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 --> 00:00:07.480 practical ways. 4 00:00:11.400 --> 00:00:15.880 Well, happy Friday, Jeff, Chris, is it happy? Sure? Is it? Yeah? 5 00:00:15.960 --> 00:00:16.879 Are you feeling happy? 6 00:00:16.960 --> 00:00:20.719 Everybody likes Friday because today is everybody's favorite segment, is it? 7 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:25.039 Yes, it's what made Chris mad this week? 8 00:00:25.160 --> 00:00:25.600 Wow? 9 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:26.559 Yeah. 10 00:00:26.600 --> 00:00:28.960 So if you can, if you can, if you can 11 00:00:29.039 --> 00:00:32.320 really spend some time and really dig in deep and 12 00:00:32.840 --> 00:00:34.240 maybe find something. 13 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:38.799 Yeah, well I've got one. 14 00:00:39.359 --> 00:00:40.600 That's what I love about him. 15 00:00:40.640 --> 00:00:42.359 It's not that you can think of a thing, it's 16 00:00:42.359 --> 00:00:44.320 that you immediately think of a thing. 17 00:00:44.359 --> 00:00:46.759 Well, I thought of it last night, and h and 18 00:00:46.799 --> 00:00:48.520 I actually said to my wife, I said, this is 19 00:00:48.560 --> 00:00:51.359 what made Chris mad and so and so. 20 00:00:51.520 --> 00:00:52.479 By the way, you were there. 21 00:00:52.399 --> 00:00:54.240 Yeah, we were. We were out with our wives. 22 00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:55.200 We were out our wives. 23 00:00:55.240 --> 00:00:57.320 It was it was both of our wives and us 24 00:00:57.359 --> 00:00:59.840 and then also Chad and Holly and we were at 25 00:00:59.840 --> 00:01:01.679 a restaurant. I'm not going to say the name of 26 00:01:01.679 --> 00:01:04.079 the restaurant because it was a very bad experience. Great food, 27 00:01:04.840 --> 00:01:07.840 but just bad adequate adequate food, adequate food, but bad 28 00:01:07.840 --> 00:01:12.680 customer experience. But it wasn't Washington Township. Ooh, so guess 29 00:01:12.719 --> 00:01:17.319 which one. Anyway, the bottom line is on no I'm joking. No no, no, no, no, no. 30 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:18.319 Don't want to do that Van Dyke. 31 00:01:18.640 --> 00:01:23.640 So anyway, so here we are in this restaurant and 32 00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:25.920 we all made a comment that they were trying to 33 00:01:25.920 --> 00:01:27.599 get rid of us before we even ordered. 34 00:01:27.920 --> 00:01:30.159 It was amazing, it was. And we were there like 35 00:01:30.239 --> 00:01:31.239 six six thirty. 36 00:01:31.599 --> 00:01:33.840 Yeah, six thirty, right. It wasn't like we were there 37 00:01:33.920 --> 00:01:34.920 late coming in. 38 00:01:35.159 --> 00:01:37.799 Our reservation was six thirty. We walked out, were nine. 39 00:01:37.879 --> 00:01:39.439 We were getting hustled along. 40 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:41.439 But there was six of us, yes, right, so two 41 00:01:41.439 --> 00:01:41.920 and half hours. 42 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:44.599 But literally as we were waiting on Chad and Holly, 43 00:01:45.000 --> 00:01:47.079 they were like, so you in order, and I'm like, 44 00:01:47.200 --> 00:01:48.480 what is with the attitude? 45 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:48.680 Right? 46 00:01:48.879 --> 00:01:51.519 It was just unbelievable, and so even before we sat down, 47 00:01:51.879 --> 00:01:53.239 We'll come and find out at the end of the night. 48 00:01:53.400 --> 00:01:56.480 I'm going to make this quick but bus basically, the 49 00:01:56.519 --> 00:01:58.719 service was pretty bad, right it was. 50 00:01:59.040 --> 00:01:59.519 It was rough. 51 00:01:59.640 --> 00:02:02.560 It was okay, really bad. You waited forty minutes on 52 00:02:02.560 --> 00:02:03.040 a refill? 53 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:03.920 Yeah, yeah. 54 00:02:03.959 --> 00:02:07.200 I asked for her refill on my coke four times. 55 00:02:07.599 --> 00:02:09.680 She came to the table and would say, is there 56 00:02:09.719 --> 00:02:10.759 anything else you guys need? 57 00:02:11.080 --> 00:02:13.840 And she saw five empty glasses. 58 00:02:13.520 --> 00:02:15.199 And then I would say, oh yeah, can I get 59 00:02:15.199 --> 00:02:16.520 a refill on this coke? Oh? 60 00:02:16.599 --> 00:02:18.120 Yes, no refill? 61 00:02:18.319 --> 00:02:22.199 And then you know, missing for ten minutes, fifteen minutes, 62 00:02:22.199 --> 00:02:22.960 and then we'd come back. 63 00:02:23.039 --> 00:02:24.000 Does that thing you guys need? 64 00:02:24.280 --> 00:02:24.680 Yeah? 65 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:26.439 Can I get a refill on this coke? And all 66 00:02:26.479 --> 00:02:28.039 of us and then your wife tried to get this 67 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:28.560 a refill. 68 00:02:28.639 --> 00:02:29.800 Yep, right, it was rough. 69 00:02:29.879 --> 00:02:30.479 It is rough. 70 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:34.360 So after a really really bad service and then running 71 00:02:34.360 --> 00:02:37.639 to rush us out, here's what made Chris Matt. Okay, 72 00:02:38.000 --> 00:02:40.560 and it's actually bigger than this instance. Okay, okay, I'm 73 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:41.919 gonna tell you the instance. Then I'm gonna tell you 74 00:02:41.919 --> 00:02:45.599 what maye me met. Is that So I noticed that 75 00:02:45.599 --> 00:02:47.560 they started putting chairs up on the table at eight. 76 00:02:47.520 --> 00:02:49.199 Thirty, right, oh yeah yeah? 77 00:02:49.199 --> 00:02:51.400 And so I said, I said, hey, what time do 78 00:02:51.400 --> 00:02:54.879 you guys close? Instead of telling me the time, she said, 79 00:02:56.759 --> 00:03:01.520 you guys are the last ones, So whenever you're the 80 00:03:01.560 --> 00:03:04.639 last ones, or whenever I asked you when the place closed? 81 00:03:05.159 --> 00:03:07.199 And so I had to restate my question and I said, 82 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:11.840 I mean when does your place of business close? She 83 00:03:12.000 --> 00:03:14.000 and she didn't want to say it, and she said 84 00:03:15.199 --> 00:03:16.439 eleven PM. 85 00:03:16.719 --> 00:03:18.400 And it's only literally what she said that it was. 86 00:03:18.439 --> 00:03:20.919 It was eight point fifty when she said that, and 87 00:03:20.960 --> 00:03:24.439 she goes eleven or eleven PM and then just walks 88 00:03:24.439 --> 00:03:27.199 away very quickly. And I was like, okay, so they're 89 00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:29.680 closing at eleven, they're putting the chairs up at eight 90 00:03:29.840 --> 00:03:33.400 thirty and it's eight fifty. And her answer to my 91 00:03:33.520 --> 00:03:35.960 question is when do you close is you're the last one, 92 00:03:36.080 --> 00:03:38.479 so whenever you're ready to go, you can please leave. 93 00:03:39.479 --> 00:03:40.599 And so so that. 94 00:03:40.560 --> 00:03:42.719 Made me mad, But believe it or not, that's not 95 00:03:42.840 --> 00:03:44.280 what my wife and I talked about when we got 96 00:03:44.319 --> 00:03:44.719 in the truck. 97 00:03:45.360 --> 00:03:45.840 What I get. 98 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:47.319 When I got in the truck, she looked at me 99 00:03:47.319 --> 00:03:52.000 and said, what's with these restaurants since COVID? Oh and 100 00:03:52.039 --> 00:03:55.520 by the way, everything has changed since COVID in the 101 00:03:55.560 --> 00:03:56.159 restaurant world. 102 00:03:56.199 --> 00:03:57.400 And this is the part you're mad about. 103 00:03:57.400 --> 00:03:59.400 For all of you man, for all of humanity, all humanity. 104 00:03:59.400 --> 00:03:59.840 Thank you, Chris. 105 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:03.439 So I think I remember told telling you that my parents, 106 00:04:03.840 --> 00:04:06.159 my grandfather owned a bar growing up. Yeah, okay, my 107 00:04:06.159 --> 00:04:09.280 family still owns that bar, okay. And so I was 108 00:04:09.400 --> 00:04:12.479 told not that I've been there, but I was told 109 00:04:13.360 --> 00:04:16.519 that all the bars used to close at two am 110 00:04:16.959 --> 00:04:20.040 and now they shut down at ten pm. So in 111 00:04:20.120 --> 00:04:24.000 conversation with family right about this, about this bar, they said, oh, 112 00:04:24.000 --> 00:04:25.839 you know, we closed up because nobody was there about 113 00:04:25.839 --> 00:04:29.839 ten ten fifteen, And I was like, what that's you know, 114 00:04:29.879 --> 00:04:35.040 So in conversation, I was like, when, well, ever since COVID, Okay, 115 00:04:35.199 --> 00:04:36.920 have you ever have you ever done this since COVID? 116 00:04:37.240 --> 00:04:40.199 You've looked online and you'll see a place of business 117 00:04:40.240 --> 00:04:42.600 and it'll say open on Saturdays from nine to nine 118 00:04:42.800 --> 00:04:43.800 or something like that, and. 119 00:04:43.720 --> 00:04:44.879 Then you go there and it's closed. 120 00:04:45.000 --> 00:04:45.240 Yes. 121 00:04:45.879 --> 00:04:48.079 And by the way, I did that in Clearwater Beach, 122 00:04:48.199 --> 00:04:48.839 Florida too. 123 00:04:49.079 --> 00:04:52.519 Which I just did that at a home improvement outdoor 124 00:04:52.720 --> 00:04:53.920 like flowers and all that stuff. 125 00:04:54.399 --> 00:04:54.959 A nursery. 126 00:04:55.120 --> 00:04:57.639 Yeah, and they closed an hour and a half early. Yeah. 127 00:04:57.680 --> 00:04:58.959 And I was racing to. 128 00:04:58.920 --> 00:05:01.920 Get there, yes, before they right, and then they were 129 00:05:01.959 --> 00:05:03.199 closed an hour and a half early. 130 00:05:03.399 --> 00:05:03.720 Yeah. 131 00:05:03.759 --> 00:05:07.680 And so so it seems like ever since COVID, nobody 132 00:05:07.759 --> 00:05:11.319 cares to update their times online so or. 133 00:05:11.279 --> 00:05:14.399 Their times are off flex. I think that's it is 134 00:05:15.399 --> 00:05:17.079 one more thing. Hey, everybody, we're going to shut it 135 00:05:17.120 --> 00:05:19.720 down and you go home. Yeah, they're working on profit margins. 136 00:05:19.759 --> 00:05:22.079 That's what they're trying to do. But it's inconvenient for them. 137 00:05:22.079 --> 00:05:25.639 But it's been I'm telling you, I've paid attention to 138 00:05:25.759 --> 00:05:27.879 this greatly. It has been since COVID. 139 00:05:27.920 --> 00:05:30.680 You were right and and but it's are you feeling 140 00:05:30.680 --> 00:05:31.439 I rate about? 141 00:05:31.439 --> 00:05:33.879 It is just just like a gentle simmer like you're 142 00:05:33.879 --> 00:05:35.800 starting to see No, let me tell. 143 00:05:35.680 --> 00:05:36.439 You why am I rate? 144 00:05:36.759 --> 00:05:37.240 I rate? 145 00:05:37.639 --> 00:05:42.199 So last night at that restaurant, they had an agenda 146 00:05:43.160 --> 00:05:45.720 before we even sat down at six point thirty. 147 00:05:45.439 --> 00:05:47.079 Yeah, to get us out, to get us out. 148 00:05:47.160 --> 00:05:50.279 So I can only imagine because it's advertised as being 149 00:05:50.279 --> 00:05:53.399 open to eleven, we checked. That means that here's what 150 00:05:53.439 --> 00:05:55.199 they must have done. I can't figure it out. But 151 00:05:55.279 --> 00:05:57.279 why was it? Why were we the last ones? Why 152 00:05:57.279 --> 00:05:58.920 did nobody wander in at nine o'clock? 153 00:05:59.079 --> 00:05:59.160 Right? 154 00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:01.800 The only reason I could come up with is they 155 00:06:01.839 --> 00:06:04.160 must have they must have locked the door. 156 00:06:04.519 --> 00:06:07.439 Cars pulled into the parking lot while we were sitting there. Yeah, 157 00:06:07.480 --> 00:06:10.439 but the tables just kept empty because it was packed 158 00:06:10.439 --> 00:06:12.920 when we were there. Every almost every table was full, 159 00:06:13.120 --> 00:06:16.839 but the tables were emptying. Cars were pulling into the 160 00:06:16.839 --> 00:06:18.160 parking lot, but nobody was coming in. 161 00:06:18.319 --> 00:06:19.680 So here's here's my theory. 162 00:06:19.720 --> 00:06:23.160 My theory is the owner of that restaurant did not 163 00:06:23.279 --> 00:06:25.079 know that that's what the staff was doing. 164 00:06:25.199 --> 00:06:26.000 Oh yeah, right. 165 00:06:26.040 --> 00:06:27.680 So in other words, what they were doing was they 166 00:06:27.759 --> 00:06:30.560 cared about themselves and they didn't care about necessarily the 167 00:06:30.759 --> 00:06:33.399 place of business, nor the customers, nor the fact that 168 00:06:33.439 --> 00:06:35.000 they advertised open till eleven o'clock. 169 00:06:35.240 --> 00:06:35.839 One last thing. 170 00:06:36.120 --> 00:06:37.800 And then as we were heading out to the car, 171 00:06:38.240 --> 00:06:41.360 not only did was she like, okay, goodbye, goodbye, get yourself, 172 00:06:41.600 --> 00:06:42.079 can go. 173 00:06:42.439 --> 00:06:43.360 But it did not. 174 00:06:43.639 --> 00:06:45.680 None of us even use the restaurant. We went straight 175 00:06:45.720 --> 00:06:48.000 to the car. We hugged in the parking lot, and 176 00:06:48.040 --> 00:06:50.600 as we were hugging in the parking lot, the staff 177 00:06:50.680 --> 00:06:53.480 got in their cars and left before us. 178 00:06:53.399 --> 00:06:55.519 Right right right before us. 179 00:06:57.480 --> 00:07:00.439 They literally could not wait for us to get out 180 00:07:00.439 --> 00:07:02.160 of the door fast enough, locked. 181 00:07:01.920 --> 00:07:02.439 Up the back. 182 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:06.279 People are the worst, Oh my goodness. And we tipped, well, yeah, 183 00:07:06.279 --> 00:07:08.920 of course we did so, so you and I were 184 00:07:09.000 --> 00:07:10.000 kind of grumbling about it. 185 00:07:10.240 --> 00:07:10.839 Yes we were. 186 00:07:10.959 --> 00:07:14.360 We were horrified, but Liz, your wife is one of 187 00:07:14.360 --> 00:07:17.439 the sweetest human beings on the planet, almost always right, 188 00:07:17.480 --> 00:07:21.680 almost always, dude, I gave you a lay up there 189 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:23.079 and you couldn't that was a slam. 190 00:07:23.680 --> 00:07:24.639 That would have been an alley. 191 00:07:25.000 --> 00:07:28.399 Hey, I think almost almost always his take. 192 00:07:29.720 --> 00:07:30.480 Is a great win. 193 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:31.079 Yes. 194 00:07:31.519 --> 00:07:36.160 So so anyway, she's such a sweet person and she's 195 00:07:36.160 --> 00:07:39.680 always trying to find the best. So I'm like, and 196 00:07:39.759 --> 00:07:45.959 Chad is right, and so are you, and she goes, guys, guys, 197 00:07:46.279 --> 00:07:49.279 let's just give her grace. And I said, well, I 198 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:51.040 wanted to give her a big tip. Now she's just 199 00:07:51.120 --> 00:07:56.439 getting grace, right, But ched Chad's one who paid, and 200 00:07:56.439 --> 00:08:00.240 and he did give a nice tip. So everybody's having 201 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:01.800 a bad day, it might have just been her bad day. 202 00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:02.279 Okay. 203 00:08:02.360 --> 00:08:05.839 So so I rate on behalf of humanity and the 204 00:08:05.879 --> 00:08:10.399 business owners who own things either a fix your times 205 00:08:10.480 --> 00:08:13.480 on the internet, fix them, fix them, fix them, or 206 00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:20.079 how about how about something better? Just just honor the 207 00:08:20.160 --> 00:08:23.959 regular times in which society goes out neats. It used 208 00:08:23.959 --> 00:08:25.079 to be you can go out to eat at nine 209 00:08:25.079 --> 00:08:28.240 o'clock and you were fine. Now you can't even find 210 00:08:28.279 --> 00:08:30.120 a place like just. 211 00:08:30.439 --> 00:08:32.960 We're getting old man who whole country we all want 212 00:08:32.960 --> 00:08:35.480 to be in the sun goes down, we go home. 213 00:08:35.559 --> 00:08:37.039 Oh I don't think that's it. I think, I think. 214 00:08:37.080 --> 00:08:40.039 I think the new generation says, uh, I'm used to 215 00:08:40.080 --> 00:08:43.240 working at home and let's go home early. And it's 216 00:08:43.279 --> 00:08:46.519 just it's almost as if like the work ethic has 217 00:08:46.559 --> 00:08:50.559 been softened since COVID, because we get to experience. 218 00:08:50.080 --> 00:08:52.039 When you're just starting to sound so old. 219 00:08:52.360 --> 00:08:53.000 What next thing? 220 00:08:53.039 --> 00:08:54.679 You know, you're gonna band, You're gonna you're gonna ban 221 00:08:54.799 --> 00:08:55.759 dancing in the high school. 222 00:08:58.360 --> 00:09:03.799 You don't even saw follers. But yeah, I just I 223 00:09:04.159 --> 00:09:07.240 just I just get with it. Those darn kids. Let's 224 00:09:07.279 --> 00:09:09.639 go back to the business. Okay, let's go back to 225 00:09:10.360 --> 00:09:11.720 you know, society. 226 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:13.919 Come on, well, talking about going back, we're going to 227 00:09:13.960 --> 00:09:15.399 go back to the Book of Proverbs. 228 00:09:16.039 --> 00:09:19.519 Nice, you pulled that one right out. It was the 229 00:09:19.559 --> 00:09:20.120 last second. 230 00:09:20.120 --> 00:09:22.879 It was three. So we've been doing this for a while. 231 00:09:23.240 --> 00:09:26.360 Just to remind our listeners. This week, King Hezekiah is 232 00:09:26.480 --> 00:09:32.279 leading the people through great reform, spiritual reform, going back 233 00:09:32.360 --> 00:09:35.279 to faith in the One True God. He cleaned out 234 00:09:35.279 --> 00:09:37.159 the temple, and while they were cleaning up the temple, 235 00:09:37.200 --> 00:09:40.480 they found some of the writings of Solomon. His father 236 00:09:40.600 --> 00:09:42.919 a has had nailed the doors shut on the temple, 237 00:09:43.399 --> 00:09:46.559 and his father ruled for sixteen years. So they find 238 00:09:46.600 --> 00:09:50.440 these writings of Solomon, who's the wisest king, and he 239 00:09:50.679 --> 00:09:52.679 is deciding to bring these back to the people. So 240 00:09:52.879 --> 00:09:57.000 we're reading the chapters that Solomon wrote that has Akyah found. 241 00:09:57.200 --> 00:09:59.360 And by the way, I could honestly say this, there 242 00:09:59.360 --> 00:10:02.919 are a lot of things that I learn, like together 243 00:10:03.000 --> 00:10:06.440 as we're reading through this myself, a lot of things 244 00:10:06.480 --> 00:10:08.279 that I have to relearn that I say, oh, I 245 00:10:08.279 --> 00:10:10.200 don't remember that, or I think I think I remember 246 00:10:10.240 --> 00:10:12.360 that in Bible college, or or you know, during a 247 00:10:12.399 --> 00:10:16.240 sermon somewhere. But I could honestly say this because because 248 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:19.120 I won't forget it, I did not know at all 249 00:10:19.600 --> 00:10:22.919 that has a Kai I found writings of Solomon and 250 00:10:23.039 --> 00:10:24.519 included them in Proverbs. 251 00:10:24.759 --> 00:10:26.840 That is a brand new piece of information. That's cool. 252 00:10:27.080 --> 00:10:29.399 Yeah, it literally says it in verse one of chapter 253 00:10:29.440 --> 00:10:31.600 twenty five, So it's not like we're making it up. 254 00:10:31.600 --> 00:10:31.960 It's there. 255 00:10:32.240 --> 00:10:33.799 That's one of the things that's so great about the 256 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:37.320 Bible is I mean, we've been believers for forty some 257 00:10:37.360 --> 00:10:37.759 odd years. 258 00:10:37.759 --> 00:10:39.240 I've been believer for forty. 259 00:10:40.600 --> 00:10:46.360 Forty five years, this year forty five years, this week, well, wow, wow, 260 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:47.399 this week? 261 00:10:47.519 --> 00:10:51.840 Yeah you remember, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it was the Yeah, yeah, 262 00:10:52.399 --> 00:10:53.279 it would be this Sunday. 263 00:10:53.639 --> 00:10:55.399 I mean, wow, wow, that's cool. 264 00:10:56.279 --> 00:10:58.600 Birthday. Yeah yeah, I didn't even just not the birthday. 265 00:10:58.919 --> 00:11:00.720 But what's amazing is how many times we read through 266 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:03.320 the Bible. I mean thousands and thousands of hours in 267 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:06.279 the Bible. And it's amazing how there's always something else 268 00:11:06.279 --> 00:11:09.000 to learn, there's a new thing to apply. God gives 269 00:11:09.039 --> 00:11:11.080 you a new thing. So it's one of the reason 270 00:11:11.080 --> 00:11:14.039 why I love the book. But in Proverbs chapter twenty eight, 271 00:11:14.159 --> 00:11:17.360 Solomon says, the wicked run away when no one is 272 00:11:17.440 --> 00:11:20.240 chasing them, but the godly are as bold as lions. 273 00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:24.320 When there is moral rot within a nation, its government 274 00:11:24.399 --> 00:11:28.200 topples easily, but wise and knowledgeable leaders bring stability. 275 00:11:28.840 --> 00:11:29.240 Wow. 276 00:11:30.039 --> 00:11:32.159 A poor person who oppresses the poor is like a 277 00:11:32.240 --> 00:11:36.399 pounding rain that destroys the crops. To reject the law 278 00:11:36.480 --> 00:11:38.639 is to praise the wicked. To obey the law is 279 00:11:38.679 --> 00:11:43.919 to fight them. Evil people don't understand justice, but those 280 00:11:43.919 --> 00:11:47.519 who follow the Lord understand completely. Better to be poor 281 00:11:47.519 --> 00:11:52.120 and honest than to be dishonest and rich. Young people 282 00:11:52.120 --> 00:11:55.080 who obey the Lord are wise, and those with wild 283 00:11:55.159 --> 00:11:59.519 friends bring shame to their parents. Income from charging high 284 00:11:59.559 --> 00:12:01.320 interest rates will end up in the pocket of someone 285 00:12:01.360 --> 00:12:05.200 who is kind to the poor. God detests the prayers 286 00:12:05.240 --> 00:12:06.759 of a person who ignores the law. 287 00:12:08.279 --> 00:12:08.679 Wow. 288 00:12:09.320 --> 00:12:12.080 Those who lead good people along in evil path will 289 00:12:12.120 --> 00:12:14.799 fall into their own trap, but the honest will inherit 290 00:12:14.919 --> 00:12:18.799 good things. Rich people may think that they're wise, but 291 00:12:18.879 --> 00:12:22.320 a poor person with discernment can see right through them. 292 00:12:22.559 --> 00:12:25.440 When the godly succeed, everyone is glad. When the wicked 293 00:12:25.480 --> 00:12:29.320 take charge, people go into hiding. People who conceal their 294 00:12:29.360 --> 00:12:31.799 sins will not prosper, but if they confess and turn 295 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:36.360 from them, they will receive mercy. Blessed are those who 296 00:12:36.360 --> 00:12:39.320 fear to do wrong, but the stubborn are headed for 297 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:43.440 serious trouble. A wicked ruler is as dangerous to the 298 00:12:43.480 --> 00:12:47.279 poor as a roaring lion or an attacking bear. A 299 00:12:47.360 --> 00:12:50.399 ruler with no understanding will oppress his people, but one 300 00:12:50.399 --> 00:12:54.000 who hates corruption will have a long life. A murderer's 301 00:12:54.519 --> 00:12:58.879 tormented conscience will drive him into the grave. Don't protect him. 302 00:12:59.440 --> 00:13:02.240 The blameless will be rescued from harm, but the crooked 303 00:13:02.559 --> 00:13:06.279 will be suddenly destroyed. A hard worker has plenty of food, 304 00:13:06.320 --> 00:13:09.519 but a person who chases fantasies ends up in poverty. 305 00:13:10.320 --> 00:13:12.639 The trustworthy person will get a rich reward, but a 306 00:13:12.639 --> 00:13:16.399 person who wants quick riches will get into trouble. Showing 307 00:13:16.440 --> 00:13:18.879 partiality is never good, Yet some will do wrong for 308 00:13:18.879 --> 00:13:22.039 a mere piece of bread. Greedy people try to get 309 00:13:22.080 --> 00:13:25.600 rich quick, but don't realize they're headed for poverty. In 310 00:13:25.639 --> 00:13:31.039 the end, people appreciate honest criticism more than flattery. Anyone 311 00:13:31.080 --> 00:13:33.240 who steals from his father mother and says what's wrong 312 00:13:33.279 --> 00:13:37.519 with that is no better than a murderer. Greed causes fighting. 313 00:13:37.840 --> 00:13:41.120 Trusting the Lord leads to prosperity. Those who trust their 314 00:13:41.159 --> 00:13:44.039 own insight are foolish, but anyone who walks in wisdom 315 00:13:44.080 --> 00:13:47.279 is safe. Whoever gives to the poor will lack nothing, 316 00:13:47.320 --> 00:13:49.840 But those who close their eyes to poverty will be cursed. 317 00:13:51.000 --> 00:13:53.120 When the wicked take charge, people go into hiding. And 318 00:13:53.120 --> 00:13:56.919 when the wicked meet disaster, the godly flourish. 319 00:13:57.240 --> 00:14:00.000 Ah. That's a repeated verse there, right. 320 00:14:01.039 --> 00:14:01.320 Yeah. 321 00:14:01.360 --> 00:14:04.759 So one of the lessons, and these lessons are all 322 00:14:04.799 --> 00:14:08.919 over the place, that we can derive from this is 323 00:14:09.200 --> 00:14:14.120 don't sell your soul for a wage. Right, So better 324 00:14:14.200 --> 00:14:16.600 to be rich and better to be poor and be 325 00:14:16.639 --> 00:14:18.759 dishonest than to be dishonest and rich. 326 00:14:18.799 --> 00:14:21.639 Better to be poor and honest. What did I say dishonest? 327 00:14:22.039 --> 00:14:24.519 I don't want I don't be both of those days. 328 00:14:25.080 --> 00:14:29.440 That's terrible dishonest. For you're just you're just a fool. 329 00:14:29.480 --> 00:14:33.120 Then no better to be poor and honest than to 330 00:14:33.159 --> 00:14:34.360 be dishonest and rich. 331 00:14:35.080 --> 00:14:37.039 And uh, you know, and and then there's. 332 00:14:36.879 --> 00:14:40.159 At least on four or five versus that talk about that, 333 00:14:40.960 --> 00:14:43.879 you know, just just uh, you don't trade wealth for 334 00:14:44.159 --> 00:14:48.000 a character, you don't trade wealth for integrity. And then 335 00:14:48.919 --> 00:14:51.320 you know, the trustworthy person will get a rich reward, 336 00:14:51.399 --> 00:14:53.759 but a person wants to get rich quick will get 337 00:14:53.840 --> 00:14:56.039 him into trouble. I mean, it just goes on and none. 338 00:14:56.240 --> 00:14:59.159 So it's just talking about the love of money and uh. 339 00:14:59.240 --> 00:15:01.279 And not everybody who has a lot of money has 340 00:15:01.360 --> 00:15:02.000 bad character. 341 00:15:02.320 --> 00:15:03.639 Yeah, right, people. 342 00:15:03.399 --> 00:15:06.759 Can get a lot of money in honest ways, right, 343 00:15:06.960 --> 00:15:09.200 And that's really what God is saying. God is saying, like, hey, 344 00:15:09.679 --> 00:15:12.879 follow me, honor me. You know, you'll be successful, you'll 345 00:15:12.919 --> 00:15:17.519 be rewarded. But the goal isn't necessarily to get rich. 346 00:15:17.559 --> 00:15:21.159 The goal is to honor God and then God will provide, right. 347 00:15:22.519 --> 00:15:24.679 But anyway, yeah, if the goal is to find if 348 00:15:24.720 --> 00:15:28.759 the chief goal is richest. There are many many people 349 00:15:28.759 --> 00:15:33.000 out there that bend the rules or you know, turn 350 00:15:33.080 --> 00:15:36.360 their head or cheat the system or cut the corner, 351 00:15:37.919 --> 00:15:39.799 you know, to to get more. 352 00:15:39.919 --> 00:15:41.279 Yeah, you know my dad. 353 00:15:42.519 --> 00:15:44.759 By the time this errs, I will have done my 354 00:15:44.840 --> 00:15:49.080 dad's funeral. So tomorrow, yep, from when we're shooting this, tomorrow, 355 00:15:49.080 --> 00:15:51.200 I'm going to do this funeral. And I worked for 356 00:15:51.320 --> 00:15:54.600 my dad for a couple of years in between my 357 00:15:54.679 --> 00:15:56.279 junior and senior year of college. Remember when I told 358 00:15:56.320 --> 00:15:59.879 you to several years off and he owned at that time, 359 00:16:00.159 --> 00:16:03.519 he owned a refrigeration company, and he was doing very well, 360 00:16:03.639 --> 00:16:06.200 very prosperous at that point. I grew up poor, and 361 00:16:06.240 --> 00:16:08.600 then he decided to make a bunch of money. Right, 362 00:16:08.600 --> 00:16:11.120 So my little brothers, like they lived with semi retired. 363 00:16:11.360 --> 00:16:13.960 You know, they're wearing sandals and socks at the same 364 00:16:13.960 --> 00:16:16.879 time down in Florida in the wintertime, and you know, 365 00:16:17.000 --> 00:16:18.960 going to Denny's at four in the afternoon. Right, that 366 00:16:19.039 --> 00:16:21.759 was kind of the My little brothers were semi retired 367 00:16:21.759 --> 00:16:23.240 when they were teenagers. 368 00:16:22.759 --> 00:16:24.200 And but I grew up poor. 369 00:16:24.399 --> 00:16:28.480 Anyways, Dad ran this business, was pretty successful and integrity 370 00:16:28.600 --> 00:16:30.759 was one of the big things for him. So in 371 00:16:30.879 --> 00:16:33.440 all of his advertising, you'd always have something about, you know, 372 00:16:33.519 --> 00:16:35.720 honest and dependable would be in the things that people 373 00:16:35.720 --> 00:16:38.279 would call and say, Man, in this industry, I just 374 00:16:38.320 --> 00:16:41.879 can't find somebody who's honest and dependable. And so my 375 00:16:42.000 --> 00:16:44.960 dad would often quote a good name is rather to 376 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:47.120 be chosen than great riches, which Solomon says in the 377 00:16:47.159 --> 00:16:50.279 Book of Proverbs. So the good name is better than 378 00:16:50.320 --> 00:16:53.320 great riches because great riches can disappear, Solomon says, but 379 00:16:53.399 --> 00:16:55.639 that good name will always keep producing more riches, right, 380 00:16:55.639 --> 00:16:59.480 That's it. So the flip side of those things. And 381 00:16:59.480 --> 00:17:00.919 then the other one he would quote all the time 382 00:17:00.960 --> 00:17:02.639 is this one. Better to be poor and honest than 383 00:17:02.679 --> 00:17:05.359 to be rich, dishonest and rich. And I remember one time, 384 00:17:05.480 --> 00:17:08.839 you know, in the refrigeration world, particularly in the commercial 385 00:17:08.839 --> 00:17:13.480 refrigeration world, there are parts that are very expensive, thousands 386 00:17:13.519 --> 00:17:19.160 of dollars. And it's not uncommon because what do you 387 00:17:19.200 --> 00:17:19.960 know about refrigeration. 388 00:17:19.960 --> 00:17:22.079 You don't know anyth about refrigeration nothing. 389 00:17:22.440 --> 00:17:24.920 So you own a refrigerator, you own a grocery store, 390 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:27.559 let's say a small grocery store out in the country, 391 00:17:27.559 --> 00:17:31.279 somewhere it's the grocery store and everybody's doing business there. 392 00:17:31.400 --> 00:17:33.920 You're doing, you know, twenty thousand dollars a day or 393 00:17:34.000 --> 00:17:36.440 ten thousand dollars a day in business and have your 394 00:17:36.680 --> 00:17:39.079 your cooler go down is going to cost you all 395 00:17:39.119 --> 00:17:42.640 of the product that's inside that cooler plus all the 396 00:17:42.640 --> 00:17:44.519 money you would have made in selling from that cooler. 397 00:17:44.720 --> 00:17:46.920 So these guys are in a hurry fix it right now. 398 00:17:47.000 --> 00:17:49.200 We need it now. I'm going to lose that product, 399 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:51.039 I'm going to lose those sales. I need the money. 400 00:17:51.119 --> 00:17:51.480 Whatever. 401 00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:54.079