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Proverbs Class 3 Notes

The document discusses different types of fools, including the simple, silly, obstinate, and scornful fool. It also discusses leading a child to salvation through Christian parenting priorities like salvation, kingdom citizenship, and teaching about God's sovereignty and parental responsibility within a covenantal community. Finally, it analyzes the metaphor of ways and paths, implying choices that lead to destinations through a process that involves forks and transitions with momentum.

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Proverbs Class 3 Notes

The document discusses different types of fools, including the simple, silly, obstinate, and scornful fool. It also discusses leading a child to salvation through Christian parenting priorities like salvation, kingdom citizenship, and teaching about God's sovereignty and parental responsibility within a covenantal community. Finally, it analyzes the metaphor of ways and paths, implying choices that lead to destinations through a process that involves forks and transitions with momentum.

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In what ways, and in what areas, are you foolish?

When in your life have you felt you were on the wrong path? right path?
Where in your life do you have agency, privilege, power, potential, possibility?
How do you lead a child to salvation?
How do you get wisdom for yourself?

Prayer
Types of Fools
- Simple (pethiy)
• “open”
• immature, gullible, curious
• Proverbs 22:3
- Silly (eviyle)
• “thick”
• perverse, silly, unthinking, impulsive, stubborn
• Proverbs 10:14
- Obstinate (keciyl)
• “stupid”
• pleasure-driven, unreasonable, antiauthoritarian, rebellious
• Proverbs 10:23
- Scornful (luwts/lesim)
• “scoffer”
• contemptuous, derisive, mocking
• Proverbs 21:24
Character - Action - Consequence - (Environment)
connection
• Folly: not making the connection

...there are details of character small enough to escape the mesh of law and the

broadsides of the prophets, and yet are decisive in personal dealings. (Kidner, 13)

Metaphor of Ways/Paths
• implies a choice

• implies a destination/vector

• implies a process

• forks/transitions

• momentum/ruts

Christian Parenting
- Priorities
• Salvation
• Kingdom citizenship
• Human purpose
- Nature of kids
• Sinful
• Imago Dei
• Gifts
- Tradition of teaching
• God’s sovereignty
• Parents’ responsibility
• Parental instruction seen as “Torah”
- Covenantal community


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