The Way of the Righteous vs. The Way of the Wicked

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I want to deal with this subject from Proverbs 24.

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Proverbs 24 and 6.

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A righteous man falls seven times but he gets back up again.

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We're going to look at the verse here in a minute.

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But we want to deal with this.

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A righteous man falls.

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What does it mean?

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Many of you have heard this scripture before you quoted it and nine times out of ten when

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we hear this scripture when this scripture is quoted when this scripture is used is generally

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referencing in the word fall a righteous man falls seven times.

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We generally reference fall there as to sin falls into sin falls into temptation and I

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was in a room on Clubhouse not sure if you are familiar with the social media app Clubhouse.

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However, I was in a room for those of you that are familiar with it.

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I was in a room and somehow the conversation in which we were engaged in led to this verse

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here in Proverbs and the discussion utilizing this verse as its basis was referencing sin

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and the person and other persons were saying you know regardless of the temptations regardless

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of the proclivities regardless of the sin you're righteous you get back up and I began

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to help steer us in the right direction as it pertains to the context of the text and

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it's unfortunate that we are living in a day now where many people are taking certain scriptures

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extracting a verse here and there taking it out of context and extrapolating their own

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philosophies their own ideologies their own doctrine that are absolutely contradictory

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to the scriptures contradictory to the context of the text and so I was led of God to deal

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with this on tonight and to bring us into biblical scriptural understanding of what

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this verse in Proverbs 16 really says so let's look at it shall we let's dig our heels into

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this the righteous man falls seven times what does that mean righteous man falls because

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again we have extrapolated erroneously as it pertains to what proverb actually is saying

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and then Donnie McClurkin came out over a decade or so ago with the song we fall down

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but we get up we fall down but we get up in this verse that really irks me is a saint

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is just a sinner who fell down but got up well that may make for a good song and I have

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I beg to differ even in that statement that it makes a good song however it's not scriptural

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you cannot be a saint and a sinner simultaneously you're either a sinner or you're a saint but

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when we reference Proverbs 24 16 and we connect it with the lyrics of that song we are insinuating

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that regardless of how many times you yield to your proclivities and your fleshly inclinations

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wants and desires that despite it all God will pick you up God will restore you God

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will come to your aid God will come to your rescue and that makes good for motivational

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speeches but is it Bible is it by Bell come on here these are the questions that the church

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fails to ask as it pertains to messages that encourages catch this encourages us in our

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wrong encourages us in our intentional sin y'all don't like that come on here so we

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have to ask ourselves is what I'm hearing biblical is what I'm hearing scriptural is

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what I'm hearing accurate is what I'm hearing in alignment with what God actually said versus

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what we have translated it to mean within our current culture within our current time

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within the era and or the generation that we live so let's look at a few things here

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as it pertains to proverbs 24 16 get your Bible get pad electronic device whatever you

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use to jot down take down note because you definitely are going to learn tonight and

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you want to be able to record what the Holy Ghost is going to teach what he's going to

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lay out what he's going to explain and expound on all right it's empowerment Monday we're

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here to empower our thinking not empower our flesh not encourage our our passions and our

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desires that are fueled by the old Adamic nature are y'all following me y'all come

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on and talk to me here in these comments but what does proverbs 24 and 16 says for a righteous

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man fall seven times and rise again but the wicked shall fall by calamity the wicked shall

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fall by calamity the righteous man fall seven times but rises again now there are a few

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things we need to address in the text in order for us to have proper understanding now within

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the text there are two groups of people that the text addresses are y'all flowing with

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me there's two groups of people so that's the first realization that's the first thing

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we must comprehend and understand again a righteous man fall seven times he rises again

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but the wicked shall fall into calamity there are two groups of people we're talking about

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a righteous person or people and then we're talking or referencing the wicked person the

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wicked wicked person and a wicked people now that's significant for us to understand and

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you if you stick with me you'll come to comprehend why it is significant so let's look at this

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let's dig our heels into this hold on I hit the wrong thing glory to god all right now

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a righteous man falls he gets up righteous man falls not once not twice but the righteous

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falls seven times however he gets back up but the wicked falls in two now don't miss

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that the wicked falls in two consequences circumstances situations predicaments the

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wicked falls in two but the righteous falls the righteous encounters something but the

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wicked enters into something I'm taking my time because I want to ensure that you all

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are following me the righteous experience and or encounter something but the wicked

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falls into something so there are two categories there is the wicked person and then there

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is the righteous or the the just person the King James uses the word just the new King

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James uses the word righteous but just and righteous are synonymous they're interchangeable

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let's look at this here are some synonyms for wicked I'm going somewhere y'all stick

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with me now y'all with me so wicked devilish evil impish mischievous nasty naughty vicious

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villainous wayward all right so he said a just man fall it seven times and rises up

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again but the devilish but the evil but the impish but the mischievous but the nasty but

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the naughty but the vicious but the villainous but the wayward shall fall in two mischief

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now righteous or just reliable right righteous rightful rigid meaning that you have standard

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that you have a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a

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a a a a you're fixed you're narrow there are certain things that you will do won't

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do you have standards you have limitations all right scrupulous strict tried true trustworthy

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unbiased uncolored upright virtuous so the wicked one category the just or the righteous

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another category. Are y'all following me? Now there are in this text in Proverbs 20.16 in the text

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it discusses two different paths and destination because we're referencing, we're discussing,

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we're regarding two groups or two categories of persons. Wicked people, righteous people,

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or just people. There is a specific path that leads to a specific or specified destination

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for the righteous as well as a specific path that leads to a specific or specified destination

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for the wicked. The path of the righteous is not the same, is not equal to the path of the wicked.

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The destination that these paths lead to are not the same. Jesus says that there is a narrow way.

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Well, there's a straight way that leads to what? Leads to life, that leads to blessing,

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that leads to prosperity, that leads to everything that is connected to God, that leads to

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godliness. The straight and narrow way. Y'all come on, y'all ain't talking back because we're talking

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about choosing paths that render specific outcomes. Therefore, if you experience an outcome

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that's unfavorable, could it be you chose that outcome by choosing said path? Therefore,

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it's no fault of anyone else if the outcome you're experiencing is unfavorable, most especially

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if that outcome is connected and are tied to a specific path. In other words, if you follow

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or if you travel said path, the outcome is inevitable because that specific outcome is

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connected to that path and or that destination. Therefore, if you don't want said outcome, then

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you need to choose another path whereby the destination is going to lead you to what is

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favorable, lead you to what is beneficial versus what is harmful, what is destructive. Are you

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following me? See, destruction is an outcome that's connected to a certain path, to a certain path,

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to a certain lifestyle, to a certain behavior, to a certain mindset. I'm teaching good here.

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Blessing, progression, prosperity, health, and all of that is an outcome that's connected, that's

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tied to a specific path. So, if you end up at a destination that you don't like, then you should

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have chosen another path. So, I'm going somewhere. So, Proverbs talks to us, Proverbs 24, I keep

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hitting the wrong button. Y'all, I haven't been live in a couple of weeks. I forgot which buttons

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I need to hit. Y'all bear with me. So, Proverbs talks to us, Proverbs 24 and 16, that's where we

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are establishing the premise for our teaching tonight, for a just man falleth seven times.

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What does that mean? Because again, as I shared in the beginning of tonight's teaching, we have

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taught erratly and erroneously that that particular verse means a righteous man falls, fall there

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means sin, temptation yielded to it, you made a mistake as it pertains to doing something that

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you knew was not in God's will, but you did it anyway. And we've taught this scripture to say,

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regardless of what you've happened, that God will forgive you and that God will restore you and that

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God will always extend unto you the opportunity to repent. And even that is not biblical, because

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if you were with me several weeks ago when I taught on the truth about repentance, it is God

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that has to provide the opportunity for repentance. Repentance is not automatic.

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Therefore, in other words, you are playing Russian roulette with your soul and or the eternal state

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of your soul by thinking you can obey, disobey, you can go in and come out and all you have to do

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is repent, because we've heard that foolishness as well across the Pope, but all you have to do

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is repent. God is the forgiving God, he'll give you another chance, he'll give you another chance.

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It depends, because the scripture also says that he has mercy upon whom he will. So we cannot assume

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that because God's mercy endures forever, you have to understand what that even means, that his

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mercy endures forever. And again, if you were with me when I taught as it pertains to what the Bible

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says about repentance, that God's mercy enduring forever means that he will never cease to possess

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mercy. His mercy does not run out, it is endless. However, his mercy will not always be extended

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toward you, because if that was true, then the scriptures would not tell us that God's spirit

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would not always strive with man. If God's mercy toward us would consistently be extended to us,

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regardless of how we treat him, then Paul would not talk to us about God turning us over to a

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reprobate mind. See, this is why we have to rightly divide the word. And so now we have to understand

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that it is God that extends the opportunity to repent. We have to understand that in regard to

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this particular scripture, it's not saying that you can keep messing up and messing up and messing

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up intentionally and think that God will always be there with an outstretched hand to pick you up,

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knowing that you aren't committed to your vow and or your promise of living in alignment with his

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intention and his purposes as it pertains to your life. So we have to understand from God's

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perspective, not your religion, not your denomination, not the philosophy of your leader,

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but we have to understand from a scriptural perspective, which is God, what did he mean when

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he penned by moving upon the heart of the apostles and the prophets? What did he mean? So let's again,

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let's look into this deeper because again, there are paths and destination that Proverbs 24 and 16

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references. Now, I don't know if you can see it because it's written sideways, but the note here

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on this slide, the route of righteousness always lead, listen to this, to what is good, the route

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of righteousness, the path of righteousness. Righteousness is a route. Righteousness is a path.

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Righteousness is, leads to a specific destination, but the route of righteousness always leads to

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what is good, whereas, listen, the road of wickedness ends in ruin,

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ends in ruin and destruction. So we're talking about paths and destination. We're talking about

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the route or the road of righteousness, which is a path that leads to a certain destination

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or a certain outcome. And we're talking about the road or the route of wickedness that leads

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to a specific outcome and or a specific destination. Now stick with me because I'm building on this.

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What I'm teaching you now is necessary so that we can fully understand what God is saying

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in this verse 16 of Proverbs 24. For a just man falleth seven times and rises up again,

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but the wicked man, or but the wicked rather, shall fall into mischief. Now we're going to

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differentiate in meanings here in a little bit as it pertains to the word fall, because fall is

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mentioned twice in this one verse. It talks about the righteous falling and then it talks about

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the wicked falling. But there are two different meanings or definitions for the word fall. Same

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word, different meaning. Are y'all not talking to me tonight? All right, that's all right. I'm

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going to go on and teach while I'm teaching. So Proverbs 10 and 6 through 7, we're talking about

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two types of people, the wicked and the righteous, and then we're talking about two paths.

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The righteous path, the wicked path that has certain outcomes. Let's take a look at a few

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other scriptures here to further help us understand. Blessings are on the head of the righteous,

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but violence covers the mouth of the wicked. The memory of the righteous is blessed, but the name

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of the wicked will rot. That's Proverbs 10 6 through 7. Proverbs 10 16, the labor of the righteous

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leads to life. The wages of the wicked sin. Proverbs 15 and 9, the way of the wicked is an

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abomination to the Lord, but he loves him who follows righteousness. Now, why is this significant?

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It's significant because I'm helping us to see here that God is specifying what to expect

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based upon the route you choose. If you choose the righteous route, you have the backing of God,

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you have the protection of God, you have the covering of God, you have the guarding of God,

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you have the guiding of God, you have the rebuke of God, the chastening of God, the correction of

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God, but if you choose the wicked route, then you choose the punishment of God or better yet, the

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judgment of God. You choose the, the, the, you, you relinquish your right to the right to the

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right of wickedness. You, you relinquish your right over to the God of wickedness.

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So I'm helping us to understand that what we have been told this verse in Proverbs 24 16 means is

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not what it means. It is not implying that the righteous person consistently sinned,

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because that's what we have determined and defined all to mean in that verse.

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That if you happen to find your pants off and your dress on the floor, if you happen to find

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coke in your nose, and we're talking about those who have supposedly come to Christ and have been

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born again, but if you choose sin, it doesn't matter how many times you fall, God will pick you up.

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That's not what it's saying, because, oh, the text is implying that a righteous man, a just man,

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does not choose sin in the first place. Okay. The righteous man chooses righteousness, because his

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nature has, his nature is that of righteousness. He has been made righteous. He has been born

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from above, but the wicked who chose against God, who chose the God of wickedness, who chose to

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remain in their fallen and or Adamic state, they are moving in direction that are in conjunction

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with who they are. So there are certain consequences that are, that are inevitable

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for he who is wicked, as well as consequences that are inevitable outcome for he who is righteous.

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And the verse is actually telling you again that the righteous man falls, but his outcome of falling

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is not the same as the wicked man who falls. Did y'all catch that? Are y'all flooring with me?

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Y'all talk to me in the comments if y'all are flooring with me. So, see, the, the, the, they both

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righteous and wicked fall question what is meant by the word fall. We're going to answer that

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question in a minute, but I want that to be at the forefront of your brain, because it's not referencing

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the same thing. The fall for the righteous is not the same as the fall for the wicked.

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All right. So let's deal a little more. Let's dig our heels a little more into these paths and

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destination. Let me go to the next slide. Now, let's look at the term or the term, because we're

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just dissecting one word fall, but I want you to see that what we have been taught and told

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is not actually what the Bible says for a righteous man. Now let's break it down for a righteous man.

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For a righteous man may fall seven times and rise again. Now that we're looking at the A

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clause of the verse. All right. We're looking at the A clause of the verse. For a righteous man

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fall seven times and rise again. Now fall here in the A clause of the verse has a different meaning

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than fall in the B clause as it pertains to the wicked fall in the A clause as it pertains to the

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A clause as it pertains to the righteous man. Now I spent time differentiating showing for you.

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There's two categories of people that proverbs 24 16 is referencing the righteous, the wicked.

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It's also mentioning pointing out two different paths. The righteous chooses the path that is

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right. The wicked chooses the path of wickedness. Now fall in Hebrew, fall in the A clause means to

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fall down, lost, overthrow, overwhelm, perish, throw down. It's na fall in Hebrew. Na fall in Hebrew.

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Now figuratively fall here is speaking, listen to this, to experiencing disaster, tragedy, or ruin.

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Fall literally in this verse means to fall down or to be thrown down, right? However, thrown down

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by a circumstance out of your control. You've fallen down due to an occurrence that was not

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under your control. In other words, if you walk outside and the elements outside become very

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violent due to a storm or what have you and there are violent winds that begin to blow and the winds

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are so violent that it pushes you down. It knocks you off of your feet. You fall down. You have

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fallen. You have probably harmed yourself, hurt yourself. But what you've experienced

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was that the wicked by way of the fall was of no fault of your own. You did not intentionally

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fall. You fell. You were thrown down. You fell down due to circumstances. And this is what the

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writer is speaking of, is referencing here in Proverbs 24 and 16. A righteous man falleth seven

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times. A righteous man experiences life, hard knocks, circumstances. And Jesus himself informs us

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that we would experience trials and tribulations while in him. We're not exempt from trials and

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tribulations and circumstances because we're saved, because we're born again. We aren't exempt

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from the effects of sin as it pertains to death, as it pertains to illness and sickness. However,

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what the writer, the proverb writer is, glory to God, is telling you is that if you're righteous

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and you experience disaster, tragedy, or ruin because you chose the path of righteousness,

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you chose God's way, you chose God, you chose to adapt to God's mindset and God's way of thinking,

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God will always allow things, though they don't feel good, they will always work for your good.

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Romans 8 and 28. Are y'all following me here? And so see, this is the text in context. This is the

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text from God's perspective. The righteous fall, the righteous experience disaster, the righteous

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experience tragedy, the righteous experience ruin. We can pull Job in as an example. Job did not

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sin as it pertains to falling. He did not disobey God. He did not

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violate the laws of God. He did not do contrary to what God had instructed.

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However, he failed and the text is telling you, regardless of how many times the enemy comes

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after you, regardless of how many times you experience an aspect of life that leaves you

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drained, that leaves you depleted, that leaves you confused. If you maintain your righteous position,

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I can't get no help tonight. If you maintain your righteous stand, if you maintain, if you hold

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to what God has established, if you continue to discipline yourself, if you continue to align

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yourself, regardless of how your flesh kicks and complains and all of that, the righteous is

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guaranteed comeback. The righteous is guaranteed resilience. The righteous is guaranteed bounce

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back. Though weeping may endure for a night, joy comes in the morning. For the righteous,

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it's a guarantee. Resilient. And this is the essence of what the text is saying

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in its statement of rising up again. The righteous rise up again. Why? Because of the spirit of

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the spirit of resilience that is within them, which is the Holy Ghost, because of the righteous position.

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they are y'all flowing with me tonight. This is good teaching here. Resilience, the capability,

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listen to this, the capability of a strained body to recover. See, glory to God.

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And a righteous man falls seven times. And that's not the minimum. Listen, it's just letting you know

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that regardless of how many times hell takes a shot at you, regardless of how many times

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life hits you, if you maintain your righteous position, we say it, but do you mean it? For God

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I live, for God I'll die. Well, God will, the scripture says, He comes for your word. He will

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test what we have said. He will test what we release and what we put out in the atmosphere.

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And so, resilience is the capability of a strained body to recover its size and shape after

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deformation caused especially by comprehensive stress. I love the latter definition of resilience.

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An ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change. A righteous man

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falls seven times, but he rises again. That's not the outcome for the wicked.

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The wicked does not have this promise of bounce back. The wicked does not have this promise.

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The evil, the violator, come on, I gave you the synonym of wicked. The mischievous does not have

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this covenantal promise that God will provide you with the ability to reestablish yourself,

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to regain consciousness, hallelujah, to regain your equilibrium, to dust yourself off,

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to shake yourself off and get back in the game. Now, see, righteousness pays off. Holiness pays

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off, but you have to maintain your position. In other words, you cannot change destination

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or you cannot change your route because if you change your route from righteousness to wickedness,

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you alter your destination and in altering your destination, you alter your outcome and in

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altering your outcome, you predetermine what God can do or how God can intervene in your situation

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and in your circumstance. Let's look, I got it here on the bottom of the screen. I got a few

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minutes. I'm about to come to a close here. Let's look at real quick Psalm 37 and 23.

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I don't have it written out in the slide, but I do have the scripture noted there. Psalm 37 and 23.

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For such as be blessed, 23 rather, for the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord,

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and he delighteth in his way. Steps of a good man, steps of a righteous man. 24, though he

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fall, listen to it, though he fall, it's not talking about you willfully choosing sin.

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Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down. It's talking about circumstances. It's talking

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about calamities. It's talking about situations. You will not be destroyed by what was released for

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the purpose of destroying you. Though no weapon formed against you shall prosper. It didn't say

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that there would be no weapon formed. It says no weapon formed, meaning the weapon that was

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purpose to take you out will not have that outcome because the righteous have covenant with God,

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which does not say God will alleviate hell, strife, death, bankruptcy. It's not saying he will.

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He will alleviate and or exempt you from experiencing these things, but what it is saying

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is that the experience of these things will not result in your destruction and or in your demise.

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Glory to God. For the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.

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Glory to God. For the Lord upholdeth him with his hand. So when you fall, when you hit the ground,

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glory to God, you're actually going to fall into the hand of God. God's hand is going to

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mediate between your head and the ground. So he's not saying that you won't fall. He's saying for

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the righteous, your fall will not be equivalent to that of the wicked. Now, let's look at the B-Clause

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of verse 16 of Proverbs 24, but the wicked shall fall by calamity. Now this fall, same word,

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y'all excuse me, I hit the wrong button. I'm gonna get it right. Same word, different meaning,

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different outcome. Fall here in the B-Clause of verse 16, but the wicked shall fall by calamity.

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The B-Clause of verse 16 is not the same Hebrew word in the A-Clause. The Hebrew word for fall

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here in the D-Clause is kushal, and it means to falter, to stumble, to faint, your feeble, weak,

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and to experience ruin. But now let's look at this, because as I told you in the beginning,

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the righteous experience and or encounter a fall. They encounter a circumstance, an experience,

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but the righteous fall in two. The righteous' fall is purposeful. The righteous, rather the wicked

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fall is intentional. It's purposeful. In other words, it was an inevitable outcome, because they

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chose the path that had that outcome embedded in it. Did you understand that? So for the wicked,

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in other words, oh help me, the wicked, in other words, expect to falter. That's what he's saying.

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The wicked expect to think. The wicked expect to stumble. The wicked expect to be weak and feeble

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and frail. Expect to be ruined. That's why I have this particular picture here of this

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demolition of a building, the destruction of a building here. You see all of the rubble and

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the aftermath thereof. See, the wicked should expect to fall and not recuperate, not bounce back,

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not be held, not be salvaged, not be saved. Now I know some of y'all don't like that teaching, but

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this is Bible. See, you're used to getting a fairy tale gospel that when you hear the real gospel,

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you don't know how to take it. But the wicked shall fall into mischief. There is no rising up again

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unless God has mercy. Unless He has mercy. Unless He has mercy. But for the wicked,

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unless He has mercy, your outcome is destructive. For the righteous, you have a covenantal promise

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that God will work what did not feel good for your good and you're going to come back full circle.

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As we get ready to wrap it up here, let's look at the outcome of the righteous and the outcome

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of the wicked. Proverbs 11 23, the desire of the righteous is only good, but the expectation of

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the wicked is wrath. They expect it because they are traveling down a path that has

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destruction embedded in it. Proverbs 12 223, a good man obtains favor from the Lord,

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but a man of wicked intention he will condemn. A man is not established by wickedness,

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but the root of the righteous cannot be moved. See wickedness does not establish you, wickedness

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destroys you. I'm teaching good by the Holy Ghost. Righteousness establishes you, righteousness

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sustains you, righteousness provides for you, righteousness protects you, righteousness guides

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you, righteousness governs you. But wickedness destroys you, wickedness depletes you, wickedness

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weakens you, wickedness deteriorates you. Are you following me? See the wicked fall into mischief.

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They fall into it. It is inevitable.

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They fall into mischief. They fall into injury. They fall into damage. Are you following me? They

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fall into harm. They fall into evil. That's what wickedness is. They fall into mischief.

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They fall into harm. They fall into evil. That's what the path of wickedness leads to. Proverbs

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27 12 and 7, the wicked are overthrown and are no more, but the house of the righteous will stand.

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And our last slide, I'm just giving you a Bible which many of us don't get. Proverbs 12 and 21,

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no grave calamity, trouble will overtake the righteous. Notice it does not say

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that the righteous will not encounter or experience

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trouble. It does not say that the righteous won't encounter it. Again, Proverbs 24 and 16,

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though a righteous man falls seven times, though a righteous man encounters problems in hell and

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divorce and all of that, even though you encounter it, you will rise again. It doesn't matter how

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many times, and that's where the seven comes in. The seven is not a minimum. The seven is not a

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maximum. The seven is just there to let you know, regardless of what you do, you will rise again.

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The seven is just there to let you know, regardless of how many times something occurs that causes you

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to fall. If you're righteous, God will reestablish you in time. But if you're wicked, unless he has

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mercy, listen, you're out for the count. So Proverbs 12 and 21 is not saying that the righteous will

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not encounter trouble, but it says that trouble will not overtake you. But listen to this,

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but the wicked shall be filled with evil. Proverbs 13, I'm just giving you some Bible now.

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I'm wrapping up. This is it. This is the last slide. The light of the righteous rejoices.

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See, there's rejoicing in righteousness. Rejoicing, happiness is tied to righteousness.

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Sorrow is tied to wickedness, but the lamp of the wicked will be put out.

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Evil pursuers, evil pursues sinners, but to the righteous, good shall be repaid. The righteous

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eat to the satisfying of his soul, but the stomach of the wicked shall be in one. Proverbs 15 and 6,

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in the house of the righteous, there is much treasure, but in the revenue of the wicked is

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trouble. Your money is unstable. There is wickedness, but the revenue of the wicked is trouble.

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Even though you have money, money does not alleviate trouble. And our last scripture reference, Psalm

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21 and 11, for they intended evil against you. They devised a plot which they are not able to

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perform. Why? Because the righteous is not overcome or devoured by their fall, by their circumstance,

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circumstance, by their dilemma, by their circumstance, by their situation. Glory to God. So

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we have established this biblical, scriptural truth in Proverbs 24 and 16, for a just man

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falleth seven times and rises up again, but the wicked shall fall into mischief. He's not talking

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about the righteous falling into sin. Let's stop preaching that because that's not the context of

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the text. That's not the scriptural, he's not talking about that because the righteous does not

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intentionally fall into sin. The righteous does not intentionally aim and or reach toward what God

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has already given instructions on as it pertains to fleeing away from, turning away from. So I wanted

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by the Holy Ghost to bring us to the understanding of what this scripture, this verse really is saying

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because many people are deceived to believe that this verse gives them the license to go out there

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and do what they want to do knowingly, knowing that God is against what they are desiring,

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what they're being offered, but because we have errantly and erroneously taught this, listen,

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God is the forgiving God, he's going to forgive you. All you got to do is repent if he allows

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repentance. What if he does not allow you to repent? You can't.

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So if he doesn't extend that opportunity, if he doesn't extend that option,

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then you are doomed to hell. So we need not play Russian roulette with our soul.

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