The next time you try to wake someone up in the morning with the words, “Rise and shine!”, you should think of the gospel
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As the God-ordained leader of your home, husband of your wife, and father of your children, you will be held accountable by God for how well you lead, protect, and provide for your family. So may we take that responsibility seriously, and by God’s grace, take up our sword and lead well.
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In writing down the acrostic poem that his mother taught him, King Lemuel—a student of wisdom who knew the one true God Yahweh—gave a wonderful description of a wife who glorifies God as a homemaker: she’s one who is blameless with finances, busy at home, benevolent toward others, beautiful inside and out, and blessed for her godliness.
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Far from being a random assembly of disparate sayings, Solomon skillfully ordered the sequence of his work into a number of intentional collections, or groups. Like links in a chain, each proverb contains its own strength, but also contributes to the strength of a greater discourse.
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With so much emotional and spiritual weight hanging on this one proverb, it’s worth setting the record straight. After all, not only should we strive to glorify God in our handling of His Word, but we also want to make sure that our lives can profit from this verse—which means we need to get it right.
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In other words, the book of Proverbs—Solomon’s God-given wisdom written and preserved—was compiled in order to help his hearers evaluate the wisdom of others. This book helps cut through the proverbial (pun intended) fog of others.
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The three major sections to this book poetically picture the meeting, marrying, and maturing of Solomon and his bride (“the Shulammite,” cf. Song 6:13), corresponding well to the “leave, cleave, and weave” paradigm of marriage that God established (cf. Gen. 2:24).
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In order to rebuke the sins of the skeptical, encourage the hearts of the hopeless, and correct the errors in their eschatology, God sent yet another prophet—Malachi (meaning “my messenger”)—who would serve as God’s final spokesman to the nation before what would become four hundred years of silence.
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Emotion soon became ambition, as Nehemiah determined that he would lead an effort to rebuild the walls. Yet, far from conjuring up these plans from his own intellectual genius, it was actually God who exercised His sovereignty over Nehemiah by putting the very plans into Nehemiah’s mind (cf. Neh. 2:12).
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As one of the most quoted Old Testament books in the New Testament, the fulfillment of Zechariah’s prophecies concerning the first coming of Christ ought to instill both great confidence and great joy in those of us looking forward to Christ’s second coming.
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