Message Title: Love and Wisdom
Series: Respect the Beard

Verses used: Song of Solomon 2:3-7,3:5, 8:4, Prov 5:1-23

Key verses:
Song of Solomon 2:7, Prov 5:18

Sermon Notes:

1. It is better to learn and live than live and learn.

2. Song of Solomon is a picture of pure marital love that speaks openly and joyfully of human sexuality.

3. Song of Solomon provides a model for how a husband and wife were to feel toward one another and how they could express their feelings.

The warning label of Song of Solomon is:
4. Do not awaken love until it’s time. (2:7; 3:5; 8:4)
5. God’s laws are not restrictive but protective!
6. God values our human sexuality
7. God protects our human sexuality in the confines of marriage
8. God tells us to protect our marriages.

Something to think about this week…

Martin Luther said of sexual temptation, “We can’t do anything about the birds flying over our head, but we can prevent them from building a nest in our hair.”

Series: Respect the Beard
Message Title: Wisdom Begins with God

Verses used: Prov 1:7, Prov 9:1, Ecc 1:1-3, Ecc 12:13-14,
Ps 19:1-2, Heb 1:1-2, Jn 17:3, Ecc 2:1-11, Mt 7:24-27

Key verse: Ecclesiastes 1:1-3, 12:13-14

Sermon Notes:

1. All mankind has some degree of the knowledge of God.
2. Creation give us a general revelation/knowledge of the existence of God. (Ps 91:1-2)
3. All mankind does not have specific knowledge/revelation of God.
4. Specific knowledge of our creator is the greatest knowledge that we could ever have.
5. Ecclesiastes uses the phrase “under the sun” 29 times.
6. Ecclesiastes uses the phrase “vanity” (NIV, NASB)`empty: vapor “meaningless” 36 times.
7. Wisdom begins with the knowledge and understanding of God.

The Key Verses in this week’s message is as follows:

Jonah 3:4-6 (NIV)

4 Then Jonah began to go through the city one day’s walk; and he cried out and said, “Yet forty days and Nineveh will be overthrown.”

5 Then the people of Nineveh believed in God; and they called a fast and put on sackcloth from the greatest to the least of them. 6 When the word reached the king of Nineveh, he arose from his throne, laid aside his robe from him, covered himself with sackcloth and sat on the ashes.

The Key Verse in this week’s message is as follows:

Jonah 2:2 (NIV)

2 He said,

“I called out of my distress to the Lord,
And He answered me.
I cried for help from the depth of Sheol;
You heard my voice.

The Key Verses in this week’s message are as follows:

Matt 15:17-20 (NIV)

17 “Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body? 18 But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these defile them. 19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander. 20 These are what defile a person; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them.”

Jonah 1:1-3 (NIV)

1 The word of the Lord came to Jonah son of Amittai: 2 “Go to the great city of Nineveh and preach against it, because its wickedness has come up before me.”

3 But Jonah ran away from the Lord and headed for Tarshish. He went down to Joppa, where he found a ship bound for that port. After paying the fare, he went aboard and sailed for Tarshish to flee from the Lord.