Welcome to Wisdom Today with Bill Kelley. Today we will be going over Proverb 3. I will then key in on verses 19 & 20 - The Lord by wisdom founded the earth; By understanding He established the heavens; By His knowledge the depths were broken up, And clouds drop down the dew. These two verses tell us that knowledge, understanding, and wisdom were around at the very foundation of when the Earth came into existence! This tells us how important having these in our lives is to God. Today I will begin looking at people in the New Testament who demonstrated in their lives. I will begin with Matthew, a tax collector. Being a tax collector, Matthew was despised by most of the Israelites of his time. He had a tax collector's booth in the town of Capernaum. He had to pay a certain fee to the Roman government, but after that was free to keep all of the monies he collected. He definitely took advantage of that. He became very wealthy, had all he could possible desire in terms of material things, but in his heart he was missing something. One day, the man Jesus looked directly into his eyes and his life changed simply by two words that came out of the mouth of Jesus, " Follow me." From that point on his life would never be the same. As Jesus called Matthew, today He is calling each and everyone of us to "follow Him." I will begin reading Matthew, Chapter 9, verses 9-13 and read the verses when Jesus called Matthew into ministry. I will then read about a few of Matthew's most well-known passages of scripture: Chapters 5:11-12 - these verses tell us that if we choose to follow Jesus that persecution will follow. We need to make up our minds that following Jesus is more important than pleasing man; 2. Chapter 6: verses 9-13 - Jesus gives the Lord's Prayer and teaches us the model way to pray to God; 3. Chapter 7:verses 24-27 - these verses tell us that we are to build our lives on the Rock - the foundation of our lives should be on following Jesus and the commands He has given us. I will close with the last chapter of Matthew, Chapter 28, and read verses 18-20. These verses tell us that we are to make disciples of all nations - not just converts, but we are to take people that we lead to Christ under our wing and to teach them how to follow in the footsteps of Jesus.
