Look what the Bible says in verse 9, "But avoid foolish questions."
Okay these are the things that are not profitable.
These are not benefiting our fellow man.
These are not helping anyone, edifying anyone, saving anyone.
He said avoid foolish questions.
He's saying avoid genealogies and contentions and strivings about the law for they are unprofitable
and vain.
They are worthless.
They don't matter.
Let's look at some of these things that don't matter.
Foolish questions.
Now, foolish questions, I've heard it said before, the only stupid question is the one
you don't ask.
Well, that's not biblical because a lot of times that saying should be the only foolish
question, the one that you just asked.
The Bible says that there are foolish questions and the Bible says that we should avoid foolish
questions.
What's a foolish question?
Translation into modern English, a stupid question.
People who ask dumb questions.
People who ask questions like, "Can God make a rock so big that he could not pick it up?"
You know, just these strange paradoxes or, "Hey, did Adam have a belly button?"
Or you know, "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?"
You know, just this kind of navel-gazing stupidity and just dumb questions and just questioning
things that don't really need to be questioned.
You know, here's a dumb question.
My dad was in a Sunday school class, somebody raised their hand and said, "Well, when the
Bible says preach the gospel to every creature, you know, what about dogs, you know, every
creature?
What about the animals?
Do we need to get the gospel to the animals?"
You know, that's just the kind of stupidity where you don't even want to dignify it with
an answer.
Questions like that don't even deserve to be answered, which is why the Bible says, "Answer
not a fool according to his folly, lest thou be found to be like unto him."
So the Bible tells us avoid foolish questions.
And there are people who sit around doing nothing more than just asking dumb questions
and just questioning things that really don't matter, they don't profit.
And I think a great question was found there in James chapter 2 that we should ask ourselves
every day of our lives when it comes to the things that we read, the things that we do,
the things that we watch, the things that we spend our time on, what does it profit?
That question should be something we ask ourselves every day about everything we do.
What does it profit?
Is it vain?
Is it something that doesn't matter?
Or is it good and profitable unto men?
That's a question that should be asked every day of our lives.
And there are so many people who waste so much of their lives on things that don't matter.
And they don't ask themselves the question, what does it profit?
What's the point?
Why does it matter?