Would you turn with me this evening to Proverbs the fourth chapter?

Proverbs the fourth chapter.

We've been talking about the spiritual man for months now.

And I keep thinking I'm about through and then I see that I'm not.

And we begin, you know, talking about controlling the flesh and how not to be flesh ruled and flesh dominated.

We want to be strong spiritually like the master.

And there are spiritual principles that govern, scriptural principles that govern spiritual

development, just like physical development.

Well, I'm getting ahead of myself a little bit.

Go to 1 Timothy 4, then we'll go to Proverbs 4.

Go to 1 Timothy 4.

Let's read this, then let's go to Proverbs. In 1 Timothy,

the fourth chapter, he says this in verse 6. 1 Timothy 4, 6. Said, if you put the brethren in

remembrance of these things, you'll be a good minister

of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith, and of good doctrine whereunto

you have attained, but refuse profane and old wives' fables and exercise yourself rather under

godliness.

For bodily exercise profiteth little, the margin says, for a little time.

But godliness is profitable under all things having promise of the life that now is and

of that which is to come.

He mentions two basic things here.

He says nourished up in the words of faith and exercising yourself in godliness, he compares it to physical exercise.

...