TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Morning Manna - October 13, 2025 - Proverbs 14:11-15 - The Two Paths of the Heart

Episode Date: October 13, 2025

Proverbs 14:11–15 contrasts the destinies of the wicked and the upright, revealing that moral integrity—not external success—determines lasting stability. The wicked build what will not stand; the upright dwell securely though humbly. The passage warns that a way may seem right yet lead to death, calling for discernment rooted in truth rather than emotion or conformity. The simple accept appearances; the wise test every path before walking it. Teachers: Rick Wiles and Doc BurkhartYou can partner with us by visiting FaithandValues.com, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 399 Vero Beach, FL 32961.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, everybody. Welcome to Morning Manna on this beautiful Monday day. We're so glad that you're with us to study the Word of God. We are in the book of Proverbs in the 14th chapter. Today we're going to examine verses 11 through 15. Let's pray. Almighty God, our Father in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Father, we are committed. it to doing your will on earth as it is done in heaven. We thank you, Father, that you give us everything that we need. And we are here, Father, because we need to be fed with your word. And you will feed us. We invite the Holy Spirit to lead this morning man a class

and illuminate our hearts and minds with knowledge of Jesus Christ and his kingdom and the righteous way of life. In the name of Jesus, amen. And so it's a privilege to be here with you for Morning Manna. We start off our week here on the Monday morning edition. We're live at 8 a.m. here on the East Coast. And so no matter where you are in the world, and we have people checking in from Russia, Philippines,

not Japan today. I haven't seen our friend from Japan yet today. But Malaysia, Brazil, across Europe, and of course all over the U.S. and Canada, welcome here to this edition of Morning Man. Anna. We continue our study in Proverbs chapter 14. Proverbs chapter 14 is where we're picking up today, starting at verse 11. So if you read along with me, I'm reading from the King James this morning. Verse 11, the house of the wicked shall be overthrown, but the tabernacle

of the upright shall flourish. There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. Even in laughter, the heart is sorrowful. And the end of that mirth is heaviness. Wow, what a sad verse that is. Verse 14, the backslider and heart shall be filled with his own ways, and a good man shall be satisfied from himself. And then verse 15 in our passage today, The simple believeth every word,

but the prudent man looketh well to his going. So as we used to say about the old coffee brand, it's just chock full of good information. It is. and verse 15 was written thousands of years before the internet and social media yes the simple believes every word yep every word oh my goodness okay let's start with telling description of this information generation today it is information and truth are two different things right so first 11 the king james the house of the wicked shall be overthrown but the tabernacle of

upright shall flourish, the Aramaic Pashita, the house of the wicked, will be destroyed, but the tenths of the upright will prosper, and the subtuagint, the houses of the ungodly shall be destroyed, but the tenths of the just shall stand. So there's a contrast. King Solomon is contrasting two dwellings. One appears to be strong. and the other one appears to be frail

but what we're going to learn here is the truth is just the opposite that appearance can be deceiving the house of the wicked suggests stability wealth permanence

the wealthy live in mansions estates the tabernacle which is a tent the tabernacle the tent of the upright suggests simplicity humility and transience whereas the house of the wicked is permanent it's it's a brick home it's solid but a tent is meant to travel there's transience and yet the strong is overthrown and the fragile endures right So there's a divine reversal that illustrates God's order in the universe. Charles Bridges said the frail tent of holiness outlast a fortress of pride. So the wicket person's house stands in defiance of Almighty God.

its foundations is pride and injustice outwardly it looks secure inwardly it's hollow it's destined to collapse under divine scrutiny at some point in time the Hebrew word that's translated into English as overthrown literally means to be swept away swept away like a flood washing away a structure built on sand along a river but the contrast is

the upright man or woman's dwelling though it looks temporary it enjoys divine protection and there's inward peace inside that humble dwelling the tent of the righteous flourishes the Hebrew word here it means it buds it sprouts it has growth and vitality and blessing on it so what this proverb is teaching us is that moral strength not material strength is what sustains a life and a family the wicked may build an empire live in an estate a mansion and the righteous may live in a tent

yet the latter the tent endures because god dwells within you know think about abraham the father of our faith much has said about abraham i was listening to president trump driving here speaking in Israel today, and he was talking about the Abraham Accords. Of course, he's tying that into Jerusalem and the modern state of Israel. But Abraham lived in tents. He didn't have a mansion. He didn't own land. He looked for a city whose builder and maker is God.

Right. He was looking for a promise beyond land. that's right you were you were not going to tempt abraham was land and tell him that's it you've got your land that's all there is to it no he's he was still looking on the day he died he was searching and he found it because god is not the god of the dead but of living And Abraham is living. Amen. So the contrast here and the reverse order, righteousness flourishes in humility and wickedness rots in grandeur and luxury.

So what endures in heaven often looks weak and fragile on earth. Psalm 1, verse 6, the way of the wicked shall perish. All right. So what are we learning here? The durability of life lies not in what is built, but in who sustains it. Amen. That's the critical lesson. Who lives in your dwelling with you?

If your dwelling is without God, it's weak. I don't care how big and expensive it is. Right. But if God dwells with you, it doesn't matter how humble it is. John Gill said, though the wicked build great houses, they are but babbles raised in defiance of God. But the tent of the righteous, like Abraham's,

as God for a guest and is therefore secure. Praise God. Charles Bridges said a single breath of God will sweep away the house of pride, but the frail tent of humility pitched on the rock shall stand. Adam Clark, the Wigget Man's family shall be rooted out. His name perish, his prosperity turned to dust. But the upright, though, poor, shall grow as a green olive tree in the house of the Lord.

Praise God. Alexander McLaren. The contrast is between substance and shadow. What seems firm proves fleeting. What seems frail endures. The moral law of the universe overturns the house that forgot God. Charles Spurgeon. The bricks of the wicked.

crumble, the canvas of the just endures. The tent with God within is more secure than the palace without him. Amen. And then William Arnaud of Scotland, the house of sin may rise lofty, but it will fall. The tent of faith, though lowly, expands with the breath of heaven. That's right. The tent of faith outlast the mansion of sin. That's right. And if I could throw in another commentator, Doc Burkart here, there's a comparison here in this verse, Rick, between the house and the tabernacle.

People in this world, they're always building something to leave a legacy, if you will, whether it's a monument or a mansion or a piece of land, or whatever it might be or a volume of work to leave behind. But the righteous understand that all this is temporary because it talks about the tabernacle. And what's a tabernacle? Well, it's not made of stone. It's not made of wood.

And actually, tents in those days, tabernacles in those days were made of animal skins, flesh, if you will. They were made out of flesh. Even the tabernacle in the wilderness that they worshipped in was made of animal skins. and so it's significant that those animal skins are completely temporary. They're going to rot.

They're going to fall apart. But for the righteous, that's okay, because this is not our dwelling place. This is not our permanent home. Our home is further down the line. Our home is with Christ and with him. So yes, this flesh suit that we're wearing these animals, skins, if you will, that we're wearing right now are just temporary. We're looking for a city like Abraham was, who's builder and maker is God. Amen. That's what we're in, an animal skin.

That's right. Verse 12, King James, there is a way which seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death. Septuagint translation, there are, there are ways that seem right to men but the end thereof looks to the depths of hell so this verse exposes the spiritual blindness under the guise of sincerity it says there is a way which seemeth right unto a man the the hebrew word that was translated in the english as seems describes a path that appears straight and level even upright from a human perspective right seemeth right it seems right it says there is a way that seems right unto a man but the end thereof are the ways of death

This path is not open rebellion. It is sincere self-deception. Yeah. This is the key to understanding this verse. This is not talking about the man or woman who is an open rebellion against God. Right. This is about a person who sincerely believes that his or her way is right, but is self-deceived. Right.

I'm a good person. Yes. I don't do bad things. It is sincerity without submission. Yes. No submission to God. The good people, they're sincere, they mean well, but they're sincerely wrong. They're sincerely lost.

They have not submitted to God. Amen. Jesus isn't. your king unless you have submitted to him if you're unwilling to submit to him he's not your king he's just some figure kings demand submission and loyalty allegiance allegiance but not many followers would you agree with that I agree obedience subjects men and women who have completely surrendered and submitted themselves to him oh he's got fans I mean he has a big fan club

Jesus is my co-pilot he's my home boy I can think of all the different hats and bumper stickers, but is he your Lord? That's the tough one. Is he your king? So the way of a person may look respectable, religious. It could even look righteous, but without divine truth, without submission to God, it is death disguised as devotion. Every self-chosen path leads to the grave.

There's no other way to put it. The end is the grave if it's a self-chosen path. This is the end thereof are the ways of death. notice doc you get way here twice one singular and one plural

yes there is a way which seems right unto a man but the end thereof are the ways of death so the way I see this is that

um there are there are many exits from one fatal road the way of a person that person has chosen a way from one of many ways of death there are many ways of death and a person will choose one of them yes but they all end up at the same destination yes there are there is one way to life and many ways to death you know some universalist thinking religious people new age type of people will say well there are many ways to god that's not true there are many ways to death there are many ways to hell there's one way to god and that is through

his son jesus christ jesus himself said i am the way the truth and the life no one comes to the father but by me you can stand on that folks that's the only pathway and if you if anyone tells you any different they're not of Christ he didn't say I am a way the way the way the way the one and only

way so the fool's way multiplies ruin moral death spiritual death eternal death the emphasis here

is not on the beginning but the end the road looks safe until the cliff appears so the danger of sin doesn't lie in its appearance the danger of sin is its destination see sin never advertises its destination it never promotes its conclusion It begins in pleasure

It proceeds in deception And it ends in destruction Amen So the path of pride Always ends where God is absent Independence from God Independence from God

always terminates in loss Always see this is a this verse refutes humanism the belief that men and women can chart their own moral course and you can you you you can but without Christ it's going to lead to hell yes it will be one way out of many ways to death yes Last night, Doc, I was on YouTube and I came across this video It was an audio of a man I had never heard of

And I started listening to it This man's passed away And right away And the message sounded good but immediately the Holy Spirit said stop listening new age really

yes and so I just click stop and I went to online and searched his name yes he was a prominent leader of new thought there was a movement

back in the early 20th century called new thought yeah which is just old thought recycled yes but doc i gotta tell you in in the first few minutes that i heard but this is a really i like this message see i was listening to it saying this is appealing to me and the holy spirit saying don't go any farther it's it's new age when you hear when you feel the holy spirit you know i can field him a chest dock i could just feel holy spirit he tightens up so stop don't listen yep so once you know then it's disobedience to go back and continue listening the point i'm making is on the surface he's this man sounded good right like what's wrong with

this man's message He obviously wasn't saying in the beginning of his sermon, I'm going to lead you to hell. Not in one sermon, not in two sermons, not in three sermons, but you keep listening to me and I'm going to mislead you and take you to hell. Right. It sounds good that you can think your way out of problems in life. Yes. And there is some truth to that. That's a thing.

There's some truth to it. You've got to change your way of thinking. But what they often leave out, Rick, is the God component. And really, they leave out the Christ component because they'll make up God and reshape God into their image. But without Christ of the Bible, they'll even imagine a whole different Christ, too. And it seems right, if it sounds right, it feels good. good, but unless it's based on the Word of God, reject it. You've got to absolutely reject it.

It's so easy to sneak in. It's so easy. Well, the way of Cain was the way that seemed right. Yeah. The way of Saul was the way that seemed right. It seemed right. The way of the Pharisees was a way that seemed right. They were all self-confidence. confident in their own righteousness, but they were estranged from God. They had created their own righteousness, and therefore it seemed right. The way that seems right to a man or woman is the way that rejects the cross. That's the core determination. Do they accept or reject the work of Christ on the cross?

Amen. And that's it. That sums it up right there. If they make excuses or try to reimagine it or say it's symbolism, just, you know, they smoke themselves out. All you have to do is show them the cross. Yeah. Do they get crossways with the cross?

Charles Spurgeon, let's see what he had to say. you know charles spurgeon he was known as a wishy-washy guy that just couldn't take a stand never really said what he believed let's see what mr spurgeon said many a man has gone merrily to hell along the king's highway of self-righteousness the path was fair the dissent gentle and the end damnation G. Campbell Morgan said

the tragedy of sin is not its boldness but its plausibility the way seems right that is its horror that's what deceives people it seems right it just seems right

but if you're not in submission to God if you have not submitted to King Jesus if you do not believe his word and practice his word then you are self-deceived and your way may seem right I know people I personally know people

that you cannot talk to them about Jesus Christ as savior of the world they'll say he's a good man he was a good man he was a teacher but there's no such thing as a savior and yet that person has a philosophy of life that sounds good and they're on their way to hell we them are not the old scotsman he said the smooth road of sin has flowers at the entrance and flames at the end I knew you'd like that one, dog.

Verse 13. Even in laughter, the heart is sorrowful, and the end of that mir is heaviness. What a sad verse this is. Yeah, Septuagint. Even in laughter, the heart is sorrowful, and joy ends in grief. So what is this verse portraying?

It's portraying this tragic irony of worldly happiness, a smiling face and a grieving heart. Laughter that's human laughter, but not holy joy. It's laughter that comes from a heart that has it found peace with God. there's a lot of laughter on television on social media a lot of laughter and if there's not and if there's not they'll add a laugh track yes they'll just fake laughing do you know where the laugh track

I read a read a story about I don't know. I bet it has to do with the old-time radio days, though. No, it was actually television. Really? Yes, and they, because of radio, was produced in front of live audiences, okay? That's true, yeah. So you didn't have to fake the laughter there, okay?

Yes. So early television was in front of live audiences also. and there was a comedy show that one week they had a lot of laughter from the you know the audience in the studio and the next week

the script just fell flat I mean it just bombed and the director that nobody knew what to do is like this show was probably bad it's not funny and somebody on the staff said hey we got all that

laughter recorded from last week why don't we just play it in this show and that was the birth of a laugh track it was fake it was real laughter at the time but fake at the time it was

replayed over and the same laughter over and over and over for years to tell people at home Hey, your brain doesn't think this is funny, but the people, the fake people in the studio think it's funny. The sponsors think it's funny. The sponsors think it's funny. That's the important part right there. The executive vice president of the network says it's funny.

So, see, there's outward festivity, but inwardly there's sorrow, fatigue. a conscience that aches beneath a mask again television social media is filled with entertainers who put on they're paid to be happy they're paid to be happy and then they'll put up a sign in front of the audience to applaud or to laugh yes at certain times like you don't know you're supposed to laugh but this is where you laugh right here or this is where you applaud right here it's it's all imagine and then you've got to ask your own stuff in your own life are you operating on the laugh track in your own life are you just faking it are you faking the joy so it's a really telling question i'll tell you another true story from early days of television i um i i

in my private time when i'm trying to relax when i don't want to any worldly news or I just I like to watch old shows from the early 50s or radio shows from the 30s and 40s I listened to them and so one of my favorite one of my favorite comedians at that time was Red Skelton and those of you hold enough to remember who he was you know he was a clown and the son of a clown and the son of a clown now his father was a uh and a professor but also a clown yes okay and uh freddie the freeloader that character was based on his father his father's portrayal of a hobo anyhow i came across an interview with red skeleton in his older years

and he was an extremely talented man and he was a a painter. Beautiful. I mean, very skillful creative painter. And his paintings sold for a lot of money in his final years. Anyhow, in this interview, he was asked, so often you paint a circus clown with a tear. Why? Why do you do that?

And he said, oh, I don't know. And then he paused. And he said, I do know, but I don't want to talk about it. And that got me wondering, why did he paint a crying clown? And why didn't he want to talk about it? So you get into his life, okay, and you study. So he first, I mean, he left home at age 10 during the Great Depression. I mean, think about that.

He went out and began working at age 10 during the Great Depression. He had a lot of hardship. His first marriage ended in divorce. He was remarried and then had children. And if you remember his show, he had a, he was. He would portray his little boy and girl and do jokes with them, you know, on stage about them. And what happened was that his little boy, I think it's Richard, died of leukemia at somewhere around age 10 or 11. and it absolutely devastated Red Skelton.

Then the next tragedy was on the 18th anniversary of his son's death from cancer, his wife committed suicide. She had carried such grief for 18 years. She couldn't get over it. And on the anniversary of the child, of death she killed herself see when i started to look at all that then i realized red skeleton

who made people laugh for decades and decades inside was crying he had so much pain and that's why he would paint a crying clown that was him he was the crying clown he was behind the mask he was saying I'm making you laugh as a clown but inside I'm crying so this is what this verse is talking about even in laughter the heart is sorrowful and joy ends in grief the the heart is sorrowful there's a throbbing grief loneliness loss of purpose um unfulfilled dreams charles bridges said the laugh of folly hides a sigh the end of mirth is heaviness for conscience will have its voice the end of that mirth is heaviness is heaviness

weariness, depression, grief. So this verse doesn't forbid laughter. It's contrasts fleeting pleasure without God with enduring gladness in God. Let's see what the other commentator said.

Adam Clark, the pleasures of sin have grief at their core. They excite but cannot satisfy. They promise rest but end in remorse. Alexander McLaren, the hollow laughter of the world conveys many a sigh. True joy begins where self ends and God begins. Charles Spurgeon, the laughter of the sinner is but the mirth of madness. When conscience wakes, mirth dies. William are not the joy of sin is as the lightning bright for a moment then darkness follows

wow I'm a picture that is all right verse 14 the backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways and a good man shall be satisfied from himself The Septuagin says, a faint-hearted man will be sick with his own ways, but a good man is satisfied with his thoughts. But the King James says a backslider. The Hebrew word here means one who has turned back in his heart. So before the fall, there is visible.

outward or should say before the fall that's visible outwardly the fall began inwardly and was not noticeable so this is not talking about an apostate or somebody in open rebellion it's talking about someone whose affections for God have cooled. So backsliding begins in private thoughts long before it appears in public conduct. So such a heart shall be filled with his own ways. That is, that man or woman shall reap the consequences of his or her self-will. So the sinner's worst misery is to be filled with himself. That's at the heart of it.

But the good man, the good man, the good woman, stands in moral contrast, not sinless, but sincere. That's the difference. They're not sinless, but they are sincere. sincere in their desire to follow God the good man or woman shall be satisfied from himself that is from the state of his or her own conscience from the the the inward fruit of a rightly ordered heart so where the backslider is full of regret the upright man or woman is full of peace

what's the principle here we are filled with what we pursue amen you got it rick that's it we're filled with what we pursue the heart is a reservoir of desires that's why we have to ask god to give us the desires of our hearts heart replace our desires with your desires Lord because your heart's going to have desires they can be the devil's desires and they can be your desires and they be or they can be

God's desires but two of them are wrong only God's desires in your heart will lead to lasting peace in your life let's see what the commentators say Alexander McLaren every man's harvest is from his own seed the backsliders crop is himself the good man's is God in him I like that one doc

the backsliders crop is himself Terrell Spurgeon sin fills the soul with ashes holiness fills it with honey the good man finds within his heart a well of water springing up to eternal life she Campbell Morgan

the heart is both fulfilled and the reaper of its own sewing corruption breeds corruption grace breeds grace breeds grace so who is responsible for what each of us is reaping. We are the sewers.

We are the sewers into our own lives. We sow with what's in our heart. We sew what comes out of our mouth. We reap from our heart from our mouths. You can't blame other people. Verse 15. the simple believeth every word but the prudent man looketh well to his going

the Aramaic Pashita the simple believe every word but the prudent man understands his steps oh this one really applies to modern society the Hebrew word that's translated as simple this is this is not talking about the humble it's talking about the undiscerning the morally and spiritually

in mature person who is easily persuaded spiritually unanchored this remember earlier in proverbs we talked about the simple ones a simple one in the bible is a person who can be easily persuaded. One day they're reading the Bible, the next day they're reading something contrary to the Bible. One day, they're listening to a sermon. The next day, they're listening to a podcast. It absolutely contradicts everything they heard the day before. Right. They're not anchored. The very surface level. Whatever they're hearing right now, that's what impacting them they have no roots no anchor they believe every word they accept whatever he or she hears without examination or discernment you see this a lot with people watching the news media

they eat these people have their favorite news network and their favorite news commentators and they believe whatever that person says. Right. Everything. Everything. No discernment, no, nothing. It's just out of sheer loyalty to a brand. I detect propaganda very easy, easily.

I just manure smells Rick yes yeah you you pick up on the odor of it and then you get to the point you can you can tell whether it's a cow a sheep a hog a whore you know

because they all have their own distinct odors that's right so this morning in our home we were watching President Trump in Israel And before the coverage turned to his speech, we were listening to some of the news commentators

talking about what has happened in Israel and Gaza. And, Doc, it was so contrived, so orchestrated, so written. It was scripted. I mean, I could pick up on the, you know, this person is assigned to deliver these points. And this person has been assigned to deliver these points. And both points, you know, they dovetel. They're together.

But they're shaping the thinking of the people watching. These weren't the thoughts of these commentators. They came to work at 4 a.m. And somebody handed them their scripts. Here's your thoughts. Do you understand this, folks? do you think these people get up at 4 a.m. and drive in New York City and walk in the studio of 5 a.m. and get their makeup on. And then suddenly at 6 a.m. They have all these deep thoughts about what

happened in the news. No, somebody during the night has crafted their statements. The reason that they're paid so much money is their ability to deliver the school. and to make it sound like it's their own thoughts. That's why they're paid so much. And then people sit in their homes and watch it, and they believeeth every word. And they just accept it. Same way with politicians.

People have their favorite politicians and their unfavor politicians. And the ones that are their favorite, you can't, you cannot reason. with certain people and say you know what that person that politician's feeding you is a bunch of you know what no i don't want to hear that all right they believe every word that's just the way people are they they don't ask the lord for discernment they don't say god show me who is deceiving me who is who is planting thoughts in my mind that are conjure

to your word you shouldn't be skeptical to the point that you don't believe anything but you should be skeptical and ask God to reveal the motives in that person's words so

the simpleton is the person who just drifts with every opinion easily deceived open to error, open to propaganda, open to anything and they mistake sincerity for truth

that person on TV is so so kind or so convincing or so sincere I can just tell that he he means what he says no he has been paid to sound like that that's the part people can't understand you mean you mean they're paid to sound sincere yes yes they're paid tens of millions of dollars because of their ability you want otherwise no see they're paid millions of dollars

because of their ability to sound sincere because of their ability to convince you of the words that they are delivering so credulity is not a virtue it's a vice when it's ungoverned by discernment but the prudent the prudent man or woman is shrewd in a godly sense not shrewd not sneaky that's not what i mean but wise cautious thoughtful discerning says looketh well to his going but the prudent man understands the steps king james the prudent man looketh well to his going he he he He or she considers his steps carefully. As a person who is aware that he or she is walking on a dangerous path,

you're paying attention to where you're walking. You realize there could be a hole. It could be a loose rock and you slip. It's dangerous. he or she weighs consequences that man or woman seeks counsel test the motives judges actions of others by the standard of God's word they operate in the gift of the spirit the discernment of spirits which is in 1st John chapter 4

beloved believe not every spirit but try the spirits whether they are of god amen so true faith is never blind god calls people to believe him but not to believe anything only him his word that's the key to it You do not believe a person whose words contradict the word of God. And you will not know it contradicts the word of God if you never read the word of God. That's why this class is so important to the people who are coming here five days a week. You're hearing things that are getting down in your spirit that one day somebody's going to say something and the Holy Spirit is going to just check your spirit and say, what that person just said is contrary to God's word.

And it can be a very sincere person. It could be a spiritual leader in a church. There are a lot of people in churches with positions of influence who aren't biblically literate. I don't know how they ever get there. How'd you get that position? You don't know the Bible, and you have some kind of spiritual position. What they're promoting is human wisdom.

Right. You know, they get a degree in counseling. They get a degree in whatever, but it's not the Word of God. you have to test everything according to the word of God John Gill said the simple man believes every tale and is led by every wind of doctrine but the prudent man tries all things by the word

holds fast that which is good Albert Barnes the proverb is a warning against intellectual and moral indolence the mind that refuses to discern invites deception. Alexander McLaren. Faith is not credulity.

To trust without inquiry is as dangerous as to question without reverence. Amen. Charles Spurgeon, the simple man swallows poison because it's sweet. The prudent tastes first and lives. Gee Campbell Morgan,

the simple mind believes anything. The spiritual mind believes only truth. Discerment is the crown of wisdom. All right. Well, Doc, that's it for today. All right. Thank you, everybody. Glad to have you here today. Starting off a brand new week here. So we want to remind you about Rick's new book, Megafire, and it's available at megafire.world. Megafire is Rick's book on America's next fourth turning crisis. And if you tune in to Morning Manner, before we actually begin we have conversations and chats and I was talking about how I'm using this book to make major decisions in my own life and so I'm taking what Rick has written in here very seriously and so I encourage you to get this book in your hands and it's not like any Christian so-called prophecy book that's out there because it's not a prophecy book what it is it is it is

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storm out in the Atlantic and that you it'll look like it's going some somewhere else and it'll suddenly turn and be headed right toward us. We've learned this over the years. And so we're always prepared for the storm. Get ready. Watch the sky, watch what happens, listen to the reports, but be prepared before the storm. Because during the storm is too late to prepare. And we observe it every single time.

There's a major storm that comes through. did not prepare and they don't learn but you can learn so use megafire the book's megafire america's next fourth turning crisis to help you prepare for the next storm that's coming because the storms that are ahead of us are bigger than anything we've ever experienced before so get at macafire dot world i i was talking to a chiropractor on friday and he was just raving about the book and and what really surprised me and he's not the first one because others have said the same day the the first several chapters are you know a brief explanation about cycles about the the the the strauss how generational

theory about cycle theories of other people um you know you know i mentioned um uh farmer bennar the bennar the bennar chart going back to the 1873 financial crash and all that so what fascinated me was this this carpenter was he was blown away by those cycles of those chapters and and i told him i said you know i'm i really am glad to hear that because those i consider those my nerdy chapters and i you know i said i very concerned that i might lose people in the beginning the book with those chapters they goes no this is this has sold me on this book i love this okay so it's this is a good feedback that i'm getting but the other thing i want to say is we need to pray we need to pray that god stretches these cycles okay yes and he has in the past

when i say stretch it like the when i say the 80 year war cycle when you go back 500 600 years you look at these wars sometimes it's 78 years after the last war right the next time it's 82 years after the last war okay it when i say an 80 year war cycle that doesn't mean on the very first day of the 80th year there's going to be a war it's just a general term it's somewhere around 80 years give or take two or three years either way there's a war right so we're in the 80 year war cycle right now let's pray that god stretches this cycle the same way with the economy we we are in a financial crisis cycle but god can stretch it for what purpose to give his church more time to get ready right and i'm convinced that those in leadership positions are well aware of these cycles.

I sent Rick an article this morning, just to give you an idea, Jamie Diamond. Now, just last week, Jamie Diamond said, you know, there's a big market corrections that's coming in the first quarter of 2026. They're big. It's going to be big, big, big, big, big. And yet today, I sent him an article, this is Jamie Diamond saying that they're going to spend $1.5 trillion on infrastructure. Now, those two stories in the natural seem to be in direct opposition to each other.

But if you understand the cycles, you know what they're up to, right, Rick? They're going to build a new society after the crash. That's right. So when Mr. Diamond, look, I respect he's probably the best banker. in America in terms of banking management skills, okay? I don't agree with all of his views. But I pay attention to when Jamie Diamond speaks. And so last week when he said, you know,

there's a likelihood there's going to be a market correction in 2026. Then he was asked, well, the way he was asked, you know, how big? his answer was well i'm going to hope for the best and prepare for the worst that was his answer oh my okay but doc when when the CEO the biggest bank in america says i'm going to prepare for the worst the worst is a possibility that was his clue to everybody did you hear what i said i am preparing for the worse even though I'm going to hope for the best but he added that word I'm preparing for the worst as a signal to people hunker down okay get ready the storm's coming so again we can pray Lord stretch it give us more time and so I'm glad people reading the book

and we need to get it out there to more people and God has a perfect timing for when this book will reach the maximum number of people continue to pray for John Mark that we hear from him today okay I'd like to get word from him wherever he is at

he's on a mission a mission for God we need to hear from him that's it for today we'll see you tomorrow god bless you we'll see on the tuesday edition of morning manna