1. LN 24.52–24.70 (qal) hear, i.e., use the perception of hearing with the ears to process information (Ps 44:2[EB 1]); (nif) be heard (Ex 23:13); (hif) cause to hear (Dt 4:10); 2. LN 24.52–24.70 (qal) able to hear, i.e., have the faculty of hearing in contrast to being deaf (Isa 29:18); 1. hearing leads to learning to fear God Psalm 1:1–2 (ESV) 2 Timothy 3:15 (ESV) 32.36 σοφίζω: to cause a person to have wisdom and understanding—‘to cause to understand, to cause to be wise, to make wise.’ τὰ δυνάμενά σε σοφίσαι εἰς σωτηρίαν ‘which is able to make you wise unto salvation,’ that is, ‘… cause you to have the wisdom that leads to salvation’ we’ve heard plenty of prosperity preaching but not enough teaching/ preaching of the sort that puts us in the way that God travels in Psalm 22:23 (ESV) fear – reverence, fear, i.e., pertaining to respect toward a superior can we say we respect God when we don’t regard what he says when we don’t give his word the place in our lives as the single guiding force Isaiah 57:15 (ESV) ( Romans 12:3 (ESV) 3 For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, but to think with sober judgment, each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned.
Deuteronomy 4:10 (ESV)
10 how on the day that you stood before the Lord your God at Horeb, the Lord said to me, ‘Gather the people to me, that I may let them hear my words, so that they may learn to fear me all the days that they live on the earth, and that they may teach their children so.’
James 1:19–25 (ESV)
19 Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; 20 for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. 21 Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls. 22 But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. 23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. 24 For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. 25 But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.
1 Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; 2 but his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night.
LN 30.1–30.38 (qal) meditate, ponder, give serious thought and consideration to selected information, with a possible implication of speaking in low tones reviewing the material (Jos 1:8);
Psalm 119:97–104 (ESV)
97 Oh how I love your law! It is my meditation all the day. 98 Your commandment makes me wiser than my enemies, for it is ever with me. 99 I have more understanding than all my teachers, for your testimonies are my meditation. 100 I understand more than the aged, for I keep your precepts. 101 I hold back my feet from every evil way, in order to keep your word. 102 I do not turn aside from your rules, for you have taught me. 103 How sweet are your words to my taste, sweeter than honey to my mouth! 104 Through your precepts I get understanding; therefore I hate every false way.
15 and how from childhood you have been acquainted with the sacred writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.
2 Timothy 3:16–17 (ESV)
16 All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, 17 that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work.
Psalm 119:72 (ESV)
72 The law of your mouth is better to me than thousands of gold and silver pieces.
Psalm 25:12–14 (ESV)
12 Who is the man who fears the Lord? Him will he instruct in the way that he should choose. 13 His soul shall abide in well-being, and his offspring shall inherit the land. 14 The friendship of the Lord is for those who fear him, and he makes known to them his covenant.
23 You who fear the Lord, praise him! All you offspring of Jacob, glorify him, and stand in awe of him, all you offspring of Israel!
James 4:10 (ESV)
10 Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
15 For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.
here’s a humbling thought, that we accept that we’re weak, foolish, poor, low and despised, this the word of God but let’s not go beyond the word of God and succumb to self- degradation i.e.- I’m stupid, I’m an idiot, I’m worthless
sober thinking is right thinking it’s God’s perspective )
1 Corinthians 1:26–31 (ESV)
26 For consider your calling, brothers: not many of you were wise according to worldly standards, not many were powerful, not many were of noble birth. 27 But God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise; God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong; 28 God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are, 29 so that no human being might boast in the presence of God. 30 And because of him you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, righteousness and sanctification and redemption, 31 so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”