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Pt. 3 - REWARDS OF WISDOM
This sermon is about the tension between trusting ourselves and trusting God. It confronts the subtle way many people drift into self-reliance rather than outright rebellion. The message argues that most spiritual damage does not come from openly rejecting God but from gradually leaning on our own understanding, trusting our instincts, emotions, logic, and sense of control instead of God’s wisdom.
The sermon focuses on Proverbs 3 and frames it as a call to formation rather than mere instruction. God’s wisdom is meant to shape the heart, not just inform the mind. Remembering, binding, writing, trusting, fearing the Lord, and walking in His ways all point to a life ordered around God’s authority rather than personal autonomy. Forgetting God is described not as memory failure but as covenant drift, when God’s voice loses weight and other voices begin to guide life.
It also clarifies that the promises in Proverbs are not transactional or prosperity-based. The passage does not teach that obedience guarantees ease or success, but that God uses wisdom, correction, and discipline to form His people. Trusting God generally leads toward life, peace, and stability, while self-trust tends toward anxiety, disorder, and brokenness.
The sermon ultimately centers on Christ. Jesus is presented as the wisdom of God and the true guide for life. The message ends with a call not to rely on personal wisdom but to cling to Christ in daily surrender, trusting that His way leads to real life, shaping, redemption, and lasting transformation.
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By Emmanuel Free Methodist ChurchThis sermon is about the tension between trusting ourselves and trusting God. It confronts the subtle way many people drift into self-reliance rather than outright rebellion. The message argues that most spiritual damage does not come from openly rejecting God but from gradually leaning on our own understanding, trusting our instincts, emotions, logic, and sense of control instead of God’s wisdom.
The sermon focuses on Proverbs 3 and frames it as a call to formation rather than mere instruction. God’s wisdom is meant to shape the heart, not just inform the mind. Remembering, binding, writing, trusting, fearing the Lord, and walking in His ways all point to a life ordered around God’s authority rather than personal autonomy. Forgetting God is described not as memory failure but as covenant drift, when God’s voice loses weight and other voices begin to guide life.
It also clarifies that the promises in Proverbs are not transactional or prosperity-based. The passage does not teach that obedience guarantees ease or success, but that God uses wisdom, correction, and discipline to form His people. Trusting God generally leads toward life, peace, and stability, while self-trust tends toward anxiety, disorder, and brokenness.
The sermon ultimately centers on Christ. Jesus is presented as the wisdom of God and the true guide for life. The message ends with a call not to rely on personal wisdom but to cling to Christ in daily surrender, trusting that His way leads to real life, shaping, redemption, and lasting transformation.