Proverbs. By the grace of God, we'll finish off Proverbs chapter 1 today, verses 20 to 33.

And we're looking at this little mini-series within chapter 1, and that is the way of wisdom is

speaking to you. Wisdom is personified in the Bible. Very interesting. Wisdom is obviously

an attribute of God. In fact, so much so, the Bible saysdom is obviously an attribute of God.

In fact, so much so, the Bible says that there's the wisdom of God

and there's the wisdom of this world.

One is heavenly and divine.

The other one is selfish and sensual.

And that is man's energy and man's labor to do evil.

The Bible views that as earthly wisdom.

Wow.

Perfecting evil is worldly wisdom.

True wisdom, the one that works, is from God.

It is a divine characteristic.

And so as we do this together, the notes,

you can scan the QR code and get all of the notes

and all of the references into your device.

I won't cover all the verses,

but they'll be there for you if you do that.

And we'll read it together, though we're very familiar. I'll start in verse 20. If you pick it up in

verse 21, Proverbs chapter 1, verse 20, wisdom calls aloud outside. She raises her voice in the open squares. She cries out in the chief concourses at the

openings of the gates in the city. She speaks her words. How long, you simple ones, will you love

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