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published: true
categories: sins/anger
document: blog
location: Biblicalblueprints.org
date: "2015-07-30"
author: Phillip G. Kayser
title: The Wrath of Fools Is Heavy
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**The Wrath of Fools Is Heavy**
BB Blog
By Phillip G. Kayser
07-30-2015


<span id="OLE_LINK1" class="anchor"><span id="OLE_LINK2"
class="anchor"></span></span>In my devotions yesterday I was struck with
both the sadness and the hope of Proverbs 27:3. It says, “A stone is
heavy and sand is weighty, but a fool’s wrath is heavier than both of
them.” We have all witnessed the wrath that flows from fools (those not
living by the wisdom of Scripture or the fear of God). Jesus said that
if such fools hated Him, they will hate His faithful followers (John
15:18-19). The godly are bound to suffer from the wrath of fools at some
point in their lives. In my lifetime I have received thousands of death
threats, hate mail, shouted insults, and other expressions of wrath from
evolutionists, LGBTQ community, socialists, and other so-called
“Progressives.” The reason for their wrath? I lovingly preach and apply
the whole Bible to the whole of life and am not afraid to call what is
an abomination to God to be an abomination. Mary Wagoner of Ontario,
Canada has been arrested four times and spent four years in jail for
peacefully protesting abortion and seeking to counsel abortion-bound
women. Countless Christians have suffered under the wrath of fools.

And this passage likens such wrath to big bags of sand and heavy stones.
It is frustrating to deal with because it is so irrational. The wrath of
fools does not have a godly goal, is destructive rather than helpful,
does not produce the righteousness of God, disregards Biblical law, and
in many ways feels like a heavy stone that we would rather not have to
deal with. The wrath of an ungodly divorce leaves one or both of the
parties feeling heavy and sad, and it continues to fester and erupt for
years. It is unleashed like a dump truck against the divorced spouse and
against the church that lovingly rebukes or disciplines. The wrath of
Planned Parenthood is irrational (ignore the facts) and it is viciously
unleashed upon anyone who speaks the truth about that organization. The
wrath of the LGBTQ agenda is meant to suffocate discussion and debate
and to punish any who do not fully celebrate their fool’s errands.
Anyone who is fully invested in advancing God’s kingdom and His
righteousness has experienced the description of a fool’s wrath given in
Proverbs 27:3.

But here comes the hope: Scripture says that God can cause even the
wrath of man to praise Him (Psalm 76:10). How can a heavy and useless
stone praise God? Sometimes this happens because the heavy stone of
wrath discredits the fool who hurls it and it marginalizes him.
Sometimes this happens because the stone of wrath falls on the fool and
destroys him just as it destroyed Haman in the book of Esther. Sometimes
it happens because the person suffering from the fool’s wrath gets
sympathizers whose minds and hearts are changed. But certainly the wrath
of fools makes them look like fools – devoid of any of the beauty of
God’s wisdom and character. It is one of the primary ways that God
exposes the foolishness of fools and makes them less attractive or
influential.

So if God’s sovereignty extends to even a fool’s wrath (Psalm 76:10) and
if God causes even a fool’s wrath to work together for God’s glory and
for our good (Romans 8:28), then we ought to rejoice and count it a
blessing (Matthew 5:11-12) when God makes us suffer under its weight.
The wrath of fools is not just a heavy stone for us to endure; it
becomes a heavy stone that crushes the fool himself and will eventually
crush Satan’s kingdom. May God cause the wrath of America’s fools to
backfire and to expose the foolishness of life that is independent of
God’s grace and His law. The book of Esther shows how God can easily do
so by His providence.