FOOLISH PEOPLE HAVE FOOLISH PROBLEMS

Jeremiah 4:22, 5:4, 5:21,10:8

Lamentations 2:14

Pastor Rick Jackson

 

Allow me to paraphrase something someone said, “Everything happens for a reason. Sometimes the reason is you're foolish and make foolish decisions.” Now that’s true. Let’s tighten it a bit and just say a foolish person is a fool. Fools make foolish decisions and have foolish problems. The Bible has much to say about fools.

 

I. THE FOOL HAS PROBLEMS WITH OTHERS

1. Some Fools Will Not Listen to Instruction [Pr. 1:7, 12:1, 23:9]

- The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

-Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

-Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.

2. Some Fools Will Not Listen to Their Father [Pr. 15:5, 17:21]

-A fool despiseth his father's instruction: but he that regardeth reproof is prudent.

-He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow: and the father of a fool hath no joy.

“What kind of life you think it is being the father of a young dummy?”

3. Some Fools Listen to Their Own Heart [Pr. 13:20, 28:26, Jer. 17:9]

-He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

-He that trusteth in his own heart is a fool: but whoso walketh wisely, he shall be delivered.

-The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

 

II. THE FOOL HAS PROBLEMS WITH HIMSELF

1. Fools Have a Problem with Their Mouth [Pr. 15:2, 18:6, 29:11]

-the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.

-A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes.

-A fool uttereth all his mind

2. Fools Have a Problem with Their Mind [Pr. 1:22, 10:21, 17:10]

-How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?

-fools die for want of wisdom.

-A reproof entereth more into a wise man than an hundred stripes into a fool.

3. Fools Have a Problem with Maturity [Pr. 10:23, 13:19, 14:9]

- It is as sport to a fool to do mischief:

-the lamp of the wicked shall be put out.

-Fools make a mock at sin: but among the righteous there is favour.

 

III. THE FOOL HAS PROBLEMS WITH GOD

1. Some Fools Don’t Believe in God [Ps. 14:1, 92:5-6]

- The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.

- O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep. A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

2. Some Fools Don’t Believe the Bible [Lk. 24:25, Rm. 1:20-22]

– Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:

- For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 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. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools.

3. Some Fools Don’t Prepare for the Afterlife [Lk. 12:20]

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?