Righteousness is the long game | (PROVERBS 29:6-7, 10, 16)
Morning Mindset Christian Daily Devotional Bible study and prayer
Carey Green
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🗓️ 8 November 2022
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Today's Scripture:
PROVERBS 29: 6-7 - An evil man is ensnared in his transgression, but a righteous man sings and rejoices. 7 A righteous man knows the rights of the poor; a wicked man does not understand such knowledge.
VS 10 - Bloodthirsty men hate one who is blameless and seek the life of the upright.
VS 16 - When the wicked increase, transgression increases, but the righteous will look upon their downfall.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey my friends welcome back to the Morning Mindset. I'm so thankful that you are here, that |
| 0:08.5 | you're ready to get your mind aligned with the truth of God for this day. That's what |
| 0:13.5 | we're doing today. You Proverbs chapter 29. We're going to look at verses 6 and 7, |
| 0:18.8 | verse 10 and verse 16. We're going to be talking about how righteousness is the long game. |
| 0:26.0 | Righteousness is thinking toward the future. We're going to unpack that in just a moment. |
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| 0:55.2 | when something new comes out. All right, today let's look at Proverbs 29, verses 6 and 7. |
| 1:01.4 | And we're going to have some comparisons here as the Proverbs are prone to do. We're going to be |
| 1:06.0 | looking at a comparison between wicked people and righteous people. And what we're going to |
| 1:10.7 | discover is that righteousness is the best long term plan. Let's read verses 6 and 7. It says, |
| 1:17.6 | an evil man is ensnared by his transgression, but a righteous man sings and rejoices. So let's |
| 1:26.5 | just stop right there. We haven't even got to verse 7 yet. It's saying an evil man is going to |
| 1:31.6 | trap himself through his sinning. His sinning is going to cause trouble that's going to kind of |
| 1:37.4 | spiral and build upon itself until he's ensnared. He's trapped. He can't get out of it. I think we |
| 1:43.6 | all could raise our hand and say, been there, done that. He says, but a righteous man sings and |
| 1:49.2 | rejoices. You see, good comes from living a righteous life, good to the heart, good to the soul, |
| 1:55.2 | good to the happiness and joy with which we live life. You see, righteousness is what brings that. |
| 2:02.0 | Verse 7 says, a righteous man knows the rights of the poor. A wicked man does not understand such |
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