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 Good morning, church.

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 It's good to see you all this morning.

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 Well, would you turn with me once more to the Old Testament book of Proverbs?

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 This morning we'll begin in chapter 4, verse 10.

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 That's page 529 in the Pew Bible.

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 While you're turning there, let me say welcome to you.

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 If you're new, welcome to New Haven.

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 Welcome to Trinity.

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 We're glad you're here.

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 If this is your first time at Trinity, let me just say our aim as a church is to be a

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 people who are so steeped in the gospel of the grace of God in Jesus Christ, so soaked

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 in that, so saturated in that, so transformed by that, that we go out and we give all of

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 our lives in praise and in glory to God.

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 So if you want to be a part of that great endeavor, we're glad you're here.

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 Join us.

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 Stick around.

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 Let me also say welcome back to the students.

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 There are some students here, right?

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 You're here.

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 Yes, you're here.

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 Great.

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 It's good to have you back.

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 We're excited about the start of another school year here at Trinity.

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 We've actually, Matt kind of alluded to this, we've actually got some great stuff planned

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 for the upcoming year.

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 Uh, we're launching a whole new set of Sunday school classes for middle schoolers and high

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 schoolers.

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 Uh, if you're in high school, uh, I'm going to be teaching through the book of Romans.

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 Just you and me and Romans and maybe one or two other leaders.

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 Uh, but we are going to do a deep dive into one of the most culturally explosive, life-changing

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 books ever written.

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 Uh, so if you're in high school, September 10th in the Fellowship Hall classroom, nine

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 o'clock, come join me for that.

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 Uh, this fall is also the 500th anniversary of the Reformation.

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 Anybody know that?

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 Has that been on your radar?

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 Um, yeah.

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 Uh, so we have some good stuff on the deck, on deck to delve into our Reformation heritage.

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 Uh, rumor has it some of our resident historians and theologians will be teaching a class, uh,

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 about the Reformation.

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 So stay tuned for that.

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 Um, in a couple of weeks, we're going to be joining with other congregations through Bridges

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 of Hope for a joint prayer and worship night at the College Street Music Hall.

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 Uh, there's some information in the bulletin about that.

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 Later in the fall, we're going to have Keith King, the pastor of Christian Tabernacle Baptist

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 Church here in New Haven, come preach for us.

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 Uh, and we're kicking off this semester with a month-long emphasis on prayer.

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 Uh, seeking God together, growing in our intimacy with Christ that will culminate at the

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 end of the month on September 24th in a church-wide prayer gathering.

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 Um, oh, and did I mention that we're preaching through Romans 8 this fall?

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 Uh, you're thinking, what's so big about that?

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 Who cares?

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 Uh, no, Romans 8.

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 Romans chapter 8.

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 Some people have called Romans chapter 8 the greatest letter, the greatest chapter and

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 the greatest letter and the greatest book that's ever been written.

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 And we're going to spend the whole semester just soaking in the great message of God's gospel

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 in Romans chapter 8.

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 Um, it's going to be great.

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 We're going to have a great fall together.

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 Uh, so we hope you'll stick around and be a part of what God's doing here.

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 Um, now today, okay, back to today.

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 Now today what we're doing is we're wrapping up our series on Proverbs.

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 Uh, this summer we've been working our way through this book that's all about wisdom,

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 and today we're going to bring it home.

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 We're going to bring it to a close.

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 Uh, we're going to do that by looking at two passages, actually.

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 We're going to look at one passage from the, kind of near the beginning of the book,

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 and then we're going to look at another passage from sort of near the end of the book.

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 One in chapter 4, one in chapter 24.

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 Um, and then we're going to celebrate baptism, and that's going to be awesome.

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 Uh, so let's start, though, in Proverbs chapter 4, verses 10 through 19, page 529.

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 And as we come there, let me pray for God's help as we come to His Word.

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 Oh, Lord, so often in this book of Proverbs, you have commended, commanded, held out for us

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 the picture of humility.

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 So, Lord, we pray for our hearts to be humble before Your Word this morning, and God, we ask

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 that You would speak powerfully to us through this book once more as we draw near to Your

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 written Word. And as we do so, we pray that You, Lord Jesus, the incarnate Word, would be speaking

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 to us by Your Spirit, that You would allow our cold hearts to be warmed, our stopped-up ears to be

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 opened, and our lives to be changed. God, do it for Your name's sake, we pray. Amen.

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 Amen. Proverbs chapter 4, verses 10 through 19.

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 Hear, my son, and accept my words, that the years of Your life may be many. I have taught

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 You the way of wisdom. I have led You in the paths of uprightness. When You walk, Your step

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 will not be hampered, and if You run, You will not stumble. Keep hold of instruction. Do not

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 let it go. Guard her, for she is Your life. Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk

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 in the way of the evil. Avoid it. Do not go on it. Turn away from it and pass on. For they cannot

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 sleep unless they have done wrong. They are robbed of sleep unless they have made someone stumble. For

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 they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence. But the path of the righteous

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 is like the light of dawn, which shines brighter and brighter until full day. The way of the wicked

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 is like deep darkness. They do not know over what they stumble. Just a couple weeks ago, I was on

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 vacation with my family at the beach in Delaware. We often go to a little beach town called Bethany Beach.

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 The tourism slogan for Bethany Beach is a quiet resort. I'm not sure that gets them a lot of

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 business at Bethany Beach, a quiet resort. But there you go. We love going to Bethany every summer.

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 My wife grew up going there as a kid, and it's fun now to take our kids and kind of continue that

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 tradition. And for the most of the week that we were there in the middle of this month, in the middle

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 of August, we just had perfect beach weather. It was great. It was like high 70s, low 80s, gentle breeze

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 off the water, nice rolling waves. It was great. But then our last day there, there were some storms

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 that had come through, and the water had become much more active, and the waves were higher, and the

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 pool of the water was stronger. But, you know, after a week of sort of playing in the water and taking our

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 kids out into the waves and splashing around, our kids, of course, even though the water was much more

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 active, much more powerful, they still wanted to jump in, have us, you know, take them out, go out

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 into the waves, and do what we'd been doing for the last few days. And at first, I was willing to try it.

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 Sure, why not? I mean, you know, maybe we could hang tough for a few minutes, have a little fun, and then

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 come back in. But then my father-in-law, actually, Beth's dad, basically said, he said, hey, let me try it out

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 first. Let me see what the water's like. Now, here's what you need to know about my father-in-law.

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 He's not here, so I can talk about him. He has spent his whole life every summer, he had spent his whole

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 life every summer growing up on that very beach, lifeguarding, surfing, swimming, probably trying to pick up

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 girls when he was in his teenage years. You know, but he had been going to this beach year after year for 20 years.

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 He had basically grown up there, and he had been back summer after summer as an adult. He had taken

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 his kids to that beach, and now here he was as a grandfather on that same beach. In other words,

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 he is someone who knows the water. He knows how the ocean works. He knows its power. He knows its

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 danger. So he got in, and he swam for a few minutes, and he came back and said, it's not safe. Don't take the

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 kids in. It's too much. So trusting his wisdom, we stayed out. We didn't go in. Instead, we just sort of

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 stayed in the shallow surf where the waves kind of ran up on the beach, and you know what? We had a

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 great time. It was a lot of fun, but we didn't go in. Now, Proverbs, as we said again and again, this book

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 is about wisdom. It's a book about chokmah, which is the Hebrew word, which means something like skill

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 or expertise, like a swimmer who knows the ocean through years of experience and can read it and

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 can know when it's dangerous and when it's safe. Biblical wisdom, in other words, is the skill of

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 living life well. But what we need to see as we draw things to a close this morning, and what Proverbs

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 actually has been telling us again and again and again, although we haven't sort of highlighted it,

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 is that wisdom, getting it, keeping it, living it, it's not just about having good ideas,

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 and it's not just about living a successful life here on earth. Wisdom is actually a matter of life

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 and death. Like children standing before the power of the ocean, wisdom is a matter of life and death,

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 telling us when to swim and when to stay on the shore. In other words, I put it this way, wisdom is

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 the path, not just to good ideas, not just to being successful, not just to how to figure your way out

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 of a tricky situation. More than that, biblical wisdom is the path of life. Wisdom is the path

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 of life. This is the big idea that Proverbs 4, 10 through 19 wants to drive home, and that I want us to

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 end on this summer. Look again at verses 10 through 13 in that text we just read.

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 Hear, my son, accept my words, that the years of your life may be many.

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 And here the father says, I've taught you the way of wisdom. I've led you in the paths of uprightness.

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 When you walk, your step will not be hampered, and if you run, you will not stumble. Keep hold

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 of instruction. Do not let it go. Guard her. Why? For she is your life. Life.

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 And life here isn't just a sort of long life free from danger or discomfort. It's not just the

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 negative idea of avoiding hazard or avoiding risk. More than that, it's a positive picture.

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 Look again at that image in verse 12 of walking, running without stumbling, like a runner in full

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 stride. Did you hear this summer that Usain Bolt supposedly ran the last race of his career,

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 the great sprinter? And if you ever saw Usain Bolt run a race, you know that that man running was a

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 thing of beauty. He was amazing. It's like he was designed to run really fast, and it was awesome

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 to watch him go. Is it possible for a whole life to be like the stride of an Olympic runner?

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 And not just when times are good and things are easy, but even in the midst of trouble

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 and pain, is it possible to run without stumbling, to walk and not be hampered?

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 Yes, Proverbs says. Wisdom is the path of life. It's where life, true life, flourishing life is found.

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 Now, what does wisdom look like? We've tried to view it from so many angles this summer, taking this

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 whole life of wisdom and pulling the different threads and turning the diamond to see all its

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 angles. We've looked at diligence in our work. We've looked at truthfulness and discretion in our words.

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 We've looked at generosity with our money, purity with our sex, justice for the poor,

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 faithfulness among friends, and above all, humility before others, and humility supremely before God.

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 It's a bit of what wisdom is like. Wisdom, we've said, is living with the grain of God's universe.

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 The living God has created this world with a shape, with a curve, with a grain,

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 and wisdom is living in line with that created order. But you know, so far this summer,

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 I still don't think we've touched on the deepest implications of that truth.

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 How deep down that really goes. So, turn with me to Proverbs 24, verses 13 and 14. That's page 546,

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 if you're following along in the Pew Bible. This is the second passage we'll look at. Proverbs 24,

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 verses 13 and 14. Verse 13, my son, eat honey, for it is good, and the drippings of the honeycomb

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 are sweet to your taste. Know that wisdom is such to your soul. If you find it, there will be a future,

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 and your hope will not be cut off.

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 Take honey, the Father in Proverbs says, and don't just look at it. Don't just study it. Don't just hear

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 what other people have said about it. Don't just theorize about it. He says, take it and eat it.

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 Put it in your mouth.

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 Feel its goodness and its sweetness on your tongue.

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 Put that honey in your mouth and experience the pleasure, the delight of it.

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 And now, know that that is what wisdom is like to your soul. The pleasure, the satisfaction that

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 your soul is longing for, like tasting the sweetness of honey. That's wisdom to your soul. But this

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 sweetness won't be fleeting. It won't wear away. Did you see what the rest of the verse says? If you

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 find it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.

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 Could it be that there is a honey, a satisfaction, a delight for our souls that we can taste now,

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 and that will never grow old, but that will continue into the future, into a hope that will never be cut

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 off? Could such a thing be?

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 We've said that wisdom is the path of life, and yes, wisdom is living with the grain of our creator's

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 universe now. But even more than that, you see, wisdom is stepping into the joy of an indestructible

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 future. It's stepping into the joy of God's future that's breaking down into the present and blazing a path

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 of hope that can never be cut off. If you find it. If you find it, verse 14 says.

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 We're all looking for a path of life, aren't we? We're all looking for a path of life, some way to be fully

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 alive, some way to get some modicum, some bit of joy that won't go away. Some of us are seeking it in

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 education and prestige. Some of us are seeking it in the approval of a parent or a friend.

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 Some of us are seeking it in a political party, whether right or left.

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 Some of us are seeking it in our own moral efforts, a cause, a work of justice. And to be sure, none of

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 these things are necessarily bad things. In their right place, they can all be very good things, but

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 are they the path of life? Will it be like honey to your soul? Will it stretch out into a future? Will

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 it go out into a hope that cannot be cut off? If you find it, verse 14 says. If.

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 If. It's a frightening word, if, isn't it? Inside that word, if, is the very real possibility that we

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 might not find it, that we might live our whole lives running down a path only to miss the true

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 path of life. So, if wisdom is the path of life, who will open the path of wisdom, the path of life to us?

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 Who will show it to us? Who will put us onto it? Who will keep us on it?

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 Who will open to us this path of wisdom, this path of life, so that we might find it?

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 The Bible's answer to that question is this, that God has done it for us.

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 But, you know, it's not in the way that we would expect.

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 We would expect, I think, God to come to us and give us some principles and give us some rules and

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 maybe give us some character qualities, some virtues to emulate. And then we would expect God to say,

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 okay, there it is, go ahead, get to work, follow these rules, implement these principles, emulate

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 these virtues. But friends, while the Bible definitely does have principles and rules for

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 how we ought to live, that's not ultimately where wisdom is found. That's not what opens the path of

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 life to us. After all, who could really put all that into practice? I mean, honestly, think about it.

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 Take what the book of Proverbs says about our words, for instance, a huge part of biblical wisdom.

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 Now, maybe you're not given to spreading salacious rumors and gossip. You're not sort of actively

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 tearing down your neighbor with your razor-sharp words.

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 But how about telling a friend the truth, even when it hurts, even when it's going to cost you?

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 How do we do on that front?

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 Friends, could we not go through every aspect of wisdom that Proverbs lays out for us that we've

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 looked at all summer? Self-control, generosity, humility above all. And if we took honest stock,

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 would we not say that each of us woefully falls short?

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 And then, seeing how we aren't wise so much of the time, then we start to hear Proverbs like this.

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 10.16, the wage of the righteous leads to life, the gain of the wicked to sin.

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 10.24, what the wicked dreads will come upon him, but the desire of the righteous will be granted.

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 10.25, when the tempest passes, the wicked is no more, but the righteous is established forever.

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 10.27, the fear of the Lord prolongs life, but the years of the wicked will be cut short.

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 11.19, whoever is steadfast in righteousness will live, but he who pursues evil will die.

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 19.16, whoever keeps the commandments keeps life, but he who despises his ways will die.

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 Proverbs is very clear. There's a way of life, and there is a way of death.

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 So, it's not just that we fall short of wisdom's demands and miss out on some good things in this life,

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 but it's that we are running on a path that leads to ruin and leads to death.

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 And so, we need more than God to just show us what wisdom is.

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 We need God to rescue us from our folly of sin and death.

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 And here's where the Bible gets really good.

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 The good news is that this is exactly what God has done.

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 Rather than leave us in our folly and in our sin and in the path that leads to death,

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 Jesus comes.

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 God shows up in the person of his son and says,

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 There's a thief out there who's come to steal and to kill and destroy,

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 but I've come that you might have life and have it to the full.

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 And that sounds familiar, doesn't it?

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 It sounds a lot like Proverbs.

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 But how has Jesus done that?

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 How would he come and give us life?

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 How would he come and give us fools, life abundantly?

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 And the answer that the earliest Christians gave,

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 and that the apostles gave,

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 and that even Jesus himself gave,

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 is that he would rescue us from death

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 and bring us into life through the cross.

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 At first, it seemed like utter folly, didn't it?

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 God's own son, crucified, killed.

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 What good is that?

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 A crucified Messiah.

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 And yet, friends, think of the wisdom.

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 Think of the wisdom of the cross.

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 How else could God, in his perfect justice,

00:23:08.539 --> 00:23:09.919
 judge sin,

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 and yet, in his perfect mercy,

00:23:13.480 --> 00:23:14.960
 justify sinners?

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 How else but through the cross,

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 where Christ took our humanity

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 and took our sin

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 and then took our place,

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 receiving the judgment for our sin,

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 and in exchange, giving us

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 the record of his righteousness

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 so that God would be just

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 in judging sin and the justifier

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 of all who believe?

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 And so God, in his perfect wisdom,

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 devises a plan where his justice

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 and his mercy are perfectly expressed

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 and perfectly displayed

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 and perfectly satisfied.

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 Christ, the wisdom of God, Paul will say.

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 And so Christ opens the way of wisdom,

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 the path of life,

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 for all who admit that they're fools

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 and trust in him

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 as their only wisdom and righteousness.

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 And once we see

00:24:14.059 --> 00:24:16.439
 what God has done for us in Christ,

00:24:16.939 --> 00:24:18.799
 once we put our trust in him alone

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 to make us wise,

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 to rescue us

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 from the path of death

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 and to set us on the path of life,

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 what are we to do?

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 If wisdom is the path of life,

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 if Christ has opened that way of life for us,

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 removing our record of sin,

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 well, Proverbs chapter 4 has already told us.

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 Run.

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 Start running in the way of wisdom.

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 Run in this path of life.

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 You've been set free from folly.

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 You've been set free from the path of death.

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 Now run in the way of wisdom.

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 Why are you holding back?

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 Of course, the way of Christ,

00:25:01.279 --> 00:25:01.800
 the way of wisdom

00:25:01.800 --> 00:25:03.200
 will seem like foolishness at first.

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 Just like the cross

00:25:06.340 --> 00:25:07.799
 seemed like foolishness at first.

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 Why tell the truth,

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 something that Proverbs

00:25:12.279 --> 00:25:13.500
 seems so keen on,

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 when you know a simple little lie

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 would be much more profitable

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 and not really hurt anybody?

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 Is truth speaking

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 really all that important?

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 Why tell the truth

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 when it would be so costly

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 and so easy

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 to just do something so easy,

00:25:32.559 --> 00:25:33.659
 like tell a little lie?

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 Well, friends,

00:25:36.960 --> 00:25:38.339
 because the cross shows us

00:25:38.339 --> 00:25:40.339
 that Christ was willing

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 to be truthful for us

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 even when it cost Him everything.

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 Why be generous to the poor

00:25:48.700 --> 00:25:50.519
 when it would substantially

00:25:50.519 --> 00:25:51.480
 need to change

00:25:51.480 --> 00:25:52.419
 my standard of living

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 even when I've worked so hard

00:25:53.899 --> 00:25:54.419
 to earn it?

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 Friends, because the cross shows us

00:25:57.120 --> 00:25:58.240
 that Christ was radically

00:25:58.240 --> 00:25:59.300
 generous to us

00:25:59.300 --> 00:26:01.840
 when we were spiritually poor.

00:26:01.940 --> 00:26:03.620
 He became poor for us

00:26:03.620 --> 00:26:05.140
 that we might become rich

00:26:05.140 --> 00:26:06.039
 when we did nothing

00:26:06.039 --> 00:26:07.000
 to deserve it

00:26:07.000 --> 00:26:08.539
 at the cross.

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 Why strive to be humble

00:26:11.300 --> 00:26:12.840
 when everyone around me

00:26:12.840 --> 00:26:14.120
 is seeking their own glory

00:26:14.120 --> 00:26:15.180
 and it seems like

00:26:15.180 --> 00:26:16.560
 they're doing just fine?

00:26:16.559 --> 00:26:22.079
 because the cross shows us

00:26:22.079 --> 00:26:22.779
 that humility

00:26:22.779 --> 00:26:24.519
 is true greatness,

00:26:24.899 --> 00:26:26.700
 that when Christ,

00:26:27.000 --> 00:26:28.000
 the living Lord,

00:26:28.159 --> 00:26:29.099
 humbled Himself,

00:26:30.379 --> 00:26:31.440
 then He was exalted,

00:26:32.240 --> 00:26:33.460
 then His true glory

00:26:33.460 --> 00:26:34.240
 was made known.

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 Friends, don't you see

00:26:38.679 --> 00:26:39.619
 there's no true wisdom,

00:26:39.759 --> 00:26:40.639
 there's no skill

00:26:40.639 --> 00:26:42.000
 in godly living

00:26:42.000 --> 00:26:43.079
 apart from the cross,

00:26:43.779 --> 00:26:44.819
 apart from Christ,

00:26:44.819 --> 00:26:47.119
 but with Christ.

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 Ah,

00:26:50.259 --> 00:26:52.359
 now we can run in it.

00:26:53.339 --> 00:26:54.879
 We can take up our cross

00:26:54.879 --> 00:26:56.319
 and we can follow Him

00:26:56.319 --> 00:26:57.240
 in the paths of wisdom

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 and as upside down

00:26:58.679 --> 00:26:59.500
 as they might seem

00:26:59.500 --> 00:27:00.399
 to be to the world,

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 they are the paths of life.

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 Listen again

00:27:02.500 --> 00:27:03.899
 to how chapter 4 describes it.

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 Go back there.

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 Verse 14.

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 First, a warning.

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 Do not enter

00:27:09.659 --> 00:27:10.460
 the path of the wicked.

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 Don't walk in the way

00:27:11.679 --> 00:27:12.139
 of the evil.

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 Avoid it.

00:27:13.079 --> 00:27:13.960
 Don't go on it.

00:27:13.960 --> 00:27:15.100
 Turn away from it

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 and pass on

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 for they can't sleep

00:27:17.400 --> 00:27:18.420
 unless they've done wrong.

00:27:18.579 --> 00:27:19.579
 They're robbed of sleep

00:27:19.579 --> 00:27:20.160
 unless they've made

00:27:20.160 --> 00:27:20.840
 someone stumble.

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 They eat the bread

00:27:21.519 --> 00:27:22.039
 of wickedness.

00:27:22.079 --> 00:27:22.840
 They drink the wine

00:27:22.840 --> 00:27:23.299
 of violence.

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 There's the warning

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 and then the promise.

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 But the path

00:27:28.660 --> 00:27:29.279
 of the righteous

00:27:29.279 --> 00:27:31.519
 is like the light of dawn

00:27:31.519 --> 00:27:34.220
 which shines brighter

00:27:34.220 --> 00:27:35.519
 and brighter

00:27:35.519 --> 00:27:37.200
 until full day.

00:27:37.200 --> 00:27:40.559
 the way of wisdom

00:27:40.559 --> 00:27:41.779
 in other words.

00:27:42.779 --> 00:27:44.100
 The way of the cross

00:27:44.100 --> 00:27:48.039
 is the ever brightening path.

00:27:49.720 --> 00:27:50.740
 Can't you see it?

00:27:51.960 --> 00:27:53.220
 Here you stand, church,

00:27:53.319 --> 00:27:54.519
 on the path

00:27:54.519 --> 00:27:55.360
 that Christ

00:27:55.360 --> 00:27:56.860
 has blazed before you.

00:27:58.140 --> 00:27:59.700
 And perhaps right now

00:27:59.700 --> 00:28:00.519
 at this point

00:28:00.519 --> 00:28:01.200
 on the path

00:28:01.200 --> 00:28:02.920
 as you look ahead

00:28:02.920 --> 00:28:04.740
 it seems very counterintuitive.

00:28:04.740 --> 00:28:06.859
 especially when

00:28:06.859 --> 00:28:07.859
 everyone around you

00:28:07.859 --> 00:28:08.500
 seems to be living

00:28:08.500 --> 00:28:09.519
 a life so differently

00:28:09.519 --> 00:28:10.700
 whether it's in regard

00:28:10.700 --> 00:28:11.319
 to their money

00:28:11.319 --> 00:28:12.140
 or their sex

00:28:12.140 --> 00:28:12.859
 or their influence

00:28:12.859 --> 00:28:13.480
 and power.

00:28:14.240 --> 00:28:15.620
 The way of wisdom,

00:28:15.720 --> 00:28:16.720
 the way of the cross

00:28:16.720 --> 00:28:17.960
 looks like foolishness

00:28:17.960 --> 00:28:18.599
 to the world.

00:28:18.599 --> 00:28:23.099
 But with each step

00:28:23.099 --> 00:28:24.299
 that you take

00:28:24.299 --> 00:28:26.359
 the brighter

00:28:26.359 --> 00:28:27.839
 and brighter

00:28:27.839 --> 00:28:28.639
 it becomes.

00:28:29.980 --> 00:28:32.000
 The sun is rising

00:28:32.000 --> 00:28:33.019
 Proverbs says.

00:28:33.099 --> 00:28:33.799
 The shadows

00:28:33.799 --> 00:28:35.059
 are fleeing.

00:28:36.019 --> 00:28:36.899
 And as we run

00:28:36.899 --> 00:28:38.539
 this ever brightening

00:28:38.539 --> 00:28:39.339
 path

00:28:39.339 --> 00:28:40.399
 we realize

00:28:40.399 --> 00:28:42.059
 that it is the path

00:28:42.059 --> 00:28:43.659
 of the indestructible

00:28:43.659 --> 00:28:45.159
 future joy

00:28:45.159 --> 00:28:45.819
 of God.

00:28:45.819 --> 00:28:49.000
 for it is the path

00:28:49.000 --> 00:28:49.839
 of the risen Jesus

00:28:49.839 --> 00:28:52.579
 who has conquered death

00:28:52.579 --> 00:28:54.359
 and brought life

00:28:54.359 --> 00:28:55.700
 and immortality

00:28:55.700 --> 00:28:56.240
 to light.

00:29:00.439 --> 00:29:01.359
 You see the path

00:29:01.359 --> 00:29:01.740
 of wisdom

00:29:01.740 --> 00:29:02.299
 is not only

00:29:02.299 --> 00:29:03.179
 the path of the cross

00:29:03.179 --> 00:29:04.039
 but because it's

00:29:04.039 --> 00:29:04.859
 the path of the cross

00:29:04.859 --> 00:29:05.700
 it's the path

00:29:05.700 --> 00:29:07.220
 of God's new creation.

00:29:09.159 --> 00:29:09.939
 It's the way

00:29:09.939 --> 00:29:10.659
 to live

00:29:10.659 --> 00:29:12.159
 in God's future

00:29:12.159 --> 00:29:13.119
 now.

00:29:13.119 --> 00:29:13.759
 Now,

00:29:17.759 --> 00:29:18.519
 awake

00:29:18.519 --> 00:29:19.779
 oh sleeper

00:29:19.779 --> 00:29:20.619
 Paul says

00:29:20.619 --> 00:29:21.459
 in Ephesians 5

00:29:21.459 --> 00:29:22.939
 and arise

00:29:22.939 --> 00:29:23.619
 from the dead

00:29:23.619 --> 00:29:24.879
 and Christ

00:29:24.879 --> 00:29:25.899
 will shine

00:29:25.899 --> 00:29:26.379
 on you.

00:29:27.919 --> 00:29:28.979
 Do you hear

00:29:28.979 --> 00:29:29.679
 him calling you

00:29:29.679 --> 00:29:30.239
 this morning

00:29:30.239 --> 00:29:30.839
 friend?

00:29:31.979 --> 00:29:32.659
 Wake up.

00:29:34.679 --> 00:29:35.239
 Arise

00:29:35.239 --> 00:29:35.799
 from the dead

00:29:35.799 --> 00:29:36.479
 oh sleeper

00:29:36.479 --> 00:29:38.919
 and I will shine

00:29:38.919 --> 00:29:39.459
 on you

00:29:39.459 --> 00:29:41.299
 in this path

00:29:41.299 --> 00:29:42.019
 that you run.

00:29:42.019 --> 00:29:45.440
 it will be

00:29:45.440 --> 00:29:46.019
 the ever

00:29:46.019 --> 00:29:47.279
 brightening

00:29:47.279 --> 00:29:48.339
 path

00:29:48.339 --> 00:29:51.400
 and it will end

00:29:51.400 --> 00:29:52.240
 Proverbs 4

00:29:52.240 --> 00:29:52.680
 says

00:29:52.680 --> 00:29:55.400
 in the full

00:29:55.400 --> 00:29:56.160
 day of dawn

00:29:56.160 --> 00:29:59.779
 and in the new

00:29:59.779 --> 00:30:00.119
 heavens

00:30:00.119 --> 00:30:00.539
 and in the new

00:30:00.539 --> 00:30:00.920
 earth

00:30:00.920 --> 00:30:02.559
 we read

00:30:02.559 --> 00:30:03.019
 in Revelation

00:30:03.019 --> 00:30:03.359
 there will be

00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:03.960
 no need

00:30:03.960 --> 00:30:04.599
 for sun

00:30:04.599 --> 00:30:05.339
 or moon

00:30:05.339 --> 00:30:06.000
 to shine

00:30:06.000 --> 00:30:07.200
 for the glory

00:30:07.200 --> 00:30:07.700
 of God

00:30:07.700 --> 00:30:08.160
 will be our

00:30:08.160 --> 00:30:08.519
 light

00:30:08.519 --> 00:30:09.519
 and Jesus

00:30:09.519 --> 00:30:10.019
 the Lamb

00:30:10.019 --> 00:30:10.440
 will be our

00:30:10.440 --> 00:30:10.859
 lamp

00:30:10.859 --> 00:30:11.979
 and that path

00:30:11.979 --> 00:30:12.639
 will go further

00:30:12.639 --> 00:30:13.019
 up

00:30:13.019 --> 00:30:13.859
 and further

00:30:13.859 --> 00:30:14.219
 in

00:30:14.219 --> 00:30:15.219
 and the glory

00:30:15.219 --> 00:30:15.919
 of the nations

00:30:15.919 --> 00:30:16.619
 will stream

00:30:16.619 --> 00:30:16.879
 in

00:30:16.879 --> 00:30:17.779
 and the sweetness

00:30:17.779 --> 00:30:18.899
 that we had only

00:30:18.899 --> 00:30:19.959
 tasted here

00:30:19.959 --> 00:30:20.959
 will there

00:30:20.959 --> 00:30:21.919
 as we've run

00:30:21.919 --> 00:30:22.459
 this path

00:30:22.459 --> 00:30:23.199
 be our whole

00:30:23.199 --> 00:30:24.159
 food and drink

00:30:24.159 --> 00:30:25.399
 because on that

00:30:25.399 --> 00:30:26.219
 day God

00:30:26.219 --> 00:30:27.279
 will be all

00:30:27.279 --> 00:30:27.959
 in all

00:30:27.960 --> 00:30:29.680
 the one

00:30:29.680 --> 00:30:29.700
 the one

00:30:29.700 --> 00:30:30.620
 who is behind

00:30:30.620 --> 00:30:31.200
 and in

00:30:31.200 --> 00:30:31.700
 and through

00:30:31.700 --> 00:30:32.640
 every created

00:30:32.640 --> 00:30:33.100
 pleasure

00:30:33.100 --> 00:30:33.680
 that you

00:30:33.680 --> 00:30:34.620
 had tasted

00:30:34.620 --> 00:30:35.539
 there will be

00:30:35.539 --> 00:30:35.920
 unveiled

00:30:35.920 --> 00:30:36.740
 in his fullness

00:30:36.740 --> 00:30:37.620
 and we will

00:30:37.620 --> 00:30:38.680
 see his face

00:30:38.680 --> 00:30:39.200
 we're told

00:30:39.200 --> 00:30:41.259
 and we will reign

00:30:41.259 --> 00:30:42.000
 with him forever

00:30:42.000 --> 00:30:46.960
 what is wisdom

00:30:46.960 --> 00:30:49.559
 it's the path

00:30:49.559 --> 00:30:50.200
 of life

00:30:50.200 --> 00:30:50.779
 friends

00:30:50.779 --> 00:30:54.140
 Christ has blazed

00:30:54.140 --> 00:30:54.839
 this path

00:30:54.839 --> 00:30:55.319
 with his own

00:30:55.319 --> 00:30:55.759
 cross

00:30:55.759 --> 00:30:56.480
 and down

00:30:56.480 --> 00:30:57.319
 it flows

00:30:57.319 --> 00:30:58.019
 the glory

00:30:58.019 --> 00:30:58.799
 of the new

00:30:58.799 --> 00:30:59.339
 creation

00:30:59.339 --> 00:30:59.960
 so church

00:30:59.960 --> 00:31:00.480
 run

00:31:00.480 --> 00:31:01.700
 in this path

00:31:01.700 --> 00:31:03.599
 even when it

00:31:03.599 --> 00:31:04.299
 is inconvenient

00:31:04.299 --> 00:31:05.019
 even when it

00:31:05.019 --> 00:31:05.759
 is unpopular

00:31:05.759 --> 00:31:06.579
 even when it

00:31:06.579 --> 00:31:07.319
 seems so

00:31:07.319 --> 00:31:08.279
 strange

00:31:08.279 --> 00:31:09.240
 run

00:31:09.240 --> 00:31:10.339
 in the path

00:31:10.339 --> 00:31:11.519
 of wisdom

00:31:11.519 --> 00:31:15.259
 because God

00:31:15.259 --> 00:31:15.740
 has promised

00:31:15.740 --> 00:31:16.339
 that even if

00:31:16.339 --> 00:31:16.759
 sorrow

00:31:16.759 --> 00:31:17.459
 and even if

00:31:17.459 --> 00:31:17.939
 trouble

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 lie ahead

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 it will grow

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 brighter

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 and brighter

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 with Christ's

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 own presence

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 until it opens

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 up

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 into the full

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 day of dawn

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 would you pray

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 with me

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 our father

00:31:38.179 --> 00:31:38.559
 we pray

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 that you

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 would

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 take this

00:31:41.500 --> 00:31:41.980
 message of

00:31:41.980 --> 00:31:42.500
 proverbs

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 that the

00:31:43.519 --> 00:31:43.839
 way of

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 wisdom

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 is the

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 ever

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 brightening

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 path

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 and you

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 would

00:31:47.380 --> 00:31:47.799
 Lord

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 fuel

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 our

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 faith

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 God

00:31:51.079 --> 00:31:51.240
 we

00:31:51.240 --> 00:31:51.539
 struggle

00:31:51.539 --> 00:31:51.940
 so

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 hard

00:31:52.360 --> 00:31:53.980
 in the

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 living

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 of your

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 ways

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 but we

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 thank you

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 that you've

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 redeemed us

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 in Christ

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 you filled

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 us with

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 your spirit

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 and you've

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 given us

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 a certain

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 indestructible

00:32:04.779 --> 00:32:05.140
 hope

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 help us

00:32:06.820 --> 00:32:07.259
 as a church

00:32:07.259 --> 00:32:07.880
 to run

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 in the

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 path

00:32:09.660 --> 00:32:10.240
 of wisdom

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 and in the

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 path of

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 life

00:32:11.540 --> 00:32:12.040
 we pray

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 amen

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 so

00:32:24.079 --> 00:32:28.960
 you

00:32:29.099 --> 00:32:29.480
 you