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May 14 - Proverbs 1 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, It's Sean. Here it is Tuesday, It is the
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  14th of May. Thanks for tapping on play here.
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  I am and we are beginning a whole new book of the Bible
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  today. And this, this, friends, is the
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  first time we are going to split a book in half and not read the
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  whole thing from beginning to end because we're going to be
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  reading the book of Proverbs and Proverbs.
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  You know, Proverbs, right? It's filled with these pithy
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  little sayings about wisdom and advice in the way that we can
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  live. But that is the second half of
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  Proverbs. The first part of Proverbs, the
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  1st 9 chapters, is, is a dialogue between a father and a
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  son or a teacher and a student as the the father teaches the
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  young one about the nature of lady wisdom and how to live a
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  wise life. And then it moves into the the
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  sayings, the Sayings of Solomon, as they called.
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  So what we're going to do is together over the next nine
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  days, we are going to read these nine chapters of Proverbs that
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  really set the stage. And then we are going to
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  continue on Fridays reading Psalms.
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  And at the end of the year we'll finish the book of Psalms.
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  And then from next year we are going to begin on Fridays
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  reading a chapter of Proverbs until we've read all the way
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  through the book of Proverbs. So this, if you like, is
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  Proverbs, the introduction, the setting of the stage where we'll
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  learn all about this. And the beauty of Proverbs
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  chapter one is the 1st 7 verses begins by by creating a lens and
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  helping us kind of work out how are we going to interpret
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  everything that we're going to hear and learn as we read this
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  book together. So it is a cracker, and it is
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  filled with good things, and we will talk more about it as we go
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  each day reading through the proverbs.
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  But how about today? Let us just begin.
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  Let us sit down with the Father, with the instructor, with the
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  teacher beside us, who is going to share with us all about
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  wisdom and the wise ways that we can pursue wisdom rather than
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  folly as we read together. Proverbs, Chapter One.
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  These are the proverbs of Solomon, David's son, King of
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  Israel. Their purpose is to teach people
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  wisdom and discipline, to help them understand the insights of
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  the wise. Their purpose is to teach people
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  to live disciplined and successful lives, to help them
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  do what is right, just and fair. These proverbs will give insight
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  to the simple knowledge and discernment to the young.
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  Let the wise listen to these proverbs and become even wiser.
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  Let those with understanding receive guidance by exploring
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  the meaning of these proverbs and parables, the words of the
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  wise and their riddles. Fear of the Lord is the
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  foundation of true knowledge. But fools despise wisdom and
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  discipline. My child, listen, When your
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  father corrects you, don't neglect your mother's
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  instruction. What you learn from them will
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  crown you with grace and be a chain of honour around your
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  neck. My child, if sinners entice you
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  turn your back on them. They may say, come and join us.
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  Let's hide and kill someone just for fun.
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  Let's ambush the innocent. Let's swallow them alive like
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  the grave. Let's swallow them whole like
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  those who go down to the pit of death.
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  Think of the great things we'll get.
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  We'll fill our houses with all the stuff we take.
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  Come throw in your lot with us. We'll all share the loot, my
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  child. Don't go along with them.
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  Stay far away from their paths. They rush to commit evil deeds.
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  They hurried to commit murder. If a bird sees a trap being set,
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  it knows to stay away. But these people set an ambush
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  for themselves. They're trying to get themselves
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  killed, such as the fate of all who are greedy for money.
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  It robs them of life. Wisdom shafts in the streets.
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  She cries out in the public square.
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  She calls to the crowds along the Main Street, to those
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  gathered in front of the city gate.
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  How long you simpletons will you insist on being simple minded?
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  How long will you mock us? Relish your mocking.
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  How long will you fools hate knowledge?
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  Come and listen to my council. I'll share my heart with you and
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  make you wise. I called you so often that you
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  wouldn't come. I reached out to you, but you
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  paid no attention. You ignored my advice and
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  rejected the correction I offered.
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  So I will laugh when you're in trouble.
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  I will mock you when disaster overtakes you, when calamity
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  overtakes you like a storm, when disaster engulfs you like a
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  cyclone, and anguish and distress overwhelm you.
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  When they cry for help, I will not answer.
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  Though they anxiously search for me, they will not find me, for
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  they hated knowledge and chose not to fear the Lord.
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  They rejected my advice and paid no attention when I corrected
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  them. Therefore they must eat the
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  bitter fruit of living their own way.
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  Choking on their own schemes, the simpletons turn away from me
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  to death. Fools are destroyed by their own
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  complacency, but all who listened to me will live in
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  peace, untroubled by fear of harm.
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  Our Lord, the author of Proverbs, makes it all so clear
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  that we need to love you, to know you, and to put you in the
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  place of Lordship over our life. And that is the wisest thing we
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  can possibly do. Lord, help us always put you on
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  the highest seat, on that number one throne in our hearts, and
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  then in all of our ways and actions today, tomorrow and
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  every day that we can pursue you.
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  And if we can do that, Lord you, bring us peace and take away our
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  fear. So that's what we do right now.
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  We come to you, we worship you. We submit to you our wise, wise
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  God, and we look forward to, as we read through this book of
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  Proverbs, to learning more about you and your wisdom for us.
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  And we can pray all this and the loving name of Jesus I'm in.