“Good Sense for Everyone, Everywhere” Today’s Scripture: Proverbs 1: 20 - 33 Morning Message: “Good Sense for Everyone, Everywhere”

“Good Sense for Everyone, Everywhere” Proverbs 1:20-33 “Good Sense for Everyone, Everywhere” What is Wisdom?

“Good Sense for Everyone, Everywhere” Proverbs 1:20-33 “Good Sense for Everyone, Everywhere” What is Wisdom? Knowing How to Live!

20-25 Wisdom Has an Attitude Wisdom shouts in the streets wherever crowds gather.  She shouts in the marketplaces and near the city gates as she says to the people "How much longer will you enjoy being stupid fools? Won't you ever stop sneering and laughing at knowledge? Listen as I correct you and tell you what I think. You completely ignored me and refused to listen; you rejected my advice and paid no attention when I warned you. CEV

The heavens keep telling the wonders of God, and the skies declare what he has done. Each day informs the following day; each night announces to the next. They don’t speak a word, and there is never the sound of a voice. Yet their message reaches all the earth, and it travels around the world (Psalm 19. 1-4 CEV).

From heaven God shows how angry he is with all the wicked and evil things that sinful people do to crush the truth. They know everything that can be known about God, because God has shown it all to them. God’s eternal power and character cannot be seen. But from the beginning of creation, God has shown what these are like by all he has made. That’s why those people don’t have any excuse. They know about God, but they don’t honor him or even thank him Romans 1:18-21a CEV

"Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me, and whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me."

Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful face on an empty head.   The world of the generous gets larger and larger; the world of the stingy gets smaller and smaller. A life devoted to things is a dead life, a stump; a God-shaped life is a flourishing tree. Exploit or abuse your family, and end up with a fistful of air; common sense tells you it’s a stupid way to live. Better to be ordinary and work for a living than act important and starve in the process.

Fools have short fuses and explode all too quickly; the prudent quietly shrug off insults.   The wise accumulate wisdom; fools get stupider by the day. The Fear of GOD builds up confidence, and makes a world safe for your children. Slowness to anger makes for deep understanding; a quick-tempered person stockpiles stupidity. Better a bread crust shared in love than a slab of prime rib served in hate.

26-33 Wisdom Give a Warning "So when you are struck by some terrible disaster, or when trouble and distress surround you like a whirlwind, I will laugh and make fun. You will ask for my help, but I won't listen; You will search, but you won't find me. No, you would not learn, and you refused to respect the Lord. You rejected my advice and paid no attention when I warned you. Now you will eat the fruit of what you have done, until you are stuffed full with your own schemes. Sin and self-satisfaction bring destruction and death to stupid fools. But if you listen to me, you will be safe and secure without fear of disaster."  CEV

Jesus called the crowd together and said, "Pay attention and try to understand what I mean. The food that you put into your mouth doesn't make you unclean and unfit to worship God. The bad words that come out of your mouth are what make you unclean." Then his disciples came over to him and asked, "Do you know that you insulted the Purists by what you said?" Jesus answered, "Every plant that my Father in heaven did not plant will be pulled up by the roots. Stay away from those Purists! They are like blind people leading other blind people, and all of them will fall into a ditch“. Matthew 15:10 – 13 CEV

The heavens keep telling the wonders of God, and the skies declare what God has done.