Proverbs the Book – How to Live a Wise Life series video notes audio. Proverbs would be easier to teach if its wisdoms were collected into chapter topics, but it’s not how the Lord designed Proverbs but life doesn’t come at us in topics. To be sure, life hits us scattered. In other words, in a one-day period, you may need wisdom on finances, marriage, children, work, integrity, truth-telling, etc. This is how Proverbs is laid out for us. The things you read today in Proverbs are actually things you may face today.
Proverbs the Book – How to Live a Wise Life
by Delbert Young
Proverbs the Book – How to Live a Wise Life
Adventure in Wisdom – How to Live the Best Life – sermon video audio notes
Proverbs would be easier to teach if its “wisdoms” were collected into chapter topics, but that’s not how the Lord designed Proverbs. Life doesn’t come at us in topics. To be sure, life hits us scattered. In other words, in a one-day period, you may need wisdom on finances, marriage, children, work, integrity, truth-telling, etc. This is how Proverbs is laid out for us. The things you read today in Proverbs are actually things you may face today.
Adventure in Discipline – How to Live the Best Life – sermon video audio notes
The purpose of Proverbs is to teach us not only wisdom but wisdom and discipline. Wisdom and discipline cannot be separated. Discipline is the primary ingredient in wisdom. Think of people you know who consistently do foolish things. You will see they lack the ingredient of discipline.
Proverbs the Book – How to Live a Wise Life
Adventure in Anger – How to Handle the Madness – sermon video audio notes
In the movie Ole Yeller, the dog is put down (shot). What a picture of anger was mad rabid Old Yeller. The wolf of anger bites us. We go mad. We lose it, and we snarl, biting those we love most and love us. So we foam out vile words, and we do crazy things. The most loving and kind person turns into a foaming, rabid animal when angry. If we could hold onto this rabid image of anger and see it when we are angry, it would help us manage our anger much better.
Adventure in Anger – How to Handle the Madness 2– sermon video audio notes
It becomes a cycle. The fisting of walls, yelling at people, and kicking the dog does nothing for anger management. In fact, it does the very opposite. Next time, the cycle will come sooner, and even more rage will be expressed. It becomes worse and happens repeatedly. They do damage to those who love them and make themselves an increasingly raging fool.
Adventure With Your Heart 1 – How to Discern Your Heart – sermon video audio notes
Your heart is an enormous theme in all the teachings of God. In the KJV, the word heart is mentioned nearly 800 times. In Proverbs, the heart is found 81 times and referred to in 78 different verses. The heart is of primary importance to God. I’ve heard people say, ‘Just follow your heart.’ This is one of the worst things anyone can do or advise others to do.
Proverbs the Book – How to Live a Wise Life
Adventure With Your Heart 2 – How to Guard It – sermon video audio notes
Some things we guard our hearts against very well. We are like Ninja Warriors—Heyyaaaa! It can’t get past us, but some stuff not so much. Is it sickening knowing some of the junk we allow to live in our hearts? We would go to all sorts of efforts to get cancer out, but we allow nastier stuff than cancer to live in our hearts. Proverbs says above all things guard your heart, for from it come the issues of life.
Adventure With Trust In God: Experiencing His Unfailing Love – sermon video audio notes
In every relationship, there is engagement, risk, and commitment. You wade in. Over a series of engagements, risks, and commitments, you develop trust. Eventually, you trust with all your heart. It’s this way with trust in the Lord. It requires you to engage, take risks, and make commitments. You can’t say you trust in the Lord with all your heart unless you have engaged, taken risks, and made commitments.
Adventure With Friendship – How to Journey Life Together – sermon video audio notes
We will actually walk through life with only a handful of real friendship companions. They will make us wise or bring us to harm. Beyond our marriage partner and children, people develop only a handful of close friendships. These become increasingly important as the years go on. These people are the VIPs of our relational world.
Proverbs the Book – How to Live a Wise Life
Adventure With Addictions – How To Know I Am Addicted – sermon video audio notes
What has Lady Wisdom said for thousands of years about an issue so pertinent for today? Addictions. Perhaps some of us struggle with addictions. If not, you certainly have relatives and friends who have gone down the path of Whore Folly and ruined, or nearly ruined, their lives because of addictions. A person becomes a literal slave to an addiction. Many know what it is to love someone who is in slavery, to alcoholism, drug addiction, sex addiction, etc.
Adventure With Addiction 2 – How to Overcome Dependency – sermon video audio notes
Everything he or she had in life is gone. Women leave their children. Men lose everything. Addictions lie and cost you your life. You don’t think this the moment you light up the first cigarette or pop the first pill. You don’t think this when you download the porn video. These promise pleasure, but it cost you your life. You don’t think how it’s destroying your body and mind, taking years off your life when you keep eating. Idols promises honey, but the idol’s intention is ruin, death, and destruction with an arrow in the liver.
Proverbs the Book – How to Live a Wise Life
Adventure With a Sluggard – How to Not Be One – sermon video audio notes
Do you know what the Book of Proverbs calls ‘someday’ people? A ‘Someday’ person is a sluggard. Isn’t sluggard a sweet term? What’s a sluggard? It’s a snail without a shell.
Adventure With Family – How to Have a Great One
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The wisdom in Proverbs cuts through all the ‘how to’ information and sums up the only way to forge a strong family. Wisdom condenses it down into two absolute necessities. Forget the books, courses, internet information, and sermons, and focus on two things: Strong families are a result of strong marriages and effective parenting practices.
Adventure In Marriage – How to Make Matrimony Work – sermon video audio notes
There are some things in life you can get by with or ‘mess up,’ and they won’t make such a huge difference overall. There are some things you just can’t afford to mess up. If you do, these things will go with you for the rest of your life. At the top of the list of the “do not mess up” list is Don’t make a mistake when you choose a marriage partner.
Proverbs the Book – How to Live a Wise Life
Adventure In Marriage 2 – How to Keep One – sermon video audio notes
Proverbs 18:22 He who finds a [spouse] finds what is good and receives favor from the Lord. In marriage, the right spouse is a good thing. He or she makes life good. He or she brings God’s favor, spiritual compatibility, character compatibility, emotional compatibility, communication compatibility, and physical compatibility. The spouse makes life good.
Adventure In Goodness and Kindness: How to Reflect God – sermon video audio notes
Proverbs teaches us a wise person does goodness and kindness. It’s not only being a good person. It’s also doing goodness and kindness. You cannot be and will never be a wise person if you refuse to do goodness and kindness. God is counting on you. The world is counting on you.
Proverbs the Book – How to Live a Wise Life
Proverbs the Book – How to Live a Wise Life
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