2026.04.13 Hopewell @Home ▫ Proverbs 24:3–12

Read Proverbs 24:3–12

Questions from the Scripture text: How is a house built (Proverbs 24:3a)? How is it established (verse 3b)? How are the rooms filled (Proverbs 24:4)? With what? Who is strong (Proverbs 24:5a)? Who increases strength (verse 5b)? How can one wage war (Proverbs 24:6a)? Where is safety (verse 6b)? For whom is wisdom too lofty (Proverbs 24:7a)? What is he unable to do (verse 7b)? What man does Proverbs 24:8 describe? What is he called? What does Proverbs 24:9a call the devising of foolishness? How does the scoffer end up (verse 9b)? What might a man do in the day of adversity (Proverbs 24:10a)? What does this show about him (verse 10b)? What ought one to do with his strength (Proverbs 24:11)? What excuse mustn’t we use for not doing so (Proverbs 24:12a)? Why not—Who knows the truth (verse 12b–c)? What will He do (verse 12d)?

What strength do we need, and why? Proverbs 24:3–12 looks forward to the midweek sermon. In these ten verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that we need to be strengthened by wisdom for our households, for ourselves, and for the perishing.

#21–25 of the “30 sayings of the wise” (cf. Proverbs 22:20, literally translated) teach that wisdom is the strength necessary to live and fulfill one’s duty before God, in one’s own household, and toward fellow human beings. 

It is through wisdom that a house is built (Proverbs 24:3). One of the things we have seen not only throughout the book but even in these thirty sayings thus far is a strong emphasis on the multi-generational purpose of wisdom. The son learns from his father so that, when he comes to him for wisdom, he may install it in his heart, in his ears, and in his core, and direct his entire being by it, so that it overflows from his lips (cf. Proverbs 22:17–18). We have also heard, in these thirty sayings, that the gladness of a father is fully realized, not only when his son has wisdom in his heart and walks in the wise way, but also when his son instructs his own child correctly—now the grandchild; and, when he hears wisdom on his son’s lips, he rejoices (cf. Proverbs 23:12–16).

A household is not merely built through effort, strength, prudence, and ability. It is wisdom that gives all of these things. It is by understanding that wisdom is established, and by knowledge that the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches. This describes the physical structure in which the household lives, but applies especially to the generations that actually comprise the household. 

A house is not made of rooms and furnishings. We see this clearly in Psalm 127, where it says, “Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain” (cf. Psalm 127:1). And it is especially the household that the Lord builds. Children are a heritage from the Lord (cf. Psalm 127:3). The treasures of Proverbs 24:4 serve and gladden this household. The family is an institution of God, and its service is such a high priority that being strengthened for the building of the family is one of the first and greatest things by which the Lord commends wisdom to us. 

So, the second saying here, #22, immediately tackles this idea of strength. The wise man is strong (Proverbs 24:5a). Yes, a man of knowledge increases strength (verse 5b). How strong? It is wisdom that makes the difference, even in waging war. Whatever it is that you are tackling, whatever battle you are facing, the way you will be victorious in your own war is through wise counsel (Proverbs 24:6). 

This is why the Lord has given us not just a father, but also a mother, elders, minister, deacons, and the others who speak the truth in love—every joint in the body supplying something, every member of the body doing its share, and all speaking the truth to one another in love. The Lord has literally designed us to have a multitude of counselors, and this is because it is through this wisdom that we will wage our own war. 

The third saying (Proverbs 24:7, #23) reminds us that we need wisdom because we need God Himself to change our nature. We cannot obtain the wisdom of the fear of the Lord, if we continue to be fools who say in our hearts that there is no God. There is no kind of atheistic substitute for wisdom. If you do not have a new nature, if you do not have faith in Christ, if you continue to live as though there is no God, you cannot obtain wisdom by any means—wisdom is beyond the reach of the fool. If you do not have the real thing—through the knowledge of the true God, through real life in you, worked by the Holy Spirit—then you cannot obtain that wisdom, and you cannot speak wisely at the gate. There are fools who attempt to speak at the gate, but a wise society will silence them (verse 7b).

The fool is not only ineffective and dangerous, so that he is not one of the counselors you need (Proverbs 24:7), but in the fourth of these sayings, he himself will ultimately be humiliated (Proverbs 24:8-9, #24). He who plans to do evil will be called a schemer (Proverbs 24:8). He may not be labeled as such at first, and people may follow him at first, but as they are brought low before the Lord, they will realize, that the devising of their foolishness is sin (Proverbs 24:9a). And those men who remain at the end—the upright—these will consider such men an abomination (verse 9b). 

Therefore, beware when you are in a group of men who speak in worldly ways, which is false wisdom. Beware of wanting to fit in with them, for they will be destroyed. Folly leads not only to destruction but also to contempt. For at the end, you will be known as a schemer and will be considered an abomination. “Wisdom” that does not proceed from the knowledge of God, in Christ, is folly. It has an appearance of strength, but that appearance is an illusion. 

This is important because we are required to have the strength of wisdom, not only for our household (Proverbs 24:3-4), and the conduct of our struggles (Proverbs 24:5-6), as we heard in the first two of these five sayings, but also for the deliverance of others (Proverbs 24:10-12, #25). If you faint in the day of adversity, your strength is insufficient (Proverbs 24:10). In other words, “wisdom” that is of human origin, rather than of the knowledge and fear of God, must fail; it is not sufficient for the task. If your strength is not in God, not in Christ, it cannot stand. 

Yet, we need that strength in the day of adversity, not only for ourselves, but for the work that God has assigned to us for others. Deliver those who are being led to death (Proverbs 24:11a). Hold back those who are stumbling toward slaughter (verse 11b). These are not optional acts, or works of extra credit. They are duties required by God, as Proverbs 24:12 makes clear. God weighs the heart; He knows whether you care for those who are perishing (verse 12a–c). The implication of the entire passage is that we have a duty not only to be wisdom-strong for ourselves, but in order to minister to others.

God gives us the privilege and the duty of serving one another and ministering to others. This may be in the initial evangelism of someone who is spiritually dead and moving toward eternal death, whom the Lord brings across our path, and we point them to the knowledge of Him. Or it may be recovering a backsliding brother or sister. 

It is of the utmost importance that we live in the fear of the Lord and in the knowledge of the Holy One. Throughout the book of Proverbs, and in the whole of Scripture, we have heard the wisdom that we must apply to various situations and circumstances. There are many reasons for this, but one of the greatest is so that we may have strength—strength for the generations that will come from us; strength for facing our own battles; and strength for helping our brother or sister—or a neighbor who needs to become a brother or sister.

How are you growing in knowing and fearing the Lord? What difference is that making in how you serve your household? What battles do you currently face? By the help of what Christ-appointed counselors are you doing so? What perishing people are you helping? How?

Sample prayer:  Lord, this is eternal life: that we may know You and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. By the fear of You and the knowledge of You, Jesus completed the work that you gave Him to do, saving all those whom you gave to Him. 

So also, Lord, although we do not have His work, You employ us in the work that He has assigned to us. And so we pray that you would give us the help of Your Spirit, that we may live in the knowledge of the Father and of the Son, and complete the work that You give us to do in this world. Grant it, we pray, in the grace of Christ, which we ask in His Name. Amen.

Suggested songs: ARP1 “How Blessed the Man” or TPH164 “God Himself Is with Us”

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When God Is Against You [Family Worship lesson in Nahum 2:3–13]

What endures? Nahum 2:3–13 prepares us for the morning sermon in the holy assembly on the coming Lord’s Day. In these eleven verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that your relationship with God is the one thing that endures. (click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson) Summary of the transcript of the audio: The passage from Nahum 2 presents a vivid depiction of God’s sovereign judgment on Nineveh, anticipating the ultimate failure of all earthly power, wealth, and security. Every creature will crumble when God declares, "I am against you." All human achievements, including family, military strength, and material riches, are fleeting and cannot endure apart from reconciliation with God. The only lasting security lies in being reconciled to God through faith in Christ, so that the final declaration between soul and Creator is not "I am against you," but "I am for you."

2026.04.11 Hopewell @Home ▫ Nahum 2:3–13

Read Nahum 2:3–13

Questions from the Scripture text: What, belonging to whom, are made what color (Nahum 2:3a)? Who are dressed in what color (verse 3b)? With what are the chariots “dressed” (verse 3c)? In what day (verse 3d)? What are shaken (verse 3e)? What do the chariots do, where (Nahum 2:4a)? What do they do to each other (verse 4b)? What do they seem like (verse 4c)? How do they run (verse 4d)? Whom does he remember (Nahum 2:5a)? What interrupts their walking (verse 5b)? Where are they going, at what speed (verse 5c)? What is being prepared (verse 5d)? What are opened (Nahum 2:6a)? What is dissolved/melted (verse 6b)? How does Nahum 2:7a indicate that this has been established? What will happen to Nineveh (verse 7b)? Who will lead her (verse 7c–d)? With what mournful sounds (verse 7e)? And actions (verse 7f)? How does Nahum 2:8a describe her former peace and security? But what do her citizens do now (verse 8b)? What are others shouting after them (verse 8c)? But how is the haste of their fleeing demonstrated (verse 8d)? What do her invaders do (Nahum 2:9)? How much? What (and who) is left (Nahum 2:10a)? What does this cause in her citizens (verse 10b)? What do they feel (verse 10c)? From where? How does verse 10d describe the extent to which they are horrified and devastated? What rhetorical question does Nahum 2:11a ask? And verse 11b? And Nahum 2:11-12d? What does this imply about how Nineveh used to be? What do the rhetorical questions this imply about what has happened to Nineveh? How does Nahum 2:13 introduce itself? Who is speaking in it? What is His relation to Nineveh? What is He going to do to her chariots? And to her young lions (cf. Nahum 2:11-12)? What will He do to their ability to prey upon others? Who will no longer report her victories? 

What endures? Nahum 2:3–13 prepares us for the morning sermon in the holy assembly on the coming Lord’s Day. In these eleven verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that your relationship with God is the one thing that endures.  

The Lord’s restoration of His people (Nahum 2:2) goes hand-in-hand with His vengeance upon those who have oppressed them (Nahum 2:3-13). What do we learn from His own description and explanation of that vengeance? We learn the nature of His vengeance, the nature of this life, and the nature of relationship with God.

The nature of His vengeance. The description in Nahum 2:3-4 uses the colors and appearance of the weapons, men, and vehicles to describe the invasion of the suburbs, outside the wall, like a wildfire (cf. Nahum 1:10), bearing down on the city. The king of Assyria remembers his mightiest men (Nahum 2:5a), but they stumble themselves into position (verse 5b–d). Then, in a moment, not only do all the defenses melt (Nahum 2:6), but also the hearts of the people (Nahum 2:7). No warrior stands (Nahum 2:8), no treasure remains (Nahum 2:9), the city and their joy are emptied (Nahum 2:10), and nothing is left of the pride of their pride (i.e., Assyria as a community of lions, Nahum 2:11-12). God’s vengeance is fiery, inevitable, just, and complete. We must remember this, when we are tempted to take our own, weak vengeance instead; or, when we are discouraged by what the wicked are doing; or, when we are tempted to think that we can sin with no repercussions.

The nature of this life. Nineveh, as the capital of Assyria, is the perfect example of the people who have everything in this life. Safety, security, wealth, impressiveness, confidence, even family. But how easily those things come to nothing in a moment. The Tigris on her west wall becomes the method by which her fortifications melt (Nahum 2:6). How quickly their rejoicing turns to the deepest mourning (Nahum 2:7, Nahum 2:10b–d). They go from calm and peaceful as a pool of water, to unable to get their warriors even to look back as they flee (Nahum 2:8). Their limitless treasure (Nahum 2:9) is entirely emptied (Nahum 2:10a). And their fierceness toward others (Nahum 2:11), and fierce loyalty toward one another (Nahum 2:12a–b), suddenly vanish. How many live for these things: safety, security, wealth, influence, pleasure, belonging. But Scripture teaches us to hold onto these things with a light grip; the form of this world is passing away (cf. 1 Corinthians 7:29–31). If we receive every good thing as a gift and assignment from the Lord, then very well. But if we treat them as the substance of our lives, then let us remember Nahum 2:3–13, and how even Nineveh lost them all in one fell swoop. Even Christian families must hold onto Christ together, if we hope that our family bond will be something that endures.

The nature of relationship with God. What is Nineveh’s great problem? That YHWH Himself is against her. He demands attention: “Behold Me! I am against you!” (Nahum 2:13a, more literally translated). He says it, not in the third person through the prophet, but His own voice (“an utterance of YHWH,” verse 13a, more literally translated). Finally, YHWH emphasizes His own action: though the sword is what will devour Nineveh’s young lions, YHWH Himself “will burn your chariots in smoke,” and YHWH Himself “will cut off your prey from the earth.” Give the Lord Himself all your attention, dear reader. Either He is for you, in which case all the creation avails nothing against you (cf. Romans 8:31). Or, He is against you (Nahum 2:13a), in which case all the creation avails nothing for you. The world is full of messengers and messages about earthly victory, security, prosperity, pleasure, and community. At last, all of these messengers fall silent (end of verse 13). Only one messenger’s words last. The one who preaches the gospel (cf. Nahum 1:15) as an ambassador who offers for God to be “for you” through the sacrifice of Christ (cf. 2 Corinthians 5:20–21). This is the great consideration of your existence: YHWH is either against you in yourself, or for you in Christ. Be His in Christ! 

In light of what is going on in the world, and your life, how is God’s vengeance comforting you? How is it warning you? What parts of earthly life most threaten to consume your thoughts, feelings, desires, plans, and efforts? How are you making use of His means to have the Lord Himself being the primary substance of all of these things in your life? How do you know whether God is for you or against you? What does this mean for your life right now?

Sample prayer:  Lord, in You we live and move and have our being. Forgive us for how we have lived forgetfully of You, as if the things of this world had any significance apart from You. Grant that, by Your Spirit, we might live by faith in Christ, knowing that You are for us, in Him. Through Him we ask it, AMEN!

Suggested songs: ARP46 “God Is Our Refuge and Our Strength” or TPH515 “More Than Conquerors” 

Christ, Our Blessed Righteousness [Family Worship lesson in Proverbs 10:6–7]

Pastor teaches his family a selection from “the Proverb of the day.” In these two verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us the blessedness of righteousness—the blessedness of Christ. (click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson) Summary of the transcript of the audio: The devotional centers on the stark contrast between the destiny of the righteous and the wicked as revealed in Proverbs 10:6–7, emphasizing that only through Christ’s perfect righteousness, substitutionary atonement, and resurrection can sinners be declared righteous and inherit eternal blessing. It underscores that apart from Christ, all humanity is deserving of divine judgment and eternal destruction, but in Him, believers are credited with His righteousness, freed from condemnation, and empowered by His Spirit to live in newness of life.

Missional Duty of the Mature [Family Worship lesson in Song of Songs 8:8–12]

In what does a healthy church desire to participate? Song of Songs 8:8–12 prepares us for the evening sermon on the coming Lord’s Day. In these five verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that a healthy church desires to participate in the planting and making healthy of other churches, and in producing the fruit of mature believers, whom the Lord Jesus so highly values. (click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson) Summary of the transcript of the audio: The passage presents the church as fulfilling her responsibility to nurture and fortify other churches and to actively engage in church planting, revitalization, and missions as co-laborers with Christ. The imagery of the vineyard underscores the immense value God places on every believer, honoring both Christ and Christ-given ministers by bringing forth the fruit that they so highly value.

2026.04.10 Hopewell @Home ▫ Song of Songs 8:8–12

Read Song of Songs 8:8–12

Questions from the Scripture text: What do the bride and bridegroom have (Song of Songs 8:8a)? What does she lack, in her spiritual immaturity (verse 8b; cf. Song of Songs 4:5, Song of Songs 7:3)? What does Song of Songs 8:8c ask about? With respect to what day (Song of Songs 8:8d)? What might she come to be (Song of Songs 8:9a)? And what would need to be done then (verse 9b–c)? What else might she come to be (verse 9d)? And what would need to be done then (verse 9e–f)? Who is already in the condition of verse 9a (Song of Songs 8:10a)? And already has the improvement of Song of Songs 8:9b–c (Song of Songs 8:10b)? What is the Bridegroom’s view of her, in this condition of maturity (verse 10c–d)? What is the earthly comparison for the Bridegroom and His bride (Song of Songs 8:11a)? How does He design to obtain her cultivated fruit (verse 11b)? How valuable is this fruit to Him (verse 11c–d)? Who else cares about her fruitfulness (Song of Songs 8:12a)? For what value to Him (verse 12b)? And what other value to whom else (verse 12c)? 

In what does a healthy church desire to participate? Song of Songs 8:8–12 prepares us for the evening sermon on the coming Lord’s Day. In these five verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us that a healthy church desires to participate in the planting and making healthy of other churches, and in producing the fruit of mature believers, whom the Lord Jesus so highly values. 

The Church and Her Mission (Song of Songs 8:8-9). From Song of Songs 7:11–8:4, we heard about the bride’s desire for revival of the saints, and for the church to be enabled to give more love to Christ. There is another desire that mature and faithful churches have: the recovery of backslidden churches, and the planting and growing of new churches. 

Already by the time of Solomon, there was some fracturing between the north and south in Israel (cf. 2 Samuel 20:1, 1 Kings 12:16). So, there is an obvious candidate, at the time of writing, for the “little sister.” Later, the apostles are charged by the Lord Jesus, with the subsequent building of a sequence of “little sisters”: Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and the ends of the earth (cf. Acts 1:8). Now, we are in a season, where Israel and the remaining fullness of the Gentiles are in the place of the “little sister” (cf. Romans 11:25–26). 

Ultimately, it is Christ, Who builds His church, but He uses means. The “we” in Song of Songs 8:8-9 has nothing to do with brothers, like the editors of the NKJ have interpolated. Christ uses His present church for forming new congregations, for bringing the gospel to new nations, and indeed for bringing all the elect to saving faith in Him. It is difficult to tell whether the speaker in Song of Songs 8:8-9 is the bride, or the Bridegroom, or the two together. As the church matures, His desire is her desire, and His work is her work.

In this case, the sister is still so immature that she is unable to nourish offspring (Song of Songs 8:8b). She doesn’t yet have the capacity to disciple the offspring unto the pleasure of the Bridegroom (cf. Song of Songs 4:5, Song of Songs 7:3). 

Christ produces this maturity by His grace, but Song of Songs 8:8c asks “what shall WE do?” (emphasis mine). 

He has given His church the privilege of duty and responsibility in His mission work. If she is to come to be betrothed to Christ (Song of Songs 8:8d), something must be done. 

Christ Himself is the foundation, and He establishes her with the structural strength of a wall by building her upon Himself (Song of Songs 8:9a). Upon this foundation, the church must build a tower, a royal fortification, but only using the right materials (verse 9b). The apostle alludes to this text in 1 Corinthians 3:10–15. 

Christ Himself is the door (cf. John 10:9, John 14:6). But it is especially in and through the church that He brings the elect to Himself (cf. Ephesians 2:12–13). When a church has become a doorway of the gospel to Christ (Song of Songs 8:9d, cf. Song of Songs 5:4), she reinforces and buttresses that truth (cf. 1 Timothy 3:15), as the Bridegroom and bride do here with the boards of cedar (Song of Songs 8:9e–f).

The Church He Uses (Song of Songs 8:10). To be His instrument and partner in His work, the bride must first be mature herself, and this is what she professes in Song of Songs 8:10. She is already that wall of Song of Songs 8:9a (Song of Songs 8:10a). She already has those towers (verse 10b), that battlement of Song of Songs 8:9c. In this case, the towers are the same by which the offspring are nourished. It is the truth of the gospel by which the saints are nourished in the church. And it is the truth of the gospel that is raised as a battlement by which the church is protected. 

It is this church that the Lord Jesus sees (Song of Songs 8:10c) as her who has found peace (verse 10d). And the church that is mature in the gospel, and fortified in the gospel, is the church that should be multiplying this maturity in “little sisters” via church planting and missions. And in those daughters of Jerusalem who are as little sisters within her assemblies.

The Ministers He Uses (Song of Songs 8:11). Now, the song again uses its writer as something of a living metaphor for Christ. We saw this back on the wedding day in Song of Songs 3:6–11. Now, we see it again with reference to His kingly employment of servants to bring forth exquisite fruit. 

The Lord Jesus interprets Song of Songs 8:11 in the way that we have learned from Scripture to read the song (cf. Matthew 21:33, Mark 12:1, Luke 20:9). The great difference is between the Pharisees and the true bride—the “others” of Matthew 21:41, Mark 12:9, Luke 20:16. The true bride longs to produce for the Lord the fruit that He values at 1000 (!) silver coins. This, of course, is the opposite of an exaggeration, because the “fruit” here are redeemed, godly saints. The friends and beloved ones of the Bridegroom. 

They aren’t worth a “mere” thousand silver coins to Him. They are worth His incarnation and humiliation. They are worth His suffering and death—and that, on the cross. And it is for them that He has instituted the ministry of the gospel. It is for them that He has saved, graced, gifted, called, and ordained the particular men whom He charges with this ministry. 

Let ministers remember this. The vineyard is the Lord’s vineyard. It is the vineyard of “Baal Hamon” (master of the multitude). The fruit is the Lord’s fruit. Ministers are the Lord’s servants, appointed for bringing forth the fruit believers whose faith has matured.

And let church members remember this. The Lord has sent them their faithful ministers. So, while they give regard to their ministers out of reverence for Christ, it is ultimately Christ Who uses those ministers to produce the fruit. And it is Christ to Whom the fruit belongs. Let them make use of the ministry that the Lord has supplied to them. Let them bear fruit for Him.

The Church and Her Ministers (Song of Songs 8:12). Finally, the bride refers to her own vineyard. Even though she is mature and strong, as a wall with towers, she still needs to keep her vineyard. Near the very beginning of the song, she had admitted that she had not kept her vineyard (cf. Song of Songs 1:6e). But that is not the case now. She professes, “My own vineyard is before me” (Song of Songs 8:12a).

She knows Christ’s valuing of her fruit, and she longs to give Him that thousand.

But she knows that, though a minister cannot value the fruit as the King does, yet the minister’s cherishing of the saints comes from Christ’s own. And the bride loves for the vineyard keepers to have their share in the joy of the fruit that is produced. The laborer is worthy of his hire (cf. 1 Corinthians 9:7, 1 Corinthians 9:9–14). But what a congregation should much more desire to give him is the joy of seeing them advancing in grace and the fruit of the Spirit (cf. 1 Thessalonians 2:19, 1 Corinthians 9:2).

What part do spiritually weak churches, church plants, and missionary work have in your prayers? What part does the reformation, revival, and strengthening of your own church have in your priorities? What use are you making of the ordained ministry that the Lord Jesus uses in your own congregation, to bring forth fruit? How are you making use of His valuing the fruit as a motivation for bearing it? 

Sample prayer:  Lord, thank You for loving Your church, Your temple, Your vineyard. Grant that she would worship You, now, as a strong wall, built solidly upon the only foundation, her Lord Jesus Christ. Grant that, for her battlements, she would have the towers that nourish her by the pure milk of the Word, and guard her by the truth as it is in Jesus. We thank You for giving vineyard keepers, whom You Yourself use to make us fruitful. And, we marvel that You have so desired our mature faith, as Your fruit, that You have paid, not one thousand silver coins, but Your own blood, to redeem us. Now, grant that by Your Spirit, we would worship You by the grace that we have from Your own resurrection life, we ask in Your Name, AMEN!

Suggested songs: ARP87 “The LORD’s Foundation” or TPH405 “I Love Thy Kingdom Lord”

Learning to Love Correction [Family Worship lesson in Proverbs 9:7–9]

Pastor teaches his family a selection from “the Proverb of the day.” In these three verses of Holy Scripture, the Holy Spirit teaches us the value receiving correction. (click here to DOWNLOAD mp3/pdf files of this lesson) Summary of the transcript of the audio: These verses reveal a profound wisdom about the nature of correction and the posture of the heart toward it, emphasizing that rebuking a scoffer only invites shame, while a wise person welcomes correction with gratitude and grows in understanding. The passage calls believers to exercise discernment in how and when they confront others, recognizing that not all are ready to receive truth, especially those hardened in pride or mockery. Equally important, it challenges individuals to examine their own hearts: do they respond to correction with defensiveness or with humility and love? True wisdom is demonstrated not in avoiding rebuke, but in embracing it as a means of spiritual growth. The ultimate goal is to cultivate a Christlike character marked by meekness, humility, and a desire to honor God through a life shaped by grace and truth.

Christ Is the Church's Glory [2026.04.05 Evening Sermon in Song of Songs 8:5–7]

Jesus Himself is the glory of His church.

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The Chief End of Affliction [2026.04.05 Morning Sermon in Nahum 1:12–2:2]

The Lord delivers the godly out of trials and reserves the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment.

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