Wednesday, July 24, 2013

The Words of a Fool

Prov:15:2: The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
Prov:18:7: A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.

For a generation that lives in the information age, we are some of the most ignorant, apathetic, arrogant, down right foolish people that have ever lived. (How's that for an encouraging word?) For us to find the wisdom of God for us, it may help to look at what He considers foolish words:

There is No God.
Ps:53:1: The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
Watching men try to explain their own creator away has to be the most foolish thing I’ve ever seen. Who cares about the dinosaurs? I'm not accountable to them or for them. I need to know what to do about Jesus.

Words of Blasphemy Against God.
Ps:74:18: Remember this, that the enemy hath reproached, O LORD, and that the foolish people have blasphemed thy name.
Have you ever said something bad about someone and turned around to find them standing there? God is ALWAYS standing there.

“I know more about what’s right than God does.”
Rom:1:21: Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
Rom:1:22: Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.
The people that Paul describes as fools not only commit idolatry, homosexuality, fornication, wickedness, murder, deceit, whisperings, backbiting, hating God, pride, disobedience, etc. etc.- but they embrace these things as socially and morally acceptable, WITHOUT SIN.
Does he describe the world in which we live? YES.

“I’ve got plenty of time.”
Jesus tells of a rich man that has such a great harvest that he tears down his barns to build bigger ones; he brings in the harvest, kicks back and reflects on his accomplishments.
Luke 12:19: And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
20: But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
One of the most foolish thing we can say is, I can take it easy, I’ve got it made, I’m going to enjoy life…I’ve got plenty of time.

Satan will never ask you to say no, if he can get you to say…wait.

Don't be foolish.

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