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🗓️ 7 June 2024
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0:00.0 | Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap. |
0:07.0 | Did you discover anything good in our reading today? I bet you did and I hope that whatever it was you'll spend some more time thinking about it today. |
0:20.0 | Because Proverbs 1620 says whoever gives thought to the word will discover good |
0:26.5 | ponder the word dwell in it and let it dwell in you be intentional about it wisdom is |
0:31.3 | never an accident one of the things I noticed that I want to about it's |
0:40.6 | One of the things I noticed that I want to spend more time thinking about showed up twice in Proverbs 16 and it's the idea of sweetness of speech |
0:47.0 | verse 21 says the wise of heart is called discerning, and sweetness of speech increases persuasiveness. |
0:49.2 | V. |
0:50.2 | V 24 says, Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweetness to the soul and health to the body. |
0:56.9 | I don't know if you've ever eaten honeycomb or not, not the cereal, but it's amazing and super |
1:01.8 | healthy. I want to speak words like that, gracious, sweet, life-giving words. |
1:08.0 | It's so easy to default to sarcasm or slander or skepticism, |
1:12.0 | but I want him to transform my heart in such a way that it flows out of my mouth. |
1:17.4 | And God knows speech control and self-control go hand in hand. |
1:21.6 | Verse 32 points to that as well. |
1:23.5 | It says, whoever is slow to anger is better than the mighty. |
1:27.3 | And he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city. |
1:31.1 | This proverb points out that it's more challenging to control ourselves than to win a war against others. |
1:37.0 | What? More strength is demonstrated in acting peacefully than in acting out in anger. |
1:44.0 | And we literally can't do this on our own. |
1:46.0 | Self-control is part of the fruit of the spirit listed in Galatians 5, |
1:50.0 | which literally means it's the fruit or evidence of God the spirit at work in you. |
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