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Title: Revealing Contrasts
Author: Marion Clark
Text: Proverbs 14:1-6
Introduction
Proverbs is known for the contrasts it presents. We will see this fully displayed in our passage in the contrasts of persons. Outwardly, they may appear to be like each other. However, their behavior will eventually reveal who they really are.
Text
The wisest of women builds her house,
but folly with her own hands tears it down.
Our first contrast is that between the wise woman and the foolish woman. One builds; the other tears down. Proverbs 31 provides for us what a wise woman looks like. She is industrious in providing for her family, fair to her servants, and generous to the poor. She is inwardly strong and possesses dignity. She fears the Lord.
What applies to the fool in the proverbs applies to the foolish woman. She thinks highly of herself mistaking her folly for wisdom. Her quick-rich plans fall apart because they are foolish and she is lazy. She is reckless, careless, temperamental, and drawn to sin.
The proverb is not a comment on the house itself, though that can be evidence. More to the point is the care of the occupants of the home-the family members. More to the point is the reputation built in the neighborhood. More to the point is the legacy being built and passed on. More to the point is how the wise woman cares for her home in all circumstances, and how the foolish woman cannot/does not care for her home whatever advantages she might have.
2 Whoever walks in uprightness fears the Lord,
but he who is devious in his ways despises him.
Now our contrast moves to the upright versus the devious. The contrast is their attitude toward the Lord. One would not necessarily look at the upright and the devious and tell them apart. The devious person is devious. He is a hypocrite pretending to be upright. The upright person should display a morally acceptable life, but it is the heart that is at issue. Inwardly, the upright fears ...
Author: Marion Clark
Text: Proverbs 14:1-6
Introduction
Proverbs is known for the contrasts it presents. We will see this fully displayed in our passage in the contrasts of persons. Outwardly, they may appear to be like each other. However, their behavior will eventually reveal who they really are.
Text
The wisest of women builds her house,
but folly with her own hands tears it down.
Our first contrast is that between the wise woman and the foolish woman. One builds; the other tears down. Proverbs 31 provides for us what a wise woman looks like. She is industrious in providing for her family, fair to her servants, and generous to the poor. She is inwardly strong and possesses dignity. She fears the Lord.
What applies to the fool in the proverbs applies to the foolish woman. She thinks highly of herself mistaking her folly for wisdom. Her quick-rich plans fall apart because they are foolish and she is lazy. She is reckless, careless, temperamental, and drawn to sin.
The proverb is not a comment on the house itself, though that can be evidence. More to the point is the care of the occupants of the home-the family members. More to the point is the reputation built in the neighborhood. More to the point is the legacy being built and passed on. More to the point is how the wise woman cares for her home in all circumstances, and how the foolish woman cannot/does not care for her home whatever advantages she might have.
2 Whoever walks in uprightness fears the Lord,
but he who is devious in his ways despises him.
Now our contrast moves to the upright versus the devious. The contrast is their attitude toward the Lord. One would not necessarily look at the upright and the devious and tell them apart. The devious person is devious. He is a hypocrite pretending to be upright. The upright person should display a morally acceptable life, but it is the heart that is at issue. Inwardly, the upright fears ...
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