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InVerse, 4th Quarter 2020: Education

Justin Kim

Israel Ramos

Jonathan Walter

Callie Williams

01 Acquaint Yourself with God

Sebastien Braxton

Sikhu Daco

02 Knowing God as Creator

03 Knowing God as Redeemer

04 Higher than the Highest

05 Unselfishness and True Development

06 Adventist Education

07 Education and Character

08 Education and Faith

09 Education and Sabbath

10 The School of the Sanctuary

11 The Schools of the Prophets

12 The School of Life

13 The Revolution of Jesus Christ

Like, have you met some of these people who are so educated, they got so many degrees, they know everything, but they're 1 of the most arrogant people you've ever met?

We're going to talk about these people on this episode of Inverse.

Coming to you from Silver Spring, Maryland, welcome to Inverse, a Bible-based conversation on life principles, contemporary issues, and thought-provoking perspectives.

Now here's your host, Justin Kim, with Inverse.

There are some people out there who are so educated, who know so much about everything, yet when it comes to their character, they are a little bit off.

And hopefully through the teaser, you may be thinking, do I know anyone like this?

And if you don't know anyone, that may be you.

I know, let's talk about that on this episode in verse.

I want to welcome my friends here We are in this arc of education.

We also have if you don't notice we have a Chair missing and we have Callie who's streaming in from afar.

So we're really grateful to have her as well Israel if you can pray for us, we'll get started right away father in heaven.

Thank you for today Thank you for this topic that we have to study.

We've been talking a lot of things about education and maybe kind of update us and maybe someone's watching for the first time and they're like, oh education, I don't want to talk about that, I don't want to hear stuff about that, but give us a synopsis so far.

Yeah, So we're definitely not talking about education in probably the conventional sense of talking about curriculum or things like that, but we're talking about the true purpose of education, its origin with God himself and how it involves more than just knowledge and we're going to talk more about that here.

But I think a highlight for me thus far has been the mindset of moving from selfishness to unselfishness as modeled by Christ himself.

And that education even changes your worldview and doesn't just accrue knowledge.

But I think we're going to talk about that more today.

But that's been a highlight for me so far.

And then, you know, in regular secular education or the institution of education, there are materials that you learn and in many ways it's detached from this, the meaning of life and purpose and these things that have value.

And so today we're gonna talk about the element of character on character.

And hopefully, please don't think too critically of all your friends that you have and people that you have.

We all have character deficiencies and we are all on this journey and walk together to become better people, as they say.

Let's go to Proverbs chapter 4, is where our text of choices from verse 5 onwards, and Siku, can you read that for us?

Do not forget nor turn away from the words of my mouth.

Do not forsake her and she will preserve you.

And in all your getting, get understanding.

She will bring honor when you embrace her.

She will place on your head an ornament of grace, a crown of glory she will deliver to you.

Hear my son and receive my sayings and the years of your life will be many.

When you walk your steps will not be hindered and when you run you will not stumble.

Do not enter the path of the wicked, and do not walk in the way of evil.

For they do not sleep unless they have done evil, and their sleep is taken away unless they make someone fall.

For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence, but the path of the just is like the shining sun that shines ever brighter unto the perfect day.

They do not know what makes them stumble." Okay, we'll stop there.

We were going to 15, but Siku gave us extra truth.

So, this is a very valuable passage, yeah?

It's kind of a highlight in the book of Proverbs.

And this is, I didn't prepare you guys for this question, but just curious, this question just came to my mind.

Any insights, might you know, why wisdom is female?

And that's, this is kind of the, I think gender does play a factor in this approach to wisdom.

No, I'm just smiling because wisdom is female.

Everybody knows that women are smarter than men.

Wisdom is female, but are you saying that all females are wise?

Is that the corollary that you are establishing?

So yeah, no, why why female why any any any insights on the female motif here Israel?

You're Kelly I'm sorry Yeah, it's my take on this and if you read the entire book of Proverbs There are this is a father giving some of his son wisdom and the son has come about age to live life.

And then there's actually 2 women that are interspersed in this first section of Proverbs.

You have lady folly and lady wisdom, and he's just using this allegory of the pursuit or dating or this courtship as a motif of life itself.

And so you can choose a very wisdom or you can choose folly, and he's just going back and forth 1 chapter another 1 chapter another and I don't think there's any you know broad gender statements that are being made here he's just using this as an analogy for the pursuit of life yeah so anyway any insights from I think as you're speaking I thought yeah it either has to do with a girlfriend or with a mom.

And I think it does make sense what you're saying, that wisdom is not something just to be obtained, but it's something that must be loved, it must be cared for, it must be preserved, treasured, as a man would try to preserve and treasure a relationship with a woman.

And it's very interesting that, at least if you read chapters 1 through 9, is it?

She's there, she blesses, whereas Folly is aggressive, and in many ways, she's the 1 that's pursuing the protagonist in this story, in Proverbs.

Anyway, so any insights that you see in the long passage that Siku read for us right now.

Well, we have to, I guess, center the fact, why is it that we're studying this passage on wisdom when the topic that we're addressing is character?

And so I think the most important thing that we need at this time to establish our program is what is wisdom?

Here it'll tell us different things in terms of what wisdom does, and what we need to do to obtain wisdom.

But wisdom is essentially the right use of power, right?

There's a difference between knowledge and wisdom.

We can obtain knowledge through understanding something.

But the question is, what do we do with that knowledge?

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