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Message notes by Cole Beshore, January 30 2022

’WISDOM WITHIN REACH’

PROVERBS 8

8:1-11,15-16,29-31,35-36

1 LISTEN AS WISDOM CALLS OUT! HEAR AS UNDERSTANDING RAISES HER VOICE!

ON THE HILLTOP ALONG THE ROAD, SHE TAKES HER STAND AT THE CROSSROADS.

BY THE GATES AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE TOWN, ON THE ROAD LEADING IN, SHE CRIES ALOUD,

“I CALL TO YOU, TO ALL OF YOU! I RAISE MY VOICE TO ALL PEOPLE.

YOU SIMPLE PEOPLE, USE GOOD JUDGMENT. YOU FOOLISH PEOPLE, SHOW SOME UNDERSTANDING.

LISTEN TO ME! FOR I HAVE IMPORTANT THINGS TO TELL YOU. EVERYTHING I SAY IS RIGHT,

FOR I SPEAK THE TRUTH AND DETEST EVERY KIND OF DECEPTION.

MY ADVICE IS WHOLESOME. THERE IS NOTHING DEVIOUS OR CROOKED IN IT.

MY WORDS ARE PLAIN TO ANYONE WITH UNDERSTANDING, CLEAR TO THOSE WITH KNOWLEDGE.

CHOOSE MY INSTRUCTION RATHER THAN SILVER, AND KNOWLEDGE RATHER THAN PURE GOLD.

FOR WISDOM IS FAR MORE VALUABLE THAN RUBIES(...) NOTHING YOU DESIRE CAN COMPARE WITH IT.

15 BECAUSE OF ME, KINGS REIGN, AND RULERS MAKE JUST DECREES.

RULERS LEAD WITH MY HELP, (...)

29 I WAS THERE WHEN HE SET THE LIMITS OF THE SEAS, SO THEY WOULD NOT SPREAD BEYOND THEIR BOUNDARIES.

AND WHEN HE MARKED OFF THE EARTH’S FOUNDATIONS, I WAS THE ARCHITECT AT HIS SIDE.

I WAS HIS CONSTANT DELIGHT, REJOICING ALWAYS IN HIS PRESENCE.

AND HOW HAPPY I WAS WITH THE WORLD HE CREATED; HOW I REJOICED WITH THE HUMAN FAMILY!

35 FOR WHOEVER FINDS ME FINDS LIFE AND RECEIVES FAVOR FROM THE LORD.

BUT THOSE WHO MISS ME INJURE THEMSELVES. ALL WHO HATE ME LOVE DEATH.”

1. AT THE CROSS ROADS

THE EVERY DAY DECISION

- BACKGROUND AND POETRY

- UNDERSTANDING THE PROVERBS

KING/FATHER AND LADY WISDOM

OR

THE WICKED MAN AND WOMEN FOLLY

2. ORDERING PRIORITIES

- WHAT DOES WISDOM WANT YOU TO KNOW?

- ITS VALUE, THAT IT IS ATTAINABLE, IT IS A CHOICE WITH CONSEQUENCES

3. TRUE WISDOM

- WHERE DOES IT COME FROM?

1 CORINTHIANS 1:30

GOD HAS UNITED YOU WITH CHRIST JESUS. FOR OUR BENEFIT GOD MADE HIM TO BE WISDOM ITSELF.

MATTHEW 23:11-12

THE GREATEST AMONG YOU WILL BE YOUR SERVANT. FOR THOSE WHO EXALT THEMSELVES WILL BE HUMBLED, AND THOSE WHO HUMBLE THEMSELVES WILL BE EXALTED.