Grace Fellowship Church

Main Point: Use your power to meet others’ needs, not for self-serving distractions! 1. The queen’s wise words (v. 1) 2. What kings should NOT do (v. 2-5) 3. What kings SHOULD do (v. 6-9)

Main Point: The wise aren’t necessarily brilliant; they just know what to look for. 1. What happens when a generation follows its heart -11-17 ‌2. What happens when a generation moves toward the Lord - 18

Main Point: You can find heaven’s wisdom on earth. 1. You need wisdom (1-3) 2. Wisdom is in heaven (4) 3. Wisdom has come to earth (5-6)

Main Point: God encodes Himself in His Creation! 1. Finding God’s Wisdom in "like" 2. The Kingdom of Heaven is like 3. Jesus Christ is like Slideshow: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1WI6-YSU9a7sNlFAaNtqZHyGegqIHpcOjm09YZDQGscA/

Main point: Our church’s works must live up to our words, and vice versa. 1. True Words (23-26, 28-29) 2. Diligent Works (27, 30-34)

Proverbs on Life and Death Main Point: Nothing has the power to improve your life like wisdom. 1. The Quality of Life -11:19, 21:16, 8:35-36, 13:3, 19:23 2. The Length of Life - 10:27, 5:23, 21:25 3. The Eternity of Life - 12:28, 14:32, 11:7, 13:14, 14:27, 15:24, John 11:25-26

The Heart Main Point: The heart rules from a sinful spirit; It must be reshaped according to God’s Refining Wisdom. 1. Rules You 2. Reflects your Spirit 3. Requires Reshaping 4. Revealed, Refined & Restored by God

Proverbs on Priorities Main Point: Wisdom requires a stubborn refusal to put things in the wrong order. 1. Financial Priorities (10:15, 15:16, 16:8, 16:19, 19:1, 31:10, 22:1, 16:16) 2. Relational Priorities (15:17, 16:32, 27:10, 21:19)

Main Point: We need a wise king. 1. Understands the responsibility of leadership (16:10-11, 20:8) 2. Demonstrates the ethics of wisdom (8:15-16, 16:12-13, 20:28, 28:15, 29:2, 25:4-5) 3. Remains sober with power (16:14-15, 21:1, 29:26, 23:1-3, Isa. 9:6-7, Luke 1:32-33)

Main point: The truth is your best guide. 1. How truth is better than falsehood (20:6, 14:25, 12:19, 21:28, 29:14, 12:17) 2. Why truth is better than falsehood (11:1, 12:22, 13:5, 30:5-6, 11:3; John 16:13, 15:26, 14:6)

Main point: Knowing Christ gives us understanding, joy, and sanity. 1. A pastoral struggle (v. 1) 2. Benefits of knowing Christ (v, 2-4) a. Understanding b. Joy c. Sanity 3. …in Christ!

1. Did the resurrection happen? 2. Why does the resurrection matter? 3. What is the resurrection like? 4. And how should this affect us today?

Main point: Fear of the Lord frees from fear. 1. What the fear of the Lord IS (9:10, 8:13, 14:26-27) 2. What the Fear of the Lord DOES (10:27, 14:27, 16:6) 3. The Fear of the Lord FREES from fear (29:25, 14:26, 1:33, 3:24-26,1 Cor. 15:20-22 & 25-26, Rom. 8:38 & 39)

Main Point: The wise overcome enemies not by winning but by dying. 1. Waived rights (20:22, 27:2, 29:11) 2. Genuine questions (18:13, 15:28) 3. Compelling truth (15:1-2) 4. Authentic confession (20:25, 20:9) 5. God pleasing (16:7, Col 2:13-15, Prov 25:21-22)

Proverbs on Conflict Main Point: The wise overcome enemies not by winning but by dying. 1. Avoid the causes (20:3, 24:10-12, 18:6, 13:10, 15:18, 25:23) 2. Understand the complexity (17:14, 29:9, 18:19, 18:17) 3. Overcome by dying (3:3-4, 20:22, Matthew 27:39-43)

The Scoffer Main Point: The Scoffer is the worst kind of Fool. Learn from their fate. 1. The Scoffer’s Folly (21:24, 15:12, 14:6, 1:20-22) 2. The Scoffer and you (9:7-8, 21:11, 19:25, 1:22) 3. The Scoffer’s Fate (19:29, 29:8, 24:9, 3:34, James 4:6-7, Heb 4:15-16, 1 Cor 15:55-57)

Main Point: Show me your friends; I’ll show your odds at finding wisdom. 1. The link between friends and wisdom (v. 13:20, 14:7) 2. The folly of bad friends (v. 1:10, 22:24-25, 29:5, 27:2, 17:9, 23:20-21) 3. The wisdom of good friends (v. 17:17, 17:9, 27:6, 27:9) 4. The best friend (v. 18:24, John 15:13-15)

Main Point: Does your wealth serve people, or do people serve your wealth? 1. It will make all my problems go away (v. 11:4, 11:28, 19:17, Matt 25:40) 2. I can tell who has it and who doesn’t (v. 19:6, 13:7, 11:24, 22:2, 2 Cor 8:9) 3. It is something I ought to feel guilty about (v. 10:22, 15:6, 21:20, James 5:1-15) 4. It doesn’t matter how I get it (v.10:2, 13:11, 28:22) 5. It doesn’t matter whet...

Main Point: Diligence is the persistent pursuit of God in accordance with changing seasons of life. 1. Seasons Change (v. 10:4-5, 6:6-8, 23:4-5) 2. Reject Idleness (v. 12:27, 13:4, 15:19) 3. Resist Rushing (v. 21:5, 13:11) 4. Keep Wisdom (v. 8:17, 11:27)

The Power of Words Main Point: Your words have the power to change the world, for good or ill. 1. Life or death (v. 18:21, 10:11, 12:18, 16:27, 25:18, 26:18-19, 8:35) 2. Personal preservation or ruin (v. 12:6, 12:13, 18:6-7, 28:13) 3. Relief or burden to others - (v. 25:20, 12:25, 27:15-16, 12:4) 4. Persuasion or provocation - (v. 16:21-24, 26:20-21, 27:3) 5. Support or subversion of society (v. 1...

1. God is at Work (v. 28-30) 2. Jesus Proves it (v. 31-39)

Main Point: Dine or Die. 1. Dine or Die (v. 1-6, 13-18) 2. The Time has Come (v. 7-12)

Main Point: You and I need what only wisdom can deliver. 1. Wisdom’s Availability (v. 1-11) 2 .Wisdom’s Profitability (v. 12-21) 3. Wisdom’s Credibility (v. 22-31) 4. Our Receptivity (v. 32-36)

Main Point: Sexual immorality seduces and slaughters by perverting Wisdom. 1. The Search (v. 6-9) 2. The Seduction (v. 10-20) 3. The Slaughter (v. 21-23) 4. The Security (v. 1-5, 24-27)

Main Point: We must resolve to see sexual immorality for the death trap it is. 1.There’s a Way to Heaven (v. 20-23) 2. This Ain’t It (v. 24-35)