Proverbs 1

In this episode, Joy talks about the true meaning of Easter and why Jesus’ death and resurrection matter so much in our lives. Then, she breaks down Proverbs 1 in a simple, relatable way—teaching how listening to advice, making wise choices, and staying away from bad influences can help you grow closer to God and live with peace and confidence.

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Hello everyone and welcome to the Faithfully Heart Podcast. It's Joy, and I just wanted to say happy Easter. I know Good Friday is tomorrow. Or not tomorrow. Yes, tomorrow. And then we have um Saturday and then we um have Sunday, which is Easter. Um and it's just a really good time to reflect on how Jesus died on the cross and rose again for us three days later. Um and it's just a really special time. And so let's do our highs and lows really quick before we get started. So my high was that school started back up this week, um, and I have my mission trip on Tuesday, and my low was that we have we had a very close family friend pass away a couple days ago. So if y'all could just pray for his family at this time as they go through this loss. Okay, so let's just do our chapter of Proverbs walkthrough. So this week the chapter we're going to be studying is Proverbs, um, Proverbs 1. So obviously I thought we should start with the first chapter um for our first one. So let's go ahead and read it. Um if you follow along or if you just want to sit back and listen, that's totally fine too. Um let me just pull it up real quick. It is kind of long. There's about um thirty-three chapter or verses, so just sit back, relax, and listen. The Proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, King of Israel, to know wisdom and instruction, to perceive the words of understanding, to receive the instruction of wisdom, justice and judgment and equity equity, to give subtility to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion. A wise man will hear and will increase learning, and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels. To understand a proverb and the interpretation, the words of the wise and their dark sayings. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother, for they shall be an ornament of grace upon thy head and chains about thy neck. My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not. If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause. Let us swallow them up alive as the grave, and whole, as those who go down into the pit. We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil. Cast in thy law among us, let us have all one purse. My son, walk not thou in the way of them, refrain thy foot from their path, for their feet run to evil and make haste to shed blood. Surely in vain the er surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird, and they and they lay wait for their own blood, they lurk privily for their own lives. So are the ways of everyone that is greedy of gain, which taketh away the life of their own or of the owners thereof. Wisdom crieth without, she uttereth her voice in the streets. She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates, in the city she uttereth her words, saying I don't know if that's part of the verse, but how long ye simple ones, will you love simplicity, and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? Turn you at my reproof, behold I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. Because I have called and ye refused, I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded. But ye have set at naught all my counsel, and would none all of my reproof. I also will laugh at your calamity, I will mock when your fear cometh. When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind, when distress and anguish cometh upon you, then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer. They shall seek me early, but they shall not find me. For they that hateth knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord, they would none of my counsel, they despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil. Alright, so that was Proverbs One. So let's talk about some things we could have just learned from that chapter. Okay, so the first eight verses is really just talking about instruction, about um how to take it. So, like to be able to hear instruction and use it and not get mad at it. Because come on, I don't know if I know anyone who doesn't just don't want to hear or just wants to do things their own way and not have anyone tell them what they're doing wrong. They only want to hear what they're doing right. And instruction's not there to be a burden on you or to bring you down. It's really there to help you and guide you. And it says that if you just receive instruction and you really do want to hear and you don't take it for granted, then you're going to gain knowledge. But if you despise wisdom and instruction, as it says in verse 7, you're a fool. Um and even I struggle with having um someone tell me what I've been doing wrong, because really no one enjoys that. But at a certain point, you have to learn to just take it. And from then on, and even a little bit later in the chapter, it's talking about how to not give in to the temptations of sinful people. And in Proverbs 1.10, this is a verse that my grandpa actually made my brother Luke memorize. It's saying that if sinners entice thee, which means try to tempt you to not consent, um, it means to just reject it and stay far away from it. And from verse 15, really to the end, it's talking about how to stay away from these kinds of temptations. And if you really just say, oh, um, I'm not if you just say, oh, I'm only gonna hang out with them for a little bit, then it turns into more and more. Then you start going down wrong paths and suddenly you're just like them. And if you're not living for God anymore, and you're not living for God anymore because you gave in to one temptation. But if you stick with God and you desire to hear instruction and the instruction of your parents and family, then you most likely won't give in to the temptations that the world throws at you. You will have a really, really great life. Well, that's all for this week. I know this one's also kind of short. I hope you enjoyed this chapter in Proverbs walkthrough. I know it probably got a little um intense, I guess I want to say. I don't know. But I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Make sure to check out our Instagram page at Faithfully Heard Podcast, and I'll hopefully not positive talk to you guys next week, and I'll try to post pictures on Instagram on the mission trip since it is a ministry when I did the chance. Okay, bye.