TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Date: October 7, 2026. Lesson 198-2026. Proverbs 30:15-17. The Appetite That Never Says Enough

Episode Date: October 7, 2026

In this edition of Morning Manna, Rick Wiles and Doc Burkhart examine Proverbs 30:15–17 and Agur’s vivid picture of appetites that can never be satisfied. The horseleech cries, “Give, give,” while the grave, the barren womb, parched earth, and fire never say, “It is enough.” Agur turns these images into a mirror for the human heart: what appetite within us always demands more? The lesson then reveals the surprising connection to the mocking eye of verse 17. The answer to an insatiable heart is not more of what it craves; it is the contentment found only when our deepest hunger rests in God. Lesson 198-2026 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, My North. Welcome to Morning, Manor, a new ritual, Your teachers, Rick Wiles and Dr. Burckler, get your Bible and notebook and get ready to here before. Good morning. This is Morning, Manna, a weekday Bible study ministry. My name is Rick Wiles and my teaching partner is Dr. Raymond Barkhart. And our lessons are archived at Manna.

Nation.com. Today's lesson number is 198-2026. And while you're visiting manorination.com, why don't you click the heart in the upper right-hand corner and show your appreciation for this international Bible teaching ministry. We would deeply and sincerely appreciate your support. We are presently in the 30th chapter of the Book of Proverbs and our study verses today are 15, 16, 17. As always, we begin our lessons by inviting the Holy Spirit to preside over the teaching of God's Word. And then Dr. Burkart will introduce the lesson. So let's pray. Almighty God, Father in heaven, Father, we thank you for this day. We are alive. We are saved. We are in your kingdom. And we give you glory and honor and praise. We invite the Holy Spirit to preside over the teaching of your

your word, bless and inspire Dr. Burkhart and me to teach the word with clarity. And I pray for your anointing to be upon the people to receive your word, open their eyes and ears, to receive the wisdom that is in Book of Proverbs. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Good morning, everyone, or as we say here in the Philippines, Maganda, Maggi Po. So glad to have you here with us, no matter where you are in the world today, watching or listening to us. We're continuing our journey here in Proverbs chapter 30, and we pick up today at verse 15.

So if you got your Bibles, let's turn there to Proverbs chapter 30. And read along with me as I read from the King James today. We're going to focus strictly on the King James here this morning. And we're looking at verses 15, 16, and 17. Now, if you've studied these verses before or read these verses before, I promise you, you're going to end up with today's lesson knowing a lot more than you knew about it. And it was a revelation for me as I worked to help prepare for our lesson today. So let's read Proverbs chapter 30, starting at verse 15. The horse leech hath two daughters crying, give, give.

There are three things that are never satisfied. yea, four things say not. It is enough. The grave and the barren womb, the earth that is not filled with water, and the fire that saith not, it is enough. The eye that mocketh at his father and despise us to obey his mother,

the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it. Now, you may think that some of these aren't related to each other, but really this is a complete package here today. And it presents the first of teacher agger's five numerical sayings. And what it concerns is the idea of insatiability, things that consume without ever reaching a limit. And the saying opens with an image that would have been

unpleasantly familiar to every one that heard this initiative. The horse leech. Horse leech is an ugly blood-sucking creature. but Agarred describes it with two daughters, whose only speech is give, give, it's never satisfied. Now, Agar then names four things that never say it is enough. The gray, the barren womb, the perched earth, and fire. And so verse 17 then closes the unit with one of the most violent images

in the entire book, The eye that mocks a father plucked out by ravens, and eaten by young eagles. Now, the connection between the four insatiable things and the mocking eye at first isn't immediately obvious, but it is the interpretive question our morning manna lesson is going to attempt to answer here today. Now, some read verse 17 as a separate proverb that follows, but the better reading takes it as this saying's conclusion here,

because the four things consume, And then verse 17 describes a young man who ends up being consumed. And so there's also a thread running back through the chapter here. If you recall back in verse 11, it names a generation that curses its father, and we talked about that at length, and withholds blessing from its mother. And then verse 17 returns to that same offense and states what becomes of it. And so our lesson today is going to examine what those four. insatiable things teach us, and why Agar grouped them together and why he followed the list

with an image of an eye being consumed by ravens. So Rick, let's get started here today with verse 15. Thank you, Doc. On the surface, a reader would think, what do these ancient sayings have to do with modern life? Why are we talking about leeches? Why are we talking about ravens plucking the meat off something? You know, what does this have to do with life? And where am I going to get wisdom from these verses? Well, I hope that by the end of today's lesson, you understand. You see it.

So it starts with the horse leech. This is verse 15. The horse leech has two daughters crying, give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied. Four things say not. It is enough. First thing it comes to my mind, dog. There's an old saying, you know, I remember as a, you know, teenager,

Jimmy, give me, give me, give me, my name is Jimmy. Yeah, I remember that. Sure. I don't know, I don't know where that originated. But I remember people saying that when you were describing somebody who was always wanting to borrow something. always wanting more. Somebody would just say,

well, give me, give me, my name is Jimmy. Never satisfied. Never satisfied. So, Agar says here, the horse leech has two daughters,

and they cry, give me, give me. And there are things that are not, three things, no, now I think about four things. And never say it's enough.

So the theme is insane. ability, the inability to be satisfied. Now we're getting deeper into human psyche. The Hebrew word al-Qaqa is, I think it only appears once here in the Old Testament. The root of that word, the sense of clinging to adhering to. But the traditional rendering of this word leech, horse leech, to be exact, is definitely correct. Agar talked about a horse leech. Now, I'm not an expert on horse leeches.

What a little did I know, Doc, is, All right. The horse leech is a large, for modern day, modern times, the horse leech is a large, carnivorous, freshwater leech. But the modern usage of the name horse leech refers to a leech that feeds on small aquatic animals such as frogs. The modern day horse leech is confused with another species, of leeches that enters the nostrils of horses and cattle and other livestock, draws out their blood, and does not release its victim, its host, until the leach is full of blood

or is forcibly removed. Agar is referring to the latter species. When he spoke of horse leeches, he's talking about a leech that has a different. name in modern society. In our modern times, we've given the name horse leech to another type of leech that attacks frogs and small water-based animals. He's referring to this leech that goes through the nostrils of a cow, a horse, a sheep.

And it doesn't let go until it's full of blood or somehow you've forcibly grab that thing and pull it out. Not a pretty picture. So what is this thing on? Give, give. Okay. He may be talking about the leeches anatomy. This leech has a sucker at each end

and both attached to the host. It has two mouths and one appetite. Man, Doc, think about that. If you had two mouths, I could eat spaghetti and tacos at the same time. That's the picture we want you to see here. This is a creature that's got two mouths, but it's fed by one appetite.

It's sucking blood from both ends. And I'm referring to the daughters here. The daughters that say give, give, all right? This may refer to the suckers at each end of the leech. Other people say that the daughters should be taken figuratively with the daughters of a thing being its products or its characteristics. With that interpretation, the two daughters are simply the two demands that the creature makes, which is give, give. What is in what is not in dispute is what they say. Give, give.

And the two words are the entirety of their vocabulary. They don't have any other things to say. That's the only thing these two daughters say, give, give. No greeting. How are you today? How's your morning going? You know, no Thanksgiving. no gratitude, you know, just give.

Thank you for letting me suck the blood out of you. There's nothing here. Give, give. That's all they say. This creature has one utterance, and it's a demand. Give me more. So clearly here, okay, Agar is not talking about leeches. This is not a proverb about leeches.

He is teaching about the power of an insatiable appetite in a human. A leech is not malicious. It's not cruel. It's not calculating. It simply takes. Because taking is what it is. Taking is what it does. Taking is what it be.

It's a blood-sucking creature. It and whatever is the size of the brain of a leech, it does not think about being cruel. All it knows is I want blood. I'm going to get it and I'm not going to stop until I'm full, but they're never full. The leach takes what it desires, what it demands. Now, here's some wisdom for you. This is something I've learned in life. There are four types of people in our lives.

People who add, people who subtract, people who multiply, people who divide. I encourage you to spend time after this lesson and think about this. Pray about it. Who in your life adds to your life? and who is it that subtracts value from your life? Who is it in your life who multiplies you? And who's in your life who divides you? Because we all have these people in our lives.

Learn to discern them. I kind of have a mental picture. You know, you don't see them anymore. The big old rubber stamp, you stamp it in ink and then put a stamp on a document. I just imagine big old rubber stamp hitting the forehead and say divider, subtractor. But the positives there, too.

Multiply. Mark people. There's nothing wrong with marking people. In fact, the Bible tells us to mark them. Well, I mean, in Revelation, the saints are marked in their foreheads. That's right. Angels are marking people. That's right.

Angels are marked. See, Satan marks people, but angels mark people, too. That's right. Okay, so it's not being judgmental to mark somebody. Mark them for their behavior, for either the positive contributions or the negative, the strife, the division. What do they bring to your life? What do they cause? It makes it easier to deal with them.

Because when you see them coming, you can know, here comes something good or here comes something bad. And you can get ready for them, psychologically, mentally. And when they start their stuff, you're better prepared to deal with it. If you wouldn't go even further, you need to remove from your lives those who have, have a negative influence on your relationship with God. If somebody is detrimental to your relationship with God,

you've got to put distance between you and them. That is not necessarily no contact. That's not what I'm proposing. But there can be distance, meaning you're going to protect your boundaries. They don't respect your boundaries. They're going to come in. They're going to cross your boundary line. They're going to get into your space.

They're going to try to disregulate you to get you upset, get you angry, get you depressed. So you want to surround yourself with people who add to your life, who multiply your life, your giftings, your talents, your knowledge. Surround yourself with people that make your life better. All right, that's my little sermon. So let's get back to what Agar is teaching. Matthew Henry observed that the leech is the perfect emblem of a covetous appetite because it is small, easily overruled and attached before the host notices. And because it never lets go voluntarily, it has to be forcibly removed. Right.

you know, Rick, throughout Proverbs, you have examples, you know, go to the aunt, thou sluggard, consider her ways and be wise. Well, I would say, go to the horse leech. Consider her ways and be wise, too. And so the horse leech is illustrating what scripture is teaching about appetites that are never satisfied. And the saying's governing phrase, it is enough, and rather it's not enough. in the Hebrew, it's the word home. It's word meeting sufficiency. It can also mean wealth, too.

The four things that Agar lists cannot say it, and it'll never say it's enough. And so that inability is the whole subject here, and the scripture returns to it repeatedly. We see examples in Ecclesiastes. That's Solomon. Ecclesiastes 1-8, and his material fills the rest,

of this book, the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. Clesiastes 5.10, He that love is silver shall not be satisfied with silver, or he that loveth abundance with increase. So you see that pattern being repeated. Proverbs 2720, if you recall, we looked at this before, hell and destruction are never full, so the eyes of man are never satisfied. And note that back in Proverbs 2720, it uses the same first term, the agger, will name in verse 16, the grave, and it applies it to the same subject. And so the theological claim across all these passages is identical. The idea that certain appetites are structurally incapable of being filled by what they pursued. And so a container that's in,

empty can be filled with sufficient effort. A container that cannot hold anything will consume every effort indefinitely remain empty. In modern terms, we talk about having holes in a bucket. Well, that's the same idea. You'll never fill that bucket. First Timothy 66 applies the New Testament response to this and the alternative, and it's not more acquisition. It says, godliness with contentment. is great gain. Godliness with contentment is great gain. The Greek word autotchaia, meaning sufficiency and contentment, is the word the Septuagint used for Agar's own prayer back in verse 8, or he asked for what is needful and sufficient. So we're talking about satisfaction here today, contentment. Agar asked God for the thing that the horse leech cannot say. Now, back

eight verses ago, Agar prayed for an appointed portion. Remember that? That was a great lesson, by the way. That's still going through my mind, the appointed portion. Now, here he names four things that have no portion, because nothing appointed would ever be enough for these four things, Rick. So in verse 15, Agar said, there are three things that are never satisfied. Yay, four things say not. it is enough. In verse 16, he identifies the four things that cannot be satisfied. The four things that are unable to say, that's enough, no more. The grave, the barren womb, the earth that is not filled with water, and the fire that saith not, it is enough. let's break them down

all four first to grave Doc mentioned that hell is not satisfied it's being enlarged I mean they're knocking down walls they're making room for more souls

isn't that a scary thought yeah it's never enough there's construction underway hell is knocking out walls and building more cells, behold the souls that will be there on Judgment Day. So the first is Shio or Hades, the Greek word is Hades, the realm of the death,

the place to which all unsafe souls descend when they physically die on earth. Every generation that has ever lived has gone down into it except except the saved. And it's never reported being full. So there is no point at which the grave declines a new occupant on grounds of capacity.

Now, we could say all, everybody goes to the grave. Your body is going into a grave one way or the other, whether you're saved or unsaved. I'm talking about your soul. Your soul is not going to descend into. Hades, but the unsaved will descend to Hades. So this is the most absolute of the four. And that's why Agar puts it at the top of the list. Whatever else may eventually reach a limit,

the grave will never reach a limit until Christ returns. Adopt mentioned Proverbs 27 verse 20, hell and destruction are never full. So the eyes of man are never seen. satisfy. The eyes of man is what sends a lot of people to hell because their eyes aren't satisfied and they pursue things that they shouldn't be pursuing and so they end up in hell and hell and destruction are never full. I mentioned this a moment ago briefly Isaiah 5 verse 14. Hell hath enlarged herself and opened her mouth without measure and their glory and their

multitude and their pomp, he and he that rejoices shall descend into it. Hell enlarges itself. Hell's mouth has no limitations. The second thing that he mentioned is the barren rule, closing or the restraint of a woman's wool. Now, we have to handle this one with care because it, this is. This is not a curse. Agar is naming a genuine continuing grief.

This is not a vice. This is not a sin. What Agar observed is the longing for a child that does not diminish over time. Rachel, remember in Genesis verse in chapter 30, Rachel's cry, give me children or else I die. The same craving is there. Rachel is saying to God, I have to have a child. The barren womb.

The barren womb is never satisfied. It must have a child. Hannah's account in 1st Samuel, chapter 1, records the same thing. The ears of provision from a husband who loved her, and she wept and did not eat. So this item, the Baron Woomie, is on the list, not as a condemnation,

but it's an observation. And that distinction should be preserved in this teaching. Agra is naming a hunger that does not resolve, not a sin that requires repentance. He just says, I have observed women could not give children. and they were never satisfied. They went through life, always longing, always desiring, always saying, give me a child.

The third thing is the earth that is not filled with water. Okay, so what is he talking about here? Arch land, arched ground, a drought. If you've seen photographs of an area that has been, parched. The ground is barren. It's cracked open. It's so dry. The ground of the surface is cracked open. And if you pour water on it, the water just disappears. It's, it is soaked in so quickly because the soil is absolutely dry. There's no moisture in it at all. So you dump a bucket of water on it and in seconds it's gone. So the earth that is not filled with water. He's talking

about parts to ground. You pour water on it and it shows nothing for it. So this is the image of effort that produces no visible result. Labor, absorbed without accumulation. Then the fourth one is the fire. The fire that saith not, it is enough. Fire is the only item on this list that actively grows by consuming the grave receives the womb waits the earth absorbs but the fire expands by consuming everything feed it more and the fire becomes larger and the fire demands more Proverbs 26 versus 2021, where no wood is, there the fire goeth out. Fire has no limit of its own. It is limited only by the exhaustion of its fuel.

As long as it has something to burn and oxygen, fire will not go out. And so as we consider this passage here, today, Agar's purpose becomes much clearer when we consider why he chose these four examples and placed them together. What is it that unites them? And what does their shared inability to be satisfied teach us about the appetites that govern every human heart? Well, three of them are morally neutral. He just uses them as examples. You got the grave, the parched earth, like you mentioned, fire, their features of the created order. They're not sinful. They're simply how those things behave. That's their nature, their very nature. And the fourth, the barren womb names a sorrow rather

than a fault. And so what we're listing here, this is not a catalog of vices here, okay? It's a catalog of limitless things. That's what's being presented here. And it just offered as a mirror. So the question that Agar leaves unstated is the one that the student today is meant to supply. What in me behaves this way? What is it in me that behaves this way? And Proverbs answers it elsewhere using the same first item. We've already mentioned Proverbs 2720, hell and destruction are never full. So the eyes of man are never satisfied.

That's the answer. The eyes of man are never satisfied. And so Solomon takes Agar's grave and applies it directly to human desire. The eyes belong to this list. And so the practical significance is that an unsatiable appetite, insatiable appetite, rather, cannot be satisfied just by more of what it wants, which means the ordinary strategy fails. Give me an example.

Are man pursuing money to quiet an appetite for money? is pouring water on a parched ground. A man consumed by emptiness is adding fuel to the fire. You know, we love to reference the early church fathers. Augustine had an ancient formulation that stated what scripture teaches throughout. The heart is restless until it rests in God. The heart is restless until it rests in God. desire was designed with a proper, you know, ending, and every substitute leaves the wanting intact.

And Jesus addressed this directly and offers the alternative. In John chapter 4, starting at verse 13, it says, Whosoever drinketh of this water shall thirst again. Talking to the woman well, but whosoever drank us of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst, but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life. Note the structure of that promise there. Christ does not offer more water.

He offers water of a different kind, and the difference is what terminates the thirst. John 635 makes the claim, where Jesus makes the claim about him. He says, I am the bread of life. He that comes to me shall never hunger. And he that believe is on me shall never thirst. And so the four things in Agar's list say, give, give forever. They're never satisfied. Christ offers the only thing, Rick, that answers with enough, enough, enough.

That is a wonderful thought. that it's Jesus does not offer us more of what we are searching for and seeking he offers us what satisfies our soul he is the one

who takes away the hunger and thirst is not by giving us a massive dose of something we're craving is giving us the food, the drink, that satisfies. Verse 17,

The eye that mocketh at his father and despiseth to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it. Pretty intense picture. Dog Agar is returning to this theme about dishonoring your parents. I mean, this is very graphic.

What's the connection between the four and things in verse 17. The eye that mocketh at his father and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagle shall eat it. What does this say about insatiability? Why does it end with a corpse in a ravine? The connection is the consumption.

The four things in verse 16, devour without limit. and verse 17 shows a young man who ends up being devout. The one who lives by taking is taken. That's the link, and it's a grim one. The one who lives by taking is eventually taken. The eye that mocketh at his father, to mock, to scoff, to deride, to show dishonor. The offense is located in the eye, not the mouth, not the hands, but the eye, the eye that mocketh at his father. Well, Doc, that implies this son or daughter's mouth didn't say anything about their fathers.

Good point. Their eyes said it. Their eyes said it. The look that you give your father, it's a look of contempt. a look of scorn, a look of ridicule, a look of you're irrelevant to me. I don't need you in my life anymore. I've grown past you. I don't respect you anymore.

I don't need you anymore. It's the expression on the face that a young man or woman gives when his or her parents speak. and he's already decided that what they're seeing is worthless. It's meaningless to them. So it doesn't require any words from the son or daughter. And everybody in the room understands it. They look at the body language of the son or daughter. They rolled their eyes when their father or mother's talking.

Or they kind of get a little smirky grin on their face. So they just kind of shake their head. The body language is saying you're not important anymore. I don't have to listen to you anymore. This is our proverbs study has noted the same anatomical focus in other verses. The generation of verse 13 with lofty eyes and eyelids lifted off. Yes. Agar keeps returning to the eyes because contempt is first visible in a person's eyes.

How does somebody look at you? Do they look at you with contempt and scorn, ridicule, disrespect? The second thing is, and despiseeth to obey his mother. Again, to hold the mother in contempt. to despise her. It goes back to the same words, same root word in Proverbs 1-7.

Fools despise wisdom and instruction. Same word. The Hebrew word is Yakata. Obedience, instruction, the teaching a mother gives. So the judgment is very, is very exact. The eye that mock the parent

is the eye that is taken away. The ravens of the valley shall pick it out. The son or daughter who looks at his or her parents with contempt or ridicule or disrespect, they will actually some point lose that eye. Now that may not be physically glused there on.

But there is a spiritual message here, the ability to see. If you don't have an eye, you can't see. If you don't have eyes, you're blind. If you don't have eyes and you're blind, you're going to stumble through life. The Hebrew word that's used here means to gouge,

to dig out. This is where this gets by one. Ravens and vultures immediately go for the eyes on a carcass. Amen. That's right. Why, Doc? Why is that the first thing?

thing they want. It's like that's their deliagasy. You've got to get the eyeballs. That is the absurd behavior of buzzards, vultures, ravens. The first thing they eat are the eyeballs. The ravens of the valley.

Wattie is the word in Palestine for valley. The dry streambed. And then the young Eagles, the sons of the eagle, sons of the vulture. Adam Clark noted that the horror of this image does not lie in exaggeration, but in accuracy,

since the body that Agar describes has received no burial, and that an unburied corpse in a ravine is the picture of a man or woman who died with no one who cared enough to bring him home. Yes. And I just remembered something. One of the curses of Israel, Rick, Deuteronomy 2826, talked about this too. And it says, your corpses will be food for all the birds of the air and the beast of the earth with no one to scare them away. And also talks about, you know, Jesus talked about the vultures gathered where the bodies are. And so this image is all throughout the Bible.

So if you were a hearer of this when, you know, when the first edition of this came out, this would be your picture. This would be what you were thinking of. Oh, my goodness, ravens, vultures. And doc, all these images, all these images into scriptures about vultures and ravens, It's always about death. That's right. And a curse is always associated with it too.

And so when we think about the force here in verse 17, it becomes a lot clearer when we understand the disgrace associated with an unburied body in ancient Israel. Okay. So the image of birds consuming human remains, it's trying to convey more. than physical death. It's implying a curse. It's a, it's portraying dishonor and a denial of a proper burial. And our students who don't take this into account miss the significance and the severity of Agar's warning here. Burial was the filial duty of the highest order. In other words, it was something families did to honor their family members. The son buried the father and the mark of the household's integrity was that it's dead or properly interred, properly buried.

And so the judgment here in verse 17 is coetically exact. So going back to that young man, a young man who held his parents in contempt, he receives the treatment of a son who ordinarily would have been spared by his family. And so he mocked the people who would have buried him. and he lies unburied for the birds. Scripture treats exposure to the dead as among the severe schedule. I mentioned Deuteronry, 2026. It's elicited among the curses for breaking the covenant with God,

and thy carcass shall be meat unto all the fowls of the air unto the beast of the earth, and no man shall fray them away. Jeremiah 2219 says he should be buried with the burial of a donkey drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem. It's the fate of Jezebel. The dog shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel in 1st King's Chapter 21. And that was a prophecy about Jezebel, which was fulfilled later in 2nd King's chapter 9. And so the seriousness of dishonoring parents, and that's what leads to this, the I,

plucking ravens, has been established throughout this chapter. In verse 17 is the climax. Now, in verse 11, it named the generation that curses its father. The law signed the death penalty for, back in Exodus chapter 21 and Leviticus chapter 20. Christ himself cited that statute against the Pharisees in Matthew 514 in the sermon on the round. In Ephesians 6-2 identifies the Fifth Commandment as the first commandant,

with promise and that promise is what a length of days and so verse 17 is that promise flipped upside down inverted honor extends life but contempt forfeits it and the forfeiture is depicted in really the starkest available terms so agger is not describing what happens to every disrespectful son or daughter but proverbs states patterns and consequences in their fullest form to make them unmistakable. That it's the same rhetorical method like Jesus used the illustration of the millstone being hung around the neck of someone back in Matthew 186. The purpose of extreme things and extreme images in Scripture is to establish the seriousness

and the weight of an offense that a culture has learned to treat lightly and not to predict a specific outcome for a specific person. And there's, if you consider this, though, there's also mercy that runs alongside this severity. The prodigal son in Luke chapter 15 treated his father with exactly this content. Give me. Give me.

Give me. Give me. He was given his heir and it was never satisfying to it. He demanded an inheritance for his father's death. In other words, he just would wish his father was dead. Right? Isn't that really what the prodigal son was asking for? He wasn't just asking for inheritance. He was wishing his father was dead. And yet, at the end of the parable, what do we read? And the father ran to him. The father ran to meeting. And so even though we have the severe picture here in verse 17, it establishes what's at stake.

The parable establishes what is available to anyone who turns around as well. Mercy. But you've got to turn away from the contempt. You've got to turn away from the hatred of parents. It's really a stunning passage here, Rick. So you've got both images here, Old Covenant, New Covenant. I'm we're in the new covenant doc i wouldn't want ravens picking my eyeballs out okay i i i like grace i like i like i like having my heavenly father being um forgiving and gracious and willing to forgive and restore that's the gospel message that's that's the message we're to give the whole world for teaching your Proverbs from the old covenant, but the principles remain.

Principles are carried into the New Covenant Age. What we have in the new covenant is grace. To save us from our folly, our foolishness, give us a way out. I hope this has been another blessing to you. Proverbs has been an awesome. book to teach. And we're almost finished. We got the other half, the next half of chapter 30, and then we have chapter 31. And then we're going to close the book of Proverbs. It's been a great journey

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