TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Date: October 5, 2026. Lesson 196-2026. Proverbs 30:10-12 - When You Are Pure in Your Own Eyes

Episode Date: October 5, 2026

In this edition of Morning Manna, Rick Wiles and Doc Burkhart examine Proverbs 30:10–12 and the dangerous difference between how we see ourselves and how God sees us. Agur warns against using power against those who cannot defend themselves, dishonoring our parents, and becoming “pure in our own eyes” while remaining unwashed from our sin. Self-deception is especially dangerous because the person who needs cleansing may be convinced he is already clean. This lesson challenges us to stop measuring ourselves by our own standards and allow God’s Word to expose what we may be unable, or unwilling, to see. Lesson 196-2026 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, the place where you can feed your soul. A soul fed with wisdom makes you stronger to face whatever comes your way each day. Over time, you will notice the difference in how you handle situations and problems and opportunities and people. That's why Dr. Raymond Burkhard and I have devoted one year to teaching the book of Proverbs. We are approaching the end of the series, and I've got to tell you, studying and teaching Proverbs this past year has been a life-changing experience for me. I'm grateful for you showing up five days a week because your attendance keeps me focus and discipline

on studying the word of God. It's like a parent. You know, it's like mom and dad who know that their children will wake up in the morning hungry and they're going to be expecting to be fed at the breakfast table. And that's how I see our morning man of class. I know you're going to be hungry. and that means I've got to get ready and have something prepared every morning.

And that's been good for me. And I'm grateful and I thank you for it. And I hope our teaching has been a blessing to you. So we are currently in the 30th chapter of the book of Proverbs. We're going to be wrapping up Proverbs in the next, probably the next four weeks or so. And again, it's been a wonderful journey. Our verses today are Ropor 30, verses 10, 11, and 12. And I'll tell you, 13 and 14 are all part of a set.

So tomorrow will be a continuation of what we begin today. Our lesson number is 196-296-2026. All of our lessons are archived at manonation.com. Let's begin by inviting the precious Holy Spirit to preside over the teaching of God's Holy Word. And then Dr. Berkart will introduce today's lesson. Let's pray. Almighty God, Father in heaven, we give you glory and praise and honor. Thank you for feeding us with your precious word.

Your word is Jesus Christ, our living Savior. He is the living Word. And, Father, we are hungry and we desire to be faithful. said, we invite the Holy Spirit to preside over this morning Matthew study and teach us your words so that we would be brighter lights and saltier witnesses in this world for Jesus. In his name, Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen. Welcome to Morning Man, everyone. As Rick mentioned, today's lesson

and tomorrow's are connected together. And so I'm going to read the passage, Proverbs chapter 30, verses 10 through 14. So if you're turning your Bible's here this morning, Proverbs chapter 30, verses 10 through 14, now begin reading at verse 10, accuse not a servant unto his master, lest he curse thee and thou be found guilty. There is a generation that curseeth their father

and doth not bless their mother. There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes, and yet is not washed from their filthedness. There is a generation, oh, how lofty are their eyes, and their eyelids are lifted up. There is a generation whose teeth are as swords and their jawed teeth as knives to devour the core from off the earth and the needy from among men. So as Rick mentioned earlier, as we were preparing for the start of our lesson today, verses 11 through 14 are set and really should be taught together. And so for the sake of time, we're just going to briefly explain verse 10 so we can devote more time and attention.

mentioned to verses 11 and 12 today, and then tomorrow we'll look at verses 13 and 14. Also, we'll not have time today to look at the Septuagint of these verses. So let's dive in. Proverbs chapter 30, verse 10, accuse not a servant until his master, lest he curse thee, and thou be found guilty. Now, what is this verse forbidding here? Well, the Hebrew verb is Lashon and it's built on the word for tongue. And it means literally to tongue someone, to use speech against a person to inform on him. Now, notice what this word does not specify, whether the report is true. Did you catch that? What it specifies is the direction. A word carried upward against someone who can't answer it. And the asymmetry is the entire

higher point here. A bond servant could not dispute the report on equal footing. He couldn't demand a hearing. He couldn't appeal the verdict. Whatever the master concluded simply happened to him. The informer risked nothing, but the servant risked everything. And so Agar here is not forbidding the reporting of genuine wrongdoing. He's forbidding the use of a power differential as a weapon, which remains contemptible even when the information is accurate. Now, in that time, in that culture, in that frame of reference, a servant had no authority, and he could enforce nothing. So why should his curse concern anyone? Well, the Bible tells us because God hears it. Now, we read in Exodus chapter 22, starting at verse 22,

you shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child. If thou afflict them in any wise and they cry out at all to me, I will surely hear their cry. And so there is a sense of justice from God. The wrong parties' vulnerability is precisely what God's involvement makes certain. A person with no advocate really has God as his advocate. and that word frowned guilty translates Asham. It's the root of the trespass offering that we read about back in Leviticus chapter 5.

The informer is not merely embarrassed. He is assigned guilt and placed in the category of a man who requires atonement. And there's a test here that it supplies. That test, could this person have answered me if I had said it to his face. If the answer is no, and the report went upward anyway, the proverb is addressing you.

Now, in Matthew chapter 18, verse 15, Christ supplies the alternative. What does he say there in that verse? Go and tell him his fault between thee and him alone. And so that first conversation is, if you will, it's horizontal,

not vertical. And that ordering is exactly what teacher Agger's verse is protecting. Rick's going to open us up today by his examination of verse 11. Okay, Doc, I'm really excited about teaching these next four verses, 11, 12, 13, and 14. They are a set. We can only do two today. We'll do verses 13 and 14 tomorrow. but each verse opens with the phrase,

there is a generation. There's a pattern in these four verses. So we'll start with verse 11. Agar said, there is a generation that cursive their father and does not bless their mother. Each verse, as I just said, starts with, there is a generation.

This is the Hebrew word door. It's spelled deep. It's pronounced door. It means generation. Together, verses 11, 12, 13, and 14, form a portrait of a corrupt age in four movements. There are times in world history in various parts of the world when the times are wicked.

We're living in such a time right now. I am convinced this is a wicked age, wicked, evil age that we're in, which is why the body of Christ needs to get serious about being salt and light in this world. Satan's not embarrassed about being evil. Why is the church so timid about being good? Anyhow, Agar is describing an age that was evil. And he says, there is a generation. So verse 11 is the first movement that we see in the description of this evil age.

Agri does not begin with violence or theft or idolatry. He doesn't say there is a generation that abortes their babies. There is a generation that is sexually immoral. There is a generation that's violent and warmongering. No, it doesn't say any of these things. He begins with how the generation speaks of its parents. Look, this is fascinating. Because this brings it back to the family unit.

This Hebrew word door means generation and age, a circle of contemporaries. I think, you know, in fourth turning language, this is a turning. So it can describe a literal generation or a type of people. And Agar is using it in the second sense. This is not the young people of a particular decade. It is a kind of person who recurs. Two failures are mentioned. They're not the same.

The first failure is active. They curse their fathers. The curse is to revile and to treat as light, meaningless, to make someone insubstantial of no weight, of no relevance. How many people today treat their fathers that way? He's of no importance to me. He's not relevant to me. I've had no contact with my father for a decade. He doesn't mean anything to me. See, this is, there is a generation. And this no contact concept is very popular in today's world. This is the opposite of the Fifth Commandment of the Decalogue. Honor thy father and thy mother.

The word used here is cabed to make heavy, to assign weight. Not pounds. It's talking about substance, importance, honor thy father and my mother. Make them substantial in your life. Make them important. Give them the honor that is due. Look, your father or your mother may not have been a good father, a mother when you were growing up,

but you're still obligated to honor them. And God will honor you for doing what he said. You may think, well, my dad doesn't deserve to be honest. No, that's not what God says. God's word says, honor, your father. Your life will change when you start to obey the Word of God. The commandment says make them heavy, make them important. This generation that Agra is talking about makes them light of no substance, of no value, of no importance.

They mean nothing to this generation that Aguirre is talking about. The second failure is passive. So in the first one, it was active. The generation was showing disrespect to the father. The second one is very passive. Death not bless their mother. Take note here. Agar does not say that they curse their mothers.

They withhold blessings. They don't speak curses against their mothers. They just don't speak any blessings. And isn't that just as bad? Isn't that just as bad that you refuse to honor your mother? You refuse to speak good things to your mother and about your mother? It's a more subtle offense and it's more common. It requires no hostility, no confrontation, no act at all.

It doesn't require no contact. You can have contact with your mother and still not bless her. still not bless her. You can go through the motions. Well, Mom, I visited you. I called you, but there's no blessing. Yes. The person is deliberately withholding the blessing from his or her mother.

They can't be accused of neglecting their mother. They can't be accused of cursing their mother, but they can't be accused of blessing their mother because they don't do it. It is the absence of something. that should have been present. A person can withhold blessing from a parent without ever raising his or her voice,

without ever rolling their eyes. How do they do it? By never expressing gratitude, never acknowledging what the mother gave them, the nurturing, the care, even if it wasn't the best, never speaking well.

of their mothers to other people, and never troubling to say the thing that would have caused that person nothing. Just a kind word. Agar names both because both are real. And the second one, not blessing the mother, is the one more people are guilty of than the first. So Adam Clark, he was a Methodist theologian, a friend of Wesley in a Methodist church. He observed that the generation which curses its father and neglects its mother has discovered that neglect accomplishes the same thing as cursing while permitting the neglecter to maintain his or her self-regard in their image. You know, Rick, this passage and this verse in particular is pertinent today, there was an article,

it was a joint article between Reader's Digest and New York Times here. It came out the first week of September. And the title of the article was, why adult children are going no contact with their parents. and it's finding that nearly a third of all adult children, 27 years of age and older, are going no contact with their parents. That translates to about 70 million people. And when you mentioned the generational aspect of this,

I think we're seeing that reflected today. But you know what? There's a deeper issue here, and the doctrinal issue because the doctrinal weight of verse 11 rests on how seriously the law treated the cursing, the abuse and neglect appearance in modern readers. You know, when have you ever heard it taught about in church or on it your favorite radio or TV program? The law, under the law, the penalty was death. in Exodus 2117,

and he that curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. And then over in Leviticus chapter 20, verse 9, for everyone that curses his father or his mother shall surely be put to death. If cursed his father or his mother, his blood should be upon him. And it's that same verb,

the Hebrew word, Kow, that appears in both of those verses. And it also appears in today's verse here in verse 11 in T. Drager's saying. Now, it's interesting that Jesus himself quoted and cited Exodus 2117 directly when he confronted the Pharisees over, if you recall, their Corban tradition. Okay. And his use of it is instructive. Now listen to what Jesus himself said in Matthew 15 starting of verse 4. He said, for God commanded saying, Honor thy father and mother,

and he that curse his father or mother, let him die the death. But you say, whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, it is a gift. By whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me, and honor not his father or mother, he shall be free.

Thus have he made the commandment of God in none effect by your tradition. Now, this goes along with the theme that we saw earlier here in chapter 30 about the purity of the Word of God. And this is another example where they've taken the Word of God and they made their own version of it. Now, listen to what Christ identifies

as the equivalent of cursing. He said that a religious mechanism for withholding support was cursing their parents. So what the Pharisees were doing is they would take a gift that would be really assigned to their parents and they would use it for the, quote, things of God, which they would directly benefit from.

You know, the Pharisees never said a hostile word to their parents, but Jesus is saying, you doing this is the same thing as cursing your parents. So this is Agar's second clause exactly. It's not cursing, not direct, but it's withholding what was owed. And Christ treats it as a violation of the statute that carried the death penalty. He's saying,

you guys are violating this law. And if you cared to the extreme, it's worthy of death. So, Doc, you pointed out that Exodus and Leviticus both requires, and required the death penalty for people who first their parents. We're not in the Old Covenant anymore. So that penalty is not in effect. So don't anybody get the wrong impression. The old covenant is old.

It's over. We're in the new covenant age. We have been for over 2,000 years. The point I'm making is that there was a time on earth that the word of God said those who curse their parents shall be put to death. That's how serious it was. It's still serious today. But fortunately, for those of you who are cursing your parents, there's grace. Grace is the only thing that's keeping you from the penalty.

I'm trying to drive something home to somebody watching me right now, and you're guilty of disrespecting your parents. You need to understand how serious it is. Why does the Bible hold this so seriously? Because the Fifth Commandment in the Ten Commandments sits at the hinge of the Decahologue. the first four commandments concern our duties toward God. The last five concern our duties towards other people.

The fifth commandment stands between them. And so this is the first commandment that addresses human relationships. Honor thy father and thy mother. This suggests that the family is where reverence for authority is first learn. If you don't teach reference for the family, your children are going to grow up with a twisted, warped viewpoint

of authority. And they're going to lean towards rebellion. And it's going to show up in their marriages, and their careers, the workplace, the relationships, it starts in Mahom. A person who cannot honor the authority he or she can see is unlikely to honor the God he or she cannot see.

It's the first commandment with a promise. Honor thy father and thy mother. It has a promise. Apostle Paul in Ephesians chapter 6 verses 2 and 3, honor thy father and mother, which is the first country. Amendment with promise that it may be well with thee and thou may us live long on the earth. What are the two promises when you honor your parents?

Things go well with you. Number two, you have a long life. So can we flip this around and say, if you dishonor your parents and you, and you continue to do this over years of your life and you never repent of it, that's the way you live, then things will not go well for you, and you will not have a long life.

Ooh, it changes things, doesn't it? You're going to have a short life. See, we're not telling people. The church is not telling people. Serious this is. You don't have an option, whether you honor and bless your father and mother. You don't have an option.

It's mandatory. You can't opt out of it. And yet that's, Doc, you pointed out, 70 million young people in America are not talking to their parents. They've gone no contact, Rick, no contact. So if both parents are living, there's 140 million Americans who are, lonely and hurting because their children have walked away from them.

So the promise is length of days. So that's the inversion of the penalty in Exodus 21, verse 17, which it says the death penalty. Honor extends your life, cursing, shortens your life. It's real serious now. Yes. You know, and just to be clear, though, you don't want people to be confused on this. Scripture does not command that parents be pretended innocent, okay? It says to honor your parents.

Some parents have done some pretty serious things. They've done some pretty grievous harm. But the command is to honor. It is not a command to lie about what happened or to place oneself back within reach of ongoing abuse. So let's be clear about that. What the command does forbid is the Kowal, baking them light or treating them as insubstantial, speaking of them with contempt. And so there's a real distance between my father did so-and-so. He did some serious damage. And I have had to build boundaries. And the contempt that teacher aggregate argued,

in describing here. The first can be spoken honestly and still assign weight, but the second cannot. A second is a matter of the heart, it's a spiritual condition. And so the second clause here offers something achievable to nearly everyone. Think of it this way. Blessing can be withheld or given regardless of what the relationship has been. Consider that. Blessing can be withheld or given regardless of what the relationship has been. And for many people, the honest work is not producing affection. They do not feel, but declining to withhold acknowledgement that they could give. And so that's what's happening in our world today, Rick,

is that they're just withholding it. They're withholding any kind of honor, any kind of affection, whether there was abuse or not. And so you really see. a generational thing happening in the world today. I really didn't think about that until we got into the lesson here today, Rick. That's right. Look, you know, I'm going to open up and be transparent about my own life. My, Doc, my dad was never nominated for Father of a Year. Okay. That just wasn't going to happen in his lifetime. He, you know, I suffered physical

abuse, not sexual, but physical abuse, his anger. Okay. I got, you know, he would take his anger out on me. And when he was drinking, and he was a very angry person, but the, the abuse that was the worst to me was the neglect. He simply, I didn't exist. I only existed when he was angry. And so, you know, I grew up neglected.

He had absolutely no time for me as a child when I was a child, one was a teenager. However, the point I'm making is I never cursed him. I never showed hostility towards him. When I was married and my son and daughter were children, I took my son and daughter to his house every weekend. and literally made him pay attention to his grandchildren. He was somebody who was disconnected from everybody. Just disconnected.

He didn't have good relationships, good skills with people other than his drinking buddies. But the point I'm making is even as an young adult, I continued to honor him and respect him. And I never told my son and daughter what my childhood was like. I was trying to protect, just let them have a good image of their grandfather. Right. I'm saying that openly here to people because I think some of you may have had the exact same experiences.

And you're saying, yeah, I did the same thing. but I'm also saying it to some people that maybe maybe you're dealing with some things from the past that you need to let go of. Just to let it go. And it's over and let the Lord heal you. And now you teach others the right way to treat their parents. As Doc said, this does not excuse

bad behavior by parents. But you can still honor them even when they're, when they fail as parents. All right. Let's move on to verse 12. There is a generation that are pure in their own eyes. And yet is not washed from their filthiness. This is a,

the vocabulary here that Agar is using is, ceremonial, pure. meaning ritually clean, undefiled. It's the same word that's used as the Hebrew is Tahor. It's used in Leviticus for a person or an object fit to approach the sanctuary. They are pure Tahor. Washed. This refers to the ceremonial washing in the old covenant.

What a priest did before the service began, and what a man did to be restored after being defiled, to be washed. This isn't talking about getting in the bathtub. It's talking about being spiritually washed, okay? Filthiness, the Hebrew word is saw. It's not a polite word. I'll just say it. It means excrement, dung, human waste. That's the meaning of it.

When the Lord talks about filthiness, he's talking about human excrement. Isaiah in chapter 4, verse 4 uses it when he talked about the filth of the daughters of Zion. Isaiah called the daughters of Jerusalem human crap. I don't know if I can go out on television. We'll see if Faith TV. I don't know where we're out here. Okay. But Isaiah used it again in verse 36,

and chapter 36 and verse 12. But in a very literal, fruit sense, it has one meaning. It doesn't have multiple meanings. It's excrement. So the picture that Ager Rawls is he's doing this deliberately to be offensive. A man or woman who considers himself or herself fit to enter the sanctuary covered in what would have required immediate cleansing. They're going into the sanctuary, but they're covered in human extra.

Wow. What a picture. Does that describe people going into church? churches today. So there's a, there's a contrast between the assessment and the condition. In their own eyes, the purity exists in the evaluation. In their own eyes, they're clean. Not in God's eyes. And God says, but what I see there is, is pretty wonchy. If you remember back Proverbs 2612, Seas thou a man wise in his own eyes. There is more

hopeful fool than of him. Proverbs 2811, the rich man is wise in his own conceit. Proverbs 12, 15. The way of the fool is right in his own eyes. So, this is God's way. This is the Bible's way, the marker

for self-deception. wise in your own eyes. A person who is wise in their own eyes has deceived themselves. And anger applies it here to the most dangerous subject a man or woman can be wrong about, whether he is spiritually and morally clean or filthy. One more thing I'll point out. This is passive. It says, Agaric says, is not washed.

He doesn't say does not wash himself. He says he has not been washed. Is not washed. The Hebrew, passive tense of this Hebrew phrase, points beyond this man's own effort towards something that would have been done to him. is not washed implies somebody else

is the one who's got to wash you. Adam Clark said that the man and woman in his verse has never disputed the standard of cleanliness. He is simply concluded

that he or she meets it which is far more comfortable and more comfortable error than rejecting the standard outright. And it's harder to correct. So, Doc, this is a person who doesn't deny there's a standard of cleanliness, of holiness.

They don't deny it. What they make themselves believe they meet that standard. Yes. They're comparing one another instead of comparing themselves to the holiness of God. So there it is. You just said it, Doc. That's just it.

Hey, my brother over here, He's covered in it, too. Yeah. And so at the foundation of this is the doctrinal idea of self-deception, the Bible talks about explicitly, especially in Proverbs, regarding one's own moral condition. And it's the failure that Christ confronted most directly and most often. You know, when you read the Gospels,

consider who Christ was the hardest on. not tax collectors, not prostitutes, not the Samaritan woman with five husbands, not the thief on the cross, not the woman taking it in adultery. He reserved his harshest, most severe language for men who were pure in their own eyes. Matthew 2335 is an example. It says, well, unto you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, where you make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

And he actually used Agar's exact image in the very next verse. He said, you're like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but within are full of dead men's bones and of all uncleanness. And so a two whitewashed for the Passover. think about that you're dressing things up it's clean on inspection and yet inside it's still full of carcasses and dead men's bones and that is verse 12 here in a single image and so christ's parable of the pharisee and the publican in luke chapter 18 gives us the fullest treatment of this and luke tells us exactly who it was aimed at he said

certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others. This is our passage today, isn't it? And so the Pharisees' prayer, if you recall, was factually accurate. He really did fast twice a week. He really did tide. He wasn't lying about those things. He did those things. And the publican who could say nothing but God be merciful to me,

sinner went down to his house justified rather than the Pharisee. So 1.1.8 states the principle plainly. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not ends. So note where that deception lands. It's not from other people's perspectives. It's on ourselves. The man claiming to be clean is not. And this is the one sin that conceals itself from the person committing it,

which is why Agar places it first in this dissent, in morality, if you will. A man who curses his father knows he did it. He knows he did it. A man who devours the poor generally understands what he's doing. He knows what he's doing. Whatever he tells himself, he knows what he's doing. But a man that's pure in his own eyes has no access. to the information that we've corrected.

Which is why in the Psalms 139, starting at verse 23, the psalm is praise. What he prays. He says, search me of God and know my heart, try me, know my thoughts, and see if there be any wicked way in me. That is a request for an examination from the outside. See, up to this point, it's all been self-deception, self-evaluation, may be comparing ourselves to others,

but the psalmist cries out for an examination from heaven. Search me, oh God, know my heart, know my thoughts, see if there be any wicked way in me. This is being offered by a man who understood his own inspection was woefully insufficient, reckoned. All right, Doc, so this concludes the first lesson in a two-part lesson about Proverbs 30 versus 11, 12, 13, and 14. Agar is talking about a generation.

He says, there is a generation that curses their father and does not bless their mother. He said, there's a generation that is pure in their own eyes and not washed from their own filthiness. Now, tomorrow, it'll be there is a generation. Oh, how lofty are their eyes and their eyelids are lifted though. And then verse 14, there's a generation whose teeth are as swords. Their jaw teeth as knives. They devour the poor and the needy. I'm not sure yet.

I've got to pray, but they've got to study this. Is Agar talking about four different generations? Or is he talking about one? I'm just not ready to ask you that very question. Well, I'm not ready to answer it, Doc. I don't know yet, okay? I'm buying some time. I got 24 hours here to pray about this.

Are these four separate generations, or is this a description of one generation? I don't know yet. I've got to study. I'm not ready to give it answered. But that's our assignment, Doc, for the next 24 hours. to have at least a semi-intelligent answer for that question. We'll talk about it tomorrow. If it's interesting to you as it is to me,

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