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The Need for Wisdom .in .Relationships
Do you want to have better relationships with God, with your parents? with your friends? with your girl/boy friend? Well, today we will begin a 5 part series on relationships. We will learn how to have better connections with the various people in our life.
We all need wisdom or instruction
on how to have good successful
relationships in our everyday life
Today
1. Relationships and Everyday Life 2. Relationships and Wisdom
Relationships and Everyday Life
Relationship
Can be defined as a connection of
persons by something they share
in common: interest, blood,
marriage, commitment
God wants us to relate or connect well with other people
Read
Rom 12:10-18
Rom 15:5-7
2 Cor 13:11
Life revolves around relationships, connections between people.
1. Can you think of the different kinds of relationships in your life?
Knowing how to get along well
with other people is a skill that
requires wisdom and practice
Good relationships bring success in life
Sacrificial, unconditional love is the
basis of good strong relationships
Relationships have some kind of affect or influence on us:
Positive or
Negative
Positive Influence
Read:
Pro 12:25
Gal 6:1-2
1Th 3:2
1Th 5:11, 14
Pro 15:22
Phil 3:17
Negative Influence
Read:
Psa 41:9
Psa 69:4
Psa 109:2-5
Pro 16:28
We need wisdom to have good
godly relationships
Two types of relationships that we
need wisdom in that we will study
over the next few weeks:
1. Vertical with God
2. Horizontal with people
Vertical with God
a. relationship: created
b. relationship: lost
c. relationship: restored
b. growing in our rel.
c. first and most important relationship.
d. affects all other relationships
Horizontal with people
a. friends
c. dating
b. parents
The two greatest commandments
also have to do with these two type
of relationships
Read Mat 22:36-40
The 10 Commandments also can be
divided into these two type of
relationships (Exod. 20)
a. # 1-4 govern our relationship with God
b. # 5-10 govern our relationship with other people
We can do relationships our way or
God’s way
a. our way with our wisdom, leads to failure
b. God’s way leads to peace, blessing and success
Read Pro 16:3; 18:22
To have good prosperous
relationships, we must seek
wisdom from God for how to do it
Read
Pro 10:17
Pro 19:20
Pro 1:7
2. What does it mean to “fear God?”
Summary:
1. God wants us to relate or connect well with other people
2. life is full of relationships of various kinds
3. knowing how to get along well with other people is a skill that requires wisdom and practice
4. love is the basis of strong relationships
Summary:
5. relationships affect us one way or another
6. we need wisdom to have good godly relationships
7. Two types of relationships: Vertical (with God) and Horizontal (with others)
8. we can do relationships our way or God’s way
Relationships and Wisdom
Proverbs
a. “short sayings that convey truth
in a pointed and pithy way”
b. full of instructions on how to
relate successfully with the
practical affairs of everyday life
c. how to relate to God, parents, children, neighbors, government.
d. instruction to help one to live wisely
Author: mostly written by Solomon
Read 1 King 3:5-12
3. What did Solomon as God for? Why?
Purpose:
To encourage seeking for wisdom
for daily living
4. So, what is wisdom? Why do we need it?
A Short Study of Wisdom
in Proverbs
1. The Purpose of Proverbs
2. The call of wisdom and those who reject her
3. The blessings of wisdom
4. The contrast of wisdom and folly
The Purpose of Proverbs
Read Prov. 1:1-7; 4:1-9.
5. Why did Solomon write most of Proverbs?
6. Who was Proverbs written to? See Prov 1:4, 8-10; 4:1
The call of wisdom and those who reject her
Read Prov 1:20-33
7. What happens to those who reject Wisdom?
The blessings of wisdom
Read Prov 3:1-2, 13-18; 8:32-35
8. What are the blessings if we seek and attain Wisdom?
The contrast of wisdom and folly
Read
Pro 12:15
Pro 14:16
Pro 18:2
Pro 28:26
Prov 1:5
Prov 1:7
9. How does the Bible describe a fool?
Summary:
1. wisdom is needed in order to have good relationships with others
2. book of Proverbs is full of instructions on how to relate with people in our daily lives:
a. how to relate to God, parents, children, neighbors, government.
Summary:
3. written to encourage seeking for wisdom
a. to know wisdom and instruction
b. to perceive the words of understanding
c. To receive the instruction of wisdom
4. The call of Wisdom and those who reject her
5. The blessings of wisdom 6. The contrast of Wisdom and folly
Next week, we will study our
Vertical Relationship with God and
will see that this is the most
important relationship we can have.
We will learn that our relationship
with God affects our relationships
with other people, with our parents,
friends and girl/boy friends.
Do you want to have better relationships?
Seek wisdom and instruction and obey it once you find out what God’s will is
Don’t be a fool who rejects godly wisdom and instruction.
Be wise and hunger for wisdom from God.
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