December 19, 2018
Proverbs 1:7-9
Intro.
This probably should have been tagged on the last passage that we studied, and included with that section.
I. Authority of God (7) #
A. Fear of the Lord #
1. This is a phrase that is used in the Bible 30x, it is used 14x in the book of Proverbs. So it is an important phrase to understand. #
2. fear - 1: an unpleasant often strong emotion caused by anticipation or awareness of danger 2: anxious concern : solicitude 3: profound reverence and awe especially toward God 4: reason for alarm : danger #
3. Two Hebrew words, pachad, and yirah. We have one English word. After examining the usages of the word, it is clear that yirah is a reverence for God, while pachad is a fear as in afraid. #
4. Motivation from fear of pending judgment is not the purest motivational tool. #
5. Motivation from reverence is the right motivational tool in our Christian service. #
6. 2 Chr 19:5-9 - Both motivate #
7. v7 - pachad - FEAR that you do justly, don’t take bribes #
8. v9 - yirah - REVERENCE that you serve God out of reverence, faithfully, perfect heart! #
9. Pachad - FEAR - Isaiah 2:10-21 - 10,19, 21 - pending doom #
10. Yirah - REVERENCE #
11. Ps 19:9 - Clean, everlasting… we will not live in heaven in ‘fear, afraid of pending judgement’ but in reverence. #
12. Ps 111:10 - Beginning of wisdom #
- Context is key!
13. FEAR breeds a desire to hide, and flee the pending wrath, whereas REVERENCE breeds a desire to serve in loyalty and awe! #
14. Without that REVERENCE for the creator, and recognition of the GREATNESS and power of God, you will not get knowledge. #
15. The devil falsifies knowledge with a rejection of God, and the creator… Evolution, gender neutral. #
16. An acknowledging reverence of God Almighty is fundamental to forward movement! Any "advancement" without that is fake, errant. #
B. Folly of the Fool #
1. Fools would rather forge their own path. #
2. Fools are wise in their own eyes, and therefore despise instruction and wisdom! No one is going to tell me what to do! #
- Prov. 22:15 ¶ Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
3. Every child is born with that ‘foolish' nature inside of them, that wants to overthrow authority, and carve their own path. #
II. Authority of Parents (8) #
Eph. 6:2 Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)
A. Hearing #
1. “My son” #
2. 23x in the book of Proverbs, one of the highest in the OT #
3. 15 of those times it is used in the first 7 chapters #
4. Leadership of a Father #
5. Lovingly written from a father, who cares about his son #
6. Hear, listen! #
7. Sometimes fathers can be frank, or gruff, but the practical life wisdom the give in life, is meant to help! #
8. children grow up in their home, when they are little, parents have to tell them what to do. As that child grows, he starts to develop into a man or woman, and doesn’t want to be treated as a child. As parents it is habit to treat them as a child, because we always have! As a result, sometimes teens tend not to listen, because they are not a child, Solomon, is instructing us to listen. #
9. You are NEVER too old to listen to your father! He is 20-30 years your elder…. experience. #
10. Of thy father! #
11. There is no shortage of people willing to tell you what to do! #
12. Be selective about who you listen to! Maybe you don’t have an earthly father… You have the Heavenly Father! #
13. Solomon has written this for you, to make up that ‘fatherly’ instruction that you are lacking. #
14. Fathers, GIVE INSTRUCTION! #
15. We have lost the father figure in the society we live in today. #
16. Talking of Abraham, #
(1) Gen. 18:19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him, and they shall keep the way of the LORD, to do justice and judgment; that the LORD may bring upon Abraham that which he hath spoken of him.
17. That job never ends! Titus 2:2-5 #
B. Heeding #
1. Forsake not - remember #
2. forsake - to renounce or turn away from entirely #
3. rebel - Don’t turn your back on what your mother has taught you! #
4. neglect - If you have a plant on your porch, and you don’t water it, you neglect it, it will die. If you don’t remember what your mother taught you, you are neglecting or forsaking. #
James 1:22 But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.
5. Keep in practice #
2Tim. 1:5 When I call to remembrance the unfeigned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first in thy grandmother Lois, and thy mother Eunice; and I am persuaded that in thee also.
III. Adorning of the reward (9) #
3John 1:4 I have no greater joy than to hear that my children walk in truth.
A. Ornament of grace #
1. Visibility of grace in your life! #
2. grace - a charming or attractive trait or characteristic, a pleasing appearance or effect. #
3. When you listen to 1. God, and 2. Your parents, it will show in your life! It will be an ornament that will adorn your life! #
4. The christian lifestyle should be an attractive life, that others observe, and covet. #
a) Not because of riches, but because of the peace, calm, and grace that is displayed because of the effect of God!
5. Opposite of grace is: #
a) blemish, mar spoil… by and large, that is what the world displays in life!
B. Chains #
1. Not prison chains… necklaces, awards, displayed proudly, prominently. #
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Gen. 41:42 And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
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Dan. 5:7 The king cried aloud to bring in the astrologers, the Chaldeans, and the soothsayers. And the king spake, and said to the wise men of Babylon, Whosoever shall read this writing, and shew me the interpretation thereof, shall be clothed with scarlet, and have a chain of gold about his neck, and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom.