You are Teachable

Dennis Tuuri

Outline: Proverbs 9:7-9 You Are Teachable Sermon Outline for January 25, 2004 by Pastor Dennis R. Tuuri 14. Being Teachable Means Loving Appropriate Rebukes 9:7-9 Pr. 15:32; Lev. 19:15-19; Prov. 9:8; 13:1-4; 25:11-14; 28:23; Ps. 141:5; Ecc. 7:5; Pr. 29:1; Heb. 6:4-10 Introduction: The Gift of Discipleship, And Its Proper Response – Mature Your Teachable-ness! 1. Being Teachable Presupposes the Availability of Wisdom 8:1-3 2. Being Teachable Presupposes the Universality of the Availability of Wisdom 8:4,5 (Wisdom Is Readily Available and to All Men; the Simple, the Foolish, the One who Lacks Understanding; the Wise, the Teachers) Pr. 1:1-6; Titus 1:9; Pr. 19:20; 2 Pet. 3:17,18; 1 Jn. 2:20,21 3. Being Teachable Means Listening (Not Just Hearing) 8:6,7 James 1:19; 1 Thes, 2:13 ; Ps. 1; Pr. 13:10,20 Prov. 8:13-18; Luke 6:40; 1 Thes. 5:21,22 4. Being Teachable Means Living Righteously in Community 8:8,9 5. Being Teachable Means Rightly Valuing Wisdom 8:10,11 6. Being Teachable Requires A Proper Fear of the Lord 8:12-14 7. Being Teachable Is the Path to Political Dominion 8:15,16 8. Being Teachable Means Actively Pursuing Wisdom 8:17 9. Being Teachable Leads to Economic Dominion 8:18-21 Matt. 5:3-5 10. Being Teachable Means Growing In One’s Joy of the Lord 8:22 -31 Hos. 6:1-3 11. Being Teachable Means Having Life Itself 8:32 -36 12. Being Teachable Embraces Union with Wisdom 9:1-5 13. Being Teachable Means Acting on the Knowledge Acquired 9:6 James 1:22 14. Being Teachable Means Loving Appropriate Rebukes 9:7-9 Pr. 15:32; Lev. 19:15-19; Prov. 9:8; 13:1-4; 25:11-14; 28:23; Ps. 141:5; Ecc. 7:5; Pr. 29:1; Heb. 6:4-10 15. Being Teachable Means Acting in Our Own Best Self-interest 9:10-12 Prov. 13:13,18; 15:32 ; 12:1