TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Morning Manna - November 3, 2025 - Proverbs 15:30-33 - The School of Wisdom: From Reproof to Repentance

Episode Date: November 3, 2025

Proverbs 15:30–33 traces the final ascent of a wise heart—where joy, correction, humility, and reverence converge. The light of the eyes refreshes the heart, good news strengthens the spirit, and ...the ear that welcomes reproof dwells among the wise. To reject correction is to harm the soul, but to embrace it is to gain understanding. Ultimately, “the fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom, and before honor is humility.” In this Morning Manna teaching, Rick Wiles and Doc Burkhart unpack how true wisdom matures through teachability, submission, and holy reverence before God. Teachers: Rick Wiles and Doc Burkhart You can partner with us by visiting FaithandValues.com, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 399 Vero Beach, FL 32961. MEGA FIRE reveals the ancient recurring cycles of war and economic collapse that have shaped history for 600 years. These patterns predict America is now entering its most dangerous period since World War II. Get your copy today! www.megafire.world Get high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves! www.AmericanReserves.com It’s the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. Now available in eBook and audio formats! Order Final Day from Amazon today! www.Amazon.com/Final-Day Apple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books! www.books.apple.com/final-day Purchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today. www.Sacrificingliberty.com

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Well, good morning, everybody. Welcome to Morning Manna on this Monday morning. We're delighted that you're here to study the Word of God with us. We're wrapping up chapter 15 of the book of Proverbs today. We've got the last four verses, verses 30 through 33. And then tomorrow we begin our study of chapter 16. So let's pray. Doc will read our verses and we'll jump into today's Bible study. Almighty God, Father in heaven, you are wonderful beyond our comprehension. You're magnificent. You are beyond anything that we can comprehend. And we are in wonder of you. Is there anything too hard for you, Father? No, not one thing. There's nothing that we will face today. that we cannot bring to you and you solve it so father we uh we invite your holy spirit into this
Starting point is 00:01:08 study to take charge of morning manna to lead us in the study of your word grant unto us the anointing that was upon solomon for wisdom and wealth father that we would be examples of your promises in this age of disbelief of rebellion. Father, raise up people who will become wealthy to finance the gospel in the last days. The gospel must be heard in all the world. Then the end shall come. And so Father, you already know,
Starting point is 00:01:53 it's gonna cost billions of dollars to reach the world. And that means, somebody's got to give billions of dollars and that means somebody's got to be blessed let it be let it be this group father that is among those who are blessed in the last days father we praise you we worship you in the name of jesus amen amen and good morning everyone welcome to morning manna and for those uh in our international audience out there we had a time change over the weekend and so signed on about an hour earlier i got all your messages i'm glad that you're here with us now no matter where you are in the world god bless you and we love having you from russia
Starting point is 00:02:39 australia the philippines japan on all points in between across the u.s and canada welcome the morning manna we are in uh chapter 15 finishing up chapter 15 today and i'm going to be reading verses 30 through 33 so if you've got your bibles please turn there i'm going to read this passage reading from the king james please follow along with me the light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart and a good report maketh bones fat the ear that hearth the reproof of life abideth among the wise he that refusest instructions despises his own soul but he that heareth reproof geteth understanding verse 33 the fear of the lord is the instruction of wisdom and before honor is humility god bless the reading of his word today as we finish up chapter 15 today amen doc we forgot last
Starting point is 00:03:39 friday to remind our international audience that america does the daylight savings time transition on this weekend this past weekend So I apologize to some of you signed in too early. So it is currently right now 8.17 a.m. Eastern time. The current time is 8.17 a.m. Eastern time. So tomorrow we'll be here at 8 a.m. Eastern time. Whatever that is, whatever that works out to be in your time zone. So, Proverbs 1530, King James, the light of the eyes rejoiceth the heart and a good report
Starting point is 00:04:30 maketh the bones fat. The Septuagin says, the eyes that see good things rejoice the heart and a good report fattens the bones. Oh, I like that, dog. Fat bones. I like the eyes that see good things. You know, I see something, but a lot of people don't see good things. The eyes that see good things rejoice the heart.
Starting point is 00:05:07 And a good report fattenes the bones. But Pashita says the light of the eyes rejoices the heart and good news refreshes the bones. Good news. Give a good report. You'll give a good report if your eyes see good things. You know, even in things that are unfortunate, negative, you can see something good at it. But look for good things and give a good report.
Starting point is 00:05:43 The light of the eyes, that symbolizes our vitality, our spiritual perception the radiance of our inward joy bright eyes indicate a living spirit dim eyes signify sorrow or decline how often do we say she has sparkle in her eyes right okay what is that sparkle in her eyes or i love it when his eyes just light up with joy what is it it's the it's the god energy inside that person's soul that makes their eyes sparkle with life but when you are depressed when you are constantly focused on negative things the light will go out and your eyes will be dim so the light is the illumination of divine truth revelation that turns despair into delight yes
Starting point is 00:07:20 You can turn despair into the light. You can have a smile on your face during the most difficult times. Spiritually, the light of the eyes represents your soul's inward vision. It's your soul's renewed vision. When God's favor shines. upon your soul a cheerful countenance reflects the peace of a heart that is in communion with god that's the only way to be joyful it's his joy the joy of the lord is my strength it's not your joy it's his joy the joy of the Lord is my strength.
Starting point is 00:08:24 Amen. When we have joy, we are participating in his joy. And his joy is our strength. And what Satan desires to do is to just drain God's joy out of our lives. And we've all allowed him to do it from time to time. we're just worn down by trouble and negative influences, negative people, and it can drain the life out of you, but at some point you've got to snap out of it and say, I have to get the joy of the Lord back in my life.
Starting point is 00:09:14 So the wise keep their eyes bright by looking to think. things above, not being darkened by the shadows of the world. Again, I believe it's one reason the Lord took me away from true news and just said, 26 years of it is enough. the news is becoming so bad that you're telling the church what's going on is actually hurting them right it's distracting them from the gospel yes it's causing them to look at other things and so it's so easy to fall into it because you know you see the things happening the world around you but we serve a higher power we we're citizens of another kingdom and our focus should be on that and not you know i don't follow the news in russia if a russian headline comes up or i
Starting point is 00:10:27 don't follow the news in great britain uh why should i what you know i don't worry about what's going on in other countries well if i'm kingdom focused what am i worried about anything going on here that's right you need to have a a balance you have some awareness of what's going on in the world I'm not sure to to be ignorant of the things that's taking place in the world that's not wise but it's also not wise to deep dive into news events and world affairs to the point that you are obsessed with it right and that's where I think a lot of people are today. It's been
Starting point is 00:11:17 far too much time watching social media videos about the news, listening to commentaries. Some of these podcasts are going three and four hours. And people are going from one three-hour podcast to another
Starting point is 00:11:33 three-hour. And that's six hours of your day. You're listening to somebody gripe and complain about world events. And is your life any better because no it's not any better in fact it gets worse oh my goodness it's all falling apart yes well i knew that before i started listening it's all falling apart that's right and it's going to fall apart until christ comes that's right so the light in our eyes
Starting point is 00:12:08 is evidence of the light in our soul. Spiritual sight renews strength and rejoices the inner being. So if there's no light in a person's eyes, that's an indication that the light is going out in their soul. And a good report, makeeth the bones fat. Do you have fat bones, Rick? Lately, I've got fat everything, dog.
Starting point is 00:12:52 I'll tell you a joke. It's from Gilligan's Island. Skipper and Gilligan were talking. And Gilligan made a comment about the skipper's weight. And Skipper said, hey, don't be knocking. me, I've got big bones. And then Gilligan says, yeah, and it's covered by big fat. So every time I think of this, when I hear about making your bones fat, I think of that interchange there. What does it mean to have fat bones, Rick? What does that mean? Well, let's look at the good
Starting point is 00:13:27 report first. Okay. A good report means good news, glad tidings, encouraging words, a message of blessing and favor and a good report maketh the bones fat so in ancient hebrew culture the bones did not necessarily mean the our skeleton it represented a person's vitality their endurance the framework of their strength. So what it means is good news nourishes the soul as food nourishes the body. So a message of grace or deliverance or hope strengthens the weary. It revives the faint-hearted. When somebody's facing difficult situations, the last thing they need to hear is a depressing word.
Starting point is 00:14:41 They need to hear hope. And if the children of God don't deliver words of hope, who's going to do it? So words of hope act as medicine. They restore health to the inner. man. That's what this means. When you're speaking words of truth, words of hope, you are giving medicine to a person who is weak, spiritually, emotionally, weak,
Starting point is 00:15:19 reviving them, bringing them back. So God's good report, the gospel, is the ultimate fulfillment of this proverb. you know why because it brings life to the bones that were dead in sin that's what the gospel did for us amen we were dead in sin and the good report the gospel revived us so fear and anxiety will consume the body and the mind spirit joy and faithful invigorate it spiritual encouragement has physical effects you've sometimes what a person needs is just constant words of encouragement so they get back up on their feet sometimes people are down because all they hear is negativity right griping complaining
Starting point is 00:16:37 condemnation shame and their life is drained out of them somebody has to come along and speak life into them to restore their energy restore their life their vitality so yeah and uh Psalm 32 verse 3 David cried out to the Lord when I kept silence. My bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. Yes. Wasted away. Your bones wasted away.
Starting point is 00:17:16 Let's see what the commentator said. John Gill. The shining of the eyes denotes the joy of the soul. The good report may be the glad tidings of salvation which are marrow and fatness to the believer amen charles bridges the brightness of the eye is the mirror of a happy heart the good report the word of grace is strength to the whole man adam clark the countenance reflects the soul good tidings enlivens the spirits and refresh the very frame of the body
Starting point is 00:18:00 you man Albert Barnes the verse links physical and moral health joy quickens the pulse of life sorrow wasted away we are not good news makes men strong
Starting point is 00:18:18 it feeds faith as bread feeds the body the gospel is the good report that makes the bones live Charles virgin. When grace shines into the eyes, the heart leaps for joy. When the gospel's good report is heard, the bones of faith are filled with holy marrow. Verse 31.
Starting point is 00:18:45 The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. The subtoagin says, the ear that hears reproofs of life shall lodge among the wise let's look at the first part the ear that heareth the reproof of life this this verse is focused on the teachability of a person's soul right the ear that they have ears to hear ears that listen right it's not just a passive receiving of information it's You know, you're leaning in. You're waiting for that instruction. Yes.
Starting point is 00:19:36 See, you can hear and then you can listen. There are two different things. You can hear, you can hear the audible sound of somebody talking. That doesn't mean you're listening. Reproof of life. The ear that heareth, the reproof of life. that means the rebuke that leads to renewal a loving correction delivered by a loving saint in a spirit of love not meanness not with shame not with correction or with with with condemnation
Starting point is 00:20:28 But the reproof of life, spoken in love, leads to the renewal of the person who listens. So wisdom doesn't begin with speaking, but with listening. The ear is the gateway to the soul. Hearing implies humility. a readiness to receive truth even when it wounds your pride okay that's one way to know when somebody loves you
Starting point is 00:21:14 when they can privately talk to you in love and tell you the truth you need to hear and it doesn't destroy you it corrects you it helps you and you know, that person loves me. You see, condemnation comes with shame. Never shame a person. Never humiliate a person.
Starting point is 00:21:44 Never embarrass and humiliate a person. Shaming is wrong. The wise recognize reproof as a gift not an insult they recognize that it is the voice of god speaking a loving message through a fellow believer and they they receive it as such so you have to discern the difference between condemnation and correction condemnation kills it destroys the gives life. That's why the word says there's therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. We are not condemned. The Father doesn't condemn us. Jesus doesn't condemn us. The Holy Spirit
Starting point is 00:22:40 doesn't condemn us. Does it encourage us, correct us, sometimes chastises us, yes, but never condemns us, never shames us. We have no shame. Talk, if anybody has the right is entitled to condemn, it's God. that's right i mean he's perfect sinless holy and we're the opposite if anybody has would be justified in condemning us it would be the lord but he doesn't do it yeah he's the only one qualified so so to be condemned by another sinner that is such hypocrisy i mean to be condemned by another sinner and that's how the Lord looks at it like excuse me you're a sinner and you're condemning a sinner you have a problem here that's why don't condemn other people so the hearing ear okay the Jesus said do you have ears to hear okay the ear the ear that can the ear that
Starting point is 00:23:55 can hear spiritual truth is a work of grace it is God who gives us a hearing ear his grace his spirit softens our hearts to receive divine admonition it's a work of grace you know it's easy to listen to compliments I mean don't we all want to be complimented sure but it's not easy to listen to correction and yet it's reproof not compliments that saves our soul from ruin amen
Starting point is 00:24:43 there's nobody who said man I was turned away from sin by compliments that just doesn't happen it's it's it's a word of correction abideth among the wise okay let's go back here the ear that hears reproof of life shall lodge among the wise okay abideth lodge live okay
Starting point is 00:25:21 abide means a place where you throw your hat it's right where's home where's home okay
Starting point is 00:25:29 to listen well is to dwell well is to dwell well the teachable spirit finds its home among the wise
Starting point is 00:25:46 they abideth among the wise they lodge they live among the wise amen and abideth means more than just lives lodging
Starting point is 00:26:03 it also infers stability belonging community so The soul that welcomes godly correction just fits naturally among people who fear the Lord. You're among family. It's sad that the more you grow in Christ, sometimes the more.
Starting point is 00:26:44 separated you are from your natural family yeah that's a sad truth yeah that's that's true and jesus told us it would happen he said some he said there are times a man's worst enemies will be in his own house think about it your worst enemy will be living in your house He said he didn't come to bring peace, but a sword. And that mother would be against daughter, father against son, children against parents. Over what? Over Christ? Some of you listening to me today, you are separated from your family because of your journey with Christ.
Starting point is 00:27:44 and it's extremely painful. It's devastating. It is heartbreaking. It's probably the worst emotional pain you've ever felt. But I'm telling you, God has grace for you. Amen. And he will give you new family members. I'd be new parents, new children, new grandchildren, new grandchildren,
Starting point is 00:28:14 new brother, sisters. He will give you new family. Yes. For every family member who has rejected you, God will bring 10 more who will love you. Amen. Because they are in the family of Christ. So the soul that welcomes correction fits naturally among those who fear God. But the unteachable spirit, exile themselves from
Starting point is 00:28:45 Wisdom's Fellowship. Amen. Pride isolates, humility, integrates. Dr. Wise, man, or woman is not known by his or her perfection, but by his or her posture. His humility. Yes.
Starting point is 00:29:10 They're humble. And so humbly listening to truth draws you into the company of truth seekers and truth lovers. And correction creates communion. Because we're taking care of each other. So the reproof of life not only strengthens the individual, But the entire body of Christ, the church, the congregation, the community, the ecclesia. Because when we lift up another person, when we reprove them, when we help them, we're strengthening the entire body of Christ. So, Doc, this word abideth, lodges.
Starting point is 00:30:13 It also means that a teachable heart becomes a permanent resident in the kingdom of wisdom. Amen. Not a visitor, not a passerby, but at home. Right. You're not just a guest, your family. Right. This is where I throw my bag. This is where I live.
Starting point is 00:30:38 Okay. Okay. check the commentators Matthew Henry he that is willing to be told of his faults is upon the way to mend them and shall dwell among the wise he shall be esteemed one of them Adam Clark he who hears reproof lives for correction is the soul's medicine the humble learner keeps company with the wise physician Albert Barnes, to dwell among the wives is to share their safety, their peace, their honor. Obedience to counsel is fellowship with the godly.
Starting point is 00:31:27 And Charles Spurgeon, he who cannot bear reproof is not a child of wisdom. The ear that loves correction is the ear that hears the music of life. Amen. verse 32 king james he that refuses instruction despises his own soul but he that heareth reproof gett understanding the subtuagin translation he that rejects instruction hates his own soul but he that hears reproof loves his own soul of this verse he that refuseth instruction despiseth his own soul if you hate correction you actually hate your own soul that's powerful see the person who
Starting point is 00:32:35 rejects godly correction is not only rejecting wisdom but rejecting life itself Amen. Dr. Moore, I meditate on this one. This is really a serious scripture. Instruction means discipline, moral correction, training. To refuse it is to despise your own soul, to treat your eternal welfare with contempt because pride blinds a man or woman to the mercy within the rebuke he sees the proud man or woman
Starting point is 00:33:31 where God intends healing so the false greatest folly is self-hatred disguised as self-defense. It's actually spiritual suicide. You're deliberately silencing your conscience. Again, Doc, the more I meditate on the scripture, it's like never stood out to me in the past with this gravity you know in the past I just thought well you know you reject correction you know okay you're a fool you're an idiot it's bad for you bad for you but it's actually says
Starting point is 00:34:32 you're killing yourself yes you're dying you're killing your soul little by little you're killing your soul so god's loving reproof is an act of grace rejection of it invites spiritual destruction right so would you say that rejecting reproof is rejecting grace oh absolutely God always, if he reproves you, he gives you the grace to fix it. Absolutely, yes. God doesn't slap you around and go, you loser. You straighten up and act right. That's not grace.
Starting point is 00:35:29 No, it's not grace. God lovingly, yeah, God lovingly points out what we have done wrong, where we are going wrong, and then gives us the grace. to repair it. Yes. He goes, I know, you're deficient. Here's some grace. It'll make you, it'll get you through it.
Starting point is 00:35:52 You'll repair it. A loving father. So an unteachable spirit really is the hallmark of a lost soul. Closed ears lead to hard hearts. it's sad when you see people around you that just are not teachable it means they have hard hearts and their souls are lost and only the grace of god can soften their heart there's nothing you're going to do that's going to bring them around
Starting point is 00:36:42 all you can do is pray that god's grace touches them and softens their heart so every refusal of instruction is a rejection of god's love God disciplines, he chastens those who he receives as sons and daughters. So to reject his correction is to reject him and his love, his grace. And that will get you in trouble. But he that heareth reproof, geteth understood. understanding. Once again, we're back to to hear means to receive it with humility and to put it in action. To receive it with humility, to reflect upon it and then act upon it with
Starting point is 00:37:48 obedience. Right. Because it's not going to do you any good if you don't implement the wisdom in your life. Wisdom is going to make a change. That's the result of of wisdom. Wisdom corrects. Wisdom resets the course, if you will. Put you back on the flight pattern. Wisdom always does that. If it's not, is it wisdom? That's right. So, Doc, you know, there's a three-part formula. You listen with humility. You receive it with humility. You don't put up a wall of pride and say, I don't want to hear it. You're not going to tell me anything. I'm not listening to anything you say okay let's see as pride you listen with humility you receive it with humility and then you reflect on it you meditate on it you
Starting point is 00:38:42 you meditate on the meaning of the of the correction and then you obey you put it into action so humility reflection obedience those are the three the three steps see it's not passive hearing is not passive hearing must transform the listener if there's no transformation then it really wasn't received it has to transform us into a wiser better person geteth understanding excuse me geteth understanding
Starting point is 00:39:33 literally means to acquire discernment so he who gains moral or they put it like this the person who acquires
Starting point is 00:39:54 discernment gains moral intelligence and spiritual insight discernment is understanding that's really understanding
Starting point is 00:40:09 but wisdom is wisdom is not a achieved through your brilliance oh the word starts with a bee but it's not brilliant it's brokenness yes the most effective people for god are people who have been broken and crushed it when you meet them. They've been broken and crushed.
Starting point is 00:40:55 Then God's able to work through them. He can do a limited amount of work through them, but when they are completely broken and crushed, then he has squeezed all the pride and the self
Starting point is 00:41:11 out of them. And now they're able to be fully used by the Holy Spirit. See, that correction as a chisel. You've got to see it as a chisel. God's chisling on us to shape our character. Imagine you're a rock. Imagine that you're a piece of granite and some guy comes along and start knocking pieces off of you. Yeah. Well, that's what God is doing to. Yeah, it's the rock or the piece of granite probably isn't enjoying it if it had feelings. But you do have feelings and you do
Starting point is 00:41:46 react to it and so but if we wisdom is acknowledging that you lack wisdom isn't it yes we need more it's acknowledging that we we need more okay there's never a place where you you never arrive in life where hey i've got all the wisdom i can handle so acquiring wisdom is a lifelong pursuit Henry said, he that cannot bear to be told of his faults shows that he loves his sin more than his soul. I should just stop at that one. Albert Barnes, the man of contrast. The contrast is between self-love and self-destruction.
Starting point is 00:42:46 to reject correction is to hate oneself to receive it is to love one's own life alexander mclarne reproof is god's surgery refusal of it is suicide suicide yeah he who listens lives he who resist dies by his own hand these old guys didn't they didn't cut you any slack doc no they didn't but you know that god had to work it through them first oh yeah right absolutely that's what i'm saying if they've been used mightily by god they were crushed and broken charles spurgeon to refuse instruction is to despise the very soul, God would save. The wise man bows before the truth and rises enriched.
Starting point is 00:43:49 All right. Our last one, verse 33. The fear of the Lord is the instruction of wisdom, and before honor is humility. The Septuagin translation, the fear of the Lord is instruction and wisdom, and the beginning of glory is humility. right the first half the part one the fear of the lord is the instruction of wisdom so in my viewpoint doc this last verse of chapter 15 is returning to the to the theme that crowns the book of proverbs the fear of the lord is the instruction of wisdom the fear of the
Starting point is 00:44:47 lord is the beginning of wisdom and wisdom begins and ends with reverence for god that fear of the Lord signifies an all-filled submission, a moral reverence, devotion, fidelity, loyalty to Almighty God. He is so great, so magnificent, so incomprehensible that we fear him in a good way. He's our loving father, and yet we're aware he can shut down the entire universe with one word. So true wisdom cannot exist without this fear. It is the moral atmosphere in which the soul learns truth. instruction of wisdom means that wisdom's discipline springs from reverence we're taught by the presence that we reverend
Starting point is 00:46:12 so divine fear trains the heart to discern holiness truth duty it's a teacher and a restraint guiding the wise and guarding them from foolishness again this fear the fear of the lord is not terror it's tenderness it's not dread of judgment it's delight in his holiness it's the source and the substance of wisdom it's our heart submission to his divine authority that's really what it comes down to when you finally submit to his divine authority and you finally say you're in control your plan is perfect your timing is perfect and i accept it now you're on the way to wisdom
Starting point is 00:47:20 second part is and before honor is humility so there's another theme that runs through our Proverbs is divine order yes exaltation
Starting point is 00:47:43 follows abasement spiritual honor grows only in the soil of humility this is the divine order what did Jesus teach us about being servants if you desire to be great you have to be leased everything is inverted in the kingdom of God well actually it's the world that's inverted The kingdom of God is in, is in right order. That's right.
Starting point is 00:48:23 The world is upside down. But humility is, it's not self-deprecation. It's self-surrender. Yes. Because back to what I just said a moment ago, where you acknowledge his ways, his timing are perfect. And you completely submit to him. And you finally realize your smallness in comparison to his greatness.
Starting point is 00:49:01 And it's just smart to go with his plan. Amen. It saves a lot of trouble. Well, Doc, I wish I'd done this earlier in my life. I really do. We think that we're serving the Lord. but really we're we're so full of ourselves it just takes a lifetime to get rid of yourself isn't that the truth you know don't don't be discouraged if you're still struggling with self okay
Starting point is 00:49:35 you're going to be doing that until the day you die you know we need to echo the words of john the baptist i must become less and he must become more that's right God has never put a crown on pride. Just remember that. There's no crown of pride in the kingdom. He puts crowns on the meek. He resists the proud. So what about this word honor?
Starting point is 00:50:18 I think it refers to divine approval. The esteem of heaven and men and women. The spiritual exaltation. God honors you. Yes. And once again, that echoes that idea of order. That it's prevalent all throughout Proverbs. Really, what is honor?
Starting point is 00:50:45 Honor is order. Honor is recognized. that there's an authority. Honor is recognizing that there are those who have gone before us. Honor is recognizing that we don't have all the answers and that we need to get additional information from others. Honor acknowledges that. And honor acknowledges that there's an order to things. So before honor is humility. In other words, you won't be honored by God until your you're humble. Amen.
Starting point is 00:51:21 That's what it means. Before honor is humility. To be honored by God, you have to first be humble. And again, this is what we, we spend a lifetime with God and his chisel, chisling off chunks of pride and whatever is, you know, attached to us. He's trying to shape us into the image he desires. Excuse me. Bless you.
Starting point is 00:52:00 Doc, the proud rush, and I know you've seen this in life, the proud, the proud will rush to seize honor. yes they'll knock you over they'll step on you but the humble wait the humble wait until god lifts that person up it might be the last 10 15 years of that person's life and guys says okay now I'm going to lift you up right it's his plan but the proud will they'll stampede to get honor the honor of the world look at every look at all the examples of spiritual promotion in the Bible Moses David Daniel even Jesus Christ himself they before before promotion there was prostration they humbled themselves they were all humbled before they were
Starting point is 00:53:30 exalted so this order cannot be reversed this is a a law in the universe honor before honor is humility it's a law you're not going to change it
Starting point is 00:53:55 I mean it's like saying you're going to have resurrection without death right it's just the law of the universe John Gill said the fear of the Lord
Starting point is 00:54:14 is a school wherein the lessons of wisdom are learned humility is the first step on the ladder that leads to honor Charles Bridges said reverence is the discipline of wisdom humility it's finishing grace
Starting point is 00:54:30 none can walk safely or rise rightly who have not first bowed low before the Lord Amen Albert Barnes Wisdom trains by reverence Honor rewards by humility The divine order of growth is
Starting point is 00:54:51 downward first then upward So you get that The divine order To go up you must go down Yes We are not Ride thrust men downward. Humility lifts them upward.
Starting point is 00:55:14 He who kneels before God stands tallest among men. And Charles Spurgeon, the fear of God is the soul's university. Humility is its degree of honor. The graduates' crown of wisdom. That's a good one. Amen. All right, Doc. That wraps it up for today.
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Starting point is 00:56:55 to the time and everything today. But it only takes the day to adjust, so we'll be on normal patterns by tomorrow. on. So, Rick, any final thoughts here before we close out for this Monday edition of one minute? That's it. I'm glad that I was reading comments and I'm glad that people were saying that the message they got out of today's lesson is humility. That it's a strength. Humility is a strength. Yes. Praise God. It's a force to be used in the kingdom. Praise God. So, well, be sure to share this. morning manna with your friends we publish not only on faith and values but we also
Starting point is 00:57:40 have full programs on the morning manna channel on youtube and i'm also posting those uh on the true news channel too and so uh folks have a couple different ways that you can share this content with others we're on various social media platforms as well and so we want to encourage you share this uh information we're getting a lot of good responses from people and we really appreciate that. There are some people who like to pick a fight every once in a while, but the overwhelming number of people are truly blessed by these morning manna teachings, and I pray that you're blessed as well.
Starting point is 00:58:19 Amen. I think all the people who are praying for me, thank you very much. I'll probably go to work a half day, Doc. Okay. I'm probably just going to go home at noon and try to sleep this off. well i'll check with the boss and see if that's okay all right would you do that for me sure request a bTO for me all right be praying for rick folks and we really appreciate you we love you very much and we'll see on the tuesday edition of morning manna god bless you

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