TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Date: October 12, 2026. Lesson 201-2026. Proverbs 30:21–23. When Elevation Outruns Character

Episode Date: October 12, 2026

In this edition of Morning Manna, Rick Wiles and Doc Burkhart examine Proverbs 30:21–23 and four situations Agur says cause the earth itself to tremble. What connects them? Each involves someone receiving authority, provision, position, or inheritance without the formation necessary to carry it. The problem is not advancement; Scripture repeatedly shows God raising people from humble beginnings. The danger comes when elevation outruns character. Power does not create character; it exposes and amplifies what is already there. This lesson challenges us to value faithfulness in small things and allow God to prepare us before asking Him to promote us. Lesson 201-2026 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. Hello, morning, Mata, classmates. Welcome to today's Bible study. We are rapidly approaching the end of our year-long study of the book of Proverbs. What a journey it's been for all of us.

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Almighty God, Father in heaven, we love you. We adore you. We praise you. We bless you. Thank you, Father, for saving our souls. Thank you for forgiving our sins. Thank you for adopting us into your family. family. Thank you for giving us your son, Jesus Christ, and sending the Holy Spirit.

Father, we're here as sons and daughters who are together. We are brothers and sisters in your family, and we are seeking to be fed by you. You are our father, and we are asking you to spiritually feed us with your word. So Holy Spirit, please take your seat at the head of the table of Morning Manna and lead this class for the glory of Jesus Christ, for the edification of His church. In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. Amen. Welcome, everyone, to Morning Manna. So glad to have you here with us today as we continue our journey in Proverbs chapter 30. Today we're picking back up on verse 21 as we start off a brand new week here on Morning Manna. So if you've got your Bibles, go ahead and turn there, Proverbs

chapter 30 and we'll be reading verses 21, 22, and 23 today. And I'll be reading both the King James and the Septuagint this morning. So let's get started. Proverbs chapter 30 starting at verse 21. For three things the earth is disquieted. For four which you cannot bear. For his servant when he reigneth and a fool when he is filled with meat. For an odious woman when she is married and a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

The Septuagint's reading, By three things, the earth is troubled, and the fourth it cannot bear. If a servant reign, or if a fool be filled with food, or if a maid servant should cast out her own mistress, or if a hateful woman should obtain a good husband. So a little bit of a transposition there in the Septuagint Wall. So Proverbs chapter 30 here in verse 21 through 23, this is the third of teacher agger's numerical saints.

And once again, he does three and then four. And so it names four situations that the earth itself cannot carry. And the language here is unusually strong. It says that the earth is disquieted. Now, we think it's just quiet. They say, well, that's not a big deal. But no, it's talking about trembling. And then it says there's a fourth thing that the earth,

simply can't bear. So he lists these four scenarios, and on the first reading, they just appear to be some sort of assortment of casual social inter-aritations. But the common thread is not obvious. And finding it is going to be the work of our lesson today. Each of these four describes someone who has received a position, a provision, or perhaps a possession, that their character was never prepared to carry, and the result is instability, not in their lives,

but in the world around them. And so our lesson today is to examine each one of these four, establish what they have in common, and then let scripture identify what the remedy is as the alternative for these. Rick starts as off by his examination, verse 21. I do not.

for three things the earth is disquieted and for which it cannot bear. You know, he's not saying as agor, the teacher, hey, there are three things. Now are four things I just can't handle. I just can't deal with this. He said the earth cannot deal with. In other words, creation.

It makes the earth tremble. there are two features in this opening verse that establishes the tone of everything else that follows. First, the verb disquieted. The Hebrew is Raghaz. It means to tremble, to quake, to be agitated. It is used to speak of the earth. shaking under God's presence.

You see it in Psalm 18, verse 7. The earth trembled and quaked. Same word. So these four things that Agra mentions troubles the earth so much that it quakes. Doc, I've never thought ever until this very moment that physical earthquakes are connected to these four things. but it makes sense

we're formed out of the dust of the earth and you know we're connected and it goes all the way back to Abel you know the blood cries out from the ground so we're connected there's no doubt about that

yeah so we know we know that the creation groans because it cannot deal with the sin of mankind and there'll come a day that creation's it can deal with any more, and that's what Christ comes back.

So, this is not a mild word for discomfort. Agar deliberately use earthquake vocabulary. Now, the second thing we should look at is preposition. The Hebrew word is tukot. It means under. Literally, it's translated as under three things. the earth trembles, and under four, it cannot bear up. So the fourth one is really bad.

The image is weight, something that's been placed on the earth, and the earth is buckling. The word bear, to lift, to carry, to sustain a heavy load. The earth cannot carry a fourth. So the governing metaphor in this problem is load bearing. It speaks of the load bearing capacity of the earth of what it can handle. Now, architects understand what we're talking about. When you design a building, how much load can it bear?

An elevator. When you get an elevator, there's a sign from the state, the state agency that regulates elevators, and it tells you how many deep or how much weight that elevator can bear. Agar is describing four situations in which something has been placed where it cannot be supported. It's just over the top. It's too much. So the image is, the image controls the interpretation, and it rules out a, reading that treats it as snobbery

about social ranks and I just can't handle that. No, that's not what this is about. A structure fails not because the weight is wrong but because the support is inadequate. Right.

So the question anger is raising is not whether these people deserve what they have received. It is whether anything in them can hold it. Matthew Henry, one of our favorite

theologians, observed that the earth bears tyrants and famines in wars without complaint. And that agger's selection of these four as the unbearable ones is itself a judgment

on how disruptive, unformed authority is. Doc, I have never, ever until I prepared for this lesson, considered the seriousness of these four things. Right. Yeah, and when Matthew Henry, when I saw that in our preparation today,

he said, you know, the earth can take it. Earth can handle famines and earthquakes, and the Earth doesn't complain about it. But this, these things, they make the earth tremble. So the idea here is that the underlying framework on this saying is the biblical principle that capacity must precede elevation. In other words, you know, some people are thrown into situations where their character hasn't caught up to it yet. And this has been expressed in scripture in several different forms. Jesus talked about it as a law of stewardship.

And Luke 1610, it says, He that is faithful in that which is least, is faithful also in much. He that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much. So there is a principle there. And note the structure of the parable of the talents as well. The faithful servants are told thou has been faithful over a few things.

I will make the ruler over many things in Matthew 25. And so the ruling over many is the reward for faithfulness over a few, which means the formation of the character, the spiritual maturation, whatever you want to call it, happened first, and then the position followed. And Agers 4 described the sequence that's been reversed. The Apostle Paul applied the same principle to church leadership, and it's a direct, really, instruction to young pastor Timothy in 1 Timothy 3.6, it said, and it lists specifically,

not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride, he fall into the condemnation of the devil. And that word novice is neophytos. Well, we get the word neophyte. It means newly planted, new plant. And lifted up or pride is typophis, from a root meaning to be wrapped in smoke. clouded. We would use the term puffed up today. So Paul's concern, though, and to keep in mind, is not that the novice lacks skill. He wasn't talking about skill in this case. Rick, you've known some very talented younger people that have been thrown in situations where we would call them in the deep end, right? They had skills, but they didn't have the maturity and the experience to deal with the environment that they found themselves cast in.

It's that elevation arriving before formation producing a specific spiritual danger in the person elevated. We also read in 1 Timothy chapter 3, verse 10. It adds to this. Let these also first be proved, then let them use the office. And that Greek word for proved is dokemosisthosan. Got it. And so it means tested, examine, proven under specific conditions. And so our lesson today here in Proverbs is that elevation, and we've observed this, and Agers observed it as well, is that elevation sometimes outruns formation.

and the measure of formation is it's not necessarily in age or credentials, but the idea of demonstrated faithfulness. So when I made the comment about the younger person, it just generally they have not had the opportunity to establish a pattern of faithfulness in whatever category that find themselves in. And so we're talking about faithfulness in all four of these categories, Rick. Doug, how often have most of us see? over years, let's say a celebrity, a movie star, a musical artist, a sports athlete, they come to Christ.

They're born again, they become a Christian, and immediately they're thrust into the spotlight. And before you know it, a few weeks or months later, they're announcing that they're pastoring a church. they're going on podcasts, they're going on on television shows, they've got a tour, they're going to go to a tour to talk about Jesus. Now, the enthusiasm is real, it's genuine, and they have the ability to speak, they have the ability to communicate, but they don't have a formation. Doc, were you qualified to pastor church a month after you got saved?

I know I wasn't. Absolutely not. But this is what we see often when celebrities are saved. I'm not discounting their salvation. I believe it's real. But they're pushed out into the limelight. Or maybe they think, well, I've got this platform. Somebody's telling them, you have a great following.

God's going to use you. You've got to do this. And they're not ready for it. And what happens often and sadly is that the celebrity ends up being spiritually hurt, may even walk away from the faith, and or they damage a lot of people, right, because they don't know what they're talking about. And they don't have, they don't have the theological foundation to speak about the Word of God. I've seen it happen many times. I could add something else on, too, in this age of social media and podcast.

broadcasting everything. There are tons of videos on YouTube and TikTok and other platforms where people talk about spiritual topics and scriptural topics that have really, and this is my opinion as a mature 62-year-old missionary, they have no business talking about at all. they can discuss it, they can ask questions about it, but they're elevated to a place where they're given authority. And it's, I hate to use the word frustrating, but it's the only word I can think of off the top of my head. It can be frustrating at times to watch these individuals have hundreds, thousands, maybe tens of thousands of followers,

and they've convinced themselves that they're in authority on the Bible and on spiritual issues. And it, you know, maybe first trading is not the word. I've been around long enough to know what happens. But what I don't like is I see it happen again and again. I guess that's the frustrating part, Rick. So people are deceived and deceiving. So you can be deceived and you can also be a deceiver.

and you can be practicing deception. And so a lot of these people who are deceiving people don't even know that they're deceiving. They are deceived. Yeah. They're deceived by their own self-promotion. They've appointed themselves as a great spiritual guide, and they're deceived.

And then they go about deceiving others, even though they don't think they're deceived. Because they don't, they've never been on the backside out of the desert for 40 years. They haven't been challenged. God has not, they've not given God the time to build them and shape them. All right. So the next thing here is for a servant when he reigneth.

In other words, when a servant becomes a king, when a low-level employee becomes the CEO. So let's talk about what he's not saying, what Agra is not saying. Agar is not saying that servants should never rise to the top because that would contradict a number of scriptures like Joseph was a slave in Otifur's house. He was a prisoner in Egypt

before he became the governor, the prime minister of Egypt. Daniel was a slave, a captive teenager, before he served as prime minister under four. different kings. So the problem is not the servant's origin. The problem is the absence of preparation for what that position requires. Yes. So let's consider what a man who has only ever been a servant has not had the opportunity to learn. He or she has never exercised restraint. over other people because that man or woman has never had anyone under him. Power, power unexercised is power untested.

And a man or woman discovers what he or she does with authority only when they have it. That man or woman who's never been trained, never been prepared for leadership, has never been responsible for somebody else's welfare. You know, when you're the CEO and you've got people working for you, and particularly when they're young and they're married and they have children, you realize you mess up. You mess up as a leader. You're going to affect families because families may lose their income.

There's a responsibility when you have people under you. You think about it every day. Another thing that person has lived under the requirements that servitude produces, which is a dangerous inheritance to carry into the position of power. Their mind is thinking as a servant, not as a leader, thinking as somebody who has to be told what to do, not somebody who gives instructions, provides leadership. We've seen this dynamic in other Proverbs.

Proverbs 28, verse 3, a poor man that oppressive the poor is like a sweeping rain which leaves no food. So the man who has suffered under power is not automatically the man who will exercise it well. He may be the one who exercises it the worse because he's accumulated grievances and now holds the instrument of their settlement. And we've seen that. People have come to power and they're like, I'm going to, I'm going to get even for what was done to me. Right. Got the power to do it now.

Adam Clark, theologian in the 1700s of John Wesley's and Methodist, he noted that the newly elevated are commonly harsher than those who are born and bred and trained and educated to lead. Since the born ruler takes his position for granted, while the risen servant must constantly demonstrate that he holds it, that he is in power. And that can sometimes be more dangerous when a person has to prove to everyone that he's in charge.

that's a great thought there and everything and so now scripture supply a sobering illustration and it's worth examining because we actually have a pattern in scripture that operates on a national scale there was a gentleman by the front of the scriptures by the name of Jerobo

and Jeroboam was Solomon's servant now it describes him as a mighty man valor and he was set over the labor of the house of Joseph 1st King's 1128 says so he rose by competence and God himself promised to him the 10 tribes through the prophet

hijack and so that in that instance and he was a servant of Solomon's that elevation was divinely ordained This was not someone that you served the throne. God prepared Jeroboam for that. But he started out as a servant. And within a chapter of receiving it, though,

Jeroboam made two golden calves and said, behold thy gods of Israel which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. We read that in 1st Kings 1228. Now, his reasoning is recorded and it's pure insecurity. If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their Lord. Now, he was king of the ten tribes after the split of the nation. So he wanted to establish a second place of worship away from Jerusalem,

which was part of Israel and Benjamin. And so, Judah and Benjamin. Benjamin rather. And so it was out of fear, out of insecurity. And so Jerobloon's name became a formulae for the rest of the Old Testament. In Jerusalem, Geribul and the son of Nebat who made Israel to sin. But that's repeated more than 20 times in the Bible. How would you like to have that label? 20 times. You would think once is enough. God put it in there 20 times. And so the observation is, this, that God gave him a kingdom, and he could not carry it. The elevation was legitimate, but the man was not prepared. And both are true at once. Now, that's something to really consider there. God told him that he would be in charge of the 10 tribes, but when he got there, he wasn't prepared for it. So power and authority does not create character. That's the lesson that we draw off from Jeroboam, it exposes it.

And then it amplifies whatever it finds, Rick. All right. It's a dark. I don't want to get off the lesson plan, but does that Jerobolums rise to power? This is a man that taught Israel to sin, and yet God allowed him to rise to power. So does this prove the principle that a people

a nation receives the rulers it deserves. I think so, absolutely. So the Israelites received a wicked ruler because they deserved a wicked rule. You got to think about it. Are present-day leaders in various countries? Are they God's judgment on that nation? They're wicked themselves.

And so, has God given them a wicked president, a wicked prime minister, because they deserve it, because the people are wicked as a nation? That's another lesson. We're not going to go there right now. Let's look at the next one, a fool when he is filled with meat, a fool what is satisfied with food. Two words, I want to focus on fool.

and we've talked about full many times in the study of Proverbs. But this is a different Hebrew word. It is Naval. Typically, what we have seen in previous Proverbs is full is usually a Kisil. Kisil. Now the word is Naval. This is not an ordinary word for a fool in the book of Proverbs. It's different.

Naval is stronger. It describes a morally corrupt person, one who is senseless about God. Proverbs 141 uses the same word, the fool hath said in his heart, there is no God. In 1 Samuel 25, Nebel, who refused to feed David's men. His wife Abigail said of him, as his name is, so is he. Nabal is his name and Fali is within him. The second phrase is filled with meat. It means to be satisfied with bread, satisfied with food.

There's a Hebrew word used here, Savah, that means to be filled, to have enough, to reach sufficiency. We saw that same word back in Proverbs 28, verse 19, where the man who tills his land is satisfied with bread. But the chaser of things is satisfied with poverty. Do you remember that lesson? Same word. So this is not a man or woman in luxury. Agri is describing a fool who has reached sufficiency,

who has enough. and that's the disturbing part. Their condition is modest. What makes it unbearable is who is in it. A fool who is hungry is restrained by his hunger. Because need imposes a discipline that nothing in his character supplies. He must work. He must cooperate.

He must attend to consequences. Give him enough and the external restraint is removed. Nothing internal replaces it. In other words, when a fool has enough, there's nothing governing that man or woman. What does that mean?

They're going out, the fool is going out to work. The fool is doing things that are necessary to have enough food. But you give a fool, full enough food that he or she doesn't have to work, doesn't have to be disciplined. That's another situation. Now you've got a problem. Charles Bridges observed that scarcity is the only governor some men have ever known.

And that removing it does not liberate them, but it releases them to be themselves. they become they let their foolishness out there's nothing holding back their foolishness they have enough and now that they have enough they can just be free to be a fool yes

and really this is a reflection of a previous lesson 14 verses earlier Agar asked God for precisely the condition he now names is unbearable Proverbs chapter 30 verse 8 and 9 recall this lesson give me neither poverty

nor riches feed me with food convenient for me lest I be full and deny thee and in the Hebrew in verse 9 is Esba

the same root word as yesba here lest I be filled so it's a direct connection between these two passages so if you recall Agar asked not to be filled because he knew what fullness does.

And now in verse 22, he names a man who was filled and had none of Agar's awareness and self-knowledge. So the difference between them is not a matter of circumstance. It is what each man understood about himself. Agar had the spiritual maturity to know fullness deceives. This individual doesn't. Moses warned Israel of the same danger. In Deuteronomy chapter 8, starting at verse 12, we read, "'Less, when thou hast eaten and art full,

then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the Lord thy God.'" So this can happen on a national scale, Rick, not just an individual scale. And also in Deuteronomy 3215, it records it actually happening. But Jeshurun waxed fat and kicked. Thou art waxing fat, thou art grown thick,

thou art covered with fatness. then he forsook God which made him. So there's a fullness and a satisfaction that really goes beyond the human capacity to maintain it or to manage it. You mentioned Abol, and Nabal himself demonstrates that pattern at close range. In 1 Samuel, chapter 25, starting verse 36, he held a feast in his house. This is a tell here. He held a feast in his house. Like the feast of a king,

Navel's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk. Now, think about this. He had enough, and what he did with it was hold a feast while refusing bread to the men who had protected his shepherds. So provision is not neutral.

It removes a restraint. And whether that removal is good depends entirely and whether anything has been built to replace it. you know, in our modern parlance, we might get asked, if money were no object, what would you do? Well, we'd like to think we'd do noble things and worthy things and do many wonderful works. But the fact is, human nature kicks in

when there's an unlimited supply of resources. So you have to get to a point here of asking an honest question when you're experiencing, for anyone, experiencing an increase is not, what can I now do, but rather, what is keeping me in line and is it still there?

Think about it. You don't have resources now, but you're maintaining, you know, behavior and doing all the right things. But what happens when that's lifted? When you have unlimited resources, or singularly unlimited resources, and you can do anything you want to do.

Like I said, you would think, well, most people would say, I do good things. I'd feed the poor, I do this, that. Probably not. You probably won't. It takes a strong person to resist the temptation of fullness for any. You know, but, Doc, this, I think what Agar is talking about here is not. Somebody suddenly having unlimited resources.

He's talking about just having enough. Yeah, I mean, think about it. Just that some people can't handle having enough. Not even talking about wealth. He's saying that some people can't handle sufficiency. And as you were teaching, I was thinking about how, you know, how many times have you and I, any of us, okay, watching, let's say we've known a young person and they're struggling in life and you know that they're making

some foolish decisions but you love them and you you desire to help them you want to and you think well you know maybe if I got them set up in life I help them get a nice apartment help them get a car gave them some cash you know they I'd be setting them up and now now the road is smooth everything Everything's going to be fine for them. And, Doc, as you were teaching, I was thinking, I've done that in the past, and now I'm realizing I actually was hurting that person. And how many times does that work? Never. Because the only thing that was keeping them from being a total idiotic fool was not having enough.

the last thing that they need is to have enough because that takes the pressure off of them to at least behave right never occurred to me like that okay some people you can't help by giving them enough it will actually make it worse

how many out there right now are not in your head go oh yeah oh yeah I know what you talk about We've all done it. The next one, this is going to be interesting. First 23, for an odious woman when she is married and a handmade that is heir to her mistress. Now, the King James and the Septuagin have widely different meanings. So we're going to start with the King James translation. What is an odious woman?

It's not somebody with bodyhood. It's not a woman with B.O. You know, hey, here comes that odious woman. Okay. The word, the Hebrew word is, Senoa, Seenua. Seenua. It is a passive participle of a,

of a word that means to hate it means a hated one or an unloved one. Now, this is where the Septuagint and the King James differ. According to the King James translation, which used the Masoretic Hebrew text, the word does not describe the woman's personality. It is describing her standing. She is the one who is.

is not loved. Even worse, she's hated. We can see this principle the way that King James is teaching it. You can see it in Deuteronomy 21 verse 15. It uses that word of a man with two wives, one, beloved, the other hated. Genesis 29, verse one, speaking of Leah, and when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her wound. If you accept the King James translation, Agar is not complaining about an unpleasant woman getting a husband. He is describing a woman in a marriage where she is not loved. However, if you read the Septuagint translation of this verse, you see an entirely different situation. The Septuagint, says, and if a hateful woman should obtain a good husband.

Therefore, the woman is not unloved. She's hateful and mean. She's married to a good man. So, according to Septuagint, a good man trapped in a marriage with a hateful, spiteful, mean-spirited woman, is one of four things that the earth cannot bear. So the big difference. The next one is an a handmaid that is heir to her mistress. I'm not going to go into all this,

but not the King James and the Septuagint have a different order. You know, the handmade that is heir to the mistress and the odious woman are in different. different sequence in the list of four things. Anyhow, let's just focus on a handmade that is heir to her mistress. The word that says, air, all right, to inherit, to dispossess, to take possession of. In other words, the maid, the maid displaces the mistress. You got the same situation in Genesis 164, we're talking about Hager.

When she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. And so what that tells us is that the household that Abraham built with that arrangement never recovered. There have been dysfunctional families since after the Great Flood. I mean, has there ever been a family? Abraham's family was dysfunctional. It's part of human society. The connection running through all four becomes clear once the fourth is in view. And I'm going to, yeah, I'll let you expound on it.

Well, and every one of these four describes a person who's received what belongs to a relationship without the relationship itself. You start off with servant, has the king's authority without the king's formation. The fool has the provision without the gratitude or strength that should have come in. The unloved wife has the position of wife without the love. Now, here we go with the fourth one.

The maid has the inheritance without the standing, without the standing was meant to accompany. Now, in each case, something that was designed to come as part of a hole has been separated from the rest. And the fragment just simply can't hold the weight of it. That's why the earth trembles at this. Of all things that would cause the earth to tremble,

this loss of character in these individuals makes the earth tremble. Not because people rose, but because the structure very, a load, its foundation was not meant for. And really, it's the indication of a family issue, maybe even a society issue, that these things would even occur in the first place, Rick. There's a further observation worth making for our morning manna audience.

Two of the four are not the fault of the person described. If you go with the King James translation, the unloved woman did not choose to be unloved. And that's not the case. And if you go with the Septuagin, she's hated because she's hateful. In Leah's case, she was placed in the marriage by her father's deception. And she spent a lifetime seeking affection from a man who had wanted her sister. Agar is not condemning her. He is naming a situation that is unbearable.

And the unbearableness is a judgment on that household, not on the individual. So the distinction matters. This saying describes unstable situations. Things that simply, it would never, meant to uphold withstand the low. It's unbearable.

And so the remedy that Scripture prescribes for each one of these situations is the same. Formation before elevation and faithfulness and small things before responsibility for larger things.

And Luke 1610 states it, prayer will the talents demonstrates it. First Timothy 3.10, let these things also be proved, legislates it for the church. And then Philippians 412 records a man who had done the work.

What does it say there? It says, I know both how to be abased and how to abound. Everywhere and in all things I am instructed, listen to what Paul says here, and this helps us as believers balance us out. And in all things I'm instructed, both to be full and to be hungry. and to me that's agger's neither rich nor core just to be content with what you have where you're at where god has placed you until he chooses to elevate you and so paul here is listing abundance

as a skill that requires instruction ever have thought about that before our audience that abundance you need to have a skill to handle plenty in your life or enough really. You need to have a skill. And I've got a question, Rick, for everyone that's watching today, everybody's listening. Have you learned that skill? Have you come to a place in your life

where you say enough? Or do we go back to the horse leech where it says give, give? Always wanting something. Not just, I see this all the time, or not just money, but they're not satisfied where they're at. They don't like where they're living, so they move.

They don't like their jobs, so they get another job. They, you know, they don't like this person in their life, so they divorce them to find somebody else. It's always something. They're looking for something else out there. When God wants them to be satisfied with where they're at, what their position is, what's been provided for them, their location, sometimes God picks you up and moves you. But Rick, more often than not, I see especially young people,

and I have to admit in my younger years, I'm guilty of this too, pick up and move because that new place doesn't have the problems the old place does, right? And so you go to a new place, hoping to get a fresh start and everything, but you find out that the problem followed you because it lived it with you.

I don't mean your family. I mean you. You were the issue. You were the problem. You were the one that says give give. When in all of these, you know, the instruction is to learn to be content with what you have, allowed God to elevate you at the proper time and the proper maturity.

And rest in him. Rest in the Lord. cast all your burden on him because he careth for you. It just is a great lesson today, Eric. It is. You know, some dog, I really, until we've studied chapter 30 this time, I don't recall ever paying attention to agger. Me either.

I like this guy. Yeah, you got to go back, you got to go back to the beginning of chapter 30. He says, I'm more brutish than any way. Any man. You know, I'm almost an animal, okay? And I have not the understanding of a man. I have never learned wisdom, and I don't have the knowledge to the holy.

And then he starts talking about God. Who has ascended up into heaven or descended? Who has gathered the wind in his fists and bound the waters in his garment? and who has established the ends of the earth? What is his name? And what is his son's name if thou can tell me? Okay.

So this is the way he started this chapter. But as we go deeper into it, this man had deep insight. He starts out by saying, I don't know nothing. But the deeper we go into chapter 30, he did know things. Right. he had a deep insight into human nature.

And I'm really, I'm really appreciating Agra this time. I don't even know what we taught in previous lessons about that. I don't either. That's what's, you know, I'm saying, did we teach this before? Because I don't remember ever teaching this. I know.

I got to go back and look at previous lessons because this is different. And I am so grateful for how the Lord is, bringing forth understanding. You know what, Doc, we weren't ready as teachers and the class wasn't ready as students. Yeah. But the Lord has decided we're both ready now. And that's a sign that we've been growing and maturing spiritually.

So that's a really good thing. Be blessed, enjoy it. We're getting close to the end of, of Proverbs 30. I would say we probably have maybe three weeks and we'll wrap it off. And it's been quite a journey. I've got,

the Lord has given me a plan for 2027. I know for the beginning. I know where I'm going at the beginning of 2027. But this has been a fantastic year. has started in the fall of 2025. And now one year later, we're wrapping our words. It's been fantastic. I hope you've been blessed.

I know I have in teaching. I would teach even if nobody was here, simply because I need to do the study and the praying and the seeking to find out what his word means. And so your presence every day is good, for me. It's good for me. I know that there's going to be, the kitchen's going to be full of students saying, we're hungry for breakfast. What do you got? So that's good. I like that. That's keeping me on my toes. I've got to always be thinking ahead. They're going to be up in

the morning and they're going to be hungry. My daughter has, she adopted eight children. Believe me. When everybody's up in the morning, they're hungry. Okay. And that's the way the morning Manna class is. You're hungry and you better have breakfast ready. And I am so glad. Thank you so much. We'll be back here tomorrow.

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