22 Principles for A Good and Successful Life - Proverbs 22

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Proverbs 22

22 Principles for A Good & Successful Person

Lim Liat (c) 22-2-2018

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• 1 #0 Foundational Truth- Priority of Life

  Your identity & relationship are more important than wealth.

  What you are is more important that what you own.

  • Name over Wealth
  • Relationship over Wealth
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    • Pro 22:1 A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.
  • + - Life is What you do with What you are born with
    • Pro 22:2 The rich and the poor meet together; the LORD is the Maker of them all.
• 2 God is 1st - Worship & Trust Him

  Fear God and develop Humility

  • + - #2 Fear of God & Humility brings Success
    • Pro 22:4 The reward for humility and fear of the LORD is riches and honor and life.
  • + - #16 Trust the Lord
    • Pro 22:19 That your trust may be in the LORD, I have made them known to you today, even to you.
    • Pro 22:20 Have I not written for you thirty sayings of counsel and knowledge,
• 3 Be Righteous & Just
  • + - #17 Know Right & True
    • Pro 22:21 to make you know what is right and true, that you may give a true answer to those who sent you?
  • + - #3 Being Straight brings Life
    • Pro 22:5 Thorns and snares are in the way of the crooked; whoever guards his soul will keep far from them.
  • + - #6 Be Just - Injustice brings calamity

    Abuses of Power brings disaster

    • Pro 22:8 Whoever sows injustice will reap calamity, and the rod of his fury will fail.
  • + - #14 Exploit or Bully Others Not
    • Pro 22:16 Whoever oppresses the poor to increase his own wealth, or gives to the rich, will only come to poverty.
  • + - #18 Do Not Exploit the Weak
    • Pro 22:22 Do not rob the poor, because he is poor, or crush the afflicted at the gate,
    • Pro 22:23 for the LORD will plead their cause and rob of life those who rob them.
  • + - #21 Don't Cheat
    • Pro 22:28 Do not move the ancient landmark that your fathers have set.
• 4 Prudence
  • + - #1 Be Prudent - Escape Danger

    36计 走为上计！

    • Pro 22:3 The prudent sees danger and hides himself, but the simple go on and suffer for it.
    • Joseph running away from his master's wife approaches
  • + - #12 Watch out for Temptations
    • Pro 22:14 The mouth of forbidden women is a deep pit; he with whom the LORD is angry will fall into it.
  • + - #20 Don't Make Pledges nor Put up Security when You are Unable
    • Pro 22:26 Be not one of those who give pledges, who put up security for debts.
    • Pro 22:27 If you have nothing with which to pay, why should your bed be taken from under you?
• 5 Learning & Training
  • + - #4 Training from Young brings Lasting Result
    • Pro 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.
  • + - #10 Learning Always
    • Pro 22:12 The eyes of the LORD keep watch over knowledge, but he overthrows the words of the traitor.
  • + - #13 Discipline is needed
    • Pro 22:15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
  • + - #15 Internalize Knowledge to be able to use it any time
    • Pro 22:17 Incline your ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply your heart to my knowledge,
    • Pro 22:18 for it will be pleasant if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.
• 6 Be Generously Kind

  The Key to Master Wealth

  • + - #5 Wealth has Power & Influence - Use it Well
    • Pro 22:7 The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
  • + - #7 Be Kind & Generous
    • Pro 22:9 Whoever has a bountiful eye will be blessed, for he shares his bread with the poor.
• 7 Avoid Bad Influences
  • + - #8 Get Rid of, Or Stay Away from, Trouble Makers

    Mocking Others, Complaints, Proud, Gossipers

    • + - Pro 22:10 Drive out a scoffer, and strife will go out, and quarreling and abuse will cease.
      • + - H3887
        • + - BDB Definition:
          • + - 1) to scorn, make mouths at, talk arrogantly
            • + - 1a) (Qal)
              • 1a1) to boast
              • 1a2) to scorn
            • + - 1b) (Hiphil)
              • 1b1) to mock, deride
              • 1b2) to interpret (language)
              • 1b2a) interpreter (participle)
              • 1b2b) ambassador (figuratively)
            • 1c) (Hithpalpel) to be inflated, scoff, act as a scorner, show oneself a mocker
  • + - #19 Stay Away from Angry Influence
    • Pro 22:24 Make no friendship with a man given to anger, nor go with a wrathful man,
    • Pro 22:25 lest you learn his ways and entangle yourself in a snare.
• 8 Grace & Truth
  • + - #9 Promotion Comes from Purity & Gracefulness
    • Pro 22:11 He who loves purity of heart, and whose speech is gracious, will have the king as his friend.
• 9 Work Hard
  • + - #11 Be Diligent
    • Pro 22:13 The sluggard says, “There is a lion outside! I shall be killed in the streets!”
  • + - #22 Be Skillful - Excel in Your Work
    • Pro 22:29 Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.