What Does Proverbs Say For Today Part 14

 

What Does Proverbs Say For Today Part 14

 

Counsel

 

¹ Counsel = n. advice; a lawyer hired to give legal advice…

v.i. and v.t. to give advice or advise; to recommend, as a course of action.

 

“A wise man will hear and increase learning, and a man of understanding will attain (acquire) wise counsel. Where there is no counsel, the people fall; but in the multitude of counselors there is safety. The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who heeds counsel is wise. Deceit is in the heart of those who devise evil, but counselors of peace have joy. By pride comes nothing but strife, but with the well-advised is wisdom. Without counsel, plans go awry, but in the multitude of counselors they are established. A man has joy by the answer of his mouth, and a word spoken in due season (Lit. in its time), how good it is! Listen to counsel and receive instruction, that you may be wise in your latter days. There are many plans in a man’s heart, nevertheless the Lord’s counsel—that will stand. Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water, but a man of understanding will draw it out. Plans are established by counsel; by wise counsel wage war. There is no wisdom or understanding or counsel against the Lord. Have I not written to you excellent things of Counsels and knowledge, that I may make you know the certainty of the words of truth, that you may answer words of truth to those who send to you? For by wise counsel you will wage your own war, and in a multitude of counselors there is safety.” (Proverbs 1:5; 11:14; 12:15, 20; 13:10; 15:22-23; 19:20-21; 20:5, 18; 21:30; 22:20; 24:6)

 

“There are many plans in a man’s heart, nevertheless the Lord’s counsel—that will stand. There is no wisdom or understanding or counsel against the Lord.”  “Why do the nations (gentiles) rage (throng tumultuously), and the people plot a vain (worthless or empty) thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against His Anointed (CHRIST, Commissioned One, Heb. MESSIAH), saying, ‘Let us break Their bonds in pieces and cast away Their cords from us.’ He who sits in the heavens shall laugh; the LORD shall hold them in derision. Then He shall speak to them in His wrath, and distress them in His deep displeasure: The Lord brings the counsel of the nations to nothing; He makes the plans of the peoples of no effect. The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the plans of His heart to all generations.” (Proverbs 19:21, 21:30; Psalm 2:1-5) Only the devil and those who follow him are stupid enough to make plans against GOD! James tells us, “Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will (M let us) go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit’; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away. Instead you ought to say, ‘If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.’ But now you boast in your arrogance. All such boasting is evil. Therefore, to him who knows to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.” James 4:13-17. Study JESUS’ parable in Luke 12:15-21. Also study Psalm 33:10-11; Isaiah 8:9-10; 1 Corinthians 3:19-20; and Luke 14:31.

 

 

“’Come now, and let us reason together,’ says the LORD, ‘thought your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be as wool.’” “I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake; and I will not remember your sins. Put Me in remembrance; let us contend together; state your case, that you may be acquitted (justified).” One of the names of JESUS is Counselor, “For unto us a child is born. Unto us a Son is given; and the government will be upon His shoulder. And His name will be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty GOD, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” Isaiah 1:18, 9:6, 43:25-26 GOD wants us to take counsel with Him so that we can be saved from damnation and live our life in service to Him in the earth.. Notice how JESUS’ and JEHOVAH’s names are interchangeable.

 

There are two types of counsel, GOD’s and the world’s. There are times when we need the counsel of men but that counsel should always be tempered by the Word of GOD and our Counselor the HOLY SPIRIT.