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Good day to all my brothers out there.

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Good day. This is brother Parker with another

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episode of Kingdom in Action podcast.

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Thank you for joining me today to share

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in the word of God.

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I hope everybody's doing well. I hope everybody

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is is healthy and fine. Their families are

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fine.

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And so,

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this is our last

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installment for our monthly,

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dive into the book of Proverbs,

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and I called it the wisdom of Proverbs.

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We did it for the whole month of

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July,

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and this is wrapping it up. So this

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is the last one.

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you know what? It's sad because I could've

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done this for the rest of the year.

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It's I mean, it's just so much in

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Proverbs. I was just picking out different scriptures,

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but, actually, I can just go the whole

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year

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through Proverbs and have something for every day.

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So we may come back to it.

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But I picked this last one out. It's

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in,

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verse 8,

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and it's,

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I'm sorry. Chapter

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verse 2. Chapter 18 verse 2.

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And I'm calling this one, everyone has an

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opinion.

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Everyone

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has an opinion.

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we're in chapter 18 verse 2 and verse

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2 read as follows.

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Fools find no pleasure in understanding,

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but delight

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in airing their own opinions.

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Boy, do we have a lot of that

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going on? Let me read that one more

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time.

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Fools find no pleasure

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in understanding,

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but they delight

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in airing their own opinions.

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Everybody

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has an opinion.

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It's just the fact that nobody accepts nobody

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opinion. Everybody has an opinion about everything,

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but never really has the inside story to

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even make a sound

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opinion

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on the subject.

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And so

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a fool finds no pleasure understanding. He's not

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gonna understand what you're saying. He wants you

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to see it his way.

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But a wise man,

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a wise man, a righteous man

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is he knows when to be silent.

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He knows when to listen,

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and he knows when to speak.

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That's what you get out of god's word.

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God teaches us that a lot of times

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you're better off just keeping your mouth shut

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and your ears open.

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You don't need to speak on every subject

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that comes out.

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Oh my god. It's the the

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the Internet,

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the YouTube channels, they're filled with with 1,000

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and 1,000 and thousands of people

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posting their

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comments and opinions

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on every little subject that comes up from

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the on TikTok and on Instagram,

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on Facebook.

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Everybody's

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posting their

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opinion.

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are they even listening to what's going on?

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It's good to have an opinion. It's good

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to have insight. It's good to have some

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kinda understanding.

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But you got to have the you have

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to have the information. You have to have

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what you're talking about. You have to know

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the whole story. See, that's the whole thing.

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People give their opinions, and they don't know

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the whole story.

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And so God teaches us to,

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you know, know when to talk. What's the

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what what's the song? Know when

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when know when to hold and know when

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to run that the gambler song with, Kenny

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Rogers, you know. You got to know when

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to hold up and all that other stuff.

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You got to know, but you won't know

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unless you start reading the word of God.

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Because God will give you that wisdom wisdom

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to let you know that just sometimes you

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need to just sit

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back and let the the the people speak,

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let them say whatever.

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And if there's a place for you to

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give an opinion, then you give your opinion.

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But if not,

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so be it. Because most people that are

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very boisterous in their opinion, you can speak

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to them. They're not gonna hear what you

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got to say because they're already

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set in whatever they're thinking of the situation

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is. They're already set in their ways. And

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so all you're gonna do is have an

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argument back and forth.

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That's why men of God, they they they

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know how to discuss and talk things and

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see things from another person's viewpoint.

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Because what you're looking at might not be

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the actual viewpoint.

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And then if somebody else is pointing out

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something that you need to add to your

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judgment in this decision making that you're making,

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you need to be open to that. And

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that's what God would do for you. It

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opens up your mind and gives you

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it gives you discernment. It gives you a

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chance to evaluate the situation.

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It lets you monitor what's going on. Again,

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it also lets you know when if you're

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listening to the holy spirit, the holy spirit

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will tell you when to shut your mouth.

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People will be talking and and he'll let

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you know. Just shut up. Don't say nothing.

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Shut. Just shut up. Don't say nothing

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because it's not worth it. When it's time

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to speak, you'll know when it's time to

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speak, give your opinion,

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and move on. So anyway,

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brothers, I've really enjoyed this month

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of going through Proverbs

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and just pulling out different scriptures.

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There's more. There's more in Proverbs.

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Please take time to look through Proverbs and

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read it as your daily study

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or whenever you're in the scriptures.

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Look through Proverbs.

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It's it's

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the

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wisdom in Proverbs,

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the

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the the the word I'm looking for,

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the the principles there you go.

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Getting old hurts. The principles

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in Proverbs,

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even though they were written back in that

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time,

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still applies to this time. The principles

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the principles of what they're trying to tell

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you applies

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today. That's why the word of god,

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it applies yesterday,

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today,

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and in tomorrow. It's it's for all times.

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It's eternity that this word

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will

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be good

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to use in your daily lives. So

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thank you for sharing.

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just to keep you on track. Just like

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keep you on track. So that's our gift

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