1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:09,640 Dr. Ryan here. Today I want to talk to you about wisdom as longevity. Proverbs 9 verse 2 00:00:09,640 --> 00:00:16,000 10 says that the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and the fear of the 3 00:00:16,000 --> 00:00:22,440 Lord will help you to multiply your days. So what does that mean? Well it means 4 00:00:22,440 --> 00:00:31,480 five things. The first thing is this word multiply. It means that we can be or 5 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:41,440 become great. So this doesn't have to do with the length of our life. It has to do 6 00:00:41,440 --> 00:00:48,440 with the quality and the impact. So there's a correlation if you take God 7 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:55,760 seriously and you follow what he says, you apply it in your life, have a heart 8 00:00:55,760 --> 00:01:02,400 of obedience and prayer, God says he'll help us to be more effective and he'll 9 00:01:02,400 --> 00:01:10,120 help us to live a higher quality life. We can't control outcomes but we can 10 00:01:10,120 --> 00:01:16,760 control how connected we feel to God and how connected we feel to other people. 11 00:01:16,760 --> 00:01:24,400 That's the quality of life that we're aiming for, to be connected to God and 12 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:31,080 connected to others versus being disconnected from God and disconnected 13 00:01:31,080 --> 00:01:34,800 from others because the Bible says that we're supposed to love the Lord your God 14 00:01:34,800 --> 00:01:37,600 with all your heart, mind, soul and strength and love your neighbor as 15 00:01:37,600 --> 00:01:44,000 yourself. So we understand this is the goal and the purpose of life, the two 16 00:01:44,000 --> 00:01:51,680 great commandments. Okay so we're gonna be or become great by allowing our 17 00:01:51,680 --> 00:01:57,800 intention and our focus to be in the right direction, to love God and to love 18 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:09,440 people. Then we'll actually multiply our effectiveness. The way that our life is 19 00:02:09,440 --> 00:02:17,200 multiplied is in the way that it impacts others and so you will impact others to 20 00:02:17,200 --> 00:02:24,280 the degree that you're connected to God and connected to others. Old Testament 21 00:02:24,280 --> 00:02:29,840 refers to this idea as sort of the anointing, that intangible quality of 22 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:35,160 God's hand being on your life of him working in you and through you in your 23 00:02:35,160 --> 00:02:38,960 life every day because you're connected to him and you're connected to people 24 00:02:38,960 --> 00:02:46,040 that he made in a pure beautiful way. And then the third thing is you'll do much 25 00:02:46,040 --> 00:02:51,800 in respect and so what you'll see that is that although life is hard and it's 26 00:02:51,800 --> 00:02:59,640 difficult and it's full of trials, you will day over day, week after week, month 27 00:02:59,640 --> 00:03:05,120 after month, year after year, you will earn the respect of others. So the 28 00:03:05,120 --> 00:03:13,320 quality of your work will be rooted in respect because people will look at the 29 00:03:13,320 --> 00:03:19,760 quality of the life that you live and although they may disagree with it on some 30 00:03:19,760 --> 00:03:24,920 level, there'll be a baseline of respect for who you are as person and the work 31 00:03:24,920 --> 00:03:29,600 that you're trying to accomplish and the way in which you're going about the 32 00:03:29,600 --> 00:03:35,200 work that you're trying to do. Okay and the fourth lead, you'll increase 33 00:03:35,200 --> 00:03:42,400 greatly. Then your influence will expand and for the right reasons because 34 00:03:42,400 --> 00:03:50,720 again you're connected to God and then you're connected to people. And then the 35 00:03:50,720 --> 00:03:56,760 fifth thing is that you'll do much, you'll do much good. And so when we talk 36 00:03:56,760 --> 00:04:04,120 about longevity, what we're really saying here is effectiveness. God will help us 37 00:04:04,120 --> 00:04:11,400 to be more effective. How about you? But I certainly want to be as effective as I 38 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:18,160 possibly can be my relationship with God, in my relationship with people, in the 39 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:24,680 work that I'm trying to accomplish for Jesus. When you take all of these things 40 00:04:24,680 --> 00:04:31,440 into consideration, wow I can become great, I can multiply my effectiveness, I 41 00:04:31,440 --> 00:04:39,520 can work and win the respect of others and then that will increase the impact 42 00:04:39,520 --> 00:04:46,120 of my life. Those are all tremendous promises that we should hold on to. 43 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:50,600 Thanks so much for joining me today. Until next time, I hope you have a 44 00:04:50,600 --> 00:04:56,040 beautiful day.