1. Lesson 3
Proverbs

2. The fool despises instruction
Attitude toward instruction
Wise – Pr. 9:9, 10:8, 10:17, 12:1, 15:31, 19:20, 9:8
By contrast the Fool – 12:1, 13:1, 13:18, 15:12
The fool is mentioned and admonished over 40 times in the book of Proverbs.

3. Teaching a fool Scornful man – Pr. 21:29
Do not waste time on one who will not listen – Pr. 9:8-9, Pr. 23:9
What admonition from Christ parallels this message?
Don’t cast your pearls before swine – Mt. 7:6
Shake the dust off your feet – Acts 13:45-46

4. Learn by Instruction or by Stripes
Rod is for the back of him who is devoid of understanding – Pr. 10:13
Judgments are prepared for scoffers, and beatings for the backs of fools. – Pr. 19:29
A fool will learn less from his punishment than the wise will learn from instruction. – Pr. 17:10

5. Continued Rebellion Destroys
Whoso despises the word shall be destroyed.– Pr. 13:13
Whatever a man sows, that he will reap. Gal. 6:7
The harvest is always greater than the seed sown. – Hos. 8:7
A fool will learn less from his punishment than the wise will learn from instruction. – Pr. 17:10

6. The Bible Identifies Fools
Refusing to listen - Pr. 15:5
The man who says there is not God – Ps. 14:1
The man that knows God’s will but that will not obey – Mt. 7:24-27