Abingdon Community Church Living a life of wisdom Sunday 23rd September 2018
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“There does not seem to be one major organ within the body, or process within the brain, that isn’t optimally enhanced by sleep (and detrimentally impaired when we don’t get enough).”
Book of Job @Job How bad can it get? Pretty bad! And frenemies only make it worse. In the end, God gets real with Job & Job gets blessed again.
Book of Psalms @Psalms God’s rock star - David’s hymnal containing 150 of the top praise hits of Israel’s worship. Even includes a tune by Moses!.
Book of Proverbs @Proverbs 31 pearls in a necklace of wisdom ending with the perfect woman to wear them.
Ecclesiastes @Ecclesiastes The cranky old teacher’s cry - Everything is meaningless! True richness lies in fearing God and keeping his commandments.
Song of Songs @SongOfSongs Sexy is back, like way back. God knows about that? And check out my lover’s teeth. They’re just like sheep.
Rooted in reality
Proverbs 3:19-20 By wisdom the Lord laid the earth’s foundations, by understanding he set the heavens in place; by his knowledge the deeps were divided, and the clouds let drop the dew. Proverbs 8: 27 I was there when he set the heavens in place, when he marked out the horizon on the face of the deep, when he established the clouds above and fixed securely the fountains of the deep when he gave the sea its boundary so that the waters would not overstep his command, and when he marked out the foundations of the earth. Then I was the craftsman at his side. I was filled with delight day after day, rejoicing always in his presence, rejoicing in his whole world and delighting in mankind.
Challenging our choices
Colossians 1:9-14 For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
“For our benefit God made him to be wisdom itself.” 1 Cor 1:30
Abingdon Community Church Living a life of wisdom Sunday 23rd September 2018