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Proverbs 3:1–12 — Trust in the LORD with All Your Heart · A Tithe of Time Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to a tithe of time, rooted in wisdom, growing wiser, one passage at a time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Today we'll be looking at Proverbs 3, 1-12, reading from the ESV.
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  SPEAKER_00: My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.
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  SPEAKER_00: In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make straight your paths.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be not wise in your own eyes, fear the Lord, and turn away from evil.
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  SPEAKER_00: It will be healing to your flesh and refreshment to your bones.
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  SPEAKER_00: Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the first fruits of all your produce.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will be bursting with wine.
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  SPEAKER_00: My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline, or be weary of his reproof, for the Lord reproves him whom he loves, as a father the Son in whom he delights.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now let's look closer.
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  SPEAKER_00: This passage begins with something deeper than simply remembering information.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let your heart keep my commandments.
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  SPEAKER_00: Wisdom is meant to move from something we know into something that shapes how we live.
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  SPEAKER_00: That is why steadfast love and faithfulness are pictured as being bound around the neck and written on the heart.
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  SPEAKER_00: The picture is of qualities that are always with you, visible in the way you live and deeply rooted within you.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then we reach one of the best known lines in Proverbs.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding.
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  SPEAKER_00: That does not mean we should stop thinking or ignore good judgment.
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  SPEAKER_00: The warning is against making our own understanding the final authority.
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  SPEAKER_00: We see only part of the picture.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trusting God means allowing his wisdom to guide us, even when our own judgment would lead us somewhere else.
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  SPEAKER_00: In all your ways acknowledge Him takes that even further.
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  SPEAKER_00: God is not meant to be consulted only for the major decisions.
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  SPEAKER_00: The picture is of recognizing Him throughout the direction of your life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then Proverbs says, He will make straight your paths.
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  SPEAKER_00: That does not mean every road will become easy or free from trouble.
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  SPEAKER_00: A straight path is a path rightly directed, a life being guided away from crookedness and toward what is right.
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  SPEAKER_00: The passage then warns, Be not wise in your own eyes.
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  SPEAKER_00: There is a difference between having wisdom and becoming convinced that we already know best.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs tells us instead to fear the Lord and turn away from evil.
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  SPEAKER_00: Then we come to wealth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Honor the Lord with your wealth and with the first fruits of all your produce.
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  SPEAKER_00: Firstfruits were the first and best portion of the harvest.
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  SPEAKER_00: Giving them to God meant honoring Him first rather than waiting to see what was left over.
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  SPEAKER_00: The verses about full barns and overflowing vats describe the blessing connected with honoring God.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Proverbs gives us wisdom for the normal pattern of life.
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  SPEAKER_00: This should not be turned into a promise that every faithful person will always become materially wealthy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Finally, the passage turns to discipline.
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  SPEAKER_00: God's correction is not pictured as proof that he has abandoned someone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Proverbs says the Lord reproves the one he loves, as a father, the son in whom he delights.
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  SPEAKER_00: Correction can be uncomfortable, but loving correction is meant to redirect us, not destroy us.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's the picture Proverbs 3 1-12 leaves us with.
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  SPEAKER_00: This concludes Proverbs 3 1 12.
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  SPEAKER_00: Next, we'll continue in our rooted in wisdom series with Psalm 7.
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  SPEAKER_00: And remember, tithe your time.