Folly
AMEN PODCAST
Alex and Lokelani Wilson
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🗓️ 11 November 2024
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Is life worth living? Solomon tackles this age-old question in Ecclesiastes, and in this episode, we dive deep into chapter 10 to uncover his answer: Yes, but only if we avoid folly by following God's wisdom.
We explore the destructive nature of folly, comparing it to a tiny dead fly spoiling precious perfume. Just like the flood destroyed those who ignored God's wisdom in Noah's time, folly can lead to devastation in our own lives.
This episode examines:
- The nature of folly: Why are we inclined to do what's wrong?
- The consequences of folly: How foolish words and actions sabotage our work and relationships.
- The impact of foolish leadership: How authority figures who reject God's wisdom cause suffering.
- The solution: How heeding Jesus' words, which are God's words, protects us from the destructive flood of sin and death.
Join us as we unpack practical steps to identify and reject folly, build our lives on the rock of God's wisdom, and truly live a life worth living.
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on, guys? Alex here. So today at House Church, just a couple hours ago, we talked about |
| 0:06.7 | Ecclesiases chapter 10. The main focus of it is folly. Folly is ignoring God's wisdom. And that's |
| 0:14.5 | something that we want to stop doing, because as long as we ignore God's wisdom, then there's a way of |
| 0:20.1 | life, a joy of life, a fullness of life that we want to experience. |
| 0:24.3 | And God wants us to experience that, not just for our own pleasure and our own satisfaction, but also for his glory. |
| 0:30.6 | We're not going to be completely satisfied unless we're living for his glory. |
| 0:34.0 | And so how do we stop ignoring God's wisdom in our life and follow God every step |
| 0:39.4 | of the way, embrace the life that he has for us? Solomon's going to answer that for us today because |
| 0:44.4 | in all of Ecclesiastes, he's been asking the same question and it is, is life worth living? Is life |
| 0:50.9 | worth living? And in this chapter, he answers that. And so we have three more |
| 0:55.4 | chapters of Ecclesiastes, and then we'll go into a different book. But House Church was amazing |
| 1:00.0 | today. We changed the time from 5 p.m. to 8.30 a.m. And it's been very sweet. It's been very |
| 1:05.8 | intimate and focused, and we've loved it a lot. And so let's get into it. |
| 1:11.0 | I'm gonna read it for us. |
| 1:12.6 | But before I read it, I want you to think of Genesis chapter six. |
| 1:16.2 | Genesis chapter six, this is the chapter where the flood comes and the fools ignore God's |
| 1:22.4 | wisdom in Noah. |
| 1:23.9 | Noah is preaching, get on the boat, listen up, it's gonna rain. |
| 1:27.1 | And these people don't listen to them. |
| 1:28.5 | They think Noah's crazy. |
| 1:30.2 | But then what happens? |
| 1:31.6 | It starts to trickle a little bit, right? |
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