Proverbs: Two Words

0:02 Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central. Good afternoon everyone. It is Sunday, August four, twenty twenty four. It is currently five ten pm Central Time, and I am coming to you live from the Theology Central studio located right here in Abilene, Texas. Now, Proverbs chapter sixteen versus eighteen reads like this. Proverbs Chapter sixteen versus eighteen. We read these words, pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. Better to be of humble spirit with the lowly than to divide the spoil with the proud.

0:55 Pride goes before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall. Now, I know that verse. I have memorized that verse at different times in my life, and I just read that verse right now to you. However, what I'm doing right now is probably in some way, shape or form violating that scripture, at least the spirit of the scripture, because I am broadcasting purely out of pride, Okay, purely out of pride. I think that would be an accurate way. I think someone could judge that and it would be somewhat accurate, at least a little bit. You see. Many of you know I have seizure disorder and neurological issues, and they have not Let's just say I've had some serious issues recently and it's been bothering me greatly. So I have been just struggling. It's not been pleasant lately. Okay, so today it was really really bad. I made it.

1:53 I made it through two hours of preaching. You could question the how good the second hour was. I just uploaded it. It was great. I think the first hour I did. Okay, a second hour it was, it was. It was not great. So then I came home and I'm like, okay, I I basically can't function. I can't I can't do anything. So I had to do the unspeakable. I had to do the unthinkable. I had to do that which should never be mentioned. I had to lay down, which only then just created rage inside of me. Anger. I wanted to throw things because I'm like, no, you don't lay down, you don't rest, you don't take naps. That's something you don't do. That's anathema to you. What are you doing? So then I'm like, okay, I'm going to get back up. Now I have to do something to prove a point. I have to turn on the microphone and go live just to prove that I can.

2:48 I don't care about anything spiritual, I don't think about anything godly. I'm just going to do it to prove a point. So, in a roundabout way, pride goes before destruction. So so if this completely goes off the rails and I just either I fall down here and just you hear me live on the air having a seizure, or I just start speaking incoherently, or who knows what's going on. Well, it's it's going well, it's gonna be my own fault. But I just can't. I uh. I guess my theory is I am in control of my seizure disorder. My seizure disorder is not in control of me. I control it, it doesn't control me. I tell it what to do. It doesn't tell me what to do. I'm the boss. It's not the Okay. I know it sounds ridiculous arguing against an actual medical condition, but there's a lot to that and my mind. So I think, I guess what I'm trying to say is I guess what you're about to hear is probably an exercise and pride. It's probably an exercise in arrogance. It's probably an exercise in being stubborn, it's probably an exercise in futility. But yet here I am. So we are going to see if maybe maybe in spite of myself, maybe something can good can come from this. Now. The good thing is what we're doing is we're going to be doing a sermon review. So I have no idea

4:19 what's about to happen. I just know it's on Proverbs chapter nineteen. Here's what happened. I was looking at my iPad, you know, I subscribed to like nine million podcasts, and I get a notification Proverbs chapter nineteen. And I think, and if I remember correctly, it's from first Baptist Church in him and Indiana. So I was like, okay, I know the church, but it's Proverbs nineteen. Now, theoretically this is supposed to be the Summer of Proverbs. It's really turned into the summer of Psawm eighty three. So but that's okay, that's okay. But I'm like, all right, I've got the series for Proverbs. Let's let's just I can do a sermon review. I mean, how bad could it be? Right, if the sermon is horrible, then you know my analysis hopefully.

5:05 I mean, well, I guess it could be really bad if the sermon is bad, But because of my neurological issues, my analysis is just as incoherent as the sermon. I guess then you're going to be like, wow, okay, yeah, I'll be getting emails. Dude, just retire. Just you just need to quit. Okay, you're trash, you need to give it up. And you may be completely right, but I'm willing to risk it out of nothing more than pride. Okay, So I can't say that this is very spiritual, but at least I'm trying to be very transparent with you. But before we get to that, I just noticed, if you go to beta dot sermon audio dot com Beta dot sermon audio dot com, you have kind of in that middle section and they usually have certain things that are featured. They now have a section for the Olympics, the twenty twenty four Olympics, all the sermons that are tagged with the hashtag Olympics. Now, that makes me extremely nervous, all right, because a lot of the things that the Christian community has been saying about the Olympics is look, in some cases it's just absolutely fraudulent. It is false, it is misleading, it is slander, it is bearing false witness, and it should be condemned. So I'm afraid I've got the hashtag pulled up and there are now the good thing is are I don't know why the all of It discourse? There's a sermon entitled the all of It Discourse.

6:36 But they did a hashtag for Olympics. What does the all of it discourse have to do with the Olympics? Okay, that is that's crazy. But then I have one There is one called Olympic boxing male versus Female. Oh that's for me, all right, So that's interesting. We are at least in the category Olympics in the last supper, that is for me. But then there is one here response to Olympic blasphemy, Olympic mockery. All right, So there's a current event update. Oh man. So if anybody wants to, if anybody wants to dive into that hashtag, uh you can, you can. Uh yeah, you can. You can see what you can find. You can see what you can find.

7:25 I have I just oh, I have a feeling a lot of it is anything that's Actually, I don't know why some of these sermons who have the hashtag Olympics. My fear is many of them contain just absolute fraudulent information. As of this morning, the Christian Post is yet to correct their headline. They're still referring to the female boxer as a male, even though more and more information is like, no, she was born a female. I've read an interview with her father talking about her being a little girl and she was one to do these sports and he wasn't necessarily a fan of that, and all the different things about the things she wanted to do. So more and more information it seems to continue to confirm that she's a girl. Again, people keep arguing about, well, according to this supposed one test, and there's lots of questioning the validity of said test, and she has an x Y chromosome, and we've talked about the different medical conditions that can explain that. But I guess no one wants to have a substantive discussion about it. But that hashtag is there by all means explore that hashtag. I mean it will be a part of your sermon's two point oh app sermon challenge. Now in this particular case, what we're going to do is we're going to be listening to a sermon on Proverbs. But it's not going to be from the sermons two point oh. App It's going to be I think his first Baptist church, Hammond, Indiana. I think last year we reviewed sermons from their youth conference. They just finished their youth conference about a week ago, maybe,

8:59 and I was going to review some of the sermons from it. But I think most of you remember how bad last year's well, oh man, last year's sermons were so bad. Oh wow. I felt I almost wanted I almost wanted to go to Indiana, find the church and just tell the kids, Hey, I don't know what's happening, but let's just we need to escape Indiana. You need to get out of this place because this is a travesty. What's happening to you. You need to get away. You'll be better living on the streets and living with your Okay, that's a little bit of hyperbole, but just some of the stuff was problematic. Let's just say there was very little gospel, and it was it was moralism is what it basically was. But it's a Wednesday evening service and they were in Proverbs nineteen, I say, let's listen to it.

9:50 I'm doing this purely out of my own pride, but I'm going to do it, but I'm hoping to get something from it, and then we can add some content to our series on Proverbs, because it was supposed to be the summer of Proverbs and it turned into the summer of Psalm eighty three. I think maybe the summer of twenty twenty four will be remembered as the summer we really challenged everyone's theology on prayer. So maybe maybe that'll be the only good thing that came from this summer. I don't know. Maybe what's getting ready to get ready to happen is you're going to remember the summer of twenty twenty four because you were listening to a podcast live when the podcaster had a seizure. That'll be that'll be stories you can tell people, Right, Okay, are you ready?

10:34 You're ready to do that? I'm no, not ready for me to have a seizure. Come on, stop cheering. Okay. You were like, do it, do it? Have a seizure? Have a seizure. You were like, come on, kids, clap, have a caizure. Okay, right, all right, so all right, no, no, no, are you ready? Let's do this? Did I say Psalm nineteen? Now I don't even remember Proverbs nineteen? Did I say Psalm nineteen? I don't think I said Psalm nineteen? See who knows? All right, Proverbs nineteen, or at least I think it is. Here we go. If you have your Bible from the Proverbs chapter nineteen. Tonight, we're going to talk about two words in the Book of Proverbs. One of the words is the word cease. It comes up about four or five times in the Book of Proverbs. The other one is the word conceit or conceit it, And I want you to talk. We're going to talk about those two words just real quickly in our time that we have together. Thank you for being wonderful, wonderful church family, and thank you for caring about things of God. How many have a Bible? Would you hold it up? You got a Bible and very good And let's be ready to turn in there tonight.

11:34 There's several places I want you to turn, so we'll kind of work quickly if we can through this this study on the word. See several times in the Book of Proverbs. God uses Solomon to say, listen, stop this, don't do the cease means to stop and don't let this happen, all. Right, So the first word is cease. Cease, all right. It's funny, Proverbs. It's kind of funny that Solomon would tell anyone to cease anything. Do you not find that a little humorous? Solomon telling you to stop something? Okay, Solomon, what do you want me to stop? Do you want me to stop a massing, massive amount of wealth? Do you want me to stop having physical relations with I don't know, a thousand different women. Do you want me to cease from idolatry? What would you want me to cease from their? Mister Solomon? Okay, but I always find it just humorous. But you can draw your own. I don't know. I never know. Some ways I see it as a positive thing. Some way I see it as a negative thing. But there cease, all right. So I'm looking at Proverbs nineteen. I wonder if this is going to be the word cease is only used in the King James. I have a new King James in front of me. I'm looking quickly where the word cease shows up here? Oh, I see it in verse twenty seven.

12:56 Cease listening to instruction, my son, and you will stray, and you will stray from the words of knowledge. Okay, I see what it's doing, all right, So there's cease. I wonder that's verse twenty seven. So I wonder, I wonder if there's if it shows up somewhere else. So there's the first word, cease. Cease. All right. We may do a little we may do a little mini word study here in a minute. But okay, let's just see where he goes with this. And if you if you're doing something you shouldn't do, obviously we should cease from that. Let's talk about a couple of those areas if we can. Number one, Chapter nineteen vers. Number twenty seven. Read it with me, if you would please together out loud. Chapter nineteen, verse twenty seven.

13:39 By the way, I forgot our junior age boys and girls, Sir, Chicagoland boys and girls are at camp this week, and next week will be our high school teenagers going. I think we grew to the place we could not have them the same week. But I'm very thankful for that, and let's continue to pray for them as there. Now. If it was up to me, all churches would cease church camps because I can't stand church camps. Let's take a bunch of teenagers. Let's go isolate them and doctrinate them and emotionally manipulate them. Okay, I'm not saying all camps work that way, but so many follow that pattern. All right, But all right, that's not I don't think that's what he wanted to talk about ceasing. All right, So let's see Proverbs nineteen. He did go to verse twenty seven. All right, so let's see what he does here.

14:26 We're in the middle of their week. We'll be coming back either tomorrow or on Friday. But very thankful for those who are working their junior age boys and girls. And some of them were most of them were rider buses. Some of them will go back and be able to get into city Baptist School, which I think is one of the more advantageous things for a young person who rides their bus to do, if at all possible, is to come and get discipled through the Christian school there. And a lot of them make those decisions during camps. Some of them get saved, some of them get called to the ministry, And I rejoice with that, never underestimate what God can do with a child whenever they're nine, ten, eleven, twelve years old. So many major decisions are made that are just as serious as a person who is thirty five to make the decision, and I'm very thankful for that.

15:14 Let's pray for them as we work through our Bible study this evening chapter nineteen, verse twenty seven. Let's read together. You're ready cease my son to hear the instruction that causes thee to err from the words of knowledge. So Solomon says in the Book of Proverbs, stop listening to bad information, stop listening to things that you shouldn't listen to. The first Timothy, Chapter four, verse number one. Now the spirit speaketh expressly. That means that Paul is towing Timothy. Look, the Spirit of God makes this obvious that in the last time some people will air from the faith, they'll stop being faithful, and they won't finish their rates. Well. It's one of the biggest gut punches I find in Christianity is watching people who one time were faithful who are no longer faithful. They've exited for some reason or another.

16:04 But here's why. Here's almost always the thing. First of all, they give heed to seductive spirits and then doctrines of devils, and then they go on to speak lies in hypocrisy and then have their conscious seared with a hot iron. What happens usually is what we listened to. Remember the apostle Paul says in Galatians, you did run? Well, what's the next word? Who who told you that? Who started you down the wrong path? Just about anybody who goes off into a wrong direction, there's a who that has been talking to them. It might be on a blog, it might be on a YouTube, it might be some podcast someplace, might be a friend at work, It might be somebody who is feeding information. And I have been subject to that. And I think all of us who are of age will probably think about times in our life where we have gotten so in to assuthing that really it hurt us better than helped us. And Solomon says, stop listening to questionable things, don't listen to exease my son, to listen to instruction that does not come and counter counter acts the word of God. Let's look at a couple.

17:22 I always find it interesting when pastors say, you know, people start listening or to a blog. That's kind of a dated term, okay, but to a blog, to a YouTube or obviously to YouTube channel or YouTube content, or to a podcast. I always find it interesting because the assumption is, see that information out there is fraudulent, don't listen to it, but listen to me. See, they put their content online, so his sermons serve as a podcast. They're in a po I mean I subscribe to their podcast so I can listen to them. I think their content is on YouTube, so they have a YouTube channel, they have a podcast. So the assumption is, my content is good, don't listen to the wrong content. Well, who gets to determine the content is right or if the content is wrong, because everyone thinks their content is right. Okay, so everyone thinks that they're right in their own eyes.

18:24 Now you say, well, the Word of God determines, but everyone thinks their content is in line. You can go from Joe Olstein to Mark Driscoll, to Bethel Church and ready in California, you can go to Kenneth Copeland, Benny hen every Oh. They all think they're right, and they all think it comes from the Word of God, and all of the people who listen to them think it comes from the word of God. So I just I just find it interesting. You know, don't get caught up and listening to, you know, wrong voices, but listen to mine, because mine is the right voice. I don't know, maybe I'm the only one who finds that somewhat humorous. But let's see where he's gonna go with this, all right, let's continue, well the verse.

19:10 I think they could back this up as well. How about look at let's go to Psalms Psalms one, verse number one and two, Psalms one one and two. Can we turn there Psalms one one and two and let's read that get verses together? Can we please? Are you ready? It begins with the word blessed. Ready, blessed is a man that walketh not in the council of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners. And then it goes on to say, but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law doth he meditate? There's two good times to think about the Bible, daytime and night time. Day and night all the time. But he said, there's never a good time to sit in the counsel of the ungodly. To learn the way of sinners.

19:56 Don't do that. Let's look at Psalms one hundred and one. Can we look at that that one? Psalms one oh one? Thank you? Right, hear those pages turning. That's good. Psalms on wondering and one. And let's go ahead and look at verse number, verse number one. Oh, I think I have look at verse verse number, verse number two and three. That'd be all right, two and three. Let's all read it together. I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. Oh, when wilt thout coming to me, I will walk within my house with the perfect heart. I will set no wicked thing before my eyes. I hate the work of them that turn aside. Yeah, he said here, or said, I don't want to set anything in front of me that is wrong, wicked, and it shouldn't be. Let's go to Jeremiah ten, verse number two. Jeremiah earn Psalms go down.

20:48 Go just keep going towards the back of the Bible. You come to Isaiah, and then you'll find Jeremiah chapter ten and verse number two. They have all the all the men read this, would you please first Jeremiah ten to two men. Here we go Thus saith the Lord, learn not the way of the Heathen, if the signs of the Heaven for the Heathen are dismayed at them. And let's all read it together together with the ladies. Ready, girls, Thus saith the Lord, learn not the way of the Heathen signs of the heaven the Bible, as we should not learn the way of the what heathen. That's a good reason why you want to either home educate your child to put them in a good Christian school. No sense in trying to do that. Now, everybody has difference of opinions and they're not here to rattle anyone's cage.

21:40 But boy, you don't want to learn the Heathen way, and that's something we want to step away from for sure. Let's look at the Romans, chapter sixteen, Versember nineteen. Romans sixteen nineteen. This is. It's an interesting approach. I guess he went to the word cease, and now he's just going to I guess the basic idea is, hey, cease listening to instructions. So don't listen to any wrong instruction that will stray, that will stray from the words of knowledge. Don't listen to anything that's strays. Now again, I understand the spirit of this, I understand the concept of this. I just always find it humorous that whenever this is preached, it's like, don't listen to anybody else but me or who I think is okay. And so you'll see in many churches, well, pastor should I read this book? Pastor should I listen to this preacher? Pastor should I read this commentary? And it's like, so you realize what you're doing. You're going to put yourself in a situation where all you hear is what your pastor agrees with, and you're not going to hear anything that disagrees with it. But how do you know your like when you said, well, I'm not going to read that because that goes against this, or that goes against this, Well, then you can never be challenged because you're only to listen to that which you already agree with. So you are assuming that you already know everything, and that everything you believe. That's the only way to believe. So I find that I'm not a

23:11 fan of that concept. My thing is, look, I understand, you know, don't listen to the instructions, my son, that you will and you will stray from the words of knowledge. You don't want to stray from the words of knowledge. I do understand that. But the words of knowledge, if we're going to put this in any way, it would come from scripture. So don't listen to anything that strays from scripture. But then all these other teachings would all claim they're coming from scripture. So how do you know your understanding of scripture is so right that you don't listen to anything that strays away from your understanding of scripture. So it's kind of like a weird circle you get into. Right, Hey, don't listen to anybody out there who goes basically against what we teach. Well, then you're assuming your teaching is all basically is infallible, that you you're right in your own eyes. The only way to ever be challenged is to listen to instruction that goes against how you think again, so that you can then be challenged. So what's the balance there. I have a hard time with this concept, but okay, he's going to continue his approach here. It's just interesting just going from scripture to scripture to scripture to scripture. I guess that basically supports it. But okay, let's see what other scripture.

24:32 He finds there's a new Testament, a new Testament verse that I think it gives us admonition Verse number nineteen of Romans, chapter sixteen. It says, for your obedience has come abroad into all men. He says, you guys, have your obedience has been made known. You guys are walking with the Lord, and everyone knows you obey the Lord. That's a good recommendation from Paul to the people at Rome. I am glad therefore on your behalf. But yet I would have you to have you wise to that which is good and simple regarding what evil. So I want you to grow more grass rather than go around killing weeds.

25:18 I want you to be more knowledgeable about about about good things and less knowledgeable about evil things. Sometimes the reasons sometimes if you, if you are like me, there have been seasons of your time where you just need to stop looking at the news. It just affects you adversely, and it's just negative negative, negative, negative negative, and it's just not worth it. It creates animosity in your heart, frustrations in your heart. He's ill you what once you spend little more time being wise to the things that are good and less knowledgeable of the things that are evil. When someone walks up to you and says, have you heard I'm not want to say no and thank you very much. No, I'm not interested. I don't want to hear about it. And listen when someone comes and tells you all the negative things are going on in somebody's life, let me just tell you something a secret. They'll tell stuff about you to other people. And by the way, I just forgot. Brother Moffatt is doing a funeral as we speak for his sister in law fell us and there's several unsaved people. Let's just ask the Lord to help them real quickly. And Brother tam Wonce you come lead us in prayer for that real quickly. Let's pray for brother Moffatt. Miss Moffatt, would you please.

26:34 Lord, I pray that you'll bless brother Moffatt, and Lord, thank you for his love for you and his diligence to get the Gospel. Lord. And he's with family now that many who are unsaved, and I pray Lord that you'll fill them with your spirit. Lord, use him not only to be a comfort to the family, Lord, but also to make the Gospel clear. And I pray that Lord people will trust you tonight, Lord, and please just bless our dear brother Moffatt and continue to bless pastor Amen. Thank you. I'm sorry not to mention it earlier. Just keing of my mind was talking to you. So we want to be uh, we want to stop. Okay, this approach. This is all over the place, This is all over the place. Okay again, I'm not Here's what I would say if you take his advice sometimes, just don't pay attention to the news, don't look to the news, don't know what's going on. That's fine. Here's what I would say. If you're not paying attention to the news, you're not reading the news, you're not keeping up with the news, then don't be offering your opinion about things in which you don't know. Because too many times Christians who don't keep up with anything, research anything are there very first to be very opinionated about that which they do not know. And we see that constantly within Christianity, making comments about news items which they clearly indicate they have no clue what they're talking about. If you don't keep up with it, then don't speak about it.

27:57 That's simple. Don't speak about it unless you're if you're not gonna know and you're not gonna research. But this kind of creates an atmosphere where, Okay, don't listen to anything that disagrees with us, don't keep up with what's going on in the world. This kind of creates a very isolated, insulated, almost withdrawn kind of worldview. I don't know what's going on in the world. I don't care what's going on in the world. I don't know what anybody else is saying because I only listen to what we say. So therefore I think I'm right because all I hear tells me that I'm right. There is a danger in that you place yourself in some form of an echo chamber, like I often say, listening to things that I disagree with and I may even get frustrated with sometimes is of greater spiritual value because it forces me to go back to the things I believe and challenge them, question them, you consider them again, and do extra work. So I you know, I don't I don't know where the balance is here. Okay, let's see where he's going to go with this. This is kind of a He's kind of just I don't know. I don't know how to I don't know how to really classify.

29:15 It's like, okay, we got the word cease. Now let's just go to all verses that kind of talk about ceasing a specific thing, which is ceasing listening to well, anything that seems to go against I guess he would say the word of God. But again the problem is you're who gets to determine. Then yeah, I mean if you say, well, I'm not going to listen to them, not going to listen to them because they go against the word of God, Well they would say with nobody should listen to you because you go against the word of God. And then it becomes it becomes really a difficult thing. And how to process this? Listen to things that are that are counterproductive to God's word? Well, I think a lot of problems could go away if we be careful what goes in the eargate and the eye game. Sure we cannot help, but speak of the thing which you have that's good and that's also negative too.

30:04 All right, let's look another thing real quickly. Let's go to Proverbs. Back again to Proverbs chapter number twenty. The next chapter over Proverbs chapter number twenty, and let's look at this passage of Scripture. If we can verse number three Proverbs, chapter twenty and verse number three, here's something we should cease from. Are you ready? It is an honor for a man to cease from. But every fool will be meddling. He said, stop creating strife. Some people's strife is their life. If they can't find drama, they'll cause it. They'll stir it up. He said, it's a foolish thing to meddle, and to just stir up adversity and discontention. He said, every fool does that. How many of us don't want to be a fool. We don't want to be a fool. He said, be careful, cease from strife. Don't let strife be your life. Now you're going to always have Jude says this in Jude, he said, I want to write to you about a common salvation.

31:02 And I've got to write to you to earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered. So there's times where we have to fight. The Bible says, fight the good fight of faith. And Paul tells Timothy, I want you to follow after these things and flee these things and fight this battle. So there is a lot of reason quitchie, like men be strong. There is challenges for us to stand in this evil day. So there needs to be a time to stand and fight at the same time, to have strife and have all something going on. He said, If you got that, if that's what your life is about, stop it. Quit seize from strife. Those look at other verse that tells about that as well. How about chapter twenty two and verse number ten. Twenty two and verse number ten for the coolar. Would you mind reading that verse force if you would please? Okay, said cast out to scorn and contention goes out. There's almost a you know, because several different personalities in the Book of Proverbs. A scorner is one of them, and a scorner usually asks dumb questions, doting questions that stir up things like you are you getting paid enough here? Well, I tell you what's rough working here? Boy? You get you've got a problem with the boss too. That's the scorner, not someone that brings brings blessing, someone who just stirs it up. And all of us have either met a scorner or we've been a scorner at some time or another.

32:28 He said, you get rid of a scorner and strife quits. Every once while. I've seen this happen in the ministry, and I certainly never want it. But every once in a while there's someone that just feels like they're an advocate, uh for they're just the devil's advocate all the time. But when they go off the scene, all of a sudden, there's a little bit of peace that comes to that. We don't like to lose anyone, but every once in a while, someone who stirs it up. He's like when they hit the road, Jack, you say, hit the road and don't come back. You know, just is things are a little bit calmer now. There is truth to that. You cast out the scoffer and contention will leave. Yes, strife and reproach will cease.

33:08 Sometimes within ministry you always have the person stirring up the trouble, causing problems, arguing, arguing, arguing, arguing, arguing, arguing. Like you could get up there and say it welcome everyone, it is Sunday, and it's almost like immediately they'll be like, are you sure it's Sunday. I don't think it's actually Sunday, because I think four thousand years ago they changed the calendar and today's actually Monday, So why are you saying Sunday? You don't even know what you're talking about. And you're kind of like, oh, my goodness, gracious, you're like, okay, never mind, just never mind. When people become contentious like that and strive about everything is sometimes it's best for them to well, you know, it's kind of like, hey, just follow me, where are we going. Well, this is a door and it opens and it goes outside, and outside there all kinds of stuff out here. So you go get in your car and you go drive and go find something elsewhere because we no longer want you here.

34:09 And and it sounds mean, but sometimes you got to say it's time to go, because all you want to do is strive and fight and argue and strive and fight and argue and disagree and disagree and disagree and disagree and disagree, and that that's that's not that I think. I think really the issue is what makes us. I think the real question here for me and and I don't even know if we have a good answer. Why do you think at times we find ourselves striving strife scoffing? Why why do you think something to what what is it inside of us that leads us to strive and to fight and to argue and to disagree and to fight.

34:52 What there I think there? To me, it's it's easy to say cease it, but there's got to be something going on. And I think there's something. I think sometimes because now you don't like the personalities, so now you're just going to find a reason to argue and fight. Like if it's just going to be striving and fighting and striving and fighting, just just it's just go you know what I'm saying, Like, there's no point, there's no you know why, just just go Not only in ministry of friendship, I mean you know, like, if if there's just going to be striving and fighting, just just go away. Just go do your thing. I'll go do my thing, because it's not worth the striving and the fighting. It's not it's no no, no, no, no, no no no no.

35:33 So trying to understand what it is inside of us that brings it about maybe more of an issue. I mean he's just looking at you know. Yeah. To me, that's a deeper question. I don't have a good answer for it at the moment. So you gotta get rid of a scorner. Contentions will stop. Then the next part of the verse that he just read, verse ten, strife and reproach, sal sees. Look at one more verse on this topic, Chapter twenty, Chapter twenty six, and look at verse number twenty. Would you let's all read it together? Can we? It speaks of the where no wood ready, where no wood is there, the fire go without. Okay, he said, Now where you don't have wood, when you don't put wood on the fire, you don't fuel the fire, the fire goes out. He says. If you can get the tail bearer, the gossip, the critic to stop, then strifle cease and we'll be able to will to have some And you've got to have peace to make good progress. You can make some progress when you're having to put out fires all the time, but not as much fire as progress as you can when things are smooth and you get someone who wants to be he says, he said, wants you to cease from strife.

36:52 Don't let strife be your life. So cease from hearing things we should not hear. The count productor of the word of God. Number two, cease from strife. Look at the third the cease is mentioned chapter twenty three, Would you please? Chapter twenty three. He didn't do a lot with that one. That's kind of interesting. Where there is no wood, the fire goes out, and where there is no tell bearer, strife ceases. I think the way the cease the strife ceases is well that when the tear tell bearer ceases, and a tail bear is the gossip, the slanderer, the one talking about people talking about this, talking about this, talking about this, and some look, there are some things that you don't need to talk about. Why are you talking about it?

37:37 And why are you sharing it now? Typically you're sharing and you're telling for well, definitely for not. You may try to argue it's for godly reasons, but usually it's selfish reasons. You want to see the person hurt, you want to see the person humiliated, you want to see the person destroyed. It's all because your pride has been hurt and you want to take someone down. But the tell bearer, the gossip, Yeah, that's another thing that we have to We have to stop the person who's contentious, the person who strives, the person who scoffs, the person who just stirs up trouble that's got to seize, and the tell bearer you have to stop. And the way the tell bearer you can stop a tell bear is just you don't listen to the gossip. No, stop that right there. No no, no, no, no, no no no.

38:17 I don't need to know this. Why are you telling me this? I have no reason to know this. You'd have no reason to be telling me this. It's none of my business. There's no reason. And don't come at me that you're doing so for spiritual reasons. You're coming to destroy and humiliate someone. Stop, all right? So, yeah, he kind of did it. He kind of just left the tell bearer out of that. He just focused on the word strive. It's the teil bear, it's the gossip, it's the slanderer, right, okay, So all right, let's see where else. He goes here. And verse number four look at it, and here's let's read it together. Labor not to be rich, ease your mine own, and really I think it ceased from looking at things from your own perspective.

39:09 Okay. He went to Proverbs twenty three four, I apologize. It kind of got broken up there. Proverbs twenty three four, do not overwork to be rich because of your own understanding. Cease because of your own understanding cease. He's saying, don't look at it through your own perspective. That's an interesting verse. Proverbs twenty three four. I'm going to look this up in a number of English translations. Proverbs twenty three four. I'm going to look at this Proverbs twenty three four, Proverbs twenty three four. But is it two separate concepts or are they put together here? Do not wear yourself out to get rich. Do not trust your own cleverness.

39:54 That's the new international version Proverbs twenty three four. Don't wear yourself out trying to get rich. Be wise enough to know when to quit. Do not toil to acquire wealth, be discerning enough to desist. Do not wear yourself out to get rich, but wise enough to restrain yourself. Labor not to be rich, cease from thine own wisdom. I think the idea here is, Hey, you got to know don't overwork to be rich. You got to know when to stop. You got to know maybe when is enough is enough? You got to maybe know when you're making that your God. Again, it's interesting this would be in the Proverbs written by Solomon who is known for his great wealth. But okay, I you know you can look at that. But I'm going to write this one down here in my notebook, here in my journal here weren't write down Proverbs twenty three four. All right, So this, to me is not just so much about looking things through your own perspective. I think this is about ceasing your own understanding when there's got to be something else else, helping you determine when is enough is enough? And when you're working too hard simply to get rich, and how there's got to be something else other than your own understanding?

41:10 Are your own wisdom to be able to determine, well that balance? How much do you pursue how little? Like what where is that balance? There's wisdom, And when the Bible uses wisdom and proverbs, if it's talking about wisdom is from above, and there's earthly wisdom. The earthly wisdom is fleshly, it is essential, it is worldly. So there is a wisdom or there's a way of looking at things. And really, to some extent, wisdom is looking at something. Biblical wisdom is looking to think God's way. There's a way that seemeth right to a man within there of the ways of death. It is kind of pinpoint in practicing God's way of doing something.

41:55 That's why when you if we in lack wisdom, let him ask of God. Say God, how do you want me to do this? Do you want me to engage in this relationship? Do you want me to pull out? Do you want me to do this? When do you want me to do it? Asking God for his perspective on things, But he says, cease from your own wisdom, cease from the way you would do things. And once I meet people and they don't want to discipline their children, now say, well, you know, I know what the Bible says, but you know what they're doing. They're they're going their way and that's going to cause them some problems to them and to their child. Some folks say, you know, I just I just don't want to tithe and give. I just feel like I feel like I don't have to do that in this day and age. Well, listen, you can do that, but I think you might want to really see what the Bible tells you to do and analyze that.

42:46 And just so you know, there's plenty of people who would look to the Bible and call your question into probably what you think discipline is or isn't. There's obviously debates about certain things about the rod and how do we understand the rod. And there's great disagreement within Christianity about whether the tithe is a New Testament thing or not a New Testament thing. So and then who can you give the tithe to? And who you shouldn't give the tithe to? Once again, there's lots of voices on this subject. But I but I guess he would only want us to listen to him because but there's lots of different varying views that would all claim to me coming from the Bible on these subjects.

43:28 Because you can do things your way, and the end or of is going to put some some termination to some prosperity, to some potential to your own personal, your personal blessing. So he said, cease from the way you look at these things, from looking things from your perspective, and all of us we need to let everything happen be filtered through what is the best way for God. Let's look at another concept. OK, say we talked about ceasing cease from hearing things I shouldn't hear. Cease from strife and cease from looking at things from my own perspective and ask for God's way on those situations. The next the next word real quickly. Our time is going up, so let's go real quickly at conceit. Conceit. Conceit was a word that I felt like, I thought I understood, and I may not understand exactly right now, but to some extent, it's how someone evaluates themselves, Uh, conceit. It's like how they see themselves, are their perspective of things.

44:26 Let's look at that in context with a couple verses. Can we go first of all, if we can please at there's three different times that that that the Bible says in Proverbs a rich man, a fool, and a lazy man or a sluggard. When you see the word conceit in those in the Book of Proverbs, it's referring to the rich man how he sees himself and his riches, and and then a sluggard, a lazy man, how he sees himself and his and his and a fool how he evaluates himself. Now, all of us have a perspective of our our way, our thinking, ourselves. The truth of the matter is it's not always true. You can say, well, you know, I I.

45:13 Care about people, I care about it. I don't care. Anybody says I know I care about people. I love that person. I care about that person. You might say that, but someone else can see that you're not as caring as you think you are. I'm always good to people. Someone else might say, you know, I don't think so. That's your opinion of yourself. That's your your own conceit, your own view of yourself. I have got views of myself. You've got views of yourself that really it's really not not accurate. I'm never rude to people, and you don't even know you're you're that's your perspective. If you got someone really real in your world that can evaluate you, then you might see it differently.

45:54 Okay, now I'm gonna take this. This isn't I love this kind of concept. Conceit it's typical. Is how we wrongly perceive ourselves? Well, kiss, what if we wrong? If we cannot clearly evaluate ourselves, then how can we clearly evaluate if what we believe is true? Therefore, I should not listen to any other voice. I shouldn't listen to any other struction, because I perceive that that other instruction is false and what I believe to be true, Well, is that not conceit? So I'm interested to know where where he said two words. So we've got cease and we've got conceit. This idea of conceit, I think is something we definitely need to work on. This is interesting, I'm going to be. I don't know if it's in Proverbs nineteen. Well, we'll look. We'll look and see where where the first one is. I was looking at Proverbs nineteen to see if it was there. It'd be interesting if cease and conceit was in Proverbs nineteen. It may not be. Let's see where the second one is.

47:00 But the Bible is a rich man, a fool, and a sluggard see themselves very differently. Just look at these thoughts real quickly we can. Chapter eighteen, verse number eleven. Chapter eighteen, verse eleven. Look at this and read it together. Ready, The rich man's wealth is his strong city and a high wall in his own conceit. So basically he is talking about a rich man views his wealth as a source of security and protection. All right, Proverbs eighteen eleven. Now the new king James translates the word esteem. I'm going to reach down here and grab a King James Bible right here. Proverbs eighteen eleven.

47:51 Proverbs eighteen eleven. The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit. So Proverbs eighteen eleven. Give me a second here, I'm going to open up the blue letter Bible app Proverbs eighteen eleven. Okay, remind me later they okay, they're asking for money. Okay, let's go back here. All right, let's go to Proverbs eighteen. Where is it? Proverbs eighteen. Let's go to verse eleven. All right, we didn't do this with a cease, but that's okay, Proverbs eighteen eleven. In his own conceit, it's this Hebrew word. It's this Hebrew word.

48:40 Strong as Age forty nine oh six. Mess keith, mass keith, mass keith. It's Strong's definition. Mass keith a figure carved in stone the wall figurative imagination, conceit image, picture. So it's the picture. I guess it's the image you have of yourself, is what he's going with. This is kind of interesting. It's used. Mass keith is only used six times so that doesn't give us a lot. The first time it's used is Leviticus twenty six ' one. You shall make you no idols nor graven images, neither neither rear up a standing image. Neither shall you set up any image that's conceit. Don't set up in image.

49:26 The idea is then that would this be the picture, the image you have of God. Don't set up an image, because the image will reflect what you picture or how you see God versus how God is. All right, that's that's that's kind of interesting, right, what this? We could do some work on this. Maybe The next passage is number thirty three fifty two. Then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quiet pluck down all their high places. You destroy all these images, You destroy all these idols, because they are man's conceit, their image, their picture of God. All right Proverbs seventy three seven. Their eyes stand with fatness.

50:17 They have more than their heart could wish. This is what they perceive their desire. So conceit is how you perceive things, how you see things. I would never have I think I would have gone with a different idea. So I'm learning something here because I would not have thought of conceit this way. All right, maybe you're not learning anything, but I am all right. Proverbs eighteen eleven. The rich man's wealth is his strong city, and as a high wall in his own conceit, so he perceives something about himself based off his wealth. I think that maybe is the idea there. You can tell me whether you agree or disagree. Proverbs twenty five to eleven. A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold and pictures of silver. All right, that doesn't really help me much there.

51:04 And then Ezekiel eight twelve then said he unto the sun, to me, son of Man, thou hast seen seen what the ancients of the House of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chamber of his imagery. For they say, the Lord seeth, that's not the Lord hath forsaken the earth. So conceit is basically the way you picture, the way you imagine, the way you perceive, the way you see things. That is your conceit. That that's that's kind of fascinating to me that I think we could that's that's really interesting. King, is that true or false?

51:45 False? Bible says that we ought to be careful. Don't don't. Don't put your stock in riches, because riches go up and down. They make their self wings and fly away. Every day. You look at the stock market, what it says on nine o'clock, It won't say at eleven was it leven? And won't say at one, because everything's going to go up and down all day long on the stock market. It's he says. He says, he tells the uh. The apostle Paul tells Timothy in first seventy, chapter six. He says, look, tell these men who have more than they need, tell these ladies that more than the need to not to not put your your faith in uncertain riches, but put your faith in the living God. So uh uh.

52:27 A little bit deeper pockets you have is you have a little more security financially. Don't don't let that be your protection. It's it's the way you can look at things, but it's not something. And how many times I just want to make sure I have enough, I also make sure i'm I'm secure. Well, if that's all your goal, you got to be careful now there is prudence and planning and discernment in that situation. But many times when we get a little bit more money, all we keep thinking about is our money, and we and we and we think that's going to be our security. So that's that's how a rich man is. He sees his money as his security. And who really needs to be my security? Yeah, let your conversation you without competeousness, and be content with such things as you have, knowing this God.

53:17 I think the focus is that it's the wrong perception that you are conceiving, perceiving in your conceit, you perceive your riches are these things that they are not. Your perception is wrong. Conceit is the wrong perception, the wrong understanding. You don't see things as they really are. You see things incorrectly, which then goes back to the whole concept, goes back to the cease cease from instruction. Well, wait a minute, you gotta be careful because if I'm ceasing from the instruction I perceived as wrong, is that not my conceit telling me that maybe I'm perceiving something to be wrong when it's actually not. Because well, every man is right in his own eyes. So I don't know.

54:03 He's not connecting the two concepts, but I see the two concepts very much linked together. Right, But this idea of conceit, I think is fascinating. Let's se if he expands on this. Odd, if I have God, he's enough, He'll never leave me nor forsake me. God does not want to You can't serve God. And I'm not telling you this to be frivolous or foolish. I'm telling you this because it's a biblical principle and you cannot read the same Bible I'm reading and not see it. Oh, he's given such a good point, but he's missing the point by just going after Hey, don't trust in money, no, no, no, no, don't trust in your perception. Don't trust in the way you see. Your perception, your image of anything. You could can be completely wrong. Right, That's just the whole thing about the heart. The heart is death really wicked into see full above all things. You cannot trust basically any perception you have because our perception is always wrong, which then leads to major hermoneutical issues with then how can I trust my interpretation? All?

55:12 Right, But he. Gave this idea of conceit, but he's not following through. He's then kind of going back to just more of a service. It's this deeper issue of what conceit is that I he Oh, that's what I want him to focus on. And remember there's two things very personal, music and money. And the largest book in the Bible is a song book, and music starts in the heart and it should be for the Lord. But money is mentioned over eighteen hundred times in the Scripture's Money and Possessions, because it gets down in in between the psyche of every human being.

55:52 It's a rich man in his own conceit, he sees his finances as security and the strong high wall that he it protects him. Let's look get another verse in Chapter twenty eight Versuver eleven. It's on that same topic once again, you look at it. I hope you will make time to think about these things and ask God what he wants us to learn from verse eleven. The rich man is wise in his own conceit, so the way he sees himself. But the poor man that hath understanding does what isn't that something he said? A rich man will evaluate his status in his own way, but a poor man with understanding can kind of figure him out, can kind of evaluate what's really going on there. It's kind of an interesting thought something.

56:41 Okay. Now, wait, so Proverbs twenty at eleven. I was a little confused because I looked up the Hebrew word, and I'm like, that same Hebrew word is not in Proverbs twenty at eleven. All right, So the rich man is wise in his own eyes, but the poor, who has understanding, searches him out. So this is the idea of being wise in his own The translators of the King James, I think makes it translates it conceit. Let me reach down and grab my King James Bible again. I put it back down Proverbs twenty eight eleven. It's a completely different Hebrew word, though completely different Hebrew word. All right, the rich man is wise in his own conceit. The rich man is wise in his own conceit. Again, the conceit is. Now if we go with the other Hebrew word, it's the picture, the image you have her yourself.

57:29 This is a different Hebrew word, the word your conceit. Here it's kind of the whole phrase. In fact, if you look at the anti linear for Proverbs twenty eight eleven. It's actually in his own conceit. But if you look at the Hebrew word that's translated that, it's this. Strong age fifty eight to sixty nine alien. Alien iron iron, it's almost the idea of I. But it's used eight one hundred and eighty seven times. Well right here, okay, strong definition, it's I. It's a primitive word, and I literally or figuratively a fountain landscape, affliction outward appearance before think bass color, conceit be. I mean it goes a million things, but it really starts with an eye.

58:11 The outline of biblical usage I. I physical eye has shown mental qualities, a mental and spiritual faculties spring fountain. So I think it's the idea that in Proverbs twenty eight eleven you can almost say this, the rich man is wise in his own eyes. Once again, the conceit is how you see things, how you perceive to have conceit. If you are the idea of conceit is you are. It's how you see things. It's your wrong understanding of things, others, people, truth self. It's your conceit that makes you think you've got it all figured out right, which then calls in to question everything. Right, So then if I can't trust that which, if I can't trust my perception, if I cannot trust my own understanding, if all of us think we are right in our own eyes, then where do we turn? We need an external source. Well, the external source is God's word. Now that sounds wonderful, and that sounds great. But who reads God's word? I read it, So then can I trust my understanding of it? This becomes somewhat problematic?

59:26 All right? So I got to write this verse down in my journal here Proverbs twenty eight eleven. All right, But then the next part of that verse is Proverbs twenty eight eleven. But the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out. If you have understanding, then you seek a matter out, You search it out. You just don't immediately perceive. I think the thing is we always have to instead of having conceit. I think the what's opposite of conceit is humility, and humility is the ever awareness. It's the ever present awareness that you don't necessarily know, and you cannot necessarily trust what you do know, and you cannot trust what you have learned in the past. So every time is a new way. You've got to challenge yourself, question yourself, and question your perception because your perception is inherently flawed.

1:00:29 I think I need to think more about to even explain completely. But we do see the word can see how a man sees himself. And he says a poor man can come alongside with understanding and really see how things really are. And I think that's interesting. It's look about the fool real quickly. I think you're familiar with this chapter twenty six, verse number five, twenty six vers number five. Let's read it together. Can we please answer a fool according to his folly and how he sees verse Nomber twelve. Let's look at that as well. Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit. There is more hope of a fool than of him, And a fool evaluates himself very differently. He sees himself mister mister, oh, it's the guy with Microsoft. I'm struggling with his name right now, Bill Gates. You know, he kind of sees himself much different, and he sees a world without God.

1:01:30 He sees a world with a lower population. There's too many people being born. When people look at a fool that just chose us to reject God. Reject the lore. Again so much. I know this is standard church language. Well, you always look at everybody else. It drives me crazy. We have to look at ourselves in some ways. He's going, he's doing the very thing conceit is. See Bill Gates is the fool, but he's not right. Everyone else is wrong, but we're right. I can't stand that about Christianity and about preaching. It's always everyone else is the bad guys. We're the We're always the heroes of every story. All right. But Proverbs twenty six to five. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

1:02:16 Being wise in your own eye is conceit your perception, how you see things, you think you're right. Proverbs twenty six twelve. I think he says, do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him. See the minute you think you're wise in your own eyes, there's no hope for you. The minute you think you've got it all figured out. So if you can't cease from instruction, that because in one hand you want to cease from instruction, that would take you away from the Word of God. But at the same time, you can't be the one determining if that teaching is taking you from the word of God or not taking you from the Word of God, because you're basing it on your understanding of God's word, which could be wrong. So in your own conceit, you could perceive that what you think is right when it could actually be wrong. I think the I think what we have to do is humbly acknowledge that we do not have we don't have a corner on the truth, and that our understanding is flawed, no matter how good we may think it is, and we have to continue to pursue and study and listen and be humble enough to say what I learned yesterday is of no value today because I have to study it again today because my previous understanding could be wrong. It's not about Bill Gates, it's about us.

1:03:40 They see themselves much differently, he said, he said, he said, it's a fool, a fool has has sees himself very much differently. And then it says a person, a man in his own canceit. There's more hope for a fool that he just judges himself based upon how he feels, how he thinks, what he wants. There's more hope for a fool than look at the last thought. Real quickly. We've talked about the rich man. We've talked about a fool, talk about the sluggard. Chapter twenty six and verse number sixteen, same chapter, verse sixteen. A lazy person, there's several verses before us A slowful man say that there's a line in the way, there's a line in the streets. When's last time you saw a lion running through Hammond? Okay, it just doesn't happen. Okay, most lions are out in the wildern someplace. They're certainly not in the streets. But to a lazy person, he'll use anything as an excuse not to get out there and do something. That's basically the thought. A lazy person will come up with anything.

1:04:38 It could be like, are you kidding me? Really, that's why you're not going to go to work. That's why you're not gonna do that. No, there's a lion out there. I'm nervous if I go outside them, I get by a lion in the Hammon. Not gonna happen. Next verse if you would please look at verse fourteen. As a door turned upon the hinges, so does a slow fell upon is what bed? Was just rolling over? Not? Rather than get out of bed, Let's roll over and push news. And that's what I do anyway. I just push news and roll over a little basis. That's a slowful thing to do. He said, when it's time to get up, probably ought to get up, get going, He said, just do that. In verse fifteen, the slowful man hideth his hand in his bosom, and grieve him to keep it to his take it to his mouth. He doesn't respond, doesn't take the responsibility. It doesn't work. Now look verse sixteen.

1:05:26 The sluggard is wiser in his own conceit and how he views. Then seven men can render a reason a lazy person, a fool, and a rich man see themselves different. Be a lazy person has more reasons and excuses why he can't do what he should do. Then seven men can think of reasons why. Because conceit is our wrong perception of self, of circumstance of others, of true it's conceit as we think we've got it all figured out.

1:06:08 That they see themselves and they think of all the reasons why and boy friends. One of the things I love about to good Christians that good Christians are diligent people. They use their time wisely, they're productive, innovative, they use initiative. And this church, this is not a perfect church, but we have a lot of very hard working people. But you know, it just takes a few lazy people to real sap the strength out of the rest of us. And we don't want to be lazy, want to be innovative, we want to use initiative, and certainly don't want to make excuses. You've heard me say in recent days. I heard this, but a man with an excuse is a poor excuse for a man. And people who are good at making excuses aren't usually good on anything else. And when you find yourself continually making excuses, maybe the problem is not all that's going around you. It's it's us.

1:07:05 It's our perspective of ourself. Everyone. So I'll I'll go to a city, or to a state, or to a country, and the people say, well, it's just really hard here, it's really hard. You don't understand the people here or by This area especially is difficult. And you know, I want to say it's hard everywhere. It's not a walk in the park in ham Indiana. It's not a walk in the park in Talbotay, Brazil. It's not a walk in the park in the Amazon. It's not a walk in the park in Tokyo. I feel like probably everywhere you go, it's going to be challenging. But a sluggard will come up with more things than his viewpoint of why he can't do what he needs to do than seven men can think of things two words tonight, What was the first one? Cease certain things? We should stop, stop listening to things. We should listen to be careful about those things. Stop strife, and stop looking at things from your perspective, ignoring God's perspective, and then conceit. How we see how we see your riches, are our finances or materialism, How a fool looks at himself and see things his way, and then how slugger looks at things.

1:08:18 May God help us? And that's the end of the sermon. That's a nice little study. I think that's obviously like their Wednesday Night Bible study. It's kind of interesting. I like the way it. You know, I grabbed a journal and was writing everything down, so cease and conceit, Cease and conceit, cease and conceit, cease having conceit, which is the wrong perception of ourself things around us. Now, there was a lot of other things to see see strife completely. Yeah, we need to stop the strife and the arguing and the fighting, and that being a tell bearer. Yeah, that all those other things.

1:09:01 But I just find it interesting if you take the cease and the conceit idea, cease listening to any instruction that takes you away from the truth, but then conceit is your wrong perception of maybe even what truth is and what is right and what is wrong. You incorrectly perceive things. We all, by nature have conceit. We all, by nature we perceive things from our own perspective. We only see things. It's hard for us to even understand the other person's perspective when we fight. Listen, when we have a disagreement or fighting, Why are we having a disagreement in fighting? We're disagreeing in fighting because we only see things from our perspective. We can't see the other perspective.

1:09:47 We are selfish, self centered, arrogant, conceited people who only see things our own way. But that makes it very, very dangerous then to consider when it comes to God's word that in our own conceit, we always perceive we're right, we perceive everyone else is wrong. So how do we balance all of that? I don't know, but I've given you two words they have and I've given them to you through reviewing it, cease and conceit. Now you can do more work on this if you were like I don't have a specific assignment to give to you, but something to at least consider. I got us into a number of passages of proverbs, so I think that is awesome. And well, as I started, I'll end I did this for one kind of selfish reason. My own pride said, you've got to do this. You've got to do this.

1:10:39 You've got to do this, You've got to do this. Now, when it's all said and done, I don't know if I accomplish anything. So now what I'm going to do is my own pride. Then I'm going to kick myself, going, why did you spend seventy minutes doing that? You should have done something better, you should have done Now that was trash. Why did you even do that? You've done three hours of bad teaching today, and so now I'm just because can I have an accurate person? I don't know. If I can't, well, because my pride won't let all right, well, then we can get into a whole. But I did this for wrong reasons. I did because it was my own pride. I wanted to prove that my seizures and neurological issues won't stop me so that I'm in charge. I don't know if I did anything beneficial. I know that I've got, you know, a journal here now with cease and conceit and a bunch of cross referencing, so I can go back and do something with this if I discipline myself. But I think hopefully it's giving you something to consider and think about this evening. Thanks to listening.

1:11:35 You can email me always at news I f at yahoo dot com. That's news, I f at yahoo dot com. That's news I f at yahoo dot com. Now, after seventy one minutes, I'm really starting to feel the effects of probably, why did I do this? I proved a point. I may now pay the consequence. We'll see, all right. Thanks for listening everyone, Have a great night. God bless