Proverbs 30 (08/05/2018)

I'm really glad to be here. It's good to see all of you. And I love my brother Dave so much. I was sitting back there just thinking about all, sitting back there. And Finn, David's grandson, was staring me down, intimidating me to no end.

I got a picture of it, so I can prove it. I can prove it. He was really giving me the eye. And I was thinking, when I met brother David, or the first time I came to Texas, Jenny was that old. That was mind-blowing.

It's like eons ago. Not that you're eons old. That came out so wrong. That came out so wrong. How old are you, Jenny? Oh, I'm a couple eons, according to Myron, right? A wise man once said, when you find yourself in a hole, put the shovel down.

Wisdom Beyond Your Size

So I'm gonna put the shovel down and start reading some Bible verses. I tried to get sentimental, and it didn't work. Lots of, yeah, lots of Bible verses. All right, we're gonna look at Proverbs chapter 30 today.

I believe that the Bible is the most practical book in the world. If you are looking for religion in the Bible, you're looking in the wrong place. What? If you're looking for religion in the Bible, you're looking in the wrong place.

And when I say religion, I mean this idea that somehow you're gonna find what you're supposed to do to appease an angry God. There's nothing you can do to appease God. God can only be appeased by God, and so God never established a religion.

And that's what all religions tell you you gotta do. Some religions will say you gotta do this to appease God. Other religions say you gotta do that to appease God. The Bible says only God can appease God.

So the Bible's not a religious book. The Bible's a very practical book. There are things that God intends for us to do based on what we read in scripture. A lot of people think that the Bible is a book that's supposed to make us feel good on Sunday, right?

It's not that either. It's like it's practical instructions for living on Monday, and Tuesday, and Wednesday, and Thursday, and Friday, and Saturday, and Sunday. And so when I read the Bible, I oftentimes find, or I all the time find things that I'm supposed to do.

Unfortunately, sometimes I'm not doing them, so I've gotta make a shift. How many of y 'all have ever had to make that shift in your life to make a shift, amen? Y 'all know what I'm talking about? And so I came across a passage a long time ago, and I couldn't really wrap my mind around what it meant.

It was just, I was like, I wonder what that means. And it wasn't like I was wondering what it meant for a couple of weeks, or a couple of months. It was like years. I'm thinking, what could this, why is this in here?

And I think it's really gonna help you today if you ever feel like the job that you have to do is bigger than you are. The job as a parent, the job as a grandparent, the job as a business owner, the job as a pastor, the job as a teacher, the job as a husband, the job as a wife.

If you feel like the work that you have to do is greater than you are, then I believe that this will help. I don't know if anybody else ever feels that way, but sometimes I feel like, I'm just me. What am I, how can I do that?

Anybody ever feel that way? Okay, just a couple of us. All right, praise the Lord. So we're gonna be blessed by that, and the rest of y 'all, y 'all can just watch us be blessed. Amen. All right, Proverbs chapter 30, and we're gonna begin with verse number 24, and we are gonna read down to verse number 28.

And it's just a few simple verses, but I wondered why it was in there. And here's what it says in Proverbs chapter number 30, beginning with verse 24. It says, there be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise.

The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer. The conies are a feeble folk, yet they make their houses in the rocks. The locusts have no king, yet they go forth all of them by bands.

The spider taketh hold with her hands and is in the king's palaces. Now, I don't know, I know you probably understood that the first time you read it, but for me, it made me scratch my head. What in the world is King Solomon talking about?

He starts talking about ants and conies, and a conie's a rock badger. Ants and conies, and he's talking about locusts, and he's talking about spiders. What? Well, I believe that, I almost said the apostle Paul.

I believe that King Solomon wrote this to encourage other people who feel like he once felt that the job that you have to do is beyond you. And so this morning, I wanna talk to you about the subject, how to be wise beyond your size, shall we pray?

Father, thank you for your word. We thank you that it is not just true, but we thank you that your word is truth, and we pray that you would just open our eyes, and that we would behold your beautiful truth from your word, and that your spirit would open our ears, that we would hear what you have to say to us in this church this morning, and we bless you for it in the name of Yeshua, our Savior, amen.

Solomon’s Prayer for Wisdom and a Kingdom Assignment

All right, well, I believe that, I can't prove this, but I think there's a very good likelihood that when King Solomon wrote this proverb, that one of the 3 ,000 proverbs that he wrote, I believe that he was probably thinking back to when he first was anointed to be King of Israel.

And what we're gonna do this morning is we're gonna look at that story in 1 Kings chapter number three, and we're gonna see why I believe that King Solomon was probably thinking about that. And it says in 1 Kings chapter three, verse three, and Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of David his father, and burnt incense in the high places.

And the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice, therefore that was the great high place, and he burnt offerings, I'm sorry, and 1 ,000 burnt offerings did Solomon offer upon the altar. And in Gibeon, the Lord appeared unto Solomon in a dream by night, and God asked, what shall I give thee?

What do you want, Solomon? Hey, Solomon's sleeping. Hey, Solomon, wake up. I've got some, what would you like? I'm gonna give you whatever you want. Can you imagine you're laying there in your bed? Hey, hey, hey, I've got some, how do y 'all like to have that dream?

Can I get with this? I mean, I've got, let's start with what Solomon said. So he woke Solomon up, or he spoke to Solomon in a dream. He didn't wake Solomon up. He spoke to Solomon in a dream, and he said, ask what I shall give thee.

You ask me for something, I'm gonna give it to you. Now, it's one thing if somebody who doesn't have much comes and says, hey, I'm gonna give you whatever you want. But when the one who owns everything in the universe comes to you and says, I'm gonna give you whatever you want, that is a good dream.

And here's what Solomon says. Verse number six, and Solomon said, thou hast showed unto David, my father, great mercy, according as he walked before thee in truth and in righteousness and in uprightness of heart with thee, that thou hast kept for him this great kindness, that thou hast given him a son to sit on his throne as it is this day.

And now, O Lord, my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of my father, David. Lord, you made me king to replace my father, David, the great King David, who killed Goliath. Now I'm supposed to take his place.

I've never killed a giant. I've never led mighty men. I don't know how to be a king. He said, I am but a little child. I know not how to go out or to come in. He was saying, I don't know how to do a royal procession.

I don't know how to be, like, you've made me a king, but I don't know if you'd be stressing about that. I'd be stressing about that pretty big time. And then he said, and my servant is in the midst of thy people, which thou has chosen a great people that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.

Give therefore, he said, he's about to ask him now, give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I may discern between good and bad, for who is able to judge this thy great people?

And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon asked this thing. And God said unto him, because thou hast asked this thing, because you've asked for a wise and an understanding heart, because you've asked for a wise heart to judge righteously, here's what God said.

He said, I have given thee a wise and understanding heart, so there's none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee, and I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked.

In other words, I've given you that which other people would have asked for. Here's what it says. I've given you that which thou hast not asked, both riches and honor, that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days.

I am gonna make you the greatest king in world history. I'm gonna give you riches, not just riches, you're gonna be the wealthiest king in world history. There won't be any before you like you, there won't be any like you after.

The Bible tells us that when Solomon was king, that gold and silver were like stones in Israel. Solomon was so prosperous that the whole country was blessed. Pretty amazing. And he says in verse 14, and if thou won't walk in my ways and keep my statutes and my commandments as thy father David did, walk then while I lengthen thy days.

And Solomon awoke, behold, it was a dream. Now, Solomon prayed an amazing prayer. And the thing that caused him to pray this amazing prayer was the fact that he recognized. You know what we do? You know what we do in 2018?

We hide our inabilities. We cover up our inabilities. We make excuses for our inabilities. But Solomon didn't do that. Solomon said, Lord, hey, now I'm gonna tell you something. I don't got this. We're like, oh, I got this.

Solomon said, I don't. And he said, I don't know how to be a king. The prayer that Solomon prayed was a kingdom prayer. When you understand that the whole Bible is a book about a king, about what? It's a book about a kingdom, colonization of a foreign land.

Of a what? Of a foreign land. What's that foreign land? It's called earth. The whole Bible is about a king and a kingdom and a royal family and the colonization of a foreign land. That's what it was about from the beginning.

The very first thing God ever said to a human being, be fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth, subdue it and have what? Dominion. The word kingdom is a compound word that means the king's dominion with my heart.

So the book, he came preaching the gospel of the kingdom because the whole thing is about the kingdom. See, you have to understand that the Bible is a tale of two kingdoms. So there's a good king. His name's God.

He's got a kingdom objective for you. For who? Everybody say for me. Talk to me, church. Everybody say for me. Y 'all, y 'all, y 'all. Some of y 'all don't know me. How do you keep us here till four o 'clock this afternoon?

How do that four o 'clock this afternoon thing wake you up? Okay, so God has a kingdom objective for all of us. And you have to understand that the king, God's kingdom objective is this. God's a king who wants to make you a king.

If you're a woman, God's a king who wants to make you a queen. That sounds like, you know, that's pretty awesome. Like, sign me up for that program. Not that I know how to be a king, but I'll take it.

Like, I'll do what Solomon did. I'll pray like Solomon. There's another king. He's the king of this earth. We talked about it earlier. The God of this earth. His sake, he's got a kingdom objective for you.

What's that? He is a king who wants to make you a slave. So, I want you to wrap your mind around this. God says, hey, hey, I want to make you a king over an assignment. I want to make you a queen over an assignment.

I created you to rule over an assignment that I have placed under your authority as long as you remain under my authority. King who wants to make you a king. King who wants to give you life. A king who wants to provide you.

A king that wants to provide freedom for you. Prophets for you. Wages. Abundance. Lack. Life. Death. Amen. That's what the whole book is about. And Solomon, we know that the story about Solomon, even though it's about Solomon, it's not for Solomon.

14 tells us what? The things that were written before time were written for our learning that we, through patience and comfort of the scripture, might have hope. So, the reason the stories are in the Bible is for our benefit.

Another story in there, so Myron could learn something from Solomon.

So, Solomon prayed a prayer, and his prayer was a kingdom prayer. When Solomon prayed, Solomon didn't pray for Solomon. He asked for wisdom. He said, Lord, give me wisdom. But he didn't say, give me wisdom so I can be wise.

He didn't say, Lord, give me wisdom so I can get an A on my report card. He didn't say, Lord, give me wisdom so people will think I'm smart. He said, you've given me a job to do that I don't know how to do.

Wow, that's, the job you've given me to do is bigger than I am, and because it's bigger than I am, Lord, give me the wisdom to do the thing you put me on this earth to do in a way that pleases you and serves the people you put me here to serve.

The Bible says in, Jesus said in Matthew 6, verse 33, and this is one of the most misunderstood verses in the Bible. There are a lot of them in there like that, that people don't understand what they mean.

It says, but seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. And people love quoting that out of context, right? Jesus said, don't worry about how you're gonna make it.

Don't worry about what you're gonna eat. Don't worry about what you're gonna drink. Don't worry about what you're gonna wear. In other words, don't worry about making sure you can take care of yourself.

Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things shall be added unto you. So, I haven't done this yet. I'm gonna go ahead and do it. I'm gonna define the kingdom of God. I told you about the kingdom of God, the expansion of the kingdom of God to a foreign land called Earth, but what is the kingdom of God?

See, my question is this. If the Bible says, seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you, if I don't know what the kingdom of God is, when I find it, how will I even know I found it?

So, I'm gonna tell you the best biblical definition of the kingdom of God that I've been able to discern, if you'd like to hear that. Is it okay if I share that with you? Somebody say it's okay? Yes. Great.

The kingdom of God is, I yield to God's authority as king of my life. I've already come to Christ, so that part's done, right? I am in Christ. But now, am I gonna be an obedient, am I gonna be obedient in Christ or disobedient?

I'm gonna yield to his will, not my will, but thine be done. So, I'm gonna yield to God as king of my life. Now, once I yield to God as king of my life, guess what happens? My assignment has to yield to me.

It has no choice. When I am yielded to God, the things that are supposed to be under me are gonna be under me. Why? Because what's supposed to be under me won't be under me until I'm under who I'm supposed to be under.

Your assignment is an alignment issue. Did you pick up what I just said? Assignment is always about alignment. If God is here, and I'm here, and my assignment's here, when I say, well, God, I know that you think that's a good idea, but I'm gonna do this thing over here, because I like that, I like the way it feels, I like the way it looks, and I'm gonna do this over here, well, guess what?

I am not only out from under God's assignment, and from under his authority, I've removed myself from being over my authority. You can only be over what you're supposed to be over when you place yourself under who you're supposed to be under.

Assignment is all about alignment. Are y 'all picking up what I'm putting down? So, the kingdom of God is, I yield myself to God, as he's the king of my life. By the way, see, that's a hard concept for Americans.

I know it, because I am one. I was preaching over in Great Britain, I know I've told this story here many times, but some of y 'all have never seen it before, so I'm gonna tell the story again, besides I like the way it sounds.

And, so I was preaching over in Great Britain for my good friend, Bishop Wayne Malcolm, and I got done, and Bishop, he comes to me after the church, he was in this old, run-down church building, floors, old oak pews, I mean, it was just really, he came to me, he said, don't tell Bishop, I was making fun of him.

Okay, and he says, Brother Myron, we used to have a much nicer building, but the queen took it. She took it? He said, yeah, she took it. What do you mean, she took it? I'm an American, right? You don't just take people's stuff because you're the queen, right?

He said, here's what he said, I mean, just like you'd say, well, you know, it's sunshining, he said, he said, well, she needed it for something, so she took it. Now I'm really confused. And I said, something?

She needed your church for something? And she took it?

Almost just cucumber. And I looked at him, he's confused, and I said, and you're okay with that? You know what he said to me?

I like your style. He said, he looked at me like I had four heads, and he said, well, it doesn't matter, and then he said, you do know why the queen's picture is on all our money, don't you? And I realized in that moment that I had no concept of kingdom.

Because when you grow up in a kingdom, and you live in a kingdom, and you're trained in a kingdom, one thing you realize is that everything and everyone in the kingdom belongs to the royal family already.

So if they wanna do something with it, it doesn't matter. So if God says, hey, Myron, I want you to go over here and do this, it doesn't matter, he's the king. I used to read Ezekiel, and I felt so bad for that dude.

Every time I read Ezekiel, I just feel so bad for that dude. I don't know if y 'all ever feel bad for Ezekiel or not, but I'm like, man, this dude had it so tough, right? Hosea, I mean, these guys had assignments that I just would not choose, right?

God tells Ezekiel, hey, I want you to go lay on your side for 370 days, don't get up to eat, don't get up to go to the bathroom, don't get up for nothing for 370 days. I want you to do that as a sermon illustration.

Oh, and by the way, nobody's gonna repent. What? A 370 day sermon and nobody's gonna, sermon illustration and nobody's gonna repent? Like, and guess what Ezekiel did? He did it. Why? Because it doesn't matter.

God said, hey, Ezekiel, you know that wife you love? He said, yes, sir. He said, she's gonna die tonight, and tomorrow when you get up, I don't want you to mourn for her. It's a sermon illustration. Oh, by the way, nobody's gonna repent.

And here's what the Bible says. It says, in the next morning, Ezekiel arose and his wife died, and he did in the morning as he was commanded. Why?

It doesn't matter. He's king of our lives like that.

Like God would say, this is what I have for you to do, and we say, yes, your majesty. See, when the Bible says, seek ye first the kingdom of God, the word seek there is not seek like you're looking for it.

The word seek there is the word worship, which literally means, and the word worship, we say praise and worship, right? Praise and worship, praise and worship, praise and worship. But the word worship and the word praise aren't really even remotely connected.

Praise is an outward expression. It's when you bow down before a king. That's what worship is. It means to bow down. In fact, it actually has the idea of bowing down before someone like a dog bowing to lick its master's hand.

That's worship. Worship, this is not a worshipful position. I mean, this is what we think is a worshipful position. Praise God. That's not worship. That's not a worshipful position. A worshipful position is bow down.

What am I saying? I'm just, I want you to wrap your mind around this whole idea why Solomon prayed this prayer the way he did. Here's what Solomon said. Dear Lord, you've given me a job to do that's bigger than I am.

By the way, there's not a single person in this room who could not pray the Sarab prayer. There's not a parent in this room who can't say, Lord, you've given me this job to be a parent. And Lord, I don't wanna make this thing up as I go along.

Give me the wisdom. There's not a husband in this room who could honestly say, well, I know how to be a good husband. There's not a wife in this room who could say, well, you know what, I just know how to be a good wife.

No, no, no, no, no, it doesn't work that way. So we have to pray a prayer like Solomon. Here's what Solomon prayed. He said, Lord, you've given me a job to do that's bigger than I am right now. Give me the wisdom to do the thing you put me on this earth to do.

Because you made me to be king, help me to be king. And the king was supposed to judge the people righteously. He would hear cases and people would bring hard cases to him. He didn't wanna make the wrong judgment.

He said, Lord, I don't wanna give the wrong judgment because you've given me these great people to serve and I don't know how to serve them the way that would please you. So I'm gonna go back to the definition of the king of God.

I yield my life to God as king. I rule over my assignment as king and then I use the assignment that I rule over to serve the people. Like I know when I come in contact with somebody, the reason God brought me into their presence is to serve them, not to get them to serve me.

What do you mean serve them? I don't know. Maybe they're just having a bad day and God sent me by to encourage them. Restore and the cashier was grumpy. Maybe it had nothing to do with me. Maybe God sent me by to encourage that cashier who went through something that morning.

Self-absorbed, we're so self-consumed and we're always looking out for number one and we come across somebody's path, we think it's about us. Solomon said, Lord said, what do you want? He said, I know it ain't about me.

That's what this prayer means. I know it ain't about me. You've given, you made me king over your people. These aren't my people, these are your people. You made me king over this thy great people. Give me the wisdom to do the thing you put me here to do in a way that pleases you and serves these people you put me here to serve.

Do you realize that as a parent, here's a prayer that we should pray over. Dear Lord, you give me these children, that you give me this children to be a parent. I don't know how to be a parent. Give me the wisdom to parent this children in a way that pleases you, and serves these children you've given me here.

Husband should pray the prayer, Lord, you give me this wife. Lord, give me the wisdom to husband this wife in a way that pleases you and serves this wife. Wives should pray the prayer, dear Lord, give me the wisdom to be the wife.

You've made me to be that you've given you give be the wife to this husband. You've given me to wife and help me to live a life that serves him in a way that pleases you. Do we seek to serve? People in a way that pleases God are we seeking to get people to serve us in a way that pleases us.

Do you understand the only Fulfillment you will ever find in life is it is that the yielding to the king of kings and the service of his people. Never find fulfillment anywhere else. You won't. You can live in the nicest house and drive the nice car and there's nothing wrong.

It's the I like nice houses and nice cars better. I like you know Right. The fulfillment comes from yielding to the king and being in his majesty service. And then serving the people we come in contact with but here's the caveat none of us know how to do.

Selling wasn't the first person on earth who didn't know how to do the job. He wasn't a laugh person. So he wrote in the Bible telling his story to encourage us that we don't have to come into this thing being good at.

That's so freeing. That I don't have to start out great to end up great. I'll have to do is start out yielded and willing to serve. So Solomon prayed this prayer and God Granted his prayer. How did he grant it?

Well, if we go to the next chapter first Kings chapter 4, here's what we see first Kings chapter 4 is what it says. And Verse number 30 it says in Solomon's wisdom Excelled the the wisdom of all the children of the East Country and all the wisdom of Egypt.

And he was wiser than all men then Ethan the Ezra fight Ezra height then her Herman and Hachal and Darday the sons of Mahal and his fame was in all nations roundabout and He spake 3 ,000 Proverbs and his songs were a thousand and five and he spake of trees from the cedar tree.

That is in Lebanon even unto the hyssop that springeth out of the wall and he spake also of the beast and a fowl and of creeping thing and of fishes and There came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon for all the kings of the earth.

Which had heard from all the kings of the earth, which has heard of his wisdom. I'm gonna say that backwards. Wow, I think I got that from Ron. Did y 'all hear what it said? He spake Also a beast and a fowl and of creeping thing and of fishes.

And what did we find over in Proverbs? Didn't we find Solomon in Proverbs chapter 30? Talking about some beasts and some creeping things. So let's go back and look at those beast and creeping things. And see what it has to do with our lesson this morning.

There be four things how many things Church wake up. How many things. For there be four things which are little upon the earth. It says they're a little but guess what? They are exceeding wise. Which means their wisdom is bigger than they are which means you don't have to be naturally good.

Did you hear what I just said, hey, hey he said you don't have to be naturally good if you're connected to a Supernatural God. Your inability can become your greatest ability. Your insufficiency can become your greatest sufficiency.

Your weakness can become your greatest strength. The Apostle Paul besought the Lord three times. Lord remove this thorn in my flesh this weakness in my flesh and God said my grace. My gift is sufficient for thee.

My strength is made perfect in your weakness. Thank God for my weakness. There's a place in my life where God can show up and when he shows up he shows out Proverbs chapter 30 verse 24 there before things which are little upon the earth.

They are exceeding wise. He starts out with the ant the ants are a people not strong yet. They prepare their meat in the summer. By the way, I want you to understand. A wizard, would you like to know what it is?

The first three records of the wizard is ignorance. We were all born with it. We were born knowing nothing. We didn't know mom from dad, brother from sister, hand from foot, left from right, up from down, not from both.

We didn't know nothing. Of truth. What's ignorance? The absence of true confidence. What's ignorance? The absence of truth. And then we begin to grow and all of a sudden we're doing this one thing. Hand, that's your hand honey.

We go, hand, hand, hand. That's right baby, that's your hand. That's right baby, that's your hand. Hand, hand, hand, hand, hand. We get so much joy out of that, I don't know why. Right? We're so easily fascinated as infants.

Okay, so we learned our hand. I want you to think about that. When we were born we didn't know what our hand was. But we learned what our hand is. We learned what our fingers were. We learned our right hand from our left hand.

And we learned what our forearm is. And our arm and our shoulders. Things we've learned. By the time we're three we've learned thousands of things. By the time we're four, many, many more thousands. By the time we're five, man, we know so many thousands of things.

But we all started out ignorant. Ignorance is the absence of truth. The next thing we do, we go from ignorance, we go to what? Knowledge. That's the next prerequisite. What's knowledge? Knowledge is the accumulation of truth.

I go hand, hand, hand. Okay, now I know that's my hand. Hand, hand, hand. I thought this was my hand. No, that's my hand. Oh, I have two hands. Wow, I have two hands. Imagine that. Right? And so I go from having ignorance to having knowledge.

Knowledge is pretty cool. But knowledge can fake you out. People can make the mistake of thinking they are wise just because they have knowledge. Knowledge is a prerequisite of knowledge. Knowledge is a prerequisite of wisdom, but knowledge is not equal to wisdom.

Y 'all picking up what I'm putting down? So you can know something without being wise about that thing. So, knowledge is the accumulation of truth. Ignorance is what? The absence of truth. Knowledge is the, what?

Accumulation of truth. And then we go to the next one, which is understanding is the assimilation of truth. Now I don't just collect the truth like I do with the accumulation, but now I comprehend the truth.

I don't just know what it is, I know what it means. How many of y 'all picking up what I'm putting down? So, before I can have wisdom, I've got to have ignorance. Well, I had that, so I was in good shape.

Then I've got to collect some knowledge. And once I do that, now I've got the accumulation of some truth, but I don't know what it all means. And then I begin to understand what it means. Now I've got to understand, I've got the assimilation of truth.

And then I can finally step into wisdom. And wisdom is the application of truth. In fact, the Old Testament word wisdom would be our modern day word. Not smart, not intelligent, not high IQ, not Mensa.

But the modern day word for wise would be the word skill. The word for wisdom would be the word skillful. Which means you are applying what you know and understand. So we have ignorance, absence of truth.

We have knowledge, the accumulation of truth. We have understanding, the assimilation of truth. We have wisdom, the application of truth. And then we have foolishness. What's that? That's when you abandon the truth.

Well, I know it's true, but I'm just not going to do it because I don't feel like it. I know it's true, but I'm not going to do it. I'm a man. That's when you abandon the truth. Maybe you think you're smarter than the truth.

Maybe you think you're bigger than the truth. Maybe you think you don't require the truth. But I'm telling you, that's a fool. So now that we've defined what wisdom is, the scripture says there are four things that are belittled upon the earth, but they're exceeding wise.

In other words, these things know how to apply the things that they know. And it starts with an ant. It says the ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer. What does that tell us?

It tells us that we can learn the wisdom of contemplation from the ant because the ant knows how to prepare. What does contemplate mean? Contemplate means I'm thinking about tomorrow, today, and I'm getting ready for tomorrow, today.

I'm not waiting for tomorrow and then the stuff that happens tomorrow. I didn't know that. Make some plans for tomorrow. It's called a contingency. What does the Bible tell us? It says the wise man foreseeth evil.

What does foresee mean? He sees it before it gets him. He foreseeth evil. What does he do? He hides himself. But what does the fool do? The foolish pass on and are punished. We learn the wisdom of contemplation from the ant and that they know how to prepare.

Here's what that means. Family, here's what that means. If you don't have any money, get some life insurance. If you don't have money, get some life insurance. Life insurance is kind of a misnomer. It's kind of a bad label.

If you have car insurance, you break your car, you get a new car. If you have house insurance, your house burned down, you get a new house. If you have life insurance, you die and you don't get anything.

Life insurance is not really life insurance. Are you all picking up what I'm putting down? Life insurance is income replacement insurance. Why should you have life insurance if you don't have money? So that your family can eat if you die.