Sermon
Wisdom is Quiet, Folly is Loud
Stonebrook Community Church
Speaker: Matt Heerema
November 23, 2025 · 32 min
Summary
Solomon warns that wisdom is powerful yet quiet and easily overlooked, while foolishness is loud and destructive. Through Ecclesiastes 9-10, the sermon shows how sin and folly damage work, relationships, and society, then pivots to Jesus as the poor, wise man who quietly saves through his death and resurrection.
Highlights
We are often the foolish sinners described in this passage. Our words consume us. We fall into pits that we've made. We beat our heads against the rocks and we get bitten by the snakes of life.
Jesus is like the poor, wise man who saves us. Jesus who came into the world not as a great king with large siege works, but he came to a small town in a poor family as a quiet life of wisdom from above.
Because Jesus, the wisdom of God, quietly, calmly, in our place, in the courtroom of heaven, he took all that destruction, all that guilt caused by our sin, caused by our foolishness.