TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Morning Manna - October 16, 2025 - Proverbs 14:24-25 - The Crown and the Witness

Episode Date: October 16, 2025

Proverbs 14:24–25 reveals two marks of godly wisdom—honor that endures and truth that saves. The wise are crowned not merely with wealth, but with the righteous fruit of disciplined stewardship, while fools remain imprisoned in their own folly. A true witness preserves life through faithful speech; a false one spreads deceit and death. In this Morning Manna teaching, Rick Wiles and Doc Burkhart examine how integrity in both possessions and words testifies to the fear of the Lord—the crown of the wise and the safeguard of souls. 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

Well, good morning, everybody. Welcome to Morning Manna on this. It's a rainy day here in Florida. Overcast, gray, light rain, but it's a beautiful day. And it's a wonderful day because this is the day the Lord has made. And we will rejoice in it. And we are delighted that you're here to study the Word of God with us. I told the class just before we started, the online class. it gathers at 8 a.m. I told them I had another lesson prepared for Proverbs chapter 14 verses 26 through 30. But early this morning, I felt the Lord telling me that there are some gems, some jewels in the five verses of 21 through 25 that we overlooked. And in fact, yesterday we didn't finish those five verses. We only made it to verse 23. So I'm going to pick up at

verse 24 and 25 and then I'm going to go back and let's look at what are some of the jewels what's the message that's in these five verses I don't want to be in a rush and hurry up and just gloss over something when you know there's some gold coins lying there yes let's pick them up and let's let's let's treasure um the value of these of these verses so doc we're have you read proverbs 14 verses 21 through 25 again and we'll begin our study with verse 24 let's pray father god almighty god father you alone are the supreme being of the universe there's never been another god there isn't another god today there won't be another god tomorrow you are the eternal god and we worship you we praise you

we adore you we we bow down our hearts and minds our being our will we bow our will to you father yes to submit to your ways to your commandments to your um your will your plan for our lives father we humbly request the presence of your wonderful holy spirit to extract from these verses in proverbs 14 the treasures that you have placed there for our benefit we ask all these things in the name of your wonderful son Jesus Christ our king amen amen and welcome morning manna everyone no matter where you are in the world and when I say no matter where you are in the world I literally mean that because if you're new to morning Nana we have people that tune in from Russia from Australia Japan Brazil

Malaysia, all over the world, and across the U.S. and Canada. What a tremendous opportunity to reach the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ studying His Word. We are picking back up today, continue our lesson from yesterday. Proverbs chapter 14, verses 21 through 25 today. And we're going to focus on verses 24 and 25, but I'm going to read the whole passage here. And we'll be doing some review of the verses we talked about yesterday. But let's read here, Proverbs chapter 14 verses 21 through 25. I'm reading from the King James. Verse 21, he that despiseth his neighbor sineth, but he that hath mercy on the poor, happy is deep. 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 penury. Verse 24, the crown of the wise is their wretches, but the foolishness of fools is folly. At verse 25, a true witness delivereth souls, but a deceitful witness speaketh lies. All right, let's pick back up on verse 24. The crown on the wise is their riches, but the foolishness of fools is folly.

The Septuagin translation is the crown of the wise is their wealth. The undisciplined are crowned with their own folly. Notice it says the undisciplined. So, Doc, this equates foolishness with the lack of discipline in your life. so the crown of the wise is the richest so you've got this you have this royal imagery wisdom wearing wealth as its crown the crown of the wise is their riches this is saying that when you're when you're when you are wise god will crown your head with riches i know that upsets some religious people it's just the word of god and i'm going to accept

it for what it says amen i'm not going to try to explain it away and riches It entails far more than just money, but it does include money and land and real estate and and precious, it includes many things. Riches includes good health, happiness, a quiet home. Right. These are all riches. Right. And riches are, and riches, by the way, are relative to the environment that you're in.

Okay. That's right. So, you know, among the wasabi tribe in Africa, having two cows is considered rich. Okay, just one cow. The wasabies, yes. Yeah, I just made up that name. Yeah, no, no, I remember the wasabi's, yeah. So why does God crown us with riches?

So it's not for our vanity, but it's to serve as a visible testimony of our prudence and his blessings. Right. And the key to that is what is a crown? What's the purpose of a crown? I mean, to keep your head on, your body? No. The purpose of a crown is to make a visible representation of what? authority, that you are a subject and a ruler of a kingdom. There's a lot to be said about

what a crown itself represents. Well, the only people who are entitled to wear crowns are nobility. That's right. Members of a royal family. And that's exactly what this means. your father crowns you as a son or daughter in his royal family right and that crown of riches signifies honor achievement uh the the recognition by god of your wise stewardship yes does include material prosperity when rightly gained by honest means and then it's a fitting ornament of both your virtue your righteousness and your diligence again just to emphasize these riches are not limited to money precious metals real estate whatever they're not excluded either they're not excluded they're definitely on the list

but they include your spiritual capital you have spiritual capital to work with you have a you've got a savings account in heaven it's like having a a charles swab account in heaven you're trading you've got things to trade with. What is it? Righteousness, mercy, kindness, the things that you do on earth for others. And God says, I'm putting it in your account in heaven. This is part of your riches. It includes peace, a good health. Believe me, good health. is valuable. Take it away and find out how much you'll spend. Yes, I mean, a millionaire, billionaire

will spend his entire wealth to gain another hour of time. Doc, I don't recall which one of our commentators said it, whether it was Spurgeon or McLaren or Morgan, But one of them said people will spend their health to get wealth and then spend the rest of their lives spending their wealth to regain their health. Isn't that the sad commentary on a lot of people? They pursue wealth the wrong way,

and they destroy their health to get it. And then in poor health, they spend all their wealth trying to find a doctor to fix them. Yes. When you could just do it, God's way. So the wise are crowned because their work, their labor, their endeavors have integrity. Their prosperity is the harvest of righteousness, not the sports. spoil of greed they gained their material they gained their right their their wealth the right way

it was bestowed upon them by the lord is the lord that gives you power to get wealth notice the lord himself said he was the one who gives you the power to get wealth you didn't say i give you the power to get poverty so true wealth is not accidental it's a byproduct of a life of wisdom it's just a byproduct it just happens you pursue wisdom prosperity's just going to follow you amen wealth and some of them get it but they can't hold on to it and it does them no good when they leave this life when they leave this life they they exit their body and they're bankrupt yes the thing to do is allow the lord to give you the power to give wealth to be a good steward and use your wealth

for his kingdom for the sharing of the gospel and for the caring of the poor and orphans and widows then he will crown you with a crown of wealth and it'll be a good crown it won't rust so throughout the Bible you see images of agriculture okay so what do we have here we have sowing indiligence produces the fruits of increase which becomes the crown of your life's effort but the foolishness of fools is folly the foolishness of fools is folly the foolishness of fools is folly you have different versions of that word fool three times in that single phrase triple foolishness here foolishness of fools is folly so folly is both the

cause and the consequence of the condition of fools it's the cause but it's also the product of being a fool so where wisdom multiplies reward foolishness multiplies failure feels nothing but more of itself. But the wise multiply success. Fools multiply failure. Why? They're producing what's in them. But a fool could become wise.

It's a choice. You're not born. to be perpetually foolish. Amen. We all have the capacity for it. But somewhere along the way in our lives, we allow the Holy Spirit to get inside of us and help us make the right decisions.

Others spurn the Holy Spirit and just continue to make foolish decisions. The fool never learns, never change. changes, never profits from experience. Doc, President Trump again said this week, he didn't know if he would go to heaven. Right. He made the remark on Air Force One flying back from Egypt after the release of the Israeli hostages. And it's sad. It's sad because he's trying to earn his way into heaven.

He's like, I stopped another war. Is that enough to get me into heaven? It's sad. He has yet to perceive and understand that he has nothing to do with it. and and supposedly he's surrounded by all sorts of evangelicals and no one has said to him mr president you can know you can absolutely know i know i am i um we you know continue continue to pray for the man yes never learns, never changes, never profits. You can be a rich fool spiritually.

Foolishness is self-perpetuating. It breeds habits and decisions and outcomes that continually reinforce spiritual poverty. Again, you can be materially successful. and spiritually bankrupt. Many people are in the world. But that's still foolishness. Wealth is not proof of wisdom. So don't get confused about that. Just because somebody's wealthy doesn't mean

God crowned them with their wealth. What these verses are telling us is he will crown his sons and daughters who are wise in pursuing the kingdom he will crown them with success and it will be good success so the wise wear a crown but the fool wears their own disgrace as their ornament their folly becomes their diadem of shame sure everybody's got a crown

all right you decide which crown you're going to wear Proverbs is teaching us about decisions and doc I you know I just on the predestination issue the hyper

Calvinists who believe that there are people who are predestined to be damned I don't see this proverbs all the way through from verse chapter one to chapter 31 it's talking about choices right

yeah you'd have to to hold those hyper calvinism you have to throw out the entire book of proverbs that's right so does god know who will be saved yes yes yes yes he does but does god try and make efforts to lead somebody to make the right decisions yes that's that's what heaven is doing all day long however can a man or woman resist the Holy Spirit continually to the point that God says that's all I'm done and just leaves them in their state of spiritual poverty and doesn't come back. Yes, that's that frightens me. That frightens me that a person could reach a state of rebellion against God that he just says, I'm done. I'm not going to help you anymore. but the lord is always seeking to reconcile always trying to get us and even when we're saved when we fall when we make mistakes when we when we sit he's always there not to judge and condemn and and crush you

but to lift you back up get you to confess what you did and then restore you and then say now let's learn what what did we learn because he's a good father so this there's an ironic contrast here that highlights the the inversion of values fools glory in that which destroys them i mean you can see proud fools in the world if you don't believe me just go on social media there are proud fools they glory in the things that are destroying them yes folly it's not beyond foolish decisions it's moral corruption reckless speech waste of resources squandering the potential of your life because you have an undisciplined life that's folly

the folly of fools is foolish is how did this say doc let's go back the the foolishness of fools is folly so the the fool's reward is circular yes he invest in nothing loses everything and ends with emptiness let's think about that a fool is a man and woman who invest in nothing when I say invest I don't mean just I don't talk about buying stocks and bonds and so forth doesn't invest his life in anything meaningful invest in nothing ends up losing everything

and at the end of his or her life they have just emptiness. So God allows a fool's folly to be his or her own punishment. The fool reaps folly as his or her harvest. That's your punishment. You desire to be a fool? Guess what? You're going to reap a whole harvest of foolishness.

so the fool becomes a character of himself crowned with his or her own absurdity foolishness silliness and it's a it's a counterfeit crown it's it's bright with self-confidence but inside the crown it's hollow it's not real gold yeah oh so sad so sad a hollow crown a hollow crown just the picture of that you might as well wear burger king crown he's more of a king than you are so wow wisdom reigns in dignity folly is enthroned in foolishness both reigns there are two monarchies here every life wears a crown either wisdom's riches or folly's shame but everybody wears a crown john gill one of the early baptists said The wives are enriched by the blessing of God upon their diligence, and their wealth is an ornament to them.

But fools are adorned only with their own madness. Yes. Charles Bridges, riches, riches rightly used, are the crown of wisdom. But wealth without grace would be but a coronet of straws. Fools having nothing better. deck themselves with their own folly. Alexander McLaurin, the wise are kings because they rule themselves.

The fool, uncrowned by discipline, wears the mock crown of his own folly. Wow. Gee Campbell Morgan, wisdom fashions wealth as a wreath of honor. Folly fashions folly into its own garland of disgrace. William are not.

Every man is crowned. The wise with the gold of experience, the fool with the dust of his own ruin. And Cheryl Spurgeon, the crown of wealth sits well, only on the head of wisdom. Folly makes her own tensile diadem and calls it glory. A tensile diadem.

Gosh, and then says it's glorious. Cromiters knew how to turn a phrase, didn't they? Didn't they? Are they awesome? A tinsel crown. Wow. You know, I think of, you know, Christmas tree tensile. Somebody wrapping their head with Christmas tree tensile saying, you like my crown?

Yes. All right, so let's go to verse 25. the king james a true witness delivereth souls but a deceitful witness speaketh lies subdugent almost identical a faithful witness deliver souls but a deceitful witness kindles falsehoods the aramaic pashita is a true witness saves lies but he who utters lies is deceitful again with the first part a true witness delivers souls yes okay the true witness is a person who testifies with integrity whose words align with righteousness and reality

so a witness's testimony sometimes in a court case can determine another person's life or death That's right. Every day, somewhere in the world, somebody is falsely imprisoned because of the false testimony of a lying witness. Or somebody is denied justice because of the false testimony of a lying witness. Now, in our modern way of thinking, we're used to shows like Columbus. Perry Mason, law and order, and all these things, these are called procedural crime dramas, right? And evidence is presented. And sometimes you see a courtroom and evidence is presented.

Back in these days, you didn't have that kind of process. You didn't have evidence, you know, forensic evidence and stuff. You had to rely on the testimony of people. And you had to make sure that that testimony was honor. In fact, it was embedded in the law of Moses about honest testimony and the condemnation of those who perjured themselves, who tell a lie after swearing to tell the truth. And so in many ways, perjury is moral murder because a lie could endanger someone's life a lie could endanger someone's life and that's why the the penalty for a false witness was death

yes or a lie in a courtroom could allow a murderer to walk free yes and perjury i would say in every country is a serious crime you can be put in prison for years if you are to convicted of perjury perjury meaning lying under oath okay so truth-telling is a sacred responsibility a stewardship to deliver souls means to rescue them truth prevents injustice truth preserves the innocent truth upholds divine order in human courts a judge has got to be really corrupt to ignore an honest truth-telling witness yes a truth-telling witness can change the dynamics of a court trial things can be going one direction and then one truth-telling witness shows up in the

witness stand and suddenly the judge and the jury are saying to themselves this completely changes everything. So deliver souls. Truthful speech

liberates it saves minds from deception. It saves hearts from ruin. And truth is also medicinal. It heals what lies have have damaged. Yes. If you've ever been wronged and lies have been told about you, maybe some form of injustice done, and months, maybe years later, somebody comes forward and tells others around you what happened back then what you heard. That's not true. I know what happened and here's the truth. See, it heals. The truth heals what lies damage. A faithful witness is a moral physician administering truth and

clarity where there's confusion reigning in a circumstance in a courtroom let's see a faithful witness that's his or her character is not of one time hey okay today i'll tell the truth no faithful witness tells the truth all the time one of a country one of a country country music singer Dwight Yocham, one of his songs, he has lyrics, he says, I tell the truth except when I lie. I knew another country song, truthfully I lied. Right. But see, it says save souls, not just one person, can be a family, could be a church, it could be a city, could be a nation, a faithful witness. A faithful witness imitates God.

Amen. Because no lie is found in him. So to, in this verse, truth is portrayed as deliverance. And here's why. Deception enslaves. People, the liar is enslaved. enslaved in his or her dishonesty but the the victim is enslaved in injustice and so to speak truth is to participate in god's redemption what is one of the titles of jesus christ

a faithful and true witness yes what does he do doc he delivers souls Have you ever thought about this? Christ is the faithful and true witness whose testimony on judgment day delivers souls from damnation. Christ will testify about you. Testify to who? Almighty God is Father. Yes.

Father, I testify that Raymond Burkhart is a righteous man who served me and the father says then he will not be he will not be damned he will enter into eternal life a faithful and true witness delivers souls you and i need christ to be a true and faithful witness on judgment day that what i just said this is worth getting up and coming this class to hear amen will he can he testify about you that will he testify about you that will deliver you on judgment day Each one of us must live day to day in a state of humility and brokenness and not allow anything to reign in our lives that is contrary to his will, to his ways. But a deceitful witness speaketh lies.

So the antithesis of truth-telling is, lying false testimony what the true witness builds the false witness destroys so a deceitful witness is one who intentionally maliciously distorts facts corrupts judgment sometimes sometimes people give false testimony to hurt the other person. But other times, and I've seen this, Doc, and I've experienced it, people have given deceitful witness out of fear for their own good, and they lie to protect themselves because they're afraid of somebody else. something else is involved in the situation and they're too close to the wrongdoer

and even though they know the truth they lie to protect themselves from the wrongdoer they'll go ahead and let the innocent person who has been damaged damaged by the wrongdoer they'll go ahead and allow that innocent person to be hurt because they fear the wrongdoer and they'll give false testimony to protect themselves. I've had this happen in my life. And I'm sad to say I've seen Christians do it. I've just sat there and go, I don't believe this. I just don't believe this.

Because somebody say, well, I just want to get myself out of this uncomfortable situation. I'm just going to say whatever I've got to say and get out of here. It brings out what's in the heart. Yes. You know, I've seen people just desert me because they didn't have the courage to stand with me. They became a deceitful witness. but a person who speaketh lies sees plural that implies habitual fabrication so deceit becomes the fool's dialect the fool's language they they lie so much that it just comes

out of their mouth so easily so falsehood is more than ignorance, it's moral perversion. I've seen Christians steal and justify it. Well, the person I stole from deserved it. I had a right to take it. I made things right. No, you just stole. Yeah.

I've seen it happen. Well, I'm angry that person and I'm taking something to get even. Okay, well, that's sin. It's double sin. It's revenge and it's theft. So falsehood is the deliberate manipulation of truth. And in Washington, D.C. and most national capitals, there are people that have made this an art. It's an art.

They can lie without being convicted of lying. Because they deliberately manipulate the truth. see it's lying is anti-creation truth sustains divine order lying disintegrates it amen so a lying witness endangers people souls can perish through lies deceitful witness witnessing it can spread injustice it can so mistrust it can create chaos it is extremely destructive Matthew Henry said a faithful witness not only keeps his own conscience clear but often preserves the lives and reputation of others, whereas the false witness brings guilt and ruin wherever he speaks.

Charles Bridges says, truth is mercy in speech, deceit is murdered by the tongue. The faithful witness is a minister of life, the liar, an instrument of death. Alexander McLaren, the truthful witness, is priestly. He mediates life by truth. The liar usurps that priesthood and profanes it by deceit. G. Campbell Morgan, when truth is spoken, the world breathes easier. When lies prevail, the air itself becomes poisoned. William are not, every false word is a spark that kindles destruction.

Every true one, a breath that preserves life. Charles Spurgeon, better a tongue cut out than one that speaks lies. The faithful witness shares Christ's likeness. The false witness bears the mark of the destroyer. All right, so we only have a few minutes here. I want to go over what we've learned in these past two days, verses 21 through 25. let's recap verse 21 and i would call this these verses this verses the compassionate heart

moral life begins with mercy to despise a neighbor is sin to show compassion is blessedness remember verse 21 he that despises his neighbor sinneth but he that has mercy on the poor happy is he so divine wisdom exposes contempt as spiritual blindness and mercy as participation in god's own character so god measures greatness not by worldly possession but by pity yes the heart that stoops to serve rises in joy what did we read in verse 22 do they not err that devise evil but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good I shared this yesterday after morning manna with a young christian leader of a ministry and i i just maybe an hour after we finished morning manna and i i told him about this verse verse 22 he was so blessed he

texted me last night about 9 p.m and said mr rick tell me that verse again yeah he calls me mr rick he goes mr rick tell me that verse again he was just blessed by thought about it all day so the wise all right the evil the evil person plots evil but the wise plots good it's not just it's not that the the evil person does evil but actually plots evil but what stood out to me yesterday was that the good person not only just naturally does good, but the good person actually thinks and plans how to do more good. Yes. That's what jumped out yesterday.

The good person thinks and meditates and plans and dreams and imagines how he or she could do more good. I'm not going to give you the details, but I'll just tell you, my wife, Susan, has come across a young couple here in Viro Beach who are in really bad shape and struggling. And I've not been able to get them out of my mind. Okay. And Susan won't tell you this. I'll tell you this. She took them to Walmart yesterday and bought them $850 worth of groceries. You know, there was a time, Doc, that would get you through, what, about six months?

Yeah. Not anymore. Not anymore. And she said the young husband cried. He just cried. And so I, all day yesterday and this morning, it's been on my mom. fine. I've been thinking of ways to do good. I've not met them yet. I've been asking Susan for information about them, but there's something in me that's motivating me to think of a plan

to do good, to get them out of the mess that they're in, to help them get on their feet, get into a home find work have transportation you know you can be so poor you can't get out of it right you get caught in that cycle and you just can't break through

right but doc what I've been hearing all morning is jumpstart their life jumpstart it like a dead battery and you've got a car you got to jump start it

the battery's too weak to turn over and start the engine you've got to jump start it that's what I've been hearing all day jump start it so I've been thinking and dreaming of ways to jump start their lives

again I haven't met a man but this is what this verse means the righteous dreams and imagines and thinks and plots and plans ways to do good so the wise designs good as the evil design evil so those who plot evil

wander from truth and evil pursues them and those who plan good are surrounded by mercy and faithfulness so wisdom sanctifies imagination yes here's the difference the wise use their imagination as planning for ministry and the evil used their imagination for manipulation one does ministry another does manipulation yes but god mirrors back to the good the one who plans what he purposes god gives mercy for mercy truth for truth grace for grace then verse 23 in all labor there is prophet but the top but the top talk of the lips tendeth only to penury.

Pennery meaning complete destitution, poverty. The doc pointed out yesterday, a barren womb, lifeless, a diligent hand. So in this verse, wisdom talks about work, that every thing, that everything, form of honest work bears profit and idle talk breeds poverty so there's a there's a sacred rhythm here okay creation honors work as partnership with god's sustaining divine order of life to not work is to be out of order with God. I see, when we work with people who are in poverty, these are the principles we have to teach them.

Something's happening in your life that's caused your poverty. It's not enough to just help them financially. You've got to help them spiritually. Right. Or they'll just go back into poverty. so the wise don't confuse words with deeds the wise plow instead of boasting they sew instead of debating for the wise work is the liturgy of industry yes that speech without work is empty worship. You actually worship God with honest work. And what's interesting is that

really, after Adam and Eve were expelled from the garden, one of the, if you will, a curse that was placed on Adam was to toil, to work and have to deal with thorns and thistles. But Jesus comes and flips that over on its head and work now becomes worship our work are the efforts that we put in if it's anointed by God it's directed by God yes instead of it being a curse now because we're not under a curse so work is no longer a curse it's the blessing now and it's it's in Christ it's been sanctified that's right now let's look at the two verses we studied today 24 25 24 the crown of the wise is the richest but the foolishness of fools is folly the crown of wisdom is abundance material abundance moral abundance spiritual abundance

health abundance wealth is honorable when it is the harvest of of honest work prudence stewardship gratitude worship wealth is honorable but the fool is crowned with his own folly he's he's adorned as spurgeon said with a tensile diadem so then we get to verse 25 which we just studied A true witness delivereth souls, but a deceitful witness speaketh lies. So now we see that truth-telling crowns the sequence of these five verses. The mouth is an instrument of life and death. So verse 25 is the faithful tongue. The true witness rescues souls through honesty.

A deceitful person destroys people through their lives. That speech is priestly service to God. To speak truth is to mediate mercy. To speak lies is to crucify it. Let's go back here and look at this. Verse 21, a compassionate heart. verse 22 a creative intellect you plan to do good see verse one the compassionate heart is you have to have the heart of compassion to do good

verse 22 is you have a compassionate mind to think of ways to do more good then verse 23 you've got a diligent hand that works so you have resources to do good in other words that has to be sanctified too yes and verse 24 is the result is a fruitful life and verse 25 is a faithful tongue i mean there's a lot in these five verses it's doc there's a miniature theology of everyday practical holiness. I mean, these five verses have a theology. It teaches us that wisdom and success are not some kind of mystical

things that we try to obtain, but but it's disciplined godliness woven through daily conduct in our behavior our speech our words that every act of mercy every good intention every stroke of labor with our hands every stewardship of financial gain every truthful word all these together are golden thread heads from which God weaves a crown for our heads. You have to have all five for the crown. It's really, I'm telling you there's a lot in this. Amen.

Oh, it's rich. It is. So you've got five. spheres of moral reality heart mind hand life tongue verse 21 mercy tempers the heart verse 22 righteousness directs the mind verse 23 diligence disciplines the body verse 24 prudence adorns the life and verse 25 truth guards the tongue So each virtue reflects God's divine attributes, compassion, justice, creativity, order, faithfulness. When we live this way, we become, our lives reflect creation's harmony.

Yes. God loves order. Don't. be out of order get into his way look he's not going to change his orders for your order that's right we have to flow in his order and when we do he releases blessings yes and by that you become a faithful witness for him so doc my final words here is like verses 21 to 25 this is a a a microcosm of divine order the heart shows compassion the mind conceives ways to be compassionate the hands work with diligence our lives are crowned with blessing and our tongue bears witness

of truth all in five verses you do these five things you are going to be blessed yes you can't Write it down. Heart, mind, hands, life, tongue. And put this into practice. Go over this lesson. Listen to it again. Until this gets down in your soul. Listen to yesterday and today's lessons until it just gets down inside your soul.

Until you start thinking, I've got to, I've got to dream up some ways to do good. Praise God. It got into that my names, Mark, yesterday. Enough that he texted me at 9 p.m. I'm still thinking about it. Okay, Doc. I'll wrap it up for today. Great lesson today, Rick.

And so I, and like you said, if you just put, if you don't put anything else into practice that we've taught in Proverbs up until today, just do today's principles and watch how it radically changes. your life i hope you do other things too but just the things we talked about today could radically change your not just your life but your outlook on life and your witness for christ amen and it will change other people's lives amen hey i want to remind everybody oh go ahead no i was you ask the lord today who could you who is in your sphere of influence that you could help jump start their life yes and maybe you don't have the resources entirely on your own but maybe you could get together

with six 10 12 other christians and say hey let's pull our resources together and jump start that family's life right or maybe there's a neighbor on your street and maybe you've noticed that the grass is growing pretty tall and everything it might be a reason why maybe you can go over and say hey i've got a mower i'll cut your grass uh you know even the smallest things but there's the labor that's involved and that's an investment in the good so there's so many opportunities that we have around us uh there was a lady in my church when i was pastoring in princeton missouri her ministry was cookies rick she would bake cookies and she baked some i mean some good cookies anytime there was an event or uh any time that a family was

going through struggles. She didn't have much money, but she would make cookies. And sometimes, Rick, a warm chocolate chip cookie will really change your attitude. You better believe it. Do you remember, do you remember Famous Amos? Oh, sure. Back when the cookies really were good, you know, when they didn't taste like bricks, dry bricks. They, the original famous, famous cookies were good. I knew I personally knew famous amos and back one day sitting in the las vegas airport waiting on a flight he and i were flying somewhere and i said amos how did you become so stinking rich because this is back

in the 80s he was at his peak okay there were famous amos cookies out everywhere okay and he told me the true story and he said it all happened he was at the worst part of his life he had failed he was um alone couldn't function and just to bring peace to his heart he started making cookies because he had a great recipe for himself and he started giving the cookies to people just to bless them he was trying to just find peace and out of that people started saying these cookies are so good i'll pay you for them and he said rick the next thing i know i was rich and he said all i was trying to do was make cookies so these things work okay his heart his heart's desire was i'm just making cookies to bless somebody but god took it and said i'm going to use this

to make you rich. That's how it happened. And then he sold the company and they made the cookies horrible. Right. And, you know, I've said this to former employees and stuff like that

where they've come to me and Ricky know this where they'll sit down, I don't know what to do with my life. I don't know what to do. I don't know what my calling is. And my advice is will do something good.

Start there. Start by doing something good. You can find, everybody can find something good to do. And you know what? Occasionally, every once a while, you find your calling and doing that good thing. Doc, I'm reading.

Mary said her dad was 90 years old and told her and I guess her brothers and sisters, the widow's yard needs raking. And they all had to grab rakes and go down the street and rake the leaves in the widow's yard. see that's that's what we're talking about right all right praise god you know what you know what a homeless man said to susan yesterday this is his motto this came from a homeless man if you can't find a good hearted person be one check the mirror first that came from a

homeless man so all right everybody okay hey reminder get rick's uh latest book megafire it's available megafire dot world megafire dot world someone asked me the other day uh what's the website you keep saying megafire dot world that is the website that is fire all in word dot world is like you know in other websites they do dot com well Dot World is an extension, and it's Megafire, all one word, no spaces or dashes or anything. Dot World, W-O-R-L-D World. Get your copy of Rick's book Megafire, America's next fourth turning crisis. It's your guidebook to what's happening in the world around us now and over the next decade and beyond.

And so I encourage you to get your copy of Megafire today. Also, reminder, tomorrow is Faith Friday. And so on Faith Friday, our topic, it's generally faith. And so, and it's always Faith. That's what we call it Faith Friday. But we also have the Lord's Supper on Fridays. And so we are inviting you in advance to prepare, to join us, to worship the Lord at the divine table.

Who may participate? Well, what we say to folks is if you're a confessing believer in Jesus Christ and you've been baptized in water according to the scriptures in the name of the Father, Son, the Holy Spirit. We invite you. In fact, we encourage you to participate in the Lord's table with bread and either red wine or grape juice, whatever your preference is there. So we encourage you, join us tomorrow for the Lord's table, the Lord's supper. We'd love to have you there. And bring a friend, bring a family member, join with you tomorrow. We want to be a blessing in that. We're one of the few groups and ministries out there that regularly, on a weekly basis, gives believers the opportunity to participate in the Lord's table.

And we get so many testimonies of folks saying they appreciate it so very, very much. And it identifies you as a believer in Christ and part of a global community of fellow believers. So we encourage you to participate. Rick, any final words before we sign off for this third? edition of morning manna just continue to pray for john mark all right that's all i'll say pray for him we'll see you tomorrow god bless you we love you we'll see you on faith friday