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Good Shepherd Church
Proverbs | Week 4
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Good Shepherd Church
3429 N Monroe Ave, Loveland, CO 80538, USA
Sunday 8:30 AM
Sunday 10:30 AM
The 5 fools of Proverbs:
- The Simple Fool: is naïve – easy to deceive – almost childlike.
- The Stubborn Fool: thinks they know everything, but are actually pretty
dim.
- The Sensual Fool: has given in to pleasure and ease often ending in
devastation.
- The Scoffing Fool: mocks God and is defiantly unrepentant.
- And The Steadfast Fool: denies God and is committed to evil.
- The Simple Fool: is naïve – easy to deceive – almost childlike.
- The Stubborn Fool: thinks they know everything, but are actually pretty
dim.
- The Sensual Fool: has given in to pleasure and ease often ending in
devastation.
- The Scoffing Fool: mocks God and is defiantly unrepentant.
- And The Steadfast Fool: denies God and is committed to evil.
The real reason we are studying foolishness.
- First, avoid foolishness in all its forms (none of us want to be a fool)
- Second, accurately assess and confront foolishness in others with wisdom.
- First, avoid foolishness in all its forms (none of us want to be a fool)
- Second, accurately assess and confront foolishness in others with wisdom.
Jesus deals with people based on the condition of their heart.
When Jesus confronts foolishness the goal is always the same: He wants us to repent so we can be reconciled and receive salvation.
The Hebrew word for “simple [fool]” is pethîy (peth-EE).
The simple fool needs 2 primary things to grow:
1. God's word
2. Wiser people
1. God's word
2. Wiser people
The Hebrew word for the stubborn fool is ’eviyl (ev-EEL).
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.” - Mark Twain
How do we confront or correct stubborn fools?
This Hebrew word for this sensual fool is keciyl. It literally means that the loins and flanks of a person are so crowded by fat that they are dull, inactive, and passive.
The Hebrew word for “scoffing fool” is lûwts (LOOTS). It means “to make mouths at, i.e. to scoff.”
"What makes someone wicked isn’t the magnitude of the harm they’ve done; it’s the refusal to acknowledged the harm they’ve done; it’s the refusal to feel sorrow and guilt about their words and actions." - Adam Young
Tactic #1 is scapegoating.
Tactic #2 is Intellectual Manipulation
If you want to love a scoffing fool, it might require the use of shame.
The Hebrew word is nabal, which means stupid, wicked, and vile.
The difference between wickedness and evil is the use of humiliation with the intent to destroy.
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