Get Up Again: Hope from Proverbs 24

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Hey, everybody. It's been a little bit.
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We had some stuff lined up, and unfortunately, scheduling just didn't work out.
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That's just the way that it goes sometimes.
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But I decided today I'm going to read y'all a proverb, the proverb for the day,
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which is today is the 24th, so the proverb is Proverb 24.
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And it's something I've been trying to keep up with doing a proverb a day,
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and so I figure I'll share it with you guys.
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So Proverbs 24, don't envy evil people or desire their company.
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For their hearts plot violence and their words always stir up trouble.
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A house is built by wisdom and becomes strong through good sense.
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Through knowledge, its rooms are filled with all sorts of precious riches and
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valuables. The wise are mahtier than the strong, and those with knowledge grow stronger and stronger.
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So don't go to war without wise guidance.
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Victory depends on having many advisors.
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Wisdom is too lofty for fools. Among leaders at the city gate,
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they have nothing to say.
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A person who plans evil will get a reputation as a troublemaker.
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The schemes of a fool are sinful. Everyone detests a mocker.
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If you fell under pressure, your strength is too small.
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Rescue those who are unjustly sentenced to die. Save them as they stagger to their death.
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Don't excuse yourself by saying, look, we didn't know.
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For God understands all hearts and he sees you. He who guards your soul knows you knew.
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He will repay all people as their actions deserve.
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My child, eat honey, for it is good. And the honeycomb is sweet to the taste.
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In the same way, wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it,
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you will have a bright future. and your hopes will not be cut short.
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Don't wait and ambush at the home of the godly and don't raid the house where the godly live.
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The godly may trip seven times, but they will get up again.
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But one disaster is enough to overthrow the wicked.
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Don't rejoice when your enemies fall. Don't be happy when they stumble.
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For the Lord will be displeased with you and will turn his anger away from them.
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Don't fret because of evildoers. Don't envy the wicked.
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For evil people have no future. The light of the wicked will be snuffed out.
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My child, fear the Lord and the king. Don't associate with rebels.
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For disaster will hit them suddenly. Who knows what punishment will come from the Lord and the king.
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Here are some further sayings of the wise. It is wrong to show favoritism when passing judgment.
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Judge who says to the wicked, you are innocent, will be cursed by many people
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and announced by the nations.
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But it will go well for those who convict the guilty.
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Rich blessings will be showered on them. An honest answer is like a kiss of friendship.
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Do your planning and prepare your fields before building your house.
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Don't testify against your neighbors without cause. Don't lie about them and
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don't say, now I can pay them back for what they've done to me. I'll get even with them.
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I walked by the field of a lazy person, the vineyard of one with no common sense.
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I saw that it was overgrown with nettles, it was covered with weeds,
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and its walls were broken down.
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Then as I looked and I thought about it, I learned this lesson.
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A little extra sleep, a little more slumber, a little folding of the hands to
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rest, then poverty will pounce on you like a bandit.
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Scarcity will attack you like an armed robber So let's write this down a little
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bit It was saying In 24...
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Proverbs 24, 16. The godly may trip seven times, but they will get up again.
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One disaster is enough to overthrow the brickhead. So if you're going through
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something, if you're battling something, and you've been trying to live right,
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but you trip. I mean, we trip, we stumble, we fall.
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It's telling you that if you're trying to live a godly life,
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that you will get up again.
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It's just the way it's going to be. He's going to make sure of it.
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He's going to take care of you.
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We stumble, we fall, we trip. It happens to all of us.
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As long as we're not falling away from God and we're turning back towards him
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and we're saying, hey, I tripped, man.
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I stumbled here, dad. Help me up.
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You know, if you know who to go to, it's going to be okay.
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He will, he's going to pick you up. He's going to dust you off,
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you know, just like you would do for your kid. Yeah.
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If my son stumbles or my son trips and falls, I'm not going to turn my back on him.
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I'm going to help him up when he asks for help. You know, I'm going to dust
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him off. I'm going to set him right.
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And the same goes for our Heavenly Father. He's going to set us right.
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He's going to make sure that we're taken care of. And I firmly believe that,
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you know, I have battles and I trip all the time.
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You know, I'm no perfect human being. And that's what this is about,
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is like none of us are beyond the redemption of Christ.
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None of us are beyond his grace as long as we know where to turn to.
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And that's not an excuse. It's
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not something that we can just use as an excuse to go out and live in sin.
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But we all stumble. We all trip up.
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And he's going to bring that to our attention, I believe.
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He's going to, because we're trying to live godly, and if you're in your word,
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He's going to show you things that are going to help you out,
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that are going to set you back on the right course, and it's going to make you
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have some kind of self-responsibility there.
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You're going to look at yourself, and you're going to examine yourself,
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and you're going to take deep reflection.
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And sometimes, man, looking into the mirror sucks.
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Sometimes looking into the mirror sucks, you know?
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I had an issue this morning where i just i could not wake
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up for whatever reason i was up all night with the
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kid taking care of the baby but you know
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normally you know i might
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get up a little bit rushed and have to rush out the door or
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whatever and then you know it was storming today
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and i just could not wake up and so that the part here at the end where it where
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it says a little extra sleep a little more slumber a little folding of our hands
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to rest and poverty will pounce on you like a bandit and that's how you know
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it's sticking out to me because it's like you know whatever reason,
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i wasn't able to wake up and it wasn't that i was you know choosing to just
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go back to sleep that i i've,
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battling and trying to like wake up and just I couldn't my body kept shutting down on me.
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And that could be we could chalk it up to exhaustion but at
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the same time you know there's personal responsibility that falls
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in there as well and I firmly believe
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that that's God kind of warning me against that
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like hey don't don't fall into that don't fall into that
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just falling back asleep and and hugging
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your pillow a little bit longer every time like that's
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gonna rob you we we have to get up and we have to do what we have to do we've
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got a we've got responsibilities to take care of um it is wrong to show favoritism
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when passing judgment i see this a lot and i've been i've been guilty of it just the same but,
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a judge who says to the wicked you are innocent will be cursed by many people
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and denounced by the nations, but it will go well for those who convict the guilty.
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Rich blessings will be showered on them. We're seeing a lot of this play out,
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I believe, in the news and stuff these days where you're seeing these people
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who've been convicted, you know, 72 times,
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and then they're, you know, lighting people on fire on subways or on trains
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in Chicago or whatever, and it's like.
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Those judges failed and um
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you had 72 other times that
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this guy was convicted of something and and he
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could have been prosecuted and taken off
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the streets instead he was there where he was able to do something
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like that and that's just one example but the proverbs tells us that god is
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gonna god's gonna handle that but it's not up to us to seek revenge does that
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make sense stuff like that that angers us or whatever a lot of times we look for a reason to.
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To seek revenge when somebody else is stumbling or when somebody else is failing.
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And, you know, maybe they've wronged us in the past, but that's not forgiveness and that's not grace.
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I'm not saying that we should just let this guy walk the streets,
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but what I'm saying is I see a lot of things where what really bothers me.
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Is people are talking about usual suspects and they're making it a race issue
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and they're making it this or that.
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And it's like, you're using this to justify your hate, and that's not okay.
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That's not right, and it's not okay.
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God sees that too. So be very careful when you're judging these situations or
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you're finding a reason for vengeance or whatever it may be.
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Because God sees your heart, and he's going to know the truth. Yeah.
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I just feel like, well, it's not even what I feel like. It's what it tells us.
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It says that showing favoritism is when passing judgment. That's wrong.
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A lot of times we turn the other, you know, we turn a blind eye to something.
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If our buddy is convicted of something or our buddy does something wrong,
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we'll turn a blind eye. And that's not right.
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We shouldn't do that. And God sees that. God's going to handle that.
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I just wanted to share this with you guys.
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It's a short little reflection here.
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It tells us here again, don't testify against your neighbors without cause. Don't lie about them.
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Don't say, now I can pay them back for what they've done to me.
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I'll get even with them. So we're not trying to get even.
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You don't want to sit here and find or bear false witness against your neighbor
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just because they wronged you.
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So you're like, well, they wronged me in this way, so I'm going to lie about this.
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I'm going to tell a small lie about this thing and help to convict them in something
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else. That's not right. It's not godly, and God sees that, and he's going to
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handle that accordingly too.
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So just be aware.
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Take that and heed it.
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He gives us these rules to live by, and we do stumble. We do fall.
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But make sure that what you're doing, you're trying to live as godly as possible.
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And, you know, everybody get in this word, open this Bible up and get in this word.
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And it is a living, breathing word of God.
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And he's going to tell you what and reveal to you what he wants you to see through that.
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God bless you all. I hope you have a good night and I hope you have a good day.
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If you're listening to this to the next day, I hope you have a good day.
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Y'all take care, guys. I love you, and God bless.