
The Message of Wisdom
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This book is powerful, pastoral and trustworthy, and makes wisdom accessible to contemporary believers. Dan Estes explains the text is clear and balanced way, and only introduces other scholarly views to clarify what the passage actually means. He has one foot firmly planted in the world of Old Testament wisdom, but the other one is just as firmly grounded in the contemporary world. He rightly sees that wisdom is not simply confined to a few books, but it flows into other parts of the Old Testament ('like a recurrent motif woven throughout a symphony'), and into the teaching of Jesus and the apostles. Estes teaches wisdom wisely, and this book will make you want to preach a series on wisdom. * Lindsay Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Old Testament, Ridley College, Melbourne, Australia *More details
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Distinguished Professor of Old Testament, Cedarville University, USA. Author of Handbook on the Wisdom Books and Psalms (Baker Academic), Hear, My Son (NSBT; Apollos), and commentaries on Job (Teach the Text), the Psalms (NAC) and The Song of Songs (AOTC)
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Part 1. The concept of wisdom
1. An invitation to wisdom (Proverbs 1:1-7)
2. Searching for wisdom (Proverbs 2:1-11)
3. The contrasting paths of wisdom and folly (Proverbs 9)
4. The personification of wisdom (Proverbs 8)
Part 2. The context of wisdom
5. Choose life (Deuteronomy 30:15-20)
6. Solomon, the prototype of wisdom and folly (1 Kings 3-4)
7. The distortion of wisdom (Jeremiah 8:8-10; 9:23-24)
8. The blessings of fearing the Lord (Psalm 112)
Part 3. The conduct of wisdom
9. Wisdom in work
10. Wisdom in speech
11. Wisdom in decisions
12. Wisdom as righteousness
Part 4. The complexity of wisdom
13. Retribution and its limits
14. Wisdom resides in the all-knowing Lord (Job)
15. Enjoy God's portion as his gift (Ecclesiastes 9:7-10)
Part 5. The culmination of wisdom
16. Jesus, the teacher of wisdom (Matthew 7:13-29)
17. Christ, the wisdom of God (1 Corinthians 1:18-25)
18. Knowing Christ, the source of wisdom (Colossians 2:1-7)
19. Living by wisdom from above (James 3:13-18)
20. Walking in godly wisdom (Ephesians 5:15-21)
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