Proverbs 2 (Pertains to sos and daughters)
Blessings and Rewards of Heeding Wisdom
My son if you will receive My Words and guide my commandments with you
God gives “His Word and Commandments” but does not force man to receive them
So that you incline your ear unto wisdom and apply your heart to understanding
The words incline and apply simply speak of priority
Yes, if you cry after knowledge. And lift up you voice for understanding
This speaks of a conscious unending effort that set one’s heart to earnestly seek for God’s knowledge
And understanding
If you seek her as silver,and search for her as hid treasures
The Holy Spirit points to the earnest efforts of men in seeking wealth;if one will do the same in seeking after the things of God our quest will not be fruitless,as it is for the far greater majority of those who seek for gold
Then shall you understand the fear of the LORD and find the knowledge of of GOD.
The knowledge of God is the BIBLE
For the LORD gives wisdom: out of His mouth comes knowledge and understanding
If we do what the LORD has told us to do,He will give what He has promised.
He lays up sound wisdom for the righteous. He is a buckler to them who walk up rightly.
“Sound wisdom is from GOD. All the wisdom of the world is sensual and is,therefore devilish(James 3:15). Consequently it can only destroy.
He keeps the path of judgement and preserves the way of His Saints
The added bonus of those who have the Wisdom of God is that God watches over and protects all such disciples(children who have accepted Jesus as Lord and savior and are saved)
Then shall you understand righteousness,and judgement and equity;yes a very good path.
Verse 3 in the previous chapter says we would receive such , with this passage saying that we would “understand” such
When wisdom enters into your heart and knowledge is pleasant to your soul.
Discretion shall preserve you, understanding shall keep you
How little”discretion” and “understanding”we have today,even in the ranks of the church.
To deliver you from the way of the evil man,from the man who speaks froward things
The sense of this passage is that the world is filled with such vortex of evil that it is impossible not to be sucked into this maelstrom with out “wisdom” and “knowledge” that God alone gives.
Who leave the paths off uprightness,to walk in the ways of darkness;
Who rejoice to do evil, and delight in the forward ness of the wicked;
Whose ways are crooked and they froward in their paths
Actually,this characterizes the entirety of the world—“crooked”conversely,only that which is of God is straight.
To deliver you from the strange woman,even from the stranger which flatters with her words;
Which forsakes the guide of her youth, and forgets the covenant of her God
For the house inclines unto death and her paths to the dead.
None who go unto her return again,neither take they hold of the paths of life.
The Hebrew word for”strange woman”is “Zurich”which means apostate or foreign religion.
Religious leaders who lead people away from scriptures are likened in these passages to women who are faithless to their husbands. the words “strange” and “stranger” are different in the Hebrew text. The first means”apostate” the second”foreign”. they suggest that a faithless wife ceases to be of Israel and makes herself an alien.
That you may walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
In this chapter,we have “evil men”strange women, and now “good men”The choice is ours! Who shall it be?
For the upright shall dwell in the land and the perfect shall remain in it.
The”upright” and”perfect” is Christ.
But the wicked shall be cut off from the Earth and transgressors shall be rooted out of it.
Both verses 21 and 22 allude to the coming Kingdom age and to every child of God who can claim by faith the glory and the possession of these gals promises even now.
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