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Title: Musical Chairs
Theme: there are options.
And they are all bad
Assorted Proverbs Proverbs 7:6-27, 26:11, 10:23, 13:20, 9:7-8, 1:20-33
Goal: Ask the question!
Seek Wisdom
ME: ORIENTATION: FIND COMMON GROUND WITH THE AUDIENCE
This series is about a single question that will clarify your best option for 90 percent of the decisions you make in life.
Ask It: The question that answers just about everything.
1.This question has the potential to foolproof your relationships, marriage, finances, calendar, pace, health.
It reduces complexity.
2.The reason we are going to spend six weeks is that I would like to convince you to make this a lifelong habit.
It will save you: money, time, and tears.
3.
You will carry around less regret.
And best of all, you won’t have to apologize
near as much.
4. I bumped into these truths at Basic Youth Conflicts.
5.If you aren’t a Jesus follower, this is optional.
If you are a Christian, however, this question should be a staple, a part of your decision-‐making arsenal.
It’s required.
Here it is:
What’s the wise thing to do?
6.Last week, we fleshed it out a bit:
In light of my past experience, current circumstances, and future hopes and dreams, what is the wise thing for me to do?
Your homework last week was to: Ask It
· Of every invitation, opportunity, decision.
· You didn’t have to do anything different, but you owe it to yourself to know.
7.By asking it, even if you don’t follow through, you discover something about you.
We learn that we may not have our own best interest at heart.
WE: IDENTIFICATION (MAKE IT CLEAR THAT YOU STRUGGLE)
Whether you have your best interest in mind.
GOD: ILLUMINATION (THE GOAL IS TO RESOLVE THE TENSION
I. Solomon’s Options
Solomon, the third king of Israel, who wrote more about wisdom than any biblical writer, considered by some to be the wisest man who ever lived, lays out three options to the way of wisdom.
People would come from all around to hear his wisdom and advice.
This is offensive.
A. Simple: Naïve/Clueless . . .
Lack experience
1.
We all come into the world naïve/simple.
We are naive because we lack experience.
Taylor Swift nailed it…
“When you’re 15 and somebody tells you they love you, you’re gonna….
believe them.”—Taylor
Swift
'Cause when you're fifteen,
Somebody tells you they love you
You're gonna believe them
And when you're fifteen
Feeling like there's nothing to figure out
Count to ten
Take it in
This is life before you know who you're gonna be
At fifteen
· Unassisted, naïve people make unwise decisions.
None of us will admit it.
Naïve people don’t know who they are.
Otherwise, they wouldn’t be.
Key Passage Proverbs 7:6-27
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The key passage is Proverbs 7:6–27.
· Here’s a guy naively walking into a mess.
We all want to shout, “Go back!”
· The Simple respond to wisdom with: “Nothing’s gonna happen.”
“I can handle it.”
“You’re overreacting.”
2. Under 21 lack experience; haven’t experieneced consequences; debt, addiction, callous heart from hurt.
3. Here’s the great thing: You can have YOUTH and WISDOM.
But you will have to seek wisdom.
1.
2. Wisdom allows you to get it right the first time.
And many of us would love to go back knowing what we know now and get it right the first time.
3.
You can know what we know now, but you will have to ask.
When you
Ask It, you need to ask someone older and wiser.
4. Please . . .
Simple: Don’t trade what you want most for what you want in the moment.
Ask it . . .
ask somebody.
7:21–23.
These verses describe his capitulation to her seduction and his resultant fate.
It is her talk, not her beauty, that does the trick.
Her flattery appeals to his vanity, and he goes after her.
His impetuous response indicates that he is not thinking with his brain, but like an ox he goes off to the slaughterhouse.
The ox is happy as it goes into the house, not knowing that a violent end is at the other end of its journey.
There are translation problems associated with v. 22c (see translation footnote), but in any case it speaks of a victim who unknowingly walks straight into a bad situation.
Verse 23 culminates this section and says that ignorance persists till the horrible end, an end that is likened to an arrow piercing one’s liver.
The location of the arrow in the liver specifies a particularly painful way to die.
The second alternative is . . .
B. The Fool
Knows the difference between right and wrong, but doesn’t care.
Proverbs 26:11
11 As a dog returns to its vomit, so fools repeat their folly.
Proverbs 10:23
23 A fool finds pleasure in wicked schemes . . .
1. Wrongdoing is a sport.
They take pride in their independence and arrogance.
· They will not receive instruction.
· They are going to do their own thing driven by their own desires.
2. Whereas the naïve say: “Nothing’s wrong with . .
.” the Fool says, “I don’t really care if it’s wrong.
Besides, I can handle it.
3. Whereas the cure for the naïve is TIME, the cure for the fool is TRAGEDY.
4. The naïve can learn from others.
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