We are going to pick it up where we left off in Proverbs chapter 28 as we make our trek through the Bible.

Book by book and chapter by chapter and verse by verse we have an interesting chapter before us tonight.

It's a chapter that has these contrasting proverbs and the contrast that we're in store for tonight is stark to say the least.

The contrast between the righteous and the unrighteous, the wise and the foolish, the evil,

the wicked, and the good. So why don't we pray and we'll ask God to bless our time together in

his word if you would join with me. Loving Heavenly Father, we're so grateful to you for this

beautiful church building that you've given us that we can come to on a Thursday night and just put aside all the

business of our day and the hectic lives that we have and put all that aside and just

give you our attention as we focus on that which you have for us here in your word tonight, Lord,

we're with great anticipation longing for you, hungry and thirsty for you to speak into our lives

and satiate that hunger and that thirst that we have. Lord, we want our

time together in your word to have the much needed impact on our lives, that which

we're going to see here tonight, that which we're going to hear tonight.

Lord, I pray that we would take heed to your word in Jesus' name. Amen. And amen.

All right, let's jump in. Verse one, right out of the shoot, we got a doozy.

The wicked flee when no one pursues, but here's the contrast.

The righteous are bold as a lion.

So this proverb speaks to how it is that when somebody knows they're doing something wrong, they're

like always looking over their shoulder, whereas the one who is walking uprightly, walking

in righteousness and integrity has this boldness, this confidence, not an arrogance, but a confidence

in the Lord. They have nothing to fear. Nobody's after them. Nobody's going to find out about them.

We're going to see this again come up as it relates to sin. You know it's wrong when you either run because of it

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