WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:14.519 practical ways. Hey, everybody. Uh, for some reason, I had 4 00:00:14.519 --> 00:00:18.120 this desire to do this. I don't know why. Well, 5 00:00:18.160 --> 00:00:20.960 thank you, but hey, welcome to the Bible guys. 6 00:00:21.000 --> 00:00:23.320 Hey. I was going to mention that roll in you're 7 00:00:23.399 --> 00:00:25.280 like half the man you used to be. And so 8 00:00:25.359 --> 00:00:26.600 are you watching that rollin? 9 00:00:26.800 --> 00:00:27.000 Yeah? 10 00:00:27.120 --> 00:00:28.440 Yeah we were, we were portly. 11 00:00:28.640 --> 00:00:35.119 Yeah, if really, if if you're watching, of course, a 12 00:00:35.159 --> 00:00:38.719 lot of people listen, more than more than half listen, yes, right, 13 00:00:38.960 --> 00:00:41.880 but if you're actually watching it on YouTube, then there's 14 00:00:41.920 --> 00:00:45.039 a video rollin that goes along with that audio rollin. 15 00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:46.679 And uh and yeah, but. 16 00:00:46.840 --> 00:00:49.280 Looking good, selt, so are you booking? 17 00:00:49.479 --> 00:00:51.840 Felt? Well? Actually, this sweatshirt that I have on today 18 00:00:51.880 --> 00:00:54.439 I just mentioned between the takes it's an extra large 19 00:00:54.600 --> 00:00:57.799 and I'm swimming swimming. Good for you, buddy, but. 20 00:00:58.119 --> 00:01:00.359 Are you well I'm not down to an extra large yet. 21 00:01:00.759 --> 00:01:03.640 Okay, but you know compared to the rolling. 22 00:01:03.560 --> 00:01:06.120 Well compare rolling, I'm out of the fours and out 23 00:01:06.120 --> 00:01:08.120 of the threes, right right. 24 00:01:08.040 --> 00:01:11.680 That's right. Yeah, So that's great. So hey, we're going 25 00:01:11.760 --> 00:01:15.319 to open up with a segment today and uh and 26 00:01:15.319 --> 00:01:17.400 by the way, that probably means we should do a 27 00:01:17.439 --> 00:01:18.840 different rolling sometime soon. 28 00:01:19.239 --> 00:01:22.120 Yeah yeah, yeah, well let's let's let's bottom out. Make 29 00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:24.000 sure we don't add it back, otherwise we just waste 30 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:24.280 the time. 31 00:01:24.439 --> 00:01:27.920 Right, So here is this is a fun one. 32 00:01:28.000 --> 00:01:29.840 Yes, it is super excited about this segment. 33 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:33.560 Holiday draft list with Thanksgiving being next week. As Ray says, 34 00:01:33.719 --> 00:01:35.680 let's do a holiday draft list. Go back and forth 35 00:01:35.680 --> 00:01:39.040 picking your favorite holidays. They can even be funny. Go 36 00:01:39.079 --> 00:01:41.719 into you each have four. It doesn't say so, but 37 00:01:41.719 --> 00:01:44.079 I think we should do rock paper scissors to see first. 38 00:01:44.000 --> 00:01:45.799 Rock paper scissors. Al right, free, shoot? 39 00:01:45.840 --> 00:01:46.079 Ready? 40 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:51.159 One, two, three? Shoot? Oh I did rock he did scissors. Now, 41 00:01:51.200 --> 00:01:53.959 for those listeners that have been with us for a while, 42 00:01:54.239 --> 00:01:57.120 you know that zar Ball was on like a twenty 43 00:01:57.359 --> 00:02:00.439 rock paper scissors streak, Yeah, streak. But these last couple 44 00:02:00.799 --> 00:02:03.680 you've won, I know, yeah, you've won. Okay, so I 45 00:02:03.760 --> 00:02:05.200 think I started figuring out your pattern. 46 00:02:05.280 --> 00:02:07.120 I won twenty and you won like three three. 47 00:02:07.239 --> 00:02:09.000 I know, but I'm feeling good the last three, the 48 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:09.759 most important three. 49 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:12.520 I'm feeling good. I'm feeling good about it. 50 00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:18.719 Okay, so I get to pick first, my first and hey, 51 00:02:18.840 --> 00:02:23.120 you remember remember National Chris Day? Yes, yeah, I was 52 00:02:23.159 --> 00:02:26.520 going to say that's my favorite, but it's not. Bubble 53 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:28.919 Wrap Appreciation Day is a real day. 54 00:02:29.240 --> 00:02:30.000 Yeah? Is it really? 55 00:02:30.039 --> 00:02:31.800 It is? Yeah? Yeah, I just looked it up. It's 56 00:02:31.800 --> 00:02:34.360 the last day and Monday, the last I'm sorry, the 57 00:02:34.439 --> 00:02:38.120 last Monday in January there, and it's a day for 58 00:02:38.159 --> 00:02:41.840 anyone who loves the therapeutic act of popping bubble wrap bubbles. 59 00:02:41.919 --> 00:02:43.120 That's an actual day, I know. 60 00:02:43.319 --> 00:02:46.240 Do you love it? Yes? You love popping bubble wrap reubbles? 61 00:02:46.879 --> 00:02:48.960 Me too, man, it's the best part of Christmas. 62 00:02:49.479 --> 00:02:50.360 That's so funny. 63 00:02:50.919 --> 00:02:52.520 You get all those bubblep pop poppy. 64 00:02:52.840 --> 00:02:54.919 By the way, just in case the listeners are wondering, 65 00:02:54.960 --> 00:02:57.240 we decided to go funny with this segment instead of 66 00:02:57.240 --> 00:03:01.599 just drafting holidays, the actualavorite holiday, right right, we decided 67 00:03:01.639 --> 00:03:02.520 to I know, that. 68 00:03:02.520 --> 00:03:04.360 Might be my new favorite holiday to bounce with you. 69 00:03:04.439 --> 00:03:08.039 So we looked up in chat GPT. Yes some so 70 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:10.240 I taped in the question give me a list of 71 00:03:10.360 --> 00:03:13.719 strangest national holidays. Okay, so here's the one I'm gonna 72 00:03:13.719 --> 00:03:18.159 pick for my first one World Naked Gardening Day. 73 00:03:18.479 --> 00:03:20.599 Oh, that's one of your favorite. 74 00:03:20.159 --> 00:03:21.800 Well, do you know why I chose it? Adam and Eve? 75 00:03:22.199 --> 00:03:23.400 Oh, I see right. 76 00:03:24.039 --> 00:03:26.240 Yes, so this is the first Saturday in May. 77 00:03:26.360 --> 00:03:28.000 It didn't turn out well for them. Just in case 78 00:03:28.039 --> 00:03:32.599 you were wondering, Well, this. 79 00:03:32.759 --> 00:03:35.520 Is people are encouraged to garden in the nude while 80 00:03:35.560 --> 00:03:39.800 respecting local laws. Apparently this is an actual thing. 81 00:03:39.919 --> 00:03:48.759 Okay, well be carefully, snippers. Good luck with that one. 82 00:03:48.879 --> 00:03:50.439 Let me just tell you good luck with that one. 83 00:03:50.840 --> 00:03:52.719 Here we go. So this is a real one. And 84 00:03:52.840 --> 00:03:55.120 and I've celebrated this one before. And in fact, we 85 00:03:55.159 --> 00:03:58.639 had a time in the office back when the office 86 00:03:58.719 --> 00:04:01.360 was smaller, we had fewer people in office. Yes, and 87 00:04:01.400 --> 00:04:03.840 we celebrated this day international talk like a pirate day. 88 00:04:04.919 --> 00:04:07.879 Have you ever celebrated a day I've never Yeah, September 89 00:04:07.960 --> 00:04:11.960 nineteenth every year. Wow is international talk like people around 90 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:14.960 the world channel their innerpirate with ours and away eighties? 91 00:04:15.360 --> 00:04:15.680 Wow. 92 00:04:15.919 --> 00:04:19.639 Yeah, and Buried Treasurer and Jeremy Timmy Yes, absolutely wow. 93 00:04:20.079 --> 00:04:25.240 Okay. My second choice on my draft, Jeff is January sixteenth. 94 00:04:25.480 --> 00:04:28.720 This is a national holiday, and it is I think 95 00:04:28.759 --> 00:04:32.079 this actually is maybe my favorite holiday. Okay, ready, It's 96 00:04:32.079 --> 00:04:33.560 called National Nothing Day. 97 00:04:33.800 --> 00:04:35.360 Yeah, yeah, I have that on my list too. 98 00:04:35.519 --> 00:04:39.120 A day where no holidays, celebration or events are recognized, 99 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:42.839 designed to be a day to do nothing, to do nothing, 100 00:04:43.079 --> 00:04:44.560 which is my absolutely favorite thing. 101 00:04:44.600 --> 00:04:46.040 To do nothing. 102 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:49.920 Yes, nothing, it's collect I love I love doing nothing. 103 00:04:50.839 --> 00:04:52.959 So I don't know that you should say that to 104 00:04:53.000 --> 00:04:55.560 the person who had advocates for your paycheck. 105 00:04:56.480 --> 00:05:00.160 Advocates for your paycheck. I love you, I love doing 106 00:05:00.279 --> 00:05:03.279 I do nothing nothing. I lie doing nothing so much 107 00:05:03.680 --> 00:05:05.879 in the office. 108 00:05:06.120 --> 00:05:07.920 This is a great one. I didn't know this was 109 00:05:07.959 --> 00:05:11.160 a deal, but I think I'm going to take advantage 110 00:05:11.199 --> 00:05:15.000 of it. Yes, August eighth is National Sneak some Zucchini 111 00:05:15.040 --> 00:05:16.240 on your neighbor's porch Day. 112 00:05:16.759 --> 00:05:17.519 Are you kidding me? 113 00:05:17.639 --> 00:05:19.839 Yeah, it's a day for gardeners with an overabundance of 114 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:23.120 zucchini to anonymously leave some for their neighbors. 115 00:05:22.639 --> 00:05:23.959 That can't be a day. 116 00:05:24.000 --> 00:05:26.600 I think it must be. I'm totally taking advantage of it. 117 00:05:27.199 --> 00:05:28.519 I'm going to do it. 118 00:05:28.680 --> 00:05:31.199 If that's an actual day, then we need more days, 119 00:05:32.040 --> 00:05:34.560 like we need more days to fill the ridiculous things 120 00:05:34.560 --> 00:05:35.439 that deserve. 121 00:05:35.519 --> 00:05:37.399 Okay, a day over that I have a better one 122 00:05:37.439 --> 00:05:40.040 next time. Okay, but that's a good one. Have you 123 00:05:40.079 --> 00:05:43.439 ever grown a garden with zucchini and it no, not 124 00:05:43.439 --> 00:05:46.920 with zucchini. If you grow zucchini, yes, you grew too 125 00:05:46.920 --> 00:05:49.360 many zucchinis. Is what happens. It just happens, and so 126 00:05:49.360 --> 00:05:50.839 you got to get rid of them somehow. It's great. 127 00:05:50.879 --> 00:05:52.120 Let's have a day and give them to people who 128 00:05:52.160 --> 00:05:53.040 don't have gardens. 129 00:05:53.240 --> 00:05:56.600 Okay, a good idea. I here's my third choice. Okay, 130 00:05:56.879 --> 00:06:03.240 is World UFO Day's second day to raise awareness of 131 00:06:03.439 --> 00:06:05.680 UFO sightings at extraterrestrial life. 132 00:06:05.839 --> 00:06:06.160 Wow. 133 00:06:06.240 --> 00:06:08.360 Do you remember a while back when the guys in 134 00:06:08.399 --> 00:06:09.279 the courtroom. 135 00:06:08.920 --> 00:06:10.920 When you got abducted, I thought, weren't talking about that anymore? 136 00:06:12.639 --> 00:06:17.199 Go ahead? It was it was it was Darren, you're 137 00:06:17.199 --> 00:06:19.959 going to make some jokes about the World Naked Gardening Day. 138 00:06:21.439 --> 00:06:27.800 I got aducted. Yeah, right, the UH Do you remember 139 00:06:27.839 --> 00:06:29.800 a while back when the guy, when one of the 140 00:06:29.800 --> 00:06:32.879 old UH government guys went on the what was it 141 00:06:32.920 --> 00:06:35.560 like six months ago? He went on the news and 142 00:06:35.920 --> 00:06:39.079 said that he, uh, the reports were real, that the 143 00:06:39.079 --> 00:06:41.680 sightings were right. There was no evidence, mind you. 144 00:06:42.079 --> 00:06:43.519 He just said made a declaration. 145 00:06:43.600 --> 00:06:46.680 He just made a declaration that they believed that UFOs 146 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:49.079 were real, and remember, the world didn't care. 147 00:06:49.800 --> 00:06:51.680 Didn't even make the news hardly. Yeah. 148 00:06:51.759 --> 00:06:55.319 Yeah, And by the way, it's because number one, nobody 149 00:06:55.399 --> 00:06:58.959 believes media anymore. Nobody believes it. So it's like they 150 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:01.240 weren't real just because those two guys said they were real. 151 00:07:01.399 --> 00:07:04.480 But if Jake Paul went out on TikTok and said 152 00:07:04.480 --> 00:07:07.800 I got abducted last night, half the world to believe it, right, right, 153 00:07:07.959 --> 00:07:08.800 that's what's ridiculous. 154 00:07:08.879 --> 00:07:10.160 That is ridiculous crazy. 155 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:13.800 Okay, here we go this This may be my favorite 156 00:07:13.800 --> 00:07:16.519 one and I just found it on the list. The 157 00:07:16.560 --> 00:07:20.120 first Friday, the thirteenth of the year is blame someone 158 00:07:20.160 --> 00:07:24.560 Else's Day. Wow, it's a guilt free day to pass 159 00:07:24.600 --> 00:07:27.199 the blame mind to someone else. Is that amazing? 160 00:07:27.240 --> 00:07:27.839 I would love that? 161 00:07:28.000 --> 00:07:30.360 Yeah, the first So let's find out when it is. 162 00:07:30.439 --> 00:07:31.720 Walk around and just say your fault. 163 00:07:31.800 --> 00:07:34.000 Let's find out when the first Friday, the thirteenth of 164 00:07:34.040 --> 00:07:38.519 the year is next year. Ooh, I'll find it all right. 165 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:41.480 Well, while you're looking that up, Jeff, let me go 166 00:07:41.480 --> 00:07:42.680 ahead and do the last one. 167 00:07:42.720 --> 00:07:46.360 It's June, June of twenty twenty five, the first Friday 168 00:07:46.360 --> 00:07:49.000 the thirteenth. Just so you know. It's the first Friday, 169 00:07:49.000 --> 00:07:52.120 the thirteenth in June. Blame someone else Day. 170 00:07:52.279 --> 00:07:54.399 By the way, if we forget to celebrate that, it's 171 00:07:54.439 --> 00:07:54.879 your fault. 172 00:07:57.600 --> 00:07:59.639 Okay, great, very good, Thank you. 173 00:07:59.639 --> 00:08:05.519 To tche Okay. My last pick is August eighth, apparently 174 00:08:05.639 --> 00:08:10.319 is International Cat Day, a day to celebrate our feline friends, 175 00:08:10.879 --> 00:08:13.879 including a variety of events dedicated to cats. 176 00:08:14.240 --> 00:08:17.120 Wow, I like it. Okay, you like that one. 177 00:08:17.160 --> 00:08:19.920 Well, you know I when I got married, I wanted dogs, 178 00:08:19.920 --> 00:08:23.720 my wife wanted cats. We compromised and get cats. But 179 00:08:23.800 --> 00:08:25.800 I like my cats. Yeah, I love them. Actually, I 180 00:08:25.800 --> 00:08:26.399 love my cats. 181 00:08:26.399 --> 00:08:29.040 Well that's nice. Yeah, it's super super sweet. 182 00:08:29.199 --> 00:08:31.680 So I do defend cats. Yes, yes, to those who 183 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:32.279 don't like them. 184 00:08:32.399 --> 00:08:36.080 I actually prefer cats overdogs, even though we compromise and 185 00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:41.240 got dogs. So wow yeah, okay. April twenty fifth is 186 00:08:41.360 --> 00:08:42.960 National Hug a Plumber Day. 187 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:44.720 Five It said four, did it? 188 00:08:44.720 --> 00:08:47.840 Well, here's the bonus bonus. It's the bonus material. It's 189 00:08:47.840 --> 00:08:49.960 an appreciation day for plumbers and all the work they do. 190 00:08:50.320 --> 00:08:52.000 But maybe skip the actual hug. 191 00:08:52.840 --> 00:08:55.759 Okay, well, the cheese that I'll choose. My last one. 192 00:08:55.879 --> 00:08:59.360 Cheese Lover's Day. January twentieth is a day dedicated entirely 193 00:08:59.399 --> 00:09:00.600 to appreciation of cheese. 194 00:09:00.639 --> 00:09:02.759 Well that's my day. Let me just tell you right now, 195 00:09:03.960 --> 00:09:06.840 Cheese Day. Okay, all right, thank you very much. 196 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:08.600 We're at eight minutes, so we need to move on. 197 00:09:08.679 --> 00:09:12.000 So one of my favorite books in the Bible talking 198 00:09:12.039 --> 00:09:16.919 about a national day. We used to have holidays. Every 199 00:09:17.039 --> 00:09:19.720 day we would read the Book of Proverbs. So every 200 00:09:19.759 --> 00:09:22.080 day was a holiday of Proverbs reading. 201 00:09:22.279 --> 00:09:24.120 Wow? Wow? 202 00:09:27.320 --> 00:09:33.879 Was it was rough? Okay, so we're trying to find 203 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:37.759 you know, silly segues into yes, the out of the 204 00:09:37.799 --> 00:09:42.240 game and into the thing the reading. So Solomon wrote 205 00:09:42.559 --> 00:09:45.159 most of the Book of Proverbs, as my fact that 206 00:09:45.240 --> 00:09:47.600 mentioned just a couple days ago. In reading that he 207 00:09:47.679 --> 00:09:50.879 wrote over three thousand proverbs. Many of them are included 208 00:09:50.879 --> 00:09:52.519 in the Book of Proverbs, and then you also picked 209 00:09:52.519 --> 00:09:56.480 them up in Ecclesiastes and in song. Soundon a little bit. 210 00:09:56.519 --> 00:10:02.279 But so Solomon or Solomon wrote Proverbs chapter one, and 211 00:10:02.320 --> 00:10:05.639 we're going to read are we reading the whole chapter? 212 00:10:05.840 --> 00:10:09.240 Some of them? Okay? Wow? Seven? Why man? The whole 213 00:10:09.279 --> 00:10:10.080 chapter is pretty great. 214 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:13.279 Let's read the whole chapter. Let's do it. 215 00:10:12.399 --> 00:10:16.720 It's a long chapter. What Okay, These are the proverbs 216 00:10:16.720 --> 00:10:20.240 of Solomon, David's son, King of Israel. Their purpose is 217 00:10:20.279 --> 00:10:23.399 to teach people wisdom and discipline, to help them understand 218 00:10:23.399 --> 00:10:26.279 the insights of the wise. Their purpose is to teach 219 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:29.039 people to live disciplined in successful lives, to help them 220 00:10:29.080 --> 00:10:32.519 do what is right, just and fair. These proverbs will 221 00:10:32.519 --> 00:10:35.399 give insight to the simple knowledge and discernment to the young. 222 00:10:35.919 --> 00:10:38.080 Let the wise men listen to these proverbs and become 223 00:10:38.120 --> 00:10:41.519 even wiser. Let those with understanding receive guidance by exploring 224 00:10:41.519 --> 00:10:44.159 the meaning in these proverbs and parables, the words of 225 00:10:44.159 --> 00:10:47.200 the wise and the riddles. Fear of the Lord is 226 00:10:47.200 --> 00:10:51.120 the foundation of true knowledge, But fools despise wisdom and discipline. 227 00:10:51.200 --> 00:10:53.039 I'm really glad that we decided to read the rest. 228 00:10:53.879 --> 00:10:56.639 My child, listen, when your father corrects you, don't neglect 229 00:10:56.639 --> 00:10:59.000 your mother's instruction. What you learn from them will crown 230 00:10:59.080 --> 00:11:01.000 you with grace and be a chain of honor around 231 00:11:01.000 --> 00:11:04.360 your neck. My child, if sinners entice you turn your 232 00:11:04.360 --> 00:11:06.559 back on them, they may say, come and join us. 233 00:11:06.639 --> 00:11:08.879 Let's hide and kill someone just for fun. Let's ambush 234 00:11:08.879 --> 00:11:11.559 the innocent. Let's swallow them alive like the grave. Let's 235 00:11:11.600 --> 00:11:13.919 swallow them whole, like those who go down into the 236 00:11:13.919 --> 00:11:16.519 pit of death. Think of the great things we'll get. 237 00:11:16.720 --> 00:11:18.679 We'll fill our houses with all the stuff we take, 238 00:11:18.720 --> 00:11:20.679 and we'll throw our lot in with us. Come throw 239 00:11:20.720 --> 00:11:22.840 your lot in with us, and we'll share all the loot. 240 00:11:23.480 --> 00:11:25.799 My child, don't go along with them. Stay far away 241 00:11:25.799 --> 00:11:28.639 from their paths. They rush to commit evil deeds. They 242 00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:31.080 hurry to commit murder. If a bird sees the trap 243 00:11:31.120 --> 00:11:34.000 being set, it knows to stay away. But these people 244 00:11:34.000 --> 00:11:36.799 set an ambush from them for themselves. They're trying to 245 00:11:36.799 --> 00:11:39.600 get themselves killed. Such as the fate of all who 246 00:11:39.639 --> 00:11:44.120 are greedy for money. It robs them of life. That's 247 00:11:44.240 --> 00:11:48.519 Solomon trying to talk his son into joining the gangs. 248 00:11:48.559 --> 00:11:50.720 Wisdom shouts in the streets. She cries out in the 249 00:11:50.720 --> 00:11:53.679 public square. She calls to the crowds along the main street, 250 00:11:53.720 --> 00:11:56.240 to those gathered in front of the city gate, how 251 00:11:56.279 --> 00:11:59.080 long you simpletons will you insist on being simple minded? 252 00:11:59.360 --> 00:12:02.320 How long will you, you mockers, relish your mocking? How long 253 00:12:02.360 --> 00:12:05.480 will you fools hate knowledge? Come and listen to my counsel. 254 00:12:05.679 --> 00:12:07.639 I'll share my heart with you and make you wise. 255 00:12:08.320 --> 00:12:10.399 I called you so often but you wouldn't come. I 256 00:12:10.440 --> 00:12:12.320 reached out to you, but you paid no attention. You 257 00:12:12.320 --> 00:12:15.519 ignored my advice and rejected the correction I offered. So 258 00:12:15.600 --> 00:12:17.639 I'll laugh when you're in trouble. I will mock when 259 00:12:17.679 --> 00:12:21.320 you disaster overtakes you, when calamity overtakes you like a storm, 260 00:12:21.320 --> 00:12:23.679 when disaster engulfs you like a cyclone, and anguish and 261 00:12:23.720 --> 00:12:26.759 distress overwhelm you. When they cry for help, I will 262 00:12:26.799 --> 00:12:29.799 not answer. Though they anxiously search for me, they will 263 00:12:29.799 --> 00:12:32.480 not find me, for they hated knowledge and chose not 264 00:12:32.559 --> 00:12:35.039 to fear the Lord. They rejected my advice and paid 265 00:12:35.039 --> 00:12:37.600 no attention when I corrected them. Therefore they must eat 266 00:12:37.600 --> 00:12:39.639 the bitter fruit of living their own way, choking on 267 00:12:39.639 --> 00:12:43.039 their own schemes. For simpletons turn away from me to death. 268 00:12:43.440 --> 00:12:46.639 Fools are destroyed by their own complacency. But all who 269 00:12:46.679 --> 00:12:49.279 listen to me will live in peace, untrouble by fear 270 00:12:49.320 --> 00:12:50.240 of harm. 271 00:12:50.600 --> 00:12:54.759 Well that's a strong way of saying what you deserve, right, yeah, 272 00:12:55.440 --> 00:12:56.320 you it's coming to you. 273 00:12:56.480 --> 00:12:58.879 Well, it's a strong way of saying there's a point 274 00:12:58.879 --> 00:13:00.960 when there's no coming back. The fact that you've thrown 275 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:03.799 off all the wise counsels. You've ever been given right. 276 00:13:04.000 --> 00:13:06.080 You're free to make your choices, just not free to 277 00:13:06.159 --> 00:13:09.879 choose the consequences, right, right, Because this isn't God saying 278 00:13:09.919 --> 00:13:12.840 these words, this is wisdom right. Verse twenty says wisdom 279 00:13:12.879 --> 00:13:15.559 shouts in the streets. She cries out in the public square. 280 00:13:15.679 --> 00:13:17.559 Wisdom is available to all of us, but we don't 281 00:13:17.559 --> 00:13:21.879 all avail take avail of it. And so then there's 282 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:24.960 times then when we reject wisdom, we do the foolish thing. 283 00:13:25.960 --> 00:13:28.000 Then when we're in the middle of the consequences the 284 00:13:28.000 --> 00:13:30.399 foolish thing we're doing, we start crying out, Oh, please 285 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:32.399 help me, please help me. At that point, wisdoms is 286 00:13:32.440 --> 00:13:35.840 too late. Wisdm can't do anything. Wisdom is always usually preventative. 287 00:13:36.399 --> 00:13:40.679 It's before the decision, right, it's not after. But when 288 00:13:40.720 --> 00:13:43.679 you do the wrong thing and then go, oh, wish 289 00:13:43.720 --> 00:13:44.440 that turned out better. 290 00:13:45.519 --> 00:13:46.200 I should have done this. 291 00:13:46.279 --> 00:13:47.720 Yeah, yeah, you know what I should have done Monday 292 00:13:47.759 --> 00:13:49.679 morning quarterback and that kind of a thing. Yep, right. 293 00:13:50.120 --> 00:13:52.799 And I love how he refers wisdom to as a 294 00:13:52.879 --> 00:13:56.279 she yeh, she calls out into the streets. And Solomon 295 00:13:56.360 --> 00:13:59.679 does that, and I love it because he creates almost 296 00:13:59.679 --> 00:14:02.799 like a character of wisdom. Yes, right, and refers to 297 00:14:03.320 --> 00:14:05.840 wisdom as something to be obtained and something to be 298 00:14:05.879 --> 00:14:09.480 followed and listened to. He makes He makes wisdom to 299 00:14:09.519 --> 00:14:12.879 be a treasure, right, more more precious than rubies and gold, 300 00:14:12.960 --> 00:14:17.039 he says about wisdom. He makes wisdom to be a 301 00:14:17.080 --> 00:14:21.399 woman to be desired and listen to. And but I 302 00:14:21.440 --> 00:14:24.919 love it so much. And you know what. He starts 303 00:14:24.919 --> 00:14:27.080 off by saying, my child, listen to your when your 304 00:14:27.080 --> 00:14:31.120 father corrects you, don't neglect your mother's instruction. And when 305 00:14:31.120 --> 00:14:33.600 you when you learn from them, they will crown you 306 00:14:33.639 --> 00:14:36.000 with grace, be a chain of honor around your neck. 307 00:14:36.720 --> 00:14:40.159 I love how as a parent you're like, that's right, yeah, 308 00:14:40.279 --> 00:14:42.919 listen to me. But think about when you were a 309 00:14:43.000 --> 00:14:46.840 child too, all the wisdom that you just don't understand yet, right, 310 00:14:47.200 --> 00:14:51.240 isn't that cool? And And that's really Solomon's posture always 311 00:14:51.559 --> 00:14:55.519 because God has given him the gift to be the 312 00:14:55.559 --> 00:14:59.720 wisest person who has ever or will ever live, which 313 00:14:59.759 --> 00:15:04.559 means everybody he talks to or like children, compared to him. 314 00:15:05.919 --> 00:15:10.399 He understands his wisdom fully, right, But nobody understands the 315 00:15:10.440 --> 00:15:13.799 wisdom like he understands the wisdom. And that is so interesting, 316 00:15:13.879 --> 00:15:17.279 isn't it, Because as parents or those who have experience, right, 317 00:15:17.639 --> 00:15:22.240 those who I mean, listen, this whole chapter is about 318 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:26.600 somebody who has given wisdom and uh and says, I'm 319 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:28.240 telling you what it's going to happen, and then when 320 00:15:28.279 --> 00:15:30.320 it does happen to you, I'm going to tell you, 321 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:32.200 I'm not gonna I'm not going to be there for 322 00:15:32.240 --> 00:15:34.720 you because I told you, because I know what's going 323 00:15:34.759 --> 00:15:37.159 to happen. I understand what's going to happen. And from 324 00:15:37.200 --> 00:15:40.159 the position of understanding, when you give wisdom to somebody 325 00:15:40.200 --> 00:15:44.320 who doesn't understand it is just like what he says 326 00:15:44.360 --> 00:15:46.879 here after the introduction of wisdom. He says, this is 327 00:15:46.879 --> 00:15:47.960 going to help you. This is going to help you. 328 00:15:47.960 --> 00:15:50.840 That's going to help you. He postures you like a 329 00:15:50.960 --> 00:15:55.480 child hearing wisdom from a father and mother. But honestly, 330 00:15:56.000 --> 00:15:59.440 that's everybody, no matter how old you are. If you 331 00:15:59.480 --> 00:16:02.519 don't fully understand the wisdom that's given to you, then 332 00:16:02.679 --> 00:16:06.519 we need to maybe pause and consider the fact that 333 00:16:07.080 --> 00:16:09.279 wisdom goes beyond our understanding or appreciation. 334 00:16:09.399 --> 00:16:13.120 Yeah, well almost always always, yeah, you know this is 335 00:16:13.159 --> 00:16:16.799 this The premise of this show is very much what 336 00:16:16.919 --> 00:16:21.080 I grew up on in the Book of Proverbs, where 337 00:16:21.120 --> 00:16:23.440 we read Book of Proverbs every night. Yep. So there's 338 00:16:23.480 --> 00:16:26.399 thirty one chapters in the Book of Proverbs. Holiday every day, Yeah, 339 00:16:26.440 --> 00:16:29.000 every day, every day. And so my mom and dad 340 00:16:29.279 --> 00:16:31.200 decided early on that they wanted us to spend time 341 00:16:31.200 --> 00:16:34.080 in the Word every day. In the Book of Proverbs, 342 00:16:34.120 --> 00:16:36.840 Saloma says, wisdom is the most important thing, So get it, 343 00:16:36.960 --> 00:16:39.240 get all that you can, you know, do whatever it takes. 344 00:16:40.120 --> 00:16:42.279 And so my dad thought, you know what, I want 345 00:16:42.279 --> 00:16:44.120 to pass on God's wisdom as much as possible. So 346 00:16:44.200 --> 00:16:47.399 in the morning, he would whatever his devotional was that day, 347 00:16:47.440 --> 00:16:49.279 whatever he read, he would write it down a piece 348 00:16:49.279 --> 00:16:50.840 of paper, leave a little note and ask us one 349 00:16:50.960 --> 00:16:54.279 or two questions that he left with from you know, 350 00:16:54.320 --> 00:16:56.279 having read in the Bible. So we'd read that at breakfast. 351 00:16:56.480 --> 00:16:58.000 But then in the evening before we go to bed, 352 00:16:58.240 --> 00:17:01.440 we would read whatever the date was, we'd read that proverb. 353 00:17:02.000 --> 00:17:04.599 And so then we would just go through in all 354 00:17:04.640 --> 00:17:06.319 of us. So me and my dad and my brother 355 00:17:06.400 --> 00:17:09.000 and my mom, sitting in a living room, we would 356 00:17:09.039 --> 00:17:12.319 read through and then each of us would pick something 357 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:14.160 that jumps off the page. To us, which is essentially 358 00:17:14.160 --> 00:17:16.599 what you and I are doing now in every single 359 00:17:16.640 --> 00:17:21.200 episode where a five hundred and some odd episodes, what 360 00:17:21.200 --> 00:17:24.799 one is this? I don't know, five hundred and sixty 361 00:17:24.880 --> 00:17:28.119 nine of the Bible, guys, and then we had one 362 00:17:28.160 --> 00:17:31.319 hundred and seventy something of HD Daily, right, And that's 363 00:17:31.359 --> 00:17:34.119 all this is. It really is. We're taking that principle 364 00:17:34.119 --> 00:17:36.799 that I grew up on reading the Book of Proverbs 365 00:17:36.880 --> 00:17:41.240 looking for something and saying what on this page is 366 00:17:41.279 --> 00:17:43.000 speaking to me and what I think it means. And 367 00:17:43.079 --> 00:17:45.079 so when you have a good study Bible, that gives 368 00:17:45.119 --> 00:17:47.079 you more to dig into and maybe you get a 369 00:17:47.079 --> 00:17:49.440 different insight. But the thing on this page that jumps 370 00:17:49.480 --> 00:17:53.039 off to me is Solomon says, the purpose of these 371 00:17:53.839 --> 00:17:58.599 proverbs as he's writing to his son right, is to 372 00:17:58.720 --> 00:18:03.160 teach people to live dissipate and successful lives, to help 373 00:18:03.200 --> 00:18:07.319 them do what is right, just and fair. And these 374 00:18:07.359 --> 00:18:11.400 proverbs will give insight to the simple knowledge and discernment 375 00:18:11.759 --> 00:18:14.440 to the young, and so let the wise listen and 376 00:18:14.519 --> 00:18:17.880 become wiser. But then on the other end, he says, 377 00:18:18.880 --> 00:18:22.319 but fools despise wisdom and discipline, right, and so what 378 00:18:22.359 --> 00:18:24.279 you see is this contrast all through the Book of 379 00:18:24.279 --> 00:18:26.920 Proverbs of him saying, hey, if you're wise, pay attention 380 00:18:26.960 --> 00:18:29.240 to this. If you're fool, you're going to despise it. 381 00:18:29.759 --> 00:18:33.279 And he draws a contrast between wise people. He always 382 00:18:33.319 --> 00:18:37.119 refers to godly people as wise people and ungodly people 383 00:18:37.680 --> 00:18:41.279 choose to be fools. And it's because, and almost always 384 00:18:41.319 --> 00:18:44.160 it's connected to the fact that they've despised God's teaching. 385 00:18:44.720 --> 00:18:48.319 They despise the wisdom and the discipline that comes with 386 00:18:49.319 --> 00:18:52.599 knowing more. And so you know that's my desire, man, 387 00:18:52.599 --> 00:18:55.559 I want to be successful. There aren't very very many 388 00:18:55.640 --> 00:18:57.240 times in the Bible that God says, do this and 389 00:18:57.240 --> 00:19:01.759 you'll be successful. Right, He tells Joshua, if you keep 390 00:19:01.799 --> 00:19:04.440 walking in my ways and you pay attention to my 391 00:19:04.559 --> 00:19:07.720 laws and you honor me, then I'll make you successful. 392 00:19:08.160 --> 00:19:10.640 And then a couple of times with Solomon, Solomon says, 393 00:19:10.799 --> 00:19:13.359 the whole purpose behind my proverbs is to help you 394 00:19:13.400 --> 00:19:15.839 be successful. And the way that you're going to know 395 00:19:15.880 --> 00:19:17.839 that you're successful is that you're going to live a 396 00:19:17.839 --> 00:19:21.279 disciplined life. That discipline will lead to success, and the 397 00:19:21.279 --> 00:19:22.880 success is going to be measured by the fact that 398 00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:25.640 you do what is right? What is just? What is fair? 399 00:19:26.160 --> 00:19:27.960 Yeah? Right, that's honest. 400 00:19:28.039 --> 00:19:30.440 The kind of person I want to be right And so, hey, 401 00:19:30.559 --> 00:19:32.279