Day 311: Proverbs 28-31 | 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 301.
9. 0:28Can you believe it? We're 311 days in. I
10. 0:31don't know how many days left. I guess
11. 0:34what? 54.
12. 0:37I think 54 + 311 is 365 maybe. Anyway,
13. 0:42my degree is not in math. It's in Bible.
14. 0:44I am so excited that you're here with us
15. 0:46today. We are finishing up the book of
16. 0:50Proverbs. That's right. Today, we've got
17. 0:52chapters 28, 29, 30, and 31. If you have
18. 0:57not done the reading, how about you stop
19. 1:00the video, pause the audio, go get the
20. 1:03reading done. Solid reading today, we've
21. 1:06got a good mix of authors, contributors,
22. 1:10writers, and so we're going to talk
23. 1:12about that when we get into our context
24. 1:14clues. But if you haven't done the
25. 1:16reading, I promise you it's a little bit
26. 1:18longer than normal, right? We've been
27. 1:20doing about three Proverbs a day. So,
28. 1:22this is four Proverbs, but you're you're
29. 1:25good. I promise it's not it's not going
30. 1:27to take you that long. All right, for
31. 1:28those of us who have done the reading,
32. 1:30let's dive in. Okay, let's do context
33. 1:33clues right up at the top. I actually
34. 1:35want to start in a maybe an odd place
35. 1:38today or surprising place. Uh I actually
36. 1:42want to read Jeremiah 18:18 to us today.
37. 1:46Okay, Jeremiah 18:18. Dr. Manny, why are
38. 1:49you reading Jeremiah 18:18? Well,
39. 1:51because it is going to tell us about
40. 1:53three groups of teachers that Israel
41. 1:56has. And one of these groups is directly
42. 1:59connected to the content that we have
43. 2:02here in the book of Proverbs. Okay. So,
44. 2:03Jeremiah 18:18, the people of Judah are
45. 2:07wanting to, you know, silence Jeremiah.
46. 2:10Not a big fan. All the stuff that
47. 2:12Jeremiah's got to say is not popular.
48. 2:15Okay. Uh so here's what they say in
49. 2:18Jeremiah 18:18.
50. 2:21They said, "Come, let's make plans
51. 2:24against Jeremiah to persecute him, to
52. 2:27ensnare him, to imprison him." Okay?
53. 2:29Let's make plans against Jeremiah for
54. 2:32the teaching of the law by the priest
55. 2:34will not cease. Okay? The teaching of
56. 2:37the law by the priest will not cease.
57. 2:41Nor will counsel from the wise, nor the
58. 2:45word from the prophets. Three distinct
59. 2:47groups, the teaching of the law by the
60. 2:49priests, nor the counsel from the wise,
61. 2:52nor the word from the prophets. So come,
62. 2:57let's attack him with our tongues and
63. 3:00pay no attention to anything he says. So
64. 3:03Jeremiah 18:18 gives us three groups.
65. 3:07Okay, three groups. priests who teach
66. 3:10the law, prophets who give oracles,
67. 3:15spoken words, the rama word of God, and
68. 3:18then counsel from the wise. So, you just
69. 3:21wanted to figure out, okay, like like
70. 3:23what do we have in the in the Hebrew
71. 3:26scriptures, like in the Hebrew Bible or
72. 3:28the Old Testament? Well, I would say
73. 3:30you've got the teaching of the law,
74. 3:32right? like that's the the Torah, the
75. 3:34the section of the Bible that we know as
76. 3:38Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and
77. 3:40Deuteronomy. And then we're going to
78. 3:42have a ton of prophetic content. We've
79. 3:45gone through a lot of that. So, the
80. 3:48Torah, the Nevim, okay? And then the
81. 3:51Ketuim, the writings, but really it's
82. 3:54the council of the wise. Okay? This
83. 3:56wisdom literature that we've got comes
84. 4:00to us from the council of the wise. And
85. 4:03so, uh, wisdom is is seen as an
86. 4:08authoritative,
87. 4:10uh, source of God's word. Okay? So, the
88. 4:14wise men of Israel, okay, the wise men
89. 4:18of Israel, just wisdom. Okay? There's
90. 4:21the in the same way that you know how to
91. 4:22categorize someone as a priest or you
92. 4:24know how to categorize someone as a
93. 4:26prophet. As you enter into the world of
94. 4:28the Bible, I want you to begin to
95. 4:30realize that there's a category of of
96. 4:33just wise people that they're not
97. 4:36priests, they're not prophets, they're
98. 4:38just people with wisdom. And so, uh
99. 4:41we've got entire books of the Bible that
100. 4:44come from this school of wisdom or this
101. 4:47source of wisdom or wise people. Okay.
102. 4:50So, uh we're going to get a little bit
103. 4:52of that today. We've already been
104. 4:54exposed to that as we've been reading
105. 4:56Psalms and Proverbs. Both of these are
106. 4:59considered wisdom literature and they
107. 5:01are both found in the last section of
108. 5:03the Hebrew Bible, which is the Ketuim,
109. 5:08the writings, Ketuim, Tanakh. Okay,
110. 5:10remember Torah, Neim, Ketuim. All right,
111. 5:13let's dive into some nerdy nuggets.
112. 5:14Okay, I'm going to give you my top five
113. 5:17proverbs for the day. Okay, my top five
114. 5:20verses for the day. You know, we've done
115. 5:22five, we've done seven, we've done 10,
116. 5:24but we're going to end off with the book
117. 5:26of Proverbs with my top five. And I'm
118. 5:29going to make sure that we've got uh at
119. 5:31least one from every contributor for
120. 5:34these last four chapters of the book of
121. 5:37Proverbs that we got here. Okay, chapter
122. 5:4028 is going to be more content from
123. 5:44Solomon. Now the cool thing about
124. 5:47everything from yesterday and today.
125. 5:50Okay, so starting in chapter 25,
126. 5:54I believe starting in verse 25, it says
127. 5:57these it says these are more proverbs of
128. 6:02Solomon compiled by men of Hezekiah,
129. 6:05king of Judah. Okay, that means that in
130. 6:08the same way that the book of the law
131. 6:10was rediscovered or found in the time of
132. 6:14Josiah know if you remember that that
133. 6:16like the book of the law had just gone
134. 6:18missing and they found it during
135. 6:20Josiah's reign and Josiah's reign is
136. 6:23kind of known as um a time of repentance
137. 6:25and revival. Josiah makes sure that you
138. 6:29know the idolatry is wiped out of the
139. 6:31land. uh he causes the people uh to
140. 6:34repent from their evil ways and return
141. 6:37to the Lord and there's a revival. Okay?
142. 6:40And it's centered around the discovery
143. 6:41of the book of the law, the discovery of
144. 6:44the word of God. So the same way that
145. 6:47that is what happens during Josiah's
146. 6:49reign. I want us to just go up three
147. 6:51notches in the family tree. Okay? So
148. 6:54Josiah's dad is Ammon. Ammon's dad is
149. 6:56Manasseh. Manass's dad is Hezekiah.
150. 6:59Okay? So Josiah's greatgreat great
151. 7:03grandfather, no great-grandfather,
152. 7:05Hezekiah. Similar kind of revival is
153. 7:09going to happen in Hezekiah's time.
154. 7:12Okay, so it's not all that crazy that
155. 7:15old proverbs from Solomon are found and
156. 7:19rediscovered during Hezekiah's reign. So
157. 7:22chapter 25 starts off with this. These
158. 7:24are some proverbs of Solomon compiled by
159. 7:27the men of Hezekiah, king of Judah. And
160. 7:30that's probably the wise men of
161. 7:33Hezekiah, king of Judah, the group of
162. 7:35men who would have been responsible for
163. 7:37giving counsel and advice to to King
164. 7:40Hezekiah. Oh, in the same way that we
165. 7:43see a repentance, return to the Lord,
166. 7:46revival during Josiah's reign and the
167. 7:49book of the law is found, we're going to
168. 7:51see that same thing during Hezekiah's
169. 7:53reign. But in Hezekiah's reign, it's not
170. 7:55the book of the law that that is found.
171. 7:57But all these proverbs from Solomon and
172. 8:01the men in Hezekiah's court who are wise
173. 8:03are going to compile them. And that's
174. 8:05how we get Proverbs chapters 25, 26, 27.
175. 8:10All of which we studied yesterday and
176. 8:1328. Okay, so that's context. That's a
177. 8:17ton of context. And that's also where we
178. 8:19get chapter 29. Then we get to chapter
179. 8:2230. Uh we've got the sayings of a man by
180. 8:25the name of Agger. Okay, Agur. Agur's
181. 8:29got a lot of things to say to us. And
182. 8:31then we get to chapter 31. We're going
183. 8:34to get the writings of King Lemuuel.
184. 8:37Okay, and he's going to learn a bunch of
185. 8:39things from his mom. Now, I think this
186. 8:40is really cool because the tone so far
187. 8:43through the book of Proverbs has been a
188. 8:45father wanting to instruct his son. But
189. 8:48we're g what we're going to have from
190. 8:49King Lemu is a mom giving instruction to
191. 8:53her son because wisdom doesn't just come
192. 8:55from men. Wisdom comes from moms to
193. 8:59their boys to their daughters as well.
194. 9:02Okay, so that's enough context clues.
195. 9:04Let's finally dive into our nerdy
196. 9:06nuggets for the day. I'm going to try to
197. 9:08give you five. Okay, first is Proverbs
198. 9:1128:1 and it says this. I actually have
199. 9:14this tattooed on my deck. So, the wicked
200. 9:18I know it by heart. The wicked man flee
201. 9:20though no one pursues, but the righteous
202. 9:21are as bold as lions. I love that. The
203. 9:24wicked man flees though no one pursues.
204. 9:26But the righteous are as bold as lions.
205. 9:27This verse is saying two things. The
206. 9:30first thing, sin will make you paranoid.
207. 9:32The wicked man flees though no one's
208. 9:34pursuing. Whenever there's sin in your
209. 9:36life, it just makes you like suspicious
210. 9:38and paranoid and like you just you
211. 9:40always got to you keep your head on a
212. 9:42swivel cuz you just don't know what's
213. 9:43going to happen because you really are
214. 9:46struck with a guilty conscience. So the
215. 9:48wicked man flees. They're running away
216. 9:51even though no one's running after them.
217. 9:53You ever just feel guilty about sin?
218. 9:54You're just kind of like, you know, you
219. 9:57you just feel like everyone knows. You
220. 9:59walk into church and you're like, they
221. 10:00know they can see it. They they can see
222. 10:02sin on me. You know, it's like, no,
223. 10:05that's a literally just a guilty
224. 10:07conscience. That's you. No one's looking
225. 10:09at you. Somebody one time I was
226. 10:11preaching. I'm preaching like, you know,
227. 10:14who knows? I'm Seattle or Alabama or
228. 10:16California, wherever. I'm on the road,
229. 10:18which you mean I'm talking to people I
230. 10:19don't know. And someone walked up to me
231. 10:21and was like, "Yeah, like there was this
232. 10:23point where you were talking about, you
233. 10:25know, sleeping with your boyfriend and
234. 10:27you looked right at me. Did you know I
235. 10:29was sleeping with my boy?" I was like,
236. 10:30"No, I don't. I I don't know you." And I
237. 10:33was like, I don't think I was looking at
238. 10:34you, ma'am. Like, I think I think you're
239. 10:37fleeing though no one pursues. I think
240. 10:39that's what's happening. Okay. So, the
241. 10:41wicked man flees though no one pursues.
242. 10:43But the righteous bold as lions. So,
243. 10:46that means sin doesn't just take away,
244. 10:49you know, your ability to relate to the
245. 10:51Lord, but it also robs you of
246. 10:52confidence. Boldness, the kind of
247. 10:55confidence that you really need in order
248. 10:57to go after the things that God's
249. 10:59promised you. So, that's a good verse,
250. 11:01man. Chapter 28:1. Proverbs chapter
251. 11:0428:1. The wicked man flees, though no
252. 11:06one pursues them. But the righteous,
253. 11:09they're bold. There's there's a certain
254. 11:11amount of boldness. If you're living in
255. 11:13sin and can still be bold, oh, that's
256. 11:15bold, man. That's
257. 11:18that's that Hey, power to you, you know.
258. 11:22Uh but most people, if there's a
259. 11:24boldness issue, there may be a guilt
260. 11:27issue or a sin issue. And it's important
261. 11:30to address that. Okay. Anyway, all
262. 11:32right. Proverbs 28 20 and 22. I wish
263. 11:37that they weren't interrupted by verse
264. 11:3921. We don't need verse 21. We just need
265. 11:42chapter 20. Sorry, verse 20 and verse 22
266. 11:44of chapter 28 says this, "A faithful
267. 11:47person will be richly blessed." Praise
268. 11:50God. A faithful person will be richly
269. 11:52blessed. And just when you may be
270. 11:54thinking to yourself, uh, it may that
271. 11:56doesn't mean necessarily talking about
272. 11:57money. Well, here we go. But one eager
273. 12:01to get rich will not go unpunished.
274. 12:04Okay, a lot there. So, the confirmation
275. 12:08that we have in the second half of the
276. 12:10verse means that the first half of the
277. 12:11verse is talking about finances. Okay,
278. 12:14it's not just blessed richly. It's
279. 12:17richly blessed. That means like riches,
280. 12:20monetary value, but one eager to get
281. 12:23rich. Okay. So, there's a difference
282. 12:26between stewarding wealth to get rich
283. 12:30and being eager to get rich. And the
284. 12:32Bible says being eager to get rich is an
285. 12:34issue. If you're eager to get rich,
286. 12:36it'll lead to impulsiveness and
287. 12:38impatience, all kinds of things. Okay?
288. 12:41So, you shouldn't be eager. Desire,
289. 12:44awesome. Eager, not so awesome. Okay?
290. 12:47Let's go to verse 22. The stingy are
291. 12:50eager to get rich. Who's eager to get
292. 12:53rich? stingy people. But Proverbs has
293. 12:55already told us like stinginess, boo.
294. 12:58Generosity, yay. Okay. Stinginess, boo.
295. 13:03Okay. Stingy people are eager to get
296. 13:05rich. They're always looking for a way
297. 13:06to like get rich quick. They're always
298. 13:08looking for a hustle. Stingy people are
299. 13:10eager to get rich and are unaware that
300. 13:14poverty awaits them. The very thing that
301. 13:16they don't want is what they're going to
302. 13:18have. Because a lot of times excelling
303. 13:21in life, succeeding in life is
304. 13:22counterintuitive. Okay? And you don't
305. 13:24get a lot of money by eagerly pursuing
306. 13:27money. You get you get you get to amass
307. 13:30wealth by stewarding wealth with wisdom.
308. 13:35All right. Proverbs 28 verse 13, we're
309. 13:39going back just a little bit. Says,
310. 13:41"Whoever conceals their sins does not
311. 13:43prosper." Okay. But the one who
312. 13:46confesses and renounces them finds
313. 13:49mercy. There's a just I mean you just
314. 13:51take the proverb at face value. Don't
315. 13:54conceal sin. Confess sin and renounce.
316. 13:58It's one thing to confess sin. It's a
317. 14:00whole another thing to say, "Nope. What?
318. 14:02That that was wrong. That was sin. I I'm
319. 14:06I repent. I'm not just asking God for
320. 14:09forgiveness. I'm asking that he would
321. 14:11help me to transform, change. I
322. 14:13renounce. I I declare that's not me.
323. 14:17That sinful behavior that was not me.
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347. 15:17episode. Now, our last two. Okay, I told
348. 15:21you I'd give you five. My top five
349. 15:24favorite verses of today's reading. My
350. 15:26next two are going to be from Agur and
351. 15:29Lemuuel. Okay, so let's take Agger. He
352. 15:32says this or he writes this in Proverbs
353. 15:3530:5. And man, I love this. Chapter 30
354. 15:39verse 5. Every word of God is flawless.
355. 15:44He is a shield to those who take refuge
356. 15:47in him. Every word of God is flawless.
357. 15:52The word of the Lord is flawless. It's
358. 15:55like that's such a good word. That's
359. 15:57such good vocabulary. God, I'm flawed,
360. 16:01but your word is flawless. And not only
361. 16:04is your word flawless, every one of your
362. 16:07words is flawless. God, I misspe. You
363. 16:10never misspeak. I say dumb things. You
364. 16:12never say anything that's wrong,
365. 16:14incorrect, dumb, shortsighted, anything.
366. 16:17Your word is flawless. So why wouldn't I
367. 16:21read it every day? Why wouldn't I study
368. 16:24it every day? It's flawless. It's
369. 16:26flawless. It has It has no fault. It has
370. 16:30no flaw. It has no fault in it. Proverbs
371. 16:33chapter 31, it's our last one. Proverbs
372. 16:3531 4-7 is again King Lemuuel. So, this
373. 16:40is a secular ruler. This is not a
374. 16:43Christian ruler. This is not a Jewish
375. 16:46ruler. Secular ruler. And what does King
376. 16:49Lemieu have to say? Here we go. Start in
377. 16:52verse four. It is not for kings Lemuuel.
378. 16:56This is his mom giving him advice. It is
379. 16:59not for kings Lemuuel. It is not for
380. 17:01kings to drink wine. Not for rulers to
381. 17:04crave beer, lest they drink and forget
382. 17:07what has been decreed and deprive all
383. 17:09the oppressed of their rights. Let beer
384. 17:12be for those who are perishing. Wine for
385. 17:15those who are in anguish. Let them drink
386. 17:19and forget their poverty and remember
387. 17:22their misery no more. Hey Lemu, wine
388. 17:27beer not for you. Why? Not cuz it's a
389. 17:31sin. Proverbs
390. 17:3331 4-7 does not say that Lemu should
391. 17:38abstain from wine and beer because it's
392. 17:40a sin. Says because it's not what rulers
393. 17:44do. It's not what kings do. And I want
394. 17:48to just sub out the word king and put
395. 17:49the word leader. It's not what leaders
396. 17:52do. So the reason I would ask people who
397. 17:55serve at the garden, hey, if you're
398. 17:58going to be a director, if you're going
399. 17:59to be a team lead, mm- no alcohol, has
400. 18:03nothing to do with it being sin. Has
401. 18:06everything to do with there are certain
402. 18:08things leaders don't do. This has
403. 18:10nothing to do with sin. Has everything
404. 18:12to do with leadership. What does what
405. 18:14does it say? It is not for kings. Let me
406. 18:17well in the ancient world kings actually
407. 18:20got the best wine. The choicest of wines
408. 18:24was reserved for kings. So this is
409. 18:27countercultural. This isn't just
410. 18:29countercultural like for our culture
411. 18:31today. It's countercultural in the
412. 18:33actual culture that it comes from that a
413. 18:36mom would tell his son tell her son no
414. 18:39no no. If you're going to be a king, if
415. 18:41you're going to be a ruler, there are
416. 18:43certain sacrifices that you have to make
417. 18:45because a leadership is all about
418. 18:47sacrifices. It's not about privileges.
419. 18:49If you're in leadership because of the
420. 18:52privileges, oh, you're you're not going
421. 18:55to be a leader long cuz you're going to
422. 18:56realize, oh, leadership comes with
423. 18:59scrutiny. It comes with people watching
424. 19:01you. It comes with responsibilities. It
425. 19:04comes with you having to be exemplary.
426. 19:05Leadership is not just about a reserved
427. 19:07parking spot and a title and a reserve
428. 19:10seat. No, no, no. Don't get it twisted.
429. 19:13Leadership is about restraint. It's
430. 19:15about all the things you can't do
431. 19:16anymore. Cuz now you're a king. Now
432. 19:19you're a ruler. Now you're a leader. And
433. 19:20maybe you were thinking to yourself, I
434. 19:22can't wait to be king, man. I get to
435. 19:23drink the best wine. And here comes mom
436. 19:26with some advice. Hey, even though it's
437. 19:28available to you, I'm going to tell you
438. 19:30right now, it's not for kings. Not for
439. 19:32kings. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope. Nope.
440. 19:34Because the whole nation is dependent
441. 19:36upon you making good decisions. And what
442. 19:38happens when you need to make a good
443. 19:40decision and let's say a poor person
444. 19:43needs their rights defended and you
445. 19:47deprive them of their rights
446. 19:49unintentionally. You was just trying to
447. 19:51go have a good time. You just trying to
448. 19:52drink and now you've created a domino
449. 19:54effect of not loving the people or the
450. 19:58subjects of your kingdom. Well, Lemuuel,
451. 20:01no. No, no, no, no, no. wine, beer, not
452. 20:04for not for rulers, not for kings, not
453. 20:06for leaders. So the real question is not
454. 20:09can I drink alcohol? Is is drinking
455. 20:12okay? That's not really the question.
456. 20:14The question is how far in leadership do
457. 20:16I want to go? How high up the kingdom
458. 20:18ladder? Not the corporate ladder. How
459. 20:20high up the kingdom ladder do I want to
460. 20:23climb? It's one thing to climb a
461. 20:24corporate ladder. It's a whole another
462. 20:25thing to climb the kingdom ladder. To
463. 20:27climb the kingdom ladder, oh man, it
464. 20:30means that you become a servant. It
465. 20:31means that you become humble. Means that
466. 20:33you become teachable. It means that you
467. 20:35become someone who give up I'll give up
468. 20:37alcohol. Sure. Easy. Whatever. I I don't
469. 20:39care. I'll give up anything. Because
470. 20:41nothing compares to being used by God.
471. 20:45Nothing. And I'll never let anything any
472. 20:47pleasure of the world, any privilege,
473. 20:50any right come in between me and being
474. 20:53used by God in a great way. I want to be
475. 20:55used by God in a great way. Okay. Those
476. 20:58are my five verses that I think and I I
477. 21:00I can't drive by those. Uh we got to
478. 21:03stop. We got to get out. We got to take
479. 21:05a picture. Can't just drive past it.
480. 21:07It's like, oo, those are the five verses
481. 21:09that I'm just like, "Yeah, man. Get out
482. 21:10the car. Come on. Get your arm around
483. 21:13that verse. Put up your peace sign.
484. 21:15Let's take a picture. Let's post that on
485. 21:17Instagram." That's a good verse right
486. 21:18there. All right. Timeless truth for the
487. 21:20day. This entire book is going to end
488. 21:24with a wife of noble character. Now,
489. 21:27there are two ways to interpret this.
490. 21:29First, it's talking about a literal
491. 21:30woman, which is possible. However, I
492. 21:33know a lot of women who read Proverbs 31
493. 21:37and just go, "This is no way this could
494. 21:40be talking about a real woman."
495. 21:42Actually, when they read it, they feel
496. 21:43inadequate cuz they're like, "What woman
497. 21:46could actually live up to this?" And
498. 21:48there are some women who are like,
499. 21:50"Nope, I'm a Proverbs 31 woman." And it
500. 21:52becomes a standard for them. So, not all
501. 21:53women feel the same. But I just want to
502. 21:55throw maybe a curveball and say, could
503. 21:58it be that what the writers of Proverbs
504. 22:01want is for you to marry wisdom? And
505. 22:06when wisdom becomes your wife, wisdom
506. 22:09will bring all the benefits of a wife
507. 22:12and noble character. Maybe wisdom is the
508. 22:15wife of noble character. Once you get
509. 22:18wisdom in your life, once you marry,
510. 22:21wisdom, it's like wisdom will begin to
511. 22:24conduct the affairs of your life. Wisdom
512. 22:26will do all kinds of stuff. And
513. 22:28regardless of how you interpret this, I
514. 22:30would say that God doesn't choose
515. 22:34spouses for anybody. He doesn't do it
516. 22:36anywhere in the Bible. And every time I
517. 22:38tell people that God doesn't do that
518. 22:39anywhere in the Bible, they're like,
519. 22:40"Yeah, but he did it for me." It's like,
520. 22:42"Okay, cool. Got it." So your experience
521. 22:44is how we know God. No, it's not. The
522. 22:47Bible is how we know God. Okay? So, you
523. 22:49can't use your own personal experience
524. 22:51as a way to disprove like the Bible.
525. 22:54That still means that there's no place
526. 22:56in scripture where the Bible tells
527. 22:58somebody who to marry. We want God to
528. 23:00tell us who to marry because we don't
529. 23:02want the weight of the responsibility of
530. 23:05making that decision for oursel. That's
531. 23:06a whole another problem for a whole
532. 23:08another day. Here's my timeless truth
533. 23:09for the day. My timeless truth for the
534. 23:11day is this. that if you actually marry
535. 23:14wisdom, then you and wisdom will make a
536. 23:17wise decision on who you should marry.
537. 23:19That's it. God wants you to actually
538. 23:22make a decision on who to marry. Why?
539. 23:24Because your decision on who to marry
540. 23:26will actually reveal the level of wisdom
541. 23:29that you have. And I wouldn't make a
542. 23:31decision about marriage until I was
543. 23:34sufficiently wise because it's the
544. 23:36ultimate test of whether or not you're a
545. 23:38wise person. I wouldn't make a permanent
546. 23:40decision while I'm still an idiot. I
547. 23:42wouldn't do that. That sounds dumb to
548. 23:44me. It's like when I see some people
549. 23:46with tattoos and I'm like, "What's that
550. 23:48a tattoo of?" And they're like, "Oh,
551. 23:49it's Pikachu." I'm like, "Got it. You
552. 23:51got a tattoo while you were still
553. 23:52stupid." Got it. I understand. I I don't
554. 23:54know why you got Pikachu tattooed on
555. 23:56your elbow, but that's dumb. That's
556. 23:59stupid. You may want to wait until
557. 24:01you're smart before you start getting
558. 24:02things tattooed on you. You may want to
559. 24:04wait until you're wise, until you do
560. 24:07things that are permanent. And you may
561. 24:09want to wait until you're wise before
562. 24:11you make the decision to marry somebody
563. 24:14because there's a lot of divorce people
564. 24:16running around here. And that means
565. 24:17there's a lot of people who got married
566. 24:19to people before they got married to
567. 24:21wisdom. And I think if you marry wisdom,
568. 24:24wisdom will protect you from making a
569. 24:26short-sighted decision when it comes to
570. 24:28an earthly relationship. And that is a
571. 24:30timeless truth. That's not just good
572. 24:32advice for Lemuuel or Solomon's sons or
573. 24:36anybody who has a direct link to the
574. 24:38context of these proverbs. That's good
575. 24:42uh advice for you, for me, and for every
576. 24:45single person on the planet. All right,
577. 24:47tomorrow we've got day 3:12. We're in
578. 24:50THE BOOK OF JOB. [screaming]
579. 24:52WE DID IT, JOB. ANYWAY, we're going to
580. 24:54be in Job chapters 1, 2, and 3. It's
581. 24:56going to be fantastic. Day 312. I can't
582. 24:59wait. Same time, same place. I'll be
583. 25:01here. The only question is, will you be
584. 25:03here? If you're on a streak, I'm so
585. 25:05proud of you. Even if you're not on a
586. 25:06streak, I love you. I'll see you
587. 25:08tomorrow as we start our journey through
588. 25:11the book of Job. Peace. Thanks so much
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