Proverbs Lesson 4 - What Wise People Do

keeper a Turing this the stars in your life are not surprised to God type that whatever you're going through right now God is doing something upstream if you have no idea the reason why this is so important is because it's on your cheek and the bible does not say that so what I'm saying is we have to get back to do Bible this is my one point that I want to make reminds me it's all about um all right good morning um welcome to those of you that are here or super glad you're here today with us for those of you that are joining us online apps Roku YouTube anyway you found us super glad you're joining us today too if you want to know more about our ministry go online to women's Bible study comm there you can get handouts for today's lesson catch up on this series and all the other series that we do so that's how you find us how's that we are in a summer series and we are working through the Book of Proverbs which we've never done before it's a lot harder than I thought it was going to be because proverbs is so big and has so many things so we are learning one main thing and that is that in life there is two paths and and our goal for this series is to get us to see the one path that we want to take which is wisdom but we're always have a choice to take the path of foolishness so we're trying to see what wisdom looks like versus what foolishness looks like next week I'll just tell you real quick we're um we're gonna talk about children and we're gonna talk about especially that verse about yeah it's it's actually not a verse in the Bible spare the rod spoil a child it's that's not actual verse but there is verses that allude to that and so we're gonna talk about what does that actually mean when it's paired about a rod does that mean you should beat your children does that what exactly does that mean and I don't think it does so we're gonna do that I'm bringing my daughter in next week to and I'm gonna interview her so that we can kind of get a a whole different view of you know she's been to college she's been to high school she knows what's going on in this world right now how do we raise our kids in this insane world that we live in now so I'm going to talk for the first 15 or 20 minutes then interview her for the rest of that um the time next week so if you have anyone that has kids that that you know you need to know how to raise them at that point come next week so all right today we're going to talk about four different things and with the whole question that you need to ask yourself and the question is am i wise and we're gonna we're gonna put up four different things on the screen and it's and I want you to take that statement and say does that look like me and that's how we're gonna tell now first thing that we're going to talk about is this one and I want you to look at this and tell me if this looks like you wise people flee from sin before it happens so it will never happen proverbs 14 16 says this a wise man fears and departs from evil but a full rage ah's and is in is self-confident in other words he's saying a wise man departs fears the thought of of evil and wants to depart from it from it before it ever even happens because wise people know this with every action that you do there's always some kind of a reaction and if you're a good chess player a really good chess player like if he he knows what the opponent's gonna do and he also knows how to counteract what the opponent's doing so he can think like six moves ahead and that's kind of what wisdom is for us we need to be looking ahead like if I do this is this what's that going to produce if I text that guy that I know I shouldn't text let me go six steps beyond that and see how does that gonna turn out for me if I go on that office trip and I can take my husband but I really don't want to take him because there's this like super cute guy what is that gonna look six steps beyond what I just do if I stay out too late and I'm drinking too much what is that gonna look like six steps beyond that if we consistently look at that that's what wisdom looks like it's like you know what I see that situation and I better be really careful before I go down that direction we see the two examples of this in the Bible for those of you if you don't know much about the Bible you probably have heard the story of David and Bathsheba and here you have King David who is the king God even says he's a man after his own heart but apparently he doesn't use wisdom the way he's supposed to and there's a scene where King David decides that he doesn't want to go to war nobody really knows why that is maybe he's getting older maybe he's just tired who knows but he looks out his window one day and sees this beautiful woman Bathsheba bathing in her little bathtub and he has a choice all she has to do is look six steps down and say okay that's gonna be a bad choice if I ask her to come in and and have an affair with me he calls his um the people who work for him and he's like you know go get that woman and they being filled with wisdom are trying to say David that's the stupidest idea you've ever had in your life like this is a married woman not only married but her husband is off to war fighting for you so you need to really rethink this before you attempt to go that direction but he decides to make a foolish decision instead of a wise decision he has an affair with Bathsheba she ends up getting pregnant now they've got to cover it up and it's this whole disastrous problem in his life now so what he does is he does something even more foolish and make sure to put Bathsheba's husband on the frontlines so that he'll die and he ends up dying so that he can get the woman and that's just how it all God is so upset with David he's like how can you do that David you know that there's consequences to our sin when we do something stupid foolish there's always going to be bad that comes out of it and for David it was bad god said your child that you had out of you know for this affair with with Bathsheba will die and that's exactly what happened and then God says to David the sword will never depart from your house and it never did like his whole family was a disaster it's like his um his one son literally murdered his other son his one son wanted to take over the throne kicked his dad off the throne in Jerusalem David rides out of Jerusalem with his son like it was a mess and it all could have been and not happen that way if he would have just made a wise decision looked at Bathsheba turned away said yeah she's super hot but you know can't go there I love God too much but he didn't do that and there's always consequences when those things happen Joseph on the other hand is in the Old Testament and Joseph was the son of 12 he had had eleven brothers that older 10 brothers hated him because they felt like dad liked Joseph better than anyone else so they hated him and so they were out in the field one day Joseph shows up they throw them in a pit and then they decided well we don't wanna kill him so they sold him to some slave traders that going to Egypt they but haulin light to their dad and said Joseph got eaten by an animal and he's dead which none of that was true but it was so devastating to the father that this happened and Joseph ends up working for a man by the name of Potiphar in Egypt and apparently Joseph is super hot and so Potiphar's wife wants to Joseph to sleep with her and he's like I can't do that like his choice was the same as date David do I go for it or do I not and he chose the path of wisdom and he said you know what I'm not gonna do that he told her I can't do that to your husband for one but overarching that I could never do this to God because I love God so much she cried rape even though he didn't he ended up going to prison which was a bad thing but God used it all to get him to become second-in-command of Pharaoh and when it was all said and done he eventually twenty years later his brothers came to get grain from him they didn't know was him and he heard them talking in their own language they didn't realize that he understood the way their their language and all they could say was all of this bad is happening to us because of what we did to our brother 20 years ago they could not get over what they did because of the it was so foolish of them but foolish decisions like haunt people for years and lifetimes for some people but God blessed Joseph he eventually told his brothers who he was and because of that they he said you know go home and get dad bring him here let's we need to you know I want you guys to live here in Egypt with me and David lived out the rest of his life in peace and with his family around and with his dad all because he made a wise decision the whole thing would have looked different had he had an affair with Potiphar's wife everything would have changed so the whole idea between this is that that what do you do when sin confronts you is that something do you flee from it you go I can't let that happen or do you go for it I love our vice president Mike Pence he understands this whole idea of making wise choices and it's so funny we live in this world now that says oh you know men should go to you know lunch with their you know woman girl that works at the office and there's just something about that and yet Mike Pence stands up and says I refuse to do that because he knows if he does that not only the looks itself but there's this opportunity that might rise that he might end up liking this girl and having an affair he's looking out way ahead and I'm so appreciative that he's like this if you come to any of our other classes I always tell this kind of funny story my husband a long time ago we knew this woman from church and she had all these business questions so she asked Rob to go to coffee and so I knew her I didn't think anything about it and so he goes there and just as he's having coffee with her at like a Starbucks or something a pastor that knows him walked in and he sees him sitting with another woman and he called him later and he said Rob you can't be doing that a few minutes later my son walked in one of our kids walked in and he's like why are you with this lady and it was just this awkward situation my husband's so naive like he doesn't think anything but he came home that night and he said if she ever asks me to go to you know coffee I need you to come protect me and I need you to go with me and so we did next time she said hey let's go coffee he said great I show up okay super awkward and she never ever asked him to go to coffee again so there you go you got to be careful of you just don't know someone's like hey let's go do this and you think it's innocent but it innocence might turn into something else so that's why what we say we got to know what we gotta look ahead for sin whatever that looks like now we have to flee from sin we had this cute little video it's about snake you know I want to take this next segment and I want you to understand what sin is you know in cultures all over the world san-tomás has a mystical property people can't get ahold of it's like grabbing a cloud but during this session I want to demystify sin and I want to break sin down into bite-sized pieces so that you can understand exactly what it is you're dealing with and what you need to fight it in your life and then just nature in general everything starts off small and lets go it is with sin you know just look at things you're involved in right now and think about issues in your life they all start off small but they ultimately get big why do they get big whatever you feed grows whatever you pay attention to comes around more and whatever you really invest your time in is going to advance or become bigger in your life and this is a problem with sin before you know it it's got a hold of you and you can't get rid of it if you give it food it's going to grow and once it grows it's going to always want more I hate snakes serious hate them do you think they're confused right now like right now in Phoenix it's so hot and it's winter and it's like it's I walked out the other day and I thought I always check for snakes because we live in the desert and I walked out and I'm thinking oh there's no snakes and I thought they have to be really confused they don't know whether they should come out or know is because it's so hot here in the winter it's the weirdest thing but that's a great reminder that sin just builds it just does and and you just think it's just to look and then it's a lunch and then it's a hey let's go to this conference together and it just goes on from there it just becomes this so always remember that's what sin does here's what wise people do why is people run from sin so it never ever gets out of control wise people are not these people that say you know what how close can I get without just crossing that line wise people don't say you know what how far can I go with this guy before I actually have sex wise people don't say you know what how many drinks can I have before I'm just not really drunk but I'm just at that line wise people don't say how much flirting can I do with that guy before it crosses a line wise people are some of these people that just don't push the lid they're just like I'm not doing that a lot of times the reason why we we don't get this particular concept with sin is because of the friends we hang out with because we have friends that are pushing us that direction like oh you need to do that you'll be fine and so here's our next person why is people hang out with wise people so the question is who do you spend the most time with in your life proverbs 13:20 says whoever walks with the wise becomes wise but the companion of fools suffers harm a little boy told his mother one time he said I'd rather have a million friends than a million dollars and she said why would that be and he said well if I ever get in trouble each friend should be it would should be able to give me at least one dollar and which gives them a million dollars anyway but your friends really do matter who you hang out with and so the Bible talks about three different kinds of people that you and I need to stay away from the first one is this naive proverbs 14:15 says this the naive believes everything but the sensible man considers his steps naive people believe everything in other word they're just like hey don't worry you know you're not gonna get caught I'm not gonna get caught don't worry you're not gonna get pregnant you're not gonna get like addicted whatever and they're these friends that are just naive and they they they bring you right along with them naive people are not really aware of consequences they're just they just don't think along those lines they don't think that flirting with that guy could actually turn into an affair and they don't think taking those extra pills might make you addicted and they don't think that having sex at 16 you might end up pregnant and then have an abortion and then that whole thing happens they don't think that going to a party and getting drunk might end up in a full-on a collision that kills people so wisdom like we talked about here is shouting from the from from these these windows up here and and this is what proverbs is shouting in verse chapter one verse ten my son if sinners entice you do not consent if they say come with us let us lie and wait for blood let us ambush the innocent without cause we find all kinds of precious wealth we will fill our houses with spoil it's just being naive we're gonna do all of these things and nothing Bad's gonna happen throw in your lot with us we shall all have one purse my son do not walk in the way with them keep your feet from their path for the feet run to evil and they hasten to shed blood that's what naive people do wisdom is shouting for you to run away from people like this some of you really need to hear this today because you have friends that you're hanging out with and you know whenever you get together with them they're like hey let's go out on Friday night nothing good ever happens and you know that but you still don't want to break off your friendship and you still do it and you're the one that's going to get caught in a really bad trap Rob and I were in Vegas a couple months ago and we were walking through Caesars Palace and we saw all these like kids like girls and they were like skirts up to here and and they they were all drinking and they were just trashed and and I was just like I just I just just hurt my heart I woke up in the morning and I said but the first words out of my mouth were this I wonder how many people are waking up this morning in Las Vegas wishing that last night never happened because now it's too late to change anything and that's what it is when you hang out with naive people so do you hang out with them here's the second one simple minded verse 22 says how long o naive ones will you love being simple-minded now last week I told you a joke about the the blonde and the whole you know simple-minded so I have another one for you policeman was interviewing a man who his store had just been robbed and the owner was like this is bad it's so bad but I'm so incredibly thankful that he robbed me today instead of yesterday and the police officer says well why is that and he said because today everything was marked 50% off and he said so I've really only lost half as much okay there you go that's simplemindedness right there that I was thinking about this what that really means is somebody who has never been taught the right way they just don't they just don't think along those lines rob was watching a Dateline one time and he told me about it the next day and he said you know because it's so weird he goes the this this woman was poisoned and he said so they spent the whole hour trying to figure out who did it and when they did you know they did it because there was you know of course fibers and fingerprints and DNA and text messaging and all of these things that and I looked at Robyn I said do people not know that they're going to get caught like do they honestly think they're gonna get away with stuff like this like have they never watched CSI have they never do they not know that that nothing that they do is going to be secret like your computer they can get into your text messaging like I don't know why people are so ridiculously dumb and then it dawned on me that they're simple-minded they've honestly never been taught that they really think they're gonna get away with things like that so do you hang out with people that are like that the third one is a scoffer 122 the last part of that verse says how long will scoffers delight in their scoffing now scoffers are people who just jeer at everything they laugh at everything they mock at everything you try to do the right thing they're laughing at you you just think you're just all that and and they consistently are jeering at you and scoffing at you they're they're critical people they're proud people they don't really care anything what God has to say and see this the question are these the kind of people that you're hanging around with I would think about that with Noah when I think of scoffing I'm like okay like when Noah when God says build a boat no well there'd never been rains and now he's building a boat and people are just like scoffing they're laughing at him and they walk by and they're like hahaha you know well what's wrong with you you're crazy they're scoffing at him they're laughing at something but of course Noah has the last laugh at that when susan boyle stepped on the stage of Britain's Got Talent you could see the audience and they were scoffers they looked at her they laughter they jeered at her because of her outward appearance she had no glitz she had no glamour but I'm telling you the minute she opened her voice though that scoffing stopped right away but some of you but must might hang out with people that are like that that everything to them is just let's laugh at that person let's make fun of that person and and that's just scoffers Psalms one says this blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel wicked nor stand in the way of sinners nor sits in the seat of scoffers the Bible's really clear to stay clear away from people like that this is why if you hang out with any three of those people naive simple-minded or scoffers you will never live the life that you're supposed to live a life of wisdom because if you hang around people like that how will you know what a healthy marriage should look like if you hang around people like that who live very unhealthy marriages this made me laugh a husband was reading an article told his wife the article says that women speaks thirty thousand words a day and men only speak fifteen thousand words a day and the wife said we'll the reason for that is because the wife has to always explain things twice to her husband and he looked up from his newspaper and he said what what did you say and I thought that was cute cuz I thought yeah there you go women have to say things twice to our husbands but how will you know how to treat your husband if you only hang around with people who disrespect their husbands who are scoffers and naive how will you know how to love God like how we if you're hanging around people that don't love God you'll never know how to love him and get to know him how will you know how to manage your finances if your friends are just naive going oh I'm gonna buy them with this and I'm going to write you know but my credit card up to the hilt I'm gonna be fine it's gonna be how will you ever know how to manage money if you hang around people like this how will you know how to raise your children if all your friends don't know how to raise children and they're doing everything just wrong and they're mean to them in there that they treat them like dirt how will you ever know if you're hanging around people like this how will you know how to be giving and loving if you hang around people who are selfish and hateful who are who are mockers at things how will you know how to stop getting drunk if you're hanging around people who are always getting drunk how will you know how to gain wisdom if you hang out with only people who are foolish how will you know how to speak kind words if all your friends do is speak angry bitter words this actually made me laugh this next screen someone said it's so simple to be wise just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it okay there you go that's that's all we have to worry about like whatever you're thinking of saying then just don't say it that would be a novel idea but this might be a wake-up call for some people who hang around people they're friends and they're like this but they do not want to break away from them here's what you need to know is that foolish friends will weigh you down in every pop portion of your life here's what we've learned over the years for Rob and I the stronger we get in our face the less friends we actually have and as weird as that sounds that's just the way it is because the more I love Jesus the more I want to live a life that that promotes him and suddenly the people that we used to hang out with they don't want to hang out with us anymore and our phone stops ringing and when it happens to you I want you to know do not take that personally because the Bible says the darkness hates the light and if you start acting and doing things wise with wisdom people are not gonna like that we have friends that that that we had long many many years ago they don't want anything to do with us now and Rob said the other day we were just talking about this and he said why do you think that is and I said I think it's because we changed and when you change your friends are not going to want to hang out with you because suddenly you find yourself going you know what I'll go to the bar with you but I don't want to get drunk you know what I'll talk to you you know but I don't really want to be a jerk to my husband yeah when you start new and the people start gossiping you're just like you know what I just kind of don't want to join in and when you become that person all your friends are like yeah I don't really want to hang out with you anymore you're just not like us anymore now does this mean you shouldn't hang out with your friends that that you know are foolish the answer that is maybe yes and no no because Jesus hung out with people he hung out with sinners and prostitutes the whole idea of Jesus did is to bring them to himself and our goal for for being with friends that are kind of foolish is to help them grow in wisdom that's what that's what we should be doing but if you go to the bar with them and have seven drinks instead of one then that might tell you that you're just not grown-up enough in your faith to where you can handle being around those kind of people so I I know a lot of people who say you know what I just had to walk away from my friends first season until I grew strong enough so that when we do go to the bar I don't get drunk I'm not my old self isn't the way I used to be anymore the point is if they talk you into having that seventh drink then you probably are not ready first Corinthians 15:33 says this do not be deceived bad company corrupts good morals it just does the Bible says that so when they are influencing you more than you are influencing them then you might need to make some changes for the time remember a couple weeks ago we talked about this building here the Burj Khalifa the tallest building in the world I want you to look at the the buildings that are at the bottom like before the Burj Khalifa was built those buildings were probably pretty tall and so it made me think about when you start growing in wisdom your life is gonna start looking like the Burj Khalifa you're just gonna get strong and you're gonna you're gonna be able to handle anything but I want you to think about all those small buildings around you as your friends that think you're just a nutcase because you don't want to do the things that they do anymore and if you were if you were one of those buildings I bet you look up every day and would say you know what that building just kind of thinks that's all that doesn't it you know that building I just I just wish it would fall in that building look at all the glass in it I just hope an earthquake happens and shatters at all that building just looks so tall and proud and you know it just needs to be taken down a notch and I want you to know that foolish people will do that to you they want to bring you down but wise people want to bring you up and that's what that's what we're trying to get us to be able to do is hang out with people that will will lift us up wisdom and not foolishness the third one is this wise people ask for wise counsel proverbs 1:5 says this the wise man will hear an increase in learning and a man of understanding will acquire wise counsel and so the question we need to ask is do you actually seek out counsel from people or do you just say you know I know it all and I don't need to again anyone's advice a young man who was loaned $500 from a friend of his but he never got a signature on the page saying like is that snow doing that weird thing do you think today's my earrings no okay it's just weird all right it's popping we'll get over it um he tells his you tells his um his dad he went to his dad because dad has a lot of wisdom and he said dad my friend owes me $500 and he said he refuses to to pay me and I don't really I have no record of that I loaned him this money and his dad said this he said just write him tell him that you you loaned him you know you need to get paid for the thousand dollars he loaned you and he goes but he didn't loan me a thousand dollars and he said you're right but he said the minute you write that he'll write you back and say no no I owed you 500 not a thousand and then you'll have in writing okay so it's brilliant but but he never would have thought about that on his own but he thought about it but he went to someone wiser than himself proverbs 12:15 says this the way of a fool is right in his own eyes but a wise man is he who listens to counsel proverbs 11:14 says where there is no guidance that people fall but in abundance of counselors there's victory proverbs 13 10 says through insolence comes nothing but strife but wisdom is with those who receive counsel now when you came in today you each got a package of Orville Redenbacher's popcorn and the reason for that is because every time you look at his little picture on here his name and his picture I want you to think that the reason that is on there is because he made the choice to get wise counsel when Orville was 63 years old he was selling red bowl popcorn for four years he did everything he could to sell his brand of popcorn he went from farmer to processor to retailer and every single time he went it was the same story farmers do not want your seed Orville because it yields less per acre every processor said the same negative reaction about his about his popping corn the retailers he would go in and say look you need to buy my popcorn and he would say they would say there is 80 different brands of corn on the market and yours is two-and-a-half times as much as everyone else's why would we want your popcorn so one night in 1970 he said he sits down to make his popcorn and just don't even want to make any tonight he's so depressed he said he thought 10 years of my life is down the drain I've made this popcorn no one wants it I don't know what to do with it and so he started remembering about talent and he started remembering his mother talking about how important it is to use your talent and and so he knew he had he was talented to make the right kind of popcorn but he didn't know how to market it and so he started thinking about Sunday school when he used to teach Sunday school and he remembered something in proverbs about counselors so he went to his Bible and he started going through it and he came across proverbs 24:6 for by wise guidance you can wage your war and in abundance of counselors there is victory so he decided that okay I'm gonna lose my ego and I'm gonna go admit to someone that I need some help so he began looking around for a good marketing company few days later he went to Chicago he his chosen counselors was an advertising and marketing firm one of the best I think in Chicago at the time and they sat down at this table he said there was the owner there was a retailing expert and a copyright guy that was there and they sat him down that he said tell us about popcorn tell us everything you know about popcorn he said for three hours he just poured out his soul about popcorn they said come back next week and we'll have something for you following week he came back and they had come up with a marketing scheme and here it was we think that you should call it Orville Redenbacher's gourmet popcorn and if you look on there that's exactly what it is to this day he stared at them and he said why in the world would I do that like why am i paying you all this money to my mom named me this like 63 years ago why are you telling me no one wants popcorn that has that weird name on it and he drove back thinking I just spent $13,000 for someone to tell me I should use my own name that's the most ridiculous thing I ever heard he said then they recommended that he put his picture on there which you know it's pictures all everywhere and he's that's the dumbest idea I've ever heard so he was thinking about it driving back and he said that proverb that I wrote read had better be right because I thought that that their wisdom was kind of stupid at this particular point so he got home and he said in his mind if people balked at the price before now they're gonna balk even more because now it's gonna be a weird name and my picture on it is gonna be totally awkward so he said I decided what I would do is take their counsel and I would I would make my own jars or whatever he did and I would put my picture on it put Orville Redenbacher's and do the whole thing he said so I sent it to one of the top marketing firms into the gourmet food department and where was it at it was at Marshall Fields in Chicago that's what it was he said I sent it to his home address a whole case of it didn't put a return address he said so what I did was they said a month later I called him and said hey I sent this to your home did you get it and the guy said get it he said we want desperately your popcorn in our store and that's how it all began and all began because he finally realized I need to get some counsel and I need to get wise counsel from someone who knows the business who knows how to market I don't know that and so the question for you today is when something is wrong in your life one do you seek counsel or do you not and two who do you seek it from because that's really really important if you're seeking counsel from your best friend who's drunk at the bar you're not going to be getting some very good counsel if you have marriage problems I'm assuming you're not going to talk to your dentist about it if you have like having children problems I assume you're not going to talk to the the checkout lady at the grocery store I mean we have to find people who know and are wise about certain things that's why the hardest part for me is to talk about marriage or children I don't do it I don't teach on it it's not my wheelhouse next week is really hard because what you're gonna get next week is not from any child psychologist it's just I have seven children and so you're gonna hear how we did it but I don't like I don't like doing that because it it always makes me nervous I know there's people that are way more no have knowledgeable about things like that than I ever would be but you're thinking about divorcing your husband do you talk to your friend who's been divorced five times so it really really matters who you're going to go to for counseling and then what you do is you you listen to what they say and then you do it just like Orville Redenbacher did I learned this in a very valuable way every so often in our Wednesday study we have guest speakers come in and a couple years ago we had a guest speaker his name is sue Jo John and he was in the Twin Towers when the planes hit him hit that dazed wife was in one he was in the other he was one of the very few that actually made it down and got out from the the highest floor that he was at anyway we had him scheduled to come and speak and at the time he called me and he said hey he said Morgan Freeman the actor is doing this new show about God or some weird thing and he said he he wants to come with his video team videotape me as I'm speaking and he said I gave him a list of all the places that we were that were speaking at and he decided they want to come to your Bible study they thought that would be a good place so I was like yes Morgan Freeman how cool is that so I come home and I tell Rob I'm like Rob Morgan Freeman's gonna be a Bible study I can't wait to tell the girls and he said this do not say a word like don't tell anyone not even don't tell anywhere like seriously mum's the word on this and I'm like what some like some really cool information that everyone needs to know and he said Lisa just trust me on this and thankfully I listened to his counsel because I know my husband's pretty wise so I listened to what he said didn't make any sense at the time but at nine o'clock the night before their whole team had been there that day checked the whole thing there just wasn't enough room to do what they wanted to do videotape him watching the Bible study because there's too many tables and chairs around and so they called it 9:00 and said Morgan won't be there and I'm so thankful that I didn't say anything because people would have literally come to see Morgan he would have been there I would have been embarrassed that's just so it was so the point is is that when somebody gives you some some wisdom sometimes it doesn't make sense at the time but we have to know them well enough to say you know I trust them so much that I'm going to go with what they have to say I always say this was with Rob with our kids whenever they were dating someone I think I've told this to you before Robert always you know they would always listen if Rob didn't like that person and so the last couple boyfriends that Cheyenne's had he Rob's like no they're just not right for her and fine like we literally have had like three huge arguments over these guys that she she's crazy about him and Rob's like no not not the one for you and I get mad at him and I'm like our poor daughter is never gonna find someone to marry because you keep telling her that it's not the right guy but then after she breaks up with him and she looks back a month later she's like oh so thankful I listen to dad so it's a matter of finding somebody that you really believe knows what they're talking about biblically and then you you trust what they have to say and then when they say something you go with it that's kind of how that all works out the last point this would be really quick wise people store up knowledge proverbs 10:14 says this wise men's store up knowledge in other words you open up your Bible you open up books you listen to sermons you do things that's going to to give knowledge to you proverbs 1:5 says a wise man will hear an increase in learning mark twain this made me laugh he said um if you don't read the newspaper you're uninformed if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed and I laughed I thought he wasn't even living in 2018 where it's fake news is just kind of something that they do but the point is is that that if you and I want to have wisdom we have to be knowledgeable about what we're having wisdom about if you have problems in your marriage you need to be pouring your your your mind and into marriage books and trying to figure out from people who who made it out who made it if your husband had an affair then find books that are about you know husband's that had affair and how can you make your marriage work or what does that look like children how do you raise children you soak up books and sermons that talk about that if you want to know about salvation then you need to really pour your life into books about salvation or business or whatever it is and the Bible is our greatest source because that's what God's Word to us that tells us how to live this life here's a picture of something some of you will never have seen in your life the Encyclopedia Britannica okay if you are younger and you just were raised on the computer and Google and all that you don't know that that's how we used to live and so what it is is is before there was a Google there was these and and if you wanted to know anything let's say you want to know about Iran you would go to the eye and you would look up Iran and it would tell you it's kind of like Wikipedia in a book there's 32 volumes 33,000 pages and 44 million words in the Encyclopedia Britannica and one year there was a man AJ Jacobs he decided to read every single word in every single one of those volumes it took him one year in 55 days he read a hundred pages per day he ended up on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire but he realized very fast that his just reading that didn't really matter because they asked him one question what was the definition of I don't even know how to say it erythrocyte and even though he read that he didn't really know he couldn't remember what it was and so he ended up getting it wrong it's a red blood cell and he walked away with $1,000 that was it so knowledge is something that knowledge only matters if knowledge pushes you to wisdom see he learned knowledge for knowledge sake and it really didn't do him any good so our whole goal in life is to to read to get knowledge so that we can have wisdom and live this life the way God intends us to do so today there's our list that's it for today do you run from sin do you flee from sin do you hang out with wise people do you seek wise counsel and do you spend time storing up knowledge and the if the answer is no to any of those questions then today might be a good day to say God here's the deal I struggle with points 1 & 3 and god I really desperately need you to change my heart change me help me to start looking at the people I'm hanging out with what they're saying to me god help me to become a different person so that we look like the Burj Khalifa the big tall building not out of pride or arrogance or any of those things but to say you know the taller I got wisdom wise the more I'm going to live the life that God intends us to live father thank you for your word thank you for these four principles I pray that today that we will walk away from here saying you know what I need to change some things in my life and I pray that we will because God you give us wisdom you want us to learn wisdom so that we can live this life the way you wanted us to live it in the first place I pray that we will stop if we're going down a foolish road and we will start living a life of wisdom I pray for that for each person here in Jesus name Amen they are caring more about punching holes in the darkness then they are the my life is his my life you saying that is what is the norm in this kingdom what is it that makes you cry so happy or sad or miserable what is it did something that I want

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Length: 41min 2sec (2462 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 12 2018