Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Wisdom’s invitation

This is the lesson for March 9, 2014. I'm setting this to be on the blog some time during the week after, so I have no idea yet how it went or how much of it I got through.

“Wisdom is deep insight into how things work.” — Greg Koukl

Intro

Solomon, when he wrote the proverbs, was soaked in the scriptures he had available at the time. Remember the command in Deuteronomy 17: The king had to make a copy of (at least) Deuteronomy — perhaps the entire pentateuch — in his own hand.

First call of wisdom: 1:20–28

  • READ 1:20–22
  • Wisdom
    • is available
    • wants to be heard
  • Different kinds of people who don’t have wisdom
    • Simple: Directionless, easily swayed
    • Fool: Rejects wisdom
    • Scoffer: Makes fun of wisdom
  • READ 1:23
  • ASK What is the benefit of listening to wise warnings?
  • READ 1:24–28
  • ASK What is the cost of ignoring wise warnings? (It will be too late.)

Second call of wisdom: 2:1–8

  • READ 2:1–4
  • READ 2:5–8
  • ASK What is our part in obtaining wisdom?
    • Pay attention (v.1)
    • Remember (v.1)
    • Incline your heart (OT: heart is the equivalent of modern brain) (v.2)
    • Ask God for it (v.3)
    • Consider it a treasure (v.4)
  • ASK What is the immediate result of seeking wisdom?
    • “Fear of the Lord”
    • the knowledge of God
    • ASK Are these 2 different things?
    • SAY Dan Phillips says that the “fear of the Lord” in the OT is equivalent to “believe in the Lord Jesus Christ” in the NT
  • ASK What is God’s part in our obtaining wisdom?
    • He gives it.
    • His word is wisdom.
    • ASK Do we get it by deserving it? (No)
    • It’s like your salvation: It’s yours because God gave it to you.

Trust in the Lord

  • READ 3:1–4
  • Sounds just like Joshua 1:8. (Maybe by Solomon had to copy Joshua and Judges as well.)
  • Where else do we hear the phrase “in the sight of God and man”? (Luke 2:52, where Jesus, as a boy, had been demonstrating his wisdom to the teachers in the temple)

A command and a promise and a way to interpret (some) hardship

  • SAY Generally, Proverbs is a book of insight and principle, not promises. But here we have a command, and obeying this command brings something that looks like a promise.
  • READ 3:5–6
  • Our hearts warm with verses like 5 & 6. But remember about “heart”: it means “brain” or “mind”.
  • How easy would it be to just say “I’m trusting God for everything” and then turn around and be passive about knowing him, about acquiring wisdom? But that would be the exact opposite of what the whole book of Proverbs is about.
  • How much do we hear verse 7?
  • READ 3:7–10
  • These sound like promises of health and wealth. Are they?
  • READ 3:11–12
  • This is quoted in Hebrews 12. God’s promise there and in, e.g., Romans 8:28, is that our hardship is for our good.

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