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Proverbs, Part 4: Application
0 CommentsYesterday my sermon looked at the first nine chapters of Proverbs, considering how wisdom is often personified as a woman. I also compared and contrasted “Lady Wisdom” and “Woman Folly” and the sobering choice we must make between the two. Next week we will continue in the same text.
You can listen online or download an mp3 of the message here.
The memory verse for this week is Proverbs 9:9-10, “Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be still wiser; teach a righteous man, and he will increase in learning. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.” (ESV)
Here are questions to help you apply the message to your life:
1. Josh taught us that wisdom has to be cultivated (Prov. 1:24-32; 4:5-6). What one or two things can you do to cultivate wisdom?
2. Josh taught that wisdom is beautiful and desirable (Prov. 3:13-15). Are you delighting yourself in the Lord? Is the Lord satisfying to you? Or do find that you lack delight in the things of God?
3. The invitation of Woman Folly is to those going “straight on their way” to forsake faithfulness (Prov. 9:15). Are there any areas in your life (home, work, among friends, etc.) in which you have strayed from faithfulness? What would repentance look like?
4. The rich meal of Lady Wisdom communicates the goodness of wisdom (Prov. 9: 2-5). The meal of Woman Folly calls us to delight in the forbidden, such as sexual immorality or quick money through dishonesty (Prov. 9:17). Are you enjoying any of the forbidden meal of Woman Folly? If so, what can you do you do to repent and bring this into the light?
5. Proverbs 9 teaches us that “the choice between wisdom and folly is a choice between life and death.” As you look back over the last several months of your life, which direction would your choices reflect—wisdom or folly? If folly, what would change look like?
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