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INTRODUCTION
YOUR DIRECTION DETERMINES DESTINATION
INTRODUCTION
We are starting a serine today, that I will complete when I return September 23rd.
We are starting a serine today, that I will continue when I return September 23rd.
The question we will seek to answer is: “How can I get from where I am, to where I want to be?”
The question we will seek to answer is, How to get from where you are to where you want to be.
We will spend 6 weeks in Proverbs.
If you want to know how to live life well, how to walk with God, how to be successful and maintain good consistent moral values, then Proverbs is where I would send you to study the wisdom provided by many writers.
The next two weeks, I challenge to read the entire book—31 Proverbs.
If you opened Proverbs to Chapter 1, you would find the reason the book was written in the first 7 verses:
If you opened Proverbs to Chapter 1, you would find in the first 7 verses, the reason the book was written:
2 Their purpose is to teach people wisdom and discipline,
to help them understand the insights of the wise.
3 Their purpose is to teach people to live disciplined and successful lives,
to help them do what is right, just, and fair.
4 These proverbs will give insight to the simple,
knowledge and discernment to the young.
5 Let the wise listen to these proverbs and become even wiser.
Let those with understanding receive guidance
6 by exploring the meaning in these proverbs and parables,
the words of the wise and their riddles.
7 Fear of the Lord is the foundation of true knowledge,
but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
In ancient Israel, there were three groups of people who communicated on behalf of God.
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The Priests – interpreted The Law
2. The Prophets – provided direction and correction
3. The Sages – gave counsel
The book of Proverbs, as well as the books of Job, Psalms, Ecclesiastes, and Song of Solomon—are books by the sages.
Scholars called these books, “Wisdom Literature.”
Having knowledge means you know things.
Having wisdom means you know what to do in various situations—WISDOM is the right application of knowledge.
So a person can be both really smart and really stupid!
A person can know a tremendous amount of information and still lack the wisdom to apply it in real life!
Wisdom literature was written to teach us how to apply knowledge to life situations.
I personally find Proverbs to be a great deterrent from sin—when I find myself struggling with a sin problem, I go to Proverbs and reflect on the wisdom provide by the sages.
The book (Proverbs) was written primarily by King Solomon, one of the wisest men who ever lived.
The Bible says of Solomon:
He spoke three thousand proverbs and his songs numbered a thousand and five.
He also spoke about animals and birds, reptiles and fish.
From all nations people came to listen to Solomon’s wisdom, sent by all the kings of the world, who had heard of his wisdom.
Solomon died in 931 B.C., so most of this book was written by then.
But Solomon didn’t record all the proverbs during his life.
We believe he wrote chapters 1-24, but chapters 25-29 were compiled 200 years later by men in the day of King Hezekiah.
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(We know that because says... These are more proverbs of Solomon, compiled by the men of Hezekiah king of Judah.)
Chapter 30 was written by a man named Agur son of Jakeh, and chapter 31 was written by King Lemuel.
We have no idea who those two men were; we just know they were very wise as well.
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When I read the “Wisdom Literature” I find a common theme.
The books are about examining WHICH ROAD you are on and how to get on the right road.
When I read the “Wisdom Literature” I find a common theme.
The books are about examining WHICH ROAD you are on.
Back in 2011, Pastor Andy Stanley wrote a book about proverbs and said, “The road you’re on determines where you’ll end up.”
Back in 2011, Pastor Andy Stanley wrote a book, called, “The Principle of the Path: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be” He said, that Proverbs is about “The road you’re on determines where you’ll end up.”
He said, “The road you’re on determines where you’ll end up.”
That’s true, isn’t it?
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If I was on Highway 1 in California and headed North, it ends in Leggett in Mendocino County.
If I was on I35 I could start in Laredo, Texas and drive 1,568 miles to its end in Duluth, MN where the highway splits Northeast and Northwest.
The road I am on determines my destination!
Whatever road, whatever highway, whatever path I’m on will determine where I end up.
If I start in the housing area and walk South, I can WANT to end up on EMON Beach, but I will never get there because I am walking in the wrong direction.
I can pack my beach towel, my sunscreen, and my book with every intention to spend a day on Emon, but if I head south instead of north, I’ll never end up Emon!
Proverbs reminds us: YOUR DIRECTION, NOT YOUR INTENTIONS, DETERMINE YOUR DESTINATION.
We either follow the advice and get wisdom or ignore it to our destruction!
[PAUSE]
3,000 years ago...
That principle ought to be obvious…
In our family life, financial life, marriage or dating life, the way we raise our kids, our physical fitness, or our professional life, this principle should be obvious… DIRECTION, NOT INTENTION, DETERMINES DESTINATION!
Teachers and parents, how many times have you talked to students who didn’t get the grades they were hoping for or didn’t make the team or wasn’t selected for group, or didn’t get the scholarship they were hoping for?
Then you step back and can clearly see they failed because they thought intention was the same as direction!
Solomon told a story in the 7th Chapter that demonstrates this principle:
ALL BECAUSE THEY FAILED TO DETERMINE THEIR DIRECTION!
TOO OFTEN, people think they can stay on the road of good intentions while they travel down the wrong road.
Then they finally see their destination is the wrong place, so they try to jump off at the last moment and take their own shortcut to the right road, and its too late!
How many failed to see the road they were not the right road?
Or perhaps they thought they could jump off the wrong road and the shortcut to a different destination!
Let’s take this principle one pace further.
It is so much a part of life on planet earth that it trumps, or overcomes almost everything else (besides God), that you’ve got going for you.
You can have the best of intentions and end up in the worst of situations.
And that can happen to you even if you’re the smartest person on the planet – or the best looking, or the biggest, or the strongest.
This principle is true no matter how strong-willed you are, no matter how pleasant you are, no matter how much your momma loves you or how much your daddy leaves you in his will.
When it comes to every area of life, your direction—not your intentions, not your strengths, not your weaknesses, not your hopes, not your dreams— your direction will determine your destination.
The path you take will determine where you end up.
3,000 years ago Solomon told a story that demonstrates this principle.
As he tells the story, he’s standing at a window, looking down at the street.:
Proverbs 7:6-8
6 At the window of my house
I looked out through the lattice.
7 I saw among the simple,
I noticed among the young men, a youth who lacked judgment.
Can you see that something’s coming?
8 He was going down the street near her corner,
walking along in the direction of her house 9 at twilight, as the day was fading,
as the dark of night set in.
You don’t have to be a Bible scholar to know where this story is heading...
The story continues...
Remember Solomon says he was observing from a window.
He knew the young man was falling into a trap.
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