Approach: Studying Proverbs 1:1-7 together.

Hermeneutic objective: Learning how to carefully observe the passage by breaking it up and using a Bible lexicon.

Theological objective: Proverbs indicates that ethical development comes after an established relationship with God. Biblical wisdom is about fearing to disobey the Lord in heaven and avoiding evil. Proverbs reveals that the world is a battleground between wisdom and folly, righteousness and wickedness, and good and evil. You have the choice to live by God's word which leads to life or not which leads to death.