The Beginning of Wisdom | Pr Alvin Keng

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The title is the beginning of Wisdom. So this is

just something that well, I wouldn't say I'm passionate about.

But when I was a young teenager and I was

reading True Solomon right, and I remember and I was

very yeah, I was like what seventeen? I think? Uh

and uh, you know, committed to church, going to church.

And during one of my quiet time, I remember reading

where God asked Solomon, what do you want Solomon? You know?

Because God wants to bless Solomon, you know, and how

why does go on a blessed Solomon? Because Solomon had

God's favor because of his father, David Right, Solomon was

there was a son that was delivant and and and

God as Solomon, what do you want? I'll give you anything?

How many you were? My son always asked me this question, Daddy,

if you have anything, but what about you want? And

then he said I'll have you U limited money? Right,

That's why? Will he tell me? And I will always yeah, yeah,

And I always say I have everything I want. I

just wanted my book, my sons and my wife. So

feels so good, right, actually live the money not so

bad as alla. But but God asked Solomon, what do

you want? I can give you anything. And you know

Solomon who asked for anything, but you need ask for

one thing. He said, God give me wisdom. God give

me wisdom. And I remember praying that prayer and said, Lord,

if you can give Solomon wisdom. Of course, sometimes when

we are younger, we think, oh, you ask for wisdom,

then all the other good things come, you know, uh,

you know, power, money and stuff like that. Right, based

on what the Bible says. So I asked for that

al sola when I was young, right. But wisdom, I

think is something that we all need in our lives. Amen.

And we're gonna just do a bit of study on

it today, are you guys? Okay? So Proverbs chapter nine,

and we're gonna read it. Says yeah, Proverbs chapter nine,

verse ten. The fear of the Lord is the beginning

of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

For by me, your days will be multiplied and years

of life will be added to you. If you are wise,

you are wise for yourself. And if you scoff, you

buried alone. Okay, let's learn a few things about wisdom today. Okay.

So the first point is the Bible, God's word teaches

us to look for wisdom. Yo. Get that. It teaches

us to look for wisdom. It tells us to look

for wisdom like searching for hidden treasure. Have you all

seen how treasure hunters took for treasure? You guys watched

the documentary on like I remember, there was a documentary

where they were looking for the Titanic, right, and they

spent a lot of money equipment technology, got submarine, you know.

And I remember that documentary so well because the submarine

that found the Titanic was called Alvin. Yeah, that's I

remember it. You can go and check it. I don't

know whether I think I'm correct. There was a bigger submarine,

but the smaller one was called Elvin, right, the unmanned submarine.

The bigger submarine, I forgot the name. Really, And they

spent a lot of money. They needed an investor. They

went and looked for it. They thought it's here. Took

them years to look for the Teitanic. They were searching

for treasure, you know. And of course you think, why

spend so much money? Right of course, there is a

reward at the end because when they found the treasure,

it's treasure. When they found the treasure, they will be rewarded.

But it takes a lot of investment of time, investment

of you know, energy. You know, you don't even know

whether you will get your ROI back. You don't even

know whether you will get your profit back when you

look for treasure. That way, right, just rely on the man.

But yet proverabs two verus four. The five says, if

you seek her as silver and search for her as

as for hidden treasure, it tells you that it's hidden. Okay,

then you will understand the fear of the Lord and

find the knowledge of God. So the Bible first point,

we establish a few things before we go into it.

First point is the Bible teaches all of us to

look for wisdom. Right. The second point is the Lord

is the one who gives us wisdom. Okay, the Lord

is the one. Let's go to Proverbs chapter two, verse

sixty seven. What does it say? He says here, for

the Lord gives wisdom. From his mouth comes knowledge and understanding.

He stores up sound wisdom for the upright. He is

a shield to those who walk uprightly. He guards the

paths of justice and preserves the way of his sayings,

then you will understand righteousness and justice, equity and every

good path. Well, if the Bible asks us to look

for wisdom like hidden treasure, and the Bible also says

that the Lord is the one that gives us wisdom,

I mean I'm making my own, like, what's the word?

What's the word that Sheilock Holmes asks? What's in? Or

what's asked Chloholms? So what's your deduction? Right? Well? I

deduced that we should see Golah because if I need

to look for wisdom and wisdom comes from the Lord,

then I should see God. Right? Makes sense? Why do

you see God to look for wisdom? Right? And you

know it says here God is a shield for those

who walk up rightly. So if you walk up rightly

in the eyes of God, you don't have to worry.

He will protect you. You only worry when you don't

want a brightley in the eyes of God. Then you

better worry because there's no promise of him protecting you. Amen.

He guards the paths of justice right, and he preserves

the way of his sayings. So if you seek God,

and I'm did you sing? Based on what the Bible says,

If we see God, our paths will be taken care of.

The way that we have will be preserved by the Lord.

Why does it need preservation because there are challenges because

there are people out there that want to get you.

There are people out there that may be jealous for you,

Peo about that. They want to mess with your business

for whatever reason. But if we seek the Lord and

we have wisdom, then we'll be protected. Right. It also

says here in a verse chapter nine, then you will

understand righteousness and justice, equity and every good path. So

it means that we will understand that's another point. We

will understand righteousness and justice. What does equity mean? How

many of you here are in real estate or banking finance?

Oh no, they're not. Share our banking finance raest that

I know that this too. Anyone here, you're not got

people thinking why so shy? You're not? Equity is not

We don't be a finance finance class today. Oh my goodness,

everybody's so quiet. Are you okay? Good morning? XB you okay?

I see a lot of pointing like, yeah, Nick is there?

I know Basically, when you talk about equity in a house, Okay,

let's use house as an example, right, it means that

how much you order minus how much is the value,

then that's your equity. That's the value of the house. Right.

So if your house costs one million dollars, but your

body it for half a million, Okay, the equity of

the house is half a million. It just means value.

So when the Bible says you will understand equity and

every good path, he tells you that when you have wisdom,

you will understand righteousness. What is righteousness? What is justice?

And you will know the value of a good path.

All of us here are on a path to somewhere.

With the decisions we make every day, we are going

somewhere right. And of course we all want to go

to the good place right every path we take. Now

the Bible talks about you know why, it is the

path to destruction, narrow is the one to righteousness. Right

is very hard to find? Who who will find it

very hard to find? Right? And when you talk about

path and you talk about being wise, when you are wise,

you will know which path to take that will lead

you to good things. But when you're unwise. And when

you don't have wisdom in your life, the path you

take will lead to destruction. Okay, So the question is

which path are we taking today? Every path we take

reaches somewhere, some to destruction and some to prosperity. What

is prosperity and abandoned life? And recently I was I

can't remember which preacher, Oh, I think I remember Amd,

I remember for those who went for x Men devotion.

Pastor Jeffrey I think came and he said he shared

the meaning of the word prosperity, and he was so enlightening.

When we think prosperity because a lot of years see

are Chinese, we think prosperity or prosperity, money money, money

you need. But what the Bible means by prosperity is

not just money. What the Bible means by prosperity, based

on the explanation, it's not just money. It's shalom, it's peace,

it's a good life. It's not just money. It's not

just money. It's quite powerful. No, when you understand deeper

what the word means, right, we will get an abundant life.

Problems Chapter two thus tend to twelve. It says, when

wisdom enters your heart, and knowledge is pleasant to your soul,

discretion will preserve you, Understanding will keep you, to deliver

you from the way of evil. From the man who

speaks perverse things. I'm gonna continue reading from those who

leave the paths of uprightness to work in the ways

of darkness, who rejoice in doing evil and delight in

the perversity of the wicked, whose ways are crooked, and

who are devious in their paths. To deliver you from

the immoral woman, from the doctors, who flatters with her words,

who forsakes the companion of her youth and forgets the

covenant of a god. For her house leads down to death,

and her paths to the day. None who go to

her return, nor do they regain the paths of life.

So you may walk the way in the way of goodness,

and keep the paths of righteousness. For the upright will

dwell in the land, and the blameless will remain in it,

but the wicked will be cut off from the earth,

and the unfaithful will be uprooted from it. I'm gonna

use a very simple example to explain this, parents, and

maybe for some of you who are not parents yet.

By maybe your parents have said this, I don't really

like the friends you're hanging out with. I think they're

giving you a bad influence. Because influence rare powerful. Right,

So when you talk about pathway, when you are on

the pathway with good friends and good influence, you will

rich good things. But when you are on the pathway

with bad friends and bad influence, this is what the

Bible means. You'll be led astray. You're your catch that wisdom,

yeah you, and it's not even a good or bad

it's just if you follow this way, you will continue

heading down the not so nice way. But if you

follow this way right, you'll head down a better way.

We thought we're talking about wisdom here, Okay, So wisdom

is important. Number one, we gotta look for it. Number two,

we gotta know it comes from God, right, He gives

us wisdom. And with wisdom, the benefit is we understand righteousness,

We understand what's right. We understand and value a good pathway,

a good direction. When you have it. When you that

means that when you don't have it, now, it's very

hard to recognize. Maybe everything you see is good. That's

very dangerous. And he says he and proverbs right, Tan,

discretion will preserve you. You know what discretion means? Discretion

just means discernment. Can you discern or not? Do you

know or not? The people you're hanging out with is

a good inference to you or not? Or the thing

that carries the weight is other things? But the person

has a nice car? Okay, I'm just using example horrible examples. Okay, Okay,

people who have got nice car doesn't mean they're bad lad. Okay,

But do we have the discernment in our spirit? Do

we have the wisdom to discern on who we should

hang out with and who we shouldn't? Right? Do we

have that? Or are we blind to that? Or are

we going just purely by emotions, purely by time spend together? Right?

Something to think about, are you guys? Okay? It also

says that understanding will keep you. You know what that means.

I mean, the language is very powerfuler, but it just

tells you that when you understand something, it will help you.

When you don't understand something, you will get in trouble

because you don't understand. Why are why passus? Steven keep

asking me to come for prayer? Service. Don't he know,

I'm busy, But do you understand that when you come

for prayer service and when you are participating in prayer, man,

unless you tell me that you pray twenty four hours land,

then okay, don't you come for prayer service. Actually even

then also you should come. You know why, there's a

difference when you pray corporately with other believers. Know a

few things that we practice in this church that I

find very very valuable, like the prayer during worship that

right now, even in my homes, I make sure it happens.

I say, I'm the leader, so I can push for it,

you know. And I see the difference of people's countenance

after prayer and before prayer. Before prayer, okay, we're just

doing the same thing, worship God, you know, that's it.

But after prayer, you see very different. People are more comfortable,

people more at peace. People know that we've committed to

the Lord whatever weight that we already have. So prayer

is powerful. It is powerful, right, So understanding the more

we understand the Word of God, the more we understand

one another, the more we understand what is it it

should be, we will be kept. We won't find ourselves

in trouble. I'm generalizing a lot of these words. I

hope you catch what I'm trying to say, But the

moment you you don't, right. I mean, it also applies

in your work, in your in your life. It applies students.

The more you understand a subject easier for you or

not right. The more you don't understand how sosalah, how

to pass the exam, very hard to pass next time

you work? Also the same thing. The more you understand

the subject matter the better. So understanding keeps you. Amen. Okay,

I thought a lot about wisdom. Are you guys? Okay,

everybody's very quiet. I hope you guys are catching something right,

So let's let me. I don't know whether this will

challenge some of your views on it, but I want

to just give a little bit of an understanding. What

is wisdom? Talk about wisdom a lot, right? What is it?

Is it intelligence? Is it information? Some people think wisdom

is information. Some people think wisdom is intelligence. You go high,

AQ means your wise. I'm gonna make some statements. You

can agree or disagree. La. I don't think someone who's

smart is wise, because I meet some really smart people

who make really not so smart decisions. I don't think

information is wise because chat Gibt has all the information

in the world. But I doubt Chetgibt it's wise to

be able to advise you on certain things. I mean,

of course, so unfair persives. How can you use a machine? Well,

there are a lot of people here who know a

lot of things, but they may not be wise. You'll

understand right because you've experienced it right. So it's definitely

not intelligence. Definitely not just information, although both are important things. No,

it's not just about being knowledgeable, about being smart. Would

you agree with me if I say that wisdom is

about making the right decision, because you can be someone

who's not so smart, but you can still be wise.

You can be someone who doesn't have all the information,

but you can still make wise decisions Corna. So it's

about making decisions. You can have a young person who

don't know a lot. I eat more salt than you

eat rice. You know, those of us for older, we say,

but they are wise, they know how to make wise decisions.

Yet you can have an old person that is super old,

that got more years in their life, but constantly making

foolish decisions. Constantly getting in trouble, constantly making I don't know, Okay,

I'm not gonna use any examples, right, So isn't it

about making the right decision to be wise? Isn't it

about discerning what is right at what time you'll get

it right? And the wisdom that God gives us keeps

us safe from destruction. So you may walk in the

way of goodness and keep to the paths of righteousness.

For the upright will dwell in the land, and the

blameless will remain in it, but the wicked will be

cut off from the earth, and the unfaithful will be

up rooted from it. Okay, I just for funner, I

just want to give you a picture of how wisdom

looks like. Okay, and I want to invite some of

my volunteers, Wesley and Sivia, to come and act something

out for us today. Yeah yeah, I know, very very seriousity.

So now we just have a little bit of funer.

Yeah yeah, they yeah, Okay, they're gonna act out a

scene and then we're just gonna learn so far away

you go there, Okay, they're gonna eg our scene. So

so let's just say that they are colleagues okay, their

colleagues and uh just for fun, and Sivia the boss,

and Wesley is like the worker worker, okay, she's a

boss and action okay, pass worst, okay, just to let

you know, give you a bit more information. Now, Wesley

can finish the monthly report in two days. He can

finish it in two days if nothing goes wrong, everything

goes well, in two days, he can finish the report. Okay, okay,

we pause her. Was that a wise response? Why was

it a wise response? Why it's rude? Okay? Can you

please you know saw Ruth your boss? Sorry, okay, just

overlook the ruts, Just overlook the ruts. Okay. He he's

so interacting. I don't even know whether he'll speak to

the boss that we're okay, But anyway, why was it unwise?

She asked? One month report? When can you deliver? Right?

I just told you that he needs two days forty

eight hours? And when did he promised tomorrow? With cheez

over promise? Okay? So or promise? Okay, okay, Let's let's

let's hear the next response. Next month? He said, next one? Okay?

Was that a wise response or foolish response? Why is

it foolish? Too long? What unrealistic? Okay? Some say unrelistic?

Too long? Yeah? Two days? He needs? Why must he

one man right and not need that? It's a monthly

report next month? You need? Ready? Okay, let's hear whether

or not he'll make a white decision now? Two days? Okay?

What's that? A wise edision or foolish edision? Much better?

Much getting better? Who said wise? Wise? Some say wise? Who?

Who says is foolish? Who says foolish? Can't say whither? Okay?

John says foolish? Okay, one of it? Why? Why? Why

is it foolish? Assuming everything has to be right? Assuming?

So when's the what? What would be the better answer?

Better answer for me? I will say that usually is

I can two days to be safe? Can you just

give me three to four days? Three to four days? Okay?

Let let's see what's his answer? Four days? Okay? Four days?

Is that a better answer? Is that wiser? Why is

it wiser? Under promise over deliver? People like to use it?

Thanks so much, say and Wesley, thanks so much. Let's

do it be a recap on what just happened now, okay.

Of course someone's having fun for those of you who

never work before, you'll be like, what are you're talking about?

For those of work, you've probably experienced this before. Okay,

let's just talk about wise and unwise. Okay, because that's

what the Bible is talking about. He's not talking about information,

it's not talking about you know, he's talking about wise

and unwise. Right, how is Wesley gonna make wise desis?

And how would the wise decisions or unwise cessicians benefit

or not benefit him? So just now we go one under?

Why over promise, confirm cannot finish one? Isn't that unwise? Right? Unwise?

Is it right? Or wrong? Not wrong? What boss asking

when he said twenty four hours if he tries his best,

he might fail. Definitely will fail on that. But that's unwise?

But is it wrong? Wrong? That's not right? Wrong?

Uh?

He promised one month later? Was it a wrong promise?

Some say yes, la, if you know la, but the

boss don't know he can finish it two days? Right?

But it was not wrong, but it was unreasonable. Someone

mentioned you just now, isn't it unreasonable you really need

one man thirty days to finish a two day project?

Then you are uneffective? Right, you are totally uneffective. What

about some that a lot of you say, yeah, yeah, yeah,

two days? Two day is wise? Was the wise or unwise?

Not really right? In an ideal world, when you're doing

a math question, there is a correct answer. But in

an unideal world, a person who's wise knows that something

can go wrong. A person who's wise understands that I

should underpromise or believer. But the one man who's so

underpromised underpromised a bit too much? Right, it's unreasonable? What

was a better answer? Three or four days? Let me

ask you a question. If he asked for five days,

would he still be considered a wise Susian? Yeah, sort of.

If he asked for seven days, would it still be

considered wise sedition? No? Some say no, some says actually

are to be really honest, it's still quite reasonable. And

if the boss needs to earlier that there should be

what negotiation? Right just now? Wesley actually asked me this

question because I know his accountant, so he asked more details.

He said, the answer also depends on when is the deadline?

Makes sense by the t him, don't worry about the dadline.

But see even if the deadline is tomorrow, let let's

play it out deadad lines tomorrow, but he know he

needs two days. What is a wise answer to that situation? Boss,

I'm so sorry. I cannot finish it. I need at

least three days. If not, we have to find a solution.

I cannot do it alone. Wouldn't that be a wiser

answer or dead larning tomorrow? Okay? Okay? Can conditional? Okay, yeah, conditional,

but just promise so that no conditions. That's unwise, right,

isn't it unwise? Now? You understand when they say the

foolish make decisions and lead them to a path of destruction,

and how the wise will leave them to a path

of righteousness. You'll see that. Not it's the same situation, guys.

It's not like the boss is asking him to take

drugs or anything and that no, or asking him to

you know, bunch ups. You know sometimes when we think

about this, are we only thing right and wrong? It's

not about right or wrong. It's about are you wise

or are you unwise? Your cash there are about wisdom.

Just so I give that that picture to you for

us to understand when you read the Bible Proverbs tree,

just how we read Proverbs two right, Proverbs one and

two establishes what is wisdom? Where does wisdom come from?

Right and proverbs tree is the instructions that the father

is like the instructions that the father is leaving his son.

Instructions or wisdom sharing consequences of good things and bad

if we follow or don't follow wisdom. For example, that

that that that little exchange is for fun. Now, okay,

I mean it's also real life because some of us

experience it. But some of us who have made different decisions,

and the decisions we have gotten us in trouble or

you have been put putting us in a better standing.

See wisdom right doesn't care whether or not the boss

is nice or not. Wisdom doesn't care. It just tells

you how to put yourself on a better path. You'll

catch that the consequences of good things and bad if

we follow don't follow wisdom. Let me give you another point.

The Bible says that there is security in wisdom. We

will have a long life if we are wise right. However,

if we are foolish, we can shorten our lives. Can

shorten our lives, and we should learn to live and

be wise making wise decisions in life. The Bible also

cautions us constantly do not walk in the path of

the wicked. Probably Chapter four us Walk into sixteen says

do not enter the path of the wicked and do

not want in the way of evil. Okay, let me

just pause you for a moment. If Wesley, okay, maybe

changed them loud. If Bob, if Bob promise Fred, If

Fred promises the boss one day even though he needs

two days, was that a wicked thing? Yeah? Why was

it a wicked thing? He lied? He gave the boss

a false hope. Maybe the company really relied, and then

suddenly Fred cannot deliver because of that, the whole company

goes down. Where's that wicked? He's wicked? But see, we

don't look at all these things. You know, we need

to see unfair? Are it's so unfair? Why the boss

give no? But but the Bible is not talking about

that and no, guys, because if he told the boss Boss,

I need three days, he was telling the truth. He

was not lying. He was taying true. Whether the boss

g accept or not, that's another thing. Then it will

mean that the boss is wicked and not him. Then

you want to work for a wicked boss. Think about it?

Think about it. Wisdom. Right, we're talking about wisdom. Okay,

we should make white decisions, friends, for what for our health,

for our family, for our life. Proverb six warns us

of many things we can take note off in our

daily lives. You go and read proverb six. Many things

in her daily life, many temptations and many pit falls. Right,

he talks about adultery. It talks about the wicked man. Right,

it talks about right the folly of indolence. Were very

big word, okay, but it just means laziness. Go to

the end, you, sluggard, consider her ways and be wise, which,

having no captain, overseer or ruler, provides her supplies in

the summer and gathers her food in the harvest. How

long will you slumber, or sluggard? When will you rise

from your sleep? A little sleep, a little summer, a

little folding of the hands to sleep? So shall your

property come on you like a prowler? And you need

like an armed man? If you don't work, if you

don't work, if you don't work hard, don't expect anything.

Isn't that wisdom, isn't it? With That's why there's security

in wisdom, friends, There is right. There is security in wisdom.

My encouragement for all of us here, please make wise decisions.

The question we've got to ask ourselves is am I

making a wise desision? Right? Let me go deeper a

little bit, okay, Proverbs chapter eight. Oh before that, maybe

backtrack a little bit, use myself as an example. Right, So,

and our address, I will kind of address this to

us believers that have been a believer for a long time.

Maybe we believe that God can heal. Amen, God can heal,

God can change things, He can move things around. But

sometimes I consider this, if we are believers and we

already have the Word of God with us, we have this.

You know, this is realsity okay, And and we you know,

it's kind of like you already have the excess. You

can pray, you can do all these things. When I

had my stent last year, and when I sat in

front of the doctor, and when the doctor told me

my condition, of course I prayed and asked God to

have mercy on my lifelo. But did I one think, oh,

this is from the devil. No, No, I had to

take responsibility of my own health. This is all the

oil food KFC. Bizarre that I ate in the past

years thinking that, oh, the Lord preserves me because I'm

doing his work right. Do you know how foolish that is?

Because God also gave me a brain to think and

a body to work. So I had to take responsibility

one else I cannot blame someone that. I cannot blame

anyone else though, but my own self law. So I

had to take responsibility of my health and say, God,

thank you for giving me a second chance. Now I

better take responsibility. Now, I better do what I need

to do. Because it is foolishness for me to think

that just because I serve the Lord, that if I

act foolishly, I will not reap the consequences of my actions.

It is foolish. I need to be wise. God gave

me a brain to think. God gave me experiences to

learn from. We have to be careful. I'm not talking

about having an illness that I have no controver that

one I will pray and ask God to heal because

I didn't ask for it. You'll see the difference on it.

I'm not saying you can't pray that if something happens

you please do pray, Please to trust by see if

God give you a revelation, now act upon it. We

cannot be ignorant, guys, we cannot. Oh God, I need

you to provide for me financially, but you don't get

to work. That is foolishness. Oh God, I need you

to get me out of this, but you don't even

border to apply for a job and work. Cannot work

and do what you can, be wise. But if it's

in a situation that you have no control over, God

will come true for you. Don't be ignorant. Don't be ignorant, amen,

that's my encouragement. If you know better, do a ready right,

don't be ignorant? You know? And God is so kind

to us. You know. I consider my current health situation

now really by God's mercy. Because of my ignorance, I

put myself in that situation. But thank God, things will

found out quickly and I'm able to address it and

work hard for it and not be ignorant anymore. Oh,

you know you God can do it with me again

near mine. You know, I got two more insurance policy

so I can go for two months. Ten guys, can

I can I share something personal to you? One of

my motivating factors, right of doing what I'm doing now

and passes who knows this? Because I become irritating to

him every day. Ask everybody to work out on that's

the first thing that day. Someone said, what someone said?

They injured their leg? Oh, this quite bell. Oh I

injured my leg by climbing out of the stairs. I

love a person, young person, I said, you know, I

will help you go to gym. You strengthen your bones

and you won't get injured anymore. I spend one night

in the ico is enough for me to say I

will never do that again. It's not fun at all.

Now I understand white people when they're on their deathbed.

They don't want to be no hospital. I rather be

at home. Now, I understand because I experienced it before.

Right wisdom, wisdom? Imen? Oh but paselawn, you talk a

lot about wisdom. Where can I get it from? You know?

Where can I get what should I do? Well? The

Bible thankfully shares with us how Proverbs chapter eight, verse thirteen.

Let's read it, okay. It says here the fear of

the Lord is to hate evil, pride and arrogance, and

the evil way and the perverse mouth. I hate. It

also says here problems eight thirty two. Now, therefore, listen

to me, my children, For blessed are those who keep

my ways, hear instruction, and be wise and do not

disdain it. Blessed is the man who listens to me,

watching daily and my gaze waiting at the pose of

my doors. For whoever finds me finds life and obtains

favor from the Lord. But he who sins against me

wrongs his own soul. All those who hate me love death.

Let me paint this picture. We believe that God is

the creator of the heavens on earth. Right, He created us.

We are his creation. He has a specific plan for

all of us. He wants a subject, he wants the kingdom.

He gave us a redemption plan because we fail, Adam

and he felt a long time ago. Okay, they go

and listen to a Lilah basically, oh you know, you

will be like God. But they already like God. They

really mean in a menage of God. Right, so they

listened to a lie. They fell, they suffered, But God

had a redemption plan, which is Christ. Amen. He gave

us that redemption plan so that we can come and

we know who God is, and we are connected with him.

That is the nature of our relationship. But don't you

think that the person that created the God, that created

the heavens and the earth, also, how to say, have

a blueprint to how we should live life already even

before Jesus. Have you thought about that before? You mean,

the person that created the computer doesn't have a blueprint

that everything is interpreted. No, I think that is really

a blueprint. I think since day one, ready a God

really had those rules in place. Ready you're following. You

know that means that when we follow the wisdom of God,

we will naturally live a life of abundance. It's not

just about the relationship. The redemption of Christ is the

relationship Him, the connection, right, but the life that we live.

I give you one principle, sewing and reaping Christian or

not Christian? Now it applies to you. It does. Why

because it is a principle that God has set. I

give you up principle. This is a very elementary. The

sun will always come up and you'll be morning, and

when it goes down it'll be night. The moon will

always come up and we have night. Do you know

that there is something that God has said a long

time ago and it's still happening. Seventy is so simple.

Yeah things God has say Now what happened once, whether

we like it or not, whether we believe in it

or not, whether oh no, lah cannot be no guys

al realy, secrity really sety, you cannot find one. Right.

So it talks about the fear of the Lord. Let

me go to the last point. The fear of the

Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of

the Holy One is understanding for by me or days

will be multiplied and years of life be added to you.

If you are wise, you're wise for yourself, and you

scope your burial. Okay, let me explain this a little bit.

Why does the Bible say that the fear of the

Lord is the beginning of wisdom. If we are living today, friends,

we know understanding or knowledge that there is a higher

power dictating our lives and dictating that things happen a

certain way because of his rules. Then if we don't

have that fear, then we will do whatever we want

and we will think that that is right. But because

like how a parent takes care of their child, sets

the principles at home to wake up early, to go

to school, to dress up in your uniform, although they

hate it, to eat healthy food and not sweets all

the time. It's very elementary, but we flip it around

and apply it to your life as a doultar. Imagine

your father in heaven. What are the rules or the

principles you've said that we are not following, and we

call it what we call it. We call it wisdom.

You mean, if you eat sweets all the time, your

teeth won't get messed up. You mean if you don't,

if you don't eat vegetable and you eat meant all

the time and eat fat all the time, you'll be

fine white. Some of these things we understand, but when

it comes to certain things, we don't get it out.

You're are you're following me, I'm getting it. When we

have the fear of the Lord and we have an

understanding that that's our father in heaven up there, then

we will start becoming wise because we will realize that

we don't know everything. We will realize that there are

some things we do for our own good, but we

may not fully understand it. There are some things we

understand that we have to trust. Our kids trust us

right parents, and you know, parents some things they don't

want to do, they don't follow, They're going to suffer later.

That's foolishness, right. God knows so for us. That's why

the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

If you don't feel God right, you won't be wise.

It's as simple as that. If you don't fear God

and you do whatever you want, you won't be wise.

And you're wondering, oh, why are like that? That's white

people are foolish. They wonder why they are like that.

But actually, you know, I hope I explaining properly. Are

by being wise you already and if you really know

the power of your hating are you're definitely not going

to get in trouble. But do you realize that people

who are foolish don't realize it trouble and they wonder

why they're in trouble. That's why we got to fear God.

We got to know that he's there. Right. Let me

give you another truth that came out of this. It

says in Problems chapter twelve, if you are wise, you

are wise for yourself, and if you scoff, you bury

it alone. Okay. I used to not understand this but

now I can't get it. I'm sharing a lot about wisdom. Friends,

let me give you another revelation. This wisdom that I'm

sharing a is for your benefit, not mine. I give

you this example. If I am wise, you'll don't benefit

one You know that, because if I'm wise, I benefit,

because I'm making wise decisions for myself. Maybe my family benefits,

maybe if they follow, also if they are wise enough

to follow themselves. But if I am wise, I benefit.

That's what the Bible means. So if you are wise,

you benefit no one else. No, if you are unwiser,

you suffer alone. Nobody else, you know, nobody else offers.

So this whole thing about wisdom applies to you. You know,

it's so directly with us. Oh, you know John is wise.

I feel so blessed for what he wise. He'll be blessed.

It doesn't affect me in one bit. Whether he's wise

or not wise, it doesn't affect me in one bit.

Right because if let's say we are friends or we

are partners, and he's unwise, wouldn't a wise me say, okay, John,

you know what I think maybe not a good ideala

and you still want to do it. I think you

see wisdom. But if I'm also unwise, Okayla, let's all

suffer together. So wisdom is the only thing in our lives,

one of the only things in our lives. Air that

it only affects you when you do it. When you

practice mercy and grace, it affects others. When you practice wisdom,

it only affects you. This is what the Bible says.

When you are wise, you are wise for yourself. But

if you scoff, you know SCUFFI is. I'm trying to

appreac this Na not Tranna, and find my life is fine.

Half fear God. No need to fear God. God still

loves me, no matter what, no matter why do God

loves me right, no need to fear him. On when

you scoff, you suffer yourself. So even when I'm sharying

this right, I don't benefit anything of it. I mean

I benefit for myself and I hope you will benefit.

But you give what I mean right. I want to

encourage you to read Problems because from Problems chapter ten

all the Way to Problems chapter thirty one is the

wisdom of King Solomon and what he learns from the Lord.

He wrote it down. Okay, let me just have fun. Now,

read a few scripture and see whever we can relate

to it or not. Can just one or two? I

saw I was sleeping and I saw one just now. Yeah,

it says here Proverbs, chapter fifteen, verse one. A soft

answer turns away wrath, but a harsh tongue, a harsh

word stirs up anger. How many of you have applied

this to your life? I have applied this many times,

especially my wife and I borne the consequences of good

when I learned to have a soft answer. Right, let

me read another one seventeen. Okay, approach chest to say

event thing was one. Better is a dry muscle with

quietness than a house full of fisting with strife. You'll

get that better is a d It just means, right, guys,

that I rather just eat Guardinia bread at home with

a happy family, then able to go to high Delau

and we are fighting all the time. You should you

prefer Hi delaw and fighting or Guardiania? Okay? My wife,

my son wants wants to wants to fight anyway. You're you're, you're,

you're getti and no, I don't know. I hope I've

displayed enough right to show you that if you want

to live a life of righteousness, a life of uprightness, alive,

full of God's goodness in your life, right that you've

got to be wise. They got to read the word.

You don't know near mine, You don't have enough ination

near mind. Read Proverbs. Proverbs is so much full of

wisdom right. Number sixteen says the preparations of the heart

belongs to men, But the answer of the tongue is

from the Lord. Meantime, you can prepare all you want to,

but God decides, but you still need to prepare her. Right,

let me read one more. The simple believes every word,

but the prudence considers, well he steps Are you easily believable? Oh? Sorry?

Are you? Do you believe things easy? Wear one word?

Or someone said gullible or naive? Right, it says here

in verse eighteen or seventeen, a quick tempered man acts foolishly,

and a man of wicked intentions is hated. How many

of you here panas baran very fastened be were careful?

And number eighteen says the simple inherit folly, But the

prudent are crowned with knowledge. The evil will bar before

the good and the wicked at the gates of righteousness. Friends,

I hope I've given you enough for you to want

to decide to seek wisdom today more than anything, more

than ambition, more than or I want to do what's

right now, wisdom in your life, make right decisions. Do

you know that? Well? I believe that when you are wise,

and when we have a church there is wise, the

church will be blessed. You know why you will be blessed.

You know, we will have less headache. Paster still will

probably have less haitdache. John will probably have less headache.

When everybody's wiser. Yeah, I mean when we are less impulsive,

when we are less Oh you want it like that

or no, No, when we have understanding, we will have

less headache. We will have peace. Are you seeing what

I'm seeing? God's promises will come to you when you're wise,

when you seek him. So let's seek wisdom in our lives. Firstly,

to fear the Lord and to hate evil, to seek

the Lord and to walk the paths of righteousness, even

if it's difficult. It's not going to be easy. For

being wise doesn't mean that things are going to be easy,

means that you're going to be making. Some of you

will have to make difficult decisions for the future, not

for now now difficult maybe because of a foolish decision.

You're stuck in this place, but no more. Stop making

the foolish decisions and digging your grave or digging the

pit deeper. Stop it. Time to live wise and when

you do that, you're setting yourself up for success. You know,

we talk about missions, We talk about we were going

through missions in homes last week, right for those who

will go homes. You know, one of the promises that

God has given us and we have to and it

something I well, not just believe, but it is trueflower, okay,

And I think there's a lot of wisdom and in

it is that they talk about the blessing of Abraham.

The Abraham make blessing already Christianists, right to me, is

very simple. If you want to be a blessing to

other people are don't you think you need to be

blessed first? Someone who has issues in their life are

very hard to advise people and conor. Someone who is

in a place of strength can help another person that's weak.

Someone who has plenty can help those with none. The

one that have nothing, very hard to help those with none,

the one who's still going through their own problems very hard.

To advise another person very difficult. So my belief is

that God wants everybody to experience freedom in your lives.

Because when you experience your freedom, whether it's freedom in

your finances, whether it's freedom in your own mental health

or your heart and peace, you can be a love

strength to someone else. But where does this freedom come from? Christ? Christ?

We are made whole in Christ. He has given us

the victory. And with the victory that we have, we

can extend a hand to other people. That is the

blessing of Abraham, not just about money you need. That

is the blessing. The blessing is blessed to be a

blessing to others. True you nations to be blessed, True

x B you Bandama be blessed, True your family. Can

you confidently say that true your family, other families to

be blessed, True your child other childs to be blessed.

Through your own working ethic, other young working that us

will be blessed. Can you have that confidence? That is

the promise, that is the glory that God has and

receives when his people are blessed. Not so that I

feel good, No so that others may be blessed. It's

always b others. Amen.

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