Harold Corkern: “Buy Truth and Never Sell It” (Prov. 23:23)

[WilliamChew]

 Harold Corkern: “Buy Truth and Never Sell It” (Prov. 23:23)

 

Transcript is here.

 

Such an interesting discussion developed on the theme of "dishonest buyers" and "dishonest sellers".

 

Spoiler

Dishonest buyer:
So he sees something he wants. But he doesn’t want to pay them the value, so he runs down the product; he criticizes and makes it look like it’s inferior.

And then the seller, if he’s not aware and alert, will actually sell his product for far less than it’s worth, for practically nothing. And then this dishonest buyer goes off, and he brags about it.

 

Dishonest seller:
“This is the product you need. It’s exactly what you want.”

But they don’t tell you about the long history of problems that it has. They don’t tell you about the cost that it takes to maintain it and the difficulties that come with owning that product. All they want you to do is buy this beautiful product.

 

 

[Cushi]

I really enjoyed this morning worship. I appreciated Proverbs 20:14, which says:

 

“It is no good, it is no good!” says the buyer;

Then he goes away and boasts about himself.+

 

Anyone who has meet up with a person to sell something they posted online knows the truth of these words. I’ve been selling things on websites like Craigslist for almost 20 years so I know how people will try to make it seem like what you’re offering is of low quality so they can give you a lowball offer. It’s quite irritating. Never knew lowballing was in the Bible 😆