262: Colin Badger – For Kings by Kings

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Welcome to good Chris Elfian
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I’m Levi.
And I’m Chris, and I’m Brian.

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And now let’s talk more about
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This week’s class was the 3rd
class in a series by brother

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Colin Badger.
It was a study on proverbs at

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the Western Bible School in
Oregon in the year 2006.

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The title for this one is For
Kings and by Kings.

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And it was an interesting
indepth study on kind of how

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much the idea of kings is a
theme through Proverbs,

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including that it was written
kind of by David for Solomon and

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then for from, you know, by
Solomon for his children after

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him.
And then how often this was

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something I’ve never paid
attention to before but how

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often a king is a character in
the proverb.

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So all throughout he Colin goes
through the how many times it’s

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used that a king is part of the,
you know, part of the, you know,

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part of the scene, part of the
characters used and explain the

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different proverbs and how they
apply to us who are hoping to be

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kings and priests in the
Kingdom.

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So I really enjoyed this study.
I enjoyed this whole series by

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Brother Colin.
He’s someone I enjoyed as a

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young person.
I always look forward to going

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back and listening to his to his
lectures as he’s as he’s no

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longer with us.
So the great class excited to

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share it.
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So here is Colin Badger for
Kings by Kings.

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As our third study in this
coming series that we’re doing

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with exhortations for wisdom
from the Book of Proverbs this

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morning we’re going to turn our
attention, brothers and sisters,

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to the theme entitled For Kings
by Kings.

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In terms of a thematic thread
that runs through the book of

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Proverbs itself, now we’ve
touched on some of the elements

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of this in our first two
classes, which we did of course

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together back-to-back yesterday.
Would you just turn, please, in

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your Bibles to the book of
Proverbs if you haven’t already

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got it open?
We won’t need to go outside of

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the Book of Proverbs too much in
this session.

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It’ll be quite easy just to stay
primarily within the cover

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itself of the book for Kings by
Kings.

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Let’s explore that as a possible
theme together this morning in

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the book of Proverbs and see
what application it has to us to

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hope and pray to be kings on
earth.

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And to reign with the Lord Jesus
Christ, God willing by His grace

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and goodness in the future.
Well, if you have your note

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there in Proverbs just at the
outset, you might want to go to

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this passage and keep your
marker there in in Proverbs.

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We’re only going to look at 2
passages at the start that are

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outside of Proverbs, and then
the rest will all be within the

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pages.
Or you may just want to consider

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this as it is on the screen
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Yesterday we were talking about
potential structures of

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proverbs, how proverbs might be
seen to have an arrangement or a

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pattern.
And you remember yesterday we

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looked at that from different
vantage points, how the book of

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Proverbs might be seen to have a
structure or an arrangement, and

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we looked at it from the point
of view of how it could be

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broken down into about 12 or 13
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Taking some of the indicators
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And then we were looking at the
possibilities of emphasized

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words or terms that are
clustered or found in certain

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sections of the book of
Proverbs, and that that too may

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signal a way of looking at the
internal structure of Proverbs.

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In the course of that yesterday,
you might remember that at the

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beginning of Proverbs in the
first section we suggested.

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That section #1 in Proverbs is
dealing with proverbs for

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Solomon, and then from chapter
10 and beyond there’s a bit of a

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transition where the emphasis
seems to be more as being

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Proverbs of Solomon.
That meaning that the first

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cluster of Proverbs, as we
suggested it yesterday, from

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about chapters 1 to the end of
Chapter 9.

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Are Proverbs for Solomon, that
he had bequeathed to him or

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instructed to him from his
father David.

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And we put that yesterday in the
framework, if you remember of

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the emphasis in the first part
of Proverbs, that is given to

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father and son, father and son,
and that that would be

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appropriate that in the first
cluster of Proverbs.

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The first group are Proverbs
especially selected, that were

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given to Solomon, the main
author, himself as the son of

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Father David, and therefore the
giving of those proverbs from

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his father to himself, are then
passed on to the readers of

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Proverbs before we get into the
section of the Proverbs of

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Solomon to us and to others.
And therefore the emphasis in

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the beginning of Proverbs on
father and son had a personal

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reality for Solomon himself as a
son who was given Proverbs from

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his father David principles and
concepts of wisdom and guidance.

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Now if we in taking a look at
this theme for Kings by Kings go

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back into the book of Proverbs,
chapter 22 of First Chronicles.

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And verse 19, Just notice what
is said there now, says David.

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Set your heart and your soul to
seek the Lord.

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Sorry to seek the Lord.
Look at that.

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I think we’ve somehow managed to
skip that unintentionally.

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There we go.
Got to get the right button and

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the right finger.
Now let’s start again.

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Now set your heart and your soul
to seek the Lord, says David.

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The Lord you’re a God.
Arise therefore, and build ye

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the sanctuary of the Lord God.
Now just watch that language.

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It’s very reminiscent or
predictive of what’s going to

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find its way into the book of
Proverbs as some key phrases and

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key concepts, David saying to
Solomon.

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Set your heart and your soul to
seek the Lord.

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That is an important refrain,
either in part or holy, in the

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book of Proverbs more than once,
especially especially in the

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first section of Proverbs, the
Proverbs for Solomon, the

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Proverbs in the first nine plus
chapters that stress the Father

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and Son perspective, David had
said previously.

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Set your heart and your soul to
seek the Lord.

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Now in that context of First of
Chronicles 22, verse 19 and its

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surrounding context, we come
down here to the point the

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bottom of the slide.
You’ll notice that in verse 7

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and 11 in that very context of
first of Chronicles 22.

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David addresses him specifically
as my son, Verse seven, first of

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Chronicles 22, and again in
verse 11, my son.

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So the point is, before you come
into the book of Proverbs and

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look at that first section, that
begins with Solomon connecting

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himself with his father, David
in the section that’s going to

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stress, my father, my son, my
son, my father.

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And that section that seems
especially to be Proverbs for

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Solomon.
Previous to that, this kind of

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dialogue or instruction had
taken place between David and

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Solomon.
Set your heart, in other words,

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my son.
Set your heart, my son, and set

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your soul to seek my son, we
might say.

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To seek the Lord your God,
arise, build the sanctuary of

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the Lord with that perspective.
So those two verses 7:00 and

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11:00 that stress my son in the
relationship of David and

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Solomon have the context and the
exertation that is very dominant

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in the early chapters of
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Set your heart, set your soul,
my son, to seek.

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Now look at this one that is
parallel also.

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In First to Kings chapter 3 and
let’s look at verse 9.

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Here give therefore pleads
Solomon, and that’s at the time

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of the dedication, or rather at
the time when the authority of

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David is being passed on, rather
to Solomon before the dedication

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of the Temple.
Give therefore thy servant, he

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pleads an understanding heart.
There’s Solomon pleading for

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that understanding.
Remember, David has said that’s

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what she we should be doing.
David has said just previously,

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we back up again.
Set your heart and your soul to

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seek.
And here is Solomon praying.

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Give there for thy servant an
understanding heart.

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For what purpose?
To judge thy people?

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And then secondly, besides an
understanding heart, Solomon

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prays that he might discern
between good and bad for who’s

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able to judge this guy so great
at people?

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Now here’s another point.
The concept of discerning.

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Does that ring a bell?
Yesterday in our second class,

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we noticed as we took a closer
look at proverbs after our

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introduction.
That one of the blessings of

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wisdom, one of the purposes of
giving the wise Proverbs

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according to chapter one, was to
help us, and certainly those in

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the days of Solomon, to have
understanding and to be able to

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discern.
Now, if you do have Proverbs,

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open chapter one, let’s just
take a look at the square

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brackets indicator there.
And there in Proverbs chapter

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one, as we have it right here in
square brackets, let’s remind

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ourselves what we read yesterday
in verse 6 to understand a

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proverb and the interpretation,
the words of the wise and their

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dark sayings.
We also read yesterday verse 4.

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To give subtlety number to the
simple, to the young man,

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knowledge and discretion and
that word discretion especially,

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we said yesterday in the
original, had the idea of being

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able to make a decision.
It was praying that the proverbs

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would help.
According to chapter one of

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Proverbs would help the simple,
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Or even those who are already
somewhat experienced, to have

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increasing knowledge,
instruction, understanding for

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sure, but especially to have
what is recorded right here in

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First to Kings 3 verse nine that
Solomon himself had prayed for

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as an endowment for himself.
He Solomon had prayed in First

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to Kings 3 verse nine, quite
consistent with what David was

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praying for him.
And admonishing him to search

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for discernment.
And it’s spelled out here in

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first to King’s 3, verse 9 and
Solomon’s request, a discernment

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between good and bad.
Now how appropriate is that

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prayer in terms of what
eventually Solomon at some point

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in his life, likely towards the
end of his life.

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Some would say it comes even
after Ecclesiastes.

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Somewhere towards the end of
Solomon’s life, there is an

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inspired, gleaming compilation
of words from his Proverbs, a

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selection from his Proverbs
divinely given that Solomon

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wishes to pass on in order,
according to verse 4 to give us

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subtlety.
And to give us knowledge and to

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give us discretion, the word
discretion, meaning be able to

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decide Solomon had prayed for
that for himself.

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What he therefore is telling us
in Proverbs One is one of the

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benefits of the proverbs of
wisdom is just exactly what he

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prayed for himself.
Bottom line, So what?

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We’re reading.
As the intro in Proverbs chapter

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one is something that at the
introduction of his life, he had

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prayed for and putting together
the former passage in

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Chronicles, it’s something that
David, his dad had wished for,

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prayed for, no doubt, and
encouraged Solomon to seek.

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So David wishes that to happen,
prays for it, exhorts Solomon

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to.
Pray and to seek for that kind

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of wisdom and its discernment.
Solomon deliberately prays for

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that later on and then in
Proverbs many years later, we

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have Solomon’s inspired,
distilled wisdom in the Proverbs

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given that are admonishing us to
do the exactly the same thing,

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to have discernment between good
and bad.

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And you know, if you back up
brothers and sisters and think

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about that for a minute.
That takes us really back to the

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Law of Moses, because in the Law
of Moses in the Viticus, more

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than once they were told that
the laws of cleanness and the

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laws of uncleanness were to help
them distinguish or discern or

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decide or judge between what was
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It wasn’t just animals later on
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That kind of Levitical language
of clean and unclean is applied

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by Peter at the time of the
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as relating to people, Gentile
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that those Levitical principles
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their way of life.
So this decision making, this

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discerning between good and bad.
Is embedded, in fact, as key

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principles in the health laws of
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You will choose between clean
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You will choose between good and
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These are the good things to
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These are the bad things by
debt, by God’s own judgment, and

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these are the things you will
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won’t do to retain holiness be
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Is drawn forward here in a
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clearly that what Leviticus was
teaching was a parable about a

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way of life, not just whether
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opposed to a dead crow That was
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lessons and principles.
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from Leviticus in principle to
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Now you think of the two ladies
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Folly and Miss Wisdom.
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certain sets of appeal.
Another calls in another way can

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be deceptive.
It can have some similarities to

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Miss Wisdom, but it has some
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And in the end, the voice of
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Miss Folly have different ends.
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distinctively different means of
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So here in Kings we have the
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Proverbs one and verse 6 to
understand a proverb and the

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interpretation of the words of
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Now, with Proverbs open, let’s
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We’re building towards this
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especially, though not
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written by Kings for Kings in
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Watch now if you come to
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echoes back to the Chronicles
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The echo is not just in chapter
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The echo of chapter 2IN Proverbs
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again back to the words of David
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kingly career.
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3:00, so that thou incline thine
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And here’s the words of David to
Solomon that we read of in

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Chronicles in our first passage
this morning.

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That thou incline thine ear unto
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understanding exactly what David
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recorded to Solomon at the
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Yea, says Proverbs, chapter 2,
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Yea, if thou cryest after
knowledge and liftest up thy

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voice for understanding.
That’s David’s instruction as

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the father to his son Solomon,
and it finds itself therefore

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embedded in the prologue to
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and now we see it partly in
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And in the end, of course,
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himself personally prayed for
and now passes it on at the end

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of his life.
It would probably be to us, the

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readers Now look at how this son
Father perspective sets the

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stage for kings who are in
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Just turn the page to Proverbs
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Just see how this language again
is somewhat reminiscent of that

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background of Father David to
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Verse three of Proverbs chapter
4 says the writer for I was my

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father’s son, tender and only
beloved in the sight of my

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mother.
Certainly true of Solomon as we

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know it from the record.
Now verse four of Proverbs 4 He

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taught me also, and said unto
me, Let thine heart retain my

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words, and keep my commandments,
and live now let thine heart

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retain my words.
It speaks for the fact that

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although the process is
dominantly controlled by God,

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working in the life of a
disciple, working in the life of

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a king to be there is calling
here an exertation to let our

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hearts cooperate, A willingness
to open ourselves, a willingness

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to be influenced, A willingness
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where we can be changed and we
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Let thine heart retain my words,
said Jesus more than once in the

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gospel ministry.
Let these words, Christ’s words,

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sink down into thine heart.
Let these words set sink down

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into your heart.
So when Jesus says, let these

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words sink into your heart or
let these words come into your

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ears, especially in the context
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Jesus himself is clearly
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proverb.
It is primarily of God, but

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there is an onus of
responsibility on our part to

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cooperate.
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To let thine heart retain my
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The dynamic is in God’s word.
It is quick and powerful and

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sharper than any two edged
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But that word can be blocked,
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just from the proverbs or beyond
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We need to open our ears and we
need to let our hearts retain

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the words.
So that kind of expectation,

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according to Solomon has been an
admonition from his father to

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his to the son.
Exactly what we read in those

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opening chapters from Chronicles
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Now Proverbs 4 and verse 5.
Get wisdom, get understanding,

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forget it.
Not all of that seems in

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Proverbs 4 verses 3:00 to 5:00.
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to what originally transpired by
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David himself.
Now that sets the stage for

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taking a look at Indications and
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book written by kings for kings.
How so?

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Well, just to start with, let’s
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having a cluster of Proverbs for
Solomon, moving into a section

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of Proverbs around chapter 10
and beyond of Proverbs by

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Solomon to others.
But Solomon has made it clear

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now by these links and by
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opening words of chapter one, he
a king to be, or now a king, in

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fact received his exertation to
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instruction, and to get
discretion from his father who

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was a king.
So in Proverbs as you trace that

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trail, what Proverbs is showing
us is King Solomon was exhorted

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by King David.
And King Solomon is not the only

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one who is related to the
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and his father David in the book
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Just want to turn in your bibles
to Proverbs chapter 25.

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Now notice now how this opens
up, provides, I think, a master

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thematic key in the book of
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It’s quite practical and
certainly finally turns itself

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to us, the readers.
Proverbs 25 then versus one to

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two.
These are also Proverbs of

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Solomon, which the men of
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out.
Now, we touched on that just

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yesterday for another purpose,
showing that there were

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different authors, but now let’s
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and that is that Hezekiah.
Yes, Selector Compiler under

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inspiration for another chunk of
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True enough, but who is it?
It’s King has a Kaya, another

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author, another contributor or
better set, another compiler who

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is a king himself, and he’s
drawing on proverbs pertinent

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from Solomon, a previous king.
Now look at verse two in that

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light.
Proverbs 25 and verse two.

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It is the glory of God to
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But the honor of anybody?
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The honor of brothers and
sisters and believers in

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general.
That would be absolutely true.

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The honor of anyone who reads
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That would be true.
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Instead, it’s put this way, it’s
the glory of God to conceal a

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thing.
But the honor of kings is to

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search out a matter.
Why kings?

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Well, with that background
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can we not see that Proverbs has
a has a a general application, a

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general exhortation, of course,
for all who may turn its pages

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and reflectively meditate on its
message from God through

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Solomon.
But especially what’s being

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stressed here more than once.
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link as the father to the Son,
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has a Kaia being a compiler but
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And in that very context, now
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now going to be put before us,
compiled by king has a Kaia, we

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might say are a collection that
should help others, and knowing

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it’s the honor of kings to
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Now, you know, when you think
carefully back in the book of

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Deuteronomy, Deuteronomy
specifically said that the king

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of Israel, the leader of God’s
people, was to make it his habit

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to write out the words of God’s
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That’s in Deuteronomy.
So there actually was in the

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Talmud, in the main books,
excuse me, in the Torah, rather

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in the main books of the laws of
Moses, an injunction to those

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who would become kings.
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seriously that according to
Deuteronomy, the king was to

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make it his habit to write out
the words of God’s law, and then

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of course to do them.
It was a kingly thing to do, to

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honor God’s law by taking the
time not only to read it, but

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the time and energy to write it
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And here it is the honor and the
privilege of kings to search out

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a matter.
What’s the matter?

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It’s obviously God’s teaching to
to discern the deeper things of

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God, but also to discern and
understand, to be instructed by

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all that God’s wisdom has
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Because a king is in a position
of leadership, a king is helping

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to steer the boat.
Other people in the flock, other

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members of the nation, will be
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It’s a leadership role, like a
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So this is a special admonition
to those who wish to provide

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direction.
Leadership, or we might say more

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generally those who should be
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Of course, really that applies
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So now that clearly ties in with
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perspective in the book of
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Would you turn over or turn back
to Proverbs chapter 8?

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Let’s pick it up there, Proverbs
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It’s not just in one or two
little places this is couched.

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And it’s not just in a section
more obviously dealing with

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Hezekiah’s Proverbs.
Because here in Proverbs chapter

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8 and verse 16 we have this
admonition, this revelation,

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speaking metaphorically.
Wisdom is a woman by me, says

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wisdom by me.
King’s reign and Prince’s decree

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justice.
Why are we going to that

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perspective?
Why not make it more generic?

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Isn’t Proverbs written for
everybody?

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Of course it is.
Or of course they are.

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There must be running through
this exertation some special

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purpose for those in Israel,
first of all, who are kings to

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be, or those in Israel who
already were kings, in fact, or

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those who were in Rule or in
positions of leadership by me

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King’s reign and prince’s decree
justice.

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Well, wouldn’t it be true for
brothers and sisters today who

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have been promised that we shall
be kings and priests and we

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shall rule on the earth?
Are we not hoping by God’s grace

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to participate and share and
work with and shoulder the

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responsibilities as kings and
priests in the future age?

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Isn’t that part of the joy or
the vision that is set before

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us?
Therefore, are we not all

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brothers and sisters?
In a sense, kings and training

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princes in training.
Isn’t that, of course, the words

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of Isaiah?
Let’s just take a peek, hold a

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hold a marker here in the place
where you are in Proverbs.

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Just remind ourselves, apart
from that apocalyptic passage

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we’ve alluded to, just remember
Isaiah, chapter 32.

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Hopefully this includes us and
it’s very pertinent to what we

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have right in front of us here.
Isaiah chapter 32.

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Behold, a king shall reign in
righteousness.

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00:33:05,590 –> 00:33:12,390
Verse one, a king shall reign in
righteousness and Princess shall

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00:33:12,390 –> 00:33:17,630
rule in judgment.
True that must apply especially

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00:33:17,630 –> 00:33:21,110
to to the apostles.
You will be said, Jesus and

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00:33:21,110 –> 00:33:26,410
Matthew’s Gospel sitting on 12
Thrones judging the 12 tribes of

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00:33:26,410 –> 00:33:28,810
Israel.
Now that would be very pertinent

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00:33:28,810 –> 00:33:33,210
to them, but we know clearly
that kind of language when

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00:33:33,210 –> 00:33:36,610
matched with revelation, you
will be kings and priests and

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00:33:36,610 –> 00:33:40,410
reign on the earth.
Has an application to the Saints

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00:33:40,570 –> 00:33:45,370
as well.
Wisdom is necessary for the king

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00:33:45,450 –> 00:33:49,330
himself to rule, meaning the
Lord Jesus Christ.

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00:33:49,970 –> 00:33:52,850
And we focused on that passage
yesterday in Corinthians.

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00:33:52,850 –> 00:33:58,150
It said, Christ is the wisdom of
God, and he is the power of God.

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00:33:58,590 –> 00:34:02,710
So he is the supreme repository
of divine wisdom.

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00:34:02,990 –> 00:34:07,950
But for those who wish to join
him in the future, as in smaller

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00:34:07,950 –> 00:34:13,989
letters, kings and priests with
the great king, we need now to

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00:34:13,989 –> 00:34:16,909
cultivate God’s wisdom, and
we’ll certainly need it

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00:34:16,909 –> 00:34:21,110
supplemented in the future.
Interesting, then, to consider

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00:34:21,150 –> 00:34:24,920
our hope as it relates to this
theme of the Proverbs.

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00:34:25,239 –> 00:34:28,679
The Proverbs, therefore, are not
just little ditties, little

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00:34:28,679 –> 00:34:31,840
Nuggets of gold that you pick up
right out and put on a piece of

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00:34:31,840 –> 00:34:34,480
paper once in a while and think
about.

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00:34:35,000 –> 00:34:40,280
Obviously, Proverbs is distilled
wisdom, and it’s the kind of

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00:34:40,280 –> 00:34:45,920
wisdom by which kings and
princes reign, and by which men

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00:34:45,920 –> 00:34:49,800
and women, kings and priests and
prospect, have guiding

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00:34:49,800 –> 00:34:55,190
principles to help them now and
likewise for the future in their

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00:34:55,190 –> 00:34:58,870
demeanor, their thinking, their
way of life, and how they make

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00:34:58,870 –> 00:35:03,150
decisions among themselves.
Well, let’s go to Proverbs 31.

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What we’re trying to do is just
notice how many times in

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00:35:10,870 –> 00:35:18,230
Proverbs this perhaps unexpected
thread runs through all of the

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00:35:18,230 –> 00:35:23,560
book.
The setting of seeing the links

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00:35:23,560 –> 00:35:29,280
with King David and King Solomon
sets that stage for all of these

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00:35:29,280 –> 00:35:34,080
passages, A kingly message for
kings who are in training.

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00:35:34,200 –> 00:35:40,600
So we come to Proverbs chapter
31 and notice the return to this

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00:35:40,600 –> 00:35:44,600
kingly theme again, this time
towards the very end of the book

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00:35:44,600 –> 00:35:48,580
of Proverbs.
Here we read verse one, the

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00:35:48,580 –> 00:35:54,020
words of King Lemuel.
Again we went to this yesterday,

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00:35:54,020 –> 00:35:56,100
didn’t we?
But for a different purpose,

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00:35:56,500 –> 00:36:00,940
like it has akaya passage.
Just to notice yesterday that

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00:36:00,940 –> 00:36:06,620
the structure of proverbs can be
seen as being divided by the

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00:36:06,620 –> 00:36:09,340
various contributors or
compilers.

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00:36:09,620 –> 00:36:12,740
And we went to this one
yesterday because he’s won along

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00:36:12,740 –> 00:36:17,420
with Aguirre and has Akaya.
But now today a second purpose,

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00:36:17,900 –> 00:36:22,780
and that is, it’s not just the
section of proverbs words of

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00:36:22,780 –> 00:36:27,420
Lemuel, we’re told.
It’s the words of King Lemuel.

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00:36:28,260 –> 00:36:32,540
What seems to be perhaps then a
passing title and not very

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00:36:32,540 –> 00:36:35,940
helpful because we don’t know
who this Lemuel is like we do

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00:36:35,940 –> 00:36:41,780
has Akaya or David or Solomon.
We don’t know who he is, but one

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00:36:41,780 –> 00:36:46,700
thing we do know, he’s a king.
And when put in the context of

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00:36:46,700 –> 00:36:49,660
this developing theme, it’s
pertinent.

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00:36:49,980 –> 00:36:54,940
Proverbs is stressing this the
words of King Lemuel the

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00:36:54,940 –> 00:36:57,380
prophecy that his mother taught
him.

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00:36:57,780 –> 00:37:02,460
Watch that, because that’s an
echo as well to the introductory

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00:37:02,460 –> 00:37:08,180
part of Proverbs, where father
instruction to son David to

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00:37:08,180 –> 00:37:12,420
Solomon, and then Solomon in his
own Proverbs Later on.

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00:37:12,420 –> 00:37:15,670
Stressing my son, my son, my
son.

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00:37:16,110 –> 00:37:19,710
And then references to his
father and references to the

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00:37:19,710 –> 00:37:23,030
teaching of your mother.
References to the fact that the

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00:37:23,030 –> 00:37:28,510
fool and the silly son can make
a shame of his father and of his

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00:37:28,510 –> 00:37:31,190
mother.
All of those proverbs that have

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00:37:31,190 –> 00:37:35,790
those kind of references are
relevant to the fact that this

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00:37:35,790 –> 00:37:44,830
King Lemuel, whoever he was, had
a prophecy that Mum taught him.

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00:37:46,190 –> 00:37:50,790
You see the parental influence,
You see the importance that for

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00:37:50,790 –> 00:37:54,550
those who are to be think of the
wee ones, the little sheep, the

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00:37:54,550 –> 00:37:59,070
children in our responsibility
in our home, at the Bible class,

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00:37:59,110 –> 00:38:02,790
here at Bible school, at the
CYC, in the Sunday School.

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00:38:03,230 –> 00:38:07,310
Those little ones are potential
kings and priests too.

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00:38:08,500 –> 00:38:12,460
And he says that these are the
words of King Lemuel, the

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00:38:12,460 –> 00:38:17,420
prophecy that his mother taught
him parental influence.

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00:38:18,460 –> 00:38:21,340
Now look at verse 2, Proverbs,
chapter 31.

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00:38:22,060 –> 00:38:27,820
What my son?
And what the son of my womb?

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00:38:28,460 –> 00:38:35,360
And what the son of my vows?
Parental picture Whoever this

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00:38:35,360 –> 00:38:41,080
King Lemuel was brothers and
sisters, he claims that

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00:38:41,680 –> 00:38:48,760
prophetically his mother taught
him something and the prophecy

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00:38:48,760 –> 00:38:51,680
that his mother taught him.
Who was this mother?

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00:38:52,640 –> 00:38:57,480
And she was a prophetess.
Whoever she was, she didn’t just

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00:38:57,480 –> 00:39:00,480
do the readings with him.
Whoever this mother of King

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00:39:00,480 –> 00:39:06,620
Lemuel was, she was endowed with
Holy Spirit inspiration.

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00:39:07,020 –> 00:39:09,460
She was a prophetess in that
sense.

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00:39:09,980 –> 00:39:14,620
So the sonship of verse 2 that’s
being stressed goes again back

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00:39:14,620 –> 00:39:17,660
to that parental relationship
that starts the book of

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00:39:17,660 –> 00:39:21,580
Proverbs.
Now look at verse three like

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00:39:21,580 –> 00:39:24,580
that has a Kaya passage that
mentions him.

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00:39:24,780 –> 00:39:28,340
Obviously the king has a Kaya.
Then goes on to say that it’s

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00:39:28,340 –> 00:39:31,180
the honor of kings to search out
a matter.

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00:39:31,900 –> 00:39:35,820
Proverbs 31 is similar to that
previous passage about Hezekiah,

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00:39:36,340 –> 00:39:40,780
because now verse three we’re
not noticing something that

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00:39:40,780 –> 00:39:44,980
shouldn’t be noticed, because in
verse three give not thy

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00:39:44,980 –> 00:39:48,300
strength unto women, think of
Miss Folly.

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00:39:48,860 –> 00:39:51,740
And of course Miss wisdom
developed in the earlier part of

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00:39:51,740 –> 00:39:54,860
Proverbs.
Give not thy strength unto

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00:39:54,860 –> 00:40:02,810
women, nor thy ways to that.
Which destroyeth kings?

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00:40:03,850 –> 00:40:05,970
Why not just destroyeth
disciples?

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00:40:05,970 –> 00:40:09,530
Or destroyeth his Saints?
Or destroyeth his people?

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00:40:10,090 –> 00:40:16,930
No, the stress here very clearly
is it can destroy in fact,

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00:40:17,450 –> 00:40:21,250
kings.
Again, there’s this emphasis on

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00:40:21,250 –> 00:40:26,130
the kingly potential of those
who are trying to glean the

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00:40:26,130 –> 00:40:30,990
wisdom of the book of Proverbs.
By the way, can we not miss the

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00:40:30,990 –> 00:40:37,150
point here?
Solomon of all people, his

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00:40:37,150 –> 00:40:42,750
Proverbs, his wisdom, miss
folly, miss wisdom.

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00:40:42,950 –> 00:40:49,270
The seductive prowess, the
seductive influence of a false

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00:40:49,270 –> 00:40:53,830
woman who can lead the sons of
men into the gutter and into the

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00:40:54,310 –> 00:40:56,710
pits of hell, as we saw
yesterday.

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00:40:57,390 –> 00:40:59,510
Look at this in terms of the
author.

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00:41:00,190 –> 00:41:04,790
Give not thy strength unto women
exactly the trap that the author

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00:41:04,790 –> 00:41:10,070
himself fell into his Proverbs
written after he had gone that

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00:41:10,070 –> 00:41:14,710
way is this kind of more like a
swan song under inspiration.

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00:41:14,790 –> 00:41:18,310
Maybe some would put Proverbs
towards the very end of

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00:41:18,310 –> 00:41:22,750
Solomon’s life as the
distillation of wisdom given by

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00:41:22,750 –> 00:41:27,030
God from a man who has finally
repented and learned the error

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00:41:27,030 –> 00:41:30,530
of his ways.
Possibly Ecclesiastes suggest

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00:41:30,530 –> 00:41:35,090
something similar. 1st 3 Then
give not thy strength unto

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00:41:35,090 –> 00:41:39,210
women, nor thy ways to that
which destroyeth kings.

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00:41:39,930 –> 00:41:42,370
You know, brothers and sisters.
I think it elevates the

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00:41:42,370 –> 00:41:47,170
exertation of Proverbs and the
need to apply ourselves to the

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00:41:47,170 –> 00:41:51,970
book of Proverbs when we think
of Proverbs as being especially

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00:41:52,410 –> 00:42:00,180
a compilation of wisdom for
kings and compiled by kings for

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00:42:00,180 –> 00:42:06,180
brothers and sisters for Saints
of all ages that aspire to be

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00:42:06,180 –> 00:42:09,500
with the one in Isaiah and the
one in the apocalypse.

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00:42:09,500 –> 00:42:13,620
Who says we are promised to
reign as kings and priests in

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00:42:13,620 –> 00:42:15,180
the earth?
Look at this four.

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00:42:16,300 –> 00:42:20,140
This four sustains the same kind
of point like the Hezekiah

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00:42:20,140 –> 00:42:23,080
passage.
Having mentioned the fact that

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00:42:23,080 –> 00:42:27,400
this is King Lemuel, as the
other passage mentioned, it was

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00:42:27,400 –> 00:42:29,960
by Hezekiah who we know was a
king.

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00:42:30,360 –> 00:42:38,400
Verse 4 now sustains the punch.
It is not for kings, O Lemuel,

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00:42:38,720 –> 00:42:42,560
King Lemuel, It is not for
kings, O Lemuel.

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00:42:42,720 –> 00:42:50,970
It is not for kings to drink
wine, nor for prince’s strong

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00:42:50,970 –> 00:42:55,610
drink.
That’s clearly, as we know in

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00:42:55,610 –> 00:42:59,530
scripture, in balance, not
saying that a king had to be a

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00:42:59,530 –> 00:43:03,330
teetotaler.
But we do know quite often

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00:43:03,330 –> 00:43:08,730
luxury and the blessings and the
ease of court and the power that

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00:43:08,730 –> 00:43:11,810
was given to men.
As today in positions of

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00:43:11,810 –> 00:43:17,370
authority, where temptations to
often overindulge to be in

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00:43:17,370 –> 00:43:23,270
moderate, it provided a human
ruler the temptation to be given

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00:43:23,270 –> 00:43:26,950
to debauchery.
So what is this?

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00:43:27,110 –> 00:43:31,110
Remember the words of Lemuel,
the prophecy that his mother

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00:43:31,110 –> 00:43:33,750
taught him.
What we’re now reading in verse

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00:43:33,750 –> 00:43:39,910
four is Mom’s prophecy.
His mother was a prophetess at

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00:43:39,910 –> 00:43:45,110
one point and part of what his
mother said to him as a king and

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00:43:45,110 –> 00:43:49,070
training.
She said to young Lemuel.

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00:43:49,910 –> 00:43:53,110
Listen, Lemuel, it is not for
kings.

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00:43:53,350 –> 00:43:58,310
It is not for kings to drink
wine, nor for Princess strong

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00:43:58,310 –> 00:44:00,630
drink.
Don’t give yourself to

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00:44:00,670 –> 00:44:04,030
intemperance.
Don’t become a slave to your own

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00:44:04,030 –> 00:44:08,070
indulgences and desires.
Don’t let yourself become

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00:44:08,070 –> 00:44:12,110
trapped by bad habits, by carnal
desires.

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00:44:12,510 –> 00:44:14,670
It’s again like the choice
between two women.

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00:44:14,950 –> 00:44:17,290
Miss Folly as opposed to miss
Wisdom?

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00:44:19,250 –> 00:44:23,650
How about Proverbs chapter 30
and verse 22?

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00:44:24,450 –> 00:44:35,890
The king theme is there as well.
Why three, I don’t know.

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00:44:36,730 –> 00:44:42,490
Proverbs 30 and verse 22.
Four things which the earth

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00:44:42,490 –> 00:44:44,490
cannot bear.
Watch this.

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00:44:45,150 –> 00:44:49,070
A servant when he reigneth.
A servant who has become a

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00:44:49,070 –> 00:44:53,430
ruler, A servant when he
reigneth and a fool when he’s

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00:44:53,430 –> 00:44:56,190
still with meat.
And by the way, you might want

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00:44:56,270 –> 00:44:58,630
to write this down.
We’ve got an example of someone

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00:44:58,630 –> 00:45:01,830
who became a king, who
previously was a servant and he

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00:45:01,830 –> 00:45:06,910
was given to debauchery first to
king, 16 verses 8 to 11.

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00:45:07,030 –> 00:45:09,310
Let you pursue that as a little
bit of homework.

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00:45:09,870 –> 00:45:15,990
He is a perfect example that man
in first to king 16 or Proverbs

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00:45:15,990 –> 00:45:21,070
28 and verse 16.
The Prince that wanteth

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00:45:21,110 –> 00:45:26,310
understanding is also a great
oppressor, but he that hateth

597
00:45:26,310 –> 00:45:29,190
covetousness shall prolong his
days.

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00:45:29,350 –> 00:45:33,670
What about Jarabom?
The Prince that was lacking in

599
00:45:33,710 –> 00:45:38,390
understanding, Consulted these
peers, consulted the elders went

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00:45:38,390 –> 00:45:42,110
the way of his peers, Jarabom,
and it caused the rift that was

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00:45:42,110 –> 00:45:45,450
permanent in Israel.
But for our purposes this

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00:45:45,450 –> 00:45:50,170
morning as we finish, here’s
this stress on reigning Princess

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00:45:50,290 –> 00:45:56,890
rulership, 4 kings and by kings
finally.

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00:45:57,330 –> 00:45:59,770
Have you noticed this all
through proverbs?

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00:45:59,770 –> 00:46:02,770
If you watch carefully, and
we’re not giving an exhaustive

606
00:46:02,770 –> 00:46:07,810
list, watch carefully the
references to throne king

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00:46:08,090 –> 00:46:12,910
Princess ruling reigneth.
Watch for those terms in

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00:46:12,910 –> 00:46:16,670
Proverbs and you’ll see how much
this is a dominant theme.

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00:46:17,150 –> 00:46:21,070
So we’ll finish with this one.
Proverbs 20 and verse 28.

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00:46:21,310 –> 00:46:25,150
Mercy and Truth preserve the
king.

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00:46:25,190 –> 00:46:28,670
Why is he focusing on the king?
Again and again?

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00:46:29,150 –> 00:46:32,710
Proverbs has a wide readership.
Why just the King?

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00:46:33,430 –> 00:46:38,710
Mercy and truth preserve the
king and his throne is upholden

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00:46:38,710 –> 00:46:41,570
by mercy.
Because, brothers and sisters,

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00:46:41,930 –> 00:46:46,890
as Jane says, we need to learn
that mercy rejoices against

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00:46:46,890 –> 00:46:51,290
judgment as much as truth and
judgment must be in the balance

617
00:46:51,450 –> 00:46:54,890
in respect to a God who is just
and truthful.

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00:46:55,930 –> 00:47:00,730
But kings need to know.
Kings need to know.

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00:47:00,930 –> 00:47:04,530
Brothers and sisters need to
understand as kings and

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00:47:04,530 –> 00:47:09,070
training, dealing with human
beings and human problems now

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00:47:09,070 –> 00:47:13,670
and in the future age.
Kings in training need to know

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00:47:14,230 –> 00:47:18,310
that mercy and truth both
preserve the king.

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00:47:19,430 –> 00:47:25,830
And we need to know, as is true
with Christ supremely, that his

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00:47:25,830 –> 00:47:44,330
throne is held up by mercy.
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