Man Proverbs chapter 30 is actually one of my favorite chapters is one of the first chapters
I memorized when I was a teenager when I only had like less than five chapters memorized
This was actually one of them one of the first things that I learned. I've always loved this chapter
It starts out in verse number one the words of agar the son of jakey
Even the prophecy the man spake unto I feel even unto I feel and you Cal now
These names are people that we know nothing about and so we're no longer in the proverbs of Solomon chapters 1 through 29
We're all by Solomon, but these last two chapters are by different authors. We don't know who agar is we don't know who jakey is
Well, you know he spake to I feel well
I don't know who that is either and neither do I know who you Cal is okay, so
First of all let's get into this guy's credentials. Okay. We don't know him or any of his friends or his relatives, okay?
Verse two maybe this is gonna. Give him more credibility
Surely, I am more brutish than any man
Now what does brutish mean you know brutish basically means?
Dumb ignorant foolish right like kind of like whenever I hear the word brood or brutish. I think of like a big dumb animal
Okay
Said surely. I'm more brutish than any man and have not the understanding of a man I
Neither learned wisdom nor have the knowledge of the holy
Now when you read these first three verses you know you can be a little bit taken aback
Maybe and say well, you know what's going on? Why should I listen to you?
Then you know if you don't know anything, but what we see here is that?
This chapters in the Bible
Why is this chapter in the Bible if it's written by a guy that nobody's ever heard of who just says hey
Let's just start out by saying one thing. You know. I'm not a smart guy, and I haven't learned
Wisdom, and I don't have the knowledge of the holy
Why would this be in the Bible and here's the thing?
This is such an important question because it really goes to the core of why is anything in the Bible
That's in the Bible. Why do we believe the Bible?
Why do we believe all the 66 books of the Bible and everything that they say it's not because of archaeology
It's not because of history. It's not because of science because there's no archaeology or history about this guy
We don't even know who this guy is you see the Bible is
self-authenticating
You know why we know that this chapter is the Word of God. It's because this chapter
is
awesome
This chapter has power
Only God's Word has power and so when the book of Proverbs is being put together
You know God's people knew hey, this is supposed to be in there. They're led by the Holy Spirit
Hey, this is God's Word
We need to include this and that's why these last two chapters are tagged on to the end of the book of Proverbs
Instead of just making it all the Proverbs of Solomon is that God?
Led these chapters to be put into the Bible and God's people have recognized them as God's Word
because of their built-in
awesomeness because it is
self-authenticating and
So that's why it's in the Bible because it's God's Word
And you say well, that sounds like kind of a circular argument. Well, amen. So what?
This isn't a logic problem. This isn't a philosophy class
Okay, God has put this chapter in the Bible and in fact
This little preamble at the beginning makes it remarkable
For this chapter to have ended up in the Bible with a preamble like this
but yet when God wants something in the Bible, he puts it in the Bible and
God's people are led by the Spirit of God to
Acknowledge as God's Word that which is actually God's Word and you see this is why it's so important that we not only
Believe in all 66 books of the Bible that we have
Nothing more and nothing less
But also that we stick to the traditional text of the Bible the text that has been passed down by God's people
preached read and used by God's people
non-stop as opposed to some new discovery some document that's been forgotten and and it's been gone and
Supposedly that's a more accurate
Version or whatever and that's what all these modern versions are based on by the way things that have been buried away
No, we have the traditional text
God's Spirit has authored this book and God's Spirit has also preserved this book and here it is
Now, you know with that being said let's talk about what he's saying here. You know, he's basically
exaggerating or using hyperbole and
He's making the point
that
Human wisdom is not what it's cracked up to be. He's a guy that people are looking up to he's teaching
He's writing down these
These words that everybody wants to hear and that everybody's gonna preserve and ultimately put in the Bible
But he's saying, you know, even me I look at myself and I feel dumb and you see here's the thing
People that actually
Learn a lot and then actually get a lot of education
they realize how much they don't know and how much they don't realize and sometimes the people that walk around bragging about how smart they
Are and acting like they're so much smarter than everyone else and having all this ego and pride
it's it's really that they don't know much at all and some of the dumbest people think they're the smartest and
some of the smartest people think they're the dumbest and
Here's a guy that's obviously a super smart guy but yet he looks at himself and he says man, you know
I feel like I'm dumber than other people
I feel like I'm more brutish than any man and have not the understanding of a man
I never learned wisdom nor have the knowledge of the Holy what is he saying? You know, there's so much more for me to learn and
and so everybody who actually does real learning and real study as they delve into this
Infinite book called the Bible
They're gonna constantly be overwhelmed by a feeling of oh man. There's just so much that I still don't know
There's so much more to learn. There's so much more study
I need to do but then you knock the door of some guy who doesn't know Jack and he'll say oh
I've already read the Bible. I don't go to church anywhere because I know more than all the pastors
I've had somebody look me in the face and tell me well the reason I don't go to church because I'm I know more Bible than
every pastor
And do you really think
That that guy knows more Bible than any pastor
He probably doesn't even know more Bible than most of the people in this room right now
Even if they got saved, you know a few months ago because people that talk a big talk like that
You know and and and he said, you know, he'd read the Bible a few times in prison, you know
So well case closed, right?
But then you talk to people who literally have read the Bible 40 50 even a hundred times
They're not gonna brag to you about how they already know everything there is to know and they don't need to go to church
And they don't need to listen to preaching and they don't need to be taught
No, the people who know the most realize there's still so much more learning. They want to be taught they want to
attain unto wise counsels and hear what other people have to say so that they can learn even more and
So that's what I get out of these first three
Verses here and then this leads us right into the next thought in verse four after talking about his
Deficiencies in learning and what he lacks in wisdom and knowledge
He says who have to send it up into heaven or decent
He kind of moves on to a thought in verse four if you know is anybody's knowledge really what it's cracked up to be
You know people that are claiming to be experts and really smart and have a lot of wisdom
Are they even what they're cracked up to be because there are just so many things in this world that are just
unknowable that we can't know that we will not know he says who at the Senate up into heaven or
Descented who had gathered the wind in his fists who had bound the waters in a garment who had established all the ends of the earth
What is his name? And what is his son's name if thou can't tell and then this logically leads us into verse 5
Every word of God is pure. He's saying look at the end of the day
Human wisdom is not going to be the final authority. It's the Word of God. That's the final authority and
So my knowledge is deficient my learning and wisdom is deficient
But guess what other people in this world can't really claim to know everything either
At the end of the day it's God's Word that's pure it's the counsel of the Lord that shall stand
It's God that knows everything. It's the Word of God. That is our final third
You know, I was talking to pastor burzins a while back and he was just telling me how in his life. He's found so many experts
To just be really disappointing even just in the business world
Just just in secular pursuits so many people that are touted as experts
They're really nothing special and they don't have all the knowledge that they claimed at me
You know every once in a while you run into a real expert and they'll kind of blow your mind with how smart they are
And how much they know but it's pretty rare they're out there, but you don't run into them very often
Okay, a lot of people that are touted as experts
They're just ordinary people and sometimes you can get this attitude that there are just these people out there. They just know so much
They're so smart. We just need to trust them. We just need to listen to them. They must know these things
They must be right
But at the end of the day the Word of God is our final authority because that's really the only thing we can trust
We can't necessarily trust an expert even if he is that smart you might not be telling the truth
We can't always trust
Everything that we read or hear but the Word of God is something that we know is pure something that we can rely on
Say, how do we know that we know that by faith?
We believe that and so I believe that everything in this book
The King James Bible is 100% true
And so this is the rock upon which I build my life
This is the foundation of our church the foundation of my salvation and of my life is the Word of God
It's the Bible because every word of God is pure. He's a shield unto them that put their trust in him
Add thou not unto his words lest he reprove thee and thou be found a liar, right?
we don't want to add to God's Word because God's Word is
Sacred and you can't take from it. You can't add to it. It is what it is
Now he says after this part about God's Word being pure and and don't add to God's Word
Which is obviously a really important scripture verses five and six
These two verses were part of what drew me to this chapter when I originally learned this chapter as a teenager
Because it's so important that we have the the Word of God
Intact and and of course
There's an attack on God's Word today adding and removing things and there always has been an attack on God's Word
people have always been trying to sneak in apocryphal books and and bogus fake scriptures and
there's always been an attack on certain parts of scripture to remove things and so forth, but
Thankfully God promised to preserve his word and he said heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass away
So here we are and we have the preserved Word of God including this chapter
Says in verse 7 two things have I required of thee
Deny me them not before I die
So he's kind of changed gears here because he's now speaking to God because so far he's been talking about God in the third person
but now he's switched over to a prayer that he's actually praying to God and
You're gonna find out that this guy's not as brutish as he is letting on at the beginning
This guy is a very smart guy
And of course, he's inspired by God, but it says two things have I required of thee deny me them not before I die
Remove far from me vanity and lies
Give me neither poverty nor riches
So the two things that he is asking God for is number one remove far from me vanity and lies, right?
I don't want to be surrounded by liars and and and people who are just
Saying things that aren't true, but also just saying things that are vain just a bunch of just vain jangling hot air
Stupid stuff that doesn't matter, you know, just just get rid of that junk. Basically. He's saying I'm not gonna watch the news
It's basically what he's saying, you know remove far from me MSNBC remove far from me CNN
You know remove far from me Fox News, you know, because it's van it when it's not lies
It's vanity and when it's not vanity, it's lies
So
He says, you know get this stuff away from me. So, you know, I don't want to waste my time
I don't want to be deceived. I don't want to listen to that stuff. Just vanity and lies and then he says give me neither
poverty nor
riches
Now a lot of people today they want to be rich, but the Bible says labor not to be rich
Do not try to be rich the Bible says they that will be rich meaning they that want to be rich
Fall into temptation and a snare and into many foolish and hurtful lusts
Which drown men in destruction and perdition for the love of money is the root of all evil
Which while some coveted after they've heard from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows
Don't love money don't desire money
Don't have a goal to be rich and you talk to young people sometimes and they'll just flat-out tell you
Hey, I want to be rich. I had a guy tell me about a year or so ago
He just looked at me and just said I just love money
He said this is the path I'm taking in life because I love money
And I'm just like dude the love of money is the root of all evil
You know, this is what the Bible says, but he just he just said to me. He wasn't kidding. He wasn't being ironic
He was just saying I love money. I'm like no and
the thing is that
Today a lot of young people this is their goal. It's just grow up and be rich. What what job can I do?
What education can I get what path can I take that will lead me to being rich?
But we should not desire to be rich because those who want to be rich end up falling into temptation the Bible says
but at the same time I
Don't want to be poor and God isn't saying that you should want to be poor
You've got to take a vow of poverty. You've got to be poor your whole life. You should want to be poor
That's not what the Bible teaches. The Bible says give me neither poverty nor riches
right because
He says in verse 9 lest I be full and deny thee and say who is the Lord look if I'm rich if I have
Too much I could get to a point where I'm so arrogant pompous
I start feeling like I don't even need God because I've got everything figured out
I got everything taken care of I want to be a little hungry. Sometimes I want to be a little lean
So that I still remember that I need God to sustain me and so that I'm trusting God for my daily bread
But at the same time I don't want to live in poverty none of us does
He says lest I be full and deny thee and say who is the Lord like what you know, what do I need him for?
or lest I be poor and
Steal and take the name of my God in vain and so people who are poor
They could be tempted to maybe justify stealing and say hey
It isn't fair everybody else has so much and I have so little and so it's only right that they shared the wealth a little
So I'm gonna take this and I'm entitled to this and I guarantee you who's ever had your bicycle stolen before
Look at all their hands around the building. Isn't it a shame? Oh, that makes me mad
It's just like every hand that goes up. It's like I'm angry mad
Stealing a bike. Oh
Drives me nuts. I've had a couple bikes stolen, you know half the building just put up their hand that they've had a bike stolen
But I'll bet you've had two bikes. So yeah, so half the building has lost two bikes
So it averages out to one bike per person stolen
And here's the thing about that is that I guarantee you that most of the people who stole those bikes
They probably justified it in their mind and said oh, you know this privileged person and they you know
They live in this nicer area and they have nicer things than me and I have this bad upbringing and you know
They're not even gonna miss it. They're just gonna go buy another one and and I need this
I'll guarantee that those kind of thoughts
probably came into a lot of those thieves minds about how other people are privileged and they're
Disadvantaged and that you know, America isn't fair and America ripped them off or whatever
I guarantee you that those are the type of thoughts because people justify their sins
And so what he's saying here is I don't want to be poor because there's a tendency in poor people sometimes to basically
Steal to justify stealing and think well I have to do this
And
Lest I be poor and steal and take the name of my God in vain, you know
They could also perhaps get angry at God lash out at God curse God like when things went wrong for job
That's what his wife thought. He should do when he lost everything curse God and die and
So he says, you know, just feed me with food convenient for me. What does that mean in verse 8?
Does it mean that we need to do a lot of drive-thru?
We need to eat as much fast food as we can, you know
The virtuous Christian life is one that subsists and gets the daily bread from QT
It's the gas station
Right. I don't let lest I be let lest I be rich and eat at a steakhouse or lest I be poor and have no food
You know feed me from QT feed me from McDonald's feed me from Taco Bell. That's not what he means. Okay, that's bad advice
When he says feed me with food convenient for me
What he means is that is the food that comes to me easily or naturally, right?
That's what it means convenient is that which comes naturally or comes easily
So for me in my house, you know, I don't have to get on my knees every morning
You'd be like God the cupboards are empty. You know, I please provide now
I do pray for God to provide I do. Thank God for my food
But you know when I wake up in the morning
there's food there when my wife goes to cook lunch or cook dinner the food is there and
Virtually every single person here would say the same thing, you know when you go to your kitchen
There's food there, right? So that's food could be for now
we don't need to have necessarily all the filet mignon and lobster tails and
Necessarily have all this stockpiled food to get us through the tribulation and the wrath of God just in case
You know, we don't need all that stuff because of the fact that you know, we just need feed convenient
We just need we just want to have what we need, right? I mean, what do we want?
We just we want to have a roof over our family's head want to have a vehicle to get to work
We want to have nutritious food
Nothing fancy nothing special. We just want to have
It not convenience foods not convenience store food
Not fast food but food convenient for us and by the way eating out of fast food is expensive anyway
That's not the cheapest way to eat
I mean in some of these meals now you go to a fast-food place and it's like
What 10 bucks a meal you can eat for a lot less than that at home
Sometimes it's a lot more than that
You can eat for less at home. Okay, you have to cook the food. Somebody's got to cook the food
But man if you make things from scratch that's the cheapest way to eat and it's the healthiest way to eat too
The problem is there's a little work that needs to go into it. A lot of people don't want to do any work
It's a lot easier just to pull out that ready-made
Convenience food dot feed me with convenience foods. Okay, it's not what it says
Feed me with food convenient for me meaning not rich not poor
middle class right the middle state here
So the way this chapters laid out is a little bit
Different it's a little odd in fact because the way that this chapter is laid out
It's it's almost like a stream of consciousness, you know, and I'm not trying to be
Disrespectful at all because obviously I've already acknowledged the greatness of this chapter and the power of God's Word
And and how it shows itself to be God's Word because you know people have tried to make
Imitations of God's Word and it's never good, but this is good
But this that being said this chapter is laid out in kind of an odd manner at least from where I'm standing and from
Where I see it because what the way this chapter is laid out is that?
Agar the author of the of the chapter here. He will talk about something and
then basically
Something in what he said will connect it to the next thing
But the next thing isn't really connected to what he was just talking about
It's like he'll jump from subject to subject
And he's taught which shouldn't really surprise us that much because isn't that the way the whole book of Proverbs has been in a lot
of places
So he'll kind of jump from subject to subject. But what's funny is that there's always like a little thread connecting
the subject to the next subject
Even though it's something totally different
So like for example, he talks about well
I don't want to be poor because then I might steal or take the name of God in vain
and
Then he just because we just talked about taking God's name in vain that kind of has his mind on
Cursing so then he goes to this thought of accuse not a servant unto his master
Lest he curse thee and thou be found guilty
So that's just kind of a totally separate proverb
It doesn't really seem to have anything to do with what we just read does it and look at the next thing
There is a generation that cursed their father and did not bless their mother
So you can see how one thought leads to the next even though these are kind of disconnected thoughts
And here's the thing, you know, this is a poetic book. We have to understand that the book of Proverbs is poetry
It's a poetic book. And so this is obviously a poetic device. This is done on purpose, you know
For whatever reason and so it ends up working
But he said it's not really the way that I would typically lay out a sermon though, okay
But this chapter is a poem that's laid out in that way
So it says accuse not a servant unto his master
Lest he curse thee and thou be found guilty
There is a generation that cursed their father and did not bless their mother and then he just starts going into a whole bunch
Of things about this generation. There's a generation that are pure in their own eyes and yet is not washed from their filthiness
There is a generation. Oh how lofty are their eyes and their eyelids are lifted up
There's a generation whose teeth are as swords and their jaw teeth as knives to devour the poor
From off the earth and the needy from among men
so I mean, there's a lot that we could talk about here because each of these Proverbs is
Worth looking at in its own right it, you know each proverb like in the rest of the book of Proverbs is like a sermon in
and of itself
But you know a few things I like to home in on about this generation is that you know
We could look around at our generation and say hey, I see these things even in our generation
And that's because there's nothing new under the Sun
thousands of years ago
Literally, right probably around 3,000 years ago
This guy's saying there's a generation that cursed their father and did not bless their mother
But sometimes that feels like something new to us
You know
We see a generation
cursing their parents saying that they hate their parents and
talking bad about their parents and and but you know what apparently that's always been going on hasn't it and
that's why there are even commandments in the Bible about those who curse their father and mother and so forth and so the the world is
Going through cycles, right?
So we can look back to a time in our country where people were respectful to their parents where Christianity was exalted
Where people are reading the Bible where people in general have Christian morals and we could say oh man, you know
We're on this downward spiral. We're on this downward trajectory and that's true
But here's the thing though if we went back even further
We could find times and places that were as bad as the world is today right now in America
We know we can look around at America right now and we could say it's the worst ever
It's the work, you know, the sodomites and the perversion and the weirdos it's the worst ever
Okay, I guess you've never studied ancient Greece
You know, what about Sodom and Gomorrah, I mean Sodom and Gomorrah was worse than the United States
And that was thousands of years ago, I mean Sodom and Gomorrah is about four thousand years ago
Okay, but we could also look at places more recently in history
Like we could look at Pompeii or something in the first century AD
We could look at Athens in you know
the fifth fourth century
BC and and show all the perverted things and the wrong things and the wicked things and so there's really nothing new understand now I
do believe firmly that
The world is on a trajectory of getting worse not better as far as it's getting more immoral
It's getting more ungodly and I do believe that that trend will continue in general until the Lord Jesus Christ returns
But as this world
circles the drain
there are gonna be ups and downs ebbs and flows two steps forward one step back and
Different places will be godly versus ungodly, you know
So like let's say we talk about four thousand years ago Sodom and Gomorrah
You know, that was one little area
Which is why God just ended up torching it and burning it all down
Just say just to get rid of that blight off the face of the earth or when the Canaanites became super perverted and God just had
The Israelites wipe out the Canaanites, you know
the difference was that it was a smaller group of people in a certain area even in the times when
Ancient Greece was super perverted and wicked and filled with homos, you know, the whole world wasn't like that
You know the rest of the world was condemning homos
It was just these little pockets of wickedness popping up
And so throughout history you've had pockets of wickedness pockets of righteousness
you've had countries go downhill morally and then come back and then get worse and then have some kind of a
revival or some kind of a renaissance of
godly
culture teaching the Bible whatever I
Think the thing that's really different about today though
Because you could look at America and say hey America is not as bad as Sodom and Gomorrah
I think we'd all agree that the Sodom and Gomorrah described in the Bible is worse than any city in America
Even San Francisco or or Las Vegas or something like that
But I think the difference what's different though because we don't want to also get this other foolish teaching called post-millennialism
Which teaches that the world's getting better and more Christian and we're gonna bring in the kingdom like Durban
I see you laughing back there, you know Durban, you know what Durban's teaching down at apostasy a church that you know
It's gonna get better. We're gonna bring in the kingdom post-millennialism and so forth
Here's the thing about that the difference in
2023 about why the wickedness is
Unprecedented is just the fact that it's getting global in scale
Okay, then it's not just one
Group of cities or one small nation that has been given over to a reprobate mind and and that is
indulging in all of these filthy things but rather it's getting to the point where
Countries all over the world are all going down the same path because the world has become somewhat of a Tower of Babel
Right because throughout history we've had separate nations separate cities
Separate groups and so those groups were sometimes righteous sometimes wicked they had their ups and downs, you know, oh, it's wicked
Let's move over here
Oh now we're in a more godly place the difference is that we have now the internet and TV and transportation technology
That's kind of causing everything to be a little bit more homogenous
Where now in America, it's not like oh, well, San Francisco's super weird
New Orleans is super weird Las Vegas is super weird now
It's to the point where on the road trip last summer
I walked into Walmart in Oklahoma City and was greeted by a transvestite
Now you wouldn't expect that in the Bible Belt, would you?
But see in America, there's not a Bible Belt anymore. All of American culture is
Starting to go down this dark path
Where it's not like oh, well, if I go to Idaho, I'll never see any of that
If I go to Oklahoma if I can just get to South Carolina if I you know
I'll never have to see any that no my friend you walk in to you know, I was in you know, Greenville, South Carolina
Beautiful city. I love Greenville. It's one of my favorite cities in the south
But you know, there were businesses flying rainbow flags in Greenville, South Carolina
Transvestite greeted you at Oklahoma City, you know, we were in Idaho and it was like a lesbian convention in Idaho
It was just like I've never seen so many lesbians in my life as I saw in, Idaho
So, you know nowhere nowhere is immune
From this downward trend morally and spiritually in our country. I think that's the difference
I think that's why we would say that post-millennialism is full of baloney other than the fact that it's totally unbiblical
Obviously the Bible doesn't teach post-millennialism
But you know, why don't we just put the Bible aside for a second just use a little common sense
Well, the world's really getting Christian and godly, isn't it?
Are you serious?
You know, it's getting to the point where even even countries in Africa and in Southeast Asia, you know
They're having this propaganda forced down their throat the sodomite propaganda. So it's not just the cities of the plain
It's not Sodom Gomorrah, Admah, Zeboam and Zoar
It's not just the Hivites and the Parisites and the Jebusites
Just a small fraction of the world's population in this one little area that's gotten super wicked
No, it's getting to the point where wickedness is happening everywhere
Where the sodomites are taking over everywhere where all nations are being?
de-christianized and people are getting away from sound doctrine on
Mass ever not like well this area has gone bad, but the gospel is alive and well over here now, of course
We're not there yet
To Sodom and Gomorrah levels. We're not there yet where the Gospels totally gone because of course the gospel will never totally die
Because as long as the Holy Spirit is there as long as the Word of God's there
People are gonna be saved people are gonna preach, you know Christ's church is going to endure forever
okay, and and the institution will endure the people will endure the Bible is gonna endure but
When the end comes
It's gonna be worse than it is right now. There's gonna be less
godliness
There's gonna be less sound Bible preaching. There's gonna be more wickedness and Christ is gonna have to come in and clean house. Okay?
This is our eschatology
Okay, we are pre-millennial and so we believe that the earth and I was I was talking to a guy that was one of these
Post-millennial guys and we were you know, we were going back and forth with Bible verses and this is in real life
By the way, I don't argue with people online, but I'm talking to this guy and I just said hey just stop for a second
Just stop for a second
Do you really like just put away the Bible for a second?
Do you really think that the world's getting better or more godly or that Christianity is getting better and he's just like
Yeah, that's a really good point. I don't know how to answer
That's just kind of like it's kind of like just stop for a second and like why don't we look out the window
You know, I mean, it's great, you know, and here's the thing. I believe that the Bible is the final authority
But if the Bible doesn't match what I see out the window something's wrong with my interpretation of the Bible
Because if I ever get because who believes that what I see out that window is real right now
Or are we living in simulation? Okay. Look, I believe that what I'm seeing out that window is real right now
Okay, so if the Bible is real
And what I'm seeing out that window is real then you know, they should both match and if they don't match
I'm either interpreting what I see out that window wrong or I'm interpreting the Bible wrong
I don't think I'm interpreting what I see out there wrong
I think we can all see that the world is on a bobsled to hell right now morally and spiritually
Okay, and it's not and what's the difference you say?
Well, you're the one who to hold us pastor Anderson that Sodom was like that that ancient Greece was worse that Pompeii was worse
Amen Pompeii was worse
I mean look the Pompeii exhibit in Phoenix here at the museum
You had to be over 18 to even go into the Pompeii exhibit
Because it's just it's just all male anatomy everywhere everywhere you turn
Okay, by the way in the nation of bastards itself Reykjavik they had a whole museum
Devoted to male
Parts just just filth just total
Queer smut. Okay. Look that's the kind of garbage that was going on a Pompeii
Why God turned it into a second Sodom and Gomorrah and may a volcano erupt and just completely buried it
So it's like oh, it's a sad look at this Pompeii people all burned up. It's like burn baby burn. They're a bunch of queers. I
Mean think about it. Like do you wish Pompeii had not been this you wish they would have evacuated
So they could just spread their faggotry to the whole rest of the world
Thank God for that volcano
Thank God for Vesuvius, you know what I mean? At least get rid of some of that stuff, you know
We need we you know, we need a few other volcanoes to erupt and he's strategically located
But you know the reason why it's you know, the reason why volcanoes aren't really
You know blowing up and destroying cities like that right now. It's cuz like, you know
You wouldn't really want San Francisco to get destroyed because there's a lot of good people in San Francisco
There are a lot of good Christians in San Francisco, right?
You know God smokes places like Pompeii and Sodom and Gomorrah where there's like nobody righteous. I
Mean isn't wasn't that the whole story about lot?
God didn't want to just wipe out lot and his family. I mean God God got a lot out of there
You know, there there are too many lots in San Francisco. There are too many lots in Las Vegas and and these places
They're good godly Christian people that live in these places
And so, you know, they're not getting destroyed but Pompeii was just pure
Fags, and so he just got destroyed just like Sodom and Gomorrah and by the way
Lest you think God softened up in the New Testament get a history book Pompeii happened after
Jesus died on the cross and rose again and ascended to heaven
Okay
Pompeii happened in the New Testament. So God still blows things up in the New Testament. Okay?
When it when it went, you know and and you know Reykjavik with that museum
They better watch out that because they because there's a lot of volcanoes in Iceland
And I don't think there's a lot of righteous people over there
So they better watch out, you know
You know whenever like the one righteous guy like goes on vacation and leaves Iceland
That sucker that volcano is gonna blow
And it's all getting buried. Okay, and then people are gonna dig it up hundreds of years later and be like, whoa
This is an over 18 exhibit
All right, I digress
But you know, so does agger he digresses a lot too so I don't I don't feel bad about it
There's a generation that are pure in their own eyes verse 12, but it's not washed from their filthiness
There's a generation. Oh how loftier their eyes and their eyelids are lifted up. You know, these are things that we should stay away from
We don't want to be people who curse our father and don't bless our mother
Want to honor and bless our parents. Amen
We don't want to be people
Who are pure in our own eyes and yet not wash from our filthiness
We don't want to be
Uh like this generation that's so arrogant and prideful and their their eyes are lifted up and they're so haughty and their eyelids are lifted
up
And we don't want to be like a generation whose teeth are as swords and their jaw teeth as knives
To devour the poor from off the earth and the needy from among men, you know
We don't want to run a check cashing place
Or do predatory lending to poor people and take advantage of poor people and rip off the poor
For our own financial gain so we can get rich while we rip off poor people
We don't want to be that generation
You know, the bible says in verse 15 the horse leech hath two daughters crying give
Give there are three things that are never
Satisfied gave four things say not it is enough now for the rest of the chapter
We're going to be doing things in fours
okay, so
We had four things about the generation didn't we?
You know, there's a generation there is a generation four different things
So now for the whole rest of the chapter everything comes in fours
But first it starts out with a three and then it goes to a four. So this is a again
A uh a poetic device
That's often used in poetry
Where you'll say like for example, you know nine days went by and then on the 10th day this happened, right? So that's uh,
a poetic device
Where you have the number and then you give it a plus one and so right here it says, you know, there are
Uh three things that are never satisfied
Yay, four things say not it is enough and this is how it's going to be most of the time
Where it says for example in verse 21 for three things the earth is disquieted see that in verse 21
and for four
Which it cannot bear
Right look at verse 29. There'll be three things which go well
Yay, four are comely and going and we see this elsewhere in the book of proverbs when it says these six things does the lord hate
This is just a poetic device, that's all I mean, what is the what does the word poetry even mean?
You know, you ever stop and think like why are the books of job?
psalms proverbs
Ecclesiastes and song of psalms. Why are they called poetic books?
Now I think it's obvious why psalms is a poetic book. Why is job a poetic book?
Right because it feels more like a story and preaching is going on
But you know, I think it's obvious why psalms is a poetic book. Why is job a poetic book?
The definition of poetry
Is that it's a work of literature that is being constrained?
By some arbitrary pattern or rule or something the opposite of poetry is what?
Pros, what does prose mean prose simply means straightforward?
Pros means straightforward. It just means you're just writing something you just write it
Whereas poetry is constrained somehow. There's some kind of a rule or some kind of a pattern like for example
Hey the first line and the third line are going to rhyme and the second and fourth line are going to rhyme
That's arbitrary right because you don't you don't have to write that way
or uh, it's poetry because i'm going to use all this really
Flowery language that I wouldn't normally use or it's poetry because the first line is going to start with an a
The second line is going to start with a b
The third line is going to start with a c and it's going to spell out the alphabet on the left side or you know
You'll see a poem like uh in in in verity baptist church in the lobby
They had to think it said like pastor
And then it something started with a p something started with an a something started with an s, right? So that's poetry
The main thing about poetry in the bible is parallelism
So everything in the book of job is stated twice. So when the people are talking in the book of job
They don't just talk normally they say something in one word and then they say it in another in another set of words
Right, so everything's repeated
It's these little couplets these little doublets that you see all throughout
job psalms proverbs
You'll see that over and over again
So we're we're doing poetry here. It's meant to be beautiful
And it has these little extra things going on like the hey, there's three actually there's four
It's not that he just you know, he didn't want to cross that
He wrote that there were three and then he's like, oh, you know, I just thought of another one
You know, I know I said there are six things that the lord hates, but you know what? Ah
There's one more thing that he hates obviously he already knows that there's he's gonna do fours
but it's poetry so it's just
A device it's beautiful. Somebody said it was a contradiction in the bible. That's funny
Because here's the thing whenever you have four of something, you know what you also have
three
Right every single, you know, how many day how many months of the year have 28 days in them?
all of them
Right every month has 28 days
Okay
You know, I have two children
Yay, three yay four. Oh actually 12
You know, I gotta count real quick
But the point is that if you have four you also have three if you have seven you have to have six
So so is the bible telling the truth when it says hey these six things does the lord hate?
Yeah, he does hate those six things and he also hates seven
Right. So anyway, that's what's going on here
So he says, uh, there are three things that are never satisfied
Yay, four
Things say not it is enough the grave
The grave is never satisfied why because people are dying every day and they're going to be dying tomorrow and the day after that
And the grave is never satisfied. It just keeps on saying give me more more bodies send more dead souls my way
so the grave
Is never satisfied the barren womb is never satisfied right women who can't have children this bothers them
And so that that barren womb is not satisfied because they're longing to have a child
Obviously that's in general not uh
Necessarily 100 of the time but in general the barren womb is never satisfied
The earth that is not filled with water
So, you know the rain falls from heaven onto the earth
And the earth is never satisfied. You know, the earth always needs more. Give me more. Give me more and the earth can always receive more
Because we have the water cycle, right?
Because the water it comes in it goes out and it's a never-ending process
It's sort of like our bellies
Are never satisfied we could never just eat that one ultimate meal
And then just i'm done
I'm, never going to eat again because that meal was so good
I never need to eat again. I I I ate it three years ago and i've just
It was awesome
And I haven't needed to eat since no because your belly's never satisfied. So in the same way as our belly
There's a cycle right and the same thing with the earth, that's why the earth is not filled with water and the fire
Says not it is not, you know, as long as there's fuel for that fire to burn it's going to keep going
It's not just going to burn and burn and burn and then it just you know
It's it's tearing through all that dead grass and and and dead tree branches and everything and then it's just like i'm tired
You know i'm done
I've burned, you know, this fire's gone along the fire never stops. It will literally never stop because it's just satisfied
It'll only stop because it has to stop because there's nothing left to beat it, but it has an insatiable appetite
The fire that sayeth not it is enough these things are never satisfied
So what's the point here, you know, what is he saying here
You know, well
Guess what the the eyes of man are also never satisfied
Human beings are also never satisfied. They're greedy just like these natural forces that are
Never satisfied so are human beings
The bible says the eye that mocketh at his father and despiseth to obey his mother
The ravens of the valley shall pick it out and the young eagles shall eat it again
It's important to honor love respect your parents
Verse 18 there be three things which are too wonderful for me yay for which I know not
the way of an eagle in the air
You know you think about all of the wonder of nature. I mean how many times have you just
Gone outside and just looked at that beautiful arizona sunset which happens every single day in arizona virtually
And you look at that
Sunset you just marvel at it
Or you look at animals and you marvel at the beauty of animals, you know, whether it's
Dolphins jumping out of the water or it's just some school of fish or one of the things is, you know
An eagle flying in the air and and how many times have we all in our lives?
You've been camping or you're out somewhere and you see an eagle and everybody just kind of stops
And just kind of looks at that eagle
Right, who knows what i'm talking about?
You just everybody stop it's like oh there's an eagle and we all just kind of stop and we're all just staring at an eagle
Why why are we looking at that eagle because it's wonderful
It causes wonder we we're we're amazed at it. It's beautiful
So it says that you know the way of an eagle in the air is beautiful the way of a serpent upon a rock
now this is also wonderful because
Serpents are of course we would call them snakes
In our modern vernacular. This is one of those king james words, you know that
we have a hard time with you know, you know, what's so funny about this is that
i've never
heard anyone
Use the word serpent in a normal conversation
And they will always say snake
You know unless they're unless you're like with a group of baptist preachers or something. It'll be like hey look
There's a serpent in the path, you know
And so I will sometimes call it a serpent
Just because like you get that word in your head from thinking about the bible all the time
But unless you're around somebody who's super into the bible nobody in america
Would say that's a serpent. Let's go to the reptile house to view serpents
You just don't say everybody says snake 100 of the time
right
But here's what's funny
Pretty much every single person knows what a serpent is
If I were to walk down the street asking people do you know what a serpent is they're gonna say of course, it's a snake
So even though the king james bible doesn't talk the way we talk
People still can understand almost every word in the king james bible and the rare word that they don't understand the king james bible
Look it up in the dictionary
Because you know what?
Every single book I read I look things up in the dictionary. I have a dictionary app on my phone dictionary.com app
I used it
today
I actually I didn't use the app today. I use the desktop version, but I use the dictionary
Almost every day, but for sure every week
Because i'm reading books and and I have to I look things up
And you say well the books I read I never have to look anything up well
I'm, you know, i'm glad that you're enjoying dr. Seuss so much
And I enjoyed it too, you know
Many many years ago
But you know, if you actually read books that are beyond that level you're gonna have to look some stuff up
And by the way, people will come at you with this list of hard words in the kjb
You can do the same thing with the esv
Do the same thing with the niv you do the same thing with the new king james
There are always going to be hard words in the bible no matter what I don't care who translates it
I don't care what translation i'll bet you the living bible and the message have hard words in them
Oh garrett, you know because some sometimes there are just hard concepts in the bible
There are just archaic concepts. So you have to use an archaic word because it's it's a thing that's old
Or it's some sailing term or sewing term or military term that we don't know anything about because we're a bunch of city slickers
in
2023 america
But you know, it's like oh, you know, it's so hard to serpent
Every nobody says serpent, but everybody knows what a serpent is. Isn't that funny how that works?
But that's how a lot of things in the king james are
But you know when you do see a snake
on a rock
It's pretty cool to watch a snake move and it can be mesmerizing
To look at a snake and watch that thing move and it's and it's and then you pick it up
And then you pick it up and it just feels like one big muscle like it just feels like it's all muscle
It's so strange
And the way it moves and you don't really know like what's what's it going to do next?
You know, it's just kind of like it's very complicated the way it moves and that little it's doing a little
I don't know. Is that a sign or a cosine or what is that? You know
Trying to mathematically understand the movements
But you see the snake moving. It's it's pretty it's pretty amazing. It's wonderful. It's beautiful
And then you cut the thing open and think you're going to get a bunch of meat out of it
Because it just seems like it's all muscle
Then you find out like yeah, there's like no muscle
And you don't get a lot of meat off of a snake
Who's ever tried to skin a snake to eat the the meat off of it?
You know, i've done it on a camping trip before with with a bunch of guys
We we caught a snake and we're like, yeah, you know, we're gonna we're gonna do this
We're gonna eat this thing and you know, we butchered and ate the thing but it it yielded a lot less meat than you'd expect
it was like
We burned more calories
Like butchering the thing than it gave us so in a survival situation just skip it
you know
Eat bugs, you know, you just pop them in your mouth swallow them done because butchering a rattlesnake is hard
It was a rattlesnake that we that we did
So we were removing something bad, you know
But it says, you know the way of a serpent upon a rock it's it's too wonderful to me I can't process it
It's so amazing, it's so beautiful, you know, he's just marveling at creation the eagle in the air the serpent upon a rock
And then the next thing he says is the way of a ship in the midst of the sea
You know you think about how the waves work and the waves throw the ship around and again
It's so complicated like it's hard for your brain to process
That's why if you've ever done like surfing i've never been actual real life surfing, but i've done like body surfing, you know
Where you kind of go out there you wait for a good wave
You just kind of ride the wave just riding on your stomach or i've done like boogie boarding or something
But here's the thing about that is when you're out there and you're kind of bobbing in the water and all those surfers are bobbing
In the water, it's kind of hard sometimes to figure out when the big wave is coming
Now the surfers i'm sure they know and they'll figure it out and and you know
They they know when it's going to be totally tubular. Okay?
but
You know
I could be out there for hours and I can't really figure it out and you're like, oh man
There's gonna be a good one. It's just kind of like
It just kind of peters out
Right because because you know the waves and the sea the weather
You know human beings I mean are still trying to figure out how to predict the weather how to understand
The weather patterns because it's so complicated. There's so much going on
You know, it's hard to process but it's also just beautiful
Just watching the sea
And people love to go to the ocean just stare at the ocean and watching a ship in the midst of the sea
watching a boat tossed in the waves is a beautiful thing just like watching that snake or
Watching the way of an eagle in the air
And then lastly it says the way of a man with a maid right the the physical relationship
Between man and woman that is of course reserved for within the bounds of marriage is a beautiful thing
And it's interesting how like as he goes down the list here it kind of gets more down to earth
You know, he starts out with the you know
The eagle in the air and then the serpent upon a rock is still very much nature
And an animal and then you get to the ship in the midst of the sea
We're getting a little more human but still not quite because it's just it's not really the people
It's a ship bouncing in the water and then you get to actual humans
In the end and and usually when we have the list of things here
Usually the final thing in the list is the big one
Right, you know faith hope and charity
The greatest of these is charity, right?
So a lot of times when the bible listing the last one is kind of the big one the finale, right?
So the finale here is the way of a man with a maid the beautiful thing
But yet human beings could take that which is the most beautiful the most sublime the most wonderful thing
And turn it into something nasty
Because look what the bible says in the very next verse such is the way of an adulterous woman
So we just finished talking about how the way of a man with a maid. It's too wonderful for me
It's too wonderful. I can't even process it. It's so beautiful. It's so wonderful
But then he says such as the way of an adult notice the word way
The way of a man with a maid and then he says such as the way
Of an adulterous woman she eateth and wipeth her mouth and sayeth i've done no wickedness. Here's the image
Imagine a woman just eating in a very not ladylike manner
Imagine a woman just gorging on food to the point where she gets food all over her mouth
Right, you know typically when we eat we put the food inside of our mouth
But if you thought of someone who's kind of like a semi-feral kind of a sad you guys
Yeah, you know you just picture them just kind of eating and making a mess all over their mouth
Now obviously a baby eats that way but that you know, that's beautiful in its own way
But you know when a baby does it is beautiful when adults do what babies do it's not beautiful
If a baby is just you know
I mean if you saw an adult in a restaurant just shoving food in their face and their foods all over their face
You know and then the wiping of the mouth is just kind of
You know that kind of a gesture right, you know, I mean I don't want to make myself messy with food
You know, it's just kind of like yeah
You know and everybody's looking at that
And saying like oh man, you know, like like if it was actual like drink other than water
Because that you know that was I was just freshening up a little there
But you know if it was actually something if it was actually something like milk or you know juice or?
Food or something and I did that and I just you know made a mess like that and then i'm just kind of like
Wiping my mouth like that
And just say what are you looking at?
You never seen anybody eat before what are you looking at? Yeah, that's the idea here that the adulterous woman
She eats and wipes her mouth. I didn't do anything wrong. I've done no wickedness
Right. She's committing adultery
The bible punishes adultery by death, but she's just like this is fine
I didn't do anything wrong and it's ugly
You know young people getting married it's beautiful
A man and his wife being intimate. It's beautiful
Adultery is ugly
And maybe they don't see it
I didn't do anything wrong
But you know, we look at that
from the outside
And it's it's disgusting
The whorish woman is gross
She's nasty
The skanky woman is yeah, right? That's what the bible said. Oh, you don't like that. Well, that's what the bible is teaching
The bible calls it the filthiness of her fornication
And so it's filthy according to the bible
And the bible talks about how the whorish woman, you know, if you read ezekiel chapter 16, you know the whorish woman in the end
All of her former lovers and people that she's consorted with are all going to be disgusted by her in the end
And so here we see that
Such is the way of an adulterous woman. She eateth and wiped with her mouth and says i've done no wickedness
For three things the earth is disquieted for four it cannot bear
I'm, not going to finish the chapter for sake of time, but it's a beautiful chapter. There's a lot of great wisdom here
It self authenticates as god's word even though the writer has no credentials and doesn't even he doesn't even tell you
Well, you know, I know you've never heard of me
You know, anybody heard of agar? Okay. I know you haven't heard of me. I I spake to eithiel anyone anyone you cal
I don't know any of these days. Well, you know, but but let me tell you the seminary that I graduated from
You know, let me tell you about my phd
You know, I got my bachelor's over here. My master's over here, you know and and all this stuff. Is that what he's saying?
No, because here's the thing when it comes to being a man of god
You don't need these kind of credentials
You know, you know, what kind of a degree do you have to be, you know to be a minister none
You know, you you have to have the spirit of god, you know that it you know being
A preacher being a prophet of god being a man of god. It's not something that you you go somewhere and pay money and and somebody
You know
Grants this to you as a diploma
Okay, and so, you know what gives agar the right to tell us these things
Right it you know, he has no qualifications
He did not go to seminary. He did not study. He doesn't have a degree
I didn't learn wisdom nor have the knowledge of the lord. What what bible college did you go to agar none?
You
Know what gives him the right is that he's preaching the word of god
And he's speaking truth
And you know what? It's the proof in the pudding that matters
Because you could have all the accolades and all the degrees
And all of the name dropping and you do a debate at a mosque in south. Africa. We know
You know, you could tell us that five million times but at the end of the day
What really matters is whether what you're saying is worth listening to
Right and what what agar is saying here is some real life wisdom
We need to apply all these things to our lives
These are principles of god's word that we can hang our hat on the purity of god's word respect and obedience to your parents
humility
right
Loving the poor not devouring them and abusing them and mistreating them
Uh being pure and clean and not being an adulterer adulterous
All the different things that are listed here being a hard worker
Not meddling in strife not belonging to you. All the things that are taught in this chapter
Are godly principles being preached by a man of god. We don't care who he is
who cares and it's so funny to hear sometimes people try to like
Assign every chapter of the bible to some famous person. Just just you know, like
well agar is a code name for you know, solomon or
Or david or it no it isn't
And that's why I think it's funny. It's like he's agora the son of jakey
Just in case you're gonna say well agar is kind of like this other guy whose name is sort of like
You know that or so, you know try to find it but it's like come on
jakey
Nobody knows these people ithiel ucal nobody knows
Lemuel people say lemuel is a code word for king psalm. I don't believe that. I just believe that these are just two guys
Who are they who knows who cares
You know who wrote a lot of books in the bible we don't know
The only thing that matters at the end of the day is that they're inspired by god
Let's bow heads and have a word of prayer father. We thank you so much for your word lord
Thank you for this chapter, I pray that we would apply the wisdom that we've learned to our lives lord and that we would live
Godly lives that would honor and glorify you and in jesus name we pray. Amen