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All right, my BIBLEin365 
brothers and sisters, we have 

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arrived at one of my all time 
favorite books in the Bible that

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is the book of Proverbs. 
You know, my 8 year old has 

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gotten to the point where she is
ready to dig into the word a 

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little bit more than what Dad 
reads her every single night. 

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So I get the joy and the 
privilege of making my daughter 

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a lesson for every single day of
the week in the book of 

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Proverbs. 
And, and it's the first day of 

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the month, It's Proverbs one. 
When it's the 28th day of the 

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month, it's Proverbs 28. 
And she gets a 8 or 9 page 

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handout and she works through 
it. 

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Why? 
Because it all has everything to

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do with what the book of 
Proverbs is all about. 

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Listen, the book of Proverbs is 
a book of wisdom, but biblical 

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wisdom. 
And by the way, biblical wisdom 

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is more than being intelligent. 
It has nothing to do with 

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intellect. 
Wisdom is knowing how to live 

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correctly before the Lord. 
And much of Proverbs was written

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by Solomon, although other 
writers contributed to the book.

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And, and we do we, we'll talk 
about that matter of fact. 

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Well, we won't talk about that 
today, but when you go through 

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the book of Proverbs, you'll see
who some of those other authors 

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are. 
But Solomon, at a point in his 

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life, he asked God for wisdom 
and God gave him extraordinary 

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wisdom. 
Proverbs, by the way, deals with

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incredibly practical areas of 
life. 

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Just as I can think about the 
different areas and all the 

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categories I'm going to give you
are are off the top of my head, 

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there are many more. 
OK. 

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Proverbs teaches us how to 
regard our words, our money, our

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work, our marriages, our 
parenting, our friendships, how 

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to handle emotions like anger 
and temptation, pride. 

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It teaches us about discipline 
and even the process of decision

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making. 
These are things that I could 

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just think of on the fly off the
top of my head. 

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It gives you everything you need
practically in life to be able 

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to live as God would intend for 
you to live. 

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The book constantly contrasts 2 
people and this is where it 

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becomes critical. 
The wise and the fool, the wise 

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man and the foolish man, the 
wise woman and the foolish 

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woman. 
The foundation is given right at

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the beginning, and it says it 
right in verse 7 of chapter 1. 

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The fear of the Lord is the 
beginning of knowledge, but what

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fools despise wisdom and 
instruction. 

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And that brings us to my 
favorite passage. 

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I love this passage with all of 
my heart, and it's one of my 

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favorites. 
Proverbs chapter 3 verse five 

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and six, it says this trust in 
the Lord with all your heart and

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lean not on your own 
understanding in all your ways 

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acknowledge him and he will 
direct your path. 

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And then it goes on to say in 
verse 7, be not wise in thine 

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own eyes, fear the Lord and 
depart from evil. 

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What does it mean to trust the 
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Trust in the Lord with all your 
heart. 

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Notice what Solomon says 
actually how about this? 

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Notice what he does it always 
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Solomon doesn't simply say 
believe in the Lord. 

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He actually says trust in him. 
It's a different contrast here. 

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There was a difference between 
knowing that God exists. 

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Satan knows that God exists. 
Satan actually believes that God

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exists. 
He believes in God. 

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Question is this, will you trust
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Are you actually placing the 
weight of your life upon the 

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words that he says? 
Notice the emphasis with all of 

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your heart. 
Meaning there's no partiality in

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how you trust God. 
Not only when God's direction 

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agrees with the direction that 
you want to go in, it's also 

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when we understand times of not 
understanding what God is doing.

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Trust becomes especially 
important when we cannot see 

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what God is doing. 
If I only trust God when his 

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direction makes sense to me, 
then ultimately I'm still 

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trusting in my own 
understanding. 

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And the Bible tells us, no, 
we're not to lean on her own 

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understanding. 
And that leads directly into the

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next statement. 
Lean not into your own 

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understanding. 
I think the word picture, by the

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way, is powerful. 
Solomon is. 

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He's saying do not make your own
understanding the thing that 

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supports your life, OK? 
He's not telling. 

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By the way, Christians, you're 
not supposed to think that's 

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absurd. 
That's not what's being said 

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here. 
Proverbs constantly encourages 

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us to pursue knowledge and 
understanding. 

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And and it uses words like 
counsel and discernment and 

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wisdom. 
The warning is against treating 

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your own understanding as a 
final authority. 

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And the answer to that question,
why is obvious because we don't 

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know everything. 
OK, guys, we don't even know 

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what what tomorrow holds for us 
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We don't even know the 
consequences of the decisions 

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that we make in the near term or
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We we don't always even 
understand our own motives like 

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we talked about when we went 
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But God knows everything. 
That's why I think it's really 

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important. 
The Bible says in all your ways 

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acknowledge him. 
And I think we have a tendency 

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to to divide our life into 
multiple categories. 

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And God says, I don't like you 
compartmentalizing your life. 

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Solomon says in all thy ways, 
OK, That means God gets a say in

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everything. 
How I handle my money and how I 

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speak and how I associate with 
people and how I conduct my 

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family affairs and what 
decisions I make in and what 

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direction I take in my life. 
Even when I drive, even though I

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really want to admit that 
because my car is not safe. 

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I am, but my car isn't. 
But then He gives us the promise

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He will direct our paths. 
I think that's important. 

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But Solomon does something that 
here in verse 7 is critical 

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because he identifies something 
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He says be not wise in thine own
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And I think this is one of the 
great dangers that Proverbs 

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constantly warns us about. 
It is very possible to become so

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confident in our own judgement 
that we become literally 

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incapable of being taught, and 
that is dangerous. 

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The fool constantly believes 
that he already knows 

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everything. 
The wise person always stays 

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teachable. 
That's what Proverbs says. 

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Solomon tells us exactly what to
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Don't be wise in your own eyes, 
but fear the Lord and depart 

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from evil. 
There are two things here that 

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belong together. 
But I think it's really 

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important because if you 
understand these two things, 

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you'll understand the formula. 
A proper fear of God will change

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how we live. 
And throughout the book of 

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Proverbs, wisdom is not merely 
something you know. 

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Wisdom becomes visible in what 
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It's what you carry out within 
your life. 

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If I were to summarize the whole
book of Proverbs with one 

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statement, it would be something
like this. 

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God knows how life is supposed 
to work, so listen to him. 

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There's only one God and you're 
not Him. 

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The fool will always say I know 
better, but the wise men will 

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say, trust the Lord with all thy
heart. 

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Don't lean on your own 
understanding all your ways. 

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Acknowledge Him and He will 
direct your paths. 

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Do not question the things that 
your feelings or your experience

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or your intelligence will lead 
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Who cares about other people's 
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The question that we always have
to ask is what does the Lord 

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say? 
Proverbs tells us at the 

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beginning of Wisdom is 
recognizing that God sees what I

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am incapable of seeing. 
He knows I could literally what 

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I couldn't even possibly know, 
and the understanding that He 

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has far surpasses any 
understanding that I could ever 

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have. 
That's incredible, incredible 

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enabling that we learned from 
God. 

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Take advantage of it, you guys, 
'cause God's good. 

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He wants you experience all that
He has for you to the fullest. 

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So take advantage of His wisdom.
Get up there, fight the good 

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fight. 
I love you guys. 

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God bless you. 
And I'm going to tell you this, 

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I'm so incredibly proud of you.