The Fool's Playbook - Book of Proverbs Verse-by-Verse

The Book of Proverbs is a letter to a fool. Now, I know that may sound strange, but the fool is actually mentioned over 83 times in the Book of Proverbs alone. This book is dedicated to contrasting the heart of the wise with the fool. And there's a lot of foolishness in this world. And the world has come to start to use this term fool for anyone that they disagree with. But I want to submit to you, it's not just a slang for anyone we disagree with. There's a very specific biblical definition for what a fool is. And God wants us to know what a fool is so that we can make sure that we are not acting like one. So today we're not going to look at all 83 verses, but we have a curation of these verses to see what is the narrative, what is the story in the Book of Proverbs that God has for us. So we're going to look at four sections. Number one, identifying the fool. What does the fool talk like? What does the fool's heart and mind look like? What does the fool's actions look like? Then we're going to look at the consequences for the fool. We're going to look at how we can deal with a fool in our lives. And finally, the cure for the fool's foolishness. Now, as we dive in, let's begin with a word from Jesus himself. See, when we read the Book of Proverbs and what a fool is like, it can be very tempting to start thinking about all these people in our lives who are fools according to us. However, I want to submit to you that God describes a fool so that the fool himself may be convicted and shown the cure. It is not for us to go around and point out who are fools, but for us to look at the word of God as a mirror so we may see that we have been fools. Yeshua even said in Matthew 5:22, but I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment. Whoever insults his brother will be liable to the counsel. And whoever says, you fool will be liable to the hell of fire. So let's use these as our mirror. First, let's talk about identifying the fool. We begin in Proverbs 1:7, where God starts contrasting the fool and the wise. And he says, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. But fools despise wisdom and instruction. Okay, so this is now what the definition of the beginning of knowledge is to fear God. And on the other hand, the root issue of the fool is now described that the fool despises this wisdom and this knowledge. And the fool's hatred for this wisdom and this knowledge manifests in how the fool has no fear of God ultimately. And so we see in Hosea 4, 6, God speaks to his people and he says, my people are destroyed for a lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children. The law of God, the word of God, that which is the knowledge, that is not just any knowledge, but biblical knowledge, that is truth is why the Bible is the most famous book in the world. It is the knowledge that allows fools to be set free from foolishness and to become wise. When we read it, we recognize our own depravity and we develop a fear of the one true God who is holy. And then from there he also reveals to us how he deals with our foolishness. And that's what we need to understand where the book of Proverbs will eventually take us to show us how to deal with foolishness by looking at gods and example. So the first thing he calls fools to is to learn. We read, O simple ones, learn prudence. O fools, learn sense. Learning is very powerful. It allows us to get to know what is wisdom and know what is foolishness. But learning in of itself is not enough to to change us from a fool to a wise man. I mean, have you ever seen someone who knows a lot of good stuff but who doesn't do what they know to do? This is one of the issues that fools run into. They may actually have the head knowledge of knowing what is right. Like the Pharisees who came against Yeshua. They knew the word of God, but yet many of them were still acting as fools. And so we see that learning is the first step, but it's not the cure of foolishness itself. We read on. The heart of him who has understanding seeks knowledge. But the mouth of fools feed on folly. Okay, so now we are seeing a distinction between how the heart of the wise and the fools are acting. The heart of the wise is he seeks knowledge, but the fool, he also feeds on something folly. See, everyone seeks knowledge, but it's the type of knowledge that really matters, the knowledge that is able to make us wise for salvation and to set us free or folly. A prudent man conceals knowledge, but the heart of fools will proclaims folly. Okay, so there's this contrast between the concealing of the knowledge and the proclamation of that folly. What does it mean to conceal knowledge? See, there is a time to speak, there is a time to be silent. And so the man who is wise knows not just what good knowledge is, but he knows what to do with it. While the fool, he speaks to whatever knowledge he has out in the wrong times, proclaiming it in inappropriateness. We also see the tongue of the wise commands knowledge, but the mouth of fools pour out folly. So the heart of the wise, he actually commands it. He praises knowledge, he sees it and says, that is wisdom, that is something that is good. Well, the fool is, he just pours out more and more and more folly. Every prudent man acts with knowledge, but a fool flaunts his folly. So now we've seen that the heart of the wise conceals knowledge, commands knowledge and acts with knowledge. The fool, he's just flaunting folly. The wisdom of the prudent is to discern his way. But the folly of fools is, is deceiving. See, everyone thinks that they have discernment, but the question is, do you really have discernment? And one of the ways to know that is to look back at your life, at your life's decisions. Have you made right decisions that have borne a good fruit? Or has there been a lot of destruction in your wake? Next, we read about the fool's deceptive behavior in Proverbs 10:18. The one who conceals hatred has lying lips. And whoever utters slander is a fool. Now this is an interesting concept of concealing hatred. See, to conceal hatred is the one who says, I don't hate them, I forgiven them, that's all fine, while at the same time going behind that person's back and gossiping and slandering that person. These acts of hatred in secret are the acts of a fool. We also see doing wrong is like a joke to a fool, but wisdom is pleasure to a man of understanding. Okay, so a fool will joke around and actually cause a lot of destruction in the name of joking, whilst those who act and talk wisdom brings pleasure to those who are around them. Now, there's nothing wrong with making a joke, right? There's nothing wrong with humor in of itself. But it's when we try and disguise our foolishness with humor. That's what it's warning about. If you say things that hurt people, you can't say, oh, I was just joking while that person remains hurt rather than hurt him in the first place. Next, in identifying fools, we see that fools are self righteous. The way of a fool is right in his own eyes. But a Wise man listens to advice. Thereby we see that a fool struggles to do introspection and struggles to see his own faults. But when he is forced to see his own faults, like if he was in a courtroom situation, or if the evidence is clearly presented, look at your false, look at what you've done, then we see the fool response without remorse. We read next. Fools mock at the guilt offering, but the upright enjoy acceptance. A wise man, when he sees his own faults, he repents. He asks to make atonement, he sets things right, he comes in repentance. While the fool, while even seeing his own guilt, he does not atone for it in any way, he does not apologize for that. But rather he says, I am guilty, yet I care not. He says, well, let me face God. Let me be God's teacher. Instead of recognizing that he must be a man of trembling in fear before God, we see next that one who is wise is cautious and turns away from evil. But a fool is reckless and careless. So to be a cautious man, cautious of breaking God's law, cautious of just offending people without reason, cautious of transgressing God, cautious of breaking even the law of the land or hurting people. This is a wise man who walks in caution, while the fool, he walks in recklessness, leaving destruction in his wake. Doesn't care about people's feelings, doesn't care about people he offends, doesn't care about breaking the law of the land, doesn't care about breaking the law of God, doesn't care about transgressing God. Next we see that a fool has anger issues. Proverbs 12 says, the vexation of a fool is known at once, but the prudent ignorant ignores an insult. Now this word vexation simply means to lash out easily at offense. So fool, whenever he gets offended, rightfully so or not, logically, the fool just lashes out in anger at whoever offended or hurt their feelings. Whilst it says the wise man ignores an insult. Now this is interesting that God actually calls us, like Yeshua himself said to turn the other cheek, to ignore the insults of people, for that will cause them to walk in shame and recognize perhaps what they are doing to you. We see that Christ had this in his own Life. In Isaiah 53:7, it says, he was oppressed and he was afflicted. Yet he opened not his mouth like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is silent, so he opened not his mouth. So we see that Christ, when he was under his greatest tribulations, he was one who did not lash out at offense, even though he had true reason to. If there was anyone who had the right to lash out in offense, it would be Christ, for he never sinned. But even having been innocent, he still withheld his tongue from lashing out. And so we see that Christ did correct Pharisaic theology, for example, or people who were spewing evil speech that were deceiving other people. But he did not respond because of his own personal offense. He responded to said, what is crooked straight to protect people. We see that in Proverbs 29, a fool gives full vent to his spirit, but a wise man quietly holds it back. In other words, not everything that's inside of us needs to be spoken to people. Just because you feel something doesn't mean you need to speak from that feeling. Giving full vent to your spirit, no matter what's coming out, is what a fool does, while a wise man quietly, quietly hold it back. We all need to hold back. Sometimes when we want to say things out of anger or some other negative emotion, even out of our own hurt, we can speak. And yes, when we've been hurt, right, there's something to speak about, there's something to be addressed. But we should not speak from these emotions because then we just hurt people. We become a hurt person hurting another person. We become an angry person making someone else more angry. We become a person who was abused, perhaps now abusing someone else because we were abused. We need to be a person who does not give full vent to his spirit, but guards our mouths. We see, even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise. When he closes his lips, he's deemed intelligent. So we just read about how a fool gives full vent to his spirit. He just says whatever he wants. But now, on the other hand, a fool can also be someone who actually keeps silent and is wrongly considered wise by others because he does not speak. So he's cloaking his foolishness and the evil in his own heart. By keeping silent for a minute, he's deemed intelligent. It is said. But here's the thing that will only last as long. No one can keep their mouth shut forever. And eventually, when the fool opens his mouth, we read what happens. He doesn't listen to what people say to him. It says, a fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only expressing his opinion. When a fool speaks and someone disagrees or or comes to correct, that fool has no desire to actually understand. He's just thinking while the other person is speaking what he is going to say in return. Instead of Whether what the person is saying actually would call for introspection for the fool. So let us not be a person who just talks, but. But let us be a person who listens, is quiet for a bit, takes in what someone is saying, friend or foe. Because even a foe can sometimes bring things to us that we've done, that we've wrongfully, actually done, and we should listen. It is an honor for a man to keep aloof from strife. But every fool will be quarreling. There are people in this world that are always in drama. They're always busy creating drama. They're always talking about drama. They're always talking about the great, the drama in their own life. And they want to pull you into that drama. But it's saying that the wise man is aloof from strife, but the fool is just always busy with quarreling, with drama, with causing disunity and fellowships and among friends. Next, wisdom is too high for a fool in the gate, he does not open his mouth. So when the fool is among other wise men, which is where the gate was, it was the place where the wise men and the judges gathered, he's unable to participate in talks among the wise. Rother the fool. He's trying to blend in among the wise because he wants to be considered wise himself. But everyone else sees a fool. When a fool is a fool, the fool thinks he's blending in, but he's standing out. We also see whoever trusts in his own mind is a fool. But he who walks in wisdom will be delivered. Wisdom is not of our own mind. It's not even what we have read and consumed. And it is now seated in our minds. No, wisdom can only come from the Holy Spirit. Wisdom can only come when knowledge is taken and worked upon by the power of the Holy Spirit to change us inside so that we would no longer act in foolishness, but act in wisdom. And so now we've talked about a bunch of different things that are identifying the fool. We're about to move on to the next section, the consequences for the fool. But in summary, we have now learned how a fool has his heart against God by despising wisdom. Drama follows their life. They have a track record of bad decisions. They have prideful speech. They have anger issues. They do not listen. And they have disregard for correction. Next up, God tells us what the consequences for the fool will be in this life. Proverbs 3:35. We begin. It says the wise will inherit honor, but fools get disgraced. All of us want an inheritance. It gives us a launching pad. But the fool's launching pad is disgrace, while the wise have a launching pattern to life of honor, where people will honor you or people will look at you with disgrace. And when people honor you, for you are walking in wisdom, that means that you will have opportunities open to you. But when people see you as disgraceful because of your foolishness, you will have doors closed to you. Your calling therefore is hindered. You cannot become your full potential in God because of foolishness. We also see the wise of heart will receive commandments, but a babbling fool will come to ruin. The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of sense. So fools are going to die because of foolishness. Do you realize you can die of foolishness? The wages of sin is death, and the fool is one who still lives in his sin. We see next, whoever troubles his own household will inherit the wind. And the fool will be servant to the wise of heart. So we're seeing hierarchy, that fools are going to serve wise people in this life instead of them being served, even them desiring to be served, they will just be a servant of another. We also see a fool's lips walk into a fight and his mouth invites a beating. A fool's mouth is his ruin, and his lips are a snare to his soul. And so we see that a fool's lips causes him to get into difficult situations where other people get very angry at him. And the fool may one day stumble into the wrong person, having made jokes of the wrong person, having lashed out at the wrong person. You may have seen these videos of how there's a criminal who hears the verdict of his case before the judge. And the judge tells him, you're going to go to prison for these amount of years. And then the criminal, he wants to start throwing things at the judge. He starts insulting the judge. He's insulting the wrong person in that situation. And then the judge calls him back and gives him an even harsher sentence. This is how a fool's lips lead him into a fight. And one day he comes across the wrong person and his life is completely ruined. Another example is how Judas betrayed Christ with his own mouth, his own lips. See, he never picked up a sword to murder, but he murdered with his lips. And Judas, his life ended with him falling and he split open, right? That's how Judas as a fool came to ruin. We also see, like snow in summer or rain in the harvest. So honor is not fitting for a fool. When a fool receives an award, when a fool receives honor, everyone else looks and scratches their head. And asks, why is he? Why is she getting that? They should not be getting that because of how they've been acting in foolishness. That's what it's referring to. That everyone from far can see foolishness, but the fool smiles at his reward. How terrible it is to be in that position. We also see like one who binds the stone in the sling is one who gives honor to a fool. So if you want to sling a stone, you can't bind the stone to the sling. It's useless. Then that's equated to one who gives honor to a fool, that honor is useless. It means nothing. We also see a whip for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools. Derivatives of this verse are given in different ways, mentioned over three times throughout Proverbs. So God really wants to let us receive this one. That a fool is always going to be subjected to the authority of another. See, a whip for a horse. We whip a horse in order to show our authority over the horse so that we can turn the horse, and so the horse will listen to us. And so, in the same way it is making the equation to the rod for the back of a fool, that a fool will also be disciplined and always turned for the sake of others. He will not be able to lead his own fulfilling life because he will not be afforded it because his foolishness has caused him to relinquish his right to certain freedoms. This is what we do with people who we lock up into prison. We take away certain freedoms because of their foolishness. And so, whether a fool lands up in prison or not, he will lead a life of being subjected to the authorities of others and losing out on freedoms in life because of his own actions. Next we read like a dog that returns to his vomit is a fool who repeats his folly. See, we've all done something foolish in our lives, but the wise looks upon his foolish past, repents from it, turns, and does not repeat that while the one who is a fool commits foolishness and continues therein, even returns to do the same foolishness over and over again. We also see a warning from Peter about this in 2 Peter 2:21. For it would have been better for them never to have known the way of righteousness than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them what the true proverb says has happened to them. The dog returns to his own vomit, and the sow, after washing herself, returns to wallow in the mire. So what have we learned about the Consequences that come upon the fool's life. We see that the fool's end is self destruction. His words ensnare him, pride isolates him, and there's no punishment that he can receive that in of itself will drive the folly from his heart. And when the fool eventually comes to ruin and self destructs, he starts biting back at others, he shifts blame and he pretends to be the victim. Next, we're going to move into how we should be dealing with a fool. When we see a fool doing foolishness, our initial response is often to try and correct the fool by trying to debate the foolishness out of him. But the Book of Proverbs says that this could be a grave error. For we don't understand that repentance has become an abomination to the fool. We read, a desire fulfilled is sweet to the soul, but to turn away from evil is an abomination to fools. A rebuke goes deeper into a man of understanding than a hundred blows into a fool. And why should a fool have money in his hand to buy wisdom when he has no sense? See, wisdom has a cost. It needs humility. You don't get to be wise without being humble and recognizing that you're not wise and that you need God to make you wise. But the fool has no humility and therefore no money to buy wisdom. We have to understand that a fool is described as a drunkard. Like a thorn that goes up into the hand of a drunkard is a proverb in the mouth of fools. Now, what does this mean? See, when a drunkard stumbles into a ditch, puts his hand into a bush of thorns, he does not even know that he is in pain, for he is too drunk. And so, in the same way a fool with a proverb in his mouth, he is too drunk on foolishness to be able to carefully handle that proverb, to use it in the right way at the right time to bring life. No, instead the fool will use the proverb to bring death instead. And like that drunk man who gets up out of the ditch and will come to you and tell you that he is not drunk. So a fool who thinks that he is wise is like a drunkard who thinks that he is sober. You cannot reason with a drunkard who thinks he is sober, for he is going to reason with drunkenness cloaked in sobriety. And the fool you cannot reason with when he is drunk on foolishness, because he is going to cloak himself in some sobriety, even though his foolishness is plain to all. Next we see that the author of Proverbs talks about how the fool responds to when correction is actually delivered to him. It says, if a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet. And we read, let a man meet a she bear robbed of her cups, rather than a fool in his folly. Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, for he will despise the good sense of your words, and answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes. So there's a type of poetic parallelism that's being used here. If you read this quickly, it can sound confusing. First he says, answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself. That just refers to do not speak to a fool like a fool speaks. Do not speak to a fool with his reasonings and using his foul language in the same ways. Rather he says, answer a fool according to his own folly. That is preferably, be silent. Let the fool recognize that he's speaking foolishness. But if the fool is speaking foolishness, that's going to cause others to stumble, and that actually needs to be addressed, for it's now become dangerous. Then answer the fool for the sake of others in a measured response that exposes the foolishness without you partaking in it yourself. Next, God tells us to be careful that we don't hire a fool for labor. It says, whoever sends a message by the hand of a fool, cuts off his own feet and drinks violence. Remember the idea that we are to become the hands and feet of Christ, we are to become his messengers. So this is a common idea in the ancient world, that when you are a messenger for someone, you become that person's hands, that person's feet. And so he's saying, don't hire a fool as a messenger. You'll be cutting off your own feet. Don't expect that message you to get where it's supposed to be. And if it gets there, don't expect it to get there in one piece with accuracy. And lastly, in dealing with fools, we are told to not fellowship with fools. Proverbs 13:20. Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise, but the companion of fools will suffer harm. Leave the presence of a fool, for there you do not meet words of knowledge. Bad company corrupts good character. And if we surround ourselves with the companion of fools, and we fellowship with them, we should not be surprised if we start thinking and acting like a fool ourselves. And even if we were able to withstand our actions changing, we can still expect a fool to come against us and cause us to suffer harm thereby. We come to the final section. How is the fool to be cured? After reading all of these attributes of a fool, I think we can all recognize that we have all been foolish. And maybe you've been foolish and you discovered the cure and you became the lover to foolishness unto wisdom. Or you've listened to this teaching and you've recognized I'm still a fool, I'm still walking in foolishness, and I'm not sure if I found the cure. But let's look at what the Scriptures reveal as the cure. Titus 3:3 says, for we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another. But when the goodness and loving kindness of our God our Savior appeared, he saved us not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior. By the sacrifice of Christ, he opened the door for the Holy Spirit to be able to indwell us and renew and change us to be delivered of our foolishness. For foolishness is a disease of the heart. It's not a disease that can be learned away. It's not a disease that can be worked away by the person or by anyone around them. It's something that needs intervention by the living God. And this is the problem with fools who are religious. In the first century, the Pharisees who came against Christ would have described themselves as believers, as believers in the one true God. But yet they were foolish because they depended on their own works to deliver them. And this is the key. When Paul writes and tells us that we were once foolish but saved by Christ, he makes the point to say that you were not saved from foolishness by works done by you. You were saved by the works done by him and his righteousness. Salvation is truly by faith in Christ alone. And that true faith, yes, creates a new heart. It removes foolishness from our midst. And it means that our works are no longer foolish, but are changed into righteousness and into wise acts. But it is not our works that deliver us. And so this is what we have to recognize is that total surrender is what the fool needs to do to no longer be a fool. It's not whether he's religious or not. It's not whether he has Bible knowledge or not. It's about whether he is surrendered or not to the Holy Spirit, not depending on himself to deliver himself without in of itself is the most foolish thing a fool can attempt. And that's why Paul even warns believers to depart from foolishness. He says in Tardis 3, 9 but avoid foolish controversies, genealogies, dissensions, quarrels about the law, for they are unprofitable and worthless. As for a person who stirs up the vision after warning him once and then twice have nothing more to do with him, see Paul recognized in his day that many believers are engaging in foolish controversies. Not disagreements in core foundational issues of faith that can be discussed, but rather man made quarrels over man made opinions as of what they were struggling with in the first century, like we struggle with today. Denominations and oppositions between groups and cliques. We see in 1 Corinthians 1:11 for it has been reported to me by Clus people that there is quarreling among you, my brothers. What I mean is that one of you says, I follow Paul or I follow Apollos, or I follow Cephas, or I follow Christ. These are the same foolish ideas that we are engaging today as believers. Another example is hatred and jealousies. It says in James 4:1 what causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this? That your passions are at war within you, you desire and you don't have, so you murder, you covet and you cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel you don't have, because you do not ask when we are jealous of our brothers and sisters and when we start hating them because they have something we don't have, and we start creating quarrels over these very issues, over issues that are man made, that are not important, and we divide over those issues. That is foolish behavior that's in the body of Christ today as well. And lastly, another example of foolish behavior among believers is quarrels about the law. We see in the first century how Yeshua was opposed by the fools, the Pharisees, about the fact that he was healing people on the Sabbath. They quarreled about the law with him or the fact that he was bringing salvation to man and saying that you will not be saved by your circumcision, but you will be saved by faith alone, right? So these Pharisees had these laws like the Sabbath and circumcision, and they were taking it way too far where they were valuing the law more than the person. They were putting the person in bondage over the law, and they missed the purpose in that of how the law is to be kept and what the law is to be accomplished. Yes, it's a lot of work to pull a calf out of the pit on the Sabbath, but it is actually bringing life. I'm not going to let something die because I want to keep a law. Yes, the law of circumcision is from God, but I'm not going to cut off salvation from man because I'm saying that they need to be circumcised to be fellowshiped with and to be saved. No, that now destroys the man for the sake of the law. As Christ said, the Sabbath was made for man, of man for the Sabbath. And so the circumcision was made for man, not man, for circumcision. And the feast days were made for man, not man for the feast days. And so when we start quarreling over dates and words and issues that miss the point of what these things were actually made for and given for to bring life, fellowship, and all things that are loving, then we have missed the point. And so when we cut people off from the Gospel and from fellowship because of how they keep the feast days, on what calendar they keep it, or how they keep the Sabbath, or how they see circumcision, we are busy with the same quarrels of the law that the Pharisees were busy with. It's not that these aren't important issues, but when we start cutting people off, that's the quarrels and the divisions that are foolish. All of these things are supposed to bring people more near to one another in fellowship and near to God and near to their salvation. For when these things happen, more fellowship, more intimacy with God, and more salvation upon the world. That's where people learn more about the truth over these very things. So let the law of God draw people to the Savior in salvation, and then in turn they will learn and figure out the intricacies of it. We will not quarrel over those things. And so we see by all of this the conclusion of the matter, that lacking intimacy with God and His Holy Spirit is the source of all foolishness in this world. And in turn, restoring intimacy and reliance on the power of the Holy Spirit is what will restore wisdom in us and in our families, brothers and sisters. When I was a little boy going to school, I remember saying, God, I am asking for one thing. Just give me wisdom. That is the one thing that I wanted. Because I knew that me against the world was not going to work. Considering how I knew. One thing is that is that I was not wise. I knew that I was a man of poor wisdom. And I knew that God was the only one who could give me wisdom, who can give me understanding. And what he gave me in turn was the fear of the Lord, the beginning of wisdom. My heart started trembling around who he is, the creator of heaven and earth, who's called me to a holy calling. And out of that fear of the Lord, I entered. I fought for that calling in my life to be made manifest. I resisted the enemy. And so I call on you to do the same. Is that when you come before God? Ask him, lord, I need wisdom. You're the only one who can do it. You're the only one who can give me the fear of the Lord and by all of this can rid me of foolishness. Father, I pray for all people who are listening. Lord. I pray, Lord, that you would give us the strength to repent of our sins and turn from our foolishness. But not by our own strength, by your power, by your Holy Spirit, by the fact that you can change us. Father, I pray that you would change us. You would deliver us, you would open our eyes. That we will not play victim. We will not blame others for our own mistakes. That we would not be a people who have mouths that run over with rage. That we would not be a people who fail to love our neighbor the way that you have loved us for. The way that you dealt with our foolishness is by dying on a cross. And I ask, Lord, that you would help us to deal with the foolishness of others by laying our own lives down for a friend. That we would love our enemies, we would love our neighbor. And that we would turn the other cheek. Yeshua, you are the wise One. And I ask that you would make us wise for salvation. I pray all this name. Yeshua. Thank you for joining me. If you're new here, subscribe to the channel. Like this video. We'll see you guys in the next one. Shalom, Sam.