hello my friends welcome back it is time for the morning Mike that you and I are tasked this morning by the god of Heaven and Earth with getting our minds aligned with his truth so that we can live today in a way that brings honor to him is that your heart desire is that what you want to do live a life that matters for eternity by pointing others to the King of Kings through your words to your actions that's what we're about today and you can help us continue to do this by becoming a partner we have many Financial Partners who come along side for as little as $5 a month please check out the description in today's episode for more information on becoming a partner or you can just go to carry green.com that Carey green like the color.com are today I want to help you look into the Book of Proverbs chapter 22 working to look at verses 8 and 16 to discover ways that you can without a doubt destroy yourself
 tell me why you say that way but sometimes it's helpful to kind of think in opposite land for a while and think if I wanted to destroy myself how would I go about doing that also Proverbs chapter 22 gives us a couple of Surefire ways let's look at verse number eight it says whoever sews Injustice will reap Calamity and the rod of his Fury will fail so it's bringing in an agricultural example illustration for a spot of sowing and reaping sewing is like planting reaping is harvesting so saying if you plant in just so you put seeds in the ground that are Injustice meaning you're aiming to be unjust towards someone you will reap Calamity so what you're going to harvest from that in the end is going to be bad things it's going to be chaos is going to be Strife in your own life it's going to be all kinds of trouble and it says and the rod of his Fury will fail
 what is saying is what you're trying to accomplish through perpetrating that Injustice is going to fail in the end because you're going about it in a wicked way you said God sees Injustice the mistreatment of others for your own gang as wickedness and that is something friends that will destroy us as an individual and we look around us and we see all kinds of people doing unjust things and they seem to be getting ahead but friends you don't know the whole story you know what's happening in their marriage you don't know what's happening with their kids you don't know what's happening just in their own stress level you don't know how this is really happening except we do know God says it will destroy them and you can be assured it is destroying them. Proverbs 22:16
 it says whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth or gives to the rich only come to poverty
 look at this here's a person who's trying to increase his own wealth that's his goal was shooting for and he's doing so in two different ways he's doing so by oppressing the poor she was trying to treat people who are under him in terms of economic status in a way that will bring him more wealth
 he's also giving to the rich so maybe this is too bribes maybe this is through some kind of behavior that that is trying to benefit the rich person's they will help him gain more riches and it says those kinds of tactics will only come to Poverty friends our job in life our biggest goal is to align our hearts with the way our guns things and he does not believe that a person poor people is a good thing he does not think that buttering off the wealthy is going to be a good thing in the end he says those will only come to poverty and do you know why not only are these principles that he's putting play in our world
 these are also results that he actively brings about in opposition to those who are trying to be oppressive or unjust you see friends when we put ourselves in these kinds of behaviors that was talked about on this episode we are destroying ourselves because we are aligning ourselves on the opposite side of the Plainfield from the god of Heaven in Earth
 he is the one opposed to us in such circumstances and friends I don't know about you but I don't want to be lined up on the other side of the the line from God I don't want to be going head-to-head with him when you box God you will lose every time it's a KO he's going to knock you out Lord Jesus we pray you would have Mabel has to be wise people who do not destroy ourselves and who do not destroy the future generations of our family you are foolish decisions and our belief that doing things that are a little shady is going to give us a head or God make US representatives of your name of your righteousness of your kingdom Lord Jesus give us everything we need to be content with where you place the semi so that we can put our focus on living a life that brings you for it and point the others to know you was king of kings and Lord of lords we ask it in your name Jesus amen
 let's pray together for World spiritual renewal
 father as we look at topics like we did today where we see pads that we could walk that will destroy us we recognize that many times we've already walked some way down that path for teachers have to repent how to turn around how to face you in the let the glory of of your face Transformer hearts Lord bring about a Desiring us to the treasure you Above All Else bring about a Desiring us to be your holy people in Jesus cause who you make us to be to be a light in the dark world to draw others to you that your name will be 45 you will be lifted up in this world's direction will be changed because of your great grace Lord God bring it about we pray in Jesus name and for Jesus sake amen