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How To Make The Most Of The New Year

December 29, 2024 Frank Thompson, Raphael (Tico) Vargas Proverbs No comments

New Year Part 1
Proverbs 4

GET WISDOM!

1. Wisdom is ENCOURAGED in Scripture 

Proverbs 4:5
GET WISDOM, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.

Proverbs 4:7A
Wisdom is the principal thing; THEREFORE, GET WISDOM…

Proverbs 16:16a
How much better is it to get wisdom than gold…

Proverbs 19:8
He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good.

Wisdom EXPLAINED in Scripture 

1. The SOURCE of Wisdom

Psalm 111:10
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments…

2. The STRENGTH of Wisdom 

1 Samuel 18:14
And David behaved wisely in all his ways; and the Lord was with him.

1 Samuel 18:15
Wherefore when Saul saw that he behaved himself very wisely, he was afraid of him.

3. The SIGNIFICANCE of Wisdom 

1 Corinthians 6:4-6 ESV
⁴ So if you have such cases, why do you lay them before those who have no standing in the church?

⁵ I say this to your shame. Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers,

⁶ but brother goes to law against brother, and that before unbelievers?

James 3:13
¹³ Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? 

let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.

¹⁴ But if ye have bitter envying and strife in your hearts, glory not, and lie not against the truth.

James 3:15-16

¹⁵ This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

¹⁶ For where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work.

James 3:17-18

¹⁷ But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

¹⁸ And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.

3. EXAMPLES of Wisdom 

James 1:19
Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

1 Peter 3:10
For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile: