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Proverbs chapter 29 verse 18 is

maybe one of the more well-known proverbs but it's oftentimes misunderstood.

So the verse says when there is no prophecy the people cast off restraint.

But as for he who guards instruction, happiness is his.

It's the first part of that verse that's really well known.

When there is no prophecy, the people cast off restraint now the reason

it's often misunderstood so other translations say where there is no vision the people

perish and so oftentimes people think okay well we just need vision we need a vision

for where we're going in the future if we don't have vision for where we're

going in the future then we will we will perish when yeah there's there's some truth that, but that's really not what this verse is teaching.

What this verse is teaching is much closer to what the translation I just use is saying

when there is no prophecy, the people cast off restraint even

when we see translations to talk about vision it's talking about revelation from

God and what's necessary according to Proverbs 2918, is not some vision that we come up with for the future.

What's necessary is revelation from God, the Word of God, prophecy from God. We of God. Prophecy from God.

We need God to speak to us.

We need to hear what he says to us.

And it's that that keeps us from perishing from casting off restraint.

That's why it goes on in the last part of the verse to say,

as for he who guards instruction, happiness is his.

As for he who guards... instruction, this then we will be happy. The whole picture in Proverbs 2918 is that we need the

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