PROVERBS

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PROVERBS
A key to wealth
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A old time saying..

• BE
• HEALTHY
• WEALTHY
• AND WISE
• Why WEALTH was placed in the middle?

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In ancient times

• Cattle and live stock
• Servants and slaves
• Gold and metals
• Lands and farms
• Number of wives

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In modern times

• Job and social status
• Credit cards
• Business and investments
• Shares and stocks
• Credit facility
• Cars and homes

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What about

• Loss prevention,
• Depreciation
• Insurance
• Securities
• Windfalls
• Inheritance
• awards

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Ch. 1. Wealth an index of well being

• It could be spiritual or material
• Any thing that does not come from God is from the
  devil
• The desire to get rich quick could lead to snares
• That is coveteousness
• Greed comes at early age

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Ch.8. Sure way to wealth

• INSTRUCTION GOLD
• KNOWLEDGEgt SILVER
• COUNSELgtgt RUBIES
• PROOF GODS CREATION NEVER WENT WRONG
• KINGS RULE AND JUDGEMENT ALWAYS RIGHT

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Ways of gaining and losing

• Ch1 talks of ill gotten wealth
• Bad friends at school at an early age could
  entice children by showing many attractive things
  and make them steal or cheat their parents.
• Good friendship is an asset!
• Absalom was a spoilt child

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CH. 2. HIDDEN TREASURES

• Wisdom is like hidden treasure and pure silver
• How did they dig the silver from rocks and
  purified the metal from Ore?
• Retain what is received

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Ch.3. DEBIT AND CREDIT

• Receiving and Giving TO GOD
• Give to god and your barns will be filled
• Wisdom and understanding is more than silver,
  gold and rubies.
• It brings long life riches and honor

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Ch.4. Well spent money-education

• Education is a good investment.
• In olden days it was called wisdom learnt from
  the older generation.
• Solomon learnt it from his teachers.
• Solomon wrote them not to exhibit literacy but
  to serve as our guide posts

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CH. 5. WASTED WEALTH

• IMMORALITY A WAY TO DESTRUCTION
• STRANGERS WILL BE FILLED WITH IT
• YOUR LABOURS TO THE HOUSE OF A FOREIGNER
• YOUR HONOURS TO OTHERS
• YOUR YEARS TO A CRUEL ONE
• YOUR HEALTH LOST.
• YOU MOURN AT LOST

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CH6. SNARES IN SURETYENDANGERED BY THOUGHTLESS
ACTION

• CAUGHT BY OUR OWN PROUD WORDS
• DONT SIGN SURETY FOR STRANGER AND FRIENDS.
• ADULTRY WILL REDUCE YOU TO POVERTY
• MAN CAUGHT IN ACT CANNOT COMPENSATE WITH
  REWARD

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CH7. REDUCED TO POVERTY

• ENTICING WORDS OF IMMORAL WOMAN WILL REDUCE TO
  POVERTY
• IT IS THE GATE WAY TO HELL
• A PATH OF NO RETURNS
• REMEDY TREASURE GODS AND PARENTAL COMMANDS

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CH. 9. WATCH THE DIFERENCE

• WISDOM AND FOLLY BUILT THEIR HOUSES IN HIGH
  PLACES
• BOTH SEND SERVANTS TO INVITE PASSERS BY
• BOTH USE THE SAME WORDS
• THE REWARD FOR THOSE WHO MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE.
• TRUTH ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT GOLD

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CH.10 RICHES AND POVERTY

• RIGHTEOUS WILL NOT GO HUNGRY
• LAZY MAN BECOMES POOR
• INCOME OF WICKED BRINGS PUNISHMENT
• BLESSINGS OF THE LORD BRINGS WEALTH
• WAGES OF RIGHTEOUS
• IS LIFE

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CH. 11. BUSINESS ETHICS

• GOD HATES DISHONESTY IN BUSINESS
• PEOPLE WHO HOARD IN NEEDY TIMES ARE
  CURSED
• WEALTH IS WORTHLESS AT TIMES OF CALAMITY
• RUTHLESS GAINS WEALTH BUT KIND MAN GAINS
  RESPECT
• PEOPLE WHO GIVE GAIN MORE
• PEOPLE WHO SQUEEZE
• AND SAVE BECOME POOR

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CH.12. HARD WORK PAYS

• FARMER WHO TILL THE LAND HAS FOOD
• PEOPLE WHO HAVE WILD IDEAS SUFFER
• WICKED LOOT THE WEALTH OF THE EVIL
• THE ROOTS OF RIGHTEOUS ARE FLOURSHING
• RICH FAMILIES HAVE FEUDS AND FIGHTS
• WOMAN OF NOBLE CHARACTER IS A CTROWN ON HER
  HUSBANDS HEAD
• LAZY MAN DOES NOT EVEN
• ENJOY THE BIRD HE HUNTS

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CH.13. POVERTY DEFINED

• LAZY MAN DESIRES BUT DOES NOT GET
• DESIRES OF DILIGENT IS SATISFIED
• WHO IGNORES DISCIPLINING COMES TO POVERTY AND
  SHAME
• DISHONEST MONEY DWINDLES
• GATHER LITTLE BY LITTLE GROWS
• MISFORTUNE PURSUES SINNER
• PROSPERITY IS REWARD OF RIGHTEOUS
• ABUNDANT YIELD OF LAND SWEPT AWAY BY INJUSTICE

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Ch. 13 contd. Riches defined

• GOOD MAN LEAVES INHERITANCE
• SINNERS WEALTH GOES TO RIGHTEOUS
• RICH MANS WEALTH IS NEEDED FOR RANSOM
• POOR MAN HAS NO WORRIES OF BEING KIDNAPPED
• PEOPLE WHO PRETEND RICH AND OR NOT.
• PEOPLE PRETEND POOR
• ARE REALLY WEALTHY

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Ch.14- hard work pays

• Wise woman builds her house
• Foolish tears it down
• By strength of oxen harvest is abundant
• Good man is rewarded for his faithfulness
• Hard work brings profit but empty talk only
  poverty

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CH 15. GOOD MONEY

• In the house of the righteous is great treasure.
  Income of the wicked brings trouble.
• Little with fear of the LORD is better than great
  wealth with turmoil
• Greedy man brings trouble to his family. He who
  hates bribes will live

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CH. 16. HONEST BUSINESS

• Little with righteousness is better than much
  gain with injustice.
• Honest scales and just weights are from the LORD.
• Better to get wisdom than
• GOLD

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CH. 17.HAPPY LIVING

• Better a dry crust with peace than full feast
  with strife.
• Crucible for silver and furnace for gold but the
  LORD tries the heart.
• Bribe is charm that opens the door for who gives
  it

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Ch18. Value of wealth

• Wealth is like a fortified city to the rich man.
  He imagines it cant be scaled.
• A gift brings a man to the presence of the
  great.
• A poor man pleads for mercy but a rich man
  answers harshly

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Ch. 19.TRUE WEALTH

• Wealth brings many friends but the poor mans
  friends desert him
• Houses and wealth are inheritance from the
  fathers. But a prudent wife is from the LORD.

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CH 20. Wisdom the true wealth

• LORD hates dishonesty in business
• A lip that speaks knowledge is a rare jewel

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CH.1-10 MISGUIDANCE IN SPENDING

• ADVICE TO CHILDREN AND YOUTH

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CH.10-20 EARNING WEALTH

• FOR FAMILY PEOPLE

RIGHT AND WRONG
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CH.21-31. HIGH AND LOW SOCIETY
ALLOWING MONEY TO HANDLE OUR LIVES
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SOCIAL EVILS-

• GLUTTONY AND DRUNKENNESS
• 232 BE CAREFUL WHEN YOU GO TO DINE WITH A RICH
  MAN
• 2321 DRUNKARDS AND GLUTTONS BECOME POOR
• 287
• 304,6 IT IS NOT FOR THE KINGS TO BE DRUNK. BUT
  THE POOR MAN WHO NEEDS TO FORGET HIS MISERY
• 2118 WHOSOEVER LOVES OIL AND WINE WILL NEVER
  BECOME RICH
• MTT 1119 LK. 734

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SOCIAL EVILS-LAZINESS

• PROCASTINATION
• 2321 IT CLOTHES THEM IN RAGS
• 2430 THE FIELD OF THE SLUGGARD IS COVERED WITH
  WEEDS AND THORNS
• 2434 HE WHO SLEEPS, THE POVERTY WILL COME LIKE A
  BANDIT
• 2615 THE SLUGGARD IS WISER IN HIS OWN EYES

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SOCIAL EVILS-IMPERTINENCE

• SIGNING A SECURITY
• 239 IF YOU PUT UP A SECURITY FOR ANOTHERS DEBTS
  YOU WILL LOSE YOUR BED ALSO.
• 2713 ONE WHO SIGNS A SECURITY FOR STRANGERS
  WOULD LOSE HIS GARMENTS ALSO

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HIGH AND LOW SOCIETY- RICH AND THE POOR

• 215 DILIGENCE LEADS TO PROFIT HASTE LEADS TO
  POVERTY
• 217 HE WHO LOVES PLEASURE WILL BECOME POOR
• 234 DONT WEAR OUT TO BECOME RICH BECAUSE RICHES
  TAKES TO WINGS AND FLY AWAY
• 286 BETTER IS A POOR MAN WHO WALKS UPRIGHT THAN
  A RICH WHOSE WAYS ARE PERVERSE

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HIGH AND LOW

• 222 GOD IS THE MAKER OF RICH
• AND POOR
• 224 BUT THE RICH RULE OVER THE POOR
• 2216 HE WHO OPPRESSES THE POOR TO INCREASE HIS
  WEALTH AND GIVES GIFTS TO THE RICH WILL BECOME
  POOR
• 2222IF YOU EXPLOIT THE POOR AND CRUSH THE NEEDY
  THE LORD WILL PLUNDER YOU
• 2827 HE WHO GIVES TO THE POOR LACKS NOTHING
• 229GENEROUS MAN SHARES HIS FOOD WITH THE POOR

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BUSINESS ETHICS GREED

• 236 FORTUNE MADE BY A LYING TONGUE IS A FLEETING
  VAPOUR AND A DEADLY SNARE
• 283 HE WHO TAKES UNUSUAL INTEREST TO BECOME
  RICH AMASSES IT FOR ONE WHO WOULD BE KIND TO THE
  POOR
• 2825 A GREEDY MAN CREATES PROBLEMS BUT HE WHO
  TRUSTS GOD WILL PROSPER
• 214 GIFT SOOTHES ANGER AND BRIBE A GREAT WRATH

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TRUE RICHES

• 221 A GOOD NAME IS BETTER THAN GREAT RICHES
• 224 HUMILITY AND FEAR OF GOD BRINGS WEALTH AND
  HONOUR
• 244 THRU WISDOM A HOUSE IS FILLED WITH BEAUTIFUL
  TREASURES
• 272 RICHES DO NOT ENDURE FOREVEVER. NOR THE
  CROWN FOR ALL GENERATIONS BUT THE
• CARE FOR THE FARM AND LIVESTOCK FEEDS FOR
  EVER