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>>HELLO FRIENDS, I'D LIKE
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INSTALLMENT OF
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I'D LIKE TO WELCOME
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THE MEMBERS OF THE
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HERE BACK IN THE
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ENTITLED 'PROVERBS' AND WE'RE
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BEFORE WE BEGIN OUR STUDY, LET'S
JUST ASK THE HOLY SPIRIT TO COME
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AND GUIDE OUR HEARTS
AND MINDS. LET US PRAY.
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DEAR FATHER, ONCE AGAIN WE ARE
GRATEFUL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO
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GATHER TOGETHER
TO STUDY THE BIBLE.
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AS WE LOOK AT THIS IMPORTANT
BOOK FILLED WITH WISE COUNSEL,
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WE DO ASK FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT
TO COME AND GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND
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OUR MINDS AND LEAD US INTO A
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OF YOUR WILL FOR OUR LIVES,
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AMEN. I'D LIKE TO WELCOME PASTOR
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LEADING US IN OUR STUDY
TODAY. THANK YOU PASTOR DOUG.
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>>THANK YOU PASTOR ROSS AND
HELLO FRIENDS THAT ARE PART OF
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OUR CLASS HERE IN THE
GRANITE BAY AREA AND I WANT TO
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WELCOME THOSE WHO
ARE WATCHING ONLINE.
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TO OUR EXTENDED CLASS, WE'RE
VERY EXCITED, AS PASTOR ROSS
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SHARED, BECAUSE WE'RE
BEGINNING A NEW LESSON.
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AND I TOLD HIM EARLIER, I SAID,
'YOU BETTER TEACH SOME OF THESE
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BECAUSE I DON'T FEEL
QUALIFIED TO TALK ABOUT WISDOM.
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BUT THAT'S OUR SUBJECT
FOR THE NEXT THIRTEEN WEEKS.
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WE'RE GOING TO BE
TALKING ABOUT THE PROVERBS.
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NOW, IF YOU TAKE YOUR BIBLE,
YOU'LL NOTICE SOMETHING RIGHT
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AWAY, IF YOU TURN TO THE BOOK
OF PROVERBS - WE'LL GET TO THE
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MEMORY VERSE IN JUST A MINUTE
- IT'S JUST IN THE MIDDLE OF THE
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BIBLE AND PROVERBS IS A BOOK
THAT WAS WRITTEN BY SOLOMON AND
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- MAYBE FIRST WHAT WE'LL DO IS
THE MEMORY VERSE AND THEN I'LL
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DELVE INTO A LITTLE MORE ABOUT
THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK AND SOME
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OF THE CONTENT THAT WE'RE GOING
TO BE STUDYING. WHAT WE'RE GOING
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TO TRY AND DO AS WE GO THROUGH
THIS QUARTERLY TOGETHER, IS THE
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GOAL IS TO GET ALL THE WAY
THROUGH THE BOOK OF PROVERBS.
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THERE ARE 31 CHAPTERS IN
PROVERBS AND I KNOW SOME PEOPLE
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THAT SAY IF YOU READ ONE CHAPTER
YOU CAN DO IT LIKE MONTHLY - AND
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- FOR THE MONTHS THAT HAVE 31
DAYS IN IT. HOPEFULLY WE'LL GET
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THROUGH CHAPTERS ONE THROUGH
THREE. I'M SURE WE WON'T BE ABLE
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TO READ EVERY VERSE, BUT THAT'S
WHAT OUR MISSION IS, TO TRY AND
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COVER THE PRINCIPLE TEACHINGS
IN CHAPTERS ONE THROUGH THREE.
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OUR MEMORY VERSE TODAY IS FROM
PROVERBS CHAPTER 1, VERSE 7 AND
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PROVERBS 1:7, IF YOU'D SAY THAT
WITH ME HERE IN OUR LESSON, IT'S
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OUT OF THE NEW KING
JAMES VERSION. ARE YOU READY?
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"THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS
THE BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE, BUT
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FOOLS DESPISE
WISDOM AND INSTRUCTION."
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AND SO THE REAL SOURCE OF
ALL TRUE WISDOM IS HAVING THAT
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RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD AND HAVING
IT GROUNDED IN THE WORD OF GOD.
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NOW, WHEN YOU LOOK IN THE BOOK
OF PROVERBS - RIGHT AT THE VERY
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BEGINNING, THE FIRST VERSE, "THE
PROVERBS OF SOLOMON THE SON OF
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DAVID, KING OF ISRAEL:" - NOW I
PROBABLY OUGHT TO SAY SOMETHING
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR. WAS
SOLOMON QUALIFIED TO WRITE A
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BOOK ABOUT WISDOM? ONLY ONE
OTHER PERSON I CAN THINK OF THAT
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MIGHT BE MORE QUALIFIED
AND THAT WOULD BE JESUS.
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SOLOMON'S NAME IS REALLY RELATED
TO THE NAME 'PEACE.' AND IT
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MEANS SALOAMON AND IT MEANS 'HIS
PEACE' OR 'THE PEACEFUL ONE.'
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SOLOMON IS A TYPE OF JESUS
IN THE BIBLE. FOR ONE THING,
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HE IS THE SON OF DAVID; CHRIST
IS CALLED THE SON OF DAVID.
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AND NATHAN THE PROPHET, WHO
PROBABLY WAS SOLOMON'S TUTOR, SO
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- AND THERE'S GOOD REASON
FOR BELIEVING THAT - NATHAN THE
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PROPHET COMES TO KING DAVID ONE
DAY - THIS DOES ALL SEGUE INTO
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THE BOOK OF PROVERBS - AND DAVID
IS PRAYING, HE WANTS TO BUILD A
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TEMPLE TO THE LORD, AND NATHAN
SAYS GOD'S TOLD ME TO TELL YOU
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THAT YOU WILL NOT BUILD THE
TEMPLE PERSONALLY' - EVEN THOUGH
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DAVID AMASSED ALL THE MONEY
FOR BUILDING THE TEMPLE - AND
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MATERIALS FROM ALL OF HIS
CONQUESTS, HE SAID, 'YOUR SON'LL
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DO IT.' AND HERE'S THAT
PROPHECY: 1 CHRONICLES 17,
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VERSES 11 THROUGH 15 - BY THE
WAY, I'LL ATTACH THE NOTES SO
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THAT WHEN YOU GO TO THE AMAZING
FACTS SABBATH SCHOOL WEBSITE,
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YOU'LL ALSO
FIND THE NOTES THERE.
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AND YOU'LL ALSO FIND YOU
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1 CHRONICLES 17, VERSE 11, "AND
IT SHALL BE, WHEN YOUR DAYS ARE
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FULFILLED," - NATHAN IS SPEAKING
TO DAVID - "WHEN YOU MUST GO TO
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BE WITH YOUR FATHERS, THAT I
WILL SET UP YOUR SEED AFTER YOU,
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WHO WILL BE OF YOUR SONS; AND
I WILL ESTABLISH HIS KINGDOM.
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HE SHALL BUILD ME A HOUSE,
AND I WILL ESTABLISH HIS THRONE
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FOREVER." - WHO IS
THIS SON OF DAVID WHO
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WAS TO BUILD A HOUSE FOR THE
LORD THAT WAS TO LAST FOREVER?
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IS THAT TALKING ABOUT SOLOMON?
OR IS IT TALKING ABOUT JESUS?
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OR COULD IT BE THIS IS AN
EXAMPLE OF WHAT YOU WOULD CALL A
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DUAL PROPHECY, IN THE BIBLE,
WHERE DAVID'S THINKING ABOUT
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LITERALLY
BUILDING A TEMPLE FOR GOD.
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DAVID'S SON SOLOMON DID
BUILD THE TEMPLE OF GOD - THE
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PERMANENT TEMPLE - BUT
BEYOND THAT, IT'S MUCH BIGGER.
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JESUS SAID, 'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE
MADE WITH HANDS AND IN THREE
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DAYS I'LL MAKE ONE WITHOUT
HANDS.' AND SO THERE IT'S
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SPEAKING ABOUT THE CHURCH
OF GOD. AND SO SOLOMON IS A
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TYPE OF CHRIST. SO
WHEN YOU READ THE BOOK OF
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PROVERBS, JUST REMEMBER
YOU'RE READING FROM THE MIND OF
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SOMEBODY WHO WAS AS CLOSE TO GOD
AS ANYONE COULD BE AT THAT TIME.
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WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE HISTORY OF
ISRAEL, FROM THE TIME GOD CALLED
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ABRAHAM, YOU'LL SEE THAT
IT'S JUST A ROLLER COASTER.
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EVERYTHING FROM THE CAPTIVITY
- ABRAHAM HAD HIS UPS AND DOWNS
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AND ISAAC AND THE CHILDREN OF
ISRAEL AND MOSES MADE A LOT OF
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PROMISES TO THE
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL.
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'WHEN YOU GET INTO THE PROMISED
LAND, YOU'LL BE, YOU KNOW, THE
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HEAD AND NOT THE
TAIL.' 'YOU'LL BE THE LEADER.
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I'LL BLESS YOU FROM HEAVEN.' THE
ACTUAL ZENITH THE CLIMAX OF ALL
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THE BLESSINGS GOD HAD
EVER PROMISED TO ISRAEL WAS
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EXPERIENCED FOR A FEW
BRIEF YEARS - PROBABLY 25 -
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30 YEARS, DURING
THE REIGN OF SOLOMON.
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MATTER OF FACT, YOU MAY HAVE
HEARD ME MENTION BEFORE - IT'S
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VERY INTERESTING, YOU FIND THE
NUMBER 6-6-6 TWICE IN THE BIBLE.
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ONCE, OF COURSE, REVELATION, THE
OTHER TIME IS DURING THE REIGN
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OF SOLOMON IT TALKS ABOUT WHEN
THE QUEEN OF SHEBA CAME - ALL
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THE NATIONS WERE COMING TO HEAR
OF HIS WISDOM AND THE QUEEN OF
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SHEBA COMES AND, IT MENTIONS,
'666 TALENTS' - AND AFTER THAT
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NUMBER THEN IT SAYS, 'BUT
SOLOMON LOVED MANY FOREIGN
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WOMEN.' RIGHT AFTER THAT NUMBER
IS MENTIONED THE KINGDOM JUST
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STARTS TO TAKE A DIVE
AND - I JUST - I DON'T KNOW,
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THAT ALWAYS
STRUCK ME AS INTERESTING.
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BUT THE BOOK OF PROVERBS
WAS WRITTEN DURING THE TIME OF
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ISRAEL'S ZENITH - DURING
THE TIME WHEN THEY WERE AT THEIR
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GOLDEN, GLORIOUS MOMENT. HE WAS
JUST POURING FORTH THIS WISDOM
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AND YOU CAN'T REALLY READ
THE BOOK OF PROVERBS WITHOUT
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THINKING ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE
WITH THE QUEEN OF SHEBA - ALL
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THESE NATIONS ARE COMING BECAUSE
THEY HEAR OF THIS GREAT WISDOM
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OF SOLOMON AND AMONG THE NATIONS
THAT COME, OF COURSE, THIS
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QUEEN COMES WITH HER CARAVAN
JUST LOADED WITH GOLD - SHE
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BROUGHT GOLD AND SHE BROUGHT
SPICES AND ANIMALS AND SERVANTS
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AND ALL SHE WANTED - SHE SAYS,
'I'VE HEARD OF YOUR GREAT WISDOM
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AND I WANTED TO SEE IF ALL
OF THE EXTRAORDINARY THINGS I'VE
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HEARD ARE TRUE. YOU
KNOW, USUALLY RUMORS ARE
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MUCH BIGGER THAN REALITY.
SO HE SPENDS SOME TIME WITH HER
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AND THERE'S NOTHING IN THE BIBLE
THAT SAID THEY HAD ANY KIND OF
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ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP - THAT'S
ALL HOLLYWOOD - AND, I MEAN, HE
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HAD LOTS AND LOTS OF WIVES, HE
DIDN'T NEED THE QUEEN OF SHEBA -
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AND SO HE ANSWERED HER QUESTIONS
AND WAS VERY RESPECTFUL.
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SHE REPRESENTED ANOTHER KINGDOM
- BUT WHEN SHE GOT DONE LOOKING
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AT THE KINGDOM AND THE TEMPLE
AND HIS HOUSE AND HIS SERVANTS
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AND THEIR CLOTHING AND
GOLD EVERYWHERE, THE BIBLE SAYS
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'SILVER WAS LIKE STONES'
IN ISRAEL AT THAT TIME BECAUSE
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THERE WAS SO MUCH OF IT IN THE
KINGDOM - THAT THAT'S WHERE YOU
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GET THE WORD 'BREATHTAKING.'
YOU'VE HEARD THE WORD
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'BREATHTAKING?' SHE
SAID THERE WAS NO MORE
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SPIRIT LEFT IN HER AND THE WORD
THERE IS 'BREATH.' AND SHE SAID,
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'HALF OF WHAT THEY TOLD ME
ABOUT YOU - I'VE ONLY HEARD
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HALF OF IT. I
COULDN'T BELIEVE IT UNTIL I
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SAW IT FOR MYSELF - YOUR WISDOM.
BLESSED ARE YOUR SERVANTS.
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BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO SERVE
BEFORE YOU.' AND THAT'S REALLY A
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TYPE OF CHRIST.
HOW BLESSED WE WILL BE.
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SO THIS IS THE TIME WHEN HE'S
WRITING ALL OF THESE PROVERBS.
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NOW SOMETHING ELSE I SHOULD
SAY ABOUT SOLOMON BEFORE I LEAVE
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THAT AND WE'RE STILL TALKING
ABOUT THE AUTHOR - SOLOMON, HOW
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DID HE GET HIS WISDOM?
SUPERNATURALLY AND PHYSICALLY.
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SUPERNATURALLY BECAUSE IT SAYS
IN 1 KINGS CHAPTER 3, 'SOLOMON
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LOVED THE LORD, WALKING IN ALL
THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD AND
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WHEN HE BECAME KING HE WENT AND
HE MADE THIS GREAT SACRIFICE TO
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THE LORD AND GOD APPEARED TO HIM
IN A DREAM BY NIGHT AND HE SAID,
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'ASK WHAT I CAN DO FOR YOU.'
AND SOLOMON ASKED FOR WISDOM.
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HE ASKED FOR AN UNDERSTANDING
HEART THAT HE MIGHT KNOW HOW TO
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DISCERN BETWEEN GOOD AND
EVIL. HE HAD A HUMBLE ATTITUDE.
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HE SAID, 'I'M JUST A CHILD.
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I DON'T KNOW HOW TO GO OUT OR TO
COME IN AND HERE YOU'VE MADE ME
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THE RULER OF THIS VAST
KINGDOM.' HE SAID, 'GIVE ME AN
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UNDERSTANDING HEART
THAT I CAN LEAD YOUR PEOPLE.
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I NEED WISDOM.' AND BECAUSE HE
ASKED FOR THAT - AND REALLY, YOU
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KNOW WHAT HE WAS ASKING
FOR? IT'S THE HOLY SPIRIT.
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WHEN YOU ASK GOD FOR WISDOM,
THAT'S ONE OF THE ATTRIBUTES OF
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THE HOLY SPIRIT AND JAMES SAYS,
'IF ANY OF YOU LACK WISDOM, LET
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HIM ASK OF GOD WHO GIVES TO ALL
MEN LIBERALLY.' OF COURSE, WE
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STUDIED JAMES FOR THIRTEEN WEEKS
JUST BEFORE THIS. SO HE WAS
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PRAYING FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT.
AND DID GOD ANSWER HIS PRAYER?
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GOD SAID, 'BECAUSE YOU'VE ASKED
THIS THING AND YOU DIDN'T ASK
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FOR RICHES, YOU DIDN'T ASK FOR
LONG LIFE, YOU DIDN'T ASK FOR
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VENGEANCE ON YOUR ENEMIES,
I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU EVERYTHING
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ELSE BUT I'M GOING TO ALSO GIVE
YOU WISDOM. AND THEN IT GOES ON
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AND IT BEGINS TO SAY, 'THERE
WAS NOBODY AS WISE AS SOLOMON.'
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AND WE'LL GET TO THAT IN JUST
A MINUTE. SO ONE THING IS HE
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SUPERNATURALLY WAS GIVEN
THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
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BUT HOW WISE WAS SOLOMON WHEN
HE TURNED AWAY FROM THE LORD?
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'THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS
THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM.' AFTER
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SOLOMON BEGAN TO DISREGARD GOD'S
COMMANDMENT ABOUT DON'T MULTIPLY
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WIVES, AND THEN YOU SEE IT SAYS,
'HE MULTIPLIED WIVES.' GOD SAID,
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'DO NOT MULTIPLY SILVER AND
GOLD.' HE MULTIPLIED SILVER AND
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GOLD. IT SAID, 'DO NO
MULTIPLY HORSES FROM EGYPT' -
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MEANING ARMAMENTS - AND IT SAYS,
'HE BROUGHT ALL THESE HORSES OUT
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OF EGYPT.' THREE THINGS MOSES
SAID THAT THEY WEREN'T TO DO,
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SOLOMON STARTED TO DO. AND
THEN HE BEGAN TO COMPROMISE
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BECAUSE HIS WIVES BEGAN TO PRESS
HIM IN HIS LATTER YEARS SAYING,
00:12:35.60\00:12:38.03
'OH, IT'S NOT FAIR. YOU
KNOW, WE MISS OUR HOMES.
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WE WEREN'T RAISED
WITH THIS RELIGION.
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CAN I JUST HAVE ONE LITTLE
GOD TO KEEP IN MY - IN MY ROOM?'
00:12:42.66\00:12:45.93
AND HE SAID, 'ALRIGHT, I WON'T
MAKE A BIG DEAL.' AND THEN THE
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STARTED WANTING THE LITTLE
GODS IN THE HALLWAY AND THE NEXT
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THING YOU KNOW THE LITTLE
GODS WERE IN THE PALACES AND ALL
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THEIR GODS FROM THE DIFFERENT
KINGDOMS, EVENTUALLY THEY WERE
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IN THE TEMPLE. AND I'M
SURE IT DIDN'T HAPPEN OVERNIGHT.
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IT HAPPENED BY LITTLE
COMPROMISES THAT WERE MADE,
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AND CONSTANT PRESSURE. AND
SO WHEN HIS FEAR OF THE LORD
00:12:59.93\00:13:05.86
BEGAN TO WANE, HIS
WISDOM BEGAN TO WANE.
00:13:05.86\00:13:10.76
BUT, FORTUNATELY, WE BELIEVE
THAT PROVERBS WAS WRITTEN, NOT
00:13:10.76\00:13:14.43
SO MUCH ECCLESIASTES, PROVERBS
WAS WRITTEN DURING HIS BEST
00:13:14.43\00:13:18.86
YEARS. BUT HE ALSO, GENETICALLY,
I THINK, HAD SOME ADVANTAGE.
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WHO WAS HIS FATHER? DAVID.
NOW, YOU REMEMBER HOW SOLOMON
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CAME TO BE IS -
SOLOMON, WHO IS HIS MOTHER?
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>>BATHSHEBA.
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>>BATHSHEBA AND DID DAVID AND
BATHSHEBA GO THROUGH A REGULAR
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COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE OR DID IT
HAVE ALL THE WRONG BEGINNINGS?
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DID DAVID HAVE - DID SOLOMON
HAVE AN OLDER BROTHER THAT DIED
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IN HIS INFANCY BECAUSE OF
THE SIN OF DAVID AND BATHSHEBA?
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AND THEN IT'S INTERESTING THAT
AFTER THAT IT SAYS, IN 2 SAMUEL
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12, 'DAVID COMFORTED BATHSHEBA,
HIS WIFE.' - FIRST GOD
00:14:01.06\00:14:05.56
PRONOUNCES A JUDGEMENT ON DAVID
AND HE SAYS, 'YOU TOOK THE WIFE
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OF URIAH.' AND AFTER DAVID
THOROUGHLY REPENTS - AS MUCH AS
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ANYONE CAN - I MEAN HE WAS ON
HIS FACE PRAYING FOR SEVEN DAYS
00:14:12.33\00:14:14.86
- GOD FORGAVE HIM AND THEN
IT SAYS, 'DAVID COMFORTED HIS
00:14:14.86\00:14:18.23
WIFE.' SO IN SPITE OF THE FACT
THEY GOT A VERY BAD BEGINNING,
00:14:18.23\00:14:22.80
DID GOD ULTIMATELY ACCEPT
THAT BATHSHEBA WAS HIS WIFE?
00:14:22.80\00:14:25.96
DAVID COMFORTED HIS WIFE, HE
SPENT SOME TIME WITH HER, THERE
00:14:25.96\00:14:28.56
WAS ANOTHER BABY THAT CAME
ALONG, HIS NAME WAS SOLOMON.
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NOW, DID YOU KNOW THAT SOLOMON
HAD THREE OTHER BROTHERS?
00:14:31.60\00:14:34.50
YEAH, THE BIBLE SAYS HE HAD
THREE YOUNGER BROTHERS AS WELL
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AND THAT - WELL, LET ME SEE
HERE, THERE NAMES - AND THAT, BY
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THE WAY, IS IN 2 SAMUEL
16:23 - NOT THAT THIS RELATES TO
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PROVERBS BUT BEING AN
OLDER BROTHER MIGHT SHARPEN YOUR
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SKILLS. SHIMEAH, WHICH WAS NAMED
AFTER SOLOMON'S UNCLE - DAVID'S
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BROTHER - SHOBAB, NATHAN -
NAMED AFTER SOLOMON'S TUTOR, THE
00:14:54.86\00:14:59.06
PROPHET - AND
SOLOMON - DID I SAY THEM?
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YEAH, SHIMEAH, SHOBAB, NATHAN,
AND SOLOMON WAS THE FOURTH.
00:15:04.30\00:15:08.46
NOW WHO WAS BATHSHEBA'S -
NOW TELL US WHO WAS BATHSHEBA'S
00:15:08.46\00:15:13.80
FATHER? HE WAS
SOMEONE NAMED ELIAM.
00:15:13.80\00:15:17.83
ELIAM HAD A
FATHER NAMED AHITHOPHEL.
00:15:17.83\00:15:21.40
NOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT SAYS
IN THE BIBLE ABOUT AHITHOPHEL?
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THIS IS 2 SAMUEL 16:23, NOW THE
ADVICE - THAT AHITHOPHEL WAS ONE
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OF THE COUNSELORS OF DAVID
- DAVID WAS PRETTY SMART - AND
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AHITHOPHEL - IT SAYS WHEN
SOMEONE ASKED ADVICE FROM HIM,
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"...WHICH HE GAVE IN THOSE DAYS,
WAS AS IF ONE HAD INQUIRED AT
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THE ORACLE OF GOD.
SO WAS ALL THE ADVICE OF
00:15:44.33\00:15:47.40
AHITHOPHEL BOTH WITH
DAVID AND WITH ABSALOM."
00:15:47.40\00:15:50.30
SO BRILLIANT GRANDFATHER,
A BRILLIANT FATHER -
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DAVID WAS A MUSICIAN, HE
WAS A WISE ADMINISTRATOR -
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LOOK AT ALL THE PSALMS HE
WROTE - AND SO SOLOMON NATURALLY
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AND SUPERNATURALLY HAD
GREAT ADVANTAGES OF WISDOM.
00:16:02.60\00:16:08.90
SO HE WAS DECLARED TO
BE ONE OF THE WISEST MEN.
00:16:08.90\00:16:12.43
WHAT'S THE STORY THE BIBLE USES
TO ILLUSTRATE HIS GREAT WISDOM?
00:16:12.43\00:16:16.00
WHAT STANDS OUT IN YOUR
MIND? >>CUTTING THE BABY.
00:16:16.00\00:16:18.26
>>YEAH, DIVIDING THE BABY,
WHICH NEVER REALLY WAS ACTUALLY
00:16:18.26\00:16:21.00
DIVIDED - BUT THREATENING TO
DIVIDE THE BABY, THE TWO WOMEN
00:16:21.00\00:16:23.73
WERE ARGUING OVER AND HE KNEW
RIGHT AWAY WHAT THE RESPONSE OF
00:16:23.73\00:16:26.53
THE REAL MOTHER WOULD BE
AND TO DO THAT ON THE SPOT,
00:16:26.53\00:16:30.36
YOUR WHEELS HAVE
TO TURN PRETTY FAST.
00:16:30.36\00:16:32.43
SO THAT'S A LITTLE BIT
ABOUT THE AUTHOR OF PROVERBS.
00:16:32.43\00:16:38.06
NOW TALKING ABOUT A PROVERB, IN
PARTICULAR, WHAT IS A PROVERB?
00:16:38.06\00:16:42.40
A PROVERB IS - AND THIS IS
SOME OF THE DEFINITIONS YOU'RE
00:16:42.40\00:16:45.63
GOING TO FIND IN THE
COMMENTARIES. 'A PROVERB IS A
00:16:45.63\00:16:49.80
PITHY - PITHY IS A SHORT
AND QUICK CONCISE SENTENCE,
00:16:49.80\00:16:54.63
EXPRESSING SOME
WELL-ESTABLISHED TRUTH -
00:16:54.63\00:16:57.33
SUSCEPTIBLE OF VARIOUS
ILLUSTRATIONS AND APPLICATIONS.'
00:16:57.33\00:17:01.30
THE WORD IN THE
LATIN DERIVATION, IT MEANS,
00:17:01.30\00:17:04.90
'FOR A WORD OR A
SPEECH; PROVERB' OR PROVERBIUM,
00:17:04.90\00:17:09.33
IS HOW YOU
WOULD SAY IT IN LATIN.
00:17:09.33\00:17:10.93
IN GREEK IT'S 'PARAMAEI'
BUT IN HEBREW, WHICH, OF COURSE,
00:17:10.93\00:17:15.36
PROVERBS WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN
IN, IT'S 'MASHAL' AND MASHAL
00:17:15.36\00:17:19.73
MEANS 'A COMPARISON; OR
SUPERIORITY IN MENTAL ACTION; A
00:17:19.73\00:17:24.73
PITHY MAXIM OR OF A METAPHORICAL
NATURE OR A SIMILE - ADAGE, A
00:17:24.73\00:17:31.50
POEM, A DISCOURSE, A BYWORD.'
NOW WHAT HAPPENS A LOT IN
00:17:31.50\00:17:36.90
PROVERBS IS HE'LL CONTRAST
WISDOM WITH FOOLISHNESS IN SHORT
00:17:36.90\00:17:42.70
SENTENCES. IT TALKS
ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE
00:17:42.70\00:17:45.90
DILIGENT MAN AND IT ALWAYS THEN
WILL CONTRAST THAT WITH 'THE
00:17:45.90\00:17:48.70
SLUGGARD.' IT'LL TALK ABOUT THE
WISE MAN IN ONE VERSE AND THE
00:17:48.70\00:17:52.86
NEXT VERSE WILL SAY, 'BUT
THE FOOL' AND SO A LOT OF THE
00:17:52.86\00:17:55.86
PROVERBS YOU'RE JUST GOING
TO SEE IT GOING BACK AND FORTH
00:17:55.86\00:17:57.86
BETWEEN EXTREMES. AND
SO, JESUS USED A LOT OF
00:17:57.86\00:18:01.90
PROVERBS AND
PARABLES IN HIS TEACHING.
00:18:01.90\00:18:04.36
ALRIGHT, AND WITH THAT, IF
YOU LOOK IN THE FIRST VERSE, OF
00:18:04.36\00:18:09.63
COURSE, IT SAYS, THE PROVERBS OF
SOLOMON THE SON OF DAVID, KING
00:18:09.63\00:18:13.53
OF ISRAEL:" - DO WE HAVE
TO QUESTION WHO THE AUTHOR IS?
00:18:13.53\00:18:15.96
IT'S PRETTY CLEAR
THERE. HOW SMART WAS HE?
00:18:15.96\00:18:18.96
1 KINGS 4, VERSE 31, "FOR HE
WAS WISER THAN ALL MEN" - NOW I
00:18:18.96\00:18:25.23
REALLY WISH THAT - WHEN I GET TO
HEAVEN, I WANT TO GO THROUGH THE
00:18:25.23\00:18:28.43
DATABASE BECAUSE THEN IT LISTS
SEVERAL PEOPLE THAT WERE KNOWN
00:18:28.43\00:18:30.73
FOR THEIR WISDOM AND WE
DON'T KNOW WHO THEY ARE.
00:18:30.73\00:18:32.60
IT SAYS, "FOR HE WAS WISER
THAN ALL MEN - THAN ETHAN THE
00:18:32.60\00:18:36.36
EZRAHITE, AND HEMAN, CHALCOL,
AND DARDA, THE SONS OF MAHOL;
00:18:36.36\00:18:42.43
AND" - I'M GOING,
'WHO ARE THESE GUYS?'
00:18:42.43\00:18:43.93
BUT, EVIDENTLY, THEY WERE
KNOWN AS VERY WISE PEOPLE.
00:18:43.93\00:18:47.43
IT SAYS, 'SOLOMON'S WISER
THAN ALL OF THEM.' AND WE'RE ALL
00:18:47.43\00:18:49.36
GOING, 'WHO ARE THEY?'
BUT THEY'RE KIND OF LOST TO
00:18:49.36\00:18:52.20
HISTORY FOR US, BUT EVIDENTLY,
WHEN IT WAS WRITTEN, THEY WERE
00:18:52.20\00:18:55.10
KNOWN AS JUST THE WISE OF THE
WISE - "HIS FAME WAS IN ALL THE
00:18:55.10\00:18:59.16
SURROUNDING NATIONS. HE
SPOKE" - HERE IT IS - "THREE
00:18:59.16\00:19:03.63
THOUSAND PROVERBS, AND HIS SONGS
WERE ONE THOUSAND AND FIVE."
00:19:03.63\00:19:08.50
NOW SOMEBODY'S GOING TO READ FOR
ME, IN A MOMENT, PROVERBS 25:1 -
00:19:08.50\00:19:13.00
WHO? YOU'LL HAVE THAT? OKAY,
WE'LL GET YOU SET UP FOR THAT.
00:19:13.00\00:19:15.70
NOW, BESIDES THE PROVERBS
THAT WERE WRITTEN BY SOLOMON, IT
00:19:15.70\00:19:24.46
TELLS US THAT A NUMBER OF OTHERS
WERE CONSIGNED - WERE WRITTEN
00:19:24.46\00:19:31.40
OUT OR - COMPILED IS
THE WORD I'M LOOKING FOR.
00:19:31.40\00:19:33.50
A NUMBER OF OTHER PROVERBS
WERE COMPILED BY SOMEBODY IN
00:19:33.50\00:19:36.36
PARTICULAR. WHY
DON'T YOU GO AHEAD - YOU'RE
00:19:36.36\00:19:39.00
GOING TO READ, I THINK,
PROVERBS 25, VERSE 1 FOR US.
00:19:39.00\00:19:41.93
>>"THESE ARE ALSO PROVERBS
OF SOLOMON, WHICH THE MEN OF
00:19:41.93\00:19:45.70
HEZEKIAH KING OF
JUDAH COPIED OUT."
00:19:45.70\00:19:48.33
>>ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. IF
YOU LOOK THROUGH ALL OF THE
00:19:48.33\00:19:51.46
PROVERBS THAT WE HAVE, HOW MANY
DID IT JUST SAY THAT SOLOMON
00:19:51.46\00:19:53.93
WROTE? >>THREE THOUSAND.
00:19:53.93\00:19:56.23
>>'THREE THOUSAND PROVERBS AND
HIS SONGS WERE A THOUSAND AND
00:19:56.23\00:19:58.66
FIVE.' NOW, IN THE
PSALMS, THEY'VE GOT
00:19:58.66\00:20:01.20
A HUNDRED AND
FIFTY PSALMS OF DAVID.
00:20:01.20\00:20:03.23
SOME OF THOSE MAY BE SONGS
OF SOLOMON, WE DON'T KNOW - OR
00:20:03.23\00:20:06.40
SONGS OF SOLOMON - WE KNOW
THERE'S 'THE SONG OF SOLOMON'
00:20:06.40\00:20:09.30
BUT THAT'S DIFFERENT FROM
OTHER SONGS THAT MAY BE THERE.
00:20:09.30\00:20:11.63
BUT, EVIDENTLY, DURING THE TIME
OF HEZEKIAH, THE TEMPLE HAD BEEN
00:20:11.63\00:20:16.20
NEGLECTED, THE BOOKS HAD BEEN
NEGLECTED, AND HE - HE SET SOME
00:20:16.20\00:20:21.10
SCRIBES TO THE TASK OF COMPILING
AND COORDINATING AND MAYBE
00:20:21.10\00:20:26.03
PUTTING IN THE FORMS THAT WE
HAVE THEM NOW, THE PROVERBS OF
00:20:26.03\00:20:28.83
SOLOMON. I GUESS THEY
WEREN'T ORGANIZED AS WELL.
00:20:28.83\00:20:31.73
IT DOESN'T MEAN
THAT HEZEKIAH WROTE THEM.
00:20:31.73\00:20:34.00
THEY WERE STILL THE
PROVERBS OF SOLOMON.
00:20:34.00\00:20:36.56
SOMEONE SAID, 'WELL,
HEZEKIAH PROBABLY WROTE THEM.
00:20:36.56\00:20:38.30
SOLOMON WROTE THE FIRST FEW,
BUT WE DON'T KNOW WHO WROTE THE
00:20:38.30\00:20:40.76
REST.' I THINK THEY
ALL WERE WRITTEN BY -
00:20:40.76\00:20:44.13
OR THE MAJORITY OF THEM
WERE WRITTEN BY SOLOMON, ANYWAY.
00:20:44.13\00:20:46.70
"THESE ALSO ARE PROVERBS
OF SOLOMON, WHICH THE MEN OF
00:20:46.70\00:20:49.66
HEZEKIAH KING OF JUDAH" - OR
THE SCRIBES - "COPIED:" ALRIGHT,
00:20:49.66\00:20:54.06
LET'S GO TO CHAPTER 1 OF
PROVERBS. AND THE FIRST SECTION
00:20:54.06\00:20:58.60
IN OUR LESSON IS TALKING
ABOUT THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM.
00:20:58.60\00:21:02.00
NOW THIS IS OUR MEMORY VERSE:
"THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE
00:21:02.00\00:21:04.80
BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE," - OR
KING JAMES SAYS 'WISDOM' - "BUT
00:21:04.80\00:21:07.86
FOOLS DESPISE
WISDOM AND INSTRUCTION."
00:21:07.86\00:21:10.60
DO YOU SEE THE CONTRAST
THERE? FEAR OF THE LORD - FOOL.
00:21:10.60\00:21:14.36
'THE FOOL HAS SAID IN HIS HEART
THERE IS NO GOD.' AND SO IT'S
00:21:14.36\00:21:17.06
MAKING THAT CONTRAST.
MOSES, WHEN HE LED THE CHILDREN
00:21:17.06\00:21:21.90
OF ISRAEL OUT OF EGYPT, HE SAID
THE WORD OF GOD IS GOING TO MAKE
00:21:21.90\00:21:26.63
YOU WISER THAN ALL OF THE OTHER
NATIONS AROUND YOU.' SO WHAT
00:21:26.63\00:21:30.43
SOLOMON'S SAYING IS NOT ORIGINAL
WITH HIM. FOR INSTANCE, IF YOU
00:21:30.43\00:21:33.73
LOOK IN DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER
4, VERSES 5 AND 6, IT SAYS,
00:21:33.73\00:21:39.43
'SURELY I HAVE TAUGHT YOU
STATUTES AND JUDGMENTS, JUST AS
00:21:39.43\00:21:43.10
THE LORD MY GOD COMMANDED ME,
THAT YOU SHOULD ACT ACCORDING
00:21:43.10\00:21:46.76
TO THEM IN THE LAND
WHERE YOU GO TO POSSESS.
00:21:46.76\00:21:48.96
THEREFORE BE CAREFUL TO OBSERVE
THEM; FOR THIS IS YOUR WISDOM
00:21:48.96\00:21:53.43
AND YOUR UNDERSTANDING IN THE
SIGHT OF THE PEOPLES WHO WILL
00:21:53.43\00:21:57.10
HEAR ALL THESE STATUTES, AND
SAY, 'SURELY THIS GREAT NATION
00:21:57.10\00:22:01.73
IS A WISE AND UNDERSTANDING
PEOPLE.'" SO HOW MANY OF THE
00:22:01.73\00:22:06.13
PEOPLE IN THE
NATION COULD BE WISE?
00:22:06.13\00:22:08.16
THEY COULD ALL BE
WISE IF THEY DID WHAT?
00:22:08.16\00:22:10.63
HE SAID, 'IF YOU LISTEN TO
THE STATUTES OF THE LORD, IF YOU
00:22:10.63\00:22:14.13
FOLLOW THE COUNSEL OF GOD,
YOUR PERCEIVED IQ WILL GO UP
00:22:14.13\00:22:18.00
AUTOMATICALLY. FIRST
OF ALL, YOU'LL STAY OUT OF
00:22:18.00\00:22:20.60
A LOT OF TROUBLE. HAVE
YOU FOUND THAT AS YOU GET
00:22:20.60\00:22:23.73
OLDER YOU DON'T
MAKE AS MANY MISTAKES?
00:22:23.73\00:22:26.10
OTHER THAN MISPLACING YOUR KEYS
OR GLASSES OR SOMETHING LIKE
00:22:26.10\00:22:28.83
THAT? YEAH, WE WON'T GO THERE.
BUT, YEAH, WHEN YOU'RE FOLLOWING
00:22:28.83\00:22:36.60
THE WORD OF GOD, IT'S THE
FOUNDATION FOR GENUINE WISDOM.
00:22:36.60\00:22:40.36
SOMETHING ELSE, DANIEL DESCRIBES
A CATEGORY OF WISDOM IN DANIEL
00:22:40.36\00:22:44.46
12, VERSES 3 AND 4, "THOSE WHO
ARE WISE SHALL SHINE LIKE THE
00:22:44.46\00:22:49.60
BRIGHTNESS OF THE FIRMAMENT,
AND THOSE WHO TURN MANY TO
00:22:49.60\00:22:53.36
RIGHTEOUSNESS LIKE THE
STARS FOREVER AND EVER. BUT YOU,
00:22:53.36\00:22:57.23
DANIEL, SHUT UP THE WORDS, AND
SEAL THE BOOK UNTIL THE TIME OF
00:22:57.23\00:22:59.43
THE END; MANY SHALL RUN TO
AND FRO, AND KNOWLEDGE SHALL
00:22:59.43\00:23:02.66
INCREASE." NOW THAT BEGS THE
NEXT QUESTION - FIRST OF ALL,
00:23:02.66\00:23:05.36
PART OF WISDOM IS
TURNING PEOPLE TO RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:23:05.36\00:23:08.46
SO ONE THING IS YOU LIVE THE
WISDOM OF GOD IN YOUR LIFE, THE
00:23:08.46\00:23:11.46
OTHER THING IS YOU SHARE
THE WISDOM OF GOD AND YOU BRING
00:23:11.46\00:23:14.43
PEOPLE TO RIGHTEOUSNESS BY
YOUR EXAMPLE - BY YOUR WORDS.
00:23:14.43\00:23:17.36
BUT DANIEL SAID ONE OF THE
CHARACTERISTICS IN THE LAST DAYS
00:23:17.36\00:23:23.10
IS THAT
KNOWLEDGE WOULD INCREASE.
00:23:23.10\00:23:25.46
IS KNOWLEDGE INCREASING THE
SAME THING AS WISDOM INCREASING?
00:23:25.46\00:23:30.26
HAS THERE EVER BEEN A
GENERATION, EVEN IF YOU GO BACK
00:23:30.26\00:23:34.86
AND INCLUDE EVERYBODY FROM
15 YEARS AGO ALL THE WAY BACK TO
00:23:34.86\00:23:39.40
THE BEGINNING OF HISTORY,
THAT HAS MORE KNOWLEDGE AT THEIR
00:23:39.40\00:23:42.76
FINGERTIPS THAN THIS GENERATION?
IN FACT, I THINK THAT IT'S
00:23:42.76\00:23:47.70
HANDICAPPED OUR BRAINS - NO,
REALLY, BECAUSE WHEN I WAS A KID
00:23:47.70\00:23:53.96
WE HAD TO REMEMBER MATH TABLES
AND SPELLING WORDS AND - I NEVER
00:23:53.96\00:23:59.70
DID DO VERY WELL WITH SPELLING
- BUT I REMEMBER WE HAD TO DO A
00:23:59.70\00:24:01.70
LOT OF MEMORIZATION. WE'D
READ VAST CHAPTERS AND THEN
00:24:01.70\00:24:04.56
GET QUIZZED ON THINGS WITH
NO CHEATING NOTES AND WE HAD NO
00:24:04.56\00:24:07.60
CALCULATORS BACK THEN AND
HAD TO DO THE - HAD TO WORK THE
00:24:07.60\00:24:10.93
PROBLEMS AND
LEAVE THE ANSWERS THERE.
00:24:10.93\00:24:14.56
YEAH, WELL, THEY STARTED SHOWING
UP DURING YOUR SCHOOL TIME, BUT
00:24:14.56\00:24:17.76
I HAD NO CALCULATORS
DURING MY SCHOOL TIME, DEAR.
00:24:17.76\00:24:20.56
I THINK THE FIRST ONE CAME OUT
LIKE $100.00 AND WE DIDN'T HAVE
00:24:20.56\00:24:23.43
CALCULATORS IN SCHOOL.
BUT WE HAVE MORE KNOWLEDGE AT
00:24:23.43\00:24:28.13
OUR FINGERTIPS NOW BUT YOU
WONDER, DO WE HAVE MORE WISDOM?
00:24:28.13\00:24:31.86
ARE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD STILL
USING THE TECHNOLOGY TO KILL
00:24:31.86\00:24:35.13
EACH OTHER? AND SO,
I MEAN, GREAT - I AM SO
00:24:35.13\00:24:39.76
THANKFUL FOR THE
MEDICAL ADVANCES.
00:24:39.76\00:24:41.80
I AM SO THANKFUL THAT IT DOESN'T
TAKE SIX MONTHS ANYMORE TO GET
00:24:41.80\00:24:46.50
FROM NEW YORK TO CALIFORNIA.
I MEAN, THAT'S WHAT IT USED TO
00:24:46.50\00:24:49.86
TAKE. AND, YOU KNOW, YOU'D LOSE
TWENTY PERCENT OF YOUR PARTY ON
00:24:49.86\00:24:53.16
THE WAY. SO I MEAN, I'M
VERY THANKFUL FOR SOME OF THESE
00:24:53.16\00:24:58.10
ADVANCES THAT WE HAVE. WE
HAVE A LOT OF KNOWLEDGE NOW.
00:24:58.10\00:25:01.40
BUT THE HUMAN HEART
IS DESPERATELY WICKED.
00:25:01.40\00:25:04.23
AND SO THE PROBLEMS WITH WISDOM
- WISDOM IS THE APPLICATION -
00:25:04.23\00:25:10.03
THE RIGHT APPLICATION OF THAT
KNOWLEDGE. AND SO YOU CAN BE
00:25:10.03\00:25:13.90
LIVING IN A GENERATION THAT
HAS ALMOST - I MEAN, YOU CANNOT
00:25:13.90\00:25:19.50
SEARCH THE WISDOM ON GOOGLE
FASTER THAN IT IS COMPILING.
00:25:19.50\00:25:24.33
YOU - IT IS JUST MOUNTING UP
LIKE AN AVALANCHE ALL THE TIME.
00:25:24.33\00:25:28.16
THE KNOWLEDGE OF THESE SEARCH
ENGINES - STUFF JUST POURING OUT
00:25:28.16\00:25:32.23
THERE - AND THEY'RE BUILDING
SERVERS THAT ARE AS BIG AS
00:25:32.23\00:25:34.26
ENTIRE SOUTHERN
STATES RIGHT NOW.
00:25:34.26\00:25:37.70
REALLY, THERE'S JUST A MASSIVE
- YOU GO TO ARIZONA AND SOME OF
00:25:37.70\00:25:41.60
THESE PLACES, THEY'VE JUST
GOT ACRES AND ACRES OF COMPUTERS
00:25:41.60\00:25:44.63
THAT ARE WHIRRING WITH KNOWLEDGE
AND FACTS AND DATA AND A LOT
00:25:44.63\00:25:48.66
OF IT IS YOUR
PERSONAL INFORMATION.
00:25:48.66\00:25:50.73
YOU THINK THE
CLOUD'S UP THERE SOMEWHERE?
00:25:50.73\00:25:52.40
THE CLOUD'S ON THE GROUND IN
COMPUTERS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY
00:25:52.40\00:25:55.83
AND THEY'VE GOT ALL YOUR
STATISTICS AND ALL YOUR DATA
00:25:55.83\00:25:59.50
THERE. BUT THAT'S
A LOT OF KNOWLEDGE,
00:25:59.50\00:26:01.70
BUT THAT'S NOT
WHAT MAKES WISDOM.
00:26:01.70\00:26:04.66
AND SO, WHEN WE'RE STUDYING
PROVERBS WE'RE GOING TO BE
00:26:04.66\00:26:07.16
TALKING ABOUT PRACTICAL THINGS
AND SOME OF THEM ARE GOING TO
00:26:07.16\00:26:09.66
SEEM LIKE JUST VERY
SIMPLE STATEMENTS OF TRUTH.
00:26:09.66\00:26:12.23
ALRIGHT, SO IT'S THE BEGINNING
OF KNOWLEDGE - OF WISDOM - 'FEAR
00:26:12.23\00:26:16.56
OF THE LORD - BEGINNING
OF WISDOM.' LET'S GO RIGHT TO
00:26:16.56\00:26:19.26
PROVERBS AND I'M GOING TO READ
- LET'S READ SOME OF THEM HERE.
00:26:19.26\00:26:22.93
GO TO VERSE 3 - OH, I'M SORRY,
VERSE 2, "TO KNOW WISDOM AND
00:26:22.93\00:26:27.53
INSTRUCTION, TO PERCEIVE THE
WORDS OF UNDERSTANDING," - SO
00:26:27.53\00:26:31.80
HERE, YOU NOTICE, IT'S
GOT WISDOM, INSTRUCTION,
00:26:31.80\00:26:35.40
PERCEPTION, AND
UNDERSTANDING IN ONE VERSE.
00:26:35.40\00:26:39.83
YOU'RE GOING TO FIND THAT
IT'S TALKING ABOUT ALL THESE
00:26:39.83\00:26:42.76
DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF
COGNITIVE REALIZATION.
00:26:42.76\00:26:47.10
TO RECEIVE THE INSTRUCTION
OF WISDOM, JUSTICE, JUDGMENT AND
00:26:47.10\00:26:51.76
EQUITY; TO GIVE PRUDENCE TO
THE SIMPLE," - SO IT CAN MAKE A
00:26:51.76\00:26:56.56
PERSON WHO'S SIMPLE MINDED
OR EVEN GULLIBLE, WISE BY THESE
00:26:56.56\00:27:01.23
THINGS - "TO THE YOUNG MAN
KNOWLEDGE" - THAT'D BE YOUNG MEN
00:27:01.23\00:27:03.76
AND YOUNG WOMEN - "AND
DISCRETION - A WISE MAN WILL
00:27:03.76\00:27:07.76
HEAR AND INCREASE LEARNING,"
- IN OTHER WORDS, THOSE WHO ARE
00:27:07.76\00:27:09.40
YOUNG WHO DON'T HAVE
IT, THEY BECOME WISE.
00:27:09.40\00:27:11.26
THE ONES WHO ARE WISE,
THEY INCREASE IN THEIR WISDOM BY
00:27:11.26\00:27:14.20
LISTENING - "A MAN OF
UNDERSTANDING WILL ATTAIN WISE
00:27:14.20\00:27:18.13
COUNSEL, TO UNDERSTAND
A PROVERB AND AN ENIGMA,
00:27:18.13\00:27:21.96
THE WORDS OF THE
WISE AND THEIR RIDDLES.
00:27:21.96\00:27:24.93
THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS
THE BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE, BUT
00:27:24.93\00:27:27.23
FOOLS DESPISE
WISDOM AND INSTRUCTION.
00:27:27.23\00:27:30.80
MY SON, HEAR THE INSTRUCTION OF
YOUR FATHER, AND DO NOT FORSAKE
00:27:30.80\00:27:34.80
THE LAW OF YOUR MOTHER; FOR THEY
WILL BE A GRACEFUL ORNAMENT ON
00:27:34.80\00:27:38.06
YOUR HEAD, AND
CHAINS ABOUT YOUR NECK."
00:27:38.06\00:27:40.26
NOW, YOU KNOW WHEN SOLOMON FIRST
BECAME KING, BEFORE - UNLIKE
00:27:40.26\00:27:44.63
SOME KINGS, BEFORE YOU CAN
BECOME KING THE FORMER KING HAS
00:27:44.63\00:27:49.63
TO DIE. BUT SOMETHING
UNUSUAL HAPPENED WITH SOLOMON.
00:27:49.63\00:27:53.33
HE CO-REIGNED WITH HIS FATHER.
MATTER OF FACT, HIS FATHER
00:27:53.33\00:27:57.33
ORDERED HIS CORONATION
BECAUSE SOLOMON'S OLDER BROTHER
00:27:57.33\00:28:02.06
ADONIJAH, TRIED
TO SEIZE THE THRONE.
00:28:02.06\00:28:05.03
AND SO EVEN - EVEN DAVID SAT UP
ON HIS BED AND - HE WAS SICK AT
00:28:05.03\00:28:11.06
THE TIME - AND HE
RECOGNIZED SOLOMON AS KING.
00:28:11.06\00:28:13.93
DAVID RECOVERED, BRIEFLY, FROM
THAT AND IT TALKS ABOUT THEM
00:28:13.93\00:28:16.13
KIND OF WALKING AND TALKING
TOGETHER AND HE GAVE HIS SON A
00:28:16.13\00:28:18.33
LOT OF INSTRUCTION. HE
SAID, 'HERE'S SOME ADVICE AND
00:28:18.33\00:28:20.56
SOME THINGS YOU NEED
TO FOLLOW THROUGH WITH.
00:28:20.56\00:28:22.23
HERE'S SOME PEOPLE YOU NEED TO
TAKE CARE - HERE'S SOME THAT YOU
00:28:22.23\00:28:24.53
NEED TO KEEP AN EYE ON' - AND
HE JUST - HE GAVE HIM A LOT OF
00:28:24.53\00:28:27.33
WISDOM, BUT SOLOMON WAS TOLD
BY DAVID, ALMOST THE VERY THINGS
00:28:27.33\00:28:31.13
THAT HE'S NOW PASSING ON TO HIS
SONS. NOW, WHEN SOLOMON TALKS TO
00:28:31.13\00:28:36.06
HIS SON ABOUT PAYING ATTENTION
TO WISDOM, WHO WAS THE SON OF
00:28:36.06\00:28:40.00
SOLOMON THAT
TOOK OVER THE THRONE?
00:28:40.00\00:28:41.73
>>JERABOAM.
00:28:41.73\00:28:43.00
>>REHABOAM - IT SOUNDS LIKE
JERABOAM - IT'S EASY TO CONFUSE.
00:28:43.00\00:28:47.00
MATTER OF FACT, THERE'S A
JERABOAM AND A REHABOAM AT THE
00:28:47.00\00:28:50.00
SAME TIME. REHABOAM
IS THE SON OF SOLOMON.
00:28:50.00\00:28:53.16
DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED WHEN
HE BECAME KING AFTER SOLOMON HAD
00:28:53.16\00:28:56.86
REIGNED FOR FORTY YEARS?
THE PEOPLE CAME - THE KINGDOM
00:28:56.86\00:28:59.83
WAS JUST THRIVING, BUT
HE HAD HEAVILY TAXED THEM.
00:28:59.83\00:29:03.16
THEY WERE STRONG MILITARILY,
THEY WERE STRONG ECONOMICALLY,
00:29:03.16\00:29:06.33
BUT THEY HAD - HE HAD A BIG WORK
FORCE BUILDING ALL THE TIME.
00:29:06.33\00:29:08.86
HE JUST TOLD THE PEOPLE, 'THIS
MANY MONTHS OF THE YEAR YOU'RE
00:29:08.86\00:29:11.80
IN A WORK FORCE.' AND WHEN
REHABOAM BECAME KING THE PEOPLE
00:29:11.80\00:29:16.80
CAME TO HIM AND THEY SAID, 'YOU
KNOW, WE KNOW THAT THINGS ARE
00:29:16.80\00:29:20.23
GOING WELL NOW, THE KINGDOM'S
AT PEACE BUT, BOY, YOUR DAD,
00:29:20.23\00:29:22.66
HE TAXED US WITH
A HEAVY TAX LOAD.
00:29:22.66\00:29:26.26
ARE YOU GOING TO LIGHTEN THAT?'
AND REHABOAM WAS AT LEAST WISE
00:29:26.26\00:29:29.63
ENOUGH TO SAY,
'LET ME GET BACK TO YOU.
00:29:29.63\00:29:31.56
COME AND ASSEMBLE IN THREE
DAYS.' AND HE WENT AND TALKED TO
00:29:31.56\00:29:34.46
THE COUNSELORS OF SOLOMON
AND THEY SAID, 'IF YOU HUMBLE
00:29:34.46\00:29:37.70
YOURSELF TO THIS PEOPLE NOW,
THEY WILL SERVE YOU FOREVER.'
00:29:37.70\00:29:42.16
BUT HE THOUGHT,
'HUMBLE? I'M THE NEW KING.
00:29:42.16\00:29:44.76
I'VE GOT TO SHOW MYSELF STRONG.'
AND HE WENT AND TALKED TO HIS
00:29:44.76\00:29:46.63
FRIENDS THAT HE GREW UP WITH AND
SAID, 'WHAT DO YOU THINK I OUGHT
00:29:46.63\00:29:48.66
TO DO?' THEY SAID,
'DON'T YOU FALL FOR THAT.
00:29:48.66\00:29:50.46
YOU'VE GOT TO
TELL THEM WHO'S BOSS.
00:29:50.46\00:29:52.10
YOU SAY, 'MY LITTLE FINGER'S
GOING TO BE THICKER THAN MY
00:29:52.10\00:29:53.93
FATHER'S THIGH AND HE WHIPPED
YOU WITH WHIPS BUT I'M GOING TO
00:29:53.93\00:29:57.13
WHIP YOU WITH SCORPIONS.
YOU BETTER DO WHAT I SAY.'' AND
00:29:57.13\00:29:59.76
HE SAID, 'YEAH, YEAH.'
THAT APPEALED TO HIS PRIDE.
00:29:59.76\00:30:02.53
HE GOT ALL THE PEOPLE TOGETHER
AND HE ANSWERED THEM ROUGHLY,
00:30:02.53\00:30:05.23
LIKE HIS YOUNG IDIOTIC FRIENDS
HAD TOLD HIM AND, SURE ENOUGH,
00:30:05.23\00:30:10.66
THE PEOPLE REBELLED AND THAT'S
WHEN TEN OF THE TRIBES SAID,
00:30:10.66\00:30:12.80
'ALRIGHT, REHABOAM,
YOU'RE FROM THE TRIBE OF DAVID,
00:30:12.80\00:30:16.73
YOU CAN RULE OVER DAVID.
00:30:16.73\00:30:18.13
TO ISRAEL - TO YOUR TENTS.' AND
SO TEN OF THE TRIBES, THEY BROKE
00:30:18.13\00:30:22.50
AWAY AND THEY NEVER
DID REUNITE AFTER THAT.
00:30:22.50\00:30:24.93
SO REHABOAM, WHEN SOLOMON SAID,
'MY SON, LISTEN TO THE WISDOM OF
00:30:24.93\00:30:28.43
YOUR FATHER.' HE REJECTED
HIS FATHER'S COUNSELORS.
00:30:28.43\00:30:32.06
CAN YOU IMAGINE BEING A
COUNSELOR FOR THE WISEST MAN IN
00:30:32.06\00:30:35.60
THE WORLD? WOULDN'T
THAT BE INTIMIDATING?
00:30:35.60\00:30:37.36
YOU HAD TO BE PRETTY SMART TO
BE A COUNSELOR FOR SOLOMON - TO
00:30:37.36\00:30:42.13
REJECT THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON'S
COUNSELORS IS REALLY FOOLISH.
00:30:42.13\00:30:48.70
SO THAT JUST POPS INTO MY MIND
AS I READ THIS WHERE HE SAYS,
00:30:48.70\00:30:51.40
'MY SON, HEAR THE INSTRUCTION OF
YOUR FATHER.' SOLOMON LISTENED
00:30:51.40\00:30:54.23
TO DAVID, REHABOAM
DID NOT LISTEN TO SOLOMON.
00:30:54.23\00:30:57.00
"DO NOT FORSAKE THE LAW OF
YOUR MOTHER." THE BIBLE SAYS
00:30:57.00\00:31:00.23
HONOR YOUR FATHER ONLY OR
YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER?
00:31:00.23\00:31:04.66
GOD GAVE US THAT PERSPECTIVE OF
BOTH PARENTS - "FOR THEY WILL BE
00:31:04.66\00:31:07.83
A GRACEFUL ORNAMENT ON YOUR
HEAD," - I'M IN PROVERBS 9 - IN
00:31:07.83\00:31:11.20
CHAPTER 1 - "AND
CHAINS ABOUT YOUR NECK.
00:31:11.20\00:31:13.66
MY SON, IF SINNERS
ENTICE YOU, DO NOT CONSENT.
00:31:13.66\00:31:17.03
IF THEY SAY, 'COME WITH US, LET
US LIE IN WAIT TO SHED BLOOD;
00:31:17.03\00:31:20.73
LET US LURK SECRETLY FOR THE
INNOCENT WITHOUT CAUSE; LET US
00:31:20.73\00:31:24.26
SWALLOW THEM ALIVE LIKE SHEOL,
AND WHOLE, LIKE THOSE WHO GO
00:31:24.26\00:31:28.50
DOWN TO THE PIT; WE SHALL
FIND ALL KINDS OF PRECIOUS
00:31:28.50\00:31:31.06
POSSESSIONS," - THEY TEMPT
YOU AND SAY, 'OH, LET'S DO THIS,
00:31:31.06\00:31:33.46
WE'RE GOING TO GET RICH QUICK
- "WE SHALL FILL OUR HOUSES WITH
00:31:33.46\00:31:35.86
SPOIL; 'CAST IN YOUR LOT AMONG
US, LET US ALL HAVE ONE PURSE' -
00:31:35.86\00:31:39.30
MY SON, DO NOT WALK IN THE WAY
WITH THEM, KEEP YOUR FOOT FROM
00:31:39.30\00:31:43.73
THEIR PATH; FOR THEIR FEET RUN
TO EVIL, AND THEY MAKE HASTE TO
00:31:43.73\00:31:47.50
SHED BLOOD. SURELY, IN VAIN THE
NET IS SPREAD IN THE SIGHT OF
00:31:47.50\00:31:51.26
ANY BIRD;" - YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE
GOING TO TRY AND SNARE A BIRD -
00:31:51.26\00:31:55.00
AND THEY DID
THAT A LOT BACK THEN.
00:31:55.00\00:31:56.43
THEY DIDN'T HAVE SHOTGUNS SO
IF YOU WENT OUT TRYING TO GET
00:31:56.43\00:31:58.70
GROUSE AND CHICKEN - THEY'RE
HARD TO HIT WITH A BOW AND ARROW
00:31:58.70\00:32:02.50
- THEY'VE GOT A LOT OF FEATHERS
- THEY USED TO SNARE THEM.
00:32:02.50\00:32:04.53
BUT IF A BIRD'S
WATCHING YOU SET THE SNARE -
00:32:04.53\00:32:07.10
THEY BECOME VERY
SUSPICIOUS. LET'S GO OVER TO
00:32:07.10\00:32:12.10
'TRUE EDUCATION' AND
THAT WOULD BE 13 - PROVERBS
00:32:12.10\00:32:15.03
13:20 - IT SAYS, "HE WHO WALKS
WITH WISE MEN WILL BE WISE, BUT
00:32:15.03\00:32:21.10
THE COMPANION OF
FOOLS WILL BE DESTROYED."
00:32:21.10\00:32:23.53
NOTICE THE CONTRAST THERE AGAIN?
00:32:23.53\00:32:25.46
TALKING ABOUT 'IF YOU WANT TO BE
WISE' - THAT HAS A LOT - THIS IS
00:32:25.46\00:32:29.30
GREAT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, WHEN
YOU'RE GOING TO SCHOOL - HANG
00:32:29.30\00:32:31.96
OUT WITH PEOPLE THAT ARE SMART,
THAT GET GOOD GRADES, THAT CAN
00:32:31.96\00:32:35.50
HELP YOU WITH YOUR HOMEWORK, YOU
HANG AROUND THE ONES THAT ARE IN
00:32:35.50\00:32:38.80
THE BACK OF THE CLASS - NOTHING
- NO REFLECTION FOR THOSE HERE -
00:32:38.80\00:32:42.16
THEN THEY'RE MORE LIKELY TO GET
YOU IN TROUBLE. ALRIGHT, IN -
00:32:42.16\00:32:47.96
IF YOU GO TO PROVERBS 1,
VERSE 20 - I'M SORRY - IT SAYS,
00:32:47.96\00:32:54.46
"WISDOM CALLS ALOUD
OUTSIDE; SHE RAISES HER VOICE IN
00:32:54.46\00:32:59.13
THE OPEN SQUARES. SHE
CRIES OUT IN THE CHIEF
00:32:59.13\00:33:02.40
CONCOURSES," - NOW LOOK AT THE
CONTRAST - SOME OF THE PROVERBS
00:33:02.40\00:33:05.86
CONTRAST ONE SENTENCE RIGHT
AFTER ANOTHER, SOME OF THEM WILL
00:33:05.86\00:33:09.63
TAKE SEVERAL PROVERBS AND THEN
CONTRAST WITH SEVERAL OTHERS.
00:33:09.63\00:33:13.76
FIRST IT JUST TALKED ABOUT
'DON'T GO IN THE WAY OF THE
00:33:13.76\00:33:16.26
WICKED WHEN THEY SAY 'LET'S
GO GET SPOILS - AND IT SAYS IN
00:33:16.26\00:33:19.76
VERSE 11, "THEY LURK IN SECRET
FOR THE INNOCENT WITHOUT CAUSE."
00:33:19.76\00:33:22.46
WHEN YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING
WRONG, YOU'VE GOT TO LURK IN THE
00:33:22.46\00:33:24.83
DARK, BUT WHEN IT COMES TO
TRUTH, DOES TRUTH HAVE TO HIDE
00:33:24.83\00:33:28.00
OR IS TRUTH IN THE OPEN PLACES?
WISDOM CALLS ALOUD - "RAISES HER
00:33:28.00\00:33:31.80
VOICE IN THE OPEN SQUARES.
SHE CRIES OUT IN THE CHIEF
00:33:31.80\00:33:34.70
CONCOURSES, AT THE" - JOHN
THE BAPTIST, WHEN HE WENT OUT
00:33:34.70\00:33:37.36
PREACHING, DID HE
HAVE TO MEET IN CORNERS?
00:33:37.36\00:33:39.60
OR HE JUST WENT WIDE
OPEN IN THE WILDERNESS?
00:33:39.60\00:33:42.40
TURNED UP THE AMPLIFICATION -
"AT THE OPENINGS OF THE GATES IN
00:33:42.40\00:33:46.30
THE CITY SHE SPEAKS HER WORDS:"
- SO TRUTH IS OPEN AND IT
00:33:46.30\00:33:50.83
APPEALS AND IT SAYS, "'HOW LONG
YOU SIMPLE ONES, WILL YOU LOVE
00:33:50.83\00:33:53.53
SIMPLICITY? FOR
SCORNERS DELIGHT IN THEIR
00:33:53.53\00:33:56.33
SCORNING AND
FOOLS HATE KNOWLEDGE.
00:33:56.33\00:33:58.56
TURN AT MY REBUKE; SURELY I
WILL POUR OUT MY SPIRIT ON YOU;
00:33:58.56\00:34:02.63
I WILL MAKE MY
WORDS KNOWN TO YOU.
00:34:02.63\00:34:04.76
BECAUSE I HAVE CALLED AND YOU
REFUSED, I HAVE STRETCHED OUT MY
00:34:04.76\00:34:07.73
HAND AND NO ONE REGARDED," -
PAUL QUOTES THAT VERSE, BY THE
00:34:07.73\00:34:11.46
WAY - "BECAUSE YOU DISDAINED ALL
MY COUNSEL, AND WOULD HAVE NONE
00:34:11.46\00:34:14.23
OF MY REBUKE, I ALSO WILL LAUGH
AT YOUR CALAMITY; I WILL MOCK
00:34:14.23\00:34:17.23
WHEN YOUR TERROR COMES, WHEN
YOUR TERROR COMES LIKE A STORM,
00:34:17.23\00:34:20.83
AND YOUR DESTRUCTION COMES LIKE
A WHIRLWIND, WHEN DISTRESS AND
00:34:20.83\00:34:23.73
ANGUISH COME UPON YOU."
NOW, IS THAT GOD SAYING 'YOU
00:34:23.73\00:34:28.33
DON'T LISTEN TO ME, I'M GOING TO
LAUGH WHEN YOU GET IN TROUBLE?'
00:34:28.33\00:34:31.73
NOW, HE'S TALKING IN - PROVERBS
AND SOLOMON, SEVERAL TIMES,
00:34:31.73\00:34:35.53
SPEAKS IN A
METAPHORICAL LANGUAGE
00:34:35.53\00:34:38.00
AND HE'S TALKING ABOUT WISDOM AS
THOUGH WISDOM HAS A PERSONALITY.
00:34:38.00\00:34:41.20
IN ONE PLACE HE TALKS ABOUT
WISDOM LIKE IT'S A DAUGHTER AND
00:34:41.20\00:34:43.53
ANOTHER PLACE HE TALKS
ABOUT WISDOM LIKE IT'S A SON.
00:34:43.53\00:34:46.43
ALRIGHT, GO TO PROVERBS 1, VERSE
22 AND - NO, NO, NO - PROVERBS
00:34:46.43\00:34:54.33
2:1 THROUGH 5 - THAT'S WHAT
I WANT - PROVERBS CHAPTER 2,
00:34:54.33\00:34:57.63
VERSES 1 THROUGH 5. WHY
DON'T YOU READ THAT FOR US?
00:34:57.63\00:35:04.06
>>"MY SON, IF YOU RECEIVE MY
WORDS, AND TREASURE MY COMMANDS
00:35:04.06\00:35:08.66
WITHIN YOU, SO THAT YOU INCLINE
YOUR EAR TO WISDOM, AND APPLY
00:35:08.66\00:35:12.96
YOUR HEART TO UNDERSTANDING;
YES, IF YOU CRY OUT FOR
00:35:12.96\00:35:16.86
DISCERNMENT, AND LIFT UP YOUR
VOICE FOR UNDERSTANDING, IF YOU
00:35:16.86\00:35:19.80
SEEK HER AS SILVER, AND SEARCH
FOR HER AS FOR HIDDEN TREASURES;
00:35:19.80\00:35:23.36
THEN YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THE
FEAR OF THE LORD, AND FIND THE
00:35:23.36\00:35:27.70
KNOWLEDGE OF GOD."
>>ALRIGHT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
00:35:27.70\00:35:30.80
DOES JESUS TELL US ABOUT
PRIORITIES OF WHAT WE SHOULD
00:35:30.80\00:35:34.43
SEARCH FOR? WHAT
SHOULD BE THE FIRST THING
00:35:34.43\00:35:37.83
WE SEARCH FOR?
THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
00:35:37.83\00:35:42.76
'SEEK FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD
AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS.' HOW DO
00:35:42.76\00:35:46.03
YOU SEEK FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD?
HE SAYS HERE, 'MORE THAN GOLD.
00:35:46.03\00:35:50.90
MORE THAN SILVER.' DO YOU
KNOW IF YOU MAKE WISDOM YOUR
00:35:50.90\00:35:56.76
PRIORITY, YOU MAY FIND
THAT GOLD AND SILVER COME.
00:35:56.76\00:36:00.13
FOR ONE THING, ARE THERE
PROVERBS THAT TALK ABOUT WORKING
00:36:00.13\00:36:04.86
LIKE THE ANT WORKS
AND STORING AND SAVING?
00:36:04.86\00:36:08.73
YOU'LL FIND A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO
HAVE APPLIED COMMON SENSE AND
00:36:08.73\00:36:12.86
WISDOM TO LIFE. JUST BY
NOT WASTING YOU COULD BE RICH.
00:36:12.86\00:36:18.46
IF YOU WORK AND YOU AVOID
WASTE, YOU CAN END UP PRETTY
00:36:18.46\00:36:23.13
SUCCESSFUL. BECAUSE SOLOMON
SOUGHT FIRST WISDOM, THE PRAYER
00:36:23.13\00:36:27.73
- THE YEARNING OF HIS HEART
WAS WISDOM - DID RICHES COME?
00:36:27.73\00:36:31.53
YEAH, SO 'SEEK FIRST THE KINGDOM
OF HEAVEN AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS,
00:36:31.53\00:36:35.76
AND ALL THESE OTHER THINGS
WILL BE ADDED TO YOU.' BUT HOW
00:36:35.76\00:36:39.23
EARNESTLY SHOULD WE SEEK FOR IT?
WELL, IT SAYS YOU'VE GOT TO LOOK
00:36:39.23\00:36:43.96
FOR IT LIKE YOU'RE
LOOKING FOR TREASURE.
00:36:43.96\00:36:46.00
PEOPLE THAT ARE DIGGING FOR
SILVER AND GOLD - IT TAKES A LOT
00:36:46.00\00:36:49.53
OF DILIGENCE - A LOT OF ENERGY
AND SO THERE NEEDS TO BE AN
00:36:49.53\00:36:53.10
EFFORT INVESTED IN SEEKING FOR
THIS. SAME THING WITH SEEKING
00:36:53.10\00:36:56.23
FIRST THE KINGDOM OF
GOD AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:36:56.23\00:36:59.30
THAT NEEDS TO BE A
PRIORITY IN OUR LIVES.
00:36:59.30\00:37:01.06
FOR - AND GO TO VERSE 6 - "FOR
THE LORD GIVES WISDOM; FROM HIS
00:37:01.06\00:37:05.93
MOUTH COME KNOWLEDGE AND
UNDERSTANDING; HE STORES UP
00:37:05.93\00:37:10.00
SOUND WISDOM FOR THE UPRIGHT;
HE IS A SHIELD TO THOSE WHO WALK
00:37:10.00\00:37:13.06
UPRIGHTLY;" - NOW, WHEN IT SAYS
THE LORD GIVES WISDOM FROM HIS
00:37:13.06\00:37:16.50
MOUTH, WHERE WOULD YOU
FIND THE WORDS OF GOD'S MOUTH?
00:37:16.50\00:37:20.10
YEAH, IN THE BIBLE.
SO THE WORD OF GOD IS THE
00:37:20.10\00:37:23.10
FOUNDATION OF
THE GREATEST WISDOM.
00:37:23.10\00:37:25.33
THAT'S ONE REASON I THINK THE
BIBLE HAS BEEN A BEST-SELLING
00:37:25.33\00:37:29.13
BOOK FOR ALL THESE MILLENNIA -
A COUPLE THOUSAND YEARS ANYWAY -
00:37:29.13\00:37:34.93
AND YOU LOOK IN VERSE 7 IT SAYS,
"HE STORES UP SOUND WISDOM FOR
00:37:34.93\00:37:40.73
THE UPRIGHT; HE IS A SHIELD
TO THOSE WHO WALK UPRIGHTLY; HE
00:37:40.73\00:37:44.46
GUARDS THE PATHS OF JUSTICE, AND
PRESERVES THE WAY OF HIS SAINTS.
00:37:44.46\00:37:49.13
THEN YOU WILL UNDERSTAND
RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUSTICE,
00:37:49.13\00:37:52.33
EQUITY AND EVER GOOD PATH.
WHEN WISDOM ENTERS YOUR HEART,
00:37:52.33\00:37:56.83
AND KNOWLEDGE IS PLEASANT
TO YOUR SOUL, DISCRETION WILL
00:37:56.83\00:38:00.33
PRESERVE YOU; UNDERSTANDING WILL
KEEP YOU, TO DELIVER YOU FROM
00:38:00.33\00:38:04.33
THE WAY OF EVIL, FROM THE MAN
WHO SPEAKS PERVERSE THINGS," -
00:38:04.33\00:38:08.40
IF A PERSON DOESN'T HAVE WISDOM
ARE THEY EASILY SNARED AND
00:38:08.40\00:38:12.33
OVERCOME OR
DECEIVED BY SOMEBODY?
00:38:12.33\00:38:15.23
BEING MEEK AND BEING WISE
DOES NOT MEAN YOU NEED TO BE
00:38:15.23\00:38:19.80
GULLIBLE. JESUS
TALKS ABOUT BEING AS
00:38:19.80\00:38:25.33
INNOCENT AS DOVES
AND WISE AS SERPENTS.
00:38:25.33\00:38:31.86
WE DON'T EVEN
LIKE TO SAY THAT, HUH?
00:38:31.86\00:38:33.33
I MEAN, DO YOU CONSIDER IT
A COMPLIMENT IF SOMEONE SAYS
00:38:33.33\00:38:35.13
YOU'RE AS WISE AS A
SERPENT? BUT WHO SAID THAT?
00:38:35.13\00:38:40.90
JESUS SAID YOU NEED
TO BE WISE AS SERPENTS.
00:38:40.90\00:38:42.80
WHO ARE THE SERPENTS USUALLY?
00:38:42.80\00:38:46.30
WELL, BUT WHAT CHRIST - YEAH,
THE DEVIL WAS THE SERPENT AND
00:38:46.30\00:38:49.10
IT'S TELLING US THAT WE NEED TO
AT LEAST UNDERSTAND HIS DEVICES.
00:38:49.10\00:38:53.13
SO, YOU KNOW, KAREN AND I COME
FROM VERY DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS.
00:38:53.13\00:39:00.20
YOU KNOW, I WENT TO 14 - 15
DIFFERENT SCHOOLS, SHE WENT TO
00:39:00.20\00:39:06.13
ONE SCHOOL FOR TWELVE YEARS AND
THEN, OF COURSE, HER COLLEGE - A
00:39:06.13\00:39:09.26
COUPLE DIFFERENT COLLEGES - AND
SHE GREW UP, YOU KNOW, IN THE
00:39:09.26\00:39:12.56
SAME CHURCH AND I WENT -
SCATTERED THROUGH ALL THESE
00:39:12.56\00:39:14.43
DIFFERENT RELIGIONS, BUT SHE
GREW UP SURROUNDED WITH CHURCH
00:39:14.43\00:39:17.93
PEOPLE THAT ARE VERY LOVING
AND TRUSTING AND NICE PEOPLE.
00:39:17.93\00:39:20.46
I GREW UP WITH A LOT OF
SCOUNDRELS AND MY MOTHER WAS IN
00:39:20.46\00:39:22.80
SHOW BUSINESS AND EVERYONE WAS
ACTING AND TRICKING AND LYING
00:39:22.80\00:39:25.13
AND DECEIVING AND SO I GREW UP
JUST SO SUSPICIOUS AND SHE SAYS,
00:39:25.13\00:39:30.33
'DOUG, HOW COME
YOU'RE SO SUSPICIOUS?'
00:39:30.33\00:39:31.70
I SAID, 'DEAR, HOW COME YOU'RE
JUST SO BELIEVING OF EVERYBODY?'
00:39:31.70\00:39:34.46
YOU KNOW, PEOPLE KNOCK ON THE
DOOR AND AS SOON AS THEY START
00:39:34.46\00:39:36.73
TRYING TO SELL, I SAY,
'OH, WHAT ARE THEY SELLING?
00:39:36.73\00:39:38.80
NOW WHAT ARE THEY UP
TO?' AND 'OH, REALLY?
00:39:38.80\00:39:41.00
OH, THAT'S INTERESTING.
I'LL BUY THREE OF THEM.' AND -
00:39:41.00\00:39:45.73
>>ONLY IF THEY'RE ON
SALE. >>BUT YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT.
00:39:45.73\00:39:52.63
SO, YOU KNOW, YOU NEED - IN JUST
EVERYDAY LIFE YOU NEED TO GO
00:39:52.63\00:39:56.13
THROUGH THE WORLD WITH A CERTAIN
AMOUNT OF WISDOM THAT BRACES YOU
00:39:56.13\00:40:01.16
FOR THE DEVIL'S TRICKS.
NOW, WHAT DID JESUS USE WHEN
00:40:01.16\00:40:06.03
THE DEVIL TEMPTED HIM?
>>IT IS WRITTEN. IT IS WRITTEN.
00:40:06.03\00:40:09.40
>>IT IS WRITTEN. IT IS
WRITTEN. IT IS WRITTEN.
00:40:09.40\00:40:12.03
ALL THREE TIMES HE QUOTED THE
WORD OF GOD AND THAT'S - SO HAVE
00:40:12.03\00:40:16.26
YOU EVER THOUGHT THAT THE WISDOM
THAT WAS AVAILABLE TO SOLOMON -
00:40:16.26\00:40:18.60
COULD SOLOMON READ
THE BOOKS OF MOSES?
00:40:18.60\00:40:22.40
THE WISDOM THAT WAS AVAILABLE
TO SOLOMON, THE WISDOM THAT WAS
00:40:22.40\00:40:24.76
AVAILABLE TO JESUS AND THE
APOSTLES IS AVAILABLE TO US.
00:40:24.76\00:40:27.83
>>AMEN. >>THAT'S
REALLY SOMETHING.
00:40:27.83\00:40:29.40
SO, ARE WE JUST ACCOUNTABLE TO
GOD FOR WHAT WE DO AND KNOW OR
00:40:29.40\00:40:35.80
ARE WE ACCOUNTABLE TO GOD FOR
WHAT WE COULD KNOW IF WE WANT
00:40:35.80\00:40:40.43
TO? THERE'S A
LOT OF WISDOM WE'VE
00:40:40.43\00:40:42.66
NEGLECTED BECAUSE WE'RE DRINKING
AT THE WRONG FOUNTAIN AND WE
00:40:42.66\00:40:46.30
SHOULD BE STUDYING THIS WISDOM
OF GOD THAT SAVES US FOR ETERNAL
00:40:46.30\00:40:49.76
LIFE. SO WE'VE GOT
THE CALL OF WISDOM.
00:40:49.76\00:40:54.20
AND IF YOU LOOK IN - LOOK HERE
UNDER THE BENEFITS - WE DID THE
00:40:54.20\00:40:59.30
BENEFITS OF WISDOM - PROVERBS
VERSES 6 THROUGH 9 - I SEE HERE,
00:40:59.30\00:41:03.56
I THINK I GOT THAT ALREADY.
WHO'S GOT THE NEXT VERSE THAT
00:41:03.56\00:41:07.26
WE'RE GOING TO READ?
WELL, I'LL TELL YOU WHAT.
00:41:07.26\00:41:09.66
I'LL GIVE IT TO YOU DEAR.
WHY DON'T YOU GO AHEAD AND READ
00:41:09.66\00:41:13.16
PROVERBS CHAPTER -
PROVERBS CHAPTER 3, VERSE 7.
00:41:13.16\00:41:19.63
>>"DO NOT BE
WISE IN YOUR OWN EYES;
00:41:19.63\00:41:22.83
FEAR THE LORD AND
DEPART FROM EVIL."
00:41:22.83\00:41:25.30
>>ALRIGHT, SO WHEN IT'S TALKING
ABOUT BIBLICAL WISDOM - LET'S
00:41:25.30\00:41:30.00
SUPPOSE WE READ THE BOOK OF
PROVERBS EVERY MONTH THAT HAS 31
00:41:30.00\00:41:32.70
DAYS. SHOULD YOU BE PROUD OF HOW
WISE YOU ARE? WHAT WAS THE FIRST
00:41:32.70\00:41:38.93
STEP IN SOLOMON'S
HAVING WISDOM? HUMILITY.
00:41:38.93\00:41:43.03
HE SAID, 'I DON'T KNOW.' HAVE
YOU EVER CONSIDERED THAT THE
00:41:43.03\00:41:48.13
LONGER YOU LIVE, THE MORE AWARE
YOU BECOME OF HOW MUCH YOU DON'T
00:41:48.13\00:41:53.56
KNOW? AND THE
CLOSER WE GET TO CHRIST
00:41:53.56\00:41:58.83
AND THE MORE WE UNDERSTAND THE
KNOWLEDGE OF GOD, THE MORE WE'RE
00:41:58.83\00:42:02.46
GOING TO KNOW WE DON'T KNOW.
AND SO, IF YOU'VE GOT A HUMBLE
00:42:02.46\00:42:06.30
ATTITUDE, YOU NEED TO
CRAVE EVERY OUNCE OF WISDOM THAT
00:42:06.30\00:42:09.10
YOU'VE GOT JUST TO GET YOU
THROUGH LIFE, BUT WE SHOULD
00:42:09.10\00:42:11.80
NEVER BE PROUD
OF HOW MUCH WE KNOW.
00:42:11.80\00:42:14.33
TOWARD THE END OF HIS LIFE, WHEN
SOLOMON BEGAN TO FEEL CONTENT
00:42:14.33\00:42:17.50
THAT HE KNEW EVERYTHING, HE
BEGAN TO SPIRAL DOWN AND SO,
00:42:17.50\00:42:21.83
YEAH, AS SOON AS YOU START TO
TRUST - BY THE WAY, AHITHOPHEL,
00:42:21.83\00:42:26.06
WHO WAS A VERY WISE COUNSELOR
OF GOD, HE DECIDED TO TURN AWAY
00:42:26.06\00:42:32.26
FROM DAVID AND FOLLOW THE
REBELLIOUS SON OF DAVID AND HE
00:42:32.26\00:42:36.33
KNEW THAT ABSALOM WAS AN
UNRIGHTEOUS MAN AND DAVID WAS
00:42:36.33\00:42:39.66
CHOSEN BY GOD, BUT HE TRUSTED
HIS OWN WISDOM SO MUCH - WELL,
00:42:39.66\00:42:44.30
HIS COUNSEL WAS REJECTED AND
YOU KNOW WHAT AHITHOPHEL DID?
00:42:44.30\00:42:47.83
>>HE COMMITTED SUICIDE.
>>HE DID THE SAME THING JUDAS
00:42:47.83\00:42:50.06
DID. YOU KNOW HOW JESUS HAD
SOMEBODY - HE HAD A FRIEND NAMED
00:42:50.06\00:42:52.46
JUDAS THAT BETRAYED
HIM AND JUDAS HUNG HIMSELF?
00:42:52.46\00:42:57.00
DAVID HAD A FRIEND THAT WAS A
COUNSELOR THAT BETRAYED HIM AND
00:42:57.00\00:43:01.16
HE COMMITTED SUICIDE - HUNG
HIMSELF ALSO - SIMILAR - A LOT
00:43:01.16\00:43:04.50
OF PARALLELS BETWEEN THE LIFE
OF DAVID AND THE LIFE OF JESUS.
00:43:04.50\00:43:07.70
AND IT TELLS YOU, IN VERSE
2, FOR - AND THIS IS PROVERBS 3,
00:43:07.70\00:43:13.06
VERSE 2, "FOR LENGTH OF DAYS AND
LONG LIFE AND PEACE THEY WILL
00:43:13.06\00:43:17.33
ADD TO YOU." - THIS
WISDOM CAN KEEP YOU OUT
00:43:17.33\00:43:20.80
OF A LOT OF TROUBLE - "LET NOT
MERCY AND TRUTH FORSAKE YOU;" -
00:43:20.80\00:43:25.20
SO IN PROVERBS IT'S TALKING
ABOUT BE MERCIFUL - "BIND THEM
00:43:25.20\00:43:29.93
AROUND YOUR NECK, WRITE THEM
ON THE TABLET OF YOUR HEART," -
00:43:29.93\00:43:33.36
NOW, ARE THESE
OBVIOUSLY METAPHORS?
00:43:33.36\00:43:37.13
DID THE JEWISH PEOPLE, IN
THE TIME OF CHRIST, TAKE THE
00:43:37.13\00:43:40.83
STATEMENT OF MOSES, "THESE WORDS
THAT I COMMAND YOU THIS DAY" -
00:43:40.83\00:43:44.50
DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 6, VERSE 4 -
WELL, THAT ACTUALLY SAYS, "HEAR
00:43:44.50\00:43:49.86
O ISRAEL, THE LORD
OUR GOD IS ONE GOD."
00:43:49.86\00:43:51.63
- BUT HE GOES ON TO SAY, "THESE
WORDS THAT I'VE COMMANDED YOU,
00:43:51.63\00:43:54.06
WRITE THEM ON YOUR HANDS, LET
THEM BE FRONTLETS BETWEEN YOUR
00:43:54.06\00:43:57.16
EYES." THEY TOOK
THAT LITERALLY AND
00:43:57.16\00:44:00.30
THEY MADE LITTLE PHYLACTERIES
WHERE THEY TOOK PORTIONS OF
00:44:00.30\00:44:03.13
SCRIPTURE AND THEY PUT THEM IN
LITTLE BOXES ON THEIR WRISTS OR
00:44:03.13\00:44:05.63
THEY HUNG THEM - AND THEY STILL
DO IT TODAY - ON THEIR FOREHEADS
00:44:05.63\00:44:08.93
AND - SOMEBODY GAVE
KAREN AND I A LITTLE GIFT.
00:44:08.93\00:44:15.86
THEY KNEW I WAS HALF JEWISH AND
SO THEY GAVE US ONE OF THE - I
00:44:15.86\00:44:19.20
CAN'T REMEMBER THE NAME OF IT
- YOU PUT IT ON THE DOOR POST OF
00:44:19.20\00:44:21.43
YOUR HOUSE WHEN YOU GO IN.
YEAH, AND PUT THAT - IT'S GOT A
00:44:21.43\00:44:25.23
LITTLE SCRIPTURE ROLLED UP IN IT
AND YOU KISS IT AND TOUCH YOUR
00:44:25.23\00:44:28.46
HAND TO IT. IT'S
A JEWISH TRADITION.
00:44:28.46\00:44:29.96
SO WAS SOLOMON SAYING YOU'RE TO
HANG THE WORD OF GOD AROUND YOUR
00:44:29.96\00:44:34.40
NECK OR WRITE IT ON THE TABLETS
OF YOUR HEART, OR ARE THESE,
00:44:34.40\00:44:38.90
OBVIOUSLY, SYMBOLS? HOW
DO YOU GET ANYTHING IN YOUR
00:44:38.90\00:44:42.63
HAND OR IN YOUR HEAD OR ON
YOUR HEART OR AROUND YOUR NECK?
00:44:42.63\00:44:45.56
IT'S JUST TALKING
ABOUT SURROUNDING YOURSELF.
00:44:45.56\00:44:49.60
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN PEOPLE THAT
CARRY THEIR GLASSES ON A STRING
00:44:49.60\00:44:53.63
AROUND THEIR NECK SO
THEY WON'T LOSE THEM?
00:44:53.63\00:44:56.70
OR SOME PEOPLE - I'VE SEEN
PEOPLE CARRY, LIKE, THEY'RE
00:44:56.70\00:44:59.16
HOUSEHOLD KEY - THEY KIND OF
HANG IT AROUND THEIR NECK JUST
00:44:59.16\00:45:02.60
SO THEY WON'T LOSE IT. OR
IF THEY HAVE THEM ON THEIR
00:45:02.60\00:45:06.43
WRISTS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT?
YOU EVER SEE SOMEONE, LIKE,
00:45:06.43\00:45:08.66
WRITE A NOTE ON THEIR
HAND OR PUT A LITTLE RIBBON ON
00:45:08.66\00:45:11.06
THEIR FINGER? THESE
ARE THE - THIS IS WHAT
00:45:11.06\00:45:13.50
IT'S SAYING IS JUST PUT
IT WHERE YOU WON'T FORGET IT.
00:45:13.50\00:45:16.83
AND, YOU KNOW, IT DOESN'T HELP
JUST TO WRITE ADAGES AND PUT
00:45:16.83\00:45:22.60
THEM ON THE WALL - I KNOW IN OUR
FAMILY, PERIODICALLY WE'VE TAKEN
00:45:22.60\00:45:26.10
A BEAUTIFUL SCRIPTURE AND WE'LL
GET IT EMBROIDERED AND WE'LL
00:45:26.10\00:45:28.70
HANG IT ON THE WALL AND YOU LOOK
AT IT AND GO, 'THAT'S BEAUTIFUL.
00:45:28.70\00:45:30.80
WHAT A WONDERFUL THOUGHT.'
BUT, YOU KNOW, AFTER A WHILE YOU
00:45:30.80\00:45:32.80
DON'T EVEN NOTICE IT
ANYMORE BECAUSE IT HANGS THERE
00:45:32.80\00:45:35.00
SO LONG YOU DON'T
EVEN THINK ABOUT IT.
00:45:35.00\00:45:36.46
IT JUST BECOMES
PART OF THE DÉCOR.
00:45:36.46\00:45:38.76
MY MOTHER, SHE WAS SO
EXASPERATED BECAUSE MY BROTHER
00:45:38.76\00:45:42.30
AND I WOULD NOT BRUSH OUR TEETH
AND IT WAS COSTING HER A LOT IN
00:45:42.30\00:45:46.06
DENTAL BILLS AND SHE TOOK A
PERMANENT MARKER AND SHE OPENED
00:45:46.06\00:45:52.56
UP THE MEDICINE CABINET AND SHE
WROTE 'BRUSH YOUR TEETH.' SHE
00:45:52.56\00:45:56.96
LIFTED UP THE TOILET LID -
WE WERE BOYS - SHE WROTE 'BRUSH
00:45:56.96\00:46:01.53
YOUR TEETH.' AND, I FORGET, SHE
WROTE IT LIKE THREE PLACES IN
00:46:01.53\00:46:05.86
THE BATHROOM. SHE JUST BECAME
SO EXASPERATED ONE DAY THAT WE
00:46:05.86\00:46:08.40
WEREN'T BRUSHING OUR TEETH
AND, YOU KNOW FOR A WHILE THERE
00:46:08.40\00:46:11.30
WE'D GO, 'OH, WHOA!' WE
WERE JUST SURROUNDED WITH IT
00:46:11.30\00:46:13.63
AND PRETTY SOON,
DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE IT ANYMORE.
00:46:13.63\00:46:16.80
SO, OBVIOUSLY HE'S NOT SAYING
'HANG IT AROUND YOUR NECK.
00:46:16.80\00:46:19.96
PUT IT ON YOUR HAND.'
BECAUSE, YOU KNOW WHAT?
00:46:19.96\00:46:22.20
IT WILL START FEELING LIKE
YOUR WARDROBE AFTER AWHILE AND
00:46:22.20\00:46:24.40
YOU JUST DON'T
EVEN THINK ABOUT IT.
00:46:24.40\00:46:26.46
IT'S MAKING A CONSCIOUS EFFORT
TO READ IT AND MEDITATE ON IT
00:46:26.46\00:46:29.86
AND THEN AFTER YOU READ THE WORD
OF GOD, UNLESS YOU HAVE THE HOLY
00:46:29.86\00:46:34.33
SPIRIT, YOU CAN'T MAKE
YOURSELF REMEMBER THESE THINGS.
00:46:34.33\00:46:38.33
SO OFTEN, I'LL PRAY WHEN I'M
READING, I'LL SAY, 'LORD, SHOW
00:46:38.33\00:46:42.83
ME HOW TO APPLY THIS TO MY
LIFE.' AND YOU'LL READ A VERSE -
00:46:42.83\00:46:46.83
MAYBE PROVERBS OR SOMETHING
ELSE, AND THAT VERY DAY,
00:46:46.83\00:46:49.03
THAT VERSE SOMEHOW SAVES YOU.
YOU KNOW, ANOTHER THING THAT
00:46:49.03\00:46:53.63
HAPPENS - YOU'VE PROBABLY
HAD THIS HAPPEN - YOU'LL READ
00:46:53.63\00:46:55.53
SOMETHING IN THE MORNING
AND THAT VERY DAY SOMEONE ELSE
00:46:55.53\00:46:58.06
NEEDED THE VERY
THING THAT YOU READ.
00:46:58.06\00:47:00.73
THAT HAPPENED TO ME. LAST
NIGHT I READ SOMETHING AND
00:47:00.73\00:47:03.30
I WAS SHARING
WITH SOMEBODY TODAY.
00:47:03.30\00:47:04.96
THEY SAID,
'WHERE'D YOU GET THAT?
00:47:04.96\00:47:06.20
I SAID, 'I JUST READ IT LAST
NIGHT.' AND SO, YOU KNOW, THE
00:47:06.20\00:47:09.56
LORD GIVES YOU - HE
TIMES THINGS LIKE THAT.
00:47:09.56\00:47:13.46
'BIND THEM AROUND YOUR NECK.'
VERSE 4 - I'M IN CHAPTER 3 OF
00:47:13.46\00:47:17.16
PROVERBS - "AND SO FIND FAVOR
AND HIGH ESTEEM IN THE SIGHT OF
00:47:17.16\00:47:20.83
GOD AND MAN." WHAT DOES
IT PUT FIRST, GOD OR MAN?
00:47:20.83\00:47:27.03
WHAT ARE THE TWO GREAT COMMANDS?
LOVE THE LORD; LOVE YOUR
00:47:27.03\00:47:31.23
NEIGHBOR.' THE BIBLE SAYS,
'JESUS WAS A PROPHET MIGHTY
00:47:31.23\00:47:34.33
BEFORE GOD AND THE PEOPLE.' -
BEFORE GOD AND MAN - FIRST FOR
00:47:34.33\00:47:37.93
GOD - YOU'VE GOT TO LIVE THE
VERTICAL LIFE AND THEN WE'VE GOT
00:47:37.93\00:47:42.26
TO REMEMBER TO LIVE
THE HORIZONTAL LIFE.
00:47:42.26\00:47:44.80
"TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR
HEART" - DO YOU WANT TO READ
00:47:44.80\00:47:47.13
THIS ONE KAREN? "TRUST
IN THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR
00:47:47.13\00:47:51.36
HEART, AND LEAN NOT ON YOUR OWN
UNDERSTANDING; IN ALL YOUR WAYS
00:47:51.36\00:47:55.93
ACKNOWLEDGE HIM, AND HE
SHALL DIRECT YOUR PATHS."
00:47:55.93\00:48:00.63
YOU NOTICE HE DOESN'T PROMISE
HE'S GOING TO DIRECT YOUR PATHS
00:48:00.63\00:48:03.20
IN ADVANCE, BUT IF YOU
ACKNOWLEDGE THE LORD IN YOUR
00:48:03.20\00:48:05.26
LIFE - IN YOUR WAYS - WHEN YOU
GET TO THE CROSSROADS AND YOU
00:48:05.26\00:48:08.03
SAY, 'LORD, NOW WHAT?'
AND YOU'VE GOT TO MAKE A
00:48:08.03\00:48:10.46
DECISION, HE'LL
SHOW YOU WHAT TO DO.
00:48:10.46\00:48:12.66
HE DOESN'T ALWAYS
SHOW YOU IN ADVANCE.
00:48:12.66\00:48:14.40
HE MAY NOT PART THE OCEAN OR THE
RIVER BEFORE YOU GET THERE - YOU
00:48:14.40\00:48:19.00
MIGHT EVEN HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL
YOU CAN SEE THE CLOUD OF THE
00:48:19.00\00:48:21.26
EGYPTIANS STORMING UP BEHIND YOU
BEFORE THE MIRACLE HAPPENS, BUT
00:48:21.26\00:48:25.00
IF YOU TRUST IN THE LORD AND YOU
ACKNOWLEDGE THE LORD IN ALL YOUR
00:48:25.00\00:48:28.26
WAYS - THAT MEANS YOUR WALK
- YOUR LIFE - HE WILL GIVE YOU
00:48:28.26\00:48:31.83
GUIDANCE AND DIRECT YOUR PATHS.
VERSE 7 - "DO NOT BE WISE IN
00:48:31.83\00:48:36.43
YOUR OWN EYES; FEAR THE LORD
AND DEPART FROM EVIL" - WHAT'S
00:48:36.43\00:48:40.63
THE BEST WAY TO SHOW THAT YOU
FEAR GOD? HOW DID JOB FEAR GOD?
00:48:40.63\00:48:43.96
'JOB WAS A JUST AND UPRIGHT MAN
WHO FEARED GOD AND HATED EVIL.'
00:48:43.96\00:48:49.96
SO THE WAY YOU SHOW YOU'RE
GOD FEARING IS NOT TO JUST BE
00:48:49.96\00:48:52.53
TREMBLING ALL THE TIME,
BUT RESPECT AND LOVE AND AWE
00:48:52.53\00:48:57.20
GOD ENOUGH TO
STAY AWAY FROM SIN.
00:48:57.20\00:48:59.36
"IT WILL BE HEALTH TO YOUR FLESH
AND STRENGTH TO YOUR BONES."
00:48:59.36\00:49:03.26
- DO YOU THINK THAT ACTUALLY
FOLLOWING THE WISDOM OF GOD CAN
00:49:03.26\00:49:07.03
LENGTHEN YOUR LIFE PHYSICALLY
- CAN GIVE YOU BETTER HEALTH?
00:49:07.03\00:49:10.30
YEAH, PROVERBS EVEN SAYS THINGS
ABOUT 'IF YOU'RE A PERSON GIVEN
00:49:10.30\00:49:13.90
TO APPETITE, PUT A KNIFE TO YOUR
THROAT WHEN YOU SIT BEFORE THE
00:49:13.90\00:49:17.33
KING'S DAINTIES.'
THERE'S ACTUALLY HEALTH WISDOM
00:49:17.33\00:49:21.66
IN THE PROVERBS. "IT
WILL BE HEALTH TO YOUR FLESH
00:49:21.66\00:49:26.26
AND STRENGTH TO YOUR
BONES. HONOR THE LORD WITH YOUR
00:49:26.26\00:49:28.66
POSSESSIONS," - NOW THESE ARE
KIND OF - AGAIN, SOME OF THESE
00:49:28.66\00:49:32.46
PITHY - THEY STAND
ALONE - PROVERBS OF WISDOM.
00:49:32.46\00:49:35.83
"HONOR THE LORD WITH
YOUR POSSESSIONS, AND WITH THE
00:49:35.83\00:49:38.00
FIRSTFRUITS OF ALL
YOUR INCREASE;" SO HERE'S A
00:49:38.00\00:49:40.96
PRINCIPLE: REMEMBER THE LORD
WHEN HE BLESSES YOU AND IT SAYS,
00:49:40.96\00:49:45.80
"SO YOUR BARNS WILL BE
FILLED WITH PLENTY AND YOUR
00:49:45.80\00:49:48.50
VATS WILL
OVERFLOW WITH NEW WINE."
00:49:48.50\00:49:51.10
NOW THAT'S A GREAT PRINCIPLE,
MAKE SURE AND PUT GOD FIRST IN
00:49:51.10\00:49:55.16
YOUR GIVING AND THAT MAY
ALSO MEAN BEING CHARITABLE AND
00:49:55.16\00:49:58.46
SUPPORTING OTHERS AND,
IT SAYS, HE WILL BLESS YOU.
00:49:58.46\00:50:00.96
THE LORD IS MORE INCLINED
TO GIVE TO THOSE THAT WILL BE
00:50:00.96\00:50:04.20
CHANNELS OF HIS
RESOURCES TO THE WORLD.
00:50:04.20\00:50:08.16
AND AS YOU HAVE ONE HAND OPEN
IN SHARING AND GIVING TO OTHERS,
00:50:08.16\00:50:12.00
YOU CAN HAVE THE OTHER HAND OPEN
IN RECEIVING WHAT GOD GIVES AND
00:50:12.00\00:50:15.13
YOU BECOME A
CHANNEL OF BLESSING.
00:50:15.13\00:50:17.23
IF YOU HOARD, YOU
LOSE - ANOTHER PROVERB.
00:50:17.23\00:50:20.40
IT SAYS, 'THERE IS
HE' - I'M JUMPING AHEAD.
00:50:20.40\00:50:22.56
I DON'T EVEN REMEMBER THE
NUMBER, BUT I REMEMBER THE
00:50:22.56\00:50:23.60
PROVERB. 'THERE'S
ONE WHO WITHHOLDS MORE
00:50:23.60\00:50:26.53
THAN IS NECESSARY AND IT TENDS
TO POVERTY, AND THERE'S ONE WHO
00:50:26.53\00:50:30.33
SCATTERS AND IT
TENDS TO INCREASE.
00:50:30.33\00:50:32.90
IF YOU HOARD YOUR SEED THAT
YOU'VE HARVESTED, AND EAT IT ALL
00:50:32.90\00:50:37.30
- YOU HAVE NOTHING TO PLANT
- YOU'LL STARVE THE NEXT YEAR.
00:50:37.30\00:50:40.90
BUT IF YOU SCATTER IT AND
IT GROWS, IT TENDS TO MULTIPLY.
00:50:40.90\00:50:46.43
"MY SON, DO NOT DESPISE
THE CHASTENING OF THE LORD, NOR
00:50:46.43\00:50:50.56
DETEST HIS CORRECTION; FOR WHOM
THE LORD LOVES HE CORRECTS," -
00:50:50.56\00:50:54.26
ANY OF YOU EVER BEEN
CORRECTED BY THE LORD?
00:50:54.26\00:50:57.76
- "JUST AS A FATHER THE
SON IN WHOM HE DELIGHTS."
00:50:57.76\00:51:01.00
VERSE 13 - I'M IN PROVERBS 3
- "HAPPY IS THE MAN WHO FINDS
00:51:01.00\00:51:04.80
WISDOM, AND THE MAN WHO GAINS
UNDERSTANDING; FOR HER PROCEEDS
00:51:04.80\00:51:09.30
ARE BETTER THAN THE PROFITS OF
SILVER, AND HER GAIN THAN FINE
00:51:09.30\00:51:12.26
GOLD. SHE IS MORE PRECIOUS THAN
RUBIES, AND ALL THINGS YOU MAY
00:51:12.26\00:51:17.36
DESIRE CANNOT COMPARE WITH HER.
LENGTH OF DAYS IS IN HER RIGHT
00:51:17.36\00:51:20.70
HAND, IN HER LEFT
HAND RICHES AND HONOR."
00:51:20.70\00:51:23.70
SO RIGHT THERE YOU'VE GOT THE
THINGS THAT THE WORLD WANTS -
00:51:23.70\00:51:26.56
THEY WANT A LONG LIFE, THEY WANT
A PROSPEROUS LIFE - SOLOMON SAYS
00:51:26.56\00:51:30.73
YOU'VE GOT TO SEEK WISDOM FIRST
AND YOU'VE GOT TO HONOR GOD
00:51:30.73\00:51:34.43
FIRST. YOU NOTICE HOW
HE PUTS THAT BEFORE THAT?
00:51:34.43\00:51:37.96
SOME PASTORS PREACH THE RICHES
ABOUT BEING A BELIEVER AND THEY
00:51:37.96\00:51:44.96
DON'T TALK ABOUT THE OTHER PART
OF MERCY FOR OTHERS - HONORING
00:51:44.96\00:51:48.93
GOD WITH YOUR FIRSTFRUITS -
SOLOMON MAKES SURE AND PUTS THIS
00:51:48.93\00:51:52.46
AFTERWARD. "HER WAYS ARE WAYS OF
PLEASANTNESS, AND ALL HER PATHS
00:51:52.46\00:51:57.00
ARE PEACE." WHAT
DOES SOLOMON'S NAME MEAN?
00:51:57.00\00:52:00.36
'SON OF PEACE.' - "SHE IS A TREE
OF LIFE TO THOSE WHO TAKE HOLD
00:52:00.36\00:52:04.20
OF HER, AND HAPPY
ARE ALL WHO RETAIN HER."
00:52:04.20\00:52:07.46
NOW, WHO IS THE SHE? >>WISDOM.
00:52:07.46\00:52:10.66
>>WISDOM. SEE WHAT I'M SAYING
ABOUT HE USES THE METAPHOR -
00:52:10.66\00:52:12.70
DON'T FORGET THIS - HE TALKS
ABOUT WISDOM AS BEING SOMETIMES
00:52:12.70\00:52:17.56
A MAN - WE'LL GET TO THAT, I
THINK, IN CHAPTER 8 - AS BEING A
00:52:17.56\00:52:20.80
SON, AS BEING A WOMAN - AND YOU
KNOW WHAT THE LAST CHAPTER IN
00:52:20.80\00:52:24.20
PROVERBS IS ABOUT?
WE'RE JUMPING AHEAD - IT'S
00:52:24.20\00:52:27.43
TALKING ABOUT THE PERFECT WIFE,
WHICH IS REALLY - IT'S A SYMBOL
00:52:27.43\00:52:30.76
OF THE CHURCH THERE.
WELL, YOU KNOW, WHO CAN FIND
00:52:30.76\00:52:32.93
THIS BRIDE? AND IT
DESCRIBES ALL THESE
00:52:32.93\00:52:34.56
BEAUTIFUL
METAPHORS ABOUT THE CHURCH.
00:52:34.56\00:52:36.36
AND I HOPE I'M AROUND
WHEN WE GET TO THAT LESSON.
00:52:36.36\00:52:38.23
I DON'T MEAN I GOT A BAD REPORT
FROM THE DOCTOR OR ANYTHING, I
00:52:38.23\00:52:42.36
JUST MEAN THAT I HOPE -
SOMETIMES I TRAVEL - I TRADE OFF
00:52:42.36\00:52:45.13
WITH MY ASSOCIATES AND I HOPE
THAT I'M GOING TO BE ONE - YEAH,
00:52:45.13\00:52:48.63
TEACHING THAT ONE. THAT'S
HOW YOU START RUMORS. SO...
00:52:48.63\00:52:54.63
>>WE HAVE A READER.
>>SO, YEAH, IT SAYS NUMBER -
00:52:54.63\00:52:58.23
WHAT'S THE NEXT
VERSE? >>19 AND 20.
00:52:58.23\00:53:00.90
>>GO AHEAD, I'M GLAD
YOU REMINDED ME. THANK YOU.
00:53:00.90\00:53:02.96
NOW THE NEXT VERSE WE'RE
GOING TO HAVE SOMEBODY READ
00:53:02.96\00:53:05.60
PROVERBS CHAPTER
3, VERSES 19 AND 20.
00:53:05.60\00:53:08.90
>>"THE LORD BY WISDOM FOUNDED
THE EARTH; BY UNDERSTANDING HE
00:53:08.90\00:53:13.26
ESTABLISHED THE HEAVENS; BY HIS
KNOWLEDGE THE DEPTHS WERE BROKEN
00:53:13.26\00:53:17.26
UP, AND CLOUDS
DROP DOWN THE DEW."
00:53:17.26\00:53:21.03
>>BOY, YOU'VE GOT A GOOD
READING VOICE, TODD. THANK YOU.
00:53:21.03\00:53:24.20
SO THERE, AGAIN, HE TALKS ABOUT
BY WISDOM THE EARTH WAS FOUNDED.
00:53:24.20\00:53:28.30
HAVE YOU NOTICED, LIKE IN THE
BOOK OF JOB, GOD ACTUALLY SAYS,
00:53:28.30\00:53:31.36
YOU KNOW, 'WHERE WERE YOU WHEN
I LAID THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE
00:53:31.36\00:53:33.80
EARTH?' AND YOU THINK ABOUT JUST
THE INCREDIBLE - I, FRANKLY,
00:53:33.80\00:53:39.90
CAN'T UNDERSTAND HOW
PEOPLE BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION.
00:53:39.90\00:53:42.40
I GUESS I KIND OF UNDERSTAND
IT, BUT IT'S MIND BOGGLING TO ME
00:53:42.40\00:53:45.60
BECAUSE THE INTRICACIES OF LIFE
ON THIS PLANET AND EVEN JUST THE
00:53:45.60\00:53:49.66
WORLD - FORGET ALL THE CREATURES
FOR A MOMENT, THE PERFECT
00:53:49.66\00:53:53.96
DISTANCE THAT OUR WORLD HAS TO
BE FROM THE SUN TO SUSTAIN LIFE,
00:53:53.96\00:53:58.06
WE ARE RIGHT IN THIS VERY NARROW
BELT WHERE WE COULD BE - TOO
00:53:58.06\00:54:02.06
CLOSE, WE'RE BURNING UP LIKE -
LIKE VENUS OR TOO FAR AWAY WE'D
00:54:02.06\00:54:06.16
BE FREEZING AND WE'RE
JUST AT THE RIGHT DISTANCE.
00:54:06.16\00:54:09.83
AND THE EARTH IS THE RIGHT
SIZE FOR THE GRAVITATIONAL PULL.
00:54:09.83\00:54:13.73
AND IT'S GOT THE RIGHT GASSES
AND JUST - IT'S SUCH A PERFECT
00:54:13.73\00:54:17.43
LABORATORY FOR THIS MIRACLE OF
LIFE, THAT YOU JUST THINK ABOUT
00:54:17.43\00:54:23.90
THE WISDOM OF GOD IN DOING THAT
AND HE'S SAYING, YOU KNOW, 'BY
00:54:23.90\00:54:26.66
THIS I LAID THE FOUNDATIONS OF
THE EARTH.' HE SAYS, "MY SON" -
00:54:26.66\00:54:30.50
VERSE 21 - "LET THEM" - THESE
PRINCIPLES OF WISDOM - "NOT
00:54:30.50\00:54:33.80
DEPART FROM YOUR EYES - KEEP
SOUND WISDOM AND DISCRETION; SO
00:54:33.80\00:54:37.63
THEY WILL BE LIFE TO YOUR
SOUL AND GRACE TO YOUR NECK.
00:54:37.63\00:54:40.93
THEN YOU WILL WALK SAFELY IN
YOUR WAY, AND YOUR FOOT WILL NOT
00:54:40.93\00:54:45.66
STUMBLE. WHEN YOU LIE DOWN, YOU
WILL NOT BE AFRAID;" - HELPS YOU
00:54:45.66\00:54:49.60
- HAVING WISDOM HELPS YOU SLEEP
PEACEFULLY - "YES, YOU WILL LIE
00:54:49.60\00:54:53.30
DOWN AND YOUR
SLEEP WILL BE SWEET.
00:54:53.30\00:54:55.90
DO NOT BE AFRAID OF SUDDEN
TERROR, NOR OF TROUBLE FROM THE
00:54:55.90\00:54:59.10
WICKED WHEN IT COMES; FOR THE
LORD WILL BE YOUR CONFIDENCE,
00:54:59.10\00:55:02.36
AND WILL KEEP YOUR
FOOT FROM BEING CAUGHT.
00:55:02.36\00:55:05.60
DO NOT WITHHOLD GOOD FROM THOSE
TO WHOM IT IS DUE, WHEN IT IS
00:55:05.60\00:55:08.90
IN THE POWER OF
YOUR HAND TO DO SO.
00:55:08.90\00:55:10.73
DO NOT SAY TO YOUR NEIGHBOR,
'GO, AND COME BACK, AND TOMORROW
00:55:10.73\00:55:13.56
I WILL GIVE IT,' WHEN
YOU HAVE IT WITH YOU."
00:55:13.56\00:55:15.36
- IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING THAT
BELONGS TO SOMEONE ELSE, OR IF
00:55:15.36\00:55:18.56
YOU OWE SOMEONE AND IT'S IN YOUR
POWER TO PAY THEM WHAT YOU OWE
00:55:18.56\00:55:22.26
THEM, YOU HAVE THEIR PROPERTY
- KEEPING IT IS STEALING - AND
00:55:22.26\00:55:26.03
SOLOMON SAID, 'DON'T SAY,
'OH WELL, MAYBE TOMORROW.'' SOME
00:55:26.03\00:55:28.46
PEOPLE SAY, 'I'LL PAY YOU LATE
AND I'LL GET THE EXTRA INTEREST
00:55:28.46\00:55:30.86
ON IT WHILE I
CLING TO YOUR MONEY.
00:55:30.86\00:55:32.66
OF COURSE THERE'S NO INTEREST
THESE DAYS BUT, YOU KNOW THE
00:55:32.66\00:55:36.20
PRINCIPLE. WHEN YOU ARE
ABLE TO PAY SOMEONE, PAY THEM.
00:55:36.20\00:55:39.66
HE SAYS IF IT'S IN THE
POWER OF YOUR HAND TO DO IT,
00:55:39.66\00:55:41.96
DON'T WAIT TO DO
GOOD TO SOMEBODY ELSE.
00:55:41.96\00:55:45.76
HAVE YOU EVER MISSED AN
OPPORTUNITY TO GOOD AND YOU
00:55:45.76\00:55:48.56
REGRETTED IT
BECAUSE YOU POSTPONED?
00:55:48.56\00:55:51.43
"DO NOT DEVISE EVIL AGAINST YOUR
NEIGHBOR, FOR HE DWELLS BY YOU
00:55:51.43\00:55:55.73
FOR SAFETY'S SAKE. DO
NOT STRIVE WITH A MAN WITHOUT
00:55:55.73\00:55:59.60
CAUSE, IF HE HAS
DONE YOU NO HARM."
00:55:59.60\00:56:02.06
WHY DO YOU WANT
TO STIR UP TROUBLE?
00:56:02.06\00:56:04.30
IF YOU CAN TURN THE OTHER
CHEEK, IT'S A LOT EASIER TO LIVE
00:56:04.30\00:56:06.46
PEACEFULLY WITH PEOPLE AND
YOU HAVE TO DECIDE WHAT ARE THE
00:56:06.46\00:56:10.16
ISSUES THAT ARE WORTH
MAKING A CONTEST OVER?
00:56:10.16\00:56:13.26
"DO NOT ENVY THE OPPRESSOR, AND
CHOOSE NONE OF HIS WAYS; FOR THE
00:56:13.26\00:56:17.30
PERVERSE PERSON IS AN
ABOMINATION TO THE LORD, BUT HIS
00:56:17.30\00:56:20.40
SECRET COUNSEL IS
WITH THE UPRIGHT."
00:56:20.40\00:56:22.50
- THERE YOU HAVE THE CONTRAST,
AGAIN, BETWEEN THE TWO - "THE
00:56:22.50\00:56:25.46
CURSE OF THE LORD IS ON
THE HOUSE OF THE WICKED, BUT HE
00:56:25.46\00:56:27.86
BLESSES THE HOME OF THE JUST."
- WHICH DO YOU WANT TO BE?
00:56:27.86\00:56:31.63
I WANT THE BLESSING OF GOD -
"SURELY HE SCORNS THE SCORNFUL,
00:56:31.63\00:56:35.23
BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE.
THE WISE SHALL INHERIT GLORY BUT
00:56:35.23\00:56:42.00
SHAME WILL BE
THE LEGACY OF FOOLS."
00:56:42.00\00:56:44.43
AND THAT GETS US THROUGH ALL
THE WAY TO CHAPTERS 1 THROUGH 3.
00:56:44.43\00:56:48.66
WE DIDN'T READ EVERY PROVERB
BUT WE KIND OF GOT A GOOD
00:56:48.66\00:56:50.70
INTRODUCTION TO THE LESSON
AND COVERED THE HIGH POINTS.
00:56:50.70\00:56:53.23
FOR THOSE THAT MAY HAVE JOINED
US ALONG THE WAY AND YOU DIDN'T
00:56:53.23\00:56:56.06
HEAR, WE DO
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THE LORD - THE WORD OF GOD BEING
00:56:57.86\00:57:00.73
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PROVERBS AND I THINK WE'LL
ALL BE WISER WHEN THESE THIRTEEN
00:57:24.56\00:57:28.20
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