The Sign of a Good Decision

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• The Sign of a Good Decision

Understanding
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• The Sign of a Good Decision

Understanding
Proverbs 21-5 Matthew 1312-16 Ezekiel 404
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• My son, if you accept my words
• and store up my commands within you,
• turning your ear to wisdom
• and applying your heart to understanding, and if
  you call out for insight
• and cry aloud for understanding,

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Understanding
nyb bin understand, consider, perceive prudent

• and if you look for it as for silver
• and search for it as for hidden treasure,
• then you will
• understand the fear of the Lord
• and find the knowledge of God.
• Proverbs 21-5

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• Capacity for discerning a right course of action

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Understanding

• Knowing vs. Understanding

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• So give your servant
• a discerning heart

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• So give your servant
• an understanding heart
• to govern your people
• and to distinguish between
• right and wrong.
• 1 Kings 39

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• Give me understanding,
• and I will keep your law
• and obey it with all my heart.
• Psalm 11934

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• Understanding is the result of a process
• Accept Store up
• Turn Apply
• Call Cry aloud
• Look Search For

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Understanding

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• discover, uncover, find
• learn/discover the location of

udy yadah Knowing Knowing experientially
then you will understand the fear of the Lord
and find the knowledge of God. Proverbs 25
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• You will understand the awe of the LORD and you
  will discover knowing God experientially

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• For we do not have a high priest
• who is unable to sympathize
• with our weaknesses,
• but we have one who has been tempted
• in every way, just as we are
• yet was without sin.
• Hebrews 415

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• Otherwise they might see with their eyes,
• hear with their ears,
• understand with their hearts
• and turn, and I would heal them.

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• But blessed are your eyes
• because they see,
• and your ears because they hear.
• Matthew 1315-16

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• Do you Understand?

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• Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him
  show it by his good life, by deeds done in the
  humility that comes from wisdom.
• James 313