In Proverbs
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Continuing in our 2021+ series
A glimpse of Jesus is in each book of the Bible “the scriptures testify about me.”
“He Is” - wisdom's cry
Messiah would be from everlasting (Prov 8:22-23, John 17:5)
Messiah would be the Son of God (Prov 30:4, Matt 3:16-17)
He is our Wisdom
The Wisdom of God - NT scripture
24 but to those whom God has called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.
Personified in the Wisdom of God (Prov 8:22-31)
Please stand as we honor the reading of God’s Word
22 “The Lord brought me forth as the first of his works,, before his deeds of old;
23 I was formed long ages ago, at the very beginning, when the world came to be.
24 When there were no watery depths, I was given birth, when there were no springs overflowing with water;
25 before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was given birth,
26 before he made the world or its fields or any of the dust of the earth.
27 I was there when he set the heavens in place, when he marked out the horizon on the face of the deep,
28 when he established the clouds above and fixed securely the fountains of the deep,
29 when he gave the sea its boundary so the waters would not overstep his command, and when he marked out the foundations of the earth.
30 Then I was constantly at his side. I was filled with delight day after day, rejoicing always in his presence,
31 rejoicing in his whole world and delighting in mankind.
THE WORD OF GOD, FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD
Wisdom Comes with Age
Wisdom Comes with Age
Experience
Mistakes
Lessons learned
“Oh if I knew then what I know now!”
Stress can bring on gray hair
but so does age and wisdom
It is a splendor to have gray hair
29 The glory of young men is their strength, gray hair the splendor of the old.
Wisdom gained splendor before creation
Wisdom is found throughout the ages and experiences of mankind
Proverbs “calls us” to Wisdom
Wisdom is a gift from God: His Word, His Spirit
Wisdom Comes by Understanding
Wisdom Comes by Understanding
OT stories, prophecies, warnings
Parables of Jesus
Reading of Proverbs
Sunday School “fun” - little nuggets
19 Better to live in a desert than with a quarrelsome and nagging wife.
9 Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
24 Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
6 We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.
7 No, we declare God’s wisdom, a mystery that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began.
8 None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
9 However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived”— the things God has prepared for those who love him—
Wisdom is prepared and provided by God so that we might find understanding
Take away this morning...
Wisdom Comes in Christ
Wisdom Comes in Christ
He provides wisdom beyond our years, our experience, our knowledge, our understanding
His words in the Gospel
His Spirit within us
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.
2 He was with God in the beginning.
3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.
4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.
Jesus was there before wisdom
Jesus created wisdom
Jesus is wisdom
1 The sayings of Agur son of Jakeh—an inspired utterance. This man’s utterance to Ithiel: “I am weary, God, but I can prevail.
2 Surely I am only a brute, not a man; I do not have human understanding.
3 I have not learned wisdom, nor have I attained to the knowledge of the Holy One.
4 Who has gone up to heaven and come down? Whose hands have gathered up the wind? Who has wrapped up the waters in a cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is the name of his son? Surely you know!
Jesus is the name of the Son
Jesus is in Proverbs!