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Host 1
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Host 2
Hey, you're listening to A Year in the Bible With Daily Grace. We hope that you are enjoying walking through the Book of Proverbs. We have a couple more episodes. If you're following along, go ahead and leave us a review. Let us know what you liked, what you learned from these episodes. That means a lot to us. So, C.J. proverbs 22 through 24, what are we going to focus on in these three chapters that we're covering today?
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Host 1
So today we're going to look at two proverbs that are close by. Proverbs 22:2 and Proverbs 22:4. 22:2 reads as follows. Rich and poor have this in common. The Lord makes them all. 22:4 reads as follows. Humility, that is the fear of the Lord, results in wealth, honor, and life. And here these are some very, very deep proverbs. Again, this reminds us of the beginning when we talked about proverbs, how they're really thought provoking and they're meant to be things that you mull over. And I feel like these two are perfect examples of that. And I think these kind of demonstrate how God operates within a sort of upside down economy or an upside down kingdom, as people like to say. Our world favors the wealthy, as we've talked about before in a few episodes here, favor the rich, favor the powerful, but God says they're really equal in God's sight. Wealth in this proverb is basically meaningless to God. The rich and the poor, God makes them all. He sees them all on the same footing. And in Proverbs 22:4, we learn what true wealth is or where true wealth is found. And that's in humility and the fear of the Lord. And again, the fear of the Lord. We should think back to Proverbs 1:7, which is sort of the gateway to the Book of Proverbs. True wealth is found not in riches and gold bars and things like this, but true wealth is found in fearing God, pursuing the wise life, and pursuing Christ. And I think this proverb really fits the Christian life well. It really hints at this idea that God is ready and eager to bestow on his children a greater wealth than the sort of wealth that we can even access here on earth.
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Host 2
Okay, that's a really interesting thought. Let's talk about that a little bit more. And I feel like that might even begin to point us toward how we see Christ in these chapters.
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Host 1
Right, exactly. So again, if we look at the full council of Scripture, we see that humility and fearing the Lord, that is what produces true wealth. That is a major theme of Proverbs. It's a major theme of Scripture. It's a major theme of the New Testament and Christ's ministry. And we think of Christ in his own life. He lived the most humble life that one could imagine, given his who he is as the Son of God. He had no place to lay his head. He was just a humble manual laborer from some backwater in Galilee. And yet through his reverence for the Lord, he laid down his life listening to the Father. He showed his humility. And it was through humility that he was given power and exaltation. Philippians 2, 9 says, Therefore God exalted him, that is Christ, to the highest place, and gave him the name that is above every name. And Philippians 2, well, the book of Philippians in general, but Philippians 2 is really a book that shows us how we should mimic Christ's humility and how we treat other people and how we treat God and how we live on earth. And who better to mimic than Christ, who embodied wisdom and who embodied these parables or these proverbs?
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Host 2
Yeah, that's a really helpful connection there to Christ. So thank you for making that for us. I think my takeaway from these chapters, a theme that I saw across all three chapters, was self control. It talked about self control in relation to what we put in our bodies, whether that be food or alcohol. It talked about self control in relationships. And so the thought that just kept coming to my mind as I was reading is submitting myself to the Lord rather than to every whim that comes into my mind. And again, a challenging thing, something that I want to think more about. And I think that's something that Proverbs helps us to do, to start thinking about not just the big decisions, but all the little tiny decisions we make throughout the day and how we can make them wisely. So, okay, great. That wraps up chapters 22 through 24. We'll talk about more in Proverbs tomorrow.
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Host 1
Awesome.
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