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The Walk of a Christian is to be
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this life for the great Apostle,
Paul said in Ephesians chapter 5

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and beginning there in verse 15 
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circumspectly. 
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exactly or accurately and so 
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walk exactly or a man must walk 
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And then he says not as fool's, 
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because the days are evil, 
wherefore be ye, not unwise but 

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understanding what the will of 
the Lord is the Apostle Paul 

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says because time is fleeting 
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must make the very best use of 
our time you know? 

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Very sadly too many people today
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they're wasting their lives by 
failing to exercise. 

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Wisdom from day-to-day a passage
of scripture that were very 

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familiar with, I'll quote, at 
this time, and then make a 

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comment or two about it. 
But in second, Timothy chapter 3

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in verses 16 and 17, the Apostle
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evangelist said, that all 
scripture is given by 

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inspiration of God and is 
profitable for Doctrine for 

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reproof. 
For correction for instruction 

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in righteousness. 
That the man of God may be 

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perfect or complete thoroughly 
furnished unto all good works. 

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We quoted that verse of 
scripture to say this that since

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the word of God claims to equip 
man unto every good work then it

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is only natural to assume that 
it provides for you and I some 

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Sound Advice concerning daily 
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Especially in the Book of 
Proverbs as found, in the Old 

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Testament, the purpose of our 
study, this evening is to 

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introduce the proper Book of 
Proverbs as a wonderful tool as 

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a source of great wisdom, and 
also to encourage Christians to 

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utilize this Source in our 
efforts to walk wisely from day 

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to day, in understanding the 
purpose of the Book of Proverbs.

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We find that it's clearly 
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In the first six verses of the 
book that we read in our 

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introduction, just a moment ago,
but we'll sum it up this way. 

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What we read about itself is 
that is this purpose to know, 

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wisdom and instruction to 
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understanding to receive the 
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judgment and Equity. 
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simple or the naive Prudence it 
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Time to give the young man 
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And it's also designed to give 
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learning, and the man of 
understanding wise counsel in 

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summary or simply put it is 
designed to make a person Wise 

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by learning how to act wisely. 
And how to act righteously day 

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by day. 
The Book of Proverbs teaches us 

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how to treat others and to 
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Others with fairness to give the
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give the young man, sound 
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more wisdom than he has. 
So the question is, what then is

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wisdom, and why is it so 
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reference to the decisions and 
choices that we make as defined,

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the 20th century Encyclopedia of
religious knowledge, defines 

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wisdom like this. 
It says, it is a realistic 

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approach to the problems of 
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You know. 
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oversimplifying the act of 
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concept of wisdom to say. 
It's so simply is that a 

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realistic approach to the 
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Homer Haley? 
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wisdom. 
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the underlying causes and 
Nificant or consequence of 

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things which Insight enables one
to apply to the best end the 

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knowledge which he has, you 
know, it is true that a person 

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cannot go through life without 
knowledge, especially with 

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reference to Bible knowledge. 
The Bible says that there was a 

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people that was destroyed for 
lack of knowledge, it is very 

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important that we study and 
study diligently. 

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All the things that are Going to
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found in God's word. 
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says, the word of God is 
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The word of God is all that we 
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knowledge is not wisdom. 
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must have, but wisdom is 
teaching us how it is that we 

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would apply the knowledge that 
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just say this You could have the
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You can have Bible knowledge 
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God's word and be right? 
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and not take it to the lost in a
rightful way and do more damage 

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than good. 
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wisdom how we're going to take 
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apply it to the circumstances in
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That's what wisdom is all about.
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lacking today. 
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though, it's not difficult. 
One man said you don't have to 

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be listed in. 
Who's who to know what's what 

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people are lacking as Daryl used
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And I know some of some of The 
people our parents age would say

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that people are lacking, good 
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sense, you know, that is true 
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Young people, let me just say 
this don't look at those that 

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have gray hair and look at them 
as people that have just old 

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fogies, and don't know, right 
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And possibly could not possibly 
understand what young people are

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going through with reference to 
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Listen. 
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and perhaps we may ever have in 
our life because it is sadly 

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lacking today. 
We need to feed off of their 

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wisdom because of their 
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that later in Greater detail. 
But let me talk to you about the

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concept of applying what we know
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Say for an example you go to 
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and your boss is not a 
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To work and your boss 
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creates a big scene belittles. 
You does something to you that 

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you did not deserve. 
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What if a husband came home? 
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All he worked hard all day long.
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He didn't deserve this. 
He didn't have this coming, but 

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his wife comes at him with both 
cannons as he walks in the door.

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How we going to handle that? 
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The poor wife. 
She could be at home to doing 

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nothing wrong. 
The husband can have a Rotten 

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Day. 
Could have had everything happen

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in his life rotten that day and 
walk in the door and beat up his

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wife, verbally How's she going 
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All the circumstances? 
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comes to you in an unfriendly 
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change what is done to you that 
somebody else chooses to do you 

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have nothing, you can do about 
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So we need to not focus on what 
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The only thing that we have 
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going to react? 
How are we going to respond? 

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What are we going to say? 
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I freely admit that I don't 
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There are times if Tina says 
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something back that I probably 
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about, I'm not saying that I 
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correctly. 
What I do know is what the Bible

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teaches and the Bible teaches 
how you and I need to respond to

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those. 
Those that come at us in an 

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unfavorable fashion. 
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When someone wronged Us in any 
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matters, not who it is, you have
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three ways. 
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You know, there's two ways to 
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Striking back is not responding 
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back, okay? 
But notice this you can Strike 

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Back physically and we know that
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We know that Christians are 
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fight. 
In fact it goes against the very

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nature of what Jesus Christ is 
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And so if we are going to be 
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following Jesus, we can't be A 
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We can't be one. 
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physically? 
But you know, we can also Strike

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Back verbally. 
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destructive striking back 
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You know, there's another choice
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nothing. 
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If someone wrongs us, we can do 
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There's nothing wrong with that.
I know the world says, stand up 

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for yourself. 
It really does. 

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You got to stand up for 
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You got to take care of number 
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I don't see that there. 
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responding and I'm going to tell
you, just exactly what the Bible

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says, on how you respond. 
But if you don't want to 

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respond, that's okay too. 
But notice the very best way to 

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respond is like this to react 
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brother, sister, that is a hard 
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I don't know if there's anything
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there. 
When somebody comes at us and 

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they're verbally attacking us 
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We want to do it so bad, we 
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And then we often times, though 
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Dancer because that's what the 
Bible teaches, but we want an 

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ulterior motive. 
You see, it's like pouring coals

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on their head, that'll get them.
No, that's not the heart or the 

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attitude behind it. 
The Bible says though, when one 

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would do us wrong, when we are 
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It's like pouring hot coals on 
their head, you know why? 

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Because they want to fight. 
They want you to respond to. 

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They can get matter so they can 
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So they could Cause them to get 
worked up into a frenzy and win 

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the battle against you. 
But here the words of Solomon 

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and Proverbs chapter 15 and 
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When he said a soft answer 
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Wisdom is the Insight, which 
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best thing to do on all of those
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And so, let's look at the value.
Now of wisdom, the first nine 

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chapters of the Book of Proverbs
are actually discourses 

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extolling. 
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example, we find the virtue of 
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life that it can produce it. 
Proverbs chapter 3 beginning 

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there in verse 13. 
It says this happy is the man 

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that findeth wisdom. 
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understanding for the 
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than the merchandise of silver 
and the gain their of than fine 

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gold. 
Listen, she is more precious 

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than rubies and all the things 
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compared unto her Length of days
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Hand and in her left hand 
riches, and honor. 

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Look at the prosperous. 
Life of the person that has 

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wisdom in their life, greater 
than the value of all the jewels

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in the world combined, if he has
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Happy is he? 
He goes on, to say this, her 

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ways are ways of pleasantness 
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She is a tree of life to them 
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And happy is everyone that 
retain it with her. 

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I wonder if in all the 
aspirations and the goals and 

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all the things that we have in 
life, I wonder where wisdom 

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comes into play of all the 
things that we really want to 

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retain or acquire. 
I wonder if wisdom is truly at 

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the top of our list. 
Wisdoms value is also found in 

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that. 
It guards us against the Al's 

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that are out there. 
You know there are many pitfalls

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that I can talk about tonight. 
I'm going to mention three 

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pitfalls that are found in the 
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We can't go through that. 
We could preach many sermons on 

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this subject of wisdom we could 
talk about many of the pitfalls.

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We could talk about a lot of 
those things, I'll just mention 

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three. 
Number one, there's a pitfall 

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that wisdom will Aid Us in or 
help us from falling into and 

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that is evil companionship. 
You know, how many times have we

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either said or heard it say they
just got tied up or they got 

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tangled up or they just got 
mixed up with the wrong crowd. 

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How many times has a good 
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A good. 
Christian been LED astray 

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because of the wrong crowd. 
Well, I'm going to tell you 

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something, the Bible, clearly 
states, how to not fall into 

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that trap, how to not fall into 
that pit fall. 

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It is very important. 
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hang out with in our life. 
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in verse 10, Hear these words of
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If Sinners entice thee consent 
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us, let us lay wait for blood, 
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innocent without cause let us 
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grave and whole as they, that go
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We shall find all precious 
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We shall fill our houses with 
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Let us all have one purse. 
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way with them and refrain thy 
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Let me just say this, I know we 
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talking about evil companionship
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was living in sin? 
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partake of, or participate in, 
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never had, I've got a lot of 
worldly friends. 

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I surely have in my life. 
I have never had a worldly 

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friend that wanted to live in 
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That was happy for me because I 
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company. 
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the righteous life of the 
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themselves of what they are not.
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They want you to cast in your 
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They want to say look let's all 
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Let's be together, let's go do 
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They are more concerned with 
pulling you. 

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You away from the Lord then they
are in supporting you as you 

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live the Christian Life they 
don't care about you in that way

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and anybody of all the people in
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that have told me, I love you, 
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forever, friend Pals, no matter 
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If a person loves you, if a 
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they will never wish eternal 
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And that is what a person is 
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in those evil and sinful things.
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The Sinner. 
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because of unwise choices. 
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decision to follow those who are
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price for the rest of their 
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You know, that's sobering to me 
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forgiveness, and absolutely, 
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that a person cannot be forgiven
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between forgiveness and 
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If a person goes out and 
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drugs, or participates, and 
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they should not make and they 
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take their life. 
Chances are they're still going 

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to die. 
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Jesus does not take away the 
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consequence of what you've done.
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from falling into that pit fall 
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and then turning into the person
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How sad is it when a person 
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of the choice to follow evil 
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Secondly, though Proverbs the 
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8 talks about the immoral woman 
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my son attend unto my wisdom and
bow Vine ear to my 

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understanding, that thou mayest 
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Ian and that thy lips, may keep 
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strange woman drop as a 
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smoother than oil, but her end 
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two-edged sword, her feet. 
Go down to death, her steps 

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take, hold on. 
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Ponder the path of Life. 
Her ways are movable, that thou 

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canst not know them. 
Hear me. 

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Therefore O, ye children and Not
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remove thy way from her, and 
come, not nigh, the door of her 

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house. 
I'm going to tell you something.

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There are people in this world, 
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alike, who the Christian has no 
business being in a relationship

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with. 
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When you talk about 
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marriage relationship, that is 
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Just relationship that a person 
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person. 
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things about being married is 
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things about it. 
That's this. 

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Living in a Christian home. 
Tina knows me. 

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Better than anybody in. 
This world knows me. 

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She knows what you don't. 
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that? 
Even in my weaknesses, she still

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loves me and chooses to be with 
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In a relationship that governed 
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Where God is number one in the 
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Oh, we're not perfect. 
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book. 
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relationship is a wonderful, 
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going to tell you something. 
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the world, because the physical 
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idea of what love is, I'm going 
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head, use your head, think with 
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tell you something, you get the 
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Hear what he said about that, 
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outside. 
It looks like it's going to be 

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good. 
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wormwood Pretty sobering, isn't 
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Relationships with these types 
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harmless, but immorality is one 
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oneself physically, emotionally 
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But on the other hand and it is 
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wisdom, spares one from Total 
ruin, one more though that he 

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talks about. 
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six through 11, you know what he
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He says, one of the pitfalls 
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He ever stop to consider that 
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Notice what he says in Proverbs 
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he said go to the ant thou, 
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be wise, which having no guide 
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Her meet in the summer and 
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Harvest. 
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O. 
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When wilt thou arise out of thy 
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little Slumber, a little folding
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So shall thy poverty. 
Listen come as one that traveled

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with and thy want as an armed, 
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What happens when you're a 
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person. 
A person that is Idle a person 

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that is not taking care of their
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I'll tell you this, though. 
You can be a sluggard in the 

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physical world, and you can also
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world. 
And I simply say it that way, 

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talking about with your service 
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lazy is not acceptable. 
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Let me just say this. 
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Poverty is coming and it's going
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man in battle. 
Can you imagine if all of a 

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sudden you were being attacked 
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for example, you were Soldier 
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enemy and all the weapons. 
You would be completely 

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helpless, you would be unarmed 
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That's what he said. 
It's like here you are. 

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You're a sluggard, you're lazy. 
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you. 
As sure as an attacker would an 

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unarmed man. 
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you know, I can't fathom this. 
I'd never thought this of all 

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the days of my short life, I 
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Until I read that verse of 
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considerest vow the ant. 
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don't like ants. 
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Answer a nuisance you ever be in
a picnic and all of a sudden, 

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there's ants attacking your 
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tree somewhere to take a nap on 
an afternoon and the Cool Breeze

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blowing and you're enjoying your
your time there and all of a 

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sudden you get feeling. 
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you and it's ants what a 
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They are. 
That's what he says to the 

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sluggard. 
You look at the ant as your 

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example. 
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Why is that they're busy? 
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They work when they're not being
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I'm going to tell you. 
That's a great example for you 

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and I to work. 
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somebody's going to watch us. 
Let me just say this. 

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All that are here in this room 
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Let me just ask you a question. 
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standing there, we all want to 
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Do we do sure. 
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would you work just as hard? 
Would you work as hard? 

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You should. you need to give 
everything you have, and in 

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fact, you need to do it like 
service unto the Lord, the Bible

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says, The ant is described as 
one, who is an example to the 

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lazy sluggard, because the ant 
will work without guidance, he 

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will work without credit, he 
will work without praise, he 

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will be smart, he will be 
diligent and what does it say? 

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He'll go out and get the 
Harvest. 

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He'll go out and get the food 
when he needs it and store it 

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for a time when he will not be 
able to do so That's the 

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example, he gives to the 
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Think about that. 
Think about how you would work 

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in your life. 
If no one watches. 

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He says to the lady laser to the
lazy. 

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Go watch that Aunt. 
And so on a lazy man is one who 

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is destined for poverty and 
again wisdom provides a much 

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better way of life. 
A man said one time Then a man 

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would never lose his shirt, if 
he's not afraid to roll up his 

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sleeves, you do. 
I tell you, I've seen Christians

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from time to time do this kind 
of sit back and want to pray 

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real hard for God to give them 
what they need but they failed 

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to do their part. 
You see you pray. 

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Absolutely. 
You pray. 

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Pray hard but pray within the 
rows with the hole in your hand,

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pray while you're working That's
what we have to do. 

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We have to work. 
Like, everything depends on us 

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and pray like it depends on God 
and give everything. 

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We've got, don't be the 
sluggard. 

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Don't be the lazy. 
Finally, wisdom provides a much 

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better way of life. 
That is not poverty. 

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That is not destined for all of 
those failures. 

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Let's ask ourselves. 
Now the value of Proverbs with 

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reference to wisdom, how then is
wisdom, gained wisdom is So 

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important, we've talked about 
that question is, how do you get

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it? 
Wisdom is normally gained 

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through one of two sources, or a
combination of the both. 

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Number one through years of 
trial and error, everyone that's

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here has gleaned or gained some 
wisdom in their life because of 

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decisions that you made that 
were wrong and you failed and 

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what happens? 
You pick yourself up and you 

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learn a life's lesson. 
Yes. 

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Indeed. 
When you Do that, then you have 

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wisdom. 
But notice this is a person 

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though or a person that only 
gains wisdom, and that way, 

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That's not smart. 
Because that's a person that's 

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not willing to listen to the 
failure of another to learn a 

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lesson. 
That's a person that says, I 

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don't care what your advice is. 
I don't care. 

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What your advice is. 
I'm going to do it all on my 

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own. 
I got to find my own way sad, 

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isn't it when people do that. 
One man said, one time 

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experience comes from what we 
have done. 

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But wisdom comes from what we 
have done badly. 

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How else do you get it? 
Well, first of all, there are 

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disadvantages of gaining wisdom 
in this way. 

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First of all, much of life's, 
much of one's life time can be 

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wasted trying to learn through 
trial and error in doing. 

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So one is forth to live with the
consequences of Error and very 

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sadly, very sadly. 
Some folks, never survive that 

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error to get the blessing of 
wisdom. 

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What's the better way? 
What's the better way to get 

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wisdom then and that is number 
one through the proven 

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experience of others. 
This is Possible only if one is 

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willing to heed the advice of 
another Advantages of this, 

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though are very wonderful and 
blessings to us advantages of 

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getting wisdom this way, is this
you can avoid wasting years and 

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years of life through trial and 
error. 

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Secondly, you will be able to 
experience life unburdened with 

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the consequences of earlier 
mistakes that you have made in 

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your life. 
Like one said, one time a wise 

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man, learns from the Stakes of 
others because nobody lives long

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enough to make them all themself
The Book of Proverbs is so 

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valuable. 
It's a valuable tool in our 

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attempt to be wise. 
We don't have to constantly try 

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to reinvent the wheel. 
We can go straight to the Book 

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of Proverbs and find that in it.
We find provided the wisdom of 

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God himself in Proverbs Chapter 
2 beginning in verse 1, hear 

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these words. 
My son. 

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If thou Wilt receive my words 
and hide my Commandments with 

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thee, so that thou incline, 
thine ear unto wisdom and apply 

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thine heart to understanding 
gay. 

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If thou Christ after knowledge, 
and lift us up by voice for 

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understanding, if thou, seekest 
her as silver and searched for 

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her. 
As, for Hidden Treasures, then 

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shalt thou understand the fear 
of the Lord and find the 

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knowledge of God for the Lord. 
Lord giveth wisdom out of his 

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mouth cometh knowledge and 
understanding. 

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You know, the Bible says that we
must seek after but also we must

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pray for wisdom. 
God gives it liberally. 

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It says, but also the things 
that we learn from our knowledge

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of God's word pointing toward 
the things that are the wisest 

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choices in our life if we will 
diligently seek after the wisdom

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that's described in God's word 
and pray to God, that we would 

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have it. 
We will have it liberally as he 

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has promised it to us in James 
chapter 1 beginning in verse 5. 

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It says, if any of you lack 
wisdom let him ask of God that 

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giveth to all men liberally and 
upbraideth not. 

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And it shall be given him, but 
let him ask in faith, nothing 

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wavering for he that waiver. 
If is like a wave of the sea 

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driven with the wind and tossed 
for. 

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Let not that man. 
Think he shall receive anything 

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of the Lord a double-minded, 
man. 

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Man is unstable in all his ways.
Finally, though you cannot have 

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wisdom in your life without 
Jesus Christ. 

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If Jesus Christ is not in the 
equation, then you do not have 

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the wisdom that the Bible speaks
of, for Paul said in Colossians 

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2 and 3 in, whom are hidden all 
the treasures of wisdom. 

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And knowledge in conclusion. 
Somebody who said this, I wrote 

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it down, thought it was worth 
passing on. 

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He said, wisdom is the reward 
that you get for a lifetime of 

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listening when you'd rather 
talk. 

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Man, how hard it is to not talk.
How hard it is to not have an 

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opinion, that's hard to do we 
all like to talk? 

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I love doing it. 
It's difficult. 

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But wisdom comes when you 
listen, when you read, when you 

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understand, and when you pray 
and you seek after Council, that

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is Wise from those that have 
already made such mistakes. 

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That's a person that has wisdom 
because they've been silently 

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listened when they'd rather 
talk. 

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