Jesus and the Good Life | The Writings | Proverbs 4

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🗓️ 23 September 2024

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What's the secret to the good life? What's the first step to gaining wisdom? Do you trust in God's wisdom more than your own? In today's episode, Keith shares how Proverbs 4 shows us that the good life might be hiding right behind your own pride and foolishness. Read the Bible with us in 2024! This year, we’re tackling a group of Old Testament books traditionally known as “The Writings”— Psalms, Chronicles, Proverbs, Daniel, Ruth and more! Download your reading plan now. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now. Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it so that others can find it, too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our website and follow us on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Don't forget to subscribe to the TMBT Newsletter here. Passages: Proverbs 4

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life.
0:09.0	In the time it takes to get to work, I'm Keith Simon.
0:16.6	In the spring of 2018 Yale Professor Lori Santos decided to offer a new course called Psychology and the Good Life.
0:21.2	When registration for the course opened about 300 students
0:24.4	signed up to the class which is a decent-sized class at Yale. Except a few days
0:28.5	later that number had doubled and now 600 were signed up. A few more days passed and that number doubled, so eventually
0:35.0	1,200 students signed up. The class got so big that the school had to convert a chapel
0:39.8	into a lecture hall and live stream the class to several auditoriums throughout campus.
0:44.3	Eventually they converted an event center often used for symphonies into a lecture hall,
0:49.0	just to fit everyone under one roof.
0:51.4	This class, Psychology and the Good Life, soon became the most popular
0:55.0	course in Yale's history. So why was this course so popular? Why did so many Ivy League students
1:00.3	sign up for this class? Well, I think the answer is simple. Everyone wants
1:04.9	the good life. Everyone wants to live a happier more satisfying life.
1:08.6	Whether you're an Ivy League student, a stay-at-home mom, a nurse, a janitor,
1:12.4	everyone has a deep longing for contentment.
1:15.0	And yet we also know that happiness is elusive.
1:18.0	Despite our best efforts, happiness is hard to come by
1:21.0	and oftentimes the things that we think will make us happy end up
1:24.0	letting us down. I mean think about it. By your typical American definition of
1:29.0	happiness, an Ivy League student should be one of the happiest people you know.
1:33.4	They probably have a good family background.
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