Wisdom: Applying Truth Correctly

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Wisdom Applying Truth Correctly

• New Life ABF

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What is Wisdom?

• How do we get it? Where does it come from? What
  does it look like? Hw do we do it? Can we give it
  to others? How important is it? How do we get it?
  . . .

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Proverbs 17
??The fear of the Lord is the beginning of
knowledge Fools despise wisdom and instruction.

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Proverbs 910
The ??fear of the Lord is the beginning of
wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is
understanding.
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What is Wisdom?

• How do we get it? Where does it come from? What
  does it look like? Hw do we do it? Can we give it
  to others? How important is it? How do we get it?
  . . .

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What is it?

• Truth applied correctly
• The wisdom that is the subject of Proverbs is
  not merely intellectual and philosophical. It is
  practical, involving what the person who is wise
  does in any given situation. It is ethical,
  meaning that it gives moral guidance and leads to
  right living. And it is religious, in that its
  foundation is Gods wisdom as the book states,
  The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom
  (9.10). William David Reyburn and Euan McG. Fry,
  A Handbook on Proverbs, UBS handbook series
  Helps for translators (New York United Bible
  Societies, 2000), 15.

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Cont.

• Commentaries on Proverbs generally give some sort
  of definition of the meaning of wisdom. Etienne
  Charpentier, for instance, says this
• Wisdom is the art of living a good life, seeking
  what leads to life and not to death. It is a
  reflection on the great human questions life,
  death, love, suffering, evil, mens relationship
  with God and with one another, social life, etc.
  (How to Read the Old Testament, page 80).
• William David Reyburn and Euan McG. Fry, A
  Handbook on Proverbs, UBS handbook series Helps
  for translators (New York United Bible
  Societies, 2000), 15.

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Forms

• The attempt to identify and isolate wisdom
  literature on the basis of form criticism has not
  been successful. That is, one cannot say that the
  proverb is the characteristic form of wisdom
  since a great deal of what must be reckoned as
  wisdom literature is not in the proverbial
  form.?? Wisdom cannot be confined to certain
  forms, nor can certain forms be confined to
  wisdom literature. Nevertheless, as a matter of
  observation and classification, it is possible to
  assert that certain forms are most frequently
  found in wisdom literature. Duane A. Garrett,
  vol. 14, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, Song of Songs,
  electronic ed., Logos Library System The New
  American Commentary (Nashville Broadman Holman
  Publishers, 2001, c1993), 29.

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What are we talking about?

• Proverbs
• Ecclesiastes
• Do you pursue it?
• 1 Cor. 119-323
• James 15-8, 313-18
• So what is it? Ultimately?
• 1 Cor. 12430 Col. 21-15

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Why so Disappointed?

• Grande - GRAHN-day
• adj. large, big, great, wide grown-up, adult,
  major strong, grand 

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We want . . .

• X Y / 2.142775268 - ? Life is a Bowl of
  Cherries

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Wisdom Literature

• Not just a formula

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Why?
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Some Helpful Reminders

• Gen 216-17
• Romans 818-39
• 1 Thess. 11-10
• Revelation

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The only Formula

• ChristLife

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We Wait for Consummation

• we wait

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Wisdom Applying Truth Correctly

• New Life ABF