Sunday School July 18, 2021

All righty. Good morning. Greetings. Salutations. Good to see you this morning. I can see a little better. I got my new glasses so everybody looks Very nice this morning. Still two of you, but like you do look better.

Anyway, good to be together this morning before we get started. Let's open up with a word of prayer. Mr. Kaya, if you would open us up. Amen all right, so. Just as a Check what chapter are we in? Okay, okay.

Good. Did just wanted to make sure that we were all in the same chapter. And all right without opening your book. What is the title of the chapter? What was the title of chapter 6 without opening your book?

Very wise very wise. Okay. Yeah, I was good to see if there were young people here. I was gonna ask him, but never mind. Yeah. But never yeah. So did the title for the chapter is God's unfathomable wisdom and I wanted to kind of walk us through a couple things where we've been up to this point in a sense and then Kind of move on but I hope where we are at least beginning to see some things and understand some things and.

And I wanted to kind of ask us to think through a couple things before we get into what exactly was in that chapter. And I want to look at a bunch of scriptures this morning and I hope that Those scriptures will help us, but I want us to think about.

As we go through this book and really again the book is not the The teaching as much as the scriptures and as da Carson walks through the Bible that we begin to see that. It's not just the book of unconnected Strands it's not just a book about events and stories and and obviously I mean that's what the Bible is.

The Bible is a book it just happens to be God's book. But but I hope we're beginning to understand as we've been trying to draw it out Over the last couple of weeks that that it is really an unfolding if you will it's a it's a continual progressive revealing of What God would have us to know and again?

Many people will look at it that way. I'll say, you know, the Bible's just got a bunch of stories that make no sense. Well. The best way for the stories to make sense is to understand I'm not only in their context but in the in the in the overall Revelation of God and again, that's when things begin to fall into place.

I know we've talked about this for many different reasons, but. And we've used this example many times. But it's like a tapestry right and if you you know. You do the the needlepoint kind of stuff and I know my girls used to do that and like good stuff I never did it personally, but I just want you to know that.

But you know how you stick the needle in there and you pull the thread and and it's got. If you look at it from one side, it's what it's a mess, right? Because all it is is a bunch of strings. It's not till you turn that tapestry over that you see what it all those strings.

Bring to pass and so when you think about that and you think about the Bible and you think about how da Carson is taking us and how brother Mike and I have been trying to show us that. That's the way it is.

And again, as long as we we understand that we're as we go through the book and as we go through the scriptures. There's this continual Revelation that God is giving us and and that again all those stories.

And all those events are connected in some way and ultimately in that day I say in that day when we're with the Lord that tapestry will be Absolutely beyond our imagination. And again, a lot of it still seems like Strands, so when you think about that, I hope we begin to see that.

I also hope that we're beginning to recognize that. The Bible is not just a book about what God did long ago. And some people think about that right people will say well, you know, the Bible is it's a it's a book that was written.

No, or it's a book about things that happened thousands of years ago. And it really has no relevance to us today. How would you answer that by the way? So if somebody said that to you you're talking with somebody friend relative stranger, whatever it is.

And you get into this conversation about the Bible and and they say that to you. What would be your answer? How would you how would you begin to to bring them into an understanding if they said something like that?

Well, you know by was just a bunch of stories about things that happened thousands of years ago. That's what I thought you would say. Right, right and again I hope that we're beginning to see one of the ways to to Work with someone like that is to take this thought and carry them through them and and tell them.

You see you got to understand the Bible as it's revealed to us by God and that it has a It has a progressive understanding and unfolding and really if you just try to jump in somewhere along the line.

Unless you really understand what took place before. It's really gonna be hard for you to understand what's taking place now. So again, the Bible is not merely a book about What God did long ago and the Bible is not really just about the Jews.

And a lot of people will say that people say things like that. They'll say well, you know the Bible is just a story about God and the Jews and although God uses the Jews and the nation of Israel in a very In a sense strategic way and in a very profound way yet, would you say that the by all the Bible is about is about the Jews.

Would that be accurate to say something like that? Okay, all right and again the Jews play a prominent place right as we've seen but ultimately the working of. Pose it as a question. Would you agree if I said that God used the Jews?

In a in a sense as his mouthpiece to To reveal himself and his purposes. Would you say that that's? Would you want to throw stones at me if I said that I mean you might want to throw stones at me anyway.

But but true that God used the Jews right to to carry out and to manifest his working and in that sense they were his special people, but they are not exclusively his special people certainly as we come into as you come along and get to.

And that's where a lot of people miss it, right if you come along to to the cross certainly. The prominence of the Jews takes on a whole different Reality, right because the church is what? Jew Gentile Barbarian Scythian free slave encompasses all so again just to get us to think about it.

And I hope we're beginning to understand it that we can we can explain things. Not only on a on a pinpoint level like if somebody asks us a specific question. But we should be able to start to get a framework understanding as hopefully as we go through this book that it's it's a Total revelation of God and not merely just picking points out and working through that so.

The Bible as Progressive Revelation and a Unified Tapestry

And here's something I want us to hopefully that we we can begin to understand as we go through the book and as we read the Scriptures in general that the Bible not only reveals What God does. But really who God is.

In other words as we work through The the God who is there and we just think about it. We've talked about the God who made everything. That was the first chapter and then the God who wipes out rebels who doesn't wipe out rebels and then the God who writes agreements and then The God of legislature last week.

We looked at the God who reigns. We begin to understand that the Bible not only is a is a revelation of what God did in history. But who God is and I think we miss a lot if we do not hold those two things together.

That God in and the title of the chapter. For today is God's unfathomable wisdom or God is unfathomably wise that you and I should appreciate that and praise him that. That he has revealed not only himself But his purposes in the things that take place and and really that is the work of infinite wisdom.

To do something like that. So again, I was not only about what God does but who God is. And those things that are you are in union when you agree because God doesn't do anything that's against his Character, right?

So so what God does and and who God is. They work together right as God works his purposes out and then I hope we understand we're beginning to understand that the Bible is also a Revelation by this infinitely wise God to reveal man.

In other words as we begin to see through as we go through these chapters you go through the Bible you start to read The different things that take place we begin to not only understand What man does but who man is and if you you start to think about it in chapter 1 The God who made everything and in the garden we we found out who man was in Adam, right?

Because Adam rebelled against God and then and then we move forward and you think about it and then we talked about Abraham and and him as a man and and how God worked with him and how Abraham Need this to say, you know, I'm sure you would agree me.

Abraham had issues. He was a godly man. He believed in God and accounted for righteousness sake. But he Abraham was full of issues and then we we move on and then we came to Mount Sinai, right? Certainly there's issues there.

So I guess what I'm trying to say is that the Bible is This revelation of God it's unfolding and giving us strands of thought. For ourselves and those strands are important because those are the things that hold the whole Bible together so we learned about who God is what God does we learned about who man is and what man does and certainly I Guess the best way to say this is what the scriptures say.

It says man is born for trouble. What's the other half or anybody know that verse? Has sparks fly upward man is born for trouble as the sparks fly upward and that is absolutely true and anybody. And that's the other part of God's absolute wisdom.

Let me ask a question. And I just thought of it. So Maybe sure I got the answer yet. Did God create the world? Trying to think how I want to work this when God created the heavens and earth and God created everything and God said it was good.

Would you agree that as I just said to you that the man is born for trouble as the sparks fly upward. That the reason why the sparks fly upward is to teach us about man being born for trouble. What am I just somewhere where I shouldn't be right now?

In other words what I'm trying without what I think about a lot is this infinitely wise God. Set these things in in order and In in setting them in order it teaches us not only about him but about ourselves.

Because what if the sparks fly downward? It wouldn't it wouldn't represent the same thing. Would it man is born for trouble and and why do those two things relate by the way man is born for trouble as the sparks?

Fly upward. Anybody know anybody think about it. That's right, it's natural right it's the natural flow and that's what I always think about how God has created these things in the universe in the heavens and in the earth and in the events and everything takes place and how those things are such a teaching tool and yet from for most people.

If you ask him about sparks flying up, but they say yeah, dude, what do you expect? You know, they're not gonna go down dummy. Right, yeah. Then they better have the shield and everything up but but you get my point so the Bible and in this infinitely wise God has so ordered everything and again, I I say brothers and sisters that we really don't appreciate as Much as we ought to appreciate about God and the Bible and his revelation and those things that pertain to us.

So I hope we're beginning to see that so that leads me into want to look about What we did in chapter 5 or what? Da Carson took out of chapter 5 to present to us and here's an interesting thing. If you read the chapter What we've been looking at so far is again this progressive Movement, right?

We started in the garden and and it's been kind of moving us this way. And We made some stops along the way and we made the stop we didn't talk about Noah. But there's a stop with Noah. There's a stop at Abraham and then we get to Sinai.

But as you begin to look at chapter 6, it almost appeared to me that da Carson takes a break in a sense from talking about the unfolding of history and to me he moves into a discussion and I think a real good discussion of About not so much history, but about the different makeup of the books of the Bible.

Remember what he what he was talking about. What was a What was his thought about the books? He wanted to to? Speak about the books of Wisdom the poetry books which would be what Psalms Proverbs Ecclesiastes song of Solomon.

Certainly the Psalms. I have a lot of different things in it now that doesn't mean that there's no doctrine. There's no historical accounts. Certainly there is but if you think about what Carson is is presenting us in this chapter is how God in his wisdom has given us books to help us along the way.

And I say that in a very reverent way not not a help book like the world would give us where it says if you do this, you'll get that or or Things like that, but how God in his wisdom Has given us things to aid us as we travel through you know, and again Psalms Proverbs Ecclesiastes song of Solomon and I'm gonna look at some scriptures this morning in those books, but Let me ask you this if you're sad.

How many of you would read the book of Leviticus. Besides maybe brother Kaia, I mean really think about if you're sad. You're gonna open up to Leviticus and start reading through the sacrificial system.

Now you might but but you're not really gonna. It's not it's not it could very well help you. So I'm misunderstanding the Word of God is the Word of God and it's able to to build us up. But certainly if you said you would want to read something that would seek to what bring comfort right if you're if we're experiencing things in our life God in his wisdom has given us those very books or those very messages or those very letters from him.

To help us in our experience. I mean if you're If you're sick if you're broken if you're hurt, I don't necessarily think that I would go read first Chronicles. I Just don't know if I could bear up with all those genealogies I can't even read them when I want to read them.

I mean be honest now How many times do you dip into the genealogies in first Chronicles? That's what I thought right. We usually read the first four or five. And then we say yeah, I got it. Unless we're digging unless we're looking for something very specific.

Again God in his absolute wisdom and as da Carson lays out Has put together his revelation and some of his revelation is to help us. In what I would say every experience of life because if you think about it There is not a single experience that we have could have That God hasn't given us instruction about.

So when people say the Bible is the Bible is not really relevant. The Bible's It's just an old book it had maybe some meaning or something whatever people want to. One of the reasons why they do that friends is because they don't know what's in it.

They don't see the wisdom of it. Again, you know people said they go ask dr. Phil and Dr. Phil ain't gonna get it. Neither is Oprah. Oh my god but God has been so God and his wisdom has been so kind to us to give us these books and I think one of the reasons is and I and I thought about this verse in Psalm 103 and I was just gonna Measure it to you.

It says that God knows our frame. And he remembers that we are dust. Isn't that great that our God is so wise that that he knows that we are changeable movable. Most of us. Again I'm gonna pose it as a question how many of us would say we're driven more by our minds than by our Affections.

Or our emotions. How many of us would say that we are we are more? Directed in our life by our intellect versus our Emotions. Anybody dick when we're driven by our emotions. I Think that it has a very it has a very strong if you will magnetic pull on us now.

Hopefully we begin to to line up those things, right? Hopefully we begin to line up and bring our every thought into captivity to be obedient to Christ. But at the same time I would suggest that most of us many times Respond more by emotion and how many times have you done that?

We say something we do something we don't do something and then later on When what when the fire dies down or the emotions settle we said Why didn't I do that why didn't I say this why didn't I fix it this way or that way and again if you think About it Psalms Proverbs Ecclesiastes Song of Solomon.

They are so greatly filled with wisdom and I don't just mean this kind of wisdom. I mean wisdom for the whole man and Only only the God who made us Could be the one who could give us true wisdom. And again, that's what the world's missing out on if you think about it and the world runs here and the world runs there and the world tries to get wisdom in every other place and yet God gives It to us in his in his word in so many different ways.

It covers every experience if you think about it. We don't have to read that right now. But if you think about Ecclesiastes chapter 3 There's a what there's a time for love there's time for hate there's time for wars a time for peace.

It's time for this a time for that. There's time for everything under the Sun, right? Now is that not a gift of this infinitely wise God. To explain to us that there did there is times for all these different things and that we can We can go to his word.

Because it is his word and find wisdom for those times war and those times of peace. Those times of love and those times of hate. It's time to gather bread. It's time to cast away stones all the different things.

And so God is is so good to us All right, I wanted to ask us to look at some scriptures because again That's the focus this morning. God in his infinite wisdom Gives us wisdom and I would say very often we neglect the very wisdom that the only wise God gives.

And we neglect it to our own hurt. I Wanted to ask you to think about this. So just turn to Proverbs chapter 8 a minute. Proverbs chapter 8. But I don't. For this morning. I just want us to think about how God is so wise and gives us Wisdom that is meant to help and not hurt.

Look at it. Proverbs chapter 8 verse 1. Does not wisdom cry out and understanding lift up a voice? And she takes to stand at the top of the high hill beside the way Where the the paths meet and she cries out by the gates at the entrance of the city at the entrance of the doors.

To you all men. I call and my voice is to the sons of men. Oh you simple ones Understand prudence you fools be of an understanding heart. Listen for I will speak of excellent things and from the opening of my lips will come right things from my mouth will speak.

Truth and wickedness is an abomination to my lips and all the words of my mouth are with righteousness. Nothing crooked or perverse is in them. They're all plain to him who understands and right to those who find out receive my instruction and not silver and knowledge rather than choice goal for wisdom is better than rubies and All the things one may desire cannot be compared with her and you can read this whole chapter.

When you I mean you could find the father you could find the son you could find the spirit here. My point is when I was what I was gonna ask the young kids. I was gonna ask anybody under 18 to raise their hand and if I ask that question in this class Ain't nobody gonna raise their hand.

But I was gonna ask the young kids. The younger people to think about that and his here's where so many people go wrong. Yeah. We all want to counsel young people. I think there's this desire as we get older to want to give good counsel versus bad counsel.

But a lot of people all they have is bad counsel, but if we had to suggest to young people Where to find Real wisdom would we why would we not go to where God has given us? True wisdom infinite wisdom.

So so we should direct younger people to Make full opportunity to gather in true wisdom. Because there's a lot of junk out there wouldn't you agree there is there is stuff that people put out. I mean I Gotta say this to me.

It's just me. It amazes me that people can make so much money. Giving out so much garbage. Honestly. Yeah, I know it's true. I mean you got people that uh We were talking the other day, and I don't know how we got on at me candy, and she was telling me about influences.

I Have never heard that. Does anybody know what an influencer is?

What is it sister right? Talks about it because they have a lot of to buy a certain product or.

Think a certain way. Yeah, and these people are filthy rich. And it's amazing to me how these people have such exposure and how many people are Willing to pay these people. Some of them don't even look like they got hair on their face.

Honestly and yet they're supposed to be deadly influences of the younger people come on. Yeah, but I'm just saying it's so much of greater value to go where God says I I am Wisdom and and and that's what says I wisdom verse 12.

I wisdom dwell with prudence and find out knowledge and discretion in the fear of the Lord is to hate evil. Like I said, you can read this whole chapter, but this is one of the two books that God gives us right not just pithy sayings or phrases or catch catch terms, but rather it's wisdom and Again, if you think you got all the wisdom.

Well, you got some big problems because none of us have the wisdom that we really need so it is one example of it how God is infinitely wise and and I I won't say it this way. Maybe you'd agree now God shares that wisdom with us.

He openly Displays it to us and certainly wisdom is to be Taken and used for God's glory. So think about how and the a Carson brings up the Psalms. And how God has given us the Psalms and I will say this.

I love the Psalms. And I guess part of it is I'm a very I'm a very emotional person. In many different ways it my experience is really work in me, right. And I think that one of the reasons why I enjoy the Psalms because there isn't an experience that hasn't been given to us in Psalms every possible experience ups downs ins outs.

All kinds of things of Real life experience are given to us in the Psalms and God in his wisdom has Given to them to us to help us through those very experiences. In and in the Psalms think about it that the Psalms teaches how to pray.

Psalms teach us how to trust. The Psalms teach us how to wait. The Psalm teaches us how to deal with enemies. The Psalms teach us how to deal with events and actions. One of the greatest Psalms is Psalm 73 about the prosperity of the wicked.

I'll tell you what, there's a lot of wisdom in Psalm 73 to be had and there's a lot of comfort. And and and think about the makeup of the Psalms. Many of the Psalms are songs. Many of the songs of the Psalms are just Praises to God and yet they're full of experience and wisdom.

And again, I say to you God is so infinitely wise and and we ought to tap in Through Christ by the power of the Spirit into God's wisdom. Ultimately Christ is the wisdom of God and we all hopefully understand that so so just think about it.

Here's here's something to think about. And And D .A. Causton brought this up in the book by the way go to Psalm 1 just real quick. Probably everybody knows it by heart. Eight verses. It's not that hard to do a memory memorization on Psalm 1, but Why don't you just think about this?

It's only six verses. Let me let's just read it. Okay, and again, I read New King James. So If you don't you should no I'm only kidding. I Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly.

Nor stands in the path of the sinners nor sits in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the law of the Lord. And in his law, he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water That bring forth its fruit in his season and whose leaf shall not wither and whatever he does shall prosper.

And the ungodly are not so but are like the chaff which the wind drives away. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand in the judgment nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous for the Lord knows the way of the righteous.

But the way of the ungodly shall perish. So here's the thing I was thinking about this as I always prepare for this morning how many times I've read Psalm 1 and I will continue it but This point just jumped out again to me and it's this how infinitely wise God is to give us an understanding in six verses.

That this world has been chastened for millennium. Think about it because in these six verses God in his wisdom lays out two kinds of people. The godly and the ungodly. God doesn't get Caught up in all these groups.

Even like when we talk about this gay pride stuff LBGTQB. I don't even know how many more letters there are in in all that gook. But my point is think about God is infinitely wise and in six verses he explains Everything about man that not every little detail.

That's not the point but in six verses not only does God lay out. There's only two types of people. But he also says there's only two kinds of results for those two kinds of people and you think about it.

Think about how much? Energy. How much money? How much this that and the other thing has been spent? Down through history by men women trying to define and give understanding and and give us a if you will a right worldview and I'll say to you this some one if you you and I can Gather in what God has given us in Psalm 1 we'll have a right worldview.

And again, there's only two types of people and there's only two results for those two types of people and it's very simple in that Sense to begin to understand which one of those two groups you are. Now again, you could be you could do it in Chinese.

You could do it in German. You could do it. You could do it in all languages. You could do it across all cultures. You could do it in all stations of life. It doesn't matter. There's no different groups that are rich than they're off of the poor.

There's either rich people who are godly or rich people who are ungodly. They're either poor people who are godly or poor people who are ungodly so again, it amazes me how wise God is that he is able in In such a brief description to give us If you will a right worldview.

You know people sometimes think if you say more that means you smarter. Sometimes it just makes you a bigger fool when you're done, right sometimes being straightforward and simple and concise is Wiser than you know, it says the fool opens his mouth.

He spills his heart. But you think about that? It's so wonderful. Here's a here's another one. And again, that's all I want to do this morning. We got just a few minutes left. And this is what I think Carson is trying to demonstrate.

So again, he stopped he paused in his his Moving forward in history, which he will continue. But he also wanted us to think about and I well worth it how you and I can Enjoy not only know But enjoy God.

And that's something I wonder if if many people Don't I Wonder how many of God's children know God, but don't necessarily enjoy God. And I believe God wants us right what is the chief end of man. Presbyterians got this one right glorify God and what?

Joy him forever, right? And I think we think that sometimes we got to wait till we get to heaven to enjoy God. Okay, no, I mean it his wisdom and isn't this great did I Can notice only two kinds of people and there's only two results for those two kinds of people look at Psalm 19 again, just Wisdom just laid out for us in such simple terms in such real terms.

And again familiar to us all I'm pretty sure but nevertheless Look the heavens declared a glory of God and the firmament shows his handiwork and day on today at others speech and night on tonight. It reveals knowledge and there was no speech no language where their voice is not heard and their line Has gone out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world and in them he has set a tabernacle for the Sun.

Which is like a bridegroom coming out of the chamber and rejoices like a strong man to run his race. It's rising is from one end of heaven. And it's circuit to the other end and there is nothing hidden from its heat and then he goes into the Lord God but my point is point is you and I can Enjoy the wisdom of God and we can look at the creation we can look at all the I don't know how much I don't know about you, but I don't.

I've watched plenty of shark week. Me candy with all my candy says she's dreaming about sharks now and I said, you know, my baby so mine so I got to back off a little bit this but but I mean if you think about The majesty of it all and how sharks react and they all do.

I guess my point is God It's so infinitely wise that he took the creation. To just display his majesty display his wisdom. Display his power his strength and that's where we're really gonna find true wisdom again.

The heavens themselves and I'm not against people going to Explore the universe, but I would tell you this they're not gonna find what they're looking for if they're not gonna look for God. We can you can tell me about area 51 and all the UFOs and all the boogeyman's and all this and all.

That's why I say that The heavens declare the glory. God affirmed it shows forth his handiwork day on today at other speech at night on tonight. It shows knowledge again. Real quick. So I'm 150. We only got a couple seconds left.

So I'm 150. Last Psalm in the book of Psalms. Love this song actually. On my email and any business cards I ever had this last verse in the Psalm 150 was always on there. It says praise the Lord praise the Lord.

Praise God in his sanctuary. Praise him in his mighty firmament. Praise him for his mighty acts. Praise him according to his excellent greatness. Praise him with the sound of the trumpet. Praise him with the lute and the harp.

Praise him with the timbrel and dance. Praise him with stringed instruments and flutes. Praise him with loud cymbals. Praise him with the high sounding cymbals. And here. Here's that verse let everything that has breath praise the Lord.

Why he's infinitely wise. And not only is he infinitely wise he gives us wisdom and that wisdom of course again is found in Christ. But my point is as as I think DA Carson was trying to lay out and I don't have time this morning to do this.

But I would have taken you to to Job. There's another book that God's given us and there's a there's a man who was righteous and afflicted troubled. Befriended unfriended. All kinds of things and even Job was he was all baffled right until we get to you've read it in Job 38 when God says.

You know I'm gonna ask you some questions and you answer me. Where were you? When I laid the foundation. I So I was listening to one of shark shows yesterday the guys the guy very some very scientific guys got PhD DRE.

I mean, he's got 42 letters after his name. And he said well this shark evolved 400 million years ago. We know that for certain. Dude, what where were you when God formed the earth? And this one was 350 million years ago.

Really? Okay God in his infinite wisdom Has told us he's created everything right and and so let everything that has breath praise the Lord and Job. Finally remember what it says at the end of the book of Job 42.

What did Job say? He said man I heard of you with the hearing of the ear. Now I see. Right, and then God blesses him with more than he had in the beginning or and I got just enough time. Ecclesiastes chapter 12 real quick.

And as you turn it remember who wrote Ecclesiastes. Solomon. King Solomon. Good bad King Solomon. Anyway, if you think about the last chapter in the book of Ecclesiastes and remember Solomon sought out wisdom.

God gave him wisdom and Solomon sought out and Solomon did it all didn't he? Solomon did partying he did. Thinking he tried this he tried that he had this he had man service maidservants wives goods everything.

Please ask these chapter 12. We'll just read it and we'll close. Remember now your creator in the days of your youth. Before the difficult days come and the years draw there. And the and the years draw near when you say I have no pleasure in them.

When the Sun and the light and the moon and the stars are not darkened and the clouds do not return after the rain in the day when the keepers of the house tremble and The strong men bow down when the grind is ceased because they are few and those that look through the windows grow dim.

When the doors are shut in the streets and the sound of the grinding is low when one rises up at the sounding of a bird and all the daughters of music are brought low and When they are afraid of height and in the terrors of the day when the almond tree blossoms.

The grasshopper is a burden and desires fail. Man goes through his eternal home and the mourners go about the streets. Remember your creator before the silver cord is loosed or the Golden Bowl was broken or the pitch is shattered at the fountain.

Or the wheel broken at the well there is. Then the dust will return To the earth as it were and the spirit will return to God who gave it. And moreover because the preacher was wise he still taught to people knowledge.

Yes he pondered and sought out and set in order many proverbs and The preacher sought to find out acceptable words and what was written was upright words of truth and the words of the wise Are like goads the words of scholars are like well-driven nails Given by one Shepherd further my son be admonished by these of making many books there is no end of Much study is wearisome to the flesh.