A review of the Bible’s four ingredients of wisdom, with emphasis on two that are most often overlooked. 

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Weimar University

Phil Mills

Wise Rebuker - Obedient Ears

The entire world can be divided into 2 groups of people, those who are wise and those who are otherwise.

Every action of life can be divided into 2 groups, Those actions that are wise and those actions that are otherwise.

The difference between being saved and being lost is whether we are wise or otherwise.

But only a few people have enough wisdom to see the value of wisdom.

Proverbs 8, 11, wisdom is better than rubies, and all things 1 may desire cannot be compared with her.

The rich young ruler discarded wisdom and chose wealth.

And many parents and young people turn from wisdom to an uncertain search for security or wealth.

Like the rich young ruler, they turn from a call of God to sacrifice and follow what they imagine is the path to financial security.

They don't have wisdom to understand that wisdom gives the greatest security.

Why would anyone follow the example of the rich young ruler.

The rich young ruler could have enrolled in the school of Christ, but he chose instead to go elsewhere.

His mother and his aunt became Seventh-day Adventists, and Gamaliel actually considered becoming a Seventh-day Adventist, but he told his brother he was interested in politics.

He wanted to be president of the United States.

And if he became a Seventh-day Adventist, he could not be president.

He became Senator from Ohio, but it didn't bring him happiness.

5 times he went to Battle Creek Sanitarium to be treated by John Harvey Kellogg for depression.

Though he voted for the 18th Amendment to ban the sale of alcohol, he continued to serve it and use it.

In 1920, at a deadlocked Republican convention, Gamilio was nominated to run for president of the United States, and Gamilio won that election.

And Warren Gamilio Harding became the 29th President of the United States.

He served only 2 years, died in office, and his name came down associated with incompetence and corruption.

For years, he was considered the worst president that ever disgraced the office.

I'm impressed this morning to talk about wisdom.

Few people know how to gain wisdom, whether we are faculty, staff, patient, guests, our purpose at being at Weimar should be to gain wisdom.

You can get information anywhere, but you come to Weimar to gain wisdom.

This is why the disciples followed Jesus.

I would like to suggest that each 1 of us this morning have the same question to answer that the rich young ruler had to answer in many decisions of life.

This morning, I would like us to notice how we gain wisdom.

Please turn in your Bibles to 2 Timothy 3.15-17.

Notice in verse 15 that the Bible is designed to make us what?

Immediately after telling us that the Bible makes us wise unto salvation, Paul tells us how.

All scripture, read it with me, all scripture is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.

Wisdom requires right doctrine, right beliefs.

But this tells us that wisdom also requires instruction in righteousness, that is instruction in what right doing is.

Does the Bible give us instruction in right doing?

You should leave Weimar if you are a student having learned correct doctrine from the Bible and been instructed in correct behavior from the Bible.

Doctrine and behavior are simply 2 crusts of bread.

They need a filling to make a wisdom sandwich.

Our text says that Wisdom requires 2 other blessings that God's word gives.

To have wisdom, we also need reproof and correction.

Solomon said, the rod and rebuke give wisdom, but a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

In the Bible, a woman represents a mother is a symbol for a church, and a home or a church without rebuke will have members that bring it shame.

Let me repeat, the Bible says rebuke gives wisdom.

We were unsure if it was septic arthritis, gout, rheumatoid arthritis, or a stress fracture.

And so an orthopedist ordered x-rays and lab tests to find out.

And now we are waiting for a special bone scan.

When we experience difficulties in our lives, there is a lab test to tell us if the cause of our problem is lack of wisdom.

The ear that hears the rebukes of life will abide among the wise.

He who disdains instruction despises his own soul.

But he who heeds rebuke gets understanding.

A wise son heeds his father's instruction, but a scoffer does not listen to rebuke.

Rebuke is more effective for a wise man than a hundred blows on a fool.

Rebuke 1 who has understanding, and he will discern knowledge.

But there's still another value to rebuke.

He who is often rebuked and hardens his neck will suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy.

Rebuke and shame will come to him who disdains correction but he who regards a rebuke will be honored.

Proper rebuking actually brings us a blessing.

Those who rebuke the wicked will have delight, and a good blessing will come upon them.

This morning we are going to look at rebuke, giving it, and confession, receiving it.

The first page is entitled Wise Rebukers Obedient Ears.

Proverbs 25, 12 tells us, like an earring of gold and an ornament of fine gold is a wise rebuker to an obedient ear.

This last Wednesday, I was giving a Bible study to a patient And we had gone through all of the studies except Wednesday night we were to be studying about jewelry.

The woman my wife and I are studying with is a beautiful and elegant woman.

Her husband died, but every Christmas before he died, he would give her, and on birthdays, he would give her earrings and jewelry, and he would tell her how beautiful this made her.

And it's been a struggle for her to follow the instruction of the Bible.

But Wednesday night, with tears, she surrendered it all, and with tears accepted the appeal for baptism to join God's remnant people She now is wearing different earrings She is wearing the earrings that she accepted God's reproof in that area, and she now has that ornament that pleases her heavenly husband.

Like an earring of gold and an ornament of fine gold is a wise rebuker to an obedient ear.

I would like us to look at this expression, wise rebuker.

Suppose you see a fellow member, or maybe a student, smoking a cigarette.

Some anonymous studies I did some years ago showed that about 6% of Seventh-day Adventists secretly smoke.

Or perhaps you're a student and you observed a fellow student cheating.

Or maybe you stumbled across a student looking at pornography on the internet.

Or perhaps a fellow student is complaining about cafeteria food.

Or perhaps you live in the community and see your non-adventist neighbor mowing on the Sabbath.

Or you're at work and another worker takes God's name in vain.

When you observe or think you observe a defect in another, what should you do?

Solomon says, to everything there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven, a time to keep silence and a time to speak.

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