Trusting God's Sovereignty: Wisdom for Righteous Living
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"The king's heart is in the hand of the lord like the rivers of water, he turns it wherever he wishes. God holds and can guide the heart of even a king, and if God can do this with someone as powerful with someone as confident with someone with all the resources of a king, how much more can he do it with any man or woman whom he chooses." [00:02:32]
"To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the lord than sacrifice. You know if we think about our relationships in these two ways we think of our vertical relationship that's the relationship we have with God then we think of our horizontal relationships the relationship we have with the people around us." [00:06:03]
"The plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty, but those of everyone who is hasty surely to poverty. When good planning is combined with diligent work there's going to be a harvest of plenty. God wants us to be hard-working and wise in what we do but those of everyone who is hasty surely to poverty." [00:09:37]
"A man who wanders from the way of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead. This is another proverb talking to us about the kind of path that a person walks. There are two paths or ways that a man or a woman can walk, and it's a dangerous thing to begin on the way of understanding but not to continue on it." [00:22:20]
"Whoever shuts his ear to the cry of the poor will also himself cry and not be heard. Now, we just saw previously in this chapter which proverb was it, uh, I'm thinking of the one, okay, uh pro, verse five, uh the plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty but those of everyone who is hasty surely to poverty." [00:18:25]
"Better to dwell in a corner of a house top than in a house shared with a contentious woman. Now yes that's right, don't risk it David that's what you're thinking right here, it's in the bible I have to talk about it. Now look we all agree that the corner of a house top is not a good place to live." [00:13:14]
"The horse is prepared for the day of battle, but deliverance is of the lord. You know in the days that the proverbs were written the effective use of horses in battle could be absolutely overwhelming to an enemy, but the horses had to be trained, you had to prepare the horse for the day about you just couldn't take a horse off the farm and run them into battle." [00:37:06]
"Getting treasures by a lying tongue is the fleeting fantasy of those who seek death. And that's kind of a heavy one isn't it, okay there are some people who hope to talk their way into getting money and they do it with a lying tongue they plan deals and they make promises that aren't honest they hope that it'll all bring them treasures." [00:10:19]
"The way of a guilty man is perverse, but as for the pure his work is right. I want you to think about the opening two words of that proverb the way, you know every life is on a way, and some people walk a way that is twisted it's perverse, and those who walk this way they are guilty before God but as for the pure his work is right." [00:12:19]
"Verse 21, he who follows righteousness and mercy finds life righteousness and honor. Now again, each life is on a path what are you following with your life and here the path is righteousness and mercy this is the path of wisdom, God's plan for those who will listen to him and surrender to him and what we'll do you'll find life righteousness and honor." [00:28:33]
"Verse 22, a wise man scales the city of the mighty and brings down the trusted stronghold. You know the walls of a city were difficult obstacles in the mind of the ancient world especially notice there in verse 22 the city of the mighty, yet with wisdom you can overcome such obstacles the wise man can accomplish things that are impossible for the fool to accomplish." [00:29:28]
"Verse 27, the sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination, how much more when he brings it with wicked intent. Now God said in first samuel chapter 15 to obey is better than sacrifice we're back to this theme that we saw before in a previous proverb that religious ceremonies don't cover over a wicked life." [00:34:32]
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"To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the lord than sacrifice. You know if we think about our relationships in these two ways we think of our vertical relationship that's the relationship we have with God then we think of our horizontal relationships the relationship we have with the people around us." [00:06:03]
"The plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty, but those of everyone who is hasty surely to poverty. When good planning is combined with diligent work there's going to be a harvest of plenty. God wants us to be hard-working and wise in what we do but those of everyone who is hasty surely to poverty." [00:09:37]
"A man who wanders from the way of understanding will rest in the assembly of the dead. This is another proverb talking to us about the kind of path that a person walks. There are two paths or ways that a man or a woman can walk, and it's a dangerous thing to begin on the way of understanding but not to continue on it." [00:22:20]
"Whoever shuts his ear to the cry of the poor will also himself cry and not be heard. Now, we just saw previously in this chapter which proverb was it, uh, I'm thinking of the one, okay, uh pro, verse five, uh the plans of the diligent lead surely to plenty but those of everyone who is hasty surely to poverty." [00:18:25]
"Better to dwell in a corner of a house top than in a house shared with a contentious woman. Now yes that's right, don't risk it David that's what you're thinking right here, it's in the bible I have to talk about it. Now look we all agree that the corner of a house top is not a good place to live." [00:13:14]
"The horse is prepared for the day of battle, but deliverance is of the lord. You know in the days that the proverbs were written the effective use of horses in battle could be absolutely overwhelming to an enemy, but the horses had to be trained, you had to prepare the horse for the day about you just couldn't take a horse off the farm and run them into battle." [00:37:06]
"Getting treasures by a lying tongue is the fleeting fantasy of those who seek death. And that's kind of a heavy one isn't it, okay there are some people who hope to talk their way into getting money and they do it with a lying tongue they plan deals and they make promises that aren't honest they hope that it'll all bring them treasures." [00:10:19]
"The way of a guilty man is perverse, but as for the pure his work is right. I want you to think about the opening two words of that proverb the way, you know every life is on a way, and some people walk a way that is twisted it's perverse, and those who walk this way they are guilty before God but as for the pure his work is right." [00:12:19]
"Verse 21, he who follows righteousness and mercy finds life righteousness and honor. Now again, each life is on a path what are you following with your life and here the path is righteousness and mercy this is the path of wisdom, God's plan for those who will listen to him and surrender to him and what we'll do you'll find life righteousness and honor." [00:28:33]
"Verse 22, a wise man scales the city of the mighty and brings down the trusted stronghold. You know the walls of a city were difficult obstacles in the mind of the ancient world especially notice there in verse 22 the city of the mighty, yet with wisdom you can overcome such obstacles the wise man can accomplish things that are impossible for the fool to accomplish." [00:29:28]
"Verse 27, the sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination, how much more when he brings it with wicked intent. Now God said in first samuel chapter 15 to obey is better than sacrifice we're back to this theme that we saw before in a previous proverb that religious ceremonies don't cover over a wicked life." [00:34:32]
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