Thursday, August 4, 2016

All Who Hate Me Love Death

Proverbs 8:36-9:2,17 – But those who fail to find me harm themselves; all who hate me love death.” Wisdom has built her house; she has set up its seven pillars. She has prepared her meat and mixed her wine; she has also set her table…“Stolen water is sweet; food eaten in secret is delicious!”

Proverbs 1:30-31 – Since they would not accept my advice and spurned my rebuke, they will eat the fruit of their ways and be filled with the fruit of their schemes.

1 Peter 2:4-5 – As you come to him, the living Stone—rejected by humans but chosen by God and precious to him—you also, like living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be a holy priesthood, offering spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

Application:

  • ·         To refuse wisdom’s “advice” is to suffer the consequences of one’s own foolish “schemes”.
  • ·         Believers are living stones that make up a spiritual temple in which, as a holy priesthood, they offer up spiritual sacrifices.
  • ·         The banquet prepared by Lady Folly seems poorer than the wine and meat of wisdom.



All Scripture verses taken from NIV

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