TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Morning Manna - Nov 20, 2025 - Proverbs 16:26-28 - Motives, Mouths, and Mischief

Episode Date: November 20, 2025

Proverbs 16:26–28 reveals three powerful forces shaping human conduct. Hunger drives honest labor, pushing a man forward by necessity and diligence. But the ungodly dig up evil with intentional effort, and their lips burn like fire—words capable of igniting destruction. The whisperer quietly sows strife, separating even the closest friends through secret slander. In today’s Morning Manna, Rick Wiles and Doc Burkhart explore how godly motives produce good fruit, while corrupt hearts use speech to deceive, divide, and destroy. This passage calls believers to discern motives, guard their tongues, and reject the whispers that tear relationships apart.Teachers: Rick Wiles and Doc BurkhartYou can partner with us by visiting FaithandValues.com, calling 1-888-519-4935, or by mail at PO Box 399 Vero Beach, FL 32961.MEGA FIRE reveals the ancient recurring cycles of war and economic collapse that have shaped history for 600 years. These patterns predict America is now entering its most dangerous period since World War II. Get your copy today!www.megafire.worldGet high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves!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!www.Amazon.com/Final-DayApple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books!www.books.apple.com/final-dayPurchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today.www.Sacrificingliberty.com

Good morning. Welcome to Morning Manna. We're glad to have you here today to study the Word of God. We are in the 16th chapter of the book of Proverbs today. It's verses 26 through 29. Let's invite the Holy Spirit. Almighty God, our Father in heaven, thank you for this wonderful, beautiful day. Thank you for salvation in Christ. Thank you for the Holy Spirit. We invite your spirit to take charge of this. Bible study and to edify all of us who have gathered here to learn of your ways, of your word, of your principles, Father, teach us, Father, in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. And hello Brazil, hello Malaysia, hello South Korea, hello, Japan, hello Russia, Switzerland, Ireland, and all across the U.S. and Canada. God bless you. Thanks for joining us today.

for this additional morning manna we are still continuing our study in proverbs chapter 16 we're going to pick back up on verse 26 today and i encourage you uh open up your scriptures now no matter what version of the bible that you're reading here uh let's open up let's read together the word of god we're going to be focusing on verses 26 through 29 today and so i'm reading from the king james this morning beginning at verse 26 he that labroth labroth for himself for his mouth craveth it of him an ungodly man diggeth up evil and in his lips there is as a burning fire verse 28 a forward man so is strife and a whisper separates chief friends and then verse 29 Rick a violent man enticeth his neighbor and leadeth him into the way that is not good God bless the reading of the word today amen First 26, he that laboreth, laboreth for himself, for his mouth crave it of him. The Aramaic Peshida says, the appetite of the laborer works for him, for his mouth compels him.

What does this mean? the appetite of the laborer works for him for his mouth compels him he the king james is he that laboreth the person who works full engagement body mind soul will he or she labors for himself she labors for herself she labors for herself okay it's it actually has to do with survival right it's teaching us that labor is god ordained we read about it in genesis chapter three paul talks about it in thessalonians second thessalonians chapter three labor is god ordained now in the garden of eden let's understand the difference

in the Garden of Eden Adam did not have to work to make anything grow that's right his labor was in keeping the garden taking care of it and harvesting the fruit

that God calls to grow but the the important thing to understand saying is that in the Garden of Eden, Adam and Eve did not have to struggle and work and do backbreaking labor to come up with food. God provided the harvest. The trees, the plants, everything just were filled with fruits and vegetables. It was a gift from God. But Adam had to take care of the garden it was trimming to do there's there's all kinds of they obviously harvest

you know harvest is work you don't think so go ask do it spend a day on a farm and and so there's work after the garden after adam was expelled adam and eve were expelled from the garden God put a curse on Adam's labor. And he said, buddy, I got news for you. You're now outside of the garden. You're in the wasteland. You're out here in the dry land. And you are going to work hard.

And you're going to have to wipe sweat from your brow. Your back's going to hurt. because Adam and Eve voluntarily disqualified themself from living in the garden. So

work is God ordained. Here is the important thing for us to understand as believers. The curse has been removed. right for us the curse has been removed we still work but when we rest in christ he makes things grow for us there is a rest for the people of god hebrews said that they in the book of hebrews that the hebrew people did not enter into god's rest in the wilderness but now that we

we have entered into that Shabbat rest, that Sabbath rest, in Christ. That's right. So we are to rest in Christ and let Christ bring, make everything that we do flourish. We're still laboring. We're still working. We're gathering the harvest. We're taking care of the things that he's given us. But we are not making things grow.

And I think this is one of the biggest misconceptions in the body of Christ that so many Christians go to work every day thinking I have to make this work. I have to make my business work. I have to make my job work. I have to do it instead of resting in Christ and letting him bring abundance to you and your activity is taking care of what he's given you and harvesting what he's given you it's a different mindset you have to rest i've said this before you know my my seventh day adventist friends you know Rick, are you going to become a seventh day Adventist? No, I'm a seven-day Adventist. That's right.

The Lord taught me to rest on seven days. You, SDA, people, are only resting on one day. That's good. That's good. I'm not criticizing you for it. That's good. But there's more. You need to rest on the other six days.

You mean not to go to work? That's not what I've said. Rest. rest let him bless the work so labor is god ordained and labor is healthy idleness is is destructive even rich people who are idle end up in a lot of trouble because there's too much they have too much time on their hands right work builds character it builds trust in god so what this is teaching us is that hunger is a teacher now labor for yourself and this is what is saying he that laboreth laboreth for himself okay the man or woman who works works for himself or herself

that's not selfishness that's survival it's survival that's what is teaching us that god expects us to work and that hunger is a teacher We work not just for food and for the necessities of life, but it's actually for our souls. Yes. A life lot.

You've got to understand, folks, it's not just talking about food here. The application here is that Salon's making a point. You know, there's a natural drive to work. Why? you like to eat right you want a meal right at some point hunger some point will compel you to do something to get rid of that hunger we call that labor yes so self-labor is a it's a form of stewardship because it it involves the care and the use of your body your time and your gifts from god we could do an entire study on the parables

on the talents of what God expects from us. Look at the example. Jesus Christ is our example. His early life was as a carpenter. He worked with his hands. He built things. Imagine owning a chair or table made by, Jesus Christ you know it was the best you could buy he was a craftsman he worked with his father

Joseph and learned the trade of a carpenter so he he did it to show us the way look I'm working I'm developing his skill I'm being productive. I'm creating things. See, even people who are financially secure, and I don't necessarily mean wealthy, but you made good decisions, you have a steady income,

maybe you don't have to go to a job anymore. You're retired and you have a steady income. You still are not permitted to be unproductive. In fact, I think you're more required to be productive. you have free time do something for the kingdom yes become become a missionary make yourself a servant go somewhere in your community and serve christ you have time so we should we should view work as worship that our work glorifies God and it is part of his plan for our lives Susan and I were having a

conversation today talking about the homeless people she ministers to across the street from our office here I guarantee you she's over there right now and it's to my right if I just look out this window over here she's she's over there in the park ministering to homeless people. They don't work, do they? Well, guess what? They're homeless. That's what this is teaching.

For his mouth craves it of him. World English Bible says, for his mouth urges him on. The Aramaic Pashita says, for his mouth compels him. The Septuagin says, drives from him his own ruin. Hunger is the engine of labor. It's the divine motivator.

His mouth craves, needs, desires. to satisfy a hunger it craves it of him craves it what's the it the labor demands precious presses forces the hunger is the motivator so appetite is god-given God designed us to have an appetite right but not to be a glutton see that's the other extreme

where the appetite becomes the goal not the satisfaction of the appetite yes think of hunger as your body's alarm clock it tells you to arise and go to work if you desire to eat

right you know doc i never thought about hunger as being divinely a divine plan that god placed hunger in us to compel us to work right so his this divine appetite placed in us is is God's mercy it motivates us not to waste our lives right and just like in the natural if you

have a hunger but you all you eat is fast food and candy bars and head of chips and everything else what's going to happen to you you're you're going to die spiritually god's also placed a spiritual hunger in us as well. A spiritual hunger. And in that spiritual hunger, we should be motivated to find satisfaction for that hunger. But what do people do? They find the fast food answer in the spiritual round. Or they find something that turns out to be bad for their spiritual health, a false teaching, a false doctrine, a false religion. So just that we have a physical need for food that produces labor in us. We also have a spiritual hunger for spiritual food that should motivate us in spiritual labor as well. That's why you're here today. You are exercising the

fulfillment of that spiritual hunger by being in this class today. That's right. All of us are spiritually hungry. And we satisfy our spiritual hunger by eating the bread of life. Amen. who is Jesus Christ and we we satisfy our spiritual thirst by drinking living water but in the physical realm we we have to have food and water and God put a an appetite in us to keep us from being lazy so we we respond to hunger we work now eat later, we rebuke procrastination. An empty stomach means urgent action has to be taken. If there's no food in the house, you can't procrastinate for weeks. You will get moving. And if you're a parent and you have little children and their little mouths are open and they like to eat,

all day long you're motivated you've got to have food in the house I remember that feeling doc when I was a young parent oh man I remember that motivation I got to get up and get moving these kids want to eat yeah it changes your perspective on things doesn't it sure does you can't just you can't you know when you're a bachelor you can you can survive on ramen noodles but not when you got a family you've got those babies those babies need milk and milk cost money that's right so the mouth craving all right is is god's whip and carrot pain to move promise to reward there's a cycle here hunger

leads to labor which leads to a satisfied mouth which leads to a mouth that craves again which produces more labor and you have this sustainable cycle but it's God's cycle he created the cycle he designed a cycle

hunger is not punishment is propulsion he knows our character if we didn't hunger we wouldn't do anything now rick you and i are kind of cut from a different kind of cloth here we uh we were taught you and i both you know that work was a necessity work was something you did and that a lot of times we identify ourselves with our work our the job that we do it becomes our identity and everything uh but i know for me, Rick, and it's probably the same for you, is I've never had a problem going to work.

And I like it. I like it. I like it. You know, there was a joke my dad used to make about a fella that he was allergic to work. You know, it caused him to break out in hives. There are individuals like that, but I've always enjoyed work. But this verse has caused me to reevaluate that in the sense that, all right, I enjoy that work is, but do I have that same drive spiritually to work to labor for my spirit, for my spiritual destiny? I have no problem showing up, going to work, being at work early, staying late, doing whatever you need to do. Do I have that same attitude when it comes to my spiritual life? Do I put the same priority in my spiritual life? Am I really just eat living on junk food experience spiritually,

or am I really seeking to labor to put spiritual food on my table? So that's what I'm taking away from this verse today, Rick. I have no problem with my mind working for a living and putting food on the table. What about spiritual food? what about good spiritual food in my life well depends on what are you hungering for do i hunger and thirst after righteousness is that is that on my spiritual menu honestly but that's a genuine question i have to ask myself yes do i hunger and thirst for it for righteousness and what did jesus promise

that's the reward that's the meal they shall be fed all right that's the reward you know doc from time to times you know some people accuse me of being a workaholic and they'll say well you're 72 years old you should have retired seven years ago 65 you know here you are still still working doc i haven't had a job in 27 years my last job was TVN I resigned there in 1998 I haven't had a job since 1998 but I get up at 4 a.m. You know why this is not work it's not work this is fun this is a pleasure this is an honor this is a privilege i get to work for my father right and it's not work it gives me grace gives me energy gives me vitality and so when people say you're working i i haven't worked in 20 27 years i've labored

I've labored for the Lord, but I haven't gone to the job, okay? I don't consider this a job. This isn't a career. I'm serving my father. So getting back to this verse, this cycle of work and eat, okay? This is a mirror of grace. Okay.

We work by strength. We eat by mercy. Oh. It's God's mercy that feeds us. And in the natural, God, it's God who sustains the cycle. He sends rain. He gives seed. He brings the harvest.

But the world, and Satan, they, Satan has a completely opposite cycle. Greed, excess, emptiness. It's a loop. Sin's loop. You should lust after something. You should get all that you can get. But you're empty.

You're not satisfied. Right. And that's where a lot of people are. they're greedily chasing something that somebody's told them that if you have this you're going to be satisfied but they never they can never catch it they can never get it so we're being told to work hard and eat humbly that's that's the cycle that's that's the motto here work hard and eat humbly Charles Spurgeon said, the stomach is a good preacher.

It says, get up and work. Go to the next verse 27. An ungodly man, oh, this one's going to be good. An ungodly man diggeth up evil. And in his lips there is as a burning fire. The Aramaic Peshida says a wicked man digs up evil and on his lips is a burning fire. And the Septuagin says, but the perverse bears destruction upon his own mouth. A foolish man digs up evil for himself and treasures fire on his own lips.

So we begin with the first segment, an ungodly man, ungodly woman digs up evil what does this mean well let's start with ungodly man ungodly woman a man a woman of belal worthless all right a rebel a rebel against god this is an ungodly if you're ungodly you are the opposite of godly that makes you a rebel rebels are ungodly and this ungodly man or woman digs up evil

digs up that means there's deliberate excavation there's searching plotting it's not evil that they stumble upon but it's evil that they pursue and actively work at mining it yes so satan provides the shovel to ungodly men and women to enable them to dig up dirt on other people

i'm telling you this is a big sin if you are involved in digging up dirt on some you are in serious trouble ungodly digging glorifies Satan you're using his tools you are working his trade digging up dirt is proactive it as I said it plans it schemes it Executes harm. It's destructive. It searches for and uncover sin. It buries peace. It poisons relationships.

In politics, it's called opposition research. There are companies, agencies that exist primarily for the purpose of gathering information about political leaders or individuals perceived as political threats. Right now in Washington, D.C., and in Chicago, in Los Angeles, and other cities around the world, there are people in offices today being paid to dig up dirt on somebody. Right. For what purpose? To bring them down. Right. to destroy their lives to burn their house down burn their house down ruin their reputation

eliminate them as a spokesperson destroy their reputation their effectiveness this is the opposite of the sweet lips that we talked about yesterday and doctors do it in lawsuits and divorces they dig up dirt on the other party in the lawsuit or the other party in a divorce for what purpose when we go into court we're going to humiliate you

we're going to absolutely humiliate you and they use that to control people yes there's sabotage There's extortion, blackmail. Okay, I know something about you. And if you don't do what I say, I'm going to destroy you. And isn't it interesting that that word dig is used there?

You know, it's not like, well, I just happen to find it laying around. No, no, no. This digging is to excavate, you know, to like a miner in a mine shaft. What's a minder doing in a mine shaft? He's down there. He's looking for something of value that he can bring back up out of that deep mind. You have to use a pick and shovel. That's right.

You're working at it. Yes. And you're trying to find something that's covered. So people's sins are covered. And ungodly people work at digging up a sin that's covered. something that's not becoming to somebody, something that there's no reason for the public to know about it. And you'll have somebody saying,

I am going to dig it up and I'm going to expose and I am going to bring that person down. And God says, you're on the short list for judgment. I mean, this puts you on the short list. judgment is certain i'm telling you god sees the digger and the digging especially think of the gravity of the sin when you are digging up the sin that somebody repented of and god forgave

you're now getting over into an area you have no business being in and there are people who do it they do it every day I mean doc across the hallway here in my office there's a law firm and they specialize they specialize in divorces and I guarantee you they're over there right down today digging up dirt on people to use in a loss in a divorce case that's what people do they make a living at this George Soros pays millions of dollars to organizations to dig up dirt on political organizations and political leaders

and religious leaders and anybody that that is opposing their agenda he spends millions of dollars to do it and isn't the whole Jeffrey Epstein debacle from beginning to in, isn't it summed up in this verse here? Yeah, because what Jeffrey Epstein was doing was enticing people to sin. Right.

Right. Creating the evil. And then promising he would never reveal their sin. There's the lips right there. I won't talk about it. I won't reveal it. So are you guilty of digging up dirt on other people? Do you go on the internet and search and try to find unpleasant things about somebody

so you can gossip and tell people about it? Are you guilty of that sin? It's very serious. Because dirt digging is habes. ritual. It's addictive. One whole leads to another. And people become addicted. And you see people who have actually created in the church ministries. I've got a ministry of exposing sins. That's not, God didn't call you to that ministry. You're working for Satan. Let the Lord deal with people you know Jesus faced dirt diggers the Pharisees the

Pharisees they they dug dirt they were trying to find something dirty on Christ they couldn't find anything what did Herod say what do they say at the pilot I find no I find no fault in this man he couldn't find anything but the dirt diggers were digging they they they wanted to silence jesus okay and in his lips there is as a burning fire and in his or her lips there is a scorching fire who gets burned hot lips yesterday we were talking about sweet lips now we're talking about hot lips the speech is a weapon the lips are the launching pad the burning fire scorching words that ignite destroy burn others it's verbal arson cool setting souls on fire setting reputations

ablaze burning down businesses and ministries and churches and homes and families arson verbal arson it's intentional it's fueled by malice it's fan that's going to stick with me what's that

that's going to stick with me verbal arson and it's intentional doc it's fueled by bitterness and malice I'm going to get even for whatever reason the person thinks he or she is justified in burning down somebody else's life. And how am I going to do it? I'm going to dig up dirt and I'm going to spread it.

And I'm going to hurt that person. I'm going to make that person really pay. I'm going to destroy that person. Let me tell you something. God judges fiery lips. James chapter three said the tongue is set on fire of hell yeah the fiery lips it the fiery lips are burning other people and their reputations and their lives and their families and businesses and ministry but the fiery lips end up burning the person who spread the fire Yesterday we talked about sweet healing words, words that soothe and bring healing. Today we're talking about fiery words, words that scorch and burn.

See, lies, curses, accusations, start flames. that leave ashes. Even the truth can be used maliciously. What is important is the intent of the heart. I know things about important people that I have never told and never will tell. Yes.

It just won't. It just won't do it. I'm not going to destroy the reputation. I'm not going to destroy the reputation. I could easily start naming people over many decades. Hey, here's a famous prayer. I know about this. But I've never told it because I don't know how they worked it out with the Lord.

And I'm not going to get, I'm not making myself God, Jr. And when you are digging up dirt to punish somebody, you have appointed yourself as God Jr. You're bringing judgment. You are now the judge. I am going to rule and I'm going to execute judgment. And it's just another form of pride. An idolatry.

Yep. Okay. So you should see fiery lips as hell's vent, as spewing smoke and just scorching souls. Fire spreads. Starts with one word, then more words. One person is burned, then more people are burned. Fire spreads.

And before you know it, a fire has burned out an entire family or an entire church or a movement or whatever, all caused by somebody with fiery lips. But the fire consumes the fire breather. The liar, the accuser eventually is burned up by their own words. because the fire originated in hell the fire leaves scars emotional scars spiritual scars financial scars reputational scars

you can't have a fire and not have scars fires burn and the damage can last for decades I know a local Christian leader he is just one of the most beautiful souls

you'll ever meet this merciful and kind but many years ago he was the victim of lies and decades ago and when he talks about it you can see the pain on his face

it still hurts Doc decades later it still hurts him you know why fire burned fire burns he lost a lot because somebody told lies about him and people believe the lies and it cost him a lot and he still winces when he talks about it

that's the damage of words if now maybe you're not the one digging up dirt but maybe you're the one that likes to examine dirt that somebody else dug up well you're just as guilty if the dirt digger has no customers the dirt digger will go out of business so don't be a customer for a dirt digger I mean what I'm out of business I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not I'm not interested in what you have to offer.

Because it's going to come with a curse. Verse 28, a froward man soweth strife and a whisper separateth chief friends. A perverse man sowed strife. A whisper separates friends. the Septuagin says a perverse man spreads mischief and will kindle a torch of deceit with mischiefs and he separates friends a throwward man okay feroord perverse crooked bent twisted contrary to God's words okay a heart bent against truth against God's order, against God's peace.

That's a froward man or woman. A lot of religious people are froward. Yeah. They have an outer shell, a mask. I'm religious. I go to church. But they're inwardly, they are froward. They are perverse.

They're crooked. They're twisted. Their heart is bent away from God, away from His order away from his peace. They soweth strife. They plant. They collivate. They harvest strife. It's not accidental. It's intentional. If you sow strife, you are deliberately planting seeds of division and strife. This perversity produces conflict. It mangles and and twist relationships. The seeds are planted, the seeds grow,

and a harvest is reaped in division and strife and hurt feelings and devastated lives. See, God hates sewers of discord. Proverbs 619 assures us that judgment is certain. there's just certain things I mean God tells us this is what I hate it's not who he hates it's what he hates yes a froward mouth poor soers of discord people who stir up strife and division so all

of us need to ask ourselves the question am i planting strife or peace am i participating in gossip i didn't dig up the dirt but i listened to it and then i told other people about it so you're participating in the sin again you may not be the one who is digging up dirt and gossiping but if you're listening to them, you're participating in their scent, and that's where you have to say to your friend or coworker, I'm sorry, if you're going to talk about that person,

I'm going to have to leave. Yeah, that's what you need to do. You draw a boundary. Can we change the subject? If you're not willing to change the subject, I'm going to have to excuse myself. I can't sit here and talk about somebody. people i guarantee you talk all over the all over the world right now in coffee shops in restaurants

in in break rooms and offices and in living rooms people are gathered to talk about other people and don't discount social media rick oh social media thrives on this that's all it is that's really yeah that's the majority of activity on social media oh i think satan invented social media if he didn't invent it he certainly he has milked it for all he can get out of it because it's it's it's gossip on you know on steroids right but just remember saying Satan is the father of lies. He is the accuser of the brethren. Don't help him.

Don't participate in what he's doing. Don't go into farming with Satan. Don't be out there digging for his benefit. And a whisper separateth chief friends. A whisper in this case means a gossiper. a slander a tail bearer speaking things in secret spreading things in the shadows did you hear what happened to so-and-so you didn't oh my let me tell you oh did you know that so-and-so's marriage is falling apart no i didn't know that oh well let me tell you did you hear that

so-and-so's business is in trouble and made clothes? No, where did you hear that? There's a whispers. These are whispers. Slandering, gossiping, tail-bearing. What's a tail-bearer? Somebody that, a bearer is somebody who's carrying a tale, a story. Separates chief friends.

intimate allies close companions it gets inside and it divides people splits up relationships can split up a family a marriage a business I've seen it in organizations I've seen organizations just split apart because one person got hired and brought that spirit into the organization. Right. Goes from office to office slandering, planting thoughts.

Like a virus. Like a virus. God abhors, whispers. Leviticus, chapter 19, verse 16, there's judgment on lips that spread gossip.

Again, modern day, our churches, we simply don't warn church members, how serious the sin is. Again, and it goes with, tail bears go with those who dig up dirt. You can have the dirt digger and the gospel being the same. one and the same or the dirt digger is the one that that works at finding it and then gives it to a gossiper hey i didn't tell anybody i only told one person yeah you told the biggest mouth in town and you chose that person because you know he or she's a big mouth and it's going to tell everybody it's a weapon and and it's stories are being weaponized

for the purpose of hurting another person destroying families splitting churches last one let me go down to verse 29 a violent man enticeth his neighbor

and leadeth him into the way that is not good. All right. So this verse identifies the aggressive person as somebody who uses charm or deception to lure others into harm. you know what doc i think i'm going to save this for tomorrow or today's thursday is today's thursday oh tomorrow's fate all right i'm going to save i'll say i'm going to save this for monday because this kind of goes with um with the verse 30 and uh because it says he shutteth his eyes to devise it's talking about the violent man so i'm going to save this to to uh monday's lesson and and then tomorrow's

Tomorrow's Faith Friday, and we invite you to be here for Holy Communion. We're going to eat the bread of life, okay? Yes, and for those of you who will be joining us tomorrow, make preparations with bread and either red wine or grape juice, and who may participate? Well, if you're a confessing believer in Jesus Christ, and you've been baptized in water according to scripture in the name of the Father, Son, the Holy Spirit, and we invite you to participate in the Lord's Supper. We do this every Friday. And it's one of the great blessings that we get to have as pastors of an online church is to be able to share the bread of life globally

and what an honor it is. And we invite you to participate with us tomorrow. And so also a reminder over my shoulder here, you see Rick's book Megafire. And I want to encourage you if you haven't done so already to get your copy of Megafire. Very easy to get. Just go to Megafire, all one word, dot world, that's M-E-A-F-I-R-E-E-O-R-D-W-R-D-W-D, and order your copy, either just the regular paperback or signed edition by Rick, and all the details are on the website by how you can get yours. Rick, any other thoughts before we close out for this Thursday edition? Yeah, I'm looking at the comments.

Gerald said, never heard a message like this before. Well, Gerald, I've never taught a message like this before. We're learning together. Let's see, somebody asked here, oh, Dana, does this apply to news reporters and investigative type stuff? Very good question. What's the motive in the investigative report?

Right. Is it just for the, is it politically, motivated to destroy someone or is it meant for protecting someone? For instance, if you knew someone was abusing children, you wouldn't keep your mouth shut about it, right? So are you able to find the evidence of that? But if it was coming for a motivation just to destroy somebody, it focuses more on the false stuff than anything else, I think, or the accusations of the maybes. But it could also apply to some of the practical things, too, but it could also apply to some the practical things too once again it comes back to the thoughts and intents of the heart would

you agree with that rick yes all right leslie i won't forget to smile was i not smiling in the lesson i don't know i'm not looking at myself i have no idea hey john mark's here oh john mark i could see you um let's just said i don't know if you know but you were a fun funny guy I don't know looks like okay well listen John Mark is doing an awesome job for us in India right now we are going to launch a new platform God willing we're working to meet a very tight deadline and Yeah, we're under a lot of pressure. And that's why he went to India because we hired some developers in India to build the platform for us.

We're going to own the platform. We're not going to be at anybody else's mercy. We're going to own this platform. And anyhow, he's there supervising it, but we're under a really tight deadline. So in the next couple days a week or so, probably after Thanksgiving, I'm going to tell you it okay so just pray for john mark that god's grace will be upon him because um the time zone difference is really making it difficult for me to communicate with him because uh i'm going to bed when he's getting up okay and vice versa and so um it's it's been challenging for him to talk

to me about what they're doing and for me to to relay to him what i'm I would like done. And the only thing I've come up with, Doc, is, oh, God, please, just take charge of this and you do it. You know, I just direct John Mark and you tell him what you desire to be done. Okay? I can stay out of it. You just direct him.

And let's get this thing done. Okay, that's it. Thank you, everybody. We'll see you tomorrow for Faith Friday. God bless you. We'll love you. We'll see you then.