WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:05.520 As the bird by wandering, as the swallow by flying, so the curse causeless shall not come. 00:05.520 --> 00:09.000 A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, and a rod for the fool's back. 00:09.000 --> 00:12.800 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. 00:12.800 --> 00:16.040 Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit. 00:16.040 --> 00:20.680 He that sendeth a message by the hand of a fool, cutteth off the feet and drinketh damage. 00:20.680 --> 00:24.680 The legs of the lame are not equal, so is a parable in the mouth of fools. 00:24.680 --> 00:29.800 As he that bindeth a stone in a sling, so is he that giveth honor to a fool. 00:30.600 --> 00:35.160 As a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard, so is a parable in the mouth of fools. 00:35.160 --> 00:39.880 The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool and rewardeth transgressors. 00:39.880 --> 00:43.160 As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly. 00:43.800 --> 00:47.880 Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit, there is more hope for a fool than of him. 00:48.680 --> 00:52.920 The slothful man saith, there is a lion in the way, a lion is in the streets. 00:52.920 --> 00:56.680 As the door turneth upon to his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed. 00:56.680 --> 01:00.920 The slothful hideeth his hand in his bosom, it grieved him to bring it again to his mouth. 01:00.920 --> 01:04.840 The slugget is wiser in his own conceit than seven men that could render a reason. 01:05.640 --> 01:09.080 He that passeth by and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, 01:09.080 --> 01:11.320 is like one that taketh a dog by the ears. 01:11.320 --> 01:14.520 As a madman who casteth firebrands, arrows, and death, 01:14.520 --> 01:18.120 so is the man that deceiveth his neighbor and saith, I'm not in sport. 01:19.080 --> 01:25.240 Where no wood is, there is the fire goeth out, so where there is no tail bear, the strife ceaseth. 01:25.320 --> 01:30.280 As coals are to burning coals and wood to fire, so is a contentious man to kindle strife. 01:30.840 --> 01:35.560 The words of a tail bearer are his wounds and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly. 01:35.560 --> 01:39.480 Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a pot shirt covered with silver dross. 01:40.040 --> 01:43.960 He that hateth, dissembleth with his lips and layeth up deceit within him. 01:43.960 --> 01:48.680 When he speaketh fair, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart. 01:48.680 --> 01:53.560 Whose hatred is covered by deceit, his wickedness shall be showed before the whole congregation. 01:53.560 --> 01:57.960 Whoso digeth a pitch shall fall therein, and he that rolleth a stone it will return upon him. 01:57.960 --> 02:02.520 The lying tongue hateth those that are afflicted by it, and a flattering mouth worketh ruin. 02:03.400 --> 02:07.320 Let's pray to the God just thank you for this time we have Lord to hear the preaching of your word. 02:07.320 --> 02:10.520 Just please bless the service Lord, please bless pastor and film with the spirit Lord as he 02:10.520 --> 02:14.200 preaches your word unto us Lord and that us in the congregation we would be attentive to the 02:14.200 --> 02:18.360 preaching tonight Lord and that we would take these truths from your word and apply to our lives Lord. 02:19.080 --> 02:22.280 We thank you Lord we love you and we pray this all in Jesus name amen. 02:23.560 --> 02:29.560 Amen okay we're in Proverbs chapter 26 this evening and the title of my sermon tonight is 02:29.560 --> 02:34.760 the faces of folly the faces of folly in this particular sermon I want to cover 02:35.640 --> 02:39.800 the fool that's mentioned here in Proverbs chapter 26. 02:39.800 --> 02:48.280 Folly is the state or quality of being a fool or acting foolishly lacking or lacking understanding 02:48.280 --> 02:54.280 or sense and of course in the biblical context is lacking biblical knowledge and biblical wisdom. 02:54.280 --> 03:01.080 This is a person who essentially inherits folly and often even in the Bible it's associated with 03:01.080 --> 03:09.880 being evil or wicked lewd or wanton in a lot of ways a person who is a fool is an individual who 03:09.880 --> 03:16.200 is lewd or wanton or has actually has made so many mistakes and is not learning from their mistakes 03:16.200 --> 03:20.920 that they eventually become a very wicked and evil person. Now throughout the book of Proverbs 03:20.920 --> 03:27.320 we're actually given a lot of clear insight to various types of people that we can become and 03:27.320 --> 03:33.560 people that we can encounter in life as well these distinctions are not merely for observation 03:33.560 --> 03:39.720 God obviously wants us to apply it to ourselves to avoid being certain people and to strive to be 03:39.720 --> 03:45.160 like others okay and when you look at it we see that the Bible actually provides three primary 03:45.160 --> 03:51.000 categories the first one being the wise men right this is probably the most famous one in the book 03:51.000 --> 03:56.680 of Proverbs the wise man is one who knows what the word of God says and does it you know they 03:56.680 --> 04:04.920 hear the preaching of God's word they read their Bible on a daily basis and once they adhere to 04:04.920 --> 04:10.360 knowledge they actually put it into practice in their personal lives this is a wise individual 04:10.360 --> 04:16.440 they hear what the word of God says and they are a doer of the word as well and so and by the way 04:16.440 --> 04:22.280 the root of wisdom of course is fearing the Lord right it is the beginning of wisdom the second 04:22.280 --> 04:29.560 category that we see in the Bible is the simple and the simple person is one who simply lacks 04:29.560 --> 04:34.040 understanding another word for simple believe it or not is just stupid believe it or not you know 04:34.040 --> 04:40.040 we think of stupid as like man that's such a harsh insult but really it just means someone who is 04:40.040 --> 04:47.880 void of understanding someone who does not possess the necessary knowledge or wisdom 04:47.880 --> 04:53.160 to make certain decisions and unfortunately you know the simple is not necessarily that they're 04:53.160 --> 04:59.320 wicked they're not evil they're just simple but because they're simple they end up suffering the 04:59.320 --> 05:04.280 consequences that the fool would often suffer because of their rebellion so the Bible tells us 05:04.920 --> 05:10.360 that the simple are passed on and are punished why because of the fact that they don't possess 05:10.360 --> 05:15.640 knowledge they don't possess prudence or understanding and so the simple does not possess 05:15.640 --> 05:22.280 the knowledge or prudence necessary to make sound decisions this individual is not necessarily wicked 05:22.280 --> 05:27.960 malicious or rebellious they're just vulnerable to making bad decisions right let me just be 05:27.960 --> 05:34.600 honest with you all of us once we first get saved we start off simple okay why because we don't come 05:34.600 --> 05:40.280 into the Christian life already having accumulated spiritual knowledge and wisdom and prudence 05:40.280 --> 05:45.480 that's something that is gained over time you go to church you hear preaching you read the word of 05:45.480 --> 05:53.160 God you hang around wise people and you accumulate knowledge and wisdom and Lord willing you graduate 05:53.160 --> 06:00.040 from being a simpleton to being a wise individual right that is the goal for all of us is to leave 06:00.040 --> 06:07.320 simplicity and graduate to being a wise person but a simple person lacks discernment he suffers the 06:07.320 --> 06:13.240 consequences of his poor actions and the danger of being a simple person is not necessarily 06:13.240 --> 06:21.080 outright rebellion but it's actually remaining in ignorance so again we all start simple but if you 06:21.080 --> 06:26.520 don't learn from your mistakes if you don't apply the preaching of God's word if you don't learn from 06:26.520 --> 06:34.040 the consequences of your actions you actually are in danger of becoming a fool so you can either 06:34.040 --> 06:40.120 graduate to being a wise person or you can regress to becoming a foolish individual so the first 06:40.120 --> 06:45.560 category is the wise man the second category is the simple and then the third category is the fool 06:45.640 --> 06:52.360 this is the person that knows what the Bible says he understands cause and effect he knows 06:52.360 --> 06:57.160 biblical doctrines he knows what he's supposed to do to avoid the consequences of his actions 06:57.800 --> 07:04.280 yet he refuses to change you know what kind of person would do that a fool right or it's just 07:04.280 --> 07:08.440 like didn't you learn from your mistakes don't you know you're going to damage yourself by 07:08.440 --> 07:14.440 participating in this particular action by saying this particular word by hanging around with these 07:14.440 --> 07:19.000 kind of people and they're just kind of foolish it's not that they don't know they obviously 07:19.000 --> 07:24.600 understand and look folks we've all met someone who is a very foolish person right and it's just 07:24.600 --> 07:31.160 like bro why do you keep doing this why do you keep you know smoking marijuana why do you keep 07:31.160 --> 07:35.560 drinking why do you keep going back to the whore why do you keep doing this and it's just i don't 07:35.560 --> 07:41.320 know i just can't control no you're a fool because you know the cause and effect yet you refuse to 07:41.320 --> 07:47.880 change according to the biblical standard you are a fool and a fool is far more dangerous obviously 07:47.880 --> 07:55.320 than the person who is simple why is that well because over time the rejection of truth produces 07:55.320 --> 08:03.800 wickedness rebellion and even corruption and so you know many fools begin as simpletons but because 08:03.880 --> 08:12.600 they refuse correction refuse to learn refuse to repent they descend into a hardened foolish person 08:12.600 --> 08:19.000 and we want to avoid that you know part of being a wise person is being humble being able to be 08:19.000 --> 08:24.520 corrected when we are wrong doctrinally we are wrong in our conduct maybe we're involved in a 08:24.520 --> 08:29.880 particular sin and you know i get up and preach about it or you read about in the bible so a brother 08:29.880 --> 08:35.240 or sister admonish you in the faith and to correct you in that area if you are a wise person you 08:35.240 --> 08:40.440 would take that correction and not say well i know more than this person that doesn't apply to me 08:40.440 --> 08:45.480 well you're sounding like a fool at that point because you're refusing to get that right you're 08:45.480 --> 08:50.840 refusing to be humble and therefore you will suffer the consequences of your actions as christians we 08:50.840 --> 08:58.520 must refuse to remain simple and guard ourselves from becoming fools and again we all begin simple 08:59.000 --> 09:03.800 none are born with biblical wisdom but the bible tells us that wisdom is the principal thing 09:04.520 --> 09:11.160 therefore get wisdom our goal should be that when we come to church we learn wisdom either by the 09:11.160 --> 09:17.480 preaching of god's word or just by fellowshipping with other wise individuals and look if you want 09:17.480 --> 09:23.240 to accelerate your accumulation of wisdom aside from just reading the bible and hearing preaching 09:23.320 --> 09:29.320 just hang around wise people make sure your friends are wise make sure they're not 09:29.320 --> 09:37.000 foolish individuals right giving bad advice bad counsel bad admonishments make sure that they are 09:37.000 --> 09:42.280 centered in god's word that they have the bible as their centerpiece that they're actually giving 09:42.280 --> 09:47.560 biblical counsel and things that can be seen in the word of god and you know you'll become a 09:47.560 --> 09:52.120 wise individual if you want to accelerate your growth in wisdom just make sure you hang around 09:52.120 --> 09:58.200 other wise people and so we're to grow from simplicity into wisdom and never regress into 09:58.200 --> 10:03.400 foolishness now with that being said i want to go through proverbs chapter 26 here and the first 10:03.400 --> 10:11.400 12 verses of proverbs 26 deals with the fool and it gives us just a lot of good advice and things 10:11.400 --> 10:15.960 that we should avoid and things that we're to look for in others in order to avoid the fool look at 10:15.960 --> 10:24.840 verse number one it says here as snow and summer and as rain and harvest so honor is not seemly 10:24.840 --> 10:31.400 for a fool so what is the same well the basic principle that the the uh that solomon is laying 10:31.400 --> 10:39.880 out here is that honor and fools are mutually exclusive meaning they don't go together just 10:39.880 --> 10:44.280 like you don't see snow in the summer and you're not supposed to see rain in the harvest well in 10:44.280 --> 10:50.600 like manner a fool should never be respected or honored what does it mean to be honored it means 10:50.600 --> 10:58.120 to have high respect uh to be someone of worth or someone who merits your respect and your reverence 10:58.120 --> 11:04.600 this is what it means to honor someone right and so and let me just make it very clear that this 11:04.600 --> 11:10.760 obviously does not apply in marriage okay meaning that you know a wife can't look at her husband 11:10.760 --> 11:18.600 and be like well he's a fool so i'm not going to honor him but let me let me riddle me this though 11:19.880 --> 11:24.600 okay who's more of a fool the one you married or the one who decided to marry a fool 11:27.240 --> 11:34.280 gotcha okay and so you know it's important to understand that the principle applies but there's 11:34.280 --> 11:38.920 exceptions to the rule the exception would be obviously in marriage you got to honor your 11:38.920 --> 11:45.560 husband okay well he's not worth honoring well too bad the bible doesn't say honor him because 11:45.560 --> 11:50.520 he's worth honoring it says honor him because you should do it as unto the lord and guess what the 11:50.520 --> 11:56.360 lord is always worth honoring and so if your husband or should i say when your husband falls 11:56.360 --> 12:02.360 short when he makes bad decisions when he makes foolish decisions at that point you resort to 12:03.000 --> 12:11.240 because you want to honor the lord if not you are a foolish woman okay you're not a simpleton you are 12:11.240 --> 12:17.960 a foolish woman if you're not willing to honor your husband despite the fact that he falls short 12:17.960 --> 12:23.240 the point being here is that in general the bible is teaching us that foolish people should never be 12:23.240 --> 12:30.120 regarded or esteemed as being intelligent individuals people who are worth any wisdom or 12:30.120 --> 12:37.160 the people that you know this should be followed or honored or respected why because just like 12:37.160 --> 12:42.520 snow doesn't go with the summer rain doesn't go with harvest honor does not go with the fool in 12:42.520 --> 12:47.400 fact when you honor a fool it's actually more detrimental to them they become more prideful 12:47.400 --> 12:52.120 they become arrogant and they don't learn from their mistakes let me read you a couple verses 12:52.120 --> 12:57.960 here turn with you if you would to proverbs 15 hold your place here in proverbs 26 proverbs chapter 12:57.960 --> 13:06.680 3 verse 35 says the wise shall inherit glory but shame shall be the promotion of fools what is it 13:06.680 --> 13:13.000 saying the only promotion that a fool should get is not honor it's actually shame why because in 13:13.000 --> 13:16.920 order for people to change they need to be shamed of the things that they do in order for them to 13:16.920 --> 13:21.240 change but a fool because they've rejected the clear teachings of the scriptures because they 13:21.240 --> 13:27.640 rejected the clear commands of the bible they should be as far away from honor as possible 13:27.720 --> 13:32.040 because they will not repent they will not get right if you honor them they will actually become 13:32.040 --> 13:39.880 more emboldened to be a fool okay proverbs 15 verse 33 says the fear of the lord is the instruction 13:39.880 --> 13:45.960 of wisdom and before honor listen to this is humility so what is the bible saying you know one 13:45.960 --> 13:51.800 of the best ways for you to obtain honor is by being humble being humble before the lord being 13:51.880 --> 13:58.360 humble before others boast not you know let another man praise thee and not thine own lips 13:58.360 --> 14:03.560 making sure that you're not just boasting and bragging about your accomplishments how great you 14:03.560 --> 14:09.480 are what your talents are let other people honor you in that area right the fool on the other hand 14:09.480 --> 14:15.400 loves to brag about their accomplishments most of the time they're not even accomplishments they like 14:15.400 --> 14:21.320 to boast of a false gift they like to talk about how great they are when in actuality those around 14:21.320 --> 14:27.640 them know exactly who they are and how they lack humility and therefore are not honorable the bible 14:27.640 --> 14:32.920 is telling us here that if we want to receive respect and honor from others it starts off with 14:32.920 --> 14:38.200 humility it starts off with fearing god look at proverbs chapter 12 if you would proverbs chapter 14:38.200 --> 14:45.240 12 i'm going to read to you from proverbs 20 it says it is an honor for a man to cease from strife 14:46.200 --> 14:53.080 meaning that you know according to god's economy if you find yourself in an altercation with an 14:53.080 --> 14:57.960 individual who wants to fight you they want to get down with you they want to throw hands or 14:57.960 --> 15:03.960 something like that it's actually more honorable for you in god's eyes to cease from that strife 15:03.960 --> 15:10.200 it is a glory for you to pass over the transgression so in other words you know a wise person an 15:10.280 --> 15:17.800 honorable person actually likes to reduce conflict and walk away from fights and not make it worse 15:18.360 --> 15:23.080 now we can apply this just with some random dude who's out in the street but this also applies 15:23.080 --> 15:28.360 within the context of marriage it applies within the context of just friendships and relationships 15:28.360 --> 15:33.000 don't be the person who's just the instigator now i gotta be careful here because our church is 15:33.000 --> 15:40.680 filled with instigators okay and it see perfect example right there you know he just he just 15:40.680 --> 15:47.000 instigated adam right now okay you know we have a lot of instigation in our church but obviously i 15:47.000 --> 15:51.560 believe it's in good fun these are brothers and so they treat each other like brothers like really 15:51.560 --> 15:55.800 like brothers you know i mean the only the only thing they don't do as brothers is throw hands 15:56.360 --> 15:59.400 but maybe it might come to that one day i don't know i don't want to speak too soon 16:00.120 --> 16:06.360 but in general we should not provoke others to wrath we should not seek to escalate a situation 16:06.920 --> 16:11.000 right you know and and let me just say this you know this applies to when you're getting pulled 16:11.000 --> 16:16.120 over by some police officer too i know my rights just shut up and give them your license and 16:16.120 --> 16:21.240 registration move on with your life why are you going to escalate the situation worse i know you 16:21.240 --> 16:26.360 know your rights but how about your biblical right to be an honorable person and to cease from strife 16:26.360 --> 16:34.600 you know it's just like oh you know what what right do you have you don't have probable cause 16:34.600 --> 16:39.080 you know you you're just pulling me over for no reason start arguing with this individual 16:39.080 --> 16:44.840 you know a lot of the times you're just wasting your time there instead of just saying like oh 16:44.840 --> 16:51.320 hello you know when i get pulled over i put on my whitest voice ever then hello there officer yeah 16:51.880 --> 17:01.800 i do not see that pastor i apologize for that wow absolutely you know and typically they see me with 17:01.800 --> 17:06.760 parted hair shirt and tie they're like this is a white sicken you know what i mean or something 17:06.760 --> 17:13.080 and they're just they let me go on my way with the warning okay the point being here is that 17:13.080 --> 17:18.040 i'm not trying to fight a police officer okay you know these people are like and i obviously 17:18.600 --> 17:22.840 understand that there's police officers out there that are like power hungry and you know they just 17:22.840 --> 17:28.920 they're just trigger happy and they do take people's lives you know unjustly but i will say this 17:28.920 --> 17:33.080 there's other times where people are just why are you yelling at the guy with the gun 17:34.520 --> 17:39.080 you know what i mean and why are you yelling at the female officer with the taser and a gun 17:39.800 --> 17:46.840 you know female officers are unstable it's just like license and registration you pull for 17:47.080 --> 17:51.640 you just like just because you reach for your wallet or something like that 17:52.360 --> 17:59.000 do your best to cease from strife you know this isn't high school anymore you're not you know 17:59.000 --> 18:05.000 trying to prove yourself in your high school if someone insults you they are trying to pick at 18:05.000 --> 18:09.800 you instigate a fight with you it's more honorable for you to just say you know what i'm sorry 18:09.800 --> 18:13.960 because the bible tells us to agree with thine adversary quickly 18:13.960 --> 18:20.600 agree with thine adversary quickly a soft answer turneth away wrath you know why you get 18:20.600 --> 18:24.440 so many arguments in marriage it's because you're not giving a soft answer 18:25.880 --> 18:32.920 you know you're you're you're matching the uh the anger there amen if you want for a fight to stop 18:32.920 --> 18:39.000 if you want to cease if you want to be an honorable wife or husband give a soft answer and how about 18:39.000 --> 18:47.720 this just say i'm sorry you're right well because i'm not sorry because you're a fool right got to 18:47.720 --> 18:53.800 make sure that you recognize and look folks even if let's say you're in a an argument with your 18:53.800 --> 19:00.920 spouse because everyone argues with their spouse by the way okay don't let these lame pastors out 19:00.920 --> 19:06.360 there try to make you think or former pastors you know don't let them try to get you to think that 19:06.360 --> 19:11.480 they just never fight with their spouse and everything life is just so hunky dory and there 19:11.480 --> 19:16.200 everyone just submits to one another what is this the millennial reign and then it happened 19:16.200 --> 19:23.400 we're not in our regenerated bodies folks christians argue in marriages there's conflict 19:23.400 --> 19:27.480 here's the spiritual thing to do though is that when you experience a conflict you learn how to 19:28.200 --> 19:32.920 pass over a transgression the spiritual thing is not to say i've never had a conflict in my life 19:32.920 --> 19:36.280 because at that point you're just a liar oh yeah you know he was a liar right 19:37.880 --> 19:42.120 the spiritual thing to do is say hey yeah i've experienced conflict but you know what we exercise 19:42.120 --> 19:47.720 certain principles to reduce that conflict it's called apologizing it's called saying you know 19:47.720 --> 19:53.320 i was wrong about the whole situation you know or it's saying hey don't you want to apologize to me 19:53.320 --> 19:59.240 or whatever you know it's talking things out right point that i'm making here is that you know it's 19:59.240 --> 20:06.120 honor for a man to cease from strife a fool does not know how to cease from strife they want to 20:06.120 --> 20:10.920 escalate the situation they want to throw out insults they want to render evil for evil they 20:10.920 --> 20:15.720 want to get the last word in and the bible tells us here in proverbs 20 verse 3 it is an honor for 20:15.720 --> 20:22.680 a man to cease from strife but every fool will be meddling meaning that he just wants to he just 20:22.680 --> 20:28.280 wants to instigate he wants there to be conflict he wants there to be strife you know this is just a 20:28.280 --> 20:33.480 person who's just a foolish individual you know i thought as christians we are seeking for peace 20:34.360 --> 20:41.320 reconciliation peace and so forth that should be our objective as christians proverbs 12 verse 9 20:41.320 --> 20:48.920 says he that is despised and hath a servant is better than he that honored himself and lacketh 20:48.920 --> 20:54.840 bread i love this verse because it's saying like you know you may not like this guy but he's a boss 20:54.840 --> 21:01.240 and he has employees whereas this other guy he speaks so greatly of himself but bro lacks bread 21:02.040 --> 21:07.160 he's not making any bread he's not making any money right he doesn't know what he's talking 21:07.160 --> 21:12.200 about but this is exactly the disposition of a fool honors himself and this kind of like reminds 21:12.200 --> 21:17.800 me of people who dm me you know they're trying to educate me in the bible educate me about 21:17.800 --> 21:24.200 replacement theology and they know so much of the word of god but then you go on their profile 21:24.200 --> 21:28.680 and i'm not saying the followers playing a role in it but then why do you have pictures of you know 21:29.400 --> 21:34.920 drinking alcohol clubbing being all types of women but you're you're gonna you're gonna school me on 21:34.920 --> 21:41.160 bible doctrine you're trying to remove the the moat out of my eye which there is no moat because 21:41.160 --> 21:48.360 i'm right about the bible all the while you have this massive beam in your eye of lewdness and sin 21:49.160 --> 21:54.840 you're honoring yourself yet you lack bread okay you are a fool in the eyes of god but this is the 21:54.840 --> 22:02.040 character trait of a foolish individual go back to proverbs 26 if you would proverbs 26 22:03.400 --> 22:11.400 and so we see here that just as snow does not go with the summer rain with the harvest never 22:11.400 --> 22:17.720 honor a fool you give honor to a fool they just become more proud and arrogant and stubborn they 22:17.720 --> 22:22.760 will not learn from their ways and so it's just not worth it look at verse two it's carrying on 22:22.760 --> 22:28.760 the same thought here it says as the bird by wandering as the swallow by flying so the curse 22:28.760 --> 22:36.760 causeless shall not come a whip for the horse a bridle for the ass and a rod for the fool's back 22:36.760 --> 22:41.000 now there's two schools of thought here that we see in these two verses and it's essentially 22:41.000 --> 22:46.840 referring to the punishment on fools that are merited okay because it's saying here you know 22:46.840 --> 22:53.560 a bird doesn't just wander a bird flies with purpose okay a swallow doesn't just fly with no 22:53.560 --> 22:58.360 objective they're obviously going somewhere they're landing somewhere they're seeking for food 22:58.360 --> 23:05.960 they're seeking for shelter there is an objective to the bird and the swallow that is flying and so 23:05.960 --> 23:12.520 he says so the curse causeless shall not come in other words when you see a fool suffering severe 23:12.520 --> 23:20.920 punishment it's not just for no reason right when you see a fool and he's just in jail he's 23:20.920 --> 23:27.640 indented he's just going through a hard time it's because he's a fool you know why because the curse 23:27.640 --> 23:32.520 causeless shall not come there's a reason this person is suffering the consequences of their 23:32.520 --> 23:37.720 actions and it's not because they're an innocent person now obviously we know that we as christians 23:37.720 --> 23:42.920 sometimes suffer unjustly there's various instances where that happens right or we just 23:42.920 --> 23:48.600 suffer because god allows suffering to come into our lives he wants to refine us he wants to make 23:48.600 --> 23:54.520 us better he allows trials and tribulations to prune us and so forth but this is not what this is 23:54.520 --> 23:59.160 referring to this is talking about the person who is suffering the consequences of their actions 23:59.160 --> 24:05.960 they're like i'm innocent it's just like no you're not you know you have a d-y because you were 24:05.960 --> 24:13.080 driving drunk oh no they're just racially profiling me uh no it's because you are a drunkard 24:13.640 --> 24:18.120 driving drunk you're breaking the law you're committing sin therefore the bible tells us 24:18.120 --> 24:24.200 that the curse causeless shall not come now in the first verse in proverbs 26 it talks about 24:24.200 --> 24:30.600 things that don't go together snow in the summer rain in the harvest verse 3 it talks about things 24:30.600 --> 24:37.640 that do go together it says a whip for the horse a bridle for the ass and a rod for the fool's back 24:39.160 --> 24:44.840 so when you see a fool suffering the consequences of their actions receiving a rod to the back you 24:44.840 --> 24:50.920 know the bible says that goes together you know what i mean you know when i see these pranksters 24:50.920 --> 24:56.200 online getting their rear ends handed to them the curse causes shall not come you that's what you 24:56.200 --> 25:02.200 deserve why are you shocked it's a prank it's a prank dude it's a prank have you seen videos like 25:02.200 --> 25:09.960 that well they just run into the wrong guy they run into some gen xer some dude is just not playing 25:09.960 --> 25:17.400 around you know maybe his wife just left him his dog just died he lost his job and then you got this 25:17.400 --> 25:23.400 zoomer coming to prank him and then he's surprised when he gets his hinder parts handed to him he's 25:23.400 --> 25:29.720 a bro what's your problem it's a prank it's a prank that's not funny a rod is meant for the fool's 25:29.720 --> 25:33.960 back and i love it because you know when i see these videos and i go in the comment section 25:33.960 --> 25:38.920 you always have someone saying deserve button you know and then all like 10 000 likes or whatever 25:39.560 --> 25:45.080 like this person deserve that why because a rod goes with the back of a fool a whip goes for the 25:45.080 --> 25:53.000 horse a bridle for the ass and guess what a rod is meant for the fool because a fool's mouth call 25:53.000 --> 25:59.480 it for strokes the bible says okay the bible says in proverbs chapter one turn with me if you would 26:00.440 --> 26:07.480 two let's see here go to proverbs 18 proverbs 18 proverbs 132 says for the turning away of the 26:07.480 --> 26:15.880 simple shall slay them and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them destruction is in the way of 26:15.880 --> 26:20.920 fools now why is it that the prosperity of fools shall destroy them well because honor is not 26:20.920 --> 26:26.440 seemingly for a fool when you give honor prosperity success to a fool it ultimately destroys them 26:26.440 --> 26:33.880 okay the bible also says in proverbs 7 in verse 21 with her much fair speech she caused him to 26:33.880 --> 26:40.760 yield with the flattering of her lips she forced him he goes after her straightway as an ox go 26:40.760 --> 26:47.160 to the slaughter or as a fool to the correction of the stocks till a dart strike through his liver 26:47.160 --> 26:52.040 as a bird hastens to the snare know it and knoweth not that it is for his life let me just explain 26:52.040 --> 27:01.400 something to you young men you never want to get yourself some ig model okay some ig whore okay 27:02.440 --> 27:07.880 why because that's actually a punishment upon the person who gets her they're like oh man i need to 27:07.880 --> 27:12.680 looks max because i need to get myself a 10 out of 10 or something like that that's actually a 27:12.680 --> 27:18.120 punishment from god according to the bible because the bible is telling us here in proverbs 7 that 27:18.120 --> 27:24.120 it's like a fool going to the correction of the stocks so if you ever end up with an ig model god 27:24.120 --> 27:30.680 forbid that you should you know that tells me you're an idiot you're stupid you're a fool why because 27:30.680 --> 27:36.520 as beautiful as that woman may be she's probably filled with a lot of stds she's going to break 27:36.520 --> 27:44.360 your bank and you know what beauty is vain the bible says because ultimately after a week or two 27:44.360 --> 27:48.920 you're going to grow bored of those looks and you know what she's going to have an ugly personality 27:48.920 --> 27:54.200 you're going to despise her she's going to make your life a living hell but you know that's what 27:54.200 --> 27:59.880 you get for being a fool like well how do i correct that well how about this you know stop watching 28:00.520 --> 28:07.960 how about that and getting this unrealistic expectation of women these fake women out there 28:08.600 --> 28:15.560 with you know all the botox and the bbls or whatever and all this nonsense why don't you 28:15.560 --> 28:22.120 actually just go for the virtuous woman who's actually serving god and look virtuous women are 28:22.120 --> 28:26.680 physically beautiful as well you just don't see it because you're too busy watching pornography 28:27.160 --> 28:32.840 having you know building up this unrealistic expectation of what a woman should look like 28:32.840 --> 28:38.760 but then guess what once you actually have that woman you'll realize my life is miserable it's 28:38.760 --> 28:46.200 not what it's cracked up to be right once you actually have a taste of the ig model of the ig 28:46.200 --> 28:51.320 whore guess what thy mouth shall be filled with gravel the bible says you realize this actually 28:51.320 --> 28:56.120 tastes like crap it's not what i really wanted yeah but you're a fool and you didn't listen 28:56.680 --> 29:00.760 to the admonishments of the bible now i don't think anybody here is going to get an ig model 29:00.760 --> 29:05.800 because you know for other reasons you know what i mean i'm just trying to help your your desires 29:05.800 --> 29:12.520 amen hey but thank god for that though amen you're like man i've been trying to look max for so long 29:12.520 --> 29:20.360 but you know we all hit a max though you know maybe you've tapped out okay you know there's no more 29:20.440 --> 29:28.920 to grow in that area right god has put a cap on your genetics okay that's right you know you're 29:28.920 --> 29:32.280 like oh man are you saying that it's good to be ugly you know in certain instances it is 29:34.440 --> 29:42.760 you know these guys who you know these clavicular types or whatever these homo faggity guys online 29:42.760 --> 29:48.440 that all they care about is their looks and you know i just want to look i just want to ascend no 29:48.440 --> 29:53.400 bro you're going to descend into the lower parts of the earth because all you care about is your 29:53.400 --> 29:58.120 looks you're a vain person and quite frankly it means nothing what are you going to do when 29:58.120 --> 30:06.360 you're 80 years old you can't look max anymore we all grow here here's the best way to look max okay 30:06.360 --> 30:10.760 is get saved and then you get yourself a resurrected body that never dies 30:10.760 --> 30:21.240 yes you know and folks i'm telling you right now these guys who just are spending so much time online 30:21.240 --> 30:27.160 just following these girls and thinking this is the the life that i want if i could only find a 30:27.160 --> 30:33.400 barbie or whatever who's a saved woman or whatever i'd be so much happier but it's probably not going 30:33.400 --> 30:40.040 to happen let's just be realistic okay and you know you need to change your taste in women 30:41.240 --> 30:50.200 okay and not go for the plastic person right come on not go for the plastic woman 30:51.720 --> 30:57.160 and actually you know start esteeming what is virtuously beautiful in the eyes of god 30:58.040 --> 31:03.800 okay and so you know the bible tells us in first peter chapter three what god esteems as being 31:03.800 --> 31:09.320 beautiful right amique and quiet spirit now thankfully you know for me i got both you know 31:09.320 --> 31:13.560 what i mean my wife my wife's got it all you know what i mean but you know what my wife and i were 31:13.560 --> 31:19.880 gonna grow old and you know what my wife's looks she's not gonna be looking you know in her 70s 31:19.880 --> 31:25.240 and 80s the way she looked in her 20s and 30s neither am i but that's okay because that's just 31:25.240 --> 31:31.160 part of life you understand beauty fades my friends that's just the way life is i hate to hit you with 31:31.160 --> 31:35.720 the reality guess what we all go gray at one point and if you don't go gray you'll go bald some of 31:35.720 --> 31:43.480 you know right that's just how it is that's how it is stop trying to avoid that don't lie about your 31:43.480 --> 31:51.400 age okay you know but these these guys out there that's oh man that's what i'm looking for no you 31:51.400 --> 31:57.080 need to transition your taste in women and seek after the godly woman who puts the righteousness 31:57.080 --> 32:02.680 of god first and obviously i'm not saying don't be attracted to them that's a stupid standard too 32:02.680 --> 32:07.720 you obviously got to be visibly attracted to your spouse okay the point that i'm making is that 32:07.720 --> 32:13.400 sometimes people put a higher emphasis or only the emphasis is on the looks and not on the 32:13.400 --> 32:19.240 spiritual aspect okay and so very important there but we're talking about the fool but it applies 32:19.960 --> 32:25.160 because it's a foolish thing to have that type of standard for yourself and say well you know i'm 32:25.160 --> 32:30.200 just there's just no good women out there you know you you find this online a lot no it's because 32:30.200 --> 32:37.560 you're looking for some russian model or something you're looking for some exotic model who's just 32:37.560 --> 32:44.920 like fundamental they are you know king james they're saved folks it's that's a unicorn that 32:44.920 --> 32:52.120 doesn't exist and even if you happen to find it you know this person is going to struggle with 32:52.120 --> 32:57.000 vanity i already preached the sermon on vanity that's important though you know don't be a vain 32:57.000 --> 33:02.760 person obviously take care of yourself obviously do the best you can to look as best as you can 33:03.400 --> 33:11.000 exercise lose weight uh you know dress appropriately brush your teeth you know take 33:11.000 --> 33:16.040 the eye boogers out of your eyes you know check look in the mirror real quick make sure everything's 33:16.040 --> 33:20.920 on point no boogers on your face or whatever and and you know work on your personality but you know 33:21.080 --> 33:24.120 far more than that is exercise thyself rather unto godliness 33:25.800 --> 33:32.360 very important what i have you turn proverbs 18 look what it says here proverbs 18 verse 6 33:32.360 --> 33:39.000 a fool's lips enter into contention and his mouth calleth for strokes this is the rod in the back 33:39.720 --> 33:44.120 what is it saying foolish people you just want to sock them you want to punch them around the mouth 33:45.480 --> 33:50.680 right we all know that we've all seen people online or in person where they just like this 33:50.680 --> 33:59.480 person has a punchable face you know what i mean it's just like oh man you just talk so much trash 34:00.120 --> 34:05.240 you just say so many bad things you're just going to say to the wrong person they're going to break 34:05.240 --> 34:10.200 your teeth why because the fool's mouth call it for strokes that means they just don't keep their 34:10.200 --> 34:16.680 mouth shut okay now i remember being in high school i was a fool at certain times you know 34:16.680 --> 34:21.080 i would talk trash and you know and one day i talked trash to the wrong person 34:21.720 --> 34:26.680 and i got my rear end handed to me you know and it wasn't fun but you know what taught me afterwards 34:26.680 --> 34:32.440 i'm not going to talk too much trash anymore i grew into wisdom you know i talked trash to this one 34:32.440 --> 34:37.800 black guy and you know i made fun of him or whatever and then he challenged me to a fight 34:37.800 --> 34:44.200 we went to the alley after high school and he beat me up and i'm glad that he beat me up for two 34:44.200 --> 34:49.880 reasons okay one is because after the fight he had a bunch of his black friends and they came up to 34:49.880 --> 34:53.160 me and they're a part of a crib game they said it's good that you lost because if you didn't we 34:53.160 --> 34:58.440 would have jumped you okay you know because that's you know that's what they did back in the day okay 34:58.440 --> 35:02.760 they probably still do today but you know he's like he's like we would have jumped you but here's 35:02.760 --> 35:09.400 another reason why i'm glad it's because it humbled me and i find that the people who talk the most 35:09.400 --> 35:12.200 trash in their 20s are people who have never been socked in the mouth 35:14.040 --> 35:17.400 that's what i'm talking about it's like this guy has never been punched 35:18.840 --> 35:24.280 right you know what i'm talking about it's just like this person talks so much trash online 35:25.000 --> 35:32.440 they probably never even smacked across the mouth right he doesn't want to talk about i see some 35:32.440 --> 35:36.440 people on facebook i'm like i wish there was a button that i can press where my hand can go 35:36.440 --> 35:42.360 through and not give a thumbs up give him a you know give him a five fingers to the face 35:44.440 --> 35:47.960 because they just you guys don't give me let me raise a hand so i know i'm not on an island by 35:47.960 --> 35:55.320 myself here all right all right you know it's true sometimes you're like man this person is so bold 35:55.320 --> 36:01.320 they're so brazen they're so foolish they've obviously never said this to the wrong person 36:01.320 --> 36:07.000 as of yet because one day they will and they're gonna get knocked out they're gonna get slapped 36:07.000 --> 36:10.760 across the face i was talking to brother eddie today and he was like man i'm a christian now 36:10.760 --> 36:16.760 and i feel like christianity saves a lot of people you know you know what i mean like basically he's 36:16.760 --> 36:19.960 just like people make me mad it's just like man these people are lucky i'm a christian 36:20.520 --> 36:26.520 christianity is preventing me from hurting this person but that is true 36:27.000 --> 36:33.560 because christian virtue causes us to restrain ourselves right he's like this person is really 36:33.560 --> 36:37.640 lucky that i'm a christian because if not he would have been knocked down on the floor but 36:37.640 --> 36:42.920 it's not right to do so i'm not going to do it why because the fool's mouth calleth for strokes 36:42.920 --> 36:48.760 the bible says and so you know we should esteem being able to like pass over a transgression 36:49.320 --> 36:56.600 not get involved in contention know how to de-escalate a situation right be peacemakers 36:56.600 --> 37:04.040 and so forth fools on the other hand the rod is for their back and the stroke is for their mouth 37:04.040 --> 37:11.480 okay go back to proverbs 26 if you would proverbs 26 look at verse four so what do we see so far you 37:11.480 --> 37:19.800 shouldn't honor a fool never esteem or elevate a fool don't give him respect don't don't speak of 37:19.800 --> 37:24.840 him in a good manner why because he doesn't deserve it he's a prideful arrogant individual 37:24.840 --> 37:31.240 he hasn't learned from his mistakes he needs to be shamed for his actions furthermore we see that 37:31.240 --> 37:37.000 the fool when he is punished for his actions he actually deserves it because the curse causeless 37:37.000 --> 37:42.200 shall not come we see that a rod is for the fool's back now i want you to notice verse number four 37:42.200 --> 37:46.520 it's going to give us some instructions on how to deal with the fool it says answer not a fool 37:46.520 --> 37:52.600 according to his folly lest thou be also like unto him answer a fool according to his folly lest he 37:52.600 --> 37:58.520 be wise in his own conceit now there's various interpretations to this i'm going to give you mine 37:58.520 --> 38:03.640 because obviously i face value this can seem somewhat of a contradiction right he says you 38:03.640 --> 38:08.040 know don't answer a fool according to his folly but then it says right afterwards answer a fool 38:08.040 --> 38:15.960 according to his folly the difference between both of these commands is what the result is when we do 38:15.960 --> 38:23.720 so okay because verse four says answer not a fool according to his folly lest thou also be like unto 38:23.720 --> 38:31.000 him meaning that don't answer a fool according to his foolish disposition don't try to match their 38:31.000 --> 38:38.120 foolish energy right if a fool is saying things to you they're raising their voice they're being 38:38.120 --> 38:43.240 you know they're insulting you don't answer him according to his same level of immaturity 38:43.880 --> 38:51.240 his pettiness right his same level of disposition don't adopt the same foolish attitude as what it's 38:51.240 --> 38:56.440 saying because you run the risk of being just as stupid as he is or sounding just as stupid as he 38:56.440 --> 39:03.320 is you know what i mean the fool tells you oh man blank you and you're like well blank you too 39:03.320 --> 39:08.360 and your mama well now you just answered him according to his folly and now you're just like 39:08.360 --> 39:15.480 him understand you end up stooping to his level and thereby causing yourself to look just as 39:15.480 --> 39:20.680 foolish and so you know i know this for a fact because like on instagram people dm you some of 39:20.680 --> 39:27.160 the craziest insults ever okay you know just outright just absurd things that i feel like five 39:27.160 --> 39:32.040 years ago would have gotten under my skin now it's just like i don't answer these people according 39:32.040 --> 39:36.040 to their folly like people are like you're so stupid i can't believe you don't know anything 39:36.040 --> 39:41.160 about church history and about the catholic church and blah blah this and that and i respond and i 39:41.160 --> 39:46.680 just respond my bad bro you know oh my bad bro you know oh yeah you're right bro my bad you know 39:47.320 --> 39:51.960 and i just sent him to the you say but don't you want to get the last word in not really 39:53.480 --> 40:00.680 before he's he's a fool he's a catholic he's a fool you know i mean i'm not gonna just like 40:00.680 --> 40:07.080 lower myself to their level and be like no you're a freaking idiot you're over here praying to mary 40:07.080 --> 40:11.320 kind of gay you know just like just start going off on him because i don't want to be like unto 40:11.800 --> 40:19.800 him i don't want to you know match his stupid energy his foolish energy therefore i'm not 40:19.800 --> 40:26.040 going to answer him according to his foolish disposition and his foolish attitude now there's 40:26.040 --> 40:31.560 an example of this in proverbs 22 verse 24 it says make no friendship with an angry man and with 40:31.560 --> 40:38.520 the furious man thou shalt not go lest thou learn his ways and get a snare to thy soul the bible 40:38.520 --> 40:44.440 says now furthermore you know the bible tells us that we should avoid contentions right avoid strife 40:44.440 --> 40:52.680 second timothy 223 says but foolish and unlearned questions avoid knowing that they do gender 40:52.680 --> 40:59.480 strifes where was your church in the first century ad avoid it why are you going to make yourself mad 40:59.480 --> 41:04.920 right why are you going to get yourself upset why even answer that you have you don't need to prove 41:04.920 --> 41:09.080 anything to anybody if people want the truth they get the truth that they don't they need to just 41:09.080 --> 41:14.840 move on and so do you the servant of the lord must not strive the bible says but be gentle to all men 41:14.840 --> 41:19.800 apt to teach patience now let me be transparent that doesn't mean that i do this 100 of the time 41:19.800 --> 41:29.240 okay i fall short of the glory of god okay okay let me just let me just give that disclaimer real 41:29.240 --> 41:33.720 quick and i need to say this because who knows tomorrow i might just blow up on someone and be 41:33.720 --> 41:38.600 like dang i messed up you know it's possible because i'm a sinner and so you know sometimes 41:38.600 --> 41:43.560 you get in a conversation with people and you got a checkmate on them you know what i mean you got 41:43.560 --> 41:49.880 that golden ticket that you can just like destroy them with right you look into their genealogy find 41:49.880 --> 41:56.200 out they're a jew or something like that or it's like bro you're so cooked right now you know you 41:56.200 --> 42:01.880 you find something just out about them it's just like i gotta use this real quick you know and then 42:01.880 --> 42:08.120 you strive a little bit okay i i'm guilty of that let me just be honest with you i am guilty of that 42:08.120 --> 42:13.240 i'm not perfect in that situation i'm preaching myself in this area okay but i've gotten better 42:13.240 --> 42:19.080 though okay most of the time i you know people in the comment section i'll you know answer one or 42:19.080 --> 42:25.240 two questions dms i'll answer one or two questions and then i just never revisit it again however 42:26.200 --> 42:32.600 every once in a while you know if i'm not in the spirit i'm in the flesh or something 42:32.600 --> 42:38.680 because i'm just a sinner you know i do some wordplay and you know you just checkmate them 42:38.680 --> 42:44.920 real quick and then you just like all right i messed up but that was good though you know 42:46.840 --> 42:52.440 the point being here is that in general right in general you shouldn't be characterized as being 42:52.440 --> 42:58.440 a person who answers fools according to their folly where you are essentially condescending 42:58.440 --> 43:04.360 to their foolish disposition you're being like them verse five says answer a fool according to 43:04.360 --> 43:10.760 his folly lest he be wise in his own conceit conceit essentially is referring to their excessive 43:10.760 --> 43:16.840 favorable opinion about themselves okay and you do have to answer a fool according to his folly 43:16.920 --> 43:22.440 if he's spreading and talking about stupidity if he's perverting the bible if they're saying 43:22.440 --> 43:29.240 nonsensical things if they are you know causing people to be an error in a certain biblical 43:29.240 --> 43:34.280 regard yeah they need to be answered they need to be corrected right and the bible tells us that 43:34.280 --> 43:39.080 after the first and second admonition a heretic after the first and second admonition reject 43:39.080 --> 43:43.880 so obviously that implies that one or two admonitions should be given to that individual 43:43.880 --> 43:48.760 okay doesn't mean don't answer them at all it means give them two admonitions and then you need 43:48.760 --> 43:54.120 to move on from there okay and so very important so you answer a fool according to their folly 43:54.840 --> 44:01.080 when they are showing some sort of excessive favorable opinion about themselves about their 44:01.080 --> 44:07.080 doctrine and they're just disseminating heresy and lies they need to be corrected that is 100 44:07.080 --> 44:13.640 biblical to do the point being here is that we need to learn both instances okay and obviously 44:13.640 --> 44:17.880 we're not going to do this perfectly but in general we should hit the mark as much as we 44:17.880 --> 44:23.560 possibly can look at verse six he says he that sendeth the message by the hand of a fool 44:24.120 --> 44:30.440 cut it off the feet and drinketh damage what is it saying it's saying the fools are unreliable people 44:31.480 --> 44:38.840 you can't depend on a fool for anything now look if you're a fool and you're unreliable 44:39.400 --> 44:45.720 you ought to be ashamed of yourself if people don't ask you to take responsibility for anything 44:45.720 --> 44:51.800 it's possibly because you're a fool because you're unreliable people can't depend upon you you're not 44:51.800 --> 44:56.840 in your place when you're supposed to be you're late you're either you say you're going to show 44:56.840 --> 45:00.200 up and you don't you say you're going to do something but you won't you know it's just 45:00.200 --> 45:05.160 you're just an unreliable fool according to the bible and it says here that when you send a 45:05.240 --> 45:08.680 message by the hand of a fool you might as well just cut off their feet 45:11.000 --> 45:17.080 why because you know they'll probably cover more ground maimed than they would with having feet 45:17.800 --> 45:21.640 meaning that it's just like they're not going to walk to take the message to the individual 45:21.640 --> 45:26.840 because of the fact that they're fools and they're unreliable people they're not going to get the job 45:26.840 --> 45:31.720 done and it says that you're drinking damage meaning that you're actually harming yourself 45:31.720 --> 45:36.760 so obviously we could apply this to bosses for example you need to make sure that your employees 45:36.760 --> 45:43.640 are not fools okay that they learn how to get the job done that they are reliable they are on time 45:43.640 --> 45:49.160 they're getting the task done they're they're doing what they claim they said they were going to do 45:49.160 --> 45:55.080 right but even in a church setting this applies okay and look folks this is a church where we 45:55.080 --> 45:59.960 have a lot of volunteers but here's the thing you should still take care of your responsibilities 45:59.960 --> 46:06.840 though because if you volunteered for something that means people are relying upon you to take 46:06.840 --> 46:13.480 over that task just because you're a volunteer doesn't give you the flexibility to not complete 46:13.480 --> 46:19.080 your task because you're the one who volunteered or you agreed when someone asked you to volunteer 46:19.080 --> 46:24.200 for a particular task okay and you're like well i'm not a paid staff member then here if that's 46:24.200 --> 46:28.680 the disposition you're going to have the emails might as well just not do it because whether you're 46:28.680 --> 46:32.680 getting paid or not you're still doing it as unto the lord therefore it should be executed with 46:32.680 --> 46:37.160 excellence you know what i'm saying here's here's what i'm saying here hey if you're an usher be on 46:37.160 --> 46:45.880 time you're a parking attendant be on time you are a piano player you're a musician be on time 46:45.880 --> 46:53.720 don't be a fool who is like someone with their feet cut off because they can't get you here on time 46:53.880 --> 47:00.760 and look folks punctuality is important okay especially for church we start at 10 30 47:00.760 --> 47:04.760 you know mexican churches are different 47:06.760 --> 47:14.360 i'm not joking with you mexican churches hispanic churches you know whatever latin churches 47:14.360 --> 47:20.760 spanish churches whatever you know if you want to get offended at that good but you know they 47:21.720 --> 47:25.240 they will say they start at 10 30 and they'll start literally like at 11 sometimes 47:26.120 --> 47:31.080 it's very far few in between who actually uphold an actual like time but they will be like you know 47:31.080 --> 47:35.000 what you know or they'll have a conference conference starts at seven they're like and 47:35.000 --> 47:38.360 they actually end up starting like at 8 30 or something like that because they're waiting for 47:38.360 --> 47:43.640 people for more people to come in so the pastor is not willing to start on time therefore the 47:43.640 --> 47:49.560 members don't come on time either that drives me absolutely bananas you know why because punctuality 47:49.560 --> 47:54.040 is a virtue you know punctuality means it means that you're taking other people's times into 47:54.040 --> 47:59.960 consideration you know that other people are waiting on you okay and i got to get on this 47:59.960 --> 48:07.160 every couple of months or so be a punctual person to your responsibilities at church and if you feel 48:07.160 --> 48:12.680 like well i just can't then don't do the responsibility then because i prefer to just 48:12.680 --> 48:19.480 find someone with a lesser quality but at least they're on time they get the job done maybe not 48:19.480 --> 48:23.560 as perfectly i'd rather have that individual because at least we can rely upon that person 48:23.560 --> 48:29.800 to be in their place when they're supposed to be okay you know and look when we put people 48:30.360 --> 48:37.800 to take care of certain responsibilities who are unreliable we drink damage the orchestra drinks 48:37.800 --> 48:44.200 damage the church members drink damage you end up affecting everyone else because of it okay 48:45.480 --> 48:49.960 what am i saying fools according to the bible are just unreliable people okay don't be the 48:49.960 --> 48:55.000 unreliable employee at your job be the person that your boss can depend on be the church members 48:55.000 --> 49:00.200 that your pastor can depend on that your team leader can depend on that the head usher can 49:00.200 --> 49:06.680 depend on that the person who's in charge of whatever ministry can rely upon okay and one 49:06.680 --> 49:10.600 thing i've noticed is that you know you'll see this a lot in churches where one person is just 49:10.600 --> 49:16.360 doing a lot and you know they're just over a lot of things they just take care of a lot of stuff 49:16.360 --> 49:20.360 but let me tell you why it's because they're reliable and sometimes like can we get more 49:20.360 --> 49:24.680 people to take it well here's the problem though is that sometimes people are just unreliable 49:25.320 --> 49:31.160 so therefore you just we just pile it on this one dude falling on this one lady or something 49:31.240 --> 49:36.280 because they're just reliable individuals i'm trying to discourage you from being an unreliable 49:36.280 --> 49:43.080 christian you know don't treat church as just some casual setting where you don't have to put in your 49:43.080 --> 49:48.360 100 we're serving god here serve god all the time but this is the epicenter of serving god this is 49:48.360 --> 49:53.960 the local new testament church you know put in the work be a person who takes it serious don't be a 49:53.960 --> 50:00.360 person that causes others to drink damage because of your lack of effort punctuality and so forth 50:00.360 --> 50:07.160 you know a message by a fool is basically crippling the person who sends them and so you 50:07.160 --> 50:12.840 know this is important for us to know to learn uh you know we do suffer the consequences of other 50:12.840 --> 50:17.000 people other people's lack of character and look folks you know i've said this before and i'll say 50:17.000 --> 50:21.800 it again sunday for me obviously is the most important day of the week other than thursday 50:23.080 --> 50:27.800 but just for me and my family so you know what we do we prepare on saturday right get everything 50:27.800 --> 50:34.120 prepared on saturday do the best that we can to get to bed on time because you know we got 50:34.120 --> 50:39.640 church tomorrow right now obviously i'm sometimes i'm out you know i'm at the office late at night 50:39.640 --> 50:44.520 on saturday working or whatever but if i have to be sleep deprived and here on time i'll i'm going 50:44.520 --> 50:49.800 to do it you know the same can be said of ulysses rana he might be falling asleep right now actually 50:49.800 --> 50:56.520 okay he he might be out right now he might have just woken up right now when i said that 50:57.080 --> 51:02.760 okay his heart is running is racing right now because i'm talking about it but let me tell you 51:02.760 --> 51:08.760 something the man is here on time though okay you know there's been times where this guy is working 51:08.760 --> 51:13.400 on a saturday night cleaning getting everything done because he went to tj and he's got all these 51:13.400 --> 51:18.280 responsibilities and bro will literally go home like at four o'clock in the morning get dressed 51:18.280 --> 51:23.800 get some breakfast and come back to church right on time you said why does he have so many 51:23.800 --> 51:28.680 responsibilities because bro's just reliable like that now he's not necessarily the most reliable 51:28.680 --> 51:33.000 to just stay awake sometimes you know just in general which is why he has to stand up sometimes 51:33.000 --> 51:38.440 you know but you know i i can always rely upon ulysses and obviously he's a staff member but 51:38.440 --> 51:41.400 just but but the reason he's a staff member is because he was doing this before he was a staff 51:41.400 --> 51:48.440 member like i remember even before hiring him he had a full-time job and he was still coming to 51:48.440 --> 51:53.640 church after work to come clean the church which is why he ended up getting on the news when we 51:53.640 --> 51:57.480 were being protested you know they remember that famous clip the news you know that's what the 51:57.480 --> 52:03.000 bible said he has like the yellow shirt or whatever and a congregate came out and you see ulysses come 52:03.000 --> 52:06.760 out and you know he has the famous lines there well he had just finished cleaning the church 52:07.720 --> 52:12.040 he didn't show up because he saw it on the news he was just mopping or whatever you know came out 52:12.040 --> 52:16.440 and there you know they interviewed him so obviously he was doing this stuff prior to even being 52:16.920 --> 52:22.440 hired full-time why because he's just a reliable person okay he's where he's supposed to be when 52:22.440 --> 52:26.360 he's supposed to be but let me just say this regardless of your sleep deprived or not be here 52:26.360 --> 52:34.360 on time be a reliable person be at your soul-winning spot be in your place don't come dragging in on 52:34.360 --> 52:40.120 sunday let me also get on this real quick okay church is at 10 30 52:40.120 --> 52:41.560 come on yeah 52:43.960 --> 52:54.200 10 30 right so being on time is being early being early is at least 15 to 20 minutes before service 52:54.920 --> 53:01.240 not 15 20 minutes after service has already started okay don't be the person who who's on 53:01.240 --> 53:04.840 time when your responsibility when you have responsibilities but the days you don't you come 53:04.840 --> 53:09.560 late right don't be the person who drags and i don't want to show of hands but i'm sure the 53:09.560 --> 53:17.160 ushers can tell me every single person who's late every single week i know they can why because they 53:17.160 --> 53:22.520 see them all the time and look don't be the person you know you see these reels or whatever or people 53:22.520 --> 53:25.880 are like oh you know the reason i'm late to church because i went to starbucks most of you are not 53:25.880 --> 53:29.720 late because you're going to starbucks because you're going to the convenience store right before 53:29.720 --> 53:36.040 the service or whatever got to get your hot cheetos or whatever you know get that beforehand 53:36.040 --> 53:41.800 don't make it accustomed to be late walking through the doors you know causing the ushers to 53:41.800 --> 53:46.360 scramble to find a seat for you folks we're getting so full in here it's we need your 53:46.360 --> 53:51.480 participation to be just punctual okay i know you like to make your grand little entrance 53:52.360 --> 53:58.200 you know your little star entrance here comes so-and-so whatever no that's not grand you're not 53:58.200 --> 54:04.520 helping much be a person who's punctual come to church don't be the person that don't be the 54:05.480 --> 54:10.600 byword in the proverb in our church who is the quintessential example of what a lay person is 54:11.240 --> 54:17.560 then when we look at the dictionary and look at the word late someone who's not punctual your face 54:17.560 --> 54:25.000 is on there okay well you just don't understand i just got up late you wouldn't get up late for work 54:27.400 --> 54:33.400 so why are you getting up late for church come to church on time get your fellowship in church 54:33.400 --> 54:37.640 is an important thing and i get it we live in southern california we got some brothers here 54:37.640 --> 54:41.960 from northern california from from sacramento so i don't know i don't know if the traffic's the same 54:41.960 --> 54:46.280 over there but traffic is bad here though okay right is it bad pretty pretty bad over there 54:47.560 --> 54:51.240 nothing like this all right but you guys got crackheads all over the place though so 54:52.200 --> 54:58.760 that's different crackamano is different we got we got traffic like you guys got crackheads you 54:58.760 --> 55:00.440 know i mean just it's all over the place 55:03.160 --> 55:10.920 traffic is bad here the 91 is bad if you're coming from the i.e. may the lord help you right 55:12.200 --> 55:16.280 we've all had that instance where we're driving and then you see that long line you're like 55:18.600 --> 55:22.200 you guys know what i'm talking about it's just they're always doing construction or something 55:22.200 --> 55:27.640 like that or something's going on the 91 is horrific okay but plan for the traffic though 55:29.080 --> 55:34.200 don't be the fool with the feet cut off making us drink damage because of your lack of character 55:34.200 --> 55:40.360 and punctuality okay don't be the byword in the proverb in our church and and be the person that 55:40.360 --> 55:44.120 everyone knows the the only thing you're consistent in is being late 55:48.120 --> 55:52.200 yeah you're consistent it's just not in your punctuality you're just consistent in being late 55:52.200 --> 55:57.320 all the time and all the ushers are laughing right now because they they're already think they're 55:57.320 --> 56:03.880 already texting each other right now and so and so or whatever don't make it don't make it a habit 56:04.840 --> 56:09.320 okay and you may think just well i have social anxiety you know i just i don't like to come 56:09.320 --> 56:15.080 beforehand or whatever get over it just come just don't talk to anybody just come and sit down 56:15.880 --> 56:20.600 what do you mean just what's the difference i thought wouldn't it be worse for someone who 56:20.600 --> 56:27.000 have social anxiety to come in late and then have everyone just like just like look at you 56:27.000 --> 56:34.120 coming in late right i feel like that would be worse all right let's move on from that 56:35.320 --> 56:40.520 it's it's important though okay go to proverbs 25 if you would proverbs 25 56:41.560 --> 56:48.440 relying on the fool is self-sabotage that results in loss and harm and so you know we don't want to 56:48.440 --> 56:52.840 be the person who's causing others to drink damage because of our lack of character look at 56:52.840 --> 56:58.760 verse 19 of proverbs 25 confidence in an unfaithful man in a time of trouble is like a broken tooth 56:58.760 --> 57:03.720 and a foot out of joint meaning that you are you know if you've ever had a broken tooth how many 57:03.720 --> 57:09.960 you've ever had a broken tooth before it's painful man you guys all your mouth called for strokes or 57:09.960 --> 57:15.320 what's going on here you know i've had a broken tooth it's like when it when it hits the nerve 57:15.320 --> 57:20.200 you know what i mean it's painful right well that's what it's saying it's just like when you put 57:20.200 --> 57:23.320 confidence in an unfaithful man that's like having a broken tooth it's just painful 57:23.960 --> 57:29.160 you just hurt yourself because of it it's like a foot out of joint now look at verse 13 though 57:29.160 --> 57:37.560 of proverbs 25 it says as the cold of snow in the time of harvest so is a faithful messenger 57:37.560 --> 57:42.920 to them that send him for he refreshed the soul of his masters meaning you could expect the cold 57:42.920 --> 57:49.240 of snow coming in the time of harvest he comes right on time it just expected for that to happen 57:49.240 --> 57:54.120 well unlike manner a faithful messenger is expected to refresh the souls of the people he 57:54.120 --> 57:58.280 sent in the message to this is referring to a reliable person right and let me just say this 57:58.280 --> 58:04.920 you know it's refreshing to see people be in their place at the same time every single week 58:04.920 --> 58:10.200 seeing the same people come into church they're faithful to church they're faithful and soulening 58:10.200 --> 58:16.840 that's refreshing you are as a faithful messenger to them that send you you're like the cold of snow 58:16.840 --> 58:19.400 in the time of harvest go back to proverbs 26 58:22.040 --> 58:27.880 proverbs 26 and i think this will be my last point here maybe verse 7 says the legs of the lame are 58:27.880 --> 58:34.280 not equal so is a parable in the mouth of fools as he that bindeth the stone in the sling so is he 58:34.280 --> 58:40.840 that giveth honor to a fool as a thorn goeth up into the hand of a drunkard so is a parable in the 58:40.840 --> 58:47.080 mouth of fools what is this referring to well verse 7 and 8 verse 8 excuse me verse 8 is actually 58:47.080 --> 58:53.720 more so tied into what we just talked about being unreliable drinking the damage but verse 7 and 9 58:54.760 --> 59:00.760 is essentially telling us that fools don't have spiritual discernment okay just as the legs of 59:00.760 --> 59:07.240 the lame are not equal they don't go together so as a parable in the mouth of a fool you can't 59:07.240 --> 59:13.000 expect foolish people to discern or interpret scripture okay that's what it's saying and it 59:13.000 --> 59:20.520 says in verse 9 as a thorn goes up into the hand of a drunkard so is a parable in the mouth of 59:20.520 --> 59:25.720 fools what does that mean you know if you had a thorn in your hand like a splinter first of all 59:25.720 --> 59:29.880 if you're sober it's hard to find sometimes right you ever had a thorn in your finger and you're 59:29.880 --> 59:33.000 just rubbing you're like man i feel something there i know there's something there and you're 59:33.000 --> 59:36.600 just like trying to look and you know you're going like this well think about a person who's 59:36.600 --> 59:43.400 intoxicated you know a thorn in the hand of a drunkard so is a parable in the mouth of fools 59:43.400 --> 59:49.720 so if a drunkard has a hard time finding a thorn in their hand that's the equivalent to a fool 59:49.720 --> 59:54.600 trying to find the truth in a parable understand they can't discern what the bible's saying 59:54.600 --> 01:00:01.400 because they're a fool okay and you know this is obvious this can be obviously applied to like 01:00:02.040 --> 01:00:07.320 you know newer christians they're not fools they're just simple in the areas of parables 01:00:07.320 --> 01:00:13.400 or whatever they're learning about the bible they're learning about the doctrines of the faith 01:00:13.400 --> 01:00:19.080 so obviously that's completely normal right we were at a point where we were young in the faith 01:00:19.080 --> 01:00:23.080 and didn't understand certain stories in the bible but as the years go by the more you read 01:00:23.080 --> 01:00:26.920 the bible the more you accumulate knowledge and you're like oh okay i heard a sermon on this now 01:00:26.920 --> 01:00:30.760 i know what it means and now you have the understanding now you get now you see that 01:00:30.760 --> 01:00:36.040 there's a thorn in your hand right you see that you know what the parable is referring to so this 01:00:36.040 --> 01:00:41.480 is obvious but the fool remember the fool has been given the explanation they know what the word of 01:00:41.480 --> 01:00:47.160 god says yet they still can't find the truth in the parable now again this should be this obviously 01:00:47.160 --> 01:00:55.160 applies to younger christians but it should never apply to pastors if you have a pastor that can't 01:00:55.160 --> 01:01:02.440 explain to you some basic doctrine they're a fool you know one of the the the most recent examples 01:01:02.440 --> 01:01:10.280 of this would be jared pizarnsky of verity baptist church who can't seem to explain what it means to 01:01:10.280 --> 01:01:15.960 call upon the name of the lord now that's a simple doctrine right there and let me just say this you 01:01:15.960 --> 01:01:23.000 know if if in my church i want to explain something that i believe you know even if i'm not the best 01:01:23.000 --> 01:01:28.280 at explaining it right you know even if i'm not the most eloquent when it comes to explaining it 01:01:28.280 --> 01:01:32.680 all you really have to do is just go to the bible go to those verses read them and then just kind 01:01:32.680 --> 01:01:36.680 of give a synopsis of what that verse means right make a couple comments and that's it 01:01:37.720 --> 01:01:43.640 obviously there's other pastors out there who can wax eloquent they can just divide it they can you 01:01:43.640 --> 01:01:48.440 know sizzle it and and serve you a nice little meal there but in general if there's something 01:01:48.520 --> 01:01:53.560 that i want to explain to the church and i'm not the best at doing it guess what i can still do it 01:01:53.560 --> 01:01:57.800 though i can just go to the bible and just show you what the word of god says and kind of give 01:01:57.800 --> 01:02:01.800 you the synopsis of that verse according to my understanding and interpretation there you know 01:02:01.800 --> 01:02:08.440 why because i'm the pastor and as pastors you got to be apt to teach now obviously there are 01:02:08.440 --> 01:02:13.080 instances in the bible where there's certain doctrines that are very deep end times prophecy 01:02:13.960 --> 01:02:20.120 right there's certain aspects of end times bible prophecy that are very deep they require a little 01:02:20.120 --> 01:02:24.520 more understanding a little more explanation and so forth but calling upon the name of the lord is 01:02:24.520 --> 01:02:33.400 not one of them that's like basic one-on-one salvation soul winning it's not hard at all 01:02:34.760 --> 01:02:40.120 okay and and here's the thing you know i preach on calling upon the name of the lord multiple times 01:02:40.760 --> 01:02:44.760 and not a single instance when i've when i've preached on calling upon the name of the lord 01:02:44.760 --> 01:02:49.240 have i ever said to the church well just go listen to what pastor anderson says that's what i believe 01:02:51.560 --> 01:02:54.840 right just kind of say like whatever he says that that 01:02:57.720 --> 01:03:02.280 although it may be true because i have to explain the passage 01:03:03.320 --> 01:03:09.080 you understand and look even if you just go to one verse a one passage what if you just stick to 01:03:09.080 --> 01:03:17.880 roman chapter 10 it's all you need and look folks if someone ever accused me of not believing in 01:03:17.880 --> 01:03:24.680 calling upon the name of the lord i just rip on the alternative in one sermon to just let everyone 01:03:24.680 --> 01:03:27.880 know that i do believe in calling upon the name of the lord and quite frankly all i have to do is go 01:03:27.880 --> 01:03:33.160 to roman chapter 10 talk about how stupid it is for people not to believe in it because the text 01:03:33.160 --> 01:03:39.400 clearly says it go to genesis chapter 4 give the biblical explanation according to john chapter 4 01:03:39.400 --> 01:03:46.040 and it's done but you know what only a fool is incapable of doing that and here's the thing 01:03:46.040 --> 01:03:49.320 folks the bible says that the natural man receive it not the things of the spirit of god 01:03:51.720 --> 01:03:57.320 why because they are foolishness unto him neither can he know them for their spiritually discern 01:03:58.280 --> 01:04:04.600 and so you know when you have a pastor who can't explain to you just a basic doctrine of the 01:04:04.600 --> 01:04:11.960 christian faith of just asking for salvation they want to tell you to go to someone else to you know 01:04:11.960 --> 01:04:17.240 first of all let me just say this if roger himanus was my former pastor i would never be like hey just 01:04:17.240 --> 01:04:22.200 whatever he says is right like bro that you that's the bad example you mean the thief bro 01:04:22.200 --> 01:04:25.080 bro 01:04:26.840 --> 01:04:31.160 are you talking about the guy who stepped down the gooner 01:04:34.360 --> 01:04:38.520 you beat me to it talk about the goon i'm not going to go to the gooner 01:04:41.480 --> 01:04:44.680 to give the interpretation of what it means to call upon the name of the lord 01:04:44.680 --> 01:04:47.880 you're the pastor you explain it 01:04:49.880 --> 01:04:53.880 and look okay you believe in the family great can we hear about something else though 01:04:56.280 --> 01:04:59.960 yeah we know you like to raise your kids everyone does can you talk about like some other doctrines 01:04:59.960 --> 01:05:04.920 of the faith though because you're being accused of not believing certain these doctrines and 01:05:04.920 --> 01:05:11.400 you're not really doing a good job you know proving them wrong right calling them calling 01:05:11.400 --> 01:05:17.240 the name of the lord is not hard at all folks and quite frankly anybody you don't even have to be a 01:05:17.240 --> 01:05:22.280 pastor to be able to explain that because you could just i could ask some lady in our church 01:05:23.080 --> 01:05:26.280 you know what i mean like what does it mean to call upon the name of the lord and how does that 01:05:26.280 --> 01:05:30.200 apply to you and they'll say well when i got saved i asked jesus christ to save me that's what he needs 01:05:30.200 --> 01:05:35.000 to call upon the name of the lord like that's the most basic right like even if he did that 01:05:35.800 --> 01:05:39.160 that would have been that would have suffice but i don't even think he did that he was just 01:05:39.160 --> 01:05:44.840 he's like of course i believe it because whatever he says that's what i believe or whatever you know 01:05:44.840 --> 01:05:52.280 what is that it's garbage and so you know jared posanski is a classic example 01:05:53.080 --> 01:05:58.360 of a person who is a fool because he can't even we're talking about parable here a parable is a 01:05:58.360 --> 01:06:06.520 dark saying calling upon the name of the lord is not a dark saying that's a light saying it's a very 01:06:06.520 --> 01:06:11.080 explicit statement in the bible right it's found throughout both old and new testament specifically 01:06:11.080 --> 01:06:17.160 in the new and it's very obvious because it deals with salvation whosoever shall call upon the name 01:06:17.160 --> 01:06:23.800 of the lord shall be saved right and so you know and and his explanation by the way of romans 10 01:06:23.800 --> 01:06:29.000 is just absolutely absurd when he believes about it he's saying like well when the bible says that 01:06:29.000 --> 01:06:32.680 if thou shalt if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the lord jesus and believe in our heart that god 01:06:32.680 --> 01:06:35.880 will raise him from the dead thou shalt be saved he said what is this confession is you confessing 01:06:35.880 --> 01:06:45.880 before others talking about salvation to others what what is that you're not apt to teach if that's 01:06:45.880 --> 01:06:51.480 what you're saying if you believe that romans 10 9 through 10 when it talks about confessing with 01:06:51.480 --> 01:06:56.920 your mouth it means to confess to others and talk to others about salvation you don't know anything 01:06:56.920 --> 01:07:02.520 about the bible that's a super easy scripture it's not hard at all thou shalt confess with thy mouth 01:07:02.520 --> 01:07:07.240 the lord jesus and believe in thine heart that god will raise him from the dead thou shall be saved 01:07:08.280 --> 01:07:14.760 so the result of confessing with your mouth the result of believing with your heart is salvation 01:07:14.760 --> 01:07:28.760 for you he's like you know he's got the thorn he can't even see it but it's not even the thorn it's 01:07:28.760 --> 01:07:36.760 like a huge you know in that broken hand of his it's just like right there you know broken hand 01:07:36.760 --> 01:07:43.480 a foot out of joy it's just like right there but he can't see it you know why because typically 01:07:43.480 --> 01:07:47.320 you know in the bible unsafe people can't understand simple scriptures like that 01:07:49.080 --> 01:07:52.440 are you saying he's not safe i don't know i'm just saying i'm just reading to you what the bible says 01:07:52.440 --> 01:07:56.440 i don't know maybe he's maybe he is maybe he is i don't know i just know that he interprets the 01:07:56.440 --> 01:08:03.880 bible like an unsafe person though that's what i'm saying okay now look i could be wrong 01:08:04.520 --> 01:08:10.360 preach an entire preach a series on it go through every you know you and your little serieses 01:08:12.520 --> 01:08:15.960 go through an entire series and explain what it means to call upon the name of the lord and prove 01:08:15.960 --> 01:08:20.200 us all wrong okay but you're not going to be able to do it because you can't find the thorn in the 01:08:20.200 --> 01:08:26.920 hand what am i saying i'm saying that fools don't have spiritual understanding they don't 01:08:26.920 --> 01:08:32.600 have spiritual discernment and obviously there's people in church who you know they believe certain 01:08:32.600 --> 01:08:37.000 doctrines but they have trouble communicating those doctrines right like you believe in the 01:08:37.000 --> 01:08:41.720 post-trip pre-ratheracta but maybe some of you can't really explain it as as well as it was 01:08:41.720 --> 01:08:46.120 explained this morning or the way you've seen it on documentaries you can't really expound upon it 01:08:46.120 --> 01:08:50.120 you wish it could it's just it doesn't flow out of the mouth whatever but you understand the basics 01:08:50.120 --> 01:08:56.200 of it but that's okay you're not a pastor if you're a pastor one of the qualifications of a pastor 01:08:56.200 --> 01:09:04.040 listen to this is to be apt to teach that voice is coming from that room right there just everyone's 01:09:04.040 --> 01:09:11.960 like where's that voice coming from you know you're supposed to be apt to teach capable of explaining 01:09:12.600 --> 01:09:17.640 simple doctrines and complex doctrines as well if you can't do that then sit down and shut up 01:09:17.640 --> 01:09:25.080 and go be some public speaker on the family go be some family guru or whatever and do that instead 01:09:25.080 --> 01:09:29.960 of trying to be a pastor because the pastor requires for you to teach the entire council of god 01:09:30.840 --> 01:09:36.200 okay and look i love sermons on the family don't get me wrong i love sermons on child rearing i 01:09:36.200 --> 01:09:41.480 love sermons on marriage i love sermons on winning the hearts of your children i preach sermons like 01:09:41.480 --> 01:09:48.360 that i think that stuff is important man that stuff is good but quite frankly there's a lot more 01:09:48.360 --> 01:09:54.600 to talk about than just that we've dedicated sermons in the summer towards the family towards 01:09:54.600 --> 01:09:59.320 dating and rearing children and winning the hearts of your children spending more time with your kids 01:09:59.320 --> 01:10:03.560 and your wife all that stuff is good but that's not what our ministry is characterized by 01:10:04.680 --> 01:10:10.120 you know why because i got so much other things to talk about we have an entire book to talk about 01:10:10.120 --> 01:10:14.360 okay and the only reason people will stay away from those topics is because they don't know 01:10:14.360 --> 01:10:19.080 about those topics they can't explain those topics because it's too deep for them because 01:10:19.080 --> 01:10:26.360 they can't find the thorn in the hand that's the problem okay all right last point here verse 11 01:10:26.360 --> 01:10:32.040 says as a dog returned it to his vomit so a fool returned it to his folly this means that they 01:10:32.040 --> 01:10:37.880 don't learn from their mistakes okay so a dog vomits and then he goes and he licks up his vomit 01:10:37.880 --> 01:10:42.280 you've seen dogs do that that's what they do well that's as the equivalent to a fool 01:10:42.280 --> 01:10:46.280 making a mistake suffering the consequences of their mistake and then going back and making it 01:10:46.280 --> 01:10:52.280 again look at proverbs 23 and we're done now when i think of this particular point i think the 01:10:52.280 --> 01:10:58.520 greatest example of a dog returning to his vomit is a drunkard it's a perfect example right you can 01:10:58.520 --> 01:11:05.240 apply this to all drug addicts but specifically drunkards because they vomit i mean they vomit 01:11:05.240 --> 01:11:12.200 they throw up they feel horrible they're busting blood vessels in their eyes they have hangovers 01:11:12.760 --> 01:11:17.800 you know their body's just being destroyed and yet they get up and do it again look what it says in 01:11:17.800 --> 01:11:22.120 proverbs 23 verse 32 at the last they bite it like a serpent sting it like an adder 01:11:22.760 --> 01:11:27.800 thine eyes shall behold strange women thine heart shall utter perverse things ye thou shall be as 01:11:27.800 --> 01:11:33.320 he that lieth down in the midst of the sea or see that light upon the top of a mast they have 01:11:33.320 --> 01:11:38.680 stricken me shalt thou say and i was not sick they they have beaten me and i felt the knot when 01:11:38.680 --> 01:11:44.040 shall i awake again when shall i awake i will seek it yet again so after he just got finished 01:11:44.040 --> 01:11:51.880 talking about all the consequences of drinking alcohol he's beaten he is sick he you know is a 01:11:51.880 --> 01:11:58.440 beholding strange woman he is uttering perverse things he's being bitten like a like by a serpent 01:11:58.440 --> 01:12:02.600 and with an adder and then he's like wakes up from his hangover he's like time to go do it again 01:12:02.600 --> 01:12:09.000 you know what that is a fool okay and so they don't learn from their mistakes and so 01:12:09.640 --> 01:12:13.320 we might continue this next week we'll see let's pray father we thank you so much for your word 01:12:13.320 --> 01:12:18.200 thank you for proverbs 26 help us as your people to avoid these characteristics lord in our personal 01:12:18.200 --> 01:12:25.960 lives and also avoid associating with such people as well lord the fool not only damages himself 01:12:26.520 --> 01:12:31.960 but when placed in a position of authority when given responsibility they end up damaging others 01:12:31.960 --> 01:12:38.760 as well and i pray you help us to avoid individuals like that lord and help us to gain wisdom as we 01:12:38.760 --> 01:12:44.600 fear you lord and accumulate knowledge through the bible and by being around other wise individuals 01:12:44.600 --> 01:12:55.880 we love you we thank you pray these things in jesus name amen amen go ahead and turn your 01:12:55.880 --> 01:13:01.480 hymnals to song number 164 praise him praise him