Wednesday Night March 21, 2012
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scriptures: Proverbs 17, Proverbs 18, Hebrews 10
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Notes
Proverbs 17:24-28
God specifically told you to handle your relationship with your parents with honor. You don’t want to be a grief to your parents.
It is not good to be upset with people who are trying to do well.
Make sure you are not rooting for the bad things.
It is sometimes wise that you should not be talking. Holding your speech is a sign of wisdom.
“I just got mad” cannot be the reason a Christian does what they do. There is something about God that you are not trusting if you have to get uptight and act foolish with unbalanced emotions.
There is wisdom in saying that you will not respond to ignorance.
A spirit that God controls is not unable to do right when things get bad.
It is obvious. You have to be able to deal with it.
Being wise involves knowing not to say something all the time. Have godly reasoning. If you are talking to hurt or be contentious, that is not godly wisdom.
Christianity is not about winning debates, but about doing what God says is right.
Proverbs 18:1
There are people who separate themselves from wisdom to “try to find God”. The bible says that for us to
not separate from believers.
Hebrews 10:24-28
Who do you provoke unto love and good works?
Don’t believe when people say you don’t have to go to church, to assemble with believers.
When people don’t want to hear, they don’t come.
God designed us to be accountable and to provoke and to advise one another.
When you withdraw, God is not only unhappy, but angry.
Proverbs 18:2
People a lot of times are not trying to understand, what is truth, they are too busy trying find themselves or to justify what they already want to do.
They are trying to be happy, not trying to know what God wants and to be content in Him.
You hear a lot of “I want” and “I feel” versus what is right or what God says.
People will go to the ends of the earth to find themselves.
Do you live your life for the benefit of others, or is everything filtered by whether or not you like certain things?
Your feeling about a matter is less important than what the word of God says.
Do you really want understand or to answer your heart?
Facing bible study with honesty, would you say that you are a selfish person?