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🗓️ 16 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 | Today we dug back into the wisdom of Solomon and as usual he covers a lot of ground |
0:17.4 | so I'm just going to touch on a few things that stood out to me or that have the |
0:20.5 | potential to be confusing. |
0:22.8 | Chapter 25 encourages us not to be presumptuous in relationships with others, |
0:27.0 | and it covers a variety of relationships. |
0:30.0 | First, we shouldn't elevate our level of importance with others. |
0:33.3 | Wisdom helps us stay low. |
0:35.5 | And in the same way that wisdom doesn't esteem itself, |
0:38.1 | wisdom also doesn't degrade others or their motives |
0:40.8 | when it doesn't know the whole story. |
0:42.8 | That requires humility too, and patience. |
0:46.5 | Versus 9 through 10, encourage us in wise behavior |
0:49.4 | whom we have a problem with someone else. |
0:51.3 | The passage reminds us that we should talk about our problems with the person we have the problem with, not everyone else. |
0:57.3 | That requires humility and patience too. |
1:00.3 | And verse 15 tells us what great power the humble patient tongue can wield. |
1:05.0 | It says, with patience a ruler may be persuaded and a soft tongue will break a bone. |
1:10.0 | Patience in humility have a more powerful impact than being forceful and |
1:14.7 | arrogant. Much of the rest of the proverb offers wisdom on self-control and how that ties |
1:19.9 | into humility. It urges self-control in everything from how much we eat in |
1:24.1 | verse 16 to how often we visit our neighbor in verse 17. The general theme is that |
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