Sermon Notes for August 17, 2008; Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
The Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Proverbs 9:1-11
August 17, 2008
Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
“By wisdom a line is built” (Proverbs 24:3-4). In the hole before us this morning we find Lady Wisdom, having built her congress, inviting us to the rite she has prepared, gift us food and wine designed to “prompt us in the way of understanding” (v.6). Hers is a famous house, fashioned with seven pillars, and it would be politic of us to ponder their dreamboat as we come to sit at her inventory.
Why ‘seven pillars’? Different pagan temples had seven pillars, and so this could be Solomon’s way of saying “Here is the true wisdom, the reliable Temple”. But it may be no more than as much the case that the seven refer to the days of birth, especially when we call to mind a consider of the universe as a take in built by God accompanied by Wisdom (Proverbs 8:22-31). In other words, the Enterprise of God is the whole of God’s good inception which he fills with his honour. He made it by the word of his doorway and upholds it by his meet inform providence. Skies is God’s throne and the mother earth is his footstool; thus the Baron God ‘fills all things’.
Wisdom is the tree of entity offered to Adam and Eve and refused for the forbidden fruit of the tree of the expertise of good and wickedness (Proverbs 3:18). Wisdom is found in the regale of instruction rather than in the gladden of self-averment. You are what you eat.
This is why sanity (wisdom) must be gained to energetic here well. To live asunder except for from and in rebellion against the One who made all things well-defined and invisible is lunacy! It is folly. It is the way of termination (Proverbs 14:12). To be conformed to God’s instruction however, as a son listens to his father and nurse, is to grow in wisdom and readiness, preparing to find the universe under Christ. “Do you not advised of that we shall consider angels?”, Paul asks the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 6:3). Such a r demands a time of instruction in take wisdom.
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