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This Week’s Theme: THE WAY OF THE WISE This Week’s Word is The Wisdom of God means that God always chooses the best goals and the best means to those goals Memory Verse: Proverbs 4:7 “7 Wisdom is the principal thing; Therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding.” Essence of the Text…

Ephesians 5:15–21 (ESV) — 15 Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, 16 making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. 17 Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is. 18 And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled…

It has been said that the first obstacle to getting help in life is being willing to admit help is needed. Similarly a person will never want wisdom or an increase in wisdom until they realize that either they don’t have it or that they need more of it. In my previous Bible study of Proverbs chapter…

Big Idea: God’s wisdom is understood only through the Spirit’s revelation. Spiritual maturity comes from applying God’s wisdom to all aspects of life. Opener The world has been searching for God, groping in the darkness toward God, seeking to discover Him, knowing that He is but not knowing Him, unable…

True Wisdom Brings Peace - James 3:15-4:3. Week 24

Proverbs 3:19–26 (ESV) — 19 The Lord by wisdom founded the earth; by understanding he established the heavens; 20 by his knowledge the deeps broke open, and the clouds drop down the dew. 21 My son, do not lose sight of these— keep sound wisdom and discretion, 22 and they will be life for your soul and…

Psalm 90:12 (ESV) — 12 So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. 12 So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. Ephesians 5:15-17 (ESV) I. TEACH US Psalm 90 stresses time and how it passes, as can be seen from the various time-related vocabulary throughout,…

James 1:5–8 (ESV) — 5 If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. 6 But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea that is driven and tossed by the wind. 7 For that person must not suppose…

Intro: Over recent weeks we have been looking at rhetoric or worldly wisdom in contrast with God’s wisdom. We continue that a bit today, but we add to it the strong look at the impact your view of wisdom has in inviting others into the Faith. Since God works beyond the realm of human things and beyond…

Introduction (5 min) Good morning church. We have reached the end of our series in the book of Proverbs, which we have called, “Living Wisely in God’s World.” We have seen many times and in many ways the call to hear and follow Lady Wisdom and not Lady Folly. This call is presented in the various themes…

This Week’s Theme: Choose Wisdom This Week’s Word is Wisdom: The quality of knowledge, discernment and understanding characteristic of God himself. True wisdom is a gift of the Holy Spirit. Scripture affirms that true human wisdom is a gift from God and points out the folly of trusting in mere human…

We’re continuing on in our journey through the book of Ecclesiastes. This book is written by Qoholeth, which is translated as “the Preacher” or “the Teacher” depending on your translation, but is used as a personal pronoun throughout the book. The author wants to be attributed to Solomon, the son of…

We’ve been working our way through the book of Ecclesiastes, a book of 12 short chapters that sits in the midst of the books of wisdom within our Bibles. Ecclesiastes is one of the books we don’t know specifically who wrote it. We do know the author intended to sound like Solomon to whom much of Proverbs…

“Vanity, vanity, all is vanity.” This phrase is one of our cultural colloquialisms, that you might hear, but often is not correctly attributed. Much like you might hear the phrase, “A house divided against itself cannot stand.” The latter is often attributed to Abraham Lincoln totally missing the fact…

Types of Psalms *** Images of Psalm Genres Wisdom Some time in Proverbs *** NS: Neighbors Whoever belittles another lacks sense, but an intelligent person remains silent. Let your foot be seldom in your neighbor’s house, otherwise the neighbor will become weary of you and hate you. *** NS: Work A slack…

Introduction I began to name this the ‘Bible Person Study’, but chose to go with the ‘Bible Character Study’. I hesitated to name it that, as I don’t want to diminish the fact that these are real people we’ll be examining. But the reason that it’s named the Bible Character Study is because we’ll be focusing…

Introduction Two different choices are before us in everyday living. We can fall into the worldly method of dealing with things, or we can fall into the heavenly way of doing things. This does not mean we become so pious we avoid dealing with the world. It does not mean we remove ourselves from the world.…

Introduction 1 Samuel 27:1-6 1 But David thought to himself, “One of these days I will be destroyed by the hand of Saul. The best thing I can do is to escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will give up searching for me anywhere in Israel, and I will slip out of his hand.” 2 So David and the…

This Week’s Theme: A Mind to do God’s Work The Word for the Week is Wisdom: The quality of knowledge, discernment and understanding characteristic of God Himself. Believers obtain it through seeing and responding to life’s situations from God’s frame of reference. Memory verse: Psalms 111:10 (NKJV) The…

God is speaking through Solomon like a father to his son. But, God is also speaking through Solomon to you and me. So tonight, let’s listen to our Father as we gain some wisdom for us to live by. 1 My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, 2 for length of days and years…

39 At that time Mary got ready and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judea, 40 where she entered Zechariah’s home and greeted Elizabeth. 41 When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the baby leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit. 42 In a loud voice she exclaimed: “Blessed…

Scripture Reference: My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find…

Introduction Proverbs is an abundant wealth of great wisdom Teaches us that worship of God is deeply practical You aren’t truly worshipping God if your only idea of worship is about what we do at church Worship is about what you do with every detail of your life I’m choosing a few gems from the treasury…

1 Now when they had escaped, they then found out that the island was called Malta. 2 And the natives showed us unusual kindness; for they kindled a fire and made us all welcome, because of the rain that was falling and because of the cold. 3 But when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them…

Introduction Saying: “God never gives you more than you can handle” I’m on record as saying that is a lie - Bible doesn’t say that Bible says God gives you more than you can handle so that you will learn to rely on Him I know this is true from my own experience in life too In God’s great sovereignty…