TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Date: Feb. 17, 2026. Lesson 32-2026. Title: The Craving of Contentious Hearts

Episode Date: February 17, 2026

Proverbs 21:9–10 exposes how inner desires shape outer misery. It is better to live alone in the corner of a roof than to share a house filled with constant strife, for the contentious spirit poisons every space it inhabits. The wicked soul does not merely stumble into evil—it craves it and shows no mercy to its neighbor. In today’s Morning Manna, Rick Wiles and Doc Burkhart examine how unchecked desire breeds conflict, why peace is worth more than comfort, and how the heart’s appetite ultimately determines the quality of life and relationships. Lesson 32-2026 Teachers: Rick Wiles and Doc Burkhart You can partner with us by visiting MannaNation.com, calling 1-888-519-4935, or by mail at PO Box 399 Vero Beach, FL 32961. MEGA FIRE reveals the ancient recurring cycles of war and economic collapse that have shaped history for 600 years. These patterns predict America is now entering its most dangerous period since World War II. Get your copy today! www.megafire.world Get high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves! www.AmericanReserves.com It’s the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. Now available in eBook and audio formats! Order Final Day from Amazon today! www.Amazon.com/Final-Day Apple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books! www.books.apple.com/final-day Purchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today. www.Sacrificingliberty.com

Welcome to Morning Manor. Welcome to Morning Manor. Your teachers, Rackwiles and Dr. Burkla. Get your Bible and notebook and get ready to here before. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to Morning Manor. This is where we study the Word of God. We serve soul food at this place.

And we are here to nourish your soul. That's the only thing that we do here is teach the word and nourish your soul. Our home on the internet is manna nation.com. And all the archives of our previous lessons are stored at manonation.com. If you need to leave this lesson before it's over, you can complete it at manonation.com. Just look for lesson 32-26. All right. We're studying two verses in the book of Proverbs today, chapter 21, verses 9 and 10. I'm going to pray, invite the Holy Spirit. Then Dr. Raymond Burkhar is going to read the word.

And then he and I are going to get our pick and shovel and start digging out the gold nuggets that are in these two verses. Let's pray. Almighty God, our Father, we love you and we praise you. and we humbly request the presence of your Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit, take charge of this lesson and teach us the Word of the Living God and make us brighter, stronger, witnesses for our Savior Jesus. In His name we pray, amen. Amen. Welcome to Morning Manna here.

We're so privileged to have to join us as we study the Word of God together. We continue our journey at Proverbs chapter 21. and today we're picking back up in the chapter for verses 9 and 10 today, verses 9 and 10. So get your Bible. So let's open them up. We're going to read the Word of God together. I'm going to read out loud here from the King James. And I encourage you to follow along with your word.

Take notes today. We've got a lot to cover here. Let's get to start. Verse 9. It is better to dwell in a corner of the house top than with a broling woman in a wide house. In verse 10, the soul of the wicked, desireeth evil, his neighbor find us no favor in his eyes. God bless the reading of his word today. It should be an interesting study today, Rick. It can be very interesting. As always, we

break each verse into multiple segments. And the other thing that we do, when we're in the old covenant scriptures, we read both the King James translation and the English version of the Greek Septuagint. So start with verse 9. The authorized King James Version says, it is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop than with a brawling woman in a wide house. Let's see how the Septuagint says it. It is better to dwell in a corner on the house top than in plastered rooms with unrighteousness and in an open house. Okay, so let's take the first segment. It is better to dwell in a corner of a house top.

Solomon begins with the phrase, it is better. He often used this comparative form to teach that something that's truly valuable and something that should be preferred. He would say, this is better, What I'm about to teach you, this is better. So what is better? What is better is to dwell in a corner on the house top, on the rooftop.

In the ancient near east, roofs were flat and used for drying flax and other agricultural products. sometimes we're sleeping on hot nights when the house below was just too hot and stuffy to be inside and roofed selves were also used for prayer however they had some problems the rooftop are exposed to elements to wind rain the daytime the scorching sun so it's not the ideal place to be so solomon narrows the roof to a corner, to dwell in a corner. That implies a small makeshift shelter, perhaps a booth made of branches, or maybe some type of cramped storage area on the rooftop.

I want you a picture in your mind, you know, a humble home in the Middle East, thousands of years ago, a flat roof and somebody sleeping, not in the middle of the roof, but in one of the corners. The corner of the rooftop was a small, isolated, exposed, and very uncomfortable space. In fact, the corner is the most isolated, all right? it's the least desirable part of the roof.

It's small. It's cramped. Again, it's open to the elements of wind and rain. It lacks privacy. This is not a great place to live. But the extreme image is deliberate. Solomon chooses the most miserable living conditions imaginable to make his point, saying it is better.

It is better to live peacefully. on a tiny space on the corner of the roof than to live inside the house with a woman who wants to fight and argue all day long. That's what he'd say. I'd rather be up on the roof

than to be down inside listening to constant yelling, arguing, name-calling, and so forth. Yes. For our viewers and listeners, Rick and I have made several trips to the Middle East, in particular to Jordan. And to this day, you see a lot of homes that have flat roofs,

and they use the same way they did 2,000 years ago or 3,000 years ago, the very same way. In the days of the Old Testament, most of these flat roof houses, they were accessed by stair from the outside, not from the inside. inside. And as you mentioned, people used them for prayer. They used them for work sometimes. Sometimes they even slipped up there, you know, because the houses being made of stone, they retained heat and it was very hot inside. And so at night, when it would get cool, they would go up to the rooftop and maybe spend the night there because it was too hot inside the house. So if you could

picture this corner of a rooftop, as Rick mentioned, it's probably the most exposed, cramped, and lonely spawn of the roof. Exposed to all the elements, as you said. But really, this is an exaggeration. Solomon's making an exaggeration here in that, and trying to create impact for this teaching here.

He's saying that a tiny, even a tiny, uncomfortable little space, a little nook on the roof, is preferable to a beautiful, fine, and spacious interior if the interior is full of strife. Now, this better, as a comparison, it's a value judgment. Peace with discomfort on an exposed roof is superior to comfort inside with constant conflict. In other words, tranquility is worth more than square footage.

And so more people need to learn that, maybe. So picture this if you can. A man, he's perched on the roof's edge. And he's sitting there choosing exposure and inconvenience over the emotional storms going on down below. That's how oppressive, constant quarreling and bickering can become. And Solomon expressed this theme earlier in Proverbs in chapter 21, verse 19. and earlier, we're going to see later on in Provert's Chapter 25, verse 24, showing how seriously wisdom views domestic contingent. In other words, wisdom is for practical day-to-day living here, Rick.

Yes, yes, it is. And, Doc, you know, you said about you and I had traveled to Jordan, and both of us have been in a number of countries around the world. You've lived in several countries. While you were talking, I had a flashback. I was thinking of years ago when my daughter was a missionary in Ecuador. And she lived in a small, very small city on the edge of the jungle. And my wife, Susan, I went to Ecuador to visit her. And one late afternoon, Carissa said to me, Dad, would you help me with the laundry? I said, sure. She's sure. She pointed at a basket of dirty clothes.

She said, could you carry those to the washing machine? I said, sure, where's the laundry room? She said, it's on the roof. At first I thought she was joking. She goes, no, you have to, that's why I need you to help. Could you climb the ladder and take this basket of clothes up on the roof? And sure enough, Doc, I carried the basket up there and came out on the roof and there's the washing machine. And as I looked across the skyline, I noticed that every house had a flat roof and they had their laundry hanging on clotheslines on a roof.

Because they didn't have yards, but they had space on a roof. And that's where they hung their laundry to dry. Okay. So that's just a few years ago. This is the way people live in many nations. So we're trying to give you a picture what Solomon was talking about. He's like pointing up to a roof saying, you know, I'd rather be up there. At least it's quiet up there.

It might be cold. It might be rainy. Not great conditions, but at least it's quiet. I can pray. I can meditate. I can think. And I'm away from all this turmoil and strife and division. So the second part of this says, then with a brawling woman in a wide house, he's saying,

it is better to dwell on the corner of the roof than with a brawling woman in a wide house. Okay. So again, Solomon is, he's saying, if I must choose where I'm going to live, I definitely would climb that ladder onto my house rooftop, and I would live, eat, and sleep on only the tiny corner of that roof, exposed to sun, to the wind, to extreme temperatures, then to stay down here in this luxurious house with a woman who will not stop arguing,

and griping, in complaining, in fighting me, and opposing me and trying to stop me and sabotaging me. This is what he's saying. He's painting a picture here. This is not every woman. This is not every wife. He's talking about one particular type of person. And it is my view.

This is a wife and it can't be a husband. It's a person with a disordered personality. They don't know how to be happy. Yes. That's the bottom line. They don't know how to be happy. They thrive on contention and strife. So Solomon said that some homes become so stormy inside that even physical hardship outside feels like relief. Amen. Compared to staying inside with a miserable spouse.

So I want to be perfectly clear. make this clear again. Proverbs 21, verse 9 is not about gender. It is about sin. The proverb condemns the sin of contention and strife in either spouse, husband or wife. Peace in the home. Peace between husband and wife is a mark of godliness and the presence of Christ. A contentious spirit in a person is sinful. Now, the ironical, the irony here is you can't tell that to a contentious person. They'll argue with you. About that.

You tell a contingentious person that their contingenture spirit is sinful and they'll argue with you and say, no, I'm a Christian. Don't you tell me that I'm sinful? No, you're sinful. It is sin to be miserable day and night. What are you doing? You're denying the presence of God. You're denying the presence of the Holy Spirit.

How can you be saved, fill with the Holy Spirit, and be miserable? The two don't, they just don't match, Doc. It's against the very nature of Christ. who is the prince of peace. So Jesus said, blessed are the peacemakers. And the word blessed means happy. Happy are the peacemakers.

Contentious people aren't happy. They don't know how to be happy. They don't desire to be happy. Their happiness is being unhappy. You got it. Yeah. It sounds like. It's strange.

It's bizarre. But their happiness is to be miserable. That's what makes them happy. being miserable. And what makes them even happier is making you miserable. Right. All right. So a contentious person is not a peacemaker, but instead an argument maker, a sore of discord, a sore of strife. And so they're completely out of harmony with the divine order of the universe.

Well, Rick, I'm going to focus on the Septuagint version of this, because I think it gives us a little additional insight on this situation. The Septuagint says it's better to dwell in a corner on the house top than in plastered rooms with unrighteousness and in an open house. Plastered rooms. What's the significance of that? Well, in ancient times, a house with plastered walls was considered upscale. Only the wealthy could afford to plaster their walls. So to the Greek mind, the Greek subterian here, the plastered or the beautifully decorated house represents hypocrisy. The outside is beautiful, it's plastered, but inside it's full of unrighteousness, full of strife. This is much the same way of Jesus describing the Pharisees as white-washed tubes.

They're clean and beautiful on the outside, but they're full of dead men's bones on the inside. So there was a distinguishment here by Solomon that this is even in the wealthy homes. We're not just talking about poor folks here. It doesn't matter what your social scale is. You could have plastered rooms. You could have wealth with unrighteousness. That non-stop contention, strives, the arguing, they're all sins. There's no righteousness in such behavior.

And really, godly people don't do it. Let's just be frank here. Godly people do not do these things, okay? You know, marrying a woman for her physical beauty, family wealth, her social status can sometimes annoyingly invite a contentious spirit into the home. Eventually, the husband becomes a servant of his wife's ever-changing moods. And this isn't limited to gender, by the way. It can flip the other way, too.

So someone points out a very cruel irony here in this situation. You can have the most beautiful, perfect house, luxurious, full of space, beautiful furniture, and yet still be profoundly miserable. That beautiful architecture cannot fix an ugly atmosphere. Beautiful architecture cannot fix an ugly atmosphere. atmosphere. Makes you wonder as you drop past stately mansions, what's really going on in the inside. Often, there's some very miserable people. And if you stay in that atmosphere too long, it will change you. If you are the spouse who is being, you know, who is the recipient

of the abuse, it's emotional abuse is what this is. It's emotional abuse because the contentious person is a reviler. And there's another, we do a study just on that word, a reviler, a railer. It's a name caller. It's somebody who is constantly degrading another person. So if you are the recipient of that kind of verbal, emotional abuse, if you stay in that year after year for decades, it will change you. You will start to become somebody that you don't really want to be.

Right. Because you're reacting to the stress. And Doc, I've read books where psychologists have said, this is, they have treated victims of this kind of abuse who are in worse shape than soldiers that, have a post-traumatic stress syndrome. Really? Yes.

That the effect on the nervous system is worse in some people than men that had been on the battlefield because it's prolonged without any break. And this is why I saw them in to say, I got to go up on the roof. I got to get away from this. It's better to go climb the ladder, get up on the roof, and sleep in the rain, then to sleep beside somebody that's calling me names. So the Aramaic translation says, a wide house, wide. The Hebrew word here is by yeth.

And it is used to describe a spacious house, sometimes the phrase a house of society. Meaning, you know, that's an upscale home. That's where high society resides, right? It's talking about a large, comfortable home designed for hospitality, large gatherings. It's the dream house that people, you know, desire. We have it here in Florida. You drive along the coast. 10 million, 15 million, 30 million, dollar homes.

Yes. Right? That's a bayyth, spacious house, house of society. That's where famous people reside, it's where visitors come in and their parties and social events and political fundraisers. Okay. But again, Solomon say, hey, don't be, don't be fooled by the outside of that house. The inside is really bad. So what does it mean in an open, wide house? He's saying that there is nowhere to hide from this bitter person's tension. The brawling wife fills the emotional vacuum with troublesome, irritating noise. And this contentious spirit cannot be contained.

It permeates every room of a big, wide space. spacious house. So Solomon is saying, if you're such a husband, then you know what I'm talking about. You will climb a ladder and get up on a roof to get away from this noise. And just the image of that, Rick, you know, we've seen these big houses here in Florida, the 10 to 30 million dollar houses. Huge, spacious. Imagine if he had all that room, Rick. Yeah, we're talking 10 to 20,000 square feet under a single roof. Imagine that there's nowhere to go in the house except the roof. That's how contentious it is in this house that we're talking about.

I'm going to focus on a couple other aspects of the verse here. Hebrew word Isha, it means a female, means a woman, all right? But this isn't an ordinary woman. This is one that's a midian. And it's, you know, both the Septuagint and the King James both. Either say this is a brawling woman or a contentious woman. And so what it is, it's a woman of contingent. It describes somebody who is addicted to conflict, addicted to argument, addicted to strive.

You probably know somebody like this, those that are watching or listening today. And even though that word brawling is used, you know, it's not like you picture a couple guys duking it out in the alley. doesn't necessarily mean physical violence, but it's rather just that constant, ceaseless, dripping of verbal warfare, the nagging, the complaining, debating every point. And it really gives a picture of a destructive tone.

That destructive tone, Rick, is a slow-acting poison in a whole in marriage. It destroys intimacy between a man and their wife. It silences, joy, the home, that should be a place of freedom, becomes a prison rather than a sanctuary. The scripture tells us that Solomon had 700 wives and 300 concubines. No doubt there was more than one woman in the palace with a contentious, argumentative spirit. That means Solomon spoke probably from painful experience. He knew that a palace could be filled

with gold and yet could feel like a prisoner filled with strife. Doc, you said that the Hebrew word using this verb is isha. The first thing that came to my mind was that Solomon did not use the word for wife or spouse or lover. Woman. He just said woman, female. In fact, this word, this Hebrew word is often associated as an adulteress.

So that's a whole other connotation here. So he doesn't describe this woman as a wife, a spouse, a lover, a mate. He just says, this is a woman. Because there's no, as you said, this. That connection is lost. It has destroyed the intimacy. Gotcha. Yeah, that's great insight there. It's just two people living under the same roof who,

And at least one of them doesn't like the other one. Maybe they both don't like each other. But they're not mates. Right. They're not joined together as husband. They're not one flesh. In this case, you'd have part of your flesh biting yourself. Right.

So, yeah, it's a scary scenario. So far, we've identified that a, a brawling woman is one who is quarrelsome, contentious, argumentative, and strife-producing. Brawling, that word brawling conveys loud, persistent, aggressive strife. This person is aggressive, like getting in the man's space, in his face, not just sitting back, you know, pouting or not talking. Now, this is an aggressive woman. She's loud, she's aggressive.

She gets in his space. She gets in his face. She's a name-crawler. This is not an occasional disagreement. All marriages, all spouses have, you know, disagreements from time to time. But this is a habitual pattern of conflict and discord. It's been going on so long that she doesn't even know why she's mad. She's just mad.

And if her husband left, she'd get a new husband, and she would do the same thing to the second husband. Yeah. Because she has a disordered personality. There's something wrong on the inside of this woman. She can't find peace. She doesn't know how to be at peace. There's no peace inside of her.

We've also identified a wide house as referring, to a spacious, luxurious home, large, comfortable, well-furnished, which is the very opposite of the exposed house top corner. So this battered husband is saying, I'd rather, instead of having this nice, comfortable home with the sofas and the recliners and everything that's so comfortable here, I'd rather go up on the roof and sleep right on the shingles. Yeah.

Shingle sleeping would be more comfortable than inside this house. Okay. The wide house represents abundance, comfort, material blessing. Yet the wife's contention destroys all enjoyment of it. this is a husband who has worked hard to provide a beautiful home for his wife but she will not allow him to enjoy it and duck what's so strange is she'll destroy her own home and marriage and family in order to inflict pain on her husband yes and there will be a day she's not in the house anymore because she destroyed it This describes so many divorces

where the marriage falls apart and one member of the family was on such a rampage to hurt the other spouse that they end up hurting themselves and they don't care. It's like the revenge is so great that they will hurt themselves

in order to hurt the spouse whom they come to hate or despise. Okay, it's, again, it's a disordered personality. You cannot reason with these people. You cannot talk any sense to them. They're beyond reason. My personal view, Doc, is they have the presence of demonic spirits. I'm not saying that they're demon possessed, but I think that they are demon oppressed.

and they have opened themselves up to demonic spirits and they don't even know that what they're thinking is not their own thoughts. They have familiar spirits that are whispering thoughts in their head and they actually think it's their own thoughts. Or they think that they're talking to God and God's talking to them. And again, they're so far away from the Lord that they don't even know the deplorable spiritual condition that they're in. As I said, this wide house, it represents comfort and abundance and material blessings,

and yet the contention has destroyed all the enjoyment of it. The contention turns the blessing into a curse. It gets to the point where the husband, who is the victim of this abuse says, I don't care about this beautiful home anymore. I work so hard to provide it to my wife, I don't care anymore. I'm just going to get away from this. I've got to get out of you.

See, now it's gone from what was supposed to be a blessing to the family. It now becomes a curse because this one spouse will not stop arguing. The contrast is extreme. The best possible living conditions become intolerable when filled with constant strife. Peace is the true wealth of a godly home. You know a home is godly when you walk inside and you feel peace. If you feel coldness and strife, it's not a godly home.

Homes have temperatures. I assure you, homes have temperatures. You can feel, you can feel, you can feel, the spiritual temperature of a home. And the spiritual temperature of a home tells you about the spiritual temperature of the people living in them. Preach. Yes. Yeah, so this, this brolling woman fills the house with her noise, her anger, her division. And so what Solomon is teaching here is that no amount of space, doesn't matter if it's a 5,000 square foot house or 20,000 square foot house. No amount of space can compensate for the lack of peace because the brawling

woman will follow the husband all the way across the house. Doc, it doesn't matter if the house sits on five acres. It's all one should have followed and beat on the room doors. She's not going to stop. Okay. Look, strife in a home is the work of Satan. Yes. He comes to steal, kill, and destroy. The pure soul, the serve Christ, seeks quietness, even if it means living in hardship. To the man and woman who loves God, peace is extremely valuable.

And they will put up with physical hardship in order to maintain inner peace. The disordered personality doesn't know anything about inner peace. All they want to do is make sure that you are as miserable as they are. And so there's no stopping. Proverbs 21 verse 9 teaches that peace is more valuable than comfort. That contention destroys harmony. The harmony that God desires to be in every home.

and the domestic harmony outweighs any material, luxury, or spacious home. Therefore, this proverb is about the priority of peace. A quiet corner on the roof is better than inside a noisy, contentious, strife-filled palace. You know, you mentioned the influence of the enemy in an unsettled home, that constant fighting in the home is definitely a mark of the enemy's activity, a demonic activity. Peace in the home is evidence of the Holy Spirit's presence.

I'll say it again, the contention comes from the enemy. Peace comes from the Lord. So this proverb is not limiting itself just to wives. It's warning both husbands and wives. Contention of any kind ruins the home. peace has to be cultivated by both partners here. And that contentious individual, be it a male or female, is a disordered personnel. We talk a lot about narcissism and those topics here on the morning minute because it impacts

so many people. It's very real. Something is sometimes is very seriously wrong inside of people. We have to face that. something is very seriously wrong inside that continually contentious person. They're lacking the inner peace that comes from the Holy Spirit's presence. And in reality, I think you would agree with this, Rick, the home should be a reflection of Christ's peace in his church.

Can you imagine Christ sitting up on a rooftop trying to get away from his bride, the church, because they're just contentious? absolutely not. Christ and his bride should be in harmony with why. That's the home should be. Well, Dr. I'll have to interrupt you. Maybe that's why Christ hasn't come back yet. And he's sitting in the rooftop, huh?

Yeah, because the church isn't at peace. Well, a contentious spirit, let's agree that it's a work of Satan. It destroys the unity that God intended in a marriage. so that contention, that strife, that constant arguing in a marriage, what do they do? Well, they'll hinder prayer. They'll hinder spiritual growth. Really, a peaceful home is essential for godliness.

How can one marriage partner pray in peace if the other partner is bringing a spirit of division into the home? Charles Spurgeon preached that a brawling woman turns prayer into purgatory. The quiet corner of the roof that comes a refuge from the storm inside the house. We've got some quotes here. I want to jump into

a particular quote from Charles Burgeon here. He said that a contentious woman is a storm in the house. The roof corner is a refuge from the tempest. John Gill said, The corner of the roof is the most

uncomfortable place, yet better than living with endless contention. Yes. And Alexander McLaren said peace is more valuable that any material comfort, strife destroys even the best home. Rick, before we move to verse 10 here, let me just ask you a question. For the believer then, what should they take away from this? Should they distance themselves from a contention? Is there some other message that's in here? Yes. If you are living with a contentious spouse, and this has been ongoing for years, it's having a very negative impact on your life, whether you know it or not. It's having an impact on your nervous system. It's your body is

constantly overproducing cortisol. Yes. It's having an effect on your heart, your blood pressure, Okay. Most likely you're overeating because the overeating is a response to nervousness. And so you'll go to the refrigerator, you'll go to the pantry, you'll go to the fast food, you'll go somewhere to eat to get away from the noise, to get away from the division, the strife. As I said, it'll affect your nervous system. It affects your mind. You can't find rest. You can't find any place to get away from this constant barrage of hatred. And eventually, the victim, you know, the target will start to break down.

It depends on how strong that person's inner character is. But eventually, they'll start to break down. And that could end up in a nervous breakdown. Doc could get end up in suicide. There are people that commit suicide just to get away from this kind of noise. Right. Okay. They may act out and commit sins.

They may go into, they may medicate, self-medicate, liquor, drugs, pornography, all kinds of things where they start to self-medicate their pain. It has a terrible effect on the victim. And depending on the inner strength, the spirituality of the target, that person may be able to stand strong, constantly going to the Lord for strength. But it's not an easy, it's not easy. They're in a battle. My personal view is at some point you have to separate yourself from that environment. I'm not advocating divorce,

but at some point you just say, I've got to get away from this. I mean, what Solomon is saying is, I'm going up on the roof. I'm not going to stay here and tolerate this any longer. I'm going to go up on the roof. But if you're living under those kind of conditions,

you may have to decide you've got to go to a roof. And I don't mean a literal roof on your house, but you've got to go somewhere to break the it's a spell. It's like a satanic spell that's coming against you. And the purpose of it is to destroy you. Yes. Look, men can do this to wise.

Men can drive women completely out of their minds with this kind of arguing and strife and fault finding. So this has nothing to do with gender. Solomon was a man and he talked about a woman. If Solomon was a woman, she would have talked about a man. So it's who wrote the proverbs, okay? One phrase that just came into my mind is, many marriages are murdered by mouse.

Ooh. Not a gun. It's not a gun. It's not a knife. Marriages are murdered by mouth. Wow. Yeah. And it's just a relentless shooting, stabbing of the mate with words flying out of a mouth,

the mouth of a disordered personality. Right. The mouth of a person who has no peace inside him or her. Right. A disordered personality that has to hurt somebody else because they don't know how to stop hurting themselves. Right. one way I look at this first, Rick, is I see this man up on the roof, and it's just him and God.

It's him and the Lord. You need to get another voice in your life, especially the voice of God in your life sometimes. And this is for men and women. You've got to get away from the contention. If you can, some people are locked in, but don't be psychologically locked in. Get away.

Get another. voice in your life, a godly voice in your life, God's voice in your life, God's word in your life. You know, in a way, each morning, Rick does this too, but each morning I get up early and I go to my rooftop, which have to be my back porch in my house. And I'm just there alone by myself. There's no phones, no lights, no motor cars, just me and the word of God. And I'm just, talking to the Lord. Not that I'm having a contention in my house. I think the reason why there's not contention is because I've been spending that time with the Lord. And so for those that are in a situation like this, a domestic situation like this, it's not wrong for you to put some distance

between you and the other spouse to get alone with God, listen to the voice of God in your life, and allow the Holy Spirit to help you deal with that situation because that constant voice will wear you down. It'll wear down your spirit. You'll get to a point where you just give up and you'd rather end your life than to do anything else. Don't get in that situation. Find that voice.

Get up on the roof. Get closer to God. That's what I take away from this verse. And so for me, this is a verse of hope. It's not a verse of condemnation. So I'd say to husbands and wives, either way, you should get alone with God. Get away from the contentious voice that's in your life, whatever it may be. So, Doc, to be living with a contentious person, a person with a disordered personality,

First of all, there's no amount of counseling that can help a person with a disorder personality. Right. You can't give them advice. You can't give them counseling. It's something deeply wrong inside them. Their brains need to be rewired. And only an act of grace by God can rewire their brains.

Because they think, they just think differently. They think negatively. They think in cruel terms. But again, if you are the victim of that kind of abuse, it's hurting your spirit to walk with God. Right. Because that other partner will not allow you to be at peace with God. Right. You're obviously, there's no praise going on inside the house.

How do you praise God in a house filled with strife and contention? There's no music. praise music being played, okay, because the contentious person doesn't want to hear music that takes you into the presence of God. And there's certainly no joy and no laughter. It's a joy. So it's hurting you spiritually. Now, the other thing I would say is you need to learn to disconnect.

Even if you can't physically separate, you have to emotionally separate. you have to disconnect from this disordered person and not engage them when they are in that state of yelling, name calling, reviling, disconnect from it. You know? Just say, if they're calling you names,

just say, okay, that's your opinion. That's your opinion of me, and that's not my opinion of me. I've got a different opinion. You have to learn to disconnect because if they can, what they're seeking to do is to disregulate you. Yeah. And I'll add this too.

Just from my own personal experience, pastoral experience, observing these things over the years, verbal violence and contention rarely stays verbal. It rarely stays verbal. At some point, it, but will lean into the physical. Physical abuse. Physical abuse always starts with verbal abuse. It just doesn't appear, okay?

I've observed that for the years, too. And so sometimes in order to save the relationship, save the marriage, it's important to get that distance in before something worse happens later on. Let's get God involved in this. Let's get up on the rooftop. Let's pray. Lord, I pray for my husband.

Lord, I pray for my wife. Lord, I don't know what's happening inside of them. I love them. I love the Lord. I want to see them at peace inside. Rather than just sitting there and taking the abuse, get away and pray and intercede. That's the advice I would give. Yes.

And again, you know, there's a disordered soul is a troubled soul. and their emotional abuse of you is meant to inflict pain on you and to disregulate you. When I say disregulate you to just mess up your mind and your emotions so much that you can't function. You're not focusing. You're not really in your right mind. I mean, you're disregulated. Okay.

And what are you doing? you're thinking about them. You're thinking about what they said. You're thinking about the names they called you. You're thinking about the explosion of anger and violence. You're thinking about it all the time. You're dysregulated. You wake up in the morning and you're thinking about it.

You go to bed at a night. You're thinking about it. They're disregulating it. So you've got to learn to disconnect from them so that they can't disregulate you. The other thing they want to do is inflict pain on you. So once you understand what they're doing, you can now stop this

and just say you know what that doesn't bother me anymore I'm not going to let you do that to me anymore now you're disregulating them because they don't know what to do okay so again a person who is a contentious

brawling person is a troubled soul you cannot be at peace with God and at war with your spouse or your neighbor. It just does not go together. Something is wrong. Okay, let's go to the next verse. Verse 10. And I think these two are connected. The soul of the wicked desireth evil. His neighbor findeth no favor in his eyes. The Septuagin says, the soul of the ungodly shall not be pitied by any man. Doc, I think the two verses are connected.

I think the contentious brawling woman is also the soul of the wicked who desires evil. Wow. And shall not be pitied by any man. Nobody's going to take pity when that person's life falls apart. Let's start with the beginning. First segment, the soul, the wicked desire of evil. The Hebrew word for the soul obviously refers to. to the inner life, the seat of our desires, our affections, our will, our appetites.

It's the deepest part of you. It's where you reside in your body. That's the soul. You're not a body with a soul. You're a soul with a body. And that thing we call soul, that's where you lives. Okay. It says the soul of the wicked.

Okay, so this points to the, the inner core of the wicked person, the wicked mind, the wicked will, the wicked affections. Everything about this person is wicked. This is not, these are not passing thoughts, but a settled vent of the inner person. At their very core, they are wicked. Doc, that is hard for me to, I know it's hard for people watching us to accept, but for me, it's hard for me to come to a place of saying,

there are just some people in the world who are wicked. And there's nothing you're going to do to change them. They're wicked. They're evil. They're wicked. They're mean. They're just, that's who they are. And it scares me.

Really, honestly, Doc, it scares me. I think, what would it be like to be trapped in that kind of a mind? It would be a prison is what it would be. Yeah, they're in a prison. They don't know that they're, they don't, and the scary thing is they don't know that they're evil. They think you're abnormal. They think they're abnormal. They think they are normal, that their evil ways are normal, and you are the one who is abnormal.

And by you not being evil, you are making yourself available to them to be victimized. Amen. That's how twisted they are. So the wicked is not someone who occasionally sins. All of us sin. We will never get through this life without. sinning. Even after we're going to sin, the difference is we don't do it every day, we don't do it continuously. It's not our mindset. The wicked live it 24 hours a day. Their character is dominated by

evil. It's a habitual settled state of their being. And it says that this wicked person desires evil. It means that their soul craves and longs for and hungers and delights in evil. It's actually their appetite. They have an appetite for evil, for wickedness. It's not an accident. The wicked man or woman desires what is wrong, and they enjoy imagining it. and they move toward it whenever opportunity comes along. And this is why I think this verse applies to the verse of a brawling woman.

Now, this verse is obviously male or female. The first one was talking about a brawling wife. What I'm saying is, I believe that the brawling wife is a wicked person. I know that's going to shock some people. But you know what? Some of you may be married to wicked people. Right. And you've got to come to grips with this.

You may have married a wicked person. You may be married to a spouse who actually desires to do evil and to do evil to you. That's the wake-up call when you realize they desire to do evil to you and that they enjoy it. and they think about it and they imagine ways to do more evil to you. I only have some people who won't be able to go sleep tonight, dog. I'm trying to help people, okay?

Before evil appears in action, before it manifests in reality, it is craved in the soul, the heart feeds on thoughts of wickedness. on doing things that are contrary to the Word of God. The heart is feeding on these thoughts. So the issue is not bad behavior, but a diseased taste.

Bad behavior is outward activity. A diseased taste means there's something wrong. Yes. There's something wrong deep inside that person. Right. Evil tastes sweet to the wicked. That's right. So Solomon here, Rick, is identifying that the source and the problem is not the hands or even the tongue. That's not the source of it. It's the soul inside. The Hebrew uses the word in afresh. So the wicked man, you know, doesn't just fall into evil by accident. It's not like, well, I stepped in evil today. No. He's desired and he's craving. He's craving. it's his spiritual food. He desires it. And says it here.

He desires evil. The wicked desire it. Just like a hunger man, desires bread. The wicked soul has this gnawing hunger for mischief. He's not happy unless he's plotting or executing some devious plan or scheme. They have an appetite for evil.

Once again, evil is not just something people do. or the wicked do, is something they love and pursue. And so this is one of the verses that help us understand the doctrine of what's called total depravity. The desire, the soul itself is corrupted. The soul itself is corrupted. So this craving is rooted in that fallen nature that we all possess. The unregenerate heart naturally desires

what's contrary to God. And only grace can change the appetite. You know, he doesn't need a reason to do evil, like revenge or profit or taking over the world, whatever it might be. The evil itself is the reward. Okay? The evil itself, the desire to do evil,

desire to go against God, desire to go against what's right. He enjoys the destruction, all forms of order, especially divine order. He desires and craves to watch others writhe and pain because of his evil nature. Back in Proverbs chapter 4, verse 16,

this was months ago. We talked about evil and that evil nature that some people have. It said, for they sleep not. Listen to this. This is the evil person. for they sleep not except they have done mischief and their sleep is taken away

unless they cause some to fall. In other words, they can't sleep at night unless they've done something evil to somebody, Rick. That's evil. That's a soullish evil. That's a depraved soul, Rick. All right, Doc. You brought to my remembrance

something that I believe it was the Lord who revealed this to me. I just had this awareness just days ago, Doc. And I'm assuming, I'm believing it was the Holy Spirit that gave me this awareness. I've not shared this with you. Okay, so I think everybody knows about dopamine. Okay, dopamine is a hormone in our bodies that makes us feel good. So when do you get a dose of dopamine? When something good happens, like somebody gives you a hug, a warm, affectionate hug, your brain will produce some dopamine, and it'll make you feel good,

and you'll say, I like that, that was a nice hug. Or you have an intimate moment with your spouse, right? You'll have dopamine, okay, or it could be, you know, your children. your grandchildren, hugging you, climbing up on your lap, okay, your brain is producing dopamine.

You're getting that, you know, that nice, warm, fuzzy feeling. Okay, you're getting dopamine. Doc, I believe,

because this just came to me several days ago, that these wicked people, they feed, they, this is a perverted use of dopamine. Yes.

They get dopamine rushes from hurting people. See, that becomes really strange. But I believe the Holy Spirit showed this to me that when somebody becomes this wicked and demented and they've turned themselves over to demons. See, demons just don't get in you. You have to open up the door and invite them in.

Right. And I don't necessarily mean possession, but you can invite you. demons just to hang out with you. And people get used to those demons and they're called familiar spirits. Because they're so used to the presence of those demons in their lives, they wouldn't know how to act without them. They'd actually fall apart if they didn't have their demons with them.

They wouldn't know how to function in real life. And so, Doc, I believe that these disordered personalities, Solomon is calling them wicked. I believe that they get dopamine rushes when they hurt people. Right. When they do evil. When they commit wicked deeds, they actually get a dopamine rush. And people can be addicted to dopamine. Yes.

That's the power of pornography for example. You get a dopamine rush and you want another one. The drugs mimic a dopamine rush. And the evil person is addicted to this as well. They're addicted to evil. They're addicted to the chemical response in their bodies to evil. They like it. That's why they do it.

They don't do it because, oh, I'm trapped. I'm just a sinner. It's my nature. No, you like it. You like it. And the reason they like it is dopamine makes them feel good. Yes. And so they costly desire another dose of dopamine.

So they hurt people more. They do more evil deeds. It's really bizarre, but again, these people are disordered. They're troubled. There's something deeply wrong in their souls. This wicked person's inner life is oriented towards evil. Their desires are not neutral, but they're bent towards evil, wickedness, destruction. Their soul is set on evil.

They're not satisfied with a, occasional sinning. It's not like, well, you know, once a year the company goes to Vegas and I slip into the casino. I'm going to do that next year. No, that's not what we're talking about. This is a person who thinks about sinning all day long. All right, they hunger for sin. They hunger and thirst after unrighteousness. We're supposed to hunger and thirst for righteousness. They hunger and thirst for unrighteousness. They crave evil as though it's a food. They find no rest until they have satisfied their appetite.

They have to eat some evil every day. Again, we're back to that dopamine rush. They're like a lion, all right? It roars after evil, okay? And it cannot be content until it has devoured to pray, it's going to find a victim somewhere. They're inclined to evil by nature and by choice. They're not born to be evil. We're all born with a fallen spirit, but I don't believe anybody's born to be evil. I believe evil is by choice, repeated choices over years and decades.

You keep making the wrong choice, the wrong choice, the wrong choice, the wrong choice, the wrong choice and eventually you become evil and you don't even know it. They never grow weary of doing evil things. They don't get tired of it. They actually look forward to it. They delight in mischief. They delight in oppression. They delight in wrongdoing.

The sins that they do hardens their heart And what started years ago as temptation becomes inclination. It becomes part of who they are. Their inner nature changes. So their desire, and this is important to understand, evil desire precedes evil deeds.

The heart shuts the course before the feet ever move. Yes. I understand that. Your feet just don't go walking towards evil. Your feet carry out the instructions of the heart. Right. And just to emphasize, the wicked person's soul is greedy for evil.

It's not that they have a simple appetite for it. They're greedy for it. They lust for it. It's not a passive drift, but an active, eager pursuit of what's wrong. His desires are fixed on evil. souls like a furnace that burns for iniquity. So the soul of the wicked is like a fountain of people. It pours forth wickedness because why?

That's what it loves. So the wicked man's soul is like fire that feeds on evil. It burns hotter the more fuel it receives. You know, we'd like to quote some of the church commentators from a couple hundred years ago. We also like to look at what some of the church fathers in the early centuries of the church have to say, one of those is St. John Chrysostom, who commented on this particular passage in his study on Proverbs,

taught that the soul of the wicked is darkened and hardened. It craves evil because it has rejected the light of God. He also argued that the soul becomes what it loves. He said, if a man loves evil, his soul takes on the shape of a demon. He loses his humanity because he has killed the capacity for empathy. St. Basil the Great, another of the early church fathers, warned that the wicked man's soul is enslaved to evil desires.

It finds no peace because it constantly chases what it destroys. So this is a warning against even entertaining sinful thoughts. And suddenly, you as a viewer or listener, can show. today too. If you feed the desire, you'll eventually become the wicked. If you feed the desire, you eventually become the wicked. All right, I'm going to go back to the first first that we studied about the brawling woman, the contentious, argumentative woman. So, Doc, whenever, and again, this is whether it's male or female, a person with a disordered personality can introduce reject thoughts into the other person relentlessly, day after day, week after week, month

after month, year after year, planting thoughts in the other person saying this is who you are, this is what you are. And if that other person is weak, they will eventually accept those thoughts as true and start to become what this person says that they are. Yes. This is why I was saying it's so important that you have to disconnect from a disordered personality. Because not only are they destroying themselves, but they will destroy you. They will hollow you out.

You think of it, you know, you hollow out something. You get a knife and you scrape out. You cut it and you scrape out everything. You hollow it out. That's what they do to the victim's soul. They hollow out that person's soul. And then they start stuffing other stuff into it. I'm telling you what you are.

This is who you are. And that person, if that person is weak or has become weakened, they're in danger of starting to accept the messaging that's coming from the victimizer. Right. From the abuser. It's really sick and twisted and provisers. it. That's why you got to get away from them because they're like a vortex. They'll pull you down like you're going into a sinkhole, like a quick saying. It's like you're just going down deeper,

deeper, deeper, and deeper, and you can't get out of it. And they're changing you as you go down the hole with them. That's the whole idea. They already know they're in the hole, but they're going to bring you down in the hole with them and change you as you give up your identity. What they're doing is that they're changing your identity. They do not desire you to be who you are. And so they try to change your reality, your identity. And they say, this is who you are. I say this is who you are. It's really sick and twisted. And unfortunately, I think the more, the closer we get to the end of the age, Doc, I think this is going to become more prevalent, this kind of, oh, demented, twisted, disordered personalities.

I think there's going to be more and more and more of them because more people are submitting themselves to demonic spirits. Okay, so let's summarize what we've learned so far. Sin begins in desire. Evil actions grow from inward appetite. Number two, the soul is morally active. Wickedness is loved. It's not something you just fall into.

Number three, desire shapes destiny. What the heart longs for determines your life's direction. And number four, unchecked desire hardens in your heart. Evil pursued becomes evil preferred. Okay, let's go to the second part of this verse. The King James says, his neighbor finds no favor in his eyes. The Septuagint says the soul of the ungodly shall not be pitied by any man. What's the difference here?

Okay. The Greek text of the Septuagint suggests that the ungodly man or woman is so consumed by this desire for wickedness that he or she becomes pitiless. Right. In other words, to the point where you don't even have any pity on them anymore. Right. And that Greek word there, and that Greek word there, Anilivan is where we get the word annihilation. Okay. Okay.

So what that means is he's pitiless, but to an extreme. Okay. That he would prefer to see, you know, his neighbor annihilated. Okay. That's how wicked he is. He's pitiless to an extreme. Or doc, does it mean? He's so evil that he's annihilated himself.

Well, that's going to be the end result, of course. And therefore, therefore nobody pities him. Yes, it works the other way too. So we'll go back here. The Greek phrase, I think it's emphasizing the absence of compassion. The ungodly soul is, is not merely evil-seeking, but actively is cruel and pitiless towards others. He shows no pity to anyone and receives no pity from everyone.

Okay, he's a person who showed no pity to anyone, and eventually nobody shows any pity towards that person. Right. And in the end, there'll be no pity towards him on that final day either. And so the King James translation says this, his neighbor findeth no favor in his eyes. So who's the neighbor that we're talking about here? Well, in this particular case, it can refer to anyone near him.

It could be family, could be friends, maybe coworkers, maybe strangers, anyone who comes in contact with this wicked individual. These are the people who should receive his first kindness, not his wrath. It says, findeth no favor there. It means there's no grace, there's no mercy,

there's no kindness there. When the wicked man looks at others, looks at his neighbor in the broad sense, he doesn't see people to bless, but he sees people as tools to use or as threats to eliminate or remove.

And that phrase in his eyes, indicates that the lack of favor is not accidental. It's a deliberate attitude. You know, he doesn't just accidentally not like you. He wants you annihilated. He does it so with his eyes. It's a deliberate attitude. The wicked man looks at others with coldness and contempt and hostility.

And so that man's wickedness doesn't remain internalized. It extends itself outward. It has to. He only craves evil for. for himself, but delights in harming or withholding good from others. And a few months ago, we studied a passage in Proverbs chapter 12, verse 10, and said, and this is a stunning verse when you rarely think about, the tender mercies of the wicked or cruel.

The tender mercies of the wicked or cruel. And it just fits right in with this verse today. Now, over in the New Testament, there's an echo of this diagnosis from the love letters of the Apostle John. In 1 John 315, he said, everyone who hates his brother is a murderer. Everyone who hates his brother is a murder. 1 John 315. And hatred, not help us what the neighbor meets from the wicked. Okay.

Romans 1310 tells us, this is how you can know that God's involved. Love does no wrong to a neighbor. Love does no wrong to a neighbor. So the wicked man's lack of favor shows he has no love. And really it's

revealing the presence of concealed hostility. What this means, if doing good to a neighbor stands in the way of his evil desire or his self-interest, he will sacrifice the neighbor without hesitation. And even when such a person seems friendly, it's actually calculated. There is no real favor, only manipulation. When push comes to shove, mercy vanishes, Rick. Doc, I'm glad you pointed out that neighbor refers to anyone who is close to him.

because keep this rule in mind. Whenever you see the word neighbor in the Bible, I think most people think, well, it's talking about the people that live next door to me. Well, yeah, they're your neighbor. But biblically, neighbor refers to those who are the closest to you. And that can be your family, the people in your neighborhood,

the people who know you in the neighborhood, your coworkers at the place of employment. the people that come in contact with you, they are your neighbors. So keep that in mind. Anytime you read neighbors in the Bible, it's not talking about just the people who live on the right and left side of your house. It's talking about the people who know you the most, who come in contact with you often. So the wicked man has no pity for his neighbor, his friends, his coworkers, his relatives,

his neighborhood neighbors. His soul is fixed on evil, so therefore he can't show any kindness. Wicked people are selfish. They're self-centered. There's no such thing as a generous, empathetic, wicked person. I mean, how can a wicked person be empathetic? Wicked people are self-centered.

They're selfish. Their eyes are blind to mercy. They refuse to show favor because their hearts are set on sin and satisfying themselves. They look on their neighbor, again, anybody in contact with them. They look on them with an evil eye. They envy or they despise or they secretly plot how to take something from them. Their hearts are full of malice towards other people. So the wicked man, the wicked man's neighbor finds no favor because the wicked man has none to give.

They're so empty. His eyes are merciless. He sees his neighbor, his friends, co-workers as objects to exploit. So there's a complete absence of mercy. and they can't show compassion because there's none in them. They disobey God's commandments, a commandment to love your neighbor as yourself.

And that in itself is an act of rebellion against God. Amen. To refuse to love your neighbor is an act of rebellion. Your neighbor is made in the likeness and image of God. And so when you refuse to show kindness to your neighbor, to your friends, your coworkers, what you're doing is saying, I refuse to recognize that person as made in the likeness and image of Almighty God. Therefore, you've insulted God. You've rebelled against God.

St. Basil, the Great, warned that the one who has no favor for his neighbor has cut himself off from God's mercy. because mercy is the fruit of a living soul. Amen. If there's no mercy, there's a dead soul. Amen. So talk, a lot of these people are just, they're like soulless corpses walking around.

Right. It's that relational coldness of the exhibit there. That wicked soul's appetite for evil produces that relational coldness. In other words, relationships don't matter. compassion withers when desire is fixed on yourself or on harming other people. The wicked cannot show mercy because their heart is governed by selfish desire. Or in the extreme and rebellion against God, compassion is a fruit of a healed soul.

His absence reveals spiritual disease. The lack of mercy is evidence of a corrupted heart. St. Chris's Stone taught that mercy dies first in the heart before violence appears in the hands, Rick. Very strong statement. We'll wrap this up. We've got a couple quotations, Doc. You've got a quotation from Alexander McLaren. I sure do, Rick. He said that the soul of wicked desireth evil.

His neighbor finds no favor in his eyes. I like this part of the quote, the man who has. loves evil, not love his neighbor. His heart has no room for compassion. Gee Campbell Morgan said, the wicked man's soul is empty of love, therefore his neighbor finds no mercy in his sight. And then William R. Knott said that the soul of the wicked desireth evil. His neighbor findeth no favor in his eyes, quoting the verse, the wicked man looks on his neighbor as prey, not as a person to be pitied or held.

Rick, it's a tragic situation. If someone finds themselves where they are pitiless, they're going to be just pitiless one day as well, aren't they? That's true. You need to show mercy. I can't do anything about the evil people, the wicked people, but I can show mercy. because I guarantee you doc

and there'll be a day I need mercy and I definitely need mercy on the last day the final day but there'll be there will be days in this life that I need God's mercy and I want to make sure that my mercy account in heaven is just filled to the top and overflowing

amen there made me a day I can got to drain it down all the way down to the bottom. Okay? And believe me, I've done it from time to time, dog, and I'm so glad. And I've asked the Lord, Father, I deserve punishment. Why didn't you punish me? And he said, because you're merciful to people. Yes. I showed you mercy. Okay. and and you know there are people to get upset because well i want god to whip him i want to god to crush him all right and and the lord was merciful to me see the lord will be merciful to you if he sees you being merciful to others but the wicked have no mercy for anybody they have no

empathy for anybody they're just selfish people who are feeding their desires for wickedness I'm glad we didn't do three verses today. Well, and now, if I could add something else here, you know, Solomon isn't holding back here. He says, these people live among us. They walk among us. They might be the guy living next door. They might be the king sitting on the throne.

There are wicked people in the real world. That's the reality. Solomon didn't hold back on that. But he didn't say, let's fight fire with fire either. What I see in this particular verse, thank God for God's mercy. Thank God for His mercy. And whenever we encounter someone who is without mercy, whether it be the guy living next door or the guy sitting on the throne,

pray for them. Pray that God's mercy will be extended to them, just like it's extended to you. Because except for the grace of God, there goes I. Doc, I absolutely agree with you. Solomon was telling us, look around you, there are wicked, evil people among us. He encountered them.

What he's doing, this is why I love the book of Proverbs so much, he's showing us what he learned. He's telling us, I've encountered some really evil, wicked people in my life. and here are some things I want you to know about. He's helping us spot them, discern them. Once you do, you don't want to have any interactions with them. I said earlier, you may be married to one.

Or you may have someone, maybe your coworker, your supervisor at work could be one of these people. You recognize who they are and what they are, and then you back away. And if the word of God happens to be a mirror looking back at you, then you need to repent and ask for the mercy of God in your own life. That's right. That's right. Turn to Christ. Okay, that's it for today.

Thank you so much. I know we went a long time here. Two verses, but they were powerful. And I believe, Doc, what we have taught today is resonating inside a lot of people who are going through things right now and today things are making sense light is coming on inside darkness not that they're dark

but they're living among dark people they're living with or around people with darken souls and I believe that what we've done today is turn on the light for them so they're realizing this is who I'm dealing with

this is why this has happened to me. And now I'm getting instructions from the Holy Spirit, what I must do to get away from this stuff. Amen. So let that be an encouragement to you. We love you very much. Come back tomorrow. We'll have another meal waiting on you.

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