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Ep 150: Wisdom's scorn (Prov 1:24-31).
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- Old things New Podcast
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- Apr 22, 2026
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Summary
Prayer Reading: Prov 1:24-31. Meditation. We ignore wisdom’s call at our own peril, and to do so invites certain destruction. It will do us good, then, to consider the way of the fool that we might avoid it for ourselves. The first mark of a fool is that they refuse to listen to wisdom. A fool, if they were to even read these words at all, would read and forget them before the day was out. A fool would refuse to listen, and would ignore the advice of wisdom. Now fundamentally, let’s be clear, this rejection is a rejection of Christ. The Book of Proverbs is not a moralistic book, it is gospel-istic. The words of Proverbs are not just the words of some wise old sage, these are the words of Christ. In Colossians 2:3 we read that all of the treasures of wisdom are hidden in Christ. Christ is God’s revelation of wisdom, and so the Book of Proverbs comes to us as Christ speaking to us. The ignorance of fools is first and foremost a rejection of Christ. But the scorn of wisdom intensifies in verses 26 and 27: “ I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when terror strikes you, when terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you. ” As the fool refuses to listen to wisdom, their calamity follows. If we refuse to listen to wisdom, that will be our fate too. Terror, distress, and anguish is the lot of the fool. This is no laughing matter, wisdom is not some optional thing that you can take or leave. The opposite of wisdom is disaster. Wisdom is patient, persistent, and available to all, but the time then eventually comes when wisdom is silent. To those who refuse to listen, calamity comes, and ultimately their doom also follows. If a person willfully ignores the call of wisdom and the correction that she off…