TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Morning Manna - June 30, 2025 - Proverbs 5:15-19 - Drink From Your Own Well

Episode Date: June 30, 2025

In this rich and reflective Morning Manna, Rick Wiles and Doc Burkhart explore Proverbs 5:15–19, unpacking the deep wisdom in the call to "drink waters out of thine own cistern." What begins as a meditation on marital faithfulness broadens into a powerful teaching on spiritual stewardship, contentment, and receiving God’s personal provision.Listeners are challenged to consider whether they are faithfully managing their God-given resources—or letting their blessings spill into the streets through misplaced guilt, false humility, or covetousness. The discussion also touches on deeper covenant truths: cherishing one’s spouse, honoring the exclusivity of divine blessings, and stewarding God's favor with gratitude and reverence.Rick shares a vulnerable testimony of resisting blessings due to unworthiness and the breakthrough moment when God corrected his thinking—reminding all of us that blessings come with purpose and are not to be wasted or given away out of shame.Join the leading community for Conservative Christians! https://www.FaithandValues.comYou can partner with us by visiting https://www.FaithandValues.com/donate, 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!https://www.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!https://www.amazon.com/Final-Day-Characteristics-Second-Coming/dp/0578260816/Apple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books! https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/final-day-10-characteristics-of-the-second-coming/id1687129858Purchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today. https://www.sacrificingliberty.com/watchThe Fauci Elf is a hilarious gift guaranteed to make your friends laugh! Order yours today! https://tru.news/faucielf

Good morning, everybody. It's Monday. Welcome to morning manna. We're absolutely delighted that you came to see us on this Monday morning, or whatever time of the day it is that you are tuning in to watch us. The main thing is that you are here and that you desire to know more about the Word of God. That's the only thing that's important. You've set aside an hour to study the Word of God. You're going to be a better person. You're going to be a stronger Christian. You're going to be a brighter light, a saltier witness. You can't study the Word of God five days a week for an hour and change. You will change. Absolutely.

So, that's the goal for all of us. Let a work of grace be done in our lives. We are in the book of Proverbs. We're in the fifth chapter, and today we begin verses 15 through 19. I'm going to pray, invite the Holy Spirit without him. We're just wasting our time and so we need him here. We know he's where Jesus said we're two more gathered in his name. He's there in the midst. We know the Holy Spirit is here. We know the Lord Jesus Christ is with us. We know the Holy Spirit resides in us. But I like to just formally ask Him to lead, just to recognize His presence.

Almighty God, we pray in the wonderful name of your Son Jesus Christ, our Savior, and we are here to learn more about Jesus and His kingdom and your Word. And so, Father, we humbly ask the Holy Spirit, who resides in all of us, to take charge of this morning manna Bible study and direct us in understanding your Word. Illuminate our minds and our hearts. Show us things in the Word that we have not seen before. All for the glory of your son Jesus in his name. Amen. Amen. And good morning, everyone, no matter where you are in the world today, whether it's the Middle East, Switzerland, Malaysia, Japan, Philippines. Welcome everybody to morning manna all over the world and across the US and Canada. Glad to have you here.

We are continuing our study and Proverbs, and we are picking back up in Chapter 5 where we left off on Thursday and we'll be focusing on verses 15 through 19 today. So if you've got your Bibles go ahead and turn there with me. We'll read along together here. I'm going to be reading from the King James as Proverbs Chapter 5 verses 15 through 19. Drink waters out of thine own cistern and running waters out of thine own well. Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad in rivers of waters in the streets. Let them be only thine, excuse me, let them only thine own and not strangers with thee. Let thy fountain be blessed and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant row.

Let her breast satisfy thee at all times and be thou ravished always with her love. God bless the reading of the Word. All right, verse 15, Proverbs 5, 15, drink waters out of thine own cistern and running waters out of thine own well. So it is a call to provided, be satisfied with it. Be content. Don't be looking at somebody else's well or cistern. Look at yours, be content with what he's given you.

Drink waters, all right, there's a command with intentional pursuit. To drink, you have to take action. Drink, the word drink conveys that there's active engagement. You're doing something. You are to drink waters out of your own cistern, running waters out of your own well. Again, the overall message is Godly contentment.

The waters represent life-giving provision. The proverb is saying, the Lord provides for all of his children, be content with what he's given you. If the Lord increases, that's his sovereign will. But be content with what you have. Out of your own cistern, that's the second part. So the first part is drink waters. Second part, out of thine own system, out of your cistern.

I think most people know what a cistern is. I don't know. You know, if you, if you've lived in a large urban area city, you might, you may not know what a cistern is. Right. But if you've had any sort of rural connection in your life, you know exactly what it is. Right. So it's basically, So it's basically an underground container to hold water. And it's a holding tank. Yeah. So it's a holding tank that's dug out in the earth. Usually, you know, it's in modern days, it's concreted, it's sealed to hold in the water, days it's concrete it it's sealed to hold in the water and it captures rainwater and holds the rainwater as a reservoir for drinking water. That's your cistern.

I grew up in a country so we had cisterns. Yes. And you know what you did once a year? You clean the cistern. That's right. I was just going to mention that because that my dad, my dad, he was he was a plumber during my junior high and high school years. And he in the summer months, he would take me with him to work. and I think we cleaned out I don't know how many cisterns over the years because you know we had to go down there and what happens over a period of time is silt and dirt and stuff settles into the bottom of the

Cistern and yet to go down there and clean it out scoop it out Yeah, and scrub the walls It was always cold. You had to wear a coat even in the middle of summer. You had to wear a coat down in the cistern because it was so cold down in there. Oh yeah. I did that at least a dozen times. So I segment two is drink out of your own cistern. This refers to faithfulness to God's appointed sources. What's the problem that we have in life? People coveting something? Right. Always looking over the fence. Hey, what you got over there? Um, we used to, I'm not going to say names. Okay. We used to have an employee

doc will start laughing. We used to have an employee and he come at everybody's lunch. He would always be looking at your sandwich. Okay, even if he had lunch himself. Yes. Yes. And he'd be and then he'd eventually say Are you going to eat the second half of that sandwich? Yeah, that's why I brought it. You know, he had a problem with that. Um, that principle, okay. Value the faithfulness to God's appointed sources. Right. Cherish. In all things.

In all things. In all things. Don't be looking over the fence. Don't be eyeing your neighbor's possessions. Just stay with what you have. Right. Okay. I remember the Irma Bombeck, she used to do the advice column and stuff. She wrote a book and Carol Burnett turned it into a movie. The grass is greener over the septic tank. And just because you're coveting something over in your neighbor's yard and the grass looks greener there, don't assume it's greener because they're blessed. They might be dealing with a whole bunch of things. It's green because it's at the subject tank. Yeah. So there's always this temptation that you could have more if you have what

your neighbor had. Right. Your coworker, whoever it is. You would be better off if you just had a portion of what they had. That's coveting. And a lot of trouble is caused in the world by people lusting for something that doesn't belong to them. lusting for something that doesn't belong to them. So, cistern signifies your personal reservoir.

Remember the water signifies the substance of life, the waters of life. The cistern is your personal reservoir for the waters of life. Find satisfaction in your reservoir, not somebody else's. That also produces jealousy. That's right. All kinds of ugly stuff comes out of this. When you violate this principle, ugly things come out of it. The third segment, and running waters out of your own well. Again, it's emphasizing the abundance of God's provision to those who walk according to his ways.

Now you have running water. There's plenty. If you have plenty, why are you looking at somebody else's supply? That's greed, right? You're not content with plenty. You desire more. You desire somebody else's plenty. Really greedy people not only desire the abundant blessings of another person, they'll lust

for the sparse blessings of a person that's barely succeeding. Yes. Anything. It's a sickness I've got to have what somebody else has. So the running waters, it conveys the thought of continual refreshment. Right, life. Yeah, and this is saying just be happy, delight yourself in the running water that you have. Don't be thinking about the running water you don't have.

Think about the running water you do have. What has God given you in your life? Be content with it. Be happy. It's your will. It's your will and your cistern. Verse 16, Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad and rivers of water in the streets. Modern English is, should your springs overflow in the streets, streams of water in the public squares. In other words, those running waters that you drink from, they'll come out of you as well. And Jesus talked about, you know, living water coming out of us in the gospels.

And so this ties directly in with Jesus's confirmation of this. Yes. Be dispersed abroad. Overflow in the streets. Some of the Bible commentators I studied saw this as a warning, in other words, this is a question, should your springs overflow into the streets, should your streams of water flow into the public square?

Some of the Bible commentators I studied said that this is an admonition to not squander your blessings. That's interesting. To avoid foolly's waste. Don't let your running water from your well. Don't let your sister and overflow and flood the city streets. There's two ways you can look at it. One way could be be abundant and just flood everything around you. The other way to look at it is you have a responsibility to maintain control of your blessings

and not squander them. Misusing them. uh misusing them. We can misuse blessings even in what we think is a good way. Oh sure, absolutely. So again different interpretations dispersed abroad. Some people say this means a question's reckless spreading of blessings. It made me think about it, Doug. I had never considered it this way until I read these various commentators. These are all commentators from the 1700s, 1800s. The way they were teaching it was that this word, disperse to overflow,

is talking about wasteful scattering. That's interesting that they think in those terms because when I read this verse, it reminds me of the waters that Ezekiel talked about flowing from the temple. We believe that to be the temple of Christ. Jesus talked about, out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water. Those are the first things that come to my mind. I wonder if it has to do with whether you are viewing this passage as just simply a warning

against sexual immorality, which is there, or if it's a deeper warning against falling after foolishness in general. Because that's what the first part of chapter 5 here is talking about. It's not specifically talking about, even though you can apply this. And I've heard it applied in the case of sexual immorality. And there's truth in that.

But there's more to this than that. The majority of the commentators I studied saw it as a warning against misusing or squandering your abundant blessings from God. That's interesting. Irregardless of sexual immorality or anything, just in general. And that abroad or the streets, of sexual immorality or anything, just in general.

And that abroad or the streets, the public square says it's a public loss. This is Folly's reckless waste. It's in public. It is spilled over into the public square. Right. And how does this spill over? Sometimes one way it spills over into the public square is a lawsuit.

It becomes a legal battle. Right. The public's talking about it now. And the third segment and rivers of waters in the streets. So it's interesting. Okay. Yeah, it's I I'm not sure which way this it I I'm not sure of the right interpretation on this one. This one for me is still in progress. I've got to ponder this more before I can come to a place of saying I'm certain this is what it means.

Because the phrase rivers of waters in the streets, these commentators said, it illustrates blessings that have been wasted publicly. Yeah, I could see where they could make that case there. And I'm looking at the commentators now too and I see that same trend. And yes, I think I approached it from a word study perspective and I didn't see those commentators on that. Yeah, this was, I'll tell you Doc, over the weekend, it's the first time I've seen this. And so they say, those commentators say, because it says rivers, it means abundant loss. Hmm. Okay. Well, either way, there's a lesson to be learned there.

Now we get to 17. Let them be only thine own and not strangers with thee. Let them be for yourself only, not for strangers with you. Well, let them be, okay? Let them be. This implies intentional stewardship of God's blessings. Let them be. So each of us has to guard the provisions that God has given us. Let them be as a commandment for deliberate action, personal responsibility, actively protecting the blessings. Them, what does the them represent? The fountains, the waters. The rivers, yeah. This makes sense then. That interpretation makes sense based on verse 17 here. Yes, so Doc, both of these interpretations actually merge together.

If the waters represent abundant, the abundance of God, the blessings of God, then this is saying do not squander the blessings. Do not let them flood into the street. In other words, if your well was overflowing and water was coming out of the emergency valve and it's now running down the street and it just keeps flowing and flowing and flowing. Neighbors are coming and saying, hey, you got to do something. There's water everywhere.

Think about when firemen open up a fire hydrant just to test them. All that water comes flowing out into the streets. He's like, how much water is... had no idea that water pipe was moving that much water. Well, you see when a fire hydrant is wide open. Let them be, again, deliberate action Let them be again deliberate action to guard your own cistern, your well, personal responsibility, only thine own or for yourself alone.

It's talking about the exclusivity of God's provision. It's His provision to you. He gives provision to each, but He holds us responsible to care for the provision He gives us. So it's for yourself alone. These rivers, these wells, these systems, it's for you alone. It's your responsibility. There's a sanctity of personal provision. The provision coming out of heaven has your name on it.

And I'll say something, and I've been guilty of it myself. At times, it took me a long time to change my own thinking because I had to change my image. I had to change my self-image. I know people in this classroom. I won't say your name. But I have discerned talking to you. You have the same problem.

And you and I, what I used to do, all right, and some of you still do today, you use, I'm going to call it, I hate to say fake generosity because it is generous. But to use generosity the wrong way. What am I getting at? God sends us blessings for us. And when we have a poor self-image, when we think of ourselves lowly, poor, unworthy to be blessed by God, we end up giving away the blessing. That's the generosity. That's a good thing. But the Lord is like, I gave that to you. I gave it to you. Now I've got to send you more, but I'm going to send you more, and you're just going to give it

away again. Because we have a low self-image of ourselves, we feel guilty about keeping the blessing. I used to be guilty of this, Doc. I couldn't receive the blessing. If I'd received the blessing, but misplaced generosity. You were being generous out of guilt or lack of self-worth. Yes. Like, like you didn't deserve the blessing, so you needed to give it to somebody else. So I'm not, I'm not scolding anybody right now. Okay. I'm not scolding anybody. I'm trying to help you. There are people

that I have given generously to as a blessing to them. And I later learned they gave most of it away. It's good that you're generous. You should give a portion away. That's the right thing to give a portion. Yes Yes a portion But not the majority of it

Okay, and you continue to punish yourself living on Meager resources when the Lord blessed you But because you have a low self-image, you felt guilty about being blessed, so you gave it away and then told yourself, I'm a very generous soul. Boy, is that a form of pride? Yes. Yes. I hadn't thought, and boy, you've really got me pondering here Rick, I've never considered this before that we have difficulty at times accepting the blessings of God.

Yes. Or retaining the blessings of God. This is wow, this is a much deeper meaning than I hadn't anticipated today. This is a much deeper meaning than I had anticipated, didn't it? Yes. And so we flood the streets with our blessings. We let the water run down the street. Wow. We just, it's just running. There's a water running down the street.

When God has provided you a cistern. Yes, it's your cistern, your well. Yeah, I've told this story several times. It might be somebody new. I'll give you the short brief condensed version. This is after a year after God called me into this ministry. He called me in 1998. I resigned from TBN for a year. We were living on property owned by TBN, and they allowed me to stay there rent a house for another year after I resigned very very nice of him very kind of Paul Crouch. I'll never say a bad thing about Paul Crouch. He was very good to me. I don't care what people say he was very good to me okay and I'll And a year later came, and the Lord put it on my heart to build a house for a widow who

was living down in McAllen, Texas, a Hispanic woman,, five children living in a rusted out school bus with no electricity, no air conditioning, no water. They had a well on the property. Her husband had been hit by a drunk driver and killed. And this dear single mom held on to their five acres because her husband had told her one time, if anything ever happens to me, don't ever give up this property. I bought this for my family. And so she just, she went and got herself a school bus, a rent, a junk school bus and was living in it. And the Lord put on my heart to build her house.

my heart to build her house and then I procrastinated and I tried I tried I tried and tried nobody seemed to be bothered and I procrastinated and then the Lord dropped the hammer on me and the way he did it was Paul Crouch's senior manager called me and said, hey, Rick, Paul wants that house back and he needs it back in 30 days. What do you think? Can you move out? Yes, sir. I've been very, very grateful. I'll do that.

Okay. I wasn't going to become a problem. And so I said, sure, yeah, we'll be out in 30 days. I thought this is gonna be easy to go find a house. We couldn't find one. I mean, in Dallas, Fort Worth, nothing was working for us. Okay. And we ended up homeless for several weeks. And we're, you know, we're all our furniture is in U-Haul trucks. And we're, you know, we're, we're all our furniture is in U-Haul trucks, and we're staying in bed and breakfast ends and different places. I go, what is going on? You know, anyhow, the short story is the Lord said, you better get busy building that house for Okay? And I mean, it did a fire under me. And we did it. And I just went on the radio

in Dallas-Fort Worth, I had a radio show there, and I just told people, I said, here's what happened. I told them the truth. Like, I'm homeless, and God's not going to give me a house until I build this house. And the donors poured in the funds and we went and bought a brand new house for this woman, double wide. We put it up and hooked up everything and furnished it, everything, down to the toys for the kids. One of those children grew up to be a doctor. Praise God. Yeah.

Anyhow, we were without a house. Okay. And so the Lord moved and showed me, gave me a plan to buy an office and a house when I didn't have the money to go to closing. And he gave me a plan to buy an office and a house when I didn't have the money to go to closing. And he gave me a creative financing deal. And I went to the owner of this brand new house, this is in Texas, made him the keys to me. Oh, no, a handshake. And so Susan saying this is too weird. This is too this is too good to be true. This is a brand new house. He just handed you the key. I mean, it just was like, that's God. Doc, we did not move in that house for two weeks after we had the keys because

we thought this can't be real. We remain homeless. We remain homeless for two more weeks because we thought there's no way this is happening to us. You had the keys. I had the keys. That's just crazy, Rick. I know. See, that's what this false pride does to you. Because what was I saying? I'd only been in ministry for a year. What was I saying? Oh Lord, I don't want anything. I just want to serve you. I don't want anything. I just want to serve you. I don't need any I'll live in a doghouse

It doesn't matter to me you don't have to do I'm not worthy of this brand new house with 15 acres I'm not worthy of this I'll be happy with a tiny little house. Whatever you give me that was how I was talking doc because I had religious junk in my head Whatever you give me that was how I was talking doc because I had religious junk in my head Religious junk yes because I Was brought up in churches that taught Preachers had to be poor Okay In fact they taught Christians needed to be poor.

Right, especially preachers. Especially preachers. They needed to be double poor. How can you lead poor people if you're not poor? Okay. So now, you know, before I was a minister, I didn't have that problem. I was in business. I worked, okay. But when I became a minister, I thought, I have to give up blessings

to prove to people, to prove to religious people that I'm sincere and real. See the thinking? Why am I denying the blessings of God to prove to religious people that my motives are real? So I'm going to deny the blessings of God so that I can prove to some religious person that I'm in ministry for the real purposes, the true purposes. That's pride. That's pride. I didn't know it was pride. Now looking back, I didn't know it either.

Dog on it. You went through it too, didn't you? Yeah, I sure did. So we finally moved into the house. And I'm full of guilt. I was full of guilt. Living in a brand new house, the paint, you still smell the paint. I mean, this is a brand new house. And I was full of guilt. False pride. Unworthiness. I'm unworthy to be blessed like this.

Anyhow, one night I went outside. Susan asked me to get something that was in the trunk of a car. And I opened up, I remember this vividly parked in the driveway in front of the garage. I opened up the trunk and I'm saying to the Lord Lord. I don't I don't deserve this beautiful house. I would be very content with a very small house and I don't I don't need it I'm going to serve you Regardless of what you give me I'm going to serve you and I clearly heard the Lord say Rick do you believe I have prepared a mansion for you in glory I said yes sir your word says so and he said well you don't deserve that either

can I just stood there and I said what what are you saying to me, Lord? And he said, this house is my gift to you. And you are grieving me by not receiving it. And I started crying. I started weeping. And I've I repented for not being blessed. Think about that, doc. Yeah, I repented for refusing to be blessed. You ever heard of such a thing?

I realized I had hurt my father because I turned down the blessing. I was rejecting the blessing. And he's saying, I'm your father. I'm trying to bless you. I love you. I've given this house to you. Why don't you receive it? Receive it and thank me for it. Well, I started thanking him. Well, I started thanking him. Oh, I had an attitude adjustment. I realized I've been blessed. This is from my father. Okay. Now, now we go back to these verses, right? The blessings, the water represents the blessings of God in our life. He gives us individual cisterns and wells. They're for you. You have your well, I have mine. The water that flows from them are the blessings from heaven. They are in your well, in your cistern. They're not mine and mine is not yours. Don't get your eyes on mine. Don't

don't be jealous about mine and I'm not to be jealous about yours. It's your blessing. It says don't let it flow and be wasted in the streets. Don't let it just run down the streets like in a gutter. Where's it going? To the drainage ditch, into the drainage sewer system. Go back out into the rivers and returns to what? Returns to the natural cycle. You've wasted it. You know, every day we turn on our faucets and we let the water run in our sinks going down the drain. Where does it go? It's of no use to us. We've wasted it, okay?

It returns to nature. It goes back into the water system. So it says, for yourself alone, these are your blessings, for you alone, and not strangers with outsiders. Outside the covenant. You see, you might be going, but wait a minute, you're not saying be stingy. No, no, no, not at all. Don't waste God's blessing with people outside the covenant.

Right. Got it. They're the strangers. If they're in the covenant, they're family. But if they're outside the covenant, they're strangers. Right. Now if you take the view that this is all talking about sexual immorality and everything here, and once again, there is that undertone in this. But in a marriage, there's a covenant relationship, a husband and a wife. A husband doesn't share his wife. It's his.

It's his blessing. It's only his. You don't share it with a stranger, if you will. You don't share your wife with a stranger. Because there's a covenant relationship there. But it goes way beyond that. It goes way beyond that. But it still is the idea of a covenant relationship between you and the Lord. He's given you the blessings. He's given you a blessing based on covenant? Think about that. No, if you're there like I am right now under conviction,

thinking about over my lifetime how many strangers outside the covenant I blessed. Oh my I was so dumb. The good thing is The Lord is merciful and when you come to the place like we are today I'm saying oh I get it I See it. I Understand it. I won't do that again. Guess what? He turns the blessings on again. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Your father doesn't say, Hey, you wasted too bad kid. Hey, no

more coming to you. He doesn't think like that. He doesn't talk to us like that. Because doesn't talk to us like that Because you finally Woke up and understand and I'm happy now. I'm going to restore the blessings I've got new water flowing to you. I'm gonna be watching don't let it flow in the streets Don't waste it on strangers outside the covenant. Share it with your brothers and sisters in the covenant, but don't waste it on the strangers outside the covenant. You know, Doc, we can get into,

really it's a sinful position, a mindset that, hey, God's blessings are unlimited. Therefore I don't have to be responsible in how I use them because His blessings are unlimited. Yes. But hey, the Father would say, yeah, they're unlimited up here where I'm at. But if you don't change, they're not coming to you. I'm going to start turning the valve. The water valve, I'll start turning the valve and cutting back the flow. No, you we we desire him to open up the valve let it flow.

He desires us to have this these abundant blessings when we know how to handle them. What's going on out there doc in the chat room? I'm not looking. I don't know. Oh no, they're very open to this. You definitely dropped some new thinking out there today. Okay verse 18. Let thy fountain be blessed and rejoice with the wife of thy youth. Let thy fountain be blessed. Let your spring. So now we've gone from sister to well to spring. We have three water sources now. The core message is about the divine blessing on faithful stewardship.

Let your spring be blessed. Let God's favor be on your personal blessings. Your fidelity to your sister, your will, your spring brings divine abundance. Blessed, says let your spring be blessed. That's divine favor, fruitfulness. Forget all this religious poverty thinking. Just forget it. I know a lot of people, you know, they attack what they call the prosperity preachers, but what's your alternative?

Poverty preachers? Well, they preach that for a long time. Yeah. And prosperity gospel is simply a reaction to that, that teaching. Yes. So you got two extremes. What we need to do is get in the middle and have a balanced perspective about blessings.

God desires to bless you. He will abundantly bless you, but he expects and demands personal accountability in your stewardship of the blessings. Your spring, thy fountain, again, it personalizes the blessing. God gives each of us our own spring. Don't say, I don't have one. You do. Maybe you've covered it up. I mean, have you ever, you're digging in dirt and all of a sudden water starts coming out?

You ever had that happen, Doc? I'm trying to think. There have been times where I've observed springs just come up out of the ground, not even having to dig a hole. Right. You're out walking in a field or bringing the cows in and all of a sudden, hey, there's water coming out of the ground here, a living spring. Yes. But it's covered up. Right. So you when you see it, you get a shovel and you dig it out and now you let it flow. Right.

So if you say I don't have a spring, yeah you do, maybe you covered it up. It's your spring. You find it, you uncovered and let that baby flow and don't let it run down the street. It is to flow in your life and your life full of blessings. The goodness of God is what is supposed to flow into the streets in your life. That's what is to overflow, the light, the blessing, the salt coming from you. But God's blessings that he sends,

he sends to you and is for you. So let your spring be blessed and rejoice. Be happy. Rejoice. Celebrate. Celebrate that God blesses you. Celebrate that He's abundantly good to you. Show exuberant delight over the goodness of your Father. I'm telling you, we get our hearts and our minds in alignment with God, and the blessings increase. Praise God. So then we get to the third part, with the wife of your youth.

This is where everybody builds the sexual connotations of these verses, but we haven't talked about sex at all until we hit here. Everything else has been about the blessings of God. So this says each husband and each wife should cherish each other. When one doesn't cherish the other with love and respect and kindness, there's going to be disorder in the relationship because it's not a relationship. If one spouse does not respect and honor the other spouse that's not a relationship. That's there's disorder and so this is supposed to be a covenant relationship. Verse 19, let her be as the loving hind in pleasant row, let her breast satisfy thee at all times, and be thou ravished always with her love. Modern English, a loving doe and a graceful deer,

let her breast satisfy you at all times, be captivated always with her love. So again, this is really applies male and female. The message is cherish your spouse. else. And the wife is to be compared to a gentle female deer. Is there anything more dough with the big eyes, the kind face, those are just sweet animals. Now the buck with the antlers, not so sweet. Yeah, don't take it out. But she's doing what he's wired to do. Protect his dough and his fawn. And let her breast satisfy thee at all times.

The core message is enjoy physical intimacy. Okay. Be satisfied with the person you're married to. Again, this requires both partners to be in alignment with God's will. It adds tremendous stress if one partner is out of alignment. Because all kinds of, just the marriage, the relationship is gonna get squirrely over time. Right.

Both partners have to be in alignment with God's will. Right. And the third part, and be ravaged always with her love. Okay. Be enraptured with your spouse. Be captivated. But that means the spouse has to be captivating. You know, if you say, you know, my spouse never hugs me. My reply is, well, people don't hug cactuses. Are you a cactus? Is it painful to hug you?

Emotionally painful? Is it unpleasant? Okay. Are you always angry? I mean, think about this. If you want your spouse to be always captivated by you, you have to be captivating. Right.

Right? That's part of it. But you also have to be captivating. Right. Right. That's part of it. But you also need to be in a place, if I'm understanding verse 19 correctly, to receive the blessings of a spouse. Yes. That's, isn't that a problem that a lot of people have? And I mean, it's saying here in verse 19, let her be as a loving kind, let her breast satisfy thee, be thou ravished with her love. And it's not a matter of, well, it's a command to you.

It is a command to you to do these things. Look at her like a pleasant row. Let her bless you. Let her love ravish you. Of course, that is great for the marriage relationship, but it even goes beyond that in the covenant relationship that we have with the Lord. Yes. Because if you are his bride, then are you a cactus? Can he hug you?

Are you captivated with your groom, the Lord Jesus Christ. These are bigger, deeper theological issues. But the analogy is the same. So tomorrow, we only have four verses for tomorrow, 20 through 23. Depending on time, we may move into chapter six. But we definitely will finish up chapter five tomorrow. Okay, great. How's this been so far, chapter five?

Oh, this is, I'm loving chapter five. There's things in it I've never seen before, and today is a perfect example of that. So I approached it from one perspective, and you came at it from a different angle. And it turns out there's a lot more in it than I think either one of us saw. So this is a great passage today, Rick. And I think our class members were just as grateful for what they heard today and our lesson today. I don't want you to ever think that, you know, the way I'm

teaching and what I'm saying is absolutely this is the truth and they get accepted and that's all there is to it. I never have that attitude. What I am trying to do is to spur you to think, to ponder, to consider, to go to the Lord and to say, is that the right interpretation? Is there more to this? Help me understand. That's really what I'm trying to do. Yeah, Don said, I'll be thinking about this all day.

See, that's good. That's good. And the Lord will respond to you when you ponder, kind of like chew on something all day long, like, Lord, what does that mean? What does that mean? I'm wondering, I'm thinking about it. Help me understand. Sometimes I've had the Lord bring the revelation to me a week later. Sometimes, I've had the Lord bring the revelation to me a week later. Just out of the blue, He just says, �Hey, you want to know what that means?� �Yeah, I do.� I've told this story before. I'll tell it one more time before we leave.

This happened, oh, a super long time ago, I was in my, I'm going to say my mid-30s, and I had read where King David said, I was glad when they said, let us go into the house of the Lord. And for some reason, that just stuck with me all day. And I kept saying to the Lord, as I was working, whatever I was doing, Lord, why did King David say he was glad when the people said, let us go into the house of the Lord? What made him say it made him glad?

And I waited and I waited and waited all day long. And I wasn't getting any revelation on it. And I wasn't, I wasn't like I was on my knees all day long. I was just through the day as I'm working, driving, I'm just thinking and pondering, oh, what, was that night, Susan and I were in bed asleep, and I was, I remember this vividly, Doc, I was on the right side of the bed, and the Lord Jesus walked into the bedroom. I didn't see him, I didn't wake up, but I knew he was in the room,

and I knew he was standing beside, in my sleep, I saw him. In my sleep, I saw him in my sleep. I saw him I Saw him standing next to the bed, but I didn't wake up and see him and He walked up to me and he said Rick This is why David said I was glad when they said let us go into the house of the Lord. And the Lord had a bucket. And He turned this bucket over, and something sparkling

came out of it and came over me. And in real time, I was still asleep, but I burst out in laughter. I burst out in laughter physically, for real, not just dreaming, I was laughing. And I woke up Susan and she said, what, you idiot, what are you doing laughing? Why are you laughing?

And I said, the Lord just poured a bucket of joy on me. That really happened, folks, truly happened. I've never had anything like that happen before, since that time. Sebastian said that's happened to me too. The reason I'm telling you this is we don't know the way he will answer. But when you seek him, truly, earnestly, sincerely seek him for meaning of scriptures, he will show up with an answer.

And how he does it is his business, okay? Yeah, you're right. He can be funny in his response. John, I'm not a holy man. No, I'm not. I'm just a person like you, and I sincerely love my Lord and desire to know more about Him. That's it. Okay? It's the attitude of the heart to know. Okay? And He will do the same for you. Okay?

do the same for you. Okay. Judy said that bucket of joy can come in other forms too. Yeah, absolutely. So who's calling you doc? I don't know who it is. Okay, we're four minutes over. Thank you everybody. Be blessed today and just think about your sister, your well, your spring. Have you wasted any of it on people outside the covenant? That's good. Don't be, don't have this false humility. That's what it is, this false humility that says, I don't deserve all these good things. I'm just going to give it away. No, the Father sent it to you for your well, for your sister. It's for you. Don't be embarrassed. Don't be ashamed to use the blessings for yourself. Amen. Praise God. Well, the great lesson today, Rick, and the great part about being part of a

class or part of a fellowship like this, and by the way, this is a ministry of faith and values fellowship here, is that the Lord is teaching us all the same thing at the same time. So we're all learning together here and it's amazing to see not only the changes in my own life but in the lives of others as they pick up these principles and everything. You know we are not the same people we were a year ago, are we? No. Because of the Word. Because of the Word.

And so I pray that this daily Bible study is a blessing to you. I encourage you to join us live on faithandvalues.com if you have the opportunity. We do this in the 8 o'clock hour on the East Coast on faithandvalues.com, where we have our live class, along with several hundred people that are also on board with us, usually anywhere from three to 400 people are with us live on any given day

from a dozen or so countries around the world. So we invite you to be a part of that. But if you can't be, we have lots of opportunities for you to catch up on previous episodes here on faithandvalues.com. Plus we also stream on various social media platforms, including YouTube, Rumble, Facebook, X, and we also do it on trinews.com twice a day at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Eastern Time. Plenty of opportunity to be able to tune in and also to share this material too. And we've been getting some new people coming on board, so I appreciate that as

well. Rick, any final words before we sign off for this Monday? I was a Chihuahua babysitter over the weekend and the Chihuahuas survived. And you survived too? Oh, you know, actually they were very good. Now, I got to tell you, before Susan left, you know, actually they were very good. Now I got to tell you, before Susan left, you know, one of the things she gave me was their pink halters, you know, and leashes. And she goes, now you put this on them and take them for a walk. I'm like, are you serious? You think I'm going to walk to Chihuahua in public wearing a little pink?

No, that's not going to happen. But they were good. They were very nice. We got along fine. And it was a rainy weekend, and I had a very blessed weekend. I had very clear thinking. The Lord spoke to me about some things. Very, very clear thinking. I'll share with you, Doc. But yeah. But the dogs were fine. She's flying home right now. She'll be home in a couple hours.

Okay. That's it. See you tomorrow. God bless you. We love you. We'll see you on Tuesday.