What is Wisdom and How do you get it?

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- Hey, happy Father's Day and welcome to Crossroads.

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I'm Andy, online pastor,

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and this is a church that you can be a part of

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no matter what you believe or where you are watching from.

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Today on Crossroads we're talking about wisdom,

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not the kind of wisdom that TikTok offers,

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but real, lasting dad-ly wisdom.

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No, no, no. Godly wisdom.

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What is it? How do we get it?

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And what makes godly wisdom different from worldly wisdom?

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Crossroads isn't just content.

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We're actually a community.

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We'd love for you to chat with us any time

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during today's episode online,

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and we'd love to talk with you, get to know you a little bit.

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Maybe you want to know how you can be a part of Crossroads

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or how you can get

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more information about a specific topic,

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or maybe there's something going on in your life

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and in your world that you just want to process with someone.

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And those conversations are my favorite part of the week.

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Now, today we're going to start with worship

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because we believe that our wisdom comes from God,

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not from social media or any place else.

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And when we put our time and our attention towards Him,

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He gives us everything that we need.

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So think about these words and what they mean for your life.

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Anticipation matters, like our approach to things matter.

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And I'm just going to tell you, I've walked in

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like you just walked in about ten minutes ago

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countless times bringing my kids in.

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I fought the parking lot traffic.

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Can I get an amen?

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You come in, you drop your kids off,

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or maybe you come in not knowing many people

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so your anticipation, your approach is a little bit,

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like, I don't know what I'm walking into.

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And if it's your first time, then you're in the right place.

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But our anticipation matters and sometimes in this experience,

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I don't know that we're able to give it much thought

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what we came in to do.

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Anybody willing to say that?

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Like, I just kind of showed up because I show up a lot. Right?

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It's okay.

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Did you come in anticipating that the God of Creation

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wants to meet with you today?

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Did you come anticipating the God of Hebrews 11:6

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that says I reward those who seek Me?

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Did you come in anticipating the God who says,

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I see your footsteps out of your car, into the way,

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online, into this room, in this space as a seeking Me.

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This God who says I bring living water, fresh water,

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fresh life, fresh peace, fresh words.

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You didn't just show up to a space today.

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You didn't just show up to Crossroads.

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You showed up for an interaction to happen with the living God.

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He's so good and generous.

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And so I know we're like 13 minutes into this thing.

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I just want to give you space to point your heart towards Him

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and say I came here because I want more of You.

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So, lyrics --

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we've got a volunteer that runs lyrics every weekend.

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Can we give it up for that volunteer?

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They serve us every weekend.

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Up on lyrics I need you to go to the chorus

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of the last song we just sang.

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Because I don't want to miss it from the top.

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So lyrics, pull up the lyrics that say come like a flood.

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We got it on the screen? Look at that.

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Give it up for em up top. [applause]

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And now let's pray this together:

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We anticipate You, God, we want more of You. So we say:

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Let's pray together.

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Father, we can only sing those words about You.

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You're truly faithful.

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That you're not like You can't put kind of

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or you're a lot of faithful before that.

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It's just the word faithful.

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You are faithful and you're the only one that's true.

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Time after time, generation after generation,

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across this world in every language, You are faithful.

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So I give you my heart today.

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I give you my attention this morning.

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I pray all this because of you, Jesus. Amen.

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It's great to be here together.

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It's great that you showed up.

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I see some friends in the place today. It's awesome.

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Maybe you showed up for the first time.

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I'll say it again, you're in the right place.

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My name is Justin, and I get to do some music around here.

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You can clap for new folks who are in here.

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That's right. [applause]

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Don't let one person clap.

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You're in the right place.

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And we try in every way possible to make this big place

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feel small because relationships matter.

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So before you grab a seat,

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why don't you turn to somebody, introduce yourself.

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Say, I'm glad to be here with you.

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Well, just like on Father's Day for me, I'm a dad.

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I'm a dad of four.

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I've got two daughters who are ten and nine

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and two sons who are eight and six.

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Ten, nine, eight, six.

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My wife is just tired all the time, and me too.

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But just like this, if my kids said,

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"Dad, I love you. Happy Father's Day."

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And they made me a beautiful card

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that they picked out at the dollar store.

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If they were mean to me the rest of the day,

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if they gave me no attention or no heart

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or no affection any other time

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but just this, it falls short. Right? Right.

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So when we say, man, we give our songs to God,

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I respond to who He is and say, "I'm trying.

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I want to give You all of me, not just a piece of me."

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So we have people across the board that

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do that through time and resources,

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like the volunteer we celebrated this morning

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running lyrics for us. We have people who do that.

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We also have, and my family and I follow suit,

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finances are a part of my life,

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and so I want to give my whole life to God.

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And so I do that also with my money.

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Every month we give a portion of our income to say,

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"God, you're the giver of every good thing:

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skills, resources, time, money.

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And I want it to all go back to You." So we try to do that.

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If you want to join us in giving financially like that,

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you can go to Crossroads.net/give.

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Like I said, that's not the only way we give.

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We give time, skills, resources.

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And when this place is made up and it runs

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on people who do that every week.

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And so I want you to hear some of their stories this morning.

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We're glad you're here.

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- You know, Brian Tome always talks about

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the benefits of being outside.

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And I get to be outside at least an hour every day

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when I start my week, I get to dance.

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I get my steps in.

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I recommend it to anybody. It's so much fun.

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- When I first started serving for Kids' Club,

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I thought I was just signing up for community service hours,

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but I ended up finding connection with the staff,

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the other volunteers and especially the kids.

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And now it's something I look forward to every Sunday.

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- Sometimes when you just come to service,

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you take things for granted.

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And what I found out was

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how many people are behind the scenes

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helping out and how I've been able to contribute to that.

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- When I started serving at Crossroads,

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I thought it was going to be an experience for me

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to learn how to do electrical work, how to do plumbing.

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But it actually turned into finding a friend

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here at Crossroads and it became about relationships.

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It was labor that was in the trenches

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but enabled me to connect with God.

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- I found that serving here at Crossroads just gives me

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a huge sense of purpose

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and being able to help this community

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spread the Word of God to people that

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are perhaps watching this around the world.

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It's just awesome to be able to take the skills

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that God has blessed me with

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and be able to give back to our community.

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- I signed up for volunteering.

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I felt that it was going to be maybe burdensome,

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it was going to be long days and exhausting.

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What I found is that it's a great opportunity for me

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to share my gifts with my community

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and I find myself being closer to God.

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- Hey, thanks for singing with us.

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Now, Crossroads is a church with people all over the country

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and all over the world.

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Crossroads is one church with multiple locations.

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Now we have ten physical buildings,

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but we are so much bigger than that.

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We meet everywhere from dorm rooms to bars to homes

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and even inside prisons.

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If you don't live near one of those physical locations,

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we know that being a part of Crossroads Anywhere

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can feel maybe a little distant sometimes.

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Like who else is out there? Or is it just me and a screen?

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That's why we started the Anywhere Home.

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It's a home base for us to connect with people

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all over the world who call Crossroads home

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but don't live near one of those locations.

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There you can meet other people.

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You can find out who's near you.

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You can ask questions, get special family content

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for you and your family to do at home.

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You can talk about the service and grow together.

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We're adding new elements to it every month,

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and we'd love for you to join us.

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Just head to Crossroads.net/Anywhere to join.

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If you've been around for the last couple of weeks,

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we've been talking about how God has made us for movement,

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how we weren't meant to sit still

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or to stand on the sidelines.

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One of the things that's, like, legit changed my life

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has been volunteering.

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It's been understanding more of how God has uniquely made me,

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how He wired me

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and how the world actually needs those gifts.

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So wherever you live, we've got opportunities for you

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to put your gifts to use to change the world

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one person at a time.

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Head to crossroads.net/volunteer for more info.

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Coming up, Kyle is going to explain to us

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what biblical wisdom really is and how to get it.

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- We all want a life that works.

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We buy books, we listen to podcasts,

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and we follow gurus who promise the secret to what we crave:

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a life full of meaning, connection, fun and adventure.

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We look to those who have done well before us

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and we ask ourselves: How can I get some of that?

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We seek knowledge and understanding,

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but we need something deeper.

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We need wisdom.

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The Bible gives us a path to wisdom

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laid out in three Old Testament books,

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often called the Wisdom Literature.

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Proverbs, Ecclesiastes and Job are the roadmap

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to understanding where godly wisdom comes from

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and what God has to say about how to live our lives well.

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- Well, hello and welcome to Crossroads.

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My name is Paco and I'm on the content team around here

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and my day job is to partner with our teachers,

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the folks you see up here each and every week

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and sort of help them sharpen their talks,

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help them format it, helps make sure that

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what they're saying comes across the way they want to say,

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it comes across in a clear way.

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I basically partner with our teachers.

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That's what a content director does around here.

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Also, I schedule our teachers

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and we usually do that about 2 to 4 months out.

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And today, as we're kicking off wisdom,

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we had Kyle scheduled to speak today.

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Kyle texted me yesterday around noon and said,

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"Hey, man, I got a sick wife and three sick kids.

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My wife's on crutches,

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so I don't know what's being passed around,

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but it's like a stomach bug of sorts

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and just give you a heads up.

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I might need someone to pinch hit tomorrow."

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I said, "Cool, man.

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There's no way he's not going to be here. There's no way."

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I said, "Okay, cool."

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Threw the phone in the back seat. It's fine.

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I got a text about 8:30 last night saying,

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"Hey, and I quote, 'I'm puking my guts out.

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I'm going to need someone to pinch hit.'"

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So here we are. [laughter]

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I love -- [laughter]

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I don't -- I don't think it's it's by accident

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that substitute teachers in school play movies.

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So we're going to watch Shrek for the rest of our time.

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Enjoy this -- [laughter]

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No, I'm just kidding. I'm just kidding.

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I'm going to do my best to pinch hit for Kyle

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and what I hope to do today with all of us

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is I hope to set up a framework so you and I can experience

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the summer and get the most out of our time together

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at Crossroads this summer.

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This summer is all about wisdom.

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Like wisdom on today, right? It's not an accident.

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It's not an accident that that Kyle

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was going to start wisdom today

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and that he chose the wise choice

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to take care of his family first.

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It's not by accident that you're here today to experience this.

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It's not by accident that we would start

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a collection of talks about wisdom on Father's Day.

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Happy Father's Day, by the way, dads. [applause]

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None of that's an accident.

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You know, God in His -- God, in His eternal wisdom,

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like, God is like outside of the first person point of view.

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If you understand that, God is eternal.

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So His perspective is eternal.

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So He sees outside of sort of the timeline of our life, right?

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And God, in his wisdom, chose today because I think

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He has some special encouragement,

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especially for fathers today.

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And I want to start our time just encouraging you dads.

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In his eternal wisdom,

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God chose you to be the father of your kids.

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Like, God gave that to you. God chose you to do that.

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You know what that means? That means He has equipped you.

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He has qualified you.

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And it might not always feel like that. Right?

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Because fatherhood starts really fun for dads.

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Like, cool. That's great.

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And then mom makes a whole baby without using her hands,

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and then she delivers the baby

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and what feels like 15 minutes later,

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you've got a whole human you got to bring home.

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I have two kids.

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I have a four year old and a nine month old, both girls.

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Girl dads in the house, what's up? Cool.

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Our first kid I was super nervous. Right?

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Super nervous. Like, walk in.

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The nurse was like, "I'll walk you down to the car."

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I was like, "Good.

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Hopefully you come with us home and be with us." [laughter]

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And so she she walks us down and she was so beautiful

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and so, so kind to us.

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We got mom loaded up, the car seat, the baby situated.

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She -- beautiful smile. She said, "Here you go."

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And I went, "No thanks."

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I said, "No thanks to my kid."

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I was so nervous because I didn't feel qualified.

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You got a whole human, you got a whole human to take care of.

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And it comes with no instruction manual.

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And you're a dad,

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you wouldn't read the instruction manual anyway.

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Who are we kidding? [laughter]

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If you walk into any room

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and you see a dad with an instruction manual open,

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just know whatever he's working on has already broken.

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He broke it and he's trying to fix it before you get in there

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and notice that he's got to buy another one.

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No, dads, this is a great day.

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Fathers, Father's Day is a is a great day

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because fatherhood is a thing that's like a great joy.

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And so my encouragement to you dads today as we get started

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is if you're in the trenches and you're doing it, well done.

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You're going to stumble through some parts,

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you're going to have some high, some lows, but well done.

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Fatherhood is a gift and you are a gift to your children.

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You are the dad that your kids need.

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Don't forget that. All right.

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So with wisdom, I want to start this seven weeks off

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in an important way to kind of give us the outline that

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we're going to use every single week with all of our teachers.

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We've got a great lineup this summer.

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We chose wisdom for this summer as teachers because

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we have seen that the world is full of foolishness, right?

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I mean, there's a lot of wild stuff happening

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and you might hear that and immediately go,

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Yeah, political so-and-so is a fool.

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And this person is that and the proverbial theys.

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And we're not talking about any of that.

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We're talking about is we're talking about like godly wisdom,

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because the reality is every era of humanity

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has had a level of foolishness, has had a level of,

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like, what were they thinking?

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Do you ever look back and go, "What was I thinking?"

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I'll give an example.

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Before 1970 something, people were like,

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"You know, what's a great idea? Let's put lead in paint."

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Remember when that was like, "Oh, that's a great idea."

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Anybody in the 80s, born in the 80s or grew up in the 80s

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and can hear my voice. Okay.

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You guys and gals thought it would be a great idea

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to put as much hairspray as you possibly can in your hair

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and no one can see in front of you.

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No one can see behind like that, Oh, yeah.

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Any 90s kids in the house? 90s kids. Yeah.

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You're not off the hook.

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You guys are walking around looking like this.

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Remember this guy?

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This was the guy who was like, is that guy homeless

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or is he in Pearl Jam? Which one is he?

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Now, if you're young in here and you're like,

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"Man, old people are weird." Yeah, you're right, they are.

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But you're not off the hook either.

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Those TikTok dances you're doing,

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they live on the Internet forever. [laughter]

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Good luck.

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Every era, every era has something

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that seemed wise in the moment,

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but it actually was kind of foolish.

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And the world is full of what looks like wisdom

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or what's false wisdom, and God has more for us.

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And it's important to recognize that

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as we get started in these seven weeks,

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because there's no neutral ground when it comes to wisdom.

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You see, Jesus talks about our spiritual enemy.

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He calls him the father of lies.

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And you ever believed a lie and felt like a fool after?

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See the father of lies, he wants you to believe those lies

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to ultimately become a fool.

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You see, the stakes are high when it comes to wisdom.

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That's why all of our teachers in the next few weeks

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are going to be unpacking what does wisdom look like

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in different aspects of life?

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What does wisdom look like with our finances,

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with our time, with our relationships,

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with our conflict, with suffering?

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What does wisdom look like

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from God's point of view with those things?

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Because there's an enemy out there that wants you

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to believe lies about wisdom and wants you to become a fool.

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But God has wisdom for you and He has wisdom for me.

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And we're going to unpack that this summer.

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So I'm really excited for this summer.

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Let's pray before I continue on. Cool?

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God, thank You for today. Thank you for Your Word.

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I thank You for the opportunity to just unpack it

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and learn more about who You are and what You've called us to.

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God, would you give us the ability to understand,

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the ability to know and the ability

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to walk this thing out every day?

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We love You and we trust You. Amen.

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So wisdom to a lot of us might feel like an optional pursuit.

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It might feel like something like, yeah,

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I can either choose to be wise or or I can not

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or I can, like, lean in to like that spiritual elite-ness

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and, like, be a pastor and be wise

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or be a group leader and be wise

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or be a Bible study person and be wise.

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Or I can just be kind of, like, normal.

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That's not the case. Wisdom is for all of us.

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God has created wisdom for all of us to pursue it,

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and the benefits of wisdom are huge.

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In the Book of Proverbs,

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which is one of the books in the Bible,

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noted as Wisdom Literature. Okay?

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It's Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and it's Job. Okay?

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Proverbs written mostly by King Solomon, Ecclesiastes also;

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Job is written by someone else.

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And we're going to be unpacking all three of those books as

00:36:31

we think about, like, what does wisdom look like in our lives?

00:36:34

Proverbs 3 is where we're going to start today

00:36:36

as we start on this journey.

00:36:39

It says this, verse 13:

00:37:10

That's the benefit of wisdom, like precious rubies,

00:37:13

precious jewels, this treasure that's, like, so valuable,

00:37:18

it's worth everything too.

00:37:20

Like, that's what wisdom gives us in our lives.

00:37:23

When we come to follow Jesus, we receive His power

00:37:26

and we receive the Holy Spirit,

00:37:27

and then we get to walk out these days in wisdom.

00:37:31

And Solomon, who wrote these words, it's important

00:37:35

you recognize that Solomon was a king in ancient Israel.

00:37:38

And he has this interaction with God where God basically says,

00:37:43

"Hey, Solomon, ask for anything, anything you want,"

00:37:46

like Aladdin, the three wishes, right?

00:37:49

Like, he doesn't do that.

00:37:50

But he says one thing, I want you to ask me for what you want.

00:37:54

You know what Solomon says?

00:37:55

Let's read what Solomon says. He says:

00:38:05

You know what Solomon asks him for?

00:38:07

Solomon asks him for wisdom.

00:38:09

And guess what God does? He grants it.

00:38:11

Listen to how God responds.

00:38:52

Solomon was the wisest person to ever live.

00:38:55

Now, you might be like, "Wait, isn't Jesus the wisest person?"

00:38:58

Yes, but he was God. Okay?

00:38:59

Solomon was the second wisest person.

00:39:00

He was the wisest man to ever live.

00:39:03

And he wrote down these words in Proverbs for you and I

00:39:07

to realize just how important godly wisdom is,

00:39:10

how important this idea of pursuing God is

00:39:14

and what it looks like to actually live it out.

00:39:18

And one of the frameworks as you read Proverbs,

00:39:21

which I recommend, by the way.

00:39:22

I recommend you read Proverbs, you know,

00:39:24

if you have a summer reading list or something like that,

00:39:26

I recommend putting Proverbs at the very top of it.

00:39:28

It's 31 chapters.

00:39:29

You can read like a chapter a day

00:39:30

and you can be through it in a month.

00:39:32

It's really powerful, especially, especially

00:39:35

if you're just starting your faith journey

00:39:37

or you're just starting to dig into scripture.

00:39:39

It is a really helpful framework for life written by Solomon,

00:39:42

who lays this thing out.

00:39:44

In all of Proverbs, you're going to see

00:39:46

kind of two things contrasted.

00:39:47

You're going to see wisdom and you're going to see foolishness.

00:39:52

And the reason why he does that is because there are

00:39:55

really only two outcomes when it comes to living wisely.

00:39:59

You're either wise, or you ain't.

00:40:02

You're either a person who walks wisely

00:40:04

or a person who walks like a fool.

00:40:06

There's not like a neutral in-between of that.

00:40:09

Proverbs 3:35 says this:

00:40:17

All throughout Proverbs, there's different sort of synonyms

00:40:20

that go hand in hand with wise and foolish.

00:40:22

Let me read some of them that are described as wise.

00:40:25

So the wise person is described as

00:40:27

prudent, diligent, discerning, upright.

00:40:32

The fool, on the other hand, described as

00:40:35

scoffer, drunkard, simple -- Dang -- mocker, right?

00:40:41

Like, stuff that we don't want to be described as. Right?

00:40:43

There's only two options here.

00:40:45

There's not a middle ground.

00:40:47

The wise follow wisdom, and fools follow folly.

00:40:52

And you and I, we get to pick which one we are.

00:40:55

We get to pick which one we follow.

00:40:59

And as I was talking through, we were talking through this

00:41:01

as a team, as a teachers team,

00:41:03

to kind of, like, so what do we want to lay out?

00:41:05

We want to lay out like where wisdom comes from,

00:41:07

the wisest person with the Proverbs and all of the wisdom

00:41:10

that come from and that sort of thing.

00:41:11

And we also wanted to lay out, like,

00:41:13

are there multiple kinds of wisdom?

00:41:15

Are there, like, different kinds of wisdom?

00:41:17

And it really came down to this, okay,

00:41:18

there are, there are two kinds of wisdom.

00:41:21

It's God's wisdom as found in the Scriptures,

00:41:25

and then there's everything else.

00:41:27

And so a way to find out if it's wisdom or not:

00:41:29

Does it line up with the Bible?

00:41:32

Does it line up with what is in the Scripture?

00:41:35

And the idea of this isn't confined to just, like,

00:41:38

the Wisdom Literature in Proverbs.

00:41:39

You see this sort of throughout the Bible.

00:41:41

And the apostle Paul, who we talked about a few weeks ago,

00:41:43

he writes this in Colossians 2. He says:

00:41:57

You see, there's like this thing that looks wise,

00:42:00

it looks like wisdom and it sounds cool,

00:42:02

but it's not actually godly wisdom.

00:42:04

We have a lot of phrases like that in our world, don't we?

00:42:07

We have phrases like make a name for yourself.

00:42:09

I work with a lot of young people,

00:42:11

a lot of like young professionals, a

00:42:13

nd the big lie that they all walk in,

00:42:15

"I got to be the smartest person in the room.

00:42:17

I got to know all the answers. I got to get it all done."

00:42:19

Like, hey, relax there, wild one. It's cool.

00:42:24

Here's another one,

00:42:25

here's another one that is pretty popular:

00:42:27

Pull yourself up by your bootstraps.

00:42:29

You guys know that one?

00:42:31

You never actually seen anyone do that physically in life.

00:42:33

But the idea of, like, you've got to do it on your own.

00:42:35

That sounds like wisdom on the surface,

00:42:38

but really it's just the principle of men.

00:42:40

Here's another one: Your faith is private.

00:42:45

That's a big one, right? Especially today, right?

00:42:48

Like you believe what you believe.

00:42:50

I believe what I believe. We won't talk about it.

00:42:52

And I'll try to keep my grass cut

00:42:54

so that we don't have neighborhood arguments.

00:42:57

That's not in the Scriptures.

00:42:59

Be true to yourself, that's a big one, especially today

00:43:02

in an individual society, right?

00:43:06

Everyone's an individual, and everybody, be true to you.

00:43:08

I heard somebody say recently, choose you.

00:43:10

Like, that's not in the Scriptures.

00:43:12

That's not godly wisdom, but it sounds cool.

00:43:15

You see the need for wanting to -- to need to unpack

00:43:18

who God says we are and what God says about wisdom,

00:43:21

as opposed to just kind of following along

00:43:23

with the folly of the world, folly of culture?

00:43:26

So what is godly wisdom have to offer?

00:43:28

What are the benefits?

00:43:29

Well, we've read them earlier, but there's one in there

00:43:31

that I think gets looked over a lot.

00:43:34

So I want to read the Proverbs 3 verse that we read earlier.

00:43:38

Let's read it again. The first part of it.

00:43:46

Happy, that sounds nice, doesn't it?

00:43:50

I'd like -- anybody like to be happy?

00:43:52

Yeah. Sometimes in church, you're like,

00:43:54

"Am I allowed to be happy?"

00:43:55

Yes. It clearly says it here:

00:43:57

Happy is you if you find wisdom, if you gain,

00:44:00

you will have a product in your life that will be happy.

00:44:05

Too many times I know in my past I believed that, like,

00:44:08

if I gain godly wisdom, then I got to be like a monk

00:44:11

and I got to, like, turn off all electronics

00:44:13

and go live in the caves of Tibet and go, like,

00:44:16

chill up there and do whatever they do up there all day.

00:44:19

I don't know.

00:44:21

But no, no, no. God's saying, look, a product of

00:44:23

you finding wisdom is that you're happy.

00:44:27

So that means this, that means if we pursue wisdom,

00:44:30

the result is happiness.

00:44:33

Too many of us switch those, don't we?

00:44:35

We pursue happiness and hopes to get wise.

00:44:40

God saying, No, I'm going to lay this out for you in order.

00:44:43

I'm going to lay this out to you

00:44:45

in order that you should pursue it.

00:44:47

Proverbs 4:7:

00:44:57

I'll see you guys next week. This has been fun. [laughter]

00:45:01

It's really clear.

00:45:03

It's really clear in Scripture that wisdom is the thing.

00:45:05

Like it is the thing,

00:45:07

that's why we've dedicated seven weeks to it.

00:45:08

That's why we've got to uncover it.

00:45:10

That's why we've got to beat back

00:45:12

all the lies and the noise around it.

00:45:13

It's because it is the thing.

00:45:17

Now finding godly wisdom, I wish there was a magic pill.

00:45:21

I wish there was, like, a DoorDash for it.

00:45:23

Which you can get anything on DoorDash, by the way.

00:45:25

I don't know if you know that, literally anything.

00:45:27

Name a product, we will buy it on DoorDash.

00:45:29

It'll be here by the middle of next service.

00:45:32

I was at a wedding recently in Florida,

00:45:34

and my friend had a teenage son that something happened

00:45:39

with plumbing at the home. He needed a plunger.

00:45:41

So at the wedding, we just ordered him a plunger

00:45:43

from four states away, and it showed up in 30 minutes.

00:45:46

It was fantastic.

00:45:47

Like, we live in a really sweet time in history

00:45:49

where you can just do that,

00:45:50

and you could pick up like chicken wings on the way.

00:45:52

So someone would give you a plunger and chicken wings

00:45:54

and Pepto all in the same -- [laughter]

00:45:58

It's an amazing thing and it doesn't take a lot of effort.

00:46:02

Godly wisdom is not like that. You've got to seek it.

00:46:04

You got to work. You got to work towards it.

00:46:06

It's not a mistake that we just came out of the Book of Acts,

00:46:10

all about movement, all about the acts of the early church

00:46:13

and the acts of the Holy Spirit.

00:46:15

It's not by accident that we did that and then wisdom,

00:46:18

because if you want wisdom, it's going to require action.

00:46:21

It's going to require movement.

00:46:23

And you've got a seek it from God.

00:46:25

Let's read Proverbs 1:4-6.

00:46:39

If you seek her as silver. Who's her? Her is wisdom.

00:46:42

Solomon had this really interesting personification

00:46:46

of wisdom where he describes wisdom as a righteous woman,

00:46:49

and he describes foolishness as like an immoral woman.

00:46:54

And he says, "Listen, if you seek her, if you seek wisdom

00:46:57

as you search for hidden treasures,

00:46:59

then you will understand God.

00:47:01

You will understand wisdom."

00:47:06

I wonder how many of us are seeking wisdom like that.

00:47:10

I wonder how many of us in our in our everyday lives are like,

00:47:13

Man, I just want to be wise and show up wise in this situation

00:47:16

or I want to have godly wisdom here in my life right now,

00:47:19

at my job, at home, or wherever,

00:47:22

or when so and so cuts us off in traffic,

00:47:23

which oh, Lord, if that happens again.

00:47:28

Are we seeking wisdom like that?

00:47:29

Or are we like, Nah, we got it all.

00:47:30

It's cool. I got it figured it out.

00:47:32

I know a little bit of this, a little bit of that.

00:47:34

I got my Bible verses.

00:47:35

I show up to church within five minutes of it starting.

00:47:37

No one knows. It's fine.

00:47:40

Or are we seeking wisdom?

00:47:41

You see, because people who are wise, they keep seeking.

00:47:47

The Christmas story,

00:47:48

not the movie with the kid with the thing,

00:47:50

but the the actual Christmas story in the Nativity scene

00:47:54

features three wise men.

00:47:57

And the origins of those wise men are Jesus was born

00:48:00

and they are off doing their thing in a faraway land.

00:48:03

And they see a star and they go, "Something's happening there."

00:48:06

And they start to pursue that and they risk their life,

00:48:10

they risk a lot to get there. You know why?

00:48:14

Because they were never satisfied with what they had.

00:48:16

They always knew that God had more for them.

00:48:19

And when it comes to wisdom, if you're satisfied

00:48:21

with where you are, you will not grow.

00:48:23

You've got to seek.

00:48:24

You've got to get up and actually seek wisdom.

00:48:28

And God wants to give it to you.

00:48:30

He's not hiding from you.

00:48:32

He's not hiding wisdom from you.

00:48:37

They understood, the wise men understood that

00:48:40

they had wisdom that God had given them,

00:48:42

but they needed more.

00:48:45

They weren't just wise in their own eyes.

00:48:47

They wanted to be wise in a godly way.

00:48:49

Proverbs 3:7:

00:48:53

People who are wise in their own eyes, they're like,

00:48:55

"Yeah, okay, cool.

00:48:57

Like, I'll just kind of hear this stupid thing

00:48:59

and then continue on with my life."

00:49:00

People who want to seek wisdom are growing, are taking steps,

00:49:04

are stumbling towards it even when it's uncomfortable.

00:49:06

That's what God has for you.

00:49:08

That's what God has for me as His followers, wisdom.

00:49:11

God wants you and I to grow in wisdom,

00:49:13

and there is a biblical framework on how to get there.

00:49:16

And this is the part that I'm really excited to unpack

00:49:19

with all of our teachers over the next couple of weeks.

00:49:21

There are like, it's like a three part approach

00:49:24

to how do you get wisdom?

00:49:26

And it starts in Proverbs 1:6, it says this:

00:49:35

Oftentimes in our world, we sort of, like,

00:49:38

put wisdom, knowledge, understanding

00:49:40

sort of on the same playing field, but they're different.

00:49:42

They're similar words, but they're very distinct

00:49:45

and they're distinct on purpose in the Bible.

00:49:47

In Proverbs 9, it says it again.

00:49:55

It's all throughout Proverbs,

00:49:57

knowledge, understanding, wisdom.

00:50:00

And there's an important breakdown that we need to have

00:50:04

as we explore the next couple of weeks together

00:50:07

on what wisdom looks like in whatever area of your life.

00:50:09

Step one, right, the first part of understanding

00:50:13

what godly wisdom is and getting to godly wisdom is knowledge.

00:50:18

Knowledge. Those are the facts. Those are the facts. Okay?

00:50:23

Knowledge is sort of a commodity in our world right now.

00:50:26

It's not like super treasured

00:50:28

because we have it at our fingertips. You know?

00:50:29

You can get AI to basically write you anything.

00:50:32

Have you ever used AI to write you an email?

00:50:35

Fantastic life hack.

00:50:36

Also, it just gives you knowledge. That's it.

00:50:38

It doesn't give you anything else. It just gives you facts.

00:50:41

It spits those back out and that's all it has.

00:50:44

It can't be the end result for us

00:50:47

if it's the beginning result in godly wisdom.

00:50:49

You see, we're often looking for knowledge and that's it.

00:50:52

And if you turn on the Internet, you're often seeing

00:50:54

people throwing facts back and forth.

00:50:56

A lot of the problems we have with each other

00:50:58

is because your facts don't line up with my facts

00:51:01

and his facts and so everybody's got these facts

00:51:03

that they're just tossing around randomly,

00:51:05

and we're never getting the knowledge.

00:51:07

Let me read you what it says here in Proverbs 1:7.

00:51:16

The word fear shows up a lot as you're reading Proverbs

00:51:19

and the Wisdom Literature, fear of the Lord.

00:51:22

It's important we know what that word means. Okay.

00:51:25

Fear of the Lord here translated

00:51:28

doesn't mean like scary movie fear, right?

00:51:30

It doesn't mean like Michael Myers or Freddy Krueger

00:51:33

or whatever the little doll thing that runs around,

00:51:35

which is a weird concept of a movie, by the way. Right?

00:51:38

That little doll, kick it, movie's over.

00:51:42

But it's not that kind of fear. It's not horror movie fear.

00:51:45

The fear of the Lord here is describing reverence.

00:51:49

It's basically taking God seriously.

00:51:51

So translated another way:

00:51:54

taking God seriously is the beginning of knowledge.

00:51:58

So you don't get to knowledge of God

00:52:01

without taking Him seriously.

00:52:03

What does that mean for you?

00:52:05

That means digging into His Word.

00:52:06

That means being around other people who are following Him.

00:52:10

Getting knowledge about God is taking Him seriously.

00:52:14

And that is step one. That is step one in godly wisdom.

00:52:18

It's foundational that we seek knowledge and continue to seek,

00:52:21

but then that can't end there.

00:52:23

We have to go to the second word: understanding.

00:52:26

Understanding is basically like

00:52:28

the connections between the facts.

00:52:30

So there are facts that sort of live sort of in outer space,

00:52:33

but someone has to connect them all to see, like,

00:52:35

to understand what the bigger picture is.

00:52:37

You've got to see the facts.

00:52:39

You got to understand the facts.

00:52:41

You got to put the connection between them.

00:52:43

I saw this ad on social media. It's a shoe advertisement.

00:52:48

I want to show you it real quick. There it is.

00:52:51

It's a advertisement for shoes.

00:52:54

And here's their tagline: The closest to barefoot you can get.

00:53:01

I don't know everything about everything,

00:53:03

but the facts that I know is like,

00:53:04

there are shoes. People need shoes.

00:53:06

I thought people needed shoes so that they weren't barefoot.

00:53:11

I was like, is this company hot in Kentucky?

00:53:13

Like, what's happening they want to be barefoot?

00:53:15

What's going on? [laughter]

00:53:16

I love Kentucky and the people down there.

00:53:18

It was weird. It's like, I don't understand.

00:53:22

Why would you market shoes that make you feel barefoot?

00:53:26

It's like going to a restaurant.

00:53:27

No restaurant has ever been like, "You hungry?

00:53:30

Good. Come eat with us.

00:53:32

The closest to hungry you'll ever feel."

00:53:34

That doesn't make any sense.

00:53:37

But then we went to go buy a pair of these shoes

00:53:39

and they were sold out.

00:53:41

Turns out there's a market for people who enjoy the feeling

00:53:44

of being barefoot but also want to shoe.

00:53:48

Not my people, but there are people like that, right?

00:53:51

See, I had to put the facts together

00:53:53

to be able to understand.

00:53:54

And my understanding was limited.

00:53:56

My understanding of the situation was limited.

00:53:59

That's why I need understanding outside of myself.

00:54:01

And in the same way, if you are going to have understanding

00:54:03

about the knowledge of God, about the facts about God,

00:54:06

you have got to have people helping you along the way.

00:54:08

And more importantly,

00:54:09

you've got to have God's voice in that as well.

00:54:11

There's a call to gain godly understanding,

00:54:14

and also a call to not lean on our own understanding.

00:54:17

Here's what it says in Proverbs 3:5-6:

00:54:29

Trust in the Lord with all your heart,

00:54:30

and lean not on your own understanding.

00:54:33

Starting with knowledge, getting the facts,

00:54:35

leaning on understanding to put them all together.

00:54:39

And then we get to wisdom.

00:54:42

And wisdom is simply acting on what you know and understand.

00:54:47

That's it. That's the magic. There's no magic pill to it.

00:54:49

It says acting on what you know and what you understand.

00:54:53

The most important thing about biblical wisdom

00:54:55

is that it is an action.

00:54:58

Jesus calls this out in a really great way in Matthew 7

00:55:01

in one of his most famous sermons, He says this:

00:55:14

Whoever hears these sayings of Mine and does them,

00:55:19

that person is wise.

00:55:22

Now, when we think about this framework,

00:55:24

we're going to be unpacking it

00:55:25

in different spheres of life every week.

00:55:28

I've got an example for you that I think is going to hit home.

00:55:31

I think it makes sense. I think it's a real world example.

00:55:33

I'm going to share it with you. Okay. It comes from my life.

00:55:36

I grew up in South Florida. Okay.

00:55:38

My family migrated here

00:55:39

from Trinidad and Tobago when I was a kid.

00:55:41

They came, I grew up in South Florida.

00:55:42

I moved to Pittsburgh for a few years.

00:55:45

Now Pittsburgh, they got a football team there.

00:55:51

Here we go. Here we go. "We don't have a mascot."

00:55:58

The Steelers are a good team.

00:55:59

They're a historically great team.

00:56:01

They got six rings over there, like, it's a thing, you know?

00:56:03

Their record 68 and 39 versus Cincinnati.

00:56:07

Like they've been dominating. Those are the facts.

00:56:11

Those are the facts.

00:56:13

Understanding would lead me to say, "Well, Pittsburgh's

00:56:17

just a historically better franchise than Cincinnati."

00:56:21

But wisdom would tell me -- [laughter]

00:56:23

that we got a pretty solid team this year.

00:56:26

You know what I'm saying?

00:56:27

We got a quarterback that can do his thing.

00:56:29

We got some support there.

00:56:30

We got a little thing happening.

00:56:32

So wisdom might tell me

00:56:34

the Steelers ain't got it this year, boys.

00:56:37

So wisdom would tell me to put all of that together

00:56:40

and as we walk that out, I'm praying for a Super Bowl win.

00:56:48

I don't know if you're allowed to pray for a Super Bowl win,

00:56:50

but I'll give it a try. Aggressive mistakes. No.

00:56:54

Wisdom is looking at the knowledge,

00:56:56

but looking at the facts,

00:56:58

putting them together and acting it out.

00:57:00

When I was in Pittsburgh, I had a job that had me

00:57:05

traveling the country

00:57:06

doing different ministry events for young people.

00:57:08

We would do 3 or 4 events a week

00:57:11

in different cities along the way.

00:57:12

So we were always on the go. We were always moving, right.

00:57:15

And it was a great run.

00:57:17

And I had a great time doing it.

00:57:19

I met a lot of awesome people.

00:57:20

I met my wife doing that. It was it was fantastic.

00:57:22

And I had this, I had these facts

00:57:24

that that window was closing for me.

00:57:26

Like, I was getting a little bit older.

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I felt like I needed to kind of plant some roots, right?

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Because I wanted to raise a family.

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I wanted to have a family one day.

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So the facts told me like, hey,

00:57:34

if you want to raise a family well,

00:57:36

you should probably plant them in a certain area

00:57:37

and, like, let them develop and grow there.

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Those were the facts.

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So my understanding as I tried to tie these facts together

00:57:44

was one of the facts was there was an opportunity

00:57:46

in Cincinnati to come serve.

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And there was a place called Crossroads.

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This was ten years ago, by the way, a long time ago it feels.

00:57:52

Ten years ago and it felt like it was the right place.

00:57:55

It felt like this was the place too that that, like,

00:57:57

lined up with what my wife and I were about.

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And it was, like, a place we could call home.

00:58:02

It was also my understanding that

00:58:04

we didn't know anything really about Cincinnati,

00:58:07

like, we knew Cincinnati as that city

00:58:09

that had the really sweet view when you came in from the north.

00:58:12

And we knew Cincinnati was that city

00:58:14

where I-75 was under construction a lot.

00:58:17

Remember we thought to ourselves, "It'll be over soon.

00:58:22

You can't have construction forever." [laughter]

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Didn't tie it together. Right?

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And so we moved here and so we moved here.

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We took that knowledge and we took that understanding

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and we put it to practice and we moved.

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Now today, ten years later, I recognize

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that was us activating godly wisdom because

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we had knowledge that this is what we needed to do.

00:58:43

We had understanding that this was an opportunity to do it

00:58:46

and that the dots started to line up.

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And so we started walking it out.

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Now, has it been all roses? No, absolutely not.

00:58:53

There's something powerful about having to stay

00:58:57

in a community even though things don't always go your way.

00:59:00

There's something powerful and growing

00:59:03

about having to stay in it, and not look for the eject button.

00:59:05

See, when I was traveling, I was out in two days.

00:59:08

So whether or not it went well or not, I was like,

00:59:10

Deuces, I'm going to the next one.

00:59:11

It was easy, but now I'm a part of the community.

00:59:14

I'm a part of a church. I'm a part of a body.

00:59:17

I'm part of a movement.

00:59:18

And we're planted here and we're seeing that wisdom activate.

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We're seeing the wisdom of God show up in our lives

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in new ways that we didn't even expect.

00:59:28

We have deep friendships now.

00:59:30

It took a while to get there, but we kept going after it.

00:59:32

We have people that we can call

00:59:34

if there's a crisis now in our lives.

00:59:35

It took a little while to get there, but man,

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I'm telling you it works.

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When you take your knowledge, take your understanding

00:59:43

and put it into practice,

00:59:44

God shows up and you get godly wisdom.

00:59:46

I'm a better leader, father, and all of those things

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because of this place, because we stepped into

00:59:52

what God had for us here.

00:59:53

And God wants the same thing for you.

00:59:55

God wants the same thing for you.

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He wants you to activate that knowledge,

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activate that understanding, and start to actually walk it out

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before you have all the details figured out,

01:00:06

before you know the exact answers to all the questions

01:00:09

He wants you to get up and move.

01:00:12

You grow in wisdom by doing it.

01:00:15

It's like you grow in fatherhood by doing it.

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That's how you grow in godly wisdom,

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and that's the way God has set it up

01:00:20

and that's what He wants for you.

01:00:21

You will have to act on incomplete knowledge

01:00:23

and understanding.

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You will have to move on that.

01:00:27

Here's what 1 Corinthians 1 says:

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You see that there?

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Do you see it there tucked away in the verse?

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In Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom.

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See, when you allow Jesus to come into your life,

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He gives you power, He gives you access to Himself,

01:00:51

He gives you a model for life,

01:00:52

and He gives you Himself as a source of wisdom.

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So where are you in life? Where is your thing?

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Like, where is it that you need wisdom?

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What aspect of your life

01:01:01

do you want the wisdom of God to show up

01:01:03

and not be like anything else,

01:01:04

but be more powerful and more potent?

01:01:08

As we start to wrap this thing up,

01:01:10

I want you to think about your life for a second.

01:01:12

But I want to do something different to end our time here.

01:01:15

Everybody, stand up real quick. Just stand up with me.

01:01:17

Stay where you. Stand up.

01:01:19

Don't start packing your stuff up yet.

01:01:20

Just stand up for a second.

01:01:23

And I want you to think about your life.

01:01:26

Another portion of scripture, Jesus says,

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I am the Way, the Truth and the Life.

01:01:32

There is a way to godly wisdom and it goes through Jesus.

01:01:40

Last verse I want to share with you today is from James 1:5:

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You lacking wisdom today? Ask God.

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You need more wisdom in a certain situation in your life?

01:02:03

Ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach.

01:02:08

That means God has wisdom He's ready to give you,

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all you've got to do is take the step and actually ask Him.

01:02:15

He's got something for you that's more than you could ask

01:02:18

or imagine, that will be the thing that needs to happen

01:02:21

in the situation that you're in, and He is waiting for you

01:02:24

to ask Him, and He's going to give it to you freely.

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He's given us His Son freely. He's given us Jesus freely.

01:02:32

And He's given us all that comes with that.

01:02:34

You want to be a better dad? Ask him.

01:02:37

You want to be a better spouse? Ask him.

01:02:39

You want to be a better teacher, a better student,

01:02:41

a better roommate, a better person in your neighborhood?

01:02:44

Ask him. He has it for you. He's good like that.

01:02:50

He's good to us.

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So maybe your first big step as we get into the wisdom thing

01:02:56

is simply asking Him.

01:02:58

Where do you need wisdom today? Where do you need it?

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I'm going to say a prayer for us.

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And while I'm praying, I want you to be praying

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and just saying, "God, I need Your wisdom."

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Insert the blank wherever it is.

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Ask Him from your heart right now.

01:03:12

God, thank You for this time.

01:03:14

Thank You for Your wisdom and Your goodness.

01:03:18

Thank You for the way that You love us,

01:03:21

the way that You lead us.

01:03:23

God, thank you for the knowledge of who You are.

01:03:25

Thank You for understanding how all of that ties together

01:03:27

and is relevant to our lives.

01:03:30

And God, we're asking for wisdom.

01:03:32

We're asking for wisdom in our home, wisdom at our job,

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wisdom wherever it might be.

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We need You, Lord. We need You, God, to show up.

01:03:39

We're asking You, God, please give us wisdom.

01:03:42

We know You want to give it to us, God,

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so we thank you in advance.

01:03:46

Now with your heads bowed and your eyes closed real quick,

01:03:48

just, hey, if you're a dad in here,

01:03:51

I just want you to put your hand up

01:03:52

really high for me real quick. Just put your hand up.

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So if you're around a dad or with a dad,

01:03:56

just put your hand on their shoulder just real quick

01:03:59

or put your hand out towards them

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if it's weird to touch them or whatever, that's fine.

01:04:03

I just want to pray a special blessing over fathers today

01:04:07

on Father's Day as we get into wisdom.

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Being a father requires a lot of wisdom and we all need it.

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So let me say a prayer for you, dads.

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Father, thank You for the way that You love us

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and the model that You have given us

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so that we can give to our children.

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And God, I pray for all of the fathers in here.

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