Proverbs 4:10–13 • The most important work you'll ever do isn't at the office — it's passing wisdom to the face looking up at you.

⛪ Preached at Pilgrim Baptist Church • Cookeville, TN • March 15, 2026

Somebody showed you the right path. There's a face attached to that — a parent, a preacher, a Sunday school teacher whose name nobody outside those four walls ever knew. That's how wisdom works. It moves from one person to another through instruction and example. Not by accident. Not by osmosis.

In Proverbs 4, a father pulls his son close and says: I have taught thee. I have led thee. And now I'm telling you — don't let it go. The grip matters. Because wisdom doesn't slip dramatically. It loosens quietly, slowly, until one day you're holding something else entirely.

This sermon walks through Proverbs 4:10–13 and unpacks what it means to receive wisdom, what it costs to keep it, and why the next generation is watching what you do with it right now.

This expository message walks through Proverbs 4:10–13, explaining:

• Why the path of wisdom offers room to walk — not a tightrope

• The KJV word "straightened" (strait, not straight) and what Solomon is actually promising

• How Jesus preaches the same sermon in Matthew 7:13

• Why looking down at every pitfall is a miserable and dangerous way to live

• The three stacked commands in verse 13 — and why God says it three times

• How wisdom slips: not dramatically, but slowly and quietly

• What Solomon's own wreckage in Ecclesiastes teaches us about loosening your grip

• Why it's never too late to get your hands back on wisdom

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