0442. Seven Bible Fools

Seven Bible Fools

It is easy to pick out the marks of the Seven Bible Fools. There is a progression of statements.

1. The fool who denies God, in his heart, has within him the germ that will easily develop and bring forth the other marks of the fool.

2. With God denied, certainly the Word of God, and particularly that part of the Word, contained in the Prophets, will be readily denied.

3. With no God and no Word, every brake as to sin is gone. When God is ruled out of one’s life why not play with sin? Atheistic conditions soon lead to grossest crime.

4. Of course, the one who has no God and no Bible and who mocks at sin will be religious–all men are religious. He will naturally build himself a religion, but his religion is no more than sand, and the house he builds thereupon, no matter how beautiful it may appear to man, must fall when the storm comes.

5. Perhaps, sometimes the fool is awakened to his folly, and he begins to promise himself to turn to God, but he is a fool, and fools act the fool, and so he delays his better intentions and fails to redeem the time and his opportunities are soon swept away.

6. So it is, the fool who has no God, and no inspired Word, will live for the things down here, why not? He has no Heaven and knows no life beyond. He thinks that this present time is all he has, and so he lives for himself. His life is spent in laying up his treasures on earth, where the moth and the rust corrupt, and the thieves break through and steal.

7. Our final picture of the fool, is that of the fool who has lived without God and without the Bible, and died as he lived, outside the city of refuge; outside the salvation there is alone in Christ.

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR