Everybody welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. Hello. It is Friday, June 6th, 1944. Nope, that was a long time ago, but significant. Because it is D-Day and today is our day that we set aside to remember the invasion of the beaches there in Normandy, France which really set up a big shift in World War ii. And man, there, there's a lot that has been published about this. A lot of YouTube history channels that are so good that, that do a lot of videos on this Band of Brothers. The series that was put out there was done about the airbornes. Troops that went in behind enemy lines, even before the ships landed and helped to clear out some of the German artillery and things. But yeah, significant day. And even this morning, yes, as I record, so Thursday morning, Mueller was talking about the strike that was carried out by Ukraine on these Russian bombers. And just how warfare has changed so much. And it's now you've got these unmanned aerial vehicles that are carrying out these strikes and launching these strikes. And it used to be war meant we're putting the resources of human beings on the line. And now that's still happening. This war in Russian Ukraine has cost the lives of over a million people now. But. It's also if this happened today, this would never happen this way. You would have these drones go in and clear people out and other things happen in that way. And on the one hand it does spare some lives, but on the other hand, it really distorts the perversions and the atrocities of war because you don't have to see it anymore. You've got a guy in a joystick that's sitting in a room that's flying this this mission instead of. Your 18-year-old sons that are out there, as these boats are hitting and the doors are opening up and bullets are flying all over the place. It's a different generation for sure. And I'm not speaking of that as one that's experienced this, that my generation has been a generation of peace. Your generation by and large PR has been a generation of peace as far as our country is concerned. There have been wars that have been fought, but nothing that, that hit this way, the way it did for the, I think this is the greatest generation, is what they refer to them as that fought during World War. Two. Yeah. With good cause they're called that we live in a different timeframe and in fact, I would imagine that warfare is gonna look dramatically different in the coming years. So much more so will be done virtually and digitally versus in person and physically as we were used to. So gone of the glory days of what warfare used to look like, at least for. The more developed nations. I know Ukraine and Russia are having their own problems, but to your point, that was done. They're offensive against some of their bombers was through drones, which is again, some kid on a joystick, which is amazing. You tell your kids all the time, like video games aren't gonna do anything for you. But unless they're in the military and they're operating a drone, perhaps it could, but even that will become obsolete fairly quickly with the advent of ai. Yeah. It'll become a much more programming oriented mission as opposed to someone. Manually controlling a thing via a joystick of sorts. So we are only on the precipice, the very cusp of a dramatic shift in how we understand war and warfare. Speaking of ai, did you see Gavin Orland's video that he released recently? It's queued up in my podcast. Yeah. I have not gotten to it yet. I have 30 podcasts queued up at any time, and so I'll see one and I saw his, I'm like, oh, I wanna listen to that. But right now I'm listening to. A podcast about facial recognition and why some people are terrible at it. By the way, I'm really bad at it, which is why I'm like, oh, I wanna know why I'm bad at this thing. Anyway, so I'm listening to that. But his is at one, two, there's three down, and I've got, I got that one ready. I scrubbed through some of it and listened to some of it on the way it's interesting and you've got obviously the. The keyboard warriors in the comment section that are like, I work in AI and there's no way this is gonna happen, and no way. Oh, totally. The people are commenting on his video and saying, I don't believe him. Yeah. Don't ignore, ignore this. This isn't actually gonna happen and stuff. I don't believe them. Anyone who knows anything about AI is sounding the alarm and that ought to give all of us who are not AI enthusiasts. Great. Cause for alarm as well. Totally. No one is. Is neutral about it, right? Everyone is saying we're in a very precarious spot because we don't know how it works and we don't know where it goes. This podcast as you'll find out, one of the things that they talk about as a harbinger of the Times is they believe that by 2027 we're gonna have AI robot plumbers. That are gonna be showing up to take care of the clog in your toilet at your house or clear the sink out or whatever. And it's talking about, from the economy, what's AI gonna do, it's gonna take away these jobs. And you've got plumbers that are like, they're never gonna take my job. They can't do it the same way, and everything else. And there's probably truth to that, but, some truth. It's fascinating. You know who loves AI at our church? Who is the biggest proponent? I think even more than you. No, even more than you. This, the name's gonna shock you. You ready? Let me guess. Annie Burner. No. Dan Mayer. Dan Mayer. Dan is ready to have ai, everything. He wants the. Robot Butler. He wants them made. Oh, up for that. Yeah. Yeah. He wants to the microchip in his brain. He's ready. He's anything, AI, bring it on. I want it all. Is that what he says? Huh? All right. Something like that. Or AI is the devil and I don't want any of it. It's one of those two, one of two things. Hard to know which one he is talking about on any given day. Yeah. It's gonna change everything, man. Again I listened to a lot of this stuff. I've been following a lot. I'm excited about it. Yeah. But I am hearing growing alarm in those who are. Promoting and encouraging. Its utility. So it's not from people who are saying, don't use it. Yeah. It's from people who are saying, let's use it. But boy, Pandora's box has been opened, and the way that you close it is impossible Now, and again, to reiterate, we don't know how it works. We don't understand what's behind it. We don't understand how it comes up with the answers. It does, which is shocking to me because. The programmers are saying we have an idea we're, it's a large language model. It puts together words that seem like it's the next logical best word for the occasion, and it does a great job of it, but how it does, what it does is still a black box, which is amazing to me. Why do we even bring it out in the first place? And from what I've heard is because we don't wanna be behind. And everybody's worried about that. Yeah, exactly. And yet one of the ar the points that somebody made was, we can stop ai. I. But the ones that have the ability to stop it, don't want to. And because the, it's like having nuclear weapons, right? Nobody's gonna say, let's all destroy all of our nuclear weapons and we'll just get rid of nuclear technology. Yeah. You're gonna think no way you someone's gonna use it. Yeah. You're not gonna destroy all your, our enemies are gonna use it if we don't use it. Exactly. And that's, they're saying that about AI too, which is fair and I think accurate. Yeah. But it is frightening to think about where it could go and and either limitations are gonna be put in place 'cause people are gonna come to their senses much like nuclear. Limitations have been put in place. Or people are gonna say, Nope, hands off. Let's just see what happens to this thing. Unlike nuclear. The common man has access to ai. True. I would doubt, and I'd be shocked if anything changed in terms of man's access. Seems like it's only gonna open up more and more, which is why in today's day and age we don't need more ai, we actually need more divine intelligence. Di ooh. So let's jump into the words. Is that gonna preach pj? Huh? Is that gonna preach? It might, man. It might. Let's jump into the word. Let's hear some di sounds good. Proverbs 10, 11, and 12 for our reading today. You're gonna notice a shift when you get into Proverbs 10 today, and that is that these are proverbs, the way that most of us think about the Book of Proverbs. The first nine chapters are largely thematic. You can look at each chapter and determine what that chapter is about. Starting in chapter 10, it's really difficult to draw any connections and have any consistent themes. For most of the rest of the book of Proverbs you're gonna find it. Individual statements. Sometimes two or three lines will be connected in the same theme, but by and large it's gonna be a statement here. And then changing subject to a statement here, and then another statement there. And that's what proverbial literature is, even in the world's point of view. It's not long drawn out prose that's geared at one particular theme. It is more poetic and it's wisdom literature. It's gonna be nuggets here, nuggets there. And that's what we find here starting in chapter 10. And so in in chapter 10, we, we really probably for the sake of the podcast I think we've done this in the past, pr just kind highlight various ones that jump out to us from each of these chapters rather than trying to summarize the chapter as a whole. 'cause again, like I just said it's hard to do that for most of these. It's, it is, yeah. I, there's several that stood out to me. I'll just, I'll stick with one and not even the one that stood out the most, just the one that I'm looking at right now. Hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all offenses. And the reason that one stood out is because it sounds a lot like something in the New Testament. I love the fact that it is. It's obvious for anybody who knows that things, anything about having a relationship that it's easy to get offended, to get upset, and to let hatred create more hatred. Somebody has to take the blunt end of that drama and say, I'm gonna cover that. And it honestly is gonna be the one who's more mature. Doesn't mean that person has to repeatedly expose himself, but love covers the offense, which means that there's most of the time an opportunity for you to say, this is gonna come to an end and I'm gonna take the hit. I don't have to have the last word. I don't have to be the kind of person to to bring up old news in order to throw it in your face and use it against you. I'm just gonna cover it and let it go. I think that's great and helpful and poignant. Poignant. Thank you, poignant for us today. It never that, that never grows old love covers all offenses. Yeah. In fact, it's similar to another proverb that's gonna be coming up either later today or tomorrow. I can't remember about the. Stopping the quarrel before it breaks out the, like the leak. Yeah. That's a good one. That's happening. And it's the same idea there. You have the ability to stop the argument. You have the idea, you have the ability to stop the fight. And We'll, I'll talk in marriage counseling a lot about being willing to take the l for the sake of the unity of the marriage. Yeah. And that's, you may be right in the end, but you can take the l in this one for the sake of the fact that you love your spouse and you don't wanna be intention with them. And if this is not a situation where you need to correct a sin we shouldn't take an L and let sin go. Go on, un confronted, but if there's an ability to go, okay, you know what? That. Okay. You can have the last word. I don't need to get my 2 cents in here. Yeah, let's just reconcile and let's move on with things. No, let hatred stir up. Trife. Yeah. That's a good thing. Yeah. How about verse 23? Doing wrong is like a joke to a fool, but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding. I. Think about social media on this, our entertainment industry, so much of that celebrates wrongdoing and turns it into a joke and thinks that is just about being entertained by foolishness, by sin, by debauchery. Instead, the contrast is wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding. Even First Corinthians one comes to mind when Paul talks about. The foolishness of the world, right? The folly of the world that they wanna celebrate, that the wisdom of God, the things that, that we take pleasure in as Christians. The world looks at that and says, why would you ever want to go after that? And you think about the world's reaction to the gospel. Not only do they think it's foolish, but they'll think, man it's boring. Why would you give up your Sundays and go to church? Why would you read the Bible? I've never been able to get into that. It doesn't entertain me. Verse 23 is saying, wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding. If you have understanding, which we understand as. Christians comes through the spirit in dwelling within us, then you're gonna delight in the wisdom of God more than you're gonna delight. Delight in the debauchery and foolishness of the world around you. Chapter chapter. Anything else in chapter 10? I know there's a lot, but any others that you wanted to highlight there in chapter 10? No. Let's do chapter 11. Okay. Chapter 11. Chapter 11. We we, again, same situation here. And so we have a lot of these proverbs that are laid out here. One common theme that we should probably deal with now that is gonna show up time and time again is pride and humility. So look at verse two. When pride comes, then comes disgrace. With the humble is wisdom. And so Solomon with his son, is gonna encourage humility. He's going to talk about pride preceding destruction. He's gonna talk about the prideful man whose way is right in his own eyes, but leads to destruction. Those are verses that will come across in the book of Proverbs. And here's one in verse two, where it's dealing with that that subject. Verse four, how about this one? Riches do not profit in the day of wrath. But righteousness delivers from death. Here you hear a little bit of Ecclesiastes in Solomon. Remember Solomon wrote Ecclesiastes as well as Proverbs. And so in Ecclesiastes, he gains all of the riches that he possibly could. He withheld nothing from his eyes that his heart desired, and in the end he said it's vanity. And so here we're seeing a little bit of that here he's saying it's part of the reason it's vanity is because in the end, riches can't overcome death. Riches can't get you beyond the grave. And here he's. Specifically going after the wrath of God. You can't pay off your debt with God, with the riches that you might have in your bank account. Instead, you need a righteousness which delivers from death. And as Christians, we read that and say, we need the righteousness of Christ that delivers us from death. I think verse 17, because it highlights a Godly self-interest, there is such a thing as a Godly self-interest, and I think verse 17 showcases it. Take a look, a man who is kind, benefits himself. But a cruel man hurts himself. So it's almost as if Solomon is saying, look, son, you could do things a good way that are gonna benefit you and everybody else around you. Or you can be stupid and hurt yourself. Which one do you want? Don't be stupid. And clearly you're right. He doesn't want us to be stupid. He's saying it's good to be kind to people. It's such a elementary, so basic. We teach it to our kids in a lot of different ways. And yet I think we can easily forget this. It's gonna sound a whole lot like. Proverbs, I think 15 one, A soft answer turns away wrath A, a harsh word. Stir up anger. Here he's saying, look, if you're kind, you're gonna do good for yourself. People like a kind person, they like doing good to a kind person. But if you're cruel, if you're known for being violent or aggressive, you're the kind of person who's always looking to stir up a fight. You're always just trying to do evil things to people. You're gonna hurt yourself. In the end, God will see to it. In fact, this is wisdom, but certainly it's also righteousness and that God will pay back the evil doer. And so Solomon is encouraging his son. Son, be wise and do good to yourself by being kind. Yep. Chapter 12, you mentioned the word stupid. Here's the word stupid in the Bible. I don't let my kids use that word. Do you let your kids use it? We don't. We don't. It's a bad word. Yeah. Even though it's not a bad word, scripture uses it. This is one of those words where I would say, look, there's a context to use it. There's a time. It's okay. There's a time when, and it's okay, and there's a time when it. Often is not, and usually it's not. Yeah. As other words might be, we classify it a little bit differently. We still don't encourage our kids to use it, but we'll typically say if you're describing an in inanimate object, if you're trying to get out the garage door and the door won't open and you're like, man this door is just being stupid, versus a person being stupid. This is talking about a person. This is talking about a person, the fool. Actually, whoever loves discipline loves knowledge 12 one. But he who hates reproof is stupid. And they're stupid because they're not seeing the benefit of the reproof. They're not seeing the benefit of the fact that the reproof is going to be there to make them wise. And that's a repeated theme in the book of Proverbs, talking about how reproof is good to the person that uses it. We were just talking about this in the context of. Of our relationship and just the church culture at large, you need the ability in, as leaders in the church to be able to sit down with someone and say, Hey I have a problem with what you just did. And I don't think what you just did or said or the way you communicated that was right, and you need to hear that and we need to hear that. And we all need this in our lives. You need to have somebody who can put the finger in your chest and say, I, I don't think what you did was right. And if you don't have that, or if you have that and you despise the person who does that, then. The Bible's saying you're stupid, right? Yeah. In fact here's one helpful note that the NET utilizes, NET is a NAT study Bible. Highly recommend that we like that. It says here the word baar. The one that's used for stupid is also defined as brutish. It normally describes dumb animals that lack intelligent sense or intellectual sense. Here it describes the moral fool who is not willing to learn from correction. He's like a dumb animal. So the term here functions as a hypo. Catis. Yeah, I know how to say that word. Yeah, that one implied comparison. So don't be a dumb animal. There you go. Be a wise God-fearing man. Speaking of dumb animal, verse 10. You like this concept, right? Because you're often talking about how we treat animals, but verse 10, whoever's righteous has regard for his beast. So I need to take care of my dog. Patrick deserves to get a walk every now and then. Patrick. Yeah, Maverick. Yeah. Him too. Yeah. Both of them. Yeah, both of them do. Yeah. Yeah. Just an interesting one 'cause we don't often think about the Bible, talking about our relationship with how we should. Treat animals, and yet here it is in Proverbs 1210. I think that ha, I keep on stumbling over. Not stumbling. I keep on spending time with passages like that because I just feel like they're so often overlooked. And yet to be an image bearer means to have care for the things that God cares about. And God clearly cares about the animal kingdom. I. It says he closed the grass with lilies and with beautiful flowers. He also cares for the birds. If a bird falls from a tree, he knows about it. He knows. And so if God cares about creation, I can't escape for the fact that God expects us to care about his creation as well, because it's from him. We are his stewards, we're his vice regents, and so he's given us dominion over those things to care for them. Yeah. He created them. Otherwise, if they, if he didn't care about, like why create them? If they were just superfluous and it didn't matter what we did with them. Totally. There's some that are like that, like mosquitoes. I don't think, I think you can slap those, are they? Yeah. That's a good point. Yeah. Some I do call pests and I will gladly utilize the spray. Yeah. As necessary. In fact, recently I found. A wasp nest above my garage. And like a man, I pulled out that raid spray. Just nailed it. Nailed that dude. Yeah. You didn't know it hit him. You should use the gas method. Have you seen that? The gas. Oh, the bowl. You put a bowl, gas, gasoline. I don't. And put it up and the nest just falls into the bowl. I saw something about that. Does that work? Have you tried that? Nope. Nope. The spray works much better. I think you should try it. Let me know. No. 'cause I can be 20 feet away with the spray. That's true. I don't have to get right up on it with the gas. Hey, verse 16. The vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent ignores an insult. And this is good and this is evergreen. I feel like that because we're so quick to be defensive if somebody comes at us or does something wrong to us and this isn't even talking about notice, this isn't talking about reproof. This is talking about ans insult. This is talking about somebody that's not trying to help you, but somebody that's your opponent and they lob an insult at you and hear. Solomon says, look, you can be a fool and vent your anger right away at that person. Or you can ignore it and shake it off and be like, I don't have to respond to that. I can tell you exactly when a lot of us will encounter this. You ready for this one when you're driving on the road? Yep. And you're not going fast enough for the guy behind you? And so he takes his truck and he zooms by you with the obvious intent of saying, you're going so slow. I can barely stand your existence. And so they drive by you with aggression and anger. Everything in me wants to say, I've got four cylinders here, buddy. I can't go that fast, but I try so much. I tough to talk myself down from that. You just calm down. You got a church sticker on your car. It's okay. Yeah. You can and if I am holding up traffic, I should move to the slow lane. Man, I takes, it takes so much for me to calm myself down, but man I resonate with that. I don't want my vation to be known at once. 'cause that's foolish behavior. Instead, I wanna overlook the insults of what that guy who drove around me is trying to say. Yeah. How about verse 25? Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down. But a good word makes him glad. I love this because it's a good reminder of the importance of community for us as the church that that anxiety is gonna be. Something that all of us encounter in battle, whether it's car troubles or concerns about health, whatever it may be. Work. Kid troubles. It's just you're going to feel anxious and yet you need people in your life. Health issues. Yeah. You need people in your life just like that person that's gonna put their thumb in their chest to reprove you. Computer virus, you. Ai, you need people in your life that are gonna encourage you. And that's what 25 is talking about. It a good word, is gonna help that person who's anxious and that good word so often needs to be words of truth that are pointing them back to the realities of the Bible in scripture. And so good wisdom there from Solomon and. In proverb chapter 12. Yeah. We should be the kind of people to deliberately say good words. Yes. We are just so quick to and easily able to complain and to tell you what's wrong with everything. Have you ever met someone like that who just says oh, this is awful. That's awful, and they're always raining on your parade. Christians ought not to be that way. We ought to be people of joy. Yeah. And that ought to be evident in the way that we talk. Yeah. Randy Alcorn makes that point in his book, happiness. He says Christ Rainy. Alcorn. Randy Alcorn. Randy. Not rainy. Not rainy. Okay, Randy? Yeah. He says Christians should be some of the happiest people in the world because of our future. Because we know what's secure. We know what's coming, and so part of our witness is people seeing the joy in our life. That's good. So I Amen to that. We should be, yeah. Hey, let's pray and then we'll be done with this episode. God, we thank you so much for a book like Proverbs that gives us these pithy statements for us to hang our hat on to, to digest, to chew on, to think about how we can take and apply to our lives. And so I pray that we would do that. And we're not gonna be able to do that with every single verse that we read during this time, especially as we read them more quickly. But Lord, help us to pick one or two and to think about how we can take that and apply that to our life. And so we do thank you for community. We do thank you that we live amongst brothers and sisters in Christ who can speak good words to us. And we wanna be those that do just that for others as well. So we pray all this in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Keep in your Bibles, tune in again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. We'll see you. Bye.

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