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Groundwork Links Episode Library Blog About Listen Connect Donate Sitemap Privacy Policy Episodes by Series Blog Posts by Topic Where to Listen Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Spotify Google Play Music Stitcher TuneIn Alexa Groundwork is brought to you by: 1700 28th Street SE Grand Rapids, MI 49508 3475 Mainway PO Box 5070, STN LCD 1 Burlington, ON L7R 3Y8 Call: 708.371.8700 Toll Free: 800.879.6555 700 Ball Ave NE Grand Rapids, MI 49503 Call: 616-459-6181 Other programs from ReFrame Media: © 1950–2020 ReFrame Media . All rights reserved. User Experience Design by Five Q Web Development by MRP.LLC Play Audio 0:00:03.0 Dave Bast During the late 1940s, a new field of study emerged in science and engineering known as cybernetics. Cybernetics has to do with how machines or social groups or even individuals can be reorganized through the processing of information in order to operate more efficiently or effectively. The term actually comes from the Greek word kubern été s , which means the pilot or steersman on a ship. So cybernetics is all about steering the proper course toward a better way of doing things; really, a better way of life. It is a fancy term for what the Bible calls wisdom, and that is what we want to dig into today on Groundwork . 0:00:47.5 Scott Hoezee From Words of Hope and ReFrame Media, this is Groundwork , where we dig into scripture to lay the foundation for our lives. I am Scott Hoezee. 0:00:54.5 Dave Bast And I am Dave Bast; and Scott, this is the second of a very brief, two-part series, mostly from the book of Proverbs, on the topics of folly and wisdom. The Bible, as we pointed out last week, often describes people as falling into one of two categories; so, in the Psalms it is the wicked and the righteous, but in Proverbs it is the foolish and the wise. 0:01:17.0 Scott Hoezee Yes; and we looked in the first program about folly…we started with a negative part, so we could end now with the positive dimension of wisdom…what we all hope to be…we all want to be wise, not foolish. Nobody wants to be foolish, I don’t think…so we are going to end with that; but we noted, Dave, in the first program that the hallmark of the fool is unteachability… Dave Bast Yes. Scott Hoezee Rooted in pride and arrogance, and in a belief that the world revolves around me; I can make up the rules as I go along; nobody can tell me how to live; I will do it my way, thank you very much—unteachability is the essence of the fool; which means in this program we are going to see a lot about what it means to be teachable, and… Dave Bast Yes, exactly. Scott Hoezee Whom we revere most of all. 0:01:59.0 Dave Bast In the most basic sense, they are the opposite of one another. So, if to be a fool means you don’t listen, you cannot take instruction, nobody can tell you anything—you know it all already; or in another sense it means you cannot foresee where you are headed, you cannot reason out the end of the path that you are on and how it is going to destroy you. The opposite is wisdom, which does listen, which does foresee, which does think ahead; and like folly, who is personified in the book of Proverbs as a lady, wisdom is as well, as we learn from this passage from Proverbs Chapter 9. 0:02:37.2 Scott Hoezee 1 Wisdom has built her house; she has set up its seven pillars; 2 she has prepared her meat and mixed her wine; she has also set her table. 3 She has sent out her servants, and she calls from the highest point of the city, 4 “Let all who are simple come to my house!” To those who have no sense, she says, 5 “Come eat my food and drink the wine I have mixed. 6 Leave your simple ways and you will live; walk in the way of insight.” 0:02:58.3 Dave Bast 7 “Whoever corrects a mocker invites insults. Whoever rebukes the wicked incurs abuse. 8 Do not rebuke mockers or they will hate you. Rebuke the wise and they will love you. 9 Instruct the wise and they will be wiser still. Teach the righteous and they will add to their learning. 10 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. 11 For through wisdom your days will be many and years will be added to your life. 12 If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you; if you are a mocker, you alone will suffer.” 0:03:34.5 Scott Hoezee Now, for our listeners who are paying really close attention, then you will realize that we read the end of Proverbs 9 in the previous program on folly, and a lot of the language is exactly the same. Both wisdom and folly are standing near their houses at the high point of the city, calling the simp...