0040BS - Proverbs 1 - Bible Study

Daily Battle Bible Study focuses on three essential spiritual battles: cultivating a humble heart before God, pursuing relationship through Scripture, and praying for fellow believers as a united community.

• Fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge—proper reverence positions us for spiritual growth
• Christian Warrior Mission forges disciples advancing on seven fronts: faith, family, fitness, finances, fundamentals, fellowship, and fidelity
• Proverbs 1 establishes priorities: fear God first, then avoid companions who lead toward sin
• Modern parenting often outsources discipleship to schools, coaches, and technology instead of providing direct spiritual guidance
• Choose relationships that draw you closer to God, not further away
• When we reject wisdom, we ultimately harm ourselves—God's principles protect us from destruction
• Daily reading of Proverbs aligned with the calendar date (Proverbs 14 on the 14th) builds consistent wisdom

Join us Monday through Friday at 7am for Daily Battle Bible Study and Wednesday nights for special fellowship.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome to Daily Battle Bible Study
• 4:51 First Battle: Humble Hearts Before God
• 10:12 Christian Warrior Mission Explained
• 16:27 Diving into Proverbs: Fear of God
• 23:05 Choosing Godly Companions
• 33:15 Wisdom's Call and Consequences

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:30

Welcome to your daily battle Bible study where we fight three battles. One we fight to get a humble and grateful heart find unto the Lord, checking all of our complaints, our ungratefulness and our entitlement, and getting humble and submitting ourselves to Him, finding ourselves in the proper relationship with God, which is he is God and we are not. We are infinitely below him. Too much of today's Christian culture puts God as Jesus bro, and that's our Lord and Savior. There is no higher authority. So treating him with awe and reverence is what we should and we should come to him very humbly. Two we deliberately pursue a relationship with our Lord and Savior by studying his word in prayer. And then three, we pray for each other and intercede for each other. That's the whole purpose of this. The goal is to wrap this up for not to be a prolonged thing every morning, but come here and spend your morning and have a cup of coffee. Some of you might be your first, others who might be your fifth, but have a cup of coffee to the Lord with brothers and sisters. Now people ask me is this a men's bible study or is christian warrior mission just for men? The answer is no. In the beginning that was my intent. But, uh, it has been revealed to me that there's such a massive need for ministry to both men and women that warrior culture has been purged from the church and um and, and we're here to help bring it back. Um, we need shield brothers and shield maidens, desperately need them. Um, for the times that we live in, and you know, once you walk along a bunch of shield brothers and shield maidens, your life is never the same. All right, so again, welcome. So if you don't know who we are and you're just finding us, this is a ministry of Christian Warrior Mission, which is a church farm, a home church, community ministry and farm. Again, I'm way out of practice. I haven't done this in a long time. Christian Warrior Mission forges men and families into battle-ready disciples of King Jesus, locking shields on seven God-given fronts faith, family, fitness, finances, fundamentals, fellowship and fidelity, advancing on each front every single day. So Christ is honored, his people are protected, kingdom surges into every sphere of life. So we advance on every front every day. No excuses, no excuses Again. This show will be at 7 am Monday through Friday, and on Wednesday night we're going to do a different fellowship show, kind of a midweek check-in, very similar to what we used to do at Christian Warrior Talk. So I hope you guys are ready. I hope you get your Bible. Today we're going to be in Proverbs 1.

Speaker 1: 3:44

I was trying to figure out where we should start. Where we should start, where we should start and what I just you know I've done. You know Genesis, multiple times and you know through the beginning of the Bible and we went, you know, through, you know the gospels and a lot of the Old Testament. In fact, we are almost to Revelation now in our Sunday services, which we started at Matthew right, so we're wrapping, or we just dove into 1 John 1. So I decided let's start with some of the most important chapters in the Bible, where, if you just did these things, which is Proverbs one for every day of the month, your life would be very good. Okay, very good. Sorry, I still got sleep in my eyes. You know. I've washed everything, splash cold water on my face and everything else, got a c-pap that I wear and it blows in my face and dries your eyeballs out if those of you have sleep apnea. You know, you know or you don't.

Speaker 1: 4:50

Um, so let's start with proverbs. We're going to go line by line. There are 33 of them. They were written by Solomon and somewhere around not all of them are written by Solomon Solomon compiled them. There's other people who put them in here, but a majority of the beginning ones were at least compiled or authored by Solomon himself, considered to be one of the wisest men to ever live, and so they were authored approximately 970 to 930 B, and it's really going to be interesting as you read these. See the priority Okay, here's the priority of what a father, as you'll see here in the beginning, is going to teach his son or his children, and this is really trying to pass on knowledge, wisdom, and the order in which you'll see it come out is very specific.

Speaker 1: 5:52

But let's get our first battle one of the day. You know, we believe that everything is a battle, because you have to fight yourself and the world to make time for it. So let's go ahead. Get a humble and grateful heart aligned on the lord. Dear heavenly father, lord, we thank you. We thank you for an for getting us through another night, thank you for protecting our families throughout the night and giving us another chance, chance to walk in your ways. Lord, we are so grateful for all the trillions of cells in our bodies that had to work near perfectly just for us to wake up this morning. But we all are suffering in some way or another. Help us check those gripes, those pains and those aches and that complaining at the door. Let's just get grateful for all the blessings, but for those of us who are watching this in America, help us be grateful that we were so blessed with grace to be born in America, where we can have such influence in the world and spreading the gospel. With that comes the responsibility of us all doing our part here, where we have such modern technology at our hands, where a grandma and a trailer and a trailer park can reach anyone, where a grandma and a trailer in a trailer park can reach anyone. So, lord, help us reach others around us.

Speaker 1: 7:19

Lord, so many of us now are divided on so many things. Help us find unity in the things that matter, unity in your truth, unity in what you say. Love is not what the world defines it as. Lord, we're so grateful for sunrise, the sunset, stars, sound of waves breaking on the ocean, smell of ocean air, flowers, my wife's hair, the sound of children's laughter, warm fire, cold day, cool breeze and a hot day. We thank you for all of it. We come here not deserving anything. Come here knowing that you are Lord of all, the King of all. We come here to honor you, lord, glorify you in all we do. We pray that this time pleases you, that it glorifies you in only you and serves you in only you. But draw us all together now so that we may lock our shields of faith with one another, one body under you, in your name Name, above all names, in the name of Jesus, amen. Alright, so there, we got battle number one done.

Speaker 1: 8:56

You've already talked to the creator of the universe with others today. People are like why is community or corporate prayer so important? God says wherever two or more people are there, he is there. No, he's everywhere. Of course, right, but whenever we can all unite our souls in one and point this cannon of prayer, this big giant light of prayer, and shine it into the heavens at once, there's a lot of power in that. That's why prayer is so powerful. So we've already done that. Got one out of the way. All right. Now let's deliberately pursue a relationship with our Lord and Savior through the studying of his holy word.

Speaker 1: 9:43

I am reading out of a beautiful Bible that was given to me by a mine and logos and it's, you know, it's got. He gave me this beautiful thing, just absolutely amazing, and I'm so, so thankful for it. It and I'm reading the Legacy Standard Bible and it's in large print. Boy, as I get older, my eyes are getting worse, so let's go ahead and dive in here now. Notice, I'm going to read it and then we're going to go back and talk about it, and there's 33 of them.

Speaker 1: 10:22

Okay, now notice again where the wisdom comes in and the priorities of it. It's very specific Proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel to know, wisdom and discipline. To understand the sayings of understanding. To receive discipline that leads to insight, righteousness, justice, equity. Give proof of the simple of the youth, knowledge and discretion. Let the wise men hear and increase in learning. The man of understanding will acquire guidance to understand a proverb and an enigma the words of the wise and their riddles.

Speaker 1: 11:03

Now here is the first, very first teaching the fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge. Ignorant fools despise wisdom and discipline. Again, the fear of the Lord, or Yahweh or God, is the beginning of knowledge. Ignorant fools despise wisdom and discipline. All right, ignorant fools despise wisdom, and all right. So continue on. That's the first one. That is the beginning, that is. If you knew nothing else, I got that right. You would be good to go. Okay, now let's see what the next one is.

Speaker 1: 11:39

Here, my son, your father's discipline, do not abandon your mother's instructions. They are a garland of grace around your head, ornaments around your neck. My son, if sinners entice you, do not be willing. Now here we go. If they say come with us, let us lie in wait for blood. Let us ambush the innocent without cause. Let us swallow them up alive like Sheol and whole. Swallow them up in Sheol and whole as those who go down to the pit. We'll find all kinds of precious wealth. We'll fill our houses with spoil Cast in your lot with us. With spoil cast in your lot with us. We shall all have one purpose, sorry, one purse. My son, do not walk in the ways with them. Withhold your feet from their pathway, for their feet run to evil. They hasten the shed blood, for it is no use that a net is spread in the sight of any bird, but they lie in wait for their own blood. They ambush their own lives. So the path of everyone who is greedy for gain, takes away the life of the possessors, all right, so let's do this.

Speaker 1: 13:05

So the first is fear God, right, and then again, there's still 13 more things. The first is fear God. You fear God and you have a reverent fear for him and respect for him. You're on the right footing. The next is don't hang out with people who are going to drag you down, particularly murder, violence.

Speaker 1: 13:32

So today we have a distorted view of crime. Most crimes today, I would imagine that get reported, get solved or vast. I think a vast majority of them do. Imagine the time without DNA, without fingerprints, about satellite imagery, without cameras, without anything, and where crime thought would often go unpunished in this life. It would often go unpunished in this life. So would a wrong person be punished for it, right?

Speaker 1: 14:23

So here is God saying you know, solomon saying okay, fear the Lord above all else. Don't hang out with those who are going to drag you into sin. How many of us were dragged into sin by friends? And the answer is probably all of us, right, depending on when you grew up. You know you were. You were my generation. Morning happened and you were kicked out of the house and said come back when the streetlights come on and you went and you were raised by your friends, weren't raised by your family, raised by your friends, so you encountered porn, drugs, sex, um, violence and all the things of the world until the lights came on and you had to come home for dinner.

Speaker 1: 15:12

There's a lot of that today, where we outsource our parenting and our knowledge and our wisdom to schools, where people get up in the morning, spend 15, 20 minutes with their kids in the morning, send them to government school, be turned into government slaves, and then they come back after school and they outsource that to a coach. Right, because you got to have the kid in sports, because, god forbid, you have to hang out with them, do anything with them. So you go them in sports and I think sports are great, don't get me wrong. They teach discipline, they teach overcoming pain, adversity, winning, losing, teamwork, accountability. I understand there's a lot of benefits to sports. Unfortunately, most parents use sports as a babysitter, right, so they go off and you outsource that to the coach and then you know you come home after you know, battling traffic, depending on where you live.

Speaker 1: 16:11

You get home at six, your kids there, you have dinner, right, and then maybe you talk, maybe you don't spend maybe 30 minutes with them, tops maybe maybe an hour, which I think the average is far less than that. Then your kids go off with their cell phones, go hang out with their friends again, where you have no impact on them, and off to video game world, where they hang out with God knows who some of the most vile people in the world and you go off to do your work at home, maybe some time with your wife, watch your binge, watch your favorite TV show Again. All this is where you're outsourcing all your wisdom and all the things that we should be doing by pouring in, which is what homeschoolers do, and people who are properly discipling their children by sharing the Bible, these lessons with them, all right. So again, don't let friends be the number one influence in your kid's life and choose who your kids hang out with. Okay, the number one test that we have with our new friends is not whether I can trust them with my kids. That's a big one, right, that's a showstopper. But the very next one is can I trust my kids with your kids?

Speaker 1: 17:39

So many Christians that we hang out with or that I've met their kids are absolute nightmares because they didn't disciple it. Pastors' kids are nightmares. Why? Because they did pastor syndrome, which is they pour into their ministry, they pour into their congregations and they abandon their family. There's a complete contradiction in that, and so their families are nothing but prodigals and hellions while they're trying to lead their congregation. That why I think the catholics have that part right in sometimes where I think you know their, their priests and nuns don't have families right, so they don't have that challenge.

Speaker 1: 18:17

I think they lose. I think they lose a lot of authority understanding because they don't have that experience with ministering to families right. How do they know they've never had a kid? They don't know any of that stuff. They don't know any of the challenges of that or a marriage. But it does allow them to focus on themselves and their walk with God, or focus on God and their walk with God.

Speaker 1: 18:40

So again, neither here nor there there is some wisdom in that. It definitely would be easier than raising a family and having to run a congregation. So again, kind of got sidetracked there. But stay focused on not letting your children and you not hanging out with people that drag you away from God. Hang out with people that bring you closer to God, not drag them away, okay, and then to finally wrap that up, they think that they're ambushing others and they're spilling their own others' blood and taking their possessions. But what we see here is that for 17, 18, and 19, is that they're ambushing themselves in their eternity.

Speaker 1: 20:59

So Boz Boz says here that is 100% true. He says it's hard with a split family and one person teaches one way and the other another. That's 100% true, 100% true. That is that is the cost. You know I'm, you know I have split families. I was raised by split family. You know I have a child. My oldest is with a previous marriage. So I totally get that.

Speaker 1: 21:39

And you have to do the best you can. You have to pray with them and you have to do the best you can. You have to pray with them and you have to do the best to really, really, really fight for them and pray for them. And depending on when you were saved, boz Boz, that's even harder, right? Because you know one of the hardest things to do as a Christian is after getting saved, after having a life of hell and injuring everyone around you because you didn't know any better. You weren't discipled, you weren't raised in the church, you had no idea how to walk it out. And now you wounded your wife, your kids, brothers, your sisters, your father, your mother, everyone. And now you're something new, you've been born again. Now, the hardest testimony, the hardest people to win over, are those people, because you were just one day, you were one way and now you're another way, and what you're going to see is your walk is going to have to be extremely consistent and you're going to have to lead from the front by example. And, and that is the only way you know, my hope is that my son, who has autism, that when he becomes 18 or older, that he's going to come and want to spend time here, more time with us, and you know, and I'll be able to impart more. His mom does a great job raising him from a secular point of view, but there's no God there and I would love to be able to fully disciple him here, like I am doing my two girls and my son here. So, boz, my heart goes out to you and I completely understand that. So let's pick it up in verse 20 now.

Speaker 1: 23:33

The call of wisdom. Wisdom shouts in the street. She gives forth her voice in the square. At the head of the noisy streets. She calls out At the entrance to the gates in the city. She utters her saying so here in 20 and 21,. You know the gates. Why don't we talk about gates? That's where most city business was done and most governing was done before they had big buildings and important people, kings and all that stuff. It was done at the gates because it was easy for people to come from the surrounding area To the gates and run business there. Right?

Speaker 1: 24:09

How long, all simple ones, will you love simplicity and scoffers, delight in scoffing and hate knowledge? Turn to my reproof. This is wisdom talking. Behold, I will pour out my spirit on you. I will make my words known to you. What does that sound like? Because I called and you refused. I stretched out my hand and no one paid attention, and you neglected all my counsel and were not willing to accept my reproof. Okay, again, that's wisdom, that's God reaching out and you're not accepting this. I will also laugh at your disaster. I will mock when your dread comes. When your dread comes like a storm and your disaster comes like a whirlwind, when your distress and anguish come upon you, then they will call on me, but I will not answer. They will seek me earnestly. They will not find me because they hated knowledge. They did not choose the fear of Yahweh, they were not willing to accept my counsel. They spurned all my reproof. So they shall eat of the fruit of their way, be satisfied with their own devices. The turning away the simple will kill them. The complacencies of fools will destroy them, but he who listens to me shall dwell securely and will be at ease from the dread of evil.

Speaker 1: 25:44

It's talking about again. It's talking about thousands of years ago people were doing this, but this is, this is us today. This is the lgbtq madness. This is the madness of of um, of the sexual revolution. This is the madness of um. You know, trying to, I'm trying to remember. So this is the women's liberation movement, right, um, where we took moms out of the homes and tried to make them men, and we're seeing that we took dad out of the home and we put the government in there. We're reaping that destruction for a long time now.

Speaker 1: 26:37

There's a massive movement to get back to traditional living and back to the wisdom of Proverbs, and thank God. But there are so many people out there who don't know and won't, and God is calling to all of us to come to him and to submit to him, but far too many will not. They are lost in the God of the government, which is atheism and possession of self. Everything's me, me, me, stuff, stuff, stuff, stuff, distraction, distraction, distraction, right. So again, um, that's proverbs one. All right. Tomorrow we'll pick it up in Proverbs 2. Now I know it's the 14th. Typically I would be on Proverbs 14, right, but today we did Proverbs 1 because we're starting this series. It's an easy place to go. We'll be through it.

Speaker 1: 27:36

We're not going to just keep reading Proverbs every day, even though I recommend you do that. Focus on one proverb every day, as well as at least one other chapter of scripture. If you do that and you focus on what it says that day, it's going to refresh this godly wisdom in your life and you can apply now. Applying every proverb every day may someday get there, but picking one at a time and using it to be that day in the calendar really does help. So, you know, on the 14th you would do Proverbs 14, 15, et cetera, et cetera, because we're just starting this Bible study.

Speaker 1: 28:16

We're in Proverbs 1. Bang through them and we'll continue. So, all right, let's go ahead. That's our second battle one. Let's get our third one done, and I'm a little bit over. No, I started late, so this is great. So now let's pray for one another and, um, and call it a day. All right, heavenly father Lord, I thank you. I thank you for everyone who took the time to invest with us and share a cup of coffee and to share this moment, to lock our shields of faith together one another and to as one point our hearts, our minds and our souls at heaven to seek you, lord lord.

Speaker 1: 28:58

I pray a prayer that all of us here today would heed the words of Proverbs 1. We would fear God above everything, respect him and come to you humbly. That we would avoid people that would drag us away from you and only invest in people who would drag us closer to you, lord, and only invest in people who will drag us closer to you, lord, to not shed blood, gain, to seek wisdom and knowledge and discipline. I pray that we would pass on the knowledge that we had today to our children, to our families, to our friends, to our neighbors. I pray a prayer of peace for this fellowship, this and the sound of my voice. I pray for peace and protection for them, pray for peace and protection for them, for our service members overseas, our first responders at home and our veterans of yesteryear.

Speaker 1: 30:18

Lord, I pray for the protection of this amazing country, america. I pray that same protection and peace for the persecuted church all around the world. Lord, I pray for our leaders, that they would have wisdom and that you would use our leaders to conduct your business. I pray for wisdom and discernment of those same leaders that they would seek you and not themselves, and expose the corruption. I pray for my beloved America that she would turn from her sin, sit on her knees and seek your face, and that you would see her. You would see her, lord, that you would heal us. Heal her so that we could once again be one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. So now 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 march forward to join the shield wall. As we march forward to conquer ground for your kingdom. In Jesus' name, we pray Amen. All right, everyone. God bless you and I'll see you here tomorrow. Bye.