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hey book by book here we are at the
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Quinta Christian Center in Shropshire
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England coming to study number three in
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the book of Proverbs I'm rich abused
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joined here once again by dr. Paul
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Bracken but by our special guest George
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Vera founder of operation mobilization
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and who has probably traveled around the
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world as much as John Wesley did in his
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day 250 years ago George thank you for
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coming but you know Quinta is a very
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important place for me this is just just
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literally a few yards away is the Center
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for operation mobilization in the UK so
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boy it's great that we're here this is
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almost better than that Cathedral where
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was that Liverpool it was right there to
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be at home with you here well we could
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call this study in chapters 5 7 to 9 of
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Proverbs the Master Craftsmen because
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that phrase comes in as we take our key
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truth to be well the heart and mind of
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Christ written into the whole of life
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I'll start from part of chapter 8
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actually reading from verse 27 this is
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the master craftsman speaking I was
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there when he set the heavens in place
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when he marked out the horizon on the
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face of the deep when he established the
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clouds above and fixed securely the
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fountains of the deep when he gave the
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sea its boundary so the waters would not
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overstep his command and when he marked
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out the foundations of the earth then I
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was the craftsman at his side I was
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filled with delight day after day
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rejoicing always in his presence
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rejoicing in his whole world and
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delighting in mankind well we could then
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as you look at that starting away in the
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house of adultery is as we're looking at
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in our last study is seen as a highway
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to the grave we're looking back now
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chapter 7 George
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verse 2 here wisdom I need to see there
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is called the apple of our eye but then
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what happens when other people become
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that how we so easily seduced by
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desires and simple relationships that in
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Chapter five illustrated by adultery and
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this chapter is even more powerful
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because it gives us a visual picture
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this the character being attempted this
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this woman deceiving him and drawing him
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into major adultery it even says her
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husband is away don't worry he won't be
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back for a while we might ask why do we
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even have these kind of stories in the
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Bible and again God is trying to wake us
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up to one of the most subtle strategies
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of Satan to get and including Christian
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leaders into moral failure and we're
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seeing definitely an increase of that
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even among Christian leaders even
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sometimes among Michener's you know 58
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years now in missions you can imagine
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what I've seen fortunately in our own
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movement we've had very little this and
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I think it's partly because people in om
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are just saturated with this kind of
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training in special sessions and we
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believe in accountability we leave in
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walking in the light but overall there's
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just a major onslaught of the enemy so
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we need to read this we need to realize
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this can happen to us Satan as a roaring
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lion seeking whom he may devour and
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constantly take these Old Testament
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passages and allow them to push us into
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the new testament so that we know about
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forgiveness and grace when that failure
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does come and she in this chapter 7
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verse 14 she goes oh i fellowship
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offerings at home I fulfill my vows so
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she's pretending it sees within the
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context of like the church family and
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fellowship and she's she's been to the
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temple she's worshiping the Lord or so
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she says so it's not as if this is
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totally outside of the church it's
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something going on inside the church in
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the book of Proverbs I remember when I
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went in Mexico I was told the
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prostitutes there in Mexico City are
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some of the most faithful in going to
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the confessional and they even have a
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particular Saint that actually supposed
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to help them in their career that really
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shook me when I was in Mexico City and
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actually as the as we read in Proverbs
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in verse 18 half of chapter seven when
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people do follow their passionate
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desires it says they have drunk deeply
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there sometimes say that they feel were
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you is using a phrase in our previous
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study for about they feel more alive as
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in verse eighteen what's the outcome of
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that path actually look at it yeah well
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when we look at it if you look down like
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verse 23 and 26 and 27 its death
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look verse 27 her house is a highway to
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the grave leading down to the chambers
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of death so when people are like that
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there's almost nothing more pathetic so
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when you talk to a person who's having
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an affair because everyone who looks on
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can see the destruction and the death
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and the chaos and how pathetic it is but
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they will go no I've never felt more
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alive it's amazing it's thrilling and
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yet you can see it really isn't if they
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only had eyes to see and so when people
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sort of the Bible says that when were
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separated from God was were dead Jesus
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describes those who don't trust in him
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as dead and there's a way in which there
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is a sort of death down in the human
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soul and were cut off from God but we
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want to feel alive and so we may be
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having a fir we feel alive then or we do
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extreme sports or there's all kinds of
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ways of feeling alive and do you know
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even just food can make us feel alive or
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our alcohol or drugs or things and but
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all that is a false life and it fades
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away and then we're more hungry than we
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ever were before and that's why this
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chapter is saying yeah I know you want
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to feel alive but that actually leads to
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death if you really want to drink deep
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of real love and life then drink of the
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Holy Spirit through Jesus Christ and
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then you will drink and be satisfied
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forever I will see that proved again and
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again in different parts of the world
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actually a view of this sort of darker
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side then and we've been looking at the
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good news obviously is that as we
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interpret proverbs we can see Christ as
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the craftsman who has mentioned there in
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chapter 8 the craftsman of the father's
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side so here we'll looking at all of
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chapter 8 and you can see from verses
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what 10 and 11 George that our our love
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for the Lord must be greater than all
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other loves so wisdom verse 10 verse 11
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that's more valuable than anything else
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in the world how can we how can flourish
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uninstructed people have any hope of
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gaining such wisdom now is there good
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news we got the whole Bible and I
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encourage people to not only study and
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read the Bible but to memorize Scripture
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and my struggle would lust a lot of
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other things as a young Christian I got
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into memorizing Scripture and that
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really helped transform my life and even
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my dream life by since doing that hardly
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ever had these sort of sexual dreams
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which used to be such a torment at times
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and I just believe with all my heart of
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course that verse in Colossians one of
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the most important verses in my life was
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that Wheaton College just for a short
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time at a special course and I heard dr.
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Edmund the president shared all these
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intellectuals in him in Christ are all
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the treasures of wisdom and knowledge so
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every great truth that we're getting
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from Proverbs will be confirmed in the
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New Testament and it will transform our
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lives and look at this 17 L Rome wisdom
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proverbs 8 when wisdom goes I love those
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who love me and those who seek me find
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me and that's what just what Jesus says
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isn't it if you seek me no more find me
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I can oh yeah knock no seek ask knock
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and the same thing wisdom says here
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because a person will go oh I'm never
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gonna be able to find wisdom I'm never
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gonna be able to sort those out and he's
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like honestly just call out for me and I
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will come to you and you will you seek
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for me well I'll find you you don't need
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to find me I'll find you if you will
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call out to me so that's why there's
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always hope isn't there because you
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might say oh I'm too lost no one's too
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lost no we will find you I mean this is
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a here's a sense as worth memorizing
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verse 25 of chapter 8 for whoever finds
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me that's the master master craftsman
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speaking whoever finds me find some life
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whoever finds me
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life that is wonderful actually proverbs
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how does proverbs 8 verse 22 onwards
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shape much of the church's thinking
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about Jesus for centuries
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ah for centuries this isn't it it really
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has and proverbs 8 / verse 22 the Lord
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brought me forth as the first of his
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works before his deeds of old it says it
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that's this wisdom craftsman talking as
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if it's a as if we're being told well
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the father can't do anything without his
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son the Lord Jesus when he created the
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universe before he created anything he
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brought out Christ and said here he is
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through him I'll create all things let
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him be the light and life of all
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creation in him I hid all the treasures
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of wisdom and knowledge
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he's his logic is written into
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everything Christ in all creation that's
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what I'm being told here and nights like
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the book of Joe when the Lord goes were
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you there when I set the boundaries were
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you there when I made the stars were you
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there when I designed the animals and
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did all this there's others and then
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it's Christ goes yes re was re did all
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those things it's me who's all that and
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I think that's that wonderful thing that
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although and Spurgeon I was reading this
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week a beautiful serving vais Spurgeon
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who it Christ our wisdom and in it I
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wonder if I could just read this little
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thing where he says before I knew the
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gospel I gathered up a mixed mass of all
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kinds of knowledge from here there and
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everywhere bit of chemistry botany
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astronomy everything I I put them
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together in a big confused chaos when I
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learned the gospel I got a shelf in my
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head to put everything away upon just
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where it should be it seemed to me when
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I had discovered Christ and him
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crucified I got the center of the system
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so that I could see everything else
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revolving around him I think that's very
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good because that reminds me well it's
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the answer to the question when people
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say I can't see where Jesus fits in God
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the second step it was a salacious who
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was there over the fourth century AD
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that great teacher from Egypt he once
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said the only system of thought into
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which Jesus Christ will fit is the one
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in which he is the starting point and
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that's again where we come back
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to Christ at the center of all things so
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quite logically we come to the
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crossroads in where both wisdom and
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foolishness are beckoning us there in
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Chapter nine actually verse four that
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all who are simple come in here she says
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to those who lack judgment both wisdom
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and folly are actually inviting the
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simple to come in wisdom invites us to
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leave our sinful ways verse six folly
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invites us to indulge our sinful ways
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and indulge our sinful ways there verse
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16 and 17 we've got to decide repent or
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in doubt how is that the heart of the
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gospel job well mine my mind just can't
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get past however verses verse 10 the
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fear of the Lord is the beginning of
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wisdom because we've been talking a lot
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about wisdom but we can't separate that
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from this awesomeness of God and I
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believe one of the reasons we're seeing
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so much shallow Christianity in our day
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and so many people living in confusion
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and compromise so even seem to love the
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Lord is this is not considered
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acceptable anymore the fear of the Lord
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again we know some people have taken
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that to extreme especially with their
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children and that's sad but I believe
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there's a basic truth here that we can't
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miss it certainly has helped me
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realizing that if I do something really
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stupid sinful with another woman that
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might be it
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I mean the Lord might just put me on the
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Shelf in fact Paul said I buff at my
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body I bring it into subjection this is
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Paul it's not me I bring it into
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subjection lest after preaching to
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others I become a castaway
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there's place for a little just
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old-fashioned of fear of God though I
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know the word incorporates many of the
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things especially worship and it's that
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way in which sometimes person said oh I
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was saved like 1972 I went forward and
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I'm like no no what about today what
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about now are you now choosing wisdom
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over foolishness because every day
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that's the choice isn't it that stands
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before us every day
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that it's not as if oh I won that I
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wouldn't the battle with foolishness 25
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years ago no today if you hear his voice
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harden not your heart every day we can
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be the most foolish person who's ever
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lived it doesn't matter how wise I was
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yesterday or how passionately I follow
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Christ did yesterday today I must gather
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up the manor
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today I must say no to the foolishness
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and yes to the wisdom that it's great
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isn't it every day I've been warning
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older people especially of the SSS this
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is moving big time among the older
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people you've probably heard it at the
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SSS no its destructive yeah senior
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stupidity syndrome so even as older
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people we need to humble ourselves we
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need to keep learning I just had this
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story somebody not far from here a
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leader in the church now 80 it's got as
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I had money that his eyes on a you know
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younger woman
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you'd left everything the church
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everything ran off with that woman and
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you know we need to even when were older
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keep account beware and be wise in
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crisis the researcher AG Gibbs who said
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never has been there so much knowledge
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yet so much appalling stupidity and
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that's today that's today so let's think
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of a lord have mercy on me same with me
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let's to give a have a fear of the Lord
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and the knowledge of the Holy One then
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it's you the verse you looking at first
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10 how that device humanity into why is
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it foolish and actually how does that
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happen well it does happen because there
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are people who are not followers of
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Jesus but they seem to be wise in the
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good business and the good at life and
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the families and all that serving and
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yet even still the Bible's us say now
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that's ok and there were people in there
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are people in the Old Testament who were
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wise people like a hippo fell and other
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people who were kind of wise but they
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didn't know the Lord so it's like in
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spite of all the business success or
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military success or family success in a
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way they are still fools because the one
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thing that we must be wise in is wise in
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the fear of the Lord because that is the
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foundation stone for life so it's being
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business as you want and in fact once
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you follow Christ be good at business
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his honor and glory being coder all
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these other things but it doesn't matter
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how wise we are in any other area of
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life until we've got the foundation
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straight which is the fear of the Lord
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and that isn't a cringing terror of the
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Lord it's that deep respect and love and
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a desire to live his way and an
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acknowledgment that all other ways are
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wrong and when he speaks we listen
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because we fear him and every day Jesus
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teaches us to go our Father in heaven
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Hallowed be your name
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the very first thing he wants us to pray
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is that we hello the name of the Father
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in heaven oh my word
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so I mean wisdom actually leaves its
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signature on everything it touches but
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the other way around and pray the same
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is true that some people are so full of
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actually words chatting talking
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prattling on never listening never
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hearing living our selves a chance so
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that right there in the Bible we need to
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hear right there in church we need to
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listen right there in the Bible study we
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need to take in and listen and here and
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here and here so as it goes off the wise
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old owl sat in an oak the more he heard
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the less he spoke the less he spoke the
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more he heard why aren't we like that
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wise old bird see you next time
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