[Music] hello everyone I'm Mr Brown and welcome to this 31 days of wisdom a journey through the Book of Proverbs have you ever had your parents tell you something whether your mom or dad that just stuck with you I mean no matter what you do it would stick with you you hear them you face that situation that they told you about and you would hear their voice just telling you and and and you just couldn't get rid of it even though you tried well that happened to me with my mom growing up a single parent
home and and in inner city Milwaukee Wisconsin my mom was always adamant of us locking the doors and you know when we had cars not leaving valuables in our car but just real strict on locking doors and being safe even as an adult she reminded you lock your door and no matter where I was and even though we grew up in in City Milwaukee Wisconsin I went to a suburban school and and honestly there was less crime out there at the time than it was in our neighborhood my mom would always say hey lock your
doors there too cuz people steal everywhere I would hear that sentence people steal everywhere and so to this day if I'm out in some polock town somewhere small community I can be out in the woods somewhere going to a camp and I'm still locking my doors and people laugh at me cuz I hear my mama's voice people steal everywhere maybe that was true for you well that's what this Book of Proverbs is about proverbs is a a collection of sayings of wise sayings I wrote in top of my Bible heard somebody say this once a
proverb is a short sentence drawn from a long experience or another definition of proverb is this a proverb is a statement that makes comparison or summarizes a common experience so in the Book of Proverbs these are things that we hope you can grab on to and that will not let go of you because you will face these situations how to deal with people um friendships um enticements to do wrong Proverbs even how you conduct yourselves your word use even how you work on a job the Book of Proverbs covers so many different topics and they
give you short little saying or sentences that comparisons or things that that are common experiences that give you wisdom in life that you can move forward and I believe this if you would grab a hold if you would heed you would learn you would listen these are all words used in The Book of Proverbs that these things will protect you they will guide you and help you move forward to live a life well lived that sounded pretty good to live a life well lived like I always say choose well to live well so Journey with
us through this Book of Proverbs 31 days of wisdom are you ready here we [Music] go Proverbs Chapter 1 today is the 1st of January so we'll go through Proverbs Chapter 1 each day we'll do the proverb of the day and my family's going through this with us including Sophia Grace and we're trying to teach her memory vers I believe if we teach her young how to be wise she won't get a whole lot of whooping like I did Growing Up but any anyway we T Proverbs 15 as a memory verse and it says this
let the wise hear and increase in learning and we want her to get that that the wise person hears and increases in learning the rest of that verse says this and the one who understands obtains guidance and so the reality is as we listen and learn from these Proverbs we will increase in our learning and we will gain knowledge we will gain wisdom and guidance for our lives so as we go through this Book of Proverbs I hope you will some things now as I said in the first video there so much to learn from
these and we want to hear from you so please give us your Insight I'm only able to pick out one or two things from this this each chapter and share what my thoughts are but I want to hear your thoughts as well so today I sent out the text devotion and it said this in the text let me find it it said am I blind no I'm not it's right there it said you lose every time you don't fear the lord Proverbs 1:7 and verse 29 and my wife actually pointed this out to me now
my desire is each day to actually play through the podcast some of you are listening to this some of you watching on YouTube or on our website but I want to play for you the reading itself I don't want to read it to you myself I'm not a great reader but I use this program called bible. is in my devotion time many times or even I'm getting dressed is listen to the Bible being spoken and it's dramatized so check out the app bible.is or go to go to internet bible.is is the web address and they
have some a very different different versions of the Bible read read in dramatization or dramatized ways and it's pretty good actually so I actually emailed them for permission to be able to use it during my podcast during this SE this uh series we're doing so hopefully I hear from them soon and I'll play it right now but Proverbs Chapter 1 I'm going to focus on two verses Proverbs Chapter 1 vers 7 and verse 29 and again this is um from My Wife and she's going to join us one day on this it'll be fun but
Proverbs chapter 1 verse 7 says this the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge fools despise wisdom and instruction what does that mean the fear of the Lord now it doesn't mean that we run around being afraid that God's going to kill us because some people have a wrong view of God I have a series I did called characters of God caricatures not character caricatures of God and and a lot of people see God as this God in the sky who just wants to hurt you he's a mean oh God ready to step
on you anytime you step out of line and that's not the God we serve I believe what what Solomon meant here was that we'd have a reverence for the Lord that we would fear and understand he is God and we are not because I believe this how you approach God how you look at God some people called the man upstairs you know when I get up when I get to heaven I'm G to tell God a few things first of all you with that attitude you won't be seeing God in that sense you'll be seeing
the fierce wrath of God and so the beginning of knowledge is fearing the one who possesses all things that God is God and we are not so if we are to understand anything about the universe that God created we must approach God in the reverence of God and and and not a fear where I'm just afraid he's going to do something but understanding that God does have a wrath the Bible says it's a fearful thing to fall into the hands of an Angry God the Bible also says that God is consuming fire so yes God
is that but we need to approach God in a way of reverence of fear and in the sense that we respect toally who he is kind of like me growing up I respected my granddad I didn't play games with my granddad I didn't I didn't say smart things to my granddad we did play once in a while but we understood that he was Granddad he was Reverend we call Reverend and and we didn't play with him well in a greater sense I need to approach God that way he says the beginning of knowledge Solomon says
is the fear of the Lord then he says this fools despise wisdom and instruction fools despise wisdom and instruction all through the Book of Proverbs we will be listening we'll be hearing the comparison between the fool person the foolish person and the wise person because fools despise wisdom and instruction now that verse is so key because we get down to verse 29 between verses 20 and probably the end of the chapter wisdom becomes personified in other words wisdom takes on a a personality look at verse 20 wisdom shouts in the street she lifts her voice
in the Square so from this point wisdom becomes this female takes on the personality of a woman and I kind of jokingly thought to myself I didn't say it out loud because I was get in trouble but I'm saying it now anyway that why would wisdom be compared to this woman because you don't ignore women when women talk you need to listen to them if you don't you get in trouble so wisdom takes on this idea if you don't listen to me there will be consequences and wisdom projects itself as a woman and look at
what it says at verse 29 I thought was so interesting and you should read this whole passage but look at verse 29 because they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord and so he said if you read that you know he talks about when you reject wisdom um all these bad things happen you lose but he says because they did not they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord all these bad things happen to these people you got to read that on your own time but it's so
interesting because the beginning of knowledge is the fear of the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge and so we have to start there with fearing the Lord who is God and and I think the wisest thing we can do in 2014 is figure out to learn to search the scriptures to find out who is this God who is God that we serve because that is where it all begins if you choose to ignore God ignore the fact that God existed it says in Romans chapter 1 they suppress the truth and ungodliness because
they didn't want to deal with God but I think we should approach this year in every day of Our Lives I know we're taking a 31-day challenge but this applies to all of our lives that we start with the fear of the Lord because the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge so as you read Proverbs Chapter 1 look at all the jewels here all the the pieces of advice and wisdom and I love to hear what you get from it because as she talks about the fools and all things they've done look
at verses 8 through uh 19 it talks about being enticed to to go do evil and do wrong and wisdom says wisdom is speaking out wisdom wants to be heard because if you apply wisdom to your life you can live a life well lived verse one chapter 1 verse 7 again I'll leave you with this the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge and fools despise wisdom and instruction so the question is this will you choose to be a fool or choose to be wise it's your choice [Music]
