April 29 – Wisdom That Lasts

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Welcome to Bible Chat, where we
have devotional conversations

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rooted in Scripture and relevant
for today, April 29th.

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Wisdom that lasts.
A lot of things look valuable

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until you realize they cannot
last.

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Money can be lost.
Popularity can shift.

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Achievements can fade.
Approval can disappear

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overnight.
Psalm 49, verses 5 to 6 asks why

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we should fear in times of
trouble when others trust in

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wealth and boast in riches.
It reminds us that wealth cannot

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save the soul.
It was never meant to.

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Proverbs chapter 15, verses 5 to
6, points us toward a better

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treasure.
It says that wise lips spread

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knowledge and that in the House
of the righteous there is much

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treasure.
That treasure is not only

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material, it is the richness of
a life shaped by God, wisdom,

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peace, integrity, love, and
faithfulness.

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Romans chapter 14 verse 17 says
the Kingdom of God is not a

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matter of eating and drinking,
but of righteousness and peace

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and joy in the Holy Spirit.
That is what lasts, Not image,

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not status, not the temporary
things we use to measure

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ourselves against others.
God’s Kingdom is marked by

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righteousness, peace and joy.
So ask yourself today, what am I

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building my life around?
What do I think I need in order

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to be OK?
If your worth is tied to

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success, attention, or
possessions, your heart will

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always feel unstable.
But if your life is rooted in

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Christ, you can experience a
treasure that circumstances

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cannot steal.
Wisdom that lasts teaches us to

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value what heaven values.
Speak truth, seek peace, walk in

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righteousness.
Let joy come from the Holy

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Spirit, not from temporary
applause.

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The world offers treasures that
fade.

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God forms treasure within you
that lasts.

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Let’s pray.
Heavenly Father, thank you for

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showing me what truly matters.
Help me stop chasing temporary

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things as if they can satisfy my
soul.

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Teach me to value righteousness,
peace and joy in the Holy

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Spirit.
Fill my life with wisdom that

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lasts and let my heart find its
treasure in you.

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In Jesus name, Amen.
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declare with full spiritual
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Proverbs chapter 15 verses 5 to
6 World English Bible.

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A fool despises his Father’s
correction, but he who heeds

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reproof shows prudence.
In the House of the righteous is

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much treasure, but the income of
the wicked brings trouble.

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Psalm Chapter 49 World English
Bible for the chief musician.

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A Psalm by the sons of Korra.
Hear this all you peoples,

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listen, all you inhabitants of
the world, both low and high,

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rich and poor, together.
My mouth will speak words of

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wisdom, My heart will utter
understanding.

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I will incline my ear to a
proverb.

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I will solve my Riddle on the
harp.

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Why should I fear in the days of
evil, when iniquity at my heels

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surrounds me, Those who trust in
their wealth and boast in the

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multitude of their riches, none
of them can by any means redeem

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his brother, nor give God a
ransom for him, for the

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redemption of their life is
costly.

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No payment is ever enough.
That he should live on forever,

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that he should not see
corruption, For he sees that

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wise men die likewise the fool
and the senseless parish, and

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leave their wealth to others.
Their inward thought is that

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their houses will endure
forever, and their dwelling

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places to all generations.
They name their lands after

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themselves.
But man, despite his riches,

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doesn’t endure.
He is like the animals that

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perish.
This is the destiny of those who

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are foolish and of those who
approve their sayings.

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Selah.
They are appointed as a flock.

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For she, all death shall be
their shepherd.

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The upright shall have dominion
over them in the morning their

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beauty shall decay in Sheol far
from their mansion.

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But God will redeem my soul from
the power of Sheol, for he will

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receive me.
Selah.

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Don’t be afraid when a man is
made rich, when the glory of his

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house is increased.
For when he died he will carry

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nothing away.
His glory won’t descend after

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him, though while he lived he
blessed his soul.

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And men praise you when you do
well for yourself.

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He shall go to the generation of
his Father’s.

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They shall never see the light.
A man who has riches without

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understanding is like the
animals that perish.

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Romans Chapter 14 World English
Bible Now accept one who is weak

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in faith, but not for disputes
over opinions.

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One man has faith to eat all
things, but he who is weak eats

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only vegetables.
Don’t let him who eats despise

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him who doesn’t eat.
Don’t let him who doesn’t eat

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judge him who eats, for God has
accepted him.

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Who are you who judge another
servant?

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To his own Lord he stands or
falls.

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Yes, he will be made to stand,
for God has power to make him

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stand.
One man esteems one day as more

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important, another esteems every
day alike.

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Let each man be fully assured in
his own mind.

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He who observes the day observes
it to the Lord, and he who does

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not observe the day to the Lord,
he does not observe it.

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He who eats, eats to the Lord,
for he gives God thanks.

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He who doesn’t eat to the Lord,
he doesn’t eat and gives God

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thanks.
For none of us lives to himself,

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and none dies to himself.
For if we live, we live to the

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Lord, or if we die, we die to
the Lord.

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If therefore we live or die, we
are the Lords.

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For to this end Christ died,
rose, and lived again, that he

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might be Lord of both the dead
and the living.

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But you, why do you judge your
brother or you?

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Again, why do you despise your
brother?

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For we will all stand before the
judgement seat of Christ.

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For it is written as I live,
says the Lord to me.

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Every knee will bow, every
tongue will confess to God, so

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then each one of us will give
account of himself to God.

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Therefore let’s not judge one
another anymore, but judge this

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rather that no man put a
stumbling block in his brother’s

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way or an occasion for falling.
I know and am persuaded in the

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Lord Jesus that nothing is
unclean of itself, except that

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to him who considers anything to
be unclean, to him it is

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unclean.
Yet if because of food your

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brother is grieved, you walk no
longer in love, don’t destroy

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with your food him for whom
Christ died, then don’t let your

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good be slandered.
For God’s Kingdom is not eating

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and drinking, but righteousness,
peace, and joy in the Holy

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Spirit.
For he who serves Christ in

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these things is acceptable to
God and approved by men.

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So then let’s follow after
things which make for peace and

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things by which we may build one
another up.

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Don’t overthrow God’s work for
food’s sake.

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All things indeed are clean.
However, it is evil for that man

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who creates A stumbling block by
eating.

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It is good to not eat meat,
drink wine, nor do anything by

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which your brother stumbles, is
offended, or is made weak.

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Do you have faith?
Have it to yourself before God.

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Happy is he who doesn’t judge
himself in that which he

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approves, but he who doubts is
condemned if he eats, because it

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isn’t of faith, and whatever is
not of faith is sin.

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Now to him who is able to
establish you according to my

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good news and the preaching of
Jesus Christ, according to the

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revelation of the mystery which
has been kept secret through

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long ages, but now is revealed.
And by the Scriptures of the

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prophets, according to the
commandment of the eternal God

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is made known for obedience of
faith to all the nations, to the

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only wise God through Jesus
Christ, to whom be the glory

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forever.
Amen.

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