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 --> 00:00:14.320 practical ways. Hey, everybody, welcome to the Bible Guys. We 4 00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:17.480 are the Bible Guys the Bible. And by the way, 5 00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:21.199 we would love for you a Bible guy. Oh wow, 6 00:00:21.519 --> 00:00:24.239 deep growy voice, right, Oh, I'm Batman. 7 00:00:24.440 --> 00:00:25.519 I'm Batman. Yeah. 8 00:00:25.600 --> 00:00:27.679 Yeah. By the way, you know that was made popular 9 00:00:27.679 --> 00:00:31.600 by Michael Keaton in nineteen eighty nine. Yes, yes, anyway, 10 00:00:31.839 --> 00:00:34.200 uh la la la la la. I was gonna say, 11 00:00:35.280 --> 00:00:38.399 please do us a favor and share share the Bible 12 00:00:38.439 --> 00:00:41.240 Guys link. Yeah, you know with somebody. Hey, I found 13 00:00:41.240 --> 00:00:44.000 this link. I found this Bible study, this Baba podcast. 14 00:00:44.719 --> 00:00:47.359 I'm gonna invite you to it. We would love that. 15 00:00:47.640 --> 00:00:50.759 Yeah, yeah, that'd be cool. And uh, it's always amazing 16 00:00:50.759 --> 00:00:52.679 that you listen. And if you like it, maybe your 17 00:00:52.719 --> 00:00:53.399 friends will like it too. 18 00:00:53.439 --> 00:00:54.079 Yeah for sure. 19 00:00:54.240 --> 00:00:57.039 And help us out a lot, right, because we. 20 00:00:57.039 --> 00:00:57.920 Want to reach more people. 21 00:00:58.039 --> 00:01:00.159 Yes, and you know, we're all about helping people up. 22 00:01:00.399 --> 00:01:03.759 It's not just one way street, right, they help us, 23 00:01:03.799 --> 00:01:05.920 We want to help them and we want to give 24 00:01:06.000 --> 00:01:09.400 them the best advice we can give. And so we're 25 00:01:09.640 --> 00:01:14.200 scouring the internet, yes, for the best news and the 26 00:01:14.239 --> 00:01:17.439 best suggestions, and so today we have a life hack. 27 00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:21.319 You know, life hacks are super helpful. Yeah right, because 28 00:01:21.319 --> 00:01:23.680 you get the right life hack and you can just 29 00:01:23.799 --> 00:01:27.239 it gives you an advantage that just makes life better. 30 00:01:27.680 --> 00:01:29.879 Yeah. You know what, Jeff, you are building this thing up. 31 00:01:29.959 --> 00:01:30.280 Yeah. 32 00:01:30.319 --> 00:01:34.079 So people are dying, so they're on the edge of 33 00:01:34.120 --> 00:01:34.560 the yea. 34 00:01:34.719 --> 00:01:37.200 So the Babylon b is one of the best sources 35 00:01:37.239 --> 00:01:41.560 of information on the internet. Right, it's a satire website. 36 00:01:42.000 --> 00:01:44.400 And here it is, right here, here's a life hack 37 00:01:44.480 --> 00:01:46.680 for you, and we're bringing it to you a couple 38 00:01:46.680 --> 00:01:49.319 of pastors. You can trust it right here. Life hack. 39 00:01:49.879 --> 00:01:53.359 Volunteer for parking Lot Ministry and you'll never have to 40 00:01:53.400 --> 00:01:55.439 hear another sermon for the rest of your days. 41 00:01:55.519 --> 00:01:58.239 There it is. That is a brilliant life ack. 42 00:01:58.439 --> 00:02:01.280 Okay, check out this suite life I hacked my church, brethren, 43 00:02:01.439 --> 00:02:04.719 or should I say faith hack. Yes, it's true. If 44 00:02:04.760 --> 00:02:07.359 you volunteer for the parking lot Ministry at your local church, 45 00:02:07.519 --> 00:02:09.879 then you'll never have to hear another sermon. Again, let's 46 00:02:09.879 --> 00:02:12.719 break down how the hack works. First, you sign up 47 00:02:12.719 --> 00:02:15.120 for the parking lot ministry. Then you go to church 48 00:02:15.120 --> 00:02:17.719 on Sunday, but instead of sitting through a sermon, you 49 00:02:17.759 --> 00:02:21.280 get to stand outside. There are no sermons outside, we checked. 50 00:02:21.680 --> 00:02:24.360 All you have to do is help people park and 51 00:02:24.360 --> 00:02:26.680 then walk old ladies to the church entrance. And you 52 00:02:26.719 --> 00:02:27.680 get to wear a vest. 53 00:02:28.080 --> 00:02:33.879 Cool, that's cool, bonus vest. 54 00:02:35.080 --> 00:02:36.680 But wait, aren't sermons good? 55 00:02:37.159 --> 00:02:37.560 Sure? 56 00:02:37.919 --> 00:02:40.599 But they're also long and boring sometimes. Plus it's so 57 00:02:40.639 --> 00:02:42.879 pretty outside right now you can get out in the 58 00:02:42.960 --> 00:02:45.319 fresh air and serve the Lord and get out. I 59 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:47.240 have and to sit through the sermon all in one 60 00:02:47.400 --> 00:02:48.080 fell stroke. 61 00:02:48.360 --> 00:02:49.680 What a deal. 62 00:02:49.759 --> 00:02:52.439 So go outside, get some sunshine, and get those traffic 63 00:02:52.479 --> 00:02:55.479 batons waving. Then, when the church elders explain that you're 64 00:02:55.479 --> 00:02:57.520 supposed to only volunteer to be in the parking lot 65 00:02:57.560 --> 00:03:00.759 once per month and otherwise be inside church, just pretend 66 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:03.039 to be deaf and run away. You're welcome. 67 00:03:03.280 --> 00:03:05.199 That is so funny, isn't it great? 68 00:03:05.479 --> 00:03:08.719 Just pretend to be death and so there you go, people, 69 00:03:08.719 --> 00:03:10.960 we're helping you out. That's what we're all about. We 70 00:03:11.000 --> 00:03:13.240 are about elevating people's experience. 71 00:03:13.360 --> 00:03:15.639 Well, you know what, for for all the life hacks, 72 00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:18.439 just come right here and we'll get them from Babylon 73 00:03:18.520 --> 00:03:20.319 B and pass them on to you with gladness. 74 00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:22.680 And you know who else wrote lots of life hacks. 75 00:03:22.879 --> 00:03:23.879 Uh, Solvent? 76 00:03:24.080 --> 00:03:28.159 Solomon? So did, yes, and we have we have spent 77 00:03:28.199 --> 00:03:29.759 a bunch of time in proverbs before. 78 00:03:29.879 --> 00:03:33.080 That's actually a great transition because they are life. 79 00:03:33.120 --> 00:03:35.520 They're all life hacks everywhere. 80 00:03:34.879 --> 00:03:37.719 All like ways to if we implemented all the wisdom 81 00:03:37.800 --> 00:03:40.000 of proverbs, that's right, we would live a pretty darn 82 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:40.319 good life. 83 00:03:40.319 --> 00:03:43.960 Pretty good life, that's right. So Solomon wrote all these things. 84 00:03:44.000 --> 00:03:46.120 He was the wisest king that ever lived. 85 00:03:45.960 --> 00:03:48.639 And person ever lived or will ever live. 86 00:03:48.520 --> 00:03:52.639 That's right, I think apart from Jesus. 87 00:03:53.000 --> 00:03:55.080 Well, I said person, I didn't say man. 88 00:03:55.120 --> 00:03:58.520 God, Well he was a person, so anyways, but other 89 00:03:58.599 --> 00:04:00.479 than Jesus, yeah, he's the wisest man that lived. And 90 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:03.960 so he wrote down all these little things, and you 91 00:04:03.960 --> 00:04:05.639 can put them on posters, a lot of them. They're 92 00:04:05.639 --> 00:04:10.520 like just slogans, good ideas. And Hezekiah when he was 93 00:04:10.639 --> 00:04:13.039 cleaning out the temple, he finds a bunch more of 94 00:04:13.080 --> 00:04:16.639 these things, apparently that were unpublished or something. And so 95 00:04:17.360 --> 00:04:20.000 yesterday we read in chapter twenty five, and it's twenty 96 00:04:20.000 --> 00:04:22.319 five twenty six, twenty seven, twenty eight, and twenty nine 97 00:04:22.519 --> 00:04:25.920 are the ones that has a kaiaphund, So in chapter 98 00:04:25.920 --> 00:04:28.920 twenty six we'll just read some of these. He says, 99 00:04:29.040 --> 00:04:32.800 honor is no more associated with fools than snow with 100 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:37.439 summer or rain with harvest. Like a fluttering sparrow or 101 00:04:37.439 --> 00:04:40.319 a darting swallow, an undeserved curse will not land on 102 00:04:40.360 --> 00:04:43.680 its intended victim. Guide a horse with a whip, a 103 00:04:43.720 --> 00:04:45.959 donkey with a bridle, and a fool with a rod 104 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:51.800 to his back. Wowoo, Solomon, he messing around. No, don't 105 00:04:51.839 --> 00:04:54.399 answer the foolish arguments of fools, or you'll become as 106 00:04:54.399 --> 00:04:57.439 foolish as they are. Be sure to answer the foolish 107 00:04:57.519 --> 00:04:59.920 arguments of fools, or they'll become wise in their own estimation. 108 00:05:00.639 --> 00:05:03.879 Salmon goes hey, it's kind of situational here. Trusting a 109 00:05:03.879 --> 00:05:05.959 fool to convey a message is like cutting off one's 110 00:05:05.959 --> 00:05:09.279 feet or drinking poison. A proverb in the mouth of 111 00:05:09.319 --> 00:05:13.040 a fool is as useless as a paralyzed leg. Honoring 112 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:15.279 a fool is as foolish as tying a stone to 113 00:05:15.319 --> 00:05:20.040 a slingshot. A proverb in the mouth of a fool 114 00:05:20.120 --> 00:05:23.720 is like a thorny branch brandished by a drunk. An 115 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:26.720 employer who hires a fool or a bystander is like 116 00:05:26.759 --> 00:05:30.199 an archer who shoots at random. As a dog returns 117 00:05:30.199 --> 00:05:33.120 to his vomit. So a fool repeats his foolishness. Oh, 118 00:05:34.879 --> 00:05:37.040 there's more hope for fools than for people who think 119 00:05:37.079 --> 00:05:40.600 they are wise. The lazy person claims there's a lion 120 00:05:40.639 --> 00:05:42.959 in the road. Yes, I'm sure there's a lion out there. 121 00:05:45.600 --> 00:05:48.279 I quote that sometimes. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah. My wife, 122 00:05:48.639 --> 00:05:51.639 I grew up the proverbs. My wife would be like, oh, 123 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:53.360 we should probably go and get those toys done in 124 00:05:53.360 --> 00:05:55.120 the backyard. I'm like, oh, I think there's a lion 125 00:05:55.160 --> 00:05:57.680 in the streets. I'm positive there's a lion in the streets. 126 00:05:57.920 --> 00:05:59.560 That's so funny. 127 00:06:00.040 --> 00:06:01.759 It's a little bit of Bible humor there in my house, 128 00:06:02.879 --> 00:06:06.439 says let me see, as the door swings back and 129 00:06:06.480 --> 00:06:08.959 forth on its hinges. So the lazy person turns over 130 00:06:09.000 --> 00:06:12.160 in bed. Lazy people take food in their hand but 131 00:06:12.319 --> 00:06:16.199 don't even lift it to their mouth. Lazy people consider 132 00:06:16.240 --> 00:06:21.600 themselves smarter than seven wise Counselorsing interfering in someone else's 133 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:25.279 argument is as foolish as yanking a dog's ears, just 134 00:06:25.319 --> 00:06:28.160 as damaging as a madman shooting a deadly weapon. Is 135 00:06:28.199 --> 00:06:30.639 someone who lies to a friend and then says I 136 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:35.759 was only joking. Woo oooh. Fire goes out without wood, 137 00:06:36.160 --> 00:06:40.879 and corals disappear. When gossip stops a quarrelsome person starts 138 00:06:40.920 --> 00:06:44.439 fights as easily as hot embers like charcoal or firelights. 139 00:06:44.439 --> 00:06:49.040 Wood rumors are dainty morsels that sink deep into one's heart. 140 00:06:50.319 --> 00:06:52.720 Smooth words may hide a wicked heart, just as a 141 00:06:52.759 --> 00:06:58.160 pretty gaze covers a pretty glaze covers a claypot. People 142 00:06:58.199 --> 00:07:01.079 may cover their hatred with pleasant words, but they're deceiving you. 143 00:07:01.480 --> 00:07:03.399 They pretend to be kind, but don't believe them. Their 144 00:07:03.439 --> 00:07:05.959 hearts are full of many evils. While their hatred may 145 00:07:05.959 --> 00:07:08.879 be concealed by trickery, they're wrongdoing will be exposed in public. 146 00:07:09.959 --> 00:07:11.879 If you set a trap for others, you'll get caught 147 00:07:11.879 --> 00:07:15.000 in it yourself. If you roll a boulder down on others, 148 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:19.680 it'll crush you instead. A lying tongue hates its victims, 149 00:07:19.800 --> 00:07:25.439 and flattering words cause ruin. Man, there's some there's some 150 00:07:25.480 --> 00:07:26.240 good ones in there. 151 00:07:26.560 --> 00:07:28.319 I'll tell you what I wouldn't want to be a 152 00:07:28.319 --> 00:07:30.680 fool in someone's eyes. 153 00:07:30.600 --> 00:07:32.360 Taking shots of fools, isn't he? 154 00:07:32.879 --> 00:07:35.920 Yeah? I remember going them. I remember going to church 155 00:07:35.959 --> 00:07:40.600 one time. You remember the old court gestures, you know 156 00:07:40.639 --> 00:07:41.720 they have those funny hats. 157 00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:48.439 Yes, yeah, court gesture the five. 158 00:07:49.240 --> 00:07:51.560 I went to this large church for this conference and 159 00:07:51.600 --> 00:07:54.079 I remember pulling in and they were doing a series 160 00:07:54.560 --> 00:07:56.759 on a Sunday. We stayed for the Sunday and it 161 00:07:56.839 --> 00:08:00.399 was called fool Proof, right, and it was all about 162 00:08:00.439 --> 00:08:03.839 the fools of the the you know, in proverbs. And 163 00:08:04.839 --> 00:08:08.959 but here's the best part. Everybody in the parking lot, 164 00:08:09.439 --> 00:08:13.000 speaking of our opening segment, all the volunteers were wearing 165 00:08:13.040 --> 00:08:15.800 court jester hats. And I remember thinking to myself, like, 166 00:08:16.000 --> 00:08:18.879 what is this. Why are they wearing court gester hats? 167 00:08:18.920 --> 00:08:21.839 And it was because they call it like a fool. 168 00:08:22.800 --> 00:08:25.240 They were actually called fools, right, that's for the king. 169 00:08:25.879 --> 00:08:28.199 And and so then you finally got in and you're like, 170 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:30.319 what is with all these court juster hats? And then 171 00:08:30.319 --> 00:08:32.679 the logo said fool proof And it was a court 172 00:08:32.759 --> 00:08:33.600 Juster hat was the logo. 173 00:08:33.679 --> 00:08:35.799 It was brilliant and it was it was it a 174 00:08:35.840 --> 00:08:38.480 series on proverbs. Yes, oh, man, that's great. 175 00:08:38.679 --> 00:08:40.960 It was a series on every every totally want to 176 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:41.519 rip that off. 177 00:08:41.720 --> 00:08:42.759 I know, right, that's great. 178 00:08:42.960 --> 00:08:44.000 Yeah, it's really good. 179 00:08:44.679 --> 00:08:46.080 God gave you eyes to plagiaries. 180 00:08:46.720 --> 00:08:49.120 Oh wow, I've never even heard that. 181 00:08:49.200 --> 00:08:49.919 You've never heard that? 182 00:08:50.039 --> 00:08:50.120 No? 183 00:08:50.279 --> 00:08:53.000 Oh yeah? Ed Young says that, yeah, yeah, gives the 184 00:08:53.039 --> 00:08:53.639 pleasure eyes. 185 00:08:53.720 --> 00:08:55.000 That's really funny. 186 00:08:55.960 --> 00:08:58.039 Solomon says, there's no new idea under the sun. 187 00:08:58.120 --> 00:08:59.039 That's right, that's right. 188 00:08:59.679 --> 00:09:02.120 So I love the I love that there's a bunch 189 00:09:02.200 --> 00:09:04.399 of them. But you know, when he's taking shots at 190 00:09:04.399 --> 00:09:09.240 these at fools, he's so frustrated with fools, clearly. And 191 00:09:09.279 --> 00:09:11.879 then you know there's there's rarely ever a time that 192 00:09:11.919 --> 00:09:16.080 the Bible calls followers of God fools. So it's possible 193 00:09:16.080 --> 00:09:19.200 for us to be foolish, right, and so this is 194 00:09:19.200 --> 00:09:22.639 always the warning to us not to act like fools. 195 00:09:23.080 --> 00:09:25.240 But he says, you know, they got guide a horse 196 00:09:25.240 --> 00:09:26.720 with a whip, and a donkey with a bridle, and 197 00:09:26.759 --> 00:09:28.879 a fool with a ride to his back. You know, 198 00:09:29.039 --> 00:09:34.120 he's he's feeling like, hey, these people, they're a fool, 199 00:09:34.320 --> 00:09:37.559 a foolish person who refuses to be taught. You find 200 00:09:37.559 --> 00:09:40.600 out he feels like fools are they're not willing to learn. 201 00:09:41.000 --> 00:09:44.480 They're prideful in what they think they already know. They 202 00:09:45.000 --> 00:09:47.759 just stir up trouble. They spout off stuff that they 203 00:09:47.759 --> 00:09:49.840 don't know what they're talking about. You know. He kind 204 00:09:49.840 --> 00:09:52.639 of he spells out throughout his writings what fools are like. 205 00:09:53.559 --> 00:09:57.879 They waste their money, they waste they're not trustworthy, right, 206 00:09:57.960 --> 00:10:00.799 all those things. And he's like, the only way you 207 00:10:00.799 --> 00:10:02.600 can do it, the only way you can manage them 208 00:10:02.679 --> 00:10:03.960 is the same way you have to manage a horse 209 00:10:04.039 --> 00:10:06.840 or a donkey. Right, you're cracking with a whip, you 210 00:10:06.919 --> 00:10:09.360 put a bridle in his mouth. You have controlling. A 211 00:10:09.360 --> 00:10:12.200 fool has to be controlled because he can't be trusted. Yeah, 212 00:10:12.360 --> 00:10:15.080 and that's that's really rough. But then the next one 213 00:10:15.120 --> 00:10:16.879 is the one that always used to confuse me, and 214 00:10:16.919 --> 00:10:20.000 my dad explain this to me. It says, don't answer 215 00:10:20.080 --> 00:10:22.879 the foolish arguments of fools, or you'll become as foolish 216 00:10:22.879 --> 00:10:25.759 as they are. Be sure to answer the foolish arguments 217 00:10:25.759 --> 00:10:27.919 of fools, or they'll become wise in their own estimation. 218 00:10:29.120 --> 00:10:32.000 And because the one says don't answer, and the very 219 00:10:32.000 --> 00:10:34.240 next verse says answering, it feels like a like it's 220 00:10:34.240 --> 00:10:39.399 disagreeing with itself, right, And my dad said, well, what's 221 00:10:39.399 --> 00:10:42.639 the one constant whether you're answer or you don't answer, 222 00:10:42.639 --> 00:10:46.759 And there's still fools, right, right, there's still fools. So 223 00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:53.840 it's really usually about what's at stake there. So if 224 00:10:53.919 --> 00:10:55.720 you jump in and you just decide you're going to 225 00:10:55.799 --> 00:10:59.039 try to argue with a fool, most of the time, 226 00:10:59.039 --> 00:11:01.759 there's no upside to it, right, But then he says, 227 00:11:01.799 --> 00:11:04.960 the only real upside would be if you can put 228 00:11:04.960 --> 00:11:08.200 that fool in his place. Yeah, then he realizes he's 229 00:11:08.200 --> 00:11:11.279 not as you know that you're sending a message. Listen, 230 00:11:11.320 --> 00:11:13.039 you don't know what you're talking about, right, So there 231 00:11:13.080 --> 00:11:15.279 is that one piece, but for the most part, he's 232 00:11:15.320 --> 00:11:17.879 still a fool. It means your argument's not going to 233 00:11:17.960 --> 00:11:19.879 change him, so you're just wasting your time. 234 00:11:20.399 --> 00:11:23.600 Yeah, yeah, I almost wonder. I almost wonder if, like, 235 00:11:23.639 --> 00:11:25.279 when I read it, do you know how I read it? 236 00:11:25.840 --> 00:11:29.559 Don't answer the foolish arguments of fools, or else you'll 237 00:11:29.559 --> 00:11:32.320 become as foolish as they are. I was I was 238 00:11:32.360 --> 00:11:36.080 reading that as the word arguments, the operative word being arguments, 239 00:11:36.120 --> 00:11:39.600 meaning like, don't get involved in the minutia of the arguments, 240 00:11:39.600 --> 00:11:41.759 because it's not going to make a difference, right, You're 241 00:11:41.759 --> 00:11:43.480 going to just get caught up in the foolishness. Right. 242 00:11:43.840 --> 00:11:45.799 But then when it says be sure to answer the 243 00:11:45.840 --> 00:11:49.960 foolish arguments of fools, or else they become as will 244 00:11:49.960 --> 00:11:53.000 become wise in their own estimation, I almost wonder if 245 00:11:53.120 --> 00:11:56.759 that is saying, hey, don't get caught up in the 246 00:11:56.799 --> 00:12:00.000 minutia of the arguments, but make sure to give them 247 00:12:00.039 --> 00:12:02.120 at least an answer to let them know that they're 248 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:06.000 being foolish. Right. So, now it doesn't say that, right, 249 00:12:06.200 --> 00:12:08.320 but that's that's actually how I read it. I read 250 00:12:08.360 --> 00:12:10.559 it like, don't get too caught up in it because 251 00:12:10.559 --> 00:12:13.200 it's it's pointless, but make sure to let them know 252 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:15.440 that they're being foolish or else though, walk away from 253 00:12:15.440 --> 00:12:19.559 the conversation somehow in your silence, thinking that they've won 254 00:12:19.720 --> 00:12:22.200 or that they're superior in some way, right, right, So 255 00:12:22.240 --> 00:12:24.759 in other words, hey, you're gonna ramble online, I'm gonna 256 00:12:24.799 --> 00:12:27.600 look at you. I'm just gonna say, wow, you've got 257 00:12:27.600 --> 00:12:30.519 a lot to learn, right, yep. And they walk away 258 00:12:31.039 --> 00:12:34.440 and they'll be like okay, and those standing around and say, well, 259 00:12:35.039 --> 00:12:38.399 he's a fool yep, so maybe maybe it didn't mean that, 260 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:39.360 but it. 261 00:12:39.320 --> 00:12:41.480 Could be part of that. Yeah, I also think that 262 00:12:42.039 --> 00:12:44.519 it's it's funny. So the two things that just seem 263 00:12:44.559 --> 00:12:47.919 almost intolerable to Solomon is foolish people and lazy people. 264 00:12:48.279 --> 00:12:52.639 Yes, yeah, the lazy there's a lot there. 265 00:12:52.679 --> 00:12:55.159 There's as much about lazy here, right. The lazy person 266 00:12:55.159 --> 00:12:57.759 claims there's a lion in the street as the door 267 00:12:57.799 --> 00:12:59.600 swings back and forth, and it's just a lazy person 268 00:12:59.600 --> 00:13:00.000 turns over. 269 00:13:00.440 --> 00:13:01.360 Yeah. Right. 270 00:13:01.559 --> 00:13:03.200 Lazy people take food in their hand, they don't even 271 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:04.080 lift it to their mouth, and. 272 00:13:04.080 --> 00:13:06.679 They lift it to their mouth. They consider themselves smarter 273 00:13:06.799 --> 00:13:09.879 than seven wise counselors. You know, I think I think 274 00:13:09.879 --> 00:13:12.320 that people. You know, all you gotta do is watch 275 00:13:12.360 --> 00:13:15.240 the internet for ten minutes and you're going to find 276 00:13:15.240 --> 00:13:19.279 somebody who thinks they're like, you know, they don't have 277 00:13:19.279 --> 00:13:21.039 a lot of credibility. How about that? Is that a 278 00:13:21.039 --> 00:13:23.480 polite way to say it? Right? They don't have credibility 279 00:13:23.480 --> 00:13:26.279 at all, and yet they're just speaking as if they 280 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:29.559 have so much wisdom and they're like just average Joe 281 00:13:29.600 --> 00:13:32.960 person who wants a platform on the internet. 282 00:13:33.240 --> 00:13:35.480 And then the other thing that Solomon talks about all 283 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:38.639 the time is just words, yep, how we use our words, 284 00:13:38.679 --> 00:13:43.000 the things we say. And then I love how rumors 285 00:13:43.000 --> 00:13:46.639 are like dainty morsels. Right. People love spilling the tea, 286 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:50.000 don't they. They love them to do something I didn't know. 287 00:13:50.120 --> 00:13:52.840 Look at all these rumors. 288 00:13:52.840 --> 00:13:56.679 Smooth words he's talking about. They're like just a pretty 289 00:13:56.679 --> 00:13:57.840 glaze over at clay pot. 290 00:13:57.960 --> 00:14:00.519 And there's that word picture again. If you ever been 291 00:14:00.519 --> 00:14:04.240 involved in pottery where you can take a clay pot 292 00:14:04.240 --> 00:14:07.720 and it's just it's rough, it's coarse, it'll chip, and 293 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:09.519 then you cover it with a glaze and it looks 294 00:14:09.679 --> 00:14:14.279 it looks smooth and shiny and slick. And what he's 295 00:14:14.279 --> 00:14:16.679 saying is and by the way, you can't almost you 296 00:14:16.720 --> 00:14:18.759 can't even peel it off. You can't chip it off. 297 00:14:19.080 --> 00:14:21.440 I mean, it sticks to that clay pot, and you know, 298 00:14:21.519 --> 00:14:24.399 and it's really really hard to even chip that glaze off. 299 00:14:25.039 --> 00:14:28.600 And uh, And he says, that's exactly what smooth words are. 300 00:14:28.600 --> 00:14:30.440 They can hide a wicked heart in the same way 301 00:14:31.480 --> 00:14:32.159 you'd never know. 302 00:14:33.240 --> 00:14:39.120 And then fire goes out without wood. Yeah, and corals 303 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:40.399 disappear when gossip stops. 304 00:14:40.840 --> 00:14:44.679 And by the way, I've experienced that I've experienced staff. 305 00:14:44.960 --> 00:14:48.240 You know, I'm not just talking about one single church 306 00:14:48.279 --> 00:14:50.480 i've worked at. I'm talking about I've worked at four 307 00:14:50.519 --> 00:14:54.840 different churches, and I think three of those four I've 308 00:14:54.879 --> 00:14:59.480 experienced when a staff member who is not very good 309 00:14:59.480 --> 00:15:03.039 with their mouth, you know, they have rumors, they cause strife. 310 00:15:03.799 --> 00:15:05.840 You know, they're just the kind of people who complain 311 00:15:06.000 --> 00:15:09.600 or they're negative. When that person leaves, it's like taking 312 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:11.919 a log off the fire. Yeah, It's like it's like 313 00:15:11.919 --> 00:15:13.679 all of a sudden, it's like, wow, all the fuel 314 00:15:13.720 --> 00:15:16.639 has gone, it has left the building. Yep, because this 315 00:15:16.759 --> 00:15:20.679 one person has left the staff. Yeah, you've experienced that. 316 00:15:20.679 --> 00:15:23.919 Right, yes, yeah, yeah, And it's true. When you decide 317 00:15:23.960 --> 00:15:27.879 that you're gonna gonna, you know, execute the gossip. It's 318 00:15:27.919 --> 00:15:30.320 amazing how quickly the fire goes out the heat. It 319 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:33.919 just dials back the temperature all the time, and you 320 00:15:33.919 --> 00:15:37.000 know the gossip. A lot of times gossip comes from 321 00:15:37.000 --> 00:15:39.440 people trying to guess the meaning of a thing, or 322 00:15:39.480 --> 00:15:42.559 trying to guess that there's something behind a thing. Right, 323 00:15:42.840 --> 00:15:45.960 you say good morning, and somebody who's just naturally a 324 00:15:46.000 --> 00:15:48.759 gossip is like, what did he mean by good morning? Right? Right, 325 00:15:49.080 --> 00:15:51.440 and you're just saying, I'm just saying good morning. But 326 00:15:51.480 --> 00:15:55.200 there's a gossip loves to try to find secondary meanings 327 00:15:55.240 --> 00:15:57.159 and then they love to try to point that out 328 00:15:57.159 --> 00:16:00.080 to other people, or a gossip loves to find a 329 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:03.039 little nugget of information somebody doesn't have and knowing that 330 00:16:03.080 --> 00:16:05.240 it's going to hurt some people and say, hey, listen, 331 00:16:05.279 --> 00:16:07.960 I'm not trying to hurt you, but you should know, right, 332 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:10.279 that kind of thing, and it just keeps the fire 333 00:16:10.360 --> 00:16:13.639 going and it just increases the temperature and makes everything harder. 334 00:16:13.759 --> 00:16:15.799 Everything's harder. So yeah, there's that. 335 00:16:15.879 --> 00:16:18.320 You know what's so funny is I can't even I 336 00:16:18.320 --> 00:16:23.679 can't even recall when's the last time besides on last Sunday, 337 00:16:23.720 --> 00:16:27.720 when's the last time you heard a sermon exclusively on gossip? 338 00:16:29.200 --> 00:16:30.559 Sometimes you can go years. 339 00:16:30.360 --> 00:16:33.919 Well, and the spirit of transparency. I wasn't even really 340 00:16:33.919 --> 00:16:38.120 listening to the last weekend's message. I'm joking. It was a 341 00:16:38.159 --> 00:16:38.919 really good message. 342 00:16:40.519 --> 00:16:42.120 I was going to say, you're kidding, because because you 343 00:16:42.159 --> 00:16:43.440 actually wrote feedback. 344 00:16:43.120 --> 00:16:44.919 Yeah, yeah, it was. It was good. I wrote feedback, 345 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:48.039 I delivered and you actually get feedback. But yeah, not 346 00:16:48.159 --> 00:16:50.000 very often. You don't hear, don't hear a lot of much. 347 00:16:50.480 --> 00:16:52.519 And yet and you're people mad about gossip. 348 00:16:52.519 --> 00:16:56.639 Right, But the Bible does talk a lot about gossip specifically. Right. 349 00:16:56.759 --> 00:16:58.480 It's not just the power of your tongue and the 350 00:16:58.519 --> 00:17:00.320 power of your words, which that was all so a 351 00:17:00.399 --> 00:17:05.920 portion of the message, but gossip specifically, right, And those 352 00:17:05.920 --> 00:17:08.119 things that you're talking about in any work culture and 353 00:17:08.119 --> 00:17:11.640 any family culture, right, there's gonna be people like that 354 00:17:11.680 --> 00:17:14.119 in there. And what we said at the very beginning 355 00:17:14.640 --> 00:17:17.640 of the message is we said that gossip could damage 356 00:17:17.920 --> 00:17:20.359 your reputation as much as it can damage the person 357 00:17:20.440 --> 00:17:25.480 that you're spreading it about. Right, That gossip actually ruins relationships, 358 00:17:25.880 --> 00:17:29.279 That gossip actually grieves your heavenly father. That's what the 359 00:17:29.279 --> 00:17:32.599 Bible says, That it will actually hurt your relationship with 360 00:17:32.680 --> 00:17:36.440 your heavenly father, you know. And yeah, there's just a 361 00:17:36.519 --> 00:17:39.200 lot of things that the Bible warns about gossip. And 362 00:17:39.240 --> 00:17:42.279 it doesn't seem dangerous on the surface, but it really 363 00:17:42.319 --> 00:17:44.480 is if you pay attention to what the Bible says 364 00:17:44.519 --> 00:17:49.160 about it. You know, it feels good to you know, 365 00:17:49.279 --> 00:17:52.920 exchange gossip, to deal with the currency of gossip for 366 00:17:52.960 --> 00:17:55.240 all people that love it. But the Bible actually says 367 00:17:55.279 --> 00:17:57.079 that's sinful and it's hurtful. 368 00:17:57.200 --> 00:18:01.759 Yeah, yeah, it doesn't do any good, It only hurts. Right, 369 00:18:02.240 --> 00:18:05.519 So I think that there's two of them I want 370 00:18:05.519 --> 00:18:07.880 to talk about. But verse seventeen, Interfering in someone else's 371 00:18:07.960 --> 00:18:11.839 argument is as foolish as yanking of dogs years right, 372 00:18:11.960 --> 00:18:15.279 And you know I've read that some hundreds of times. 373 00:18:15.359 --> 00:18:18.759 I know that passage. I've told other people, Oh, don't 374 00:18:18.759 --> 00:18:20.720 get involved in that. You know, somebody say, hey, this 375 00:18:20.759 --> 00:18:23.279 person's arguing with this person. I know the answer I should, 376 00:18:24.039 --> 00:18:25.920 and I'll say, it's just like you're gonna grab ahold 377 00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:28.119 of dog's ears, and it's the fastest way to get bit. Right, 378 00:18:28.240 --> 00:18:29.759 you grab a dog's ears, try to control, and I'll 379 00:18:29.759 --> 00:18:33.119 bite you. So just don't do it. It's gonna hurt you, 380 00:18:33.240 --> 00:18:37.119 it's not gonna help them. But I had some people 381 00:18:37.160 --> 00:18:41.880 that I deeply cared about, some friends that were not 382 00:18:42.079 --> 00:18:45.599 doing good to each other, and they were constantly kind 383 00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:50.200 of undercutting the other, okay, and they were my friends. Well, 384 00:18:50.200 --> 00:18:52.640 then the one realized the other was doing it, they 385 00:18:52.640 --> 00:18:55.400 started button heads pretty hard. So I thought, here's a 386 00:18:55.440 --> 00:18:59.480 moment I'll step in. I'll offer some help, it winds 387 00:18:59.559 --> 00:19:03.240 up blowing up in my face. It gets so bad 388 00:19:03.519 --> 00:19:06.880 they both turn on me, and now they are dear 389 00:19:06.920 --> 00:19:09.000 friends and neither one of them can stand me. 390 00:19:09.599 --> 00:19:09.960 Wow. 391 00:19:10.039 --> 00:19:12.920 I wasn't even involved in any of it, right, but 392 00:19:13.039 --> 00:19:18.599 suddenly their argument and they're undercutting each other seemed so little. Yeah, 393 00:19:18.640 --> 00:19:21.599 and there they were mad at me, and they still are. 394 00:19:21.839 --> 00:19:23.880 Like one of them won't talk to me on occasion. 395 00:19:23.920 --> 00:19:25.920 The other one won't talk to me at all, won't 396 00:19:26.039 --> 00:19:28.759 won't just at all. And I'm like, what did I do? 397 00:19:29.640 --> 00:19:29.799 Right? 398 00:19:29.920 --> 00:19:31.519 Well, you know what I did. I grabbed a dog 399 00:19:31.559 --> 00:19:34.039 by its ears. That's that's what I did. It was 400 00:19:34.160 --> 00:19:37.880 so dumb, and so sometimes it's just worth it to 401 00:19:38.039 --> 00:19:39.759