Proverbs - Man’s Ways vs. God’s Ways (notes)

Proverbs - Man’s Ways vs. God’s Ways

Review

• Proverbs 3
• Blessings of wisdom.

1. Don’t forget God’s teaching.
2. Keep His commands in our hearts.
3. This will prolong (walking in wisdom) your life many years and bring you prosperity.
4. Don’t let go of love & faithfulness--keep them, write them on your heart.
5. You will win favor and a good name in God’s sight and man’s.
6. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.
7. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight.
8. Do not be wise in your own eyes (man’s wisdom); fear the Lord and shun evil.
9. Then you will have healing for your body and strength for your bones.
10. Honor God with everything you own; give Him the first and the best, your barns will burst, your wine vats will brim over.
11. But don’t, dear friend, resent God’s discipline; don’t sulk under His loving correction. It’s the child He loves that God corrects; a father’s delight is behind all this.

God’s Ways Higher

“For My thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways My ways,” declares the Lord.

“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts.”

Isaiah 55:8-11

Review

• As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater.
• So is My word that goes out from My mouth: it will not return to Me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.

Wisdom Is

• When a person learns to listen to God’s voice and then obey and apply the Word of God.
• God has ways and man’s has ways but God’s ways are higher than man’s because God knows all things.
• God knows the past, present and the future. God was in eternity pass is in the now and will be in the future.

The Ways of Man

• Are lower than God’s because the heart of man is wicked.
• Are based on a fallen nature. Man is selfish. Man is in the dark.
• Jeremiah was given this revelation.

Proverbs 4

• Learn to listen to God the Father
• Learn to listen to our earthly fathers.
• Do not forsake God’s teaching.
• Get wisdom, get understanding.
• Do not forsake wisdom, she will protect you.
• Wisdom is supreme, therefore get wisdom.
• Even if it costs us everything, get understanding.
• Esteem her, she will exalt you, embrace her and she will honor you.
• She will be like a crown of grace on your head and a crown of splendor.
• If we listen to understanding we will be given a long life.
• God will guide us in the way of wisdom and lead us in straight paths.
• In our walk in God’s way our steps will not hampered, when we run, we will not stumble.
• Hold on to instruction, do not let it go, guard it will, for it is our life.
• Don’t walk in the way of the wicked.
• Avoid it, do not travel on it turn from it and go on your way.

Application

We can walk in God’s way.

Let’s not walk in the way of evil but in the light as He is in the light.