What You Gain When You Depart from Evil, Job 28:28
Depart From Evil Job 28:28 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO There are a number of things you gain when you depart from evil. Job 28:28 says, … and to depart from evil is understanding. We will explore the meaning of this verse in more detail. But as you can readily see, departing from evil yields understanding. When […]
Loving Favour, Prov 22:1
Loving Favour Prov 22:1 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Prov 22:1 A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold. According to this verse, loving favour is better than silver and gold. Well, most people wouldn’t turn down a little silver and gold. My memory from banking […]
Builded, Established and Filled, Prov 24:3-4
In Prov 24:3-4 Solomon writes, “Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established: And by knowledge shall the chambers be filled with all precious and pleasant riches.” There are three things needed for this house: wisdom, understanding and knowledge. You need wisdom to build it, understanding to establish it and knowledge […]
Profitable Scripture, 2 Tim 3:16
2 Tim 3:16 says all scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable…. For scripture to be profitable to you, there are three things you should do: Understand the scripture – Job 32:8. It is the Holy Spirit’s desire that you understand the words of God. He gives them to you by inspiration, […]
Rather Than Gold, Prov 8:10
Rather Than Gold In the Proverbs, there are six things you should choose rather than gold and silver. In the world, men usually measure success by their net worth. And even when they are in good churches, given the right offers, they will change employers and residences just to make more money. If you are […]
Eternal Things Are Superior to Temporal Things
Eternal Things Are Superior to Temporal Things In our lives we must constantly remind ourselves to not let the temporal become more important to us than the eternal. It’s so easy to become more concerned with the temporal things of life. But the eternal things are superior to temporal things. Therefore, we must always […]
Hold Your Peace, Prov 11:12-13
Hold Your Peace According to Prov 11:12-13, when you hold your peace you demonstrate that you are a: Man of wisdom. He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbor. To despise is to look down on with disrespect. Since wisdom comes from fearing the Lord, we should fear God and consider the judgment seat […]
What The Disciples Lacked, Lk 9:37-56
What the disciples lacked Jesus had just come down from the mount of Transfiguration with Peter, John, and James. Awaiting him were a multitude of people. One man among them cried out to Jesus to cast the devil out of his son. The surprising thing is that he had brought him to the disciples and […]
Plain and Right, Prov 8:9
Plain and Right Two characteristics of the words of God are that they are plain and right. But often you hear people comment that they aren’t plain and right. They’ll say, “that doesn’t make sense to me”. Or they’ll say, “this translation is not right; it should read this way”. When the words aren’t plain […]
Two Invitations, Prov 9:1-18
Two Invitations Prov. 9:1-18 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO In Proverbs 9, there are two invitations. One is from wisdom and the other is from the foolish woman. The recipients of the invitations are identical but that to which they are being invited is drastically different. We need to look at these two invitations very carefully so […]