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00:00Why don't we start at the beginning, we'll read these first seven verses because they're
00:07kind of a unit.
00:08You know, these section divisions in the Bible, they're not really part of the Bible, but
00:14they can be useful.
00:17So the Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel, to know wisdom and instruction,
00:21to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing and righteousness,
00:26and equity, to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth, let
00:32the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, to
00:37understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles, the fear of
00:41Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge, fools despise wisdom and instruction.
00:48What does this, what does this say to you?
00:50Who has some thoughts on this or questions?
00:55It just tells me I have a long way to go.
01:00Well we all do.
01:01No, you're further down the trail.
01:06It's hard to say, you know, there are different kinds of wisdom and there's, well, there's
01:09knowledge and there's wisdom.
01:11Just like we all have different kinds of skill sets, you know, I have a lot of knowledge
01:17and a very particular type of skills when it comes to information, technology, and computers.
01:24Um, but there are other things, baking, I know nothing about it.
01:30Well there, there you go, I've got it.
01:34And there is definitely some wisdom to be learned there.
01:38Okay, um, to know wisdom and instruction, what's the difference between wisdom and instruction?
01:46If you're wise, you can take instruction and apply it, is what it says to me.
01:51In other words, you can listen to all sorts of instruction, but that doesn't mean that
01:56you'll follow it.
01:57Yeah, I don't know if you've, have you heard of the concept of Musar?
02:03I've heard the word.
02:04Yeah, the word for instruction here in, uh, there and in, uh, actually it's in verse eight
02:12that I was thinking of, hear my son, your father's instruction and forsake not your
02:15mother's teaching.
02:18I was curious as to why it, it said those in two different ways, your father's instruction
02:23and your mother's teaching.
02:24What is the difference here?
02:26Well, if you look at the Hebrew words behind them, your father's instruction is Musar and
02:35your mother's teaching or translated as law in the King James is Torah.
02:41So I mean, the word Torah, it literally means law, but it more literally, I mean, more literally,
02:47if that makes sense, just means instruction.
02:51So the word can be used in both ways.
02:52It's not wrong to translate it as law because you know, when God gives rules for doing this
02:57or doing that, that is what a law is.
03:01But these are instructions for living.
03:04And so when your mother tells you how to live in, you know, don't, if somebody hits you,
03:11don't hit them right back, you know, be nice, share.
03:15These are all instructions of your mother.
03:18This is her Torah.
03:19But why does it say it's something different for the father?
03:23In there's a, a Jewish discipline called Musar, and I can't remember how many points there
03:29are in it, but essentially you have a certain, you have a set of different characteristics
03:35and for a period of time, you work on one characteristic at a time.
03:39And there's a, you know, there's a specific way that you go about it.
03:43And the point is that you exercise a certain aspect of your character to try to bring it
03:49more in alignment with God.
03:52So that over time, as you go through each one of these character traits, you bring them
03:56all in alignment and you become, let's say you've got a series of windows and if the
04:05windows aren't all lined up, then you can't see through them.
04:09You'll see through one window, but then you'll hit a wall.
04:12But Musar is the process of bringing all these windows in your character in alignment
04:16so the light of God shines through you into the world and isn't blocked by you.
04:22And this word Musar, even though it's translated here as instruction, the implication is that
04:28it is correction.
04:30It's not just telling you how to do something.
04:33It's correcting what you have already done.
04:36And this portrays your father as the disciplinarian.
04:40Just like all of the Proverbs, this is a principle.
04:44It's not that the father is always the disciplinarian and the mother is always the teacher.
04:49Father is the teacher also.
04:50Mother is also a disciplinarian.
04:53But this is the stereotype.
04:58And when it comes to Proverbs, stereotypes are very useful.
05:03To receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity.
05:07What do these words mean?
05:09What do you think wise dealing means?
05:13Any ideas?
05:14I'm cheating because I'm looking at the Strongs on my app too.
05:23You would think it would be going back to the instructions of Yahweh in how you deal
05:29with people and things and...
05:32Like interactions with the world.
05:36Yes.
05:37Okay.
05:38And it's not cheating to look it up in a dictionary or look at Strongs numbers.
05:46I see it says to make intelligent.
05:49That was verse 5.
05:56A wise man will hear and increase learning.
05:58That's a very different translation than the English standard has.
06:03The ISR says the wise one hears and increase learning and the understanding gets wise counsel.
06:11Is how that is interpreted.
06:14Okay.
06:16Which translation was that?
06:17That's the ISR.
06:18Okay.
06:19So, you hear it and you increase your learning and then you, you know...
06:29Then as you understand it...
06:31You apply it.
06:32It's not an application or meditation.
06:35Well, then that's like Shema to hear and obey.
06:40Yeah.
06:41There's not much point in hearing if you're not going to put it into practice.
06:45It's the going in one ear and out the other for some.
06:48Yeah.
06:49And there's a, you know, what it says is the one who has understanding obtains guidance
06:53or wise counsel.
06:57Even I don't think it means understanding the knowledge necessarily.
07:00I think it's more about understanding in general, a characteristic of understanding.
07:09Someone who has an understanding of himself and the world can take knowledge and maybe
07:14figure out how to apply it.
07:16But that's not necessarily wisdom.
07:19That's how I lived most of my life and I made some really bad mistakes.
07:24I thought that I was smart enough to figure out anything.
07:28And I was not.
07:31But it says the one who understands obtains guidance.
07:34So you can hear wisdom and you can increase in all the learning you want, but you're going
07:42to need some counsel in order to apply it.
07:44You can't just...
07:47Even if it's the scriptures, if you just read it and don't seek understanding from other
07:53people and advice on how to apply it, you could get yourself in a real bind.
07:59You could end up breaking relationships with other people.
08:04Maybe that's how different denominations have developed, where they didn't seek anybody.
08:11They just went on their own, doing what was right in their own eyes.
08:18So the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.
08:22What does it mean for...
08:24We talked about what the fear of Yahweh is, but how is that the beginning of knowledge?
08:30I don't know where else you would listen to first.
08:34It's interesting what Strong says.
08:36The first in place time order rank, a first fruit.
08:42And Yeshua is a first fruit.
08:48So it's the beginning.
08:51When you first hear it, you kind of start doing it?
08:55Well, there are two ways to interpret that word, I think.
08:59One is you can start gaining knowledge if you have a fear of Yahweh.
09:04If you fear Yahweh, then when you have a question, that's who you go to.
09:09If you understand that he is all powerful, he has all authority, where else would you
09:15go?
09:17But it also means that it is the first in place or rank.
09:21It is the primary source of knowledge.
09:26And I think both of those are equally true.
09:32And the second part, fools despise wisdom and instruction.
09:36I think that this is meant to be a...
09:38Well, I mean, obviously it's a contrast, but even though it uses different words, if you
09:46despise wisdom, you're not going to seek out the root of knowledge.
09:53You're going to think that you know it yourself.
09:56And even people like the way that I used to behave, thinking that I could figure it out,
10:02I thought that I was wise.
10:04But in reality, I was despising wisdom because I was not seeking out counsel.
10:13And interesting, Jay, the word despise also means to disrespect.
10:21Which is exactly what you're going to do.
10:23It's disrespecting.
10:24It is the opposite of fear in the context of fearing Yahweh.
10:30Exactly.
10:31All right, so let's move down a little bit.
10:37Your father's instruction and mother's teaching are a graceful garland for your head and pendants
10:41for your neck.
10:42Why do you wear...
10:43I mean, it is graceful garland, it's in pendants.
10:47These are decorations.
10:49The garland, at least I think of like a Hawaiian lei, a ring of flowers around your neck.
10:55I don't think that's what is meant here.
10:57It's probably more like a gold chain or something like that.
11:03Something beautiful in any case.
11:05But why would you want a garland for your head or pendants for your neck?
11:11And of course it says it's on your head, too.
11:13So more like a crown, probably.
11:18Why would you want those?
11:20As a reminder?
11:21Are they gifts from him?
11:27Probably both of those.
11:28But a reminder for whom?
11:32For yourself, of the father.
11:37If it's on your head and around your neck, it's probably more visible to other people
11:43than it is to you.
11:45Just like wearing, if you're familiar with the tzitziot, the purpose of the tzitziot
11:51is to remind you to keep God's law, but it's more for the people around you than it is
11:56for you, so that they will be reminded to keep it when they see it on you.
12:03And I think in this context, it says they're a graceful garland for your head and pendants
12:08for your neck.
12:11Even though wisdom is not something that we're seeking in order to glorify ourselves because
12:17that's kind of the opposite of wisdom, that is the end result anyways.
12:22People will see it in you and they will either admire you for it if they are also seeking
12:29wisdom or they will despise you for it and show themselves for who they really are.
12:37All right, so my son, if sinners entice you, do not consent.
12:48Seems pretty straightforward.
12:50Let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without reason.
12:56This seems pretty unreasonable, like who listens to that kind of temptation?
13:01Lots.
13:02Yeah, unfortunately, there are a lot of evil people in the world.
13:10And this really is about, it's when you're young is when you have an opportunity to not
13:18be this kind of person.
13:22If you don't listen to your father's correction when you're young and your mother's teacher
13:26when you are young, you're much more likely to end up in this kind of situation.
13:32You want to fit in and be somebody else in somebody else's eyes, is what I would think.
13:40Yeah.
13:41Let's see, we shall find all precious goods, we shall fill our houses with plunder.
13:47So the goal here is personal wealth, gaining treasures for yourself.
13:57And whereas Solomon is saying that what you should really be trying to accumulate isn't
14:05wealth or power over other people, but wisdom and knowledge.
14:12And ultimately, wisdom and knowledge, it may give you power over other people and it may
14:17give you wealth, but it will make your life more fulfilling.
14:22Sorry, what was that?
14:24That shouldn't be your goal for money and wealth and...
14:29Son, do not walk in the way of them, their feet run to evil.
14:34Their feet run to evil and they make haste to shed blood.
14:43We do see that today, too, where there are kinds of people who are not just attracted
14:51to evildoing, but are eager to engage in it.
14:56And it's not necessarily that they are violent, although they certainly can be violent at
15:01times, also.
15:04But the kind of people who despise wisdom are frequently also the kind of people who
15:11are eager to destroy that which is good.
15:14You know, what I mentioned earlier about the garland on your head and the pendant on your
15:19neck and the reaction that other people have to that.
15:25Those people who fear God and seek wisdom will see that favorably, but those people
15:31who despise wisdom may take that as a temptation to attack.
15:39And we see that in our world every day.
15:42And is it also, Jay, kind of like, they do this, they're evil, they shed blood, etc.,
15:51because that's their way of thinking that shows them powerful, like in control?
15:59To some extent, yeah.
16:00I mean, certainly some people are driven that way.
16:03I think for a lot of people, especially what we see in our world today, is people are just
16:09driven to destroy that which is beautiful and which reminds them of God.
16:15And I think it's about guilt.
16:19They see things that remind them of God, and there is still that peace inside of them that
16:25is drawn to fear God and to keep his commandments, and that they have to suppress it.
16:31And one way they suppress it is by destroying everything that reminds them of that calling.
16:37Well, aren't those two of the seven things that God hates?
16:43Feet that run to evil and shedding of innocent blood?
16:47Yeah, he certainly does.
16:49I can't remember the exact list.
16:51Proverbs 6 is where it's at.
16:54Right.
16:55Yeah, there are six things that Yahweh hates, seven that are an abomination.
16:59The heart that devises wicked plans, feet that make haste to run to evil, a false witness
17:07who brings out lies, and one who sows discord among brothers.
17:12Even before Torah became alive in my life, that scripture fascinated me, and I tried
17:18to memorize it, but I couldn't really.
17:21But what I wanted to do was not to do those things.
17:26To my knowledge, the majority, I have not.
17:31I may have had a haughty eye, and I may have had a lying tongue, but I tried not to do
17:36the others.
17:37Yeah, well, I think that at some level, we all have that evil inclination.
17:42What Paul talked about is that he knows what's right.
17:47He wants to do what's right, but there's always this urge to do the wrong thing.
17:54Throughout our lives, we're always going to be struggling with that.
17:56We're always going to be working on conforming our character and allowing the Spirit to conform
18:02us more into God's image, especially into the visible image that we have in Yeshua.
18:10But in this life, we're never going to be perfect.
18:14That evil inclination is always going to be there, just pushing us to do the wrong thing
18:19at just the wrong time.
18:22Right, because he speaks to thoughts as well as actions.
18:27Mm-hmm.
18:28Yeah.
18:29Here's a section that I think is really important, and this goes to one of Solomon's Three Paths
18:35of Wisdom, and this is living.
18:38Wisdom cries aloud in the street.
18:40In the markets, she raises her voice.
18:43At the head of the noisy streets, she cries out.
18:46At the entrance to the city gates, she speaks.
18:49So in a city like ancient Jerusalem, the city gates and the markets are essentially
18:56the same thing.
18:57There may be markets scattered around the city, but the biggest public market is going
19:02to be right there at the city gate because the merchants don't, for the most part, they're
19:06not producing their goods in the city.
19:08There are farmers and craftsmen out in the countryside who harvest or produce their wares
19:15and bring it into the city, and they don't want to have to travel all through the whole
19:19city navigating narrow streets or whatever, so they set up right there at the city gates.
19:24That's also where the city elders meet.
19:28That's where the city is going to have its court.
19:31So wisdom is there, and it's calling to people, but you have to go to it.
19:39You can't just sit in your library reading books about wisdom.
19:44You have to go into the marketplace.
19:45You have to go to the courthouse.
19:47You have to go where the people are, the noisy streets.
19:53This is another thing that runs counter to my character in a lot of ways.
19:58I'm kind of an extreme introvert, so this format of being on the internet and talking
20:04to a camera works better for me than standing in front of a group of people because I just
20:10don't do well in front of people.
20:12So I have had to work very deliberately to put myself out there in the world and interact
20:18with people.
20:19It takes an effort, but it has to be done.
20:21I can't exist just sitting here in my house all day.
20:25Well, that's the only way you can test it, right, is to be around people, right, on the
20:32same way.
20:33Yeah, you take the knowledge and the advice that you can read in Proverbs or in Torah
20:38or from any other source, but unless you get out there among the people, it's just
20:44head knowledge.
20:45It's not doing you any good.
20:52I'd be interested to hear some experiences from you about what kinds of wisdom you've
20:58learned from just interacting with other people, especially in public spaces, not necessarily
21:05one-on-one.
21:08If we go there, there's a temptation to start talking bad about people.
21:13But what kinds of things have you learned about human nature and about God just from
21:20being out in the public space, whether it's at work or in legal matters or at rallies
21:31or church or whatever?
21:35Anybody have any thoughts on that?
21:39I used to work in the church that we attended as the office manager, secretary, whatever
21:46you want to call it, and there were some people that had been put into position of what were
21:52called elders of that congregation, and I remember going up to one of the gentlemen
21:58and I asked him to teach me what to do, and in my observation of how everything happened,
22:09I learned what not to do from them.
22:13In what way?
22:16The way they would correct people, the way they would use their title, the way they would
22:25just the way they interacted and the way they kind of held themselves aloof, and I told
22:33myself that if I ever was in a position like that, that I would stay humble, that I wouldn't
22:42think myself better than somebody just attending, and I carried that through.
22:51When I was driving bus, I carried that the same way.
22:55I just tried to stay connected to people, not thinking I was better than they were.
23:08If you don't mind sharing an example of that, I mean, I take it, were you a city bus driver
23:13or for a school?
23:15A transport, sorry.
23:20City bus driver, yeah, transportation, and then we did what was called dial-a-ride where
23:26you would transport people to medical appointments and such, and I think that was one of my most
23:36favorite parts was helping those who couldn't help themselves, and helping them get to the
23:44places and just helping them realize that they were still somebody, because some of
23:51them lost themselves in their disease or their malady, and so I would just talk with them
24:00like, I don't know if others did, because it was usually just kind of one-on-one, the
24:07driver and the passenger, but that was one of the things that I disliked when I decided
24:14to leave, because I had applied to be in the management, and that was the worst thing I
24:21could have done, because it took me away from people.
24:25Yeah, that makes sense.
24:27I'm sure that you met a lot of interesting people who were very grateful just for somebody
24:33who would listen to them.
24:35They were.
24:36They were, yeah.
24:37There were some good friendships that had developed, and when I left there, that's what
24:41I missed the most, but here we are.
24:48Yep.
24:49All right.
24:50Does anybody else have an example of some way that they've learned some wisdom in the
24:54public sphere?
24:58I learned that if you look people in the eye and smile, and like she was saying, because
25:07I was thinking about it while she was saying it, when you look at people in the eye and
25:11you smile and you show yourself, they seem to open up and are more apt to be friendly
25:18back instead of just closing everybody off.
25:20Right.
25:21Yep.
25:22Very true.
25:24I was told, just because of my personal presentation, I guess, I used to work in a call center with
25:31maybe like 300 people out on the call center floor.
25:35A call center is like when you call somebody's customer service number, and it goes to some
25:40random person, so there could be anywhere from 100 to 1,000 people on a big open warehouse
25:45floor answering phones, and at this site, we had about 300 people on the phones, so
25:53I was IT.
25:54I was supporting all the users, fixing computers, and one of my responsibilities was to get
26:01out on the call floor and walk around and just make sure that people knew I was there
26:06and talk to the supervisors, but nobody would ever talk to me.
26:13I learned eventually that it was because everybody was intimidated because I was always scowling,
26:19and I had no idea.
26:21I just thought this is the way people are, but no, it turned out it was the way I was.
26:27Okay, so moving on.
26:33How long will simple ones, will you love being simple?
26:36How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge?
26:40Well, we know from watching the news that that still goes on today, almost 3,000 years
26:48later.
26:49I think it's worse.
26:51Yeah, it could very well be worse.
26:53When we've got so much free time, people in Solomon's Day didn't have a lot of time for
27:00thinking and political protests.
27:03Well, they didn't have the internet.
27:06They didn't know everybody's business like we can.
27:09Yeah, they knew everybody's business who lived within a mile.
27:13The luxury of being lazy and the luxury of being bad, we do now, right?
27:18Yeah, if you were too lazy in Solomon's Day, you just starved, unless you were wealthy,
27:26and then maybe you could get away with it, but most people were not what we would consider
27:30wealthy.
27:31I mean, even Solomon, who was unimaginably wealthy in his day, didn't have anywhere near
27:38the luxuries that we do.
27:40He didn't have plush toilets.
27:41He didn't have electricity.
27:43More like conditioning.
27:45Mm-hmm.
27:49If you turn at my reproof, I will pour out my spirit to you.
27:53I will make my words known to you.
27:56Because I have called and you refused to listen, I have stretched out my hand and no one has
27:59heeded.
28:01Because you have ignored all my counsel and would have none of my reproof, I will laugh
28:04at your calamity.
28:06I will mock when terror strikes you.
28:08So this is the voice of wisdom speaking here.
28:13The first part, if you turn at my reproof, behold, I will pour out my spirit to you.
28:20And this is what it was talking about, the role of the father earlier.
28:25If you listen to your father's instruction, and that word is more about reproof and correction
28:34than about just teaching somebody.
28:36So wisdom, in this case, it's talking about making mistakes.
28:40If you heed my reproof, the reproof of wisdom is when something goes wrong, are you going
28:45to learn from it or not?
28:47If you are willing to learn from it, then maybe you'll avoid that problem in the future.
28:53But if you don't learn from it, if you don't pay attention to what's happening around you,
28:57it's going to get worse.
28:59And wisdom, this personified wisdom is going to laugh at you.
29:04Not literally, of course, because it's not a real person.
29:07But it will certainly seem like it.
29:15The next few verses are pretty much the same, along the same vein, because they hated knowledge
29:20and did not choose the fear of Yahweh.
29:23Would have none of my counsel and despised all my reproof, they shall eat the fruit of
29:27their way and have their fill of their own devices.
29:32In verse 29, they did not choose the fear of Yahweh.
29:37You think about fear as something that just happens to you.
29:40You're just afraid, like a phobia, but that's really not what's happening here.
29:46Now I don't know if any of us are really born understanding God.
29:50I think probably when we're small children, we have a better understanding of Him frequently
29:56than when we're old.
29:57For one thing, we have a personal experience with someone like God, at least in our own
30:02lives.
30:03Most of us do.
30:04You know, our parents are very much like God in that role.
30:08We are helpless and our parents are strong and almost omnipotent from our point of view.
30:16And so we fear them.
30:19I can't remember, somewhere in here, there's pretty sure it's in Proverbs where it talks
30:23about fearing your mother.
30:27And when you're older, you have to make a concerted effort to fear your mother.
30:32Your father, it's easier to fear because he's bigger and stronger.
30:35He's the disciplinarian in most families.
30:39Your mother is the comforter, but God still wants us to fear your mother because she has
30:46authority over you and she has wisdom and power that you don't have even if you don't
30:51understand what it is.
30:53And in this case, God is saying, you need to choose to fear me because as we gain experiences
31:01and we live in the world, we start to forget that God is out there and is our creator and
31:09our lawgiver.
31:10And we start to see ourselves and our own problems in our world, even though we think
31:15our worldview is expanding and we're seeing more of the world, it's actually contracting.
31:22Our world is getting smaller and smaller and we're focused on ourselves and it takes a
31:26conscious effort to refocus outward on God and our community.
31:31So we have to choose to fear Yahweh.
31:37And he has given us that free will to do that.
31:43We do have that choice.
31:45We have that choice, whether or not we choose to fear him or not, which is awesome in itself.
31:52And those who who choose not to fear Yahweh, who despise wisdom and refuse to learn from
32:03their mistakes, they shall eat the fruit of their way.
32:07Everything we do produces fruit of some kind.
32:12You think about the, you know, when Yeshua talks about a good tree produces good fruit,
32:17a bad tree produces bad fruit.
32:19This is one of the ways that we can choose what kind of tree we're going to become.
32:23We can choose to fear Yahweh and learn from our mistakes, moving more and more into his
32:29image and become a good tree that produces good fruit.
32:34Or we can choose to ignore that and not learn from our mistakes and continue to be a bad
32:40tree or become a worse one that produces worse fruit.
32:44And bad fruit is not just inedible, it can be poisonous.
32:48To you and to the people around you, bad decisions like that tend to be contagious.
32:56I was curious, is this also like being like finally given over to your own heart and your
33:05own mind? Yeah, I think so.
33:08I mean, that's that's a good observation.
33:09Like, you know, Pharaoh, when when Moses confronted him, he said, I don't know this
33:17God. Essentially, he was refusing to fear Yahweh.
33:21And then when Yahweh revealed himself and said, here's what's going to happen if you
33:27don't fear me. Pharaoh refused to listen or to learn from his own mistake, and he chose
33:33not to fear Yahweh again.
33:35And so there came a point where he could no longer choose.
33:39God took that choice away from him, hardened his heart for him, and then he was stuck.
33:44There was no way out.
33:46Right. And I was thinking of Pharaoh as well.
33:50I had a pastor one time who described it as getting into a ring with a bear.
33:57You can choose to get in the ring, but once you're in the ring, the bear decides when the
34:01fight's over. Oh, wow.
34:04That was my biggest fear, to tell you the truth, is like if you don't start listening
34:09pretty soon, it's not going to be there anymore.
34:12Yeah. Yeah, that that seared conscience that can no longer hear God's voice.
34:18Yeah. We just have a couple of verses left to go in chapter one.
34:26For the simple are killed by their turning away and the complacency of fools destroys
34:30them, but whoever listens to me will dwell secure and will be at ease without dread of
34:35disaster. The turning away here in scripture, there's the, you know, the concept of
34:43repentance or teshuvah, which means turning away or turning back.
34:48But in this case, it's not turning away from the mistakes, it's turning away from the
34:52voice of wisdom that's telling you to learn from your mistakes and the complacency of
34:58fools. It takes if you make mistakes, it takes effort to learn from them.
35:05You don't you don't learn from them by just acknowledging that there was a mistake.
35:11You have to change something.
35:13And that takes some effort and it takes some introspection that can often be painful.
35:21But if you take the easy route and just let life take its course.
35:29That complacency will come back and destroy you.
35:32I mean, there's there's always a choice to be made.
35:35And if you don't make it, life will make it for you or God will make it for you.
35:41Yeah, that turning away in the strong says backsliding, turning away apostasy.
35:49I won't say every time, but many times and especially tonight with reading of this,
35:55tears sting my eyes because of whatever I've done wrong.
36:02And I want to repent of that or even for my children and their children's children.
36:09I want them to yearn for this.
36:13I want them to seek the ancient path.
36:15I want them to do that.
36:16But it has to be them that want to do it.
36:21And all I can help is show them.
36:25I said, see, I just said it's noun feminine.
36:28I said that totally reminded me of the harlot.
36:32OK, and then this last verse, but whoever listens to me will do well,
36:36secure and will be at ease without dread of disaster.
36:39The disaster is talking about here isn't natural disasters
36:43or even bad things that other people do.
36:47It's really talking about disasters that you create for yourself.
36:52If you learn from your mistakes and you gain wisdom and fear Yahweh,
36:55you are much less likely to cause disasters in your own life.
36:59And that that really is what it comes down to with our children.
37:03I mean, we we made mistakes when we were younger,
37:06and now we see our children making either the same mistakes or different ones.
37:10And, you know, there's a temptation to just make the choices for them.
37:14But you can't because they'll never learn from it.
37:17No. And we hope that they will learn from whatever those mistakes are
37:22and that they will they will ask for guidance.
37:25While they still can.
37:28But without the disaster, what would how would we know that
37:31there's something to learn from?
37:33It's part of how God made the world to work.
37:37Oh, I was thinking about this.
37:41The people who
37:43have a wisdom in a way gives you a chance to learn from other people's mistakes as well.
37:48You can observe what doesn't work and not go down that road.
37:53With a fool just says, well, that's them on me.
37:56This is my life. I'm going to live it the way I want.
38:00And they end up going down that same road that everyone else gets hurt doing.
38:04And that last line about complacency.
38:07Yeah, they just kind of go along with the flow.
38:09But if you heed wisdom that your life.
38:14It's not going to be void of trouble,
38:16but I think that your reputation will stay intact and that you'll learn from it.
38:22And that you'll live confidently and in good relationship with God.
38:31That's good. Yeah.
38:33Very good. Thank you.
38:37You know, I was listening to all of you and I work from home.
38:42So I'm a remote worker.
38:44So I'm pretty much 24-7 by myself.
38:48And I don't social, you know, I'm not in the I'm actually not among people.
38:53You know, so when you were saying, you know, you have to be among people occasionally.
39:01But I'm on the phone a lot.
39:03I deal with workers compensation.
39:05So I deal with injured workers.
39:08So, you know, my opportunity is more by phone and not in person.
39:15Uh, you know, to help people or.
39:21Encourage them and things like that.
39:26Or, you know, just be kind because they've been injured.
39:30They man, especially when they get injured at work.
39:35And suddenly they are unable to provide for their family.
39:40Get very sometimes angry and difficult to deal with.
39:45And you just have to learn how to.
39:47Had to learn how to talk with them and to them and.
39:52And things like that.
39:53So I get to do it on a verbal.
39:57Side, but not really.
40:00One on one with people.
40:02Yeah, that's good.
40:04I mean, I would encourage you to get out and, you know, be among.
40:07Be among people physically as much as you can.
40:09Also, I'm in a similar situation.
40:12I also work from home and being an I.T.
40:15I don't spend a lot of time even on the phone with people.
40:19I actually leave us on hold forever.
40:22Every time I call my I.T. department, it's 30, 40, 50 minutes.
40:27Yeah, well, what's actually happening there is your I.T.
40:30department is on the phone with me while you're on hold.
40:37That's true.
40:39And then the question is, in what country are you in right now?
40:46Yeah, I deal with Microsoft on a regular basis.
40:49I have to talk to their I.T. department.
40:51And that's that could be a challenge.
40:54But you are true, because I didn't always work from home.
40:57I've you know, I've been in my career for 42 years and used to be.
41:02You know, with among people, but the world now is more and more homework, you know,
41:08and I don't have a fellowship to come to here.
41:11So, you know, it's Zooming is my gathering and my fellowship.
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