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Proverbs chapter 1 verse 5.

Let the wise hear and increase in learning and the one who understands obtain guidance.

This verse amiss this opening chapter in Proverbs is so important for us to hear and

understand. So there are there are other verses including verse 7 here in

Proverbs chapter 1 that really in a sense sum up the message of proverbs the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge

fools despise wisdom and instruction but the reason I'm drawn today particularly to verse five is because of the humility and

teachability that the Bible equates with wisdom.

Let the wise hear.

I just think about that phrase, even those two words,

wise here, if we want to be wise we must hear but the wise here an

increase in learning that implies that there's a need for increase in learning and

when you think about it that's in a sense the heart of foolishness the foolishness the

foolish thinks he or she has it figured out.

Thinks he or she knows it all, knows what is best, and is not willing to hear, is not willing to learn, does not see the need to learn, the one who understands,

obtain guidance.

The whole picture you're in Proverbs Chapter 1 is that we lack understanding, that we need to increase in learning, that we need to

hear from God's word, and wisdom is found in these things, in hearing, in learning, in increasing in learning, in growing, in

growing and understanding, in obtaining guidance,

and these are things that are not natural to us.

We are naturally inclined toward foolishness,

and foolishness plays out and not listening to God's word

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