Proverbs 6:12–15
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About this episode
It does not give us abstract principles for living in a sanitized, theoretical world. It gives us field guides for identifying both wisdom and folly in the grimy, complicated world we actually inhabit. And in our passage today, the Holy Spirit gives us a detailed anatomical sketch of a particular kind of fool, a truly destructive man. This is not just a man who makes foolish mistakes. This is a man whose entire being is oriented toward chaos and destruction. He is a rotter, a spiritual termite, and his great delight is to undermine and destroy God's created order, whether in a family, a church, or a nation. We live in an age that refuses to make such sharp moral distinctions. Our culture wants to believe that everyone is basically good, just misunderstood. To fail to recognize this distinction is not kindness; it is culpable blindness.