1. Grace Fellowship Church Pastor/Teacher - Jim Rickard www.GraceDoctrine.org Sunday, May 4, 2014

2. Prov 3:5, “Trust in the LORD with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding.”

3. Proverbs Chapter 14 How we build up or tear down our home, vs. 1-7. Pt. 2

4. Verse 4 “Use what God has given you, and be industrious in life.”

5. The easy road is not the best road to travel.

6. Having an empty manger, meaning no Christ in your life, may seem easier but it will cause you to be lacking for that which you need to survive.

7. The Contrast!

8. The Contrast! Oxen are troublesome to clean up after, but they more than pay their way. It is worth the investment of inconvenience to gain the increase that the ox produces.

9. Having the ox, (TLJC), means we have to due our do diligence to study, learn and apply His Word in faith and build our relationship with Him. As we do, it will reap wonderful blessings for both time and eternity.

10. 1 Cor 9:9, “For it is written in the Law of Moses, “You shall not muzzle the ox while he is threshing.” God is not concerned about oxen, is He? 10 Or is He speaking altogether for our sake? Yes, for our sake it was written, because the plowman ought to plow in hope, and the thresher to thresh in hope of sharing the crops.”

11. Verse 5

12. Verse 5 “A person’s character determines his speech.” The right and wrong ways to use our tongue.

13. When you have God’s two power options working within your soul, they cause you to walk in righteousness and not commit verbal sins; emulating the Lord Jesus Christ, Rev 1:5; 3:14.

14. The Contrast!

15. The Contrast! The false witness – lying!

16. Those to whom lying comes as naturally as breathing are false witnesses, and their testimony should be discounted.

17. Whereas those whose deeds and lives have proved the worth of their words should be held as trustworthy people.

18. 1 Cor 5:6 and Gal 5:9, “A little leaven leavens the whole lump.”

19. Prov 14:25, “A truthful witness saves lives, but he who speaks lies is treacherous.”

20. The consequence of loving TLJC means you witness the truth on His behalf, the consequence of hating Him means false witnessing and cosmic viewpoint that you spread to others.

21. Communion

22. I desire mercy and not sacrifice!

24. The Greek word for compassion here is the noun éleos meaning mercy or compassion but always tied to it is the result of mercy in action. It’s an active compassion.

25. Hos 6:6, “For I desire mercy and not sacrifice, And the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.”

26. The Hebrew word for mercy here is “chesed” used 248 times in the Old Testament. It means mercy, kindness, loving-kindness, goodness and favor.

27. Jer 9:24, “But let him who boasts boast of this, that he understands and knows Me, that I am the Lord who exercises loving-kindness (chesed), justice and righteousness on earth; for I delight in these things,” declares the Lord.”

28. Pro 3:3, “Do not let kindness (chesed-mercy) and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart.”

29. God always prefers an act of mercy over a religious duty, even over the legitimate duties we are called to, if the needs of the moment call for it.

30. Adam Clarke notes there are four occasions in which a normally good religious law or habit ceases to take precedence. 1. By the natural law of necessity. 2. By a particular law which is superior. 3. By the law of charity and mercy. 4. By the dispensation and authority of the Lawgiver Himself.

31. Math 23:23 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.

32. Here the Pharisees had made idols out of religious concepts. Be careful not to make an idol out of religious duties.

33. Jam 2:13b, “Mercy triumphs over judgment.”

34. Psa 23:6, “Surely goodness and loving-kindness (chesed- mercy) will follow me all the days of my life, And I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever.”

35. Heb 4:16, “Therefore let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.”

36. This is where we see that statement “I desire compassion, and not sacrifice” being fulfilled wonderfully. Jesus Christ’s religious duty of being sent only to the house of Israel was momentarily set aside at that instant the law of mercy took precedence.

37. It is more important to Jesus Christ that you treat people according to the royal law of love mentioned in Jam 2:8 then accumulate 50 years’ worth of doctrinal notes.

38. Jam 2:13, “For judgment will be merciless to one who has shown no mercy; mercy triumphs over judgment.”

39. Eph 2:4-6, “But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, 5 even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), 6 and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus.”

40. Grace Offering Gal 6:6-8, “The one who is taught the word is to share all good things with the one who teaches him. 7 Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap. 8 For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.”

41. Grace Fellowship Church Sunday May 4, 2014 Lesson # 14-045 Proverbs Chapter 14 James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2014 Grace Fellowship Church Sunday May 4, 2014 Lesson # 14-045 Proverbs Chapter 14 How we build up or tear down our home, Pt. 2 Prov 14:4-5, 25; 27:23-27; 1 Cor 5:6; 9:9-10; James H. Rickard Bible Ministries 2014