Proverbs 8:32-36 • You Loved Everything That Led You There

Proverbs 8:32-36 — Sunday-only Christianity, drifting from God, and refusing wisdom. The verdict you bring on wisdom is a verdict on yourself. This expository preaching message through Proverbs 8:32-36 closes the chapter where Wisdom has been crying at the gate. Her last words begin with "Now therefore," like a lawyer walking to the jury box to ask for a verdict. If you've heard the sermons your whole life and still feel like you're drifting, this verse-by-verse teaching is for you. Most refusing of wisdom doesn't look like rebellion. It looks like drifting: you quit midweek service, then your morning Bible reading, then prayer at the table. Nobody slammed anything. This KJV sermon shows how a man can know every word of the Bible, sit in the pew with his tie on, and still be dead, and what it means to wait daily at wisdom's gate. The message also contrasts the young man in Proverbs 7, who waited at the wrong door, with the blessed man in Proverbs 8, who waits at wisdom's door. It ends at the cross, where the door was nailed open. This sermon walks through Proverbs 8:32-36, Proverbs 12:15, Titus 2:11-12, and Ephesians 2, explaining: - What "Now therefore" means, and why wisdom asks for a verdict today - Why wisdom calls us "children" in a mother's voice, calling us in before dark - Why grace that saves also teaches us to deny ungodliness (Titus 2) - What it means to hear instruction, and why refusing wisdom looks like drifting - Why the fool is not short on facts but long on pride (Proverbs 12:15) - What "watching daily at my gates" means, and why a man always finds time for the door he loves - How the man who refuses wisdom "wrongeth his own soul"