{"id":2283,"date":"2015-02-23T12:47:20","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T18:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=2283"},"modified":"2015-02-23T12:47:20","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T18:47:20","slug":"message-mp3-for-ffc-for-sunday-pm-february-22-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=2283","title":{"rendered":"Message MP3 for FFC for Sunday PM February 22, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dave.dlscott.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/man-3d-doctor-heart-bullhorn-first-aid-REDUCE.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-2284 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dave.dlscott.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/man-3d-doctor-heart-bullhorn-first-aid-REDUCE.jpg?resize=640%2C545\" alt=\"man 3d doctor heart bullhorn first aid REDUCE\" width=\"640\" height=\"545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dave.dlscott.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/man-3d-doctor-heart-bullhorn-first-aid-REDUCE.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dave.dlscott.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/man-3d-doctor-heart-bullhorn-first-aid-REDUCE.jpg?resize=300%2C255&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"p1\">The Fool Has Said in His Heart!<\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>INTRODUCTION: Nabal \u2026 the epitome of a fool \u2026<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">He thought he was a king but was merely a dead fool. Terrified by reality. Literally and actually scared to death.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The fool\u2019s life unravels the moment he or she sees God.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>(1) The fool decides in his heart that there is no God and reaps what he sows, 14:1.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Fools counsel themselves in their hearts.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Fools live by a \u201cno god\u201d creed.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Fools spoil (corrupt) their lives which results in terrible deeds and an absence of goodness.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The word fool is Nabal, cf. 1 Samuel 25.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Nabal\u2019s life reflected this fool\u2019s decision: \u201charsh\u201d and \u201cbadly behaved\u201d (<\/span><span class=\"s2\">1 Samuel 25:3<\/span><span class=\"s1\">), arrogant (<\/span><span class=\"s2\">1 Samuel 25:9\u201310<\/span><span class=\"s1\">), worthless, foolish (<\/span><span class=\"s2\">1 Samuel 25:25<\/span><span class=\"s1\">), evil (<\/span><span class=\"s2\">1 Samuel 25:39<\/span><span class=\"s1\">).<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Maybe worst of all his distorted perception of a \u201cno God\u201d life:<br \/>\n&#8211; <b>He thought he was a king but was merely a dead fool<\/b> (<\/span><span class=\"s2\">1 Samuel 25:36\u201337<\/span><span class=\"s1\">).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>(2) The fool may not know who he is but God certainly does, 14:2-5, <\/b><\/span><span class=\"s2\"><b>cf. Matthew 6:19-24<\/b><\/span><span class=\"s1\"><b>.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The LORD looks down from heaven and gives a very grave evaluation of humanity, 14:2-5.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">His judgment is that everyone has turned aside 14:2-3.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">His judgment is that fools pool their foolishness and multiply corruption (rotten to the core), 14:3.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The psalmist is incredulous at the lifestyle of the fool, 14:4.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">The tragic irony of the fool: Reality means great terror because he has left God out of his life, 14:5, <\/span><span class=\"s2\">cf. 1 Samuel 25:36-37<\/span><span class=\"s1\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>(3) The fool disdains the poor but the LORD does not, 14:6-7.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>CONCLUSION: Flip that house. Our creed in our hearts? God!<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">Be encouraged with the renovation that God is working in your life.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">We are not fools. We may still act foolishly but we are not fools.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>MP3:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/Psalm 14 :  The Fool Has Said in His Heart : ffc : dave scott : 022215 PM.mp3\">Psalm 14 : The Fool Has Said in His Heart : ffc : dave scott : 022215 PM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fool Has Said in His Heart! INTRODUCTION: Nabal \u2026 the epitome of a fool \u2026 He thought he was a king but was merely a dead fool. Terrified by reality. Literally and actually scared to death. The fool\u2019s life &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/?p=2283\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3dxA8-AP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2285,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2283\/revisions\/2285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dave.dlscott.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}