Welcome to Wisdom Today with Bill Kelley. Today we will be going over Proverb 8. I will then key in on verse 13 - The fear of the Lord is to hate evil; Pride and arrogance and the evil way And the perverse mouth I hate. Several things I would like to say about this verse. First, if God hates something, so should we. God says that we are to hate evil. God doesn't like pride, and He doesn't like arrogance. We all know many people that are like this. We are to give God the glory for all good things that we have. All good and perfect things are from above. God also says that we are to be careful of all of the words that come out of our mouth. We are not to use curse words or spread gossip with our mouths. We are only to have wholesome speech come out of our mouths - words that will edify and build people up. We will then continue our study of Exodus in Chapter 4. Three things that I will share from the second half of chapter 4 are these: 1. God calls Moses to go to Egypt. God sees the affliction of His people Israel and wants to put it to an end. But, in order for that to happen, a number of things have to happen. Pharaoh (the new pharaoh) does not know God and has no remembrance of Joseph in the book of Genesis. 2. God will harden Pharoah's heart. Because of this, God is going to have to show Pharaoh the power that He has and Pharaoh is going to have to learn (the hard way) of who he is dealing with. 3. Moses shares with Aaron God's instructions. Aaron doesn't yet know that God has made him the person who will be speaking directly to Pharaoh. God will speak to Moses, and Moses will speak to Aaron, and Aaron will be speaking directly to Pharaoh what God wants to be relayed to him.
