Participants: Doug Batchelor
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00:34 >>HELLO FRIENDS, I'D LIKE TO WELCOME YOU BACK TO A FRESH 00:36 INSTALLMENT OF 'SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.' 00:39 I'D LIKE TO WELCOME OUR LOCAL AUDIENCE HERE - 00:42 THE MEMBERS OF THE GRANITE BAY CHURCH. 00:43 THIS IS OUR TUESDAY EVENING PRAYER MEETING AND WE'RE MEETING 00:46 HERE BACK IN THE AMAZING FACTS STUDIOS. 00:49 ALSO, A VERY WARM WELCOME TO THOSE JOINING US ACROSS THE 00:52 COUNTRY ON THE VARIOUS TELEVISION NETWORKS AND ALSO 00:54 WATCHING ONLINE. WE'RE STARTING A BRAND-NEW STUDY 00:57 SERIES DEALING WITH THE BOOK OF PROVERBS. 01:00 IT'S THE LESSON QUARTERLY ENTITLED 'PROVERBS' AND WE'RE 01:03 GOING TO START WITH LESSON #1 TODAY. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO 01:06 FOLLOW ALONG WITH OUR STUDY, YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THIS WEEK'S LESSON 01:11 AT THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE. GO TO THE AMAZING FACTS WEBSITE, 01:14 CLICK ON THE SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR AND YOU'LL BE ABLE TO 01:19 DOWNLOAD THE INFORMATION RIGHT THERE. ALSO, YOU CAN GO TO THE 01:22 GRANITE BAY CHURCH WEBSITE, 'GRANITEBAYSDA.ORG' 01:25 AND YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THIS WEEK'S STUDY AND STUDY ALONG WITH US - 01:30 SHARE IT WITH YOUR FRIENDS AS WELL - ENCOURAGE THEM TO GET 01:32 INTO THE WORD - JUST REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS STUDY ON 01:35 THE BOOK OF PROVERBS. WE HAVE A FREE OFFER WE'D LIKE 01:38 TO LET YOU KNOW ABOUT. IT'S ENTITLED 'THE ULTIMATE 01:40 RESOURCE' - A LITTLE BOOK WRITTEN ABOUT THE BIBLE, BY 01:43 PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR, AND WE'LL SEND THIS TO YOU FOR FREE. 01:46 ALL YOU'LL NEED TO DO IS CALL OUR RESOURCE PHONE NUMBER, 01:49 THAT IS 866-788-3966 AND ASK FOR OFFER #728, ENTITLED 01:58 'THE ULTIMATE RESOURCE' AND WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND THAT TO 02:00 YOU OR ANYBODY WHO CALLS AND ASKS FOR IT. 02:03 BEFORE WE BEGIN OUR STUDY, LET'S JUST ASK THE HOLY SPIRIT TO COME 02:06 AND GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND MINDS. LET US PRAY. 02:09 DEAR FATHER, ONCE AGAIN WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO 02:12 GATHER TOGETHER TO STUDY THE BIBLE. 02:14 AS WE LOOK AT THIS IMPORTANT BOOK FILLED WITH WISE COUNSEL, 02:18 WE DO ASK FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT TO COME AND GUIDE OUR HEARTS AND 02:22 OUR MINDS AND LEAD US INTO A DEEPER AND FULLER UNDERSTANDING 02:25 OF YOUR WILL FOR OUR LIVES, FOR WE ASK THIS IN JESUS' NAME. 02:28 AMEN. I'D LIKE TO WELCOME PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR WHO WILL BE 02:32 LEADING US IN OUR STUDY TODAY. THANK YOU PASTOR DOUG. 02:35 >>THANK YOU PASTOR ROSS AND HELLO FRIENDS THAT ARE PART OF 02:41 OUR CLASS HERE IN THE GRANITE BAY AREA AND I WANT TO 02:45 WELCOME THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING ONLINE. 02:48 TO OUR EXTENDED CLASS, WE'RE VERY EXCITED, AS PASTOR ROSS 02:51 SHARED, BECAUSE WE'RE BEGINNING A NEW LESSON. 02:54 AND I TOLD HIM EARLIER, I SAID, 'YOU BETTER TEACH SOME OF THESE 02:56 BECAUSE I DON'T FEEL QUALIFIED TO TALK ABOUT WISDOM. 02:59 BUT THAT'S OUR SUBJECT FOR THE NEXT THIRTEEN WEEKS. 03:02 WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT THE PROVERBS. 03:04 NOW, IF YOU TAKE YOUR BIBLE, YOU'LL NOTICE SOMETHING RIGHT 03:07 AWAY, IF YOU TURN TO THE BOOK OF PROVERBS - WE'LL GET TO THE 03:09 MEMORY VERSE IN JUST A MINUTE - IT'S JUST IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 03:14 BIBLE AND PROVERBS IS A BOOK THAT WAS WRITTEN BY SOLOMON AND 03:20 - MAYBE FIRST WHAT WE'LL DO IS THE MEMORY VERSE AND THEN I'LL 03:23 DELVE INTO A LITTLE MORE ABOUT THE AUTHOR OF THE BOOK AND SOME 03:26 OF THE CONTENT THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE STUDYING. WHAT WE'RE GOING 03:28 TO TRY AND DO AS WE GO THROUGH THIS QUARTERLY TOGETHER, IS THE 03:33 GOAL IS TO GET ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE BOOK OF PROVERBS. 03:36 THERE ARE 31 CHAPTERS IN PROVERBS AND I KNOW SOME PEOPLE 03:40 THAT SAY IF YOU READ ONE CHAPTER YOU CAN DO IT LIKE MONTHLY - AND 03:44 - FOR THE MONTHS THAT HAVE 31 DAYS IN IT. HOPEFULLY WE'LL GET 03:47 THROUGH CHAPTERS ONE THROUGH THREE. I'M SURE WE WON'T BE ABLE 03:51 TO READ EVERY VERSE, BUT THAT'S WHAT OUR MISSION IS, TO TRY AND 03:53 COVER THE PRINCIPLE TEACHINGS IN CHAPTERS ONE THROUGH THREE. 03:57 OUR MEMORY VERSE TODAY IS FROM PROVERBS CHAPTER 1, VERSE 7 AND 04:03 PROVERBS 1:7, IF YOU'D SAY THAT WITH ME HERE IN OUR LESSON, IT'S 04:06 OUT OF THE NEW KING JAMES VERSION. ARE YOU READY? 04:09 "THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE, BUT 04:13 FOOLS DESPISE WISDOM AND INSTRUCTION." 04:18 AND SO THE REAL SOURCE OF ALL TRUE WISDOM IS HAVING THAT 04:23 RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD AND HAVING IT GROUNDED IN THE WORD OF GOD. 04:26 NOW, WHEN YOU LOOK IN THE BOOK OF PROVERBS - RIGHT AT THE VERY 04:29 BEGINNING, THE FIRST VERSE, "THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON THE SON OF 04:35 DAVID, KING OF ISRAEL:" - NOW I PROBABLY OUGHT TO SAY SOMETHING 04:39 ABOUT THE AUTHOR. WAS SOLOMON QUALIFIED TO WRITE A 04:43 BOOK ABOUT WISDOM? ONLY ONE OTHER PERSON I CAN THINK OF THAT 04:49 MIGHT BE MORE QUALIFIED AND THAT WOULD BE JESUS. 04:52 SOLOMON'S NAME IS REALLY RELATED TO THE NAME 'PEACE.' AND IT 04:58 MEANS SALOAMON AND IT MEANS 'HIS PEACE' OR 'THE PEACEFUL ONE.' 05:03 SOLOMON IS A TYPE OF JESUS IN THE BIBLE. FOR ONE THING, 05:07 HE IS THE SON OF DAVID; CHRIST IS CALLED THE SON OF DAVID. 05:10 AND NATHAN THE PROPHET, WHO PROBABLY WAS SOLOMON'S TUTOR, SO 05:15 - AND THERE'S GOOD REASON FOR BELIEVING THAT - NATHAN THE 05:18 PROPHET COMES TO KING DAVID ONE DAY - THIS DOES ALL SEGUE INTO 05:23 THE BOOK OF PROVERBS - AND DAVID IS PRAYING, HE WANTS TO BUILD A 05:27 TEMPLE TO THE LORD, AND NATHAN SAYS GOD'S TOLD ME TO TELL YOU 05:32 THAT YOU WILL NOT BUILD THE TEMPLE PERSONALLY' - EVEN THOUGH 05:35 DAVID AMASSED ALL THE MONEY FOR BUILDING THE TEMPLE - AND 05:38 MATERIALS FROM ALL OF HIS CONQUESTS, HE SAID, 'YOUR SON'LL 05:42 DO IT.' AND HERE'S THAT PROPHECY: 1 CHRONICLES 17, 05:45 VERSES 11 THROUGH 15 - BY THE WAY, I'LL ATTACH THE NOTES SO 05:48 THAT WHEN YOU GO TO THE AMAZING FACTS SABBATH SCHOOL WEBSITE, 05:52 YOU'LL ALSO FIND THE NOTES THERE. 05:54 AND YOU'LL ALSO FIND YOU CAN LOOK AT THE LESSON ONLINE AS 05:57 WELL AND EVEN THE FREE OFFER THAT WE MENTIONED. 06:00 1 CHRONICLES 17, VERSE 11, "AND IT SHALL BE, WHEN YOUR DAYS ARE 06:04 FULFILLED," - NATHAN IS SPEAKING TO DAVID - "WHEN YOU MUST GO TO 06:08 BE WITH YOUR FATHERS, THAT I WILL SET UP YOUR SEED AFTER YOU, 06:12 WHO WILL BE OF YOUR SONS; AND I WILL ESTABLISH HIS KINGDOM. 06:16 HE SHALL BUILD ME A HOUSE, AND I WILL ESTABLISH HIS THRONE 06:19 FOREVER." - WHO IS THIS SON OF DAVID WHO 06:24 WAS TO BUILD A HOUSE FOR THE LORD THAT WAS TO LAST FOREVER? 06:28 IS THAT TALKING ABOUT SOLOMON? OR IS IT TALKING ABOUT JESUS? 06:33 OR COULD IT BE THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT YOU WOULD CALL A 06:36 DUAL PROPHECY, IN THE BIBLE, WHERE DAVID'S THINKING ABOUT 06:39 LITERALLY BUILDING A TEMPLE FOR GOD. 06:41 DAVID'S SON SOLOMON DID BUILD THE TEMPLE OF GOD - THE 06:45 PERMANENT TEMPLE - BUT BEYOND THAT, IT'S MUCH BIGGER. 06:48 JESUS SAID, 'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE MADE WITH HANDS AND IN THREE 06:51 DAYS I'LL MAKE ONE WITHOUT HANDS.' AND SO THERE IT'S 06:54 SPEAKING ABOUT THE CHURCH OF GOD. AND SO SOLOMON IS A 06:58 TYPE OF CHRIST. SO WHEN YOU READ THE BOOK OF 07:00 PROVERBS, JUST REMEMBER YOU'RE READING FROM THE MIND OF 07:07 SOMEBODY WHO WAS AS CLOSE TO GOD AS ANYONE COULD BE AT THAT TIME. 07:12 WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE HISTORY OF ISRAEL, FROM THE TIME GOD CALLED 07:16 ABRAHAM, YOU'LL SEE THAT IT'S JUST A ROLLER COASTER. 07:19 EVERYTHING FROM THE CAPTIVITY - ABRAHAM HAD HIS UPS AND DOWNS 07:22 AND ISAAC AND THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL AND MOSES MADE A LOT OF 07:26 PROMISES TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL. 07:27 'WHEN YOU GET INTO THE PROMISED LAND, YOU'LL BE, YOU KNOW, THE 07:33 HEAD AND NOT THE TAIL.' 'YOU'LL BE THE LEADER. 07:37 I'LL BLESS YOU FROM HEAVEN.' THE ACTUAL ZENITH THE CLIMAX OF ALL 07:43 THE BLESSINGS GOD HAD EVER PROMISED TO ISRAEL WAS 07:45 EXPERIENCED FOR A FEW BRIEF YEARS - PROBABLY 25 - 07:49 30 YEARS, DURING THE REIGN OF SOLOMON. 07:52 MATTER OF FACT, YOU MAY HAVE HEARD ME MENTION BEFORE - IT'S 07:54 VERY INTERESTING, YOU FIND THE NUMBER 6-6-6 TWICE IN THE BIBLE. 07:57 ONCE, OF COURSE, REVELATION, THE OTHER TIME IS DURING THE REIGN 08:01 OF SOLOMON IT TALKS ABOUT WHEN THE QUEEN OF SHEBA CAME - ALL 08:03 THE NATIONS WERE COMING TO HEAR OF HIS WISDOM AND THE QUEEN OF 08:07 SHEBA COMES AND, IT MENTIONS, '666 TALENTS' - AND AFTER THAT 08:13 NUMBER THEN IT SAYS, 'BUT SOLOMON LOVED MANY FOREIGN 08:17 WOMEN.' RIGHT AFTER THAT NUMBER IS MENTIONED THE KINGDOM JUST 08:20 STARTS TO TAKE A DIVE AND - I JUST - I DON'T KNOW, 08:25 THAT ALWAYS STRUCK ME AS INTERESTING. 08:28 BUT THE BOOK OF PROVERBS WAS WRITTEN DURING THE TIME OF 08:32 ISRAEL'S ZENITH - DURING THE TIME WHEN THEY WERE AT THEIR 08:35 GOLDEN, GLORIOUS MOMENT. HE WAS JUST POURING FORTH THIS WISDOM 08:41 AND YOU CAN'T REALLY READ THE BOOK OF PROVERBS WITHOUT 08:43 THINKING ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE WITH THE QUEEN OF SHEBA - ALL 08:46 THESE NATIONS ARE COMING BECAUSE THEY HEAR OF THIS GREAT WISDOM 08:49 OF SOLOMON AND AMONG THE NATIONS THAT COME, OF COURSE, THIS 08:56 QUEEN COMES WITH HER CARAVAN JUST LOADED WITH GOLD - SHE 09:01 BROUGHT GOLD AND SHE BROUGHT SPICES AND ANIMALS AND SERVANTS 09:05 AND ALL SHE WANTED - SHE SAYS, 'I'VE HEARD OF YOUR GREAT WISDOM 09:08 AND I WANTED TO SEE IF ALL OF THE EXTRAORDINARY THINGS I'VE 09:14 HEARD ARE TRUE. YOU KNOW, USUALLY RUMORS ARE 09:15 MUCH BIGGER THAN REALITY. SO HE SPENDS SOME TIME WITH HER 09:20 AND THERE'S NOTHING IN THE BIBLE THAT SAID THEY HAD ANY KIND OF 09:22 ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIP - THAT'S ALL HOLLYWOOD - AND, I MEAN, HE 09:27 HAD LOTS AND LOTS OF WIVES, HE DIDN'T NEED THE QUEEN OF SHEBA - 09:31 AND SO HE ANSWERED HER QUESTIONS AND WAS VERY RESPECTFUL. 09:36 SHE REPRESENTED ANOTHER KINGDOM - BUT WHEN SHE GOT DONE LOOKING 09:39 AT THE KINGDOM AND THE TEMPLE AND HIS HOUSE AND HIS SERVANTS 09:43 AND THEIR CLOTHING AND GOLD EVERYWHERE, THE BIBLE SAYS 09:46 'SILVER WAS LIKE STONES' IN ISRAEL AT THAT TIME BECAUSE 09:49 THERE WAS SO MUCH OF IT IN THE KINGDOM - THAT THAT'S WHERE YOU 09:54 GET THE WORD 'BREATHTAKING.' YOU'VE HEARD THE WORD 09:56 'BREATHTAKING?' SHE SAID THERE WAS NO MORE 09:58 SPIRIT LEFT IN HER AND THE WORD THERE IS 'BREATH.' AND SHE SAID, 10:03 'HALF OF WHAT THEY TOLD ME ABOUT YOU - I'VE ONLY HEARD 10:06 HALF OF IT. I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT UNTIL I 10:08 SAW IT FOR MYSELF - YOUR WISDOM. BLESSED ARE YOUR SERVANTS. 10:11 BLESSED ARE THOSE WHO SERVE BEFORE YOU.' AND THAT'S REALLY A 10:14 TYPE OF CHRIST. HOW BLESSED WE WILL BE. 10:17 SO THIS IS THE TIME WHEN HE'S WRITING ALL OF THESE PROVERBS. 10:22 NOW SOMETHING ELSE I SHOULD SAY ABOUT SOLOMON BEFORE I LEAVE 10:25 THAT AND WE'RE STILL TALKING ABOUT THE AUTHOR - SOLOMON, HOW 10:31 DID HE GET HIS WISDOM? SUPERNATURALLY AND PHYSICALLY. 10:38 SUPERNATURALLY BECAUSE IT SAYS IN 1 KINGS CHAPTER 3, 'SOLOMON 10:44 LOVED THE LORD, WALKING IN ALL THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE LORD AND 10:47 WHEN HE BECAME KING HE WENT AND HE MADE THIS GREAT SACRIFICE TO 10:50 THE LORD AND GOD APPEARED TO HIM IN A DREAM BY NIGHT AND HE SAID, 10:52 'ASK WHAT I CAN DO FOR YOU.' AND SOLOMON ASKED FOR WISDOM. 10:57 HE ASKED FOR AN UNDERSTANDING HEART THAT HE MIGHT KNOW HOW TO 11:00 DISCERN BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL. HE HAD A HUMBLE ATTITUDE. 11:04 HE SAID, 'I'M JUST A CHILD. 11:05 I DON'T KNOW HOW TO GO OUT OR TO COME IN AND HERE YOU'VE MADE ME 11:08 THE RULER OF THIS VAST KINGDOM.' HE SAID, 'GIVE ME AN 11:12 UNDERSTANDING HEART THAT I CAN LEAD YOUR PEOPLE. 11:14 I NEED WISDOM.' AND BECAUSE HE ASKED FOR THAT - AND REALLY, YOU 11:17 KNOW WHAT HE WAS ASKING FOR? IT'S THE HOLY SPIRIT. 11:21 WHEN YOU ASK GOD FOR WISDOM, THAT'S ONE OF THE ATTRIBUTES OF 11:24 THE HOLY SPIRIT AND JAMES SAYS, 'IF ANY OF YOU LACK WISDOM, LET 11:28 HIM ASK OF GOD WHO GIVES TO ALL MEN LIBERALLY.' OF COURSE, WE 11:31 STUDIED JAMES FOR THIRTEEN WEEKS JUST BEFORE THIS. SO HE WAS 11:36 PRAYING FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT. AND DID GOD ANSWER HIS PRAYER? 11:40 GOD SAID, 'BECAUSE YOU'VE ASKED THIS THING AND YOU DIDN'T ASK 11:43 FOR RICHES, YOU DIDN'T ASK FOR LONG LIFE, YOU DIDN'T ASK FOR 11:45 VENGEANCE ON YOUR ENEMIES, I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU EVERYTHING 11:48 ELSE BUT I'M GOING TO ALSO GIVE YOU WISDOM. AND THEN IT GOES ON 11:53 AND IT BEGINS TO SAY, 'THERE WAS NOBODY AS WISE AS SOLOMON.' 11:58 AND WE'LL GET TO THAT IN JUST A MINUTE. SO ONE THING IS HE 12:01 SUPERNATURALLY WAS GIVEN THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 12:05 BUT HOW WISE WAS SOLOMON WHEN HE TURNED AWAY FROM THE LORD? 12:09 'THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM.' AFTER 12:11 SOLOMON BEGAN TO DISREGARD GOD'S COMMANDMENT ABOUT DON'T MULTIPLY 12:15 WIVES, AND THEN YOU SEE IT SAYS, 'HE MULTIPLIED WIVES.' GOD SAID, 12:19 'DO NOT MULTIPLY SILVER AND GOLD.' HE MULTIPLIED SILVER AND 12:22 GOLD. IT SAID, 'DO NO MULTIPLY HORSES FROM EGYPT' - 12:24 MEANING ARMAMENTS - AND IT SAYS, 'HE BROUGHT ALL THESE HORSES OUT 12:28 OF EGYPT.' THREE THINGS MOSES SAID THAT THEY WEREN'T TO DO, 12:31 SOLOMON STARTED TO DO. AND THEN HE BEGAN TO COMPROMISE 12:35 BECAUSE HIS WIVES BEGAN TO PRESS HIM IN HIS LATTER YEARS SAYING, 12:38 'OH, IT'S NOT FAIR. YOU KNOW, WE MISS OUR HOMES. 12:40 WE WEREN'T RAISED WITH THIS RELIGION. 12:42 CAN I JUST HAVE ONE LITTLE GOD TO KEEP IN MY - IN MY ROOM?' 12:45 AND HE SAID, 'ALRIGHT, I WON'T MAKE A BIG DEAL.' AND THEN THE 12:48 STARTED WANTING THE LITTLE GODS IN THE HALLWAY AND THE NEXT 12:50 THING YOU KNOW THE LITTLE GODS WERE IN THE PALACES AND ALL 12:52 THEIR GODS FROM THE DIFFERENT KINGDOMS, EVENTUALLY THEY WERE 12:54 IN THE TEMPLE. AND I'M SURE IT DIDN'T HAPPEN OVERNIGHT. 12:58 IT HAPPENED BY LITTLE COMPROMISES THAT WERE MADE, 12:59 AND CONSTANT PRESSURE. AND SO WHEN HIS FEAR OF THE LORD 13:05 BEGAN TO WANE, HIS WISDOM BEGAN TO WANE. 13:10 BUT, FORTUNATELY, WE BELIEVE THAT PROVERBS WAS WRITTEN, NOT 13:14 SO MUCH ECCLESIASTES, PROVERBS WAS WRITTEN DURING HIS BEST 13:18 YEARS. BUT HE ALSO, GENETICALLY, I THINK, HAD SOME ADVANTAGE. 13:27 WHO WAS HIS FATHER? DAVID. NOW, YOU REMEMBER HOW SOLOMON 13:33 CAME TO BE IS - SOLOMON, WHO IS HIS MOTHER? 13:37 >>BATHSHEBA. 13:39 >>BATHSHEBA AND DID DAVID AND BATHSHEBA GO THROUGH A REGULAR 13:42 COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE OR DID IT HAVE ALL THE WRONG BEGINNINGS? 13:46 DID DAVID HAVE - DID SOLOMON HAVE AN OLDER BROTHER THAT DIED 13:51 IN HIS INFANCY BECAUSE OF THE SIN OF DAVID AND BATHSHEBA? 13:55 AND THEN IT'S INTERESTING THAT AFTER THAT IT SAYS, IN 2 SAMUEL 14:01 12, 'DAVID COMFORTED BATHSHEBA, HIS WIFE.' - FIRST GOD 14:05 PRONOUNCES A JUDGEMENT ON DAVID AND HE SAYS, 'YOU TOOK THE WIFE 14:09 OF URIAH.' AND AFTER DAVID THOROUGHLY REPENTS - AS MUCH AS 14:12 ANYONE CAN - I MEAN HE WAS ON HIS FACE PRAYING FOR SEVEN DAYS 14:14 - GOD FORGAVE HIM AND THEN IT SAYS, 'DAVID COMFORTED HIS 14:18 WIFE.' SO IN SPITE OF THE FACT THEY GOT A VERY BAD BEGINNING, 14:22 DID GOD ULTIMATELY ACCEPT THAT BATHSHEBA WAS HIS WIFE? 14:25 DAVID COMFORTED HIS WIFE, HE SPENT SOME TIME WITH HER, THERE 14:28 WAS ANOTHER BABY THAT CAME ALONG, HIS NAME WAS SOLOMON. 14:31 NOW, DID YOU KNOW THAT SOLOMON HAD THREE OTHER BROTHERS? 14:34 YEAH, THE BIBLE SAYS HE HAD THREE YOUNGER BROTHERS AS WELL 14:38 AND THAT - WELL, LET ME SEE HERE, THERE NAMES - AND THAT, BY 14:43 THE WAY, IS IN 2 SAMUEL 16:23 - NOT THAT THIS RELATES TO 14:46 PROVERBS BUT BEING AN OLDER BROTHER MIGHT SHARPEN YOUR 14:50 SKILLS. SHIMEAH, WHICH WAS NAMED AFTER SOLOMON'S UNCLE - DAVID'S 14:54 BROTHER - SHOBAB, NATHAN - NAMED AFTER SOLOMON'S TUTOR, THE 14:59 PROPHET - AND SOLOMON - DID I SAY THEM? 15:04 YEAH, SHIMEAH, SHOBAB, NATHAN, AND SOLOMON WAS THE FOURTH. 15:08 NOW WHO WAS BATHSHEBA'S - NOW TELL US WHO WAS BATHSHEBA'S 15:13 FATHER? HE WAS SOMEONE NAMED ELIAM. 15:17 ELIAM HAD A FATHER NAMED AHITHOPHEL. 15:21 NOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT SAYS IN THE BIBLE ABOUT AHITHOPHEL? 15:25 THIS IS 2 SAMUEL 16:23, NOW THE ADVICE - THAT AHITHOPHEL WAS ONE 15:30 OF THE COUNSELORS OF DAVID - DAVID WAS PRETTY SMART - AND 15:35 AHITHOPHEL - IT SAYS WHEN SOMEONE ASKED ADVICE FROM HIM, 15:40 "...WHICH HE GAVE IN THOSE DAYS, WAS AS IF ONE HAD INQUIRED AT 15:44 THE ORACLE OF GOD. SO WAS ALL THE ADVICE OF 15:47 AHITHOPHEL BOTH WITH DAVID AND WITH ABSALOM." 15:50 SO BRILLIANT GRANDFATHER, A BRILLIANT FATHER - 15:55 DAVID WAS A MUSICIAN, HE WAS A WISE ADMINISTRATOR - 15:58 LOOK AT ALL THE PSALMS HE WROTE - AND SO SOLOMON NATURALLY 16:02 AND SUPERNATURALLY HAD GREAT ADVANTAGES OF WISDOM. 16:08 SO HE WAS DECLARED TO BE ONE OF THE WISEST MEN. 16:12 WHAT'S THE STORY THE BIBLE USES TO ILLUSTRATE HIS GREAT WISDOM? 16:16 WHAT STANDS OUT IN YOUR MIND? >>CUTTING THE BABY. 16:18 >>YEAH, DIVIDING THE BABY, WHICH NEVER REALLY WAS ACTUALLY 16:21 DIVIDED - BUT THREATENING TO DIVIDE THE BABY, THE TWO WOMEN 16:23 WERE ARGUING OVER AND HE KNEW RIGHT AWAY WHAT THE RESPONSE OF 16:26 THE REAL MOTHER WOULD BE AND TO DO THAT ON THE SPOT, 16:30 YOUR WHEELS HAVE TO TURN PRETTY FAST. 16:32 SO THAT'S A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE AUTHOR OF PROVERBS. 16:38 NOW TALKING ABOUT A PROVERB, IN PARTICULAR, WHAT IS A PROVERB? 16:42 A PROVERB IS - AND THIS IS SOME OF THE DEFINITIONS YOU'RE 16:45 GOING TO FIND IN THE COMMENTARIES. 'A PROVERB IS A 16:49 PITHY - PITHY IS A SHORT AND QUICK CONCISE SENTENCE, 16:54 EXPRESSING SOME WELL-ESTABLISHED TRUTH - 16:57 SUSCEPTIBLE OF VARIOUS ILLUSTRATIONS AND APPLICATIONS.' 17:01 THE WORD IN THE LATIN DERIVATION, IT MEANS, 17:04 'FOR A WORD OR A SPEECH; PROVERB' OR PROVERBIUM, 17:09 IS HOW YOU WOULD SAY IT IN LATIN. 17:10 IN GREEK IT'S 'PARAMAEI' BUT IN HEBREW, WHICH, OF COURSE, 17:15 PROVERBS WAS ORIGINALLY WRITTEN IN, IT'S 'MASHAL' AND MASHAL 17:19 MEANS 'A COMPARISON; OR SUPERIORITY IN MENTAL ACTION; A 17:24 PITHY MAXIM OR OF A METAPHORICAL NATURE OR A SIMILE - ADAGE, A 17:31 POEM, A DISCOURSE, A BYWORD.' NOW WHAT HAPPENS A LOT IN 17:36 PROVERBS IS HE'LL CONTRAST WISDOM WITH FOOLISHNESS IN SHORT 17:42 SENTENCES. IT TALKS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE 17:45 DILIGENT MAN AND IT ALWAYS THEN WILL CONTRAST THAT WITH 'THE 17:48 SLUGGARD.' IT'LL TALK ABOUT THE WISE MAN IN ONE VERSE AND THE 17:52 NEXT VERSE WILL SAY, 'BUT THE FOOL' AND SO A LOT OF THE 17:55 PROVERBS YOU'RE JUST GOING TO SEE IT GOING BACK AND FORTH 17:57 BETWEEN EXTREMES. AND SO, JESUS USED A LOT OF 18:01 PROVERBS AND PARABLES IN HIS TEACHING. 18:04 ALRIGHT, AND WITH THAT, IF YOU LOOK IN THE FIRST VERSE, OF 18:09 COURSE, IT SAYS, THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON THE SON OF DAVID, KING 18:13 OF ISRAEL:" - DO WE HAVE TO QUESTION WHO THE AUTHOR IS? 18:15 IT'S PRETTY CLEAR THERE. HOW SMART WAS HE? 18:18 1 KINGS 4, VERSE 31, "FOR HE WAS WISER THAN ALL MEN" - NOW I 18:25 REALLY WISH THAT - WHEN I GET TO HEAVEN, I WANT TO GO THROUGH THE 18:28 DATABASE BECAUSE THEN IT LISTS SEVERAL PEOPLE THAT WERE KNOWN 18:30 FOR THEIR WISDOM AND WE DON'T KNOW WHO THEY ARE. 18:32 IT SAYS, "FOR HE WAS WISER THAN ALL MEN - THAN ETHAN THE 18:36 EZRAHITE, AND HEMAN, CHALCOL, AND DARDA, THE SONS OF MAHOL; 18:42 AND" - I'M GOING, 'WHO ARE THESE GUYS?' 18:43 BUT, EVIDENTLY, THEY WERE KNOWN AS VERY WISE PEOPLE. 18:47 IT SAYS, 'SOLOMON'S WISER THAN ALL OF THEM.' AND WE'RE ALL 18:49 GOING, 'WHO ARE THEY?' BUT THEY'RE KIND OF LOST TO 18:52 HISTORY FOR US, BUT EVIDENTLY, WHEN IT WAS WRITTEN, THEY WERE 18:55 KNOWN AS JUST THE WISE OF THE WISE - "HIS FAME WAS IN ALL THE 18:59 SURROUNDING NATIONS. HE SPOKE" - HERE IT IS - "THREE 19:03 THOUSAND PROVERBS, AND HIS SONGS WERE ONE THOUSAND AND FIVE." 19:08 NOW SOMEBODY'S GOING TO READ FOR ME, IN A MOMENT, PROVERBS 25:1 - 19:13 WHO? YOU'LL HAVE THAT? OKAY, WE'LL GET YOU SET UP FOR THAT. 19:15 NOW, BESIDES THE PROVERBS THAT WERE WRITTEN BY SOLOMON, IT 19:24 TELLS US THAT A NUMBER OF OTHERS WERE CONSIGNED - WERE WRITTEN 19:31 OUT OR - COMPILED IS THE WORD I'M LOOKING FOR. 19:33 A NUMBER OF OTHER PROVERBS WERE COMPILED BY SOMEBODY IN 19:36 PARTICULAR. WHY DON'T YOU GO AHEAD - YOU'RE 19:39 GOING TO READ, I THINK, PROVERBS 25, VERSE 1 FOR US. 19:41 >>"THESE ARE ALSO PROVERBS OF SOLOMON, WHICH THE MEN OF 19:45 HEZEKIAH KING OF JUDAH COPIED OUT." 19:48 >>ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. IF YOU LOOK THROUGH ALL OF THE 19:51 PROVERBS THAT WE HAVE, HOW MANY DID IT JUST SAY THAT SOLOMON 19:53 WROTE? >>THREE THOUSAND. 19:56 >>'THREE THOUSAND PROVERBS AND HIS SONGS WERE A THOUSAND AND 19:58 FIVE.' NOW, IN THE PSALMS, THEY'VE GOT 20:01 A HUNDRED AND FIFTY PSALMS OF DAVID. 20:03 SOME OF THOSE MAY BE SONGS OF SOLOMON, WE DON'T KNOW - OR 20:06 SONGS OF SOLOMON - WE KNOW THERE'S 'THE SONG OF SOLOMON' 20:09 BUT THAT'S DIFFERENT FROM OTHER SONGS THAT MAY BE THERE. 20:11 BUT, EVIDENTLY, DURING THE TIME OF HEZEKIAH, THE TEMPLE HAD BEEN 20:16 NEGLECTED, THE BOOKS HAD BEEN NEGLECTED, AND HE - HE SET SOME 20:21 SCRIBES TO THE TASK OF COMPILING AND COORDINATING AND MAYBE 20:26 PUTTING IN THE FORMS THAT WE HAVE THEM NOW, THE PROVERBS OF 20:28 SOLOMON. I GUESS THEY WEREN'T ORGANIZED AS WELL. 20:31 IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT HEZEKIAH WROTE THEM. 20:34 THEY WERE STILL THE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON. 20:36 SOMEONE SAID, 'WELL, HEZEKIAH PROBABLY WROTE THEM. 20:38 SOLOMON WROTE THE FIRST FEW, BUT WE DON'T KNOW WHO WROTE THE 20:40 REST.' I THINK THEY ALL WERE WRITTEN BY - 20:44 OR THE MAJORITY OF THEM WERE WRITTEN BY SOLOMON, ANYWAY. 20:46 "THESE ALSO ARE PROVERBS OF SOLOMON, WHICH THE MEN OF 20:49 HEZEKIAH KING OF JUDAH" - OR THE SCRIBES - "COPIED:" ALRIGHT, 20:54 LET'S GO TO CHAPTER 1 OF PROVERBS. AND THE FIRST SECTION 20:58 IN OUR LESSON IS TALKING ABOUT THE BEGINNING OF WISDOM. 21:02 NOW THIS IS OUR MEMORY VERSE: "THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE 21:04 BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE," - OR KING JAMES SAYS 'WISDOM' - "BUT 21:07 FOOLS DESPISE WISDOM AND INSTRUCTION." 21:10 DO YOU SEE THE CONTRAST THERE? FEAR OF THE LORD - FOOL. 21:14 'THE FOOL HAS SAID IN HIS HEART THERE IS NO GOD.' AND SO IT'S 21:17 MAKING THAT CONTRAST. MOSES, WHEN HE LED THE CHILDREN 21:21 OF ISRAEL OUT OF EGYPT, HE SAID THE WORD OF GOD IS GOING TO MAKE 21:26 YOU WISER THAN ALL OF THE OTHER NATIONS AROUND YOU.' SO WHAT 21:30 SOLOMON'S SAYING IS NOT ORIGINAL WITH HIM. FOR INSTANCE, IF YOU 21:33 LOOK IN DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 4, VERSES 5 AND 6, IT SAYS, 21:39 'SURELY I HAVE TAUGHT YOU STATUTES AND JUDGMENTS, JUST AS 21:43 THE LORD MY GOD COMMANDED ME, THAT YOU SHOULD ACT ACCORDING 21:46 TO THEM IN THE LAND WHERE YOU GO TO POSSESS. 21:48 THEREFORE BE CAREFUL TO OBSERVE THEM; FOR THIS IS YOUR WISDOM 21:53 AND YOUR UNDERSTANDING IN THE SIGHT OF THE PEOPLES WHO WILL 21:57 HEAR ALL THESE STATUTES, AND SAY, 'SURELY THIS GREAT NATION 22:01 IS A WISE AND UNDERSTANDING PEOPLE.'" SO HOW MANY OF THE 22:06 PEOPLE IN THE NATION COULD BE WISE? 22:08 THEY COULD ALL BE WISE IF THEY DID WHAT? 22:10 HE SAID, 'IF YOU LISTEN TO THE STATUTES OF THE LORD, IF YOU 22:14 FOLLOW THE COUNSEL OF GOD, YOUR PERCEIVED IQ WILL GO UP 22:18 AUTOMATICALLY. FIRST OF ALL, YOU'LL STAY OUT OF 22:20 A LOT OF TROUBLE. HAVE YOU FOUND THAT AS YOU GET 22:23 OLDER YOU DON'T MAKE AS MANY MISTAKES? 22:26 OTHER THAN MISPLACING YOUR KEYS OR GLASSES OR SOMETHING LIKE 22:28 THAT? YEAH, WE WON'T GO THERE. BUT, YEAH, WHEN YOU'RE FOLLOWING 22:36 THE WORD OF GOD, IT'S THE FOUNDATION FOR GENUINE WISDOM. 22:40 SOMETHING ELSE, DANIEL DESCRIBES A CATEGORY OF WISDOM IN DANIEL 22:44 12, VERSES 3 AND 4, "THOSE WHO ARE WISE SHALL SHINE LIKE THE 22:49 BRIGHTNESS OF THE FIRMAMENT, AND THOSE WHO TURN MANY TO 22:53 RIGHTEOUSNESS LIKE THE STARS FOREVER AND EVER. BUT YOU, 22:57 DANIEL, SHUT UP THE WORDS, AND SEAL THE BOOK UNTIL THE TIME OF 22:59 THE END; MANY SHALL RUN TO AND FRO, AND KNOWLEDGE SHALL 23:02 INCREASE." NOW THAT BEGS THE NEXT QUESTION - FIRST OF ALL, 23:05 PART OF WISDOM IS TURNING PEOPLE TO RIGHTEOUSNESS. 23:08 SO ONE THING IS YOU LIVE THE WISDOM OF GOD IN YOUR LIFE, THE 23:11 OTHER THING IS YOU SHARE THE WISDOM OF GOD AND YOU BRING 23:14 PEOPLE TO RIGHTEOUSNESS BY YOUR EXAMPLE - BY YOUR WORDS. 23:17 BUT DANIEL SAID ONE OF THE CHARACTERISTICS IN THE LAST DAYS 23:23 IS THAT KNOWLEDGE WOULD INCREASE. 23:25 IS KNOWLEDGE INCREASING THE SAME THING AS WISDOM INCREASING? 23:30 HAS THERE EVER BEEN A GENERATION, EVEN IF YOU GO BACK 23:34 AND INCLUDE EVERYBODY FROM 15 YEARS AGO ALL THE WAY BACK TO 23:39 THE BEGINNING OF HISTORY, THAT HAS MORE KNOWLEDGE AT THEIR 23:42 FINGERTIPS THAN THIS GENERATION? IN FACT, I THINK THAT IT'S 23:47 HANDICAPPED OUR BRAINS - NO, REALLY, BECAUSE WHEN I WAS A KID 23:53 WE HAD TO REMEMBER MATH TABLES AND SPELLING WORDS AND - I NEVER 23:59 DID DO VERY WELL WITH SPELLING - BUT I REMEMBER WE HAD TO DO A 24:01 LOT OF MEMORIZATION. WE'D READ VAST CHAPTERS AND THEN 24:04 GET QUIZZED ON THINGS WITH NO CHEATING NOTES AND WE HAD NO 24:07 CALCULATORS BACK THEN AND HAD TO DO THE - HAD TO WORK THE 24:10 PROBLEMS AND LEAVE THE ANSWERS THERE. 24:14 YEAH, WELL, THEY STARTED SHOWING UP DURING YOUR SCHOOL TIME, BUT 24:17 I HAD NO CALCULATORS DURING MY SCHOOL TIME, DEAR. 24:20 I THINK THE FIRST ONE CAME OUT LIKE $100.00 AND WE DIDN'T HAVE 24:23 CALCULATORS IN SCHOOL. BUT WE HAVE MORE KNOWLEDGE AT 24:28 OUR FINGERTIPS NOW BUT YOU WONDER, DO WE HAVE MORE WISDOM? 24:31 ARE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD STILL USING THE TECHNOLOGY TO KILL 24:35 EACH OTHER? AND SO, I MEAN, GREAT - I AM SO 24:39 THANKFUL FOR THE MEDICAL ADVANCES. 24:41 I AM SO THANKFUL THAT IT DOESN'T TAKE SIX MONTHS ANYMORE TO GET 24:46 FROM NEW YORK TO CALIFORNIA. I MEAN, THAT'S WHAT IT USED TO 24:49 TAKE. AND, YOU KNOW, YOU'D LOSE TWENTY PERCENT OF YOUR PARTY ON 24:53 THE WAY. SO I MEAN, I'M VERY THANKFUL FOR SOME OF THESE 24:58 ADVANCES THAT WE HAVE. WE HAVE A LOT OF KNOWLEDGE NOW. 25:01 BUT THE HUMAN HEART IS DESPERATELY WICKED. 25:04 AND SO THE PROBLEMS WITH WISDOM - WISDOM IS THE APPLICATION - 25:10 THE RIGHT APPLICATION OF THAT KNOWLEDGE. AND SO YOU CAN BE 25:13 LIVING IN A GENERATION THAT HAS ALMOST - I MEAN, YOU CANNOT 25:19 SEARCH THE WISDOM ON GOOGLE FASTER THAN IT IS COMPILING. 25:24 YOU - IT IS JUST MOUNTING UP LIKE AN AVALANCHE ALL THE TIME. 25:28 THE KNOWLEDGE OF THESE SEARCH ENGINES - STUFF JUST POURING OUT 25:32 THERE - AND THEY'RE BUILDING SERVERS THAT ARE AS BIG AS 25:34 ENTIRE SOUTHERN STATES RIGHT NOW. 25:37 REALLY, THERE'S JUST A MASSIVE - YOU GO TO ARIZONA AND SOME OF 25:41 THESE PLACES, THEY'VE JUST GOT ACRES AND ACRES OF COMPUTERS 25:44 THAT ARE WHIRRING WITH KNOWLEDGE AND FACTS AND DATA AND A LOT 25:48 OF IT IS YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION. 25:50 YOU THINK THE CLOUD'S UP THERE SOMEWHERE? 25:52 THE CLOUD'S ON THE GROUND IN COMPUTERS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY 25:55 AND THEY'VE GOT ALL YOUR STATISTICS AND ALL YOUR DATA 25:59 THERE. BUT THAT'S A LOT OF KNOWLEDGE, 26:01 BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT MAKES WISDOM. 26:04 AND SO, WHEN WE'RE STUDYING PROVERBS WE'RE GOING TO BE 26:07 TALKING ABOUT PRACTICAL THINGS AND SOME OF THEM ARE GOING TO 26:09 SEEM LIKE JUST VERY SIMPLE STATEMENTS OF TRUTH. 26:12 ALRIGHT, SO IT'S THE BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE - OF WISDOM - 'FEAR 26:16 OF THE LORD - BEGINNING OF WISDOM.' LET'S GO RIGHT TO 26:19 PROVERBS AND I'M GOING TO READ - LET'S READ SOME OF THEM HERE. 26:22 GO TO VERSE 3 - OH, I'M SORRY, VERSE 2, "TO KNOW WISDOM AND 26:27 INSTRUCTION, TO PERCEIVE THE WORDS OF UNDERSTANDING," - SO 26:31 HERE, YOU NOTICE, IT'S GOT WISDOM, INSTRUCTION, 26:35 PERCEPTION, AND UNDERSTANDING IN ONE VERSE. 26:39 YOU'RE GOING TO FIND THAT IT'S TALKING ABOUT ALL THESE 26:42 DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF COGNITIVE REALIZATION. 26:47 TO RECEIVE THE INSTRUCTION OF WISDOM, JUSTICE, JUDGMENT AND 26:51 EQUITY; TO GIVE PRUDENCE TO THE SIMPLE," - SO IT CAN MAKE A 26:56 PERSON WHO'S SIMPLE MINDED OR EVEN GULLIBLE, WISE BY THESE 27:01 THINGS - "TO THE YOUNG MAN KNOWLEDGE" - THAT'D BE YOUNG MEN 27:03 AND YOUNG WOMEN - "AND DISCRETION - A WISE MAN WILL 27:07 HEAR AND INCREASE LEARNING," - IN OTHER WORDS, THOSE WHO ARE 27:09 YOUNG WHO DON'T HAVE IT, THEY BECOME WISE. 27:11 THE ONES WHO ARE WISE, THEY INCREASE IN THEIR WISDOM BY 27:14 LISTENING - "A MAN OF UNDERSTANDING WILL ATTAIN WISE 27:18 COUNSEL, TO UNDERSTAND A PROVERB AND AN ENIGMA, 27:21 THE WORDS OF THE WISE AND THEIR RIDDLES. 27:24 THE FEAR OF THE LORD IS THE BEGINNING OF KNOWLEDGE, BUT 27:27 FOOLS DESPISE WISDOM AND INSTRUCTION. 27:30 MY SON, HEAR THE INSTRUCTION OF YOUR FATHER, AND DO NOT FORSAKE 27:34 THE LAW OF YOUR MOTHER; FOR THEY WILL BE A GRACEFUL ORNAMENT ON 27:38 YOUR HEAD, AND CHAINS ABOUT YOUR NECK." 27:40 NOW, YOU KNOW WHEN SOLOMON FIRST BECAME KING, BEFORE - UNLIKE 27:44 SOME KINGS, BEFORE YOU CAN BECOME KING THE FORMER KING HAS 27:49 TO DIE. BUT SOMETHING UNUSUAL HAPPENED WITH SOLOMON. 27:53 HE CO-REIGNED WITH HIS FATHER. MATTER OF FACT, HIS FATHER 27:57 ORDERED HIS CORONATION BECAUSE SOLOMON'S OLDER BROTHER 28:02 ADONIJAH, TRIED TO SEIZE THE THRONE. 28:05 AND SO EVEN - EVEN DAVID SAT UP ON HIS BED AND - HE WAS SICK AT 28:11 THE TIME - AND HE RECOGNIZED SOLOMON AS KING. 28:13 DAVID RECOVERED, BRIEFLY, FROM THAT AND IT TALKS ABOUT THEM 28:16 KIND OF WALKING AND TALKING TOGETHER AND HE GAVE HIS SON A 28:18 LOT OF INSTRUCTION. HE SAID, 'HERE'S SOME ADVICE AND 28:20 SOME THINGS YOU NEED TO FOLLOW THROUGH WITH. 28:22 HERE'S SOME PEOPLE YOU NEED TO TAKE CARE - HERE'S SOME THAT YOU 28:24 NEED TO KEEP AN EYE ON' - AND HE JUST - HE GAVE HIM A LOT OF 28:27 WISDOM, BUT SOLOMON WAS TOLD BY DAVID, ALMOST THE VERY THINGS 28:31 THAT HE'S NOW PASSING ON TO HIS SONS. NOW, WHEN SOLOMON TALKS TO 28:36 HIS SON ABOUT PAYING ATTENTION TO WISDOM, WHO WAS THE SON OF 28:40 SOLOMON THAT TOOK OVER THE THRONE? 28:41 >>JERABOAM. 28:43 >>REHABOAM - IT SOUNDS LIKE JERABOAM - IT'S EASY TO CONFUSE. 28:47 MATTER OF FACT, THERE'S A JERABOAM AND A REHABOAM AT THE 28:50 SAME TIME. REHABOAM IS THE SON OF SOLOMON. 28:53 DO YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENED WHEN HE BECAME KING AFTER SOLOMON HAD 28:56 REIGNED FOR FORTY YEARS? THE PEOPLE CAME - THE KINGDOM 28:59 WAS JUST THRIVING, BUT HE HAD HEAVILY TAXED THEM. 29:03 THEY WERE STRONG MILITARILY, THEY WERE STRONG ECONOMICALLY, 29:06 BUT THEY HAD - HE HAD A BIG WORK FORCE BUILDING ALL THE TIME. 29:08 HE JUST TOLD THE PEOPLE, 'THIS MANY MONTHS OF THE YEAR YOU'RE 29:11 IN A WORK FORCE.' AND WHEN REHABOAM BECAME KING THE PEOPLE 29:16 CAME TO HIM AND THEY SAID, 'YOU KNOW, WE KNOW THAT THINGS ARE 29:20 GOING WELL NOW, THE KINGDOM'S AT PEACE BUT, BOY, YOUR DAD, 29:22 HE TAXED US WITH A HEAVY TAX LOAD. 29:26 ARE YOU GOING TO LIGHTEN THAT?' AND REHABOAM WAS AT LEAST WISE 29:29 ENOUGH TO SAY, 'LET ME GET BACK TO YOU. 29:31 COME AND ASSEMBLE IN THREE DAYS.' AND HE WENT AND TALKED TO 29:34 THE COUNSELORS OF SOLOMON AND THEY SAID, 'IF YOU HUMBLE 29:37 YOURSELF TO THIS PEOPLE NOW, THEY WILL SERVE YOU FOREVER.' 29:42 BUT HE THOUGHT, 'HUMBLE? I'M THE NEW KING. 29:44 I'VE GOT TO SHOW MYSELF STRONG.' AND HE WENT AND TALKED TO HIS 29:46 FRIENDS THAT HE GREW UP WITH AND SAID, 'WHAT DO YOU THINK I OUGHT 29:48 TO DO?' THEY SAID, 'DON'T YOU FALL FOR THAT. 29:50 YOU'VE GOT TO TELL THEM WHO'S BOSS. 29:52 YOU SAY, 'MY LITTLE FINGER'S GOING TO BE THICKER THAN MY 29:53 FATHER'S THIGH AND HE WHIPPED YOU WITH WHIPS BUT I'M GOING TO 29:57 WHIP YOU WITH SCORPIONS. YOU BETTER DO WHAT I SAY.'' AND 29:59 HE SAID, 'YEAH, YEAH.' THAT APPEALED TO HIS PRIDE. 30:02 HE GOT ALL THE PEOPLE TOGETHER AND HE ANSWERED THEM ROUGHLY, 30:05 LIKE HIS YOUNG IDIOTIC FRIENDS HAD TOLD HIM AND, SURE ENOUGH, 30:10 THE PEOPLE REBELLED AND THAT'S WHEN TEN OF THE TRIBES SAID, 30:12 'ALRIGHT, REHABOAM, YOU'RE FROM THE TRIBE OF DAVID, 30:16 YOU CAN RULE OVER DAVID. 30:18 TO ISRAEL - TO YOUR TENTS.' AND SO TEN OF THE TRIBES, THEY BROKE 30:22 AWAY AND THEY NEVER DID REUNITE AFTER THAT. 30:24 SO REHABOAM, WHEN SOLOMON SAID, 'MY SON, LISTEN TO THE WISDOM OF 30:28 YOUR FATHER.' HE REJECTED HIS FATHER'S COUNSELORS. 30:32 CAN YOU IMAGINE BEING A COUNSELOR FOR THE WISEST MAN IN 30:35 THE WORLD? WOULDN'T THAT BE INTIMIDATING? 30:37 YOU HAD TO BE PRETTY SMART TO BE A COUNSELOR FOR SOLOMON - TO 30:42 REJECT THE WISDOM OF SOLOMON'S COUNSELORS IS REALLY FOOLISH. 30:48 SO THAT JUST POPS INTO MY MIND AS I READ THIS WHERE HE SAYS, 30:51 'MY SON, HEAR THE INSTRUCTION OF YOUR FATHER.' SOLOMON LISTENED 30:54 TO DAVID, REHABOAM DID NOT LISTEN TO SOLOMON. 30:57 "DO NOT FORSAKE THE LAW OF YOUR MOTHER." THE BIBLE SAYS 31:00 HONOR YOUR FATHER ONLY OR YOUR FATHER AND YOUR MOTHER? 31:04 GOD GAVE US THAT PERSPECTIVE OF BOTH PARENTS - "FOR THEY WILL BE 31:07 A GRACEFUL ORNAMENT ON YOUR HEAD," - I'M IN PROVERBS 9 - IN 31:11 CHAPTER 1 - "AND CHAINS ABOUT YOUR NECK. 31:13 MY SON, IF SINNERS ENTICE YOU, DO NOT CONSENT. 31:17 IF THEY SAY, 'COME WITH US, LET US LIE IN WAIT TO SHED BLOOD; 31:20 LET US LURK SECRETLY FOR THE INNOCENT WITHOUT CAUSE; LET US 31:24 SWALLOW THEM ALIVE LIKE SHEOL, AND WHOLE, LIKE THOSE WHO GO 31:28 DOWN TO THE PIT; WE SHALL FIND ALL KINDS OF PRECIOUS 31:31 POSSESSIONS," - THEY TEMPT YOU AND SAY, 'OH, LET'S DO THIS, 31:33 WE'RE GOING TO GET RICH QUICK - "WE SHALL FILL OUR HOUSES WITH 31:35 SPOIL; 'CAST IN YOUR LOT AMONG US, LET US ALL HAVE ONE PURSE' - 31:39 MY SON, DO NOT WALK IN THE WAY WITH THEM, KEEP YOUR FOOT FROM 31:43 THEIR PATH; FOR THEIR FEET RUN TO EVIL, AND THEY MAKE HASTE TO 31:47 SHED BLOOD. SURELY, IN VAIN THE NET IS SPREAD IN THE SIGHT OF 31:51 ANY BIRD;" - YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE GOING TO TRY AND SNARE A BIRD - 31:55 AND THEY DID THAT A LOT BACK THEN. 31:56 THEY DIDN'T HAVE SHOTGUNS SO IF YOU WENT OUT TRYING TO GET 31:58 GROUSE AND CHICKEN - THEY'RE HARD TO HIT WITH A BOW AND ARROW 32:02 - THEY'VE GOT A LOT OF FEATHERS - THEY USED TO SNARE THEM. 32:04 BUT IF A BIRD'S WATCHING YOU SET THE SNARE - 32:07 THEY BECOME VERY SUSPICIOUS. LET'S GO OVER TO 32:12 'TRUE EDUCATION' AND THAT WOULD BE 13 - PROVERBS 32:15 13:20 - IT SAYS, "HE WHO WALKS WITH WISE MEN WILL BE WISE, BUT 32:21 THE COMPANION OF FOOLS WILL BE DESTROYED." 32:23 NOTICE THE CONTRAST THERE AGAIN? 32:25 TALKING ABOUT 'IF YOU WANT TO BE WISE' - THAT HAS A LOT - THIS IS 32:29 GREAT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE, WHEN YOU'RE GOING TO SCHOOL - HANG 32:31 OUT WITH PEOPLE THAT ARE SMART, THAT GET GOOD GRADES, THAT CAN 32:35 HELP YOU WITH YOUR HOMEWORK, YOU HANG AROUND THE ONES THAT ARE IN 32:38 THE BACK OF THE CLASS - NOTHING - NO REFLECTION FOR THOSE HERE - 32:42 THEN THEY'RE MORE LIKELY TO GET YOU IN TROUBLE. ALRIGHT, IN - 32:47 IF YOU GO TO PROVERBS 1, VERSE 20 - I'M SORRY - IT SAYS, 32:54 "WISDOM CALLS ALOUD OUTSIDE; SHE RAISES HER VOICE IN 32:59 THE OPEN SQUARES. SHE CRIES OUT IN THE CHIEF 33:02 CONCOURSES," - NOW LOOK AT THE CONTRAST - SOME OF THE PROVERBS 33:05 CONTRAST ONE SENTENCE RIGHT AFTER ANOTHER, SOME OF THEM WILL 33:09 TAKE SEVERAL PROVERBS AND THEN CONTRAST WITH SEVERAL OTHERS. 33:13 FIRST IT JUST TALKED ABOUT 'DON'T GO IN THE WAY OF THE 33:16 WICKED WHEN THEY SAY 'LET'S GO GET SPOILS - AND IT SAYS IN 33:19 VERSE 11, "THEY LURK IN SECRET FOR THE INNOCENT WITHOUT CAUSE." 33:22 WHEN YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING WRONG, YOU'VE GOT TO LURK IN THE 33:24 DARK, BUT WHEN IT COMES TO TRUTH, DOES TRUTH HAVE TO HIDE 33:28 OR IS TRUTH IN THE OPEN PLACES? WISDOM CALLS ALOUD - "RAISES HER 33:31 VOICE IN THE OPEN SQUARES. SHE CRIES OUT IN THE CHIEF 33:34 CONCOURSES, AT THE" - JOHN THE BAPTIST, WHEN HE WENT OUT 33:37 PREACHING, DID HE HAVE TO MEET IN CORNERS? 33:39 OR HE JUST WENT WIDE OPEN IN THE WILDERNESS? 33:42 TURNED UP THE AMPLIFICATION - "AT THE OPENINGS OF THE GATES IN 33:46 THE CITY SHE SPEAKS HER WORDS:" - SO TRUTH IS OPEN AND IT 33:50 APPEALS AND IT SAYS, "'HOW LONG YOU SIMPLE ONES, WILL YOU LOVE 33:53 SIMPLICITY? FOR SCORNERS DELIGHT IN THEIR 33:56 SCORNING AND FOOLS HATE KNOWLEDGE. 33:58 TURN AT MY REBUKE; SURELY I WILL POUR OUT MY SPIRIT ON YOU; 34:02 I WILL MAKE MY WORDS KNOWN TO YOU. 34:04 BECAUSE I HAVE CALLED AND YOU REFUSED, I HAVE STRETCHED OUT MY 34:07 HAND AND NO ONE REGARDED," - PAUL QUOTES THAT VERSE, BY THE 34:11 WAY - "BECAUSE YOU DISDAINED ALL MY COUNSEL, AND WOULD HAVE NONE 34:14 OF MY REBUKE, I ALSO WILL LAUGH AT YOUR CALAMITY; I WILL MOCK 34:17 WHEN YOUR TERROR COMES, WHEN YOUR TERROR COMES LIKE A STORM, 34:20 AND YOUR DESTRUCTION COMES LIKE A WHIRLWIND, WHEN DISTRESS AND 34:23 ANGUISH COME UPON YOU." NOW, IS THAT GOD SAYING 'YOU 34:28 DON'T LISTEN TO ME, I'M GOING TO LAUGH WHEN YOU GET IN TROUBLE?' 34:31 NOW, HE'S TALKING IN - PROVERBS AND SOLOMON, SEVERAL TIMES, 34:35 SPEAKS IN A METAPHORICAL LANGUAGE 34:38 AND HE'S TALKING ABOUT WISDOM AS THOUGH WISDOM HAS A PERSONALITY. 34:41 IN ONE PLACE HE TALKS ABOUT WISDOM LIKE IT'S A DAUGHTER AND 34:43 ANOTHER PLACE HE TALKS ABOUT WISDOM LIKE IT'S A SON. 34:46 ALRIGHT, GO TO PROVERBS 1, VERSE 22 AND - NO, NO, NO - PROVERBS 34:54 2:1 THROUGH 5 - THAT'S WHAT I WANT - PROVERBS CHAPTER 2, 34:57 VERSES 1 THROUGH 5. WHY DON'T YOU READ THAT FOR US? 35:04 >>"MY SON, IF YOU RECEIVE MY WORDS, AND TREASURE MY COMMANDS 35:08 WITHIN YOU, SO THAT YOU INCLINE YOUR EAR TO WISDOM, AND APPLY 35:12 YOUR HEART TO UNDERSTANDING; YES, IF YOU CRY OUT FOR 35:16 DISCERNMENT, AND LIFT UP YOUR VOICE FOR UNDERSTANDING, IF YOU 35:19 SEEK HER AS SILVER, AND SEARCH FOR HER AS FOR HIDDEN TREASURES; 35:23 THEN YOU WILL UNDERSTAND THE FEAR OF THE LORD, AND FIND THE 35:27 KNOWLEDGE OF GOD." >>ALRIGHT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 35:30 DOES JESUS TELL US ABOUT PRIORITIES OF WHAT WE SHOULD 35:34 SEARCH FOR? WHAT SHOULD BE THE FIRST THING 35:37 WE SEARCH FOR? THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 35:42 'SEEK FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS.' HOW DO 35:46 YOU SEEK FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD? HE SAYS HERE, 'MORE THAN GOLD. 35:50 MORE THAN SILVER.' DO YOU KNOW IF YOU MAKE WISDOM YOUR 35:56 PRIORITY, YOU MAY FIND THAT GOLD AND SILVER COME. 36:00 FOR ONE THING, ARE THERE PROVERBS THAT TALK ABOUT WORKING 36:04 LIKE THE ANT WORKS AND STORING AND SAVING? 36:08 YOU'LL FIND A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE APPLIED COMMON SENSE AND 36:12 WISDOM TO LIFE. JUST BY NOT WASTING YOU COULD BE RICH. 36:18 IF YOU WORK AND YOU AVOID WASTE, YOU CAN END UP PRETTY 36:23 SUCCESSFUL. BECAUSE SOLOMON SOUGHT FIRST WISDOM, THE PRAYER 36:27 - THE YEARNING OF HIS HEART WAS WISDOM - DID RICHES COME? 36:31 YEAH, SO 'SEEK FIRST THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS, 36:35 AND ALL THESE OTHER THINGS WILL BE ADDED TO YOU.' BUT HOW 36:39 EARNESTLY SHOULD WE SEEK FOR IT? WELL, IT SAYS YOU'VE GOT TO LOOK 36:43 FOR IT LIKE YOU'RE LOOKING FOR TREASURE. 36:46 PEOPLE THAT ARE DIGGING FOR SILVER AND GOLD - IT TAKES A LOT 36:49 OF DILIGENCE - A LOT OF ENERGY AND SO THERE NEEDS TO BE AN 36:53 EFFORT INVESTED IN SEEKING FOR THIS. SAME THING WITH SEEKING 36:56 FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS. 36:59 THAT NEEDS TO BE A PRIORITY IN OUR LIVES. 37:01 FOR - AND GO TO VERSE 6 - "FOR THE LORD GIVES WISDOM; FROM HIS 37:05 MOUTH COME KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING; HE STORES UP 37:10 SOUND WISDOM FOR THE UPRIGHT; HE IS A SHIELD TO THOSE WHO WALK 37:13 UPRIGHTLY;" - NOW, WHEN IT SAYS THE LORD GIVES WISDOM FROM HIS 37:16 MOUTH, WHERE WOULD YOU FIND THE WORDS OF GOD'S MOUTH? 37:20 YEAH, IN THE BIBLE. SO THE WORD OF GOD IS THE 37:23 FOUNDATION OF THE GREATEST WISDOM. 37:25 THAT'S ONE REASON I THINK THE BIBLE HAS BEEN A BEST-SELLING 37:29 BOOK FOR ALL THESE MILLENNIA - A COUPLE THOUSAND YEARS ANYWAY - 37:34 AND YOU LOOK IN VERSE 7 IT SAYS, "HE STORES UP SOUND WISDOM FOR 37:40 THE UPRIGHT; HE IS A SHIELD TO THOSE WHO WALK UPRIGHTLY; HE 37:44 GUARDS THE PATHS OF JUSTICE, AND PRESERVES THE WAY OF HIS SAINTS. 37:49 THEN YOU WILL UNDERSTAND RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUSTICE, 37:52 EQUITY AND EVER GOOD PATH. WHEN WISDOM ENTERS YOUR HEART, 37:56 AND KNOWLEDGE IS PLEASANT TO YOUR SOUL, DISCRETION WILL 38:00 PRESERVE YOU; UNDERSTANDING WILL KEEP YOU, TO DELIVER YOU FROM 38:04 THE WAY OF EVIL, FROM THE MAN WHO SPEAKS PERVERSE THINGS," - 38:08 IF A PERSON DOESN'T HAVE WISDOM ARE THEY EASILY SNARED AND 38:12 OVERCOME OR DECEIVED BY SOMEBODY? 38:15 BEING MEEK AND BEING WISE DOES NOT MEAN YOU NEED TO BE 38:19 GULLIBLE. JESUS TALKS ABOUT BEING AS 38:25 INNOCENT AS DOVES AND WISE AS SERPENTS. 38:31 WE DON'T EVEN LIKE TO SAY THAT, HUH? 38:33 I MEAN, DO YOU CONSIDER IT A COMPLIMENT IF SOMEONE SAYS 38:35 YOU'RE AS WISE AS A SERPENT? BUT WHO SAID THAT? 38:40 JESUS SAID YOU NEED TO BE WISE AS SERPENTS. 38:42 WHO ARE THE SERPENTS USUALLY? 38:46 WELL, BUT WHAT CHRIST - YEAH, THE DEVIL WAS THE SERPENT AND 38:49 IT'S TELLING US THAT WE NEED TO AT LEAST UNDERSTAND HIS DEVICES. 38:53 SO, YOU KNOW, KAREN AND I COME FROM VERY DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS. 39:00 YOU KNOW, I WENT TO 14 - 15 DIFFERENT SCHOOLS, SHE WENT TO 39:06 ONE SCHOOL FOR TWELVE YEARS AND THEN, OF COURSE, HER COLLEGE - A 39:09 COUPLE DIFFERENT COLLEGES - AND SHE GREW UP, YOU KNOW, IN THE 39:12 SAME CHURCH AND I WENT - SCATTERED THROUGH ALL THESE 39:14 DIFFERENT RELIGIONS, BUT SHE GREW UP SURROUNDED WITH CHURCH 39:17 PEOPLE THAT ARE VERY LOVING AND TRUSTING AND NICE PEOPLE. 39:20 I GREW UP WITH A LOT OF SCOUNDRELS AND MY MOTHER WAS IN 39:22 SHOW BUSINESS AND EVERYONE WAS ACTING AND TRICKING AND LYING 39:25 AND DECEIVING AND SO I GREW UP JUST SO SUSPICIOUS AND SHE SAYS, 39:30 'DOUG, HOW COME YOU'RE SO SUSPICIOUS?' 39:31 I SAID, 'DEAR, HOW COME YOU'RE JUST SO BELIEVING OF EVERYBODY?' 39:34 YOU KNOW, PEOPLE KNOCK ON THE DOOR AND AS SOON AS THEY START 39:36 TRYING TO SELL, I SAY, 'OH, WHAT ARE THEY SELLING? 39:38 NOW WHAT ARE THEY UP TO?' AND 'OH, REALLY? 39:41 OH, THAT'S INTERESTING. I'LL BUY THREE OF THEM.' AND - 39:45 >>ONLY IF THEY'RE ON SALE. >>BUT YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT. 39:52 SO, YOU KNOW, YOU NEED - IN JUST EVERYDAY LIFE YOU NEED TO GO 39:56 THROUGH THE WORLD WITH A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF WISDOM THAT BRACES YOU 40:01 FOR THE DEVIL'S TRICKS. NOW, WHAT DID JESUS USE WHEN 40:06 THE DEVIL TEMPTED HIM? >>IT IS WRITTEN. IT IS WRITTEN. 40:09 >>IT IS WRITTEN. IT IS WRITTEN. IT IS WRITTEN. 40:12 ALL THREE TIMES HE QUOTED THE WORD OF GOD AND THAT'S - SO HAVE 40:16 YOU EVER THOUGHT THAT THE WISDOM THAT WAS AVAILABLE TO SOLOMON - 40:18 COULD SOLOMON READ THE BOOKS OF MOSES? 40:22 THE WISDOM THAT WAS AVAILABLE TO SOLOMON, THE WISDOM THAT WAS 40:24 AVAILABLE TO JESUS AND THE APOSTLES IS AVAILABLE TO US. 40:27 >>AMEN. >>THAT'S REALLY SOMETHING. 40:29 SO, ARE WE JUST ACCOUNTABLE TO GOD FOR WHAT WE DO AND KNOW OR 40:35 ARE WE ACCOUNTABLE TO GOD FOR WHAT WE COULD KNOW IF WE WANT 40:40 TO? THERE'S A LOT OF WISDOM WE'VE 40:42 NEGLECTED BECAUSE WE'RE DRINKING AT THE WRONG FOUNTAIN AND WE 40:46 SHOULD BE STUDYING THIS WISDOM OF GOD THAT SAVES US FOR ETERNAL 40:49 LIFE. SO WE'VE GOT THE CALL OF WISDOM. 40:54 AND IF YOU LOOK IN - LOOK HERE UNDER THE BENEFITS - WE DID THE 40:59 BENEFITS OF WISDOM - PROVERBS VERSES 6 THROUGH 9 - I SEE HERE, 41:03 I THINK I GOT THAT ALREADY. WHO'S GOT THE NEXT VERSE THAT 41:07 WE'RE GOING TO READ? WELL, I'LL TELL YOU WHAT. 41:09 I'LL GIVE IT TO YOU DEAR. WHY DON'T YOU GO AHEAD AND READ 41:13 PROVERBS CHAPTER - PROVERBS CHAPTER 3, VERSE 7. 41:19 >>"DO NOT BE WISE IN YOUR OWN EYES; 41:22 FEAR THE LORD AND DEPART FROM EVIL." 41:25 >>ALRIGHT, SO WHEN IT'S TALKING ABOUT BIBLICAL WISDOM - LET'S 41:30 SUPPOSE WE READ THE BOOK OF PROVERBS EVERY MONTH THAT HAS 31 41:32 DAYS. SHOULD YOU BE PROUD OF HOW WISE YOU ARE? WHAT WAS THE FIRST 41:38 STEP IN SOLOMON'S HAVING WISDOM? HUMILITY. 41:43 HE SAID, 'I DON'T KNOW.' HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDERED THAT THE 41:48 LONGER YOU LIVE, THE MORE AWARE YOU BECOME OF HOW MUCH YOU DON'T 41:53 KNOW? AND THE CLOSER WE GET TO CHRIST 41:58 AND THE MORE WE UNDERSTAND THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD, THE MORE WE'RE 42:02 GOING TO KNOW WE DON'T KNOW. AND SO, IF YOU'VE GOT A HUMBLE 42:06 ATTITUDE, YOU NEED TO CRAVE EVERY OUNCE OF WISDOM THAT 42:09 YOU'VE GOT JUST TO GET YOU THROUGH LIFE, BUT WE SHOULD 42:11 NEVER BE PROUD OF HOW MUCH WE KNOW. 42:14 TOWARD THE END OF HIS LIFE, WHEN SOLOMON BEGAN TO FEEL CONTENT 42:17 THAT HE KNEW EVERYTHING, HE BEGAN TO SPIRAL DOWN AND SO, 42:21 YEAH, AS SOON AS YOU START TO TRUST - BY THE WAY, AHITHOPHEL, 42:26 WHO WAS A VERY WISE COUNSELOR OF GOD, HE DECIDED TO TURN AWAY 42:32 FROM DAVID AND FOLLOW THE REBELLIOUS SON OF DAVID AND HE 42:36 KNEW THAT ABSALOM WAS AN UNRIGHTEOUS MAN AND DAVID WAS 42:39 CHOSEN BY GOD, BUT HE TRUSTED HIS OWN WISDOM SO MUCH - WELL, 42:44 HIS COUNSEL WAS REJECTED AND YOU KNOW WHAT AHITHOPHEL DID? 42:47 >>HE COMMITTED SUICIDE. >>HE DID THE SAME THING JUDAS 42:50 DID. YOU KNOW HOW JESUS HAD SOMEBODY - HE HAD A FRIEND NAMED 42:52 JUDAS THAT BETRAYED HIM AND JUDAS HUNG HIMSELF? 42:57 DAVID HAD A FRIEND THAT WAS A COUNSELOR THAT BETRAYED HIM AND 43:01 HE COMMITTED SUICIDE - HUNG HIMSELF ALSO - SIMILAR - A LOT 43:04 OF PARALLELS BETWEEN THE LIFE OF DAVID AND THE LIFE OF JESUS. 43:07 AND IT TELLS YOU, IN VERSE 2, FOR - AND THIS IS PROVERBS 3, 43:13 VERSE 2, "FOR LENGTH OF DAYS AND LONG LIFE AND PEACE THEY WILL 43:17 ADD TO YOU." - THIS WISDOM CAN KEEP YOU OUT 43:20 OF A LOT OF TROUBLE - "LET NOT MERCY AND TRUTH FORSAKE YOU;" - 43:25 SO IN PROVERBS IT'S TALKING ABOUT BE MERCIFUL - "BIND THEM 43:29 AROUND YOUR NECK, WRITE THEM ON THE TABLET OF YOUR HEART," - 43:33 NOW, ARE THESE OBVIOUSLY METAPHORS? 43:37 DID THE JEWISH PEOPLE, IN THE TIME OF CHRIST, TAKE THE 43:40 STATEMENT OF MOSES, "THESE WORDS THAT I COMMAND YOU THIS DAY" - 43:44 DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 6, VERSE 4 - WELL, THAT ACTUALLY SAYS, "HEAR 43:49 O ISRAEL, THE LORD OUR GOD IS ONE GOD." 43:51 - BUT HE GOES ON TO SAY, "THESE WORDS THAT I'VE COMMANDED YOU, 43:54 WRITE THEM ON YOUR HANDS, LET THEM BE FRONTLETS BETWEEN YOUR 43:57 EYES." THEY TOOK THAT LITERALLY AND 44:00 THEY MADE LITTLE PHYLACTERIES WHERE THEY TOOK PORTIONS OF 44:03 SCRIPTURE AND THEY PUT THEM IN LITTLE BOXES ON THEIR WRISTS OR 44:05 THEY HUNG THEM - AND THEY STILL DO IT TODAY - ON THEIR FOREHEADS 44:08 AND - SOMEBODY GAVE KAREN AND I A LITTLE GIFT. 44:15 THEY KNEW I WAS HALF JEWISH AND SO THEY GAVE US ONE OF THE - I 44:19 CAN'T REMEMBER THE NAME OF IT - YOU PUT IT ON THE DOOR POST OF 44:21 YOUR HOUSE WHEN YOU GO IN. YEAH, AND PUT THAT - IT'S GOT A 44:25 LITTLE SCRIPTURE ROLLED UP IN IT AND YOU KISS IT AND TOUCH YOUR 44:28 HAND TO IT. IT'S A JEWISH TRADITION. 44:29 SO WAS SOLOMON SAYING YOU'RE TO HANG THE WORD OF GOD AROUND YOUR 44:34 NECK OR WRITE IT ON THE TABLETS OF YOUR HEART, OR ARE THESE, 44:38 OBVIOUSLY, SYMBOLS? HOW DO YOU GET ANYTHING IN YOUR 44:42 HAND OR IN YOUR HEAD OR ON YOUR HEART OR AROUND YOUR NECK? 44:45 IT'S JUST TALKING ABOUT SURROUNDING YOURSELF. 44:49 HAVE YOU EVER SEEN PEOPLE THAT CARRY THEIR GLASSES ON A STRING 44:53 AROUND THEIR NECK SO THEY WON'T LOSE THEM? 44:56 OR SOME PEOPLE - I'VE SEEN PEOPLE CARRY, LIKE, THEY'RE 44:59 HOUSEHOLD KEY - THEY KIND OF HANG IT AROUND THEIR NECK JUST 45:02 SO THEY WON'T LOSE IT. OR IF THEY HAVE THEM ON THEIR 45:06 WRISTS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT? YOU EVER SEE SOMEONE, LIKE, 45:08 WRITE A NOTE ON THEIR HAND OR PUT A LITTLE RIBBON ON 45:11 THEIR FINGER? THESE ARE THE - THIS IS WHAT 45:13 IT'S SAYING IS JUST PUT IT WHERE YOU WON'T FORGET IT. 45:16 AND, YOU KNOW, IT DOESN'T HELP JUST TO WRITE ADAGES AND PUT 45:22 THEM ON THE WALL - I KNOW IN OUR FAMILY, PERIODICALLY WE'VE TAKEN 45:26 A BEAUTIFUL SCRIPTURE AND WE'LL GET IT EMBROIDERED AND WE'LL 45:28 HANG IT ON THE WALL AND YOU LOOK AT IT AND GO, 'THAT'S BEAUTIFUL. 45:30 WHAT A WONDERFUL THOUGHT.' BUT, YOU KNOW, AFTER A WHILE YOU 45:32 DON'T EVEN NOTICE IT ANYMORE BECAUSE IT HANGS THERE 45:35 SO LONG YOU DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT. 45:36 IT JUST BECOMES PART OF THE DÉCOR. 45:38 MY MOTHER, SHE WAS SO EXASPERATED BECAUSE MY BROTHER 45:42 AND I WOULD NOT BRUSH OUR TEETH AND IT WAS COSTING HER A LOT IN 45:46 DENTAL BILLS AND SHE TOOK A PERMANENT MARKER AND SHE OPENED 45:52 UP THE MEDICINE CABINET AND SHE WROTE 'BRUSH YOUR TEETH.' SHE 45:56 LIFTED UP THE TOILET LID - WE WERE BOYS - SHE WROTE 'BRUSH 46:01 YOUR TEETH.' AND, I FORGET, SHE WROTE IT LIKE THREE PLACES IN 46:05 THE BATHROOM. SHE JUST BECAME SO EXASPERATED ONE DAY THAT WE 46:08 WEREN'T BRUSHING OUR TEETH AND, YOU KNOW FOR A WHILE THERE 46:11 WE'D GO, 'OH, WHOA!' WE WERE JUST SURROUNDED WITH IT 46:13 AND PRETTY SOON, DIDN'T EVEN NOTICE IT ANYMORE. 46:16 SO, OBVIOUSLY HE'S NOT SAYING 'HANG IT AROUND YOUR NECK. 46:19 PUT IT ON YOUR HAND.' BECAUSE, YOU KNOW WHAT? 46:22 IT WILL START FEELING LIKE YOUR WARDROBE AFTER AWHILE AND 46:24 YOU JUST DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT. 46:26 IT'S MAKING A CONSCIOUS EFFORT TO READ IT AND MEDITATE ON IT 46:29 AND THEN AFTER YOU READ THE WORD OF GOD, UNLESS YOU HAVE THE HOLY 46:34 SPIRIT, YOU CAN'T MAKE YOURSELF REMEMBER THESE THINGS. 46:38 SO OFTEN, I'LL PRAY WHEN I'M READING, I'LL SAY, 'LORD, SHOW 46:42 ME HOW TO APPLY THIS TO MY LIFE.' AND YOU'LL READ A VERSE - 46:46 MAYBE PROVERBS OR SOMETHING ELSE, AND THAT VERY DAY, 46:49 THAT VERSE SOMEHOW SAVES YOU. YOU KNOW, ANOTHER THING THAT 46:53 HAPPENS - YOU'VE PROBABLY HAD THIS HAPPEN - YOU'LL READ 46:55 SOMETHING IN THE MORNING AND THAT VERY DAY SOMEONE ELSE 46:58 NEEDED THE VERY THING THAT YOU READ. 47:00 THAT HAPPENED TO ME. LAST NIGHT I READ SOMETHING AND 47:03 I WAS SHARING WITH SOMEBODY TODAY. 47:04 THEY SAID, 'WHERE'D YOU GET THAT? 47:06 I SAID, 'I JUST READ IT LAST NIGHT.' AND SO, YOU KNOW, THE 47:09 LORD GIVES YOU - HE TIMES THINGS LIKE THAT. 47:13 'BIND THEM AROUND YOUR NECK.' VERSE 4 - I'M IN CHAPTER 3 OF 47:17 PROVERBS - "AND SO FIND FAVOR AND HIGH ESTEEM IN THE SIGHT OF 47:20 GOD AND MAN." WHAT DOES IT PUT FIRST, GOD OR MAN? 47:27 WHAT ARE THE TWO GREAT COMMANDS? LOVE THE LORD; LOVE YOUR 47:31 NEIGHBOR.' THE BIBLE SAYS, 'JESUS WAS A PROPHET MIGHTY 47:34 BEFORE GOD AND THE PEOPLE.' - BEFORE GOD AND MAN - FIRST FOR 47:37 GOD - YOU'VE GOT TO LIVE THE VERTICAL LIFE AND THEN WE'VE GOT 47:42 TO REMEMBER TO LIVE THE HORIZONTAL LIFE. 47:44 "TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR HEART" - DO YOU WANT TO READ 47:47 THIS ONE KAREN? "TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL YOUR 47:51 HEART, AND LEAN NOT ON YOUR OWN UNDERSTANDING; IN ALL YOUR WAYS 47:55 ACKNOWLEDGE HIM, AND HE SHALL DIRECT YOUR PATHS." 48:00 YOU NOTICE HE DOESN'T PROMISE HE'S GOING TO DIRECT YOUR PATHS 48:03 IN ADVANCE, BUT IF YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THE LORD IN YOUR 48:05 LIFE - IN YOUR WAYS - WHEN YOU GET TO THE CROSSROADS AND YOU 48:08 SAY, 'LORD, NOW WHAT?' AND YOU'VE GOT TO MAKE A 48:10 DECISION, HE'LL SHOW YOU WHAT TO DO. 48:12 HE DOESN'T ALWAYS SHOW YOU IN ADVANCE. 48:14 HE MAY NOT PART THE OCEAN OR THE RIVER BEFORE YOU GET THERE - YOU 48:19 MIGHT EVEN HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL YOU CAN SEE THE CLOUD OF THE 48:21 EGYPTIANS STORMING UP BEHIND YOU BEFORE THE MIRACLE HAPPENS, BUT 48:25 IF YOU TRUST IN THE LORD AND YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THE LORD IN ALL YOUR 48:28 WAYS - THAT MEANS YOUR WALK - YOUR LIFE - HE WILL GIVE YOU 48:31 GUIDANCE AND DIRECT YOUR PATHS. VERSE 7 - "DO NOT BE WISE IN 48:36 YOUR OWN EYES; FEAR THE LORD AND DEPART FROM EVIL" - WHAT'S 48:40 THE BEST WAY TO SHOW THAT YOU FEAR GOD? HOW DID JOB FEAR GOD? 48:43 'JOB WAS A JUST AND UPRIGHT MAN WHO FEARED GOD AND HATED EVIL.' 48:49 SO THE WAY YOU SHOW YOU'RE GOD FEARING IS NOT TO JUST BE 48:52 TREMBLING ALL THE TIME, BUT RESPECT AND LOVE AND AWE 48:57 GOD ENOUGH TO STAY AWAY FROM SIN. 48:59 "IT WILL BE HEALTH TO YOUR FLESH AND STRENGTH TO YOUR BONES." 49:03 - DO YOU THINK THAT ACTUALLY FOLLOWING THE WISDOM OF GOD CAN 49:07 LENGTHEN YOUR LIFE PHYSICALLY - CAN GIVE YOU BETTER HEALTH? 49:10 YEAH, PROVERBS EVEN SAYS THINGS ABOUT 'IF YOU'RE A PERSON GIVEN 49:13 TO APPETITE, PUT A KNIFE TO YOUR THROAT WHEN YOU SIT BEFORE THE 49:17 KING'S DAINTIES.' THERE'S ACTUALLY HEALTH WISDOM 49:21 IN THE PROVERBS. "IT WILL BE HEALTH TO YOUR FLESH 49:26 AND STRENGTH TO YOUR BONES. HONOR THE LORD WITH YOUR 49:28 POSSESSIONS," - NOW THESE ARE KIND OF - AGAIN, SOME OF THESE 49:32 PITHY - THEY STAND ALONE - PROVERBS OF WISDOM. 49:35 "HONOR THE LORD WITH YOUR POSSESSIONS, AND WITH THE 49:38 FIRSTFRUITS OF ALL YOUR INCREASE;" SO HERE'S A 49:40 PRINCIPLE: REMEMBER THE LORD WHEN HE BLESSES YOU AND IT SAYS, 49:45 "SO YOUR BARNS WILL BE FILLED WITH PLENTY AND YOUR 49:48 VATS WILL OVERFLOW WITH NEW WINE." 49:51 NOW THAT'S A GREAT PRINCIPLE, MAKE SURE AND PUT GOD FIRST IN 49:55 YOUR GIVING AND THAT MAY ALSO MEAN BEING CHARITABLE AND 49:58 SUPPORTING OTHERS AND, IT SAYS, HE WILL BLESS YOU. 50:00 THE LORD IS MORE INCLINED TO GIVE TO THOSE THAT WILL BE 50:04 CHANNELS OF HIS RESOURCES TO THE WORLD. 50:08 AND AS YOU HAVE ONE HAND OPEN IN SHARING AND GIVING TO OTHERS, 50:12 YOU CAN HAVE THE OTHER HAND OPEN IN RECEIVING WHAT GOD GIVES AND 50:15 YOU BECOME A CHANNEL OF BLESSING. 50:17 IF YOU HOARD, YOU LOSE - ANOTHER PROVERB. 50:20 IT SAYS, 'THERE IS HE' - I'M JUMPING AHEAD. 50:22 I DON'T EVEN REMEMBER THE NUMBER, BUT I REMEMBER THE 50:23 PROVERB. 'THERE'S ONE WHO WITHHOLDS MORE 50:26 THAN IS NECESSARY AND IT TENDS TO POVERTY, AND THERE'S ONE WHO 50:30 SCATTERS AND IT TENDS TO INCREASE. 50:32 IF YOU HOARD YOUR SEED THAT YOU'VE HARVESTED, AND EAT IT ALL 50:37 - YOU HAVE NOTHING TO PLANT - YOU'LL STARVE THE NEXT YEAR. 50:40 BUT IF YOU SCATTER IT AND IT GROWS, IT TENDS TO MULTIPLY. 50:46 "MY SON, DO NOT DESPISE THE CHASTENING OF THE LORD, NOR 50:50 DETEST HIS CORRECTION; FOR WHOM THE LORD LOVES HE CORRECTS," - 50:54 ANY OF YOU EVER BEEN CORRECTED BY THE LORD? 50:57 - "JUST AS A FATHER THE SON IN WHOM HE DELIGHTS." 51:01 VERSE 13 - I'M IN PROVERBS 3 - "HAPPY IS THE MAN WHO FINDS 51:04 WISDOM, AND THE MAN WHO GAINS UNDERSTANDING; FOR HER PROCEEDS 51:09 ARE BETTER THAN THE PROFITS OF SILVER, AND HER GAIN THAN FINE 51:12 GOLD. SHE IS MORE PRECIOUS THAN RUBIES, AND ALL THINGS YOU MAY 51:17 DESIRE CANNOT COMPARE WITH HER. LENGTH OF DAYS IS IN HER RIGHT 51:20 HAND, IN HER LEFT HAND RICHES AND HONOR." 51:23 SO RIGHT THERE YOU'VE GOT THE THINGS THAT THE WORLD WANTS - 51:26 THEY WANT A LONG LIFE, THEY WANT A PROSPEROUS LIFE - SOLOMON SAYS 51:30 YOU'VE GOT TO SEEK WISDOM FIRST AND YOU'VE GOT TO HONOR GOD 51:34 FIRST. YOU NOTICE HOW HE PUTS THAT BEFORE THAT? 51:37 SOME PASTORS PREACH THE RICHES ABOUT BEING A BELIEVER AND THEY 51:44 DON'T TALK ABOUT THE OTHER PART OF MERCY FOR OTHERS - HONORING 51:48 GOD WITH YOUR FIRSTFRUITS - SOLOMON MAKES SURE AND PUTS THIS 51:52 AFTERWARD. "HER WAYS ARE WAYS OF PLEASANTNESS, AND ALL HER PATHS 51:57 ARE PEACE." WHAT DOES SOLOMON'S NAME MEAN? 52:00 'SON OF PEACE.' - "SHE IS A TREE OF LIFE TO THOSE WHO TAKE HOLD 52:04 OF HER, AND HAPPY ARE ALL WHO RETAIN HER." 52:07 NOW, WHO IS THE SHE? >>WISDOM. 52:10 >>WISDOM. SEE WHAT I'M SAYING ABOUT HE USES THE METAPHOR - 52:12 DON'T FORGET THIS - HE TALKS ABOUT WISDOM AS BEING SOMETIMES 52:17 A MAN - WE'LL GET TO THAT, I THINK, IN CHAPTER 8 - AS BEING A 52:20 SON, AS BEING A WOMAN - AND YOU KNOW WHAT THE LAST CHAPTER IN 52:24 PROVERBS IS ABOUT? WE'RE JUMPING AHEAD - IT'S 52:27 TALKING ABOUT THE PERFECT WIFE, WHICH IS REALLY - IT'S A SYMBOL 52:30 OF THE CHURCH THERE. WELL, YOU KNOW, WHO CAN FIND 52:32 THIS BRIDE? AND IT DESCRIBES ALL THESE 52:34 BEAUTIFUL METAPHORS ABOUT THE CHURCH. 52:36 AND I HOPE I'M AROUND WHEN WE GET TO THAT LESSON. 52:38 I DON'T MEAN I GOT A BAD REPORT FROM THE DOCTOR OR ANYTHING, I 52:42 JUST MEAN THAT I HOPE - SOMETIMES I TRAVEL - I TRADE OFF 52:45 WITH MY ASSOCIATES AND I HOPE THAT I'M GOING TO BE ONE - YEAH, 52:48 TEACHING THAT ONE. THAT'S HOW YOU START RUMORS. SO... 52:54 >>WE HAVE A READER. >>SO, YEAH, IT SAYS NUMBER - 52:58 WHAT'S THE NEXT VERSE? >>19 AND 20. 53:00 >>GO AHEAD, I'M GLAD YOU REMINDED ME. THANK YOU. 53:02 NOW THE NEXT VERSE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SOMEBODY READ 53:05 PROVERBS CHAPTER 3, VERSES 19 AND 20. 53:08 >>"THE LORD BY WISDOM FOUNDED THE EARTH; BY UNDERSTANDING HE 53:13 ESTABLISHED THE HEAVENS; BY HIS KNOWLEDGE THE DEPTHS WERE BROKEN 53:17 UP, AND CLOUDS DROP DOWN THE DEW." 53:21 >>BOY, YOU'VE GOT A GOOD READING VOICE, TODD. THANK YOU. 53:24 SO THERE, AGAIN, HE TALKS ABOUT BY WISDOM THE EARTH WAS FOUNDED. 53:28 HAVE YOU NOTICED, LIKE IN THE BOOK OF JOB, GOD ACTUALLY SAYS, 53:31 YOU KNOW, 'WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I LAID THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE 53:33 EARTH?' AND YOU THINK ABOUT JUST THE INCREDIBLE - I, FRANKLY, 53:39 CAN'T UNDERSTAND HOW PEOPLE BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION. 53:42 I GUESS I KIND OF UNDERSTAND IT, BUT IT'S MIND BOGGLING TO ME 53:45 BECAUSE THE INTRICACIES OF LIFE ON THIS PLANET AND EVEN JUST THE 53:49 WORLD - FORGET ALL THE CREATURES FOR A MOMENT, THE PERFECT 53:53 DISTANCE THAT OUR WORLD HAS TO BE FROM THE SUN TO SUSTAIN LIFE, 53:58 WE ARE RIGHT IN THIS VERY NARROW BELT WHERE WE COULD BE - TOO 54:02 CLOSE, WE'RE BURNING UP LIKE - LIKE VENUS OR TOO FAR AWAY WE'D 54:06 BE FREEZING AND WE'RE JUST AT THE RIGHT DISTANCE. 54:09 AND THE EARTH IS THE RIGHT SIZE FOR THE GRAVITATIONAL PULL. 54:13 AND IT'S GOT THE RIGHT GASSES AND JUST - IT'S SUCH A PERFECT 54:17 LABORATORY FOR THIS MIRACLE OF LIFE, THAT YOU JUST THINK ABOUT 54:23 THE WISDOM OF GOD IN DOING THAT AND HE'S SAYING, YOU KNOW, 'BY 54:26 THIS I LAID THE FOUNDATIONS OF THE EARTH.' HE SAYS, "MY SON" - 54:30 VERSE 21 - "LET THEM" - THESE PRINCIPLES OF WISDOM - "NOT 54:33 DEPART FROM YOUR EYES - KEEP SOUND WISDOM AND DISCRETION; SO 54:37 THEY WILL BE LIFE TO YOUR SOUL AND GRACE TO YOUR NECK. 54:40 THEN YOU WILL WALK SAFELY IN YOUR WAY, AND YOUR FOOT WILL NOT 54:45 STUMBLE. WHEN YOU LIE DOWN, YOU WILL NOT BE AFRAID;" - HELPS YOU 54:49 - HAVING WISDOM HELPS YOU SLEEP PEACEFULLY - "YES, YOU WILL LIE 54:53 DOWN AND YOUR SLEEP WILL BE SWEET. 54:55 DO NOT BE AFRAID OF SUDDEN TERROR, NOR OF TROUBLE FROM THE 54:59 WICKED WHEN IT COMES; FOR THE LORD WILL BE YOUR CONFIDENCE, 55:02 AND WILL KEEP YOUR FOOT FROM BEING CAUGHT. 55:05 DO NOT WITHHOLD GOOD FROM THOSE TO WHOM IT IS DUE, WHEN IT IS 55:08 IN THE POWER OF YOUR HAND TO DO SO. 55:10 DO NOT SAY TO YOUR NEIGHBOR, 'GO, AND COME BACK, AND TOMORROW 55:13 I WILL GIVE IT,' WHEN YOU HAVE IT WITH YOU." 55:15 - IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING THAT BELONGS TO SOMEONE ELSE, OR IF 55:18 YOU OWE SOMEONE AND IT'S IN YOUR POWER TO PAY THEM WHAT YOU OWE 55:22 THEM, YOU HAVE THEIR PROPERTY - KEEPING IT IS STEALING - AND 55:26 SOLOMON SAID, 'DON'T SAY, 'OH WELL, MAYBE TOMORROW.'' SOME 55:28 PEOPLE SAY, 'I'LL PAY YOU LATE AND I'LL GET THE EXTRA INTEREST 55:30 ON IT WHILE I CLING TO YOUR MONEY. 55:32 OF COURSE THERE'S NO INTEREST THESE DAYS BUT, YOU KNOW THE 55:36 PRINCIPLE. WHEN YOU ARE ABLE TO PAY SOMEONE, PAY THEM. 55:39 HE SAYS IF IT'S IN THE POWER OF YOUR HAND TO DO IT, 55:41 DON'T WAIT TO DO GOOD TO SOMEBODY ELSE. 55:45 HAVE YOU EVER MISSED AN OPPORTUNITY TO GOOD AND YOU 55:48 REGRETTED IT BECAUSE YOU POSTPONED? 55:51 "DO NOT DEVISE EVIL AGAINST YOUR NEIGHBOR, FOR HE DWELLS BY YOU 55:55 FOR SAFETY'S SAKE. DO NOT STRIVE WITH A MAN WITHOUT 55:59 CAUSE, IF HE HAS DONE YOU NO HARM." 56:02 WHY DO YOU WANT TO STIR UP TROUBLE? 56:04 IF YOU CAN TURN THE OTHER CHEEK, IT'S A LOT EASIER TO LIVE 56:06 PEACEFULLY WITH PEOPLE AND YOU HAVE TO DECIDE WHAT ARE THE 56:10 ISSUES THAT ARE WORTH MAKING A CONTEST OVER? 56:13 "DO NOT ENVY THE OPPRESSOR, AND CHOOSE NONE OF HIS WAYS; FOR THE 56:17 PERVERSE PERSON IS AN ABOMINATION TO THE LORD, BUT HIS 56:20 SECRET COUNSEL IS WITH THE UPRIGHT." 56:22 - THERE YOU HAVE THE CONTRAST, AGAIN, BETWEEN THE TWO - "THE 56:25 CURSE OF THE LORD IS ON THE HOUSE OF THE WICKED, BUT HE 56:27 BLESSES THE HOME OF THE JUST." - WHICH DO YOU WANT TO BE? 56:31 I WANT THE BLESSING OF GOD - "SURELY HE SCORNS THE SCORNFUL, 56:35 BUT GIVES GRACE TO THE HUMBLE. THE WISE SHALL INHERIT GLORY BUT 56:42 SHAME WILL BE THE LEGACY OF FOOLS." 56:44 AND THAT GETS US THROUGH ALL THE WAY TO CHAPTERS 1 THROUGH 3. 56:48 WE DIDN'T READ EVERY PROVERB BUT WE KIND OF GOT A GOOD 56:50 INTRODUCTION TO THE LESSON AND COVERED THE HIGH POINTS. 56:53 FOR THOSE THAT MAY HAVE JOINED US ALONG THE WAY AND YOU DIDN'T 56:56 HEAR, WE DO HAVE A SPECIAL OFFER. 56:57 PROVERBS TALK ABOUT THE FEAR OF THE LORD - THE WORD OF GOD BEING 57:00 THE FOUNDATION OF WISDOM - WE'VE GOT A LITTLE BOOK CALLED 'THE 57:03 ULTIMATE RESOURCE' TALKING ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF THE BIBLE - 57:06 HOW IT IS THE ULTIMATE RESOURCE. IF YOU'D LIKE A FREE COPY, JUST 57:09 CALL 866-788-3966 - ASK FOR OFFER #728 WHEN YOU DO IT. 57:16 THEY'LL SEND IT TO YOU FOR FREE. YOU CAN READ IT ONLINE. 57:19 YOU CAN DOWNLOAD IT TOO, IF YOU'D LIKE, THEN YOU CAN LINK IT 57:21 TO YOUR FRIENDS. WELL, I'VE ENJOYED GETTING INTO 57:24 PROVERBS AND I THINK WE'LL ALL BE WISER WHEN THESE THIRTEEN 57:28 WEEKS ARE OVER. GOD BLESS YOU. 57:30 WE LOOK FORWARD TO STUDYING TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK. 57:34 >>DID YOU KNOW THAT NOAH WAS PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM? 57:37 OKAY, MAYBE HE WASN'T IN THE ROOM, BUT HE WAS ALIVE AND 57:41 PROBABLY TELLING STORIES ABOUT HIS FLOATING ZOO. 57:44 FROM THE CREATION OF THE WORLD TO THE LAST-DAY EVENTS OF 57:47 REVELATION, BIBLEHISTORY.COM IS A FREE RESOURCE WHERE YOU CAN 57:52 EXPLORE MAJOR BIBLE EVENTS AND CHARACTERS. ENHANCE YOUR 57:55 KNOWLEDGE OF THE BIBLE AND DRAW CLOSER TO GOD'S WORD. GO DEEPER. 58:00 VISIT 'BIBLEHISTORY.COM'. (MUSIC) |
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