Psalm 119 v97-104

So today our study is verses 97 to 101 from Psalms 119. Continuing our studies. One thing I'd like to say real quick. 1 Corinthians chapter 13 verse 1. Though I speak with the tongue of men and angels and have not charity, which is love, I am become a sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. Charity is love. God is love. Jesus Christ is God. If I don't speak about Jesus Christ, then my words are hollow. They mean nothing. Don Fortner once said that if your subject doesn't begin introduction with Christ, the body with Christ, and the conclusion with Christ, then you've failed to teach anything of eternal value.

So, with that in consideration, as we dive into the Psalms, we consider Christ. For someone who may be listening to this study in Psalms for the first time, I just want to explain really quick. And Becky actually mentioned to me the other day, she's like, I'm glad you keep reminding me of this, because now I'm starting to remember. Sometimes I need to be told more than once. I know I do.

Psalms 119 is an acrostic poem of the Hebrew alphabet. There's 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet in each section of Psalms based off that letter. those eight verses would have started with that Hebrew letter as well. And the original reason the authors wrote the chapter like this was simply for memorization, plus it's a beautiful poem style of writing. Some say that David wrote it to teach his son Solomon the Hebrew alphabet, but that's conjecture.

We don't know who the author of Psalm 119 is. It could be attributed to certain prophets pre-exile from Pharaoh and even after, so Ezra, Jeremiah, Moses even? They don't know. Since we're reading this in an English version and not Hebrew, each one of the verses, the eight verses of each section, don't start with that Hebrew letter.

It originally would have. And that was part of the memorization factor of it. So in this section, 97 to 104, the letter is Mem. It's the 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet. And it means water. The letter, the mem, the 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet, means water. The original ancient pictograph for mem represents waves of water. It's kind of drawn like a wave. It denotes flowing wisdom, healing, and the source of life. Because if you think about it, nothing could live without water.

The numerical value of mem is 40. In Jewish tradition, the number 40 represents gestation, ripeness, and new beginnings. It is a reoccurring theme in scripture, like the 40 days of rain in the Great Flood, or Moses spending 40 days on Mount Sinai, or Jesus, he was tempted for 40 days in the wilderness.

The letter Mem has two ways it's used in Hebrew, an open Mem and a closed Mem. The way the letter looks, it almost looks like an N or an O. But it's used in the beginning or the middle of a word, and it's shaped like open water, symbolizing the revealed, accessible truths of the universe and God's Word. When it's used as a closed mem, it's used exclusively at the very end of a word, and it's shaped like a closed box. It represents concealed secrets, divine protection, and the ultimate mysteries of the Creator, like the things we will never know until we meet our Maker.

For example, A good instruction of our previous pastor told us concerning things too great for our minds to understand. There's many things like that in the Bible. Where the Bible is silent about something, we too should be silent. We shouldn't try to guess about things we don't understand. Only trust God and His Word to understand all the things He explains clearly in His Word. The Word of God has the answer to everything in life that life will ever throw at you. There is nothing new to God.

Since this stanza or section of Psalm 119, Mem, means water, I feel it necessary to mention the symbolic similarities that our Lord Jesus Christ has with water. Considering water is essential to life, they say on average you can live three weeks without food, three days without water, or three minutes without oxygen. Water and Christ are essentially both crucial for life. But, because God spoke life into existence through God, through Christ. So, there would be no life without Christ. But there is one really big difference I need to mention real quick, and you may be able to survive three days without water, but you can't live for one millisecond without Christ.

Jesus Christ, God Almighty, is not only the one who spoke everything into existence, he is also sitting on his throne ruling all things. Jesus Christ, God Almighty, is holding all things together by the power of his word. And Jesus Christ holds your very breath in his hand. We can't do anything outside God's will.

That includes breathe. Jesus Christ God Almighty holds your very breath in his hand and it's by his grace and mercy that every one of us takes another breath right now. These are not just tinkling, simple, hollow words either. I'm gonna back this up with some scripture here in a second. Take a breath right now that that breath was a gift of God.

Acts chapter 17 verse 28, for in Him we live and move and have our being. We can't do anything without the permissive will of the King of Kings, Jesus Christ God Almighty. In this next scripture, him for worshiping false idols and failing to honor the God who gives him life. It highlights the absolute sovereignty of God.

Every single breath you take in the entire course of your life are sustained and controlled by God. Daniel chapter 5 verse 22 to 23, And thou his son, O Belshazzar, hast not humbled his heart, though thou knewest all this. He knew all this, but he didn't humble his heart. but has lifted up thyself against the Lord of heaven, and they have brought the vessels of this house before thee, and thou, and thy works, thy wives, and thy concubines have drunk wine in them, and thou hast praised the gods of silver, and gold, and brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not, nor hear, nor know, and the God whose hand thy breath is, and whose are all thy ways, thou hast not glorified. So the prophet said right there, God holds your breath in his hand and all your ways.

In him we live and move and have our being. He's saying that. In Job, listen to the wisdom of Job, a man that the word of God describes as, well, actually listen to verse one of Job. And then we'll look at verse seven and eight of chapter 12. Verse one of chapter one, there was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job, and that man was perfect and upright. I can only think of one other person that God said was perfect and upright. Job must have been completely in Christ and emerged in God, and one that feared God and eschewed evil.

Job 12 7-8 But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee, and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee. Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee, and that the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee, Who knowest not in all that the hand of the Lord hath wrought this, in whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind. So anyways, moving on to Psalm 119, Mem, verses 97 through 104.

Mem, how I love I thy law. It is my meditation all the day. Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than my enemies, for they are ever with me. I have more understanding than all my teachers, for thy testimonies are my meditation. I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. I have refrained my feet from every evil way that I might keep thy word. I have not departed from thy judgments, for thou hast taught me. How sweet are thy words unto my taste, yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth. Through thy precepts I get understanding, therefore I hate every false way. So starting in verse 97, men, oh how I love the law. It is my meditation all the day. Last week our brother Tim asked me a really good question.

He said in Psalm 119 verses one through eight, actually let's read it real quick. Psalm verse one through eight of 119, it says, Aleph, that was the first Hebrew letter, Blessed are the underfiled in the way who walk in the law of the Lord. Blessed are they that keep his testimonies. and that seek him with the whole heart. They also do no iniquity, they walk in his ways.

Thou hast commanded us to keep thy precepts diligently. O that my ways are directed to keep all thy statutes. Then shall I not be ashamed when I have respect unto all thy commandments. I will praise thee with uprightness of heart when I shall have learned thy righteous judgments. I will keep thy statutes and forsake me not utterly."

Our brother Tim asked, in this section, when the scripture refers to law, testimony, precepts, statutes, commandments, are these all referring to God's Word? And I said, I believe they do all refer to God's Word. And fortunately, our pastor heard this conversation and came over to concur. Yes, these are God's Word. And in fact, they're backed up by scripture.

So when we read in Psalm 119, verse 97, Mem, oh, how I love thy law. It is my meditation all the day. The psalmist is referring to God's word. God's law is God's word. And in one of our previous studies, I broke down with scripture to tell how Jesus Christ is the law, too. That's right. Because scripture tells us that God's love. That we are under the law of love.

Jesus Christ is God Almighty and the Holy Spirit, according to the Trinity. So Jesus Christ, in a way, is the law, as is God Almighty, and the Holy Spirit, but Jesus has the preeminence, according to the scripture, because he is the only mediator between God and man.

He has the preeminence for us. John brought up a really good point a little while back. We were having a conversation, and he said, everything in our salvation can be attributed to the great three in one, but there's one thing that Jesus has that's attributed to him only, is he died for us. And there's no greater love than that, than when they lay down their life for their friends. And it's amazing he calls us friends, calls sinners friends. I mean, I'm so happy he does. The only name given by which we must be saved. That's why we must look to Christ in all things concerning our salvation.

Mike Loveless said this perfectly, Christ plus zero equals everything. Amen. And might I add, a message without Christ equals zero. Since God in his infinite mercy gave us a new heart to trust, His grace, and cast our faith on the finished work of Jesus Christ crucified on the cross for our salvation, we can say like the psalmist, oh, how I love thy law, or oh, how I love Christ, because he first loved us. Amen. Here's a few scriptures that go with what I just said about how Jesus Christ is the law, for those who didn't catch it in the previous messages. I like for each of these Bible studies to stand alone, for someone who just hears one section.

John 1 1-3 In the beginning was the Word, the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him, and without Him was not anything made that was made. John 1 1-14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, as we beheld the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

So as we established God's law is the Word, and Christ is the Word. So when the psalmist says, O how I love thy law, he in essence is saying, O how love I Christ also. 1 John 4 7-8 Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God, and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. But he that loveth not knoweth not God. For God is love. So there it is there. It's that roundabout circle. Christ was the lamp slain before the foundation of the world. He is the word made flesh. He is God. He is love. He is the law. He's everything. He's everything.

There are many scriptures where God commands us to love. We are under the law of love. I just read two verses from John. And these are the words of Christ, God Almighty. This is my commandment that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love hath no man than this, that he may lay down his life for his friends.

These scriptures and more are how I made the correlation about how Jesus is a way and the law, and the law is God's word. The law is love. God is love. Jesus Christ is God. Jesus Christ is the word made flesh. And back to the word, It's God's law. So I think I can say with confidence that Jesus Christ, in a way, is the law. Verse 97 of chapter 119. Mem. Oh, how love I the law. It is my meditation all the day.

It's so easy for the flesh to pop up and deceive us into thinking something is okay when we know darn well it's not. Meditating on Christ will help keep us from ourselves. The psalmist is aware of this. In Hebrews chapter 12, verses one and two, wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witness, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us. Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. That's the meditation all the day long.

Who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and sat down at the right hand of God. That's the amazing part that Jesus did outside of the Trinity. God and the Spirit can't die. God became a man in the face of Jesus, and he died for us.

That's why he gets all the glory and the preeminence for our salvation. Let us lay aside every weight, especially the weight of trying to do anything but trusting Christ to fulfill the law. The one way we can fill God's law is to place our trust 100% in the perfect obedience of Jesus Christ. He perfectly fulfilled God's law in every way on our behalf. And then he lovingly laid down his life for his chosen elect.

That's something we can meditate on all day long, as the psalmist says. We can meditate on God's amazing grace for not leaving us to ourselves. for giving us what we don't deserve, life through God, given faith, and the finished work of our Savior Christ, and then crucified, instead of giving us what we do deserve, which is the wrath of God, to perish in hell for our sins, because that's, God must punish sin, and sin is what we are. That's what we all deserve. So thank God for his mercy.

Psalm 119, mem, watered, verse 98. Thou through thy commandments hast made me wiser than mine enemies, for they are ever with me. The psalmist declares in this verse that God's word is the source of his wisdom, and it is God's word that sustains him with the conflicts of his enemies. God's word is forever with him, like in the previous verse how the psalmist declares, it is my meditation all the day. Proverbs chapter 9 verse 10 reads, The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. And in verse 7 of chapter 1 Proverbs, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. The psalmist knows that the fear of the Lord is wisdom and knowledge, and he knows that he is wiser than his enemies, because his enemies do not fear God.

We can relate to this in that we know the Lord Jesus is God Almighty and commands that is Christ, as we established earlier. So let us read verse 98 in context with the time that we live in. Thou through thy commandments, which is the word, Christ is the living word, we would read it like this. Thou through thy Son, the highly exalted King of kings, the Lord of glory, Jesus Christ God Almighty, and the Holy Spirit, the great three in one, hast made me wiser than my enemies. For they are ever with me. They, the great three in one, are ever with me.

Eyes on Christ is our only source of wisdom, as we read in Hebrews. Hebrews 12, verse two says, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. Psalm 119, mem water, notice the theme here, mem, water is the theme, and the Holy Spirit is the living water, the water of life, which because of the Trinity, which let me just say, is too much for our minds to grasp, We believe by faith, and faith alone, because God's word tells us to. Jesus Christ and God Almighty are also the water of life, because they are one.

Good try. Psalm 119, verse 99. I have more understanding than all my teachers, for thy testimonies are my meditation. The psalmist has more understanding because his meditation is on God's word, not the teaching of mankind. God's word is the living word.

And I've said this before, anything that I have to say, my commentary on these scriptures, don't mean anything. Don't listen to me, search the scriptures yourself. I'm just reading the scriptures that God put on my heart to learn a section I'm sharing with you and hoping is God, that God will make His word effectual, because that's the only thing that can make it effectual. Hebrews chapter 4, verse 12.

For the word of God is quick, it's alive, and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. You can read the same scripture for decades, and then all of a sudden it means something even more incredible than it always did, because God's word is alive. And until the Holy Spirit gives a person ability to understand, God's word is not effectual. It takes the power of the Holy Spirit to make God's word effectual, It takes the power of God for a person to believe God's word first off, and then it takes the power of God to help us to understand it.

And the psalmist is aware of this. I've heard many people say, oh yeah, I've read the Bible cover to cover 10 times. But did you hear it? Did you see Christ? You can be a Bible scholar and go to hell. The devil believes the scriptures, and he doesn't have a place with God. He declares, the psalmist declares his understanding is from God, and man can't teach him spiritual things, only God can. So therefore he meditates on God's word always. Proverbs chapter two, verse six, for the Lord giveth wisdom. Out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding. Not of man. Matthew chapter 16, verses 13 through 17.

When Jesus came into the coast of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples saying, whom do men say that I the son of man am? And they said, some say thou art John the Baptist, some Elias, and others Jeremias, or one of the prophets. He said to them, but whom do ye say that I am? Whom say ye that I am? And Simon Peter answered and said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jonah, for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.

And that's true of all scripture. That's exactly right. Psalm chapter 119, Mem, Water, verse 100. I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts. The psalmist is aware he has more understanding than the ancients because he has studied deeply in the word of God. So he knows what happened on several occasions when God judged the world because of their wickedness and failure to turn from their sin. The ancients, like in the time of Noah or Sodom and Gomorrah, the ancients the psalmist speak of did not keep God's precepts or law or commandments or statutes or his word basically. Genesis chapter six, verse five,

8. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I had created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air. For it repented me that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord." God always saves a remnant. just as he's saving a remnant right now. Noah, like the psalmist, believed God, feared God, and kept his precepts, as did Lot in Sodom and Gomorrah.

Psalm chapter 119, verse 101, I have refrained my feet from evil, every evil way, that I might keep thy word. That I might keep thy word. This is the core motive. The psalmist avoids sin not just to be good, but because sin creates a barrier to keeping an understanding of God's instructions. The psalmist is aware, as we should be, all sin has a consequence. I am sure you have all experienced this. I know I have. Sin is not what we do, it is what we are. And if God removes his graceful restraining hand for one second, there is nothing that we are not capable of. That's true.

I remember Don Fortner saying once, There's so much evil all the time. There's no news that's good news on TV. It's always about evil, and you see this horrible thing. You say, man, how could someone do that? And Don says, you know what you're actually saying is, I don't think I could ever do that. But if God lifts his restraining hand for one second, there's nothing that you're not capable of. The only way we can restrain from evil is by looking to Christ.

Unfortunately, because of the fall of mankind, we are nothing but sin, not one good, no, not one. It wasn't the fall of mankind in the garden that forced us to sin either. Since the day we were born, we have all sinned on our own. Romans chapter three, verse 23. For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Psalm chapter 14, verses two and three. The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there were any that did understand and see God. They are all gone aside. They are all together become filthy. There is no none that doeth good, no not one.

For us, the only way we can refrain from evil is to keep God's word, and to keep God's word is to always look to Christ and try to walk as He did, perfectly, which is impossible, but the beauty is in all this, we are made perfect in Christ's glowing in us. By having faith in His finished work on the cross is our only hope for sanctification. We are made perfect. If we are always keeping our eyes on Christ, we're not gonna be perfect, but we're made perfect.

Hebrews chapter 10, verse seven, Then said I, Lo, I come in the volume of the book. It is written of me, to do thy will, O God. Hebrews 10, verse eight through 14, continuing, Above when he said, Sacrifice and offerings, and burnt offerings, and offerings for sin, thou wouldst not, neither hadst pleasure therein, which are offered by the law. Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God.

He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second. By the witch will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once and for all. And every priest stand daily ministering and offering oftentimes the same sacrifice, which could never take away sins. But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins forever, sat down on the right hand of God. That's where we see Jesus out of the trinity dying for us. He offered the one sacrifice that would please God, perfection, because God commands perfection, has to punish sin, and doesn't matter how small of it is, the silliest little white lie you made as a child will send you to hell.

From henceforth expect until his enemies be made a footstool, verse 13 and 14, by the one offering he hath perfected forever, them that are sanctified. And there it is there, who is perfected? Them that are sanctified. And who is it that is sanctified?

Those who place their trust in Jesus Christ, before God those who place their trust in the work of Jesus Christ and not their own works that God can't even look at our best works are detestable in God's eyes we are saved by grace and grace alone Ephesians chapter 2 verses 8 through 10 tell us that for by grace you are saved through faith and that not of yourselves it is the gift of God not of works lest any man should boast and This doesn't mean don't do good works, we're called to do good works, as we read in the next verse, for we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Before ordained works for us to do before the foundation of the world. Because he knows the end before the beginning. God's amazing like that, things we can't understand. It simply means that we shouldn't trust in our works for any justification or sanctification. And God can't look on our works because no matter how good they are, or how good we think they are, they are chocked full of sin, because sin is what we are. So even our best is filthy rags. Matthew 6, verse 3 says, and this is the words of Christ, God Almighty, but when thou doest alms, let not the left hand know what the right hand is doing. Here is our best work according to Jesus Christ, God Almighty.

John 6, verse 28 and 29. They said unto him, what shall we do that we might work the works of God? And Jesus answered him to them. God answered him, basically. This is the work of God, that you believe on him, but he got sent. That is the work. That's the most important work. Psalm chapter 119, mem, water, verse 102. I have not departed from thy judgments, for thou hast taught me. In this verse, in this verse, He will not only never depart from believing, but he can't depart.

This is like the P in TULIP, which is the five points of Calvinism, total depravity, unconditional election, limited atonement or particular redemption, irresistible grace, and perseverance of the saints. That's the P. Charles Spurgeon said this about Calvinism and TULIP. This is not a direct quote because I couldn't find it, but I heard Henry Mann say this a long time ago about this version. He said that he didn't like the term Calvinism. Because John Calvin is a man, and we don't follow a man, except for Jesus Christ, but he's talking about John Calvin.

We follow God and the gospel of Jesus Christ. Spurgeon said that Calvinism is basically the gospel as the scriptures clearly declare. Every point of Calvinism is backed up by scripture. So TULIP is the gospel of God-given faith that Jesus Christ and Him crucified. It's the gospel, it's not Calvinism.

And the sinners only hope for salvation. So back to the P in TULIP, perseverance of the saints. Because God is the author of salvation, true believers will never lose their faith or fall from grace. God preserves them until the end. John 10 28 And I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. That's the words of Jesus Christ, God Almighty. No one can pluck them out of my hand.

Philippians 1 6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. Romans chapter 8 verses 38 and 39. For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angel, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. I think that pretty much covers everything. 1 Peter chapter 1, three through five.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not away. That's the perseverance reserved for you in heaven. We are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time. Psalm 119, verse 103.

How sweet are thy words unto my taste, yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth. Before mankind started making refined sugar, honey was the sweetest thing known to man. Until that person was given faith to believe in God's word. The psalmist declares that the word of God is sweeter than honey.

The good news is the gospel. The gospel is sweeter than anything to a poor and needy sinner. good news found in God's Word. The word gospel literally translates into the good news. First off, let me read some scriptures that show the need for God's good news, the good news for the gospel. Romans chapter 6 verse 23, for the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans chapter 3 verses 9, we're gonna read all the way to verse 20. What then? Are we better than they? No, in no wise.

For we have before proved, both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin. As it is written, there is none righteous, no, not one. There is none that understandeth. There is none that seeketh after God. They are all gone out of the way. They are together become unprofitable. There is none that doeth good, no, not one. Their throat is an open sepulcher, and their tongues they have used to seat. The poison of asps is under their lips, with mouth is full of cursing and bitterness, whose feet are swift to shed blood. Destruction and misery are in their ways, and the way of peace they have not known. There is no fear of God before their eyes.

Now we know that what thinks soever the law saith, is saith to them that are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped. All the words may become guilty before God. All the world may become guilty before God. Therefore, by the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight, for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

So there's the need. There's the need for the good news. We all fall short of the glory of God in all sin. And here's the good news, or the gospel that's sweeter than honey, the word of God as the psalmist declares. And we're gonna read 2 Corinthians 5, verse 21. For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

So that's amazing grace right there. And 2 Corinthians 5, verse 17, Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature, and old things are passed away. Behold, all things are become new. So all that stuff that we just read in Romans about us is gone. for our sanctification.

Romans chapter 5 verse 8 and 9, but verse 8, but God, this is the good news, this is the good news right here, but God commendeth his love towards us, and that while we were sinners, Christ died for us. Much more than being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. I could read hundreds of scriptures about the good news. The whole Bible is about the good news of the gospel, because the entire book is the gospel of Jesus Christ, and Him crucified as the sinner's only hope to be reconciled.

The good news is sweeter than honey, and the psalmist declared that. Verse 104 of Psalm 119 reads, Through thy precepts I get understanding, therefore I hate every false way. In this scripture, the psalmist rightfully declares that God's word is the path to understanding, and that it will guide us to avoid the temptations of the flesh, and hate unrighteousness. Through thy precepts I get understanding, says the Psalms. Through the word of God I get understanding. After all, our faith is not derived by our personal feelings. My personal feelings will betray me. Our faith is derived from believing the word of God.

Proverbs chapter four, verse five through seven, get wisdom, get understanding, Forget it not, neither decline from the words of my mouth. Forsake her not, and she shall preserve thee. Love her, and she shall keep thee. Wisdom is the principal thing. Therefore get wisdom, and with all thy getting, get understanding. And how do you do that? Proverbs chapter three, verse five through seven. Trust in the Lord with all thine heart. Lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. be not wise in thine own eyes, fear the Lord, and depart from evil.

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