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Proverbs 1:7 · BSB
1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
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…hit. I bet he was a pretty popular person. But now the money's gone, the food is gone. The Bible says that no man gives unto him. Turn with me toProverbs chapter 1. I remember listening, it's an old song, but the chorus goes, nobody knows you when you're down and out. Proverbs chapter 1, verse 10. My son, if…
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…is a very minor note in the scriptures. The major note in the scriptures is that wisdom is acquired through the scriptures. I want you to notice inProverbs chapter 1again, start with these words, the Proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel, to know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of…
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…God's word. Uh and the lead pastor and one of the elders here at City. And uh I'd invite you to turn up that passage that Lisa read for us. It'sProverbs chapter 1. Uh, if you don't have a Bible, you can just Google search it. Uh Proverbs 1, uh verses 20 to uh to 33, uh so through to the end of the chapter,…
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…who's built his house on the sand. And Jesus is saying, there are two outcomes here. There are the two outcomes that we see in verses 32 and 33 ofProverbs chapter 1. The simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacency of fools destroys them, but whoever listens to me, wisdom, will dwell secure and…
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…who is raised in the covenant family, who knows the promises of God, and is telling him, listen, you would better choose to embrace wisdom. That'sProverbs chapter 1. The end of Proverbs 1 is the voice of folly for the first time. Saying, hey kid, come over here. And remember in Proverbs 1, it's not exactly…
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…for the son. And it's been all based in wisdom. In a sense, as you're working through this, it's an introduction to wisdom. If you remember inProverbs chapter 1, it was the beginning of wisdom, the foundation of wisdom, where wisdom was described to the children. The father leans through and says, wisdom is…
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…so it's that window that David is targeting here. And the dad speaks to the son, choose wisdom, son, because evil is really, really bad. That'sProverbs chapter 1. Choose wisdom because evil is lame and will kill you. Proverbs chapter 2, the father back to the son. Choose wisdom. It has rewards. So Proverbs…
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…of God, and I pray that he would give you a spirit of wisdom to live by it. Having gone through Proverbs 1 and 2, we have heard the call to wisdom.Proverbs chapter 1was the wisdom's invitation, the invitation to come and seek for wisdom. And if you remember in Proverbs chapter 1, there were two dueling voices.…
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…voice of wisdom pleading with everybody in the world. Pay attention to me. If you close your heart to me, you will die. So it's a dual warning inProverbs chapter 1. You have the parents pleading with the child, and you have wisdom pleading. Wisdom saying, listen, don't throw your life away. Please walk on the…
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…for discernment, if you lift up your voice for understanding, if you seek her as silver and search for her as hidden treasures. If you remember inProverbs chapter 1, wisdom is personified as a woman, lady wisdom, and he's employing that here. If you seek lady wisdom as silver, you search for her as hidden…
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…want, you knucklehead, dang you. And he lets go. And we go over the cliff. God didn't push us over the cliff, he just lets us have what we want.Proverbs chapter 1says it best. They would not listen and spurned my rebuke. This is God speaking. So they will eat the fruit of their own ways. God begs us. This is…
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…the next generation. Some of us are robbing the next generation of the joy of work. Proverbs 2125. This is a proverb. This is from a, from a dad inProverbs chapter 1, and from a mom in Proverbs 31 trying to raise their son. Anybody raising a boy? Hang on. Hang on. Okay? And you're like, well, we have daughters.…
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…brakes and slow down. And drive the car of Life at a pace that he designed you to drive. For some of you today, you need to hear this passage fromProverbs Chapter 1. I love this. It says, the complacency of fools will destroy them. Place in situation. Something will not change, but whoever listens to me to the…
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…a different verb. This verb is only used in the sense of crasping somebody's hand in order to come to an agreement. It's used in text like this:Proverbs chapter 1. My son, if you have put up security for your neighbor or have given a pledge for a stranger, this expression that's translated given a pledge is…
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…you? Now I know they get a few hours at night, but what day? It's a day to stay together. And it's a time during that day. I want you to turn toProverbs chapter 1real quick. A time during that day for teaching. Staying together. Scripture says, Oh, come let us worship together, your family corporately.…
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…And the pinnacle of wisdom literature is the book of Proverbs, right? That's kind of like the high point of wisdom literature. Well, in the book ofProverbs, chapters 1to 9, personify wisdom and foolishness as two women. It's kind of like, you know, in Central, there's the statue of Lady Justice. She's blindfolded…
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You have a Bible? I invite you to turn toProverbs chapter 1. By the way, this is up here because we're having Vacation Bible school this week. It's not a new prop for the Proverbs series. I could try to…
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…effects of false wisdom that James has laid out for us. But before we continue on to see James teaching on true wisdom, I want you all to turn toProverbs chapter 1with me just for a moment. Lengthier text, but I think it is so prevalent to what James is saying That it's worth taking the time to read. This…
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…back to Joshua Chapter 24. Joshua tells us real plainly in verse 15, that you need to choose today which God you're going to serve. And in fact, inProverbs chapter 1, it tells us that Solomon tells us that either you're going to choose the path of the righteous, or you're going to choose the path of the wicked,…
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…of us would say, hey, it doesn't actually work. Wisdom is about choices, choices, choices. That's the reality that these, that first section ofProverbs, chapters 1to 9 has been building towards. Wisdom and foolishness are competing alternatives. And making right choices requires discernment. And heaps of it.…
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