Hey everybody. Welcome back to another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. What's up folks? It is Tuesday. Yes it is. And Friday of this week we're gonna be at the Rangers game and so we're looking forward to that. Hopefully you're planning on being there with us. Look for an email this week with instructions as to which parking lot we're gonna be meeting into tailgate. I heard that Julia's gonna be there. And I heard that, is that right? That Warren is gonna be there? Warren gonna, and I heard that Mark is gonna be there. The whole family is gonna be there. Warren's actually throwing out the first pitch. I couldn't, I wouldn't be surprised. Yeah, he's probably he's coordinated enough to do that. They're looking for a large size adult uniform to fit him. But yeah, he'll be there throwing out the first pitch. No, they're not gonna be there. They continue to pray for them as they're adjusting to life with a newborn at home, as those of you that have done that know what that's like. I was talking to Mark about that recently. He was just talking about how there's a skill that's acquired as a, multi parent a parent multiple times over. I don't know what I'm trying to say there. You've had more than one child. You know what to expect and what's coming. It doesn't change the fact that little voice that goes off every couple hours in the middle of the night is is a lot to, to adjust to. So I pray for them and pray for energy, pray for patients with their other kids. They're gonna need that. And patience with one another is there's a different kind of tire that hits when you're a parent of a newborn, but. Mark and Julian, we love you guys. We're thankful for you guys. Continue to pray for Warren and looking forward to getting you guys back at church. So That's right. Come back soon. Come back soon. We miss you already. Yes, hags. Have a great summer. Don't ever change. Yeah. Stay in school. Did you sign that stuff when you were doing year books? I'm sure I did, man. I don't. I don't hags. Call me. Here's my phone number. Did you ever do that? I don't think I did that. You didn't do that? No, I was not that guy. I tried to be thoughtful about what I wrote. I, that does not shock me. One day I tried to be, I don't know if I accomplished that. I tried to be I haven't found a yearbook where I've actually written something, although get this, I, so I recently bought my yearbooks from high school 'cause I didn't buy them at the time. Okay. But I think maybe two years ago. I started looking for them and I found out you can buy them on eBay. Oh wow. People have sold their yearbooks and so I'm like, oh cool. Let me just look for it and see if I can buy. So I found, I think my senior and junior year and I bought the yearbook that was belonged to one of my friends from high school. I'm like, oh, this is weird that I got your yearbook, but I wanted it. I never got, I was, I couldn't afford it when they were offering them in high school. Yeah. So now I have one in my library. Fun. Did, had you signed it? It's funny. I was looking for it and I don't think so. And if I did, it's. I, I can't even read my own handwriting, I don't think so, but I only glanced at it. I don't know if I'm brave enough to read what I wrote. That's funny, man. That's funny. Isn't that crazy? That's a small world moment. It's look, there's a yearbook from, and get this. The one who was selling it was not that person. It wasn't them sell. So I don't know how we even left their library. Yeah. But it's, it was somehow circulated. It was being sold by a distributor who sells old li old yearbooks. That's crazy. Isn't that weird? That's crazy. Yearbooks are no joke anymore. Like Josh is over at Prosper High School and everything. And their yearbooks over there, they're like triple digits. Yeah, mine was too. Yeah, it's crazy. I that, that, that's why I couldn't afford it in high school when I was going. Yeah. There's no way. And they, in 3000 students, it's like a, it's a textbook size. It's massive. So do you have yours? I do. Yeah, you do. I do. That. Surprise me. My dad kept them. Aw. And so he recently gave us, you bring 'em out, man. I think people would love to see your old yearbook photos. I don't think so. I think you should. I don't think so. The frosted tips in the PCA shells or Definitely need to see that. The emo angsty senior picture. Definitely photo shoot de wanna see that. We had, I think for our second anniversary, yeah. People should see in large poster size photos what you used to look like. I don't think that's true. And then we could get glory to God. Thank you Lord, that guy. Is our pastor. I don't think anybody needs that. I, you know what you guys weigh in, if you wanna see Pastor Peter, this is not how this works. Yearbook photos, send us an email podcast@compassntx.org. See, we're not congregational at the end of the day. We're gonna start though. If you wanna be congregational, send us an email at, oh man. Anyways, that's a fun trip down memory lane that nobody wanted to take. So let's jump into our Bible reading today. Proverbs 22, 23 and 20. Four. We'll let the emails be the disciple. Yeah. Okay, Uhhuh, Proverbs 22, verse two, the rich and the poor meet together. The Lord is the maker of them all. Again, thinking back to Amos and just that idea of God as the one who creates all of us and part of our love for those less fortunate than us is seeing the image of God in them and honoring that. How about verse six, pastor, I train up a child in the way he should go, even when he's old, he will not depart from it. I've heard people say that this applies to if you let your kid. Do whatever they want. Then don't expect them to do anything different. When they get older, they're not gonna grow out of self-centeredness. If you don't discipline them out of that, then they're gonna be who they are from the time that they're in your home. I've also heard people say that this is about the positive side of discipline, that you should discipline them by putting the word in front of them and not spare the rod and so forth and so on. And when they grow up, they're gonna be well-behaved people. What's your take on verse six? I think you're right on both of those things. I both, I think they are both entailed by the idea that if you train a child in a certain way, you shouldn't be. It was, it shouldn't be surprised when they live life in a certain way. Yeah. If they're raised without discipline, it should not be surprising if they continue to live without discipline when they're in their teen years. And so I think both are fitting. Proverbs are interesting because they're not promises, they're not meant to be taken as ironclad guarantees on God's part. They are a commentary about the way that the world generally works. Wisdom is not necessarily saying thus sayeth the Lord. It is. An observation about the way that things typically work out under normal circumstances, under the normal course of things. So is it possible that you have a kid who never got disciplined and never got a lot of correction or direction, but still ends up super sweet and kind totally possible? And I've seen, I think, examples of that. And rare circumstances, but ordinarily speaking, what you give is what you're gonna get. Yep. How you raise a kid is what kind of kid you're gonna end up having. Granted, there are variations because of personalities. And we don't only believe that there's a determined way that a person lives like they, they are in a narrow lane that if. This is their DNA. This is gonna be what their destiny is. But there is both a nature and a nurture component. And even though you can't control the nature that's of the Lord, the nurturing component is massive and we don't know how massive it is. But according to Proverbs 22, verse six, it's so massive that you should expect that what you put in, you're gonna get back. Yep. In verse 15 is a good. Accompaniment to that because it says folly is bound up in the heart of the child, but he, the rod of discipline drives it far from him. That's right. And again, to your point, this is the general principle that if you want the child that's gonna grow up and not live a life of foolishness and folly discipline from you, mom and dad is important. When they're younger, they need to know that because it's gonna help them avoid those things as they grow older. The chapter's broken right there, verse 17. It says words of the wise, and then it says, incline your ear and hear the words of the wise. So it seems here that Solomon is presenting Now some statements that aren't necessarily original to him, but are wisdom statements that existed at the time that he's now compiling and. In adding into the things that he's been teaching Solomon here. So that's why I think that the break exists there between verse 16 and verse 17. But one thing that he draws in here is verses 24 through 25. Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself and a snare point there. Angry people. Make lousy friends because they will, you will. Be prone to, to mirror the friends that you keep. And that's why godly companionship is so important. If you surround yourself with people who are slow to anger, you will learn to be slow to anger. If you surround yourself with people that are hotheads and go off at a, at the drop of a hat, you will become like that yourself. And I've noticed this when I spend time with negative people, it's very easy for me to fall into a negative and critical spirit when I'm around people that aren't that way. And I see that in myself, man. It's like shining a spotlight on my sinfulness. It's like bringing it to the surface and being like, look how wrong This is when you're around other people that don't behave that way. When you're around people that sin just like you sin, then your sin doesn't. Come across as bad because you're, it's like being in a fish in water. You're like, what's water? I've only known water my whole life. But when you're around other people that don't behave the way that you behave then it raises your game. It exposes sin. And if you're living a godly life, you're gonna wanna repent of it and put it off. So being around angry people, not a good thing because you will be prone to become like them, or to cover up your own anger or whatever it may be. Yeah. And I think this encourages you if you deal with anger, to really resolve that, because scripture is telling. People not to be friends with you. If you notice anger in, you're dealing with your spouse or your kids or even the employees that you work with. Scripture's telling them, don't be friends with that guy because they're going to, they're gonna bleed all over you and they're gonna influence, just like you were saying, Proverbs 1320 style. They're gonna cause you harm because of their. Own sin. And so notice this is a big deal. Often I read this once in the context of my parenting. If you're an angry parent, scripture tells your kids not to be friends with you. And I thought I don't want that to be true of me, Lord, please guard me from being a man given to anger or being wrathful. So beware beware. You don't want people to pick up your evil. And then we, sometimes we call them bad habits, and maybe it is just a bad habit. We don't want people to pick up our sin, especially those closest to us. So be sure that you're guarding your life. Chapter 24 verses four and five, deal with the area of our finances. And verse four is interesting. He says, do not toil to acquire wealth. Now, notice here he does not say, do not acquire wealth, but do not toil to acquire wealth. The toil is to, to labor, to struggle, to grow weary. And again, think about Ecclesiastes here. This is the same author, and I think he's bringing some of the same realities in here. He's saying if you are living for the sole end of becoming wealthy. Healthy, then you're missing it. Be discerning enough to desist from that. Don't make your goal becoming somebody who has more money. If God gives you more money, praise God for that. If your job puts you in a position where you are making a good income and you're able to support your family and give to other resources and church and things like that, awesome. That's great. There's nothing wrong with that. The wrong, the. Error comes in when we are pursuing that, and that's what we're living for. And that's that idea of toiling there because verse five, when your eyes light on it, it's gone. You talked about this again on, on Saturday at our Men's Bible study pr, but the idea of not loving money let's unpack that a little bit for us. Yeah. The challenge is of course, that money provides you security. It provides you comfort, it provides you a lot of things that God wants to provide for you. And that's why Jesus says you cannot serve two masters. You're either gonna love one and hate the other. So money wants your trust, money wants your allegiance. Money will easily take the place of God because of how much it does for you. And therefore, as a Christian, our job, because we have to deal with money, it's like talking to someone who deals with gluttony. You can't tell 'em to stop eating. They're gonna have to eat. The challenge then is to eat in such a way that conveys moderation for the Christian. The challenge is to make money in such a way that shows I don't trust the money, I don't love the money. And so the way I phrased it was, don't let money make decisions for you. And you don't want money to compel what you do. Can should we do this thing well? Is it gonna make me money? How much money is that gonna cost me? There is a prudence and a wisdom of. Guarding your checkbook, so to speak, and making sure that you're not spending frivolously. But God wants us to be a generous people because he's been generous to us. He doesn't want us to love money or trust money because money does have a tendency to grow and to leave. It can easily be acquired. It can easily be lost. That's why your trust needs to be in the Lord and not the cash I. Yeah. Two more verses that I think go well together. Verse 12 and verse 23, verse 12. Apply your heart to instruction your ear to words of knowledge. And verse 23, buy truth and do not sell it. Buy wisdom, instruction, and understanding. And here I think that Solomon is telling us actively pursue these things. Actively pursue knowledge and instruction. Don't ever get to the place where you aren't trying to continue to grow in your knowledge and understanding of the Lord. Don't get to the place where you're. Complacent saying I feel like I know enough. I don't need to stretch myself. I don't need to get deeper. I don't need to go farther. I know what I know and what I know is enough for me right now. We should as believers be insatiable in our appetite for the knowledge of God. Are we ever gonna know everything there is to know about God? No. But that's our direction, that's our goal. We wanna know him. In a way that, that is always better than we knew him last year better than we knew him a week ago, even yesterday. Apply your heart to instruction and your ear to words of knowledge. Amen to that one. I take that verse. Literally, I have notifications on my device that tell me when there's sales for books or authors that I took to, I'd like to follow. And so if there's a sale for a book that I've been looking at, like I will rarely pause more than just a few seconds to say, should I buy this? I have a budget set aside just for that. Resources to purchase for logos or even just a paperback book, or an audible book or something else. I love that we live in such a cool age, we can access almost anything. And so I find it to be incredibly valuable, especially if you utilize those resources and if you treat it like this, I think it's well worth the cost. So if somebody came to you and was like, Hey. Pr I wanna buy a book from you. You're not gonna sell it because you're like, I'm buying truth. I'm not gonna sell it. I don't sell it, right? No secondhand buddy. In fact, with Kindle, I don't even know if I can sell it. I don't even own it. I just own the rights to read it, which is which? Crazy a challenge. Yeah, that's a whole different conversation. Whole different conversation. Yeah. Eight verses 17 and 18 when tempted to envy the wake it remember the future for them and for you. That's such a good one too. When you see somebody else that is, is benefiting, that, that seems to be living the high life and you're looking at them and you're going, man, but they're, they've rejected God or they're worshiping a fault, God. Why is God taking care of them? Why aren't they? Listen, there's a future coming for them and a future coming for you, and you need to remember that and that's needs to guide your perspective on them. And not only should that. Kill envy, but it should stir compassion towards that person in realizing, man, I need to pray for their soul. Because the riches they're experiencing right now are the closest to heaven that they'll ever be. And yet the suffering or the poverty that you have right now is the closest to hell that you'll ever be. And so that governs our perspective of those that are prospering, even though we feel like maybe they shouldn't be prospering. Anything else there in chapter 23? I'm good. Okay. 24 then. Chapter 24. Let's let's look at verses five and six says, A wise man is full of strength. A man of knowledge enhances his might for. By wise guidance, you can wage war and an abundance of counselors, there is victory. Wisdom makes one strong for the day of adversity and the more wisdom you. Ascertain for yourself. The more wisdom you obtain, the more you buy and do not sell. And it's gonna be strengthening you. We talked about this a couple days ago with you stepping in and pinch hitting and preaching in men's Bible study. Your wisdom that you had acquired over the years made you adequate for that job. Made you able to step in and not skip a beat and preach a great message that day. And so for us as Christians, there's benefit to us growing in our wisdom and in having that, and that's gonna be a position of might rather than a position of weakness if we neglect to pursue wisdom. I don't know that I'd call it adequate, but thank you for that. I appreciate it. Verse 10, if you faint, it was, if you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is small. Recently something happened where. I was interacting with it. You fainted? I did not faint. I have fainted before. Have you? I have not. It's terrifying. I bet. But I can make you faint. Would you like me to try? Nope, I don't. I actually did this in middle school. Some kid was like, oh, I can make you faint. I'm like, that sounds fantastic. So he put me up against a wall, had me hyperventilate, and he basically choked me and then I fainted. It was terrifying. That was only the first time. The second time I fainted was when I was moving some stuff from my church. You saw Mouse, a mobile church? No. Mouse involved. Okay. It was blood. Actually I crushed my finger, my pinky on something when I was rolling it up the ramp to the U-Haul. And so my, my, my finger just gushed open with blood. I'm like, oh that's unfortunate. But I thought, no big deal. So I took it to the sink, started washing it off in the sink. Then I was talking to somebody at the same time and I said, oh man, I feel dizzy all of a sudden. It feels sick to my stomach. And she said, sit down. You're fainting. I said, what next thing oh man, Tim, I hit the ground and they took me to the er. 'cause they're like, this guy's not well. And anyway, so I fainted twice, never have. I'm looking at a picture of, I'm guessing this is Warren PJ Kogan. This is Warren Kogan. It's Warren Kogan Warren, that's for sure. Warren Pastor. Pastor PJ Kogan. No, he is a, he's a stout child. He's a looker. Yeah, he is. Wow. Look at that. I see. Mark. Do you see Mark? I think I do. Yeah. I think I do too. Yeah. Maybe I don't. Newborns are always hard to tell on that. It is. Once they're a little bit older, then you can be like, yeah, you look like this parent or the other. I feel like moms notice it pretty quickly and pretty easily. Yeah. I don't, I It was funny. It was funny. I was telling you about that podcast where I was listening about face blindness. I think I struggle with face blindness. Yeah. Anyway, long story short wouldn't think that's case. People are like he's got Mark's nose. I'm like, I don't mark's, mark doesn't have a baby nose to me. I don't. It's true. He doesn't have a nose like that. No. Mark, close your eyes. Let me see. Did you know by the way, that the nose and the ears are the only two parts of the human body that never stop growing. Yes. Which is why for older people they have big ears and big biggest dude, my grandfather on my mom's side, yeah. He like, he could have flown away. They were massive. He, it was huge. And I remember that. Yeah. Just always looking at him going, your ears are huge. And that's gonna happen to all of us. If the Lord Terrys and baby Kogan is already big, he's starting he's big in a different way. Outta surplus. I don't know how, I don't know his note doesn't look particularly large. That's true. It doesn't look 98. Yeah. No. Not to see just his whole person. So it's hope he's a substantial baby. Anyways, where were we? You were fainting. Oh, fainting. Fainting in the day of diversity. Yeah. I all this to say my point was it's good to go through adversity because it does strengthen you if you faint in the day of adversity. If something bad happens to you and you're struggling and you're saying, where is God, I wanna die. This is not the way things are supposed to be. God has you going through that for the very purpose of strengthening you. Adversity is a. Good tool in the hands of the Lord, so don't begrudge it. Let the Lord grow you and change you. And of course, no one wants to go through that. I understand. No one wants to be put in that position, but just know the Lord is strengthening you through that process and it's incumbent upon you to be patient and trust him through that process. Yeah. Yeah. Verse 17 and 18, these are hard verses. Do not rejoice when your enemy falls and let out your heart. Be glad when he stumbles, lest the Lord see it and be displeased and turn away his anger from him. Who are your enemies, bro? The Houston asterisk, that would be enemies numbers one through 25 man roster. Got it. No, but this is one of those reminders to us that we're not to rejoice over the downfall of another person. And this is hard to reconcile with some of the prayer imprecatory psalms that are prayed. 'cause there's the desire for the downfall of some, and yet I guess you're not gonna rejo, there's a difference between the desire for their downfall and rejoicing in the outcome of their downfall. And th this is clearly laid out as a distinction here in verses 17 through 18. But this is hard 'cause the human will, human flesh our inclination is to fist pump. When our enemy gets what's coming to him, it's why when the guy that cuts you off on the road and speeds off, you drive down the road gets a ticket and he pulls, he's pulled over. You're thinking, yes, justice is served. Exactly. And this is saying, don't do that. Yeah. Yeah, that's a tough one because it seems like there is a right time and a place for each of these, right? A right time and place to pray for. Im implications and other times to say I'm gonna withhold that and let the Lord deal with that. Verse 1314, my son eat honey for its good for. And the drippings of the honeycomb sweet to your taste. Good gifts of God are meant to be enjoyed, but he's talking about more than just the honey. He's saying, no, that wisdom is such to your soul. If you find it, there will be a future and your hope will not be cut off. The goodness of wisdom, not only in the proverbs, but then, but in all the scripture is meant to be sweet to your soul. And if you've ever known what it's like to say, oh man, I never saw that before. That's so good. That's so helpful. That's really, I think the. I think the expected, normative experience with scripture because you never read it the same way twice. If God is growing you, you're a different person today than you were yesterday. So the person that you are today will read scripture slightly differently, and as you continue to expose yourself to scripture and you continue to think and grow and learn, God's going to. Make it sweet to your soul to say, ah, I get it. This is new. I understand it in a better way. So persist. You won't get this, you won't enjoy it unless you persist in it. Enjoy the honey. It's sweet to your taste. It's sweet to your soul. God wants you to do that. I don't really have much else other than I was gonna jump in on verses 33 through three, four, but anything else in, in 24 that you wanna hit on? Yeah. How about verse 27? Do you have any thoughts about this one? I'll read it and you can let me know if you have I, 'cause I've wrestled with this one. I think I have. An approach to it, but I'd love to hear if you have anything else on this. Prepare your work outside. It says in verse 27, get everything ready for yourself in the field and after that, build your house. Yeah, the first thought that comes to mind is the parable Jesus told about following him and who does, who before setting out to build a tower doesn't first count the cost right. To do that, to make sure he's got everything that he needs before he sets out for it. And I think that's some of what's. Being encouraged here to be wise before and undertaking. Yeah. Looking at MacArthur's Bible commentary here he comments on it and says, first, secure by diligent work and planning a good living in your field, to then build, in other words, provide a financial base so that all the necessities and contingencies are secured. Then move on from the tents, which they were living into a house which is more desirable. So don't put the cart before the horse. In other words, yeah, first things first. Yeah. I think this is so wise. It's just, I was reading it and I thought, man, that's just so good. Yeah. It's so simple and yet so profound in its application that could apply to a million different things in our lives a day. But I like that one a lot. Go ahead. Yeah. Yeah. Versus 33 through 34. Just the, we've seen this before, but just a repetition of it. So again, we wanna call attention to that, A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding the hands to rest and poverty will come upon you like a robber and want like an armed man. And so just the reminder that we should be men and women that are diligent and hard workers. But I always read this from the spiritual standpoint as well. If we are spiritually thoughtful, then we will experience spiritual poverty and we wanna be careful against, to guard against that. So we wanna be disciplined to do what we're doing right now, which is to spend time in the word of God every single day and to grow in our knowledge and understanding of it. Amen. Let's pray and then we'll be done with this episode. God, we thank you so much for, the ability to read and to understand scripture, and to read it in, in a way that is in our language. And we're grateful for that, that you've condescended to reveal yourself to us in such a way. And so thank you for that and and that we get to do that. That's a such a great source of joy for us. And I pray that we would see the scriptures as a treasure, that we would see the wisdom of your word as the honey from the honeycomb. That we would find it to be sweet, that we would desire it as such. And even to look at the Bible and say, man, we can't get too much of your word. We can't be, overly filled with the word of God. We can always go to your word and find more there, so make it desirable to us. I pray that you would guard against our flesh that would lead us away or distract us from spending more time with you, and that we would push those thoughts aside and even put them to death as they need to be. And instead say, Lord, we want to know you more. And so we pray that would be true of us. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Keep you in your Bibles tuning again tomorrow for another edition of the Daily Bible Podcast. See you. Bye.

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