Concerning knowledge, wisdom

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Concerning knowledge, wisdom understanding

• Proverbs 910

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Knowledge

• "The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom,
  and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.
  Prov 910
• truth / facts gain through experience, thought or
  learning
• can be good or evil
• truth about God
• only because God chose to reveal himself to us

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Wisdom

• seeing life from Gods perspective
• faith ? hope ? love
• view life from our own perspective
• disillusion ? despair ? fear

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Principles / elementary teachings

• problems can be traced to violation of Gods
  principles
• life consist inter-related cause-effect
  relationships
• violations in one area affects other unexpected
  areas

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Reasoning

• great capacity to reason
• but amazingly, we often reach the wrong
  conclusion
• There is a way that seems right to a man,
• but in the end it leads to death Prov 1412
  / 1625

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How we reason

• how to be rich?
• Prov 39-10
• Honour the LORD with your wealth, with the
  firstfruits of all your crops then your barns
  will be filled to overflowing, and your vats will
  brim over with new wine.
• Luke 638
• Give, and it will be given to you. A good
  measure, pressed down, shaken together and
  running over, will be poured into your lap. For
  with the measure you use, it will be measured to
  you."

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How we reason

• how to gain honour?
• Mat 2026-28
• .. whoever wants to become great among you must
  be your servant
• Prov 1533
• .. and humility comes before honour.
• Luke 1411, 1 Pet 55
• For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled,
  and he who humbles himself will be exalted

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Conclusion

• ask pray in faith
• James 15-6
• specific situations
• meditate day night
• Joshua 18
• a chapter of proverbs a day