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I'm thinking today of Proverbs 2 .13. Proverbs

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2 .13 says, Who leave the paths of uprightness

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to walk in the ways of darkness. Now this is

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talking about discretion and wisdom and God himself

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will protect us from people who do that. But

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it's interesting just to simply say that there

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are people who do that. That there would be people

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who would leave the paths of uprightness, which

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are protected by God, the good paths, the paths

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of doing the right things. and instead move on

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to the paths of darkness. And darkness always

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means ignorance, and ignorance is not bliss,

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it's foolishness. And so can you imagine that

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there would be those of us who would decide to

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leave the paths of uprightness and instead walk

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in the paths of darkness, which is to say ignorance

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and just being wrong? Well, it has even been

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us, hasn't it, at times? All have sinned and

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fall short of the glory of God. The reality is

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we need to walk the paths of uprightness. We

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need to be the best person we possibly can be

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under the auspices of our God. When Jesus tells

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us to do something, we should do that. When God

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wants us to do something, we should do that.

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God helped us walk the paths of uprightness,

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and his word says he will. Let me encourage you

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a couple of quick things. So first of all, today,

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really, tomorrow morning, because you'll probably

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get this on Friday night, is the Grand Prix Race

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Day at New Heights, starting at noon with free

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lunch for everybody to come. We need some folks

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to come and cheer on the kids as they race the

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cars that they made from scratch. Starting at

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noon at 255 Hefner Street in Toledo, you or anyone

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you'd like to invite can come and join us until

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we fill up the building as we race the cars the

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kids have made. God bless you today, and pray

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for this event even if you can't attend.