1. THE ROAD TO EMMAUS
Proverbs

2. POP QUIZ
Who wrote the book of Proverbs?
Who was the author writing to?
How would you define wisdom in a sentence?

5. THE MEANING OF WISDOM
Skills in Technical Work
Metal & woodworking (Exodus 35:30-36:7)
Exodus 35:35 - He has filled them with skill to do every sort of work done by an engraver or by a designer or by an embroiderer in blue and purple and scarlet yarns and fine twined linen, or by a weaver—by any sort of workman or skilled designer.

6. THE MEANING OF WISDOM
Skills in Technical Work
Making of Idols
Isaiah 40:20
He who is too impoverished for an offering chooses wood that will not rot; he seeks out a skillful craftsman to set up an idol that will not move.

7. Skills in the Administration of State Joseph (Genesis 41:33, 39)
THE MEANING OF WISDOM
Skills in the Administration of State
Joseph (Genesis 41:33, 39)
The Tribal Leaders (Deuteronomy 1:13, 15)
David (2 Samuel 14:20)
Solomon (1 King 3:12; 4:29-34)
1 Kings 3:12 
behold, I now do according to your word. Behold, I give you a wise and discerning mind, so that none like you has been before you and none like you shall arise after you.
Daniel (Daniel 5:11)

8. DEFINITION OF WISDOM
Wisdom:
The ability to formulate the correct plan and execute it successfully, to the glory of God.

9. Q: What building are you climbing up?
WISDOM
Q: What building are you climbing up?
Proverbs 1:7 
  The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge;    fools despise wisdom and instruction.

10. The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:
AUTHOR
Proverbs 1:1 
The proverbs of Solomon, son of David, king of Israel:

11. AUDIENCE
Proverbs 1:8 
Hear, my son, your father’s instruction,and forsake not your mother’s teaching.

12. INTERPRETING PROVERBS
A rich man’s wealth is his strong city; the poverty of the poor is their ruin.
cf. Proverbs 18:11

13. CONCLUSION
Proverbs 7:1-4
1My son, keep my words and treasure up my commandments with you; 2keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye; 3bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. 4Say to wisdom, "You are my sister,“and call insight your intimate friend.

14. SCHEDULE
HOMEWORK:
Meditate on a chapter in Proverbs each day
Read Ecclesiastes & the Song of Solomon
NEXT WEEK: ECCLESIASTES & THE SONG