TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Morning Manna - September 30, 2025 - Proverbs 13:6-10 - Guarded by Righteousness, Humbled by Wisdom

Episode Date: September 30, 2025

In today’s Morning Manna, we walk through Proverbs 13:6–10, where Solomon contrasts the preserving power of righteousness with the ruin of sin. We see how true wealth is not measured in possession...s but in spiritual riches, how riches can bring both ransom and risk, and how the light of the righteous shines while the lamp of the wicked is snuffed out. Finally, Solomon reminds us that pride breeds contention, but humility seeks counsel and finds wisdom. These verses call us to live guarded by righteousness, content with God’s provision, and humble enough to receive guidance.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

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Morning Manna. It's Tuesday. We're delighted to have you with us as we study the Word of God. We are in the 13th chapter of the book of Proverbs. And we began the 13th chapter yesterday. We looked at verses 1 through 5 yesterday. Today it will be 6 through 10. We try to do about 5 verses per day. Sometimes we only get to 1 or 2, but our goal is 5 verses per day. We're going to pray and ask the Lord for his presence, his blessing, and then Doc's going to read the word, and then we're going to begin our lesson. Almighty God, Father, we thank you for this day. we praise you we worship you we glorify you father we invite the holy spirit to lead this bible study and teach all of us the richness and the depth of your word that we would be stronger greater disciples for the glory of jesus in his name jesus christ we pray amen all right well welcome everyone to morning manna glad to have you here with us and of course we've got folks checking in from all over the world from as far as russia Malaysia Singapore south korea philippines australia today
Starting point is 00:01:22 germany ireland today so glad to have you and of course all across the u.s and canada welcome to morning manna we are always privileged to have hundreds of you joining us each and every morning here weekdays as we study the word of god together we continue in proverbs chapter 13 today we'll be folks on verses 6 through 10. So if you've got your Bibles, read along with me, if you will, and I always encourage you to read out loud. It's always good to read the Word of God out loud. There's nothing magical about it, nothing that happens, but your mind hears it better. Your mind creates pathways as you read it out loud because you're getting your lips involved in this too. So Proverbs chapter 13, verses 6 through 10, let's read together,
Starting point is 00:02:07 righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way but wickedness overthroth the sinner there is that maketh himself rich yet hath nothing there is that maketh himself poor yet hath great riches the ransom of a man's life for his riches but the poor heareth not rebuke the light of the righteous rejoiceth but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out in verse 10, only by pride cometh contention, but with the well advised is wisdom. A lot to unpack in this passage today, Rick. Yes. And, Doc, your comment about reading the word aloud, there's a very important reason for doing it, and that is, when you read something aloud, it forces you to say, to pronounce
Starting point is 00:03:07 each word and what happens so often with us is that we become so casual about reading the Bible that we gloss over we just we just read over something and then years later that a word or a phrase pops up and we go when did they put that in the Bible has that always been there Yeah. And Rick, we learned yesterday that words are valuable. They're very valuable. In fact, I know a man, and Doc, you know who it is also. He told me many years ago that it was his practice to verbally read every contract he was going to sign. yes I'm like are you serious you know how boring contracts are he said he would he said by reading contracts aloud it prevented him from signing things that would later entrap him and that he would overlook if he just if he just you know silently read the contract but by reading it aloud it forced him to say each word in the contract. So anyhow, it's a good point in the Word of God, if you can read it
Starting point is 00:04:38 aloud. Sometimes we're not in the setting that you can read aloud, but it does help. So let's look at verses 6 through 10. Verse 6, King James, righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way, but wickedness overthroth the sinner. The Aramaic Peshita, righteousness preserves the upright in the way, but wickedness overthrows the sinner. Hey, they got it right. Septuagint, righteousness preserves the innocent, but sin makes the ungodly worthless. Well, Doc, I'm going to go with the Septuagint. Yeah, I want that.
Starting point is 00:05:29 So, righteousness, what is righteousness? it's up standing upright with God it's it's being in in the right position with God you you have brought your life into alignment your thoughts your your heart your mouth your hands your feet are all in alignment with God with his law his ways his commandments his word his integrity and so it says righteousness being in alignment with God keeps it keepeth him that is upright
Starting point is 00:06:18 it guards him that is upright the keep means to guard it's a protective shield your righteousness becomes your shield and it preserves you from danger and it guide you safely along the path of life. See, these things that we're told are important. When we really delve deeply into it, we start finding, oh, that's why, that's why we are to be righteous.
Starting point is 00:07:01 righteousness is a shield righteousness is not just a state of being a state of mind it's also in a shield it protects you it's it's like you're encased in a bubble a bulletproof bubble a bubble that satan's arrows cannot penetrate so the upright walk securely And their righteousness delivers them from snares and traps and temptations and reproach. Their righteousness preserves their peace of conscience. It preserves their favor with God.
Starting point is 00:07:50 It stabilizes their life. And for disciples, obedience is not. a burden. Amen. They see it as a safeguard. It's the smartest thing you can do for yourself to be obedient. But sin has a destructive nature. It is it it it overthrows the sinner.
Starting point is 00:08:30 It actually see right. righteousness is a shield that protects the upright, but sin overthrows the sinner. The sin is like ropes, wires, trip wires that bring the center down. So sin's not passive. It drags its victims down. It actively works to bring down the sinner. So the sinner is not destroyed by accident, but by the very way, the very evil that he serves.
Starting point is 00:09:22 So faith warns the disciples of Christ that compromise with sin always ends in pain. Always ends in loss. Let's see what the commentators had to say about it. I'm going to scroll down to Alexander McLaren. Righteousness is not only reward but protection. Sin is not only punishment but destruction. The one builds up life, the other pulls it down. Scottish Free Church of Scotland Leader William are not.
Starting point is 00:10:09 Righteousness is a wall of defense around the upright, wickedness is a fire within the sinner's bosom, which consumes him. Reform Baptist Charles Spurgeon, holiness is its own protection and sin is its own ruin wickedness digs the grave of the sinner while righteousness builds a fortress for the saint amen boy that's a strong image to keep in your mind isn't it fortress a fortress or grave verse seven king james there is that make it himself rich yet hath nothing
Starting point is 00:11:01 There is that maketh himself poor, yet have great riches. The Aramaic Pashita, there are those who pretend to be rich yet have nothing, and there are those who humble themselves as poor, yet have great riches. Septuagint, there are some who, having nothing, enrich themselves, and some, though having much impoverished, impoverished themselves you know some people make a show of wealth but they're truly poor they're poor in resources and character in soul there's I've heard a saying that you know what's the difference you know so what's the difference between rich people and wealthy people
Starting point is 00:12:03 rich people shout about their wealth rich people shout about their riches and wealthy people whisper about their wealth that's how you know whether they're rich or wealthy somebody thought me that doc somebody here on the treasure coast said rick let me tell you the difference between the rich and the wealthy here in south florida he said i've been around a lot of of the rich and they they like to make a show of their riches they they desire everybody know that the rich but he said the wealthy they don't want you to know you got to find it out on your own they're the ones driving around an old beat-up pickup trucks yeah and they're wealthy
Starting point is 00:13:10 so some people value appearances their appearances their appearances everything to them. Their image. And we are in an image worshiping society today. Everything's about image. Your social media image. Everything is built around. What's your image? Why? Because they're seeking honor from men and women. Instead of just being real, just being who they are.
Starting point is 00:13:51 So, richest without righteousness leaves a man or woman empty. So wealth without God is poverty. Yes. And it's one of the warnings to the church in Laidescia. Because thou sayest, I am rich and increased with goods and have need of nothing, and knowest not that thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked. Wow. So a person can appear rich in worldly wisdom and status and success,
Starting point is 00:14:31 but be utterly bankrupt in the eyes of God. But on the other hand, others appear poor, they're modest, they're humble, they're unpretentious, and yet they are truly rich. so spiritual wealth often hides beneath outward poverty and I for those of you who miss the pre classroom chatter that we have if you're not a if you're not a member of the live class
Starting point is 00:15:12 okay sometimes doc and I chat 5, 10, 15, 20. Today is 20 minutes before we started the class. And I was sharing some things that's on my heart right now. But I'm telling you right now, we're going into a prolonged season where if you appear to be successful, you are going to be in danger. you're going to just take my word for it you're going to
Starting point is 00:15:47 you're going to um you're going to wish that you were less visible and I'll let the Lord deal with you on that okay driving around I mean hey you know everybody wants to really nice car everybody wants every hey guess what in a year or two it's going to make you a target think about it just think about it um second corinthians chapter 8 verse 9 says though he was rich that's talking about jesus yet for your sakes he became poor yet ye through his poverty might be made rich.
Starting point is 00:16:44 Look at the commentators. Charles Bridges. The world judges by outward appearance. Many make a show of wealth, yet are beggars before God. Others appear poor, yet are rich in faith, heirs of a kingdom. Here is the contrast between hypocrisy and humility. Albert Barnes The proverb teaches the difference between show and reality
Starting point is 00:17:16 Pretended wealth ends in nothing True riches may exist under outward poverty Alexander McLaren The paradox runs through life A man may be rich in money and poor in soul Or poor in possessions and rich toward God The one struts in a fool's paradise. The other walks in heaven's treasure house. McLearn. I love that man. I can't. I'm
Starting point is 00:17:51 eager to meet him. And Doc is eager to meet William Arnaut. Yes. So Doc, I'm going to be are not said here is a double deceit seeming riches that are emptiness and seeming poverty that is wealth the only safe riches are those that death cannot touch the poor and spirit are truly rich and then reformed baptist charles spurgeon of london said many a man is rich in his own conceit but in God's sight bankrupt. Others are poor in their own self-esteem, yet are rich beyond measure in grace. Judge not by appearances,
Starting point is 00:18:42 for the Lord seeth not as man seeth. Verse eight, the ransom of a man's life are his riches, but the poor heareth not rebuke. Now wait a minute. We just were talking about riches and being rich and being poor. And yet, now we're talking about a ransom of riches here.
Starting point is 00:19:07 What gives? Let's see what the Septuagin says. The ransom of a man's life is the wealth of his riches. But the poor endures not threatening. This is the one you've got to think through. Okay, Solomon, what were you getting at when you wrote this one? I try to picture what Solomon, you know, as he's dictating to his scribes. You know, he didn't write it out.
Starting point is 00:19:39 He's dictating. And there's some very practical wisdom in this verse, folks. So pay attention. I can see Solomon pacing back and forth in the palace. Thinking, pausing. Wait a minute, wait a minute. This is what I desire to say. This is something that I've observed.
Starting point is 00:20:03 Write this down, scribe. Write this down. The ransom of a man's life is the wealth of his riches, but the poor endures not threatening. I can see the scribe looking up saying, wait a man, majesty, what does that mean? A rich man or woman can, can become a ransom yes not the person the richest of the rich man or woman okay the wealth of a rich man or woman
Starting point is 00:20:42 can become a ransom when threatened extort it in danger he may use his wealth to buy safety right in other words your riches make you a target why do you think so many wealthy famous people have executive protective services guarding them as a big business executive protections agents bodyguards for the wealthy The irony is the more wealth you have, the more protection you need. Here's, here's Rick's, you know, homie interpretation of this proverb. Nobody kidnaps a poor person. I got it.
Starting point is 00:21:46 Nobody extorts a poor person. Nobody extorts a poor person. man or woman. Hey, give me all your poverty. This is a stick up. Give me all your poverty. I'm going to kidnap you and wait until your broke, poor, poverty-stricken friends and come up with a ransom. Who's going to do that? Wealth attracts attention. Now, this goes back what I just said a few minutes ago. Wealth attracts attention. It attracts danger.
Starting point is 00:22:29 The rich man and woman becomes a target. I'm telling you, folks, I believe the Holy Spirit's been telling me in recent months, we're going into a season when you do not, should not look very successful if you
Starting point is 00:22:55 desire to show off everything you've got you better have the resources to fight off the intruders you know when when the power goes out and only one house
Starting point is 00:23:15 has lights on which one is attractive attention the one that has a generator when food is when food is scarce but the hungry neighbors can smell barbecue in the air coming from a particular house guess who is this who's attracting attention okay we're going into a very severe financial storm it's coming and it may be I'm just speculating it may be the reason President Trump is having a meeting with all the generals and admirals today at first thought I was thinking oh this is
Starting point is 00:24:09 planning for war it might be planning for holding together the country civil war Civil War. So the message in this proverb is that your richest can provide temporary defense. You can buy your way out of danger. You can pay off a kidnapper. You can pay off an intruder. You can pay off an extortionist. You can pay off a blackmailer.
Starting point is 00:24:40 But you cannot pay off God. you don't have enough of anything to pay God the ransom for your sin Jesus paid the ransom and he paid with his life with his blood Do you remember years ago when we were on direct TV for two hours every morning do you remember I said that Jesus paid your ransom and I remember we got this angry email from this woman And she said, I have never in my life heard such a crazy doctrine in my life.
Starting point is 00:25:34 I remember, yes. You just never read the word of God. Yeah. Psalm 49, verse 7 and 8 says, none of them can by any means redeem his brother nor give to God or ransom for him. For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it's ceithous. ceaseth forever and then Matthew 20 verse 28 even this is Jesus speaking even as the son of man came not to be ministered unto but to minister and to give his life a ransom for many
Starting point is 00:26:29 Chapter 2, verse 6, Paul said about Jesus, who gave himself a ransom for all. A rich man or woman can pay a kidnapper, a ransom, if their spouse, their child, their grandchild is kidnapped. But a rich man or woman cannot pay the ransom to God for somebody's soul. Satan is the kidnapper of souls and you can't get your soul or the soul of anybody else out of hell out of Satan's grip with your own resources only the blood of Christ
Starting point is 00:27:15 the life of Christ on the cross is the only thing that can pay that ransom but on earth money will pay ransoms yeah but what about the poor man the poor heareth not rebuke meaning the poor doesn't hear threats nobody's is there's a city park to my right outside the building there's a lot of homeless people there nobody's kidnapping them not one of them are in danger of being kidnapped today
Starting point is 00:28:00 nobody's nobody's going to hold them up nobody's going to stick a gun in their in their ribs and say give me everything you got all they're going to have is a crack pipe yeah and a shopping cart cart cart a shopping cart that's empty where they're full old clothes
Starting point is 00:28:23 the poor man or woman is not the target of extortion because he has little to lose so in this case poverty protects the poor man or woman from the dangers that the wealthy must endure it's the poverty becomes the poor person shield it doesn't say you should be poor you should be poverty stricken it just says there are some benefits to it right you know there is an upside to being poor that's really what solomon will say hey you know what i've observed i wouldn't want to be poor i wouldn't want to be poverty stricken but there are some benefits to it I've looked out my palace windows and I've never seen anybody robbing a poor person I've never seen anybody kidnapping a poor woman so that's the upside to it but Solomon's like but
Starting point is 00:29:36 I do know I've got rich friends who've been robbed have been extorted and blackmailed and kidnapped we am are not said here is a strange paradox riches in danger a man's life and poverty secures it the ransom of the rich is demanded the poor man passes unchallenged so if robbers are hiding along a road and there are two people coming one is rich and one is poor which one are they going after they're going to jump on the rich one and let the poor one pass by the poor man passes unchallenged charles spurgeon said how often have men bought their lives with their wealth when plunderers salt their spoil but the poor man being without wealth escapes their notice riches make us targets
Starting point is 00:30:48 Poverty often leaves us free. I'm telling you, folks, there's a financial storm coming, and you're going to wish you had Freddie the Freeloader's wardrobe. Some of you will know who I'm talking about. It's coming. So use wisdom in displaying wealth of any kind. yes especially during especially during a great depression yeah you know the last great depression in the 30s we were still a moral Christian nation and our morality
Starting point is 00:31:36 held the country together and people shared with one another we don't have that protection now they'll kill you they'll kill you as easy as look at you yeah i'm not going to quote him but several years ago alex jones said when there comes a day that there's no food i will eat you yeah and he was serious he said i will eat you and he was telling all of his supporters if we have to we will eat our neighbors that's demon-possessed thinking that's demon-possessed first nine the light of the righteous rejoiceth
Starting point is 00:32:28 but the lamp of the wicked shall be put out the Septuagin says the light of the righteous is everlasting but the lamp of the wicked is put out very close so the light of the righteous what is the light is there the energy the light the joy that emanates from a righteous person's life their wisdom their joy their happiness the morality their prosperity all of it it's emanating from your life the the light of the right of the right of the right righteous rejoices. Septuagin says the light of the righteous is everlasting.
Starting point is 00:33:18 It never goes out. So when you, when you, when your body dies, your light is not extinguished, you just slip into another coat. You just drop off this old coat and put on a new one that you're still dancing. You're still singing. You're still joyful. in fact you're even more joyful because now you don't have to overcome all the problems
Starting point is 00:33:46 you can just be joyful they rejoice they shine they shine with gladness look at the faces of people who confess to be Christians are they shining yes or are they depressed?
Starting point is 00:34:10 Are they downtrodden? They need to get out of that mentality. You can't be in the presence of Christ and be depressed. If you are a confessing Christian and you are depressed and sad and heavy burden every day, it means you are not in the present. of Christ you're in the presence of your misery you got it
Starting point is 00:34:43 all right and Jesus isn't there with you right the mark of a believer is joy so the righteous live in the light of God's favor which results in joy there you go
Starting point is 00:35:05 And your light not only exists, but it flourishes. It rejoices. Your light rejoices. See, it's not you. It's your light that's rejoicing. Why? Because the disciples of Christ are the light of the world. What about the wicked?
Starting point is 00:35:30 Now, this doesn't say the light of the wicked. It says the lamp. it's interesting the light of the righteous is everlasting but the lamp of a wicked is put out they don't have any light they have a lamp yeah it's artificial that's the difference like oh it's good a fire bug a fire bug a lightning bug it just lights up doesn't it right a lightning bug doesn't need a lamp lightning bugs fireflies don't have flashlights they just go hmm i'm going to light up they just start thinking happiness thoughts i mean fireflies got to be happy i think i think they ever the happier they get the brighter they shine okay their light is natural
Starting point is 00:36:31 but a lamp is man-made it's artificial hadn't considered that in this verse the wicked have temporary prosperity but their light is unstable because their light is from this world and their lamp their artificial light generating device
Starting point is 00:37:01 will be put out it will become extinct they will go into eternal darkness they have brief temporary light and happiness and joy in this world by being wicked but their hope is extinguished Mark, look at Job 18, verses 5 and 6. Yes, I have it right there. All right, good, all right. Because this is almost a direct quote, not quite, but almost a direct quote. So it says Job 18 versus 5 and 6, yay.
Starting point is 00:37:48 And this is Bill Dad, the shoe height, talking to Job. yea the light of the wicked shall be put out and the spark of his fire shall not shine the light shall be dark in his tabernacle and his candle shall be put out with it Solomon and Job were tracking together weren't they well but Job didn't say this Bill Dad the shoe height now Bill Dad the book of He was accusing Job of being wicked. That's why he was being punished. Yes.
Starting point is 00:38:25 Job responds in chapter 19. I know because I've been studying Job here over the past few months. And Job responds, you know, you're wrong. I'm not wicked. I have a light. He goes on in verse 9 and chapter 19 and says, I have the light. My light shall not be extinguished. Yes.
Starting point is 00:38:47 So. But the principle is, the light of the wicked shall be extinguished right so there's truth there's the truth in it but the job was not wicked and so that part was not true right so adam clark said the light of the righteous is the favor and blessing of god upon them the lamp of the wicked his pomp and prosperity shall soon be extinguished charles bridges said the light of the righteous is the joy of their hearts shining more and more unto the perfect day. But the wicked's lamp, though bright for a while, shall surely be quenched.
Starting point is 00:39:30 Alexander McLaren, the righteous have an inward and perpetual light because they walk with God. The wicked blaze for an hour, then sink into darkness. Charles Spurgeon, the lamp of the wicked is a poor thing. It glimmers and goes out, but the light of the righteous is, God lit and never dies. Better the faintest spark from heaven than the
Starting point is 00:39:56 brightest blaze of wicked wealth. And verse 10. Only by pride come with contention. But with the well-advised is wisdom.
Starting point is 00:40:13 The Aramaic Pashita says arrogance causes strife but with the well-advised his wisdom. The Septuagin says a bad man stirs up strife, but he that reproves boldly is a peacemaker. This is where the Bible is telling us
Starting point is 00:40:36 that the heart, the root of arguments and strife and contention is pride. Anybody who has a contentious argumentative spirit is full of pride. There are just some people. If you said the sky is blue, they hear, no, it's not as gray. If you said, oh, it's hot today. No, it's not.
Starting point is 00:41:01 It's cold. They just argue. It doesn't matter what it's about. They're just contentious and argumentative. It's because they're full pride. They may not look proud. But there's a, there's a, hidden pride that rules on the throne of their heart christ is not on the throne in their heart
Starting point is 00:41:26 pride is there they can confess jesus but he's not on the throne therefore he's not their king there's no such thing as a proud disciple there's no such thing as an argumentative contentious disciple of christ Yes. Pride resists correction. It insists on its own way. It breeds quarrels and fights and arguments at home, at work, in church, anywhere in society, on social media. Man, there are people on social media.
Starting point is 00:42:11 They live to stir up strife and argument. I don't read the emails anymore. I stopped that a long time ago. People that were right to me just to argue, just to fight. Never to say a positive word. There's one man, I don't know if he's still alive. I'll have to ask Susan, when's the last time you've seen an email from him? Doc, he goes all the way back 25 years.
Starting point is 00:42:46 and almost every day I am not exaggerating almost every day he sends a hateful email to me telling me how wrong I am for 25 years I once proposed to Rick that we should do a podcast
Starting point is 00:43:10 called Dear Rick you're wrong but why gives them that Attention. Why do you get with that attention? Yeah. See, contention and strife and arguments arise when a person's pride refuses to yield, to listen, to consider another viewpoint to be corrected. It just immediately burst into confrontation.
Starting point is 00:43:44 And keep in mind that there are times where. where it's necessary to correct somebody else. But it's another thing to be argumentative in it. Right. You know, you're, it comes, and you're right, it comes from a place of pride. I'm right and you're wrong. I have more information than you do.
Starting point is 00:44:05 And therefore, there's no way I could be wrong. You have to be totally wrong. like it goes beyond them saying I have more information at the root of it is I'm smarter than you I'm better than you and you are nothing you are nothing and your viewpoint doesn't matter all right I'm give you an example a couple months ago French President McCrone made a state regarding Palestine and Mr. Trump said his opinion doesn't matter. Okay. That's an improper way for a world leader to speak to another leader. Mr. Trump just said it doesn't matter because his opinion doesn't matter. That's pride.
Starting point is 00:45:10 I'm not trying to get political here, but I'm telling you this is what it looks like. At the heart of it is this, at the heart of this pride is an attitude, you are not equal to me. Therefore, your opinion does not count. It's pride. It's arrogance. And it's in homes. It's in churches. It's in schools and workplaces.
Starting point is 00:45:39 It's in politics. It's in the media. It's everywhere. Anywhere where there are people, it shows up. Because you have wise people and you have, you have arrogant people. You have proud and you have humble. But what about, but with the well advised is wisdom.
Starting point is 00:46:05 Notice it doesn't say with the, wise is wisdom it says with the well advised wisdom wisdom is with people who accept advice wisdom is with people who listen to counsel receive correction get offended and angry if somebody says, can I share something with you that I think that will help you? The proud person says, no, I don't need to hear that. Keep your opinion to yourself. But a wise man or woman will say, yes, please, please talk to me. Humility makes a person teachable. Pride makes a person unteachable. How do you know if somebody's
Starting point is 00:47:06 proud they're unteachable listening to others brings peace and tranquility and harmony and eventually wisdom they're well advised what does that mean to be well advised they surround themselves with godly men and women who give them good advice and they're willing to learn and they're slow to quarrel they're well-advised. What do you think about Solomon? He was the wisest man who ever lived. But, Doc, you know he was surrounded by advisors.
Starting point is 00:47:55 Yes. In the multitude of counselors, there is strength. That's right. So why would he have a multitude of counselors if he was the wisest person who lived he's better than anybody in the room well the reason he was better than anybody in the room first of all is because god made him that way but because he accepted the advice of others he listened to the advice of others it increased his wisdom it didn't decrease it it increased his wisdom listening to others actually increases your wisdom right
Starting point is 00:48:36 Matthew Henry said pride is at the bottom of all contention those who are proud will have their will and if it be not yielded to they are angry but wisdom teaches men to yield to reason and to be patient Charles Bridges said pride is the fountain head of strife for it contends with God and man the humble who are teachable and take counsel have wisdom and peace John Calvin said pride is the mother of contention for the proud man refuses advice and will not yield but wisdom is with those who are ready to be taught and to seek counsel john wesley said by pride when men are proud they will not bear to be contradicted and hence come hence come contentions the humble receive advice and grow wise. Charles Spurgeon, pride is ever quarrelsome, humility is ever peaceable. The proud cannot learn, for they think they know, the humble are wise, for they are willing
Starting point is 00:49:48 to be taught. What did we learn here, verses 6 through 10? righteousness guards and preserves the upright wickedness overthrows and destroys the center yes and that true wealth is not measured in possessions but in spiritual riches the righteous appear poor yet are rich in faith and grace and eternal treasures the wicked appear rich and are spiritually bankrupt he shields from danger he hears no threats of extortion or kidnapping for the wicked their riches become their ransom and wealth brings danger and threats we learned that light rejoices
Starting point is 00:50:47 it's steady it's enduring is under god's favor but the wicket's lamp is extinguished flickering temporary ending it ends in darkness the light is the righteous never is extinguished but the lamp of the wicked ends up in darkness and then we learned in verse 10 that humility and teachability bring wisdom and peace and the pride breeds contention and strife because it rejects godly counsel that's our lesson for today amen a great lesson that it is too and so and now you go teach somebody else this lesson today amen take this lesson and teach someone else's lesson today so I want to remind everyone Megafire Rick's latest book is available right now if you haven't gotten it
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Starting point is 00:52:30 to occur, you know, weather events, asteroids. This book covers it all. And so, and I like to say it's not a prophecy book in the sense of, you know, all that you can, all the Christian prophecy books are dime a dozen. This is not a Christian prophecy book. What it is. is a trends book and for those of you have followed cycles and trends over the years this comes from a Christian perspective to help give you an outline on how to make plans not just five or 10 years out but right now I'm using this book to make decisions today not five or 10 years from now but today and I encourage you to do this say same Megafire by Rick Wiles. Get your copy today.
Starting point is 00:53:26 I will say this for those who were here for the pre-class chat. After you read that book, you will not be wearing your pajamas, but you will be cleaning house and discarding and packing. All right. Your mindset will be in a state of urgency. okay you you will not you will not be wearing your spiritual pajamas by the time you finish that book okay all right i got to go at urgent things to do praise god all right join us tomorrow for the wednesday edition of morning man and we love you we continue in proverbs chapter 13 god bless you

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