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<div class="SSN_intro">Intro: In <a onClick="return mV('Pro',1,7);">Proverbs 1:7</a>, Hebrew word translated beginning different from word translated beginning in text. 1:7 first in priority, the most important. Here it is first in order. The first step. You can have other knowledge and not fear Lord. You do not have wisdom unless you fear the Lord.</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">I. THE VALUE OF WISDOM.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. It gives the proper or highest application to knowledge.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. You may have much knowledge and little wisdom.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. That is why smart people often do dumb things.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. Much wisdom and little knowledge to be preferred over much knowledge and little wisdom.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. I may know I am weak, and I may know that God can help me, yet never seek the help of God.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">4. Many who are lost know that God can save them.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">B. Wisdom is the key to true happiness (3:13).</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. Some of the smartest people I know are the most unhappy people I know.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. A sign that read, "If you are not in a panic, you don't know what's happening."</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. It is possible to know too much.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. Outside the Christian body, the happiest and most contented people are idiots.</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">C. The value of wisdom is incomparable (3:15 and 8:11).</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">D. David's advise to his son Solomon (4: 5-9).</div>
<div class="SSN_rnum">II. HOW CAN I BE WISE?</div>
<div class="SSN_level2">A. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. This is where it starts.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">1. What is meant, "The fear of the Lord." How am I to fear Him?</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Man today is beset by many fears.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. Long listing of phobias.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">2. Phobo-phobia.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. You picture a child quivering in the corner as the bully approach, is this the kind of fear?</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. This is the kind of fear cast out by perfect love.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. The fear of the Lord has been defined as reverential awe.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. Recently invited to the white house to visit with the President.</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">2. Think of standing in the presence of God.</div>
<div class="SSN_level6">a. The respect for His greatness, His authority and power.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">2. "The fear of the Lord is to hate evil." (8:13)</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. Pride, the feeling of superiority over others, is one of the dumbest things I can possess.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. Arrogance, another foolish trait.</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">c. The forward mouth.</div>
<div class="SSN_level3">3. How can I receive the fear of the Lord?</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">a. It is a matter of choice (1:29).</div>
<div class="SSN_level4">b. By seeking to know God. (2:3-5).</div>
<div class="SSN_level5">1. You cannot know Him and not stand in awe of Him.</div>
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