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This morning we continue our study of the book of Proverbs.
Anyone remember who wrote the majority of the book?
Today we will be looking at and 3.
Know as we begin our study it is important to notice that what we view as “proverbs” really doesn’t begin until Chapter 10.
The first 9 chapters are Solomon’s observations regarding Wisdom, Knowledge & Discretion.
Additional, he gives advice and warning regarding, the “immoral woman, money, adultery, scoffers, and the values hard work and doing the correct thing.
Now as we get into Ch 2 the topic is the Value of Wisdom.
As we read notice that getting wisdom is not passive.
It takes work and searching diligently.
Look at what Jesus told us:
Luke 11:
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9 “So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.
Finally before we read:
is a unit to itself.
“The ‘alphabetic’ poem is a single sentence consisting of 22 verses, matching the number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet, probably to suggest its completeness.”
(Bruce Waltke)
Read Ch 2
Vs 1 -4 Notice the action words here.
My son, if you receive my words,
And treasure my commands within you,
So that you incline your ear to wisdom,
And apply your heart to understanding;
Yes, if you cry out for discernment,
And lift up your voice for understanding,
If you seek her as silver,
And search for her as for hidden treasures;
Incline, apply, cry out, lift up your voice, seek
God doesn’t just spoon feed you.
As Pastors we are charged with feeding the flock of God but each individual believer is responsible for themselves.
How does one search for hidden treasure or seek after gold & silver?
Have you seen the “curse of oak island” or any of the shows about treasure hunts.
These guys are going to a lot of trouble!
Vs 5 is the reward.
Then you will understand the fear of the Lord,
And find the knowledge of God.
Knowledge and wisdom come as a results of searching for it.
There is no easy quick way.
But God has given us a map with the answers and its all in this book.
So make of habit of reading every day.
V6 - 9 tell us the reason this is true!
For the Lord gives wisdom;
From His mouth come knowledge and understanding;
He stores up sound wisdom for the upright;
He is a shield to those who walk uprightly;
He guards the paths of justice,
And preserves the way of His saints.
Then you will understand righteousness and justice,
Equity and every good path.
Did you ever wonder why it is called The Word of God? John refers to Jesus as the Logos or the Word.
Notice in Vs 7 God has store of wisdom waiting for you.
He promises to shield us as well, those who are making an effort to walk uprightly.
Notice the action words used of God for those who are on the way.
Vs 10 - 15 Wisdom preserves us from evil people
When wisdom enters your heart,
And knowledge is pleasant to your soul,
Discretion will preserve you;
Understanding will keep you,
To deliver you from the way of evil,
From the man who speaks perverse things,
From those who leave the paths of uprightness
To walk in the ways of darkness;
Who rejoice in doing evil,
And delight in the perversity of the wicked;
Whose ways are crooked,
And who are devious in their paths;
from those who speak perverse things
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from those who delight in perversity
from the devious
Vs 16 - 22 From the immoral woman
To deliver you from the immoral woman,
From the seductress who flatters with her words,
Who forsakes the companion of her youth,
And forgets the covenant of her God.
For her house leads down to death,
And her paths to the dead;
None who go to her return,
Nor do they regain the paths of life—
So you may walk in the way of goodness,
And keep to the paths of righteousness.
For the upright will dwell in the land,
And the blameless will remain in it;
But the wicked will be cut off from the earth,
And the unfaithful will be uprooted from it.
In this section Solomon brings a few more topics he will mention over and over.
the immoral woman, the seductress
the upright and blameless will continue in the land
the unfaithful and wicked will be cut off
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Immoral woman…seductress: “Both these terms mean lit.
‘foreigner’ or stranger; i.e., in such a context (cf.
17b), ‘one who is outside the circle of [a man’s] proper relations, that is, a harlot or an adulteress’.”
(Kidner)
Today there is the tendency to view things without nuance; for example, to think of all women as victims to all men.
This rejects the idea of the immoral woman, thinking that if there is a sexual liaison between a man and a woman, he must be the perpetrator and she must be the victim.
The Bible recognizes that human beings and human relationships are far more complicated than that.
Things to identify:
Who flatters with her words: “Hechelikah, she that smooths with her words.
The original intimates the glib, oily speeches of a prostitute.
The English lick is supposed to be derived from the original word.”
(Clarke)
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