Your lips are the gate keepers of your mouth.  They can either let bad and untoward things come forth from your mouth or they can be used to bring forth good and beneficial things.  Therefore, you need to watch your lips.  There are many different kinds of lips that we...

We have been studying the tongue.  According to Jas 3:8 it is an unruly evil.  Today, we are going to study the flattering, backbiting, piercing tongue.  Notice the unruly evil of a: Flattering tongue – Ps 5:9 – “they flatter with their tongue.”  Don’t flatter others.  God despises the use...

A Blessing Counted A Curse Prov. 27:14 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Prov 27:14 says, “He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.” The motive for a man, who rises early to bless his friend with a loud voice, is...

An Adulterous Woman Lev 20:10 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Often when the subject of adultery is preached, the pastor gets on the men about committing this sin.  But today we are going to have fair balance.  This lesson is about the adulterous woman, exclusively.  There have been incidences of adultery...

Ps 78 is a Psalm about the history of Israel’s relationship to God.  It is instructive to the generations to come so they might set their hope in God, Ps 78:2-8.  The future generations must learn from the mistakes of the prior generations.  They provoked God with: They Provoked God...

Solomon gave you some practical instructions in Proverbs to help you choose your words.  We’re going to discuss four negative references and 3 positive references to these in Proverbs.  Hopefully, these will help you choose your words wisely and carefully. Negative References Concerning Your Words Gossipy – Prov 18:8; 26:22. ...

We will discuss the women in Proverbs this week.  There are thirteen different women in Proverbs.  Of these, 9 are bad women and 4 are good women.  According to these numbers, Solomon deals twice as much with bad women as he does with good women.  Today we will study the...

Help, Lord Ps. 12 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Help, Lord Psalm 12 Help, Lord. David probably had personal experience with the things written in this psalm. As we walk in the world around us, we too experience these things. This passage has a Tribulation context, yet we can be helped by...

Flattery Ps.12:1-4   Flattery is the act of praising someone. The sincerely of this act is what determines its worth. This verse states that when done in this way it is vanity, or worthless. Often we flatter someone because you want something from them, the Bible has a lot to...

Favorable Rebuke Prov. 28: 23 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Prov 28:23 shows you that flattery will give you favor right now whereas rebuke will give you favor later – and there will be more favor with rebuke than there will be with flattery. We don’t often give counsel on how to...