Keep Your Eyes On The Lord No Matter What
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The Fool has said.
The Fool has said.
The one who ignore God.
Psalm 53:1 "The fool hath said in his heart, [There is] no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: [there is] none that doeth good."
The biblical meaning of the word “fool” is a person who ignores God (Rom. 3:10-12). When a person considers God’s existence and the importance of walking in His ways, that person has laid the foundation for wise living (Prov. 1:7; 9:10; 14:27).
As we have said so many times, a man is what his heart is. Only a fool could look around himself and conclude there is no God. An atheist is not an atheist on his dying bed. This suddenly changes when he is faced with something he cannot control himself. Death is one of the surest reasons to believe in God. Only a fool would decide that this world and everything in it just happened. Even science shows us that a far superior intelligence than mere man has set this all in order. It is much easier to believe that God created the universe and all that is in it, than to believe any of the farfetched theories that atheists have come up with. A person who does not believe in God is, of all men, most deceived.
Luke 12:20-21
“But God said to him, ‘Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?’ So is the one who lays up treasure for himself and is not rich toward God.”
The Greek word Jesus used for fool “aphrōn” is like that in Hebrew and means “without reason” or “senseless.” Jesus was telling the Parable of the Rich Fool where a man had accumulated so much wealth that he decided to take life easy and eat, drink, and be merry but what was wrong with this? He had so much that he should have shared with the poor but he didn’t. Instead of sharing his wealth with the poor, which was a blessing from God, he built bigger barns but just when he thought he had a life of ease, he died and his very soul was required, thereby defining himself, as a fool.
16 And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
17 And he thought within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have no room where to bestow my fruits?
18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my fruits and my goods.
19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.
20 But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?
21 So is he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, There is none that doeth good.
1 The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: There is none that doeth good.
fool:3474. μωρός Strong’s Greek #3474
from the base of 3466; dull or stupid (as if shut up), i.e. heedless, (mor.) blockhead, (appar.) absurd:—fool (-ish, × -ishness).
mor. moral, morally
Strong, J.
10 As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:
11 There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.
12 They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
1 Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the acknowledging of the truth which is after godliness;
2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
3 But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;
4 To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.