This document is a sermon summary from Gospel Baptist Tabernacle on August 7, 2013. It discusses how trying to teach scorners is usually a waste of time, as they will reject your teachings and insult you, preferring their sinful ways. However, even hardened sinners can change if they want to, by submitting to God's grace, spirit and word. The sermon contrasts the wisdom of living according to God's teachings with the folly of living according to one's own desires, which seems right but leads to death. It warns about the temptations of "Folly", who calls out to those lacking understanding to engage in sinful acts in secret, not realizing it is the path to misery.

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Gospel Baptist Tabernacle
781 Salem Road, Rossville, GA 30741
Where the Love of God
abounds, everyone is
welcome.
Children’s Church taught
by Paul and Marsha Davis
during preaching.
www.rossvillechurch.com
August 7, 2013

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Proverbs 9:7 He that reproveth a scorner getteth to
himself shame: and he that rebuketh a wicked man
getteth himself a blot. 8 Reprove not a scorner, lest
he hate thee:
(NIV) 7 "Whoever corrects a mocker invites insult;
whoever rebukes a wicked man incurs abuse.
(TLB) 8 So don’t bother with him; he will only
hate you for trying to help him. …
Proverbs 17 10 A reproof entereth more into a wise
man than an hundred stripes into a fool.

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Trying to teach a scorner is almost
always a waste of time.
Be prepared for their rejection and insults..
They love their own way; the way of folly.
Sin is addictive. We can’t turn from sin in
our own strength.

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But even a hardened sinner can change.
God’s Grace is sufficient for even the most
hardened sinner, but he has to want to change.
Change his mind.
He can’t be wanting to get something and therefore
willing to seem to change for a while.
He has to be sick of his own way.
He can submit to the Holy Spirit and the Word
of God and walk right.

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8b rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee. 9 Give
instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser:
teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.
A teachable spirit
A wise man has seen that going “his own
way” brings sadness and destruction.
He wants to learn all that he can.

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10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom:
and the knowledge of the Holy is understanding.
11 For by Me thy days shall be multiplied, and the
years of thy life shall be increased.
The Lord is the only source of a good life:
Eternal life.
Wisdom always lives life God’s Way, and His Way
is taught in His Word, the Bible.
All else if folly.

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12 If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but
if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.
Living according to Wisdom will bless you.
And each one has to see that and desire it –
For himself.
Scorn Wisdom and you suffer
the consequences.

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Walking the path of folly is to walk a broad
path to ultimate misery.
(a man’s or a woman’s own way is folly)
Proverbs 16 25 There is a way that seemeth right
unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of
death.
It seems logical; it makes sense to the mind.
It will make me happy, happy, happy!

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13 A foolish woman (the woman folly) is clamorous
(loud and raging): she is simple, and knoweth
nothing. 14 For she sitteth at the door of her house,
on a seat in the high places of the city, 15 To call
passengers who go right on their ways:
Wisdom’s enemy
In verse 1 we saw that Lady Wisdom is industrious
in good works: builds her home, feeds her family,
wisely uses the resources God provides.
Folly is a temptress doing nothing good.

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16 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: and as
for him that wanteth understanding, she saith to
him, 17 Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in
secret is pleasant. 18 But he knoweth not that the
dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths
of hell.
Folly is the temptress calling out to the simple.
She is seeking out those who lack understanding.

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“Stolen waters are sweet.”
“Bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”
John 3 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is
come into the world, and men loved darkness
rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light,
neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be
reproved. 21 But he that doeth Truth cometh to the
light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that
they are wrought in God.

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Anything that you do and can’t truthfully
give God thanks for, is shameful.
Stolen waters – fornication , pornography, sexual
thoughts of anyone but your mate.
Bread eaten in secret – anything that is wrong.
You know it’s wrong, but sneak and do it anyway;
Folly!
It is the path to misery and loss.