Watch Your Lips, Prov 17:7
Your lips are the gate keepers of your mouth. They can either let bad and untoward things come forth from your mouth or they can be used to bring forth good and beneficial things. Therefore, you need to watch your lips. There are many different kinds of lips that we find in the Bible. However, […]
A Flattering Backbiting Tongue, Ps 5:9
We have been studying the tongue. According to Jas 3:8 it is an unruly evil. Today, we are going to study the flattering, backbiting, piercing tongue. Notice the unruly evil of a: Flattering tongue – Ps 5:9 – “they flatter with their tongue.” Don’t flatter others. God despises the use of flattery [Job 32:22; Ps […]
They Provoked God, Ps 78:40
Ps 78 is a Psalm about the history of Israel’s relationship to God. It is instructive to the generations to come so they might set their hope in God, Ps 78:2-8. The future generations must learn from the mistakes of the prior generations. They provoked God with: They Provoked God With Their Forgetfulness Ps 78:7, […]
Your Words, Prov 18:8
Solomon gave you some practical instructions in Proverbs to help you choose your words. We’re going to discuss four negative references and 3 positive references to these in Proverbs. Hopefully, these will help you choose your words wisely and carefully. Negative References Concerning Your Words Gossipy – Prov 18:8; 26:22. The words of a talebearer […]
The Strange Woman, Prov 2:16-19
We will discuss the women in Proverbs this week. There are thirteen different women in Proverbs. Of these, 9 are bad women and 4 are good women. According to these numbers, Solomon deals twice as much with bad women as he does with good women. Today we will study the strange, evil woman. The strange […]
Help, Lord Ps. 12
Help, Lord Ps. 12 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Help, Lord Psalm 12 Help, Lord. David probably had personal experience with the things written in this psalm. As we walk in the world around us, we too experience these things. This passage has a Tribulation context, yet we can be helped by a present-day application. Here on […]
Flattery
Flattery Ps.12:1-4 Flattery is the act of praising someone. The sincerely of this act is what determines its worth. This verse states that when done in this way it is vanity, or worthless. Often we flatter someone because you want something from them, the Bible has a lot to say about insincere praise or […]
Favorable Rebuke Prov. 28: 23
Favorable Rebuke Prov. 28: 23 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO Prov 28:23 shows you that flattery will give you favor right now whereas rebuke will give you favor later – and there will be more favor with rebuke than there will be with flattery. We don’t often give counsel on how to get along with others on […]
A Potsherd Covered with Silver Dross Prov. 26: 23-28
A Potsherd Covered With Silver Dross Prov. 26 :23-28 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO This proverb is about a potsherd covered with silver dross. A potsherd is a fragment or piece of broken pottery – dross is the worthless material that is removed from the silver when it is refined (it’s lead or tin or something […]
Preaching in Vain 1 Thes. 2:1-6
Preaching in Vain 1 Thes 2:1-6 CLICK TITLE FOR AUDIO When Paul went to Thessalonica [Acts 17] to preach, he had come from Philippi [Acts 16] where he had been falsely accused, beaten and imprisoned with Silas. Such an experience should have caused him to “soften” his approach with the gospel to save his own neck. […]