Advice

Human advice

A wise person seeks advice from others

Proverbs 12:15 NIV84

15 The way of a fool seems right to him, but a wise man listens to advice.

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Rejecting good advice can lead to disaster

Proverbs 1:30–31 NIV84

30 since they would not accept my advice and spurned my rebuke, 31 they will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes.

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Human advice can have unseen dangers

Proverbs 12:5 NIV84

5 The plans of the righteous are just, but the advice of the wicked is deceitful.

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Examples of good human advice

Jethro; Hushai

Persian experts:

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Daniel; Gamaliel; Paul

Examples of bad human advice

Balaam

Ahithophel:

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Jeroboam; Egyptian advisers

Seeking advice from false gods is futile

Leviticus 19:31 NIV84

31 “ ‘Do not turn to mediums or seek out spiritists, for you will be defiled by them. I am the Lord your God.

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God needs no-one to advise him

Isaiah 40:13–14 NIV84

13 Who has understood the mind of the Lord, or instructed him as his counselor? 14 Whom did the Lord consult to enlighten him, and who taught him the right way? Who was it that taught him knowledge or showed him the path of understanding?

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God gives advice

To his people

Psalm 32:8 NIV84

8 I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you and watch over you.

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Through Jesus Christ and his Spirit

Isaiah 11:2 NIV84

2 The Spirit of the Lord will rest on him— the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of power, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord—

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Through his word

2 Timothy 3:16 NIV84

16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,

God frustrates bad advice

1 Corinthians 1:19 NIV84

19 For it is written: “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise; the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”

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Examples of receiving God’s advice

David:

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Jehoshaphat:

1 Kings 22:5 NIV84

5 But Jehoshaphat also said to the king of Israel, “First seek the counsel of the Lord.”

Examples of rejecting God’s advice

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Israel:

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