Proverbs 31

You know, it's interesting too a little bit of a segue a little side note So on my sabbath this past weekend Turn off my phone Really focused on spending time with the lord getting in the word And bro, actually what we'll talk about in this episode is the fruit of that He was giving me some of the craziest revelations I've had in like months, deep things related to business too.

It was like, I was ripping through Proverbs 31, the Proverbs 31 woman.

And I was like, dude, I have like 12 to 20 different sermons from this about business.

Like just like from that alone.

She's in the backyard gardening.

So she was very, very diligent in growing a lettuce garden, onions, garlic, tomatoes, because she was someone, it's called Proverbs 31, a woman of noble character and someone who was diligent with her hands.

And she would create stuff.

And that's one of the highest forms of energy is creation.

It's a duty to, my son is a delight, you know, and the son delights in the mother as well.

And yet it's the Proverbs 31, rise up and call her blessed, right? And blessed.

Like that's the goal here.

And so often it's this transition as she's getting shifted away from the core of who this boy is.

The virtues of homemaking spread much more broadly than just where we reside.

We see this in the Proverbs 31 woman.

Most of what we see in the Proverbs 31 woman isn't actually taking place at home.

She doesn't remain at her house, but she never neglects her home for what she's doing outside of it.

The picture we see of the Proverbs 31 woman is sort of a filling up and then expanding out of the home.

The virtues she has at home extend into everything that she's doing outside of it.

Her diligence, industry, courage, honor, charity, strength, dignity, and respect, they begin at home and go out into the broader world.

Jay brought her up, and I think she deserves an applause.

That woman is a woman that Proverbs chapter 31, verse 15 says, and Proverbs 31, 30 said, we said, charm is deceitful.

And beauty is vain.

But a woman who fears the Lord, she shall be praised.

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Proverb 31.

Whenever anybody hears Proverbs 31, they immediately think, oh, that's a chapter about a great woman, a great wife.

So let's go to Proverbs 31, verse, you said what? Verse 15? No, 30, verse 30.

And, and they both, each couple loves God with all of their heart to the best of their ability.

So from that standpoint, I'm like, okay, you've, you've found a godly woman, a Proverbs 31 woman, really, that she's going to grow into and she loves God and she loves you.

So now releasing that doesn't concern me.

If, if we were concerned about about their wives, then that next to kin thing becomes really scary,

But I don't believe that's who we are.

I like God's vision for women from Proverbs 31.

Verse 25 says, Strength and dignity are her clothing, and her position is strong and secure, and she smiles at the future.

Isn't that a different picture? Strong, secure, dignified, smiling at the future, not afraid of it or angry about it.

If we really believe that the Lord may come at any moment, this hope will affect our lives in holy living.

King Lemuel's mother said to him in Proverbs 31, 4, It is not for kings, O Lemuel.

It is not for kings to drink wine, nor for princes strong drink.

Surely it is not for children of God to drink wine itself, nor the wines of sin, and go after the sweets of iniquity.

And the Bible tells us that a man who finds a wife finds a good thing.

Proverbs 31 talks about her worth is worth more than rubies.

And you're exactly right.

Sometimes us guys, we get out there and we're slinging a hammer or we're climbing stairs or we're pulling wire or digging ditches or doing paperwork, whatever.