Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him. Proverbs 27:22.
Christ made it clear that the fools as well as the wise come to him and walk with him, but the former will not make it to heaven while the latter will get there because they will be made wise by the word of God to inherit glory. Proverbs 3:35.
The biblical meaning of the word ‘fool’ is the overall description of anyone in the Lord or in the world who is not making himself wise through the word of God. Christ own words confirms that there are many incorrigle and unteachbale fools in his kingdom: the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instrcution. Proverbs 1:7.
Though, the incorrigible foolish believers have come to Christ just as they were in times past, when their understanding was darkened through the ignorance that was in them; but accepted, washed, cleansed, justifified and sanctied by the Lord, chosen to remain and continue in the Lord without actual changes which are required through the fruit of the spirit to walk worthy of God unto all pleasing. They continue in the Lord in the same old way and former lifestyle, instead of them to start walking and growing in the newness of life, they continue in the oldness of letter. They will not lay aside every weight and sin which easily beset them to take upon them the light yoke and easy burden of their Lord.
The purpose of our present salvation is designed to restore us into the former fellowship which was lost as the result of the sin of Adam and Eve in the Garden. Now in Christ Jesus, if we faithfuly fight the good fight of faith as we should, and we strive for heaven lawfully, practically overcoming the flesh, world, sin and Satan to the end, Christ will reward us with the right to partake from the fruit of life to inhabit eternity with God – he that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says unto the churches; to him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God. Revelation 2:7.
In this common salvation as it is called (Jude 1:3), each and everyone of us must work out his own salvation with fear and trembling. God’s present intention and expectation is to change everyone who has come to Christ to obtain salvation unto eternal life from the nature of sin and death (inherited Adamic nature ) into the abundance of life of a new creature of a divine nature in a mortal through divine power by the operation of him who has raised us up; and made us to sit in the heavenly places with him in Christ Jesus.
God works in us both to will and do according to his good pleasure, but the foolish and unteachable believers ignores the will and the works of God to follow after their own will, and to serve him as it pleases them, but not God. This is the reason Christ call them the foolish believer because they come to him, call him Lord, but will not do what he commands them to do. Matthew 7:26.
In Christ Jesus, believer is said to have been delivered from the past, present and future sin and condemnation if he will keep walking in the spirit and its fruit, that he might not fulfil the lusts of the flesh with its works in preparation for the future glorification with Christ when he shall come to be glorified in his saints. As a new creature in Christ Jesus, your spiritual goal, which God’s primary purpose to save us by Christ, is to aspire unto conformation to the death of his Son through constant spiritual hunger and thirstiness after righteousness for gradual and progressive personal transformation and changes to re produce the image or the resemblace of Christ in you.
Christlikeness is something we should practice daily as we strive to walk as he walked. This is our present labour to enter into his future eternal rest. It is not about you working in the church or in a ministry for God. It is about the reproduction of the person of Jesus in you: for whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Romans 8:29.
There is no any other greater grace and work of God in your life than your engagement or preoccupation to first remove the beam from your own eye, rather than stalking after the spiritual life of others to criticise, compare yourself with others, and to judge them.
If we hope to be exactly like Christ and to see him as he is (1 John 3:1-3) when he come for us which in order word is to attain unto the ressurrection of the dead, the first and the blessed ressurrection, (Philippians 3:11. Revelation 20:6), we must purify the soul through the spirit unto obedience of truth, practising Christlikeness in his righteosuness imput unto us. 1 Peter 1:22.
There are many incorrigible fools in the kingdom as we can see from the parable of the sower. Out of the four places where the seed fell, only one is good where the recepient patiently brings forth fruit by its thirty, sixty and hundreds, while the others will not make to heaven because of the different state of their hearts and spitual life before God.
The incorrigible fools in the Lord mocks at sin. Proverbs 14:9. They translate and interpret the scripture falsely in order to be excused from their besetting sin which they ought to lay aside: wherefore, beloved, seeing that you look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless. And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you; as also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction. 2 Peter 3:14-16.
Fools has no delight in understanding (Proverbs 18:2 a): none of the scripture which has given for teaching, correction, rebuke and instruction in righteousness is good enough to help the incorrigible fools to possess the wisdom of the just to learn from the past spiritual failures to frame his present ways and doings before the Lord, but will continue to play spiritual game, repeatedly making confession of sin to obtain forgiveness without any decisive action to turn away from sins in order to obtain mercy of the Lord: he that covers his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesses and forsakes them shall have mercy. Proverbs 28:13.
They don’t know how to approach the throne of grace with the right motive to have power to help them in time of need so as to overcome their sin. Hebrews 4:15-16), neither do they know how to have the same mind like Christ that they might cease from sin: forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin; that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. 1 Peter 4:1.
They run from one church to another, looking for where no one cares or talk about sin, to rebuke or correct it. Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope: that say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it. Isaiah 5:18-19.
These are they for whom Christ has sanctified himself, and suffered without the gate, that they might be delivered from this present evil world, but they refused to come out of the camp to bear Christ reproach, but they keep mingling and entagling themselves with the affairs of this world, displeasing God in their conformity and friendship with the world which is enmity against him. James 4:4.
The Lord was concerned for the foolish and incorrigble fools in the church when he asked, why call me Lord, Lord, but will not do what he asked them to do? This is the foolishness and the hypocrisy of the lips service – believer having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof.
Are they not incorrigible fools, anyone ignoring the mirrow of the word of God to submit in obedience, but are living and walking according to the course of this world? Are they not the incorrigible fools who are not making themselve ready, looking for, and hasting for the day of the Lord coming like a thief at night, and like a snare for everyone on earth? Only the watchful, and the obedient, and those who shall be found ready and wise with extra oil in their lamp will have instant access into the banqueting hall to be weded with the bridegroom.
The gospel of Christ is the gospel of sinners called to become saints, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lusts. Christ gospel is not the gospel of salvation for continuation in the past, present and future sin. Are you not the servant to whom you yield yourself to obey? Whether of sin unto death, or obedience unto righteousness? Romans 6:16-18. But ye have not so learned Christ; if so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: that ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind; and that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. Ephesians 4:20-24.
The end time of church age on earth will be perilious, iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. While the genuine, serious and faithful believers shall suffer persecutions, the incorrigble fools in the Lord shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. 2 Timothy 3:12-13.
The condemnation of the many so – called believer with itchy ear is their refusal to embrace truth in its entirety to opt for sweet words of the flattery preacher and preaching because of the hardeness of their heart. Being adamant and self willed, the incorrigible believers continue to despise the spirit of grace, being ignorance of the grace of God that is teaching us to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, to live soberly, righteously and godly in this present evil world. Titus 2:11-14.
These fools are in the Lord, but they are far away from Christ. They are not gathering together with him, but scatter abroad by going their own ways, folowing their own ideas, and dwelling on their vain thoughts, embracing their false opinions and perception on salvation, instead of serving the Lord acceptably with reverence and godly fear.
Falling away from the Lord does not necessary means to turn our backs at him: (a) it is to turn away from the way of truth: to turn back unto fables of another gospel which makes the dogs to go back to its vomit, and the washed pig, back to the mud: (b) to trun away from the Lord is not to walk in his way (who is wise, and he shall understand these things? Prudent, and he shall know them? For the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them; but the transgressors shall fall therein. Hosea 14:9), not aligning their thoughts with his thoughts, not abiding in his love: if you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. John 15:10.
The incorribble foolish believers will perish in hell for eternity because they refused to put difference between the clean and the unclean: for them, everyone is a child of God. They are constantly unequally yoked with unbelievers, and they don’t know how to separate the light from darkness, Christ from Belial, temple of God from an idol, righteousness from unrighteousness: (2 Corinthians 6:14-18): behold, the days come, says the Lord, that I will punish all them which are circumcised with the uncircumcised; Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that are in the utmost corners, that dwell in the wilderness: for all these nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in the heart. Jeremiah 9:25-26.
It won’t be any fault on the part of God if anyone in Christ Jesus did not make it to heaven, but the foolishness and unpreparedness of the incorrigible believer who is not living and walking daily in the newness of life, but by perverting his own way, his heart frets his against God. Proverbs 19:3.
Sooner than later, his soul of the incorrigibles shall be wailing in hell, having hated instructions, they contend or fight against them that have genuine concerns for their soul in the Lord. Hosea 4:4. Hebrews 13:17. Woe to her that is filthy and polluted to the oppressing city! She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in the Lord; she drew not near to her God. Her princes within her are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves; they gnaw not the bones till the morrow. Her prophets are light and treacherous persons: her priests have polluted the sanctuary; they have done violence to the law. The just Lord is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he fails not; but the unjust knows no shame. Zephaniah 3: 1-5.
The kingdom of God is a progressive spiritual academy where we go through different stages of formation of spiritual babe unto maturity in Christ through divine purging, breaking, refinement, remolding, chastening for sanctification for greater fruitfulness.
Just as the children of Israel in the wilderness who refused to change because they will not learn to walk in the ways of God, they frustrated his works and purposes by their foolish and prideful behaviors, thus they provoke him to anger, cursed and rejected that they will not enter into Canaan.
The incorrigible foolish believer will never grow spiritually. Being slothful, they don’t know how add virtue to their faith, and to virtue, increasing sound knowledge, and to knowledge, increasing temperance, and to temperance, increasing godliness. If we are not diligent in our walk with God, but are lacking behind in the things which will open heaven’s door for us, who is to be blamed for this? How do we, as individuals secure our name and place in heaven if we do not give diligent to make our calling and election sure? How shall we not fall and fail to make heaven? For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacks these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins. Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:for so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 1:5-11.
The wilderness sins with its consequences are written for our examples unto whom the end of the world is come, that we might be wise unto eternal life, if we heed the warnings therein to rectify our ways and doings before the Lord, lest anyone should fall after the same example of unbelief unto destruction: but the incorrigible and proud fools hope of eternal glory in Christ Jesus is vain and self deceived, for they will not walk and live to sanctify the name of the Lord in their daily walk, and to purify themselves, even as their Lord is pure. 1 John 3:1-4.
The incorrigible fools in the kingdom will never overcome anything, for the way of sinner is hard. They won’t because they don’t know how to die daily to the flesh or be crucified to the world. How can such overcome, if they will not deny themself to carry their cross and to follow after the Lord? How can they overcome, if they will not receive the engrafted word which is able to save them with meekness? For they will not lay apart all filthiness and superfluity of naughtiness. James 1:21.