TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Morning Manna - August 14, 2025 - Proverbs 9:7-12 - The Choice to Be Teachable

Episode Date: August 14, 2025

In Proverbs 9:7–12, we see the clear divide between those who welcome correction and those who reject it. The wise grow wiser when challenged, while the scorner only deepens in resistance and invites his own ruin. True wisdom begins with the fear of the LORD and flourishes in a humble, teachable heart. Today’s study reminds us that the benefits of wisdom—and the consequences of rejecting it—are deeply personal and cannot be shifted onto anyone else. Teachers:  Rick Wiles and Doc BurkhartYou can partner with us by visiting FaithandValues.com, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 399 Vero Beach, FL 32961.Get high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves!AmericanReserves.comIt’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!Amazon.com/Final-DayApple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books!books.apple.com/final-dayPurchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today.Sacrificingliberty.comThe Fauci Elf is a hilarious gift guaranteed to make your friends laugh! Order yours today!Trunews/faucielf

Well, good morning, everybody. Welcome to Morning Manana. We're delighted to have you here with us for the next one hour to study the Word of God. We are in the ninth chapter of the book of Proverbs, and today we're going to be looking at verses 7 through 12. Let's pray, invite the Holy Spirit, then Doc Burkhart will read the word, will jump into these scriptures and draw out all of the nuggets, all the treasure that we can find. in one hour. Almighty God, our dear Heavenly Father, our wonderful Papa. Father, we come to you in the name of your son, Jesus Christ, and we ask for your spirit, the wonderful Holy Spirit, to take charge of this Bible lesson and illuminate all of us to understand your word. Father, feed us. We're hungry. and we desire the bread of life, the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the word.

In the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen. And welcome to Morning Man. I'm so glad to have you here with us. Morning Man is a ministry of faith and values, and we're privileged to have you here, no matter where you are in the world. We usually have about a dozen nations that tune in to study the Word of God with us together

each and every weekday morning. plus numerous people across the U.S. and Canada, and we welcome you this morning. We are continuing on in Proverbs chapter 9. Proverbs chapter 9. We finished at verse 6 yesterday, and we're picking back up on verse 7, reading through verse 12. So if you'll turn there with me, I'll begin readings here from the King James Version, and it reads as such, verse 7. he that reprooveth a scorner geteth to himself shame and he that rebuketh a wicked man

giveth himself a blot reprove not a scorner lest he hate thee rebuke a wise man and he will love thee give instruction to a wise man and he will be yet wiser teach a just man and he will increase in learning verse 10 the fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. For by me, thy day shall be multiplied and the years of thy life shall be increased. If thou be wise, if thou shalt be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself. But if thou scorn us, thou alone shall bear it. God bless the reading of his word today. Okay. You know, Doc, so in recent days and weeks, we've been from time to time, Between verses, we've been talking about how to deal with difficult people, emotional, verbal abusers, argumentative people.

We all face them at different times in our life. They enter our spirit, and they're never easy to get along with. Yes. These verses are telling us right now, if you try to. to straighten them out they're going to straighten you out it's not going to it's not going to be it's not going to be a pretty scene you can't deal with these people i mean i as you were reading it i was thinking how many times over my lifetime i tried i tried to help somebody that had wrong thinking and it never worked out yeah in fact they become your enemy and that's exactly what

proverb says let's start with verse seven he that reproveth a scorner geteth to himself shame and he that rebuketh a wicked man get it geteth himself a blot The modern English says he who corrects a scoffer gets dishonor for himself. He who rebukes a wicked man invites insult. I hope this helps a lot of people today to just release certain people in your life. Just release them. You don't have to say to them, you don't have to say to them, I release you. dismiss you, but you can say it inside your heart and your mind. Just say, I release you.

You're a scorner. You're abuser. You're wicked. I release you. And just be done with them. Just let them go on their way. He that reproveth a scorner. This refers to a person who attempts to offer correction, moral guidance, discipline, to an individual who is hostile, contemptuous, and mocks wisdom and the ways of God. You simply cannot correct them. Look, if the Holy Spirit can't correct them, what makes you think you can? Amen. You said that the other day, and I was like, that was a revelation to me, Rick.

If the Holy Spirit can't correct them, then what makes you think you're qualified to? you know i i came to that revelation not too long ago doc i was praying about a difficult person and the lord said to me rick i've been trying to change that person for years it hasn't worked they're not going to change for you either and that's when i realized well if the holy spirit can't get through through to them how am i going to get through to them i thought i was doing the Holy Spirit favor. And what the Holy Spirit was saying to me is you're just inviting trouble in your life. See, I'm at a stage in my life.

I'm trying to eliminate trouble. I'm trying to eliminate friction. I'm trying to, I just want to, I want to chill out and just serve the Lord and avoid difficult people. That's where I'm at right now. I know they show up. but they're not going to bother me the way they used to. So it is profound futility to engage with a scorner who has an unteachable spirit,

who is resistant to truth, who sees all correction as a personal attack to be met. with derision really what we're to what proverbs nine seven is describing here is a narcissist because everything i just said that fits a narcissist they are unteachable they are unteachable they are unteachable they are hostile they are contemptuous uh and if you try to correct them they take it personally you that you've insulted them you've offended them and now they're matter because you've offended them it says if you try to do this you bring to yourself shame well that doesn't seem right does it you're trying to teach somebody the word of god and the

right to live and you end up with shame how does that work well i'll tell you one of the hallmarks of narcissists is that they shame their victims. Shame is one of their most potent weapons. Narcissists shame their victims. They have to bring shame on other people. See, narcissists don't know how to elevate themselves. So the only thing that they know is how to lower others. wow you've got to get into their mind it i hate thinking this way because i don't even want to be in

their mind but you you've got to think how they think they don't know how to elevate themselves they don't know how to go to a higher level so the only thing that they can do is bring you down lower than them and now by default they're higher than you and how do they do it they should shame you. They heap shame on you. They take everything, every flaw you've got, every weakness you have, they take every failure you've ever experienced. They take every piece of information they know about you that's not flattering, and they

dump it on you to shame you. And Proverbs mentioned shame specifically here. That's a great connection there, Rick. So shame is the inevitable consequence for a well-intentioned person. The scorner will not receive correction, but will dish out shame and insults and humiliation on the person who is trying to bring them up higher towards God. Listen, God is saying to you, don't do this. Yes, the person is lost.

Yes, the person is separated from God. Yes, the person does not know the word of God. But do not give them the opportunity to heap shame and insults and humiliation on you. If they have an unteachable spirit and they are unwilling to submit to the Lord, let them go. Let them go. Release them. Go be yourself. See, we can't, it's difficult for us to do this because some of these people who are like this are people whom we love.

Right. We have relationship with them. It could be through family, could be through friendship, could be through friendship, could be through work and you have an emotional bond with them and you don't want to let them go but they will shame you you know i'm really i'm really big on dr les carter right now because i'm learning so much by listening to his videos if you just go to his youtube channel surviving narcissism and go to the videos and then go through the search function. Just search shame and watch all the videos he has on the topic of shame.

And then you understand what we're talking about here, that there are people you just can't reach. And if you try to, they'll vomit on you. They will pour it out. They'll pour out their negativity. All that toxicity, all that poison that's in them, they'll just vomit it out on you. Because you're challenging their world. They live in a delusion.

They have a false self. The person that they have inside them is not real. And they hide the real person. So the scorner will not receive correction. The scorner will heap shame and insults and humiliation on you. But if you correct a wise person, a wise person who has a teachable spirit, a wise person who loves the Lord, a wise person who cherishes the Holy Spirit, when that person does wrong and you correct them,

that person will humble themselves and receive the correction and go to God and make things right. But the scorner will not make things right with God because it requires submission. That's the key word, submission. They're not going to submit to God. You know, somewhere in their life, Doc, somewhere in their life, somebody is, in their life. It could have been a parent. It could have been somebody in the military. It could have been, you know, somebody ruled over them and they hated it. They hated it. And now they're an adult and they're like, that'll never happen to me again. I'll rule over others.

I'll never submit to anybody. And that includes God. Yeah. They're not going to submit. to God either so we're being taught here that the purpose of rebuking and when I say rebuke I don't mean pointing a finger saying I rebuke you you know good so that's not rebuking okay the purpose of correction is for the good of the one being corrected if the person is a scorner then the act of correcting is futile because they refuse to be corrected and all they'll do is just heap dishonor on you right so what does this require doc it requires that each of us operate in the gift of the spirit of discerning discerning the person that we're dealing with knowing if that person is a scorner or if that person has a teachable spirit when you discern that person does not have a teachable spirit just zip your lips and walk away because they're going to weaponize everything they know about you that's right they sure will

If not now, they will later. Never, never, never, never devolves personal, intimate things to a narcissist, a scorner, a scoffer, never. They will weaponize every single thing they know and use it against you. That's why you should never gossip about people. because narcissists are skillful in extracting gossip from people. So person A divulges something private to person B, who is the narcissist, private things about person C. The narcissist now has information he or she didn't have. before right he or she now has something to work with has bullets for their their weapon don't give it

to them don't give it to them about yourself don't give it to them about somebody else they're not going to do anything good with it they have an unteachable spirit and their hearts the reason and their scorners, is it because they're angry? Somewhere there's anger in them. And he that rebukes a wicked man gets himself a blot. What's a blot? Well, Doc, I think about, in the old days, blotters. What was a blotter?

A blotter used to be something that lifted up a mistake but i think what it means here is it's a blemish or a mark some kind of mark of dishonor that's that's on a person so so if you try to correct a wicked person you will end up with a scar right a blot an insult and it is it is it will be something that brings humiliation on you. It's something that dishonors you. It's a stain,

a blemish, a mark. They will get even. That's what it comes down to. You correct a wicked person, they're going to get revenge. They're going to find a way to put a stain on your name. Because it's driven by revenge. they have to find a way to punish you pay you back and pay you back because they live in this this world of offense and revenge offense and revenge offense and revenge you offended me i've got to get revenge

you know anybody like that in your life they live for being offended it they wake up they have to be offended have to be offended all day long why it's an opportunity to get revenge in somebody and they can't get out of it they're trapped that's what we're looking here wicked people look people people who are negative critical always finding fault with people yes the bible calls them wicked you see we we think wicked it means what Jeffrey Epstein there's wicked well he definitely was wicked but we think in terms of you got to do something really bad to be wicked no you just have to be hostile to the word of God to get that name wicked anybody that's fighting against God fighting against his kingdom

and fighting against the men and women who love God and are advancing his kingdom those people who fight are wicked so a blot is a stain if you have a blot on your shirt or your blouse you've got a stain and so the the the wicked person seeks to blot stain your name your reputation the wicked person will not only reject correct but actively seek to dishonor defame and attack the character of the one who offered the correction I'm telling this is describing a narcissist they get even so we're being taught here that to engage with wicked people to engage with scorners to engage with negative people people who are hostile to to the word of god is to expose yourself to malicious

attacks and to sally your own good name and then we stand back and go i wonder how why this happened to me i wonder why i'm i'm in this mess that i'm in because you were trying to deal with a person the Bible says walk away from them this is strong medicine yes people who are wise are capable of change fools the reason they're fools as they don't want to change a wicked person's heart is fundamentally opposed to God. And their only response to truth is hostility and malicious intent to hurt the person who spoke the truth. Verse 8, Proverbs 9, verse 8, reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee. Rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.

There you go. Reproved, not a squarner. That is a direct negative command. Here's something, this is a command of something you should not do. It's a commandment. A commandment, don't do this because you'll get hurt. It's like a person. saying don't touch the stove hear the father saying don't rebuke a scoffer he or she

will hate you refrain from offering correction guidance advice to an individual who is hostile contemptuous and mocks wisdom and the teachings of the Lord right we say well they're lost and they're going to help by their choice yeah by their choice if that sounds harsh if that sounds lacking compassion there are those out there who are seeking the Lord yes that you can spend your time with and bring them in the timing is right see it has to do with the timing yeah the seed has been planted it's been watered when it's ready for harvest that's the person you go to but let the holy spirit guide you at the right time to the person that's ready to be harvested the scorner is not ready to be harvested yes those people have to be crushed and broken by the holy spirit they have to be lying in a hospital bed for six months to think about their evil wicked ways they're hard-hearted stubborn mean they're not easy to reach

you're not going to reach them because god himself can't reach them you know i i learned this less than the hard way this is about four or five years back there was an individual you and i both know who it is uh who approached me and was looking for some help getting some financial advice on buying a house because he'd learned about my story coming out of bankruptcy and get my financial affairs in order you know and you know you know and learning how to you know kind of get a hold your finances and he came to me and said yeah I'm looking to buy a house and I'd like some advice and I said well okay yeah I'll give you some advice I he asked some questions and everything. And I told him, but the first thing I want you to do, you know,

I said he gave him some just quick pointers, nothing serious. But then I said to him, but before you do anything else, before you even apply for, you know, a loan or anything like that, so-and-so, I want you to sit down this weekend and write down all your expenses and, you know, and get a, you know, give an accounting of your finances as it stands right now, and, you know, come back and let me know. So a couple weeks later, he comes back, and he says, I want you know, Doc, that the pointers that you gave me about, you know, applying and everything, they came in handy, and I was wondering if you could give me some more advice. I said, well, did you do the budget like I asked you to?

Oh, I've been meaning to get around to that. I've been meaning to do it. And I said, well, I hate to say this to you, but I don't feel comfortable giving you any more advice if you won't do the very basic thing. I asked you to do because that's something I do every week. It's a stuff that's what I'm going to get upset with me. You got upset this is good, you know, this could cost me thousands of dollars. doc I just sat there follow me because he wouldn't follow it just a simple

instruction it wasn't that I mean I wasn't like I was asking give up a kidney or anything right I mean the the irony of it he got angry at you because he was too stubborn to follow your instructions but he wanted more instructions yes which is saying I dishonored your first set of instructions, I'm probably going to dishonor the second and the third. Right. And so why do I waste your time? Yeah.

And I learned from that. So anytime someone, you know, has asked me, and I'm not a financial expert by any stretch of the match. I just made a lot of mistakes and learned from them. But anytime someone now comes to me with financial advice, I'm very, I click my cards pretty close to my chest now because I've learned that you know this wisdom cost me something yes this wisdom this knowledge cost me something they were there was a price I had to pay to gain this wisdom and I don't feel comfortable just tossing it out there anymore because it seems like they people just don't care I heard a very wise successful man and again you'll know who I'm talking

about years ago he said he often gets people clearly that you know they want personal time with him they contact him could I sit down with you for one to two hours and ask you a lot of questions and so forth you know he told me a story about a man who was you know requesting a private meeting with him and he asked the man have you read my books this man had written a lot of books on the topic that the man wanted to question him about. Right. And so this gentleman said, have you read my books? He goes, no, I've not read your books.

He goes, I just want to sit down with you face to face. And he's, and so the man said, if you won't read my books, I won't meet with you. He said, if I knew anything else, I'd write another book. Read my husband. you don't have to meet with me face to face and take up my time read my books and see people are unwilling to carry out that kind of an instruction right they have an unteachable spirit they don't want to do but this is really talking about this is talking about bullheaded stubborn rebellious people yes i mean hard headed really stubborn people they just won't bend

And the Bible says, let them go on their way. Just don't mess with them. So we're at, reprove, not a scorner, lest he hate you. This act is futile, just like with, with, with the first verse that we studied, verse 7 they have an unteachable spirit but it's it's actually dangerous for a righteous person to attempt to correct these people lest he hate you it's strong because the hardened heart and that is rebellious against God will reject the truth

will not receive correction and then will turn on you like a rabbit animal and just come after you they'll turn on you and so God is saying don't don't try to deal with these people so

the purpose of correction is to bring about repentance and change but with scorners and mokers that's impossible and and so the effort to help them with by correcting them only brings about a negative consequence for the person who offered the help yes why why are they why do they hate you because their rebellious heart already hates wisdom right and so when they see somebody walking in wisdom something rises up inside of them it's a hatred for wisdom it's a hatred for the ways of god and not just a dislike that word that's used there is the same word that said that in the story of Joseph, when Joseph told Jacob and his brothers his dream, it says that they hated him for it. And that word hate there means hate, it means it's stronger than just our word

hate. It's hate with violence, with hostility. There's contempt. Right. Yes. It goes over into murder's intent, yes. again i've heard dr carter talk about people that he says when they cross a certain line he goes when they go when they go over to contempt he said i have i think he said i have never in my career seen one come back but there's a line where they cross from hatred into contempt and he said i've never seen one come back from that line See, he's really dangerous to let these very bad attitudes get in your heart. He says rebuke, a wise man, and he will love you.

You get the opposite reaction. The wise person says, I needed that. Thank you. Thank you for pointing that out to me. Thank you for loving me. Thank you for helping me. Well, that's assuming that you did the correction in love. If you did it, if you didn't do it in love, they're not going to appreciate what you're doing.

You know, in a past, I've talked about a wonderful couple that I knew when I was a young Christian, Art and Betty Williams. And art was a businessman, filled with the Holy Spirit. He was on the International Board of Directors of the Full Gospel Businessmen Fellowship, close friend of Demosich. carrion and Art and Betty they just had they just had the most gentle,

peaceful spirit, Doug. When they came in the room, there was just peace. But here's the thing. And this is back when I was a young Christian, I had my need to late 20s. I knew they had gifts operating. Now, I didn't know what those gifts were. I just knew.

hey you better hadn't be hiding anything here comes art and betty and and we would joke you know other young christians we would joke hey if you got anything to repent of you better do it now art and betty coming in the room and why why would i say that because if there was something amiss with somebody there art or betty they didn't they didn't announce in front of everyone thus sayeth the Lord there's a sinner here and I rebuke and do that art would take you aside he'd put his arm around you he'd pull you in and give you a hug he'd love on you and then just whisper in the Lord showed me this if anybody was watching they thought there's art loving on somebody never knowing art was lovingly correcting them

he did it with gentleness with love never shamed anybody never hurt them this is the way the father this the way the father corrects us so when it says rebuke a wise person this isn't calling them down in public and shaming them.

God doesn't shame you. People shame people. This really means correct. To correct a wise man. You'll get a positive response. How do you know somebody's wise? If you correct them, they'll respond in a positive way. And they will love you.

Everybody loved Art and Betty Williams. they loved them nobody i never saw anybody angry at them because they knew art and betty loved them so the scorner is the opposite of a wise person the scorner responds with hatred with revenge the wise person responds with gratitude with humility we get to verse nine chapter nine verse nine give instruction to the wise man and he will be yet wiser teach a just man and he will increase in learning a wise person says hey i can learn something out of this thank you i've learned a lesson i'm going to apply this i'm going to be a better person give instruction to a wise person and he or she will be yet wiser

don't you like it when somebody who is godly and loves people gives you some advice and you go you know what i needed to hear that and you love them and you become wiser you receive the instruction and you become wiser yes teach a just man and he will increase in learning so this refers to offering guidance and knowledge to people who are already morally upright who are already committed to righteousness

and who are living lives with integrity before the Lord. He will increase in learning. Why? Because the just man, the just woman, has a love for truth. And his humble heart will cause him or her to acquire even more knowledge and insight. The people who are gathered here in morning manna

five days a week this is talking about you you're showing up five days a week because you desire to be taught and to learn more you desire to increase in knowledge of God

we don't have any scorners in morning manna I had them over in true news I had a lot of them in true news I don't have any in Morning Manna It's such a different crowd It's a joy

To meet with the Morning Manna team Because everybody's united And let's learn the word of God together Let's become wiser Let's let the Holy Spirit work in us more today That's how you know if somebody's wise in verse 10 the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom

and the knowledge of the holy is understanding you know I've heard this quoted by all stripes and spots of people and everything Rick but I don't think people really appreciate the depth of this now that we've been doing this study in proverbs this verse

now just explodes with possibilities for the wise. Why is that, Doc? Because now you really begin to understand that it requires the humility to receive the wisdom of God. And humility comes from understanding God is a holy God.

And there's no way we can ever measure up. There's nothing we can give to God that will impress him, that will make him go, ah, look at that. There's nothing that we can ever measure up. we can do the end of ourselves, we can build, we can make, we can create without him that doesn't come from him. And so to me, this now, since we've been studying Proverbs, now this just means a whole lot more. It means all true wisdom begins with the correct, humble relationship to God,

a reference for His Holiness. You know what I'm thinking, Doc? I'm thinking about your story about the man who came to you for advice about money management and he came back later and desired more advice and you said did you do the first thing and he said no this is what god says to us have you implemented step one yes what's the first fear of the lord is the beginning of wisdom there's where you start if if we say no then he says then i can't go to step two you've got to go back and do step one there's got to be in you a deep reverent fear of the lord now this is not fear as like in terror this is profound reverence awe respect for his authority for his character

but this is the beginning all true wisdom and all teachable spirits begin with a profound reverent respect for God you cannot move on in acquiring wisdom and understanding and knowledge until you master this one It doesn't begin with your human mind, your intellect, your worldly knowledge, your college degrees, your self-reliance, your career, your achievements. It begins with a humble acknowledgement of God's supreme authority and holiness and his authority not only of the universe but of your life. But the scorner is filled.

with pride and arrogance. Just the opposite. A scorner cannot fear God. They don't know how to fear God. Fearing God would mean submitting. And there's something in them that is just repulsed by the idea of submitting. And what's in them is called rebellion. it's a spirit it's a demon let's call it what it is it's a demonic spirit

and the knowledge of the holy is understanding hallelujah you can't have understanding until you know holiness so this is talking about The intimate, personal, relational knowledge of God's holy, righteous nature. Understanding is not a collection of facts, information, data. But it is knowing, it is knowing God himself. his heart his his ways his thinking um i'm sure something personal somebody very close to me for the past month has been sending me daily messages that have absolutely just touched my heart like i am eager every day looking forward to the next one because they are going

inside my heart and i've said to this person it's like the lord opened the window and allowed you to appear inside my heart and then told you what to write what to say to me but i was thinking about this today doc and i said and i was saying this to the lord in prayer i was thanking the lord for this brother who has been ministering to me through these messages and i said now lord you've allowed him to look into my heart now open a window for me to look into your heart i i desire to see inside your heart. I desire to see the most intimate part of you, Father.

This is what he desires. He desires this close, intimate bond with you. He desires to be knitted together with you. His spirit is living inside of us. but we we still haven't opened the doors and the windows yet and really become deeply personal and intimate with the father then verse 11 9-11 for by me your days shall be multiplied in the years of your life shall be increased there's the promise

You want to live long. Bingo, there it is. Write that one down. That's a promise. Years. The years of your life shall be increased. It's a promise. This is not just a verse that goes on a calendar for inspiration.

it's a promise it is a promise that if you seek wisdom and understanding that she is the exclusive agent and source of a long life for those who embrace her wisdom puts in a good word for you in heaven hey let's extend this woman's life let's give her another 20 years let's extend this man's life yeah he's scheduled to expire on this date but let's let's move it out yes okay so you say but the bible says it's appointed on the man to die yes and this says you can change that date you can change the appointment yes god will respond he will move the date you don't believe it well then how to explain this word for by me wisdom your days shall be multiplied and your the years of your life shall be increased those who don't seek wisdom and understanding

don't have any hope of their lives being extended i mean to me this is i don't want to sound i mean i this is not how do i say this without sounding wrong it's almost like you should do this just for selfish reasons you get to live longer yeah i mean it's right there in your face you can live longer all you have to do is outlive a lot of people so thy days be multiplied it's a long life on earth it comes from god this is straight from the throne room Right. And not just an increase in the number, but I would think, too, Rick, an increase in the quality of that life, an increase in the purpose of that life. Because what happens when you receive wisdom and you apply that wisdom in your life, it takes on a life of its own in many ways.

Yes. And you really begin to understand how it increases your life, but it also increases the quality of your life. You're a better man, you're a better father, you're a better worker, you're a better disciple. You know, it increases the quality of your life as well. That's the real world benefit of wisdom. So it's a full life. Yes. It's not a life locked up in a nursing home in a coma state.

It's a rich full life that blesses you and blesses everybody. that knows you I just had a flash here goes back to COVID days I don't know who he was there was a woman somewhere in the South Alabama Georgia Mississippi I don't know what state South Carolina this is back during the height of COVID the lockdowns all the fear mongering that was going on and this this woman was in her father's house her parents house and her father uh was in the kitchen he was he was old and he was in the kitchen and she said daddy are you afraid of the covid virus and he just started to quote psalm 91 and he he was moving about in his kitchen getting his breakfast pouring his coffee quoting psalm 91

okay word for word he had just joy and peace on his heart in his face he just radiated just radiated with the love of god how did he respond to a question she knew what he was going to say she already knew she made that video for the world to see her father she was saying look at my dad he's not afraid of an old virus He's got the word of God in his heart, and the Lord has given him a long life, and the Lord's not going to take it away from him because of COVID. So it's a promise from God. Your life will be extended. This is verse 12.

If thou be wise, if thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself. But if thou scorn us, thou alone shall bear it modern english if you are wise you are wise for yourself if you scoff you alone will bear it actually this answer is what i just said a few minutes ago right it's saying hey if you're wise you're doing it for yourself this is one time it's okay to do something just for you it's saying you can do this for your own benefit you don't have to do this for somebody do it for your own benefit it it is a personal fundamental life altering choice that every person must make to be wise or

foolish to be wise speaks of the blessings and the benefits of wisdom and they are deeply personal they're eternal internal i mean they're internal and they're exclusively set aside only for those who choose wisdom there's inner peace there's a clear conscience there are many blessings that are bestowed upon the person who actively pursues wisdom if you scorneth see there's the this but it's a an abrupt stark deliberate contrast to the first phrase it means a conscious willful personal act of rejecting and mocking wisdom and wisdom's counsel and wisdom advice. See, this is, this is not a passive state of ignorance.

This is an active, intentional, active rebellion against God's truth. And again, the scorner is the one who's driven by pride, pride and arrogance, and stubbornness. But there is a reward in seeking wisdom. what's that just in your own personal life there's a reward but there's also when you scorn there is a reward negative effect in your life there's a negative wisdom increases your life would be would scorn decrease your life i would say yes so thou alone shall bear it Yes.

That speaks of the ultimate, final, inescapable consequence of rejecting wisdom. You alone. Notice it says, thou alone. You own it, baby. It's yours. That's how you'd write it today. You own it, baby. You scorn the word of God all your life.

Now you own it. it means this burden cannot be shared and the consequences cannot be placed on anybody else it's yours that's right you will pay a price for folly and foolishness and rebellion and you cannot blame somebody else it's yours again this gets back to what i was saying earlier about you desire to help somebody you desire to help a narcissist a person who's trapped in negative thinking trapped in they build a prison and they put themselves in prison they build their own prison and they lock themselves in their own prison yes and then they're angry and they're shaking on the bars of the prison

they're angry that they're in this prison they can't get out they built a prison they built a prison with their words with their thoughts they constructed a prison and they put themselves in the cell and then lock the door on themselves and now they're angry and you come by and you say hey i know how to get you out of that prison and they spit on you yes they spit through the bars. How dare you? How dare you speak to me? I'm in this prison.

And you're saying, but I'm trying to show you how to get out of it. And he reached through the bars and he tried to get you. I'll pull you into this prison with me. No, you don't want to go in that prison with them. See, you get into the trauma bonding. You can be bonded to somebody that's in these mental, emotional prison. you can be bonded to them there's an emotional bonding over many years and they'll drag you in and say you're going to come into this prison cell with me you've got to say no i'm not if you're in there

you got i got to get out of here but they they want to pull you back in they're not willing to get out of the prison but they're determined to get you in boy isn't that the jury wow they don't want to be free from bondage but they certainly want you in bonding that's right they're not willing to make the changes to free themselves of bondage but they will do whatever they have to do to bring you into bondage I've told this story before I know this is true because I grew up in Maryland and when we would go crabbing at the Chesapeake Bay here's here's a lesson in crabbing so you got a basket you know like a bushel basket you if you put one crab in the basket you got to have a lid on it you have to put a lid on the basket you have

to you got to put a lid on the basket that crab will just crawl up that basket and get out put two or more crabs in the basket you don't need a lid because when one starts climbing out the moment he gets to the top the other crabs will grab his leg and pull him back in oh my lord really that is true doc you don't need a lid you don't need a lid on a basket of crabs you only need a lid if there's one crab now i want you to think of

somebody is trying to get you to come into their pit when some crab comes along come into this dark pit and live here with me where i'm miserable and griping and complaining and upset about everything and then i want you to live in here with me and oh i want out i'm getting out of this okay and once you try to get out what does the other crab do pulls your legs and trying to get you back in okay and the more they are the harder it is to get that's right that's a great lesson there i know a few crabs all right out of my life i've got now the

bucket that's right not in the bucket anymore phrase and there's always another one that's trying to get you in their bucket always they're always there they're always there So have these pictures in your mind and somebody, somebody in your life is always trying to pull you down. What do we say? Oh, man, that guy's always pulling me down. Think about a crab. He's a crab. He's always pulling me down, down to his level. All right, I'm done, Doc. Let's wrap it up. All right. Well, listen, we appreciate you being here with us on a Thursday edition of Morning Manna.

We want to remind you tomorrow is Friday, and Friday is always a faith Friday, and so we want you to be sure to join us Friday. We also have communion on Friday as well, and so we want to remind you that you're welcome to join us for communion. If you're confessing believer in Jesus Christ, been baptized in water according to scripture, we invite you to participate in the Lord's Supper with us. We'd love to have you do that. and so that's tomorrow on the friday edition of morning maintenance so we'd love to have you there for that too rick any other thoughts here before we close for uh this thursday edition yeah if you just look at that horizon behind me if you look far enough you'll see the bahamas just over the edge there the first the first bahama island is only 50 miles away

You could probably ride a jet ski over there. I've heard of people doing that, riding jet skis from Florida to the Bahamas over the Freeport. I enjoy jet skiing, but I don't know if I could handle 50 miles of jet skiing or not. So I know somebody who would do it. I know somebody who would do it, and he's in this class. Oh, yes. So, yeah, he would. He'd try it.

So all right. Well, listen, we appreciate you being here. We'll pick back up in Chapter 9 on Monday next week. So we'll continue this analysis of wisdom and the benefits of wisdom. So today we saw a very clear divide between those who welcome correction and those who reject it. And the wise grow when they're challenged while the scorner only deepens his resistance and invites his own demise in all of them. And if there's anything I hope you get out of it is do. not try to change these people yes don't feel guilty see religion will say well you have an obligation

to change them and the bible says no you don't go with the bible not with religion god says you can't change them right uh you close with a quick story a little girl uh said that her cat had just got saved and she going to get it baptized, Rick. So she was going to baptize her cat. And the preacher said, honey, you know, the cat won't like it and it won't do him any good. That's the way it is and dealing with this corner. He won't like it and won't do him any good. And you will get scratched. You'll get wet and scratched. That's right. All right, folks. We'll see you on morning manna for Friday. God bless you. We love you. Have a great. in jesus love you see tomorrow bye