TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Morning Manna - September 3, 2025 - Proverbs 10:27-32 - Words, Ways, and What Remains

Episode Date: September 3, 2025

Today’s Morning Manna explores Proverbs 10:27–32, where the paths of the righteous and the wicked diverge with eternal consequences. We examine how the fear of the LORD brings longevity and how wi...se speech reveals the heart’s condition. The legacy of the just is marked by stability, fruitful words, and divine favor—while the wicked walk toward ruin, exposed by their own mouths. Join us for a sobering yet hopeful meditation on how to walk in wisdom and speak with integrity. 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.Get high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves!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!Amazon.com/Final-DayApple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books!books.apple.com/final-dayPurchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today.Sacrificingliberty.comThe Fauci Elf is a hilarious gift guaranteed to make your friends laugh! Order yours today!Trunews/faucielf

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Good morning, everyone. It's a wonderful Wednesday, and we are delighted to have you here with us today to study the Word of God. We're going to finish Chapter 10, the book of Proverbs today, verses 27 through 32. And then tomorrow we begin chapter 11. Let's pray and invite the Holy Spirit. Almighty God, our dear Heavenly Father, Father, we thank you for your presence and our presence in our lives your presence is the greatest treasure we have the sweetness the peace of the calmness the joy father we delight in your presence and so we we request your presence in this bible study
Starting point is 00:00:51 teach us your word and illuminate us to understand your ways in the name of jesus christ our lord and Savior. Amen. Amen. Praise the Lord. Welcome, everyone, from wherever you are across the planet today. We're so excited to have you here. We've got a couple of countries that we haven't seen much activity from lately. Australia and Indonesia are here with us today, and of course our friends in Russia, the UK, Ireland, and Philippines, Japan, Malaysia, Brazil, and of course all points in between the U.S. and Canada. Welcome to Morning Man, our international global Bible study where we explore the Word of God and we are currently exploring the book of Proverbs.
Starting point is 00:01:38 We are in chapter 10. We're finishing chapter 10 today. So if you have your Bibles and you should have your Bibles every time we're studying the Bible, we're going to read together here. And I encourage you to read out loud if you can. And that's a great way to get the Word of God imprinted on your mind and helps you to remember it. and helps the Lord to speak to you. Sometimes reading the word out loud allows God to just say something to you
Starting point is 00:02:06 that you might not have had just reading to yourself. So verse 27 is where we're picking up in chapter 10 today. Reading to the end of the chapter, verse 27, The fear of the Lord prolongeth the days, but the years of the wicked shall be shortened. The hope of the righteous shall be gladness, but the expectation of the wicked shall perish. The way of the Lord is strength to the upright,
Starting point is 00:02:28 but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. The righteous shall never, never be removed, but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth. The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom, but the forward tongue shall be cut out. The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked speaketh forwardness. God bless the reading of his word today, Rick.
Starting point is 00:02:53 Amen. Verse 27, the fear of the Lord prolongeth days but the years of the wicked shall be shortened that's one of those verses that should wake you up in the morning if you desire to live long
Starting point is 00:03:17 the fear of the Lord prolongs days to fear the Lord is to live in reverence in all in obedience towards him and the fear of the Lord then lead you to make wise choices in life
Starting point is 00:03:42 so that you are walking in his ways and obedience yields practical benefits in this life. God watches over those who fear him, protecting them, sustaining them. Now, prolonged days, Doc, I think you can use this phrase,
Starting point is 00:04:15 prolonged days, not only to refer to life in this, you know, you know in this world on the planet but to eternal life prolong days right how long is prolonged forever yes the fear of the lord prolongeth days to me it means there's no cutoff there's no ending to those who fear the lord your days continue. Isn't that what you desire? Eternal life that will
Starting point is 00:04:58 eternal life is prolonged days there's no cutoff there's no ending but in this world in this physical life it's a promise that you will live a long life
Starting point is 00:05:15 what comes in my mind doctor is one of the commandments the fifth commandment has a promise honor thy father and thy mother that thy days may be long and i always have to ask the question is the opposite true dishonor thy father and mother and thy days will not belong people need to think about this this is the one commandment that comes with a promise yes those who honor their father and their mother their days shall be long right and thus wouldn't they
Starting point is 00:06:15 promise work the other direction too if they don't honor their father and mother would their days be shortened that's what i'm i'm saying okay no matter how your father and mother act just go ahead and honor them okay just go ahead and honor them um why because you're obeying the commandment yes just get over their behavior their attitudes whatever it is that's irritating you just get over it and honor them if you if you desire to live long yeah if you don't you don't if you don't just are to live long that's not a motivator to you but it is the first the commandment with a promise and that promises life and by extension if you not only honor your father but honor your heavenly father wouldn't that
Starting point is 00:07:20 imply that you would receive eternal life that's a good point doc that's a very good point so prolonged days in both senses temporal physical and eternal honor your heavenly father and you'll have prolonged days how long is prolonged in eternity there's no ending but the years of the wicked shall be shortened anything difficult to understand the fear of god lengthens the days you live on earth the years of the wicked shall be shortened it is very easy to understand because wickedness wickedness leads to ruin it
Starting point is 00:08:15 you see it so often people who are living in more alive suddenly are cut off right and you know also doc a guilty conscience gnaws away at a person's peace of mind and they're
Starting point is 00:08:34 health. Yes. Bitterness, unforgiveness, meanness, it destroys people's health. You see it on their faces, in their bodies.
Starting point is 00:08:59 And they continue in it out of stubbornness, out of spite. even though it's destroying them. You know, there's a verse in Ecclesiastes, and you're the one that actually showed this to me several years ago when we were kind of working through Ecclesiastes. And it's Ecclesiastes 717. It says, be not over much wicked, neither be thou foolish.
Starting point is 00:09:26 Why shouldest thou die before thy time? and you know i often hear that one scripture quoted as appointed under man wants to die and then the judgment that we have an appointment well the thing is that we can keep in mind is we can change our appointment yes we can change our appointment yeah there may be an appointment but we can change our appointment because the scripture clearly teaches if we honor god he will prolong our days. If we choose to dishonor God and live in foolishness, we would die before our time. We can determine our appointment to some degree. I agree, Doug. I believe sinful people often change their appointed time to die. They die early. Yes. The years are shortened, wasted, unfruitful.
Starting point is 00:10:27 over and over Jesus gave us parables about fruitless trees what happens to them they're cut down and burned so one way you keep you stay in the game is to produce fruit amen be fruity if you've got to spiritually grunt and do whatever you do do you got to squeeze out some kind of fruit if you plan to stay in the game because the great farmer is looking for fruit and a life that has no fruit has no reason to remain on the planet and you can have a mixture of fruit so ultimately the wicked face eternal loss the greatest shortening is to be cut off from god forever people people make mistakes people
Starting point is 00:11:56 fall into sin but they recover, they repent, and they get out of it. But those who stay in it for years and years and years and years and years, they're risking that one day they just disappear. And so keep that in mind. God is not going to remove you because you had a momentary weakness.
Starting point is 00:12:26 in your life but when there's prolonged rebellion uh you are at risk amen you're at risk let's see what um albert barnes born 1798 the fear of the lord leads to health peace and longevity while wickedness wastes life and brings premature destruction. Verse 28, the hope of the righteous shall be gladness, but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.
Starting point is 00:13:08 The righteous live in hope that's grounded in God's promises. What's the basis of our hope? The promises in the Word of God. what are we studying every day we're studying the word of god to discover his promises i mean isn't that what we're all looking for we're looking for his promises what does the lord say with my name i guarantee this to you I'm reading the Bible for that's right I want the guaranteed promises I yes and there are guaranteed promises that will lead to life and guaranteed promises that will lead to death
Starting point is 00:14:06 that's right and I I desire to know all of them and to understand them so the reason the hope of the righteous shall be gladness is because their hope is grounded in the promises of God. And that leads to gladness. Their hope produces gladness in this temporal life and in eternity. Even when our present-day life is marked by trials and tribulations and valleys and hard times, it's our expectation of God's faithfulness that gives us joy to get through the difficult time
Starting point is 00:14:59 why where does that joy come from it's the joy of the Lord but your joy is I know the word of God and I know what his promises are and I'm going to get through this difficult time and so we live in hope the hope of the righteous shall be gladness it's not wishful thinking it's a confident assurance rooted in god's covenant with his people you come to the place of believing that god is who he says he is and he does what he says he does amen end of discussion i don't need to know anything else
Starting point is 00:15:48 I know who he is and I know that he keeps his promises. And when you have that assurance, you have gladness in your heart. Our hope includes deliverance in this life, vindication, eternal life our joy
Starting point is 00:16:19 flows from the certainty the guarantee that God will perform he will fulfill everything he promised it is
Starting point is 00:16:36 it's an unshakable joy because our glad Doesn't come from circumstances, but it comes from the rock of God's word. That word never changes. And that because of that, we have gladness. But the expectation of the wicked shall perish. Amen.
Starting point is 00:17:06 So the first part says the hope of the righteous. second part says the expectation of the wicked the righteous hope and the wicked expect notice doc they didn't say the hope of the wicked that's right the expectation they don't have any hope they have expectations the wicked live with expectations but their expectations but they're are built on false foundations, which is pleasure, fun, power, wealth, whatever it is that they expect will bring them gladness. But they're temporary, they're fragile, and they collapse in the day of trouble. The 27th chapter of Job, verse 8, said, For what is the hope of the hypocrite,
Starting point is 00:18:18 though he hath gained, when God take us away his soul? What gain is there? You can gain the whole world, but if your soul is taken away, what have you gained? So the wicked, expect, listen to this, the wicked expect blessings without obedience. They expect heaven without holiness. They expect peace without repentance.
Starting point is 00:18:58 A lot of people like that today. They expect to be blessed without obedience. they expect to spend eternity with God without holiness and it doesn't work that way so you have this contrast to the righteous right the righteous is the righteous people's hope matures into eternal joy, but the wicked person's hope shrivels in eternal loss. I'll look at some of the quotes. John Gill, born 1697, the righteous hope for eternal glory, and their hope shall not be disappointed but fulfilled with joy.
Starting point is 00:19:58 The wicked expect happiness, but all their expectation perishes in death. Adam Clark, born 1762, the righteous have solid joy in the object of their hope, but the wicked's hope is founded on lies and therefore perishes with them.
Starting point is 00:20:19 Verse 29. The way of the Lord is strength to the upright, but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. Amen. the way of the Lord that that refers to God's will his coveted path of righteousness the way of the Lord to the upright walking in God's way in God's way brings strength
Starting point is 00:20:53 security confidence and the way of the Lord obedience is not it's not a burden instead it's a fortress amen it protects it guides it sustains the faithful obedience empowers life it avoids sin snares it preserves health peace stability living in god's ways gives courage to endure trials for the upright no they are walking in his favor the righteous finding god's path in his ways they find safety and energy vitality is his way the way of the lord is their strong tower of defense But the destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. Now, here's a contrast.
Starting point is 00:22:08 The same way of the Lord, the same way, the same way of the Lord that strengthens the righteous, destroys the wicked. God's way is a curse to those who rebel against it. yes what is life to one person is death to another person sinful people experience god's ways as judgment workers of iniquity but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity
Starting point is 00:22:58 Workers of Iniquity, that's speaking of persistence in sin, it is their occupation, their labor, their drive, their pleasure. Remember what I said a few minutes ago, we're not talking about people that in weakness fall into sin and then repent and the Lord restores them. we're talking about people who persistently sin over decades of their lives it's their occupation they won't give up their sin and so for them God's God's order his ways feels it feels like a crushing weight on them and his justice ensures their downfall right it's a burden to them it's a burden it's a burden to obey but it's a delight to those who do obey isn't that paradoxical to the ones who refuse to obey they they say god's way is a burden but the ones who actually do obey but the ones who actually do obey
Starting point is 00:24:22 say no it's a delight there's no burden it's a delight so the same way of the lord that gives peace to the righteous brings dread to the wicked the destruction what's it's But destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. The destruction is eternal death. You can't be destroyed more than that. Eternal separation from God. Whose way they despised. So the way of the Lord is double-edged.
Starting point is 00:25:22 It fortifies the upright with strength and safety, but it destroys the wicked who oppose it. To the righteous who walk in God's ways, they find refuge and safety, but to those who resist God's ways, they embrace their own ruin. And it's the same way of the Lord. let's look at what
Starting point is 00:25:52 the old commentator said Matthew Henry born 1662 the way of the Lord is strength to the upright walking in it they find safety and comfort but the way of the Lord is destruction to the wicket it condemns them and will be their ruin Charles Bridges born 1794 for the same sun that softens wax, hardens clay.
Starting point is 00:26:24 The same way of the Lord strengthens the upright and destroys the ungodly. Alexander McLaren, the way of Jehovah is strength, not weakness, to those who love it, but to the rebel, the same way becomes ruin. For resistance to eternal order is destruction. verse 30 the righteous shall never be removed but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth boy
Starting point is 00:27:01 that should wake up and that includes the new earth so the righteous shall never be removed first thing that comes in my mind is psalm one three where the righteous are compared to trees planted by rivers of water they got deep roots they're fruitful they're enduring psalm one three says he meaning the righteous man or woman
Starting point is 00:27:39 will be like a tree planted by the streams of water that produces its fruit in its season whose leaf also does not wither whatever he does shall prosper see that's a promise amen when you are righteous you are planted by a a spiritual river and it waters you nourishes you And in a time of drought and famine, your leaves are still green. And whatever you do, prospers. Don't fear financial crashes. Social media is full of predictions about financial crashes. And sure, there's going to be financial crashes.
Starting point is 00:28:43 Yes. There has been ever since there's been, money yes yeah there's going to sooner or later there's going to be a crash that's a you can bet on that and i can tell you right now if if the cycle you know holds true as it has for about 500 years going back in great britain's history there's going to be a real estate crash in 2026 right because real estate crashes every 18 years that's not you know I'm not talking about on January 1st 2026 it might be April might be June might be September but somewhere in 2026 real estate's going to crash right I'm not going to flip out about it
Starting point is 00:29:38 there are going to be a lot of people who are going to lose a lot of money but it's not going to be me i'm not going to be worried about it my leaves will not turn brown as long as i stay planted by the river of life i'll get through that crash next year if the stock market goes down i'm not going to dry up and wither and blow away how do i know that because god's word promises that I will not I will not wither whose leaf also does not wither that produces its fruit in its season its leaf does not wither whatever he does shall prosper first is the righteous shall never be removed That means stability, permanence, security, in what?
Starting point is 00:30:50 God's covenant promises. You shall never be removed from God's covenant. Do I believe in eternal security? Yes. When you are living, when you are living, according to the covenant yes if you are living according to the covenant you have eternal security amen if you're living contrary to the covenant you're at risk so though the righteous may face trials and persecution
Starting point is 00:31:42 they cannot be uprooted from the kingdom if somebody if I'm taken away and physically tormented and tortured and execute it I'm still not removed from the kingdom
Starting point is 00:32:02 I have the promise of God's word never be removed my physical body may die but my soul God has my soul our faith is anchored in
Starting point is 00:32:27 the rock and the rock is Jesus Christ it is not shifting sand storms may rage in this world but the we will stand we will stand firm and
Starting point is 00:32:41 as the world becomes more unstable we all need to remind ourselves of the stability of God's promise of his covenant amen
Starting point is 00:32:54 you know for a few minutes I saw some of the headlines and I saw some video today early this morning of the military parade in China. China's
Starting point is 00:33:09 on the move. China's on the march. I mean, you don't have to be too smart to figure out what they're going to do. Anytime you see tens of thousands of soldiers goose stepping down the street that means there's a big war coming.
Starting point is 00:33:33 And they were goose stepping down the street today in Beijing that's right they sure were they're getting ready for a big war i'm not going to be moved i don't know what's going to happen i'm not afraid i'm not afraid the lord will protect me psalm 55 verse 22 cast your burden on the lord and he will sustain you he will never allow the righteous to be moved listen to what he just said the Lord will never allow the righteous to be moved John 10
Starting point is 00:34:20 verse 28 29 Jesus said I give eternal life to them they will never perish and no one will snatch them out of my hand praise god my father who has given them to me is greater than all no one is able to snatch them out of my father's hand those are from the words of jesus christ those words came from his mouth he said no one will snatch you out of my hand no one is able to snatch you out of my hand no one is able to snatch you out of my father's hand.
Starting point is 00:35:07 It's a wonderful promise. So the righteous shall never be removed. But the wicked shall not inherit the earth. The wicked may flourish for a season, but they have no lasting place. They have
Starting point is 00:35:29 no permanence. their dwelling is temporary their prosperity is fragile we talked yesterday about chaff they are like chaff that the wind drives away without root without permanence psalm one verses four and five the wicked are not so but are like the chaff which the wind drives away therefore the wicked shall not stand in the judgment nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous. So the wicked build their empires, they build their mansions, they build their businesses,
Starting point is 00:36:15 their political careers, everything. They build it on sand. And one storm can remove them completely. What do we learn from this? Build your life on Christ. Amen. The sure foundation. You will never be uprooted.
Starting point is 00:36:42 Even when you make mistakes, even when you are weak, I'm going to assure you when you are weak, when you have fallen, Christ will not leave you. He will stay. with you and he will he will tend to you until you're strong to be on your feet
Starting point is 00:37:09 again what I've learned to be on your feet again. What I've learned in my life when I have come to know Christ at the deepest level is not when i'm strong but when i am my weakest i don't understand it i don't understand why does he meet us in our weakness but he does and none of us want to be none of us desire to be in those
Starting point is 00:37:50 stages of life but the lord uses those times that we are when we are at a our weakest point in life he uses those times to to teach us about his strength and then when we come out of our weakness we have this new revelation about his strength praise god all right let's look at the commentators john gill born 1697 the righteous shall never be removed neither out of the heart of God, nor out of the covenant of His grace. But the wicked shall not inhabit the earth, at least not long, nor with comfort. Adam Clark, born 1762, the righteous man is never forgotten, nor his name blotted out from under heaven. But the wicked has no permanent dwelling.
Starting point is 00:38:56 He is driven from place to place, and at last from earth. earth to hell oh wow that was adam park the wicked is driven from place to place and the last movement is from earth to hell wow he didn't hold back on that comment did he no i knew you were going to like that one dog i chose that one for you Albert barnes born 1798 the proverb declares the stability of the righteous and the instability of the wicked but one is fixed as a tree by the waters the other like chaff rootless and homeless and Alexander McLaren born 1826 righteousness is permanence wickedness is transience the righteous shall stand when the world falls the wicked vanish like shadows verse 31 the mouth of the just brings forth wisdom but the forward tongue shall be
Starting point is 00:40:07 cut out this is a very vivid picture and once again we're faced with the reality that words have consequences the words do we speak have consequences but they can bring life and they can bring death, not just in our own personal lives, but in the lives of those around us as well. And such a power in the tongue, and James talked about it, in the new tongue, it's a fire. It's a world of iniquity. Who can tame it? Only God can tame it.
Starting point is 00:40:46 That's right. So the mouth of the righteous brings forth wisdom. back to the tree analogy, all right? A healthy tree bears good fruit. A sick tree bears unhealthy fruit, bitter fruit, poisonous, toxic fruit. Wisdom just flows naturally from the mouth of a righteous person. The righteous speech guides instructs. edifies others. It nourishes those who hear it. It's fruitful. It's not barren. It's constructive, not destructive. The fruit of wisdom brings counsel, guidance, correction, comfort, encouragement. Why? Because the words are grounded in God's words. But the forward tongue shall be. cut out what does froward mean what did we learn in other lessons froward is not yeah i think most people would just say oh that's somebody that cusses a lot
Starting point is 00:42:11 that's not what it means froward means crooked perverse deceitful you can be all three of those and never say a dirty word there are a lot of rowward mouth people who never say a curse word but every word they say is curse word yes because it's filled with doubt unbelieve criticism hatred bitterness slander their mouths are crooked perverse deceitful their tongues They use their tongues to corrupt, to twist, to oppose God's truth. They misquote God's word. You'll even have them misquoting God's word. Talk very early this morning.
Starting point is 00:43:14 I came across the name of a Bible school. It was from Missouri, too. You got to watch this guys in Missouri. I know. Go to Bible school. I was looking at their statement of doctrine and they had a they had a scripture but no scripture verse
Starting point is 00:43:36 you know it didn't say where they got the verse the Lord you know the Bible says and has an end quote you're like I've never read that where did they get it so I just copied it and put it in in search engine And it turned out it was a compilation of multiple scriptures. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:43:59 That was a lot. Well, excuse me. You can't do that. See, as far as I'm concerned, they're twisting the Word of God. They're twisting it. They're making the Word of God say something it doesn't say. Yeah. So even religious people do it.
Starting point is 00:44:22 But the words of the wicked bring division, strife, emotional pain, division. They just poison. Their words are full of poison. You don't get sweet orange juice. You get toxic poison from their fruit. It says that they're tongue. shall be cut out the only image I can have doc is somebody sticking their hand and somebody's mouth with a knife and violently cutting off their tongue how else do you
Starting point is 00:45:10 remove a tongue it's like a surgeon removing a part of of the body that is filled with with poison and toxicity that's poisoning the entire body and the surgeon says i've got to cut this out of this person's going to die or are a farmer an orchardist removing a rotten branch from a tree people who actually their lives would improve if they surgically removed their tongue
Starting point is 00:46:00 no doubt now I'm serious there are people whose lives would improve if their tongues were surgically removed they do they're so boneheaded stubborn they don't even
Starting point is 00:46:18 realize that their foul tongue that they use to curse others is bringing curses upon themselves. They're so boneheaded, stubborn. They don't get it that they're cursing themselves. But usually these are people
Starting point is 00:46:41 that have a sense of entitlement. They are entitled to use their tongues against other people. They think that. They think that they are entitled. why because they think that they're better than the other people and therefore they have a right to curse them with their tongues you got to get inside their head and see the way they think you know what they're twisted and a froward mouth means crooked twisted perverse deceitful
Starting point is 00:47:14 well their brains are twisted and their hearts are twisted so the wicked you know they have a platform to speak for time but then there comes a day when their voices are silenced and they're just gone they're gone but on judgment day they're going to give an account for every word or that one doc had not not every action but every word yes every word every word every idle word what is an idle word a useless word it's not not a lazy word it's not a lazy word it's a useless word it's useless word useless to who? useless to God.
Starting point is 00:48:26 He had no use for it. He can't bless it. It's an idle word. It's a useless word. He's not going to bless slander, gossip, criticism, condemnation, name-calling. He won't bless it.
Starting point is 00:48:47 Adam Clark, the just man speaks what is true, wise, and useful. the wicked man's tongue is a curse and shall be cut off he shall lose both his credit and his influence Charles Bridges
Starting point is 00:49:03 1794 the mouth of the just brings forth wisdom as naturally as the tree of life brings forth fruit excuse me let me read that again as naturally as the tree brings forth fruit
Starting point is 00:49:17 but the froward tongue so busy in perverse speech shall be silenced in shame and everlasting destruction. Alexander McLaren, the righteous man's lips bear fruit. The wicked man's tongue is a barren branch to be cut away. Wisdom is eternal. Perverse words perish. And then our last verse for chapter 10.
Starting point is 00:49:47 The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable. but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness. The righteous speak with discernment. They understand what is fitting to say, what is pleasing, what is appropriate before God. Have you ever been prompted by the Holy Spirit? You're getting ready to say something, and the Holy Spirit says, no, don't say that.
Starting point is 00:50:21 and it may be there's nothing wrong nothing untruthable with what you're going to say but the timing is not right yes and the holy spirit will say don't speak that right now they're not ready to receive it sometimes you want to speak truth to someone
Starting point is 00:50:51 and the Lord says no they reject my truth don't even give it to them right see those people they have a history of rejecting truth and they there comes a time when God says to Christians don't even give them any more truth they're not entitled to any more truth of the righteous know what is acceptable acceptable means words that edify heal uplift bless us the lips of the righteous know when to speak and when to be silent their tongues are under control it's very difficult to keep under control when you are in the presence of an uncontrolled tongue. When you have other people who have uncontrolled tongues, it's very difficult to keep your tongue under control.
Starting point is 00:52:02 But work at it. Ask the Holy Spirit to help you. Because that other person is trying to get you to sin with your lips. And when you start thinking of it that way, the person that has no control over their mouth says whatever they want to say hurts anybody they want to hurt sets everything on fire well i'm only speaking the truth rick yeah but they're provoking you to sin with your mouth like they are by rebuking them and you're going to say something that later you wish you didn't say but they're provoking you to do it they're daring you to do it the greatest response you can have is no response we simply say i disagree and then walk away sometimes not even saying that you just walk away you are entitled to your opinion i have mine we don't agree and just be quiet
Starting point is 00:53:17 walk away if they're calling you names so that's your opinion of me but i have a different opinion of me i like me and god likes me and he says i am made in his image and likeness therefore i cannot allow you to call me those names you don't fight don't have to argue just just calmly say I don't accept that anymore yeah don't operate from their lives but operate from God's truth that's right
Starting point is 00:53:56 and you're not going to convince them you can't reason with them you cannot reason with these people they're beyond reason they've reached a state where they're completely unreasonable and nobody can talk nobody can reach them
Starting point is 00:54:13 they are so far gone they don't even know it themselves why because of their pride their pride is deceiving them and they don't realize how far gone they are so don't argue with them don't try to change you're not going to change them god can't change them you're not going to change them the only way though they can be changes god radically intervenes in their life i mean radically intervenes and the emphasis on God doing that that you that's right so the words of the righteous are always seasoned with grace I said that last week you know just imagine you've got a like a salt shaker as your words come out of your mouth they need to be just sprinkle grace on them your words should have grace on them and don't engage
Starting point is 00:55:22 people with perverse twisted perverted perverted lips you have to get out of their presence or eventually they will bring you down to their level amen that's what they're trying to do they're trying to bring you down to their low level but the mouth of the wicket speak it frowardness okay so again what are we talking about with frowardness crooked perverse twist it no concern for truth no no concern for appropriateness i'll say what i want to say i speak the truth but let it fall where it falls okay you know they have that attitude they're reckless you know the bull in the china shop
Starting point is 00:56:18 they're just upsetting everything and they love it they love it again it goes back to their pride they have no filter no governor on their mouth their mouth is just running wide open they say whatever they want to say they don't care who they hurt in fact they like hurting people
Starting point is 00:56:40 hurting people is what drives them they suck the energy out of those people they hurt them they they wound them and then they pull the energy out of their soul they are vampires on the soul grabbing energy out of people
Starting point is 00:56:57 don't don't participate with them I just put distance between you and them because a person that talks like that is outside of God's grace I don't know what to say
Starting point is 00:57:18 they've put themselves in a place where they have rejected the way of the Lord that's what it comes down to they've rejected the way of the Lord okay hey we're over our time limit let's just wrap it up for today
Starting point is 00:57:37 tomorrow's chapter 11 yeah well we appreciate you being here for our Wednesday edition of morning manna and we invite you to be back here tomorrow morning bright and early 8 a.m. here on faith and values.com you may be watching this another time on a recorded version of this but we invite you if you can to join us live weekday mornings on faith and values.com for the live edition of morning manna where usually anywhere between three and 400 people gather with us live and study the Word of God together. And we encourage you if you could make it to be a part. But if you can't, be sure to share this morning manna with others on various platforms,
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