Proverbs 14b

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Gospel Baptist Tabernacle781 Salem Road, Rossville, GA 30741

Where the Love of God abounds, everyone is

welcome.

Children’s Church taught by Paul and Marsha

Davis during preaching.

www.rossvillechurch.com

November 20, 2013

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Proverbs 14:3 In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them. (NIV) A fool's talk brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.

The talk of a fool (ʾĕwl, one who is arrogant, hardened and thickheaded in his ways) results in his being punished with a rod on his back. Wise words, however, protect a person from such punishment.

The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures by Dallas Seminary Faculty.

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Our words reveal our character.Words of anger, malice, profanity, belittling of others, bragging words, or words of blessing.

We speak from our heart.

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4 Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

If you have no livestock, you shovel

no manure,But you have to pull

your own wagon.

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Lazy people work harder trying to get out of work than a good man would to get the job done.

Lazy man’s load

By the time she drops a package a few times,She could have made

two or three trips more easily.

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5 A faithful witness will not lie: but a false witness will utter lies.

What we are (our character) determines what we do; it’s not the other way around.

One tells lies because he is a liar; it is his nature.

But God wants to change our nature.

He wants to produce in us His Own Character.

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6 A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.

He’s looking in all the wrong places, and will not recognize wisdom when he sees it.

This is the wrong crowd in which to seek wisdom.

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7 Go from the presence of a foolish man, when thou perceivest not in him the lips of knowledge.

Anyone who speaks contrary to Scripture is foolish; he does not have lips of knowledge.

Go from his presence.

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8 The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.

We should think about whatever we are about to do;

Think about where a decision might lead us.

Potential troubleMost of our wounds are truly

self-inflicted.

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9 Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favor.

Only a very foolish person thinks that sin is something to be laughed at.

Foolish and profane men consider sin a mere trifle, to be made light of rather than mourned over. Fools mock at the sin-offering; but those that make light of sin, make light of Christ.

Matthew Henry Concise Bible Commentary.

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Sin is not a small thing to be joked about or

overlooked.

Sin is a destructive monster.

Admit it; confess your own sin; walk with God.