Outline from Charles E. Whisnant, Bible Study class 01 03 10. Proverbs 10:31-32

2. 2Belief requires knowing who God is.

3. 3Few believe what they say, because few act like they talk.

4. 4More unbelievers live like they believe, than do believer.

5. 5Few are willing to commit their living to a belief in God.

6. 6To go outside your realm of personal understanding and live in the realm of God forwardness

7. 7Our belief is bound up in our personal belief, not in the belief in God.

8. 8Belief: Mental acceptance of the truth or actuality of something.

9. 9Belief: Conviction, feeling, mind, notion, opinion, persuasion, position, view.

10. 10Believing in the Naves is “faith.”

11. 11Belief: “A conviction respecting God and His Word.

12. John 8:46, John 14:6, Acts 13:48, Gal 3:1

13. 12Foolishness does not believe the truth.

14. James 1:8 No spiritual stability a result of unbelief.

15. So he makes light, or a game, or a sport of doing wrong

16. Proverbs 10:23, Gen 17:17, Numbers 11:21-23, Matt 17:19-20 Luke 1:20

17. 13The Unsaved man will make sin a laughing matter.

18. Proverbs 14:9, Eccl. 8:11

19. 14“I am of the belief that it’s OK.” Foolish belief or wise

20. 15“That is your belief, not mind.” Foolish or cool.

21. 16“I don’t really see it that way.” Foolish or cool.

22. 17Most live as a result of personal belief.

23. Matthew 26:39, John 5:30, John 5:30, John 14:31

24. 18The Saint is going to smile in doing God’s will, vs. the sinner is going to laugh at doing God’s

25. 19Proverbs 10:23 “But a man of understanding will have wisdom. Matthew 5:33

26. 20Wisdom has the idea of doing God’s will, knowing Him, and understanding what He wills

27. 21Christ never found it wise to make sport of sin.

28. 22A saint has a hard time in finding amusement in

29. Doing wrong of oneself.

30. The wrong doing of others.

31. Making a game of wrong doing.

32. 23A wise man know sin is folly

33. 24Not giving to light hearted silliness

34. Given to lighthearted silliness: empty-headed, featherbrained, flighty, frivolous, frothy, giddy, harebrained, scatterbrained, silly. Slang birdbrained, dizzy. See ability/inability.

35. “Well I look upon that , rather lightly.”

36. Amusing but essentially empty.

37. 25 I find little humor in wrong behavior, attitudes, actions, talk, jokes of bad taste.

38. 26I find little laughter in sin. Eph. 5:4

39. 27Wayne Martin, Prof. of BBS/ABC, Arlington, TX said. Where Charles Whisnant attended.

40. “A man’s character is known: “At what he laughs at.” And Bob Temple, Sr. attended