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!