Lady Wisdom (Proverbs #25)

Text: Proverbs 8

Her public call (vss 1- 3)

  • Wisdom is the first voice. The strange woman was working in darkness, but wisdom was working out in the open.
  • Wisdom doesn’t enjoy correction or watching people sin. Wisdom gets no particular joy out of “I told you so”. If you do, you have the wrong spirit.
  • Wisdom is elevated so her voice can be heard clearly; radio antenna, broadcast over the internet, published all over the place.

Her power to convert (vss 4-5)

  • She is persuasive. She has the power to win a soul.

Her pure conversation (vss 6 – 9)

  • Excellent things
  • Right things
  • True things
  • Righteous things
  • Plain things
  • Philippians 4:8
  • James 3:17-18

Her precious choice (vss 10 – 12)

  • In this case it is one or the other.  Receive instruction and not silver…
  • Wisdom has the ability to acquire things that money can’t buy.

Her preeminent counsel (vss 13-17)

  • What she hates is notable.
  • Leadership belongs to the wise.

Her priceless charge (vss 18 – 21)

  • Wisdom has the ability to purchase things that money can’t buy.

Her presence in creation (vss 22 – 31)

  • in the beginning
  • Wisdom is how God created all things. Wisdom is the blueprint, the design.
  • Spiritual truths found in natural processes.

The person of Christ (vss 32 – 36)

  • Blessed is the man sounds much like the voice of the Lord Jesus Christ
  • This is Jesus Christ in the Proverbs