Proverbs 3:9-10 KJV
Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
Perhaps the most appropriate way to apply the book of Proverbs to our lives today is to see in it principles rather than promises. Many of the wonderful truths found in the Proverbs do not appear to "work" in our world today.
Proverbs 22:6 KJV
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Yet Jesus said
Matthew 10:34-37 KJV
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Proverbs 16:7 KJV
When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.Yet this seems to be contradicted by New Testament passages such as
2 Timothy 3:12 KJV
Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
Because Proverbs is a part of the Old Testament there are a few things that we can be sure of:
This has a primary application to the Jews. It occurred to me that the Proverbs may be the pattern for the rule of the Millennial Kingdom. and
This is intended, as a part of the Old Testament Scriptures, to bring us to Jesus Christ.
The fact that some of the truths of Proverbs do not seem to play out exactly the way we think they should makes them none the less true. Though this orld opposes the high ideals of the Scriptures changes nothing concerning their holy quality.
My son recently referred to the Proverbs as "the milk of the Word." He said the simple truths in the Proverbs help to make sense and "wash down" the meat of other portions of Scripture.
So a man's barns may not be bursting out with new wine, but he is still wisest if he honors the Lord with his substance and with the firstfruits of his increase.
Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:
So shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy presses shall burst out with new wine.
Perhaps the most appropriate way to apply the book of Proverbs to our lives today is to see in it principles rather than promises. Many of the wonderful truths found in the Proverbs do not appear to "work" in our world today.
Proverbs 22:6 KJV
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Yet Jesus said
Matthew 10:34-37 KJV
Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
And a man's foes shall be they of his own household.
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
Proverbs 16:7 KJV
When a man's ways please the LORD, he maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.Yet this seems to be contradicted by New Testament passages such as
2 Timothy 3:12 KJV
Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.
Because Proverbs is a part of the Old Testament there are a few things that we can be sure of:
This has a primary application to the Jews. It occurred to me that the Proverbs may be the pattern for the rule of the Millennial Kingdom. and
This is intended, as a part of the Old Testament Scriptures, to bring us to Jesus Christ.
The fact that some of the truths of Proverbs do not seem to play out exactly the way we think they should makes them none the less true. Though this orld opposes the high ideals of the Scriptures changes nothing concerning their holy quality.
My son recently referred to the Proverbs as "the milk of the Word." He said the simple truths in the Proverbs help to make sense and "wash down" the meat of other portions of Scripture.
So a man's barns may not be bursting out with new wine, but he is still wisest if he honors the Lord with his substance and with the firstfruits of his increase.
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