Proverbs Part 2 - "But, And, & Like"

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So today we're going into part two of the Proverbs series. As I have asked as a church, that we delve into and read the Proverbs one every day for 31 days during January, which will hopefully then cover the entire book. And I want to continue that series today with part two, and it is called, And, But, and Like. Or, But, And, and Like. So if I offered you one piece of advice that would miraculously change your life for the better, would you want it? Would you take it? If I offered you some miraculous advice to become an instant millionaire?

Neil's got his hands up and yep, there's a few. Yes, I think most of us would. If we could get that just that one piece of advice, maybe one sentence that would forever change our lives. Now we see all the time on television and I hear on radio that this one little piece of advice are going to give you that if you take it and you do what they say, then you're going to lose 15 pounds in one week. And people sign up. We've all seen those things. We've heard those things.

And it is with that view that Solomon wrote the book of Proverbs. I do not know that he knew he would be writing it for us 3,000 years later.

He did know he was writing it to his son.

And he wanted it to be something his son could use. Obviously he wrote it because he wanted his son to know it, to use it, and hopefully pass it on to his son. Well, if he wrote that to Rehoboam, how does that work out?

Not too good. Not too good.

So sometimes just knowing what to do or being told what to do doesn't make a lot of difference unless you do it. I think God put this book in the Bible, inspired it to be written so that we could, as Christ said, have life and live it more abundantly. And that anyone just picking up this book and reading these words can go, yes, I wish I'd have known that 15 years ago, 20 years ago, 30 years ago.

I wish my parents had taught me this incredible book, as I've heard before from many people.

One theologian claims in the book of Proverbs that there are 917 Proverbs. Well, some are duplicated. Some are not really Proverbs. So say 900 plus or minus. Yes, 1 Kings 4 verse 32 said that Solomon wrote 3,000 Proverbs. And here we have 900 of those 3,000 Proverbs. It's interesting that in his writings, he speaks of or writes of 180 plus different kinds of people. He mentions or addresses 180 different kinds of people, like happy people. Like foolish people, wise people, and even lazy people. Those are just four of the many types of people that are mentioned in the book of Proverbs. He directly speaks to men in the Scriptures of Proverbs 46 times. 46 times. How many times does he directly speak to women? Anybody? 23 times. I guess we men have twice the issues and problems and need to be addressed twice as much as the women in this book. So Proverbs covers most of humanity, most humans. But if you go to the root or base word for Proverbs, because it can be in a noun, it can be a verb. But the very base or root word in Hebrew for Proverb means to rule or to govern.

Does God's word rule or govern us in our lives? Do we look at the words and say, I need to live by those? Well, hopefully you do. That's why you're here today. But all of us slip and fall, don't we? Maybe you don't, but your pastor does. And I need to go to those words because my words can't carry me through. An entire week or usually an entire day by myself. The religious writer Chuck Swindoll said, a proverb a day will not keep the devil away, but it can help to keep him at arms length, which I found to be very insightful from there. But I would like to ask you today, as we make this partly interactive, the three most prolific scriptures in Proverbs.

I want you to think for a moment.

Are you thinking of one? I found it very interesting that when I was researching this, there was a man who went at the end of 2017, at the start of 2018, and he went to all the sources he could find for information, search engines, and wanted to know, and also interviewed, people at Google, at Yahoo, at Facebook, and wanted to know how many times in one year, the year was 2017, that the book of Proverbs was quoted.

We're talking millions, millions of times, but there's 7.5 billion people on earth.

But perhaps you can help lay out today the top three that were used an entire year in the entire world.

Anybody care to guess one?

Okay, very good. Very good. Very good. Anybody else?

No, but it's a wonder. They didn't? Yes, ma'am? That's yes, that's no, that's ecclesiastes, but no, that one's not. I found it interesting, because I wrote down two or three that I was thinking it would be. Okay, these on earth may be long. Okay.

Top three, and we're talking millions of times, yes, in the entire world. Proverbs 3, sounding familiar, Neil? That's right. What does that say? Anybody want to read it?

That was the number one proverb quoted in the entire world in 2017. And the writer is writing later, earlier 2018, and said it will probably be the number one again. So, so you know it. Is that one of your go-to scriptures? Is it something that you use? Obviously it is, because you knew it. Number two. Proverbs 22, 6. 22, 6. You want to turn there? Somebody have the New King James Version?

Proverbs 22, 6. What does it say, Mike? Number two, with millions and millions of uses.

You think it was practiced? If it was practiced a lot, do you think it would even be used? It would be one of the top ones? Probably not. So it's something, obviously, people have seen. Let me give you the last one here. Yes. Proverbs 1. 1.

Verse 7. Proverbs 1, verse 7.

Mine says, the fear of the Lord is the foundation. Foundation of knowledge.

Interesting that the fourth, and I'll just give you the top three, but the fourth one came from Proverbs 31.

Proverbs 31. Turn, if you will. Proverbs 31, verse 10. As was quoted.

What does it say?

Robies.

Virtuous woman.

Top four! Top four in the entire world. Which, what does that do? Well, we already knew these. But it also tells that if we don't, we should. Because the world, the world, they're using these verses. They're encouraging with these verses. Are they needed? The Proverbs are defined as brief, terse, short bits or bites of wisdom, which begs the question, can you have wisdom without experience?

Can you have knowledge without experience?

They say there are various ways to obtain knowledge. Four or five online websites said that observation is one of those by looking at things and perhaps even logical reasoning if you see something out here. Another is, as they said, experience. Trial and error. You can gain knowledge. Most of us have. Another one they put in was authority. Having a mentor, having someone teach us or show us something that we did not know before. I think of Jesus Christ when He walked on this earth and gave so many messages, so many sermons.

And how many people listened at intently? 120.

And then there is scientific ways. You can say scientific. Well, we could go into very deep stuff, but basically scientific is putting... Okay. It's the simple.

Two plus two equals... What? One, two, three, four. Four! That's really scientific. Now that's the very base of science. But we can learn from that. And we can experience that teaching. And then there is another one called revelation. Right. Revelation. There is divine revelation. And then there's revelation that's not so divine.

We have to be aware of this. But when we look at things from this book, did Solomon have knowledge from experience?

Well, he wrote the whole entire book of Ecclesiastes about what?

About knowledge. And all the things that he did, he had a unique life. He spent a big part of his life getting knowledge from experience. Most of us do the same.

Driving a car. Okay. I'm not saying this to embarrass any of you. Okay. You may have to raise your hand. Has anybody here had a car wreck in the last year?

No? Good. Good.

I might say that was your fault, but driving a car for years and decades gives you knowledge. Why? Because of the experience. The experience you have of driving. And all the things you run into or don't run into, I can use that term, you learn a lot. I haven't had a car wreck in, I don't know, decades.

Had a few people hit me, something like that, but it was not real major.

But when I first got my driver's license at 16, I had a wreck within a year. I had a wreck even before I got my driver's license.

But I had a wreck, somebody's calling, phone call from God.

Tell him I'll get to him as soon as the sermon's over. But I learned a great deal about driving from having car wrecks. When I was 18 or 19, I had three in one year.

Total two of them.

But if you were to ask me at the time, I knew how to drive. I did know, but I did not have experience. I was not an experienced driver. Remember your Corvette story? And police still think of that.

But after decades of driving, most of us see things and avoid things because we see them before they become an issue or a problem. Right? And whatever I'm out on the turnpike or out on 95, as many of you, you will see this Ferrari or Lamborghini just going 120 miles an hour through here and just barely make it through as they almost clip cars as they drive through.

Most of the time, it's someone young.

I haven't seen Humberto on the turnpike doing 110. Melita, maybe, but not Humberto.

So the more experience we have, the more knowledge we have. Any of you that drive up north or have been up north, you know that comes to play with ice and snow. No one can tell you how it is to drive on ice and snow. You have to find out yourself. Because I can tell you, don't hit the brakes, but when it starts sliding, what do you want to do? The brakes! It's only through the knowledge that you have from experience that says, don't do that. Or if you do, just tap once and put your...take your foot off. Try to gear down. Do these things that come that way.

Many people are lying in the cemetery today because they did not have the experience or they did not have the knowledge that they should have gotten from experience. Every year across America, if you remember when the end of May gets here, you're going to see stories of parents that buy their kids for graduation a brand new car. And in Tennessee, just the road I used to take, not far from us, our house there. And I remember a girl went over the little bridge there in a brand new Mustang convertible with two other friends. She had just got in the car and they took the curve too fast and it killed all three of them. And you'll see those stories every year that happens because not enough experience. Because when we experience things and we accumulate this knowledge, we gain wisdom. Wisdom is increased in all facets of life.

Solomon came to that conclusion at the end of Ecclesiastes 12 verse 13 when he said, fear God and what? Keep His commandments. It is the whole duty. Yes, whole duty of man.

And it is so important and it can keep us alive or it can keep our family, children, grandchildren alive. My father used to tell me after my third wreck in one year, he said, you know, you may not make it out of the fourth one.

He said, I'll just tell you one thing. My advice to you because you haven't listened to the rest of it is make sure you have full coverage insurance on your car. Chances are you're going to wreck again.

Now, after I had had to pay for two cars and then I was on my own car insurance at 18, 19, boy, did I gain wisdom when I got that bill from the insurance company and it took seven years for me to come under a different rate.

Wisdom. So knowledge can be gained by observation, experience, authority, revelation, both divine and not divine, to mention just a few. And they're all of value.

Solomon used a combination of all of these. Solomon had, because he grew to have this wisdom, not only did God grant that to him, which can also be called divine revelation. Haven't you prayed for wisdom? I've needed it every day. And I know I've gotten it from him, but that's not all there was. It's not all there is. Do that. Can't expect God to do it all. Some churches teach that that's...you don't have to do anything. God does it all. That's not wisdom. That's not what the book says.

But Solomon was unique because, for one, he had more money than anyone's ever thought about. Well, he made Jeff Bezos look like a popper. Well, now.

But money, he could spend all the money...he couldn't spend all the money that he had. He had so much. And so, he could say, well, I'd like to buy this and see what this looks like. And when he does that in Ecclesiastes, everything turns around and says, well, then I tried this and this also was vanity. But then I tried this. I had wine. Wine was going to make me happy. That, too, is vanity, he found out. Yes!

And so, he had all the money to experience all these things. Now, we have experience, but we don't have all that money that he had. And it's probably a good thing. Or we might end up like he did.

But he also had time. See, he was the king. God made sure there was peace. And so, he didn't have to go off to war. He didn't have to worry about this. He didn't have to worry about the financial situation of the country because people were just flooding in, giving this, giving that, selling this, selling that. They became... So, he really didn't have to govern much. We know he's a good judge because we know splitting a baby in half. But he had the time. Most of us even...

Some of us have time, but we don't have the money. Some of us have money, but we don't have the time to do what we'd like to do. How many of you would like to travel around the world if you had the money? Most everyone. Just travel. Okay? Because why? Why do you want to see that? Why do you want to see? You want to experience other cultures?

Now, a young lady on the front here has experienced many, many cultures because she's traveled over a big part of the world, right? And you've learned things, learned how people live. Solomon had the time. He had the resources. He could... Okay, I want to see what these plants do if I plant them over here and I don't water them and I've got others. I'm going to water and I'm going to raise this fruit and this fruit. He had the resources to do that. Anything he wanted. And he had the people. Remember he had people? Even at the dedication of the temple, he had a 120 priests who could blow a trumpet. That's a lot of sound coming from trumpet players. But he had that and he had divine knowledge. So why am I bringing all this up? Because if you had five minutes with Solomon at his peak and he let you come into this incredible throne with all the lions and the gold and everything you had, what would you ask him? Because you see, all the kings and queens and Sheba and everybody else came in and they paid him on. They just wanted to hear him. What would you ask him?

There's a good chance that the answer he would give you to one of your questions is in the book of Proverbs. Have you ever considered that?

That is why I think it's so valuable. See, God has teaching tools, a learning process for each and every one of us. He talks about in Deuteronomy 28. You all know it. It's called what? The blessings and the cursings chapter. It's a learning lesson. Teachers know this and we have quite a few teachers here and they have to prepare a lesson. They don't just walk in and go, okay, I don't know what we're going to do today. They wouldn't keep their job very long. Your wife wouldn't have her job very long, would you? No. So God said, okay, here is a way to learn.

If you do this, you're going to receive cursings. But if you do this, you're going to receive blessings. Now, was there any way to know what He said was the truth unless you did what? You experienced it. Now you would hope everybody, oh, I just want to be blessed. And so you would just do this, but no, didn't happen, did it?

And we have to learn the very same way. But it's so nice when somebody can give us a shortcut to where we don't have to go through this. And this is what the book of Proverbs is about. It's trying to teach us. And even though you may say, well, I read that and I read my seven chapters this week and we're going to read seven next week, one per day. I found a lot of it really didn't apply to me now. Now I must ask, read it again, because there's layers, layers upon layers in the book of Proverbs, in those scriptures, for each and every one of us. I've learned something every week about life for myself. I think most of you could probably say that too. If you didn't learn anything else, you learned you lived for another week. But chances are you learned something and it's of value. The sum total of the wisest man who ever walked on earth, whoever ruled or reigned, is found in 31 chapters in 31 days. The value.

You find this in sections. And I don't know why and no one can really explain it. But Solomon put this book together, along with King Hezekiah, who took some later that we'll talk about next week. But at the very first chapter and verse, he mentions his name. He's saying, this is for me. Now, he comes down through the first nine chapters and you understand, okay, you're reading, you're reading, you're reading. And then he comes to chapter 10, verse 1, and he says what? The same thing again. This is from Solomon. He's crystal clear. He wants it to be understood, maybe even writing to a hyperactive son who might decide, oh, I've read the...tired of reading those. And then he comes to the section of chapter 25, verse 1, where it says, these are the sayings of Solomon collected by...and we'll go into that next week, because that's very, very interesting as we cover that. But the sections that we read this past week and what we will read this week can be put together in three parts, but, and, and like. But, and, and like. It's a teaching tool that God has used and inspired here. Let's look at the but.

Because the sayings that he gives us, there's a but in them, some of them. If I said, you can drive your car 120 miles an hour and never let off the accelerator on the turnpike. But it's a stop, isn't it? Because there's something else. There's the downside of it. But if you wreck at 120 miles an hour, there's a 99% chance you're going to be dead at 120 miles an hour. Right? 20 years ago? Oh, no, maybe closer to 30 years ago. There was a bank, brand new bank, opening up in our area, or it's been around there. And they had a drawing they were going to do. And you could win $1 million if your name was drawn out of that pool. So, of course, I went by the bank, filled my thing out, looked in this huge thing and put mine in. Forgot about it. Until about three days later, I get a call from a radio station doing a live feed from there. Chuck Smith, you have just won $1 million in the drawing at this bank.

No more calluses on my hands.

But...

you had the $1 million for three days in their bank, and you got the interest. Which, at the time, was five and three quarters per cent, which worked out. It was a couple hundred dollars. Maybe it's more than that. Maybe it's seven hundred. I don't remember what it was. Yes, yes. See, there's a big butt there. Right? Big butt. That makes you... Okay. This is one of the tools that Solomon uses. Let's go there. We'll do this quickly. I have 15 minutes. I apologized last week for going overtime. I never do that, and I try never do that again. Okay. Let's go to Proverbs 10. I'll be reading from the New Living Translation. Let's go to Proverbs 10. Proverbs 10 verse 25. Proverbs 10 verse 25. When the storms of life come, the wicked are whirled away, but the godly have a lasting foundation. Nice butt in there, doesn't it? We need a godly foundation, a lasting foundation. 27. Fear of the Lord lengthens one's life, but the years of the wicked are cut short. You want to stay wicked? You won't be there very long, is what he's saying. Verse 28. The hopes of the godly result in happiness, but the expectations of the wicked come to nothing. It's almost as if these are auditory. You hear this, and you're fine listening to it, till you hear the butt. Then that makes a difference. Then your ears kind of perk up. Oh, here. Verse 29. The way of the Lord is a stronghold to those with integrity, but it destroys the wicked. The godly will never be disturbed, but the wicked will be removed from the land. The mouth of the godly person gives wise advice, but the tongue that deceives will be cut off. The lips of the godly speak helpful words, but the words of the wicked speak perverse words. We can size people up because we are confronted, most of us, weakly with a perverse person, a wicked person, a person who is trying to cheat you out of something. It's just a way. You may hear it on the radio, you may see it on TV, or you may hear it on the phone as somebody calls you, trying to sell you something, and they're trying to get this, or you may actually run into someone who is trying to cheat you. What is he saying here? There are two ways. This is a way. Walk you in it. We profess to be godly. We try to live godly. We're walking this way of life, but there's another way of life out there. We must have our radar on to pick that up because these people are trying to cheat. Cheat us. Steal. Lie. They think nothing. Deceive you. This is something he's trying to tell his son. Everything that glitters is not gold, is it? Let's go to chapter 13. Chapter 13 that we will read this week, or read this week. 13. 13 and verse 4. Lazy people want much but get little. But those who work hard will prosper.

If you work hard, you will prosper. Oh, I work, I work, I work, I don't seem to see any. You work hard, time will make you wealthy. You get a house paid for it after 20 years. You're just working, working, working. Well, guess what? There's a credible wealth in a house. You have savings you put back. Investments. Lazy people have little, but they usually don't want to save.

Verse 8. The rich man can pay a ransom for their lives, but the poor won't even get threatened. Isn't that nice? I never have anybody calling, oh, we've got your wife kidnapped. We want the money. Why? You know, I don't have anything. But if you're... Well, the people you usually have to have security systems. You have to have... Now they're putting microchips in children, so that rich people, so that they can find the kids if they're kidnapped. So he's saying, you know, maybe it's not so...

so bad. You have to look at both sides of this. 14 verse 1. 14 verse 1. A wise woman builds her house, but a foolish woman tears it down with their own hands. 15 verse 1. A gentle answer deflects anger, but harsh words make tempers flare.

Turns away wrath, right? 16 verse 2. People may be pure in their own eyes, but the Lord examines their motives. You can fake all you want, but God knows what these things are. So, but, it's something we need to look at when you read a scripture, because it is something we seriously need to look at as God gives a contrast. Here's the good, but here's also the bad. Here's one side, here's the other side. Incredible teaching tool. The second is and. And. And.

Or as you might want to say, it's to follow through, because he will give a scripture, and he gives this thing, and then. So, it's kind of the rest of the story. Or it's, or it's, or it's the, what's at the end of the rainbow?

I call it follow through.

Because if you've followed through is very important in any sport. If you've ever watched basketball players, they make sure that that follow through, it's like here and then those fingers come out and point where the ball is supposed to go. In tennis, you can't just reach down at the ball right too far. You can't reach down and stop right here. Because ball is going to go way over here. But you follow through.

Go under the ball and through it. Golf. Unless you're Charles Barkley. If you've ever seen him hit the, you have to follow through. Charles Barkley goes, then does this. Okay, these scriptures are following through and leading you one step further than you would be if you stopped at this.

And it's a beautiful way, as they're called conjunction, and it helps your mind. It affects your mind. Let's go to Proverbs 17. Proverbs 17. Proverbs 14 and verse 17. Short-tempered people do foolish things and schemers are hated. Short-tempered people do foolish things and schemers are hated. It's a lesson to say, hey, look at this, and this also ties in there about these people. Go back to Proverbs 9. Proverbs 9. Proverbs 9 and verse 8. Proverbs 9 verse 8. So don't bother correcting mockers, they will only hate you.

But correct the wise and they will love you. Correct the wise and they will love you. Instruct the wise and they will be even wiser. Teach the righteous and they will learn even more. So it's these wonderful things. One more. Proverbs 22. Proverbs 22. Proverbs 22 verse 6. Remember what we had up here before? Proverbs 22 verse 6. Direct your children onto the right path and when they are older, what happens?

They will not depart from it. It's like the followers there. It's like what we really need. So look at your study when you're reading this. Look at the tools that we are given to understand even better.

When it says and, let's lock our minds up. And then we have the last, which is like. Like. He uses the word like or is like. Also he uses and or to compare. And it's the observation of the eyes are in your mind. The word like does something when you read it. Unlike but and and. When you use the word like, our minds begin to picture.

We become visual. When he says, well, it's like this. So what does our mind do? Our mind isn't trying to figure out where it's going next. It is, okay, what have I seen? So see Solomon, the inspiration to God, is working with us auditorily through what we hear and what we read, but also visually, like we just saw and and as we look at that. And then like, he's working with us visually to say, oh, what is this like? Jesus Christ did that a lot. The kingdom of God is like. The kingdom of God is like. The kingdom of God used it many times. What did it do?

It caused those people to go, okay, it's like this. Okay, I know what this looks like. So it's something like that. This is what he's trying to teach us. And we must try and strive to do that. Let's just look at a couple verses and then I'll be wrapping this up. Proverbs 11 verse 22. Proverbs 11. Proverbs 11 verse 22. Okay, can you get? Okay, you're about to get a visual here, okay? Oh, I know most of you men are visual. God says, I want you to get this visual, big time.

Okay, and any man, this is easy because you can picture this. A beautiful woman who lacks discretion. What's that mean? C.V. said, acts foolishly. No prudence, has no judgment, no class. A beautiful woman who lacks discretion is like a gold ring and a pig snout. Can you see it?

If you want to, Google that and they have a bunch of visuals. They have pictures of these disgusting looking pigs, hog swine, whatever you want to call it, with a big gold ring coming out of their nose. And they also have a picture. I didn't want to show it to you, but they showed a beautiful woman with a nose like a pig and a thing hanging. Gold ring in there.

Okay, did the people know what that looked like at this time when he wrote that? Of course they did. If you remember when Abraham sent Isaac, sent his servant to go find Isaac a wife, he came and saw her and gave her a noser. So they knew that was kind of a symbol of beauty. I don't find it to be very beautiful.

A woman with a nose ring. Haven't you seen him before? Yeah, every day. Yes, I mean, it's part of the thing. I just don't like one waiting on me at a restaurant when she's adjusting this and bringing my food. It's just me. Yes, but here he's giving a picture because they knew what a beautiful woman.

I mean, this was a sign of beauty and wealth when they had a nose. And you might also remember that he gave her bracelets. And the bracelets are actually described there with the amount of gold, four ounces of gold. At $1,200 an ounce, that's a pretty good gift, wouldn't you say? And so here she's a beautiful woman. So here, he is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion. Have you not seen that? Have you seen?

Maybe it's been somewhere. And a young lady comes out and she looks beautiful, and she holds herself up. But then what comes out of her mouth is filthy and just, and it's just, you can now, after that, you can see the ring and the pig snap. Because this is what he's trying to get you to picture.

Let's go to one more, and then I'll write this sermon. Chapter 25, we're getting into next week or two. Chapter 25, Chapter 25, verse 12. To one who listens, valid criticism is like a golden earring or other jewelry. Trustworthy messages refresh like snow in the summer. A person who promises a gift but doesn't give it is like clouds and wind that bring no rain.

Brother and I bring this up to you today because we need go-to scriptures. The world obviously has go-to scriptures. At least they're turning here. At least it's something that these did show up. A few million times. What about us? Does this book, is it more than just instruction for the youth? Is it something that we can gain a lot by? Is it something that we can use? I had, when I had my theology classes and we would have for a year and a half, for another year and a half, we would have a Tuesday class that went for two or three hours, and then we have a Thursday class that went for two or three hours, and then we were given a test after class on Thursday. It was online and you had to go to it. You had to answer, and it would take an hour to answer these questions. You had to write some things down. But you had to do this without the Bible. You couldn't use the Bible as a resource. You had to recall all these scriptures and this may be brought up, and it was a struggle for me. Mary remembers I would stay up late at night complaining. Oh, this is on tape. Okay. Sorry, Dr. Ward. Well, I just like, you know, I got so much to do. So I had to make flashcards. Any of you had flashcards you used? I would have to take these cards and write on it certain scriptures as I would read this and go through my class notes that I had taken all during this time, and then I would write down some key parts or points that I thought would be on the test. And then I would take those and I separated those and just would go and study them. I would sit over in my room and just read and read and read and read and read and then call those to mind and then be ready to take the test. Because in those tests, if you did not get 75 or 80 percent, you failed. So there wasn't any getting half of them right. Then you had to go through and take that whole thing over again and you could not move to the next class until you got your 80 percent. So you may have spent days going through this. Well, I bring that up because boy did that ever help me. And I heard of a guy the other day on the internet that he was talking about proverbs and so he tries to read a proverb. He skips through chapters. But he reads a chapter every day that he skips through. It doesn't take him, like he said, five minutes. But then he writes down the scripture that hits him, the one that hits him, and he puts it on a piece of paper and he puts it in his pocket. And through the day, he will look at that scripture three or four times to where he's added to that to his arsenal. So in the book of proverbs, do you have go-to scriptures? Solomon had trouble with self-control. We know that. We sometimes do too. Do we desire more? I think that's part of it, part of what he wants us to do. 900 plus or minus pieces of advice in proverbs. Which one or ones will you use this week? Which bit, peace, of proverbs will you use this week? Because one piece, one verse, can change the trajectory of your life.

Enjoy your study.