Proverbs 3:1-12

Instruction: Obey
Proverbs 3:1

Incentive: Life & Peace
Proverbs 3:2
John 14:15

“Grace is not opposed to effort, it is opposed to earning. Earning is an attitude. Effort is an action. Grace, you know, does not just have to do with forgiveness of sins alone.”
– Dallas Willard

Instruction: Emulate
Proverbs 3:3
Jeremiah 31:33-34

Incentive: Reputation
Proverbs 3:4

“The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians: who acknowledge Jesus with their lips, walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable.”
– Brennan Manning

Instruction: Trust
Proverbs 3:5

If God fails us, we are damned. If God comes through, we are saved forever. Real trust is that blunt and daring and simple.
– Ray Ortlund

Pseudo-faith always arranges a way out to serve in case God fails it. Real faith knows only one way and gladly allows itself to be stripped of any second way or makeshift substitutes. For true faith, it is either God or total collapse. And not since Adam stood up on the earth has God failed a single man or woman who trusted him.
– A.W. Tozer

Incentive: Direction
Proverbs 3:6
Jeremiah 17:9
Proverbs 14:12

Instruction: Repent
Proverbs 3:7

Incentive: Healing
Proverbs 3:8

Instruction: Honor
Proverbs 3:9

Incentive: Increase
Proverbs 3:10

“God will bless you with an increase of that which is for use, not for show, for giving away, not for hoarding. Those who do good with what they have shall have more to do more good with.”
– Matthew Henry

Proverbs 3:11-12

Negative Discipline
Positive Discipline

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