TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Morning Manna - August 28, 2025 - Proverbs 10:17-18 - Walking in Truth or Wandering in Folly

Episode Date: August 28, 2025

In today’s Morning Manna, we explored Proverbs 10:17-18, where Solomon contrasts those who embrace correction with those who reject reproof and hide hatred behind deceitful speech. True wisdom leads us on the path of life, but a stubborn refusal to learn results in wandering and destruction. We also uncover how concealed bitterness and slander corrode the heart, relationships, and testimony of the believer. This teaching calls us to humility, integrity, and a guarded tongue.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

Good morning, everyone. Welcome to Morning Manna. We're delighted to have you with us here today, and wherever you are in the world, whatever time of the day it is, whether it's morning or afternoon, evening, people watch Morning Manna at different hours of the day. Some people watch at home, others at work, some in their vehicles, some while they're jogging, whatever. We're just delighted that you're with us and you're spending an hour. with us to study the Word of God. In all the years of my ministry and labor and work, I've never enjoyed anything as much as I do morning manna. This is not labor. This is a delight. It's a joy, yes. It is a joy.

It's a privilege. It's an honor. And I am so grateful and thankful and honored that so many people show up every morning. to hear Doc and me talk about the Word of God. It is a great blessing and honor, and I thank you for it. Thank you for giving me this honor and this pleasure, this opportunity. So we are in the book of Proverbs. We're in the 10th chapter.

And today, our goal is to get through verses 17 through 21. I say it's a goal because we don't have a firm schedule. if we get through all the verses that's fine if we only get through one or two that's fine too the main thing is that we we mine all of the precious metals we can find in these verses amen and we'll come back a year or two from now and we'll do it again and we'll find more that's the beauty of studying the word of god it is a living book that book is a lot The words are alive because the words in Jesus Christ are synonymous. Excuse me.

So let's pray and then Doc can read verses 17 through 21. Almighty God, Father, our precious Father in heaven, thank you for this wonderful day. We ask for the Holy Spirit's presence to reveal the depth and the beauty and the richness of your word all for the glory of your son jesus christ in his name we pray amen amen welcome everyone no matter where you are in the world today including brazil the u k ireland thanks for checking in going uh continue going eastward there we have japan we have the philippines we have Malaysia and across all points across the US and Canada. Welcome here to Morning Man. I'm glad to have you here with us. We're continuing in Proverbs chapter 10 today and picking back up on

verse 17. So if you got your Bibles, please turn there. Read along with me. I read from the King James this point and I encourage you whenever possible, read the word of God out loud. It's not magical. It's not anything other than it imprints the Word of God on you a little bit stronger. And so because it's not just your ears, not just your eyes that are seeing it, but your ears that are hearing it and your lips that are forming the Word of God in your mouth. And all those things add to the depth and remembrance of the word. So picking back up at verse 17, He is in the way of life to keep its instruction.

but he that refuses reproof errors he that hideeth hatred with lying lips and he that utters a slander as a fool in the multitude of words there wanteth not sin but he that refrains his lips is wise the tongue of the just is as choice silver the heart of the wicked is little worth and then verse 21 the lips of the righteous feed many but fools die for want of wisdom. God bless the reading of his word. You're going to see this theme pop up again again in chapter 10 where it talks about your lips and about the words and the things that you speak, not just to guard them, but also to say things that are full wisdom, full of life. And so that requires for some people a big mindset change. And that's what the proverbs is all

about, about changing your understanding and change your mind and receiving that wisdom. from heaven amen for those of you who are gardeners or farmers you know what a seed sewer does you know and in a garden you just have you know you've got the the bucket with the crank and it's spreading the seed um for a farm you've got a farm implement on the back of the tractor that's casting the seed in a much wider circumference around the tractor into the field, but you're casting seed, and you know that those seeds will reproduce, and what do they reproduce, the same thing that's in the seed? Yes.

So when we get an understanding that our lips are seed sewers. and they are constantly, if your lips are moving, they're casting seed. And the seed will reproduce its likeness. Now you'll think about what you're sowing. If your lips are moving, you're casting seed. Yes. And the seed will reproduce. and it will reproduce its likeness.

So if you spend your time cursing others, guess what you're going to harvest? Cursing. Yes. If you spend your time blessing others, what are you going to harvest? Blessing. So, you know, as we read Proverbs,

think of your lips as a seed sower. And then you'll you'll think more carefully about the seed that's coming out of your mouth. Verse 17, He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction, but he that refuse of repruth errith. Let's look at the first half. He is in the way of life that keepeth instruction. The way of life obviously refers to the path of righteousness, the road that leads to blessing, peace, eternal life. This pathway has been throughout all of Proverbs.

We've been talking about paths for weeks now. So verse 10 or chapter 10 says, the way of life. He is in the way of life that keeps in. instructions to keep instructions means not only to hear but but to embrace it in to embrace it to take ownership of it to obey and to guard guard what the lessons of wisdom now yesterday we talked about reproof and correction so the wise man or woman welcomes divine correction and reproof regards it as a guidepost on the road to life you're wise when you know hey i need my heavenly father to keep me from straying that shows humility and it acknowledges that you don't know

everything and that we must learn continually the lessons in proverbs is the wise person is constantly gaining information and wisdom and growing right up to death at no point in their life can they say i've got it all i know it all there's nothing else for me i'm as wise as i can get that just is not true if you live to be 100 you should be wiser at 100 than you are today that would be the hope i would hope so Because if you're not, you're just an old fool. Isn't that the alternative? And do you think that's what happens to people as they get older?

They quit learning and therefore they quit changing and so they get set in their ways and those pathways get deeper and more rigid in their minds. That's why it's so difficult to change as you get older. you know the old saying can't teach an old dog new tricks i disagree with that you can teach an old dog new tricks i'm learning new tricks every day and uh but you've got to be willing to learn that's the big part you have to you have to pave over those neural pathways in your brain yes and carve out new neural pathways it is not impossible it quite frankly it's very possible it's the way your brain works and it's it's actually very comforting and liberating to know that your your brain is is very pliable it's not made out of concrete your brain can be molded

every day you can shape it by the words by the thoughts you think and the words you speak you particularly about yourself it starts with the thoughts and words the thoughts you think about yourself and the words you say about yourself because there's a voice inside of you talking to you about yourself what does that voice say is it saying you're always a loser you you defeat it and everything you do nothing works out you're broke you poor you're sick nobody likes you your dog doesn't like you nobody likes you is that what your voice is saying change it yes start agreeing with what the word says about you what does the word say about you i'm crucified with christ the first thing the word says in genesis is that you are made

in the likeness and image of god the creator amen you made in his likeness an image so first of all accept it you're not deformed you're not broken you're not ear um you're not unfixable satan and people will tell you oh you're so messed up you can't be fixed you'll be the same way 10 years from now you'll be worse you nothing in your life you're this you're that now those are all lies you are made in the likeness and image of god and just because things aren't going extremely well in some areas that doesn't mean it can't change you can change it and you're constantly conforming to the word of god what does the word say about you you know doctor this morning

And I'm going to do a word study on this. In my prayer time this morning, what was on my mind was, God, how long have you known me? Have you thought about that, Doc? I saw a question, I ask him, how long have you known me? well when were we saved doc before the foundation of the world right well did he know us before the foundation of the world yes okay where was i

you were you you were in God's thoughts he was already thinking about you so he knew me you started as a thought Rick in God's so he knew me he knew me as a thought he knew me as a thought he knew you I've got to do a word study on it that was that was the question I had for the father this morning just how long have you know me And here's the reason I need to know the answer, because it will tell me how much he loves me. So you're not an accident. You're not a, you're not a something that just happened to appear on earth. You were formed, made in the image and likeness of the creator.

And he knew you before he made the world. you're so important to him he made this universe for you amen first he first he had you as a thought a very happy thought in his mind and then he decided i'm going to have to create a physical universe for this thought to live i'm going to create this thought and turn this into a soul this soul is going to live in a body this body is going to be on on a planet I'm going to make a world for this

I have this person in my mind and I love this person I'm making this person in my likeness in my image he made the universe for you to have a place to walk and to live amen

and then you know we pop out of our mother's womb tiny little infants and we grow up in a broken fallen world and the goal is to get to the finish line without the vomit and the feces of the world staining your soul amen this sum up life all right so this is why god tells us to keep instruction to keep means to embrace it to guard it and to obey it so the wise man or woman It welcomes the father's correction. It's a guidepost. They're guard rails. Think of it as guardrails.

This path of life has guardrails because if you go off of it, it's a steep fall. Amen. Have you ever been on a high, mountainous, winding road with, no guard rails, it's scary. It's scary. I have in South America. You look down like, oh, if we just go two feet to the right, we go down, it's scary. It's scary. God gives us guardrails. I'm Doc Burkhart and welcome to ask you said that again doc I didn't hear what you said no I just the video that popped up here so the instruction that we receive in life comes from different sources obviously number one is is divine

instruction we get instruction from God through the Holy Spirit through his word through godly people. We also receive instruction from family members, from friends. So the purpose of keeping instruction is to preserve the wise people from danger. Amen. It's like staying within the boundaries on the road. you don't go past the boundaries or there is a steep cliff I wrote a horse one time in Costa Rica at night the driver took Jeremy and me as far as we could go up the

mountain at night full moon thank God it was a full moon I don't know Doc maybe it wasn't good because i could see how far down we would fall okay some things are best not to know but we came to the end of the road and and there and the the driver stopped and i looked at him he spoke english i said what are we doing now i didn't look i didn't know the driver i just i never met the driver he met me at the hotel and we drove for hours and hours and hours and got to dark and we're up in the mountains of costa rica no guardrails on the road we're winding we're just in a four-wheel drive kind of like jeep pickup truck i'm trying to remember what we were in and no it was a four-wheel drive pickup truck and he came to a stop and i said what are we doing

and he said you need to get out and i thought oh this is where they rob you oh that was my first thought oh we're going to be robbed here and i said what are we doing and he pointed up he pointed through the wind show he said there's your ride and there was a there were some Costa rican cowboys with horses they were on horses and they had some some empty horses i said what is this he goes that's your ride the rest of the way oh my this is good i look at Jeremy has said this is going to be fun okay so we got our luggage and we strapped our luggage and one of the horses each of us mounted the horse and off we went but we went into the mountain stock and we're on a narrow

now we're on a path you know a dirt path and at one point I mean there was a steep we're going down a steep incline on horses and and it was rock and the horse's hooves were slipping on the rocks and to my right I could hear a waterfall hundreds of feet below and you're thinking I hope this is I hope this horse has got to enter one more day to keep to keep her feet going straight you know did you I speak positive thoughts to your horse during the darkness. Oh, yes. You're a good horse.

You're a wonderful horse, you know. And she did. She did well. She got us to the destination. And then we had to go back. And in the daytime, I was able to look down and see how far that drop was where I could hear that waterfall. But the point I'm making is the word of God is, it's. guard rails for us so that we don't stray too far to the right or left and go off and fall down

and cliff and get hurt that's the reason the father puts the guardrails there it's not he's not a tyrant he's a loving father and he knows that we need guardrails the fool says i don't need guardrails. Right. See, this is the difference. The wise man or woman says, thank God my father put guardrails there. He loves me.

The fool says, I don't need guardrails. I'll go where I want to go. Right. Now does it make sense? Yeah, you're an idiot. You're going to get hurt. You might get killed. why are you disregarding the guardrails a wise person stays within the guardrails

so wise people receive god's word and receive counsel and receive discipline with reverence and thanksgiving have you ever had someone just say something to you you and you're like you're somebody who doesn't know anything about your situation what you're going through what you think and they say something and you're like oh that was from god yeah a word and new season they don't even know they had no idea but god spoke through that person and and the light came on inside of you so a teachable spirit is one of the clearest indicators of wisdom. Teachable spirit is a key indicator that a person has wisdom

because it means that they are open to counsel, to instruction, to growth, to guidance. Instruction and counsel, guidance, and reproof, are not burdens, their blessings. Second part, but he that refuseth reproof ereth. To refuse reproof is the same as rejecting correction. It means the person stiffens their neck. You know, they get that defiant look, that stiffen neck.

I'm going to do what I want to do. You're not going to change me. And so there's resistance. And that resistance to instruction, to guardrails, to guideposts, that resistance actually causes them to wander towards danger. it is such a self-destructive behavior they stray away from the way of life and they go into paths of danger now some some of the bible translators

and some of the bible translations in this verse emphasize the communal effect that not only does the fool himself or herself stray, but he or she misleads others off the right path. You can idea the World English Bible says, but he who forsakes reproof leads others astray. Yes. Why do people, what is at the heart of?

refusing to allow yourself to be corrected because that's refusing you got it there's number one you you want to do things your way you know would you want to be god i will be like the most high you're you're just imitating your father satan you can sing it with frank sonatra i did it my way. Yep. And you'll be singing it all the way to hell. Yeah. All those people will spend eternity in the lake of fire. That's the song they're going to be singing. I did it my way. You know what's frustrating. Just a thought that came to me of someone in particular that we worked with, Rick, that always wanted to do it his way, their particular way. I still don't

remember a conversation which which which which one i've got about 10 of them in mine right now okay i don't never mind i'm i'm joking the one that got the middle in it uh the uh one day came to me asking for advice regarding a financial matter and i was you know uh i gave him some advice you know and a couple we say it came back and wanted some more advice and i said uh well tell me what's going on and He said, well, I did this, I did this other thing. I said, so you did none of the things that I recommended that you do. Oh, no, I decided to go this route, but I'm looking for more advice now. And I said, you know what?

I think I'll pass. And that was kind of the start of the downhill of our relationship. That same person would come to me either for a pay raise or a loan. because he wasn't listening to your advice about money. Yeah. And so he was always, always needing more money. And you, you know, you were trying to help him get out of that cycle. Yeah. But you.

I did it my way. That's right. And keep doing it. I'll do it his way. I hope. I really. Well, I desire everybody to be saved. But I really hope Frank Sinatra was saved when he died.

I like Frank. I know he believed in God. I know he believed in Jesus Christ because he considered himself a good Roman Catholic. I don't know. We don't know. None of us know. Okay. I hope he was saved when he died.

okay um i hope everybody's saved there's not one person that i i say well i hope that person's burning in hell oh god forbid i ever think or say something like that no don't you condemn them to hell no that's god's job that's right but don't choose to go to hell either that's the that's the thing Don't choose to remain in a rebellious state. That's right. However, rejecting correction blinds a person to his or her faults. And that ensures that he or she will repeat them, which is exactly what Doc was saying about a particular person we knew.

They refuse correction, therefore they stay in the cycle. They just keep going around and around and they wonder why they keep seeing the same scenery because you're not following the instruction i'm telling you i am i i've been here my life doc i had that in my life i remember saying lord i i remember seeing this before i've been here before what am i doing you know thank god he loves us us and works with us as long as you are pliable he'll work with you but once you turn to stone what does he have to work with other than a chisel yeah I don't want to be chiseled I don't mind being mowed it but I don't want to be hammered and when you turn to stone

you'll get hammered. And I don't mean drunk. I mean hammered with a hammer and a chisel. So this hardened heart, hardened head, stiff neck, rebellion, stubbornness, defiance, obstinence. And I've seen these traits in. some people that on the surface, you would just think, well, isn't, the first glance, you would think, oh, that's such a wonderful person.

And then you get to know them and you'll find out that they're obstinate and stubborn and bullheaded. And it doesn't even match up their appearance. But what happens is that man or woman not only harms himself, for herself, but everyone in their orbit, everyone in close proximity is affected by them. That's right. Especially those who imitate their example.

And that's what happens, right? Family members, younger family members grow up to imitate an older family member. So refusal to hear is refusal to live. Proverbs 15, we're going to get there in a month or two. Proverbs 15, verse 10 says, He that hates reproof shall die. Wow. How strong do you want this medicine?

He that hates reproof shall die. I mean, Solomon saved that one for five chapters later. Yeah, he had to ease you into that one. Why? Why does the person who hates reproof, the one who refuses to hear, to learn to change? Why does that person die eventually? Because rejecting godly, reproof. is synonymous with rejecting God

himself. Amen. Sometimes God speaks to us through correction. And when you close your ears to it and close your heart, close your mind, you're actually starting to close yourself all from God.

So we should always welcome and treasure godly reproof and correction it's his mercy he's steering us away from the cliff he's putting us back into the main road so we don't fall off the edge and hurt ourselves all right let's check some of the senior bible commentators from ages ago Charles Charles Bridges born 1794. What was he teaching in churches back there in the 1800s? Imagine Charles Bridges at a pulpit teaching on Proverbs, chapter, verse 17.

This is what he said. To keep instruction is the way of life. A plain evidence of the teaching of God. To refuse, reproof is to err. Not only to destroy thyself, but to lead others into destruction. Wow. And then there was Alexander McLaurin. He was Scottish, but he spent most of his ministry in, I think, Manchester, England.

Build a great church there. Doc, he was the first president of the world. Baptist Alliance. Really? The very first. He was a, he, I think he had trouble figuring out which

denomination he was in. He was both a Baptist and a congregation ist. But he was the first president of the World Baptist Alliance. And he opened the first general assembly

by leading all of the, hey, Baptist, don't listen up. This is going to, your wigs are going to flip on this one. He led the opening session of the World Baptist Alliance by reciting the Apostles' Creed. That's back in the days when Baptists read the Apostles' Creed. So he's Baptist, I love the Baptist, but they go, I'm against creed. Well, the founding Baptist weren't. They were all creedal.

Anyhow, Alexander McLaren, born 1826, died 1910. By the way, Doc, if I recall, okay, G. Campbell Morgan knew Alexander McLaren. You were telling me this yesterday. Yes, but McLaurin knew Spurgeon. Look at that line. Spurgeon influenced McLaren, McLaren influenced G. Campbell-Morgan. That's why I reach back to these people.

So McLaurin said, A man's attitude is correct. Oh, wait, excuse me. A man's attitude to correction is a sure index of his character and destiny to welcome it is life to scorn it is to go astray and drag others with you so if you were in

McLaren's Baptist Church in Manchester, England in the late 1800s and he was preaching on Proverbs chapter 10 verse 17 that came from his sermon right it's i love this going back in time and listening to these sermons verse 18 he who hides he that hideeth hatred with lying lips and he that uttereth a slander is a fool oh this is going to be a good one

hatred in the heart is destructive but just hatred by itself is bad but when hatred is concealed by lying lips it's doubly bad yes here's why the concealment of hatred now the lips are used to conceal the hatred the hatred is in the heart think of a person who has hatred in his or her heart towards another person they conceal the

hatred what do they use to conceal the hatred lying lips they do it through hypocrisy it it adds hypocrisy to malice what did we learn i guess it was in the book of matthew about hypocrisy hypocrisy is acting when you call somebody a hypocrite you're calling that man or woman an actor you're saying you're putting on an act yes you're acting that's hypocrisy doesn't mean anything else it means acting so to to hide hatred is to pretend friendship while secretly harboring, harboring enmity towards another person. That person is masking their bitterness. They're putting a mask over the bitterness in their heart.

And they're using, the mask is polite words. Untrue words. They sound nice. But they're not true. See, the person is acting. The person is lying to conceal their hatred. This duplicity, it deceives people, but it doesn't deceive God. No, it doesn't.

Remember, he looks right into the heart. he is you think Superman had x-ray eyes oh god god's eyes look directly into the heart he hears the heart speaking see his ears can hear a person's heart speaking which is more dangerous open hatred or concealed hatred I think hatred in disguise is more dangerous doc yeah because you can deceive yourself and you're thinking you don't hate yes but for the ultimate lie yes but for the victim the one who's hated that person is unaware that this other person hates him or her.

And that other person, the one who hates is working against the other person. And that person doesn't know it. That person's naive. And that person, the hater, can erupt and strike unexpectedly. This is what we see in passive, aggressive, covert narcissism. see i i i knew i'd find a way to get this into the lesson i'm seeing narcissism in the bible now i'm i'm thinking about ways to write a book about biblical narcissism here's a title for you biblical narcissism how how to deal with difficult people in the bible

way so passive aggressive covert narcissists conceal their hatred for somebody and then they strike and they strike when nobody's around the victim gets attacked it's like a you know like a serial killer hiding behind the bushes this innocent person's walking down the sidewalk at night and the attacker jumps out from behind the bushes with a knife stabs the person the victims lying on the sidewalk bleeding and moaning crying for help and the attacker wipes the blood off the knife and just whistles and walks away and nobody knows he or she did it right that's that's the the behavior of a passive, aggressive, covert narcissist.

I'm curious, Doc. Is there anybody in our class right now going, oh, wow. That just, the light just came on. I just thought of somebody. I'm seeing the response from our audience, our live audience right now. Yes, indeed. Wow. Yepers.

Yes. Okay. See you, see, that person's in the Bible. We're now trying to, we're identifying these people in real life, according to the Bible, and we're going to figure out how to deal with them. Because you've got to first figure out what's going on inside their hearts and minds. The reason they jump out from behind the bushes and attack you is because they hate you. Yes, but that person's in my family. They still hate you.

Joseph's brothers sold him into slavery. I mean, people, relatives do mean things to other relatives. Just because they're in their family doesn't, doesn't preclude them from hating you. It could be somebody at work. It could be somebody,

a neighbor is, but we're going to learn what this person. person does. The Bible's identifying their mindset and their behavior. So they strike unexpectedly. They conceal their hatred with lying lips. On the surface, oh, hi. Nice to see you. How are you today? They're lying. The worst are the ones to say, I love you. you the worst are the ones that pretend to actually care about you right okay and yet they're hiding their hatred their lying lips are concealing the hatred that's in their heart towards you ready to step you yes and i i am convinced doc that i'm absolutely convinced that narcissism is

totally demonic, that narcissists are people who surrender, who submit to demons, and the more that they do it, the more power the demon takes in their life. And they get to the point that they're hearing familiar voices. They no longer can tell if it's their own mind or if it's God. They don't know anymore. there's a voice speaking inside of them and eventually they're just taken over they're consumed

but they act like the devil and the purpose of the narcissistic demon is to destroy the soul of a righteous person the people that are the victims of our narcissistic are good, decent people.

This is one of the one of the observations I've made that narcissists don't attack mean, ugly people. They attack nice people. And the purpose is that the demon inside of them is seeking to destroy the soul of the good person.

To wear them down, to break them, to just, weaken them to the point that they can't function in life. Right. I'm telling you, if anybody is doing that to you, I pray that you come out of it, that you find the strength and the courage in Christ to come out of it, to stand up to that person,

and to say, it's over. You're not doing this to me anymore. If you can't treat me with dignity, respect, and civility, then you have no place in my life. And I don't care who you are. I don't care your title, your relationship. If you can't treat me with dignity, respect, and civility, I will not allow you to be in my life.

See, Doc, I used to think, and I thought this, oh, up until very recently. I thought the main thing for me to do in life was to be a nice guy and I really tried to be a nice guy you tried I did I honestly tried to be a nice guy and I came to the place where I realized I was beat up so bad by people who said hey you're a nice guy I'm going to slug you in the face.

Doc, I came to the realization that God does not expect me to be a nice guy. He expects me to be a good guy. Yes, a godly guy. There are times that you are not nice in order to be good. I'll let you think about that all day. there are times that you will not be nice in order for you to stay good that doesn't mean you become mean i'm not saying that but you stop being a nice man stop being a nice woman you have some backbone you stand up to these bullies and you say that's enough and it's enough and to let you know jesus did the same thing

When he was challenged by the Pharisees and Sadducees, he didn't just say, well, whatever. No, he responded to them. Even when they had him in the kangaroo court trial leading up to his crucifixion, he, you know, when they challenged him, he responded to it. He didn't just sit there and take it all. And even appearing before Pilot, he responded to Pilate's question. He didn't say, well, whatever you think. no it's not about being a doormat it's about being uh someone that responds to the challenge of

evil in the world around us we don't have to succumb to evil um you know so and especially in personal relationships you know family relationship what why do we put up with that we have this dormant mentality uh or we have this you know revenge mentality and there's neither one is godly the one is to respond biblically that's the that's the correct response so when when the pharisees would attack jesus and they called him names and i mean jesus didn't leave with his head hanging down he didn't go and sit down at a tree and put his head between his knees and cry and Peter and John tried to console him. So what's wrong, Jesus? Did you hear the names they called me? Did you hear what they said I was? They called me names. They were mean

to me. That didn't happen. Well, Jesus, he called the Pharisees children of the devil. He told them what they were. He told, he could, you know, he didn't say, well, uh, maybe. somebody in his marketing department and say, you know what Jesus say? You really shouldn't say stuff like that. It's not good for your image. Okay, so here's the difference. Here's the difference.

The Pharisees lied about Jesus. Jesus told the truth about the Pharisees. Yes. When he said, you're the son of the devil, he was speaking truth. He wasn't attacking them. It wasn't

saying, I'm going to say something going to make you. mad no here's who you are you are the son of the devil he wasn't attacking them just to hurt them he was telling the truth but they lied to hurt him jesus didn't didn't fall apart when his half brothers said he was a lunatic his own half brothers born into the family through Joseph and Mary. His brothers, his half-brothers said, he's crazy, mom. Mom, he's crazy. It's embarrassing.

People are talking about us. I mean, our brother's walking around saying he's forgiving sins. who Jesus didn't fall apart his own family said ugly things about him but after the crucifixion and the resurrection what did james become his brother james what did he become the bishop of the church in jerusalem serving the lord jesus christ the one he said was a lunatic so i'm hoping and believing that those of you who are

you are suffering emotional distress and pain and agony because of the way people talk about you treat you i'm praying that you find strength in christ and his word to put a stop to it doesn't mean they're going to to stop it means you're going to stop listening to it amen they won't stop but you will stop listening to it you will stop letting them define who you are i'm going to tell you who you are you're made in the likeness and the image of god and because of that you deserve dignity respect and civility simply because you're made in the likeness and image of God. So let's get back to this verse before we wrap it up.

It's already at top of the hour. Concealed hatred, concealed with lying lips, poisons relationships. People can sense the insincerity. And when they do, it erodes trust. do you know when you're around someone you're going you know what inside you're thinking you really don't like me do you ever have that yeah i got to ride in an elevator with a woman been like me i don't even know her name like i can feel it you can sense it i don't care what they say you can feel it you can feel it i don't care what they say you can feel their hatred for you.

You can walk into a room and you can just feel somebody glaring at you. Like, what did I do to that person? You can feel it. So, here's the hypocrisy, the acting, covers the hatred for a time. but eventually the mask slips off and the truth is revealed in covert passive aggressive narcissism there comes a time when the narcissist can't hide it anymore

and just says I hate you I despise you and you're like oh I wasn't imagining it that's true but these people are cowards they they conceal their hatred because they don't have the courage to be honest they

they keep their hatred in secret they're cowards if if they had courage they would just come right down to say to your face I hate you I despise you now like i said eventually that mask will come off they can't conceal it forever at some point the hatred becomes so strong in them that they

they literally pull the mask off itself and say i'm just going to say it um romans 12 verse nine paul said let love be without disemulation All right, Doc, that's a word I don't use. When's the last time you said to someone, I hope you're not dissimulated? What is dissimulation? I'm going to try to get the Greek word. It is anuoporitus. Anupacritus.

I'll have to look that one up here. It's got a lot of syllables, Doc. That's Romans 12-9. 12-9. The Greek is A-N-U-P-O-K-R-I-T-O-S, Anupacritus. Except the Greek said. 12-G-5, Anupacitas. There you go.

Anupacritas. All right, thank you. What does it mean? The word means, in the Greek, to be sincere, to be genuine, without hypocrisy, not a phony, sincere behavior without hidden agendas, unfained. What is unfained? It means not giving a false appearance. So lying lips betray.

the heart and what begins as hidden malice ends up as outright falsehood so the disciple has to guard his or her heart for hatred allowed to dwell

will either burst forth in slander and defamation or rot under disguise with lies the disguise was lies yes okay I'm going to finish this verse up and then we'll call it the day second part

and he that uttered a slander is a fool to speak slander is to speak evil falsely about another person deliberately injuring the reputation of another person slander multiplies it multiplies hatred because one person has hatred but but the slander is intended to spread the hatred so the fool is quick to spread slander slander is at the root of slander is hatred when you slander a person you've got to come face to face with the reality you don't like that person and you are telling bad things about that person for the purpose of hurting that person right getting even retribution it's not enough that you hate the person you have to try to get others to hate them too yes so one of the tactics of covert passive

aggressive narcissists is to slander other people their targets whoever their target is they will slander that person they will destroy that other person's reputation what's what's the motive to decrease that person's influence and to whittle down that person's influence and to whittle down that person's circle of friends because little by little people hear the slander and they start to back away from that person the slander who is the covert narcissist has that purpose in mind

the purpose of the slander is to break off relationships to destroy friendships to cause the victim to lose influence to cause that person to be isolated it's separated from people. Anybody doing that to you right now? Now you know what they're up to. The reason that they're slandering you

is to eliminate your friends, eliminate the people that you associate with, even to push relatives away from you. So slanderers. And both of us have seen that in our own lives, haven't we? Oh, where we've had people that we don't even know try to say bad things to us, either to our kids or to our friends or former classmates, brothers and sisters. People you don't even know, people you have no relationship with,

but they feel like it's necessary to reach out to one of your family members and say, did you know your family member is this, that, and other thing? yes that's what they do doc it just pure slander slander hurts three parties the one who's slandered the one who hears the slander and the one who slanders all three are injured

slander's speech destroys trust it destroys peace it breaks fellowship. But the slander, who is a fool, doesn't realize that slander boomerangs. It comes back to wound his own soul while he or she's attempting to wound others. Every time you send slander out,

it's going to come back and smack you in the face. it's here's the reason it's foolish it may hurt the righteous but it will not destroy the righteous but it will eventually expose and condemn and destroy the slander so wise men and women absolutely refuse to entertain of slander you have to cut it off immediately and sometimes you can you can do it very politely you can just say hey you know John I let's not talk about so-and-so and that person you're right I'm sorry I shouldn't have done that but others you have to like get in their face and say excuse me you're you're a full-time professional slander I

don't want to hear it and there are full-time ones yes hey remember back in chapter six proverb six there were seven things god hates seven things that are an abomination slander is one of them right it's an offense to god so slander is hidden hatred it's inward it's hidden inside a person excuse me let me take that back we have what we have we have we have hidden hatred that is inside of us and it's expressed what's hidden in us is expressed outwardly through slander and the bible says this is foolishness in full bloom all right two quotes and I'm going to go home.

Albert Barnes, born 1798. The proverb condemns both forms of hatred. The hidden which cloaks itself with lying lips and the open which vents itself in slant. Both are folly for both end in destruction. Alexander McLaren, hatred, whether hidden or, outspoken is equally fatal if it skalks under smiles it is hypocrisy if it leaps to the tongue it is slander both are folly for both are sin amen boy okay so i'll say today's tersy right

that's right it's friday tomorrow is the faith of jocoban Joke-a-bed, Joke-a-bed, yeah, Joke-a-Bad. All right, the mother of Moses, boat faith. It's the boat faith. And you may be saying, what boat are you talking about with Moses? Well, we're going to tell you about it. There's a boat involved. That's right.

So that's our lesson for tomorrow. And for Faith Friday, of course, Holy Communion, Lord's Supper tomorrow. That's it for today. Thank you so much for watching. Enjoy your day. Be blessed. I'll see you tomorrow. bless you be sure to share this with friends and even an enemy share it as well god bless you we love you

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