A voice is crying out in the streets. She calls to the simple, the foolish, the ones who have already disqualified themselves. She gives what no one else can give. And before the foundation of the world, her delight was set on you.

Complacency kills. Not dramatically. Not all at once. One small, passive, directionless step at a time — until a man arrives somewhere he never intended to go and doesn't know how he got there. Proverbs 6:20–7:27 shows us the anatomy of that drift, the irreversible cost it carries, and the only protection that actually works — not trying harder, but being bound to the one who is himself the wisdom of God.

What does foolishness actually look like? Not the dramatic, obvious kind — but the everyday kind that creeps in quietly, compounds slowly, and blindsides you when the consequences finally arrive? In this sermon from Proverbs 6, we walk through several portraits of folly: the surety-taker who speaks away his freedom, the sluggard who can't see past the present moment, the scoundrel whose corruption works its way from mouth to body to heart - and God's own verdict on what all three of them look like from heaven. Each portrait is a mirror helping us to identify our own folly. But they are also windows through which we see the one who bore every abomination on God's list so that fools of every kind could be free.