April 27, 2008

Proverbs Chapter 10

Some Solomon Secrets

 

(1) HOME

Proverbs - means to rule

-they are principles from God that are supposed to rule and govern our lives

How to grow wise children..............

a.) Give them an experience with Jesus

-parents must have thei experience with Jesus to be able to give it

b.) give your children 3 gifts
 

a.) the gift of love

-love your children no matter what

b. the gift of discipline - Prov 13:24

-discipline is a sign you love them

c. the gift of encouragement

-speak over them good things/build them up/speak life

 

(2) HAPPINESS - v2

v2a - the things of this world will never satisfy

-we are not completely satisfied with anything

 

-only Jesus Christ satisfies

There are two kinds of richness in this life:

 

1.) Richness of having

2.) Richness of being

 

 

1.) RICHNESS OF HAVING --------------------------this is all external - having more stuff

 

It is the MYTH OF MORE.....................

-this is thinking that more wil lsatisfy, but more leads to more

 

a.) we want more because we were created to desire by God

 

THOUGHT:

Since we are not completely satisfied with things and more, perhaps we were made for another world

 

 

DECLARATION: Today is enough day

-what we all have now is enough.  I only want more of Jesus and His stuff..........

 

 

v2b - the greatest treasure in the universe is Jesus and life

 

*righteousness produces lif - earthly and eternal

 

*zoe - the God kind of life  (John 3:16 and John 10:110)

 

*on earth as it is in heaven

 

 

 

2.) RICHNESS OF BEING

*this is an inner experience with Jesus Christ which produces contentment

*we are free from the treadmill of having

 

 

 

 

 

 

(3) HUNGRY - vs3-4

 

will not  - there are some things the Lord will not allow to happen

 

famish - means to go hungry

 

***The Lord Provides......................For who????????????????

 

The Righteous Soul

 

1.) saved - righteous in position

 

2.) Walk - right living

 

 

 

One way the Lord provides is for people to work................

 

v4a - slack - means to be lazy/does not work hard/just pulls a paycheck

 

v4b - those who work hard succeed

*God rewards this kind of work ethics

 

 

 

 

(4) THE HERE AND THE HEREAFTER - vs6-7

 

 

v6 - HERE

blessings - means good things

* God does not give us bad things

 

 

1. you do not have to pray for blessings - Matthew 6:33

 

2. God is the source of all blessings - they arrive on our heads (from out of the blue)

 

3. For the believer you can find a blessing in everything that occurs

 

 

v7 - HEREAFTER

 

v7a - the Lord has some good memories of those who are His kids

-those memories allow us to enter into heaven

 

 

v7b - the Lord also has memories of those who do not know Him and rejected Him

 

rot - means to miss heaven