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Expository teaching through the book of Proverbs is different that anyother book. I doesn’t lend it’s self to a particular story line that we canfollow and get the history on as we go through it. It seems to be a bookof short, powerful sayings all randomly put in a book with no particularorder. But a challenge is given by Solomon in Ecclesiastes 12:9
Ecclesiastes12:9
And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the peopleknowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.
If you’ve ever been to a parade, when you are standing on the streetwatching the parade, you are only seeing what’s right in front of you.But if you were to get in a helicopter and look down on the entireparade as a whole, you’ll get a bird’s eye view and see the parade in awhole different light. You should keep a journal on the book of Proverbs, and record acommon theme that you see in every individual chapter. Then, whenwe get to the end of the book of Proverbs, we should look at the themeof every chapter as it brings us to the end of the book of Proverbs andGod will reward the diligence of every student of the bible who studiesHis Word with attentiveness.
II Timothy2:15
Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to beashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
Proverbs 10:4
He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligentmaketh rich.
Proverbs21:5
The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that ishasty only to want.
As we go through Proverbs, we are going to read each verse, anddiscuss how it applies to our lives and how it is profitable for doctrine,reproof, correction, and instruction in righteousness. Then when we getto the end, we are going to get a bird’s eye view of the entire book,and you’ll find out that it is a story that progresses. You’ll see the story
 
of the life of a young man who is being trained by his parents to be aking.Parents in the past trained their children by passing down their wordsof wisdom from generation to generation.When we read the book of Proverbs, we not only get the benefit of reading the words of wisdom that King David passed down to Solomon,and Solomon passed down to his children, we get a first hand look atparent to child training that has been inspired by God.
II Timothy3:16
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
II Timothy3:17
That the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly furnished unto all goodworks.
Solomon was a collector of dark sayings or Proverbs, so there is nodoubt that much of the words of wisdom that was collected stemmedall the way to our first parents, Adam and Eve. The first and great commandment that Jesus refers toMatthew 22:37 includes teaching our children diligently the word of God.
Deuteronomy6:4
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD:
Deuteronomy6:5
And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with allthy soul, and with all thy might.
Deuteronomy6:6
And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart:
Deuteronomy6:7
And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way,and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.
Deuteronomy6:8
And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thine hand, and they shall be asfrontlets between thine eyes.
Deuteronomy6:9
And thou shalt write them upon the posts of thy house, and on thy gates.
We are instructed to train and teach our children so that they canteach their children, so that they can teach their children, and thosechildren can teach their children from generation to generation.
Psalm78:5
For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which hecommanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:
Psalm78:6
That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
Psalm78:7
That they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of God, butkeep his commandments:
Proverbs 1:1
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
 
Solomon: 8010
המֹלֹשְׁ 
 
 Sh@lomoh
(shel-o-mo'); Proper Name Masculine, Strong #: 8010Solomon = "peace"1.son of David by Bathsheba and 3rd king of Israel; author of Proverbs and Song of Songs
God was pleased with Solomon for asking for wisdom:
I Kings3:5
In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said,Ask what I shall give thee.
I Kings3:6
And Solomon said, Thou hast showed unto thy servant David my father greatmercy, according as he walked before thee in truth, and in righteousness, and inuprightness of heart with thee; and thou hast kept for him this great kindness, thatthou hast given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.
I Kings3:7
And now, O LORD my God, thou hast made thy servant king instead of Davidmy father: and I am but a little child: I know not how to go out or come in.
I Kings3:8
And thy servant is in the midst of thy people which thou hast chosen, a great people, that cannot be numbered nor counted for multitude.
I Kings3:9
Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people, that I maydiscern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people?
I Kings3:10
And the speech pleased the Lord, that Solomon had asked this thing.
I Kings3:11
And God said unto him, Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not askedfor thyself long life; neither hast asked riches for thyself, nor hast asked the lifeof thine enemies; but hast asked for thyself understanding to discern judgment;
I Kings3:12
Behold, I have done according to thy words: lo, I have given thee a wise and anunderstanding heart; so that there was none like thee before thee, neither after thee shall any arise like unto thee.
I Kings3:13
And I have also given thee that which thou hast not asked, both riches, andhonour: so that there shall not be any among the kings like unto thee all thy days.
I Kings3:14
And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments,as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.
God gave Solomon wisdom. King Solomon wrote three thousandproverbs and wrote a thousand and five songs:
I Kings4:29
And God gave Solomon wisdom and understanding exceeding much, andlargeness of heart, even as the sand that is on the sea shore.
I Kings4:30
And Solomon’s wisdom excelled the wisdom of all the children of the eastcountry, and all the wisdom of Egypt.
I Kings4:31
For he was wiser than all men; than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol,and Darda, the sons of Mahol: and his fame was in all nations round about.
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