41. FOOLISHNESS & SHALLOWNESS    --page 332--

         Forsake the foolish, & live; & go in the way of understanding (Pro.9:6).

         1. It is very sad for God's children to be silly & act silly & talk silly & be guilty of foolishness!
         2. I just don't believe in risking your life just for a thrill. We have enough thrills in our life without deliberately risking getting killed.
         3. If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
         4. One fool makes many.
         5. Empty vessels make the most noise.
         6. Thousands of nuts hold a car together--but one can scatter it all over the road.
         7. Lord deliver us from sickening shallowness & froth & foam & garbage, with no real substance, no meaning, no message, no power, no spirit & no results!
         8. It is dangerous to have people around us & around our Homes who are not in tune with the Lord, because if you don't spank'm, God will!--And you're apt to pay the bills for it!
         9. You can't be led of the flesh when God's Spirit may know differently & often does!
         10. Fellowship with the World is enmity against God!
         11. If you still hunger for fellowship with the World, there's something wrong with you spiritually!
         12. If you're leaning to your own understanding & forgetting all about acknowledging the Lord or listening to the voice of His Spirit to lead & guide you, then you're apt to fall into one of the Devil's traps in an unguarded moment, & it's dangerous business!
         13. We ought to be so thankful for our own fellowship that we shouldn't have to go seeking out the fellowship of the World.
         14. If you sleep with dogs you'll get up with fleas.
         15. Don't let others drag you down to their level, you pull them up to yours!
         16. When you don't have the wisdom of the Spirit, then you're awful dumb!
         17. It's dangerous for people on our team to be shallow, not deep in the Lord, not deep in the Spirit, but shallow in the flesh, carnal & carnally-minded. That was Saul's problem. He began to trust his own wisdom & his own arm instead of the Lord & the prophet, & look where it got him! He lost the Kingdom & his place in it, & the whole thing had to be given to somebody more spiritual who was led of the Spirit & the Lord & not just his own mind & wisdom. We are not smart enough, any of us, & we need to cling to the Lord & seek His guidance continually.
         18. We're in a dangerous business & we have got to stay close to the Lord & follow the Lord & make sure it's God's will, not just rest on the arm of the flesh & natural reasoning like Saul did.
         19. "Love not the World, neither the things that are in the World! For the love of the World is enmity with God!" (1Jn.2:15, Ja.4:4.) So if you still have a hankering for those things, watch out! That's a fifth column in your own heart! That's a poison in your own soul! It's the devil's own tool, it's a hole in the dike, if you still have a temptation toward these things.
         20. No wonder God's got to send the Tribulation--to purge & purify & make the Church white & get rid of their foolishness!
         21. We can make such foolish mistakes & ridiculous decisions if we're out of the spirit & dwelling in the flesh & natural reasoning.
         22. You cannot fill your mind and heart with Worldly wisdom, the foolishness of man, without it affecting your spirit.
         23. Shallow witnessing brings shallow results.
         24. Shallowness, superficiality, manpleasing & hypocrisy are all many know in the World, & they are so thankful for an opportunity to share their deepest thoughts & feelings or even fears.

         (See also No.198, 340, 780, 784, 856, 930, 1377, 1511, 1512.)

         25. 1SA.12:20,21 Yet turn not aside from following the Lord, but serve the Lord with all your heart; And turn ye not aside: for then should ye go after vain things, which cannot profit nor deliver; for they are vain.
         26. 1SA.13:13 And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the Lord thy God, which He commanded thee: for now would the Lord have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.
         27. JOB.15:2-5 Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind? Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good? Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God. For thy mouth utterest thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.
         28. PSA.39:5,6 Behold, Thou hast made my days as an handbreath; and my age is as nothing before Thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah. Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
         29. PSA.53:1 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good.
         30. PSA.94:11 The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
         31. PSA.119:113 I hate vain thoughts: but Thy law do I love.
         32. PR0.9:6 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.
         33. PRO.10:13 In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
         34. PRO.12:23 A prudent man concealeth knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaimeth foolishness.
         35. PRO.15:2 The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.
         36. PRO.15:14 The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness.
         37. PRO.18:6,7 A fool's lips enter into contention, and his mouth calleth for strokes. A fool's mouth is his destruction, and his lips are the snare of his soul.
         38. PRO.22:15 Foolishness is bound in the heart of a child; but the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.
         39. PRO.26:4,5 Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest thou also be like unto him. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit.
         40. ECC.5:3b A fool's voice is known by multitude of words.
         41. ECC.7:25 I applied my heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness.
         42. ECC.10:11-15 Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself. The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness. A fool also is full of words: a man cannot tell what shall be; and what shall be after him, who can tell him? The labour of the foolish wearieth every one of them, because he knoweth not how to go to the city.
         43. MAT.12:36,37 But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment. For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.
         44. MAR.7:18-23 And He saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him; Because it entereth not into his heart, but into the belly, and goeth out into the draught, purging all meats? And He said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
         45. LUK.6:45 A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is evil: for of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.
         46. LUK.21:34 And take heed to yourselves, lest at any time your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkeness, and cares of this life, and so that day come upon you unawares.
         47. ROM.8:6-8 For to be carnally minded is death; but to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
         48. GAL.5:19a,21 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these;...Envyings, murders, drunkeness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God.
         49. EPH.4:17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind.
         50. EPH.5:4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks.
         51. EPH.5:6,7 Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. Be not ye therefore partakers with them.
         52. COL.2:18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind.
         53. 1TI.1:4-7 Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than Godly edifying which is in faith: so do. Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned: From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling; Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
         54. 2TI.2:16,17 But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness. And their word will eat as doth a canker.
         55. TIT.3:9 But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.


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