The book of Proverbs, it's not themed out like in the other book of the Bible.

So, for example, if you are teaching in the book of Matthew or Exodus or First John or Ephesians,

you've got a theme that flows through and it's gorgeous, how all that works.

And then you come to the book of Proverbs, which is like shotgun, buckshot

theology. It's remarkable. And so the whole nature of the book of Proverbs is not a preaching style

delivery, but it's more like table talk.

How are we going to do that on Sunday mornings? I don't know. You're fine. I think you're fine.

You'll sit there and you'll figure out if I'm doing an okay job or not on it.

But let's just remember this, the book of Proverbs. This is something where in the book of Proverbs, you're to basically sit down with someone and

go through the book of Proverbs or just yourself and read them.

One by one, even though you'll see many times where there's repetition, it's one by one.

And so I'm going to really ask all of you guys between now and next Sunday to please pray for me as to how, here's my goal, is to get through

one chapter a week by picking out three of the prevailing proverbs out of one chapter. Does that make sense to you?

Great, because it makes no sense to me whatsoever.

That is so not my style, you know me.

I'd rather camp in a chapter for a couple of months.

But, book of Proverbs, look, we all need it.

There's a reason why I think God has led us to go to this book,

is that it is the book of wisdom. And with all of the knowledge that we are acquiring as a civilization, as a people, knowledge in the way of technologies, knowledge defined in the sense of

learning certain things.

We scarcely can call it even actually knowledge.

Yes, hallelujah, our astronauts are back home.

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