But we have been in a series over the last several weeks entitled Life Hacks. Entitled Life Hacks. Can we all say that together? Life hacks. And hopefully, you know what a life hack is.
When I started this series, I just assumed, because this is a kind of a coined phrase over the last 10 years, I assumed everyone knew what a life hack was. And I found out that there were several in our church that had never heard the phrase life hack until the series.
So I want to define what a life hack is. A wife hack Is a simple tool, or you could say, practical wisdom. that is applied to common things in life. to make life work better for you.
So, in other words, we have coined as a society the phrase life hack because many of you are looking for life hacks with your job. You're looking to be more productive with your technology. You have life hacks around your house for different things that you need and different things that you do. There's life hacks to make life more simple. There's life hacks for the meals that you cook in your house and for the different chores that you do around the house.
And if you were to go to Google today and just Google life hacks, it's going to come up with just thousands upon thousands of ways that you can apply some just wisdom that people have learned that you can apply to your daily life, and it will make life work better for you. And so the reason why we entitled this series Life Hacks is because that is precisely what the book of Proverbs is all about. The book of Proverbs was written primarily by a man named Solomon.
Solomon wrote the first 25 chapters of the book of Proverbs, and then after those 25, there's a couple of other guys like Hezekiah and Asher, and they actually wrote a few of them as well as wrote down what Solomon had taught. The book is written as from a father to a son. And so you have to read it as such. And it's from the genre of scripture that we would call the wisdom literature of the Bible. You say, why is that important?
It's because the book of Proverbs is all about practical wisdom for your daily life. It is about principles that we learn from God's word that you can apply to your everyday life. Your life at work. Your life with your relationships, your life in your marriage, your life with your kids, your life with your friends, your life with success, your life with anything. You can probably find a principle that is in the book of Proverbs that will help you and it'll help life go better.
for you.
Now, I mentioned this because it's super important to how you read it and how you interpret it. It is very practical. And so, as we go through this, I feel like a lot of times when I've been in this series, that I'm giving like. You know, I'm like a health coach or a finance coach or whatever.
Well, that is exactly how the book of Proverbs has been written. And so in Proverbs chapter number 8. We are going to read a verse here today together, and then we're going to jump around throughout this. But what we have seen so far is we have seen life hacks for applying heavenly wisdom to life. We've seen life hacks about your finances.
We've seen life hacks about relationships that we have in life. And then today, we are going to look at life hacks for the bad behaviors that we have in life.
Now, I tell you, many of you are thinking, is he going to talk about the thing at home that irritates your spouse and things like that? We're not talking about the little things at home that irritate you or just the bad behaviors that you have. And if you have kids, they have a lot of bad behaviors, right? My kids were in the first service, so I failed to mention a few of theirs. But if you want to know some of my kids' bad habits, I could totally tell you some of them after the service.
But here's what I want you to know: we're not talking about this specific to those things, we are talking about some biblical habits. And some biblical behaviors. that all of us struggle with from time to time. And here's what we know about bad habits and bad behaviors. And this is the message of what we're going to learn about today.
It's the life hack, if you would. Bad behaviors always lead to bad outcomes. Isn't that true? It's true of every bad behavior. Bad behavior.
always leads to bad outcomes.
So, the bad behaviors that we are going to look at from the book of Proverbs today, many of us struggle with some of these bad habits, these bad behaviors in life. Here's what I want you to know: the warning of the book of Proverbs is that if you allow those bad behaviors to go unchecked in your life, Then it is going to lead you into a bad outcome. Think of it like this: you know, in your car. Uh when you're driving. There is a light that occasionally will come on on the dashboard that is like a warning to you.
We would call it the check engine light, right? And when that light pops on, you know that something with my car is not functioning correctly. And so, what you have to do is you have to go get it checked out. That light serves as a warning to you about an outcome that could come down the road if you choose to neglect. The warning signal that is flashing your direction.
In other words, if you neglect it and don't do anything with it, don't check it out, don't fix anything, there's a good chance that you're going to end up on the side of the road one day because you neglected the warning signal. Or, if that doesn't really apply to you, how many of you have somebody in your family? That when the gaslight pops on the dashboard, that they just kind of neglect that and they try to drive with as little gas in their car as possible. Any of you married to somebody like that, okay? You can admit it.
I know I am. Every time I get in my wife's car to drive it anywhere, the first thing I have to do is to go to the gas station. And believe it or not, she has never ran out of gas, but she's always getting as close to possible.
Sometimes I get in there and it says four miles to empty, and I'm thinking, are you kidding me? It's like, and so luckily, we've never ran out of gas, but I'm sure we're getting close. But here's what that light is telling you: it is a warning signal. For you, that if you don't do something and fill your car up with gas. Then you're going to end up on the side of the road and you're going to end up with a bad outcome because the truth is: this: bad behaviors.
always lead to bad Outcomes.
Well, here in Proverbs chapter number eight, that's where we're going to be for a few moments. And like we've done in this series, we've been preaching through the book thematically, not just verse by verse, chapter by chapter, which is what I like to preach through most of the time. But we've been preaching through the book of Proverbs thematically because there's just themes that are just brought up throughout all of Solomon's writings. And so throughout his writings, he's going to talk about bad behaviors throughout. In Proverbs 8, here's what he says in verse 13.
He says, the fear of the Lord. is to hate evil. Pride. An arrogancy. And the evil way and the froward mouth.
Do I hate? Here's what Solomon is saying. Remember, he's writing from a father to a son. To a son, and Solomon is writing this. He's saying this: that the fear of the Lord is to hate these things.
In other words, his point Is that you can't say that you love God? and be prideful at the same time. You can't say you love God. And be arrogant. You can't say you love God and also love the evil way.
You can't say you love God and then have a wayward tongue where you speak out of both sides of your mouth. The point is that there's a difference, and what he's trying to show us, and the wisdom that he's trying to impart to each one of us, is that there's a difference between a foolish life. And a life lived for the Lord. There's a difference. And so the foolish life is one that is prideful.
The foolish life is one that is arrogant. The foolish life is one that loves the evil way. And a foolish life is that of a froward mouth. But what he's saying is this: that there's a different way in a relationship with God. And that's the way that we have to or we must live as Christ followers.
And so, what we're going to do today is, we are going to look at some of the bad behaviors. that can lead to bad outcomes in your life. And so I'm going to break this up into two ways. We're going to look first at the warning about bad behaviors from the book of Proverbs. And then we're going to end with the remedy, the cure for the bad behaviors that we face.
Uh, in life, and so we're going to look first at the warning. And what I'm going to do is, I, I, there's a ton of bad behaviors that are mentioned throughout the book. And I've kind of just hand-selected a few of them that we're going to look at today that I think many of us struggle with. If you're a note-taker, this is going to be a really good message for you because there's a lot of things you can write down as we work through it, and they'll be up on the screen here today. But let's look first at the warning.
So, let's look first at the bad behavior. Of laziness. All right, would now be a good time for us to dismiss the parents to go get all of the kids in the room so that they can hear this? And here's what I want you to know. Laziness is a bad Behavior, and here's what I'll tell you.
And if you're young in here, listen, I know I tell my kids all the time, don't be lazy, don't be lazy, that kind of thing. And this is not something that just mom and dad. Made up for you. This is actually a biblical Character trait. That we have to be watch out.
This is something that the Bible warns us. About The book of Proverbs is all about character, and here's what I will tell you: you can either live a life of foolish character. Or you can live a life of godly character. But it's your choice, and if you choose to live a life of foolish character and you adopt these bad behaviors, it's eventually going to end. Bad for you.
Well, throughout the book, he mentions and warns us about laziness. about being what he would call a sluggard. Or a slothful person. Look at what he says in Proverbs 6. It'll be up on the screen because we're going to jump around the book a lot here today.
Proverbs chapter 6, here's what he says. He says in verse 6, go to the ant. Thou sluggard Consider her ways and be wise. In verse seven, he says this which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth Her food in the harvest. Verse number nine: How long wilt thou sleep, O slumber?
O little or O sluggard, when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Verse 10. Yet, a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands. to sleep. And then he says this in verse 7.
So shall thy poverty come as one that travaileth. And I want. as an armed man.
So he warns us about being a sluggard. And what's interesting is in his warning, He leads us to the life of an ant. The life of an ant. And he tells the sluggard to literally go to the ant. The ant here from Solomon is literally what I would call the model.
for wisdom when it comes to laziness. You know, an ant never stops working, right? An ant is constantly working, and an ant is constantly storing up food. For the family, family to eat. The opposite of the ant.
is the sluggard. is the lazy person. You say what is a sluggard exactly? It's someone that's lazy. A sluggard's motto is like, don't rush me.
A sluggard loses opportunities placed in front of them. A sluggard constantly misses deadlines. A sluggard constantly procrastinates. They're always looking for the simple way. Out of everything.
I mean, what you see here in Proverbs 6 is a sluggard, someone that is lazy. Is described as a man that lays. Lays in bed, literally lays in his wasted life. And in Proverbs 6, what we just read, he's defined as a man that can't make up his mind. In verse 9, he asked this question: how long will you lie there?
In other words, it's somebody that is indecisive, somebody that can't finish tasks, somebody that just stops and makes excuses for where they are. In life. You see, the point is this: laziness is a bad behavior. It's the life of a foolish man. Right?
And remember, Proverbs is all about wisdom for living the righteous life, not the foolish life. And here there's a warning about this, and here's what we learn to be true: the negative behavior, the bad behavior of laziness, always leads to a bad outcome. The bad outcome is this, is that that it's going to lead to poverty according to Proverbs 6. It's going to lead to missed opportunities. And ultimately, it describes a life.
That will eventually decay. Because of its laziness. We'll get to the cure here in a moment, but that's the first bad behavior, is laziness. The second bad behavior is laziness. is pride.
The bad behavior of pride. The Bible talks a lot about pride, and there's a lot of warnings about pride. And here's what I will tell you: there's a lot of Christians that struggle with pride. And here's what I want you to know: is that the bad behavior of pride has a bad outcome. It has a bad outcome.
Proverbs 16:18, here's what he says: Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit. Before a fall. He goes on in Proverbs 6:16 to say these. These things that the Lord hate, yea, seven are an abomination unto him. And what's the first one in verse 17?
A proud look. Here's what I want you to note. The bad behavior of pride, God. Hates it. God hates it.
He hates pride. You say, what is pride? Because we, a lot of times in our culture, we confuse pride with confidence. There's a difference. Pride has an inflated sense.
of self-importance. Pride struggles with self-righteousness. In other words, pride is when you try to take credit for something God did in your life. Pride is the refusal to learn, the refusal to take correction. A prideful person never believes they.
are wrong. A prideful person only sees their side of the issue that is at hand, and they always think that they know. Know best. The ultimate problem with pride is this: pride, a lot of times, is the root of many other sins in your life. You can see that most of the sins that we struggle with, and a lot of even the bad behaviors we struggle with that the Bible talks about, they can be rooted back into this idea of pride.
And here's the ultimate problem with pride: when pride is at the center of your life, It just means God can't be at the center of your life. And so, pride is a bad behavior, and here's what I want you to know: it has a bad outcome. It has a bad outcome. And from Proverbs, here's what the bad outcome is: it can lead to spiritual ruin. You see in Proverbs that pride can alienate you from others.
Nobody likes to be around a prideful person. It can ultimately destroy relationships. And ultimately, what we see is that it can lead to a rough Fall. There's a destructive end. We all know somebody that maybe got to the top of an organization or a church or someone that had an experience and they were super prideful.
And then, guess what?
Sometimes the fall is a lot harder for somebody that struggles with pride. There's an end of destruction to the end of it. And so the bad behavior of pride always has a bad application. Outcome. The third bad behavior we're going to look at is this: the bad behavior of a destructive tongue.
Literally, someone that can't control. their mouth. Proverbs 16 verse 28. Here's what it says about this. A froward man soweth strife.
And a whisperer separateth Chief friends. In other words, here's what he's saying. is that a perverse person is one that loves to stir up conflict. And ultimately, a gossip, someone that has no control over their tongue. Ultimately, a gossip separates from close friends.
Eventually, if you can't control your tongue, you're going to find that your friends might actually. not be your friends as a result of this. Proverbs 18:21, here's what he says. It'll be up on the screen. He says, Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.
Solomon is warning us, and he's saying this: that our words carry an incredible Wait. with them. They're strong. They ultimately have the ability to destroy. Others.
The book of James talks about this. The book of James in the New Testament. I mean, if you remember James, he likens our tongue to like the rudder on a ship. And the rudder kind of directs the ship into where the ship needs to go. And so the point is: your tongue, your words, you might think that words mean nothing, right?
Your words can destroy, they have an incredible amount of power. In James, he also likens your tongue to. to a a a destructive fire. A wildfire that cannot be tamed. That's the power of your tongue.
That's what he's trying to say. And right here in Proverbs, he's saying that our tongue is it's a warning. It's that warning light on the dashboard of your life. And he's saying, if it doesn't get checked and it doesn't get looked at, that eventually, if you just lose control all the time with your tongue and you have no control over it, it's going to eventually lead to a bad outcome in your life. He's warning us about gossip.
He's warning us about slander. He's warning us about lying. He's warning us with speaking without wisdom from God and speaking with the intent to tear someone else down or to try to elevate yourself to make them look. Worse. It is this idea that when you're in a conversation with somebody and something comes up about somebody else.
And you begin to talk about the person not there with the intent. Of making this person feel less about them than they did before. That is gossip, that is slander, and that is the bad behavior that is mentioned here. You see the bad outcome of the destructive tongue, this bad behavior? Here's what it is: Proverbs talks about it: it's ruined relationships.
It leads to a bad reputation, a bad testimony. You've ever been around somebody where you're like, hey, be careful what you say because you know that they're going to go out and tell people? We all know people like that, right? That's what he's saying is that eventually, if you have no control over your tongue, it's going to lead to a bad reputation. It's going to lead to ruined relationships.
And it's going to destroy any trust that you have with other people. All respect will be lost. It's a bad behavior that will lead to a bad outcome. The third one, or the fourth one, is this. How about the bad behavior of anger?
The bad behavior of anger. And Proverbs talks about a little bit more than anger. He talks about quarreling. And looking for conflict. And confrontation.
He talks about anger. Proverbs 19:19, here's what he says: A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment. For if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again. He goes on in Proverbs twenty five, verse twenty eight, to say it this way He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down and without walls. In other words, here's what Solomon is trying to tell us about anger.
is this. If you have a Hot temper. And you have explosive rage. And you have no control over your life, and you have no control over your actions. I mean, one little thing can just set you off, and you have to be in confrontation all the time.
You're easily offended to everything around you, and you love looking for disputes with other people. If that's you. Here's what he says about your life. When he talks about a city without walls, back in this day, a city without walls, walls were the protection. of the city.
And he says, somebody that can't control their anger. Is like a city that has no walls. Here's what that literally means. Is that It leaves you. Defenceless.
It leaves you defenseless to the other attacks from the enemy. If you have no control over your anger. The bad outcome for you is that Over time, you hurt people. And it'll eventually lead to long-term damage. And you're going to be left at some point in your life living with regret because of words and anger that you cannot take back.
That's the dangerous outcome of a dangerous bad. behavior. How about this one? Just a few more. How about the bad behavior of revenge?
You say, Pastor, But we don't really talk about these things a whole lot, exactly. There's a few of these bad behaviors. You know, I can get up every single Sunday and we can talk about heaven and big sins and all these kind of things. And you would love that because you can leave here and you're like, man, my toes were not stepped on, right? But when you talk about some of these issues, it's like all of us struggle with some of these issues.
And the Bible talks about it, and so we look at the bad behavior of revenge. Our flesh always wants to get even, right? Isn't that what we're taught? If somebody hurts you, you hurt them back.
Somebody wrongs you? You wrong them back.
Somebody speaks unkind to you, you speak unkind back to them. Right? And we feel like there's this Revenge that we need to, you know, inflict on those that have demonstrated pain or given us. Pain.
Well, the Bible talks about this. Look at in Proverbs 24. It'll be up on the screen. Proverbs 24:29. Here's what he says: He says, Say not.
I will do so to him as he hath done to me. He's saying, Don't do this. I will render to the man according to his. Work. And then in Proverbs 25, you can jot this reference down.
Proverbs 25, verses 21 and 22, it won't be up on the screen, but here's what he tells us to do. He tells us to trust God. With the vengeance. In other words, what he's saying is this: when somebody wrongs you, Trust God to deal with that person. Blake.
He is a better judge than you can ever be. Right? And what he's saying in Proverbs is this: that we must trust him with the judgment. We don't need to repay others with the pain that they've given us. No, we need to trust God with that.
And what we must do is have the heart of God towards him and respond to their hurt. With kindness. With forgiveness, with love. Compassion. And mercy.
And when you respond to the hurt with those... What you do is you get yourself out of the way and you let God handle the situation. But you know what a lot of us want?
Somebody hurts us, we go right and we want to inflict as much pain into them as they inflict into us. We want to respond. We want to quickly send the email and we want to make everybody think terrible thoughts about them because of the pain that they have inflicted upon us. And what God's word says is that revenge is a bad behavior. That eventually Ends In a bad Outcome.
You've heard it say this, or you've heard your parents say, take the high road, or kill them with kindness. Listen, let me say this. I think Solomon is telling us this. You don't have to settle the score. You don't have to.
If somebody wronged you, you don't have to settle the story. You don't have to try to get even with them. Trust God. God's justice and he will deal with that person far better than we could ever I mean, let's just be honest. When we get in the way, we make matters worse.
For everybody.
So we see the bad behavior of revenge. I thought about the next bad behavior. I thought about taking this one out after the men's cookout last night. But the Bible does talk about it, so we'll talk about it. The bad behavior of gluttony.
Listen. I have never preached on gluttony in my life. And here's what the sad thing is. I've always I've been in church my entire life. And I have heard sermon after sermon after sermon.
And I never hear this talked about. But here's what I'll tell you. And I know we can joke about it a little bit. It's a real behavior that the book of Proverbs talks about. It's a real thing.
And I know, you know, we, I mean, listen, this is how silly this is to talk about this. Not only was the men's cookout just full of just, I mean, more food than we needed and that kind of thing, and all of us went through the line and we had probably way too much. But it started the night before when we had Food Chuck Friday, right? Like, I ate way too much that night and the other night, right? All the men that were there yesterday, I expect you to be at this altar at the end of the service, okay?
Here's what I will tell you. When we talk about gluttony, and I know it's something that we don't think about a whole lot, you know, when we talk about, you know, it's easy to say, hey, don't be sexually immoral, and then you're sitting over there, like, okay, amen. You know, we don't struggle with those things, we don't struggle with these big, you know, sins that are out there, but let me tell you this. The Bible does warn about this as a real bad behavior in life. And we have to be cautious because if this is left unchecked, there's a bad outcome that comes with it.
Look at what he says in Proverbs 23. It'll be up on the screen, verses 20 and 21. He says this. Be not among wine bibbers. and among riotous eaters of the flesh.
Now, he means those who are gluttonous, okay? And he goes on and he says this: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty. And drowsiness shall clothe a man. With rags. What gluttony is, is this.
It has the idea of living a life with no discipline. Like it's not wrong to get some dessert. Every now and then. It's not wrong to eat when it's your favorite meal, whatever. But here's the point: he's really talking about a life with no control and no discipline.
It's more than just overeating, although that is a part of it. But what he's talking about, I think, at the core of this word, when you really look into it, I think he's talking about more like when you have to eat. To deal with pain or hurt in your life. Have you ever been there? Right?
You had a terrible day, and you're just like, man, I'm going to pig out, and that'll make it all better, right? That's the kind of thing that he's talking about. You're looking to it to almost fix something in your life. You're looking at it as a quick fix that hopefully if I overindulge here, it will take some of the pain away. But it's ultimately a life that has no self-control and no self-discipline in it.
The dangerous outcome of that bad behavior. is obviously bad health. But Proverbs describes the dangerous outcome of something like gluttony. as poverty. A life with no respect.
That's the phrase when he says, the end result of a drunkard, the end result of somebody that overeats and is a glutton. The end result, he says, they will be clothed with rags. What he's talking about? They've lost all respect, they've ruined resources because. Of your lack of of control.
How about this bad behavior, the last one? The bad behavior of envy. Don't hear a lot of sermons about envy, do we? The Bible talks about it. We all struggle with it.
Right? You get on Facebook. And you see what somebody else has? And you want it. And you gotta have it, right?
But it's not just envious of what other people have.
Sometimes it can lead into being envious of who other people are. And the Bible talks about it. Proverbs 14, verse 30. He says this, it'll be up on the screen. A sound heart is the life of the flesh, but envy.
the rottenness of the bones. You say, what's he trying to say? Envy. Is a heart issue that destroys you from the inside out. That's what he's saying, is that eventually Envy, if it gets left unchecked, it will eventually decay your whole life.
It's like a life that is being rotted. And decayed from the inside out. That's the wisdom of Proverbs. That's the warning about envy. By the way, just if you're wondering, Mark chapter 7, Jesus, when he was teaching, he was talking about destructive things in the life of Christians.
And he said, he listed a bunch of sins. He was talking about these sins that kind of come from the heart. And he listed just this terrible. Uh group of sins. Things like this, sexual immorality.
And for the crowd, they're probably like, oh, yeah, that's a terrible thing. You know, he mentioned witchcraft. And you know, all the people that don't struggle with witchcraft, they're like, Yes, get them, Jesus, you know, keep preaching harder on that. And then the very last one, the all these this wicked list of sins that come from the heart, the very last one, envy. Envy.
Listen, envy God takes seriously. It's a terrible thing. I mean, Paul himself lists... uh envy right there in Galatians 5 with some of these awful sins. Envy is, like I said, it's wanting to have what someone else has or be who someone else is.
If you look at its core, Satan got expelled from heaven. Because he envied God and who God was. Adam and Eve? They wanted to be like God. They envied Him, and that brought sin into the world.
The very first murder? was because of envy. Cain killed Abel because he envied Abel's offering and he envied Abel's relationship. with God. What we learn throughout Scripture is that bad behaviors always lead to bad outcomes.
So, when you see your life, and maybe even in this time that you're listening and you're like, man. You know, God spoke to me, and there was an engine light that showed up in your heart, right? We would call that conviction. About envy. or about anger.
Or your destructive tongue, or pride, or whatever. And that light came on. What's the cure? I mean, this would be a very depressing message if there was no cure. But there is.
There's a remedy for it. And honestly, every single one of these. The remedy is found in one word. It's wisdom. Wisdom.
The remedy for every bad behavior, the ones we talked about and the ones that we didn't, the remedy. is always to apply God's wisdom. Heavenly wisdom, wisdom that is from above. to your situation.
Now, I'm going to give you the remedy really fast to all of these. We're going to do this quickly. If you take notes, You'll have to write fast. But if God has kind of You know, flashed the light on any of these issues in your life and any of these behaviors in your life? Then here's your specific wisdom or your life hack.
for that behavior. The remedy for laziness, you'll see these up on the screen. The remedy for laziness, it's found in Proverbs 10. We're not going to turn there, but Proverbs 10:4. Here's what the remedy is: it's diligence.
It's hard work. And it's self-discipline. The remedy for pride. It's found in Proverbs 22, 4. Here's what it is: it's humility.
and having a proper fear of the Lord. Because here's what I'll tell you. When you fear God properly, it always puts yourself into perspective. The problem with pride is that we don't have a healthy fear of God. You don't have a healthy view of God.
The remedy for a destructive tongue, no control, is found in Proverbs 10, 19. It's talking about control. It's learning to listen before you speak. It's being disciplined. And responding to people with love and kindness.
The remedy for anger? It's found in Proverbs 15:1 and 29, 11. The remedy is patience. Self-control. And gentleness, which is one of the fruit of the Spirit.
The remedy for revenge. It's found in Proverbs 25, 1 and 22. It is to trust God's justice, to leave Him as the judge, and to respond to people with love and kindness. And He actually goes as far to say that if you do that, He's going to reward you for it. The remedy for gluttony is found in Proverbs 23, 2.
Here's what it is: it's temperance, it's self-control, it's being disciplined and setting boundaries in your life for that bad behavior. The remedy for envy. It is contentment. Found in Proverbs 15, 16. It is this idea of joy.
in your life. You see, here's what I want you to understand: is that there is a remedy for all of the bad behaviors in your life, but the remedy is always to apply God's wisdom, His wisdom from above, from His Word, to your specific behavior that you struggle with.
So the Wi-Fi is really to apply God's wisdom. for all of the bad behaviors.
So here's what I want to ask you as we kind of wrap things up. It's this. And we've asked ourselves, every week of the series, we're asking ourselves this question. What kind of wisdom has been shaping your life. Think about it.
What kind of wisdom has been shaping Your life. Is it Wisdom shaped by laziness? A wisdom shaped by doing, hey, I can do what I want to do. Is it wisdom shaped by pride? Wisdom shaped by revenge.
Anger. Envy Or Are your behaviours being shaped by love? Forgiveness. Kindness. Hard work.
Contentment. and control. What kind of wisdom has been shaping your life? Because here's what I want you to know. And I know that this is a very practical sermon, but if God Revealed something in your life about any of those behaviors or something else that maybe he brought to the surface here today, and you're looking at it.
Here's what I want you to know: it's like a check engine life going off in your life. Yeah.
