{"id":20890,"date":"2020-07-10T10:15:26","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T15:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=20890"},"modified":"2020-07-10T10:20:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T15:20:18","slug":"jesus-and-the-book-of-proverbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=20890","title":{"rendered":"Jesus and the Book of Proverbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shepherdpress.com\/products\/a-proverbs-driven-life\"><\/a>The book of Proverbs is one of the best known Old Testament books, both inside and outside Christianity, and a classic of literature in its own right. Christians who look to the crucified and risen Christ as the heart of our faith can be so centered on the twenty-seven New Testament books directly involving Jesus that we may come to see Proverbs and other Old Testament books as somewhat removed from the life and legacy of our Savior.<\/p>\n<p>But there are actually very close connections between Jesus and Proverbs. After all, Jesus himself declared that the entire Old Testament was written about him (Luke 24:44). We should come to every book of the Old Testament seeking to uncover the many connections to Christ. Such connections are certainly present in Proverbs. Here are four of them.<\/p>\n<p> Jesus Lived Wisdom <\/p>\n<p>During his time on earth, Jesus personified the Proverbs-driven life. His life here demonstrated continual wisdom. His every act was wise. Just as he was perfect in every other way, Jesus perfectly lived the wisdom of Proverbs.<\/p>\n<p>The Gospels include only one account from our Lord&rsquo;s youth. Luke records that when Jesus was twelve years old, he entered the Temple courts in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The book of Proverbs is one of the best known Old Testament books, both inside and outside Christianity, and a classic of literature in its own right. Christians who look to the crucified and risen Christ as the heart of our faith can be so centered on the twenty-seven New Testament books directly involving Jesus [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":20898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[801],"tags":[2647,2648,384,2658,53],"class_list":["post-20890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shepherd-press-jay-younts","tag-a-proverbs-driven-life","tag-anthony-selvaggio","tag-proverbs","tag-proverbs-and-the-gospel","tag-wisdom","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/a-proverbs-driven-life-1000-13-1.jpg?fit=193%2C300&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20890"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20900,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20890\/revisions\/20900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}