Sower Church

The Fatal Fool


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All right, good morning, welcome. You guys make your way in. My name is Shane. I’m one of the pastors here, one of the bi vocational guys. Uh today we are continuing in our psalm series and usually we’re working through a book of the bible chapter by chapter uh today though is not like that, our recent series is not like that. So if you’re new and you’re just hopping in, we’re on psalm 14, so it’s kind of a standalone, more of a topical type of sermon today. So thank you for being here, we love having you. And today we’re gonna talk about some 14, like I said, it’s not exactly the easiest, it’s probably not one of the uh psalms that people, you know, can readily just be like, yeah psalm 90 psalm 23 people are usually like what psalm 14, what’s what’s that one? And so as you’ll see, uh it’s a tough one, but but there’s a lot of truth in it of course, and we want to draw that out. And so today, as we look, we see just the context of it is David is the author, he’s writing to his people, but it’s addressed to the chief musician, the choirmaster. And there’s a lot of things we know about David about his life, about different situations in his life, whether it’s before he was king as a shepherd being anointed Saul in his relationship and then as it becomes king, his mighty battles and what issues with his son and his son pursuing him and all this, we know a lot about David, but we don’t actually know a lot about this psalm in the context of when it was written during which scenario the next part is is it doesn’t really matter. Doesn’t change, it doesn’t change the context. It doesn’t change the meaning of it. So, what it does talk about though is pretty clear. That song was going to talk about a fool topic. The main topic is that of a fool. And so thinking about being a fool and doing foolish things. It kind of made me reminisce a little bit about all the foolish things I’ve done. I don’t have a great memory and I can still create a very long list of foolish things I’ve done. So I’m guessing you have been able to sit out there and do the same, right? There’s some image right here, You know, your 12. That is a great idea. When you’re 12. Probably done a few things. It’s like, yeah, that’s done that. But In light of those situations, looking back, you know, they always say hindsight is 2020. Yeah, true. But I bet you the facts were still there. That that’s not a good idea when it was happening, right? It’s not like, Oh, I didn’t know. And you usually have two types of friends. One guys like, I don’t know, man, you could get hurt. All right. The other bodies like, what are you talking about? You know how cool that’d be. Go do it. You should do this just egging you on. Right? So I’m convinced that the wisdom, the knowledge, the facts is not the problem, right? We still make foolish choices in light of all those things being right in front of us. And that happens even today. Younger, older, the facts are readily available most of the time. Now the bible is replete with information on one. How to be wise and how to make prudent decisions. And it’s also both implicitly and explicitly uh, just labeled with how not to be a fool, not how, how to not make bad decisions, how to make wise decisions and not be a man or woman of indiscretion that those can be kind of funny examples. But David is not talking about that as he pins this and he talks about a fool. He’s not talking about just some common, you know, poor decision that we make. Oh, man, I went out and I spend too much money on a credit card. Now. I gotta take months and months to pay that thing off. Right, That’s, there’s some consequences there. Or I stayed away too late playing video games. I missed my alarm. I’m falling asleep at work, yep. That’s not a good decision either. There’s a l…
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