Where The Wise Go

Proverbs 2:1-15

**Special Note: This week, I am on holiday, so the summer series on the Sermon on the Mount will take a quick break & return next week. This is an unpublished article I wrote last year. Have a great week!**

Introduction

In Martin Scorcese’s film Cape Fear, a released convict wants to take his revenge on the lawyer who fudged facts and shortcutted procedures to send this wrongly accused man to prison when he was a DA. The ex-con makes the lawyer suffer, not by physically attacking him or his family but by making them afraid. He pretends to befriend his daughter and turns her against her parents, telling her that they set limits on her freedom to keep her from growing up. He tells her there is a world to explore where she can test out her own ideas and make her own choices. Sadly, much of what the ex-con says about the parents becomes true, and as they become more and more afraid, they try to exert more and more control, telling their daughter not to have anything to do with him. This, of…