Wisdom for Living Well From Proverbs – Saying No To Temptation
Text for Sermon: Proverbs 1:10; 4:14-15; 14:16; 16:17-18; 22:3
Introduction.
We need wisdom to live wisely and well in a foolish and fallen world. This fallen world is all around us and it is constantly trying to press us into its mold.
Proverbs is a call to wake up and live with a conscious awareness of God’s presence with us and around us, to live before the face of God, coram deo, burning eternity into our eyes.
Will you take to heart this call to rise above our complacent, compromised sleepwalk through life, and see the glorious vision Christ has for us in His Word?
Proverbs is a call to lift our eyes up from the mundane affairs of earth, from the temporal, carnal distractions and attractions and temptations that fill our vision day after day.
Proverbs has strong and remarkably practical wisdom for resisting temptations voice, for resisting evil, refusing sinful influences, and choosing the path of wisdom.