Biblical Wisdom and Wealth: What Proverbs Teaches About Money

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This is a good good old
fashioned anatomy banter.

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So we had a gym night at church
not too long ago.

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Yeah, a couple weeks, something
like that.

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I had AI, had a little injury.
I think it's, you know, you're

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getting older.
You had an injury.

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Yeah, and I was gonna give you
AB or C, What did I injure?

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I'll give you some options.
Option number one and this also

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test your anatomy a little bit.
Did you play basketball?

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I was playing basketball.
Do I get to know what you're

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doing while you injured it?
Is that too much?

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This.
You're thinking too hard about

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it.
Option #1 Did I injure my medial

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malleolus?
Option #2 Did I injure or I feel

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the pain in my, we'll say
sternocleidomastoid or C?

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Did I get hurt in the old
posterior superior iliac spine?

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So we got three options here.
What was the first one?

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First one was the medial
malleolus.

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That's the only one.
I don't know where it is.

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So the other one's your chest,
and then I think the other one

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is probably where your hamstring
connects into your you're.

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Pretty close.
You know, somewhere around in

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that area, I don't know the
first one, but the first one you

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set off the bat and you had to
think about the second one.

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So I don't think it's either the
1st or the 3rd.

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And I was thinking if you're
playing basketball, it might be

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jumping and and hurting in that
area.

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So I'm gonna go.
With CC what which?

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1C was the Oh yeah.
That's great.

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Posterior superior iliac spine.
We like to call that the old

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PSIS.
You are correct.

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Yeah, yeah.
It is like if, if you're like on

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your back and you're feeling
like there's two like notches

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kinda in the low back, It's the,
your ilium is like your hip,

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part of your hip bone like, you
know, and it's like you felt

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that Crest, man.
I, I heard sometimes their

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medial malleolus is like your
ankle, like that bump on inside

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of your ankle.
You got a lateral malleolus and

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medial malleolus, and then your
good sternocleidomastoid is like

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this right in here.
It connects to your sternum,

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clavicle and your mastoid.
And so it's like if I turn my

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neck the opposite way, it's
dissing the six out.

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Yeah.
So you're pretty good.

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Got the, you know, got the
anatomy down.

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I've recovered, but man that
that'll bother me from from time

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to time.
You know you.

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Have to stretch it out.
Stretch it out, yeah.

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Do you know the things to do or
do you need?

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Like do you need someone else to
lay hands on you?

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Oh, it's, it's, it's, it is I, I
try to direct Leanne to lay

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hands on me.
It, it helps with a little bit

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of pressure.
I try to get like a lot of like

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extension and that kind of
helped me of the, of the back

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and the hip.
But man, getting old.

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It's not for sissies.
It's what my my patients tell me

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sometimes.
Yeah, that is tough.

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I I worked out in the gym, so I
stopped in the clay Sunday

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evening at home groups and and I
had been we've been trying to so

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busy.
It's it's like you only do what

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you make time for.
That's right.

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And so I think it was Sunday
night after.

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Oh, after home groups.
After home groups.

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Yeah.
What?

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What?
What's the workout routine?

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Yeah.
Well I'm using the stronger list

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5 by 5.
It's very simple and I and I

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always tell myself.
You do like strong lifts.

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Yeah, well, that's the starting.
Strength that, yeah.

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Well.
I'm familiar with Strong Lifts

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too.
Yeah, yeah.

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Yeah.
So that one has like 2 workouts.

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You alternate between the both
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Start with squats and then the
one we did Monday went to

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overhead press and then
deadlifts and then next one we

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do will be bench press and
barbell rows I believe.

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Nice.
Yeah, that's pretty cool.

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Very simple, just kind of.
Progressive overall, just keep.

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It rolling?
Yeah, when you haven't worked

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out in a while, Yeah.
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You, you like, I was feeling,
you know, that that place where

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like your hamstrings, you know,
tie in up there.

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More more fun, and this is so
fun to can you name your

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hamstring muscles?
This is just great.

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The old semi tendinosis, semi
membranosis and the biceps

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femoris.
But you know, this is fun.

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We should, we should.
More people are probably loving

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the Anatomy podcast.
Like can we just have Lord of

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the Rings again?
Oh, it's that bad?

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I feel bad now.
No, that's.

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Great.
Yeah, Well.

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Maybe we'll do some workout
updates.

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Clay man, he's getting after it.
He's, you know, putting on the

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muscle, you know?
Yeah, yeah, no, it's good.

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Yeah.
And it was something else I was

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going to say, Oh, well, we're at
a ball game Monday night and I

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was kind of walking around
'cause, you know, the first

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couple times you're a little
sore and.

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And there's a a teacher at the
school who has a daughter on the

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team.
And I was kind of stiff.

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She's like, you OK.
I was like, yeah, I worked out

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last night.
And she's like, oh, how often do

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you work out Like, well, once a.
Year about.

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Once every six months.
Right now we're trying to, you

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know, make that a little more
frequent.

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Man, I will.
I'm not good at these.

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I just started.
Are you familiar with what a

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Nordic curl is?
I used to do them.

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I'm started back up with them.
They are for the hamstrings in

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particular.
It's, you know, think of a bicep

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curl, similar but for your.
Hamstring.

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You're kind of kneel tall
kneeling and you lean your torso

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forward and then you kind of
flex up the knee.

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It's a very hard exercise.
So I'm just like doing like

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isobetric range of motion's very
limited 'cause it's hard to.

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Is it like a split squat but
you're stretching the other one?

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I don't know.
Maybe we'll maybe we'll do a

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demonstrate.
We'll take, I'll take a video

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later.
And.

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Nordic curl, it's like one of

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those things like, like if I
stuck with them for a year, I

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could probably do like a real
one.

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I'm doing like eccentric.
It's like it's something I could

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pull up where it's kind of hard
for people to do pull ups.

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You know, you just practice like
jumping up and lowering yourself

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down at 1st to get the
strengths.

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That's what I'm kind of working
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But it's a, it's a hamstring one
that just like it'd be cool if I

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could, I could do some maybe.
Yeah, we'll, we'll check in six

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months from now, see how the
strong lifts is going, see how

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the Nordic curls are going,
'cause I, I've, I just, I, I

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clay's like in this 1000 LB
club, just like putting up the

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weight that's I work out, I work
out a decent amount, but I'm not

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putting up heavy, heavy numbers.
If you can, you probably like

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that surprised me, Zach.
I thought you would be putting

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up like crazy numbers.
Yeah, I couple more things we

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should probably hit in the
banter.

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So my my weight was fairly low,
so I was squatting 5 sets of

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five of 135.
So nothing.

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Huge.
But you know, I thought first

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time, you know, you don't want
to injure yourself get, get

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everything going.
And then I dead lifted that same

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amount and you know, I brought
it off the rack and put it down

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and then I power lifted it up.
Oh yeah.

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And that was fine except for I
felt like an AB like pulled a

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little bit in there and I was
like, I hope I didn't just, but

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I, I don't think I got hernia in
there just a little.

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Yeah, just just just a little
strain.

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Yeah, I like it.
Yeah, it's really hard to

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deadlift less than 135 because
then you really have to get that

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range of motion.
My hammy start it just the bars

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are so low to the.
Yeah, we have the bumper plates

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that are like 5 lbs that get the
get the at the right, right

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level if it's less than that.
Yeah, yeah.

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That's nice because if you don't
have have those, have you, have

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you done a Jefferson curl
before?

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It's like.
I probably have just.

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It's like a deadlift, but like
you usually do low weight, like

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it's kind of not good for your
back biomechanically, but it's

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like you curl your back like
some people will get on a box.

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Straight leg curl.
And it's like so that some

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people will stand on a box, have
the, have the.

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And you go low.
And so you have to really flex

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your back where they say you're
not supposed to do that, but

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people are crazy and it's not
really bad to do if you do very

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low weights, but you don't want
to go heavy with.

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That it's not going to happen to
me.

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I would not.
My hamstrings are so tight and I

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think I had a little bit of
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Some anterior pelvic tilt or
something?

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So that is not going to happen
anytime soon for for my tight

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hammies is.
This what it feels like just to

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talk about Lord of the Rings.
Oh, man.

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Maybe I'm missing out.
Maybe I can get excited.

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This is great.
Well, you know, you got to work

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out, build some muscles, take
some discipline.

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Yeah.
Got to work out.

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Practical.
Type stuff.

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That's right.
And and just like.

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Doing a little bit every day,
yeah, pays off maybe a little

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bit every week.
Yeah, yeah.

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Just like, you know, take care
of that money, take care of

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finances.
We are starting a new series at

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at Charles Vouchers pastors
preaching through.

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And because we're in season 2,
we're we're not doing a sermon

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recap, but we might be running
some of the same topics and

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doing a little take two spin
off, you know?

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Yeah.
And that was kind of like we

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noticed as we were going through
we, you know, we wanted to kind

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of align to what Joel was
saying, but maybe not do some

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recaps.
But Romans was so good.

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It was good.
It was good.

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But so you know, these would be
things like, hey, I listened to

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Joel talk about finances, but
here's some other questions I

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had in finances.
So maybe maybe had some other

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questions that hopefully we can
answer.

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Yeah, this is great.
Well, let's go ahead.

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Take it to the next level.
From the hearts of the Low

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Country in South Carolina.
It's the Take Two podcast where

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we take theology to the next
level.

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For this first, you know, first
podcast episodes on money and

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possessions, maybe I thought we
could look at a biblical

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theology on money and
possessions from the book of

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Proverbs.
And I should give credit where

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credit is Drew do a lot of this
I got from Kevin Deyoung has a

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lot of posts.
The audience thought we were

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going to take red cocoa too.
And and what I like about what

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he did.
He preached, I think just a

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sermon on it one Sunday night
and he just kind of took what

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Proverbs talks about clustered
them tried to do where the most

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emphasis is to the least
emphasis.

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You know, Proverbs is practical
and you know fortunately talks

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about money and and I think
there's a lot of confusion on

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money.
Kevin Deyoung makes this point

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where it's not like it's not
arbitrary.

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It's not like, which sports team
should I choose from?

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So people have different
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The Bible talks a lot about
money, but it's like, it talks

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so much about money and there's
such wild different opinions.

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Isn't that kind of a little bit
bizarre that it's like, and

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then, you know, I would kind of
want to be like Abraham and

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these rich guy or I don't know.
It's like, you know, you see

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some of this stuff and you can
see a lot of the good guys are

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very rich, but and you can just
go in wrong directions either

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way, you.
Know well you have people that

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are like at this extreme where
they're like we give up every

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single thing and we don't own
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'cause you're giving into your
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the other the Benny Hinns of the
world who are like giving money

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and money shows God's blessing
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don't have enough faith so you
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And you can look at different
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Malachi.
Actually, if I give I'm just the

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windows are going to open up.
It's going to be good news.

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Then you're like, well, Jesus
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Maybe I shouldn't have a place
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can't say I don't really know
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doesn't talk about it.
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a lot.
Now, does the Bible say whether

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you should or should not play
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Oh.
And will we give an answer to

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how to win the lottery?
Hey, hey, there you go there you

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go hang in there.
You might more in a lot.

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I I should also say probably the
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groups.
You mentioned something about

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lottery and you're like, you
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don't remember what you.
Said So I guess if I'm eating

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and I'm clothed I'm I'm good or
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Then your wife piped up and was
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you're walking around without
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know, time to play the lottery
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I don't know.
So I was gonna, I was gonna

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follow up.
We're yeah, we're still closed

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on the podcast.
We're good, we're good to go.

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But it is so interesting.
Like you were saying this Benny

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Hinn direction or like almost
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had this book where it was.
I don't think he was going all

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the way this far, but he was
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yeah, you're very selfish.
We, we sold our church sold like

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our guitars and our drums
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those things.
Those are just a we sold our

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house and downsized and nothing
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But you can read that and say
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So what I hear you saying is if
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under contract and you're trying
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Crossroads, you're probably
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Is that OK?
That is.

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Very specific targeted at you
know who you are.

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Yeah, that that is so, so funny.
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So maybe we'll get some some
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practical maybe like mortgages
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kind of.
Interesting, you know?

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Yeah, yeah.
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So the we got it.
We want to get, you know, to

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what what the Bible says.
Scripture, Scripture Get us, get

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us on track.
Well, let's let's go ahead and

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let's get into Proverbs.
I need to turn to some of these.

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Yeah, let's.
Let's turn to some of these.

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The first one is Proverbs 30.
Look at verses 7 through 9.

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And again, these are supposed to
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to the least emphasis and the
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I think this is really good
Words of wisdom is that extremes

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kind of are bad on both sides
to, you know, they bring its own

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unique temptation.
If you want to go ahead and

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read.
That two things I asked of you,

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do not refuse me before I die.
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I'm always kind of taken aback
when biblical writers talk that

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strong strongly to God.
I'm like, should should we be

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praying this strongly to God?
Like don't you know, do not

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refuse me for that, OK, I'll
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Keep deception and lies far from
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Give me neither poverty nor
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Feed me with the food that is my
portion, that I might that I not

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be full and deny you, and say
who is the Lord, or that I not

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be in want and steal and profane
the name of my God.

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This is good.
This is, you know, Agar, I, I

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think what I've heard said is
this is the only explicit like

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prayer in Proverbs.
And it's a good prayer.

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It's like, I don't want to be,
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I don't want to be too much in
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unique temptations that I think
you could easily see that that

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would draw you away from God,
where if you're rich, you can be

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like, hey, I'm, I'm good to go.
I don't need anything.

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I'm independent.
I don't need you God.

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that it might lead you to some
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you're kind of doing whatever it
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or, you know, cursing God, that
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That's probably a good prayer.
I mean, most of us probably want

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to say, OK, God, maybe rich, but
it's probably good to say don't

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give me too much.
All the things that I would do,

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you know, if if I had some
massive windfall, you know,

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you're the good things that I
would do.

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really good point because in my

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mind I'm like, I want to be
generous, give me all the money

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in the world so I'll be
generous.

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You know what I mean?
It's like you want to be,

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everyone knows, like a rich guy
who is like just giving money

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left and right and you'll be
like, hey, if I save my money

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now and invest it, why I can't
give as much now 'cause if I

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build up that wealth, then I can
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And that's like much more of a
fun thing than saying, oh, maybe

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God is calling me to be
sacrificial right now when it's

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a little tight.
And it's kind of it, it, I think

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those kind of things are hard
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But man, it's, it's probably
good for most of us that we

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don't have like 10 times as much
as we had, or maybe we don't

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have that trust in God.
So first of all #1 principle #2

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is this familiar phrase, don't
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I feel like this is like
Americanism one-on-one, you

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know, everyone's trying to keep
up the the scripture.

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Passage.
Tesla.

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Tesla's gotten a lot of play at
a pastor.

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Joel mentioned Tesla in passing
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greedy.
It's great.

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I'll tell you.
It's economical car, Economical

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car.
And Clay made a good point.

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Hey, I lost a lot of value
recently, so you got that.

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Proverbs 12/9 says better to be
lowly and have a servant than to

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play the great man and lack
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And then just a chapter over 1
pretends to be rich yet has

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nothing.
Another pretends to be poor yet

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has great wealth.
And I think that second one, you

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also know this type of person
who drives like this, this old

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beat up car, but they're
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precisely why they're not
extravagant.

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I, I, I say that a lot because
I, I can't remember, but yeah,

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Jill had some grandparents that
were, were like this, like you

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would have thought they were
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And it turns out that they were
very wise with their money, so.

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Yeah, you read like there's like
this book, like, I don't know,

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millionaire next door or mill
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And it's like they they're like
the the major car a millionaire

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drives was like a Ford Taurus or
something or something like, you

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know, it's a good word to, you
know, live within your means is

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better than trying to.
That's why I haven't replaced

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that back window on my truck
yet, because I you know.

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You wanna, you know, Yeah, you
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Of those millionaire vibes.
I, I, I see this a lot.

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I, you know, at work, I am in a
position where I can see you

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like, you know, you know what 60
people on the PTOT speech

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therapy make.
And I see what some of them are

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driving.
I'm like you, you, you should

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not be driving this.
I know.

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And a lot of them are married
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incoming that kind of thing.
But I'm like, wow, I was like,

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must be, you know, appearances
can be to see when you talk, you

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see the stats people live on the
credit card maybe a little too

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much and these kind of things,
you know, and every situation's

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different.
But what you see is not

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necessarily what's what's
actually happening underneath

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principle #3 the rich.
You can be rich can be poor.

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You're actually more alike than
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If you want to read Proverbs 22
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Says the rich and the poor have
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Lord is the maker of them all.
And then 2913.

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I like the I can hear the peace.
Turning the poor man and the

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oppressor have this in common.
The Lord gives light to the eyes

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of both.
Yeah, you think about finances.

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I it's easy.
You know, James warns about this

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kind of stuff.
It's like people always give

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preference to the rich people,
like come sit here and people

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kinda, you know, push to the
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But at the same, at the end of
the day, we've got the same

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guide.
We're all sinful, same humanity

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and are worth and dignity are
not wrapped up in wealth, even

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though, even though everyone
knows that.

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I feel like you treat the you
treat the guy who might be able

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to do something for you a little
bit different than the person

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who can't.
Yeah, and it's hard.

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Like, it's hard.
Yeah, yeah.

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I don't want to say too much
like, oh, yeah, yeah.

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So.
So we have someone who visits

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our church regularly and they
are very poor.

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Maybe don't have a home, I'm not
sure.

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But you can tell there's like,
some mental aspects too.

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So that makes it difficult.
And it's like, am I justifying,

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you know, because this person is
not mentally stable, you know,

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it's, it's those are tough
things, Yeah, to deal with.

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I I I have questions like what's
what is the right answer look

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like?
Yeah, yeah.

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That, that, that that's so
tough.

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It's good to remember that, you
know, at the end of this, at

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least there's a lot of
commonality.

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I'll read Proverbs 39 and 10.
This principle is you can't out

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give God.
It says honor the Lord with your

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wealth and with the first fruits
of all your produce.

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Then your barns will be filled
with plenty and your bats will

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be bursting with wine.
And I know you were saying that

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you were hoping your batch would
be bursting with wine earlier

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today, so this is and and you
were also saying you're gonna

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put a phone number up here that
we'll give our listeners a

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chance to try to out give God
'cause you can't.

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And if you give to this number,
then God will bless you.

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Well, yeah, just put a Venmo
count down in the details.

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Yeah, and God will just bless
you so, so much.

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This is, you know, it's in
Scripture.

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This is one of those you might
like you were mentioning Benny

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hen.
This might be one of the Benny

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hen heavy versus where we don't
maybe look at the other ones.

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We only look at this.
One right, right.

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You wouldn't want to.
Are you wanting to read any more

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of those there or?
Yeah, I'll, I'll go ahead.

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And briefly, what's the other
111?

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Go ahead, go ahead and run.
Read that.

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Yeah, it says there is one who
scatters and yet increases all

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the more, and there is one who
withholds what is justly due and

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yet it results only in want.
Yeah, you can just hold on and

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want more.
And you know the type of the and

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it's like everyone's kind of bit
differently.

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You can be like a saver and
you're like, man, I'm trying to

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save the good intentions, but it
can be saving for the wrong

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reasons. 22 verse 9.
Whoever has a bountiful eye will

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be blessed for he shares his
bread with the poor and just

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kind of pointing to generosity.
It's good.

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It's good to share with those
who who don't have we, you know,

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see that a lot in Scripture to
help those who are in need.

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Principle #5 this is a good one
too.

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When you think of kind of
balancing out this 4th 1.

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You can't outgive God principle
5 is poverty is not pretty

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Proverbs 10/15 Are you there?
Yeah, I'm there it.

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Says the rich man's wealth is
his fortress.

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The ruin of the poor is their
poverty.

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Yeah, where I think what I
appreciate about Scripture too,

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you can you can see there.
It's good to, you know, have

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total depends on God and not
rely on wealth, obviously, but

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00:21:29,480 --> 00:21:32,240
the Bible's not saying being
destitute's a good thing.

446
00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:35,520
It's realistic in saying, hey,
you need to be careful with your

447
00:21:35,520 --> 00:21:37,800
money 'cause that that's not
good for you or your family.

448
00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:40,640
Or I mean, that's a tough, it's
not, it can be romanticized,

449
00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:42,080
right?
And it's like, that's actually

450
00:21:42,080 --> 00:21:46,040
not a fun place to be.
Chapter 14, verse 20 says the

451
00:21:46,040 --> 00:21:50,240
poor is disliked even by his
neighbor, but the rich has many

452
00:21:50,240 --> 00:21:51,760
friends.
And that might just be a matter

453
00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:54,280
of fact, like truism that that's
just reality.

454
00:21:54,280 --> 00:21:58,200
Being poor is not, you know,
things happen, but it's not

455
00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:01,000
something you should be like.
I'm gonna be totally destitute,

456
00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:04,000
right?
19 Four says wealth adds many

457
00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:06,680
friends, but a poor man is
separated from his friend.

458
00:22:06,960 --> 00:22:09,600
Yeah, same, same kind of thing.
You mean separate from friends

459
00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:12,000
that you know what's so
interesting about money?

460
00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:16,040
There's a lot in Proverbs and
this goes to, you know, when the

461
00:22:16,040 --> 00:22:18,880
Sunday schools you've done in
the past about the will of God.

462
00:22:19,560 --> 00:22:21,720
There's not A1 size fits all
answer.

463
00:22:21,720 --> 00:22:23,800
And there's a lot of these
different things on Proverbs

464
00:22:23,800 --> 00:22:26,080
because you're supposed to use
some wisdom and discernment.

465
00:22:27,360 --> 00:22:28,680
And we're called, you know, the
poor.

466
00:22:28,680 --> 00:22:30,600
It's not fun to be poor.
We're supposed to help the poor.

467
00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:34,320
And we're also supposed to try
our best through wisdom to, you

468
00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:37,640
know, do well for ourselves or,
you know, provide for provide

469
00:22:37,640 --> 00:22:41,520
for our family and others.
Principle number six, money

470
00:22:41,520 --> 00:22:46,520
cannot give ultimate security.
Proverbs 11/7 are you there?

471
00:22:46,840 --> 00:22:48,800
I'm not there.
I will be there.

472
00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:52,360
I'm very close to there 11/7.
You get 1113, I'll get 18.

473
00:22:52,480 --> 00:22:56,240
Oh, that's great.
When the wicked dies, his hope

474
00:22:56,280 --> 00:23:00,200
will perish, and the expectation
of wealth perishes too.

475
00:23:00,520 --> 00:23:01,520
It's what we've all heard, you
know.

476
00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:05,840
You can't, can't take it with
you, That kind of thing. 1128

477
00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:08,320
says whoever trusts in his
riches will fall, but the

478
00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:14,000
righteous will flourish like a
green leaf. 13-8 You said I

479
00:23:14,000 --> 00:23:14,680
would get that to you.
Right?

480
00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:19,000
Says the ransom of a man's life
is his wealth, but a poor man

481
00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:22,360
hears no threat that those who
trust in their money.

482
00:23:22,360 --> 00:23:25,360
That's a that's a bad day when
it when the time to cash that

483
00:23:25,360 --> 00:23:29,640
that proverbial check. 1811 says
a rich man's wealth is his

484
00:23:29,640 --> 00:23:33,360
strong city, similar to our
previous one and like a high

485
00:23:33,360 --> 00:23:38,120
wall in his own imagination.
Oh, oh man.

486
00:23:38,240 --> 00:23:43,080
So it has this idea that he's
protected from all harm, but you

487
00:23:43,080 --> 00:23:45,360
know it, it can go away just
like that.

488
00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,320
Wealth can disappear.
True security only comes from

489
00:23:48,320 --> 00:23:50,600
God.
So you know, we're it's, it's

490
00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:54,280
one of those things we're called
to plan and live wisely, but we

491
00:23:54,280 --> 00:24:00,520
ultimately live for eternity.
Principle #7 God hates injustice

492
00:24:00,560 --> 00:24:03,360
and wealth, that even underneath
all this you know you can't get

493
00:24:03,360 --> 00:24:06,280
it by unjust means.
On Proverbs 21/6.

494
00:24:06,280 --> 00:24:10,120
The acquisition of treasures by
a lying tongue is a fleeting

495
00:24:10,120 --> 00:24:14,240
vapor, the pursuit of death.
Man, if you want to flip over to

496
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:15,880
2216.
Got it.

497
00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:21,880
It says he who presses the poor
to make more for himself or who

498
00:24:21,880 --> 00:24:24,640
gives to the rich will only come
to poverty.

499
00:24:25,440 --> 00:24:31,080
And then 22 and 23.
It says, Do not rob the poor

500
00:24:31,080 --> 00:24:34,960
because he is poor or crushed
the afflicted at the gate, for

501
00:24:34,960 --> 00:24:38,760
the Lord will plead their case
and take the life of those who

502
00:24:38,760 --> 00:24:40,600
robbed them.
Yeah, it's one of those things

503
00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:45,480
that's probably easy to take
advantage of those in need to,

504
00:24:45,480 --> 00:24:48,640
you know, you could do some
unjust things and might be

505
00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:50,400
wealthy.
Don't do it in justly principle

506
00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:54,080
#8 God loves generosity to the
poor.

507
00:24:54,080 --> 00:24:58,360
Proverbs 1421 says whoever
despises his neighbor is a

508
00:24:58,360 --> 00:25:02,720
Sinner, but blessed is he who is
generous to the poor.

509
00:25:02,720 --> 00:25:04,840
That's pretty in your face
there.

510
00:25:04,840 --> 00:25:07,800
Verse 31 of chapter 14 says
whoever oppresses a poor man

511
00:25:07,800 --> 00:25:10,360
insults his maker.
If you oppress one who's poor

512
00:25:10,360 --> 00:25:11,480
you, that's in a front against
God.

513
00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:14,400
But he who is generous to the
needy honors God.

514
00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:20,800
It's pretty good. 19 verse 7.
Says all the brothers of a poor

515
00:25:20,800 --> 00:25:24,760
man hate him.
How much more do his friends

516
00:25:24,840 --> 00:25:28,880
abandoned him?
He pursues them with words, but

517
00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:33,080
they are gone.
And then 2827 says whoever gives

518
00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:37,640
to the poor will not once, but
he who hides his eyes will get

519
00:25:37,640 --> 00:25:41,360
many a curse that we just can't.
We've got no excuse to turn our

520
00:25:41,360 --> 00:25:42,440
eyes.
And it's it's not really if to

521
00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:44,200
look that hard.
There's like a bajillion

522
00:25:44,200 --> 00:25:47,400
organization.
It's probably harder to you need

523
00:25:47,400 --> 00:25:49,800
to vet these organizations too.
Some of these are kind of scammy

524
00:25:49,800 --> 00:25:52,560
or you, you hear these things
where it's like, oh, actually

525
00:25:52,560 --> 00:25:54,720
Salvation Army isn't that great.
Or you know, you like hear these

526
00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:56,440
things, you know, and you're
like, oh, a lot of this money

527
00:25:56,440 --> 00:25:57,640
goes.
That's probably the big.

528
00:25:57,680 --> 00:25:59,960
But you can, you can find people
in need even without going

529
00:25:59,960 --> 00:26:02,320
through an organization or that
kind of thing.

530
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:07,440
And I am just catching this now.
For the record, it's you were

531
00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:09,520
probably tracking with this, but
it's flip up.

532
00:26:09,520 --> 00:26:12,600
We started with the least amount
of scripture and we're working

533
00:26:12,600 --> 00:26:15,800
our way down to more and more
scripture and that's why we're

534
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:19,520
reading more verses at as we go.
So things like being generous to

535
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:22,080
the poor, not getting your
wealth doing just means that

536
00:26:22,080 --> 00:26:25,880
that's emphasized heavily #9
this is emphasized a lot in

537
00:26:25,880 --> 00:26:27,040
Proverbs.
I don't know if we're going to

538
00:26:27,040 --> 00:26:28,280
get to all these verses, but I
said.

539
00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:30,120
We had to read them all.
I'm just.

540
00:26:31,240 --> 00:26:33,440
And this one, this is good, I
think this is wisdom.

541
00:26:33,440 --> 00:26:37,440
It says hard work and wisdom
usually lead to prosperity.

542
00:26:37,520 --> 00:26:41,600
Right, go to the aunt, O
Sluggard, observe her ways and

543
00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:46,320
be wise, which, having no chief
officer or ruler, prepares her

544
00:26:46,320 --> 00:26:50,360
food in the summer and gathers
her provision in the harvest.

545
00:26:50,680 --> 00:26:52,720
How long will you lie down, O
Sluggard?

546
00:26:52,920 --> 00:26:54,920
When will you arise up from your
sleep?

547
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:58,600
A little sleep, a little
slumber, a little folding of the

548
00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:01,840
hands to rest.
Your poverty will come in like a

549
00:27:01,840 --> 00:27:05,040
Vagabond and your need like an
armed man.

550
00:27:05,360 --> 00:27:07,760
And you don't, you know, if you
don't know a lot about proverbs,

551
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:10,280
you probably have heard this,
this, this comparison kind of

552
00:27:10,280 --> 00:27:12,320
thing.
I think it's just like people

553
00:27:12,320 --> 00:27:13,880
know this, this, you know, look
to the Ant.

554
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:19,360
Proverbs 10/4 says a slack hand
causes poverty, but the hand of

555
00:27:19,360 --> 00:27:27,000
the diligent makes rich.
And 13, 1111 says wealth

556
00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:31,040
obtained by fraud.
I wonder if the lottery is in

557
00:27:31,040 --> 00:27:36,200
there dwindles, but the one who
gathers by labor increases it.

558
00:27:36,960 --> 00:27:41,160
Proverbs 2117 says whoever loves
pleasure will be a poor man.

559
00:27:41,160 --> 00:27:43,320
He who loves wine and oil will
not be rich.

560
00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:46,360
That if you're you know not
working hard that you know that

561
00:27:46,360 --> 00:27:50,120
generally could lead that way
verse 20 of that same chapter

562
00:27:50,120 --> 00:27:53,320
says precious treasure and oil
are in a wise man's dwelling but

563
00:27:53,320 --> 00:27:57,440
a foolish man devours it you're.
Going to pick up 22 as well

564
00:27:57,440 --> 00:28:01,800
since one page over.
I guess all right. 24 The reward

565
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:06,040
for humility and fear of the
Lord is riches and honor and

566
00:28:06,040 --> 00:28:07,520
life.
All right.

567
00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,320
And then this is 2723 through
27.

568
00:28:10,320 --> 00:28:14,080
I hear this a lot as well.
Know well the condition of your

569
00:28:14,080 --> 00:28:18,760
flocks, and pay attention to
your herds, for riches are not

570
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:21,960
forever, nor does a crown endure
to all generations.

571
00:28:21,960 --> 00:28:25,840
When the grass disappears, the
new growth is seen, and the

572
00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:27,840
herbs of the mountains are
gathered in.

573
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:30,720
The lambs will be for your
clothing, and the goats will

574
00:28:30,720 --> 00:28:35,080
bring the price of a field, and
there will be goats milk, enough

575
00:28:35,080 --> 00:28:38,440
for your food, for the food of
your household and sustenance

576
00:28:38,440 --> 00:28:41,360
for your maidens.
Man and then 2820.

577
00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:46,200
Yep, I got that one.
It says a faithful man will

578
00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:50,000
abound with blessings, but he
who makes haste to be rich will

579
00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:54,560
not go unpunished.
Man, that and, and I mean, I

580
00:28:54,560 --> 00:28:56,840
just love that it's like verse
after verse it's and I think

581
00:28:56,840 --> 00:28:58,280
that's good.
That's probably most people's

582
00:28:58,280 --> 00:29:00,320
experience.
If you work really hard, not

583
00:29:00,320 --> 00:29:03,960
that you'll be like rich and
totally prosperous, but you can

584
00:29:03,960 --> 00:29:06,360
survive like you can like have a
life.

585
00:29:06,760 --> 00:29:09,240
And I think, you know, you, you
can look at that anecdotally and

586
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:11,600
some it's like not all the time.
People inherit money, whatever,

587
00:29:11,600 --> 00:29:13,520
win the lottery.
Sometimes people, it's like,

588
00:29:13,520 --> 00:29:15,680
man, they're just not.
You're like, what are you doing?

589
00:29:15,880 --> 00:29:17,840
Like just work a little bit.
You can make something.

590
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:18,440
Happen.
Yeah.

591
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:22,440
Be diligent, stick with it.
Show yourself to be a hard

592
00:29:22,440 --> 00:29:25,720
worker.
And you know, like you said,

593
00:29:26,040 --> 00:29:27,880
there's always exceptions to the
general rules.

594
00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:29,440
But yeah, those are the general
rules.

595
00:29:29,560 --> 00:29:32,320
And I think that's interesting.
That's like, you know, that's

596
00:29:32,320 --> 00:29:35,120
everywhere that that's like, so
emphasizing Proverbs, then we

597
00:29:35,120 --> 00:29:38,760
get to #10 the most emphasized.
1 Proverbs says a lot about

598
00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:41,560
money.
One of its premier themes is

599
00:29:41,560 --> 00:29:43,680
money isn't everything.
There are things that are more

600
00:29:43,680 --> 00:29:47,480
important than money.
If you want to read chapter 23,

601
00:29:47,480 --> 00:29:52,080
verses 4:00 and 5:00.
Do not worry yourself, let me

602
00:29:52,120 --> 00:29:54,840
start over.
Do not weary yourself to gain

603
00:29:54,840 --> 00:29:59,000
wealth, which kind of seems in
contrast to what we just said,

604
00:29:59,560 --> 00:30:01,320
go to the Ant and you know, work
hard.

605
00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:04,000
Know the conditions are fox now
and this guy's going to say

606
00:30:04,000 --> 00:30:06,880
don't weary yourself.
And I think that there's, you

607
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:08,240
know, I don't know if you're
going to try to put this all

608
00:30:08,240 --> 00:30:10,480
together, but there's there's a
command to work hard.

609
00:30:11,240 --> 00:30:14,360
But then I think emotionally you
go and it's in your hands.

610
00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:17,120
God, I'm going to trust in you.
I'm going to work hard.

611
00:30:17,120 --> 00:30:18,960
I'm going to kind of keep my
side to the Ledger.

612
00:30:19,280 --> 00:30:21,640
And then I'm going to sleep well
at night because ultimately I

613
00:30:21,640 --> 00:30:23,280
know it's going to rise and fall
on you.

614
00:30:23,440 --> 00:30:23,880
Yeah.
I think.

615
00:30:23,920 --> 00:30:26,200
I think that's how you write the
divide.

616
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:26,640
This.
Yeah.

617
00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:29,520
It says do not weary yourself to
gain wealth.

618
00:30:29,520 --> 00:30:31,400
Cease from your considerations
of it.

619
00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:33,800
When you set your eyes on it, it
is gone.

620
00:30:34,160 --> 00:30:37,480
For wealth certainly makes
itself wings, like an eagle that

621
00:30:37,480 --> 00:30:41,520
flies toward the heavens.
Man, wealth is good, but man, it

622
00:30:41,520 --> 00:30:42,640
can't be your number one
priority.

623
00:30:42,640 --> 00:30:43,840
It's not ultimately going to
satisfy.

624
00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:49,320
Wealth is good, but Proverbs 810
through 11 would say that it's

625
00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:53,280
not as good as wisdom from God.
Take my instruction instead of

626
00:30:53,280 --> 00:30:55,720
silver and knowledge rather than
choice.

627
00:30:55,720 --> 00:30:58,320
Gold for wisdom is better than
jewels, and all that you may

628
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:03,320
desire cannot compare with her.
And 24 three through 4 says by

629
00:31:03,320 --> 00:31:08,120
wisdom a house is built, and by
understanding it is established,

630
00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:11,800
and by knowledge the rooms are
filled with all precious and

631
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:14,000
pleasant riches.
That's good.

632
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:16,240
So wealth is good, not as good
as wisdom.

633
00:31:16,440 --> 00:31:19,040
Next point.
Wealth is good, but it's not as

634
00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:21,240
good as being righteous.
Chapter 10, verse 2 says

635
00:31:21,640 --> 00:31:25,760
treasures gained by wickedness
don't profit, but righteousness

636
00:31:25,760 --> 00:31:28,000
delivers from death.
That if you have to pick one or

637
00:31:28,000 --> 00:31:30,080
the other, stick with
righteousness, that that's where

638
00:31:30,080 --> 00:31:33,520
you want to be.
I'll read 11, verse 4.

639
00:31:33,720 --> 00:31:36,920
Riches don't profit in the day
of wrath, but righteousness

640
00:31:36,920 --> 00:31:38,720
delivers from death.
Whatever.

641
00:31:38,720 --> 00:31:39,880
You know what's going to count
in the end?

642
00:31:40,160 --> 00:31:42,080
It's not going to be your
wealth, it's going to be

643
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:46,880
righteousness. 16-8 says better
is a little with righteousness,

644
00:31:46,920 --> 00:31:49,880
then great income with
injustice.

645
00:31:49,880 --> 00:31:53,200
Yeah, that I think that's a good
give and take one too.

646
00:31:53,200 --> 00:31:57,120
It's like, OK, it's good to you
know, one these both both things

647
00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:58,480
are good, but they get to pick
one or the other.

648
00:31:58,480 --> 00:32:01,240
These are how you how you
settle, settle that out.

649
00:32:02,520 --> 00:32:05,400
Money isn't everything.
It's definitely inferior to

650
00:32:05,400 --> 00:32:08,960
fearing the Lord.
Proverbs, 1516.

651
00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:13,360
Better is a little with the fear
of the Lord than great treasure

652
00:32:13,360 --> 00:32:17,040
and turmoil with it.
Money is also good, but it is

653
00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:19,960
inferior to good relationships.
Read the very next verse.

654
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:26,120
Better is a dish of vegetables
where love is than a fattened ox

655
00:32:26,120 --> 00:32:29,360
served with hatred.
That's saying a lot better is

656
00:32:29,360 --> 00:32:34,520
vegetables than carnival diet
man 17 verse one.

657
00:32:34,840 --> 00:32:39,120
Better is a dry morsel and quiet
brightness with it than a house

658
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:43,520
full of feasting with strife.
Yeah, it's good to be at peace

659
00:32:43,520 --> 00:32:44,760
with with others in the last
one.

660
00:32:44,760 --> 00:32:46,240
Money's good, but it's not
everything.

661
00:32:46,240 --> 00:32:50,480
It's inferior to humility.
It is better to be humble in

662
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:54,680
spirit with the lowly than to
divide the spoil with the proud.

663
00:32:55,000 --> 00:32:57,840
Man, that, that is good.
Like I think we hit on some of

664
00:32:57,840 --> 00:33:00,360
this, but there is that tension.
The little back and forth.

665
00:33:00,360 --> 00:33:04,000
These 10 principles I think are
really good.

666
00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:06,000
There's extremes and wealth and
poverty.

667
00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:09,640
Don't worry about keeping up
with with neighbors, rich and

668
00:33:09,640 --> 00:33:11,040
poor.
There's a lot of differences,

669
00:33:11,040 --> 00:33:13,160
but they are more alike than you
think.

670
00:33:13,480 --> 00:33:16,080
You can't outgive God.
I like, I like that.

671
00:33:16,200 --> 00:33:18,920
I, I like when you think of
people too, it's like, I don't

672
00:33:18,920 --> 00:33:20,880
know a lot of like super
generous people that are

673
00:33:20,920 --> 00:33:25,520
unhappy, but you might know
misers that are like they have

674
00:33:25,520 --> 00:33:28,280
actually a lot, but they're just
not just like a disposition kind

675
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:30,280
of thing.
Poverty's not pretty.

676
00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:31,680
I like that Proverbs emphasize
that.

677
00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:34,560
Like, don't glamorize that
money's great, but it can't give

678
00:33:34,560 --> 00:33:37,880
you ultimate security.
The Lord hates those who gets

679
00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:39,960
rich by injustice or oppressing
the poor.

680
00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:42,440
The Lord loves those who are
generous to the poor.

681
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,760
Hard work, good decision making
that usually lead to increased

682
00:33:45,760 --> 00:33:49,080
prosperity.
And then money isn't everything.

683
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:52,560
We've read a lot of verses in
the last half hour.

684
00:33:53,160 --> 00:33:56,920
And what I would recommend if,
if you want to watch a couple

685
00:33:56,920 --> 00:34:00,600
movies that kind of drive these
home, these are movies that are

686
00:34:00,600 --> 00:34:03,840
set during Christmas time.
And they have the idea of

687
00:34:03,840 --> 00:34:05,960
generosity, but they're not
like, really like this true

688
00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:07,880
story of Christmas.
But we typically watch them at

689
00:34:08,000 --> 00:34:10,239
the Christmas time.
It's a wonderful life.

690
00:34:10,440 --> 00:34:12,520
OK Yeah.
And A Christmas Carol.

691
00:34:12,760 --> 00:34:14,280
Yeah.
Classics And you see these two

692
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:20,960
guys, Scrooge and George Bailey
contrasted and both of them are

693
00:34:20,960 --> 00:34:24,760
unaware of their impact to their
surroundings.

694
00:34:25,520 --> 00:34:29,000
Scrooge unaware of his negative
impact to everyone and all the

695
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,840
riches that he has that he could
use for the good.

696
00:34:33,159 --> 00:34:35,880
George Bailey unaware of the
good.

697
00:34:35,880 --> 00:34:39,320
Like all he can see is I never
went and travelled.

698
00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:42,080
I never got to do this.
I never got to go do these

699
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:43,400
things.
I've been stuck in this small

700
00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:47,199
town and yet he's through his
life, has touched so many people

701
00:34:47,199 --> 00:34:49,440
in that town.
And so both of them are bought,

702
00:34:49,440 --> 00:34:54,120
brought to crisis, and both of
them are kind of led to sea, you

703
00:34:54,120 --> 00:34:56,760
know, look back at their lives.
And then they both have this,

704
00:34:56,760 --> 00:35:00,240
this change and it and a lot of
it has to deal with this kind of

705
00:35:00,240 --> 00:35:02,560
what we're talking about, the
attitude you have towards money

706
00:35:02,560 --> 00:35:06,080
and, and how George Bailey, it
was rich, even though, you know,

707
00:35:06,080 --> 00:35:09,280
his stupid uncle, if I can say
that, lost all that money.

708
00:35:09,360 --> 00:35:12,480
I mean, it was it was bad, lost
that money and didn't deposit

709
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:14,080
it.
And then George, you know, I

710
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:18,200
mean Scrooge miserly, holding on
to this and just miserable,

711
00:35:18,200 --> 00:35:21,520
making people miserable around
him when he had the the option

712
00:35:21,520 --> 00:35:25,520
to let that wealth go and then
become a happy, generous man.

713
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:28,040
So it's pretty amazing, yeah.
Watch those two movies are great

714
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:29,960
movies.
Yeah, it's probably for the

715
00:35:29,960 --> 00:35:32,160
first time for you.
I've never seen It's a Wonderful

716
00:35:32,160 --> 00:35:33,680
Life.
I'll be honest, I've never seen

717
00:35:33,680 --> 00:35:35,040
it.
I'm familiar with it and I like,

718
00:35:35,080 --> 00:35:36,200
you know, it's like it's good.
It's old.

719
00:35:36,560 --> 00:35:39,440
I should check it out sometime.
Well, that's great.

720
00:35:39,440 --> 00:35:42,240
Well, that is a biblical
theology of money according to

721
00:35:42,240 --> 00:35:43,960
Proverbs.
Thank you Kevin Deyoung for some

722
00:35:43,960 --> 00:35:46,880
of that info.
Any anything else before we wrap

723
00:35:46,880 --> 00:35:48,600
it up?
Yeah, I will say, yeah.

724
00:35:49,240 --> 00:35:53,280
So, you know, it's maybe by
saying it has to be that way.

725
00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:56,840
But, you know, we're, we're
like, this episode kind of

726
00:35:56,840 --> 00:35:59,440
officially launches our Season
2.

727
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:02,960
Smart, yeah.
So you know, if I can find a

728
00:36:02,960 --> 00:36:05,760
suitable background, maybe this
is not the hob hole anymore.

729
00:36:05,760 --> 00:36:08,840
I don't know man, I don't know
yeah mix it up.

730
00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:10,560
I had a little further
backgrounds before and like

731
00:36:11,120 --> 00:36:17,440
tough yeah didn't like it.
Also OK, launching merch boom

732
00:36:17,680 --> 00:36:20,920
and I'm open to y'all saying you
don't like these designs.

733
00:36:20,920 --> 00:36:23,240
Tell us what you want to see and
we'll we'll provide it.

734
00:36:23,240 --> 00:36:26,520
But yeah, so that that merch
line should be in the

735
00:36:26,520 --> 00:36:28,960
description.
Nice here so you can go in.

736
00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:31,120
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I love it.

737
00:36:31,440 --> 00:36:32,520
Awesome, Thank you for those
reminders.

738
00:36:32,520 --> 00:36:35,200
That is great.
That is our take.

739
00:36:37,040 --> 00:36:38,280
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740
00:36:38,880 --> 00:36:41,640
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741
00:36:41,640 --> 00:36:43,360
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