1. EPIC

2. (Luk 5:23) Whether is easier, to say, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Rise up and walk?
(Act 3:6) Then Peter said, Silver and gold have I none; but such as I have give I thee: In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.

3. Biblical Goals of Discipleship

4. The Historical Effort for Discipleship
The Biblical Edict for Discipleship
The Visual Example for Discipleship

5. (Psa 19:7) The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.

6. The Book of Proverbs The Simple one Prudent man The Scorner The Fool
The Wise Man
172 verses directly deal with this paradigm

7. The
Simple One

8. Characteristics He’s a blank sheet of Paper Void of Understanding
Gullible (believers every word)
Lacks insight
Easily deceived
Characteristics

9. (2Ti 2:2) And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

10. The
Prudent Man

11. Characteristics Looks after the simple Conceals knowledge
Foresees Evil
Covers shame
Regards reproof
Gets Knowledge
Characteristics

12. The
Scorner

13. Characteristics Won’t listen Hates reproving Proud and Haughty
Delights in disobedience
Can’t gain wisdom
Scoffer
Mockery
Characteristics

14. The
Fool

15. Characteristics Says “There is no God” Mocks sin Slanders Hides Hatred
His Father is shamed
Contentious
No delight in understanding
Characteristics

16. The
Wise

17. Characteristics Shall inherit glory Loves rebuke Makes a glad Father
Refrains his lips
He wins souls
Listens to Counsel
Departs from Evil
Characteristics

18. (Pro 1:20-26) Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

19. (Pro 1:27-33) When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil.

20. (Pro 2:1-6) My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

21. Knowledge
“The Facts”

22. (Pro 1:7) The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and
instruction.
(Pro 1:8) My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
Knowledge

23. (Col 2:3) In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
(Col 2:2) That their hearts might be comforted, being knit together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of understanding, to the acknowledgement of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ;
(Col 2:3) In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
Knowledge

24. (Col 2:8) Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Knowledge

25. (2Ti 3:7) Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

26. (Pro 8:10) Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold.

27. (Pro 12:1) Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

28. (Pro 22:17) Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge.
Knowledge

29. “The ability to translate the facts to meaning”
Understanding
“The ability to translate the facts to meaning”

30. (Pro 2:1-6) My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou criest after knowledge, and liftest up thy voice for understanding; If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures; Then shalt thou understand the fear of the LORD, and find the knowledge of God. For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

31. (Pro 15:14) The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
Understanding

32. (Psa 119:130) The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth understanding unto the simple.

33. (Pro 18:2) A fool hath no delight in understanding, but that his heart may discover itself.

34. (Col 1:9) For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
Understanding

35. (Pro 20:5) Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out.
Understanding

36. (Pro 19:25) Smite a scorner, and the simple will beware: and reprove one that hath understanding, and he will understand knowledge.
Understanding

37. “Knowing what to do with knowledge and understanding”
Wisdom
“Knowing what to do with knowledge and understanding”

38. (Pro 17:24) Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
Wisdom

39. (Pro 9:10) The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
Wisdom

40. (Pro 2:10) When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;

41. (Pro 10:14) Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
Wisdom

42. (Pro 10:14) Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
Wisdom

43. (Pro 21:11) When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise: and when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.
Wisdom

44. (1Co 2:1-8) And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified. And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought: But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.
Wisdom

45. (1Co 2:8-13) But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
Wisdom