Hello my friends and welcome back. I hope it is not weird to you that I continually

referred you as a friend. I see all the listeners the morning as friends because we are united

in Jesus Christ. We are one in Him. We are actually closer than friends where brothers

were sisters in the faith. And we are moving in the same direction, especially here on

the morning mites as we work together to align our minds with the truth of God. Today we're

going to hear some more words from Solomon from the book of Proverbs chapter 27 about

fools and foolishness. And these are lessons for us to learn. But before we get there,

I want to just be very honest with you. I hope it's not offensive to you when I ask you.

If you would prayerfully consider partnering financially with me and with my wife in

the things we're doing through the morning mindset and our sister podcasts, God-fearing

kids and the parents who raised them. It's a small commitment we're asking, five dollars

a month, ten dollars a month, whatever you can afford, to help us free up the time basically

to do the kinds of things we do on the morning mindset and beyond. It's our desire to do this

full time at some point and we believe the Lord would have us do that. I have all kinds of things

in mind, videos that I could produce and various things, but I'm just taking it step at a time,

allowing the Lord to guide through the partnership responses that we receive. So if you're interested,

please check the links in this episode for more details on how to become a partner.

All right, today Proverbs 27-3 reads this way, a stone is heavy,

check we all get that, a stone is heavy, and sand is weighty, right? We understand that,

sand in quantity is heavy, but a fool's provocation is heavier than both.

Now we better define that word provocation, what does that mean? When someone is provoked,

it means something is done that kind of raises their eye or it gets them angry, okay? So this phrase,

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