Proverbs 7 - True Love (notes)

Proverbs 7 - True Love

Principles

1. Keep My Words.
2. Guard My Word in your heart.
3. Treasure My instructions.
4. Do what I say and you’ll live well.

There Is Nothing

• More important than our relationship with God. So the way I get to know the heart of God for my life and for the world is by knowing what God is like.
• The second most important relationship is with my wife or your husband.

God Has A Simple Strategy For Success

• Obedience.
• Do what I say and you’ll live life well.

Living Life Well

• Is living a significant life.
• Is living a life that makes a difference in the lives of those around us.

The Nature of Wisdom

• Divine wisdom springs from integrity, and becomes manifest through creative expression with excellence as its standard.

Love Has Many Definitions:

1. Erotic
2. Friendship
3. Agape

Solomon

• Talks about the wisdom of staying pure in our relationships.
• The first few verses of chapter 7 talks about the fact that we must keep the principles of purity as treasure in our hearts.

When We Keep God’s Word in our hearts it will keep us from the adulteress, from the wayward wife with her seductive words.

What God Says

• Lack of judgment leads to bad decisions. V-7
• Lack of wisdom I have fellowship offerings at home today I fulfilled my vows. V. 14
• Be careful when someone talks the talk but doesn’t walk the walk.

Be Careful

• With smooth talking people.
• With people who appear to be the real deal but are not.

Immorality

• Is a dead end street.
• Leads to nowhere.
• Leads to an empty life.
• Leads to bondage.
• Leads to death.

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Proverbs 7 - Keep God’s Word (notes)

Proverbs 7 - Keep God’s Word

Principles

1. Keep my Words.
2. Guard my Word in your heart.
3. Treasure my instructions.
4. Do what I say and you’ll live well.

There Is Nothing More important than our relationship with God. So the way I get to know the heart of God for my life and for the world is by knowing what God is like.

I get to know this by the revelation He has given. The Holy Spirit will reveal what is already in His Word to me.

God Has A Simple Strategy For Success: Obedience.

• Do what I say and you’ll live life well.

Living Life Well

• Is living a significant life.
• Is living a life that makes a difference in the lives of those around us.

Eyesight

• Is taken for granted until it is lost, impaired or threatened by disease.
• The writer compares eyesight to the teaching of the Lord.
• What God reveals is so precious that Jesus called it the secrets of the mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven. (Matt. 13:11-12)

Isn’t It Interesting

• That people who have been given revelation from God seem to have it in abundance?
• Once we have it, more will be given. It is like a floodgate that has been opened to us.

If We Want Divine insight, we must search for it as one looks for hidden treasure.

For Example

• The reason there is sickness, illness and physical problems is because of the fall.
• The Devil comes to steal, kill and destroy--but Jesus came to give us a full life.

What God Says

• I have been given you My authority of Heaven to rebuke, to devour, and destroy the works of the Devil.
• Faith actualizes what it realizes.
• Faith takes what you see in the unseen realm and forces it into the seen realm.

Our Concept

• Of God is based on disappointment not revelation.
• Example of the man with a son who has an evil spirit.
• God did not withhold a miracle as a means of punishment when the man came to Jesus who had a son tormented by a demon.

My Son

• Keep my words and store up my commands within you.
• Keep my commands and you will live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.
• Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart.

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Proverbs 5 - Purity In A Perverse Culture (notes)

Proverbs 5 - Purity In A Perverse Culture

Principles

1. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge.
2. Since wisdom is the application of knowledge we need to reverence God first.
3. Then we need the knowledge of the Word.
4. For us to have Godly wisdom we need to apply the knowledge of the Word of God.

According To Solomon

• Knowledge comes from reverence of the Lord. Knowledge and wisdom both begin from the reverence of the Word of God.
• If you want to be knowledgeable, study God’s Word. If you want to be wise apply God’s Word.

In Our Culture

• There is so much perversion, in our media, in our education system, in our homes and even in the church. (Lutherans ordained gay ministers)
• An answer to perversion: Sexual purity and Proverbs 5 talks about this.

Proverbs 5 Says:

• To pay attention to my wisdom, listen to my words of insight.
• So we may maintain discretion (means the wisdom to keep a person from future trouble or failure) and not speak ignorantly but with God’s wisdom.
• Stay away from smooth talking, adulteress, you will fall for her trap.
• In the end, you will be sorry you fell for her. You will lead a bitter life.
• The wages of sin is death.
• Immoral people don’t think about the destruction of their way of life.

Proverbs 5

• Young people do not realize that an immoral life leads to squandering youth.
• You will grow old and have nothing but regrets, nothing but sin and bones. (Message Bible)
• The discipline of saying no to immorality leads to saying, I have no regrets, I have peace with God for obeying His voice.
• Listen to your mentors and take your teachers seriously.

Jesus & Wisdom Are Synonymous:

• In Proverbs 8 we see Jesus.
• Wisdom is found in the market place.
• Wisdom is where decisions are made.
• Wisdom is a shield to those who are righteous.
• Wisdom is a guard protects those who acquire it.

The Source of Wisdom

• Is the Lord. (Proverbs 8:6)
• He holds victory in store for the upright. He is a shield to those whose walk is blameless.
• He guards the course of the just and protects the way of His faithful ones.
• Then you will understand what is right and just and fair - every good path.

Wisdom

• Will enter your heart and knowledge will be pleasant to your soul.
• Discretion will protect you, and understanding will guard you.

How God Views

• Sexual immorality.
• Paul said that if we know a brother who is in an immoral relationship with a woman we are not even to eat with that brother.
• In the Ten Commandments God says…Don’t commit adultery, and don’t covet your neighbor's wife.

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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.