{"id":200,"date":"2011-07-08T10:00:16","date_gmt":"2011-07-08T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=200"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:22:03","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:22:03","slug":"thou-fool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=200","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Thou Fool&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meaning of the word fool: Evil, self-confident, empty person, thick headed, thoughtless, unwise, headless, a rebel.    Luke 12:13-21<br \/>\nScripture: &#8220;The fool hath said in his heart there is no God.&#8221;    Psalm 14:1<br \/>\n&#8220;The ways of a fool is right in his own eyes.&#8221;    Prov. 12:15<br \/>\n&#8220;A fools voice is known by a multitude of words.&#8221;    Ecc. 5:3<br \/>\n&#8220;Fools make a mock at sin.&#8221;    Prov. 14:9<br \/>\n&#8220;O  fools and slow of heart to believe&#8221;    Luke 24:25<br \/>\n&#8220;I have played the fool.&#8221;    Saul<\/p>\n<p><strong>I: The Fool Will Not Look At Realities<\/strong><br \/>\n&#8220;The eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.&#8221;    Prob. 17:24<br \/>\na. Better opportunities tomorrow.<br \/>\nb. His better self lives for tomorrow.<br \/>\nc. He looks away from home for goodness.<br \/>\nd. The cause of failure is not in his own home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>II: &#8220;He Thought Within Himself.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Instead of thinking of sharing he thought of self.<br \/>\n2. Instead of thanking God for it he thought only of what he could do with it. (headless)<br \/>\n3. &#8220;What shall I do?&#8221; A good question &amp; demands a definite answer. (thoughtless)<br \/>\n4. &#8220;I have no room&#8221; more than expected, his only thought was his own barns.<br \/>\n5. &#8220;This will I do.&#8221; (self-confident.)<br \/>\n6. &#8220;I will pull down my barns.&#8221; (unwise). Next year might be a famine.<br \/>\n7. &#8220;I will build greater.&#8221; Preparations for a crop not yet gathered. (thick-headed)<br \/>\n8. &#8220;Will I bestow all my fruit? (boast) not thyself.&#8221;<br \/>\n9. &#8220;I shall be at ease.&#8221; Eat, drink, &amp; have a good time. (mirth)<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: &#8220;But God.&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\n1. &#8220;Thou fool this night.&#8221; (headless)<br \/>\n2. God sent the death angel to that home.<br \/>\n3. He never saw the harvest finished.<br \/>\n4. His barns were forgotten as he felt deaths chill.<br \/>\n5. Others gathered his fruitful fields.<br \/>\n6. His joy was turned to sorrow. His case was in a place of torment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;So is he that layeth up treasures for himself, and is not rich toward God.&#8221; Luke 12:21.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meaning of the word fool: Evil, self-confident, empty person, thick headed, thoughtless, unwise, headless, a rebel. Luke 12:13-21 Scripture: &#8220;The fool hath said in his heart there is no God.&#8221; Psalm 14:1 &#8220;The ways of a fool is right in his own eyes.&#8221; Prov. 12:15 &#8220;A fools voice is known by a multitude of words.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1670,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/1670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}