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Sermon for the Starving Bible Believing Christians All Over the World Wide
Web
2007
- KJV Bible Believers Church in Touchet, Touchet, Washington - Pastor Mike
Paulson - 2007
Expounding
the way of God more perfectly - Acts 18:26
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with the Scriptures Rightly Divided - II
Timothy 2:15
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e a r n i n g f r o m B i r d s
The flowers appear on the earth; the time
of the singing of birds is come,
and the voice of the turtle is heard in
our land
Song of Solomon 2:12 |
Since we have heard about how the Raven helped Elijah,
we are now going to see what we can learn from birds.
While this series appears to be geared towards getting
our little children involved,
there will be plenty for us adults to learn from these
birds, too.
Outline to video / mp3 audio sermon
Part I
I. Bird Facts from the Kids
II. Introduction to the wisdom of Solomon
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Knowledge is the beginning - next, what to do
with that knowledge = wisdom!
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Proverbs 1:7 -
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom
and instruction.
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How Solomon received his wisdom
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I Kings 3:5-15
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I Kings 4:29-34
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verse 33, he
spake also of ...fowl
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II Chronicles 1:1, 7-12
III. Wisdom from the kids birds
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Ruffed Grouse
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model mother
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covers and protects the young
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will not leave when an enemy approaches
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leaves only for food - and then for only a very short time
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if a chick wanders away, she lets it die - stays and protects the ones
at home!
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Eagle
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carries young on it's wings
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covers the young with wings during storms and sun protection
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blown about with winds of doctrine - thermal air pockets
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so big, he is easily hassled by the littler birds
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escapes by going higher!
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so big, yet a fish can drown an eagle!
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eagle eye
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eye is so big, he must turn head
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6x sharper than man's.
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we see a quarter at 35 yards, and eagle sees on at 200 yards
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eagle can see a rabbit over a mile away
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seeing with understanding!
III. Specific 'Bird Lesson' from Solomon's Proverbs
Proverbs 1:17 - Surely
in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
The birds:
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To catch a bird, the trap must be silently set!
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Birds must be blinded!
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Birds must be ignorant of kinds of traps!
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Food in the net will attract the bird - anything
can justify going into the net!
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Dense or tricked to think the bird can handle the
net for the food!
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Somebody throws in the bird - or makes it go in!
Temptation
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Follow a decoy!
Our children - grandchildren
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Kids are the Lords - why do we treat them as if they
are our own? Psalm 127:3 -
Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is
his reward.
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Kids don't see the nets - parents have to see them
for them!
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Kids can't see the nets - parents have to learn how
to see them!
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Kids are ignorant of all the different nets - parents
should not be ignorant
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Nets for kids are full of "food" - parents must able
to identify and hear the justifying to go in.
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Kids think they can handle the nets - parents must
say no, anyway!
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Parents / family makes the kids go into the net (even
if parents have been warned about the possibility of being a net!)
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Parents go into the net, the kids will follow!
Fowlers
Proverbs 6:5 -
Deliver thyself... as a bird from the hand of the fowler.
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Sad, if the parents / grandparents are the fowlers,
too.
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What kind of net do you allow your kids to walk into
- or just hang around?
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Are you keeping your young ones from the net - or
are you providing the net - or even worse, are you pushing them into the
net?
Too late?
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Too bad - because when it is too late, you can't
get them out of it!
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II Timothy 2:26: And
that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are
taken captive by him at his will.
If everyone could see the
net being laid, then the devil would be laying the nets in your family
FOR VAIN!
Come on parents, learn from the birds before
the fowler gets your little bird!