WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.840 --> 00:00:03.720 You're listening to the Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.759 --> 00:00:06.480 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.599 --> 00:00:07.519 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.599 --> 00:00:12.519 Hey, everybody. 5 00:00:12.960 --> 00:00:15.359 Uh, for some reason, I had this desire to do this. 6 00:00:17.280 --> 00:00:17.920 I don't know why. 7 00:00:18.000 --> 00:00:21.000 Well, thank you, but hey, welcome to the Bible guys. 8 00:00:21.039 --> 00:00:21.239 Hey. 9 00:00:21.280 --> 00:00:23.480 I was going to mention that roll in you're like 10 00:00:23.600 --> 00:00:25.519 half the man you used to be, and so are 11 00:00:25.559 --> 00:00:26.640 you watching that rollin? 12 00:00:26.839 --> 00:00:27.039 Yeah? 13 00:00:27.120 --> 00:00:27.640 Yeah we were. 14 00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:32.520 We were portly, yeah, iftly. 15 00:00:33.320 --> 00:00:35.880 If if you're watching, of course, a lot of people listen, 16 00:00:35.960 --> 00:00:39.280 more than more than half listen, yes, right, But if 17 00:00:39.280 --> 00:00:42.439 you're actually watching it on YouTube, then there's a video 18 00:00:42.560 --> 00:00:45.079 roll in that goes along with that audio rollin. 19 00:00:45.560 --> 00:00:46.719 And uh and yeah, but. 20 00:00:46.880 --> 00:00:49.880 Looking good, felt, so are you booking felt? 21 00:00:50.039 --> 00:00:50.200 Well? 22 00:00:50.280 --> 00:00:52.159 Actually, this sweatshirt that I have on today I just 23 00:00:52.200 --> 00:00:54.920 mentioned between the takes it's an extra large and I'm 24 00:00:54.960 --> 00:00:56.399 swimming swimming. 25 00:00:56.520 --> 00:00:58.960 Good for you, buddy, So but are you well I'm 26 00:00:59.000 --> 00:01:00.399 not down to an extra large yet. 27 00:01:00.799 --> 00:01:03.679 Okay, but you know compared to the rolling. 28 00:01:03.600 --> 00:01:06.159 Well compare rolling, I'm out of the fours and out 29 00:01:06.159 --> 00:01:07.120 of the threes. 30 00:01:07.000 --> 00:01:09.920 Right right, that's right. Yeah, So that's great. 31 00:01:10.640 --> 00:01:13.120 So hey, we're going to open up with a segment 32 00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:16.959 today and uh and by the way, that probably means 33 00:01:17.000 --> 00:01:18.879 we should do a different rolling sometime soon. 34 00:01:19.280 --> 00:01:22.000 Yeah yeah, yeah, well let's let's let's bottom out. 35 00:01:22.040 --> 00:01:23.719 Make sure we don't add it back, otherwise we just 36 00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:24.319 waste the time. 37 00:01:24.480 --> 00:01:27.959 Right, So here is this is a fun one. 38 00:01:28.040 --> 00:01:29.879 Yes, it is super excited about this segment. 39 00:01:29.959 --> 00:01:33.599 Holiday draft list with Thanksgiving being next week, as Ray says, 40 00:01:33.760 --> 00:01:35.719 let's do a holiday draft list. Go back and forth 41 00:01:35.719 --> 00:01:39.040 picking your favorite holidays. They can even be funny. Go 42 00:01:39.120 --> 00:01:41.719 into you each have four. It doesn't say so, but 43 00:01:41.760 --> 00:01:44.120 I think we should do rock paper scissors to see first. 44 00:01:44.040 --> 00:01:45.000 Rock paper scissors? All right? 45 00:01:45.359 --> 00:01:45.519 Three? 46 00:01:45.560 --> 00:01:45.799 Shoot? 47 00:01:45.879 --> 00:01:46.640 Ready? One? 48 00:01:46.760 --> 00:01:50.920 Two? Three? Shoot? Oh I did rock he did scissors. 49 00:01:51.000 --> 00:01:53.599 Now, for those listeners that have been with us for 50 00:01:53.640 --> 00:01:56.079 a while, you know that zar Ball was on like 51 00:01:56.120 --> 00:01:59.760 a twenty rock paper scissors streak, Yeah, streak. But these 52 00:01:59.799 --> 00:02:03.280 last couple you've won, I know, yeah, you've won. Okay, 53 00:02:03.439 --> 00:02:05.359 So I think I started figuring out your patterns. I 54 00:02:05.400 --> 00:02:07.439 won twenty and you won like three three. I know, 55 00:02:07.519 --> 00:02:09.800 but I'm feeling good the last three, the most important three. 56 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:12.560 I'm feeling good. I'm feeling good about it. 57 00:02:14.039 --> 00:02:18.759 Okay, So I get to pick first, my first and hey, 58 00:02:18.879 --> 00:02:23.120 you remember remember National Chris Day? Yes, yeah, I was 59 00:02:23.199 --> 00:02:24.759 gonna say that's my favorite, but it's not. 60 00:02:26.199 --> 00:02:28.960 Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day is a real day. 61 00:02:29.280 --> 00:02:30.039 Yeah? Is it really? 62 00:02:30.080 --> 00:02:31.479 It is? Yeah? Yeah, I just looked it up. 63 00:02:31.639 --> 00:02:34.319 It's the last day and Monday, the last I'm sorry, 64 00:02:34.360 --> 00:02:38.039 the last Monday in January there, and it's a day 65 00:02:38.080 --> 00:02:41.120 for anyone who loves the therapeutic act of popping bubble 66 00:02:41.159 --> 00:02:41.879 wrap bubbles. 67 00:02:41.960 --> 00:02:43.159 That's an actual day, I know. 68 00:02:43.360 --> 00:02:43.960 Do you love it? 69 00:02:44.280 --> 00:02:44.479 Yes? 70 00:02:44.639 --> 00:02:47.800 You love popping bubble wrap reubbles? Me too, man, it's 71 00:02:47.840 --> 00:02:49.000 the best part of Christmas. 72 00:02:49.520 --> 00:02:50.400 That's so funny. 73 00:02:50.960 --> 00:02:52.319 You get all those bubblep pop pop pop. 74 00:02:52.879 --> 00:02:54.960 By the way, just in case the listeners are wondering, 75 00:02:55.000 --> 00:02:57.280 we decided to go funny with this segment. Instead of 76 00:02:57.280 --> 00:03:01.159 just drafting holidays, the actual favorite holiday, right right, we 77 00:03:01.240 --> 00:03:01.840 decided to. 78 00:03:01.960 --> 00:03:03.840 I don't know, that might be my new favorite holiday 79 00:03:03.840 --> 00:03:04.400 to bounce with you. 80 00:03:04.479 --> 00:03:06.080 So we looked up in chat GPT. 81 00:03:06.280 --> 00:03:09.639 Yes some, so I taped in the question give me 82 00:03:09.759 --> 00:03:13.240 a list of strangest national holidays. Okay, so here's the 83 00:03:13.240 --> 00:03:17.159 one I'm gonna pick for my first one. World Naked 84 00:03:17.319 --> 00:03:18.199 Gardening day. 85 00:03:18.520 --> 00:03:20.120 Oh that's one of your favorite. 86 00:03:20.199 --> 00:03:21.840 Well do you know why I chose it? Adam and Eve? 87 00:03:22.240 --> 00:03:24.400 Oh, I see right, Yes. 88 00:03:24.360 --> 00:03:26.280 So this is the first Saturday in May. 89 00:03:26.360 --> 00:03:28.039 It didn't turn out well for them. Just in case 90 00:03:28.080 --> 00:03:31.400 you were wondering, Well. 91 00:03:32.479 --> 00:03:35.280 This is people are encouraged to garden in the nude 92 00:03:35.319 --> 00:03:37.039 while respecting local laws. 93 00:03:37.560 --> 00:03:39.800 Apparently this is an actual thing. 94 00:03:39.960 --> 00:03:48.800 Okay, well be carefully, snippers. Good luck with that one. 95 00:03:48.919 --> 00:03:50.479 Let me just tell you good luck with that one. 96 00:03:50.879 --> 00:03:51.280 Here we go. 97 00:03:51.639 --> 00:03:53.960 So this is a real one. And and I've celebrated 98 00:03:53.960 --> 00:03:57.319 this one before. And in fact, we had a time 99 00:03:57.319 --> 00:03:59.879 in the office back when our office was smaller, we 100 00:03:59.879 --> 00:04:02.080 had fewer people in office. Yes, and we celebrated this 101 00:04:02.159 --> 00:04:05.240 day international talk like a pirate day. Have you ever 102 00:04:05.280 --> 00:04:08.879 celebrated a day I've never? Yeah, September nineteenth every year. 103 00:04:08.960 --> 00:04:12.680 Wow is international talk like people around the world channel 104 00:04:12.680 --> 00:04:13.960 they're innerpirate. 105 00:04:13.439 --> 00:04:15.719 With ours and away eighties Wow. 106 00:04:15.960 --> 00:04:19.680 Yeah, and Buried Treasurer and Jeremy Timbery Yes absolutely, wow. 107 00:04:20.120 --> 00:04:20.480 Okay. 108 00:04:20.680 --> 00:04:25.279 My second choice on my draft, Jeff, is January sixteenth. 109 00:04:25.519 --> 00:04:28.759 This is a national holiday, and it is I think 110 00:04:28.800 --> 00:04:32.120 this actually is maybe my favorite holiday. Okay, ready, it's 111 00:04:32.120 --> 00:04:33.600 called National Nothing Day. 112 00:04:33.839 --> 00:04:35.399 Yeah, yeah, I have that on my list too. 113 00:04:35.560 --> 00:04:39.160 A day where no holidays, celebration or events are recognized, 114 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:42.879 designed to be a day to do nothing, to do nothing, 115 00:04:43.079 --> 00:04:44.600 which is my absolutely favorite thing. 116 00:04:44.639 --> 00:04:46.079 To do nothing. 117 00:04:46.399 --> 00:04:49.959 Yes, nothing, it's collect I love I love doing nothing. 118 00:04:50.879 --> 00:04:53.000 So I don't know that you should say that to 119 00:04:53.040 --> 00:04:55.519 the person who had advocates for your paycheck. 120 00:04:56.519 --> 00:04:57.839 Advocates for your paycheck. 121 00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:01.560 I love you, I love doing it. I do nothing nothing. 122 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:02.839 I lie doing nothing so. 123 00:05:03.040 --> 00:05:05.920 Much in the office. 124 00:05:06.160 --> 00:05:07.079 This is a great one. 125 00:05:07.160 --> 00:05:10.240 I didn't know this was a deal, but I think 126 00:05:10.279 --> 00:05:13.000 I'm going to take advantage of it. Yes, August eighth 127 00:05:13.160 --> 00:05:16.279 is National Sneak some Zucchini on your neighbor's porch Day. 128 00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:17.560 Are you kidding me? 129 00:05:17.680 --> 00:05:19.879 Yeah, it's a day for gardeners with an overabundance of 130 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:22.920 zucchini to anonymously leave some for their neighbors. 131 00:05:22.680 --> 00:05:24.000 That can't be a day. 132 00:05:24.040 --> 00:05:26.639 I think it must be. I'm totally taking advantage of it. 133 00:05:27.240 --> 00:05:28.560 I'm going to do it. 134 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:31.240 If that's an actual day, then we need more days, 135 00:05:32.079 --> 00:05:34.560 like we need more days to fill the ridiculous things 136 00:05:34.600 --> 00:05:35.120 that deserve. 137 00:05:35.560 --> 00:05:37.439 Okay, a day over that, I have a better one 138 00:05:37.480 --> 00:05:39.560 next time. Okay, but that's a good one. 139 00:05:39.879 --> 00:05:43.319 Have you ever grown a garden with zucchini and it no, 140 00:05:43.399 --> 00:05:44.079 not with zucchini. 141 00:05:44.560 --> 00:05:47.839 If you grow zucchini, yes, you grew too many zucchinis. 142 00:05:47.959 --> 00:05:49.600 Is what happens. It just happens, and so you got 143 00:05:49.680 --> 00:05:51.160 to get rid of them somehow. It's great. Let's have 144 00:05:51.199 --> 00:05:53.079 a day and give them the people who don't get gardens. 145 00:05:53.279 --> 00:05:56.160 Okay, a good idea. I here's my third choice. 146 00:05:56.279 --> 00:06:02.800 Okay, is World UFO Days second day to raise awareness 147 00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:05.720 of UFO sightings at extraterrestrial life. 148 00:06:05.879 --> 00:06:06.199 Wow. 149 00:06:06.279 --> 00:06:08.399 Do you remember a while back when the guys in 150 00:06:08.439 --> 00:06:09.319 the courtroom. 151 00:06:08.920 --> 00:06:10.519 When you got abducted? I thought we weren't talking about 152 00:06:10.519 --> 00:06:10.959 that anymore? 153 00:06:12.680 --> 00:06:17.120 Go ahead, it was it was it was Darren, Uh, 154 00:06:17.120 --> 00:06:18.959 you going to make some jokes about the World Naked 155 00:06:19.480 --> 00:06:22.120 Gardening Day with I got aducted? 156 00:06:24.519 --> 00:06:25.160 Yeah? Right? 157 00:06:26.519 --> 00:06:28.959 The uh do you remember a while back when the guy, 158 00:06:29.000 --> 00:06:32.120 when one of the old UH government guys went on 159 00:06:32.160 --> 00:06:35.000 the what was it like six months ago? He went 160 00:06:35.000 --> 00:06:38.040 on the news and said that he, uh, the reports 161 00:06:38.079 --> 00:06:40.360 were real, that the sightings were right. 162 00:06:40.600 --> 00:06:41.720 There was no evidence, mind you. 163 00:06:42.120 --> 00:06:43.560 He just said made a declaration. 164 00:06:43.639 --> 00:06:46.720 He just made a declaration that they believed that UFOs 165 00:06:46.720 --> 00:06:47.079 are real. 166 00:06:47.399 --> 00:06:48.920 And remember the world didn't care. 167 00:06:49.759 --> 00:06:51.720 It didn't even make the news hardly. Yeah. 168 00:06:51.800 --> 00:06:55.360 Yeah, And by the way, it's because number one, nobody 169 00:06:55.399 --> 00:06:59.000 believes media anymore. Nobody believes it. So it's like they 170 00:06:59.040 --> 00:07:00.959 weren't real just because these two guys said. 171 00:07:00.759 --> 00:07:01.240 They were real. 172 00:07:01.439 --> 00:07:04.519 But if Jake Paul went out on TikTok and said 173 00:07:04.519 --> 00:07:07.959 I got abducted last night, half the world to believe it, right, right. 174 00:07:08.000 --> 00:07:08.839 That's what's ridiculous. 175 00:07:08.920 --> 00:07:09.720 That is ridiculous. 176 00:07:09.720 --> 00:07:11.040 It's crazy. Okay, here we go. 177 00:07:12.600 --> 00:07:14.560 This This may be my favorite one and I just 178 00:07:14.560 --> 00:07:18.079 found it on the list. The first Friday, the thirteenth 179 00:07:18.079 --> 00:07:23.120 of the year is blame someone Else's Day. Wow, it's 180 00:07:23.120 --> 00:07:25.199 a guilt free day to pass the blame mind to 181 00:07:25.240 --> 00:07:25.720 someone else. 182 00:07:26.680 --> 00:07:27.240 Is that amazing? 183 00:07:27.279 --> 00:07:27.879 I would love that? 184 00:07:28.040 --> 00:07:30.399 Yeah, the first So let's find out when it is. 185 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:31.720 Walk around and just say your fault. 186 00:07:31.839 --> 00:07:34.040 Let's find out when the first Friday, the thirteenth of 187 00:07:34.079 --> 00:07:35.079 the year is next year. 188 00:07:35.279 --> 00:07:38.560 Ooh, I'll find it all right. 189 00:07:38.600 --> 00:07:41.519 Well, while you're looking that up, Jeff, let me go 190 00:07:41.519 --> 00:07:42.680 ahead and do the last one. 191 00:07:42.759 --> 00:07:45.519 It's June June of twenty twenty five. 192 00:07:45.759 --> 00:07:48.240 The first Friday the thirteenth, just so you know, it's 193 00:07:48.279 --> 00:07:52.319 the first Friday the thirteenth in June. Blame someone Else Day. 194 00:07:52.319 --> 00:07:54.439 By the way, if we forget to celebrate that, it's 195 00:07:54.480 --> 00:07:54.920 your fault. 196 00:07:57.639 --> 00:07:59.759 Okay, great, very good, Thank. 197 00:07:59.560 --> 00:08:02.399 You to tche Okay. 198 00:08:02.439 --> 00:08:06.959 My last pick is August eighth, apparently is International Cat Day, 199 00:08:08.279 --> 00:08:11.959 a day to celebrate our feline friends, including a variety 200 00:08:11.959 --> 00:08:14.079 of events dedicated to cats. 201 00:08:14.279 --> 00:08:17.120 Wow, I like it? Okay, you like that one? 202 00:08:17.199 --> 00:08:19.959 Well, you know I when I got married, I wanted dogs, 203 00:08:19.959 --> 00:08:23.759 my wife wanted cats. We compromised and get cats. But 204 00:08:23.839 --> 00:08:25.360 I like my cats. Yeah, I love them. 205 00:08:25.360 --> 00:08:26.439 Actually, I love my cats. 206 00:08:26.600 --> 00:08:29.079 That's nice. Yeah, it's super super sweet. 207 00:08:29.240 --> 00:08:31.920 So I do defend cats. Yes, yes, those who don't 208 00:08:32.000 --> 00:08:32.320 like them. 209 00:08:32.440 --> 00:08:36.120 I actually prefer cats overdogs, even though we compromise and 210 00:08:36.120 --> 00:08:41.279 got dogs. So wow, yeah, okay. April twenty fifth is 211 00:08:41.399 --> 00:08:44.919 National Hug a Plumber Day. Five It said four, did it? Well, 212 00:08:45.320 --> 00:08:47.960 here's the bonus bonus. It's the bonus material. It's an 213 00:08:48.000 --> 00:08:50.000 appreciation day for plumbers and all the work they do. 214 00:08:50.360 --> 00:08:52.039 But maybe skip the actual hug. 215 00:08:52.879 --> 00:08:56.919 Okay, wells that I'll choose My last one. Cheese Lover's Day. 216 00:08:57.440 --> 00:09:00.639 January twentieth is a day dedicated entirely to appreciation of cheese. 217 00:09:00.639 --> 00:09:02.799 Well that's my day. Let me just tell you right now, 218 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:06.879 Cheese Day. Okay, all right, thank you very much. 219 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:08.639 We're at eight minutes, so we need to move on. 220 00:09:08.720 --> 00:09:12.039 So one of my favorite books in the Bible talking 221 00:09:12.039 --> 00:09:16.960 about a national day. We used to have holidays. Every 222 00:09:17.080 --> 00:09:19.759 day we would read the Book of Proverbs. So every 223 00:09:19.799 --> 00:09:22.120 day was a holiday of Proverbs reading. 224 00:09:22.320 --> 00:09:30.759 Wow? Wow? Was it was rough? Yeah? 225 00:09:30.919 --> 00:09:36.080 Okay, so we're trying to find you know, silly segues into. 226 00:09:36.120 --> 00:09:39.440 Yes, the out of the game and into the thing, 227 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:40.000 the reading. 228 00:09:40.480 --> 00:09:44.679 So Solomon wrote most of the Book of Proverbs, as 229 00:09:44.720 --> 00:09:46.600 my fact that mentioned just a couple of days ago. 230 00:09:46.679 --> 00:09:50.080 In reading that he wrote over three thousand proverbs. Many 231 00:09:50.120 --> 00:09:51.919 of them are included in the Book of Proverbs, and 232 00:09:51.919 --> 00:09:54.480 then you also picked them up in Ecclesiastes and in 233 00:09:55.639 --> 00:09:59.600 song sound a little bit. But so Solomon or Solomon 234 00:09:59.679 --> 00:10:03.519 wrote Proverbs chapter one, and we're going to read. 235 00:10:04.720 --> 00:10:07.840 Are we reading the whole chapter in some of them? Okay? Wow? Seven? 236 00:10:08.480 --> 00:10:10.600 Why man? The whole chapter is pretty great. Let's read 237 00:10:10.639 --> 00:10:11.159 the whole chapter. 238 00:10:12.080 --> 00:10:13.320 Let's do it. 239 00:10:12.440 --> 00:10:16.200 It's a long chapter So what okay? These are the 240 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:20.000 proverbs of Solomon, David's son, King of Israel. Their purpose 241 00:10:20.200 --> 00:10:22.960 is to teach people wisdom and discipline, to help them 242 00:10:23.000 --> 00:10:26.080 understand the insights of the wise. Their purpose is to 243 00:10:26.120 --> 00:10:28.919 teach people to live disciplined in successful lives, to help 244 00:10:28.919 --> 00:10:32.399 them do what is right, just and fair. These proverbs 245 00:10:32.399 --> 00:10:35.080 will give insight to the simple knowledge and discernment to 246 00:10:35.120 --> 00:10:37.679 the young. Let the wise men listen to these proverbs 247 00:10:37.720 --> 00:10:40.919 and become even wiser. Let those with understanding receive guidance 248 00:10:40.919 --> 00:10:43.720 by exploring the meaning in these proverbs and parables, the 249 00:10:43.759 --> 00:10:46.799 words of the wise and the riddles. Fear of the 250 00:10:46.840 --> 00:10:50.000 Lord is the foundation of true knowledge. But fools despise 251 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:51.159 wisdom and discipline. 252 00:10:51.240 --> 00:10:53.080 I'm really glad that we decided to read the rest. 253 00:10:53.919 --> 00:10:56.639 My child, listen, when your father corrects you, don't neglect 254 00:10:56.679 --> 00:10:59.039 your mother's instruction. What you learn from them will crown 255 00:10:59.080 --> 00:11:01.000 you with grace and be a chain of honor around 256 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:04.360 your neck. My child, if sinners entice you turn your 257 00:11:04.399 --> 00:11:06.600 back on them, they may say, come and join us. 258 00:11:06.639 --> 00:11:08.919 Let's hide and kill someone just for fun. Let's ambush 259 00:11:08.919 --> 00:11:10.759 the innocent, Let's swallow them alive. 260 00:11:10.879 --> 00:11:11.320 Like the grave. 261 00:11:11.399 --> 00:11:13.840 Let's swallow them whole, like those who go down into 262 00:11:13.879 --> 00:11:16.559 the pit of death. Think of the great things we'll get. 263 00:11:16.720 --> 00:11:18.720 We'll fill our houses with all the stuff we take, 264 00:11:18.759 --> 00:11:20.720 and we'll throw our lot in with us. Come throw 265 00:11:20.759 --> 00:11:22.879 your lot in with us, and we'll share all the loot. 266 00:11:23.519 --> 00:11:25.799 My child, don't go along with them. Stay far away 267 00:11:25.840 --> 00:11:28.679 from their paths. They rush to commit evil deeds. They 268 00:11:28.759 --> 00:11:31.120 hurry to commit murder. If a bird sees the trap 269 00:11:31.159 --> 00:11:34.039 being set, it knows to stay away. But these people 270 00:11:34.039 --> 00:11:36.840 set an ambush from them for themselves. They're trying to 271 00:11:36.840 --> 00:11:39.639 get themselves killed. Such as the fate of all who 272 00:11:39.679 --> 00:11:44.080 are greedy for money. It robs them of life. That's 273 00:11:44.279 --> 00:11:46.360 Solomon trying to talk his son into joining the gangs. 274 00:11:48.559 --> 00:11:50.759 Wisdom shouts in the streets. She cries out in the 275 00:11:50.759 --> 00:11:53.679 public square. She calls to the crowds along the main street, 276 00:11:53.759 --> 00:11:56.279 to those gathered in front of the city gate, How 277 00:11:56.320 --> 00:11:59.120 long you simpletons will you insist on being simple minded? 278 00:11:59.399 --> 00:12:02.120 How long will you, you mockers, relish your mocking? How 279 00:12:02.120 --> 00:12:04.879 long will you fools hate knowledge? Come and listen to 280 00:12:04.919 --> 00:12:07.159 my counsel. I'll share my heart with you and make 281 00:12:07.200 --> 00:12:10.320 you wise I called you so often, but you wouldn't come. 282 00:12:10.360 --> 00:12:12.200 I reached out to you, but you paid no attention. 283 00:12:12.279 --> 00:12:15.039 You ignored my advice and rejected the correction I offered. 284 00:12:15.480 --> 00:12:17.480 So I'll laugh when you're in trouble. I will mock 285 00:12:17.519 --> 00:12:20.879 when you disaster overtakes you, when calamity overtakes you like 286 00:12:20.879 --> 00:12:23.240 a storm, when disaster engulfs you like a cyclone, and 287 00:12:23.279 --> 00:12:26.440 anguish and distress overwhelm you. When they cry for help, 288 00:12:26.519 --> 00:12:29.480 I will not answer. Though they anxiously search for me, 289 00:12:29.519 --> 00:12:32.039 they will not find me, for they hated knowledge and 290 00:12:32.120 --> 00:12:34.720 chose not to fear the Lord. They rejected my advice 291 00:12:34.759 --> 00:12:37.159 and paid no attention when I corrected them. Therefore they 292 00:12:37.240 --> 00:12:39.080 must eat the bitter fruit of living their own way, 293 00:12:39.240 --> 00:12:42.360 choking on their own schemes. For simpletons turn away from 294 00:12:42.399 --> 00:12:45.720 me to death. Fools are destroyed by their own complacency. 295 00:12:46.159 --> 00:12:48.120 But all who listen to me will live in peace, 296 00:12:48.440 --> 00:12:50.279 untrouble by fear of harm. 297 00:12:50.639 --> 00:12:54.840 Well that's a strong way of saying what you deserve, right, Yeah, 298 00:12:55.679 --> 00:12:56.320 it's coming to you. 299 00:12:56.519 --> 00:12:58.879 Well, it's a strong way of saying there's a point 300 00:12:58.919 --> 00:13:00.720 when there's no coming back, and the fact that you've 301 00:13:00.720 --> 00:13:03.000 thrown off all the wise counsels you've ever been given. 302 00:13:03.600 --> 00:13:04.759 Right, you're free to make. 303 00:13:04.639 --> 00:13:08.559 Your choices, just not free to choose the consequences right, right, 304 00:13:08.679 --> 00:13:11.799 Because this isn't God saying these words. This is wisdom right. 305 00:13:11.879 --> 00:13:14.639 Verse twenty says, wisdom shouts in the streets. She cries 306 00:13:14.639 --> 00:13:16.879 out in the public square. Wisdom is available to all 307 00:13:16.919 --> 00:13:19.960 of us, but we don't all avail take avail of it. 308 00:13:20.360 --> 00:13:23.879 And so then there's times then when we reject wisdom 309 00:13:23.919 --> 00:13:26.720 and we do the foolish thing. Then when we're in 310 00:13:26.759 --> 00:13:29.039 the middle of the consequences of the foolish thing we're doing, 311 00:13:29.240 --> 00:13:31.240 we start crying out, Oh, please help me, please help me. 312 00:13:31.279 --> 00:13:33.720 At that point, wisdoms is too late. Wism can't do anything. 313 00:13:33.919 --> 00:13:38.799 Wisdom is always usually preventative. It's before the decision, right, 314 00:13:39.080 --> 00:13:39.840 it's not after. 315 00:13:40.360 --> 00:13:42.879 But when you do the wrong thing and then go, oh, 316 00:13:43.440 --> 00:13:46.519 whish that turned out better? I should have done this, Yeah, 317 00:13:46.759 --> 00:13:48.480 you know what I should have done Monday morning quarterback 318 00:13:48.480 --> 00:13:49.720 and that kind of a thing. Yep, right. 319 00:13:50.120 --> 00:13:52.840 And I love how he refers wisdom to as a 320 00:13:52.919 --> 00:13:56.320 she yeh, she calls out into the streets, and Salmon 321 00:13:56.399 --> 00:13:59.639 does that, And I love it because he creates almost 322 00:13:59.720 --> 00:14:02.799 like a character of wisdom, yes, right, and refers to 323 00:14:03.320 --> 00:14:05.879 wisdom as something to be obtained and something to be 324 00:14:05.919 --> 00:14:09.519 followed and listened to. He makes He makes wisdom to 325 00:14:09.559 --> 00:14:12.960 be a treasure, right, more more precious than rubies and gold, 326 00:14:13.000 --> 00:14:17.080 he says about wisdom. He makes wisdom to be a 327 00:14:17.120 --> 00:14:21.440 woman to be desired and listen to. And but I 328 00:14:21.480 --> 00:14:24.600 love it so much. And uh, you know what. He 329 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:26.919 starts off by saying, my child, listen to your when 330 00:14:26.960 --> 00:14:30.519 your father corrects you, don't neglect your mother's instruction. And 331 00:14:30.919 --> 00:14:33.519 when you when you learn from them, they will crown 332 00:14:33.559 --> 00:14:35.679 you with grace and be a chain of honor around 333 00:14:35.720 --> 00:14:36.039 your neck. 334 00:14:36.759 --> 00:14:40.200 I love how as a parent you're like, that's right, Yeah, 335 00:14:40.320 --> 00:14:40.799 listen to me. 336 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:44.080 But think about when you were a child too, all 337 00:14:44.159 --> 00:14:47.440 the wisdom that you just don't understand yet, right, isn't 338 00:14:47.440 --> 00:14:51.919 that cool? And And that's really Solomon's posture always because 339 00:14:51.960 --> 00:14:56.120 God has given him the gift to be the wisest 340 00:14:56.120 --> 00:15:00.159 person who has ever or will ever live, which means 341 00:15:01.320 --> 00:15:04.519 everybody he talks to or like children, compared to him, 342 00:15:05.960 --> 00:15:10.440 he understands his wisdom fully, right, But nobody understands the 343 00:15:10.480 --> 00:15:13.840 wisdom like he understands the wisdom. And that is so interesting, 344 00:15:13.919 --> 00:15:17.320 isn't it, Because as parents or those who have experience, right, 345 00:15:17.639 --> 00:15:22.279 those who I mean, listen, this whole chapter is about 346 00:15:22.320 --> 00:15:26.600 somebody who has given wisdom and uh and says, I'm 347 00:15:26.639 --> 00:15:28.320 telling you what it's going to happen, and then when 348 00:15:28.320 --> 00:15:30.360 it does happen to you, I'm going to tell you, 349 00:15:30.879 --> 00:15:32.399 I'm not gonna I'm not gonna be there for you 350 00:15:32.399 --> 00:15:35.159 because I told you, because I know what's going to happen. 351 00:15:35.200 --> 00:15:36.679 I understand what's going to happen. 352 00:15:36.919 --> 00:15:39.799 And from the position of understanding, when you give wisdom 353 00:15:39.840 --> 00:15:43.879 to somebody who doesn't understand it is just like what 354 00:15:43.960 --> 00:15:46.039 he says here after the introduction of wisdom. 355 00:15:46.360 --> 00:15:47.559 He says, this is going to help you. This is 356 00:15:47.559 --> 00:15:48.600 going to help you. That's going to help you. 357 00:15:49.080 --> 00:15:53.120 He postures you like a child hearing wisdom from a 358 00:15:53.240 --> 00:15:58.279 father and mother. But honestly, that's everybody, no matter how 359 00:15:58.279 --> 00:16:00.879 old you are. If you don't fully understand the wisdom 360 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:04.240 that's given to you, then we need to maybe pause 361 00:16:04.799 --> 00:16:08.679 and consider the fact that wisdom goes beyond our understanding 362 00:16:08.759 --> 00:16:09.320 or appreciation. 363 00:16:09.440 --> 00:16:10.960 Yeah, well almost always. 364 00:16:10.639 --> 00:16:14.480 Always, Yeah, you know, this is this the premise of 365 00:16:14.519 --> 00:16:17.559 this show is very much what I grew up on 366 00:16:18.360 --> 00:16:21.879 in the Book of Proverbs, where we read Book of 367 00:16:21.879 --> 00:16:22.720 Proverbs every night. 368 00:16:22.919 --> 00:16:25.159 Yep. So there's thirty one chapters in the Book of Proverbs. 369 00:16:25.480 --> 00:16:27.399 Holiday every day, yeah, every day, every day. 370 00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:30.200 And so my mom and dad decided early on that 371 00:16:30.200 --> 00:16:32.080 they wanted us to spend time in the Word every day. 372 00:16:32.679 --> 00:16:35.519 In the Book of Proverbs, Salama says, wisdom is the 373 00:16:35.519 --> 00:16:37.919 most important thing, So get it, get all that you can. 374 00:16:38.240 --> 00:16:39.440 You know, do whatever it takes. 375 00:16:40.159 --> 00:16:42.320 And so my dad thought, you know what, I want 376 00:16:42.320 --> 00:16:44.200 to pass on God's wisdom as much as possible. So 377 00:16:44.200 --> 00:16:47.440 in the morning, he would whatever his devotional was that day, 378 00:16:47.480 --> 00:16:49.320 whatever he read, he would write it down a piece 379 00:16:49.320 --> 00:16:50.879 of paper, leave a little note and ask us one 380 00:16:51.000 --> 00:16:54.320 or two questions that he left with from you know, 381 00:16:54.360 --> 00:16:56.320 having read in the Bible. So we'd read that at breakfast, 382 00:16:56.519 --> 00:16:58.320 but then an evening before we go to bed, we 383 00:16:58.360 --> 00:17:01.480 would read whatever the date was, we'd read that proverb. 384 00:17:02.039 --> 00:17:04.640 And so then we would just go through in all 385 00:17:04.680 --> 00:17:04.960 of us. 386 00:17:05.039 --> 00:17:06.599 So me and my dad and my brother and my 387 00:17:06.680 --> 00:17:09.559 mom sitting in a living room, we would read through 388 00:17:10.039 --> 00:17:12.880 and then each of us would pick something that jumps 389 00:17:12.880 --> 00:17:14.359 off the page to us, which is essentially what you 390 00:17:14.359 --> 00:17:17.200 and I are doing now in every single episode where 391 00:17:17.519 --> 00:17:21.720 five hundred and some odd episodes, what one is this, 392 00:17:23.039 --> 00:17:27.640 I don't know, five hundred and sixty nine of the Bible, guys, 393 00:17:27.680 --> 00:17:29.799 and then we had one hundred and seventy something of HC. 394 00:17:29.960 --> 00:17:32.880 Daily, Right, And that's all this is. It really is. 395 00:17:32.920 --> 00:17:35.920 We're taking that principle that I grew up on reading 396 00:17:35.920 --> 00:17:39.599 the Book of Proverbs looking for something and saying what 397 00:17:40.599 --> 00:17:42.480 on this page is speaking to me and what I 398 00:17:42.519 --> 00:17:43.880 think it means. And so when you have a good 399 00:17:43.920 --> 00:17:46.559 study Bible, that gives you more to dig into and 400 00:17:46.599 --> 00:17:48.720 maybe you get a different insight. But the thing on 401 00:17:48.759 --> 00:17:51.880