0050BS Proverbs 10 - Bible Study

We dive into Proverbs 10, exploring the stark contrasts between the righteous and the wicked through a series of wisdom sayings that reveal how our choices determine our destiny.

• Fighting for humility instead of defaulting to entitlement
• Battling distractions to prioritize our relationship with God
• Building community by praying for one another and "locking shields of faith"
• Understanding how righteousness leads to life while wickedness results in ruin
• Recognizing that our speech reveals our true character
• Learning that wisdom is stored up by the righteous but fools invite destruction
• Seeing how God's blessings make us truly rich without adding pain
• Finding strength in God's ways as our stronghold in life

Join us tomorrow as we continue our journey through Proverbs, discovering timeless wisdom for applying God's truth to our daily lives.

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Chapters

• 1:08 Welcome to Daily Battle Bible Study
• 3:52 Three Battles: Humility, Relationship, Prayer
• 5:38 Opening Prayer of Gratitude
• 9:35 Proverbs 10: Righteous vs Wicked
• 22:12 Practical Wisdom on Speech and Character
• 32:45 Blessing the Fellowship in Prayer

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:29

Good morning everyone. Just going to get a quick sound check to make sure you can hear me before I go into it. Let's see if you guys can hear me. Can you hear me? I'm not sure if I'm playing in the other room. Hold on, I apologize. All right, you can't hear me. I'm sorry. Sometimes that takes a lot longer than I'd like to. Good morning, my love. Hopefully I'll get better and it's a long time.

Speaker 1: 1:26

Welcome to your daily battle, the Bible study, where we fight three battles. One we fight to get a. Why do I use the word fight? Because it's not easy. Our default would be otherwise. So we fight ourselves to be humble, right. We fight our swollen heads. We fight our entitlements and what we think. We fight to have a humble and grateful heart. For many of us, our natural state is not humility, it's entitlement. We are never grateful, we're very rarely grateful but entitled.

Speaker 1: 2:07

So proper alignment, starting a relationship with God, the first, first step, coming to him correctly, which is humble, grateful. You start on that footing when you go to God, you're starting off correctly. Two we fight again that word fight because it takes time investing. You are fighting your fleshly desires and your worldly desires to make time to pursue relationship with God Now. The enemy and the world and your flesh would rather do a million things right now, okay. But we fight ourselves in the world enemy, to have a relationship with our lord and savior, okay. We do that through the studying of his holy text and through prayer, and then we pray for one another, we invest in others, we lock our shields of faith. We as a community, as a fellowship, point our faith in our souls at heaven and we appeal and pray for one another. So that's what we do here Monday through Friday. So let's go ahead and let's pray it in, get a humble and great body aligned on the Lord, heavenly Father.

Speaker 1: 3:43

Lord, we thank you. Thank you for all of our blessings, known and unknown. We thank you for the opportunity to once again wake up and get it right. Thank you for giving us another chance. Thank you for protecting us and our families, our homes, during the night. Lord, we are blown away by your love for us, your design, lord. We are so thankful for the trillions of cells that we have in our body that had to work perfectly just for us to wake up this morning. Lord, we'll never know your protections on this side of heaven, but we know they're there. We know that you've turned away disaster from us and saved us more times than we'll ever know. We thank you. Help us to be grateful, lord, and not entitled Lord.

Speaker 1: 4:59

So many of us are battling issues in life Sorrows, disease, debilitating body, bad finances, sin patterns. Debilitating body, bad finances, sin patterns, aches and pains, betrayals. Help us to check our gripes and complaints at the door. There's no feeling sorry for yourself. Here we are all blessed. Help us to see that, being born in the waste, our lives in endless entertainment and distraction. Help us instead to live a purposeful life for you, serving others.

Speaker 1: 6:09

Lord, we thank you for your common race, the universe, the sun, the moon, the stars, this earth, everything from the tallest mountain to the deepest sea and everything in between, the animals, plants, everything else wondrous about your creation. Lord, we thank you for the people in this world, the people in our lives. Help us to remain present in the time that we're with them. Help us to treasure every moment, appreciate it and to leave nothing unsaid. We thank you for the sunrise, the sunset, thank you for a touch of a loved one, cool breeze on a hot day. Thank you for the sound of birds in the morning, children's laughter. Thank you for the smell of flowers and honeysuckle and good food cooking. Thank you for the taste good food, drink. We thank you for it all. Most of all, we thank you for your divine grace Choosing us while we were still your enemies, writing us into the book of life, meeting us together in our mother's wombs. We thank you, lord. We thank you At this time that we are together, glorify you and only you, serve you and only you. May it please you, lord, please grant us wisdom and discernment and have your Holy Spirit reveal to us the words of this text. We pray all these things in Jesus' name. Amen. All right, battle number one done. Hey, captain Caveman, good to see you. All right. Battle number one done. Hey, captain caveman, good to see you. Battle number one done. Let's pull up the text now. Uh, chapter 10, I think, through 15.

Speaker 1: 8:57

The bible changes. Well, the author changes up his style and way of displaying things. You're going to see a lot of either or, and there is linguistic things to talk about here if you're into linguistic things. And what poetry and I apologize, I still get my eyes from my CPAP blowing in my face, sometimes all my eyes into, like a gel. But, um, that's not what we're going to focus on. We're going to focus on application and what it's really saying.

Speaker 1: 9:33

Now I'm going to be honest with you. I grappled with a lot of this. I had a little bit behind this morning because I had to. Good morning, steve Riley. I had to use a lot of resources to make sense of some of the archaic language here in LSB, even my. I must be extra slow this morning because even the message when I went to it it wasn't always apparent. So let's go ahead and let's chew on this and see if we can, in all the resources that I have here pulled up on my screen, come up with what exactly is being said here.

Speaker 1: 10:25

So again, we are in Proverbs 10. We're in Proverbs 10. We're in Proverbs 10. Contrast of the righteous and the wicked. Now, some of these are going to be, you know, the righteous does this and the wicked does this, and then some of them are going to actually be. You'll see the word and and they're talking about the same group. So don't you got to be careful when we read this that we don't just read it all the same.

Speaker 1: 11:01

Proverbs of Solomon. Why son makes a father glad when a foolish son has grief to his mother. Treasures gained by wickedness do not profit. Righteousness delivers from death. So in verse 2, we're talking about ultimate faith here, so that even, as we see often is the case, the wicked are wealthy, the wicked are powerful, the wicked are famous. The wicked have all these things often. Ultimately, in the end, they do not profit. The righteous, who may have none of those things, is delivered from death with eternal life. Yahweh will not allow the soul of a righteous to hunger, meaning if your soul is hungry for him. He will feed you, but he will push away the craving of the wicked. Now, if you just read that, you're thinking he's pushing away the craving. What he's pushing away is what you're craving in them, what the wicked is craving. So it's constantly out of their reach. They can't get enough enough. Their sin will always leave them hungry.

Speaker 1: 12:15

Poor is he who works with the slack end. Okay, poor is the lazy person. The bible does not lazy people, right? God does not want you to be lazy, he wants you to be active. But the hand of the diligent makes rich. Again, talking about how he works hard, honors God and will be wealthy. It may be wealthy in blessings. It may be wealthy in the eyes of God and in the kingdom of heaven, or it may mean real wealth.

Speaker 1: 12:59

He who gathers in summer is the son who acts insightfully. So this is talking about the farmer. Farmers do so much work in the summer, their busiest time, whereas if you look at, say, kids or the school system, summer is the time of relaxation and flat and slacking off right, whereas the farmer know that that's their work season. Okay, and before grocery stores, before everything else, everyone was their own farmer. Everyone grew majority of their own food, raised it. One had a milk cow. You lost your milk cow, animal devastating.

Speaker 1: 14:01

So again, verse 5, he who gathers in the summer is a son who acts insightfully. He who sleeps in harvest is a son who acts shamefully. In verse 6, blessings are on the head of the righteous, so blessings will be put upon you. The mouth of the wicked covers up violence. That term covers there. It covers up violence meaning that it obscures, it covers that it's going to do violence and conceals the violence it's done.

Speaker 1: 14:43

Seven the remembrance of the righteous is blessed, good person, and you're remembered. It's a blessed thing. You're remembered because you were a good person. The name of the wicked will rot. You're remembered either, infamously, the famous and the most evil of the lot. Sorry thanks for catching that, lauren. I got to adjust this whole, this whole thing. I appreciate you telling me it's cutting out. I got to move my things around, so I'm not looking at it on my screen over here and not that, and project accordingly, sorry, um, and I gotta turn down my my game and noise game. So thank you, um, you, um. So.

Speaker 1: 15:47

So again, in less infamous terms, let's talk about not hitler, who will be remembered for how wicked he was, just bad people around you, people who are of no consequences. No, they have no one around them because they've been nothing but vile. They have a life of selfishness and narcissism and their world as they age, when they're young and desirable, and all this. They're all selfish and they're all about absorbing everyone's resources and experience and using people. The bill for that is an empty life and to be forgotten, alone, with no kids. No, nothing, no one will ever remember you. The wise of heart will receive commandments, but an ignorant fool of loose lips will be ruined, but an ignorant fool of loose lips will be ruined. So again, if you're wise, god is investing in you. See you later, brandon, and you'll receive God's commandments. But an ignorant fool of loose lips will be ruined. You walks in integrity. Walk securely.

Speaker 1: 17:09

Okay, if you're telling the truth and you're always doing the right thing, that life may not be easy to live, but it's easy to remember because there's no dishonesty. There's only one truth what happened? But if you make your way crooked, you will be found out. How many lives do you have to remember? Thinking up in verse 10. Thinking up in verse 10, he who winks the eye causes pain. This is the winks the eye is like sly communication. You know, um, you know the adulterous woman winking at the man trying to seduce him. Or um merchant trying to to win you over with a wink and letting you know when they're doing something underhanded. Or a man flirting with somebody else's wife or person and winking. And an ignorant fool of loose lips will be ruined.

Speaker 1: 18:25

Somebody who gossips all the time. The mouth of the righteous is a fountain of life. Okay, verse 11. A fountain of life meaning that it's constantly building people up and spreading life and light. The mouth of the wicked covers up violence. Hatred stirs up strife. If you hate, you are always walking around in conflict and will always spread conflict. And again I'm way off-center cuz I sorry guys, I'm gonna change my setup here. See if I can To not be so chaotic here. Be way over here, away from it.

Speaker 1: 19:22

But love covers all transgressions. Okay, again, here we see and mentioned that love covers up transgressions. All right, even in the eyes of God, love covers up a multitude of sins. Love covers up a multitude of sins. So all of us knuckleheads who are sinners, and all of us who struggle with sin, which is every human on the planet, by loving and doing acts of service and kindness, dying to self, you're covering your sins, which is a great thing. We all need that.

Speaker 1: 20:08

Verse 13, on the lips of the one who has understanding, wisdom is found. That's easy to understand. But a rod is for the back of he who lacks a heart of wisdom. Punishment is coming and a hard life Discipline is coming to those who do not have wisdom. Verse 14, wise men store up knowledge and that's the most valuable thing in the world.

Speaker 1: 20:38

The mouth of the ignorant fool draws ruin. Near thing in the world. The mouth of the ignorant fool's draw ruin, draws ruin. So again, people, a fool talking invites ruin. Verse 15 the rich man's wealth is a strong city. The ruin of the poor is their poverty. Okay, now I can think of a really good example.

Speaker 1: 21:01

Donald Trump, after the last election, was able to weather the entire deep state coming after him because he had wealth. He could weather the punishment of the court systems. He could weather lawsuits and the unjust prosecution. He could fight back because he had massive reserves. Okay, he had massive reserves. He can do that, whereas somebody who doesn't have poor person has nothing. Any little stumble is a catastrophe when you're poor. Any little setback or trial is a catastrophe when you're poor. Any little setback or trial is a catastrophe when you're poor.

Speaker 1: 21:49

Sixteen the wages of a righteous life. Sorry, the wages of righteous life. You're righteous. The life, eternal life, is your reward, your pay, the income of the wicked is punishment, no matter how rich they may seem, no matter how extravagant their life, punishment is eternal. Punishment is coming to those who are wicked. Verse 17, he is on the path of life who keeps discipline, but he who forsakes reproof or discipline makes himself wander about. Okay, disciplined people are not easily distracted. They are able to endure pain or gain, whereas people who don't have it will just take instant gratification or distraction and choose to forget or put their head in the sand rather than dealing with it, and because of that they wander about aimlessly.

Speaker 1: 23:06

18, he who covers up hatred has lying lips and he who spreads a bad report is a fool. Okay, those are the same person. They're just building upon it. He who covers up hatred has lying lips and he who spreads a bad report is a fool. Again, we're talking about gossip. I'm going to go here to he who conceals hatred. The Hebrew word used here is kasah. It was used with the same sense In other places. It is used to forgive. Here it is used with a more deceptive sense of conceal. The person here tries to hide hatred Okay, tries to hide his hatred. Right. 10, sorry.

Speaker 1: 24:02

20. Tongue of the righteous is as choice as silver. Okay, meaning, if you're righteous and your speech is righteous, valuable as valuable silver. The heart of the wicked is worth little, worth nothing. It's rotten. Lips of the wicked is worth little worth nothing, it's rotten. The lips of the righteous feed many Okay, in verse 21,.

Speaker 1: 24:29

The lips of the righteous feed many. But the ignorant fools die for lack of the heart of wisdom. Okay, if you are, the more wise you are, the people around you Gain from you Because you are wise and you spread that wisdom and it feeds many. But ignorant fools Die for a lack of a heart of wisdom. 22 it is the blessing of Yahweh that makes rich. He adds no pain with it. Again, this is meaning your blessings from God are what make you rich, not your bank account. With those blessings he adds no pain.

Speaker 1: 25:19

23, doing wickedness is like laughing at a fool, meaning you can laugh at a fool and they'll laugh right along with you. It doesn't matter, it's not profitable. And so is wisdom to a man of discernment. Wisdom to a man of discernment is priceless, but the wicked dreads will come upon him, but the desire of righteous will be grateful. The wicked know they are wicked and they know their doom and they fear their doom and it will consume them.

Speaker 1: 26:02

But the righteous, the opposite. There will be granted, which is eternal life with God. The whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more, but the righteous has an everlasting foundation. The whirlwind of life passes, and trials and everything wicked is no more. They're in hell. The righteous is an everlasting foundation of eternal life, like vinegar to the teeth and like smoke to the eyes. So is is the sluggard those who send him Vinegar to the teeth, acidic, destructive Smoke to the eyes again. Acidic to the eyes burns your eyes includes what you're doing. That is what a lazy person is to those who he works for. The fear of Yahweh prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be shortened Again. Fearing God first and only leads to a long life. The expectation of the righteous is gladness, but the hope of the wicked will perish.

Speaker 1: 28:54

If you are righteous, you are at peace. You're not at internal war, right, peace. You're not an internal war, right. But if you are wicked, you are constantly at war with yourself and you will patent how you have no hope. The way of Yahweh is a stronghold to the one with integrity, but ruin to the workers of iniquity. If you are walking in the ways of Yahweh God, he's your stronghold. But when you look at iniquity, pull it up. Let's see if I can do this now.

Speaker 1: 30:12

Iniquity, bible word study, sin. I am struggling this morning with my tools Evil, calamity, sin, injustice, deception. I am struggling this morning with my tools Evil, calamity, sin, injustice, deception, false idolatrous. Okay, that's what we're talking about when we hear iniquity. It's not a word that we typically use a lot today. It's a very negative word, verse 30, and we're almost done here.

Speaker 1: 30:51

The righteous will never be shaken, but the wicked will not dwell in the land. Okay, they're talking about Israel, but you can apply this pretty much everywhere. The righteous will always be. They might be shaken because they stand and God, no matter what, think of you know, I think of Christians who persevered in horrible circumstances throughout history. Wicked be easily displaced. Do not dwell on the land. That's what I take that to mean. The mouth of the righteous bears wisdom, but the tongue of perversions will be cut off. The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked know what is perverse. When you're righteous, you're speaking righteous. You know what is acceptable. In the mouth of the wicked, they know they are profane and perverse, all right. So again, I know there was not a lot of I wouldn't say heavy lifting and deep theological profoundness in that, but it was a battle with the words.

Speaker 1: 32:22

I mean, I had to read over and over and over and over. So many things understand context and some of the subtleness of what was being explained, but you can see positive and negative in them. But what is that Like? What is the context of that? That's why it's really helpful to have a tool like Logos that I use or to have. I mean, there's a lot of free resources.

Speaker 1: 32:50

I mean, at a minimum, having a good study bible I recommend the english standard version and version study bible, um and then being able to go to something. Sometimes it's like I said, though sometimes I gotta go. I'll read a passage in my, my lsB or my ESB and I'll be like in the right country, okay. Like, think of a map, I'm in outer space and I'm in, I'm over the right country. Then sometimes I have to go to the message to try to get it, to make it make sense and put it in plain English, to get me in the right city. Okay. So now I'm zooming out from here down to the right city. Then I got to go to my study Bibles get on the right street, get on the right street, okay. And then sometimes I have to go to commentaries and multiple sources to get it to finally the right address. It's the best way I can explain that. It might have been a little bit different than I said the other day. You get the gist.

Speaker 1: 34:07

So, anyways, thank you for joining me today for this Bible study and investing in deliberately pursuing a relationship with God through his word. Thank you for sharing your cup of coffee, your first cup of coffee, by making God the first priority of your day. I pray that it blesses you. So let's go ahead and do our final part, here and um, and let's let me bless. Bless us now, dear heavenly father lord, we thank you. Thank you for the time. We thank you for each man and woman who's watching us, who dropped everything in their life to pursue a relationship with you.

Speaker 1: 34:46

Lord, we thank you for your word, thank you for the wisdom of the Proverbs that we're studying now. Lord, help us apply to the lessons today. Help them take root in our soul and our thoughts and our hearts, and help us apply them to everything we do. Lord, draw us all closer together as we are in this community. We're trying to build something here for you, lord, that will shake the gates of hell and fortify believers here and around the world.

Speaker 1: 35:28

Lord, help us to walk out your wisdom. Help us to make it our initial action, our reflex to do righteousness instead of our reflex to do iniquity and sin. Lord, forgive us of our sins as we repent of them. Lord, I pray that you would bless us with strength, discernment, peace, protection, lord, for the persecuted church, our troops, overseas veterans last year and our first responders at home, this fellowship, our beloved America. I pray that she would turn from her sin, hit her knees and repent and seek your face, that you would see her and heal her so that we could once again be one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Lastly, I call this fellowship put on the full armor of God, strap on the shield of faith, pick up the sword of the Spirit and boldly step forward to join the shield wall, locking shields to the left and right. As we march forward, take ground for your kingdom, for your glory forever. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen, all right, everyone. God bless you. I'll see you tomorrow.