Hello, my friends. Welcome back to the morning mindset. I hope you're ready to get your

minds aligned with the truth of God. My name is Kerry Euring. I am a retired pastor who's

now teaching the Bible online and thousands, tens of thousands of people are listening

to these daily morning mindsets and I am just humbled. So thankful you're here. I'm grateful

God is doing what He has promised to do with His Word that it will go out and accomplish

the purpose for which He has sent it and it will not return to Him, void. Friends, you

are part of that. Thank you so much for passing on the morning mindset. I receive comments

from people here and there who tell me they share the morning mindset with people all

the time. I'm thankful for that. Please, if you know someone who could benefit from these

morning mindsets times that we have together, please share the episodes with them. Did

you know there's also a companion journal that goes along with the morning mindset that

you can use to take notes, to draw sketches, to do all kinds of things to help yourself digest

the truths that we go through each day. I would love for you to have one. Please check

out the link in the description for this episode that can guide you to your own companion

journal. All right, today we're looking at Proverbs chapter 23. We're going to only

going to look at one verse, verse number nine. It says, do not speak in the hearing of

a fool, where he will despise the wisdom of your words. That's a very simple verse on the

surface, but I think there's a handful of things that we need to pay close attention to.

First off, the fact that Solomon is using the word fool and he's giving you instruction

in light of another person being a fool implies that we are to be making assessments about the

people around us. Now, that's kind of hard to hear in a culture where we're told don't judge

or accept everyone's perspective as equally valid. Friends might say to you very plainly,

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