Episode 20: Proverbs chapter 2.

Sir Brian and Tommy continue our journey in Proverbs 2. Helping navigate thru this life on what it is to be a Good dad or mom in this challenging world. God 1st then family. 

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:00

All right, welcome back to Faith in the Street with Brian and Friends. I just happen to be one of Brian's friends. Sometimes they actually call me Brian. It just all depends on who we're talking to. We're back today for Proverbs 2, chapter 2. One we did last week. Fantastic. Hopefully we'll get that to you guys soon. Any thoughts on today, Brian? We've had a pretty interesting week. What do you think?

SPEAKER_00 0:30

Uh yeah, we have. There's been a lot going on. Stuff of the gathering and and and things like that. But I think I'm still focusing on how I felt when I walked in the door of the church this morning. And I was just so happy to be amongst the people. I really was. And I was I I actually told you. I actually told you, man. I was like, I'm so happy I'm here, man. I'm happy to be around these people. It's fantastic. I like, I like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 1:08

Yeah, I I feel that every time I get up to do communion Perside, I I've noticed that when I go up there, I sit there and just smile goofily and just look at everybody. And I'm just so excited to be here and to have these people in my life. And that's one of the things that I pray for now is I am thankful for the people that God has brought into my life. You know, there's been people that have come in and out, and I see the reason behind the ones that have come in and come out, and I see the reason why the ones are here now. And I definitely, this is definitely a community that I I truly love and I'm truly happy to be a part of. Like it it makes me wish I could have done this 20 years ago, which I wouldn't have been wise enough. And I was too busy being a human man, whatever that looks like. Probably not good for that matter. So Proverbs is a book about wisdom and uh wisdom based on trusting in God. Uh it was written by Solomon. Solomon is some other wise men. Um, it was wrote and compiled uh during his reign in 900 BC, looks like the advisors and scribes during the time of King Hezekiah added more sayings and probably arranged the books in certain certain areas. Uh the book fits where the book fits in is the book is uh written by Solomon during the period of Israel's United Kingdom. Uh again, the key concepts are wisdom, discipline, fear of the Lord, and fools. These first couple ones are very keen on wisdom. I really have enjoyed those. Um and Proverbs is a handbook for men and for training boys to be men. It warns us about our sexual sin, drunkenness, greed, grabbing of power, and it shows the benefits of wisdom and points us to the source of that wisdom, which is God, of course. Um, and we've said it so many times He is the way, the truth, and the life. Oh, agree. Everything we need is here. Um, but I will say that there is a very important chapter later on that people probably have a wrong idea about right now, they probably don't see it or understand it yet. Like I've heard in hot topics of uh Prob 31 Woman, oh right, which I think is very, very important, and we need to get back to that. But before, and it talks about it in the scripture, before this Proverbs 31 comes into your life, you need to be deserving of a Proverbs 31 woman. Oh, fair enough, man. I mean, you're not just gonna be a loser, basically, or uh a womanizer or a cheat or a scandal and get a Proverbs 31 woman. You need to be deserving of one. And this Proverbs kind of shows us and teaches us how to do that. Truth. Which is why I think it's very prevalent that we talk about it.

SPEAKER_00 4:08

Yeah, I think uh I think uh I recall we you and I had a discussion about Proverbs once before. It was the fool's one, right? And then uh you you said that there was a bit that didn't make sense. So I think I'll I'll read uh four lines at a time and we'll kind of discuss after the four the fourth line.

SPEAKER_02 4:26

Okay. And I want to uh to say that when we turned to Proverbs 2 last week, I noticed that I had the entire chapter outlined. So I really wanted to, you know, kind of get into this one really deep, so let's do that. All right, I will begin.

SPEAKER_00 4:49

My son, you will receive my words and treasure my commandments within you. To make your ear pay attention to wisdom, incline your heart to discernment, for if you call out for understanding, give your voice discernment, if you seek her as silver and search for her as for hidden treasures. All right, maybe one more. Yeah, then you will understand the fear of Yahweh and find the knowledge of God.

SPEAKER_02 5:39

Yeah, when you said four, I was like, that's not gonna work. Yeah, there's a lot of little uh semicolons and everything going on for these first five uh verses here. Um and there's just so much here. So one of the things that I want to kind of point out is in four, it says, if you seek her as silver, her in this particular vernacular is wisdom. Okay, let's make sure that we put that where it needs to be. Because to make your ear pay attention to wisdom wisdom, incline your heart to discernment. Now we're gonna go over discernment in a minute. For if you call out for understanding, give your voice for discernment. If you seek her, which again, let's go back, if you seek to wisdom and you search for her hidden treasures, then you will understand the fear of Yahweh and find the knowledge of God, which we said that is the truth, the life, and the way. Um, fear of Yahweh, I think what we're talking about here is once you get to that truth, it's probably gonna scare you because it's gonna take you outside of your comfort zone. It's gonna make you say, you're gonna be, what I have seen is you're gonna get called into things that you don't really want to do. And we talk, I think we talked about that this morning. You know, and I'm not saying go out in the middle of a uh a bad area and walk down the alley at midnight, but at the same time, when you know God's truth, when you know, when you have his knowledge, it can be kind of scary where God's gonna call you to be. And that's what I think he's talking about here when it's talking about fear of Yahweh and find the knowledge of God. I mean, what happened in the garden? You are going to know the difference between good and evil, and you'll become like God. So that right there is even more saying, like, hey, when you know right from wrong and you still do wrong, you should be afraid of that. But sometimes doing the right thing, and we have seen it so many times, like so many conversations that we don't want to do, we don't want to have them. Like, um as a dad, you have a lot of those conversations with your kids, but those you're not afraid of, those you know you need to have and you need to teach them the right way. But in our situation, in our community, talking to an adult, trying to get them to understand that this is wrong, this is right, and this is how you need to be while you're here, sometimes can be scary for us, I think. Don't you? I mean, we don't know how they're gonna take us trying to get them to understand, trying to get them to stop doing things that they shouldn't be doing. Right. For the lack of better words here. Now, when it says incline your heart to discernment, like I've got a pretty good idea what it means, right? Um, but what I've learned in studying is sometimes we need to go outside of what our normal first response is to a word. The English language words have so many different meanings and different text and genders and all those things. As I said, her is wisdom in this situation. Um, and discernment could be the ability to judge well, so incline your heart to judge well. So I want to make sure that we talk about that and say you have to know the right from the wrong. You have to know that this particular situation is wrong, this particular situation is right. And it's God's truth. It's not your truth, it's God's truth. And that can be hard. That can be hard for for anybody to listen to to hear. But I do love that it says if you seek her as silver and search for her as hidden treasures. That's how I feel like my my journey has been searching for that truth, searching for that purpose. We have talked about that. We have found our purpose in this world, and how much happier we are in finding those purposes. And there's so many of us that are just wandering around like in the desert for 40 years, which should be like, hey, it might take you 40 years. It took us 40 plus years to find this. Mine was a little longer, maybe. Unfortunately, I am a little older than Sir Brian. Um, but yeah, I mean, it it is a treasure, and and and you should hold it in that respect. The things of the world that we think are important or think that they're worth worth this or that or whatever, um they're really not. It's all gonna turn to ash and dust and rust away anyway, and we see that in scripture. But wisdom, that doesn't go away. You know, you use wisdom you have forever, and wisdom will help you survive your time here. We talked about uh life as a vapor in James. So while you're here, you need to have that wisdom so that you can survive while you're here and be the man that you need to be for God, for your family, and for those around you, your neighbors, you know. Um, we talked about it earlier, I think, today. Um people see you as an upsright, upstand, up upstanding, that right, uh member of society. You know, live on your integrity. Don't be a cheat, don't be a liar, don't be a a womanizer, those kind of things. You know, if you if you stand on God's truth, then when something does happen, when something does go astray, people be like, that don't sound right. That doesn't sound like something he would do. And I think that's what we're getting in this this particular chapter, and you'll see it in the next couple verses.

SPEAKER_00 12:01

So all right. Let's see. All right, so I'll continue with uh chapter two, verse six for Yahweh gives wisdom, from his mouth come knowledge and discernment. He stores up sound wisdom for the upright, a shield to those who walk in integrity, to guard the path of justice, and he keeps the way of his holy ones. Ah, so it's just like you were saying.

SPEAKER_02 12:42

Yeah, I mean it's he really puts the groundwork here. Um storing up that wisdom, uh, being having good integrity, you know, it shields you. Like how many times do we get into situations, well, okay, so let's just look at it how we have our justice system. Innocent until proven guilty. So if your integrity is good, if you're walking upright with God and you have that knowledge, so your integrity is strong. And somebody would have to prove you guilty. Where in our judge system it's innocent until proven guilty. Well, if you're staying upright and in your integrity, there will be no proof to say that you're guilty. So maybe that's far-fetched, but again, it's just so much that that shield of integrity. Like, I've been in situations myself where it's like, oh, he said this or he said that or whatever, and then people are like, nah, that wasn't him. And my integrity justified me. It cleared it it uh amended me. What's the word I'm looking for? I can't remember, I can't think of what the word I'm like, you know. But so in mind it says here, God gives us wisdom and victory, but not for drifting through life or acting irresponsibly with his gift and resources. If we are faithful to him and keep his purpose, for us clearly in mind, his wisdom will become a shield against foolish temptations and allow us to focus on a life of integrity. Again, you know, integrity, uh the shield. Go into Ephesians 6 10, put on the full armor of God. I mean, that's what the word does for us, it gives us that.

SPEAKER_00 14:34

Where do we leave off? Is it nine or six? Uh yeah, I'll be on nine now. Okay, yeah. Then you will understand righteousness and justice and equity in every good track. Wisdom will enter your heart, and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul. Discretion will keep you, discernment will guard you, to deliver you from the way of evil, from the man who speaks perverse things, from those who forsake the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness, who are glad to do evil, and they rejoice in the perversity of evil, whose paths are crooked, and who are devious in their tracks to deliver you from the strange woman, from the foreign woman, who flatters with her words, who forsakes the close companion of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God.

SPEAKER_02 16:11

So again, we're going back into the woman reference here. Um, I think this is actually two different meanings. And I thought about this earlier today when I was kind of going over it in my head. Um how many times have we been uh just along for the ride or part of the pack? Well, they do it, so I'm doing it. Would you follow your friends off a cliff? Yeah, I would. That kind of thing. Um this is talking about following along with the pack. This is talking about um the company you keep. I mean, if you hang out with scoundrels, more than likely you're gonna be a scoundrel. And it's telling us to, you know, judge well with discernment and maybe not do that. Don't go down that road. Stay away from those things that tempt you. I'm a firm believer if you want to try to quit something, you can't stay the course. Yeah. My my best example is if you're a a smoker and you hang out with nothing but smokers. It's gonna be really hard to quit smoking. I'm not telling you to leave your friends, I'm just saying, see that you have to change the pattern. You have to get off that path and get onto the right path.

SPEAKER_00 17:35

Right.

SPEAKER_02 17:35

You can't hang out with smokers if you don't want to be a smoker, too. It just popped into my head, so I'm gonna say it. Um, there was an episode of Friends where uh Rachel was missing out on some of the dirt and gossip at work because she wasn't a smoker. They'd all go out and smoke and they would gossip. Kind of like water cooler gossip. So she started going out there with them and was pretending to be a smoker too. Just so she could be one of the cool kids, which I think that I don't know why that popped in my head, probably because it's what I was talking about. But yeah, just because they're the cool kids, maybe you shouldn't hang out with the cool kids. Maybe you should be different from the cool kids. Jesus was not a cool kid. Also, with talking about delivering you from a strange woman, from the foreign woman who flatters with her words. Um being that this was written by Solomon, and I want your opinion on this, being that this was written by Solomon, and what we know of Solomon, he would understand, I feel, how that influence we get, how men have a weakness, and a woman, it's definitely my weakness, um, but they can be a weakness to us, for us. Uh, let's go to Ahab and Jezebel uh with Solomon, 700 wives and 300 concubines, um, his dad, David, how that all came about. There is definitely a history and a line and things that track for saying woman and meaning a female, meaning a female woman. I'm not hating on women at all. It's not what I'm saying here. But also at the same time, to deliver us from the strange woman, like the strange um, how better I put this, strange uh uh experiences, strange thoughts, the foreign thoughts, um uh the bad thoughts, the evil thoughts, um, again, who are glad to do evil and they re and they rejoice in the perversity of evil. So it's not, I think it's twofold. I think it's going back to her as wisdom, and I think it's saying woman as almost like wisdom as well. Like be wise and not do things that are unwise. When it says strange and foreign, that would be outside of your normal integrity. Okay. So if you are known as an upright, walking in uprightness, don't be tempted by strange and foreign things that wouldn't go along in those things. So, and maybe I'm wrong about the whole connection because of Solomon and all those things, but it just I it when I read it, I was like, hmm, what else is there? There's something here that just doesn't, there's gotta be something more here. Um so in the NIV it says adulterous woman and wayward woman with her seductive words, and again, all that glitters isn't always gold, you know, and s and Solomon would definitely understand and know what that influence would be because he had so many in his life. And then again, he was technically he was born from that because he was Bathsheba's son and David's son, and Bathsheba and David started not so right, not so pretty. He was a little ugly there. So I think it's prevalent that he's using those words and he's using those examples in there seventeen, I believe.

SPEAKER_00 21:57

Who forsakes the close companion of Her youth and forgets the covenant of her God. For her house sinks down to death, and her tracks descend to the dead. All who go to her will not return, and they will not reach the paths of life. So that you will walk in the way of good men and keep the paths of the righteous.

SPEAKER_02 22:33

And again, you know, I know it's saying her, but I want to refer back to what causes us to sink into temptation, what causes us to stray off the path. It could be any form of.

SPEAKER_00 22:49

Oh, agreed. Brother, just think about uh okay, so a lot of people have problems, and I'm and I'm sorry if I offend anybody's ears with this, but uh poor Naya. So I uh I I've heard uh secular arguments stating that I mean everybody does it. It's a natural thing, it's a natural thing to to to feel good for yourself, and and and that's that's all fine. But but I don't again those those could be foreign thoughts, they're outside thoughts, they're from a secular world and not from uh not from not from a righteous godly one and so on.

SPEAKER_02 23:33

No, and I wish I would have thought of that too. You're right, with the whole secular, it is a very secular thing to go into the all this feels good. Right. This makes me happy. Yes. And we're not necessarily meant to be happy all the time, and we've talked about it a lot in our in our own studies here.

SPEAKER_00 23:54

I would I would I would almost disagree, brother, because we are supposed to praise and and be joyful in the rough times as well. That's the key there.

SPEAKER_02 24:03

You said praise and be joyful in the rough times as well. Yes. Because it's what helps build our integrity, right? And it helps us to understand what real joy is, what real happiness is. And we when you get into that, when you get into the right path, when you get into that purpose, when you get into God's truth, God's word, that's when the happiness comes. And to be able to praise in the rough times, yeah, that's something special right there. Like I went through something not too long ago that completely turned what I thought God's plan was for me upside down. Like I had it all planned out, I had it all idea in my head, which God laughs as soon as you plan something. I've seen that over and over again. And things were even falling in line with my work that coincided with what my plans were. And the very next day, the very next day, something happened and it completely shot all those plans out the window. Completely just erased all those plans. Like something happened on a Wednesday that, oh, here's the step. This is the step I was looking for. I'm getting ready to start my journey further in with God. And the very next day on Thursday, all that went out the window. Etch a sketch. But in that, I found my purpose. It led me to being here right now today, to meeting you, to having these groups. Like it's again, I don't believe in coincidence. I gave up a coincidence a long time ago. You know, my plan was I was going to get my CDLs, and I was gonna travel the country and do ministry work and help the less fortunate. Wow. And I got an opportunity at work where they would provide me my CDLs so I could already have that out of the way and paid for by somebody else, not myself. And God said, Oh what? You can do it right here in your backyard.

SPEAKER_00 26:20

Fantastic.

SPEAKER_02 26:21

Not three or four weeks later, we buy this building, which is roughly two blocks from where I do it at the gathering.

SPEAKER_00 26:29

As the church, the church basically.

SPEAKER_02 26:31

Yeah, yeah. Our church here is literally two blocks from the gathering.

SPEAKER_00 26:34

Of course.

SPEAKER_02 26:35

And I found the gathering within a month of before we we bought this building. We were searching and searching, we were down to our last hope. Like, this is it, we gotta find something, or we're gonna be doing it in people's houses. And this particular establishment called us and said, Are you looking for a building? And the fact that it's two blocks from the gathering. Come on, man. God said, You don't need to get your CDLs, you don't need to travel the country. You can do it right here in the backyard. Here you go. And it's just been fantastic and awesome ever since. I mean, it's just again, my life I thought was gonna be suffering. Right. I thought it was gonna be bad. Yeah, but then it was like, wait a minute, this is exactly why that happened. So I was able to praise. It might have been down for a second, but then it just God said, here you go. I don't know, it's just it's just so amazing. And again, I gave up on coincidences a long time ago. And even before all that, my life, like the things that led me to where I am, like I did go through a bad part probably before all that happened too. Like, my life wasn't great. I was having some serious issues, but I understand why now. Those experiences prepared me to be able to get here. I um I've been around a lot of children most of my life. Um, my sister, uh, my friends and nephews, my cousins, all those things. Um, I was a family of four children for a while. Like I took care of four children. Um and I end up losing that, but in what I found, it gained it all back again. I said it this morning. I tell everybody I love them, and it's not weird for me anymore. It's because I went through those things and found a path and found things like this that showed me that that's what I was missing. Like, I thought I had it all, but when I lost it all is when I realized is when I really had it all. Like, just again, meeting you, finding our purpose at the gathering, being able to tell people I love them, and it not be weird. Like I actually said not too long ago, we need to say it enough to that it makes it weird. But anymore, it's not even that weird. Like I say it and mean it. Let me put it that there. I mean it. I don't just willy-nilly say it. When I say it, I mean it. And I just it's one thing that we talked about earlier about loving being here. Looking over the the congregation today, and it's like smiling at each and every person and the relationships that we have gotten with everyone in there. You know, it's just it's just so amazing. And even in our gathering community, I love the fact that um I was always terrible with names. Now I know them all by name, you know, um, and to see where they've come, and again, just just there's so many positions there that we are filling in, and it's because of this thing here, it's because of the word here, it's because of we knew this on our heart, God put this on our heart, but we just didn't know how to put it into practice yet, you know? We didn't know how to say, oh, and and again, the reason I had all this highlighted was because in our society, in our world today, and probably throughout all the centuries, what does it take to be a man? What is a man? And we have this terrible false identity on what that is, in my opinion. We are supposed to be strong, no doubt. We're supposed to be emotionless, we're supposed to uh suck it all up, we're supposed to bury it down deep. No, not at all. We need, God gave us emotions. We need to be able to feel those emotions and know how to deal with those emotions correctly.

SPEAKER_00 31:10

We have, but like you said, there's uh there's complexities to it. There are, there have been. There is so we we are we are to be well I would not say we are to be. Uh a lot of men are called to be by their by their uh their dads to be uh tough, resilient, uh things of that nature. You're not allowed to show your emotions because they can be used against you. Somebody can see you as weak now uh and use those exploits against you. So uh but yeah, and and and I've seen a lot of those things, and it's it is complex, and uh it can be as as culture has deemed some of these behaviors toxic. Uh I I I'm just inclined to say uh toxic masculinity as a phrase because toxic behavior is on both sides. Agreed. So um but uh I don't know. I think um I think it tells us how to be proper men in the Bible. I've uh I I've I've seen I've seen because I visualize as I read, uh I I've seen David cry and David be a man and uh I've seen Jesus cry. Oh wow, brother, that was I'm like that man is so tough and he's done so much and he cares so much. I don't know, man. I think I think those are very good uh representations of of men and definitely a hard act to follow, but uh rather if I can even walk like that I think I think that's grand.

SPEAKER_02 33:31

Yeah, and and and and and the society has got us again, like you said, toxic masculinity. You know, and we need to break that. We need to allow men to have their emotions and feel things and not be so tough all the time. Boys don't cry. Yeah, they do.

SPEAKER_00 33:54

Though the Bible does warn us about being too soft, it does, it does. But uh I think so where where somebody who is a bit more sensitive uh might be inclined to not step out, uh maybe there's a place for them to step out. So uh again, not always to feel like the victim, uh, but also to maybe have a place to stand their ground, especially knowing that the Lord is with you. Absolutely. Uh uh then nothing can stand against you. Absolutely. So even that weak person or who could be perceived weak uh could step out against lions.

SPEAKER_02 34:51

So and and we talked about it recently, and I didn't realize this myself, is we talk about meek and meekness, yes, and we think of it as weak and weakness, but that's not what it means at all. It's controlled strength. It's controlled strength, not being weak, not being soft. It's about knowing when to flip a table and when not to flip a table.

SPEAKER_01 35:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 35:18

You know, that's that's the key to it too. And it's just sad that we see this now. Like the idea of what a man is is this machismo, I guess. That's what I call it. I don't know if that's a word or not. It's just kind of me thinking about it. Um, like putting making us more of a man because we've been around the block more times. I'm being nice here.

SPEAKER_00 35:47

No, no, that I know, I know. And that's I guess that's again the secular world.

SPEAKER_02 35:51

Exactly, the secular world. I've had so many conversations where they've said that I'm more of a man than you because of this. Because you have more notches on your bedpost. That's not being a man at all. That has nothing to do with being a man. It it's more about following the path, being upright, agreed, leading the household, being someone of integrity. Integrity. That's such a hot word for me. Integrity, integrity, integrity. Besides context, context, and context. It is, and I think we've talked about it, you've said it. It's it's not an easy task to step into these roles.

SPEAKER_00 36:34

It's not.

SPEAKER_02 36:35

To step up to these roles. Um, we call them stepparents, stepdad, stepmom, whatever. You have to step up to do those things. Those things are not a demotion at all. It doesn't make you less than. To do it properly, you are stepping up. And we need to make sure that we understand that, and we do that. Brother, would you would you care to share a little bit about that? Just like a little bit about that experience. Because I have been, um, I am a stepfather. Um, well, used to be a stepfather, but in my eyes, I'll always be a stepfather. Even though I'm no longer in that relationship, I still love those children. I'm still there for those children. And again, that's what's talking about stepping up. Um it's important to be that person, to put your pride aside and be able to show the love and share the love and the experience. Um, one of the best stories I have is in a blended family, it doesn't always look good. It doesn't always pretty. But that's the one thing that we did a very good job of was um like the boys would go stay with my my first wife. You know, like they were welcome to come into her home and sit and hang out and just be there. You know, I would pick them up from the school bus at her house. Like, that's awesome. That's the way it should be. My ex-mother-in-law had a key to my house. You know, I am welcome to go to my my uh the mother of my children's house anytime. And it's that's the way it's supposed to be. We're not supposed to be at odds with each other, we're not supposed to be fighting over those things. We're supposed to step into that role, step up to that role, and be that role. It's not that you can just be a lazy dad because you're not the real dad. And I know it hurts if you get told that you're not my real dad. I was fortunate I never heard that. But I understand it and I get it. And you can't let that deter you. You gotta remember, they're children, and they're learning just as much as you are. Um, being a father to four different children is like being a father for the first time with each one of them. Yeah, I had to learn each one of them individually. Uh my sister, same way. You know, uh my dad was fantastic, he was a great man, and I told my son, and this was when my dad was still alive, I told my son that you know who my role model is, who I look up to? And I said, Your papa, my dad. Because he was that man that we're reading about here. He wasn't a stepdad, he was my real dad, but he still was that man. I've got a friend, best friend, we've known each other forever. My dad comes home, dinner's on the table, and there's like one piece of chicken left. And my dad says, Go ahead and you can eat it. And of course, being, you know, a kid and whatever, he grabbed that last piece of chicken and ate it while my dad didn't get any chicken. Uh no. I agree, but at the same time, my dad would do that. Yeah, and that's how our father in heaven is. It's fantastic, man. What grace. Yeah, it's like so many times my dad came home to empty pots and pans because me and my buddies ate everything. Oh no. And he's eating cold cereal and he doesn't complain, he doesn't yell at us, we don't get in trouble. He was just tickled pink that there was a roof over our heads and foods in our belly. And when I had all the kids under my roof, I couldn't have been. I I was on top of the world, king of the world. Yeah. So yeah, I mean, again, I go back to no coincidences. Father in heaven, he gives us grace and love. He picks us up when we fall down, he gives us the opportunity to fail. He doesn't necessarily scorn us. He may say, hey, let's try this another way. It's a GPS effect. But yeah, it gives us an idea of what that unconditional love is like. And it's just it's just amazing. It's such a wonderful life to have. Thank you for sharing that, brother.

SPEAKER_00 41:22

I appreciate it. Sorry.

SPEAKER_02 41:23

Yeah, I just I love it. It's just it's one of the best things that that's happened to me is having my dad in my life the way he was, him setting the example, me trying to live up to his example, which in turn was also living up to our father in heaven's example. And my dad was a uh a Christian too, so just an amazing. It's just so awesome and important how that is and how it all fits together.

SPEAKER_00 41:57

All right, I will continue. Uh, I think I was on 20.

SPEAKER_02 42:00

Oh goodness, I forgot we still had time left. Some verses left.

SPEAKER_00 42:06

So that you will walk in the way of good men, and keep to the paths of the righteous. For the upright will do well in the land, and the blameless will remain in it, but the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the treacherous will be torn away from it.

SPEAKER_02 42:34

I want to talk about this because it came to me when I read it earlier. Okay. For the upright will dwell in the land, and what we know and what we have studied of Revelation is God will remake heaven and earth. And we have eternal life. And we will walk again one day in the garden, which will be earth and heaven, as one with God. So for the upright will dwell in the land and blame, and will, and the blameless will remain in it, but the wicked, the wicked will be cut off from the land, which would not be heaven and earth, and the treacherous will be torn away from it, torn away from God. Yes. Like, basically, right there he's saying heaven and hell. Yeah. And this is in Proverbs. Yeah. We haven't even gotten to the New Testament, you know. We don't even know what's going to happen with Jesus yet. But right here it says that's where we'll be. Yeah. I can't wait to be with my earthly dad again and pick beans with him in the garden. So many memories of dad sitting there with his little AMFM walkman. Yeah. He'd be sitting on a five gallon bucket upside down. Picking green beans with his little AMFM Walkman. And this was like in the late 2000s, like 2015. Oh my goodness, Dad. But yeah, it's just just memories that we all should have. Absolutely, man. And hopefully we'll get to see those again. I hope so. Mm-hmm. So I think we're gonna go ahead and end that one. Proverbs 2. Um, Proverbs 3. It's gonna talk about trust, fear, and honor Yahweh. Uh more ways to figure out how to be a man in this world. Good. And I I again I think it's so prevalent right now. We need to figure these things out. True. Uh, and and spread that word to others. Well, a lot of foreign ideas, outside thoughts. So uh I'm gonna use that for like the rest of the week, I think. Foreign. Yeah, I really like the way that kind of played out there. Yeah. Definitely. Because it is foreign.

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Yeah, no.

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I mean, secular is foreign, so it is, but I I like foreign better. I do, because it is outside of what was intended. Shalom, shalom. You know? So yeah. Let's end it on that until next week. This has been uh Sir Brian and Friends. Sir Sir Brian. Uh and Tommy with Proverbs 2. I'll pray us out. All right, brother, please. Father in heaven, we love you so very much, and we are just so excited to be able to come together and to read your word and to uh bring the word to others around us, Father, and to be a part of such a uh beautiful and wonderful community here. Um it's just so awesome to be able to see your your uh your actions, your plan, your the way you are working around us here, Father. And we just are just so grateful and it's just so amazing. And I just I hope that more people get to see that. I hope people would open their eyes and allow you into their lives and let you take the wheel. You know, that old Jesus take the wheel. Let him take the wheel. Let him show you what the scenery is. You be the tourist and let him guide you. And Father, we just thank you for the fact that you came down here and you set the example. You showed us, you gave us the word, you carried the cross, and you loved us unconditionally, and you died on that cross for our sins. And we ask all these things in Jesus Christ's name. Amen. Amen.