6:11really made the this verse come to life,
149. 6:14it's Pastor Robert Moo, Pastor Jimmy
150. 6:15Roll. So, shout out to them. They're
151. 6:17amazing. All right. Number two, Proverbs
152. 6:20chapter 13 verse 10. Man, this one's
153. 6:23good. Says this, where there is strife,
154. 6:26THERE IS PRIDE. OH, THAT IS GOOD. WHERE
155. 6:30THERE IS STRIFE, there's pride. If you
156. 6:34have strife with another person,
157. 6:36somebody's lacking humility in this
158. 6:39equation. And actually, one of the
159. 6:41things that I've learned as a leader is
160. 6:43the more humbly I can be or the more
161. 6:48humble I can be or the more humbly I can
162. 6:52speak or present myself in any
163. 6:54conversation, the more that I decrease
164. 6:58the likelihood of there being strife on
165. 7:00the team. Anytime there's strife,
166. 7:02there's pride. And here's how I see
167. 7:05pride manifesting itself. A lot of times
168. 7:08people thinking their way is the right
169. 7:10way or their way is the only way to do
170. 7:12things and so their ideas they start to
171. 7:15hold their ideas uh not open-handed but
172. 7:18close-handed. That's pride. You are
173. 7:21valuing your perspective and your
174. 7:24opinion so highly that nobody can tell
175. 7:28you that that's not the right way to do
176. 7:30it. That's just your way to do it.
177. 7:33Humility says there's tons of ways to do
178. 7:35it. I'm not married to the way that we
179. 7:37do it. I'm just married to the
180. 7:39destination, man. I'm married to to us
181. 7:41getting it done. And uh people who want
182. 7:43to go fast, go alone. People who want to
183. 7:45go far, take a team. And it's going to
184. 7:47take a lot of humility to die to the way
185. 7:50that you may want to do things or to
186. 7:52stop believing that you have the best
187. 7:54ideas all the time because where there
188. 7:57is strife, there is pride. So, anytime
189. 8:00there's, you know, just h this, you
190. 8:03know, this relationship's kind of taking
191. 8:05a lot of effort, somebody's operating in
192. 8:07pride. Somebody, somebody, you want to
193. 8:10know what humility says? I could be
194. 8:11wrong. Hey, man. I My way's not the only
195. 8:14way to do it. My way is not the only way
196. 8:15to see it. When there is strife, there
197. 8:18is pride. And here's what's also pride.
198. 8:21Okay? When there's disagreement and
199. 8:23somebody just goes, "ALL RIGHT, LET'S DO
200. 8:24IT YOUR WAY. Let's Yeah, let's do it
201. 8:26your way." And they just like, so those
202. 8:28are two extremes. One, fighting to do it
203. 8:30your way is pride. Completely giving up
204. 8:32and just and just, you know, letting the
205. 8:35other person do it their way is pride.
206. 8:38You want to know what takes humility?
207. 8:40Compromise.
208. 8:41Negotiating. You know what takes? You
209. 8:44know what it takes? Humility? You know,
210. 8:46meeting in the middle. Hey, how how can
211. 8:48we in what way can we collaborate with
212. 8:51each other? All right. Oh gosh, it's not
213. 8:53looking like I'm going to be able to get
214. 8:54through 10. Okay. But wisdom is found in
215. 8:56those who take advice. Okay? So, where
216. 8:58there's strife, there's pride, but
217. 9:00wisdom is found in those who take
218. 9:01advice. All right. Number three, family.
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241. 10:00episode. Proverbs 13:1. Proverbs 13:11.
242. 10:04Dishonest money dwindles away. But
243. 10:07whoever gathers money little by little
244. 10:10makes it GROW LITTLE BY LITTLE. LITTLE
245. 10:13BY LITTLE. HOW DO YOU BECOME WEALTHY?
246. 10:14Little by little. Dishonest money
247. 10:16dwindles away. You know, it's funny. I I
248. 10:19had a friend back in Boston who was a
249. 10:22drug dealer for years. And I was like,
250. 10:24"Did you like get wealthy?" HE WAS LIKE,
251. 10:26"DUDE, NO, I NEVER made a lot of money."
252. 10:30He's just like like dishonest money just
253. 10:33dwindles away. He's like it it's it's we
254. 10:37act like that's it's good money, but
255. 10:39it's not. And let me tell you, get rich
256. 10:42quick schemes will take all your money.
257. 10:46You're essentially just playing the
258. 10:47lottery. It's poverty mentality. Little
259. 10:49by little, little by little, little by
260. 10:51little, okay? But whoever gathers money
261. 10:54little by little makes it grow. Okay?
262. 10:57Slow and steady wins the race. Okay?
263. 10:59Proverbs 13 verse 20. Number four.
264. 11:03Proverbs 13 verse20 says this. Walk with
265. 11:06the WISE AND BECOME WISE. WALK WITH THE
266. 11:09wise and become wise. You want to know
267. 11:11how you're going to become wise? Find a
268. 11:14wise person and get around them. That's
269. 11:16how you get wise. Find wise people. Walk
270. 11:21with the wise and become wise. Okay.
271. 11:23Somebody asked me one time, "Why did you
272. 11:25move all the way to Dallas, Texas from
273. 11:27North Carolina?" I said to walk with
274. 11:29Pastor Robert Moo to be w like I saw him
275. 11:33as someone who was wise and the Bible
276. 11:35says that wisdom is worth selling
277. 11:38everything you've got. So I sold my
278. 11:39house in North Carolina. I moved halfway
279. 11:41across the country. I I invested
280. 11:44resources to be around someone that I
281. 11:47thought was a wealth of wisdom, a well
282. 11:52of knowledge. Okay. And I got no
283. 11:55regrets. The garden feels a lot like
284. 11:58social Dallas and my ministry style is
285. 12:02reflected in the church that I came
286. 12:04from. And so the three years that I
287. 12:06spent with Pastor Robert and Pastor
288. 12:08Taylor at social invaluable. But I
289. 12:11decided not just to fly in a couple
290. 12:14times a year to preach, not just to show
291. 12:17up at the conference. No, no, no. To
292. 12:18walk with the wise. To walk with the
293. 12:20wise. To get to his house at 5:00 in the
294. 12:23morning and go to Barry's boot camp. Oh
295. 12:25god, I hate Barry's boot camp. But
296. 12:28that's what it means to walk with the
297. 12:29wise. It means that you put yourself in
298. 12:32proximity to leaders. Now, we have this
299. 12:35twisted. We think that wise people are
300. 12:38going to come find us and come disciple
301. 12:39us. So ridiculous. No. If you want
302. 12:43wisdom, you go find a wise person and go
303. 12:46walk with them. No one who's wise is
304. 12:49thinking about you. Nobody. They got
305. 12:52stuff to do. They're busy. They're busy
306. 12:54leading and they're busy flourishing and
307. 12:57they're busy parenting and they're busy.
308. 12:59Okay. So, Pastor Robert wasn't going to
309. 13:01come find me, discover me, mentor me.
310. 13:06No, I needed to go be around him. It
311. 13:09doesn't say the wise will come walk with
312. 13:11you so that you can become wise. No, it
313. 13:13says walk with the wise and become wise.
314. 13:16And we got a whole generation that just
315. 13:18complains. Nobody's discipling me.
316. 13:21Nobody. Nobody. Nobody. Okay, cool. You
317. 13:25know, even on our launch team right now,
318. 13:26I had a couple of the guys, they're
319. 13:28like, "Hey, you know, I just would love
320. 13:30to spend some time with you." And I'm
321. 13:31like, "Hey, you do know that there's a 5
322. 13:34a.m. prayer that happens every Tuesday
323. 13:37and every Thursday, right? 5:00 in the
324. 13:39morning. Every Tuesday. Every Thursday
325. 13:42on Zoom, I'm there." So, SO HOW YOU
326. 13:45MISSING THE 5:00 A.M. PRAYER than asking
327. 13:46me to do coffee? No. No. No. No. No. No.
328. 13:49No. No. No. I'm not here to to
329. 13:52accommodate you. You want You want
330. 13:54wisdom, come be in my world. You want
331. 13:57wisdom, come get around me. I'm not the
332. 13:59one with something to lose here. You're
333. 14:01the one with something to lose here. So,
334. 14:03I'm not going to chase you to give you
335. 14:06wisdom. If you want wisdom, you better
336. 14:09wake your happy hips up at 4:45 in the
337. 14:11morning and jump on that Zoom call at
338. 14:135:00 a.m. because you can't complain
339. 14:15about the wisdom you don't got when wise
340. 14:18people are giving you an opportunity to
341. 14:20be around, but it's at an inconvenient
342. 14:23time. Also, in my entire ministry
343. 14:26career, I always make things at 5:00 in
344. 14:29the morning to make it inconvenient on
345. 14:31purpose because it's a test. Cuz
346. 14:33everything's a test. When I first met
347. 14:35Jesse Summers, he asked if I could
348. 14:37mentor him, and I said, "Yep, sure.
349. 14:39Starbucks 6 a.m." And I told the people,
350. 14:44"Starbucks 6 a.m." That was back when I
351. 14:46was still drinking Starbucks. I know.
352. 14:47I've repented from my sins. I I I saw
353. 14:49the light. No more Starbucks. We don't
354. 14:50do Starbucks no more. But back 10 years
355. 14:53ago, I was doing Starbucks. Starbucks 6
356. 14:54a.m. And you wouldn't believe the amount
357. 14:57of guys I told that to who never showed
358. 14:58up to Starbucks at 6:00 a.m. But I said
359. 15:00it to Jesse, and guess what he did? He
360. 15:02showed up to Starbucks at 6:00 a.m.
361. 15:04because he understood that if I walk
362. 15:06with the wise, I'll become wise. And
363. 15:08I've watched that man become wise. Why?
364. 15:11Because he decided to sacrifice
365. 15:14to put skin in the game to wake himself
366. 15:17up and to walk with the wise. No leader
367. 15:21is going to put stuff on the bottom
368. 15:22shelf for you. Nobody. Great leaders
369. 15:26that have something to offer is going to
370. 15:27put it up on the top shelf. All the way
371. 15:30up on the top shelf. If I wanted time
372. 15:32with Pastor Robert, I knew, hey, if I
373. 15:35get to his house by 4:30, I could jump
374. 15:38in his car while he drives TO BARRY'S
375. 15:40BOOT CAMP. And I hated Barry's. And I
376. 15:42hated waking up that early. But guess
377. 15:44what? If I'm going to walk with the
378. 15:46wise, and that means I'm going to cold
379. 15:47plunge. That means I'm going to get in
380. 15:49the sun, and that means I'm GOING TO DO
381. 15:50A BUNCH OF STUFF I DON'T REALLY WANT TO
382. 15:51DO. But no great leader makes their
383. 15:55pearls accessible. You don't put pearls
384. 15:57on the bottom shelf. And wisdom is never
385. 15:59going to go on sale. So, you got to ask
386. 16:01the question, am I doing what's actually
387. 16:04required to gain wisdom from somebody?
388. 16:07All right. Golly,
389. 16:10we're only AT FOUR. NUMBER FIVE,
390. 16:12PROVERBS 13:4. Whoever spares the rod
391. 16:15hates their children, but the one who
392. 16:18loves their children is careful to
393. 16:20discipline them. All right? Uh, this
394. 16:22verse gets taken out of context a lot.
395. 16:24Okay? Sparing the rod doesn't mean that
396. 16:26I don't physically spank my children.
397. 16:30Okay? I I actually think that a lot of
398. 16:32pastors get into trouble by advising
399. 16:35people or not advising people to
400. 16:38discipline their children with with
401. 16:40physical, you know, with with a pop or
402. 16:42or wooden spoon or whatever. I actually
403. 16:45think the heart of the verse has nothing
404. 16:46to do with whether or not physical
405. 16:48discipline is is godly or not godly. I
406. 16:52think that's a personal call. You make
407. 16:53that judgment for yourself. I don't
408. 16:55think it's any pastor's business to tell
409. 16:56you how to, you know, discipline your
410. 16:58child. But I will say this, there's a
411. 17:00difference between punishment and
412. 17:01discipline. Punishment and discipline.
413. 17:04And when there is sufficient discipline,
414. 17:07you don't need punishment. What is
415. 17:09punishment? Punishment is what happens
416. 17:12after someone lacks discipline.
417. 17:14Discipline is what happens to prevent
418. 17:16punishment from ever needing to take
419. 17:18place. So, basketball practice,
420. 17:22soccer practice is where discipline
421. 17:25happened. Did that happen after the game
422. 17:27or before the game? Before the game. We
423. 17:30always had practice before the game to
424. 17:33get in shape for the game. Okay. The
425. 17:36discipline happens before the game to
426. 17:38get in shape for the game. Now, there
427. 17:40are a couple of games where we lost so
428. 17:42bad. We were so undisiplined that our
429. 17:45coach took us right back to our gym at
430. 17:499:00 at night, 10:00 at night and made
431. 17:51us run laps, made us run lines. That's
432. 17:54punishment. Okay? Or somebody was
433. 17:57disrespectful or somebody wasn't dressed
434. 17:59appropriately and we had to do laps.
435. 18:01That was punishment. that happens after
436. 18:04the game when you drop the ball because
437. 18:06you failed to be disciplined before the
438. 18:09game in preparation for the game. And a
439. 18:11lot of times we think that God is in the
440. 18:13punishment business, but God's not in
441. 18:15the punishment business. He's really in
442. 18:17the discipline business. He wants to
443. 18:19discipline you with fasting, discipline
444. 18:22you with prayer, discipline you with
445. 18:24reading the word. He wants to discipline
446. 18:26you so that you don't actually fail in
447. 18:29moments of trial, testing, or
448. 18:31temptation. Okay. So that there doesn't
449. 18:34need to be punishment. So I actually
450. 18:37think that the heart of God, the heart
451. 18:39of this verse, the heart of a parent
452. 18:42should be I want to discipline my child
453. 18:45so that there aren't scenarios where I
454. 18:47need to punish them. And discipline is
455. 18:50not just about physically spanking them.
456. 18:53Discipline is about training them,
457. 18:55teaching them, correcting them, offering
458. 18:58wisdom to them, guiding them, and
459. 19:02depositing in them. And not just about,
460. 19:06you know, you know, my dentist always
461. 19:07tells me, the more preventative care we
462. 19:09do, the more we don't have to, you know,
463. 19:13do stuff to rescue your teeth once
464. 19:16they're jacked, but we can actually
465. 19:17prevent your teeth from even getting
466. 19:19cavities in the first place. Oh gosh, we
467. 19:21only made it to five. All right, rapid
468. 19:24fire. I'll do the last five.
469. 19:25Proverbsapter 14:23 uh says this, "All
470. 19:29hard work brings a profit, but mere talk
471. 19:33leads only to poverty." What's that
472. 19:35mean? TALK IS CHEAP, BRO. STOP TALKING.
473. 19:37Get to work. Okay. Proverbs 14:23. All
474. 19:41hard work brings profit, but mere talk
475. 19:44leads only to poverty. STOP TALKING
476. 19:46ABOUT that idea. Start doing something.
477. 19:48This is a waste of time talking about
478. 19:50stuff. You ain't got no plans on doing
479. 19:52nothing. Stop talking. Just stop it.
480. 19:54Stop it. Actually, scientists have found
481. 19:57out that the more you talk about your
482. 19:58goals, it actually when you talk about
483. 20:01your goals with other people, it
484. 20:02releases a chemical in your brain where
485. 20:04you start to feel a reward from just
486. 20:06talking about it. And the reality is
487. 20:08that the less you talk about it and just
488. 20:10be about it. Let people see the fruit of
489. 20:13your labor. Don't talk about your goals.
490. 20:15I'm going to get in shape. Yo, watch,
491. 20:16man. I'm going to get in shape. Be
492. 20:18quiet. Go get to the gym. STOP ALL THAT
493. 20:20TALKING. ALL THAT YAPPING. YOU COULD BE
494. 20:23AT THE GYM. YOU could be you you could
495. 20:25be bench pressing. Instead of yapping,
496. 20:27go throw some weights. Go go go be about
497. 20:31it. Don't talk about it. Be about it.
498. 20:34All right. Proverbs 14:31. Rapid fire.
499. 20:37Rapid fire. Rapid fire. Whoever
500. 20:38oppresses the poor shows contempt for
501. 20:40their maker, but whoever is kind to the
502. 20:44needy honors God. Self-explanatory. God
503. 20:46cares for the poor. God cares about how
504. 20:49we treat the poor. God says that if we
505. 20:51oppress the poor, we show contempt for
506. 20:53their maker. So God identifies with the
507. 20:56poor. Says, "No, no, I'm their maker.
508. 20:58I'm their God." Okay? And whoever is
509. 21:00kind of the poor honors me. So we want
510. 21:03to make sure that we we honor the poor,
511. 21:06that we care for the poor, that we don't
512. 21:07oppress them. That's a good verse, man.
513. 21:09Because obviously Proverbs is going to
514. 21:11be, you know, Proverbs is all about you
515. 21:13being wealthy. But in your pursuit of
516. 21:16wealth, please don't oppress the poor
517. 21:19and dishonor the poor cuz that would be
518. 21:21actually creating a curse for your own
519. 21:23life. You'd be showing contempt for God
520. 21:25and not honoring the Lord. Okay, rapid
521. 21:28fire, rapid fire, rapid fire. Proverbs
522. 21:30chapter 15:16, uh, says this, "Better a
523. 21:33little with the fear of the Lord than
524. 21:35great wealth with turmoil." Oh, there's
525. 21:38a lot of you right now. It'd be better
526. 21:40for you to have less money. First of
527. 21:42all, you're in debt. You've
528. 21:44overextended. You know what I'm saying?
529. 21:45Your overhead's too too, you know, too
530. 21:48big. It it'd be better. It'd be better.
531. 21:51Okay? Cuz real blessing comes with uh
532. 21:55not not there's a difference between
533. 21:56hard work and turmoil. If it's causing
534. 21:59turmoil, then it's not from God. Okay?
535. 22:02The rapid fire rapid fire 1522
536. 22:06says this plans fail for lack of counsel
537. 22:08but with many adviserss they succeed. I
538. 22:12am a collaborative leader which means
539. 22:14I'm a collaborative decision maker. I
540. 22:16like to get a a multitude of counsel. I
541. 22:19ask about a dozen people about
542. 22:21everything before I really make
543. 22:22decisions. And there are some people who
544. 22:24just like trust their gut and they just,
545. 22:26you know, and I I'm just not that kind
546. 22:28of a leader. I I don't think that I
547. 22:31don't think that's a good way to lead. I
548. 22:33think that there is with many advisers,
549. 22:36you know, plans actually succeed. So,
550. 22:38before we signed a contract for the
551. 22:39House of Blues, I called Pastor Robert.
552. 22:41Man, I called I I I called Pastor Matt
553. 22:44back in Boston, my home church. I I
554. 22:47asked my wife. I asked our team. I I
555. 22:50asked the Lord. I you know, I safety and
556. 22:53a multitude of counsel. Okay. I'm
557. 22:55shocked as to how many people just make
558. 22:57decisions by themselves and then they
559. 23:00only come to their pastor once things go
560. 23:01left and and it's a dumpster fire. But
561. 23:04it's like your pastor could have saved
562. 23:06you from that being a dumpster fire. I'm
563. 23:08shocked as to how many people just show
564. 23:09up like hey this is who I'm dating. It's
565. 23:12like you didn't want to get advice
566. 23:13before you like locked it in with that
567. 23:15person or they show UP LIKE I PROPOSED
568. 23:17and I'm like oh fantastic. Maybe if you
569. 23:20had asked some wise people what they
570. 23:21thought, we could have saved you from
571. 23:23proposing cuz this person isn't a good
572. 23:25person to marry. But hey, man, do you.
573. 23:27Sounds good. Last one. Okay. 15 27. It
574. 23:31says this, "The greedy bring ruin to
575. 23:33their households, but the one who hates
576. 23:35bribes will live." Again, the issue is
577. 23:37not wealth, but it is greed. In Proverbs
578. 23:40is going to go after greed. All right.
579. 23:41What's our topless truth for the day?
580. 23:43Our timeless truth comes out of Proverbs
581. 23:44chapter 15:8. says this, "The Lord
582. 23:47detests the sacrifice of the wicked, but
583. 23:49the prayer of the upright pleases him."
584. 23:51I wrote in my notes, "Legalism where?"
585. 23:53Everybody says, "The Old Testament is
586. 23:55legalistic." Where? Legalism where?
587. 23:58Proverbs 15:8
588. 24:00says, "The Lord detest the sacrifice of
589. 24:02the wicked." Legalism would mean, "Well,
590. 24:04I could do wrong and as long as I offer
591. 24:07a lamb or a goat or a bull on the altar
592. 24:10sacrifice, it'll atone for my sins." And
593. 24:13even God in the Old Testament is smarter
594. 24:15than that. He's like, "Nah, I detest the
595. 24:18sacrifice of the wicked because I'm
596. 24:20after your heart." So legalism where
597. 24:23this idea that the Old Testament is
598. 24:25legalistic is wild. That's crazy. That's
599. 24:27not a biblically accurate statement.
600. 24:30Says the Lord detests the sacrifice of
601. 24:33the wicked, but the prayer of the
602. 24:36upright pleases him. Okay? that you
603. 24:39could actually do less than the person
604. 24:41who's offering a sacrifice because a
605. 24:43sacrifice costs money. A prayer costs
606. 24:44nothing. But as long as your heart
607. 24:46postures in the right place, then you've
608. 24:49done more in terms of your relationship
609. 24:50with the Lord than by offering a
610. 24:52sacrifice. So God's not very legalistic.
611. 24:55God knows how to judge the thoughts and
612. 24:57the attitudes of the heart. And that's
613. 24:59not just true for the proverbs or the
614. 25:01author of that proverb. That is true for
615. 25:03me. That is true for you. That's a
616. 25:05timeless truth. And all of the proverbs
617. 25:07that I shared are actually timeless
618. 25:09truths. And I love the book of Proverbs.
619. 25:12I I'm Woo. I wish the whole Bible was
620. 25:15this simple. Anyway, all right. Tomorrow
621. 25:17we got day 307. We actually got through
622. 25:20all 10 of those. I can't believe we did
623. 25:21it. We did the last five kind of rapid
624. 25:23fire, but I like it. Okay, day 307.
625. 25:26Tomorrow we got Proverbs chapter 16 to
626. 25:2918. Cannot wait to dive into three more
627. 25:33chapters of Proverbs with you. Same
628. 25:36time, same place. I'll be here. The only
629. 25:39question is, will you? If you're on a
630. 25:41streak, I'm proud of you. I love you
631. 25:43regardless of if you're on a streak or
632. 25:44not. Love you. Love you. Love you. I'll
633. 25:46see you tomorrow. Peace.
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