Proverbs 20 verse 10 says, diverse weights and diverse measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord. The basic truth here is clear. When we use weights or scales or measures, we shouldn't cheat or use false standards. God hates such dishonesty. Crooks and cheats have learned that if you just use a weight that is off even the tiniest of a fraction, over time it will add up. If your grocer gives you a pound of meat, but it's actually one ounce less than a pound, then every 16 pounds he sells, he actually has held back a whole pound to sell to someone else. So if you give that a little thought, you can see the profitability of this crooked scheme if you don't get caught. That's why we have a federal Office of Weights and Measures, and each state has its own equivalent, because man just can't be trusted, so the government has to inspect the weights and measures used for business purposes in order to ensure that our economy isn't hurt by such criminal activity. Back when coins were made of pure silver, crooks would shave a little tiny bit off of each coin. This was called coin clipping, and after thousands of coins were clipped, those shavings would be melted down and cashed in. Free money! This got so bad that Kings had to enact the death penalty. William III of England had Thomas and Anne Rogers executed for doing that. They were sort of like Ananias and Sapphira back in Acts chapter 5. There are some interesting stories about such crooked schemes in a book titled The History of Money by Jack Weatherford. When weights and measures of coinage and other scales and measures break down into such criminal schemes, the result is the breakdown of the system. Economies are wrecked and society could collapse. Sadly, our own Federal Reserve System is a Ponzi scheme, making a secret cabal of crooked banksters rich. Money is supposed to be based on something of tangible value and worth. Money has always been backed by precious metals. But now our money, since the Federal Reserve came into play and even more so since even that was taken off any kind of backing, our money is now just printed on paper and it's backed by nothing more than the guarantee made by our government to honor that paper. It's correctly called fiat currency and it's literally a house of cards. We refer you to the 1996 documentary produced by William T. Still titled The Money Masters and the 2010 5th edition of the book by G. Edward Griffin titled The Creature from Jekyll Island if you want a full understanding of the Federal Reserve scam. And I'll tell you that in my opinion, I believe one of the reasons America is not mentioned in Bible prophecy is because our nation has come under the control of an unelected, unaccountable deep state with a Ponzi scheme money system and our days as a so-called superpower are numbered. If you want to take a glimpse at the weight of our debt to our nation that we're all being buried under, just go to debtclock.org. That's D-E-B-T-C-L-O-C-K dot org. You'll see that if you spread our national debt over every man, woman, and child in America, it comes to about $105,000 per American. But the real burden is on the taxpayers. And that stands at more than $270,000 per taxpayer. But if you look down in the lower right corner at debtclock.org, and you'll see way down in the right corner, you'll find that if you add up the full burden that each citizen is on the hook for, That includes our commitments to social security and other things such as that. That comes to more than $650,000. We don't have time to go into this any deeper at this point. We're gonna come back to this proverb and make spiritual application next time. But we leave you with this truth. Psalm 118 says, it is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man. That is our takeaway. God's measure, unlike man's false measures and standards, God's measure is true and His Word is sure.