Don’t Feed The Fools

We tell a story about obeying a Holy Spirit prompt that interrupts the day and changes a life, then we pivot into Proverbs 9 to draw a sharp line between mockers who resist truth and wise people who grow from correction. We challenge ourselves to stop confusing accountability with rejection, audit what we “feed” our minds, and practice a reverent fear of the Lord that produces real spiritual maturity. 
• reading Proverbs 9:7–12 in NIV and The Message 
• why correction triggers mockers and strengthens the wise 
• the difference between honest questions and prideful arguing 
• modern analogies for stubbornness including “Remind Me Later” living 
• correction as protection rather than rejection 
• staying teachable when entering a new season or industry 
• how social media algorithms shape attention, mood, and spiritual appetite 
• feeding the spirit with prayer and Scripture instead of outrage and noise 
• fear of the Lord as reverence that changes posture and decisions 
• accountability and consequences versus blaming others 
• self-check questions to spot defensiveness and pride 
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Transcript

A Toast To The Misfits

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It is to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the ones who see the world differently, who don't fit neatly into boxes, and refuse to live by someone else's script. You can quote them, you can disagree with them, you can glorify them, or vilify them, you can shake your head at their ideas or be inspired by their courage. But the one thing you cannot do is ignore them. Because they change things. They disrupt what's comfortable, they challenge what's normal, and they push the human race forward. Sometimes with loud revolutions, sometimes with quiet persistence that changes everything over time. They see possibility where others see limits. They dare to dream out loud when the world tells them to be silent. They take risks, they stumble, they rise again, and they keep going. Not because it's easy, but because they can't imagine doing anything else. These are the ones who remind us that every great leap forward was once considered impossible. So here's to them: the ones who won't sit down, won't be quiet, and won't stop until the world is different.

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Pulled Over By The Holy Spirit

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This is why you should always listen to the Holy Spirit no matter what. I heard the Holy Spirit said, I need you to stop. Then the third time, I need you to stop. I pull over the side of the road, and then this is embarrassing. I said to myself, Well, I'm gonna have to back up now. So now it's your responsibility, Lord, that I don't get a ticket backing up on the freeway. Because I had to back up probably about a quarter mile. So I'm backing up, backing up. I back up, get in front of the car. Now I can see the car. There's a young woman in there, and she's got a couple of car seats in the back. And so now I'm thinking, okay. Um this is a woman. I'm the man. I'm very cautious with all that stuff. Have been forever. So I get out of the car on the freeway and I'm raising my hands like this. I said, I'm I'm in understand, I'm in a businessman. I said, I'm here to help you, not hurt you. I said, Do you need any help? And she's just looking at me, she's inside the car, just travailing, crying, just broken. And so I come up to the window and I said, Do you need any help? And she just shook her head. And I looked at her lap, and she had a 357 Magnum sitting on her lap. Two kids in the backseat in car seats crying. She's on the side of the road. She had stopped, she was gonna kill herself. And I talked to her, I said, Can I pray for you? I told her who I was. I said, I'm a believer. And diffused the situation. Never again. Never again. If the Holy Spirit prompts me, even if I well, maybe not. Doesn't make any difference how dangerous, how bad for me, not my wife. I might my I don't let her stop on the side. But for me, I have never missed a time since because of that moment. This was a young lady who knows what she was going to do with her children. But I I don't know if you've ever seen a 357 Magnum, Smith and Wesson. It's a huge gun. It's they're huge. And she's a small, petite young woman, probably in her 20s, and that giant pistol is sitting in her lap. And I'm going, oh my gosh. I almost I almost traded this moment for a steak and a massage at the Marriott. And that was it. I mean, that was a life-changing time. Divine timing. Wow, that is amazing.

Welcome And The Theme Revealed

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Hello. We would like to welcome you to the Food Facade Facecast with my husband, your host, B-Rob. So without further ado, here's B-Rob.

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Hey guys, it's B-Rob, a FaithCast fan. We want to welcome you today to the podcast. Uh, we're gonna be calling this one Don't Feed a Fool. Man, it's God speaks today. I'm telling you, it's a good good stuff, good stuff. I mean, question for you ever tried to help somebody that didn't really want your help, acted like they did, but their actions speak differently. You know? You gave advice, they got offended, you showed love, they mocked you, you tried to warn them and they attacked you. I can relate. I mean think of it this way. You ever tried to like okay, just give you a modern analogy. It's kind of like updating somebody's phone when they keep hitting Remind Me Later button. You see, eventually the the phone becomes too slow for the operating system, and it starts glitching. Not because the upload or the update download was not available, it's because you kept hitting Remind Me Later refusing it. You see where I'm going, like you see where I'm going with this? And spiritually, that's happening every day. A lot of people are living like that. You know? So today we're gonna talk about wisdom, correction, pride, humility, and why some people grow and other people stay stuck.

Proverbs 9 Read Two Ways

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We're gonna be looking in Proverbs chapter 9, verses 7 through 12. And like I said, we're gonna call this one Don't Feed the Fool. So if you have your Bibles, turn to Proverbs 7 through 12. I'm gonna I'm gonna read it twice. I'm gonna read the first one through NIV, and then I'm gonna read the second time through the message so you can see the difference. Um but it says, Whoever corrects a mocker invites insults. Whoever rebukes the wicked incurs abuse. Do not rebuke mockers, or they will hate you. Rebuke the wise and they will love you. Instruct the wise, and they will be wiser still. Teach the righteous and they will add to their learning. Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. For through wisdom your days will be many, and your years will be added to your life. If you are wise, your wisdom will reward you. If you are a mocker, you will suffer alone. Okay, so now we're gonna read it through the message, which is a more um contemporary version of the Bible. So it says, if you reason with an arrogant cynic, you will get slapped in the face, confront bad behavior, and get a kick in the shins. So don't waste your time on a scoffer, and you'll get you'll get for your pains is abuse. But if you correct those who care about life, that's different. They'll love you for it. Save your breath for the wise, they'll be wiser for it. Tell good people what you know, they'll profit from it. Skilled living gets its start in the fear of God, insight into life from knowing a holy God. It's through me, Lady Wisdom, that your life deepens and that your and the years of your life ripen. Live wisely, and wisdom will permeate your life. Mock life, and life will mock you. You see, the verbiage is different, but the message is the same. It's just a little more uh modern.

Stop Feeding People Who Mock

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You see, the truth isn't for everybody. I mean, Solomon starts with something that it really honestly feels modern. He says, Whoever corrects a mocker invites insults. So, where do we see that today? Sounds like Facebook, right? Or X. You can tr you can post the truth respectfully, but still people want to hang you. Not because you lied, but it but it threatens their matrix system, their belief system, their ego. Because a mocker doesn't want transformation, they want validation. You see the difference there? That's why wisdom says stop wasting truth on people committed to misunderstanding you. You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink. You can give a person a book, but you can't make them read it. That doesn't mean you stop loving them. You see, Yeshua loved everybody. Yeshua knew the difference between somebody who was struggling and someone who was hardened by the world. You see, there is a big difference between a person asking questions and a person arguing to protect their own pride. Let me give you a modern analogy. You can't pour premium gas into a car with no engine, an electric car, right? And the issue's not the fuel. The issue is what you're pouring it into or what's trying to receive it. Some people don't reject wisdom because it's wrong. They reject wisdom because accepting it would require them to change. Because we know that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and trying to come up with a different result. The problem is you cannot help someone who is addicted to being right. That's why some people never grow. Because every correction feels like disrespect to them. Every disagreement feels like an attack. Every conviction feels like a judgment. But people searching for wisdom or wise people respond differently. Look at verse eight. Rebuke the wise, and they will love you. That's a powerful thing. You see, a wise person doesn't say, How dare you. A wise person says, Thank you for helping me become a better person. That's spiritual maturity. That's maturity in wisdom, in truth. And we're all guilty.

Why The Wise Love Correction

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Let me give you another modern analogy. Athletes pay instructors and coaches to point out their flaws. Think about that. A professional athlete, an NBA player, MLB player, NFL player, doesn't say, don't tell me how I shoot. Don't tell me how I throw the ball. Don't tell me how I block. Don't tell me how I hit the ball. No. They want correction because correction produces elevation. It makes them better. But see, a lot of people spiritually want blessings without accountability. They want promotion without the pruning. They want the influence without the humility. They want the platform without the obedience and the discipline and the hard work that it takes to get it. But let me tell you something, wisdom says. Let me tell you something, our father says. Correction is not rejection. Let me say that again for somebody listening today. Correction is not rejection. I had to learn this really quick.

Correction Is Not Rejection

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And this is something I just went through. I just went into an industry, just got licensed for insurance for Georgia. Well, you've got all these big-time money-making uh 30-year-olds that I'm now working with. And I come in, you know, 27 years finance director in the car business, thinking I'm, you know, I was the man when I left, but you see, I'm starting a new whole new thing. So I took that attitude in with that. And it took me a week or so. It took me a couple weeks or so to figure out that, hey, I need to learn to become teachable from these young cats because they're obviously doing something right. That's wisdom. But it took me a minute to figure that out. I had all this doubt in my head. I already knew more than they did. Ah la la la la. I don't trust anybody. You know, I had those demons that I was dealing with. But let me say it again. Correction is not rejection. Sometimes God corrects you because he refuses to let you destroy your future. Now look at verse 9. It says, instruct the wise and they will be wiser still. Let's keep going. You see, wise people keep growing. Wise people don't think they know everything. Wise people don't have an agenda against anybody.

Algorithms Shape Your Spiritual Diet

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Let's go back to social media, let's go back to Facebook and look how dangerous social media algorithms can become and see if you don't know this, if you don't have the knowledge of how it works, then you have no clue. You're just being played. You're just an NPC, which is a non-playable character, which we they call the computer back in our day, when you're playing a video game. You're Mario. Nowadays, the more you click on something, the more it feeds you the similar content. It reads exactly what you are doing. And now it listens to you, and the cameras watch you. You can have a conversation. I'm on, I'm on, I'm on, let's do something. Let's talk about boats real quick. Let's talk about fishing boats real quick. I don't fish, but let's say maybe I wanted to buy a fishing boat. Let's see if the phone's doing it. Y'all check my Facebook in about an hour because I'm gonna see if I have any ads and then I'm gonna post them. But that's how it works. It's very dangerous. The more you click on something, the more it feeds you. If you click on outrage or if you if you're arguing with somebody, that's the more you're gonna get. If you feed it pride, you're gonna get more pride. If you feed it foolishness, you're gonna get more foolishness. And then eventually you can't recognize the wisdom from the junk. And you see, spiritually, that's how the heart works. Whatever you repeatedly consume start shaping your thinking. That's why I don't, I just go on Facebook in the morning to post because every time I try to log in during the day, it just puts me in a different bad mood. It's kind of like letting the influence affect my day. And I cannot, I have to bless people. I can't have that negative stuff flashing at me all day. But every time I log in, it's something new. But that's the way it works. It consumes and starts shaping the way you think. That's why a lot of people can quote memes better than scripture. Look at modern society. I bet if you pulled up somebody's phone, or you pulled up your phone, maybe, I don't know. You'll see the different apps and how much screen time you have. I mean, people spend five hours on TikTok, four hours arguing on Facebook, X. And the rest of the day just consuming negative garbage, whether it be commercials, whether it be rabbit holes, whether it be whatever the case is, whatever your fancy is, whatever your uh. Anyway, but you'll you'll you'll do all that, but won't spend ten minutes a day in prayer. And then you wonder why anxiety's winning. You wonder why pain's winning. You wonder why disease is winning. Because you find yourself in dis-ease all day long. And you feed yourself that. Where your treasure is, your heart'll be. You can't starve your spirit and expect strength in spiritual warfare. Wisdom requires intentional feeding. Wanting to learn. Not just soaking in everything that this world has to offer. We already know you live in a video game with a whole lot of things to keep you distracted. And like I said, where your treasure is, that's where your heart will be. And we're trying to protect our heart. You cannot starve your spirit and expect strength in spiritual warfare.

Fear Of The Lord Explained

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Let's look at verse 10. It's one of the most famous verses in Proverbs. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. Now, fear here doesn't mean like terror, like a horror movie fear. It's more of a reverence, like honor, a holy awareness of the God who created you. The place you came from, the light that you came from. It's kind of like walking into a courtroom and recognizing a judge. You change your posture, you change your words, you're not with your boys, you recognize authority. There's fear there. The fear of the Lord means understanding that He is in control. He's not just your homeboy, he's holy. But see, the world, our culture, wants a God that can comfort. Oh, it's okay. He has a disease. He's just addicted. Oh, it's okay. They want a God that comforts, not a God that corrects. They want a savior without surrender. But you see, wisdom begins when people realize God is God. And you are just made in the image of God trying to strive to be like Jesus. And that's that, my friends, is the game changer. When you realize that God is in control and you're not, and you check your emotions at the door. Because somebody told me once that you cannot trust a person who is ruled by their emotions. And I firmly believe that. And I've seen that, and I've witnessed that. And when you understand that God is God, God is the holy, God is the beginning, God is the end, God is the great I am, the great author in the sky, the great healer, then you won't rely on this world. It will change your relationships, it will change the way you talk, it will change the way you look at money, it will change your life privately and openly. It will change what you choose to entertain and it will change what you choose to normalize because wisdom is not information. Wisdom is the alignment with the Father, with the God of gods, with the one who created you. And that's something we should all be striving for daily.

Accountability Versus Blame

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Now look at verse 12. It says, if you are wise, your wisdom will reward you. If you are a mocker, you alone will suffer. This right here, this right here, it's huge. Because a fool usually blames everybody else. A fool will blame the government, their parents, the church, their spouse, their society, haters, everybody. They'll take no responsibility or accountability for themselves. Now, spiritual warfare is real. Some battles are not attacks. Some battles are consequences of us. And that's real talk. Just like the fact that I ignored my health for 50 years. Eventually it caught up with me. That's whose fault is that? I could blame it on society, I could blame it on everything else. But I've known for the last 10 years and still drank alcohol, still ate fast food, still, that's my fault. That's not spiritual warfare. If I destroy my relationship with pride, that's my fault. That's not spiritual warfare. If I refuse wisdom and teaching repeatedly, if I refuse to listen to somebody who I look at, and they're doing good or better, and they have wisdom, and I refuse that wisdom, eventually, life will start teaching me painful lessons. Because I was stubborn, and that's the way life works. Proverbs says the mocker suffers alone. You want to know why? Because foolishness isolates itself, pride isolates itself, arrogance isolates itself, but wisdom builds, wisdom heals, and wisdom, most of all, listens.

Questions To Check Your Heart

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So, guys, I urge you out there, use discernment, stop resisting correction if it's going to better you and your body and your soul. Questions you might want to ask yourself: Do I get defensive every time somebody challenges me to try to make me better? Growth only begins where defensiveness ends. Check yourself before you wreck yourself. What's feeding your soul? What's feeding your spirit? Your soul has a diet just like your body. If your mind only consumes outrage, gossip, lust, fear, negativity, if you're on Facebook all day, if you're letting people rent space in your head, you might want to check yourself before you wreck yourself because your spiritual immune system has weakened. Watch out for negative influences. Choose to be teachable. It was one of the hardest things I've ever had to do. But now I do it with enjoyment. I want to learn. Because I've seen the wisest people in the room are usually the most humble. The people closest to God don't act like they know everything. They'll sit and listen. They ask for God to give them wisdom every day. I've learned to do that. Not just knowledge, but wisdom. You want to know the difference between the two? You see, knowledge tells you, and science tells you, tomato is a fruit. But see, wisdom tells you not to put the fruit in a fruit salad. So, Faith Gas fam, this passage is really just asking you one question. What kind of person are you becoming? Are you becoming the mocker, or are you becoming the one who is searching for wisdom? Because one rejects correction, the other grows from it. One protects its pride, the other pursues truth. One blames everybody else, the other takes accountability and lets God transform them to be a better person. And you know the beautiful thing? God can make a wise person out of anybody willing to listen. You don't have to be smart. You're not too old to grow. You're not too broken to learn. You're not too far gone for God's wisdom. All you have to do is humble yourself before God and He will guide you through your life. I promise

Prayer And Final Challenge

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you. Let's go to the Lord in prayer. Father, thank you today for your wisdom. Lord, just help us not to be prideful. Help us not to be defensive. Help us break the hard barrier that the world has grown around our heart. Lord, please give us all teachable spirits, minds, and bodies. Lord, just point out where we resist knowledge. Point out where our ego gets louder than the actual truth. Lord, teach us to fear you and honor only you. Lord, please help us feed our spirit more than our flesh. Give us wisdom in our relationships, our decisions. Lord, help us with our conversations that we may spit truth and light and live our daily lives in search of wisdom. Lord, let us become people who grow, not like the mockers who are alone. It's in Jesus' holy name, Yeshua the Christ, we pray these things. Amen and hallelujah. Well, guys, this has been another episode of the Food for Thought Faith Cast. If it touched you, please share it with anybody. I'm your host, B. Rob. And I'm just a simple person trying to grow. Just remember everybody wants elevation, but wisdom is what keeps you there. Wisdom is what grows you and elevates you. Guys, I love you. God loves you. And if you do not have a relationship with Christ today, you better get right. Word.