Walk Through the Bible: Proverbs
Text for Sermon: Proverbs 1:1-7; 3:5-7; 4:23; 9:10; 16:3,9; 22:3
As we come to the book of Proverbs we have crossed the halfway point of our journey through the books of the OT.
Let’s face it, Proverbs is a weird book, there is no other book in the Bible like it. Reading it you feel like a BB in a tin can, as the verses ricochet all over the place. There is no flow, no rhyme or reason. Almost no two verses are on the same topic.
Let’s begin with a bit of background. King Solomon is said in Scripture to be the wisest man who ever lived. In I Kings 4 we read that when he was starting out as king God asked Solomon in a dream what he would like God to give him. Remarkably of all the things he could have asked for, he asked for wisdom and this pleased God very much.