In this Mother’s Day sermon, Pastor Babij examines a section of Proverbs dealing with the value of God’s wisdom and the need of parents to inculcate wisdom in their children. Pastor Babij explains that each person must be careful to: keep watch on wisdom so that it does not fade, secure wisdom so that it is not lost or stolen, remember wisdom so that it remains a faithful companion.
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let’s take our Bibles this morning and turn to proverbs we’re going to look at proverbs this morning proverbs chapter 6 the great wisdom book of the Old Testament proverbs chapter 6 specifically we’re going to be looking at verses 20 through 23 and as you’re turning the ls let’s have a word for let’s pray father this morning as we look at your word and thank you that you sent your son into this world he took care of everything so people can genuinely be forgiven of their sins have their sins washed away for those who trust in the lord jesus christ as their one and only Lord and Savior and those who do not trust in anything else for their salvation Lord that you provided your Holy Spirit to lead us and guide us in the truth and Lord you you in your word give us wisdom so we can know how to live life in a way that honors you and Lord you’ve been giving us a book called proverbs that tells us and gives us the wisdom that comes from above and I pray Lord as we look at this book this morning that we be able to see how wise you are and how important it is for moms and dads to raise children away from their bent to be naive and to be foolish and to be rebellious to be to be Lord someone who is wise and knows how to live I pray that you would help us to do by your word I pray in Christ’s name Amen okay proverbs chapter 6 this whole chapter really is referring to really temptations towards wickedness avoiding actually temptations towards wickedness and this particular chapter is all about parental counsel parents that give counsel to their children now before the last warning of the scripture that came before that this is now leads into an all-important exhortation that is put before the student or the learner and the exhortation comes forth in the form of a call and also the consequences if the call is not heated now I want you to think this morning about a survival kit your survival kit in your survival kit you need certain basic gear and you need that gear in order to get along every day in your survival kit you’ll have a map in a compass you’ll have a flashlight and you’ll have a sword now you’re going to be dropped off in a place you’ve never been before alone you don’t know the obstacles that are going to be before you nor the character of the people that you’ll meet you don’t know if around the bend there will be a mountain or a valley a friend or an enemy you don’t know that but a wise person has an advantage in other words we have been dropped off in this world we have to navigate this world and we don’t know in this world all the obstacles that are going to be before us we don’t always know the character of the people that were going to meet we don’t know at the next bend if there’s going to be a mountain to climb or if there’s going to be a valley to be stuck in or if we’re going to meet a friend that will help us or an enemy that will be against us what a wise person again has an advantage they have been well taught and trained in the Word of God their eyes are king their ears are attentive their heart is filled with the fear and the reverence of God and they’re ready to step out on their own and live in this world with some success because they’re wise now let’s just say that you’re the wise one because you have been listening to wise tutors you have been obeying you have been growing in the wisdom of God’s Word you have been putting it into practice you have been thinking about it now you’re going off on your own and you’re departing from your home with a well supplied survival kit everything contained in it is for surviving anything that comes your way and the bottom line is to continue to obey what you have already learned so then the excitation this morning really would be to continue on the path of obedience and of course specifically the context is speaking to young adults who leave home obedience will be paramount for their service or survival especially when they leave out from among their own parents and the people in the church that they grew up with and they’re going out into the world so there’s a need for continual reminding because the temptations of life always want to appeal to your remaining corruption they want to cause you to give up the standard of righteousness that you were taught from the Word of God to loosen your grip around what is wise to give it up for something that’s foolish to give in to your own lust in your own passions there’s always temptations that will want to bring you a way that you’ve not been if you’ve been walking in righteousness you will start to hear other voices and remember the voice of folly will cry aloud for your attention you’re always listening to someone either yourself which is heavily influenced by the flesh with its passions and desires you will listen to the world and it’s system which is ungodly and gives an ungodly influence or manipulated by the master deceiver Satan himself or you’ll continue in obedience to listen to wisdom to take your example from wise people who taught you to fear and obey the Lord so really that’s the context of this particular chapter it is the parents that have taught the children the wisdom of God’s Word and now they are now going off they’re starting to break loose from their parents and they’re going to go on their own so this morning I would like to show you from the Word of God the call to obedience brings certain things with it and the first thing is that the call to obedience is to keep watch on the wisdom that you were taught if you were taught wisdom from the Word of God so that it does not fade from your sight all right hold on to the wisdom so it doesn’t fade from your sight of course this particular chapter applies to all of us and if you notice the first verse in Proverbs chapter 6 verse number 20 it says this my son observed the commandment of your father and do not forsake the teaching of your mother now that passage is addressed to wise parents making the instruction they had given their children now the very foundation of what their go they’re going to live once they leave the home in other words they gave the priority of God’s Word to their children maybe that’s the greatest that is the greatest gift that you can give your children the wisdom to live in this world see nothing is more important than teaching children about life from God’s perspective there’s nothing more important than that frees the reason why is because they’re getting their perspective from everywhere else but the Lord people in the church should be getting it from the Word of God and of course God’s perspective means that you’ll be teaching your kids the realities and the consequences of wisdom and folly you’ll be teaching your children the reality is reality is and consequences of righteousness and wickedness and that you’ll be teaching your children the realities and consequences of truth and error in fact God considers godly instruction to be a greater value than anything else parents can give their young adults when they leave home if you’ve been doing that all along they have something to take with that if parents don’t teach their children faith and obedience it could cost them his or her life now if you take your Bibles for a minute turn to chapter one back to chapter one of Proverbs and I want you to notice something because he’s not saying here here my son as he did in chapter one verse number 8 see the Sun in other words already received the call to hear it says in chapter 1 verse 8 here my son your father’s instruction so see here it’s an imperative in chapter 6 that the Sun put a lot of effort into hearing with attention and interest what his wise father and wise mother was teaching him about God and God’s perspective on life and he they taught that so he could understand and then practice the truth so in other words this was no dull hearing this is a child that actually grasp the truth actually wanted the truth it actually means there was a keen attentive hearing on the part of the student on the part of the child that they were taking it in like a sponge maybe they didn’t understand everything all at once but they were taking it in and they were listening to it now we get the chapter 6 and verse number 20 and this is how it says it it doesn’t say now here my son your father’s instruction it says my son observed the commandments of your father in other words here the imperative to observe the expression is more than just looking at it or hearing it it means that the truth that you learned can guard you it can keep you from harm it is in other words a settled command already in the mind and the heart of the child so the Word of God is really saying to the young person keep it close to you keep the wisdom that you learn from the Word of God and from your wise parents keep it close to you so it doesn’t get lost so it doesn’t get stolen because of its of the greatest it’s it’s greater than anything else it’s of higher value and more delicate nature than anything else of course what was the command what did the command include that the father was supposed to teach well the instruction that he was supposed to teach was the Torah a right in the Old Testament that means he was to teach the Mosaic law all right in other words how to live before the eyes of the Lord he was to give instruction about the human and the divine wisdom that a person would need to live skillfully in this world he was to be taught the prophetic teaching of the coming Messiah so he would know that when he left God had a hope and a future for his people and then also he would be taught the legal directives on what to do and what not to do and then he would be given the law of burnt offering and that would be how do you approach God in the right way how do you approach God as a sinner so you don’t get consumed by God but you can actually come into his presence and be forgiven by him and have a relationship with them so they were taught all those things in other words they were taught the whole counsel of God all of Scripture which contained all the necessary instructions for a wise and a godly life so here he seems to be speaking to a son who has been fully trained reminding him about what he learned and and from whom he learned it there is nothing new here’s just another reminder of remember to listen to the right voices listen to the voice of wisdom and don’t forget it in other words the passage that Duane read this morning in the Word of God where Paul reminded young a young pastor named Timothy in the Epistle of second Timothy chapter 3 verses 13 through 15 where he says but evil men and imposters will proceed from bad to worse deceiving and being deceived you however continued in the things you have learned and become convinced of and then he says this knowing whom you have learned them all right and that from a child you have known the sacred writings which are able to give you wisdom that leads to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus where did Timothy learn the sacred writing that he learned them from famous people with great intellectual minds and many degrees no you learned them well he learned that from his grandmother and from his mother and as the Bible tells us that in 2nd Timothy 15 it’s a try a mindful of the sincere faith it within you which was first that first welt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice and I am sure that it is in you as well in other words that what they learned is inside of them it’s it’s embedded in their mind and in their heart it is there for keeps that’s the power of wisdom and every child needs it before they go into this world because there are too many temptations out there and they’re not getting both sides of the story they’re just getting one side of the sword so remember realize the prominent role both parents play in the shaping of character in their children in convincing that by not only their words but their life that the scripture is true and the scripture can be relied upon that the scripture is sufficient for giving us everything we need for life and godliness everything is sound in the word of God so if you notice back right there in Proverbs there’s an exhortation that is giving not to abandon what they learned and notice what it says here it says do not forsake your mother’s teaching alright in other words don’t lay it aside don’t reject it don’t cast it off don’t let it live follow all right where the gays or it gets covered with garbage and junk where it can’t be rep rescued again now why is that said because the wise sages instructions were filled with god-fearing observations of how life under divine control really works how it really looks see the preparation given by the wise parent is not to be laid aside when leaving the home this means that the parents instructions will be the foundation in which they will build a superstructure of knowledge from that day forward if it is cast off everything crumbles so this is always the temptation for young people to think that they have outgrown the home to think that they have outgrown the church’s truth that is the word of God that they were taught while they were growing up here the truth is driven home that you really get to put all the instruction into practice once you do leave the home what you do leave the home you will pretty much know quickly what’s in that survival kit your map and compass is the guidance that was you from the word of wisdom your flashlight is the illumination of the Word of God upon what is true and what is false and the sword is the protection that the Word of God gives you to be able to resist temptation to be able to resist the evil one so young people someday someone some thing may entice you in tempt you to cast off biblical teaching for something you think at the moment more practical or more rational or maybe just flesh appealing more flush appealing exciting if you do it will reveal a deeper spiritual problem it will show your affections have moved in another direction away from the Lord to another objects of course the Bible calls that idolatry some idolatry that will come into your life I say this don’t give in to those temptations hold fast to the faith the body of doctrine that you have learned that has been delivered to the church seek godly counsel to get your affections back on the Lord and your mind and hard back into the Word of God and why is that because wisdom lived out has a certain Beauty to it if you look back at chapter 1 again and if you notice verse number 8 and 9 that there’s a crown that comes with living wisely it was bruce bochy who said of this passage of Scripture well it says that the skill of living out your life beautifully so it demonstrates a skill or beauty about it that people can actually see look at verse number 8 of chapter 1 here my son your father’s instructions and do not forsake your mother’s teaching verse 9 indeed they are graceful wreaths to your head and adornment about your neck so in other words Solomon wrote the is this book so that when you live out your life it could have actual Beauty to it purpose to it meaning to it that fearing God and acting upon parental instruction has an eye-catching beauty about it in the world in the place that you’re going to go and obedience is beautiful and makes a person delightfully stand out amongst those around them there’s nothing like a young person who has wisdom there’s nothing like a young person it knows when to say no and believe it or not you’ll be saying no most of your life and not yes very few times especially when it comes to temptation say no a lot but that’s all right the Bible says let your yes be yes and your no be no there’s no gray area when it comes to say no dissent and no to temptation see but a wise person knows why because they thought about it they said they thought that in my mind if I do this then this is going to happen they thought the beginning of the middle in the end before they even said yes or no and they decided after concluding the end results that I’ll not do this because it’s not the wise thing to this it’s not what I learned from my parents not what I learned from the Word of God it is not what I learned so therefore I’m not going so see the call to obedience is first a call not to let the wisdom of God’s Word to fade out of your sight you want to keep it in your site a second thing we find in this passage of scripture that in chapter 6 is the call to obedience is to secure the wisdom that you were taught so that it is not lost or stolen and if you notice in verse 21 of chapter 6 it says this bind them continually on your heart hi them around your neck now what is just what is it talking about they’re talking about wisdom it’s talking about the truth in God’s Word what are you supposed to do with it it says buying them continually don’t let them go by the wayside and then tie them so they don’t come loose so they don’t get jolted out of your mind and your heart see the heart is the response or II of the teaching so we have another imperative here to bind something bind it so it does not jar loose so that wisdom is the guide to offering the whole being up to righteous thinking and righteous living so here it’s different than when it was first mentioned in proverbs chapter three proverbs chapter 3 says it like this bind them around your neck and then write them on the tablet of your heart but now it’s already written there it’s already been placed around the person’s neck so now as they leave out don’t let it jar loose so proverbs chapter 6 verse 21 the wise person is ordered to bind them to their to their heart continually and tie it around their neck continually so they are together so there are several things that really come to mind when we think about this picture of binding something around ones neck the first would be that a human’s a human being really their prompt human beings are prone to going their own way without some guidance and then also they are prone to wandering secondly they are prone to lose things right and the scriptures giving us a picture that listen what you were taught don’t lose it don’t give it away don’t lay it aside this is not lip service to the teachers instructions but really a hearty agreement and a real practical continual commitment by the student to obey what they already know is true today to obey what they already know is right so the teachers instructions in other words are so embedded in the heart of the young people that it influences every choice they make every movement they have in this life that’s the power of the word of God the Word of God once it is in you once it is on your heart and coupled with the desire to want to obey it can direct you and keep you from sin so the teachings of the parents are analogous to the commands of Moses actually they are Apple tepeyac that means they’re able to ward off evil they are able to safeguard against evil so they’re teaching is to be concrete tized in the inner man like concrete hardens you know those who work with concrete know that concrete poured for sidewalks and steps actually takes about twenty eight days to cure completely become hard then it becomes of course hearts heart of steel making it very difficult to break make it very difficult to come apart so it is saying here let the teaching of wisdom be cemented to your hearts and let it cure until it becomes so much a part of you it cannot be broken it cannot be stolen it cannot be easily laid aside that’s what he says to those who are young who have been taught and now they’re leaving and they’re going off and they need this survival kit more than anything else in the world so the wise father and the mothers teachings are personified as a guide as a guardian and of course next in our passage as a companion I want you to notice in verse 22 the third thing that goes with the call of obedience is not to forget the comprehensive faithfulness of wisdom so that it will remain a close contain yin to you so the Bible asking us to think about wisdom as a companion someone who is alongside of you right someone wherever you go it goes with you and so there’s about three regular movements of life that the Bible mentions right here that none of us can get away with or none of us nuts none of us and get away from because we all are involved with these movements and here’s the first movement the movement in verse 22 of roaming all right in other words it says when you walk about they will guide you when you’re roaming about when you’re traveling around the wisdom will lead you in other words when you make your way from place to place and transfer a traverse through this strange world wisdom will lead you it will be your map and your compass it will help you navigate through the most difficult obstacles and circumstances all of us are going to be roaming we’re going to be roaming from home or to work from home to school from visiting people from going places from traveling we’re going to be roaming and as we roam through this world there’s a companion that goes along with you and that companion is the wisdom that God’s taught from the Word of God it will actually guide you the Bible set a second thing is this we all are going to be sleeping right we’re going to go to sleep every day we need sleep sleep has certain benefits to it but I want you to notice the benefit of being wise what it does when you sleep it says in verse 22 it says when you sleep they will watch over you who will watch over you they will not only the wisdom that you were taught but also the ones who taught the wisdom and the God who gave the wisdom see in other words when you lie down wisdom will protect you it will be a faithful mate at your side it will be a friend and a helper to you in other words wisdom will always be there it it will always be faithful it’s hu that will be on paper you will not it will never be wisdom that on paper always be us that’s see wisdom will be in your heart in your mind as a referee of what is true and what is false what is God’s ways and what are the other ways that lead to trouble into destruction so even when you are sleeping it will be in your mind it will be in your heart it will give you I believe restful sleep a person who is wise is prone to sleep with rest because they’ve made wise decisions they thought about the decision they said no to some of those decisions which protected them from evil which protects them from walking or stepping into temptation the truth doesn’t change at all wisdom doesn’t change circumstances may change people may change but the truth of god’s word abides forever it doesn’t change at all it’s always consistent and so therefore because it’s consistent it can be trusted so when you’re roaming it will guide you when you’re sleeping it will watch over you and then one other thing in verse 22 it says awake when you’re awake it will talk to you that’s amazing when you when you awake wisdom will advise you don’t we need other people to talk to us about what we’re doing well you know what there’s a certain strength and power to wisdom that when you wake up you’ll be hearing the speech of wisdom can meet being communicate you just like when you when you’re learning the word of god you’re you’re thinking about you’re meditating on the Word of God and it talks to you it tells you what is good and holy and right it tells you which way not to go it tells you the things that please God it talks to you know we need to not only allowed wisdom to talk to us we need to talk to ourselves soon because we need to be telling ourselves or learning with the Bible’s teaching us so in other words the wisdom will when you awake it will advise you and biblical wisdom is not like a dream in which you cannot recall it is a strong consistent voice that continually remind you of what is holy good and right and believe me of conscience that has been conditioned by the Word of God is a loud voice and either you’re going to say no to that boy so you’re gonna say yes to that voice when you step out and you meet people who want you to want to tempt you away from what you already know is right and holy and good and what will please your parents and what of course will please the Lord see that’s what wisdom is keep it close to keep it like a close companion for you and if you do it will guide you and watch over you and it will talk to you because it has something to say it has content to it it has extreme amount of skill to it to be able to give you the ability to slice through all the garbage that you’re going to receive in this world by way of literature and speech and be able to cause you to know what is true what is not so the wise father and the wise mothers teaching are personified as a guide as a guardian as a companion but next is objectified as a lamp and a way and i want you to notice in verse 23 of Proverbs because the call to obedience here is to use wisdom to illumine the difficult path of life so that while passing through the thorny periods of life you will gain wisdom and learn from it and not quit so it says in verse 23 for the commandment is a lamp and the teaching is light and reproofs for Discipline are the way of life now several things going on here in this passage first of all it tells us here that listen the commandment is a lamp that means the essential nature of what has been taught by the parents by way of command by way of imperatives will illumine your surroundings no I guess today instead of going to the store and buying a you don’t buy a 60-watt light bulb anything you have to say can I have a bulb that has 800 lumens see the language they change the language on it confuses us right but you know what maybe a looming says it better than 60 watts 800 lumen hope it’s about a 60 watt hole right because it tells us that if I go up to a thousand lumens I know the bulb is going to be brighter if I go below eight hundred or a thousand I know it’s going to be less from the Bible is saying here the commandment has lumens to it that is gives you the ability to know what’s going on around you that illuminates the darkness that shows you where the potholes are the obstacles are the people who the people are that you are coming into your life and to be able to give you the ability to discern that it’s like what is written in Psalm 19 verse 8 the precepts of the Lord are right rejoicing the heart the commandment of the Lord is pure enlightening the eyes see there’s a certain amount of light or lumens that come with a lamp but the Bible also says this it says for the commandment is a lamp and teaching is light to the comparison of the wise parent teaching to a lamp or giving light is something that cannot be ignored in Scripture because it’s all over the place for example in proverbs 13 verse number 9 it says this the light of the righteous rejoice and the lamp of the wicked go out so there’s a certain amount of light that comes with a righteous life but for someone who lives in wickedness their life just hits darker and darker till they have no light at all and then in psalm 119 in verse number 105 the word is a lamp to my feet and a what-a-light to my tack so she lights is also used in the Old Testament as a figure of denoting the salvation bestowed by God upon his children for it says this in Isaiah 43 verse 30 send out your light and your truth let them leave me let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling places again this is the same thing that Paul told Timothy listen the Word of God will lead you to salvation because why it’s a lamp and it’s light it cannot lie to you it must tell you the truth it must illumine the way it must show you the dangers in your life and then it says this in verse 23 it is the way of life the way of life now if you read on I want you to notice something in chapter 6 and verse number 24 it says this it gives some practical advice to hear the young man the young person it says in verse number 24 all that what is it going to do where’s 24 to keep you from the evil woman from the smooth tongue of the adulteress do not desire her beauty in your heart nor let her capture you with her eyelids for on account of a harlot one is reduced to a loaf of bread and an adulterous hunts for the precious life can a man take fire in his bosom and his clothes not be burned or can a man walk on hot coals and his feet not be skorts so is the one who goes into his neighbor’s wife whoever touches her will not go unpunished in other words the Bible saying listen this kind of wisdom will keep you from evil will keep you from not only evil circumstances but from evil people that want to lure you away from the way of life that is led by lit by a lamp and led by a light that illumines your path so you can know where you’re walking next that if there’s an obstacle you’ll know how to go around it if you have to or you know how to hurtle it whatever you need to do that’s what the Word of God that’s what wisdom will do it will be able it is able to do that and then it also says this in verse number 23 it says not only for the commandment is a lamp and the teaching is light it says and reproofs and discipline are the way of life recruits and discipline are the way of life now in the midst of walking through this world there are going to be something foot certain things that are hard in fact it talks about recruits in discipline in a plural way that proverbs 10 verse 17 says he is on the path of life who heeds instruction but he hurt sakes reproofs goes astray that along the way in other words are going to have to be reprimanded why usually those who are wiser than you and your new some times need to be told that you’re wrong when you’re going the wrong way it also tells us in Proverbs a man who hardens his neck after much reproved well sudden will suddenly be broken beyond remedy in other words reproof has a certain way to teach us that no other way can teach us the hard road is going to teach us more than the easier just like the rod applied to the backside of a child is going to teach them more at least that certain point in their life then words will write in fact the rod will drive away rebellion so the child remains obedient so the teaching of wisdom really will be a reliable guide a watchful guard an agreeable companion if you follow them you will kept from not only immoral and evil circumstances but immoral and evil people because you’ll know how to steal so steer clear of them and you know are the most basic responsibilities of parents is to teach a child to obey their voice that has to start real real young teach em to listen to your voice a child knows when you’re fooling around with your voice a child knows when you mean it a child knows when you really mean business just by the way you use your voice but if a child no matter which way you use your voice never listens to you that child is a rebellious child and that child needs to be discipline that child needs reproof and of course when they’re young the Bible teaches us that we are to apply of course corporal punishment to their backside I know that’s not popular today I know that’s not something that many people do because they think they’re wiser than God but it says he who withholds his rod hates his son and he who loves him disciplines him diligently that when the rod is applied at a young age to a young child it is driving away rebellion from their heart so that that child obeys the voice of their parents and so that discipline becomes less and less and less as the child listens more and more and more the parents are afraid to reprimand and discipline their children today so they go to the world for wisdom and what does the world system tell them it tells them we have drugs that will take care of your child’s behavior today drugs have replaced discipline see the hard issues and the rebellion and the folly and the ignorance is never dealt with because they believed that their child is misbehaving because behaving just because of a behavioral problem that can be solved by giving him or her a drug if the child is misbehaving parents are in fact encouraged today to give their children drugs even by the administration’s that have authority over your children drugs like ritalin a psychostimulant and ensena me type of drug that suppresses behavior as they say it stimulates the central nervous system and and is used to lift the mood or control the appetite well when I was a kid it was called the drug is called uppers but i guess the children in children it kind of does the opposite in a compton down that’s called downer i put i really put a big question mark on the modern clinical excuses for child’s we’re building a wide trial won’t listen or wild child won’t sit still when they can sit still for two hours instead of a video game and yet they can’t sit 10 minutes in front of right and good instruction right why the reason why because they don’t watch it all right you know what that’s called rebellion and rebellion has to be dealt with so i have a big question about that in fact parents are being told that their children are have affliction such as a DD attention deficit disorder or ADHD attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or APD antisocial personality disorder or odg you get my point that there’s there’s a term for everything that you have you listened to a commercial they say oh have you had these symptoms as these symptoms when you raise your arm doesn’t your shoulder hurt now goes well you need this drug go get your stuff the problem is that psychosomatic problems cannot be diagnosed with any kind of test they’re just behavior so all these really describe a rebellious sent selfish defiant child does not want to listen to the voice of his parents teachers or authority figures but do they want to do what they want and the real sinful conduct is never driven from them but only masked by drugs so that means when they come into this world according to the Word of God they are already foolish they all already naive and they already have the potential to be Stoppers and they are not going to become wise unless they are talk with them you cannot get wisdom from any other in any other way but to be taught it it must be taught by the parents it must be taught from the Word of God and it must be must be spoken and lived before children so see parents who have this kind of view of life alright who want to raise their children why do what you want to raise your children in with wisdom because you want to drive as far away from them than being naive as you can you want to drive as far away from them then being rebellious as you can or being foolish to foolishness that’s in their hard drive it from then so they are why so they know what they ought to do when they go into the world so from our passage of Scripture obedience is key to continual growth in wisdom and godliness in other words keep yourselves well taught and trained keep your eyes king keep your ears attentive keep your heart filled with the fear and the reverence of the Lord and then you will keep a well supplied survival kit and remain armed to deal with anything that may come at you on this side eternity as you live your life the map and compass is wisdom from the Word of God and from your wives and godly Guardians wisdom that will let you know where you’re at how far you have come and if you are heading in the right direction and then a flashlight is wisdom the wisdom of the Word of God that sheds light on different trails so that you can stay on the right trail and the one that honors the Lord and is what the one who realizes how to honor their Lord and their wives teachers and then the sword is the wisdom that will give you strength fight against the evil ideologies and the evil people who can and will lead you astray if you let them that’s their home motive is to lead you astray to get disciples for themselves and the thing that will protect you from all of that is wisdom that comes from above to the Word of God through the teaching of your pastors teachers initial teachers parents love God’s words into your mind and into your heart until you get it until it’s stuck there till it’s cut it’s like hard concrete that you cannot lose and that when you roam about it’s going to be your guide when you go to sleep it’s going to give you rest and when you wake up it’s going to talk to you with a louder voice than anyone else and that’s going to be the key to making it through this life to the end in a way that honors top honors your teachers and gives you a life that looks beautiful before other people and I believe that’s what everybody but you got to put the working you got to put the effort in that’s God sanctify his children sets them apart what God is working in you have to work out all right so the cooperation with God’s doing in your life and work it out so continual obedience that the truth of God’s Word is paramax for survival let’s pray lord thank you again for the word of God it is Lord truly a lamp that illumines our path it is truly a light that shines bright before us to let us know what troubles ahead it is the very thing that we need Lord that without it we just stumble and trip and fall all for our life so I pray Lord today not with all those who hear but for the young people especially the Lord the young people that are now in trade school or college are on their own I pray Lord Jesus they would always remember if they were given godly parents if they were given parents were really truly saved and cared about the Word of God I lived it before them that they would not forget that that Lord they too would have a desire in their heart that someday when they have children they’re going to be a serious about it and maybe more serious and their parents or and Lord if you didn’t grant that to everyone to have wives and godly parents so I pray Lord it you still grant salvation to all who come to Jesus Christ to be saved and so I pray for those Lord that they could be the first generation of not only having treasuring wisdom in their own heart but they too would pick a spouse that is already living for you in loves you and that they would want to raise their children as first generation Chris in this world wisely so I pray you would give them the boldest say they need lord give them what the strength that they need to do that in this world because I know Lord they’re swimming upstream and it’s hard but I I know Lord you give us the strength to be able to carry out everything you tell us in the word of god and I pray as you as we put it into practice lord please raise up keep-keep of godly generation in these days that know how to live wise and I prayed this in your precious name amen let’s stand together