Proverbs 29:18

Two Key Ideas

1. God’s Word gives me .

2. changes how I .

1. I must what God is .

📖  Proverbs 29:18 ESV If people can't see what God is doing, they stumble all over themselves; But when they attend to what he reveals, they are most blessed. 

📖  Proverbs 29:18 ESV Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint...

📖  1 Samuel 3:1 ESV Now the boy Samuel was ministering to the LORD in the presence of Eli. And the word of the LORD was rare in those days; there was no frequent vision.

📖  Exodus 32:25 ESV "And when Moses saw that the people had broken loose (for Aaron had let them break loose...)"

📖  2 Kings 6:17ESV "O LORD, please open his eyes that he may see."

2. I must what God is .

📖  Proverbs 29:18b ESV but blessed us he who keeps the law.

A. I through in the Word.

📖  Ephesians 4:11-14 ESV And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers.

B. I through gifts in the Church.

📖  1 Corinthians 14:1 ESV Pursue love, and earnestly desire the spiritual gifts, especially that you may prophesy.

📖  1 Corinthians 14:3 ESV the one who prophesies speaks to people for their upbuilding and encouragement and consolation.

Prophesy, always based on God’s Word, brings to a specific in a specific for a specific .

📖  1 Corinthians 14:24–25 ESV But if all prophesy, and an unbeliever or outsider enters, he is convicted by all, he is called to account by all, 25 the secrets of his heart are disclosed, and so, falling on his face, he will worship God and declare that God is really among you.

📖  1 Thessalonians 5:20–21 ESV Do not despise prophecies, 21 but test everything; hold fast what is good.

3. I must be by what God .

📖  Proverbs 29:18b MSG But when they attend to what He reveals, they are most blessed.

📖  Romans 8:29 MSG God knew what he was doing from the very beginning. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love him along the same lines as the life of his Son. The Son stands first in the line of humanity he restored. We see the original and intended shape of our lives there in him.

What do we do with what God reveals?

A. it through.

📖  Psalm 119:18 ESV Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.

📖  Psalm 139:23-24 ESV Search me, O God, and know my heart! Try me and know my thoughts! 24 And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!

B. it out.

📖  Joshua 1:8 ESV This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

C. it down.

📖  Joshua 1:8 ESV This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.

📖  Habakkuk 2:2-3 ESV And the LORD answered me: “Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it. 3 For still the vision awaits its appointed time;
it hastens to the end—it will not lie. If it seems slow, wait for it; it will surely come; it will not delay.”

d. it out.