TRUNEWS with Rick Wiles - Morning Manna - May 29, 2025 - Proverbs 1:26-33 - Wisdom Laughs at the Fool's Calamity

Episode Date: May 29, 2025

Today’s Morning Manna continues Solomon’s stark warning to those who reject wisdom. In Proverbs 1:26–33, wisdom delivers a shocking response: “I also will laugh at your calamity.” Rick Wiles and Doc Burkhart unpack the righteous judgment behind this verse, making it clear that divine mockery isn’t cruel—it’s the outcome of persistent rebellion. This episode contrasts the stability offered to those who fear the Lord with the sudden terror that overtakes the complacent. Viewers are urged to take wisdom seriously—while it is still available. Rick and Doc challenge listeners to repent, seek the Lord diligently, and build their lives on the fear of God, not the shifting values of a foolish generation.Rick Wiles, Doc Burkhart. Airdate 5/29/25Join the leading community for Conservative Christians! https://www.FaithandValues.comIf you're a Faith & Values member, watch today's show with other members here:https://members.faithandvalues.com/posts/morning-manna-may-29-2025-proverbs-126-33-wisdom-laughs-at-the-fools-calamity-85267007You can partner with us by visiting https://www.FaithandValues.com/donate, calling 1-800-576-2116, or by mail at PO Box 399 Vero Beach, FL 32961.Get high-quality emergency preparedness food today from American Reserves!https://www.AmericanReserves.comIt’s the Final Day! The day Jesus Christ bursts into our dimension of time, space, and matter. Now available in eBook and audio formats! Order Final Day from Amazon today!https://www.amazon.com/Final-Day-Characteristics-Second-Coming/dp/0578260816/Apple users, you can download the audio version on Apple Books! https://books.apple.com/us/audiobook/final-day-10-characteristics-of-the-second-coming/id1687129858Purchase the 4-part DVD set or start streaming Sacrificing Liberty today. https://www.sacrificingliberty.com/watchThe Fauci Elf is a hilarious gift guaranteed to make your friends laugh! Order yours today! https://tru.news/faucielf

Good morning everybody welcome to morning manna and today we're we're going to finish the first chapter of the book of Proverbs so we're going to be looking at Proverbs 1 verses 26 to 33 as pray and invite the Holy Spirit Almighty God, our dear, wonderful Father in heaven, we love you and cherish you and adore you. Father, we have a hunger and a thirst for wisdom and knowledge and understanding, and You've promised Your Word, You promise to give liberally to those who ask for wisdom. And so Father, we have your word, we have your promise, and we are here to receive your promise. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. God bless you this morning, and we love having you here. We are in Proverbs, chapter one, continue our stay.

We're gonna pick back up in verse 26 here in just a moment. Welcome to our class members from the Philippines, Japan, Switzerland, Jordan, Brazil, Russia, Switzerland, all of our friends and we love you very much. And thank you for being here with us live during this live edition of Morning Man. We're picking back up in verse 26 as wisdom continues this reproof of the fools in the marketplace, wisdoms crying in the marketplace, and we're continuing that cry today here at verse 26.

And I'll begin reading from the King James. I also will laugh at your calamity. I will mock when your fear cometh. When your fear cometh as desolation and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind, when distress and anguish cometh upon you, then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer. They shall seek me early, but they shall not find me. For that they hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord. They would

none of my counsel, they despised all my reproof. Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices. For the turning away of the simple shall slay them. And the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. But who so hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely. I like that she'll dwell safely and she'll be quiet from fear of evil. Praise God. Dwell safely. Good promises here today. Yes. We had several people earlier today that were requesting prayer for a new home and a new place to

live because and I was trying to think of a scripture verse that would fit that, and verse 33 fits that perfectly. Dwell safely. Praise God. He has a place for each of us to dwell safely. Praise God. Find the promise and stand on it, and then command the natural circumstances to change and conform to the Word that never changes. Amen. The world changes, natural circumstances changes, but the Word of God doesn't change.

Verse 26. I also will laugh at your calamity. I will mock when your fear comes." He's talking to those who reject wisdom. And the Lord is saying, okay, you just go ahead and you continue laughing and mocking and rejecting my offer to give you wisdom. And when your trouble comes, I'll be doing the laughing. God doesn't laugh at people who are righteous people when they're in trouble. He laughs at the wicked and says, how are you going to get out of that mess?

and says, how are you going to get out of that mess? Right. So earlier here, it's, you know, the scorners, you know, they're mocking, they're laughing, they're doing that. Now the Lord does the flip side. He said, all right, you laughed? Well, there's coming a time where I'm going to laugh, and I'm going to laugh, I'm going to mock you, I'm going to deride you because of the decision that you made. It sounds harsh, but you know what? Rejecting wisdom is a harsh thing. Yes. So this verse has three parts.

Part one, I also will laugh. Part two, at your calamity. Part three, I will mock when your fears come. So let's start with the first segment. The first segment of verse 26 uses very stark language to emphasize divine justice. It's telling humanity take God seriously. Take his admonition seriously and recognize that his patience has limits for those who refuse his call. Now listen to me, for those who are submitted to him, for those who are sincerely seeking to walk in the right paths, God is long suffering.

You can't measure his patience. If you're on the right side of him, you can't measure his patience If you're on the right side of him you can't measure his patience I i'm astounded by it I'm absolutely astounded by his long-suffering his patience If you are on the right side of him You don't you never have to worry. You never have to fear That god's going to take his back hand and slap you and go hey knock that off you ever do that again i'll knock you into tomorrow he'll never talk to you that way

he will never treat you that way his kindness his patience is beyond my comprehension. But if you are a mocker, if you're a person that laughs at God, that makes fun of his word, you're a scorn or a mock or let me tell you something. When your calamity comes and he'll see to it that you get a calamity, he'll be the one who's doing the mocking and the laughing. So understand what this means. This is not for you to be terrified that if you make a mistake the Lord's going to knock you

unconscious. No, He will surprise you. He'll overwhelm you with His kindness. Yes, His grace. Absolutely. His grace and mercy will just, you will be astounded by his grace and mercy. But if you are a person that mocks God, when you find yourself with a calamity, He's going to be the one mocking you. Now some people say, well that doesn't sound very Christ-like. Yeah. Doesn't sound Christian to me. No, but it's very God-like. He's in charge. It's His universe. his universe and you are made by him. You're his property.

That's a hard thing for a lot of people to comprehend. Your personal property. Yes, he made you and you are his personal property. Yes. And he doesn't have to get anybody's permission to do whatever he desires to do. So, I also will laugh. This depicts, this is actually wisdom's response. Of course, it's the Lord, it's the

Holy Spirit, but wisdom is the one laughing. Laughing at what? Somebody's persistent rejection of wisdom. The laughter comes at people who persistently over a long period of time consciously, deliberately, intentionally rejected God's wisdom. And it says that when wisdom is continuously ignored,

it leads to consequences that wisdom personified does not mitigate. There's no lessening of the effects of your calamity. It also, from wisdom, conveys the inevitability of judgment. Right. I also will laugh. Yes. Not I might laugh if something happens. The Spirit of God is saying, I might laugh if something happens, the Spirit of God is saying, I'll range a calamity for you, and when it happens, I'll laugh. So, the Proverbs is crying out to humans saying, submit yourself to God, be humble before it's too late to escape calamity. Only God knows how many people have died suddenly, heart attacks, car accidents, whatever, and there was no way to escape the calamity.

Like that's it, it's done, final. It's a terrible thought to think you're dead and God is laughing. That's a terrible thought. So the word also is a connecting word. It connects wisdom's laughter to scorners mockery. That's the connection. The also.

If you have scorners mockery, what comes is wisdom's laughter. It's wisdom laughing at you're such a fool. Laughing at your calamity. Yeah. So rejecting wisdom mirrors the the the attitude they will face in judgment. Second part of this verse, so the first part is, I also will laugh. Second part is, at your calamity. So this segment underscores that calamity is the natural consequence of foolishness,

of folly. Right. Destruction, ruin. Destruction, calamity. I mean, I'm trying to think of an example. You know, you're playing around with electrical wires and an electrician says to you, I'm going to tell you something, I guarantee you this, you continue what you're doing, you're going to be electrocuted. Who would continue to play around with the wires?

A fool? A fool. A fool? A fool. That's what this is saying. The end result of your foolishness will be a calamity. Guaranteed, take it to the bank, it's going to happen. And only a fool would just continue to go down that path. So, I'm going to go down that path.

So it's teaching us, this verse is teaching us that we should choose wisdom's path to avoid the path that leads to chaos and destruction, which results from ignoring or rejecting God's truth. At your calamity, that identifies the tragic outcome of rejecting wisdom. Difficulty and calamity are two different things. You can survive a difficulty. Your chances of surviving a calamity are not good. Persistent disobedience leads to self-inflicted disaster under God's just system of justice.

His mercy is unbounding for the righteous even when they stumble and fall, even when they do something really, really stupid, His mercy and goodness. But if they continue in it, you're going to say, okay, you're taking advantage of my mercy now. That's why I'm telling you, don't have this fear that if you stumble and fall in a time of weakness or anything, don't have this fear that your father's going to reject you. But if you make this a pattern in your life, he's going to deal with it. At your calamity. So that phrase identifies the tragic outcome of rejecting wisdom.

The word your identifies who is going to suffer this tragic outcome. You, the one who's rejecting wisdom. Right, you fool. I'll laugh at you. I'll laugh at your calamity. Then the third part, I will mock when your fear comes. So this segment is emphasizing the inevitability of fear. See, there's a calamity, but there's also fear. What's the fear?

A calamity has come upon you. Yes. And the God of the universe is laughing at you. Who do you cry out to for help? The one that you mocked? It's really tragic. It's very sad that there are people like this. Obviously, there are people like this because God wrote about it in His Bible, and they've been here for thousands of years. Every generation has people like this. Every generation has people like this. Right, because the hearts of men do not change. It doesn't matter how many, how advanced we are in technology or

anything like that at all, the hearts of men do not change. And so that's why the wisdom of Proverbs is as applicable today as it was when Solomon first pinned it, because the hearts of men do not change. You know, Dr., my interest in cycles and also as a marketer, and my interest in numbers, percentages, right? A marketer know numbers percentages. All right, is that you know a marketer looks at percentages Most people don't know that but a good marketer you have to know the market segments you have to know the percentages I'm just curious I'd love to have this i'd love to have that conversation with the lord

uh since the days of of adam and Eve, what percentage of the human population in each generation, let's say, you know, a sacrum, 80 to 100 years, what percentage was righteous and what percentage was foolish? And did the percentages remain consistent through every generation over thousands of years? That'd be an interesting number, wouldn't it? It might be a shocking number too. So in God's mind, does he know every generation,

how many are gonna be written off and how many are gonna be be written off and how many are going to be saved? Yes. Yes. But he still saves. Even though he knows that, he still saves. He still saves. Yes. You know, there's an 80-20 rule in business. Eighty percent of your business will come from 20 percent of your customers.

You know, it's 80 percent of your of your complaints and troubles will come from 20 percent of your customers, okay? It's an 80-20 rule. We just, you watch, you see it. You'll see that 80-20 rule popping up a lot. But I was just, you know, God knows in every generation, the percentage of the human population alive at that time who are going to be fools

and those who are going to be wise. You must shake his head and go, what's with these people? What is up with them? Why do they just keep doing this? So, this segment, I will mock when your fear cometh. It is the inevitability of fear coming upon people when the calamity comes. I will mock you. This is wisdom's response to the panic of the arrogant, proud,

mocker, scoffer, rejecter, unrepentant sinner who has dismissed God's Word. There's a panic that comes upon them. That's what this is speaking about. When your calamity comes, I'm sending fear with it. You're going to panic. A lot of the That's why they that's why they panic they know it's payday And they know who's arranged the calamity That's where the fear comes from Fear accompanies folly Guarantee it's right behind you if if you're a fool Fear is following you and it's going to overtake you someday

It fear also speaks of the suddenness of the calamity yes You don't fear things that come slowly. You fear things that pounce on you. Verse 27, when your fear cometh as desolation and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind, when distress and anguish cometh upon you. So again, we've got three segments here. First segment, when your fear cometh as desolation. So this speaks about the emptiness of life without God's divine guidance. When your fear comes as desolation, the desolation is the emptiness. You're in a storm and you're alone. It's empty. There's This is where you get to fear. They're terrorized. The fear terrorizes them. The fear that they are trapped in a calamity.

And deep down they may not express it, but they know this is the consequence of mocking God It's your fear speaking to the person that that is the mocker Mr. Or Mrs. Mocker. It's going to be your fear Not your neighbor's fear you're gonna own that fear yes It's got your name on it. Yeah, this personalizes the consequence We're not going to spread it around to other people. It's yours got your name on it come into your doorstep And this is the consequence of dismissing God's call, God's call to receive wisdom. Again, sudden onset of fear, desolation, that evokes, you know, an image of a barren wasteland. That everything's been wiped out.

So as your destruction comes as a whirlwind, now we add a tornado. You thought things were bad. Yeah, now throwing in a tornado. I'm going to send a tornado into your life. And things are going to wait. What's happening in a tornado? Everything is flying around. Everything's falling apart. Debris is circling around in the air.

There's chaos. There's sudden destruction and there's chaos. The whirlwind, the tornado represents swift unstoppable judgment that results in catastrophic consequences. I'm going to tell you a story that's a swift unstoppable judgment. That results in catastrophic consequences.

Tornadoes rip up everything I'm going to tell you a story that I remember. I remember when we were driving home. Susan I go past there's there's a stretch of the highway. On our way home. South of where doc lives.

And. The destruction is still there they haven't rebuilt yet. Right from last last October. The tornadoes came in. And it's a reminder to us every day we drive by. Look at what wind can do. Look at those big buildings that are the twisted steel. Right. Like that one building, I know where you're driving by, by the big red barn.

Where that one metal building where the roof was like peeled back. Yeah. Like somebody had taken a can opener and just had peeled it back. I mean, you just get amazed at the destructive power of wind. Yes. You know, we encounter wind every day, but there's a wind so powerful it'll roll up a metal building like it's nothing. That's what the Lord is saying here. Yes. The destruction is gonna come like a mighty wind.

Suddenly, swiftly and unstoppable. You can't stop a tornado. It's unstoppable. It does what it's supposed to do. It rips up everything. Again, your destruction, it's yours. You got your name on it. Mr. Fool, that tornado's coming towards you in your life with an address. I'm looking for the home of Mr. and Mrs. Full. It knows exactly who it's seeking. Not going after everybody, it's going after an individual. The mocker, the scoffer, the arrogant, proud person that makes fun of God's Word and makes fun of God's church and makes fun of God's people who sit in their church.

Makes fun of preachers, makes fun. They're just mocking all the time. I received a text last night from somebody. It was a video on social media. There's a minister who's in a lot of financial trouble right now, and he was expressing on video the trouble that his ministry is in financially, but the video, the podcast that somebody sent to me was not saying, oh, pray for this brother. It was mocking him. It was laughing at his trouble. I thought, dear God, oh, this guy, this podcaster who made this video, Oh this guy this podcaster who made this video oh

He's inviting a tornado to his house Yeah, you're mocking a preacher who's in great trouble and you're laughing at it There's no mercy, no compassion, no love. You're finding delight in somebody in trouble? That's sad. That's very sad. But divine judgment, when it's unleashed, when it's dispatched by God, when God opens up the door in heaven, wherever he's got divine judgment locked up. It's like a dungeon. It opens it up, goes, all right, go get him. Get down there and do it.

It's a inevitable relentless force that comes upon people which brings fear. And it's unpredictable. You don't know when it's going to show up. Right. But when it does, this fear comes upon you when this the third part of this verse when distress and anguish comes upon you So not only is there fear There's also distress and anguish This is one package

There's dual agony you're going to be stressed out and you're going to be stressed out and you're going to be you're going to be you're going to be so anxious and nervous when distress and anguish come upon you. This is this describes the intense suffering on those who ignore wisdom. Again, cometh upon you. It means an rejecting wisdom, deliberately choosing to be a fool are the fruits of folly, or I should say that distress and anguish are the fruits of that folly. Verse 28, then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer, and they shall seek me

early, but they shall not find me. Oh my, these people have had an attitude adjustment. There's a sudden attitude adjustment upon these people that were mocking God, rejecting wisdom. They shall call upon me, but I will not answer. Oh, suddenly they're dialing heaven's phone number. Quick, hey, 911, I got a calamity. Send some help. My life's on fire. What happens, you call 911 and you get put on hold.

Or a busy signal. Yeah. Or you get a bot. Yeah, or you get a bot. It sounds like a Rodney Dangerfield joke. Or leave a message. I mean, that's, but that's Rodney Dangerfield. Rodney Dangerfield is one of his jokes. He said he called suicide hotline and they put him on hold. It gets no respect, okay. No respect at all. But that's what's happening here.

God says you're going to call upon me and I'm not going to answer the phone. It's just going to go into voicemail. Leave a message. If I have time, I'll call you back. Isn't that what it's saying? It says, if you consistently over many years ignore my repeated calls to you, when you make that one call to me, I'm gonna ignore it. In other words, I've made a thousand calls to you and you never answered.

So you make one call to me and I'm not gonna answer. Because the only time you're gonna call is when you need me. When you suddenly have fear and anguish come upon you in distress because there's a whirlwind in your life and you know why it's there. The fool knows why that whirlwind has shown up suddenly. Yes. Oh, that's God. That's right. Suddenly they're calling heaven. But there's a consequence for persistently, consistently, deliberately ignoring wisdom. Again, you don't have to fear this, that if you make a mistake, that God's going to whack you. He's not a whacker. He's not him. He's your father. But if you're a rebel, he'll deal sternly with you at an appropriate time of his choosing.

Of his choosing. His choosing. That's when the sudden calamity comes. That's his choosing. What's scary, Doc, is that you have fools today that are on television mocking God, they're in universities mocking God, they're in government agencies mocking God, they're even in seminaries mocking God. And they don't know that on God's calendar, He's already planned a calamity for their lives. Yes, on His timetable.

On His timetable. On his timetable. They don't even know it. And that's a fool. So this speaks of, they shall call upon me, desperate cries from those people who rejected wisdom because they only seek God's help in a crisis. And I've seen people who have, God has mercy, with mercy helps people who were not living right for a long time and he's helped them.

And I watched them go right back to ignoring God after he helped them. I've seen it in my life. Like how do you do that? He was so kind to you. He showed you grace and mercy and then as soon as he got you out of your problem you went back to ignoring him again, right? But he's a loving father says but I will not answer That speaks of his righteous judgment a Lesson here is There is a danger of delayed repentance.

When you sin, repent as fast as you sinned. I mean get to it. If you have sinned, repent. Repent. That breaks the judgment cycle. God's a softy about I'm telling you his heart is so soft towards repenters. But the proud, the arrogant, and then you have you have religious people, church people who get upset that God was soft towards the sinner. Well, why didn't you knock him across the room? Why didn't you take everything away from him? Why didn't you just crush him? And they're upset. They're upset. God, I love you. Why didn't you hit him?

And it was because I love him. he repented. She's humble. She's sorry. Why would I do that? His mercy is available to those who have a contrite heart. Doesn't say his mercy is available to those who are sinless. Why would sinless people need mercy? Answer that question. Why would sinless people need mercy and grace? That doesn't even make sense. If they're sinless, they don't need grace and mercy.

If they're sinless, they don't need grace and mercy. Grace and mercy was created by God for sinful people. But there's a difference here between people who in weakness commit a sin, stumble, whatever. There's a difference between them who have a broken heart a contrite heart and those who have a rebellious stubborn spirit A big difference Second part they shall seek me early. Oh suddenly hey, we're up early. Oh, we're praying now. I'm not going to drink all night and sleep in. I'm getting up in the morning. I'm crying out to God. I got trouble. That's what he's talking about here. Boy, they got an attitude adjustment.

That's what he's talking about here. Boy, they got an attitude adjustment. You know, and what this implies is they're making an effort. They're making an effort to seek God. And guess what happens? It's too late. You're not going to find me. It's the ultimate game of hide and seek. Yes.

So this, they shall seek me early. It's talking about the irony of seeking wisdom too late. Yes. You understand? There's a cutoff point, folks. The Bible teaches it. Yes. I don't like it, but it's true.

The Bible teaches it. Yes. I don't like it, but it's true. You know, you can seek salvation too late. You can seek mercy, grace, and forgiveness too late. Too late. Remember that song, One Day He Too Late? One Day He Too Late? Jesus came and you've been left behind to wait. So seek God diligently in times of peace and goodness, during good times, so that you're prepared for future trials. Everybody's going to have a trial in their life. The fools who mock God will not be able to call upon God during their trial and get an answer.

The phone is just going to ring. This is a frantic last last minute effort to find wisdom. They, isn't it amazing? They knew what they needed to seek. Suddenly, oh, wisdom, that's what I need. That's what I need. Too late, Too late. Too late.

So this indicates a frantic last-minute effort to find wisdom, and that teaches us that seeking truth only under duress often fails to yield his favor. I mean, the Lord looks when you're in trouble. But you know what? If you have a broken heart, if you have a contrite heart, if you have been seeking God and you show mercy and kindness and grace to other people and you're generous and you're kind, even on your worst day and everybody will have their worst day experience. God will make your worst was his worst day. Where do you go from there?

You're nailed naked on a cross and people are looking at you, mocking you. I mean, where do you go from there? That's as bad as it gets. But Jesus's worst day was his best day. You think about that all day. God can take your worst day and make it your best day. Amen. And it'll upset a lot of people.

Because they want it to be your worst day. So these fools seek God early. Now there's an urgency. But they're tardy. They're late for class. Sorry. The teacher has locked the door. Because the teacher knows that their quest for their sudden interest in wisdom lacks sincerity. It's only to get out of the trouble that they're in.

But they shall not find me. This is the third segment. There's the finality of divine withdrawal. It's a tragic outcome of persistent rejection. Verse 29, we're gonna do it. I gotta get to verse 33. Tomorrow's Faith Friday. And then Monday we start chapter two. I gotta get this done. Everybody stay with me here.

Verse 29, for they that hated knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord So this tells us that the hatred of knowledge is a deliberate choice It identifies the root Cause of the sinners ruination. That's right You hated it. You spent a lifetime hating divine knowledge You hated knowledge and you refuse to choose Notice

The word choose you refuse to choose the fear of the Lord the fear of the Lord. The fear of the Lord is a choice. Seeking and accepting knowledge of God's ways is a choice, it's an attitude. They hated knowledge. They had a deep-seated opposition to divine knowledge, to divine insight that only comes through the Holy Spirit by studying His Word. knowledge represents a heart that is against God. Hating knowledge represents a human heart that is turned against God, is opposed to God, is in rebellion to God. to God. Second part of this verse, and did not choose. Again, they made a deliberate choice. They failed to actively embrace wisdom. They missed the opportunity. See, the opportunity is closed now. the calamity has shown up there the the tornado is Upon your house The opportunity to receive wisdom has closed yes

All right, so there's a danger in in procrastination and indecision. We make choices we make decisions. They did not choose what the fear of the Lord. So choosing the fear of the Lord is a deliberate act. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. It's the foundation of wisdom. Without the fear of the Lord, you can't acquire wisdom. You'd be dangerous if you had wisdom. A person with wisdom without the fear of the Lord is a dangerous person. That's why God told Adam and Eve, do not eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. You're not wired to handle it. That's right. You're just not wired to handle it.

God was saying, I am the only one who can handle the knowledge of the tree of the fruit of the tree of good and evil. Is there anyone who can discern and handle these things? Verse 30, they would none of my counsel, they despised all my reproof. Three parts here, they would none of my counsel. They desired none of my advice. There was willful rejection, a refusal. They were like, nope, not interested.

Thank you, go on to somebody else. Holy Spirit. I'm not interested in your advice. I'm going to the success gurus. I'll pay big money to go to their seminars. I'll buy their books. I'll watch their podcasts. I seek the counsel of the ungodly. Yeah. Oh, I'm telling you what, you can, you work that line hard enough, you can become an extremely wealthy person in this world. You can charge big money for ungodly advice and people will line up to pay it. Yeah, slap a Christian sticker on it and you deceive the church too. That's right. Well, there are experts and consultants and they're everywhere.

and consultants and they're everywhere. Pay me this much money, I'll give you my ungodly advice. Oh, okay, here, take my money. And the Lord says, Hey, come to come over here. I'll give it to you free. Here's wisdom. I'm not interested. Sorry. Sorry, I'm not I'm not interested in that. They would none of my counsel. Outright rejection of wisdom's guidance. The counsel speaks of God's comprehensive advice for your life. They, see now it's not your. So your, you know, that was specific, it's come into your house. Now it's they, the whole group, the whole population of foolish humans. population of foolish humans That they have a common tendency to reject the advice of God Then the second segment is they despised

Not only did they reject but they hated it Yes Detested it. Yes, I Mean Yes. I mean, when you despise, hate, detest something, there's a deep emotional involvement of your being. I mean, that's hardcore, despised. You had contempt for wisdom. So I'm telling you, it's not about a one-time mistake. This is a lifetime rejection of God's Word to the point that it reached a level of being contempt, hatred for wisdom. There's nobody in this class that's even close to that level. You don't have to worry about this. You'd have to be a raving fool to sit in this class and then later go in life and just develop into a fool. Nobody in this class can do this. What did they despise? All my

reproof. Reproof is correction. Yes. First, they wouldn't take any counsel. And then when reproof came, they rejected all the reproof. None of the counsel and all the reproof. So God as a loving father would try to correct them and they would reject his attempts to correct them. Why he's trying to steer them into the right path. Why, he's trying to steer them into the right path. All, not some, they rejected all.

This speaks of the totality of the rejection. They desired no divine discipline in their life. Verse 31, therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own way and be filled with their own devices. First part, therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their way. This talks about divine justice. That rebellious, arrogant sinners will reap natural results in this life for their rebellion against truth. Therefore, when there's a therefore, what does that mean,

Doc? You got to ask, what's it there for. It's the conclusion of the argument here. So now Solomon is saying he made the argument. Here's the big finish right here. Therefore, you're going to eat the fruit of your of your ways. God is going to see to it. You're going to eat it. God is gonna see to it, you're gonna eat it. What did God tell Jeremiah with the rebellious Jews? You tell them to lick the inside of that cup of judgment. Drink it all and then lick, lick the cup. You desire to live wickedly, well, here's your judgment. You drink it down and lick the inside

of the cup. Right. That's what this is saying, therefore they shall eat the fruit of their way. You planted the tree, you're going to eat the fruit. You got it. That says your garden, that's your orchard. Those are your trees. Now sit down and eat it. And be filled. Not just take a bite. You eat it all. This speaks of a sense of inescapable fullness.

a sense of inescapable fullness. There's no way to get past this judgment and be filled. I mean, you're gonna take it all. You're gonna eat all the fruit of your tree of rebellion. Yeah, you're going to have a tummy ache. You're going to be sick. You're going to regret the years you spent rejecting my wisdom. And be filled with what?

With your own, with their own devices yes your schemes you'll be filled with your schemes your strategies and they have backfired big time in your life that's what devices this, not talking about a tool. Yeah, a tool or your iPhone or something like that. No, not that. You're talking about your strategies, your schemes, your plots, your plans. You're gonna be filled with the fruit of your own schemes.

Gonna blow up in your face. Then verse 32, "'For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of the fools shall destroy them.'" So the first part, for the turning away of the simple. This portrays the simple are those who are easily persuaded, swayed, influenced by foolishness. It talks of a naive rejection of wisdom

as the cause of their downfall. Turning away, you made a conscious decision. You turned away. Shall slay them. For the turning away the simple shall slay them. The turning away will bring about death Destruction It says hey that turning movement you're doing away from my word, it has lethal consequences.

There will be severe outcomes. Turning away, this isn't a neutral decision. You did this to despite me. You did this in opposition to me. And the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. Your own wealth will become your downfall because you prioritize your worldly wealth as greater value than God's wisdom. That's right.

And all this wealth you've gathered with your foolishness, see, you can have rich fools. There are a lot of rich fools. They might not be foolish in the way of business, but they are fools in the way of life. And their prosperity will destroy them. The very thing that they pursued will be what pursues them and brings them down. Verse 33, but who so hearkeneth unto me shall dwell safely and shall be quiet from the fear of evil.

This is our last verse. First segment, but who so hearkeneth unto me. This hearken means you hear a voice and you turn to listen. Your hearkening means I'm listening. I'm listening with strong intention to hear every word. If I hearken, I'm saying, hey, turn down all the noise. I've got to hear this. This is important. I've got to hear it. But there's more to it in the sense that there's a stronger word than just hearing it. Yes. Like the New Testament teaches,

be not hearers of the word, but doers as well. So this word, harkness, is hearing with the intention to obey. Yes. Hearing with the intention to obey. Fantastic. That's exactly what it is, Doc. That's the mark of true repentance. That's true repentance. Yes.

It's not just, well, I heard and I know I should do better. It's a no. I heard and I cannot do better on my own. I need God. How many times did Jesus say to those who have ears to hear? Well, they had ears. He's saying you're not using them. You got to use your ears to hear what I'm saying. That's what this is saying. But whosoever listens to me with the intention to obey me. The whoso extends the invitation to all. Whoso means anybody. You can get in on this.

You can be a whoso. Whosoever shall call upon the name of the lord shall be saved again it's a personal choice this uh This influx, there's a teaching that's kind of going around in some churches. Some people call it hyper Calvinism. I say, look, these people are more Calvinistic than Calvin. Okay. They have a theology that every single thing has been pre-destined no it hasn't if it was why would he be saying whosoever

there's choices you can choose to be predestined there you go. Well, what happens? Whosoever hearkens, whoever listens to me with intention to obey, shall dwell safely. You will live in a state of rest and security. Your physical needs, your emotional needs, your spiritual needs, you will be secure,

you will rest. You will have divine protection. Dwell. That speaks of a stable lifestyle. You're not gonna be on the street. You would dwell. You will have stability. If you build your life on a solid foundation,

and then, and shall be quiet from the fear of evil. So this speaks of the tranquility of a heart that's anchored in Christ. Your heart will be quiet. Praise God. Fear, you will not experience the fear of evil. Even when you're surrounded by threats or instability, uncertainty, there will be an inner peace for those who pursue God with a diligent heart, quiet. I mean that speaks of a deep unshakable calm a calmness in those truly love God You will be quiet from the fear of evil You will be calm Satan will not be able to

Rip up your life with a fear of evil All right, doc, that's it. We did it. We're over time. Alright, but not by much. Alright, tomorrow is Faith Friday, so we want to encourage you to be sure to join us. This is our year of faith. Every Friday we're teaching on faith. Every day we're teaching on faith, but we have a special emphasis on Fridays with a special lesson of faith. And we encourage you to come and join us again on the Friday edition of Morning Manna for Faith Friday. We also honor the Lord's table on Fridays, and so we invite you to participate with that. If you're a confessing believer in Jesus Christ

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Rick, any other announcements or anything we need to let folks know about here as we close out today's edition of Morning Manor? No, just what I've been telling everybody that you know we're streaming on all the social media platforms that True News was always on. We continue to stream, but we did add 10 a.m. so we're at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. and we've added a new stream for morning manna. Please migrate over there if you're using social media platforms to access morning manna Such as X or rumble, please migrate to the new flow Morning manna stream at 10 a.m. Or 3 p.m. Eastern time. We're going to discontinue the true news stream

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That's right. Every single day. And that's what we're discovering is we're walking by faith. So we're not just teaching you to walk by faith. We have to walk by faith first so we could teach you how to walk by faith. Amen. Amazing thing. I wish you could share what happened yesterday. A word that you spoke years ago came to pass yesterday. I was so excited to get on the phone and tell you. It was like, Rick, it happened again. The Lord spoke and here we are years later, seeing it come to fruition. There have been just a series of blessings in the past several weeks. I've felt God's

love and grace more than I've ever felt in a long, long time. He's good. He's good. I got to go. I got an appointment coming up. Love you so much. We'll be back here tomorrow for Faith Friday, and we're going to pick up our discussion. Let's see, 1 Kings 17, the widow of Zarephath. So, we talked about Elijah last week. Now, we're going to switch our attention to the widow. That's right. And we're going to see the faith that was in her. All right. So you've got a preview for tomorrow. So we'll see you then. God bless you on the faith.