2024 Graduation Service - Building On the Legacy Already Left - Proverbs 16:1-9

Senior Sunday Graduation - Pr 16:1-9Your Legacy starts in the smallest of muscles but sets the course of your life. - Luke 6:45. - Pr 16:1-2 - “The plans (preparations, arrangements) of the heart (inner part of man - the mind) belong to man, but the answer (ability to response) of the tongue (language) is from the Lord. 2 All the ways (course of life) of a man are pure (clean, righteous) in his own eyes (mental and spiritual qualities), but the Lord weighs (measure, test, prove) the spirit (mental acts, dispositions of various kinds). - James 3:6 - Pr 4:23All that the LORD God has made is for His purpose and plan, nothing is made to just exist but made for His wonderful name and glory. - Romans 9:17 - Pr 16:3-4 - “Commit (roll up to) your work (acts, pursuits, achievements) to the Lord, and your plans (devices, purpose) will be established (firm, stable, fixed). 4 The Lord has made everything for its purpose, even the wicked for the day of trouble. - Col 3:17 - Eccl 12:13Life is not about you; it will always be about Christ. - 2 Chronicles 7:14 - Pr 16:5-6 - “Everyone who is arrogant (proud) in heart (inner man, heart, mind) is an abomination (disgusting thing) to the Lord; be assured (put the hand too), he will not go unpunished (free, pure, clean, guiltless) . 6 By steadfast love (goodness, kindness) and faithfulness (firmness, sureness, reliable) iniquity (perversity, depravity) is atoned (purge, cover, reconcile) for, and by the fear of the Lord (reverence, respect) one turns away (depose, depart) from evil. - James 4:6 - 2 Chron 7:14The greatest value you’ve been given is Christ and His word, not your stuff. - Matthew 6:21 - Pr 16:7-8 - “When (pleasing, acceptable) a man's ways (course of life) please (acceptable) the Lord, he makes (cause to be at peace) even his enemies to be at peace (make anyone a friend) with him. 8 Better is a little with righteousness than great (abundance) revenues (income) with injustice (no right or attributes of God and man). - Jn 15:10-11 - Ps 86:11 & Ex 33:13 God is sovereign and in control; you’re not. - Revelation 21:5a - Pr 16:9 - “The heart of man (lave - inner man, mind, heart, soul) plans (to think, plan, calculate, invent, make a judgment) his way,(course of life) but the Lord establishes (firm, stable, established) his steps.(course of life) - Rev 4:10-11 - Isa 45:5-7 & Ps 115:3