HOLY BIBLE
What Kind of Life are You Building? (Proverbs 24:3-7)
are there friends welcome back to the morning mindset is good to be here with you again it's weird. Dining in delving in man if I can talk this morning and be a great thing we are diving into the Proverbs chapter 24 today will be looking up verses 3 through 7 and I want to start by asking you this question what kind of Life are you building first off are you aware that you're building a life every single day the actions you take the mindset behind those actions and the motives that are moving you in life are building a life for you and my questions what kind of Life are you building is going to be directly related to the kinds of actions that you are carrying out in the reasons behind those actions this topic is actually a topic we covered on a podcast that my wife and I are probably from now called God-fearing kids and the parents who raised them you
 find more about that podcast a God-fearing kids.com if your parent I encourage you find the podcast listen learn what God says about parents in the kind of home they build in order to raise their children in a Godly way. Proverbs 24:3 through 7 says that says by wisdom a house is built and by understanding it is established the song is just talking about building a construction you know I house it a physical house to live in he's using it as an analogy for the kind of life and the kind of environment that you're building for yourself and for your family and he says the right kind of dwelling the right kind of environment is built through wisdom and true understanding and cause we're reading scripture here it's implied he's talking about wisdom that comes from God and understanding of God and of his ways
 riversport it says by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches so you see the good things that come out of a good home
 are produced through knowledge through a wise kind of living it's not just happenstance and it doesn't just come from getting the right job with the right title with the right paycheck it comes through wisdom and it comes to knowledge of our spy says a wise man is full of strength and a man of knowledge enhances his might so notice here Solomon's connecting wisdom and knowledge to actual strength in life he said you become strong when you're wise and when you're knowledgeable you enhance your might you might say you enhance her influence you and Hansa your capabilities you would he answer your place in the world when you learn wisdom in you apply it through knowledge or 6S for by wise guidance you can wage your war and in abundance of counselors there is Victory so notice he's expanding the picture here he saying
 you can gain wisdom in all kinds of ways but one way is to the guidance of others who've been down the path already and your plans whatever they may be he uses the analogy War here he says you can gain victory in those plans through wise guidance and you're getting the Council of others who have been down the road ahead of you that's really what we're trying to do in our God-fearing kids podcast we're trying to pass along the wisdom God has given to us as we raised five children and they're all adults now to those who are looking to raise God-fearing kids themselves so again. Free kids.com look for 7 now it says wisdom is too high for a fool in the gate key does not open his mouth so what is that about in the gate thing the wise people the Elders of the village used to sit at the gate
 and make judgments in court cases so to speak or they would give wisdom that we make plans for the city they would together as kind of a Town Council make decisions for the people the inhabitants of their community and you sang a fool maybe they're in the gate but he's not going to open his mouth cuz he didn't have anything to say you should wisdom is too high for him that's what friends was Solomon his Dentures he painted a picture for us of the kind of people we need to be in order to build the kind of life we want to build the life of godliness a Life of Christ saturated focus and it comes through wisdom comes to knowledge so where are the places you can get wisdom and knowledge will Solomon reveals to cancel route guidance
 one of our main sources of that consists of scripture that's why we're doing Proverbs right now it's just so full of wisdom
 so Jesus please teach us today how to apply the wisdom of your word practically and accurately in the way we live our lives fill us up with your wisdom. You were just starting it so that guy that knowledge and wisdom to rooms of our home will be filled with precious and pleasant riches and blessing for a family's enable us to be strong between hansar might enter into it's for your sake through the wisdom that you get bored and it was time for victory or cause you fill us with wisdom and knowledge Lord make us to wise who represent you well in this world in Jesus name