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ME: Intro
Show of hands,
Who else still feels like they are coming out of a food coma from a big meal?
I was at my grandparents yesterday,
And we had ham, green beans, salads, rolls, scalloped oysters, scalloped onions,
And my wife, Stephanie, made these maple bacon brussel sprouts,
And a sweet potato casserole,
My goodness!
It was soooo good!
I did not even mention all the cookies,
There were like 20 plates of cookies!
Every kind of cookies you can think of!
If there was a flat surface anywhere in the house,
It was filled with cookies!
It was a bountiful banquet!
Now imagine you had a choice.
You could go to a banquet meal like the one I just described.
Or, you could go to a meal where all that was offered was bread and water.
But it is not just any bread and water.
It is water siphoned from the neighbors house without them knowing.
And it is bread that the host swiped from the grocery store without paying.
Which banquet would you choose?
The choice seems obvious, right?
It should be.
You would pick the first banquet.
But this morning, we come to Proverbs 9,
Where we see Two Banquets of Words.
Throughout the first 9 chapters of Proverbs,
We have been introduced to two different women who have been competing for the the reader’s affections.
These two women are Lady Wisdom and Lady Folly.
Up to this point, we have seen,
Lady Wisdom makes you wise and grants you life.
While Lady Folly makes you foolish and only can offer you death.
She is an immoral woman.
Now, the competition between these two women comes to a climax in ch. 9.
One commentary describes this chapter as the linchpin of the entire book.
Because it sums up all that has been written before it,
And it sets the stage for all that comes after it.
This chapter comes down to two competing invitations:
[A Banquet of Life (vs.
1-6)
Competing Words (vs.
7-12)
A Banquet of Death (vs.
13-18)
You will be at whatever banquet you most want.]
The first invitation, in vs. 1-6,
Is an invitation from wisdom to a banquet of life.
The second invitation, in vs. 13-18,
Is an invitation from folly to a banquet of death.
In the middle of these two invitations are competing words in vs. 7-12.
These competing words reveal which invitation we accept.
There are two character sketches in these verses,
The scoffer and the wise person.
Those who fit the description of the scoffer are the product of accepting Folly’s invitation.
Those who fit the description of the wise person are the product of accepting Wisdom’s invitation.
So, the question for us all is which invitation will we accept?
Which banquet will we be at?
Or we could ask the question at the heart level.
Which woman do we love?
Lady Wisdom or Lady Folly?
The reality is we will be at whichever banquet we most want.
The choice we make determines if we walk a path of wisdom,
Or a path of folly in this life.
It is a crossroads between life and death.
If we accept Lady Wisdom’s invitation,
We are made wise and receive eternal life.
But if we accept the invitation from Lady Folly,
We are loving something more than God,
And the Bible defines this as idolatry.
Idolatry wrecks our lives in this world,
And ends in death.
So, these invitations have huge implications for our lives,
Both in an eternal sense,
And down to the smallest of details in our everyday lies.
When we walk in wisdom in our everyday life,
It serves as evidence that we have accepted Wisdom’s invitation.
It shows that we are growing in Christ-likeness,
That we are walking step by step with Jesus,
And that we trust Him.
But if we walk in foolishness in everyday life,
It reveals that we are walking toward our idols,
That we are trusting in our idols,
That we love our idols more than Jesus.
And generally,
This evidence is not as clearly seen in the big parts of our lives.
Rather, it is in the small, mundane details of our everyday lives that reveals either wisdom or foolishness.
If we are generally lazy, contentious, unwilling to be corrected,
Always paying bills late, or always turning in homework late,
Proverbs says it is because we are accepting the invitation of Folly,
Because we love our idols.
But if we are generally hard workers, trustworthy, and teachable,
Proverbs says it is because we accept Wisdom’s invitation,
And Jesus is making us wise.
So, here is the bottom line,
If we do not accept Wisdom’s invitation,
Which is ultimately Jesus’ invitation,
We will never be wise.
We cannot be wise on our own.
So, if we are not walking in wisdom,
It is because we have a problem with accepting Jesus’ invitation,
We have accepted the invitation of Folly,
We love our idols more than Jesus,
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