How the Proud Fall
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🗓️ 9 February 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Before a downfall, the heart is hotting. |
| 0:04.6 | Proverbs 18, 12 |
| 0:05.9 | Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread. |
| 0:12.6 | How the Proud Fall was written and read by Wynne Collier. |
| 0:27.1 | Proverbs chapter 18, verses 1 to 12. An unfriendly person pursues selfish ends and against all sound judgment starts quarrels. |
| 0:35.3 | Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions. |
| 0:40.3 | When wickedness comes, so does contempt, and with shame comes reproach. |
| 0:47.3 | The words of the mouth are deep waters, but the fountain of wisdom is a rushing stream. It is not good to be partial to the wicked |
| 0:57.8 | and so deprive the innocent of justice. The lips of fools bring them strife, and their mouths |
| 1:05.2 | invite a beating. The mouths of fools are their undoing, and their lips are a snare to their very lives. |
| 1:14.6 | The words of a gossip are like choice morsels. |
| 1:17.6 | They go down to the inmost parts. |
| 1:21.6 | One who is slack in his work is brother to one who destroys. |
| 1:27.7 | The name of the Lord is a fortified tower. |
| 1:31.2 | The righteous run to it and are safe. |
| 1:35.4 | The wealth of the rich is their fortified city. |
| 1:39.0 | They imagine it a wall too high to scale. |
| 1:43.1 | Before a downfall, the heart is haughty, but humility comes before honor. |
| 1:53.0 | How the Proud Fall. John Taylor was a British eye surgeon in the 1700s, who, |
| 1:59.8 | driven by arrogance, fabricated a prestigious reputation. |
| 2:03.6 | He pursued celebrities and became the personal eye doctor for King George II. |
| 2:09.6 | Taylor traveled the country performing medical shows that promised miracle cures, |
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