TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Morning Manna - October 15, 2025 - Proverbs 14:21-23 - The Blessed Work of Mercy and Labor

Episode Date: October 15, 2025

Proverbs 14:21–23 reveals the moral architecture of daily life—how compassion, intention, and diligence align with divine blessing. To despise a neighbor is sin, but to show mercy to the poor brings happiness. Those who scheme evil wander in error, while those who devise good inherit God’s mercy and truth. Every kind of honest labor bears profit, yet idle talk ends in poverty. This Morning Manna teaching with Rick Wiles and Doc Burkhart examines the sacred connection between mercy and work, showing how righteousness is proved not in speech but in tangible action.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. It's midweek, and we are glad to be here. And we're delighted that you are with us to study the Word of God with us. There are people from all over the world who meet at 8 a.m. Eastertime at Faithandvalues.com to study the word. And then many of you watch or listen later in the day, and that's wonderful. We're glad that you're here. we're working our way through the book of proverbs we're in the 14th chapter and today we're going to delve into verses 21 through 25 let's pray almighty god our father in heaven father we worship your name father we glorify you father we magnify you oh lord we come here to be taught your words so holy spirit

open up our hearts and minds to receive your word with grace and to be better disciples for our King Jesus in the name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. And welcome morning manna, everyone. We are in Proverbs chapter 14, continue our journey through this book of wisdom. And so I'm going to be reading verses 21 through 25 in chapter 14. So follow along with me, if you will. I'm reading from the king James. He that despises his neighbor, but he that hath mercy on the poor happy is he do they not err that devise evil but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good in all labor there is profit but the talk of the lips tendeth only to punery the crown of the wise is their riches but the foolishness of fools

was folly in verse 25 a true witness delivereth souls but a deceitful witness speak lies. Praise God. All right. I wonder what Charles Spurgeon had to say about these things. It's going to be good. Well, verse 21.

King James, He that despiseth his neighbor sinneth, but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is he. Septuagent translation, He that despises the poor sins greatly but he that has mercy on the poor is blessed let's begin with the first half he that

despiseth his neighbor sinneth this word despise it conveys a inward scorn that devised use another human being it implies disdain that begins in a person's heart before it reaches that person's tongue remember every human being deserves to be treated with civility and respect and decency. Every human being is made in the likeness and image of God. How they behave is their choice. Whether they are in line with God or not, they are still made in the likeness and image of God.

Amen. They may have allowed Satan to pervert that likeness and image. but God says I made them in my likeness in my image and so when you despise when a person despises a poor person because of their poverty that's a disdain that begins in the heart right and then it comes out of the mouth so to in the in the Hebrew thought ancient Hebrew thought to despise your neighbor is to reject the divine image in them. Amen. It's an affront to both the person

and the creator who formed them. That's why God objects to it. Because someone is scorning a poor person. Look at the way they live. Look at that.

dirty little house look at that junky little car they're in look at the tattered old clothes they wear right all right that that despising

doesn't just come from rich to the poor but from other poor themselves like we read back in verse 20 verse 20 if you recall the poor is hated even of his own neighbor and then you go in verse 21 here

and this is the correction to hate somebody just calls her poor even if you're poor is wrong you're sinning yes it's a sin it's a moral crime so what seems like a private attitude is judged as open rebellion against God's law of love yes god considers it a crime the term neighbor here is inclusive it doesn't mean just the person who lives next door okay it doesn't include just family and friends it's any fellow human being as place within your reach, somebody that you see, somebody that you pass. Doc, you know the story of, in 1999, when the Lord had dealt with me about a very poor widow woman in South Texas, young woman, had about about five children. lost her husband drunk driver killed him and she and her children were living in a rusted

out sunday school bus right the the school bus said jesus saves no electricity no water in south texas that's hot doc i i thought about it she lived in that bus for like five years incredible and it was along a main highway so every day thousands of people were driving by that school bus and on Sundays people were driving by on their way to church to worship God and there's a bus in the field that says Jesus saves and there's little children living in it and nobody stopped to to them because they had to get to church on time you should those people should have had church by going inside that bus and loving those kids and getting them clean clothes and saying we're going to do something get get you out of this mess that would have been church

so despising it comes from pride it's social pride mocking another person's financial condition or their job, their work they look down on certain types of work

all work is all work is good all work is noble if it's honest work but people look down on certain jobs I never glad I don't have to do that job but you see what you're doing

there's scorn that's pride okay when you see a person doing a very lowly menial job, say something uplifting to that person. Say something that encourages them. But that judging by outward appearance reveals a spiritual blindness.

Yes. Because that person doesn't see the equality of all humans. Right. One of the great things to witness is to see how people interact with servers and waitresses and waitresses and waiters. at restaurants, just to see how they interact with them, how they correspond with them. Do they treat them with dignity and respect, or they treat them like they're two or three levels below them?

Most of the time, Rick, you have to be honest that they, the observation is that most people treat servers, waiters, waitresses, you know, like throwaways. I mean, they really do. And they snap at them. Yeah. I told you. I told you I didn't want any cheese on my sandwich. You know, you get angry, snap out of them.

You know, like it's only cheese. It's only cheese. Let that ring in your mind all day today. It's only cheese. All right. Next time you hear somebody snapping at a waiter or waitress, just think about what they're doing. It's only cheese. To despise somebody is a.

a sign that that person has a hardened conscience. Yes. One who can see who can see suffering and yet remain unmoved. That's a cold person. You can see somebody suffering

and it doesn't affect you. That's a cold-hearted hardened conscience. So the act of despising is self-destructive. Every rejection of another person corrods the capacity of that person for compassion. They don't realize they are rotting out on the inside.

They're becoming colder. Every time they look down upon a poor person or walk past somebody in great, need and have no feelings at all no compassion they're rotting on the inside where disdain lives sin is already there it's alive and active in that person's life so the moral vision of the book of proverbs and we see this the steam runs out throughout the book of proverbs it judges motives and it reveals that loveless perception is itself sin that's the message here that if you are cold-hearted if you have no compassion if you look down

upon the poor you have sinned against god the second part but he that hath mercy on the poor happy is he the the conjunction word but it introduces the antithesis of contempt which is compassion true wisdom manifests itself in mercy. Not scorn. It says, hath mercy. But he that has mercy on the poor. This is ongoing,

continuous acts of mercy. It's not, well, I had mercy about 25 years. ago you know has mercy this is a person that lives in that state of being merciful to others a continual disposition of grace not a sporadic gesture of pity oh yeah i'll flip you a quarter no it's it's somebody who's just The heart hurts when they see people hurting. It says, has mercy on the poor. The poor here, the word means those who are humbled by circumstances,

economically weak, socially forgotten, outcast. trapped in poverty and yet all of them are precious to god you see children who are born into poverty they have so many handicaps against them they grow up in poverty the game is rigged against them by the time they're 18 those in the middle class are far beyond them and those who were born into rich homes are beyond the middle class and so if you're born into a poverty stricken home it's like the game is rigged against you you can't get out of it you can't but it's rare It's rare. One of my favorite people I've met in the world is Dr. Talal.

He's a billionaire in Jordan. And he told me, Dr. Talal, I guess, is in his late 80s now. he told me his grandparents and his parents they were refugees when the Jews took over Palestine in 1948 and

all he has Doc is the key to his grandparents' home that's all he has of their home in Palestine. They became refugees, and at age 10, he and his family, those who were still alive, walked to Lebanon. And they became refugees in Lebanon. He told me, Doc, that many Palestinians were angry and bitter and

swore to get revenge on the Jews for what they did to them. But he told me, and now here's why he was educated in Christian schools by Christian missionaries.

So it changed him. Changed him. And he decided he told me, he decided that the revenge he would get would be to become successful. And he did. He's a billionaire.

So, yes, the poor can get out of it, but it's rare. It really is rare. It takes an extremely strong man or woman, child, teenager to get out of it. so to show mercy to the poor is to participate in god's nature right and like you said it it participates in his nature because you're also poor compared to god yes do you want him to have compassion on you do you want him to judge you because of what you lack he he actually

takes advantage of that opportunity to fulfill that lack in your life all right so doc it's a good point you go back and the king james says he that has mercy and the poor happy as he the world english bible says he who has mercy in the poor is blessed okay the satuagin says uh who has mercy on the poor is blessed so what do we know about the word bless bless means happy And Jesus, in the sermon on the mount, said, blessed are, you know, happy are, the low in spirit, the poor in spirit. Wait a minute. What does that mean to be poor?

To be poor in spirit. Jesus said, if you are poor in spirit, you're blessed. It means that you recognize that spiritually, in the eyes of God. God, you are bankrupt. You are spiritually poverty-stricken. And Jesus said, when you get that attitude, you're actually happy. You're blessed. You know why?

Because the Lord shows mercy to the poor. Oh, man. Yes. Oh, that's good. I just want to savor that one for a moment. he shows compassion to the poor in spirit now do you understand why he expects you to show compassion to those who are poor in finances

you and I can't do anything about their sinful condition only he can but we can do something about their financial condition and so when we show mercy to the poor we are happy we're blessed because the father showed mercy to us because we're spiritually poor yes you're going to put these two together doc wow

this this is this fits together like two puzzle pieces with the servant on the mount I never saw this before that's the first time I've ever connected those two so to

to despise your neighbor is to forget your own dependence on mercy your pride erases remembrance of the grace that you received I could go home right now I could go home right now

just based on what we learned so in the kingdom economy generosity is never a financial loss it's always a gain what is given to the Lord is lent I mean excuse me what is given to the poor is lent to the Lord and he repays with interest and how does he repay you with extra grace extra favor he pays off his loan he when you give to the

poor it is the same as the lord saying to you hey doc i see this family over here they don't have any food can i borrow three hundred dollars from you to go buy them some food just imagine the lord saying can i borrow three hundred dollars from you to go buy food for them i'll pay it back i'll pay it back with interest that's what happens when you give to the poor yes your lord has taken out a loan from you yes and he's obligated to repay with interest and that interest is extra grace and mercy and favor and goodness doesn't this just make you want to run outside and find a poor person so Mercy is the bridge between economic classes.

Modern political debate, Marxism, particularly Marxism, is based on class division. We have to take from the rich and give to the poor. God's economy says, no, we're going to, we don't divide classes. we put a bridge between them and the rich give to the poor so happiness grows from harmony with God and with your neighbor

Matthew Henry said pride and uncharitableness are sins against the law of love he that despises his neighbor conditions he who despises his neighbor's condition reproaches his maker but he that pities the poor imitates him charles bridges said cold neglect is as hateful to god is active cruelty mercy is the coin of heaven circulating through renewed hearts i like that wow is the coin of heaven

circulating through renewed hearts. Adam Clark, he who despises the poor sins in thought as well as deed, he who relieves them enriches himself with God's blessings. G. Campbell Morgan

despising the poor denies the equality of souls before God. Pity for the poor is worship rendered in coin of mercy William are not every act of mercy is a prayer in action

the despiser builds distance the merciful builds bridges he just said what I said a few minutes ago doc

about Marxism all right first 22 do they not err that devise evil but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good the Septuagin says

they that go astray devise evil evils they that go astray devise evils but those who devise good receive mercy and faithfulness the proverb begins with a rhetorical question that expects affirmation that indeed those who scheme evil inevitably go astray the ancient Hebrew word for air do they not err

that devise evil it means more than a simple mistake it means moral wandering straying from the path of wisdom until they get over into active self-deception It's one thing to make a temporary mistake. This is talking about deliberately going off the path of righteousness. Devise.

Devise evils. So this word devise, it carries the image of plotting, engraving, it means evil is not accidentally accidental it it came about it was carefully carved where in the imagination of the person before it was acted out they devise evil where in their mind and their heart so what this is doing this is a really important

concept of grasp it's painting sin as misdirected intellectual craftsmanship it's saying the same creativity

that was given to a human from God, the creator, they're made in the likeness of an image of God, and he's a creator, that the same creativity that could build good is instead corrupted for evil. It's misdirected intellectual craftsmanship. They are building in their minds, in their imagination in their hearts evil plans yeah so evil it's never accidental no that's the

point evil plotting begins in the secret chambers of the heart long before it breaks forth in action inevitable path that those who plan evil cannot remain morally steady not going to happen so it's it's part of the of the broader theme of the book of proverbs that moral intention shapes destiny that what is conceived inwardly determines what is reaped outwardly is that not the message we've we've learned through 14 chapters of proverbs the irony is that the schemer thinks himself to be shrewd um the verb that's used here they that make a trade of plotting evil okay this means habitual conduct they make a trade make it a career repeated moral designs that are spiritual perversion they make a trade of plotting evil but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good

i'm just wondering how many people in our class at times do you think of individuals in your life you're like oh i finally understand that person i now see what's going on and his or her heart and mind. But mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good. The antithesis, the word but introduces a divine counterpart. Those who devise good receive mercy and truth. we're told what happens to the evil and then the word but this is the opposite here's to contrast mercy and truth are terms of the covenant they describe god's character and the blessings that he sins

upon those who walk in the covenant. To devise good is to exercise your God-given creativity. Remember, you're made in the likeness and image of God, the Creator. To devise good is to use your creativity, given to you by God at birth, to imagine things that benefit others. doc i'll tell you later after the lesson the lord gave me this morning a plan to do something and i didn't i mean i i i just when i didn't when the idea came to me i's like oh that's a good idea i'd like to do this i'm going to talk to doc jerry when i get get to the office today

about this plan and then as I was studying the word I got to this verse to devise good I went oh Lord I see what just happened your Holy Spirit inspired me to devise good

amen it's the Holy Spirit that put that thought in my mind Rick why don't you imagine this imagine this work it'll do good what this is saying is that your mind your imagination your heart can you can imagine either bad things evil things or good things what do you use your mind to do what do you use your imagination to

create this is saying you can you can imagine bad things you can imagine good things but both of them come with a payoff so there's there's a symmetry symmetry to this proverb it shows that the moral design determines the moral reward evil devices breed wandering from the path of righteousness, and good devices, good planning, yields favor. Yes. Now, the word here, mercy, it means benevolent kindness. Benevolence is generosity with no strings attached.

It's not, well, I'll give you this if you do this, this and this. No, it's just here. I'm going to give you something because I'm merciful. I'm giving it to you. What you do with it is once it touches your hands, that's your responsibility now. So those who plan, imagine, devise good things, become participants in God's redemptive order, his plan.

And the reward is mercy and truth. Remember, I said a month or two ago, I'd like to write a book about all of God's promises, do this and this happens. I need it. I got to do it for myself. Right. So here's one.

Imagine and devise good things that show benevolence towards others and mercy and truth will be given to you. Now, if you really don't believe it, if you just kind of say, oh, yeah, that's a nice religious thought, you don't really believe it.

But if you put it into practice, you do believe it. Sure. You guys say, hey, hot dog, man, I'm going to do this. Two of us are going to be blessed. The poor person to me. I'll bless.

the poor person and then god will bless me for for doing what he would like me to do it's it's a two for yeah it's actually a three for because god gets blessed too amen because he sees you acting like him right and be careful not to just do good to be seen by men too. Oh, no, no. You said it, do something good and don't get caught doing it. Oh, yeah, there's

extra reward. Doc, I believe it gets 10xed. It says, do it in private. Yeah. And your father would see it in secret shall reward you openly.

So wisdom is not just avoiding evil. It's deliberately designing good and doing it. See, it's an important point here. Designing good. Actively thinking through imagining, how can I do something good?

Instead of this, the idea that, well, if it happens, if I just stumble on a poor person, I'll do it. No, this is not what this is teaching. Right. This is saying you actively, plan and think and imagine ways to do good that's a different level because our imagination is creative it's constructive it's supposed to be it's supposed to do good

so what we purpose in our hearts becomes the character god perfects within us john gill men form evil with design and they're in air from the way of understanding but they that form good god forms mercy and truth for them as their portion charles bridges the evil mind turns his ingenuity into sin's workshop. The good mind sanctifies its skill to benevolence and peace and reaps mercy as its harvest. Adam Clark, to plan evil is moral insanity. To plan good is wisdom in action. The one wanders from light, the other walks with it.

Albert Barnes, the schemers of wickedness deceive themselves, but those who plan deeds of kindness are surrounded by divine favor and faithfulness. Alexander McLaren, mercy and truth cling to the man whose thoughts are beneficent. He breathes their atmosphere and becomes their living proof. G. Campbell Morgan, the heart that plots kindness dwells already. in the realm of mercy. The thought of good is the seed of divine companionship. William are not, he who engineers goodness, draws heaven into his plans.

Mercy and truth are the materials with which he builds. Charles Spurgeon, to devise good is the noblest art. Mercy and truth are its twin rewards. for the Lord himself walks with such designers. All right, I think we can squeeze in one more. King James, in all labor there is profit, but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury. Now there's a word we don't use.

Pinnery. When's the last time, Doc, you said penury? Just about a half hour ago, prior to that, it's been years. Yes. The Septuagin says, in every care there is profit, but the idle man is he who is boastful and bold of speech. Well, let's split this verse up into parts, part one. In all labor, there is profit. Well, now there's your biggest motivation.

to go to work today there's profit in all labor there is profit in all toil and work and labor there is gain honest work whether it's physical or mental bears fruit by design by divine design God has ordained that we work. It is the law of the universe. Again, in the Garden of Eden, Adam did not work to make things grow. He worked to harvest what God made to grow. When you are born again,

you have been delivered from the curse that was on Adam. when he was cast out of the garden the curse was what you're going to work by the sweat of your brow your back's going to hurt you're going to ache your muscles are going to ache buddy you're going to work we're delivered from that curse but we're not delivered from the responsibility to work get into your mind that you are working to gather the harvest that God makes to grow in your life. Amen.

You should just be picking fruit. Let God bring the increase. But it's his divine design that we work. Labor, the word says labor. That denotes diligent, sustain, exertion. work that demands endurance discipline purpose you can't labor from a recliner chair there has to be action profit profit denotes surplus increase it doesn't mean to break even see this oh man doc these people who say oh god only gives us what

we need that's not true he says we're going to profit well i run several businesses and let me tell you something if i break even if i only have enough bill money to pay the businesses bills i didn't make any profit yeah if you're breaking even you're going back and just breaking even profit is when you have a surplus God desires you to profit in all labor there is profit in all honest work you have more than your needs met

you will have money left over you will have a surplus that's a promise from God I my desire for the morning man a class is that you get this get the religious cobwebs out of your head

get the furballs out of your mind the religious furballs and get a revelation of what your father has promised you he's promised you favor and goodness and mercy and truth and prophet

profit is something left over beyond mere survival so the statement is absolute in all labor in every legitimate form of faithful work it has there is inherent value Socialism and Communism, where they view profit as bad. Oh, yes. And the state must take it. Right. We can't let you have profit.

The state must take it from you. So in biblical theology, work is not a curse. It's a calling. Yes. And profit is a good thing. But see, this is where people get hung up. And then, Rick, you said that there's a, a curse on Adam when he got kicked out of the garden. Yes, there is a curse. He would have to

make things grow by himself. Yes. But the curse, even in the curse, there was a blessing because there's the opportunity for profit, for growth. Once you're born again, that curse on Adam is lifted. You still work, but you don't have to make it grow. The Lord gives increase. The Lord giveth increase. Amen. You enter into a sacred partnership with God's creative order. I'm telling you, there are people in this class. God has given you ideas for a business and you have not acted on it. He's given some of you have, he's given ideas for inventions and you've not invented. Some of you are artists and you've not painted. Some of you are artists and you've not painted. Some of you are writers and you've not written.

He's given you ways to receive an increase. He's a creator. Some of you are builders with your hands. You could build a house with bricks. Go do it. He desires to create through you. He's the creator. He didn't stop being a creator in Genesis.

He's still a creator today. It's the father's business. He has his paint brush out every morning and every evening at sunset, sunrise and sunset. He's painting. Look at the paintings he does in the sky. He's still painting. He's a creator. Get to know him as an artist, a creator.

Get to know your father. Who he is, what he is. He's a creator. He likes to create. and he likes to create through his sons and daughters. That brings him happiness and pleasure because you are acting like him and he's able to bless you. Amen.

So wisdom honors the worker, not the dreamer who is detached from effort. You have to be a dreamer, but the dreamer must work and there's where a lot of people fail either they work and don't dream and they limit themselves or they dream and don't work right have you ever heard the expression rick he's all hat but no cattle sure i'll talk yes i'll talk nothing in the barn but the talk of the lips tendeth only to penury so this introduces the contrast the unproductive counterpart speech without action

talk of the lips empty words empty promises plans big plans and no work to implement the plans right Rick I don't know if you had a chance to really dive into that word penury or not

but in the Old Testament it's related to the barren womb the barren it's the same root word where it talks about you know uh lifeless yes there's no life it you know when we talk about sarah's womb being empty that's the same root word for penury there really i didn't know that doc i i thought it was uh it just meant destitution yeah you know extreme Like a bare womb. Wow.

Like a bare womb. Yeah. Okay, so words consume energy, but they produce no harvest. You're releasing energy when you speak words, but you have to back, see, faith without works is dead.

That's what James said. So people can speak oh I'm by faith I declare that I'm going to do this this and this okay I'm with you go do it they never leave that train never leaves the station these words are just vapor vapor and no seed there has to be a seed of deed the seed of deed I like that

there's a there's a contrast between declaring and doing there's rhetoric and then there are results that's one thing that I really admire about Donald Trump

he backs up his words he gets things done when that man puts his mind to something it gets done he's lived his whole life like that why he's a builder he first imagines a skyscraper before he ever lays the first block

but see the imagination comes first he envisions a skyscraper and then there's work and Mr. Trump was never out there laying the block but he was doing the work that it took to have the construction done

you always have to back up your dreams with work so what this verse is doing it's indicting the perpetual planner who never executes they only make spreadsheets Oh, I've had spreadsheet makers work for me.

If I ever wanted a spreadsheet, I could get one. But is there anything on the spreadsheet that's real other than projections? out perpetual planners no execution they'll make a spreadsheet they'll create a business plan they'll do all these things that's like wow that's impressive but there's no action

and no fruit and no profit and then you get this other guy who doesn't have that kind of education can't make a spreadsheet can't write a business plan and the guy becomes a millionaire right because he can take his idea in his head and somehow he builds it without a spreadsheet these uh you know this is also rebuked self-promoters designed to impress not to build it's just always talking always impressing but they never accomplish anything influencers oh yeah influencers social media influencers just what do those people do they influence that's it and they call themselves influencers

so keep this agricultural truth in mind the field unplowed by effort yields weeds of want you don't plow the feed that the field you're going to you're going to harvest weeds and weeds grow fast let me jump down to the commentators Charles Bridges work is the ordinance of heaven talk is the counterfeit of work the tongue may prove swift of work the tongue may prove

swiftly excuse me the tongue may move swiftly but only the hand gathers fruit Adam Clark where there is

patient toil there will be increase but he who spends his breath instead of his strength waste both time and substance Albert Barnes

labor brings reward because it accords with God's law. Speech alone, however fluent, carries no blessing when severed from effort. Alexander McLaren. The diligent worker communes with God

through action. The talker lives in illusion, feeding on the wind of his own words. Gee Campbell Morgan. Doc, can you just picture Alexander McLaren

in a committee meeting and he's just sitting there watching some windbag a blow hard and McLarren is saying to himself he's just feeding on the wind of his own words G. Campbell

Morgan the toil of the wise is seed the speech of the slothful is chaff only the first fills the granary of life we are not every blow of honest work rings in heaven every idle word echoes into poverty charles spurgeon prayer without labor is hypocrisy and labor without prayer is atheism the idle tongue is kin to the empty purse okay could you say that again rick charles spurgeon prayer without labor

is hypocrisy labor without prayer is atheism wow the idle tongue is kin to the empty purse Now, I would like to imagine being in a room with Spurgeon, Morgan, and McLarn. And watch their facial reactions while some braggadocious guy It stands up and talks in a meeting. Can you imagine Morgan and Spurgeon and McLaren looking at each other?

Okay. I wish we could go on. I got two more, but we're past the time. We'll pick up at verse 24 tomorrow. Amen. Well, we appreciate this lesson day. Rick, it's a good one, of course, and one that we should be taking to heart here. there's a blessedness that comes with both showing mercy and a blessedness in labor.

And in this world today, both are diminished. But in the currency of heaven, like you mentioned earlier, mercy is the coin of heaven. That's going to be ringing in my mind all day today. Mercy is the coin of heaven. And likewise, labor is the method of exchange in heaven too. So, a lot to be learned from these three verses a day, verses 21 through 23. And we encourage you to put this into practice in your life.

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megafire.world and get your copy of megafire today not just get one get one for someone else too if you can so Rick any other thoughts here as we close out this Wednesday edition of morning manna no for those of you who were in the class before we began recording you know my prayer requests so just continue to pray for our brother okay throughout today so all right on that note and continuing in prayer and continuing in mercy and labor today. Let's continue to work for the kingdom. God bless you. We'll see you on

the Thursday edition of Boy, Amen.