Day #161

Sermon - Audio
Proverbs 19-21 - Audio
Proverbs 19-21- Reading

Daily Insights - Please Comment

19

1 = Continuing on the theme of it being better to be poor and and humble, walking with integrity, etc...than to be rich and crooked, arrogant, etc.

10 = I love the WBC's take on this: "It is bad enough that any fool should prosper, but it is a disaster whenever an incompetent rules."

Ideas for a "good" life with God:

16 & 20 - listen to instruction

17 - be kind to the poor

18 - be involved in your children's lives and discipline them

19 - avoid friendships with those who lack self-control

21 - acknowledge the rule of God

22 - understand that love and integrity are what bring real happiness

23 - FEAR the LORD.

Q. Think of your life and compare it to this list...

24 - Now that's extreme laziness.

26 - listen up kids

20

1 = This verse discusses the foolishness of becoming drunk. We lose the ability to make wise decisions. This verse does not condemn drinking, but as seen throughout the Bible, excessive drinking (drunkenness) is not what God desires.

4 = In Israel, the grain harvest began after Passover (around April), and the sowing of this crop (in a field that had just been plowed) was done in the autumn, after the Feast of Tabernacles (around November). -ESVSB-

9 = I don't know about you, but I'm thankful for Jesus, in whom, we have become the righteousness of God!

"From now on, therefore, we regard no one according to the flesh. Even though we once regarded Christ according to the flesh, we regard him thus no longer. 17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. 2 The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 18 All this is from God, who through Christ reconciled us to himself and gave us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 that is, in Christ God was reconciling 3 the world to himself, not counting their trespasses against them, and entrusting to us the message of reconciliation.20 Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 21 For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God." 2 Corinthians 5:16-21

*We are only acceptable to God, because of what Jesus Christ did for us on the cross. We can boldly stand before His throne and proclaim that through Jesus we are pure in heart and our sin is washed away!

12 - It is through the ready hearing of the right teaching, and through the observant eye, that one becomes wise.

13 - Maybe this is why College Students are always so poor.

16 - These are the words the lender might say when a man guaranteed the loan of a stranger, who then defaulted. See 6:1–5. The “garment” is a large cloak that one could wear in the cold and wrap himself in at night. Its importance is shown by the fact that Torah (Exod. 22:25–26; Deut. 24:12–13) requires that a garment given in pledge be returned each evening so its owner could use it. -JSB-

17 - There are repercussions to our actions, even if they seem wise and sweet at the time in our own eyes.

18-19 - One should not make major decisions without seeking the counsel of others. On the other hand, one should be careful about who is brought into one’s private deliberations. The example of making war particularly points to the need to find advisers who can keep a matter private. -ESVSB-

21 = My wife sees this happen all the time at her work. People gain a large inheritance and squander it. The issue comes down to wisdom. Give a fool a large amount of money and it will be squandered. This is why so many lottery winners go broke.

22 = See Prov 24:29

24 = This verse recognizes what Ecc affirms as well. The work of God in human affairs is beyond human understanding. The implication of this is that people should recognize their dependence on God and trust Him. See note on 16:9. -ASB-

26 = Jesus will eventually sort out those who have hated God - Matt 3:12

29 - This expresses appreciation for the glories of both youth and old age, the sign of which is gray hair. Old age was something to take pride in, for it implied (in the Sages’ view) both a successful life and the wisdom of years. -JSB-

21

Living God’s law [ chapters 21–22 ]. When we think of God’s law, we think most naturally of the books of law in the Pentateuch or the commands of Jesus or the *paraenesis sections of the NT epistles. But the proverbs also constitute God’s law. Some of them are phrased as commands: “Train up a child in the way he should go” (22:6); “Drive out a scoffer” (22:10); “Do not rob the poor” (22:22). But even when a proverb is expressed in a descriptive rather than prescriptive format, it embodies God’s law for living and contains an implied command. A good analytic grid for the proverbs in these two chapters is to ponder how each one is an explicit or implicit rule for life. -ESVLB-

2 = We get another echo of the LORD being the one who weighs the heart.

10 = Do people see evil, revenge, and hatred in you, or do people see mercy and forgiveness?

Q. How approachable are you to your neighbors?

15-18 - When justice is practiced, it is a joy for those who have walked in its ways and a terror to those who have perverted them (v. 15). Verses 16–18 describe the reality of the terror for the wicked: they have turned from the path that leads to life (v. 16), loved mere pleasure and luxury to their own impoverishment (v. 17), and are themselves a ransom—an image that likely reflects the merciless manner in which they treated others (v. 18; cf. 10, 13). -ESVSB-

21 = Matt 5:6

23 & 24 = Opposites - Person who keeps his mouth/tongue vs. Scoffer

26 - A call to generousity

30 - The verse underscores the superiority of the Lord to human wisdom, despite its cleverness, even its good intentions (such as “fear of the Lord”).