Wise Up! (3 of 7)
Series:Wisdom for the Family
Jim Perdue
Proverbs 1-2
Intro/Attention
Today is Graduation Sunday. Congratulations to our graduates and their parents! Some of you might have wondered if this day would ever come. But it's probably here before you feel completely prepared for it.
What is one thing graduates and their families need? No, I'm not talking about free college tuition or a high-paying job. One thing graduates and their families need - one thing we all need - is wisdom. *Someone once said, ''Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would have preferred to talk.''*
Well, today we're going to do some listening. We're going to see what God has to say about wisdom from Proverbs 1 and 2 in a sermon I've entitled Wise Up! READ Proverbs 1:1-7; 2:1-8; 20-22
*In his book, Knowing God, J. I. Packer offers a helpful illustration for understanding wisdom using the metaphor of a railroad or subway system. He said some people think of wisdom as if they're sitting in the control room looking at a giant board on which the movement of all the trains is tracked. You can see everything that's going on in the city's rail system at one time; you have a total picture of everything. Some people think the wiser they become the greater grasp they will have of the mysteries of God-how everything in the universe works and how all the pieces fit together. But that is not what biblical wisdom is all about. I have found the opposite to be true. The more knowledge of God I get (that is, the wiser I become) the more I realize how much I don't know, and will never know, about God and His ways. There are still many, many times in life when I cannot figure out the big picture, when I don't understand why things are happening like they are. Wisdom is not having it all together when it comes to a knowledge of God. True wisdom is like driving one of the individual trains in the city-not sitting in front of the control panel showing ...
Series:Wisdom for the Family
Jim Perdue
Proverbs 1-2
Intro/Attention
Today is Graduation Sunday. Congratulations to our graduates and their parents! Some of you might have wondered if this day would ever come. But it's probably here before you feel completely prepared for it.
What is one thing graduates and their families need? No, I'm not talking about free college tuition or a high-paying job. One thing graduates and their families need - one thing we all need - is wisdom. *Someone once said, ''Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you would have preferred to talk.''*
Well, today we're going to do some listening. We're going to see what God has to say about wisdom from Proverbs 1 and 2 in a sermon I've entitled Wise Up! READ Proverbs 1:1-7; 2:1-8; 20-22
*In his book, Knowing God, J. I. Packer offers a helpful illustration for understanding wisdom using the metaphor of a railroad or subway system. He said some people think of wisdom as if they're sitting in the control room looking at a giant board on which the movement of all the trains is tracked. You can see everything that's going on in the city's rail system at one time; you have a total picture of everything. Some people think the wiser they become the greater grasp they will have of the mysteries of God-how everything in the universe works and how all the pieces fit together. But that is not what biblical wisdom is all about. I have found the opposite to be true. The more knowledge of God I get (that is, the wiser I become) the more I realize how much I don't know, and will never know, about God and His ways. There are still many, many times in life when I cannot figure out the big picture, when I don't understand why things are happening like they are. Wisdom is not having it all together when it comes to a knowledge of God. True wisdom is like driving one of the individual trains in the city-not sitting in front of the control panel showing ...
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