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You guys. You guys would like you can turn to Proverbs 16.

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That's my that's my encouragement to you to you young adults to Reese to Nick and to Ashley known as Sarah to me.

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Just being honest.

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One, I'm so happy that I'm done.

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You know, for graduates, praise God.

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It's going through the pictures and I think.

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Bri and Bob have a couple more years of this, but it's nonetheless.

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This is your oldest daughter.

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Oh, man.

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I didn't expect this part.

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Seeing the smiles on their faces in the innocence.

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Which we would assume is innocence as much as I preach against no no innocence.

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I don't think they realize this day was going to come.

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And that we knew it's coming.

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It's still hard, isn't it?

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Proverbs 16.

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Let's pray.

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Father, I want to thank you that you're righteous, holy and good.

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Thank you again for your wisdom in your word.

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Your word is living and active.

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It does exactly as you intended it to be and to do.

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We thank you, Lord Jesus, that you are the word.

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You are you are the one who gives us life, the source of all things and the source of life itself.

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Lord, I pray that these young women and this young man.

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We really grasp the importance to build a build upon what you have already left.

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You being the chief cornerstone.

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And your truth that has been brought to us by your prophets and the apostles that that foundation is unmovable.

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And that you are you are true in all that you do.

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So, Lord, I pray as we walk through these few verses that we see your holiness, your righteousness and your goodness toward your people.

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The power of our mighty and holy God, Lord, we praise you and thank you in Jesus name.

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Amen.

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Psalm six, Proverbs 16, verse one through nine says this, the plans of the heart belong to man.

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But the answer of the tongue is from the Lord.

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All the ways of a man are pure in his own in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the spirit.

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Commit your work to the Lord and your plans will be established.

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The Lord has made everything for his for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.

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Everyone who is arrogant in heart is an abomination to the Lord.

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Be assured he will not go unpunished by steadfast love and faithfulness.

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Iniquity is atoned for and by the fear of the Lord, one turns from evil.

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When a man's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.

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Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues with injustice.

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The heart of a man plans his ways, but the Lord establishes his step.

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These are the nine verses I really thought about.

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If I was to give a legacy, one, what would I want to do?

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I'd want to give some wisdom.

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So you guys need to pay attention.

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You need wisdom.

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Solomon wrote these Proverbs, these sayings of wisdom for his son, a young man around your age.

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This is for you.

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And what happens in many times is that when you're walking in life as a young man, you think one, you're invincible or young woman.

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You think you're invincible and nothing can harm you or touch you.

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Solomon says differently and scripture says differently.

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And so this is I think one of the things I want to give you that you can build upon the chief cornerstone Christ and the foundation which he gave,

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his word so that you live a life in such a way that honors and glorifies him.

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Because if you don't, believe me, your life will be a struggle.

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You will struggle all the days of your life if you don't carry these some of these basic truths.

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There's a lot more truths.

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I just want to give you some basic ones here.

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First is this man purposes.

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God disposes.

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The word disposes here means he brings you to the right state of mind.

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Now, I say this in jest because I'm trying to be a little funny, but I mean this in all reality.

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When you turn 25, it'll all make sense.

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Until then, your brain damaged.

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Just saying.

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If you have any questions about that, you can blame that on your age and your physiology.

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You're still developing and your brain doesn't stop developing until you're 25.

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So we have a bunch of crazy people.

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No, I'm only kidding.

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I'm only teasing you.

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But you purpose to do a lot of things in life.

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But God brings you to the right state of mind.

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Lesson one is everything in your life starts here.

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You change the way you think.

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Now, I'll clarify this in a minute.

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So your legacy starts in the smallest of muscles, but sets the course of your life.

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People think it's your heart.

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Your brain is a muscle.

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It's an amazing computer.

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But man, you got to exercise it.

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So the good person out of the good treasures of his heart produces good.

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And the evil person out of the evil treasures produces evil.

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Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

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You probably heard this term, a man thinketh so he is.

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Proverbs 16, verse one and two, the plans, the preparations, the arrangements of the heart, the heart, the inner part of man, the mind,

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the mind you're thinking belong to you, belong to man.

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But the answer, the ability to answer, the response of the tongue, of the language that you speak in your mind is from the Lord.

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All the ways of a man are pure in his own eyes.

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All the direc is the word here.

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All the ways, direc is way, road, journey, path, course of life.

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You think that you have set your journey.

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You think that you have set the course of your life.

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You think that you know what you're going to do.

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But then God flips the script.

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So, and I think many, as the scripture says, we think that the ways, our journey, our path, our course of life are pure in our own eyes.

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We think that they are clean and righteous and good.

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And this word eyes is the word that means mental or spiritual qualities or the fountain of your life.

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That these mental and spiritual qualities are good.

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The scripture says that the heart of man is wicked above all else who can know it.

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You must be changed.

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There has to be a change in your life, a commitment to the only living and true God.

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But the Lord weighs, the Lord measures, token is the word here.

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Token means to measure, to test, or to prove the spirit.

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God measures, tests, or proves your mental acts, your dispositions of various kinds.

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He is the one who weighs the reality of your heart.

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The ruwak is the word here.

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Matthew Henry states it this way, mene mene tekel, the handwriting on the wall, upon that which passed our scale of approbation.

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In other words, the things that we think we've done that are good, worthy of praise and approval,

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they've been placed on the scale that God has weighed, weighed by God in the balance and found wanting.

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The good that you have to offer is not enough without Christ.

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Christ is what makes your good weighty, beyond measure.

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You must establish him as King and Lord of your life.

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This is what this means.

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Weighed by God in the balance and the found wanting, and by his judgment and judgment alone, we must stand or fall.

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He is not, he not only sees man's ways, but tries them.

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He tests them for genuineness.

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And they're spirits, and we are, we are as our spirits are.

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In other words, I am what I am, right?

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James 3, 6 says this way, and the tongue is a fire, a world of unrighteousness.

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The tongue is set among our members, sustaining the whole body, setting on fire the entire course of life, and set on fire by hell.

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In other words, our tongue, our language, our vocabulary concerning the reality of our life will determine where you go in life.

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It's not, not in just what you say, it's how you say it.

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And what you say and how you say it tells me where your heart is.

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That's what this means.

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Old Testament Proverbs 423 says this, keep your heart with all vigilance for from it flow the springs of life.

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Your heart guides your mouth, change the way you think changes the heart, change the heart changes your language.

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Speak Jesus's language.

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That's what you need to see.

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So if you purpose, God disposes.

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If God disposes, the only way to make sure that you're in line is to give it all to him.

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All that the Lord God has made is for his purpose and plan.

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Nothing is made to just exist, but made for his wonderful name and glory.

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You weren't made to just be.

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You were made and created for the sole purpose of the glory of God and to be used by him for the purpose of his kingdom.

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There is a plan and it's not yours.

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It's his plan.

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That doesn't mean that you can't make plans in life as young people, as young men and women.

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But whatever you purpose to do, do it all for the glory of God.

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You'll see this very shortly.

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For the scripture says to the Pharaoh, for this very purpose I have raised you up that I might show my power in you and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth.

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Even the wicked are created, brought into life for the sole purpose of the glory of God.

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So Proverbs 16, 3 through 4 says this, commit, roll up to.

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It means to take the scroll and roll it to the one who is doing the work.

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Commit, roll up to.

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Roll your scroll of life and give it to Christ.

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Commit your work, your acts, your pursuits, your achievements to the Lord.

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And your plans, your devices, your purpose will be established, will be made firm, stable and fixed.

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If you do this and you commit everything to him, you will absolutely succeed in life.

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The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble.

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And whatever you do in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

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Whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God and thank him for the opportunity.

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The Old Testament.

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The end of the matter.

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Keep his commandments.

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For this is the whole duty of man.

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Your responsibility is to glorify God.

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Your responsibility is to keep his commandments, to show respect and honor and reverence for the God of all creation, who you will give an account to one day.

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Just like in every presentation of, I think, every graduation presentation, the speaker always gives a warning, I think.

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Like, hey, there's something you guys need to pay attention to.

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The world is hard.

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That's what you typically hear.

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And you've been equipped.

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You have studied to win.

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That's not a, I'm not giving you a speech, but let me give you this warning.

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The warning here is to, a warning to run from pride.

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Life is not about you.

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It's about Christ and always will be.

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If my people who are called by my name humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and forgive their sin and heal their land.

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Now, I understand that this is a verse that's used many times out of context.

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And he's talking to the people of Israel concerning their entering into the promised land, that if they repent, God will do what he's promised.

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But this verse does fit very well.

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Everyone who is arrogant, gava is the word here, proud in heart.

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Everyone who is proud in the inner man, in the mind or in the heart is an abomination.

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The word abomination here is a disgusting thing.

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An abomination, a disgusting thing to the Lord.

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Pride is what Satan has done.

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Lust of the heart, lust of the eyes, pride of life is an abomination to the Lord.

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This word be assured means to put the hand to.

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Be assured that God will put the hand to everyone who is not committed and humbled before him.

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He will not, the person will not go unpunished.

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This word unpunished means he will not be free.

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He will not be pure.

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He will not be clean.

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He will not be innocent and he will not be guiltless.

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That's what this word means.

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By steadfast love, by goodness and kindness and faithfulness and by faithfulness, truth, firmness, sureness, reliability, iniquity, our perversity, our depravity, our guilt is atoned for.

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Purged, covered, reconciled.

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God is the one who is steadfast in love and faithful.

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God is the one who has atoned for our iniquity, for himself.

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And by the Lord, and by the fear of the Lord, the word fear of the Lord here means reverence and respect.

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One turns away, repents, to dispose, to depart.

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One turns and runs the opposite way from evil.

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Turn from your sin and cling to him.

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But he gives more grace, therefore it says, God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.

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If my people who are called by my name would humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways,

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then I will hear from heaven and forgive their sin and heal their land.

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See, God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.

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Love God, love his word, love his ways, and love his things.

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There's nothing of greatest value that you've been given in Christ.

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Christ is your greatest value and his word.

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Christ and his word is the greatest value that God the Father has given to you.

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Not your stuff.

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It's not your cell phone.

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Girls, it's not whether you have a good hair day.

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Gentlemen, it's not, oh my gosh, I've got to get rid of the pimple.

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It's not your looks, it's him.

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When a man's ways please the Lord, he makes even his enemies at peace with him.

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When, roshah is the word here, pleasing and acceptable a man is, and his ways will be pleasing and acceptable.

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His journey, his road, his path, his course of life will be pleasing.

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If you are right with God and he's made you acceptable to himself, then your ways will be considered acceptable.

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That's what this verse 7 means.

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It's interesting you use the word when.

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The word when is pleasing.

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I was like, that's interesting.

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Pleasing is the man and his ways are pleasing.

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And if the man is pleasing and his ways are pleasing, then even his enemies, shalem is how you say it, means to make anyone a friend.

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God even makes his enemies, your enemies, a friend.

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I've had a lot of enemies.

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Many are friends today.

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Because I've committed my ways to be pleasing to him and I've committed myself, my mind, and it's a hard struggle.

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But if you do that, God will make even your enemies, your friend.

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Better is a little with righteousness.

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A little what?

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Here's the answer.

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Then great or abundance revenue, income.

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So let me say it this way.

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I'd rather live in a shack and be totally happy and committed to Christ than to be a millionaire or billionaire and be completely miserable and lost.

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That's what this means.

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Better is a little with righteousness than great income, great wealth with injustice.

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It's not this issue of injustice in the sense that you would think is justice.

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It means it's better, better is a little than great income with no right or no rectitude, with no attributes of God, with no character of Christ.

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If you don't establish the character of Christ in your lives as young men and women, you will be absolutely miserable, especially when you will not have anything.

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Because there will be a day that you will struggle and not have much.

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Everybody in this room has known about those days.

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Then we look back and you go, well, my parents have all this.

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That's because they put the work in when they were when they were struggling.

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They put the work in.

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They've committed their ways.

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New Testament, if you keep my commandments, you will you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my father's commandments and abide in his love.

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These things I have spoken to you that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be full.

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The greatest value have is Christ and his word, his commandments.

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And this is what this is what the scripture says here that David says, teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth.

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Unite my heart to fear your name.

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And Moses also says the same thing in Exodus 33 13.

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Now, therefore, if I have found favor in your sight, please show me now your ways that I may know you in order to find favor in your sight.

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Show me now your ways that I may know you in order to that this nation is your people.

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This is the end.

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Last thing.

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God is in control.

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Make no bones about that.

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You may look around the world and you think the world is out of control.

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But you have to use your sovereign hand to bring about the plan.

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Oh, I just made that up, Mary Ellen.

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Ben's like,

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I got right that down.

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I had recorded it because I totally forgot how to say.

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That's funny.

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All right, here we go.

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I am the one who was seated on the throne said, behold, I am making all things new.

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Revelation 21 5a.

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See, in Proverbs 16 9, it says this, the heart of man, the lave, the inner man, the mind, the heart, the soul, the heart of man plans.

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You will make all kinds of plans.

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You will calculate whether this is a good idea or not.

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And you will make a judgment on whether you should or shouldn't.

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See, that's where our mind is as young people.

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What am I going to do with the rest of my life?

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You see, the heart of man plans his way.

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The heart of man plans his way.

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The heart of man plans his way.

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The heart of man plans his direct, his course of life.

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You have plans.

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Make plans.

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Planning is fun.

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But when God changes your plan, don't get upset because he knows far better than you do.

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And this is what it says here.

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Why?

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Because God establishes, he coons, he coons you.

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He establishes, makes firm, stable your steps.

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Sa'ad is the word here.

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Your course of life.

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You think you have set a plan.

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But God has established your course of life to accomplish his purpose, his plan to bring about his kingdom for his glory to make his name great.

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That is, if you can get this as young people, you will learn to live in such a way that glorifies him and you will enjoy life immensely wherever you go.

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So here you go.

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They cast their crowns before the throne saying, worthy are you, O Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things and by your will they exist and were created.

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Revelation 4, 10 through 11.

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The whole reason is because God has established that for you, that you would glorify him.

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That's the point.

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Old Testament.

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I am the Lord and there is no other.

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Besides me, there is no God.

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I equip you, though you do not know me, that my people may know from the rising of the sun and from the west that there is none besides me.

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I am the Lord and there is no other.

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I form light and create darkness.

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I make well-being and create calamity.

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So when things are good in people's lives, that's God.

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And when God wrecks your stuff and calamity happens, that's God too.

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I don't know about that, but that's what?

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God creates calamity.

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God brings about your well-being and he creates crisis.

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Everything that happens in the world is the hand of God, providentially and sovereignly working for the purpose of his plan.

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I am the Lord who does all these things, Isaiah 45, 5 through 7.

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Think about that.

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I don't know about you, but that's power.

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Our God is in the heavens and he does all that he pleases.

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God does all that he pleases.

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And you are a pleasure to him.

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So that's my words of wisdom to you adults.

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And now we're getting to the very end of this service.

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And I pray that you listen to this.

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Maybe go back and listen to it.

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If you don't, I will find you.

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I know where you live.

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Next is the diploma presentation.