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


Proverbs 24:16 states a righteous man may fall seven times and rise again, but the wicked shall fall by calamity. Is the scripture liking the righteous's fall to succumbing to sin, or is it referencing something else? How come the wicked's outcome differs from that of the righteous? The righteous can rise again, but the wicked fall into calamity. In this episode, Pr. Johnson provides insight and explanation of the true meaning of Proverbs 24:16.
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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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Now,
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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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