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Don’t Read - New Years Resolutions
Please open your Bibles to
Read Ephesians 5:15-21.
It’s officially 2020.
A new year brings with it a desire to make changes.
I’m sure you have some new goals for this next year.
You want to be more productive.
You buy a new calendar.
You say you will be more organized.
Maybe you decide that 2020 will be the year you lose some weight.
And that will start tomorrow.
It’s always tomorrow.
You look at your Christian life and you decide that you are now going to make some changes.
You commit to doing things differently.
You’re going to start reading your Bible every day.
You’re going to pray every day.
You’re going to get up early.
You’ve grabbed a Bible plan from the back of the church and you’re going to do it.
If you aren’t reading your Bible, look at the 5x5x5 plan that’s included in your bulletin.
These are good places to start.
It’s good to do these things.
It’s good to set goals for your life.
It’s good to remove the fluff.
It’s good to get rid of things that slow you down.
We’ve already read from Ephesians.
Ephesians is a great little book.
Half of it is deeply theological.
Explaining great doctrinal truths.
The second half is extremely practical.
You’ve learned doctrine, now how do we apply that to our lives.
As we begin a new year and as you reevaluate different things in your life, this seems to be the perfect passage.
Verse 15, “Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise.”
There is a wise way to walk, and there is an unwise way to walk.
As you look to streamline your life, know that there is great value in wisdom.
There is great value in doing things wisely.
And there is great danger in foolishness.
The Bible describes foolishness, not necessarily as stupidity.
Foolishness is not related to your IQ.
It’s the opposite of wisdom.
It’s rejecting common sense.
It’s rejecting what should be natural.
It’s rejecting what you should know.
It’s going to the restaurant, and being handed a plate that is clearly hot.
The waitress has an oven mitt on.
You can hear the food sizzling.
You can see it sizzling.
She says, “Careful it’s hot.”
And you reach out and grab the plate with your bare hand.
That’s foolishness.
You know better.
But you do the opposite.
3 quick dangers of foolishness.
First, it rejects God.
, “The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’
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It rejects what is known.
God has revealed Himself to all of creation.
says, “For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them.
For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made.
So they are without excuse.”
No one has any reason to reject God.
God has revealed Himself.
But foolishness is rejecting what you already know.
Foolishness is grabbing that sizzling plate, even though you know it’s hot.
Paul points out the foolishness in rejecting God.
continues, beginning in verse 21, “For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.”
Foolishness is rejecting what you should know.
The plate looks hot and you grab it anyway.
God has made Himself known, and you say there is no God.
The second danger of foolishness is that it disobeys God.
says, “The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but a wise man listens to advice.”
Foolishness rejects the authority of God.
It rejects God’s authority over your life, and instead says that you are the standard.
The fool props himself up and says, “My will be done.”
Foolishness ignores advice, ignores wisdom, and does the opposite.
Foolishness is when Adam and Eve ate of the fruit because it was pleasing to the eyes.
They let their own desire become the standard.
Foolishness is Jonah hopping in the boat to go to Tarshish instead of Nineveh.
His desire became the standard.
says, “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.”
Foolishness is despising God’s instruction and doing the opposite.
God says, “Don’t lie” and you justify your life.
You say, “But I had to.”
Or, “I had a good reason to lie.”
God says, “Remember the Sabbath ...” and you justify your lack of worship.
“I went to bed too late.”
Basically, you played too hard on Saturday, and put the worship of God secondary to your pleasure.
Or, “I had something to do on Sunday.”
Basically, “I’ll worship God when I have nothing better to do.”
And the third danger of foolishness is really the consequence of foolishness, it’s death.
, “ … fools die for lack of sense.”
Foolishness is the lack of wisdom.
There is a practical element to this.
You don’t work … you don’t eat.
Wisdom is working.
Wisdom is working for a living.
Failure to work, means you don’t get paid.
You don’t get paid, you either depend on someone else to feed you or you are hungry and die.
Foolishness is walking in front a bus in the middle of Winchester, because you read somewhere that pedestrians always have the right of way.
That may be true, but that doesn’t mean the bus is guaranteed to stop.
You walk in front of a moving vehicle, you die.
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