For the waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.For the backsliding of the simple shall slay them, And the careless ease of fools shall destroy them.
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… and be filled to the full with their own fancies. For the turning away of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them. But whoever listens to me will dwell safely and will be secure without fear. of evil. May God bless this word to our hearts and all God's people said, amen. You may be seated. Strong words, my goodness. What do we do with strong words in the Bible? Yeah, good word. We take heed. We eat them up. We deal with them the way that God wants us to deal with strong words. You're going to see, in my opinion, a lot of parallels between being a parent and God speaking to us. Both are authorities. Both are lovers of their children. And both have something to say. And Solomon is a great example of this. He's writing this to his son. And we learned that in the introduction. But we're looking at wisdom speaking to us. And there's some things we've learned in our study, our last time together, and that is wisdom is speaking. …
Therefore they shall eat the fruit of their own way and be filled to the fold with their own fancy. For the turning away of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them. And all God's people said, Amen. You may be seated, church. Wisdom is speaking to you. it's amazing to me, I remember when I first gave my heart to Jesus Christ, when I heard the gospel, I've told you many times before, I didn't quite understand what I was doing, I just knew that it was something that I needed to do, and that is immediately, first of all, was to give my life to Christ, because I didn't want to go to hell, I had heard the message, Greg Laurie was the one preaching it. And he gave that message and I listened and I was convicted and my first response to God was what some people say is fire insurance. I ran straight to the Lord because I wanted to go to heaven. But that one step began a movement or a journey in life and I know that many of you, I hope, I wish I could say for all of us, I don't know all of you, but I hope by the end of this message, it would be true for all of us, that we began a journey of pursuing God and God revealing himself to us. …
… They rejected wisdom, and God turned them over to the consequences of their own choices. Verse 31 says, to be satiated with their own devices, for the waywardness of the naive will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them. Verse 33, but he who listens to Me shall live securely and will be at ease from the dread of evil. You want to stop being a fool? Listen to God. You want to stop being a fool? Turn to His revelation in His holy Word. If you continue to be a fool, you have your end laid out, death and destruction. A fool is the person who rejects God, His gospel, and His Word. Fools die, says Proverbs 10, for lack of a heart of wisdom. I don't care what you know, I don't care how many degrees you have, you may profess to be wise, but apart from God and the knowledge of God and the fear of God and the knowledge of Christ and the gospel and salvation, you are a fool. …