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Hey there you are this is book my book. I'm Johnny you for a

time of Bible study in the book of Proverbs. You may be on your

own. You may be in a group of people. you may be in a big

hole look at the screen wherever we want to help each

other in this and I'm joined by Paul Blackham here and also by

George Vaa, who's our celebrated and special guest

today from Operation Mobilization, which she founded

and we're actually in his place sitting in the Quinta Christian

Center. England exciting It's exciting the canals here. I've

been on the canals near here. We've done that yet Paul but we

might we might do you guys a little slow, but it's okay Well

friends. What we're doing is now we're coming to study

number four in Proverbs type of theme today. Chapters 10 to 12

is really how that the Sun and by which we mean really Christ

brings joy to his father and read First Chapter 10 verses

one to five. The Proverbs of Solomon, a wise son, brings joy

to his father, but a foolish son grief to his mother. It all

got treasures are of no value, but righteousness delivers from

death. The Lord does not let the righteous go hungry, but he

thought they're craving of the wicked. lazy hands make a man

poor, but diligent hands bring wealth. He got his crops in

summer is a wise son, but he was sleeps during. Is a

disgraceful some, so that's the theme look at all of Chapter

10. We learn how a wise son brings joy to his father and as

a poll that we're looking here well, the Proverbs that come

directly now from Solomon, many of them do anyway. He has a

special set from him. How does the book change at all at this

point? and how do we deal with this small? What kind of

riddles and sayings that Salomon gives his readers?

Yeah, I think he's so. In the in chapters, one to nine, it

may even be David teaching Solomon that father to his son

like that and all the way through. but on those first

nine chapters, what we're getting is not so much all

these little instructions like do this and don't do that

things. but it's more about the big context of wisdom. Why

should you love wisdom and what's wisdom like and you know

he? he's he's wing our hearts to wisdom in those first nine

chapters, a big vision of what. Everything shows wisdom and

wisdom written in at the foundation of creation and all

this sort of thing and then when we get to this point, it's

taking that big context, a huge vision of wisdom and the

attractiveness of wisdom and now coming down to these

hundreds of applications of wisdom to all the different

areas of life and that's so there's a big deep context of

wisdom and now the application of wisdom. but what's so good

is the called these parables or riddle's. Proverbs and it's the

same word that's used really when Jesus teaches in Parables

and it's a word that means cuz like we talked about parallel

lines things that go alongside each other. It's one thing is

like another one. This is like that you remember the Lord

Jesus himself has this wisdom teaching all the way through

his teaching Ministry. He'll say the Kingdom of Heaven is

like this and or in in in the prodigal son. All these things

are where he takes a story or a truth or an everyday occurrence

or just some feature of the natural world and he say, look

at that now understand this and a deep truth. This thing is

like this thing. so all the way through this proverbs you can

read them at a very superficial level if you wish and see only

a certain level of truth, but each of them contains deep

profound truth. It's a bit with the he S ears to hear. let me

just like the power was Jett, just like the power is. There's

a thing that we can see quite easily ill-gotten treasures of

no value, but righteousness delivers from death so everyone

could see worthless treasures are you know if you if you've

stolen goods, they're not really very marketable and

everyone can see that. But can you see that righteousness

delivers from death? That's a profound truth. That's a

alongside the simple truth so that sometimes they come first

sometimes second things that the point is that what's to

meditate on these things and take them into life. Oh. Let's

move on then because actually we've invested into Georges

because work here features as it did in the region. Verses

four and five wealth comes up. Chapter 11. verse. four words

come up as a third W there in Chapter 10, verse 10 and 11,

where the contrast is made. Do you see between a chattering

full and the mouth of the righteous as a fountain of life

elsewhere, 18 to 21 George. What extent can words be the

key to wisdom and true wealth?

SEM LEGENDA

So again, the Lord just dealt with me through all these

verses about the sins of the tongue and just broke me and

and yet I failed, I feel as I look back in my life. Some of

the greatest failures, unkind words to my wife, not thought

through unkind words at board meetings praise the Lord. I

have 11 years now out of all that so life's a little easier

in the last 11 years, but I remember Peter Maid who became

the director of O M after me phony me once and said. It's

important meeting you really offended that board member do

you think you might want to phone him? So that's always a

humbling experience to repent and apologize for your cutting

words. But if God hadn't transformed me and he used this

book, I think I would have just been disqualified from leading

OM, which I did 46 years. I think I would have been

disqualified in the early days because I had that combination

of quick tongue and also struggle with the. You know,

irritability and temper, and so I just again urge people to

memorize some of these scriptures and to just be more

careful in every way, Allan Redd pass said. When you get

upset, do anything wiggle your ears wiggle your toes. Remember

Allan Redmon just open your mouth and you just don't open

your mouth. It's what somebody wants to call the buckets

principle that when there's a conflict going on Agra starts

up in a discussion, you can either have gasoline and pour

it on. Or you can put on water to cool it down. You can be

either so 11 goes on to feature the qualities what the New

Testament would describe as the fruit produced, but as we put

t by following Jesus righteousness humility

integrity, so you see us one Chapter 11. The accuracy of

weights and scales is linked to verse four wealth as he puts it

on the day of the prosperity of the city of a wicked man's the

vast nine. então

SEM LEGENDA

What wisdom actually holds all that together, you know, I

think it's really because one of the verses that I was taught

to me when I was a little boy or a little sections. So it's

in Ephesians, six and five to eight where Paul is safe. It's

applying all that and he says, Look slaves. obey your earthly

Masters with respect and fierce and sincerity of heart. Just as

you would obey Christ obey them not only to win their favor

When the eye is on you but like slaves of Christ doing the will

of God from your heart serve iheart. As if you were serving

the Lord not man because you know that the Lord will reward

everyone for whatever good, he does. So why I think that's

important is it's that sense of all of life. Whether it's your

next door. neighbor your colleague at work the way you

wa things in your business practices. everything you do.

whether you're peeling the potatoes doing the washing-up

parking your car doing your shopping. Everything must have

that. Hagerty of Christ, One of the commentators said there

must be the fragrance of Christ about everything that you do so

that in everything as it says in Corinthians everything to

the glory of God. so Proverbs is saying every little thing

that you're doing Let that wisdom of Christ did everything

in such a way that his father said in him, I well pleased

everything he does thrills my heart as the father and why is

that so everything that Jesus did he's carpentry. The way he

ate the way he greeted people the way he noticed the little

children was the disciples ignored the kids. you know I

forget the kids are important. Jesus knew about them. The

people that eat everything he bothered about and that is the

integrity of wisdom. Everything matters because everything is

to the glory of God. We got one thing we gotta do is to remind

our friends who are sharing with us in this study about the

study guide that you put together for. We're very

grateful that you're doing it all the.

SEM LEGENDA

Shown most in the first 30 here describes as the winning of

souls that his wise, how come winning souls be the greatest

investment. Well, that's one of my favorite verses must be, and

I think it is a great a great sorrow today that so many

Christians no longer are sharing their faith for you

know, especially in Europe. This often hostility and

surveys have shown. That a large number of Christians

don't share their faith and here we have this little nugget

even back in Proverbs and endless verses in the New

Testament. There are many ways to share faith. I'm asking

people to become extroverts if they're more shy temperament

and today, surveys also seem to show a lot of Christians are

not having hardly any conversations with

non-christians at all, They're living like in a little church

ghetto talking to each other and having all kinds of

Christian events and then we go on Christian holidays and

Christian tours. I'm not saying there's no place for that, but

surely the. Needs to be more outreach by the way. Don't miss

one of my favorite verses there it just must look at Chapter 11

Verse 22. This is a dedicated to the women like a gold ring

and a pig snout. Is there any sense of humor in the Bible

Gold ring and a pink now is a beautiful woman who shows no

discretion? What I over emphasis in our culture on

beauty, I know I fall for it. You know a beautiful woman and

that's God's creation. But without wisdom and so many

women listening to us, don't just work for wisdom. go to the

body shop and buy all your different things wisdom from

the book of Proverbs God. We need women are often wiser than

men and probably married to one. So I just love that verse

and you know the highlight verse in the whole of Proverbs

for me is actually 16 and verse 12. Look at that full show and

At once, but prudent and insult, I'll tell you God dealt

with me. have you ever been preaching and somebody that's a

friend. You can tell they're annoyed with what you're

saying. Oh, yeah. boy. I get this first but and so easily we

do get annoyed with people. We should keep that in our heart

and deal with it not show them you know that were annoyed be

patient. Listen to person. Believe the best I just love

that memorize that verse full show annoyance at once I have

been a fool and I thank Jesus for changing me in this area.

though I'm not in the prudent overlooked and insult how are

we how are the people with us today? How are you doing it

overlooking an insole? It's it's that's radical Grace.

That's radical grace. I mean it is so stine when these things

happen and that we are actually prepared, you know. Coming to

Chapter 12 verse seven sum it up. I think that the House of

the righteous stands firm the righteous can't be rooted verse

three listens verse 15 to advice is careful in

friendships verse 20 - six. So who or what is The Who or what

is the root of the righteous and verse 12? Yeah the root of

the righteous. I love that idea because the foolish person is

shallow is only very short-term agenda once. Now in

this life and wants to be popular now beautiful in the on

the shallow superficial level and all the rest of it. I want

vengeance someone's wrong me-I want vengeance now, Where is

the roots of the righteous that is to abiding Christ? So I love

that where Jesus says, Look. If you abide in me, then you'll be

fruit. So it's you need roots that go down into Christ into

the He's the wisdom of God. He's the Lord God when I this

is. Book by to the roots of the righteous, I'm I read something

about him nearly every day, but this book I've been so enjoying

the roots of the righteous and though I love on the cover,

they've got a man in his roots are going deep into the air and

Jesus ended the sermon on the mount with that story of the

wise and foolish builders. The foolish builder No foundations.

It's all his House collapses as soon as this trouble the wisest

man deep foundations in the rock why because he obeyed he

didn't. Here to teach you Jesus, he obeyed the teaching

of Jesus. Yeah, but still in Chapter 12 friends, I got a

question for Paul really often we do see the unrighteous

prosper. Yeah, we see Wicked man in charge of governments

that don't fall. I mean, maybe when they're like 90 years of

age, how do we explain the fact that unrighteous people at

times, they really seem to be prospering. Some of them seem a

lot wiser than. Our Christian friends, oh no good answer for

that. well, No I agree with that and first of all you know

you want an answer. Yeah. I'm gonna give it to you. Yeah. no.

Of course you know we are. we are ourselves do foolish things

that bring about hormones our own. Yeah. Well. I just mean no

okay. That's incredible. isn't it the whole body The book of

Psalms point out cuz the book of Psalm in a way we do want

this. The We want the wicked to be destroyed immediately and we

want the right to flourish and. And in the book of Psalms,

there's so much of that with the psalmist goes, I see the

wicked and they're doing so well and those righteous were

suffering so much. I can't cope with this lord. Why aren't you

managing life properly? Why aren't you covering the real

property? and then you remember that the summer goes, but hang

on what's the end point? What's the ultimate outcome of all

this? Yeah, the wicked might do well for a few years. Joe's

struggled with it too, But then he goes no the wicked okay.

They do well for a few years some of them 40 years. The

years Yeah, and that seems a long time doesn't it well Like

Us ridiculous 4050 years. That's nothing. That's your all

caught up with this whole kingdom in Jesus name. I'm

working on that. I'm working on that. I'm working on that 40 to

50 years seems a long time to us, but I think the Lord say

that's nothing. It's just a whisper of smoke. A whole lives

are just a whisper of smoke here today, gone tomorrow and

we see the wicked and they seem to prosper for ages. But in the

in the view of the living God in eternity, They have no

prosperity. It's got no. Sting validity and as he said the

House falls down straight away, whereas the righteous they go

on and on brighter and brighter Was'. That's also told by our

prayers not to bury the wicked before to before time. that's

still a chance that they may turn. so if you get them to

consign them to a pit too soon and we can't do that very good.

There's still time for for things to change. but listen

why don't we here? We are in Chapter 12 about the fruit of

our lives that. Reveals really who we are so that would well.

It's like Matthew seven to seven on the mountain about the

bad tree that always produces a bad fruit. A good tree that

produces good fruit. How much is revealed by the way we treat

the let's look at it verse 10. We're leaving the animal

Kingdom or how we handle the truth, First, 19 and 22 verse

27. How we handle a valued possessions. Georges speak just

last week before we wind up well 19.

SEM LEGENDA

Righteous and seem to be doing the right thing. even in the

past year, they've been slaughtered in Northern

Nigeria. Some of them are trying to get to their church

on Sunday and so I think it's so important for all of us

trying to take in the whole of the word of God to get that

balance of truth and there are other verses, especially in the

New Testament in the Old as well that just bring some of

this into into greater understanding. So it doesn't

end up discouraging us or confusing us and that that is

really helped me in my bottles. Because I had the tendency

young Christian to go to extremes, you know I found

except for forsake all that you have. you can't be my disciple

and I was hitting people with a forsake all message and some of

them. I don't think ever recovered. Fortunately, my wife

did and because I got her to sell pretty well everything she

had. and then I saw Oh my God will supply all of your needs,

according to his riches and glory by Christ Jesus. So I

encourage people when they hit a verse that doesn't seem to

add up to keep studying and look at other scriptures that

bring it into greater. It's been a huge help for me and you

know going through this book and this book going through me.

It's wonderful that Scripture interprets Scripture. Yeah.

keep on reading. We get a strong sort of Steadiness about

well actually when I think of William Wilberforce that man

through whom the slave trade was abolished, are you met him?

No no not yet, but yeah, but we're moving for. I mean he was

timid shy not much to look at when he was young and they

called him a shrimp. He was a shrimp of a man then as he got

older.

SEM LEGENDA