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"The ways of the LORD are right"

Text: Hosea 14:9

WISDOM BADLY NEEDED

It was a severe lack of wisdom that Israel lost its way. The nation had to acquire wisdom the hard way.

“Who is wise?
Let him understand these things.
Who is prudent?
Let him know them.
For the ways of the LORD are right;
The righteous walk in them,
But transgressors stumble in them.”
Hosea 14:9

1. “Who is wise?”

a) True wisdom is available.

b) Good wisdom is to be sought from the LORD.

2. “Let him understand these things”

a) Hosea had revealed much wisdom.

b) Israel must seek to understand all the truths that had been proclaimed.

3. “Who is prudent?”

a) Prudence is the correct application of wisdom in life.

b) Wisdom is evidenced in the practice of prudence in all matters of life.

4. “Let him know them”

a) The truly wise would always seek the wise ways of God.

b) He would always seek to know the ways of God deeply.

5. “For the ways of the LORD are right”

a) This is an absolutely true statement.

b) The ways of the LORD are clearly revealed in the Scriptures.

6. There would always be two sets of responses:

a) “The righteous”

i) They would recognize the wise ways of the LORD.

ii) They would seek to walk in His ways diligently and faithfully.

b) “The transgressors”

i) They would not have the wisdom of the LORD.

ii) They would stumble if they tried to walk in God’s ways without faith and spiritual insight given to them.