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32CH Lesson 9 – Want A Cookie

Wisdom isn’t enough.

I wasn’t for Solomon.

After 2 face-to-face encounters with God he still failed.  True wisdom is trust.  It’s trusting God so much that you joyfully accept his will, word, wisdom and way as your own…without question.

First, thanks for your patience.  I have been traveling quite a bit.

God loves you.  He wants the best for you.  Remember that.

Proverbs is all about you living life to the max for His glory.  I’m excited about today’s lesson.

Here are the notes and slides.

#32Chapters

Last week…

Chapter 3 was a simple call to trust.  Trust God will ALL (100%) of your heart.

This week’s main point.

Trust God will ALL (100%) of your heart.  Always use protection.

Chapter Outline

The 27 verses of chapter three are broken into 3 sections.

• A father’s advice
• A choice between paths
• Protecting your heart

A Father’s Wisdom

We are four chapters in now and Solomon is still pleading with us to embrace or better yet to surrender to wisdom.

Solomon as he addresses us places us in the position of son.   We are sons.  We are family members.  This is a birthright.  The wisest, richest father is not leaving us gold or silver or power…he declares wisdom to be more important.

How does he get to this?  Why has he now moved to making so personal a plea?  Simple: his father.  David did the same thing with him.  David lived such a broken, human life.  Adultry.  Murder.  Deception.  War.

After a life of the pain that comes from compromise David plead with his son to choose a better path.  He was broken so he knew what brokenness felt like.  He knew that path much to well.

It’s no wonder the enemy has worked so hard to destroy the image of fathers.  If fathers are have no credibility, if fathers aren’t looked up to, if fathers don’t have the ability to speak into their children’s lives then fathers cant leave wisdom as a birthright.

If your father doesn’t have your respect then these words, this example has no impact or relevance.

Here Solomon reveals from his life and the benefit of watching his father’s tortured reign that the most important acquisition is wisdom.  No matter what it cost you to get it you will benefit more than you ever pay.  Wisdom must be THE priority.

Are you willing to do whatever it takes to find and deploy wisdom in your life?

The Path Of The Wicked

We’re back to those paths.  Here as a wise father Solomon tells us, his long distance sons exactly what to look for in people who are detrimental to your life and survival.

Let’s take another look.

The wicked do wickedness.  They look for ways to do wickedness and violence.  I don’t think this is limited to physical acts of violence.  Jesus clearly taught that murder is as much a state of mind as an act.

How does Dad tell us to deal with this?  Run, Forest run!  He doesn’t give instructions in confrontation.  He says (a) don’t go near the path (b) if you see it turn around and get the hell out of there.

How many times have you been burned trying to manage your sin?  How many times have you been burned thinking you could find the good in someone who is fundamentally bad?

Don’t go near these kinds of people.  Their path will lead you away from wisdom and away from God.

The Path Of Righteousness

By contrast Solomon is telling us how to identify a better path.  How do you tell the better path?  Light.  Not just the presence of light but growing light.

How often have you stumbled because you were on a dark path?  What is the lighted path you’ve been avoiding?

Darkness is the sign that the path is wrong.  If you have to do it in the dark, if you have to hide you’re on the wrong path.

Protect Your Heart

At the end of this chapter, this fatherly appeal, Solomon urges us to keep our hearts, that’s where your life, your being, your essence comes from.

Why so much passion in the pleading?  I think it’s because both David and Solomon live portions of their lives with unprotected hearts and experienced the devastation of living with exposed unprotected hearts.  Your heart is hidden by your rib cage for a reason.

When your heart is clogged and doesn’t flow you die.

Solomon gives us 6 instructions to protect our hearts

1. Eliminate gossip and deception.
2. Stop looking for flaws and imperfections.
3. Think about consequences then align your actions with what’s good.
4. When the right thing is known, do it without hestiation.
5. Don’t waiver.
6. Don’t place your foot on the evil path.

The Conclusion

Trust God will ALL (100%) of your heart.

The Challenge

Try simply following the clear direction he gives you from his word.

Grow.  Help others grow.  Be Encouraged.

Wisdom House Publishing

2012 Hallerin Hilton Hill

“-er!”

Proverbs begins by stating its assignment.  God through the proverbs makes his intentions crystal clear.  He wants to make you more than you are.  If you’re lost he wants to find you and bring you back.  If you are dumb he wants to make you smart.  If you are smart he wants to make you smarter.  If you are wise he wants to make you wise-er.

He is commited to “-er”.  God is so full of wisdom you can’t outgrow him.  You can’t move beyond his capacity to make you better.

All of us need to reach up to our full potential in God.  As the Army’s ad campaign said we need to “Be ALL we can be.”

Foundations

If the intent of this book is to build us, then we must begin with the foundation.

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge…”

Shapiro says it this way, “wisdom’s foundation is the selfless awe of God.”

 

Burj Khalifa is the world’s tallest building.

The building is impressive.  What you see above the ground is celebrated.  What’s beneath the ground is what it’s built on.  Without a sure foundation you can’t build something that tall.

CENTRAL TRUTH

If you want to go higher, you’ve got to dig deeper!

God wants to build you up
“For I know the plans I have for you plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”  Jeremiah 29:11

You need a strong foundation so you can stand the wind.

You need to be affixed to the bedrock.

You need depth.

You need reinforcement.

As you get bigger you bring glory to the God who made you.  People will want to know, “who built you up like that?”

“I want your architect to design my life.”

Wisdom’s foundation is the fear of the Lord.

If you don’t reverence and respect God you cannot hear him.

If you can’t hear him you won’t heed him.

If you don’t heed him, if you don’t act on the wisdom he gives you, you cannot benefit from that wisdom.

Do you really reverence God?

The Disciplines of Reverence

Prayer.

Studying the word.

Studying nature.

Fellowship.

Helping others.

This chapter starts with an admonition from a loving mother.  Woman played a critical role in Solomon’s life.  He was born of woman.  He was broken by women.

He came to idolize them and they took the place of God in his life.  The women weren’t the problem per se.  It was the way he loved them.  He chose faith in them of trust in God.  It was Solomon’s undoing.

That breech of trust led to the creation of enemies.  Here was a king blessed and ordained by God with unlimited wisdom whose name literally meant peace terrorized by enemies that he didn’t even have to have.

Had he listened to the wisdom of the first woman of influence in his life, his mother, he would have made better choices.

His grand delusion was that he thought his wisdom could compensate for his disobedience.

In 31 chapters through all sorts of devices God has been seeking to bring us back to unshakeable, unbreakable trust in Him.

He wants to give us purpose-driven wisdom so that we can show in the world and make it better as agents of His will, His word and His way.

That wisdom is born of reverence.  That reverence elevates and empowers all your relationships, especially the most important relationship, your relationship with God.  As relationships improve results improve.

God’s desire is to make you better.  You.  BETTER!

Trust him.  Surrender your will.  Embrace and adopt His will.

Do these three things and watch wisdom flourish in your life.

1. Trust God.
2. Love wisdom
3. Surrender

Watch what God makes of your life when you do.

Thanks for staying the course.