Proverbs 4:4-9 ~ The Content and the Compensations of Fatherly Wisdom

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If you have parents who are saved and in the Lord, the Lord is using them. Put your hearing under your parents in the Lord. And whether you agree with it or not, whether you like it or not, do what the Lord is directing you to do through the parents. God’s wisdom comes through other people and that is what Solomon is really relating here.

So, you can see the importance of not being a religious Christian. That is not what Christianity is all about. That is not biblical Christianity. Biblical Christianity is receiving Christ - literally surrendering to Him and receiving Him into your life. And the Bible says after you are saved, from the inside His Spirit changes and transforms your thinking. That is how intimate and real and interactive the Spirit of God is with a person’s life. He is changing and transforming us, the way we think, the way we see life. It is very personal. It is very powerful. So, Solomon is doing that with his children because his father did that with him, not as a religious exercise but part of the discipline.