TEACHING SERIES — PROVERBS Proverbs 1:8–19 "My son, if sinners entice you, do not consent." — Proverbs 1:10 Solomon doesn't ease you in. He just told you that the fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge (1:7). Now, before the ink is dry on that declaration, he turns to the most immediate threat to that knowledge: the voice of sinners asking you to join them. This is not an abstract warning for a future crisis. It is a present-tense confrontation with a present-tense dang

Teaching series Proverbs Proverbs 1:7 "The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction" Solomon does not ease you into this. The very first doctrinal claim in the book of Proverbs is an epistemological one — a claim about the nature of knowledge itself. Before he addresses money, sex, friendship, speech, or any of the practical territory that fills the chapters ahead, he establishes the ground on which all of it stands. The fear of Yahwe

TEACHING SERIES — PROVERBS | PART I OF II Before Solomon gives a single command, he tells you exactly what this book will do to you — if you let it. Proverbs 1:1–6 · Part one of a two-part introduction. Part two covers verse 7. Most readers of Proverbs treat it like a collection of fortune cookies — wise sayings to be consulted when the moment demands it, then set back on the shelf. Dip in, extract a principle, move on. But that reading misses what Solomon is doing in the ope