Darryl, what's your praise today? Man, man, man, man. I've seen this angle in my studies. Get in first. Thank you. First of all, I want to praise the Lord. He gave me the energy to get up and fight the pain and come to church. This I'll just be miserable there, you know. Secondly, I thought praise the Lord for having a plan and not telling me what it is, but I got a full-time tech starting tomorrow. Wonderful. He's a young guy, but he's got a lot of skills and sounds pretty promising. But one guy's not going to do it, and he's only going to be there till fall where he goes back to college. A friend of Evan's. And Evan's been a blessing. He's come and did a diesel motor job for me. The Lord sent like three people that I don't even know, that don't know me, to help me get this work done. And the third one is this young man that's starting tomorrow, so I wanna thank the Lord for that. And then he goes and throws the wrench and everything. I've got a guy that wants to buy my shop, my building and everything. If I did have to shut down, So that's just, Laura Wyoming did it. So praise the lord. How old are you now? How old are you now? 180. I'll be 59 on Friday. You'll be what? 59 on Friday. So you've got six years before you can start going social security. I haven't paid a whole lot into it. I've been self-employed all my life. You're still supposed to pay into it. I paid into it for years and years either. I paid into it a little here and there. But I was an employee for myself for a little while. And when I got in trouble with the 941 taxes and all that, I got it all paid off. I should. Yeah, you should. I wish I had paid in for more. There were so many years I didn't get a check working for, you know, the only thing I did was work here. There was a time that a lot of preachers were opting out of Social Security because low interest. And I talked to Brother Hudson about it. He said, no, he said, He said, you opt out, you wish you hadn't. And so I kept, although I had to pay it myself rather than some employer doing it. And now it's coming in every month and I'm supposed to get a raise. I don't know if that's going to happen or not, I thought we got a lot, but I read the other day we only get about half of what we're doing. We'd have paid into it. I waited until I was 70 to start drawing it. But I got on Medicare as soon as I could, because it's cheaper than the insurance that the church was paying for. So we did that, and that's been a good thing. They paid good. So, it's worked out. Is that your praise? Yeah. One. One of them. Just one. Who else had their hand up? Josh, you had your hand up. I'll praise the Lord for a safe trip down the way going back. No incidents. So I'll praise the Lord. Lane's front tooth finally fell out. This one right here. It was getting awful black looking. And it finally fell out while they were at Grandma's last night. He wanted me to be sure to tell everybody. Yeah, well, that's a good thing. That's a praise, I suppose. Sparky, what's your praise? Well, my praise is that I'm really glad the surgery's over and it wasn't really bad. It just didn't give me instant pain relief, but you can't have everything, so I'm going to have to patiently wait until it has time to take effect, I guess. All right. I want your praise, Jesus. Amen. Amen. No, my mom. Hope to see her someday soon. But I praise the Lord gave me a mother that was fit for the job. Because I'm gonna tell you right now, buddy, she went through it. You know, I was an absolute nut. I was the youngest of five at the house. and how she put up with all that, and my old man's drinking on top, I'll never know. But she did, and she worked hard. When I was a little kid, she was 10 hours a day on her feet at Palais Royal, and come home and cook for five kids. You know, it might be pot pies one night, but my mom, my mom was a, my dad was super strong too, don't get me wrong, he was wounded in Korea and all that, He was mad about it most of the time. But my mom maintained discipline. When she said, I'm calling your dad, we tightened up real quick. Because my dad would punch you right in the head. He didn't play. But seriously, what a blessing it was to have my mom. Even up until our teens, she's the only one that didn't get high, didn't drink, none of that. She's just solid as a rock. And I believe to this day that the Lord gave me that mama. Good mama. Yeah, I remember the last time I saw my mom on this side of heaven, this side of the casket where she was buried. I made a trip to Stockton when she was in the hospital. And I went to see her. And I went there with the express purpose. I had two reasons to go. One was to take the newest baby. And two was I wanted to talk to her about herself. and her salvation was solid. Last thing I said to her, if I don't see you again, I'll see you on the other side. Amen. Amen. You know, I will. Oh yeah, you will, sir. I know I will. It's hard to talk about these things. But she had a, like you were talking about, she had a rep go in all kinds of ways, but she was always solid. And you were the youngest of five? Really the youngest of six, but the oldest boy was, he was old then, was out of there. Well, I was the youngest of 12. Well, that's country. Country. Next to the youngest of 13. My little brother, Michael 13. Wow. The run of the litter. There's always somebody else. Well, we were sharing. It's always getting bigger. It's kind of different out in the country, though, because you can just walk out there and get something to eat. There ain't no middles in the kitchen. I remember people asking my dad, they said, what's it like having that many kids? He said, I don't know. Well, he said, after the first few, I didn't really notice anymore. It's kind of how it was when I came along. My parents were like, oh, we tried everything. We're going to back off of this one. We beat that one. We locked that one up. By the time I came along, they were like, eh, whatever. We're done. That was Jerry. Praise the Lord for his grace and mercy. Anybody else? Lynn? Praise the Lord for my mom. She was raised to be right. Yeah. I faced a few switches myself. There was a plant, there's a plant that grows in southern Missouri called buckbrush. It has little hard nodules, grows on all the, yeah. Yeah. And buckbrush will change your life. And your attitude. It will do it. My dad would come up with a stick about the size of your thumb and just beat you with it. My mom would take that little buck brush switch and just cut your legs to ribbons. Yeah, I've had that before, too. It is an attention getter. It is, definitely. All right, I gotta say, since everybody's talking about it, my mom had a belt. It was so skinny and so long, I don't know who it went around, Johnny Green John. That thing would reach out and touch you from afar. Yeah. She knew how to just pop you out like a whip. But my brothers, they'd be laughing because they were six years older than I was. They'd grab me and put me in front of them. They were in trouble. I'd be trying to get around them. My nearest brother was six years older than me. And he was meaner than a snake. And when God saved him, He was showing off. He was proving he could save anybody. By the way, Eva, we said good things about our mom first. Yeah. Who else? Eva, you have a phrase today? I do. I always have a phrase. Let's hear it. I am so thankful for God's grace and mercy. Amen. Amen. With his grace and mercy, it just carries me. It carries me through everything. I had a good week and I learned something this week that I didn't know was happening but I could see some change and I learned that my child was in a Bible-based club at school. And I asked him, I said, well, why you didn't want to tell me? He said, because I didn't want you to get it mixed up with what I'm doing and what you're doing. And he said, and we're a Bible-based athletic group at school. And I got a chance to meet the ministers. I got a chance to meet the teachers. and he wants to join the church. And it's a couple of blocks from my house. So I told him I would have to go with him and see what their teaching was and how they teach it. That group came after me right after I got saved. Did they? They did. They're Pentecostals and they work for salvation and they Well, no, this one is not Pentecostal. Well, at least they don't use that word, but they are. OK. Well, I have to look into it. Do. Do. Do him and yourself a favor and look into it. Yeah. Read their doctrinal statement. I always do. I told him, any path you take, I need to look at it first before you go down that road. One of the things that He and you both need to know is that there's nothing on this earth that replaces a Bible-preaching church. And that's what I told him. He needs to be in a Bible-based church. Yeah. Amen. Good advice. Glenn? I just wanted to add a nicer note about my mama. She had a great sense of humor. She liked to make the people laugh. She would need one. All right. I think some of it brushed off on me a little maybe. All right, anybody else? I like making people laugh too. Mary? Yeah, I just want to say, we're talking about mothers, so I'll just drop my two cents in. My mother took care of us eight children when my father died. I was 13 years old at the time, and she worked very hard and took care of us. And like Alvin was saying, She don't joke about the bell, she spank her behind. Tell nobody to tell her, you can't do that. But we grow up well-behaved, you know, we work hard and she was a good mother. I just want to say when she passed away, when she died, I was not there. And my sister was telling me that when she was in the room with her and she opened her eyes and she closed, she said, oh, they're coming. and she passed away. She said it was beautiful, just a beautiful smile on her face. And that was where her last words were so precious. She was a Christian. She loved the Lord so much. Amen. So that made me see good. Josh? I want to praise the Lord for his provision and getting us through all the sticky situations. Yeah. Life's full of those. I was talking to Andrew yesterday, and he reminded me about a little sign that we had up, and it says, I remember praying about the things that I am blessed with today. Amen. Amen. Actually, they gave you that for Christmas. And what the Lord did for him in his life, Big stuff, I mean, stuff that you just give up hope on people about. But we never did, and the Lord showed up and did what only he can do. They're in church, they're not here, or I think they should be, but they're not here, but they're in church, and they worship the Lord, and all that stuff, that meth addiction, Lifestyle and all that's long since in the past All right Proverbs chapter 6 is where we are Lisa, what's your praise? I have another praise. I have an update on that went to the ER last night. She has been diagnosed with vasovagal syncope, which is a sudden drop in heart rate and blood pressure leading to fainting, and fluids and devices, I don't know what that means, and possibly pacemakers, so. So it was a real thing to scare them because she got really pale and she got blue. So I'm glad that her brother is over there by herself. Well, last week, we got down through about verse 11. And there's two major things that we learned. One of the first thing we learned is from verse verse one through three. in chapter six, chapter six, which was what don't call sign for anybody. Don't call sign for anybody ever. Don't do it. And then the very same day. Somebody asked me to do that. I won't say who was or I won't say who was in class. And that's funny how that works. And And the other thing that we learned from this chapter, it starts in verse four, it says, give not sleep to thine eyelids, so get up early. And verse nine says, how long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard, when wilt thou rise out of thy sleep? When somebody calls you a sluggard, just so you know, it is not a compliment. It's some other kind of man. I'm not sure what kind, but it's not a compliment. So we're going to begin our discussion today in verse number 12. You will relate to this. It says a naughty person, comma, a wicked man walketh with a froward mouth. What does froward mean? Backwards. Well, it's not just tendency to evil. And you all know people that can't talk without foul language coming out of their mouth. I'm talking about smirk. It's talking about cursing. Jerry? Strong, strong definition says a distortion or crookedness or froward. A naughty person, a wicked man walketh with a froward mouth. When you see somebody or you hear somebody running off the mouth like this there or they're using All kinds of expletives that good people don't use in their conversations. It tells you a story about who that is. And being a naughty person isn't something cute. It isn't Santa Claus's list. Are you naughty or nice? It's the opposite of nice, but it's a serious term. A wicked man, same thing. He winketh with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet, he teaches with his fingers. Anybody know what that's talking about? Yeah. Josh? Well, it says he winketh with his eyes, he's being deceitful. Lying about something and winking. Yeah. Speaking with his feet means his actions are lying with his words. He says one thing and he does something else. And then he teaches with his fingers up. I don't know. That would be vulgar hand gestures. Letting him know you're number one? He taught me that. No, I didn't know. I've just been listening to him for 30 plus years. For overness, which is evil, basically, is in his heart. he deviseth mischief continually, he soweth discord. Therefore shall his calamity come suddenly. Suddenly shall he be broken without remedy. These six things doeth the Lord hate. Yea, seven are an abomination unto him. Proud look, lying tongue, and hands that shed instant blood. Proud Luke's pretty easy to figure out. Lying tongue is pretty simple. Hands that shed instant blood. That's really not talking about anything but abortion. Exactly what that's talking about. And heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, a false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren. These are things that the Bible says that God hates. I thought that shedding innocent blood was murder. Well, it is murder. Innocent blood is pretty hard to come by. An unborn baby is absolutely innocent blood. Alvin? Yeah, the thing about the feet back in, Back in 13, he wickets with his eyes, he speaketh with his feet. And you go back down to 18, a heart that devises wicked imaginations. Well, that's a ton of that going on. Feet that be swift and running to mischief. So I think 12 and 18 are talking pretty much about the same thing. In 12, He speaks with his feet. In other words, where's he going? Where's he going with his feet? You know what I'm saying? Where's he going? So, that's speaking with your feet. That's what church members are doing when they head out the back door and don't come back. They're speaking with their feet. There he goes. Speaking with my feet. Watch me now. Then he says in verse 20, my son, keep thy father's commandment and forsake not the law of thy mother. What's today? Bind them continually upon thine heart and tie them about thy neck. When thou goest, it shall lead thee. When thou sleepest, it shall keep thee. And when thou awakest, it shall talk with thee. For the commandment is a lad. And the law is light, and reproofs of instruction are the way of life. To keep thee from the evil woman, from the flattery of the tongue of a strange woman, lest not after her beauty and thine heart neither let her take thee with her eyelids. For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread, I was about the mother, the scripture about the mother. One of my devotions this week was about the mother. Of course, all week it was about the mother. And it was talking about how a lot of the kids' influence is from the mother because they're around them way more than they are the father. If it's naturally done, the father's working more and everything. I was looking back at my children, the way that they were brought up and the things that they do and the things that I see them do. And I see myself and I'm like, wow, how true that that is on the scripture. Us as mothers to be more aware that they get most of their influence from us because we're around them more than the dads, most of the time, because they're working more. or whatever they need to do more. Yeah. Yeah, amen. Which I'm kind of glad that they got more of me than her dad, but it's still, I still see things that I wish that I would have done differently. Well, what that does, that shines a light on your level of responsibility. You have the ability to mold your children more so than anybody else in the world. Nobody has more influence than a mother. So man, make sure you pick the right wife. Yeah. I was looking for a specific scripture here. Verse 27, ask a question. Can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned? There's going to be consequences. Can one go up on hot coals and his feet not be burned? There's only three that I know of. Do you? How many of you have seen videos or such about people walking on coals? Have you seen that? Do you know what that's about? Walking the Bible. Walking the Bible. Walking God's Word. Well, I never knew that. There it is right there in front of you. So he that goeth in to his neighbor's wife, what's it really talking about? It's not talking about hot coals. So he that goeth in to his neighbor's wife, whosoever toucheth her shall not be innocent. Men do not despise a thief if he steal to satisfy his soul when he's hungry. But if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold, he shall give all the substance of his house. But whoso commiteth adultery with a woman lacketh understanding, he that doeth it destroyeth his own soul. A wound and dishonor shall he get, and his approach shall not be wiped away. For jealousy is the rage of a man, therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance. He will not regard any ransom, neither will he rest content, though thou givest many gifts. Alvin, catch hand of it. Well, Glenn asks, are they actually able to do that, walk on the coals? I mean, of course they are. But it says in the key sentence here, though, can one go upon hot coals and his feet not be burned? No, not only is his feet gonna be burned, but probably gonna be his whole bend. Where it's not quenched. He's not really talking about hard coals and feet, is he? No, even if they're under some trance or on enough drugs and have worked their feet into a huge callus, no matter what the deal is, Can a man get, it's a question, can a, no, he's gonna be burned. He's gonna be burned in his, in many ways if he does this and marks the Bible, yeah? Yeah, Josh. So just to clarify on the walking across the coals, even though this isn't necessarily so much talking about that, but just to clarify the situation, what they do is they take a layer of ash, and put it on top of those coals. And when you're walking on those coals, you're walking on a layer of ash protecting you from the coals. If you were to actually walk on coals, you couldn't do it. So just so you know, that's how they do it. They do it with a layer of ash. Plus, they have to have big callus. No, no, no. These people have never done it before. They know they put a layer of ash, and when you walk, the layer of ash protects your feet from being burned. So you're not actually walking on coal. I would say it's also demonic. So it's an illusion? It's an illusion. It's a complete mockery of the Bible. The whole point in it, it's obvious if you read the scripture. It's an attempt to make God out to be a liar. Can any man do it without being burned? No. This is chapter 6 and going on into chapter 7 next week. This has an awful lot to do with men understanding the situation as it exists of being taken advantage of and led down the wrong path sexually. There is something about this, as I was reviewing and studying this, I actually went into chapter seven looking at this. In chapter six, she's called a whorish woman. And in chapter seven, in verse 10, it says, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an harlot. How many mothers have talk to their daughters about wearing, dressing like a harlot. Yeah. How many mothers dress like a harlot with daughters? Well, the Lord uses that language here. It tells you there is such a thing as the attire of a harlot. It's obvious. Tamar. Tamar. Yeah. Eye batting. Neither let her take thee with her eyelids, it says, over 25. It looks like false eyelashes might be properly named. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. As many times I've read this, I just always come back to the same thing from the first time I read it, which is Solomon was the wisest man in the world, right? More wise than any before him. He was at one time. He was at one time. And what took him out? Strange one. That's what took you down. It just amazes me. It just does. Yeah. What's that called? Yeah, you're supposed to get wiser with age. I heard somebody mention recently that stupider was not a real word, but it apparently should be. It's when you don't understand it. It's what neck of the woods you come from. Yeah. We're not looking at the redneck dictionary. Yeah. I bet they use that word up there.