You are now listening to The Way to Go Youth Podcast with Pastor Jerome Baker. This podcast is an outreach of a place where a few church located in Carleton, Georgia where the pastor is Bishop Barry Walker. Our vision is to help youth and young adults to be productive in every aspect of life according to God's Word. Now, let's receive Pastor Baker with today's message. You are listening to The Way to Go. The primary author of Proverbs is Solomon. Solomon is one of the wisest men in Scripture, and in our verse today of Proverbs 16 and 28, he reveals some wisdom that can help young people mature when it comes to friendships. Help young adults to mature when it comes to relationships. And this is important because many teens and young adults will tell you they know how to pick a friend. But if the truth be told, there are some people in your circle that shouldn't be there, or some people that you're close to as a Christian, you shouldn't be that close to. When it comes to friendships, the Scripture teaches that we must be particular. We've already heard the Scripture that says the righteous should choose their friends carefully, but that clearly teaches us when it comes to friendships, we must be picky or particular. Now, a young person or a young adult that is particular, first of all, it says that they are single-minded. What is one trait of a picky person? They are what? Single-minded. They're focused, or you have a strict set of rules or guidelines. You don't let anybody get you off or distracted when you're single-minded. You're focused on what you need to be focused on. You're not the type of person that says, "Well, I know they don't do this good, but the bad, the good outweighs the bad." No, you don't do that. You're single-minded. You're focused. You're mature to the point where you understand. All it takes is just one time to do something with somebody that you have no business doing to mess up your life. And so you're focused. You're looking, "Do I need to be spending a lot of time with this particular person?" And you're strict. You should have, as we learned last week, some rules when it comes to your peers and who you hang with. When you're particular number two, you're attentive. And a attentive young person is cautious and thoughtful. You're cautious. You just don't go everywhere with everybody. You're not like immature young people that say, "Well, everybody's going." No, you're thinking, "Do I need to be going there as a Christian?" Do my picture need to be online-proven that I was there doing what everybody else was doing? You have to be thoughtful. Now, this particular person has a reputation of doing this, that, and the other. Do I need to be close to that type of person? Now, they done told me they're homosexual. Do I need to be that close to a homosexual? And I'm trying to live a godly life. You're thoughtful. You're particular. You love everybody, but everybody don't need to be close to you. Because the scripture teaches us that iron sharpens iron. You're going to become who you hang with. You're going to take on thoughts, perspectives, characteristics of whoever it is that you hang around. Who you open up your soul to. Y'all still with me. And so as spirit-led young men and young women, we must be picky or peculiar. And we do this because that's what how God is. God is picky about whom he calls a friend. God is picky. He's peculiar. We learn this in the book of James chapter 4 and verse 4. And notice James writes, "Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity or against God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God." That's plain. The Lord said, "If you're going to be my friend, understand I'm picky. You can't be my friend and be in the world or of the world." No, he's picky. Likewise, we should be picky. There are certain traits, lifestyles, and such that we must give attention to before we get too close to folk. Because you can be raised in church, raised according to scripture, have good parents. But if you don't choose your company or friends carefully, the Bible says the wicked will lead you astray. And you can sing the songs with us in church, but being a backslidden state because who you hanging around. And so we must give attention to the company we keep. We got to be picky, just like God. I said, "We got to be peculiar, just like God." Now, y'all still with me? Before, we can be a friend to somebody else or we open up place for people to get close to us, the first person we should be concerned with when it comes to our circle of friends is ourself. Before you start choosing friends, getting close to people, you have to be to the point to where you first and foremost be a friend to yourself. I said, "You must be concerned first of all about yourself." How can I properly love a friend if I don't properly love myself? How can I be real with somebody else if I'm not real about who I am in God? It's going to be hard for you to be a real Christian friend if you are not settled in being a real Christian. You got to know who you are because you'll find yourself amen in the pastor, but not practicing what is preached when you get around your so-called friends. So before you can be a friend to somebody else, you need to first be a friend to yourself. Tell somebody, be a friend to yourself and this is Bible. Tell somebody, pass the Bible. Matthew 22 and 39, notice what Jesus says in part, "You shall love your neighbor or your friend as yourself." So if I'm going to love my friends, I need to first love myself. Now don't get it twisted. You need to love yourself, but don't make yourself God because God said, "Look, if you love mother, father, sister, brother, even yourself, more than you love me, you're not worthy of me." So I need to love me, but don't love me more than I love God. I need to know I got it going on, but know that God got it going on more than me. I need to love me. I need to compliment myself. Baker, you look good. Baker, you're smelling good. Baker, you put the outfit together, but I don't need to be so cute the way I can't praise my God. I need to love me, but love my God more. And if I love me and I love my God, it ain't going to be hard for me to love my neighbor. See, and that's the issue with some young people. You don't love yourself. You don't love yourself. The way you should. It's only one you and nobody can love you like you. Don't wait on a compliment yourself. Don't wait on somebody to take you shopping. Go shopping for yourself. You don't need no date to go to no movie. You can buy your ticket for yourself and go buy yourself. Look at somebody and say, "Don't cheat yourself. Treat yourself." That's right. I need a man to get my head dear. Girl, is you crazy? Get your own money and take care of yourself. And you got too many young men and young women. You won't be accepted by others, but don't even accept yourself. How you gonna love me and be real with me and call me friend, but you ain't even loving and being real. What y'all don't sell? How do you love yourself? I got the Bible for that. Solomon said, "Y'all with me?" In Proverbs 19 and 8, "He who gets wisdom loves his own soul or life." So, first of all, again, "He who gets what?" Wisdom loves who? Himself. I get wisdom. Then that's proven. I love who. I love me. So, let's break it down to the ground to the last compound. Where does wisdom come from? The Bible says the Lord gives wisdom from his mouth come knowledge and understanding. So, let's put peace this together. God gives us wisdom through his shepherds. I will give you shepherds that feed you knowledge and understand. So, when I come to church, God's shepherd gonna give me wisdom. I love me when I hear it and I put it in the action. I said, I love me based upon this verse when I get wisdom or put it in the action. So, when the pastor comes and teaches me about prayer and I don't practice prayer on a daily basis, I don't love me because if I don't pray, I'm gonna think. If I don't pray, I might backslide. If I don't pray, I go back to hoeing. If I don't pray, I go back the line. I love me. I don't want to go back the line because all liars will have they placed in the lake of fire. I don't want to go back to hoeing because the wages of sin is that I love me. If that be true, look at somebody say, I love me. So, I practice the word. I don't come to church and go to sleep like some young folk. I love me. Tell me how not to go to hell, pastor. Tell me how to please God. I love me and I'll put it in the action. I don't play on my phone in church like some young folk. I play on my phone at home but not in church. Not when wisdom coming before, not when knowledge and understanding is coming before. I love me. And ain't nobody gonna love you like you. God even loves us better than we love ourselves. But when it come to people, you should be your best lover. I said, you should be your best lover. When somebody is telling you how to improve your life and giving you wisdom and you put it in the action, you love you. You love you. And I got to take a quick poll because I've been talking about myself thus far. How many out here, you love you? What does that say about the young person? Just got to wait on their parents to tell them to do the word. You don't really love you the way you talk about it. Now you may put on your little makeup and make sure you look good on the outside but you more than just that. You spirit, you soul and you body. When you love you, you take care of all of you. I said, you take care of all of you. If you're constantly depressed, are you doing what the pastor been preaching? If you love you, you make sure you ain't in depressed mode. How many I understand? When wisdom comes forth and we put it in the action, that's loving on yourself. And once you start loving on yourself and putting God's word in the action, then you have to watch out for people that try to pull you out of the place that God has you in. We learned this from Nehemiah. Y'all let me lay this foundation. Nehemiah was a leader of God's people and he was restoring their relationship with God one way by building a wall. And so he had the people of God out there building and it was symbolic of them restoring their relationship with God. So while they're building and getting they light together, here come Sam Ballot, Gisham and some of his friends trying to stop them from getting theyself together. Nehemiah 6 and 2, they're trying to get them to stop building. How many know there's folk out there that don't want you to build a good relationship with God? And so he tells him in Nehemiah 6 and 2 young folk, hey, why don't you come down from what you're doing and come over here with us to the villages of Ono. Now get this, the villages of Ono was a place that looked real nice. It was a place that looked productive, it was strong, it was a nice place. Kind of like going, uh, Carrollton is nice, but if you compare Carrollton to Buckhead, you'd be like, oh yeah, they got a lot more restaurants up there. They got some places you can go. They got some things you can do. Some of you say, man, ain't nothing to do in Carrollton. But if you look over in Buckhead, you'd be like, man, there's some things to do. So imagine somebody trying to get you out of Carrollton to come over to Buckhead. And then naturally speaking, you'd be like, well, that's a good play. That's a good move. But how many know everything that looked good is not maybe where God wants you to be? And Nehemiah knew that. He said, look, in verse three, why should I come down from where I'm at? You want to cause me harm. See, when it comes to friendships, young folk and associations, you got to know who is coming in your life to help you and who is coming in your life to harm you. And I don't care how they fix it up to make it look good. You got to be like me or mine and say, I got it going on over here. I'm doing a good thing over here. Why should I come down and start doing this dumb stuff that you want me to do? Oh, that's too much truth for some of us. Because some of us, all your friends got to do is put a little game on you and you'll get to move in with them. But it's time for some of us to mature. It's time for some of us to grow up and realize that everybody ain't your friend. Everybody don't want to help you. Everybody don't want you to excel. It's some folk that are ordained to be in your life to try to move you out of the place that God has you in. And Nehemiah recognized and he said, y'all conspiring, y'all planning, y'all trying to make it look like this is where I need to be. But I know the will of God. Young folk, you got to know the will of God for your life. They may call it boring, they may call it lame, but I rather be in a lame place with God than to be in a place that's jumping, that'll lead me straight to hell. And so Nehemiah said no. They wanted him to go to, oh no, but he was like, oh no. It's not going down there. But that's how it be sometime in life young people. Things that look pleasant aren't always pleasant. That's how sin is. It's pleasurable, but in the end it's better. That's what the Bible describes sin as. It starts out pleasurable, but in the end it's better. And so you have to watch out. You have to watch out with people for people in your family. You go to school with even people that you may be attracted to. You may find cute, sexy, beautiful, or however you put it down. You have to be careful. You have to be careful. Because they're trying to get you out of the place that God wants you to be to another place. That God does not intend for you to be. But it's your choice. It's your choice. You got to be so strict and so particular. Hold up now. You want me to leave my church that God put me in to do what? Hold up. You want me to stop going to service where I serve, where God doesn't raise me up to start doing what now? What? You got to be that strict. You got to be that peculiar. And if it breaks your rules, if God ain't guiding you got to be to the point to where you say, you know what? We didn't go, I got something better. God got somebody better. God got somebody better and it ain't you. Because it's one thing to like some of a person. But it's another thing to like more of the package that they come providing. See, sometimes people are giving you just a portion of a piece or a package that you like. But you really don't like the whole thing. It's just like when you go looking for a car, young adults, you'll be like, yeah, it's the right color on the outside. But it ain't got no ox, no ox. You know, I got to plug something up. It ain't got the rims that I want. It ain't got the interior that I want. Now I like the color, but it ain't got everything that that I desire. And so you have to have the mindset. It's just something. It's something better. And it's like that with friends. I said, it's like that with your peers. It's like that with people that you meet. You have to be to the point to where you consider everything and look at the play that the enemy is doing. How is this going to affect my life if I make this move? Now they say they say, but they don't even do this right here. And I know this is what the Bible say. Should I compromise? These are decisions you have to make. Some of you are going to get to the place as young adults to where you thinking about getting engaged, getting married and so forth. Those things matter. And so in order to keep your circle tight, y'all still with me? We must not get too close to certain types of people. Don't ever think more highly of yourself than you are. You don't want to be like, well, I can handle it. No, you thinking too much of yourself. The Bible teaches no man is above temptation. And so in Proverbs 1628, young folk, y'all still with me? The first type people we need to keep our circle is the perverse man. A perverse man. A perverse man. Notice in Proverbs 1628, souls strife. A perverse man in one sense is figurative of an ungodly person. Someone who is not spirit led. A perverse person. They're not of God. They may be pleasant to hang around, but bottom line, they say, and show enough don't have the Holy Spirit. So you have to be careful around the perverse person. You have to be careful because a perverse person can say, yes ma'am, no ma'am. Yes, sir, no, sir. A perverse person can be on the honor roll. A perverse person can be the captain of a team. A perverse person can be a supervisor on your job. A coworker that always asks you to go out the lunch with them. Notice what Solomon says is one trait of a perverse person. They sow strife. They cause problems, bring trouble, and they like to argue. They like to fight. A perverse person sows or starts trouble. Problems, they love to argue and fight. Always starting something. An instigator. Girl, you know she don't like you anyway. Well, you know if it were me, I'd just walk right up to him and say, that's what the perverse person do. Man, if I have my strap, I'll switch cheese, these jokes. Just always, always start something. You know them young ninjas. Just, ain't got no self-control. Down for whatever. If she say something to me one more time, it's on. Just always start something. Some of you got friends and folk like that in your circle. Yes, you do. Yes, you do. Girl ain't always been saved. Be ready to fight at the drop of a dime. Don't want try to work nothing out. Just ready to go for blow. Just ready. Starring stuff. You see how quiet I got in here? A perverse person taking it further figuratively is a person that always complains. A perverse person young people is always negative. What we used to call a buzz keel. Somebody that always bring your vibe. Damn. That's a perverse person. They always complain. We supposed to be celebrating Thanksgiving and here come the perverse person. Always complain. This turkey dry. This macaroni and cheese, they ain't hitting them. Nothing. They ain't fix my plate right. This cake, it got too much sugar. This tea ain't sweet enough. Always got something. It's moving too long. It's moving too short. It's cold in here. It's hot in here. Always complaining. I don't get paid enough. Who is Fiker? I wish they always just negative. Negative, pessimistic. I mean, you happy? And then here come the perverse person. Just bringing that damn. God doesn't bless you. You trying to share what God doing? But the perverse person always complain. As you evaluate your circle, if you determine you have company with perverse fault, notice what the Bible says you should do. Proverbs 4, 24. Put away from you a deceitful mouth and put, somebody say, and put, perverse lips far from you. The lesson in the verse is folk that are perverse, you need to get them out your circle. Folk that's negative, pessimistic, gloomy, negative. Put them far from you. Remember, it's a proverb. He said, if you perverse, quit talking like that. But because it's a proverb he described in folk like this, we don't need to be close to negative folk. If a perverse person texts you, don't reply. If a perverse person come to you, want to talk, let them know I got something else to do. You put them far from you. And if they camouflage, they come to you like, they good, but then the conversation starts going negative, you got to be bowling up to say, stop it right now. I don't want to talk about that. And I don't want to hear about that. See, if you can't do that, you too close. If you can't check folk like that, you are too, you too close. Let's practice. Look at somebody say, wait a minute. Let's try to say stop right now. Say this, say, hold that thought. You got to say it just like that. I'm not going now. Don't bring that to me. Don't bring that to me. Because I'm going to know a conversation can turn. You can be talking about one thing. And the next thing you know, somebody took a left and the perverse person is talking in a way that's not helping you. Put them far from you. Why? They're going to call some trouble. Don't be some trouble. Don't be some trouble. They started. They stirred up. Y'all still with me? Let me give you a Bible to back up what I'm teaching you to do. How many are bold enough to do this right here? When somebody come to you talking about the person you broke up with, you got to tell them, look, I don't want to hear about it. I don't want to hear about it. I don't want to go there. I don't want to know. Can't get too much help on that. 2 Timothy 2 and 23. Paul tells Timothy, but avoid foolish and ignorant disputes, arguments, conversations. Why do I need to ignore them, Paul? Knowing that they generate strife. You got to avoid certain conversations. You got to put folks sometime in their place. Hold it right there. I ain't going there with you. I ain't going there with you. Now, look, we said we squashed it and you bringing up that other stuff. Once it's squashed, we ain't going to unsquash. You got to avoid it. How many can do that? Now, how many got to grow in that area? Just be honest, buy a short hand. That's part of your maturity. That's part of your maturity. You got to avoid, notice, foolish and ignorant conversations. That's too bold. So tell you that, man, that's ignorant. I don't want to talk about that. I ain't going there. I don't want to talk about nothing negative. I'm having a good day today. Can you close the door when you leave? Avoid it. Proverbs 17-1, even if it's your cousin or your spouse. Let me deal with that spouse and cousin stuff. You got to tell him, I love you, but I ain't talking about that. And then leave it like that. See how we got quiet? Even though I ain't saying that and I said something, didn't I? I don't want to talk about that. And then don't explain yourself, just leave it, just. Or this is my favorite. I ain't putting nothing on that. I'm not speaking on that. You got to tell your spouse that. Husband, wife, you got to tell your spouse that. And sometimes you got to, then I tell you, I don't want to talk about that. You might have to tell your old sibling that. Your old sibling. Your example, you being too negative to me right now, I don't want to go there with you. Your old sibling, you don't know them all your life, but you may have to tell them. You know, we learned, just give them hints. We learned about a perverse person Sunday. I don't want to go there right now. I need somebody to talk to. Well, if you're not going to listen to me, we'll talk later. Proverbs 17 and 1, I'm almost done. Better is a dry morsel. Look at this with quietness, or better. Better is a dry morsel with what? It's better to have a slice of bread and have some what? Some peace and quiet. Then a house full of feasting with strife. Give me my peanut butter and jelly sandwich. If I got some peace and quiet, you can have the steak, potatoes, German chocolate cake, and a cup of ice tea. But if it's some trouble in that house, I will take the peanut butter and jelly sandwich and the peace and quiet. Keep strife, young folk, out your life. That's what we learned from the text. Tell somebody, keep strife out your life. It's some folk they like to argue. It's something they love to argue. They don't want to listen. They don't want to learn. But guess what they do want to do? They want to argue. That's strife. I want you to learn today based upon the scripture. You've got to learn how to keep strife out your life. You've got to tell somebody to keep strife out your life. If you've got a so-called friend that always come with some baggage, some negativity, and some problems, you need to keep them out your life. Because those type friends calls headaches, ovesus. I'm not going to spend my life trying to solve all your problems. Figure it out yourself. Why are you trying to be Dr. Fielder everybody? When God gave us the Holy Spirit that had got us in all truth. I ain't trying to Dr. Field folk. I'm keeping strife out my life. If you like to argue, don't come see Pastor Bank. I'm keeping strife out my life. I wish some of y'all would get on board and the car with me. But if you don't, I keep strife out the car. Look at sometimes they keep strife. Finish it. We learned this as children. I was paying attention when I was watching cartoons. Whoever was putting cartoons together back in my day, they were trying to teach us what I'm preaching to y'all today. You've got to keep perverse folk out your life, out your circle. How many heard Cinderella in the Seven Dwarfs? You remember one of them named Grumpy. Snow White. Y'all were paying attention. One of them white girls. Y'all know what I talk about. Donald Duck. He was grouchy. One nothing right. We had Sesame Street. Oscar. The grouch. I mean, he was so bad. He lived in a trash can. You don't be nobody's trash can. Bringing it on up, they were teaching us in cartoon. We had this cartoon called the Smurfs. One of them named the grouchy Smurf or Grumpy, whatever it was, grouchy Smurf and one y'all familiar with squig work, which is always negative. They were trying to teach us you got to keep perverse folk, negative folk, grouchy folk, out your life. If your friends are battling different things and you're not where you need to be, you don't need to spend so much time with them because you can take on that spirit. If they negative always depress up and down, not stable, you don't need to be spending too much time with them trying to solve their problems. You need to pray for them and get yourself together because that spirit can get on you. Have y'all ever experienced that? You'd be like, man, why am I tripping? Man, this ain't even me. But you've been hanging around somebody or close to somebody. You don't took on that spirit. You ain't been keeping your circle tight. Man, why am I thinking about smoking? I don't smoke. Try it, didn't like it. But why am I thinking about smoking now? Well, look at who you hanging around. Smokers. Now you're thinking about hitting the blunt. Drinking. That ain't you? But if that's who you hang around, you're going to become who you walk with. I don't even listen to that right there. But your peers do. Now you all of us say, you're listening to it. You're taking on that spirit. You ain't keeping your circle tight. Again, you see how quiet it got? God is serious about the company that we keep. And you don't need perverse folk in your life because it's bringing trouble to your doorstep. But then finally, the second person he mentions is a whisper. A whisper is not somebody who just... No, no, no, no. He ain't talking like that. He ain't talking about that type of whisper. You don't know nothing about that, Brian. That's back in our heathen days. I took you back. That man got up and said, Lord, have mercy. No, a whisper of young people as I close is a gossip. A gossip. Somebody that's messy. A messy person. Are you going to be saved, spirit-filled, and close to whispers, gossipers? Folk is messy. Messy folk, I have a conversation with you. And then turn around and go talk to somebody else about what you talked about. What another? That's messy. Ooh, that's messy. A whisper, I have a problem with somebody else. But instead of going to that person, they'll come to you and try to get you not to like the other person. Instead of going to the person, they got an aunt-will. Y'all ought to help me say, that's messy. That's messy right there. That's messy. That's a gossip. That's a whisper. And notice how strong a whisper is. They got influence to separate best friends. That's how powerful a whisper is. They have the ability to separate folk that grew up in church together. Folk that sing on the praise team together. First cousins that grew up in the same house, a whisper can separate them. The best of friends? Thank you. Tell somebody, keep whispers out your circle. And I wish I could say that was just outside the church. But that's in the church. A whisper of being a leader's meeting, receive what's being taught, hear what's being said, leave the leader's meeting and go and talk about leader's meeting to somebody that ain't even a leader. That's messy. That's messy. [ Pause ] Notice some traits of a whisper. Proverbs 17-9. Y'all still with me? All right. Proverbs 17-9 in part says, "But he who repeats a matter separates friends." Boy, that's low to hell. He who repeats a matter separates friends. That's why we were taught last week. You don't tell everybody your business. Because as much as you love folk, as much as you spend time with folks, some folk can't hold no water. They letting the cat all the way out the bag. And you call yourself, "I trusted you." No, that's on you. You had no business telling them. Don't put yourself in that tight position. Some things you need to keep to yourself. Because somebody could repeat it. And it is separation. It is separate. And some of us have experience that. You don't talk to certain folk because they got big mouth. I mean, just bottom line it, we just say it like it is. They cool. They good folk. They just talk too much. And everybody got something they need to work on. But you got to know folk. You got to learn folk. And friendships take time. You understand? That's why you got to be attentive. You got to be particular. These things I'm teaching y'all. You got to practice this. You don't go to your place of employment, young people. And share your personal business with people you work with. Especially if they are perverse or not saved. You don't do that. You don't tell people about your financial issues on your job. You don't tell people about your feelings on your job. You just don't do that. Because some people on the job will repeat the matter. And can use that against you. You don't do that. Just because you're on the team together, you cheer together, that don't mean you need to share your business. Just because y'all in the same group chat, that don't mean you need to share your business. You save yourself a lot of hurt and pain and embarrassment by learning to keep your mouth shut. Especially about your mistakes. I said especially about your mistakes. You do certain things that you ashamed of and bear still. You regret you know it was seen. You don't tell everybody that. Girl, let me tell you what I did. God forgave me. But let me tell you. No, don't do that. Because folk, you gonna show up in school, show up in work and folk gonna be like, there she goes right there. Remember I taught you, you make yourself look bad. Proverbs 11 and 13, last verse. No, no, no. Second to the last verse. A tail bear, somebody say a tail bear reveals secrets. But he who is of a faithful spirit conceals a matter. A tail bear. Somebody who like to tell stories, tell tales, gossip. And in some folk, they are gifted at telling stories. Man, they can make a story sounds a girl. We went at 730 and let me tell you, it were raining outside. I had on my blue outfit and my red pumps. You know, I was looking good. And so we went, they know how to tell a story. And you sitting there listening and putting your two and three cents in. She going to tell somebody else what you said. Ain't confident. One good trade of friends should have is learn how to conceal a matter. Now, I'm not talking about things that are harmful. But there are certain things you share with certain people. It needs to stay between you and now. And it's your age, teenage and some young adults. You just don't need to be revealing certain secrets about yourself. Why are you telling somebody if your belly button is in or out? That's a secret. And you don't tell folk you growing here now. That's a secret. You don't tell that. Well, you know, I wear such a such size, bro. Why are you telling that? You setting yourself up. You setting yourself up. And we laughing and I'm making it comical, but you just don't do that. You know that you used to do certain things and somebody's tempting you to do things that God delivered you from. You don't even give them the whole rundown of what your past was like unless you know you are in the faith the way you need to be where your testimony can help somebody else overcome. But you don't give somebody ammunition to use against you. Last verse and we are out of here. How many learning how to keep your circle tight? First, that's the Onions 4 and 11 important that you may also aspire. These are life goals. This is what you should aspire to lead a quiet life. And to mine, mine your own business. That's Bob. That's Bob. What did you say? It's in the book. That's life goals. You know, we would talk like they don't start nothing. Won't be nothing. I don't want no problems. I ain't trying to start nothing. But a whisper and a perverse person, they come. They wake up ready to start something. But see, when you mature and you spirit, you're just trying to act. I ain't trying to mess with nobody. I'm minding my own business. That's life goals, young people. And you have to keep your circle tight. The people you hang around, they need that essay mindset. Don't want no messy folk around me. Not close. And so we strive to keep our circle tight. We keep perverse people and whispers far from us. How many understand the lesson on today by our shoulder hands? Let's stand to your feet. Let's give God a hand clap.
