Part 3 (1/2)

Prov. x.x.xi.

HER RELIGION.

I. The secret of her many excellencies here portrayed.

It did not consist in _beauty_. Verse 30. A pretty face often leads to ruin. Prov. xi. 22. Ezek. xxviii. 17.

Never make much of a child's beauty.

But it was this, she was a _religious_ woman, actuated in all she did by the _fear of the Lord_. Verse 30.

The woman who fears the Lord.

1. Hates evil. Prov. viii. 13.

2. It is her moving principle, 'all the day long.' Prov. xxiii. 17.

3. She is happy, though poor. Prov. xv. 16.

4. It is her confidence and refuge in trial. Prov. xiv. 26.

5. It is _well_ with her. Eccles. viii. 12.

II. She shows her love to Christ, by her love to His people. Verse 20.

Acts, ix. 36. Heb. xiii. 16.

You need not be _rich_ to be _charitable_.

The poorest may give. 2 Cor. viii. 2.

G.o.d looks not at the size, or value of the gift, but the motive from which it springs. 2 Cor. viii. 12.

The widow's mite. Mark, xii. 42, 44.

The cup of cold water. Matt. x. 42; xxv. 35.

Nursing a sick neighbour. 1 Tim. v. 10.

IX. THE EXCELLENT WOMAN.

Prov. x.x.xi.

HER REWARD.

I. Her children regard her with grateful love, and look back with thankfulness to her care and teaching. Verse 28. _e.g._ Timothy, 2 Tim.