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Week 1
  • Introduction

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Dont just sit there!
  • Well come across this idea later
  • There are four types of people in Proverbs
  • Wise, scorners, fools, simple
  • For now, know that
  • Youll have to READ
  • Youll have to THINK
  • Youll have to CHANGE
  • or Proverbs is of little use.

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What is a proverb?
  • A ___ and his ___ are soon ______.
  • Short
  • Memorable
  • They give principles, not promises
  • They dont explain they assume

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Hebrew Poetry
  • The genre of the book of Proverbs
  • Based on parallelism
  • Generally, this is Idea 1, idea 2
  • Each proverb takes two thoughts and
  • Equates them (synonymous ? AND)
  • Contrasts them (antithetic ? OR)
  • Emphasizes them (synthetic ? AND)
  • Illustrates them (comparative ? SO)

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Wisdom Personified (81-912)
  • Depicted as a woman crying out
  • To all men
  • Especially the simple and the fool
  • Three aspects
  • Her message and words
  • Her qualities
  • Her purpose

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Next week The Foundation of Wisdom
  • The Purpose of Proverbs (11-17)
  • Wisdom Personified (81-912)

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Week 2
  • The Foundation of Wisdom

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No pain, no gain?
  • Unless you learn from someone else
  • Proverbs is a book of experience
  • You can learn from Solomons experience
  • Or you can make your own mistakes
  • Guess which one is more painful?

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Why study Proverbs
  • Its the word of God
  • Its a book of Wisdom
  • Rules about living and relating
  • Based on the Law
  • What is wisdom?
  • Its teachable
  • Its rooted in fear of God

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Why seek wisdom
  • For skill, knowledge, and correction
  • Four characteristics of Godly wisdom
  • It is rational
  • It is moral
  • It makes distinctions
  • It is impartial

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Four types of people in Proverbs
  • We will see these types over and over
  • The wise willing to learn be corrected
  • The scorner unwilling to be corrected
  • The fool unwilling to learn
  • The simple he just plain doesnt know
  • Keep these types in mind!
  • Well be seeing them again and again

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Next week The Search for Wisdom
  • Seek Wisdom (120-222)
  • Keep your Heart (423-427)

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Week 3
  • The Search for Wisdom

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Wheres the battle?
  • If its between you and the world
  • Youre going to loose
  • The world is bigger, stronger, nastier
  • It doesnt have to be that way, though!
  • What if it was God vs. the world?
  • Proverbs puts Gods wisdom in our hands
  • Which puts God in our corner!

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How should we seek wisdom?
  • We must be open
  • To Gods truth
  • To Gods correction
  • We must be fearful
  • Of the consequences of refusing
  • Of the consequences of disregarding
  • Of the consequences of ignoring

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Keeping active, keeping fit
  • What to do with wisdom?
  • Receive it
  • Use it
  • Seek it
  • Value it
  • Internalize it
  • Express it
  • Exercise it
  • Contemplate it
  • Stand firm in it

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Pressing toward the mark
  • Covet Gods rewards for wisdom
  • Peace
  • Knowledge
  • Protection
  • Direction
  • Understanding
  • Deliverance
  • Direction

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Next week The Benefit of Wisdom
  • The Benefit of Wisdom (31-326)
  • Be Kind to Others (327-335)

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Week 4
  • The Benefit of Wisdom

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Worldly wisdom
  • Worldly wisdom vs. Godly wisdom
  • Opposed to one another
  • Man focused vs. God focused
  • What does worldly wisdom get you?
  • Well, a pictures worth a thousand words
  • So what does Godly wisdom get you?
  • Im glad you asked

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Conditional benefits
  • Some benefits have conditions
  • Obedience to God is a given
  • These must be benefits of exemplary obedience
  • This depends on that
  • Life ? study of Gods word
  • Favor ? mercy and truth
  • Guidance ? eyes on God
  • Health ? humility
  • Material blessings ? giving to God
  • Relationship with God ? accepting correction

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Unconditional benefits
  • Seem to be a byproduct of wisdom
  • Happiness
  • Pleasant life
  • Eternal life
  • World knowledge
  • Safety
  • Peace
  • Absence of fear
  • Confidence

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Kindness to others
  • More conditional promises
  • A set of related conditions and consequences
  • Do all this or youll get all this!
  • Do good to others
  • Avoid delay
  • Avoid evil
  • Avoid arguments
  • Avoid envy
  • Consequences
  • Cursed or blessed
  • Scorned or favored
  • Shamed or glorified

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Next week Godly Labor
  • Avoid Financial Entanglements (61-65)
  • Do Not Be Lazy (66-619)

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Week 5
  • Godly Labor

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Working hard, or hardly working?
  • Enthusiasm without ability
  • Think of a little kid with a hammer
  • Oh, I just need to hit it harder!
  • How we work
  • Just as important as how hard we work
  • We dont want to be lazy
  • We certainly dont want to be ineffective

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Dealing with money
  • Why is money a problem?
  • Timothy 610 love of money
  • What are we to do?
  • Avoid financial entanglements
  • With friends
  • With strangers
  • If you cant avoid, alleviate!

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Alleviating financial problems
  • How to get yourself out of a money jam
  • Dont get in one in the first place!
  • If youre already there, though
  • Be decisive
  • Admit the problem
  • Find the resolution
  • Fulfill your obligation
  • Make every effort to free yourself

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Dealing with work
  • Go to the ant
  • Foresight thinking about what youre doing
  • Economy no wasted effort
  • Industry enthusiasm and endurance
  • The caution
  • Ignoring the example leads to poverty
  • Poverty leads to perverse wickedness

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Next week Godly Friends
  • Avoid Bad Company (110-119)
  • Avoid the Wicked (414-422)

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Week 6
  • Godly Friends

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Who influences you?
  • When were in a group
  • We do things we otherwise might not
  • Theres a desire to fit in
  • Friends can build up or tear down
  • If groups can do dumb things
  • Then think before you join a group!
  • Make sure theyll hold you up
  • Instead of tossing you out the plane.

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What does God say
  • About who to associate with?
  • Not a whole lot
  • The implication is obvious other wise men
  • About who to avoid?
  • Certain groups of people (bad company)
  • Certain individuals (the wicked)
  • You have to be concerned about both

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Evil groups bad company
  • How to identify them?
  • Their words will be enticing
  • The inclination is to spread the blame
  • How to avoid them?
  • Dont put yourself near them
  • Know about their traps and snares
  • Know their final end self-destruction

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Evil men the wicked
  • Compare the two warnings
  • Bad company keep away
  • Wicked men keep far away
  • Identifying the wicked
  • Their character betrays them
  • Evil and violence are their pleasure
  • They are the opposite of the wise man

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Next week Godly Family
  • Stay Faithful in Marriage (515-523)
  • Wisdom for Women (3110-31)

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Week 7
  • Godly Family

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Bliss or bluster?
  • What is a marriage?
  • The most unique relationship
  • Two people who choose one another
  • Why is marriage important?
  • Gods first ordained institution
  • A picture of Christ and the church
  • Why do marriages fail?
  • Bitterness, anger, faithlessness
  • What makes some love, and some leave?

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The blessings of fidelity
  • Proverbs 515-23
  • Water essential for physical life
  • Fidelity essential for marital life
  • The way to fidelity
  • Rejoice in your relationship
  • Exclusive
  • Permanent
  • Delight in one another
  • Spiritually
  • Physically
  • Emotionally

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The danger of infidelity
  • What infidelity costs you
  • Joy
  • Delight
  • Companionship
  • What infidelity gets you
  • Sin before God
  • Willing entry into self-slavery
  • The character of a great fool

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The Godly woman
  • Psalm 31 woman
  • A picture of a Godly woman
  • Intended as advice for a young man
  • Provides a guide for young women
  • The fortunes of a godly woman
  • She is respected (in and out of the home)
  • She is praised (publicly and privately)
  • She is blessed (spiritually and materially)

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Next week Ungodly Women
  • Avoid the Strange Woman (51-514)
  • Avoid the Evil Woman (620-635)
  • Avoid the Harlot (71-727)
  • Avoid the Foolish Woman (913-18)

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Week 8
  • Ungodly Women

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Water hazards
  • How do sailors handle reefs and rocks?
  • They know how to recognize them
  • They plan to stay well away from them
  • They stop and turn back if they have to!
  • Sexual immorality
  • Reefs and rocks in the sea of life
  • We must plan to avoid them
  • or we will become a warning to others.

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Strange women
  • Who are they?
  • Anyone you should not be with
  • Immoral persons (1 Corinthians 59)
  • Unbelievers (2 Corinthians 614)
  • Imagination and reality
  • An illusion of pleasure
  • A reality of pain
  • What you loose honor, joy, wealth, labor, life
  • What you gain rebellion and the scorn of God

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Evil women
  • Is there a difference?
  • No an evil woman is a strange woman
  • You should not be with her, period.
  • What is the danger?
  • The visual aspect of desire
  • We must be careful what we see and show
  • Job 311 I made a covenant with mine eyes

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The foolish woman
  • Her character
  • Vain, empty, noisy
  • Silly, gullible, foolish
  • Also called a harlot (Proverbs 7)
  • Her activity
  • Idle, a busybody
  • Impudent, distracting
  • Her price
  • Innocence, folly, and death

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Next week Godly Separation
  • About the Godly and the Wicked (101-1533)

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Week 9
  • Godly Separation

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Standing up and standing out
  • You will conform to the ______
  • TV, Movies, music, reading
  • Work and hobbies
  • Where you live, what you wear
  • Who you hang out with
  • What fills in the blank for you?
  • If it the world, or the Bible?

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Godly communication
  • The righteous man
  • Sure in his speech
  • Blessings and life
  • Protected and prospered
  • The wicked man
  • Violence and perversity
  • Pride and provocation

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Godly correction
  • The righteous man
  • Concerned with correction
  • On course and intelligent
  • Humility and honor
  • The wicked man
  • Wandering and ignorant
  • Hubris and humiliation

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Godly certainty
  • The righteous man
  • Knows what fear of God brings
  • Extension and confidence
  • Life and satisfaction
  • The wicked man
  • Condemnation and extermination
  • Striving and death

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Next week Godly Attitude
  • About Godly Living (161-2216)

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Week 10
  • Godly Attitude

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Whats at your core?
  • A pearl is beautiful
  • to us but not to the oyster!
  • Life can be very different from another POV
  • Out attitude affects others profoundly
  • We can be soothing, or irritating
  • We can be gloomy, or grinning
  • We can be angry, or amiable

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Prepare your heart
  • First step
  • I want to have the right attitude.
  • How God prepares you
  • His purpose is perfection
  • His counsel is for consolation
  • His chastisement is for correction

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Prepare your spirit
  • Second step
  • I will have the right attitude.
  • How you prepare yourself
  • Be humble
  • Be in control
  • Be convicted

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Prepare your soul
  • Third step
  • I will learn to have a right attitude.
  • Seeking proper attitude
  • Prefer solutions over sacrifice
  • Prefer wisdom over wealth
  • Prefer reputation over riches

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Next week Godly Emotions
  • About Lifes Situations (2217-2434)

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Week 11
  • Godly Emotions

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Youre one in a million!
  • There are two ways to read that
  • Youre unique
  • Youre common
  • Both are true
  • Everybody is different
  • But there are a lot of ways we are similar
  • Emotions are the common denominator
  • What are good/bad emotions? Why?

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Envy
  • An overdeveloped sense of self
  • Rooted in pride
  • Results in insecurity
  • Removes our reward
  • Warning signs
  • Lack of fear
  • Love of schadenfrude

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Greed
  • Unhealthy concern over earthly possessions
  • Rooted in pride
  • Seek the eternal, not the material
  • Warning signs
  • Easy gain
  • Deceptive gain
  • Overwhelming opportunity
  • Temporary treasure

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Anger
  • A hot displeasure
  • Rooted in pride (Do you see a pattern here?)
  • Happens when our self-worth is attacked
  • Warning Signs
  • Forget where real worth comes from
  • Associating with angry people
  • Acting to gain revenge

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Next week Godly Relationships
  • About Relationships (251-2628)

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Week 12
  • Godly Relationships

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You are the weakest link!
  • No man is an island
  • We all relate to other people
  • We all have other people relating to us
  • Regardless of other people
  • We all relate to God in some way
  • That is the main relationship
  • It is demonstrated in our earthly relations

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Good and bad relationships
  • Good relationships
  • Pleasing to God
  • Profitable to us and others
  • Bad relationships
  • Displeasing to God
  • Destructive to us and others

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Good relationships
  • Reasonable
  • Willing to give and take advice
  • Friends who want resolution, not restitution
  • Faithful
  • Honest and willing to serve
  • Christ is our ideal and example
  • Patient
  • Characteristic of sacrificial love
  • Gods patience with us is our ideal

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Bad relationships
  • Without conviction
  • Given over to appetites and passions
  • Directionless and defenseless
  • Without faith
  • You cannot take confidence in them
  • They will betray your trust
  • Without truth
  • Foolish, conceited persons
  • Liars, flatterers, gossips

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Next week Godly Deeds
  • About Activities (271-2927)

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Week 13
  • Godly Deeds

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I will break you.
  • Thats the attitude of the world
  • Its a dog eat dog world!
  • Youve got to step on some fingers
  • Those who want to see us fail
  • How can we prepare for their attack?
  • What can we do to disappoint them?

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Understanding
  • Doctrine teaching whats right
  • Fear of God
  • Results in wisdom
  • Leads to certainty
  • Focus on self
  • Results in ignorance
  • Leads to uncertainty

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Rebuking
  • Reproof telling you its not right
  • Censer, admonish, convict, reprove
  • A true sign of love and respect
  • Proper rebuke
  • Always based on scripture
  • Done out of love
  • Done privately
  • Reserved for the wise

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Planning
  • Correction how to make it right
  • You know where you want to be
  • Now, how will you get there?
  • This is the whole point of Proverbs!
  • The wise man will walk in Gods way
  • The wise man will plan
  • To do good
  • To avoid evil

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Debating
  • Instruction how to keep it right
  • The idea is one of profitable discussion
  • The implication is a discussion about God
  • Characteristics
  • Based on Scripture
  • Repeated exploration and discovery
  • An encouragement to those involved

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What to do with what you know
  • Ecclesiastes 1213 Let us hear the conclusion
    of the whole matter Fear God, and keep his
    commandments for this is the whole duty of man.
  • James 417 Therefore to him that knoweth to do
    good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
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