Day 308: Proverbs 19-21 | 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
2. 0:02Orango. Welcome to the Bible department
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8. 0:24family. Welcome to day 308 here at the
9. 0:27Bible department. Today we are looking
10. 0:29at Proverbs chapters 19, 20, and 21.
11. 0:35And hopefully we just get A LITTLE BIT
12. 0:37MORE WISE. LIKE the goal is to get wiser
13. 0:40and wiser and wiser and wiser and wiser.
14. 0:42If we walk with the wise, we will get
15. 0:44wise. And reading the proverbs is a way
16. 0:47to walk with the wise. Wise people have
17. 0:50left us their writings. And we want to
18. 0:53walk with them by reading what they've
19. 0:55got to say. And so if you have not done
20. 0:58the reading today, uh how about you stop
21. 1:01this video, pause the audio, go get the
22. 1:04reading done, okay? You want to get
23. 1:06Proverbs chapters 19, 20, and 21 fully
24. 1:10read, and then come on back. All right,
25. 1:13for those of us who have done the
26. 1:15reading, no real context clues for
27. 1:18today. Again, this is not really how
28. 1:21Proverbs works, right? It's is not a
29. 1:24book that is heavy on context, but very
30. 1:28very heavy. Almost every single line out
31. 1:30of the book can be applied timelessly as
32. 1:33a truth to your life. So, low on the
33. 1:35context clues, heavy on the timeless
34. 1:37truth. I've been enjoying giving you
35. 1:39nerdy nuggets every day, aka my top 10.
36. 1:43Today, I've got seven. I think finally,
37. 1:46I'm going to be wise. I'm going to be
38. 1:48realistic. I think I can give you seven
39. 1:50of my favorite verses that came out of
40. 1:52today's reading. So, let's get to it.
41. 1:55All right. Again, no context, no no
42. 1:59author, no audience, no history, none of
43. 2:02that. Okay, not today at least. So, I'm
44. 2:04going to give you seven verses that
45. 2:06stuck out to me and [snorts] um just
46. 2:09kind of kind of talk through those.
47. 2:10Okay, Proverbs 19 verse 11. Obviously,
48. 2:14we got chapter 19, chapter 20, and
49. 2:16chapter 21 today on the docket. So,
50. 2:19let's start with Proverbs chapter 19.
51. 2:22Proverbs chapter 19 verse 11 says this,
52. 2:25"A person's wisdom yields patience." It
53. 2:29is to one's glory to overlook an
54. 2:32offense. A person's wisdom yields
55. 2:35patience. Man, how do you know if you're
56. 2:38a wise person? Are you patient? Are you
57. 2:40a patient person? Okay, wise people are
58. 2:43in it for the long haul. Okay, remember
59. 2:48Proverbs is going to warn against
60. 2:49get-richqu schemes. Like anything that's
61. 2:52kind of like overnight success, Proverbs
62. 2:55is like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
63. 2:57Gather money little by little, right? Uh
64. 3:00succeed, grow little by little. So this
65. 3:04same idea can be found in Proverbs
66. 3:0719:11. A person's wisdom yields
67. 3:09patience. Well, what's required to make
68. 3:12an investment and uh you know not see a
69. 3:15return on that investment for 30 years
70. 3:17to leave your money in the stock market
71. 3:20and just let it do its thing for 30
72. 3:23years. Patience to buy a piece of
73. 3:26property and just let it become more and
74. 3:28more valuable over time. Patience. Okay.
75. 3:32Patience. Impatient people want to buy
76. 3:36property then sell it and then like buy
77. 3:38stocks and then sell it, you know.
78. 3:40patience. Okay, a person's wisdom yields
79. 3:44patience. Patience. Not in a rush. Zero
80. 3:47rush. That doesn't mean that there's
81. 3:48never an urgency. It just means there's
82. 3:50never a rush. There's a big difference
83. 3:52between urgency and and rush. Okay. And
84. 3:55so, all right. It is one's glory to
85. 3:58overlook an offense. So, not only, okay,
86. 4:02I'm going to be patient in life, but I'm
87. 4:04going to be patient in my dealings with
88. 4:06other people, and I'm able to overlook
89. 4:10an offense cuz I'm a patient person,
90. 4:12which means, you know what, I I
91. 4:14understand that it's going to take time
92. 4:17to develop the people around me or to be
93. 4:19in reconciled relationships. And so,
94. 4:22patience is part for the course. You
95. 4:24know, if I'm going to be someone who is
96. 4:27gonna have fruitful relationships, then
97. 4:30I'm gonna have to have the kind of
98. 4:32patience that can overlook an offense.
99. 4:33That's a great verse, man. Proverbs
100. 4:3719:1, that's worth memorizing. A
101. 4:40person's wisdom yields patience. You
102. 4:42can't claim to be wise if you're not
103. 4:44patient. Okay? You can't claim to be
104. 4:46wise if you're impulsive. You can't
105. 4:48claim to be wise if you're like if
106. 4:51you've got this like um frantic kind of
107. 4:55behavior. No, no. Patience. Patience. It
108. 4:59is to one's glory to overlook an
109. 5:00offense. Okay. So, when you when you
110. 5:03overlook an offense, don't think, "Oh,
111. 5:05that person got over on me." Think, "Oh,
112. 5:08it's to my glory that I overlooked that
113. 5:09offense." Like that. That actually
114. 5:11reflects good on me. It's not I'm not
115. 5:14soft because I overlooked an offense. I
116. 5:16am wise because I overlook an offense.
117. 5:19All right, it's my first one. Proverbs
118. 5:21chapter 19 verse 22. Proverbs chapter 19
119. 5:24verse 22 says this. What a person
120. 5:27desires is unfailing love. Better to be
121. 5:31poor than a liar. [laughter]
122. 5:34Better to be poor than a liar. Okay.
123. 5:37What a person desires is unfailing love.
124. 5:40What is unfailing love? Unfailing love
125. 5:42is the kind of love where you can be
126. 5:44honest. Okay. And then it says, "Better
127. 5:46to be poor than a liar." Okay, so the
128. 5:49the the Bible is giving us wisdom around
129. 5:52lying. Like, hey, you you if if you just
130. 5:56met a woman, it's better to be poor.
131. 5:58Like, it's better to let her know I'm
132. 6:01poor than to flex or to pretend like
133. 6:04you're somebody that you're not because
134. 6:05that's not going to be a relationship
135. 6:07that leads to unfailing love. You just
136. 6:09set yourself up for a gold digger to
137. 6:12find you if you're flexing and lying and
138. 6:16acting like you're somebody that you're
139. 6:17not. But it's better to be poor than a
140. 6:20liar. You don't need a lie. You don't
141. 6:22need a lie. When I first met my wife,
142. 6:24she knew I was broke. I was broke. It's
143. 6:26okay. I'd rather be I'd rather be poor
144. 6:28than a liar. I'm not going to I'm not
145. 6:30going to lie about and make it seem like
146. 6:32I got more than I do. I don't. I'm
147. 6:34broke. I need somebody who's down to
148. 6:37help me and who's down to build with me,
149. 6:40who's down to build an empire with me,
150. 6:42who's down to build a ministry with me.
151. 6:44Uh, I'd rather be poor than a liar.
152. 6:46Okay. Next. Proverbs 20:1. Wine is a
153. 6:50mocker and beer a brawler. Whoever is
154. 6:53led astray by them is not wise. Is not
155. 6:58wise. All right, let's dive into this
156. 7:00one because I'll kind of tell you my own
157. 7:02story and then kind of teach a principle
158. 7:05here that I think Proverbs 20:1 wants us
159. 7:09to learn. Okay, first first the story. I
160. 7:12grew up in a church that essentially
161. 7:14taught that any drinking was sin.
162. 7:18Drinking alcohol, whether it was a tight
163. 7:22amount or enough to get you inebriated,
164. 7:25was a sin. Okay. And then I went off to
165. 7:28college and I met people who and I lived
166. 7:31in England and then I I just came to the
167. 7:34realization, okay, the perspective that
168. 7:37I heard at church growing up is not
169. 7:40true. And so I had to deconstruct that
170. 7:42idea that drinking was a sin. Now,
171. 7:44here's what happens when you
172. 7:46deconstruct. Um when you deconstruct,
173. 7:48you don't know what to trust and what
174. 7:50not to trust. So you start questioning
175. 7:52everything that that church or that that
176. 7:54person taught you. Instead of chewing
177. 7:56the meat, spitting out the bones, you
178. 7:58spit out all the meat, any meat and
179. 8:00bones, you know. And so deconstruction
180. 8:04always leads to an overcorrection. And I
181. 8:07know a lot of people who this is the
182. 8:08path that they went on. They they they
183. 8:10were raised in a church that said
184. 8:11drinking is a sin. And then they
185. 8:13realize, okay, the Bible doesn't say
186. 8:15that drinking is a sin. And so then in
187. 8:18their new found Christian liberty, they
188. 8:21began to enjoy, indulge, and maybe even
189. 8:25abuse alcohol. And recently, probably
190. 8:28the last two to three years, maybe three
191. 8:30years. Yeah, probably three years, I
192. 8:33made a personal decision that alcohol
193. 8:36was of no positive value to me. that I
194. 8:40was enjoying and indulging in alcohol
195. 8:44just to celebrate the fact that I could
196. 8:46just to just to be, you know, I'm I'm
197. 8:49I'm free. I'm a Christian. This wasn't
198. 8:52right. So, I'm I'm going to enjoy it cuz
199. 8:54I can. And um I don't know. I just got
200. 8:57to a place of like, why am I doing
201. 8:59something just cuz I can? Doing
202. 9:01something just because I can do it is
203. 9:03not wise. Literally, Paul says,
204. 9:06"Everything is permissible for you, but
205. 9:08not all things are beneficial." So, the
206. 9:11real question to ask is never, "Well, is
207. 9:15that a sin?" It's a terrible question.
208. 9:18The is it a sin question is actually not
209. 9:21a wise question. Here's a good question.
210. 9:24Is it wise? Is it beneficial? Is it
211. 9:27profitable? Will it jeopardize my
212. 9:29witness? Wisdom is not asking about
213. 9:33whether it's a sin. Wisdom is wondering
214. 9:36what's the value at. And so for me, I
215. 9:39realized I actually don't need to come
216. 9:42to any theological stances on whether or
217. 9:45not this is a sin or not cuz it's not a
218. 9:47sin issue. It's a wisdom issue. And so I
219. 9:49began to realize consuming alcohol is
220. 9:53just not very wise. It's not a very wise
221. 9:56thing to do. So I stopped. I also st and
222. 9:58this is also why I I began to operate in
223. 10:02wisdom as opposed to freedom. You know,
224. 10:06what do I have the right to do? Instead
225. 10:08of operating in my Christian rights, I
226. 10:11decided, yeah, who cares what I have the
227. 10:13right to do? Let's just talk about
228. 10:15what's wise, what's beneficial. And I
229. 10:17came to this conclusion. If I did not
230. 10:20consume alcohol, I could passion lead
231. 10:22people who did and didn't consume
232. 10:24alcohol. By being someone who does not
233. 10:27consume alcohol, I could lead people who
234. 10:30do and don't consume alcohol. However,
235. 10:33if I was someone who did consume
236. 10:36alcohol, people who don't consume
237. 10:39alcohol would be turned off. And my job
238. 10:42is not to assert my rights or my
239. 10:46freedoms as a Christian. My job is to be
240. 10:48all things to all men. So, I put it on
241. 10:51the altar and said, "I can sacrifice
242. 10:53that." Because anything that you can't
243. 10:55just slit its throat and sacrifice is an
244. 10:58idol. Wine is a mocker. Doesn't say
245. 11:01getting drunk's a mocker. Wine. Wine's a
246. 11:04mocker. Beer a brawler. Wine and beer
247. 11:08mockers and brawlers. Whoever is led
248. 11:10astray by them not wise. It doesn't say
249. 11:13that whoever is led astray by them is in
250. 11:15sin. It says whoever is led astray by
251. 11:17them not wise. Is not wise. And so I
252. 11:20think that a lot of times we get stuck
253. 11:23in this. Well, is it a sin? Is it not a
254. 11:26sin? Is it a sin? Is it not a sin? And I
255. 11:28think that's such a silly debate.
256. 11:30Debating on whether or not things are
257. 11:32sin or not sin. I think it's immature.
258. 11:34Here's what I think is really mature. To
259. 11:36ask a better question. Is it wise? Is it
260. 11:38beneficial? Is it a value ad? I think
261. 11:40those that's a more helpful question.
262. 11:42And I think you'd be hardressed to
263. 11:44convince me or anybody else that
264. 11:47drinking is a value ad. Now, I'm not
265. 11:50saying that you need to abstain. I'm
266. 11:53not. I'm just offering a wise
267. 11:56perspective, which I think Proverbs 20:1
268. 12:00wants us to at least consider. Okay,
269. 12:02next one. I did three so far. Okay,
270. 12:04number four. Proverbs chapter 20:13
271. 12:07says, "Do not love sleep or you will
272. 12:11grow poor. Stay awake and you will have
273. 12:13food to spare." I I need like every
274. 12:16person under the age of 30 to tattoo
275. 12:18that on their chest. Do not love sleep.
276. 12:21Do not love sleep. If you like sleep, if
277. 12:25you're just like the old man, I just
278. 12:26LOVE SLEEP. ALL RIGHT, YOU'RE GOING TO
279. 12:28BE BROKE. Do not love sleep. Do not love
280. 12:31sleep or you will grow poor. I know a
281. 12:33lot of people who love sleep. They love
282. 12:34sleep, you know. They're they're just
283. 12:36like, "I gotta get in bed at a certain
284. 12:37time. I can't wake up, you know, early."
285. 12:39It's like, "All right, cool. You love
286. 12:41sleep. You like sleep. Cool. You and
287. 12:44sleep gonna be buddies. You and sleep
288. 12:45going to be friends cuz sleep broke and
289. 12:47you broke. Y'all both broke. You and
290. 12:49sleep both broke." So, I watched this
291. 12:50dude, this guy, you know, he was like,
292. 12:52"Hey, I can tell you right now based on
293. 12:54what time you go to sleep, I can tell
294. 12:56you how much body fat percentage you
295. 12:58got." And I felt convicted cuz literally
296. 13:00the time that he said certain people go
297. 13:02to sleep, I was like that's my body fat
298. 13:04percentage. And I think there's
299. 13:06something powerful about being an early
300. 13:08riser. We have multiple episodes of this
301. 13:11podcast filmed every morning. You know,
302. 13:13Cam picks me up from my house at 6:00 in
303. 13:15the morning. By the time 9:30, 10:00, by
304. 13:18the time other people on our team roll
305. 13:20in, me and Cam have already finished
306. 13:22two, three, four episodes. You know, I
307. 13:25don't love sleep. I don't love sleep.
308. 13:26One day I'm asleep. I'm I'm I'm gonna go
309. 13:28do a lot of sleeping. You know what I'm
310. 13:30saying? In my 70s and my 80s when I'm
311. 13:32dead, I'mma asleep. But it's not time to
312. 13:34sleep right now. It's time to get this
313. 13:35work done. And and these videos ain't
314. 13:38going to record themselves. And this
315. 13:39Bible ain't going to study itself. This
316. 13:41church ain't going to build itself.
317. 13:42Those who love sleep. Do not love sleep
318. 13:45or you will grow poor. That doesn't mean
319. 13:47you can't appreciate sleep. Doesn't mean
320. 13:48that you can't desire sleep. It doesn't
321. 13:51mean sleep's not an idol. So, you know,
322. 13:53a lot of times it's like we got 5:00
323. 13:55flights. That means we wake up at three
324. 13:57o'clock in the morning. We get picked up
325. 13:58from a hotel at three o'clock in the
326. 14:00morning and and get brought to the
327. 14:02airport and it that's just a lot. That's
328. 14:04part of being an adult. If you're grumpy
329. 14:06when you don't have enough sleep, you're
330. 14:08still a toddler. Like that that's crazy.
331. 14:10Yo, that's childish. I'm kind of grumpy.
332. 14:13I didn't get enough sleep. Are you
333. 14:14three? Mean you grumpy, you didn't get
334. 14:16enough sleep. Do not love sleep or you
335. 14:18will grow poor. Stay awake and you will
336. 14:20have food to spare. It's a good verse.
337. 14:22Fantastic verse. All right, next one. I
338. 14:25just love wisdom because it's not
339. 14:26complicated. It's like, hey, hey, fall
340. 14:29out of love with sleep. If you love
341. 14:31sleep, you got to start telling
342. 14:32yourself, I don't love sleep. The only
343. 14:34way, but we've created this narrative
344. 14:36and culture that you can't fall out of
345. 14:39love with something that you love. You
346. 14:41know, once people say they love
347. 14:42something, it's like it becomes an
348. 14:44untouchable idol. But you can't love
349. 14:46sleep. You're gonna be a bad parent if
350. 14:47you love sleep because kids are born and
351. 14:49they take away all your sleep. Okay.
352. 14:51Proverbs chapter 20 verse 19 says this.
353. 14:54A gossip betrays a confidence. So avoid
354. 14:57anyone who talks too much. AIN'T THAT A
355. 14:59GOOD VERSE? AVOID PEOPLE WHO TALK TOO
356. 15:01MUCH. If people gossip, just avoid them.
357. 15:04Avoid them like the plague. I tell
358. 15:06people negativity and gossip are like
359. 15:07bad breath. It's going to cause people
360. 15:09to just back away. You know, just just
361. 15:11just move. Just take steps back. You
362. 15:13know, gossip and negativity. You start
363. 15:15complaining around me or gossiping about
364. 15:17other people, I'm going to cut that
365. 15:19conversation short. I'm going I'm going
366. 15:20to I'm going to BE LIKE, "OH, WOW. THE
367. 15:23ANGEL GABRIEL'S calling me. Look at
368. 15:24that. I got to go. I'm definitely going
369. 15:26to be like, "Oh, wow. Mickey Mouse is
370. 15:28FaceTiming me. I got to I got to I I GOT
371. 15:31TO GO." YOU KNOW, YOU start just venting
372. 15:34or just complaining about this,
373. 15:36complaining about that, complaining
374. 15:37about this, being negative. You know, I
375. 15:39was talking to somebody recently and
376. 15:40they were just being super negative and
377. 15:41they were like, "Yeah, and I can't find
378. 15:42a job." And I was like, "Now, when you
379. 15:45go to job interviews, is this the person
380. 15:48who goes to the job interview?" Cuz I've
381. 15:50interviewed a lot of people. Guess what
382. 15:51I want? I want excited, you know? I'm
383. 15:54not trying to hire a depressed person to
384. 15:56work at our organization. I'm not trying
385. 15:58to hire Eeyore, you know? So, if you
386. 16:01walking in the job interview with Eeyore
387. 16:02Vibes, I I They were like, "I've done
388. 16:05like 20 job interviews. I can't find a
389. 16:06job." I was like, "I could probably tell
390. 16:09you why." You know, you got a negative
391. 16:11vibe. You got negative energy. Guess
392. 16:13what? Positive, full of joy, you know,
393. 16:17just chipper, upbeat, man, everybody's
394. 16:19attracted to that. But gossiping,
395. 16:22negative complainers, you know,
396. 16:24slackers. O, avoid anyone who talks too
397. 16:27much. That's good advice right there.
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422. 17:31episode. Whoever loves pleasure will
423. 17:33become poor. Whoever loves pleasure
424. 17:36pleasure will become poor. Whoever loves
425. 17:38wine and olive oil will never be rich. I
426. 17:42think sometimes we associate wealth with
427. 17:44a life of luxury. But actually, Proverbs
428. 17:46makes the argument, mm- wealth isn't
429. 17:49about how much luxury or how much sleep
430. 17:52or how much of of that stuff you can
431. 17:55get. The average wealthy person does not
432. 17:58live a life of pleasure and luxury. The
433. 18:00average wealthy person in America owns a
434. 18:02dry cleaners, a laundrymat, drives a
435. 18:05Ford F-150. The average millionaire in
436. 18:07America is the kind of person who, you
437. 18:11know, is is not living a flashy
438. 18:14lifestyle. Okay. Whoever loves pleasure
439. 18:17will become poor. Absolutely. My dad
440. 18:20found pleasure in crack. So that
441. 18:22brother's poor. Anyone who the enemy can
442. 18:24manipulate your desire for pleasure,
443. 18:27you're going to become poor. So if if
444. 18:28you like porn, you're going to be poor.
445. 18:30You're going to be broke cuz that's a
446. 18:32form of pleasure. You're going to be
447. 18:34broke. You're going to find yourself
448. 18:35poor because anyone who the moment the
449. 18:39enemy knows you know your weakness for
450. 18:42pleasure, he can exploit you. And anyone
451. 18:44who could be exploited is always going
452. 18:46to be poor. So anyone who's just like, I
453. 18:49I want pleasure. I want a soft life. I
454. 18:52want an easy life. I want luxury. You
455. 18:55know, you're going to be poor because
456. 18:56you're going to end up working to spend
457. 18:59money on vacations you can't afford and
458. 19:02on stuff that you can't afford. You're
459. 19:04So now you're working to keep up a
460. 19:06certain lifestyle instead of working to
461. 19:10invest, working to sew, working to put
462. 19:13away money so that you have capital to
463. 19:15start a business. So whoever loves
464. 19:18pleasure will become poor. Absolutely.
465. 19:22That Yes. That Yeah. Cuz cuz you'll look
466. 19:26at a budget and you'll twist the numbers
467. 19:29to get the things that you want.
468. 19:31Pleasure means that you're not thinking
469. 19:32with your brain. You're thinking with
470. 19:34your emotions. You're thinking with
471. 19:38desire. And that's just not a way to
472. 19:40make decisions. Whoever loves pleasure,
473. 19:42that person going to become poor cuz
474. 19:44they're going to end up buying the
475. 19:45things that bring them pleasure cuz
476. 19:48pleasures aren't free. Okay? Whoever
477. 19:50loves wine and olive oil will never be
478. 19:54rich because it means that you're you're
479. 19:56gonna you're gonna be people are gonna
480. 19:58take advantage of you. They know what
481. 20:00you find pleasure and they'll take
482. 20:01advantage of you. And then last our last
483. 20:04number seven is actually our timeless
484. 20:06truth. So it's both a nerdy nugget and a
485. 20:09timeless truth. Here we go. It's
486. 20:11Proverbs chapter 21
487. 20:14verse 9 and 19. And these are right next
488. 20:17to each other in my Bible. Verse 9 is on
489. 20:19like the left column and verse 19 is on
490. 20:22the right column. Okay. It says this.
491. 20:24Better to live on a corner of the roof
492. 20:27than share a house WITH A QUARRELOME
493. 20:29WIFE. DON'T NOBODY WANT NO ARGUMENTATIVE
494. 20:32WIFE, MAN. IT'S BETTER TO LIVE ON THE
495. 20:35CORNER OF A ROOF than share a house with
496. 20:37a wife who's quarrelome. H
497. 20:40argumentative.
498. 20:42H quarrelome. Nagging.
499. 20:45Annoying. Right next to it. Okay. Verse
500. 20:4719. Better to live in a desert than with
501. 20:51a quarrelome and nagging wife. Okay, so
502. 20:54as a nerdy nugget, number one, if you
503. 20:57currently have a girlfriend who's
504. 21:00quarrelome and nagging, break up with
505. 21:02them because if they're nagging you now,
506. 21:05like marrying them is not going to put
507. 21:07an end to the nagging. If they're
508. 21:09mothering you now, that that's not going
509. 21:11to stop when you guys get married. All
510. 21:14the red flags for quarrelome nagging
511. 21:16behavior are there. Coralsome and
512. 21:19nagging like hard to agree with, not
513. 21:22agreeable, you know, they want you to
514. 21:24take their last name, you know, they
515. 21:26they oh boy, they want to they oh Jesus,
516. 21:30they want to hyphenate their last name.
517. 21:31They don't want to take your last name.
518. 21:33Just hard to agree with, you know, just
519. 21:36wharome and like nagging. Like just
520. 21:39don't don't waste your time. Stop. cuz
521. 21:43cuz life with that woman's going to be
522. 21:45aggravating to no end. You're going to
523. 21:48want to be on the corner of the roof.
524. 21:50And what's going to happen is you're
525. 21:51just going to not go home and you're
526. 21:53going to find ways to avoid being around
527. 21:55her. And I would say that if you're a
528. 21:58woman, don't be with a quarrelome or
529. 22:00nagging boyfriend. Leave that joker. So
530. 22:03if he's always complaining, always
531. 22:05negative, you know, if he's angry, like
532. 22:08that's just quarrelome. It's good that
533. 22:11you guys have healthy conflict, but if
534. 22:13the bulk of the relationship is just
535. 22:15arguing and bickering, that's just
536. 22:17annoying, man. That person doesn't know
537. 22:19how to just be agreeable. It's better to
538. 22:21live in the desert than live with that.
539. 22:23So, that's our nerdy nugget. Now, let's
540. 22:25flip it into a timeless truth. Guess
541. 22:27what, family? We are the bride of
542. 22:29Christ. If you're a Christian and you're
543. 22:31listening or watching this podcast, we
544. 22:33are the bride of Christ. So, here's a
545. 22:35question. As a bride, am I a quarrelome
546. 22:38and nagging wife to Jesus? Do I keep
547. 22:41telling him about the things I need and
548. 22:43what I asked and what I asked for the
549. 22:45last time I prayed? And God, please give
550. 22:47me a please God, give me this. God,
551. 22:49please give me this. God, are you
552. 22:51nagging or are you worshipful? Are you
553. 22:54praising? When we gather on Sundays, I
554. 22:56never want our church to be a nagging
555. 22:58church to Jesus. I want us to be a
556. 23:01church that worships the Lord and
557. 23:04praises him regardless of what he's
558. 23:06done. And so that comes from a place of
559. 23:08gratitude. You've already done more than
560. 23:10enough. I'm I'm winning. I'm winning.
561. 23:12I'm I'm I'm grateful. And if we can go
562. 23:15back up to the nerdy nugget, if you're
563. 23:17someone who's quarrelome, the issue is
564. 23:19that you're you're not content and you
565. 23:21lack gratitude. If you were to up your
566. 23:24level of contentment and gratitude, you
567. 23:26wouldn't be a cruel spouse. And then
568. 23:28spiritually, if you were to get
569. 23:30contentment and gratitude, you wouldn't
570. 23:32be quarrelome and nagging to King Jesus.
571. 23:34And so that's timelessly true. So many
572. 23:37of these are timelessly true, but that
573. 23:39one is 100% true for New Testament
574. 23:42believers today. Tomorrow we got day
575. 23:44309. We're going to be looking at
576. 23:46Proverbs 22, 23, and 24. I'm pumped. I
577. 23:51love Proverbs if you can't tell. I love
578. 23:54wisdom. Wisdom, wisdom, wisdom, wisdom,
579. 23:56wisdom. It's a chief thing. Here's the
580. 23:58beginning of wisdom. Get wisdom. I'm
581. 24:00glad that you're here with me, tuned in
582. 24:02so that we can get wisdom together.
583. 24:03Tomorrow we got Proverbs 22, 23, and 24.
584. 24:07If you're on a streak, I'm proud of you.
585. 24:09Even if you're not on a streak, I love
586. 24:10you. I'll see you tomorrow. Peace.
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