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connects the transforming power of Jesus Christ to everyday life.

Your life is shaped by a hunger for glory, and if you're honest with yourself, you often try to

satisfy that glory with physical,

created things that were never meant to satisfy your heart. In today's episode, we'll continue

through Paul's Bible study in the book of Proverbs by looking at three more themes. If you've been

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In today's first theme,

Paul wants to look at the glory war of Proverbs.

Well, this theme that we're going to look at next

is a lot like the previous one.

When you're reading the Proverbs,

you shouldn't just read for gaining nuggets or wisdom

or just not look at the context of Proverbs,

but you should step back and ask yourself the question, what is the world

that's being described by this portion of the Word of God? What do I learn about life? What's the big

picture that's being presented to me here? And there is just glorious big picture stuff in

Proverbs that picks up the glorious big picture themes in the rest of Scripture. And one of those

themes is that we live between the already of our conversion and the not yet of our

homegoing in a right here, right now, glory war. The Proverbs is all about glory. Now let me say something about this. We

human beings were created by God with a glory orientation. We are attracted to

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