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Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Proverbs 155. The proverb today is practice
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what you preach. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. If someone says you should
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practice what you preach, it means you should behave in the way
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that you advise or tell or even sometimes scold others to behave. The
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origin of the phrase comes directly from the Bible, Matthew 23 3. Yeah that's part
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of the New Testament. So you know as the Matthew, Mark, Luke ,and John. So that's you
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know when Jesus the one the part that's about Jesus" life. All right. But let's
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continue. Here's the quote "They preach but do not practice. " All right so that was
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from Matthew 23 3. They say it was repeated a lot over the centuries but
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became really popular in the 18th century. And I'm pretty sure Charles
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Dickens also used it in at least one of his classic novels. Okay Let's , let's take a
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look at some of the examples here. Example number one. If you don't practice
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what you preach, you will end up looking like a hypocrite. Yeah. That's pretty much
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the definition of a hypocrite. Somebody who tells you to behave one way and they
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don't do it themselves. Yeah. Remember we, we often heard about that around the
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time that I think Al Gore came out with his documentary " Inconvenient Truth " where
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he's telling everybody you know, you have to use a lot less electricity,
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and cut down on CO2 emissions. But yet he had a house that was burning fuel
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outside around the gate of this big mansion. And he was using 40 times the
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amount of energy that the average household was using . So in that case
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that's what we mean. He wasn't practicing what he was preaching. So this is what we
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mean you got to be careful you should practice what you preach because if you
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don't you end up , looking like a hypocrite.
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Okay. Number two here. If you want to be a role model you know, if you want to be
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some person that other people will follow and respect,
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you must practice what you preach. Okay. So if you're telling other people behave
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this way , you have to do it yourself. Okay. And number three here. Many politicians
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like to tell voters how they should behave , but they rarely practice what
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they preach. They rarely do it themselves too. Anyway, I hope you got it. I hope it was
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clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.