0048BS Proverbs 8 - Bible Study

We fight three essential daily battles as Christians: cultivating humble gratitude, pursuing a relationship with God through His Word, and praying for one another's protection and discernment.

• The best response to overwhelming circumstances is getting into God's Word and doing the next right thing according to Scripture
• Understanding Jesus as Lord (not just friend) properly orders our priorities and behavior
• Wisdom is more valuable than wealth, calling out to us from places where decisions are made
• The fear of the Lord means hating evil, pride, arrogance, and perverse speech
• Our mistakes and shortcomings help us understand God's grace and extend it to others
• Wealth isn't inherently negative but becomes problematic when it's our master instead of our tool
• Christian fellowship requires deliberate pursuit and commitment to being there for brothers and sisters

Join us Wednesday nights at 9pm for War Council livestream across all platforms - a place for Christian fellowship, testimony sharing, and instruction on the seven battles we all fight.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction to Daily Battle Bible Study
• 4:44 First Battle: Cultivating Humble Gratitude
• 7:43 Dogs as Sanctification Tools
• 10:29 Proverbs 8: Wisdom's Call
• 21:54 The Value of Wisdom Over Wealth
• 27:18 War Council Announcement
• 34:06 Closing Prayer and Fellowship

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:29

Good morning everyone and welcome to your daily battle Bible study, where we fight battles Monday through Friday. Now I am going to check the sound check and make sure that you guys can hear me, so bear with me here real quick, can't? So that is my fault. Can you hear me? Hold on, can't? Oh, you can. All right, there we go. All right. One too few clicks on there. Sorry, one-man show, I don't have a technical crew, it's just me. So thank you, good morning, my my love. Thank you for checking in um. So welcome again to your daily battle bible study where we fight three battles. One we fight to get a humble and grateful heart, checking our entitlements, our grievances are whining and complaining at the door. I'm getting grateful and thankful before the Lord, coming to him in all humility, understanding how great he is and how small he is. With that in mind, we deliberately pursue a relationship with our Lord and Savior, studying his holy scripture and through prayer. And then three deliberately pray for one another in corporate prayer, prayer of protection, peace and discernment. Okay, these three battles are important.

Speaker 1: 2:09

Everything in your life is a battle, which is why we call this. You have a choice that you have to overcome Laziness, dying to self, greed, lust, you know, slovenliness or sloth, laziness, you know, whatever. So many things that we all have to overcome to do the right thing. Now, most often we know the right thing. A lot of us get overwhelmed out there when we have had a life of sin or our life made some decisions, bad decisions, or we're just walking through a time of testing and you can get very easily overwhelmed, sucked down into chaos and despair. The best thing in those times is to one get in his word, make time for God, and God will make time for everything else. Get in his word and then just do the next right thing according to his word, not according to you, not according to the world the next right thing according to God. If you just keep simplifying it and doing the next right thing, the next right thing, the next right thing, you'll be in a great place All right. Now. Often you know there's a lot of things that you don't know what should be the next right thing. There's a lot of next right things. Do the thing that destroys your sin, do the thing that counters your sin, because as you get rid of your sin and as you repent your sin, you come more in alignment with God, and God can bless you. So just a little bit of a few of my thoughts there before we get into our first battle, which is getting our hearts, minds, humble, grateful and aligned onto the lord. Let's do that.

Speaker 1: 4:18

Heavenly father lord, we thank you. We come to you now to lay down our entitlements, things that we think we deserve. We know we deserve nothing but your wrath. We deserve, and we know we deserve nothing but your wrath. Lord, many of us are suffering in many ways, but we also know that for everything that we are suffering, there are countless blessings upon us. Lord, we thank you for your protection throughout the night for us and our family. Thank you for the opportunity for another day to get things right. Serve you.

Speaker 1: 5:04

We thank you for bodies and the trillions of cells that had to work perfectly just for us to get up this morning. But we thank you for your divine create, for your common grace and your creation here the universe, the sun, the moon, stars, the earth, everything from the tallest peaks to deepest oceans, between them, animals, amazing animals and aura. Thank you for the beauties of sunrises and sunsets, for the sound of the ocean breaking on the shore, children's laughter, for the smell of morning rain and flowers, for the smell of morning rain and flowers, the taste of good food and drink. Thank you for the people in our lives. Help us to always be present, to leave nothing unsaid, to love one another as you commanded us to Lord. We also thank you for your divine grace choosing us before the foundations of the world to be yours, loving us when we were still your enemy.

Speaker 1: 6:40

So we pray that our hearts would come into proper alignment with you, lord, with you as our Lord and Savior. We pray that you would give us discernment and understand your word to help us to apply it to our lives At this time. We glorify you, serve you In Jesus' name. We pray amen. All right battle number one done. Hey, captain K-Man, good to see you again. Brother, glad to do mornings with you every morning.

Speaker 1: 7:15

So hearing my wife chastise the dog making bad decisions outside. A dog has been such a sanctification tool for me. I think of all the knucklehead things he's done. Hey, sharon, good to see you. Good morning. That dog has been such a sanctification tool for me. God uses him to get me with a heart more like his, because he does the most stupid things that he knows are wrong and they're knucklehead things and that's how we are.

Speaker 1: 7:58

I still have self-destructive habits that I do. There's things that, like Paul says that I don't want to do, that I do, which is Odin, which is Odipop, my dog, and there's times where I'm worse than him because I should know way better, because he's just a dog. Once I understood how I must appear to God and how my foolish, crazy knucklehead dog constantly makes mistakes that he knows he shouldn't do, he knows is bad. Once I understood that's probably how you know God looks at me infinitely worse than that. Because I have his word. He wrote his law on my heart. It helped me give Odipop because I have his word. He wrote his law in my heart. It helped me give Odupup a lot more grace and through that, helped me give everybody more grace.

Speaker 1: 9:04

You know, the most dangerous Christians are the ones who don't think they sin. They think they're righteous and everyone else is, when we all know that we're not. We're all you know. I can't remember if it was RC, sproul or Spurgeon or who said it. You know, the Christian isn't the righteous person telling somebody else what to do. Christian is the beggar telling the other beggar where he found bread. That bread is Jesus Christ. Oh, steve Raleigh, welcome my friend. It's good to see you. I miss you so much.

Speaker 1: 9:46

So, yeah, let's go ahead and let's get into chapter eight. So, as we know, yesterday we wrapped up the first seven um proverbs and in those seven proverbs we covered a lot on, you know, infidelity and um, I mean it was. It was well over 50 of the content of the first seven you know Proverbs. Now we're going to get to wisdom, okay, which has been also a great portion of the first seven, but it's continued in eight. Let's do this innate, let's do this Blessing of wisdom.

Speaker 1: 10:42

Does not wisdom call? And the servant give forth her voice At the top of the heights, upon the way where the pathways meet, she takes her stand beside the gates of the opening of the city, the entrance of the doors. She makes a shout Okay, why there? Because that is where, in the ancient world, when this was written, that's where business was done, that's where affairs were conducted and that's where wisdom was shouting To you, o men, I call on my voices to the sons of men. O simple ones, understand prudence and O fools, understand a heart of wisdom. Listen, for I will speak. Noble things. The opening of my lips will reveal upright things. Oh, I didn't share it, I'm sorry. Let me share it to you. I'm didn't share it, I'm sorry, share it to you. There we go.

Speaker 1: 11:56

I'm picking up on chapter 7 or verse 7. So well, my mouth water. Truth, wickedness, is an abomination to my lips. All the world words of my mouth are in righteousness. There is nothing twisted or crooked in them. They are all straightforward stands and right to those who find knowledge. Take my discipline, and not silver and Knowledge, rather than the choices, find goal. Wisdom is far better than pearls and all desirable things cannot compare with her". If you have wisdom, then you will do well in almost everything in life. It is more valuable. That's why, when you know Bible, solomon prayed for wisdom first and all things were added to him right. So again, awe of God. Well, if you can get the awe and fear of God down, your whole life will jump into priorities. Because if you fear God which we're going to talk about again here and it's brought up again, just as it was brought up in other Proverbs along the way well then you're going to want to do right by him, You're going to want to follow his ways, his commands and you're going to do as he says.

Speaker 1: 13:32

The problem today that we have with so much in Christian culture is we don't understand that jesus is our lord, not just our buddy, but I'm not our bro, okay and that we are to do what he says or else face judgment. So we'll continue on Verse 12. I wisdom dwell with prudence and I find knowledge and discretion. Verse 13. The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil, pride and arrogance and the evil way of the mouth of perverted words. I hate. Read that again.

Speaker 1: 14:26

The very Yahweh is to hate evil, pride and arrogance and the evil way of the mouth of perverted words. I hate, and this is written on our hearts. And this is written on our hearts. When we see injustice, as Christians, we recoil at it. We hate it. When you see a child being abused, a woman being abused, some great unfair injustice, we want to fight it. It is written in us, encoded into us, because we are gods. God is telling you to hate evil. The answer is does God hate? The question is does God hate? The question is does God hate? Well, here's the proof. Yahweh hates evil. We are to hate evil. We are to hate pride and arrogance. The evil way, the mouth of perverted words.

Speaker 1: 17:01

Let's get back to the positive now. Counsel is mine and sound wisdom I am understanding. Here again understanding the relationship and the power of God. Might is mine. By me. Kings reign and rulers mark our righteousness by me. Princes rule and nobles all who judge rightly.

Speaker 1: 17:29

Verse 17. I love those who love me. Those who earnestly seek me will find me. That's what this morning is all about. We are deliberately seeking God and we're seeking for him, the best place to find him, which is in the Bible. We are seeking him and his word. He loved us so much that he gave us his word. You know there's many of us, myself included, who are closest to God in nature. I don't see anything of man. Man corrupts everything he touches. Look at cities. Cities are ugly man Once you've seen God's forests and mountains and majesty and his lakes and his oceans and everything else. And then he put concrete and steel around it and call it pretty and it's horrible. And call it pretty and it's horrible and there's something to be said about being in God's creation. I believe it. But just walking in God's creation is one thing, pursuing him and studying his word and what he wants you to know about him is the beginning of this. It's the foundation. That's what we do here every morning or during the week.

Speaker 1: 19:11

Riches and glory are with me during wealth and righteousness. Again, people think wealth is a bad thing. It is if it's your master, but it's also your ability to bless others. If all you're doing with your money is acquiring stuff and having a good time, you're missing the point. You've got to put that wealth and your finances and your war chest that God has blessed you with, to work for his kingdom, to help others and bless others. You'll find it way more rewarding than getting new stuff. My fruit is better than fine gold, even pure gold, and my produce better than the choice silver. I walk in the paths of righteousness, the myths, the pathways of justice. Give those who love me an inheritance of wealth that I may fill their treasuries again. Walking out of godly life and just seeking poverty, your impact with poverty is not as much of a blessing as it could be, particularly here in America, where you have limitless opportunity to accumulate wealth and prosperity. Bless others, and America has blessed others. I'm not saying it hasn't, but I'm saying that we have limitless potential here. We should be pursuing that to help others. We can't.

Speaker 1: 21:06

Now let's get into the verse 22, which is the beginning of wisdom and how it's always been here. Yahweh possessed me at the beginning of his ways, before his deeds of old Everlasting. I was installed in the beginning, from the earliest times of the earth. When there were no depths, I was brought forth. When there were no springs heavy with water, before the mountains were settled, before the hills, I was brought forth. Well, he had not yet made the earth and the fields outside More the first dust of the world. Down to verse 21. When he established the heavens, I was there. When he marked out the circle of the face of the deep, when he made firm the skies above, when the springs of the deep became strong, when he set for the sea its boundary so that the water could not pass over its command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, then I was beside him as a master worksman and I was a daily delight, rejoicing always before him, rejoicing in the world, his earth, my delight in the sons of men. Because why? Why that line at the end? Why delight in the sons of men? Because they could have wisdom, they could learn wisdom. It's not instinct programmed into a bird or cow or animals, men could come to know wisdom.

Speaker 1: 22:53

Verse 32 is coming to the end here. So now, o sons, listen to me. Blessed are those who keep my ways, hear discipline and be wise and do not neglect it. And there's the mention of discipline. We all hate being disciplined. Our Heavenly Father disciplines us so we learn, so we don't have the supreme discipline which is being cast into hell. We send Jesus to give us mercy. He disciplines us as we follow Christ as our Lord and Savior, as we die to self and become more like him and we stumble, we get disappointed. That's why sin hurts so bad Sin usually feels good in the beginning, and then the hangover and the side effects of it are infinitely worse. It's by design, so you won't do it. How blessed is the man who hears me to watch daily at my doors. Keep watch at my doorposts, for he who finds me finds life and obtains favor from Yahweh. He's God. But he who sins against me does violence to his own soul. Those who hate me love death. It's so good.

Speaker 1: 24:52

I always laugh at gurus and so-called leadership experts where you'd be better off saving all your money again I've said this a lot. Instead of buying all those leadership books, just read proverbs every day. The infinite wisdom inside of proverbs is better than any book that you'll ever get out. There times you know a million. So all right, that's battle number two done. Let's wrap it up with battle number three. And before I do that, I really appreciate you guys having your first cup of coffee with me and investing in this time together. I'm here for you, but I'm also here for me. I know that I'm not. I struggle, but I'm just going to do this on my own. Knowing that you guys are counting on me every day to be here helps me lead from the front and helps me do better. It raises my expectations of myself. Set a good example for you. You should be doing that with your own family as well, by leading from the front by example.

Speaker 1: 26:21

I want to make an announcement, because tonight starts a war council and I'm going to see if I can share this. Let's see if I can pull this over. All right, so All right. So tonight at 9 pm is the War Council, which is our replacement and improvement upon Christian Warrior Talk. At 9 pm tonight it's going to be streamed on Facebook, youtube X and Rumble. This is meant to be a two-way conversation. I want your comments. I will post a phone number to take your calls. I want to pray for you. I want this community to pray for you. I want this community to pray for you. I want this community to learn from your experiences, your testimonies as well as mine. But it's going to be Christian.

Speaker 1: 27:37

For those of you who don't even know, it's going to be a Christian fellowship gathering. I hate the word show, makes it sound me like I'm some, but it's a place where you can, I pray that will turn into a Colin muster where people call in with their victories and their defeats and setbacks and we all rely on one of them. It's also we're gonna do instruction on the seven battles all fight. It's where we're gonna run you know the 90-day forging challenge okay. And it's where we're gonna talk, focus on all the battlefields. The faith first right which, if you've done this, you've taken care of your faith for the day. Family we'll talk about marriage, parenting, relationships, fellowship there. Fellowship there, deliberately pursuing each other, your family.

Speaker 1: 28:52

I'm going to talk about being the best vessel can be, holding each other accountable to make sure that we're working out healthy and being the best vessel for the Holy Spirit, and fitness fundamentals. We're going to be talking about working a weekly one skill, one thing, sharpening an old skill or learning a new skill to make you a more valuable asset for the finances you know, fighting the curse and the enemy of debt, materialism, using our finances to bless others. Here's two new ones. We used to call pillars and we only had five, but there are now seven.

Speaker 1: 29:50

Fellowship, deliberately pursuing all the relationships with other Christians who are not your family members Okay, and investing in them. They take time, they take effort. Time and time again I have to go after and chase brothers down who leave me behind. They don't do it on purpose. Their life gets busy and they leave their friends behind. No, that is not Christian fellowship. Christian fellowship is to always be there for your brother, always. That's the commitment we make to one another Infidelity, being loyal to our King Jesus, being loyal to your spouse, remaining pure for them.

Speaker 1: 30:46

So that's what we're going to be working on in the War Council, so I hope to see you there tonight. And nine, please share it out. We? I don't think that worked, but anyways, you'll find it on. You know all of our channels, so I hope to see you there tonight at nine o'clock every Wednesday. All right, god bless you and I will see you later. Oh wait, holy smokes, I didn't pray us out and Try to send that thing and restream logged me out of everything. I hope it didn't screw everything else up. All right, rather than deal with chat, I'll pray us out. I can troubleshoot what's going on whenever we reach stream after that.

Speaker 1: 32:01

Okay, heavenly Father, lord, I thank you. I thank you for the Shield Brothers and Shield Maidens that are here every morning, fighting alongside us, fighting to get to know you, lord, fighting to walk your ways and not our ways, fighting to die to self and be more like you and less like us. Lord, help us Give us wisdom and discernment, walk in your ways and only your ways. Lord, help us to not resent the discipline that you send us. Bring us back in the line, lord. Help us spread your wisdom. Help us to share your wisdom with others.

Speaker 1: 33:01

Lord, I pray a prayer of protection, peace and discernment over this fellowship that is watching now or later, listening later, over the persecuted church, over our troops overseas, our first responders at home and our veterans of yesteryear. For our troops overseas, our first responders at home and our veterans of yesteryear. Lord, I also pray this for our beloved country. I pray that America would turn from her sin, hit her knees, repent and seek your face, that you would see her, so that we can once again become one nation under God, indivisible justice for all. And I call this fellowship to put on the full armor of God, to strap on the shield of faith, pick up the sword of the Spirit, the bully, step forward to join the shield wall, locking our shields of faith with those around us, to the left and to the right, as we advance as one to conquer for your kingdom forever and always. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. All right, everyone. God bless you. Let's see if I can fix this now. I don't know why I did that. Our chat is acting up.