Part 1:Introduction
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Author: Solomon, Lemuel, and Agar. The Holy Spirit inspired them.
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Purpose: to show the contrast between God’s wisdom and human
wisdom.
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Why read and study? Proverbs 1:2-6 NRSV For
learning about wisdom and instruction, for understanding words of
insight, 3 for gaining instruction in wise dealing, righteousness,
justice, and equity; 4 to teach shrewdness to the simple, knowledge
and prudence to the young— 5 let the wise also hear and gain in
learning, and the discerning acquire skill, 6 to understand a
proverb and a figure, the words of the wise and their riddles.
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For learning
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Wisdom (thinking God’s way)
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Instruction (correction and training)
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For understanding words of insight (skills and attitudes that wise
men and women have learned)
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Gaining instruction
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In wise dealing (behavior)
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In righteousness (doing the right thing, thinking the right way, in
thoughts, desires, words, and deeds in public and private)
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In justice (in deciding cases, making the right decisions)
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In equity (evenhandedness, impartiality, treating poor and rich,
powerless and powerful, etc. the same)
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Teaching the simple (naive, unskilled, inexperienced)
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Shrewdness (discretion, forethought, caution, sensibleness)
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Knowledge (knowing facts, having experience)
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Prudence (having a reasonable plan, purpose)
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Increasing in those who have wisdom
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More wisdom than before (on how to speak to impart understanding)
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Greater skills in life (giving direction and wise counsel)
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Other translations
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Proverbs 1:2-6 NLT Their
purpose is to teach people wisdom and discipline, to help them
understand the insights of the wise. Their purpose is to teach people
to live disciplined and successful lives, to help them do what is
right, just, and fair. These proverbs will give insight to the
simple, knowledge and discernment to the young. Let the wise listen
to these proverbs and become even wiser. Let those with understanding
receive guidance by exploring the meaning in these proverbs and
parables, the words of the wise and their riddles.
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Proverbs 1:2-6 GNB Here
are proverbs that will help you recognize wisdom and good advice, and
understand sayings with deep meaning. 3 They can teach you how to
live intelligently and how to be honest, just, and fair. 4 They can
make an inexperienced person clever and teach young people how to be
resourceful. 5 These proverbs can even add to the knowledge of the
wise and give guidance to the educated, 6 so that they can
understand the hidden meanings of proverbs and the problems that the
wise raise.
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All these proverbs are to be applied to spiritual life as well as
daily life and interaction with people.
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The most important is the start
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Salvation
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Not resisting, not refusing to believe, not suppressing, not
rejecting truth, God’s truth, which is perfect truth. Truth is
reality, not opinion.
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The Fear of the Lord: Proverbs 1:7 NKJV The
fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, But fools despise
wisdom and instruction.
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G. Campbell Morgan
wrote that there are two kinds of fear:
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The fear that God
will hurt me; but that is a selfish fear.
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The fear that I will
hurt Him; a fear founded in love and producing holiness of character
and righteousness of conduct. (See Ezekiel 6:9+). (Source)
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Personally, I believe there are 2 kinds of fear, too:
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Fear of God because of sin: Genesis 3:8 NIV Then
the man and his wife heard the sound of the LORD God as he was
walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and they hid from the
LORD God among the trees of the garden.
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Fear of God because of accountability (for Christians this is the
Bema Seat judgment, where we must all give account. It has nothing to
do with salvation, hell, heaven, etc. It does deal with rewards).
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Judgment Seat (Bema Seat)
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Romans 14:10 WEB But
you, why do you judge your brother? Or you again, why do you despise
your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of
Christ.
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2 Corinthians 5:10 WEB For
we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ; that each
one may receive the things in the body, according to what he has
done, whether good or bad.
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As Christians, all of our deeds will be tested. This includes private
and public, known and unknown, thoughts, desires, words, and deeds: 1
Corinthians 3:12-16 WEB But
if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones,
wood, hay, or stubble; 13 each man’s work will be revealed. For
the Day will declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire
itself will test what sort of work each man’s work is. 14 If any
man’s work remains which he built on it, he will receive a reward.
15 If any man’s work is burned, he will suffer loss, but he
himself will be saved, but as through fire. 16 Don’t you know
that you are a temple of God, and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
Proverbs
3:5-6 NLT Trust in
the LORD with all your heart; do not depend on your own
understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you
which path to take.
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