Proverbs 27 | Be Wise and Make My Heart Glad

[Music] alright here we are proverbs 27 we'll begin reading here in Proverbs 27 at verse 1 i'll read verses 1 through 3 and we'll get into our study proverbs chapter 27 beginning at verse 1 reading 2 verse 3 do not boast about tomorrow for you do not know what a day may bring forth let another man praise you and not your own mouth a stranger and not your own lips a stone is heavy and sand is weighty but a fools wrath is heavier than both of them and so as we look at this beginning at verse 1 when he says do not boast about tomorrow for you you do not know what a day may bring forth it's a warning he's giving a warning against living as if you're in control of your own destiny this is actually what has been referred to as the sin of presumption and the sin of presumption has at its heart a lack of submission to God now there are many scriptures that teach us to depend on the Lord there are many Bible verses that command us to seek his will Jeremiah for example in chapter 10 verse 23 says I know Oh Lord that a man's life is not his own it is not for man to direct his steps in James we see in the New Testament chapter 4 verses 13 through 15 listen you who say today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city spend a year there carry on business make money why you do not even know what will happen tomorrow what is your life you are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes instead you want to say if it's the Lord's will we will live and do this or that so the Scriptures teach us that were to to follow his speed to know his word so that he might direct us were to trust in the Lord with all our heart lean on unto our own understandings in all our ways were to acknowledge him that he may direct our path and so man is called to submission to submit to the Lord and we need to remember what he has already stated in proverbs 19 when he said verse 21 many are the plans in a man's heart but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails and so what we have been called by God to do is to seek the Lord in his word in his word and in prayer and and be sensitive to the leading of his holy spirit and that's how you do things you don't just rashly decide and say oh I'm gonna do this because like he said you don't know what tomorrow brings you may have a great idea to do certain thing and you think it's going to be the best idea but in fact that may not be the the will of the Lord for you if I'd up if I'd have done what I wanted to do this church wouldn't exist because when I resigned I went to my wife Marie and I resigned on a Monday night and I came home and I said it's over I resigned and I told the story to her of how that I was requested to be the counselor of the church and that I was in a pastor and all of that I told her that story and I said but this frees us up that frees us up and we can move because we were living in hell I mean Ontario and also known as purgatory we were living in Ontario at the time and you know we had a we had three kids three kids in a two-bedroom house 969 square feet no air conditioning and and all of you know how hot and uncomfortable that really can be and it was getting more and more crowded and we were outgrowing the house and and I told my wife you know I said Marie week we can move I can move to San Luis Obispo which is where I wanted to live since I was 18 since 1968 I wanted to live there and Maria and I would go on vacations as a young married couple and we would go there just to spend a couple days I like to this day love San Luis Obispo and so I told her we can just move nothing's holding me back I don't have a job you know and I'll never forget paraphrasing but never forget how my wife looked at me because I had said to her you know my friend I have a friend named Nick who manages a bread supply company I said I can drive a truck there cuz I always wanted to be a truck driver I like driving trucks and I said you know I can drive a truck she said you know you're not called to do that and I said listen I'll be delivering bread what's the difference the bread of life Parisian bread I really did and I'll still be delivering the bread and she said you know you're not called to do that you know you're called capacitor it was my wife's encouragement that kept us here and it was my wife's encouragement that supported us see I had plans in my own heart but God's plans were different and it's wise for us to yield our plans to him God's purpose prevails in verse 2 let another man praise you and not your own mouth a stranger and not your own lips don't fall into the trap and the habit of boasting about your own accomplishments let your accomplishments and your abilities be spoken of by other people the sin of pride and boasting is very unattractive very unattractive and it normally reveals a deep insecurity on the part of the person who broadcasts their accomplishments if others are blessed by what you do and they speak of it that's to be preferred seeing that we know our own hearts it is wise to not commend ourselves no on occasion it might be necessary to share about what the Lord has done Paul had to do that when he spoke concerning his ministry he had to do it in second Corinthians you see when you read second Corinthians it's my favorite New Testament book outside of the Gospels but when you read second Corinthians you'll begin to notice that he's actually answering a series of accusations in the way that he's writing I've noted something like 24 accusations that he had lodged against him that he had to answer and so he goes through 2nd corinthians sharing concerning his ministry and various other things giving explanations and he had to stand up because there were false apostles who were referred to as eminent ones who had entered into the church and we're calling into question this man's credentials and they were saying things about him things like he lords it over the sheep or he's not worthy of compensation they even got to a personal speaking personally about him and they said you know that he's us he's not a good speaker and he's very homely to look at I mean they said things about him because they had such a terrible dislike for him and their desire was to undermine him so that they might have preeminence in the Corinthian church and so they were calling into question everything about him and he had to deal with these false apostles he had to respond in 2nd Corinthians chapter 11 verse 5 he he said I consider that I am not at all inferior to the most eminent apostles I'm not inferior whatsoever so throughout the chapter he listed his accomplishments to remind the Church of who he is in 2nd Corinthians 11 verse 12 he said what I do I will also continue to do that I may cut off the opportunity from those who desire an opportunity to be regarded just as we are in the things of which they boast in other words they were comparing themselves with Paul and one to be regarded with the same kind of respect Paul had been given but ultimately he knew that God is the final judge of how faithful our lives have been no matter how someone commenced themself it's God who makes the final judgment in 2nd Corinthians 10 verse 18 he said it isn't the one who commends himself who's approved but the one whom the Lord commends there may be times when you have to say now wait a minute you're saying this and you need to remember that that I've done this there are times when I as a pastor will have people who will call into question my ministry and and they're not often but there have been times and when of my replies has been can you please tell me what the Lord has done through you what is he done through you because normally it's somebody who is has keyboard courage you know it's sitting behind the screen and just writing and saying what they think in their opinions and so on occasion not often I will ask them can you please let me know what you've done so that I might know your credentials so that I might listen to your advice and as much as you're saying to me that you know more than I do perhaps you do I've only been teaching 45 years perhaps you know more I'd like to hear and a lot of people will do that we find ourselves very courageous today behind our keyboards don't we we have never accomplished the thing ourselves but we can tell other people what they're not accomplishing we're pretty good at that we've learned to scrutinize and judge very harshly haven't we there seems to be an awful lot of arrogant pride and very little humility and so so we're being told there let another man praise you and not your own mouth don't walk around telling people how important you are he's saying don't don't speak about all the things that you've accomplished and and sometimes we'll say oh that's just confidence you know maybe it is and maybe sometimes it's pride and arrogance it's hard to tell the difference sometimes so it's always wise to let somebody else say you know I really appreciate what the law it is done in your life and and should somebody say something like that to you be careful not to fall into false humility you know that false humility somebody says I was really blessed by what you had to say and then you put your head down and you fold your hands and oh it's all Jesus it's all Jesus just give Jesus the praise and and I and my response to that is I already have I'm just thinking you just put your part it's not like you're Jesus shut up it's take it and walk away you know because sometimes we do weak we can have false humility all you need to do if somebody is blessed by you thank God that's called encouragement that strengthens you somebody's blessed by life bless you I get letters too that are nice and now I always write the same thing thank you for the encouragement it goes a long way in the body of Christ doesn't it for somebody to say I appreciate you so just say thank you and move on but you don't have to say well thank you for for praising me for this but in case you need more to praise me for there are other things let me tell you my accomplishments no let a stranger praise you not your own lips verse 3 a stone is heavy sand is weighty but a fool's wrath is heavier than both of them when he speaks concerning a wrath when he says a fool's wrath the word rafts speaks of something that a vexation is the word it's grief it can be provocation he's saying the mental fatigue in putting up with a fool's outburst of angry anger is emotionally tiring have you ever had somebody just jumping on you and they're and they're just draining you well that's what he's saying it's beit's emotionally it can be emotionally draining to have somebody just just angry and just won't stop at a certain point you wish that they would but sometimes they don't so he's saying it's weight it weighs you down verse 4 wrath is cruel anger torrent but who is able to stand before jealousy that's an interesting one wrath and and anger we use we will use words to describe it like it is a storm you know a storm of anger you know his wrath came on like a storm they can rage like a storm so wrath and anger can rage like a storm but storms stopped they will stop eventually but jealousy doesn't rest jealousy continues you can get angry and I'm not saying you should and I'm certainly not preaching you know that you should but you know and I know that something can bother us and we can have an outburst we can't we can say something fast we didn't mean to whatever the case may be but it subsides you know and then later on you say you know I'm sorry I am so sorry you know no excuse I was wrong and and there was an outburst and I'm so sorry you can do that I do that you I'm sure some of you have done that most of you never get angry I realize but jealousy is different jealousy doesn't stop you can be jealous of somebody today and a year from now still be jealous you don't want to hear anything good about them you don't want to hear any accomplishments that they have performed you don't want to hear about any awards that they might have received jealousy doesn't stop that's why it's such an evil sin it just doesn't give up and so he says wrath is cruel anger a torrent but who can stand before jealousy and if you for some reason have had to deal with a jealous heart we yield those things to the Lord and we ask God please cleanse our heart Lord verse 5 open rebuke is better than love carefully concealed that's that's a proverb that we probably would do to memorize it's not that many words but it means an awful lot open rebuke is better than love carefully revealed honest criticism is more valuable than a love that is afraid to bring a word of correction a love that doesn't encourage a person to live a godly life is morally useless and I believe that this failure to encourage one another to live for Christ is one of the great sins in the church today a well-known to some well-known musical artist I'll leave unnamed to recently wrote a letter of forgiveness to a pastor who refused to water Baptizer and it's an open letter and I read that open letter because it was posted and she was forgiving the pastor because he didn't baptize her when she was in her teen years even though her family and all showed up for a baptism and the pastor waited till everybody was there apparently and then shared with the people who assembled that he couldn't perform the baptism and apparently wanted them all to hear from his mouth to their ears which is in some ways a wise thing to do I can't make a judgment as to whether or not that was a proper thing but in some ways that's a wise thing that way gossip if you want to have gossip you can start from what you actually heard him say and not what was alleged that he said so he waited and apparently the people showed up and he said I can't perform this baptism because this young woman here is an open lesbian with no intent whatsoever to repent from from her sin and so she wrote a letter saying that that had embarrassed her and that she is now forgiving this pastor for embarrassing her and Christian started chiming in saying how bad the pastor is listen this is where the church is today where we apologize to sinners for telling them the truth that's why many people don't preach the gospel because they're afraid to come off as harsh judging and unloving what is more unloving not sharing with somebody about God's grace and allowing them to perish in eternity in judgment or taking the chance to love them enough to tell them the truth you know I actually know who here likes to be criticized nobody to my knowledge likes it who wants an open rebuke who wants someone to walk up and say you hurt my feelings what you did is wrong all of us would like to think that we're we're better than that but guess what starting from here all through all of us we all sin in it with our words or our attitudes that's why we need a Savior no no excuses just reality there's none righteous no not one only God only Jesus himself is and we were in process again not an excuse for continuing in sin but the reality of the fact none of us is perfect and so someone will on occasion approach and say I need to tell you something it hurt me what you said hurt me and I'm telling you to your face and the writer Solomon would say that the open rebuke is better then love that is carefully concealed because we need to be willing to not only share the truth with others but also receive it ourselves and when somebody tells me and yes they do that I have hurt them or have done something that that has injured them it's wise for me to hear what they're saying so I don't repeat it so that I don't do it again so that I can say forgive me you know sometimes it's their perception i must be frank with you in that and say sometimes their perception is incorrect and so we will converse and I'll say are you sure how and then we'll talk it out but I prefer someone speaking to me saying to me something rather than to somebody else that can do them no good and so open rebuke is better than love carefully concealed and then it goes on and says in verse six faithful are the wounds of a friend but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful a friend a friend who is to be trusted will share things with you even when they do wound again it's because correction is intended to make us into a better person but an enemy will not do this because an enemy doesn't want us to be blessed and an enemy doesn't love us and so faithful are the wounds of a friend if you have a friend who is willing to take the chance to say to you knowing what it can cost because sometimes it'll cost a friendship knowing then you've got a good friend you ought to value that person now if they do it every day that's not a friend that's a difference but I have to tell you that a friend will share with you the things that are necessary because they love you and and I and I do have friends like that I do have friends like that starting with my wife I do have friends who are more than willing to tell me things that I need to hear and I thank God for that but there are those who who pretend to love you but in fact they're just deceiving you I again the greatest example of someone who is deceitful and like it says the kisses of an enemy are deceitful who's the greatest example of that if it is in Judas himself you knew in Luke chapter 22 verse 48 Luke tells us concerning the fact that Judas had entered into that garden where Jesus was and and as as he had come in with that contingent of Alpha sir Sonam and soldiers he had said the one whom I kissed this is the one take him and so he walked up to Jesus I've mentioned to you this to you recently and but he began to kiss him and it wasn't a simple respectful kiss a lot of cultures have a greeting a kiss of greeting you know Greeks will do that Italians do that some people in the Spanish culture do that you know they'll kiss you on the cheek the French will kiss you on both that that's a kiss of greedy and it's it's a polite thing it's a welcoming thing it's a symbol of friendship and respect and love and all of that and so I mentioned to you how that Judas approached Jesus to give him that kiss but when you look at the word when it speaks concerning that he kissed Jesus it literally means he smothered his face with kisses it wasn't just a respectful kiss on the cheek or anything like that it was like he was it was like a daddy just loving his baby and just smothering that baby's face with it the kisses of love that's how he did it and that's why Jesus said to him in Luke 22 48 Judas are you betraying the Son of man with the kiss is that how you're gonna go about doing it and so as he speaks hearing and all he says the kisses of an enemy are deceitful there's no doubt about that pretending to love you when in fact they don't verse 7 a satisfied soul loves the honeycomb rather loathes the honeycomb but to a hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet when you're satisfied he loathes the honeycomb when you're satisfied you can be less appreciative I mean if you if you eat I've done this Marie's bringing something for me to eat and it's good and but I'm hungry and so I'll go and I'll find some chips and I'll throw some cheese on it and put some sauce on it and I eat more than I should and then she comes home with the meal I do this quite often she comes home with the meal it's a it's it's nice but I'm already satisfied and I can't eat something that's as good as that because I've already satisfied myself with something else so when you're satisfied you can be less appreciative when you're hungry the things that are not that appetizing can be greatly appreciated when you're hungry and that's a fact - I was in England when I was 24 years old I was living on $10 a day that included how much I was spending on a room now this is a long time ago you could actually do it then and so you just need to go to what know what hostel to go to you just need to know or you need to just budget now it was an average of 10 to 20 dollars a day I spent 3 months doing that so when you would eat they would I would order a meal they brought coleslaw now my memory of coleslaw is the cafeteria food in elementary school that's the stuff that you throw to the pigs and the pigs walk away from it I mean coleslaw wasn't something I liked but guess what I grew to appreciate coleslaw I dice to this day I I'll eat my own and Maurice too I mean I like it how that happened because I was hungry and so you can develop a tasty it's what he's saying to a hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet you can actually acclimate yourself and actually appreciate it somebody said poverty has this advantage over being rich in that it makes people thankful for the smallest blessings and that's true absolutely verse 8 like a bird that wanders from its nest is a man who wanders from his place when it speaks of a bird in a nest that's a picture of a home and so a home would be the man's place and homes represent security and so the point he's making is a man who wanders from his home is unstable verse 9 point mint and perfume delight the heart and the sweetness of a Jan's friend gives delight by hearty counsel so good friends give good advice and that can sweeten your walk with the Lord Jesus Christ verse 10 do not forsake your own friend or your father's friend nor go to your brother's house in the day of your calamity better is a neighbor nearby than a brother far away so this is actually a picture of long-standing friendships he's saying don't abandon friends who have been blessings for a long time my my son Joseph and his his wife Karina have friends that that they're very dear friends with and all and a while back not that long ago but a while back I was I was speaking to them and I said you know it's neat to see your friendships and I love to see how you love your friends and all and and I do and so I telling Karina I said you realize I need that I have friendships with people that we've been dear friends with for like 37 years and I said which is years longer than she's been alive and I'll say all you have to do is ask yourself where are you guys going to be 37 years from now long-term friendships are good things the friendship that I have that is the oldest friendship that I know of is my friendship with my friend Bill Bill's watching us right now I'm sure bill you're listening and you're thrilled to hear your name just remember let another man praise you and not your own mouth he as he watches us every Wednesday and on Sunday - but I went to kindergarten with him kindergarten he lived across the street from me all of my young life and I still see him and I also meet with a friend of mine named Bobby I've known Bobby since he was 14 I've known him 53 years and so it's just a great thing to have long standing friendships isn't it it's great to have that and it's a picture of longstanding friendships he's saying don't abandon friends who have been blessings why because when you're in a difficult season godly friends are great to have because in the end a friend who's available is better than a relative who isn't that's what he's saying in verse 10 bitter is a neighbor nearby than a brother far away so it's wise to cultivate community it's wise to have relationship especially in your church we need to remember that the early church was a close-knit community and the early church cared for one another that's the design that God has so that you might have friends or there and they can be even closer than a brother verse 11 my son be wise make my heart glad that I may answer him who reproaches me a wise son makes it possible for a father to defend himself against critics we need to remember that fathers are teachers and teachers often are held responsible for their pupils that happened in the life of Jesus remember he was the rabbi and his men were were calling out and praising him and all in according to Luke 1939 some of the Pharisees called to him from the crowd teacher rebuke your disciples and so father's our teachers and teachers are held responsible for their pupils and so the point is very often a father's judged by the behavior of his offspring and that's absolutely true it very often if they say well if that man were a man of God then his kid wouldn't be doing what he's doing and so they're that way so very often a father's judged by the behavior of his HOF spring that's why in proverbs 23 15 and 16 we read my son if your heart is wise my heart will rejoice indeed I myself yes my inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak right things so be wise make my heart glad verse 12 a prudent and foresees evil and hides himself the simple pass on and are punished that's a proverb that had already been given if you remember it was found in chapter 22 verse 3 and he's saying wisdom produces an ability to see what sin does in a life and avoids it I need to do I'll say this briefly it's look at the life of the person who's trying to give you counsel think about the society that we live in and and and count the cost when you making decisions this young woman had kept herself pure and whenever girlfriends had said to her what's the big deal why don't you have relations with guys they love you they like you you know you go out and look what's the big deal why are you keeping your virginity you don't need to do that doesn't make any different and you gotta go out and experiment find out what life's all about and finally this friend had been saying to this young virgin had been saying that for so long that the young girl who had chosen to remain pure said you know anytime I want I can become just like you but you can never ever become just like me and that is something to think about that really is so be careful yeah there you overwhelming I'm being blown off the stage by the applause but it's true it it's true just be careful who you allow to influence you and and think ahead of what will happen should I take this advice a prudent man foresees evil and hides himself the simple pass on and are punished verse 13 take the garment of him who is surety for a stranger hold it in pledge when he surety for a seductress that again has been addressed chapter 20 verse 16 taken a garment is one way of holding someone responsible to pay their debt so he's saying people should be held to their obligations verse 14 he who blesses his friend with a loud voice rising early in the morning it will be counted occurs to him we've seen this again in the past loud greetings especially in the morning are they appreciated when you're asleep in somebody's gonna hey you know what's going on wake up I don't know it I do not like that and so so he says loud greetings are not appreciated but there's another picture here and it would be the picture of a hypocrite calling attention to themselves with loud blessings standing on a street corner if you will saying how wonderful they are before the Lord are thanking God out loud drawing attention he said that's not a good thing verse 15 a continual dripping on a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike he had marital problems didn't he I mean this man talked like this all the time whoever restrains her restrains the wind and grasps oil with his right hand I don't really have to say anything about that people can be irritations that's for that's for sure continual dripping contingence woman its pictured here as a source of irritation and that's just that's just a big basic thing when it says whoever restraints or restrains the wind she's uncontrollable and you know the thing that causes people to to become submitted it's always gonna be love it's always going to be love it's always going to be love sometimes we will say how did you get her to do that I've had people say that to me concerning my marriage with Marie I was I was on a on a ministry tour and we had stopped at a place to eat it was a large tour there were at least 200 or so people in the tour at least 200 and I sat down you know because I don't like to stand in line I'll be honest with you I spent time in the military don't want a stay on the line so I sat down at at one of the benches I just waited because there's 200 people in line and one of my friends sat with me and Marie had disappeared she was in the line and she came walking up to me after about 15 minutes of me just sitting there or longer and my wife walks up and she puts a plate in front of me she had stood in line to get me something to eat and she places it in front of me and I just look at her and I said I didn't want this no I I away with you woman I want meat no she I already ate my nachos I'm sorry no she no she places the plate in front of me I'm not even thinking about it I'm not she just puts it in front of me because that's what my wife does that's my wife she does that my friend is there next to me and he looks at me and he says how'd you get her to do that I said how did I get her to do what he said no really how did you get her to do that I said do what he said to serve you you see his wife was his wife was at a table eating I don't care either way what works for you is fine with me what do I care you know what I mean so I said how did I get her to do what he said to serve you and I smiled I said I love her and he goes no really really he really is it no no really yeah yeah no really I said no that's the secret I love her and she knows it because she knows our deeply she's loved and this is one of the ways she responds submission is love that's what it is when you love the Lord you submit it's not Grievous it doesn't make you less it makes your marriage strong it makes relationships great we submit one to another in the fear of God Paul says in Ephesians 5 and wives submit to husbands but together we work before the Lord submitting to him and so it's just a wise thing for us to learn to to love one another and and to submit and and it's sad when when somebody is just contentious because it just takes the joy out of relationships verse 17 as iron sharpens iron so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend once again similar thoughts about counsel and encouragement friends can be sources of encouragement to live better lives friction produces character it stirs people up and helps us to get right with the Lord when necessary verse 18 whoever keeps the fig tree will eat its fruit so he who waits on his master will be honored the keeper cares for the tree and over time it produces a bountiful crop as he cares for it he casually reaches up picks the fruit enjoys the fruit of his labor the fruit doesn't belong to him but he is free to eat of its fruit and so faithful service receives reward in 2nd Timothy chapter 2 verse 6 the hard-working farmer should be first receive a share of the crops and so you serve the Lord and the Lord provides for you it's that simple verse 19 as in water face reflects face a man's heart reveals the man when it says as in water face reflects face we need to remember at this time that part of the way people would see themselves is by looking at their own reflection in the water because water was used like we use a mirror but it's interesting how he says a man's heart reveals a man our our thought life reveals our true self because we ultimately live out what we think about and what we love if you dwell on evil long enough you're gonna live that out and you might have a certain appearance you may look in a certain way that people would never think you could possibly do something but in fact if you dwell on evil long enough you're gonna find ways to do it so be aware of that verse 20 hell and destruction are never full so the eyes of man are never satisfied there's always going to be people dying and there will always be graves dug to receive their bodies and so be aware of that it's never satisfied somebody once said no man dies and has one half of what he wanted somebody says how much do you need and the answer is just a little bit more the eyes of man are never satisfied if you have a million than you want to and if you have two million then you want three it's just as long as you pursue that which does not satisfy you'll never be satisfied man's life doesn't consist in the abundance of the things he possesses a nice car is a nice thing to have but it doesn't satisfy forever nice clothing is good to have if you have it there's nothing wrong with it doesn't satisfy forever possessions never can because possessions never reach the spirit the material never satisfies the spiritual so when you learn to have satisfaction in the Lord that's the best thing you can have and the secret of contentment is found in the joy of being saved verse 21 the refining pot is for silver the furnace for gold a man is valued by what others say of him a person is actually tested by what others say about them and how they react to what is being said because a person's true value is revealed by the way they react to what people are saying here your character is actually going to be revealed listen very carefully I'll say this quickly one of the reasons why it is count the we are commanded in Scripture not to lay hands on a young man and place him into ministry is because if that man is successful he will have as a youthful person the tendency of taking credit for all the accomplishments and can fall into the snare of the devil through pride begins to think he's something special and that people need to listen to what he has to say and if there's anything that concerns me for the church today it's the honor that is given to so many young ministers who have yet to prove their ministry they may be enjoyable they may be eloquent they may be capable of holding your attention giving great stories being very dramatic some up some guys that I've known over the past they're not only people who are capable of speaking well but they can sing and they sometimes sing during the sermon and people say man this guy is a triple threat this guy is good look and he sings he preaches well you know your MVP and what happens it goes to his head it really does it goes to his head he begins to believe what is being said about him and and and be very careful and I say this with as much sincerity as I can who you give your honor to be very careful who you listen to and I was sharing this the other day on Facebook live I said there are things that you may hear someone say that is so dramatic and it's done in such a theatrical way and it's so entertaining and you walk out energizing and all I said listen if you want to really test the depth of what you're hearing write down or get a written manuscript or a transcript of what was said and read it two months later just read it because if you read it I was saying you will discover that you are not being moved by what's being said you're being moved by what's being done and because this person is getting energetic and moving up and down the stage and drawing your attention standing at the very lip and leaning towards you and you're just drawing in oh and he's got that tight t-shirt on you would not want to see me in a tight t-shirt where that cool swoop in everything but he's not saying anything he's entertaining you it is in making your soul strong it's in entertaining you it's an amusement you know the word amusement the word amusement is a word that is taken from the word muse musm use the word muse means to consider or to think about you muse on certain things you're thinking and considering you're taking into consideration what is being said analyzing that meditating on it and understanding the point do you know what amusement means the word amusement is actually a word when you put an A in front of the word muse the word a in Greek means it's a negative it means to not think when you're being amused that's another way of saying you're being encouraged not to think keep that in mind because ministry is not amusement ministry is not intended to make you not think ministry is intended to make you meditate and consider and think through and ask for God's help to apply and then to develop you will never grow deep in Christ if all you desire is entertainment the Jesus Movement is a powerful movement because the songs we sang were not entertainment they were worship and the messages that were given were from Scripture not our testimony and experi and that is being lost on the church today the day has come when men will no longer endure healthy teaching they will heap unto themselves fall said teachers having itching ears they will turn aside from the truth and they will be turned unto fables and that has happened in this generation when people are saying I already heard that give me a different story I want to know more about things that help me right now that's because they're immature and they don't realize that the foundations have to be strong for the building to survive but what we're wanting is prefabbed palaces and they don't work American construction well you can go to Israel and you can see a wall that was built four thousand years ago try and find a wall that we build here in the United States that will last 40 centuries because we don't develop and construct with an intent to endure America moves quickly and if it isn't the latest thing we're not interested in it but truth is different truth is settled in it's forever forever thy word is settled in heaven God's word is a settled thing and it's what we build our lives on you have to be aware of that if you're going to grow in the things of the Lord it's very important to know that and so a person's prisons character is tested by what others say about them and how they react the value is how they react and they ought to be being taught the things that help him to be a developed person verse 22 you grind a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain yet his foolishness will not depart from him a person is tested by what others say about him excuse me I'm sorry though a fool will not cease being a fool by force you can't force a new nature on a person and then finally verses 23 327 be diligent to know the state of your flocks attend to your Hertz riches are not forever nor does a crown endure to all generations when the hay is removed and the tender grass shows itself and the herbs of the mountains are gathered in the Lambs will provide your clothing the goats the price of a field you shall have enough goat's milk for your food for the food of your household and the nourishment of your maidservants basically don't neglect the things that are most important you may one day not have the things that you once had and you're going to realize that you took those things for granted so if you neglect the things that have provided for you you may one day lose them but if you care for them they will continue to provide for you when you have lost all from a pastoral perspective if I were sharing with other pastors I would be saying take care of the sheep because it's the Sheep that God uses to take care of you and that's the truth you know many years ago now I can still remember being in this auditorium right here this this this right here on the stage and I had walked out it was a Saturday we were having a servant Saturday 17 years ago and I walked out and I stood here and I spoke to those who showed up for that meeting and I asked this question I said to them how many of you have lost through death someone you love very much a father a momma and hands went up and I said I joined your fraternity because that Thursday this was a Saturday that Thursday my father had died and I stood up here to do my ministry as I always did and I said I just joined your fraternity my father died on Thursday two days ago and this church this church cared for me excuse me I'm sorry for the emotion I'm just remembering I walked in on a Thursday night the night my dad died when one of the brothers Jeff Sears whom I love very deeply was in the back he loved my dad and he already knew Jeff walked up to me and he hugged me and told me he loves me my brother-in-law Matt was there Matt walks up and hugs me tells me he loves me and going through the pain of a sudden loss my father died suddenly we didn't expect it it was there was no preparation it happened taught me some things that I've never forgotten take care of your sheep I would say to pastors because in your time of need they do take care of you I had people who didn't know what to say they didn't know how but they would walk up and just touch my shoulder I remember a very dear Saint a woman in our church who walked up and she said something up at the sorrow of your heart I still remember saying pastor I want to pray for you and she touched my heart and she said dear Jesus please heal his broken heart those are the things that matter in life it doesn't matter how nice your house is it didn't matter how nice your car is it doesn't matter how well you're dressed what matters is love what matters is concern and a pastor needs to take care of the Sheep there's a benefit because one day they take care of you keep that in mind in your relationships as you take care of parent as you take care of your children remember treat them well because they're gonna decide what home you're gonna live in when you're old

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Length: 53min 44sec (3224 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 23 2018