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Good morning, everybody, and welcome to Steadfast Baptist
Church. It's great to see everybody here this morning. If
we can go ahead and find our seats, we will go ahead and get
started. Once you've found a seat, go ahead and find a
hymnal, and we'll start in song number 274. Song number
274, come unto me, and I will give you rest. Song number
274.
Hear the blessed Savior calling me of rest. O ye heavy laden,
come to me and rest. Come no longer tarry, high your love
will bear. Bring me every burden, bring me every care. Come
unto me. I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Hear me
and be blessed. I am eager and lowly. Come, then trust my
might. Come, my yoke is easy, and my burden's light. Are you
disappointed? Wander here and there, dragging chains of doubt
and loaded down with care. Do unholy feeling, struggle in
your breast. Bring your face to Jesus. He will give you rest.
Come unto me. I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you.
Hear me and be blessed. I am eager and lowly. Come, then
trust my might. Come, my yoke is easy, and my burden's light.
Stumbling on the mountains, dark with sin and shame.
Tumbling toward the deep, those who see me wait. By the
powers of sin, be rooted and oppressed. Hear the tender
shepherd come to me at rest. Come unto me. I will give you
rest. Take my yoke upon you. Hear me and be blessed. I am
eager and lowly. Come, then trust my might. Come, my yoke
is easy, and my burden's light. Have you, by temptation,
often conquered him? Has a sense of weakness brought the
stress within? Christ will sanctify you if you'll claim his
best. In the Holy Spirit, he will give you rest. Come unto
me. I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Hear me and be
blessed. I am eager and lowly. Come, then trust my might.
Come, my yoke is easy, and my burden's light.
Great singing everybody. Now let's open up the service with
a word of prayer. Lord, we love you and we just thank you again
for Steadfast Baptist Church. Such an awesome church to gather
and praise your name and sing unto you, Lord. We love you and
we just ask you to bless this church in your son's name. Amen.
All right, for our next song, we're going to actually go to
our handouts. If you haven't received a handout in your
bulletin, raise your hand and we'll get one to you. Redeemed.
Raise your hand. If you don't have a handout, we will make
sure everyone gets to you. Redeemed. Redeemed, and I love to
proclaim it. Redeemed by the blood of the lamb. Redeemed
through his infinite mercy, his child, and forever I am.
Redeemed. Redeemed. Redeemed by the blood of the lamb.
Redeemed how I loved him, his child, and forever I am.
Redeemed and so happy in Jesus' still language, my rapture
can tell. I know that the light of his presence with me does
continually dwell. Redeemed. Redeemed. Redeemed by the blood
of the lamb. Redeemed how I love to proclaim it, his child,
and forever I am. I think of my blessed redeemer. I think of
him all the day long. I sing for I cannot be silent. His love
is the theme of my song. Redeemed. Redeemed. Redeemed by the
blood of the lamb. Redeemed how I loved him, his child, and
forever I am.
Alright, great singing.
Alright, good morning everyone. Welcome to Steadfast Baptist
Church. Thank you for coming today. If you raise your hand,
Usher can bring you a bulletin. If you don't have one, on the
front we have our Bible memory verse of the week, Proverbs
31 verse 19. If you are 18 or younger and you can quote this
to myself, Pastor Shelley, or an Usher, after the Wednesday
service, you will receive an ice cream. If you open up your
bulletins, on the left side there we have our service times
listed, 1030 on Sunday morning. 430 p.m. is our Spanish service
that we have every Sunday and Sunday evenings at 530 p.m.
Also, our church has been going through the Book of Revelation
on Wednesdays at 7 o'clock p.m. Please make note there of the
church soul winning times. All of the church-wide soul winning
times meet right here at the building. And then regional soul
winning times meet at various locations throughout the DFW
area. I know Brother West has been doing Arlington. That's
been a really fruitful time. So if you're looking for a really
receptive time to go soul winning, I'd love to have you
guys come out and meet us at 10 a.m. on Saturdays. Please
remember to turn in your soul winning maps to the bin when
they're completed. And then make note there of our
salvations. Please continue to report your salvations to your
captain. If you don't have a soul winning captain, let me
know after the service and I can help you with that. Make
note there for our expecting ladies, please continue praying
for them. Also our prayer list that's updated weekly. Let's
make sure we're praying for all those as well. And if you have
a prayer request, you're always welcome to send that in at the
email address listed there. And just note that every week it's
updated. So if you just tell us a prayer request, it'll be in
there for one week and then it'll be gone. So continue to
let us know if you want that to be prayed for on a continual
basis. On the back we have our upcoming events. On February
3rd, all ladies are invited to attend a baby shower in honor of
Catherine Cracker and her baby girl on Saturday, February 3rd
from 1230 to 2 30 p.m. at the church. Nurselings only
preferred. Please RSVP to Lauren Milstead and bring a side dish
or dessert to share. One thing I forgot to update in the
bulletin is it says that the next preaching class is the
10th, but I just got scheduled to preach at OKC that weekend.
So the next preaching class is actually going to be on the
17th and I'll have that updated in the future bulletins. But
note that the next preaching class is February 17th. And
then, of course, the best news of the bulletin.
Congratulations to the Gore family on the birth of Travis
James Gore born one twenty three twenty four seven forty
three p.m. nine pounds six ounces twenty two inches long.
Congratulations. Congratulations grandparents. There you go.
All right. That's it for our announcements. Let's go ahead
and go to Psalm 126 on one twenty six.
All right. That was Psalm chapter one hundred and twenty
six in your King James Bible or laminated handout.
When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion. We were
like them that dream. It was our mouth filled with laughter
and our tongue with singing. Then said they among the
even the Lord had done great things for them. The Lord had
done great things for us. Whereof we are glad. Turn again
our captivity. Oh Lord. As the streams in the south. They
that sow in tears shall reap in joy. They that sow in tears
shall reap in joy. Then said they among the even the Lord
had done great things for them. The Lord had done great things
for us. Whereof we are glad. We that go forth in weeping
bearing precious seed shall doubtless come again. Shall
doubtless come again with rejoicing. Bringing his sheaves
with him. Then said they among the even the Lord had done
great things for them. The Lord had done great things for
us. Whereof we are glad. All right. Great singing everybody.
Now as the offering plates are being passed around go ahead
and turn your Bibles to Proverbs chapter 10. That's Proverbs
chapter number 10.
. Proverbs 10 the Bible reads the Proverbs of Solomon a wise
son make it the glad father but a foolish son is the heaviness
of his mother treasures of wickedness profit nothing but
righteousness deliver it from death the Lord will not suffer
the soul of the righteous to famish but he cast at the way
the substance of the wicked he become with poor that dealeth
with a slack hand but the hand of the diligent maketh rich he
that gathers in summer is a wise son but he that sleepeth in
harvest is a son that causes shame blessings are upon the
head of the just but violence covered the mouth of the wicked
the memory of the just is blessed but the name of the
wicked shall rot the wise in heart will receive commandments
but a prating fool shall fall he that walketh up rightly walketh
surely but he that perverted his ways shall be known he that
winketh with the eye causeth sorrow but a prating fool shall
fall the mouth of a righteous man is a well of life but
violence covered the mouth of the wicked hatred stirs up
strife but love covereth all sins in the lips of him that
hath understanding wisdom is found but a rod is for the back
of him that is void of understanding wise men lay of
knowledge but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction the
rich man's wealth is his strong city the destruction of the
poor is their poverty the labor of the righteous tendeth to
life the fruit of the wicked to sin he is in the way of life
that keepeth instruction but he that refuseth reproof arith he
that hideth hatred with lying lips and he that uttereth a
slander is a fool in the multitude of words there wanteth
not sin but he that refraineth his lips is wise the tongue of
the just is as choice silver the heart of the wicked is little
worth the lips of the righteous feed many but fools die for
want of wisdom the blessing of the Lord it maketh rich and he
addeth no sorrow with it it is as sport to a fool to do mischief
but a man of understanding hath wisdom the fear of the wicked
it shall come upon him but the desire of the righteous shall be
granted as the whirlwind passeth so is the wicked no more but
the righteous is an everlasting foundation as vinegar to the
teeth and as smoke to the eyes so was the slugger to them that
sent him the fear of the Lord prolongeth days but the years of the
wicked shall be shortened the hope of the righteous shall be
gladness but the expectation of the wicked shall perish the way
of the Lord is strength to the upright but destruction shall be
to the workers of iniquity the righteous shall never be removed
but the wicked shall not inhabit the earth the mouth of the just
bring it forth wisdom but the froward tongue shall be cut out the
lips of the righteous know what is acceptable but the mouth of the
wicked speaketh forwardness let's bow our heads for a word of prayer
Father in heaven I just pray Lord that you would bless our entire day
here at church and especially the soul winning time coming up later
and I pray that you would fill brother Oz with your spirit and just
give him clarity of mind as he preaches to us and enable him to preach
the message you've laid on his heart with boldness Lord and help us to
pay attention and open ears in the room so that we can receive the
preaching of your word and apply it to our lives and I pray this prayer
in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. Amen. Thank you Pastor
Shelley for allowing me to preach today and thank you all for being
here this morning. Very excited to preach for you guys this morning
and evening and we're here in Proverbs chapter number 10 and let's
start reading in verse number 26 where the Bible reads as vinegar
to the teeth and as smoke to the eyes so is the
sluggard to them that send him so observe
how in this verse the authority figure is very irritated
by sending someone that's a sluggard it's like having vinegar
on your teeth right and maybe some of you crunchy mamas know about this with apple cider
vinegar you know you put that apple cider vinegar on your teeth too long it's going to cause issues right
you don't have vinegar on your teeth having smoke in your eyes if you've ever
been camping and the smoke just keeps following you wherever you go just it's annoying
it's obnoxious right and so you know God doesn't want to use
lazy people God gets annoyed with lazy people because that's what a
sluggard is I want to give you the definition of the word sluggard and the word slothful
because in the Bible these two words are consistently used to
describe a lazy person so here's the definition of a sluggard
a person who is habitually inactive or lazy
look we all have the flesh and I'm sure from time to time
we all struggle with the sin of laziness but not all of us are habitually
lazy not all of us are sluggards that's someone that is habitually lazy
a sloth is someone who has a habitual disinclination
to exertion laziness indolence okay
and so what can we learn what lesson can we learn right off the bat
from Proverbs 10 26 is that God wants to use
hard working people he doesn't want to send sluggards why
because it'd be like vinegar to his teeth it'd be like smoke to his eyes
God is not interested in using people that are lazy he wants to use people
that are hard working go to Hebrews chapter number 6 Hebrews chapter number 6
while you're turning there I'll read for you
1 Timothy 3 1 says this is a true saying if a man
enter the office of a bishop he desireth a good
work so notice when God wants to use someone in the capacity of a pastor
that person has to desire the work
why because serving God is hard work God wants to use hard working
people to serve him and not just pastors because notice in Hebrews 10
or Hebrews 6 verse 10 it says for God is not unrighteous to forget your
notice work and labor of love which you have
to go toward his name and that you have ministered to the saints and do
minister and we desire that every one of you not just the pastors
every one of you do show the same diligence to the full
assurance of hope unto the end so he's saying look God's not going to forget your work and
labor of love and I desire that all of you keep
doing that until the end verse 12 why that ye be not
slothful but followers of them who through
faith and patience inherit the promises look if we're going to get
blessings from God in this life if we're going to be used mightily of God we
cannot be slothful we cannot be lazy and so the
title of my sermon this morning is don't be a lazy jerk
don't be a lazy jerk we are living in a time
where laziness is just at epidemic proportions in our
country it is disgusting just seeing the fruits of laziness
in our nation and this morning I want to give you five attributes
of a lazy jerk we don't want to be lazy jerks here so let me tell you what they're like
number one go to 2 Thessalonians 3 a lazy
jerk refuses to work a lazy
jerk refuses to work that is the first attribute of
someone who is lazy 2 Thessalonians chapter number three look at verse
6 now we command you brethren in the name of our Lord
Jesus Christ that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh
disorderly and not after the tradition which he received of us
for yourselves know how ye ought to follow us for we behaved not ourselves
disorderly among you neither did we eat any man's bread for not
but wrought with labor and travail night and day that we might
not be chargeable to any of you not because we have not power but to make
ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us for even when we were with you
this we commanded you that if any would not work neither
should he eat for we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly
working not at all but our busy bodies now them that are such we command
and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ that with quietness they work
and eat their own bread notice here Paul is saying
hey I'm hearing reports that some of you are walking disorderly
what does it mean to walk disorderly well the Bible defines itself in verse 11
it says for we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly
notice working not at all
busy bodies but our busy bodies so what is this this is a lazy
jerk this is someone that's refusing to work what are we talking about
we're talking about the vast majority of the homeless population in America
people that are just lazy jerks people
that not necessarily have a disability that causes them to not be able to work
we understand that we have compassion for those people but people who can work
that just decide that it's their lifestyle it's their lifestyle
choice to be homeless and to not work those
people the Bible says are disorderly and we're supposed to withdraw ourselves
from those people those people are absolute lazy
jerks this is your illegal alien living on the
welfare programs of the United States that's wicked as hell
you don't come to some country and just decide to be a lazy bum
and do nothing productive for the society get the hell out of our country
that's disgusting we don't need people like that here
let me tell you the migrationpolicy.org has some statistics on
illegal migrants of working age they say that
of working age illegal aliens it says 4%
of them are unemployed but then it says 30% of them
are not in the labor force so they're just playing
word games but really what they're saying is 34% of illegal immigrants
of working age are not working at all
how disgusting why would we want to welcome people into
our country that do nothing the Bible says
hey withdraw yourself from that person doesn't say give that person money that
refuses to work what a joke why would you need to withdraw
yourself from these people well keep your place here and go to Ecclesiastes chapter number 10
Ecclesiastes chapter number 10
you say you're racist no I'm against people that don't work I don't care what color you
are you come here from a European country and you don't work get the hell out of our nation
we don't like you here I don't care what color you are it has nothing to do with that
Ecclesiastes 10 18 look what it says why would we want to withdraw ourselves
from them think about this Ecclesiastes 10 18
by much slothfulness the building decayeth
and through idleness of the hands the house droppeth
through notice what slothfulness does it causes things to decay
laziness will destroy a nation
laziness will destroy a church it'll destroy a home
it'll destroy a business it'll destroy everything that lazy
people are involved with and our nation will be destroyed
if it's full of a bunch of people that don't work
and we cannot allow that to happen we have to withdraw ourselves from these people
go back to 2 Thessalonians 3 notice verse 7 it says for yourselves
know how you ought to follow us so they're the good example
for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you neither did we eat
any man's bread for naught but wrought with labor and travail night
and day think about the apostle Paul if you study the
New Testament the apostle Paul was not paid for his
spiritual work he had the right to be paid for it and it's totally biblical
for pastors and full-time Christian workers to be paid for their work
that's the ideal situation that's that's good but he didn't even use that power
he was working a full-time job and
being like the hardest working Christian missionary that's ever lived why
to be an example to say like hey this is how you should be
be like the apostle Paul stay there let me read for you 1 Corinthians 15 10 it says
but by the grace of God I am what I am and his grace which was bestowed
upon me was not in vain but I labored more abundantly
than they all so you know God has given us all grace
God has saved us all by grace we're not saved by any works or any
merit of our own but praise God for people like the apostle Paul where
when God bestows grace on him it's not a total and complete waste
because let me tell you something people that just get saved and do nothing for God you're just like
the lazy bum that doesn't want to work a real job you're just like the illegal
immigrant that wants to just come into our nation and just live off the teet of the
government and not produce anything of value what's the difference between you and them anyways
nothing go to first
or go back to 2 Thessalonians 3 look at verse 10 this is what it says
for even when we were with you this we commanded you notice
this is the word of God that if any would not work neither
should he eat what is Paul saying he's saying if you refuse
to work if you refuse to have a job if you refuse
to be productive you should just starve to death
that's what the Bible teaches and you know what shame on any
stupid bleeding heart Christian that would give money to a
homeless person that's an able bodied man the other day
I was at Chipotle and I was leaving Chipotle and on the side of the road
there was 2 young able bodied men that looked like they were my
age asking for money and you know what I did
I drove up to them I rolled down my window and I said get a job
and guess what if everyone was like me
they wouldn't be on the side of the road they wouldn't be on the side of the road because
even if just 50% of the people yelled at them they probably would
eventually have some sort of shame convicting their heart right but you know what they did to me they just
flipped me off right oh give me your money
I'm just entitled to it screw you man you lazy devil starve
to death that's what the Bible teaches disgusting
let me tell you something look
go to Proverbs chapter 13 Proverbs chapter 13
we need
people to work today Proverbs 13 look at verse 4
the soul of the sluggard desireth
notice this person that's lazy he wants things he desires
things just like we all do right but notice and hath nothing
but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat notice the lazy person
he desires things but he has nothing it doesn't say that he has little
right because there's a lot of hard working people in America that have little
but you want to know why someone has nothing because they're a
sluggard because if you work hard in 2024
in the United States of America you will have something even if it's
little even if it's just a humble apartment even if it's just a humble vehicle
that was made in the 80s or something or in the 90s I drive a vehicle made in the 90s
look you still have little but if you have nothing it's because you're
a sluggard it's because you refuse to work and
God is not pleased with those people let me tell you something even if you work a menial job
even if you don't have a lot of skills even if you aren't necessarily pleased with your line
of work God is happier with you if you just work hard at that job
than like these lazy bums that don't work at all God at least is pleased with you
for working hard go to Proverbs 24 so number one a lazy
jerk refuses to work hey work hard don't be a lazy jerk
number two a lazy jerk is habitually messy
a lazy jerk is habitually messy look at Proverbs 24
verse 30 it says I went by the field of the slothful who we talking about lazy
people and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding
and lo it was all notice grown over with thorns and nettles
had covered the face thereof and the stone wall thereof was broken down
so notice we go to the possessions of the lazy which here is
described as a field that's this lazy person's possessions and how is it described
thorns have overgrown it there's nettles all over the ground
the stone walls broken up you know what this sounds like this sounds like soul winning in South Dallas
this sounds like soul winning in Duncanville this sounds like soul winning in Cedar Hill
why because they're lazy a lot of these people not all of them but a lot of people that live in extreme
poverty it is because they're lazy and here's the thing let's say that you are poor and you live in one of these neighborhoods no problem
why can't you take care of your stuff though does being poor prevent you from cleaning up your house
being poor prevents you from not having a disaster
stye I mean I was out soul winning yesterday in these apartments and there was this one
door that we knocked and it looked like someone had like sprayed ketchup
all over the door and just like sticky stuff all over the wall and stuff like that
it's like why does that exist because they're lazy that's why
because their child makes a mess and they're too lazy to clean it up
and I'm telling you it is a common theme lazy people are just habitually
extremely messy extremely disheveled and it doesn't
just apply to their home it applies to other areas of their life
okay look at homeless people they don't have a home right but aren't they continually
just super messy I mean wherever their little domicile is
aren't they just just covered in filth and their poor little dog is covered in filth
and there's trash everywhere and there's hell on the floor
and there's trash everywhere and there's heroin needles and there's alcohol
bottles everywhere why because they're lazy that's why
because they're just habitually messy
think about how lazy people dress have you ever been to Walmart at midnight
it's a sad place that's a really sad place you have
all these you know lazy people walking around
with their sagging you know sweat pants and their
swagging sweatshirt and all this just weird clothing they
just dishevel they don't look put together and it's funny because like you look at
old footage of America it's like you watch like a baseball game in the
1940s and everyone's like dressed like me at a baseball game right it's like you
go to the store and you're dressed like this you go everywhere you're dressed like you know nice
and now it's just like all these welfare heads just zombies
just shoveling through life aimlessly they can't even get dressed they're so lazy
they're just messy how about people who litter
people who litter are lazy jerks
do not litter do not let your kids litter
one day I was out there mowing the lawn of this church and I saw this
jacked up car drive by and just throw a whole bag of McDonald's out of the car
on the ground in the street welcome to South Dallas
you wonder why their neighborhoods are messed up because they're lazy that's why
it's because the police are racist shut up you idiot it's because they're lazy that's why
it's because they throw their trash on their streets
lazy jerks litter here's one that just pisses me off
okay put your shopping cart away
you degenerate lazy bum okay I almost named this
sermon put your shopping cart away okay let me tell you
you could tell a lot from a person that doesn't put their shopping cart away
they have no consideration for anyone else someone else is going to pick up
their mess they're too lazy to walk two feet to the stall
they're going to let some car hit it they're going to let someone walk over it what a lazy
thing to do put your shopping cart away I saw this
funny YouTube channel it's called carton arcs has anyone seen this this guy his
whole channel is he shames people for not putting away their shopping cart
he has he has like these big magnets that says like I'm lazy bones
and he throws it on people's cars and he just says like oh put your shopping cart back boom he throws it on their
car whatever I'm not recommending you do that okay you're going to get shot but man
you should be ashamed if you don't put your shopping cart back why because the Bible describes
people that are lazy as being messy and what do we see go to
the grocery store in a bad neighborhood and you're just going to see shopping carts everywhere just a mess
just ridiculous hey go to downtown Portland what do you see
shopping carts everywhere not even in a shopping area just
everywhere there's a shopping cart there's something about shopping carts and lazy
jerks put your shopping cart away go to Deuteronomy chapter
23 Deuteronomy chapter 23
God desires cleanliness it's something God actually
cares about I'll prove it to you Deuteronomy chapter number 23
Deuteronomy 23 look at verse 9 it says when the
host goeth forth against thine enemies then keep thee from every
wicked thing if there be among you any man that is not
clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night
notice then he shall go abroad out of the camp get the uncleanness
out of the camp we don't want the uncleanness in our camp he shall not
come within the camp but it shall be when evening cometh on he shall wash himself
with water hey homeless people wash yourself with water
and when the sun is down he shall come into the camp again
thou shalt have a place also without the camp whither thou shalt go forth
abroad and thou shalt have a paddle more like a
shovel upon thy weapon and it shall be when thou wilt ease thyself
it's a euphemism for using the restroom when thou wilt ease thyself
abroad thou shalt dig therewith and shalt turn back and
cover that which cometh from thee for the Lord
thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp to deliver thee
and to give up thine enemies before thee therefore shall thy
camp be holy that he see no unclean thing in thee
and turn away from thee notice God wants you to cover
the crap because he doesn't want to walk through your camp and it be disgusting
and unholy look God doesn't want to walk the streets of Portland today
God doesn't want to walk the streets of Seattle today
God doesn't want to walk the streets of San Francisco today and is it any coincidence that these
places are full of lazy jerks that these places are full of
wicked people that don't follow the Bible and it just so happens
to be that their cities are disgusting that there's just filth
everywhere that there's just needles and human dung
and trash and piss all over the city
you know maybe the reason God's hand
has been taken off the life of these homeless bums is because they're so filthy
because the Bible says here that the Lord walks through the midst of the camp
and that he doesn't want to see any of this filth or he'll turn away from you
so that shows that there's an element of physical cleanliness
that God cares about obviously God cares about the inside
being clean but you know what he also cares about just physical cleanliness too
right God doesn't want to see that disgusting crap
go to Hebrews chapter number 10 Hebrews chapter number 10
but look why are these people so messy there's something wrong with their heart
there's something wrong with someone that is always messy and what is it
it's the fact that they're just inconsiderate and lazy that's what it is and what would motivate
someone to stop being so messy all the time it's called being considerate
look at Hebrews chapter 10 verse 24 I'm taking this verse out of context
but for the purpose of this sermon I think it'll make sense to you look at verse 24
and let us consider ourselves to be a part of this
look at verse 24 and let us consider one another maybe you should
underline that in your bible and let us consider one another to provoke
unto love and to good works and obviously the context of this is
provoking people to go to church but you know what why don't we just consider other people in every
area of our life I'm saying hey if I'm a lazy jerk
and don't put my shopping cart back you know what that means that means someone else has to do it
right if I just throw my McDonald's bag outside of my
car in the middle of the road you know the worker at steadfast is probably just gonna
pick it up you know hey if I just leave my row
a complete disaster someone else is gonna have to pick it up for me
what's the problem laziness what's the problem not caring about
other people not being considerate look you need to think about other
people think twice about what other people are doing
go to Proverbs chapter number 6 Proverbs chapter number
6 number 1 a lazy jerk refuses to work number 2 a lazy
jerk is habitually messy number 3 a lazy jerk sleeps too much
a lazy jerk sleeps too much look at Proverbs 6
verse 9 it says how long wilt thou sleep
O sluggard so the implication here is saying like man you sleep a lot
how long wilt thou sleep O sluggard when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep yet
a little sleep a little slumber a little folding of the hands to sleep so shall thy
poverty come as one that travelth and thy want as an armed
man you know here in the Proverbs they're just saying like man when are you gonna stop
sleeping when are you gonna wake up and just think about homeless people
what are they always doing sleeping they're either begging
for food or they're sleeping begging for money taking drugs or sleeping
drinking alcohol or sleeping that's all they do they're sleeping it is 11.08
a.m. right now I guarantee you there are hundreds and hundreds
of homeless people in Dallas asleep right now
why because they were up till 3 a.m. doing drugs because they don't have a
job and so they stay up all night doing drugs they stay up all night drinking
alcohol being lazy making our city dirty doing
nothing for society and you know what they're asleep right now someone needs to
go over these people and say hey how long wilt thou sleep O sluggard wake up
get up disgusting
wake up you lazy bum Proverbs 10 look at Proverbs 10
verse 5 he that gathereth in summer
is a wise son but he that sleepeth in harvest
is a son that causeth shame now look I think we should
strive to get good sleep I'm not against sleep try to get good sleep it's important
it helps us function it helps our bodies sleep is good for you but
sometimes there's seasons in life where you'll get less sleep than others
because notice he's talking about but he that sleepeth in harvest
is a son that causeth shame look if you just
want to sleep in during harvest your family is going to lose a lot of
food and a lot of money right because think about it you spent all year
long working on this field watering it planting it
taking care of the crops and then now it's time for harvest you got to go
you got to get that stuff out of the ground otherwise it's going to spoil and all of that work
was for nothing all of the money that you put into that is for nothing I mean
when I lived in Idaho I lived in a pretty rural area like
Southwest Ada County and it's like those guys that run farms in that
area like it almost seems like they're working like 24 hours a day in harvest
why because if you sleep during harvest you're just going to lose out on all of that
all that work for the year right and so look there's going to be seasons in
life where you're going to sleep less than others and you just have to realize
that you have to be okay with that that's just how it is you're going to have gathering
seasons in your life sometimes your family life is going to cause you
hey you need to sleep less sometimes your job is going to be really busy you need to sleep less
sometimes you have a big project that you want to take care of and it's going to cause you to sleep less
you know sometimes you want to prioritize your life you know like say hey
I want to start going to the gym maybe that means you have to wake up earlier right
and so sometimes in life you're going to have seasons where you don't sleep as much
that's okay hey don't be lazy and sleep too much you're going to miss out on harvest
Proverbs 19 flip over a few pages Proverbs 19
look at verse number 15 it says slothfulness
casteth into a deep sleep and an
idle soul shall suffer hunger look people that
sleep too much it's actually counterintuitive because they just send themselves into
an endless cycle of exhaustion it's like people they
sleep too much and so they're tired and so they sleep more and then they're more tired
and then they sleep more and then they're more tired it seems counterintuitive
but if you want to feel energized you cannot sleep too much
because what does the Bible say slothfulness just being lazy just not
exerting yourself it casts into a deep sleep and look our
bodies were designed by God to go through struggle
like if you just put yourself in a pod you put yourself in like one of these suicide
pods in Canada which is a silly country that should just be taken over okay sorry
look you just put yourself in one of these pods okay and do nothing
you're just going to deteriorate your body's not going to be healthy you're going to be
feeling really bad you're going to be really tired like our bodies are designed to
work to move to get up to get to work and if you're just
slothful you're just going to be more and more tired more and more tired this is why sometimes
people will say this they'll say like I'm too tired to exercise
but actually the reason why you're so tired is because you're not exercising like if you
exercise it actually gives you energy it doesn't deplete your energy it's a super
good thing for you to do stay there I'll read for you 1 Timothy 4 8 it says for bodily
exercise profiteth little but godliness is profitable
unto all things having promise of the life that now is and of that
which is to come you know I think sometimes people misinterpret this verse
or get too much of an imbalanced view on this verse well they'll read this verse and just
say like hey exercise is not important you know it's not a big deal
don't worry about exercise but the Bible actually saying that bodily exercise
is profitable that's what it's saying it's saying bodily exercise is profitable
but in comparison to godliness it's
it's profitable little why because bodily exercise
only profits you in this life godliness profits you in this
life and the next right so obviously godliness is way more
important than exercise but realize that exercise
is profitable to you in this life on this earth for your whole life
you will have a better time in old age if you exercise your whole life
you will have less health problems if you exercise your whole life and you will
in my opinion be able to be a better servant of God if you exercise
your whole life I actually think that it would help your godliness by being
fit and in shape why because
why because have you ever gone up the triple deck apartments when you're soul winning
right the soul winning apartments that have like three levels on them right
hey if you're out of shape that's going to be hard for you to do how are you going to preach the gospel
you're just like if you were to die today
are you 100% I think I'm going to heaven boom it's like come on
like we need some level of fitness here and that actually
can transfer over to godliness but hey lazy people
are they in shape usually not right they take the
extreme view of this verse like oh bodily exercise it's not profitable for anything don't exercise
what a waste of time just read the bible for 24 hours a day that's the only thing god wants you to do
no no that's not correct go to Proverbs chapter
20 Proverbs chapter 20
Proverbs chapter 20 look at verse 13 it says love not
sleep lest thou come to poverty notice the command for us is to not
love sleep open thine eyes and thou shalt be satisfied with bread
you know we should look at sleep as a means to an end
but not the end itself right so sleep is something I need
so that I could be a high functioning person to be a good husband to be a good father
to work hard for the lord Jesus Christ that's what sleep is for sleep is a tool
but sleep isn't just like the holy grail like oh I just can't wait to go to sleep
all I care about is sleep no like we shouldn't just idolize sleep and love
sleep the bible says love not sleep Proverbs 24
flip over Proverbs 24 verse 33 yet a little sleep
a little slumber a little folding of the hands to sleep so shall
thy poverty come as one that travelth and thy want as an armed
man notice people who are very poor often times it's related
to how much they sleep and people who are very poor
often sleep way more than people who are wealthy and people who are successful
I'm going to give you a couple of examples of CEOs and what time they wake up every day and look
I'm not saying these guys are godly men I'm just saying these guys have succeeded in their craft
these people are successful in the world so here's one the Apple CEO Tim Cook
he wakes up at 4am every day he's successful
Elon Musk he goes to bed at 1am every day and wakes up at 7am every day
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong wakes up at 5am every day
the Square CEO former CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey wakes up at
5am every day and goes for a 6 mile jog
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz wakes up at 4.30am and is in his office by 6am
and look these guys they're laboring
for the meat which perishes obviously they're trying to live for this world and to serve
themselves and for money but these guys are successful and I can tell you one thing that
all these guys have in common is that they don't sleep too much and I'm not saying
that as a Christian or in your life in your job I don't know your situation I don't know your
sleep schedule I'm not saying everyone has to wake up at 4am to be a good Christian
I'm not saying everyone has to wake up at 4am to be successful but what I am saying is that you cannot
oversleep all the time and be successful if you're someone that just loves sleep
you sleep too much that is a recipe for poverty that is a recipe
for not accomplishing much for god in your life
now you don't have to turn here I'm just going to read a couple verses so just listen to these verses
Genesis 19.27 says and Abraham got up early in the morning
Genesis 28.18 says and Jacob rose up early
in the morning Mark 1.35 says and in the morning
rising up a great while before day he went out and departed
into a solitary place and there prayed speaking of Jesus
John 8.1 says Jesus went unto the Mount of Olives and early in the morning
he came again into the temple and all the people came unto him and he sat down and taught them
so look it's a very similar
theme here that all these hard working men the successful people carnally and
the successful people spiritually they all wake up early they all work
hard they all don't oversleep now I think there might be one really successful
man that maybe didn't wake up that early and this is what I think
I think Acts 27 says and upon the first day of the week when the disciples came
together to break bread Paul preached unto them ready to depart on the
morrow and continued his speech until midnight maybe Paul was more of a night owl
than an early bird but regardless of what time Paul woke up let's say he woke
up at 8 let's say he woke up at 9 or whatever I guarantee you he wasn't sleeping
too much and I guarantee you he was working hard and he wasn't loving sleep he was probably
working in the night some people have that schedule that's ok we know that he was still
a hard worker go to Proverbs 12 number 1 a lazy
jerk refuses to work number 2 a lazy jerk is habitually messy number 3
a lazy jerk sleeps too much and number 4 a lazy jerk is a poor
steward a poor steward Proverbs 12 verse 27
says the slothful man roasteth not
that which he took in hunting but the substance of a diligent
man is precious notice someone that's lazy a slothful man
he goes hunting which I've grown up hunting it
takes a lot of work it takes a lot of preparation you have to usually drive somewhere
pretty far you have to usually buy a bunch of specialized gear in advance
and you have to walk deep into the woods and you have to know
where the animals are it takes a lot of planning it takes a lot of work but once he kills
his animal it says that he doesn't roast that which he took in hunting
and think about how crazy that is like when I grew up hunting like the whole
goal was the meat like that's what you want that's the whole reason you even go hunting
it's not just so you can just kill an animal right it's like you want that good elk meat
you want that good moose that good antelope deer whatever it's great
you know but then the lazy person he goes through all that and he doesn't even roast
that which he took in hunting what does he do this is like the person that
starts projects but doesn't finish them I mean he thought I'm going hunting
I'm gonna work hard I'm gonna walk into the woods I'm gonna kill this animal
but then he's like ah it's a little too hard I'm out I'm quitting
wow that's pretty crazy right that's what lazy people are like they're not good stewards
they're not good stewards of the blessings that God gives them God gives them an animal
God gives them meat they don't even butcher it they don't even cook it they just get lazy
and give up go to Luke chapter 16 Luke chapter 16
I love this verse in Luke 16 verse 10
Luke 16 10 says he that is
faithful in that which is least is faithful
also in much and he that is unjust in the least
is unjust also in much think about the
parable of the shopping cart okay if you are so
unjust in the least thing like if you can't put your shopping cart away
I guarantee you you won't work hard when no one else is watching you
because putting away your shopping cart is something that no one's gonna praise you for it when you
do it and most of the time unless the carton arc is around no one's gonna rebuke
you for it if you don't okay it's just one of those things that it's a matter of the
heart it's a matter of integrity and if you are just
unfaithful in the least thing I guarantee you you're unfaithful in other things
I wish that we could just like look through people's hearts and know if they
put away their cart or not because I guarantee you every hiring manager on earth
would not hire someone that doesn't put their cart away because it shows that they're unfaithful
it shows that they don't care about the least things I would
love to see I wish that there was a way to scientifically study correlations between
like violent crime rates and bastard children and people that don't
put away their carts because I guarantee you it's related why
because he that is unjust and that which is least is unjust also and much
but someone that puts their shopping cart away when no one's looking
when no one cares is probably the person that sees a mess at church and
just cleans it up when no one praises them they're probably the person that helps out their
co-worker and goes above and beyond on the job when it's not even their job task
it's not even their duty they're just trying to work extra hard they're probably the person that really
gives it their all for their boss that tries to make the company profitable
that doesn't steal from their boss the type of person that takes
care of the littlest things and poor or lazy people
saying the same thing sometimes sometimes lazy
jerks are poor stewards of the things that they are given they're poor stewards
of the most menial tiny tasks and so God doesn't bless
them with more because when you're faithful with that which is least God often
blesses you with more right and so man you kids
that have your whole lives in front of you and there's just such
unlimited potential in you and God can just bless you so
much you have such an advantage I hope that right now at your very
very young age you develop a hard working character
that you put your dang shopping cart away you throw your trash away
you take care of other people when you see something on the ground you pick it up why just be a
good steward at your age right now and God will bless you
you'll probably grow up to have a great job you'll probably grow up to have a great career you'll probably be
put in trust with something important
man I wish people would just take care of the things that they have that they would be a good steward
Proverbs 18 Proverbs 18
Proverbs 18 look at verse 9 it says
he also that is slothful in his work is brother to
him that is a great waster again what are we talking about
being a poor steward of the things that you're given people that are lazy their brother
they're just the same as people that just waste everything right and this is
why who buys lottery tickets poor
people who buys lottery tickets
who buys lottery tickets lazy people why because
they're wasting the small amount that God has blessed them with
they're wasting it who does the most drugs poor lazy people
who drinks the most alcohol poor lazy people who spends the most on lottery
tickets poor lazy people why because they're not good stewards of the things that they've been given
and a lot of times the reason they're in those positions is because
of their character issues that we're talking about this morning it's not like God
is up in heaven all the time just like forcing people to be poor no a lot of times
it's just the result of our own choices our own choices Proverbs 15
I said number one a lazy jerk refuses to work number two
a lazy jerk is habitually messy number three a lazy jerk sleeps
too much number four a lazy jerk is a poor steward
and number five a lazy jerk gives up easily a lazy
jerk gives up easily look at Proverbs 15 verse 19 it says the way of
a slothful man is as an hedge of thorns but
the way of the righteous is made plain this makes me think about how
lazy people they just give up at the slightest inconvenience
the slightest problem that they face the slightest obstacle
they're just ready to quit if it's not just like the easiest path possible
then they're going to mess up they're going to make mistakes and this is why
customer service by the way has gone downhill it's because our society is just getting more
lazy and they're not trying to do a good job they're not trying to listen to your special order
they're not trying to pay attention why just because they're lazy and they just want to
give up immediately if it's not the most easy thing possible
also the hedge of thorns it makes me think about how lazy people when they're working
all they see is problems look don't be the person that only
just presents problems to people if you're going to point out a problem to people
you should probably have already brainstormed two or three or four or five
solutions before you just say hey here's this problem it's like
man pastor Jimenez cracked me up the other day I was listening to one of his sermons and he was talking
about this and he was like saying you know some people come up to me and they just bring up the slightest
little problem they'll be like pastor Jimenez the printer's out of ink
and he's like you know sometimes I just want to tell these people well let's just all dive in
just quit the church quit the ministry let's just stop serving
God it's like or you could go get another thing of ink and put it
in the printer it's like hey we're out of coffee let's die let's
quit right now the sermon's over we're out of coffee or you could make more coffee
or you could think of a solution but lazy people they love to just come up to you
here's a problem think of a solution come on
stop being so lazy Proverbs chapter
20 look at Proverbs 20 verse 4
I'm just going to start saying that let's just all die that's so funny Proverbs
20 verse 4 says a sluggard will not plow by reason of the
cold therefore shall he beg and harvest and have
nothing look a lot of people will let weather
stop them from working hard whether it's too hot or whether it's too cold
and this is just my observation having lived in northern
states is you see way less homeless people in these northern states you want to know why
because they'll die in the cold they can't survive being that
lazy they'll literally freeze to death but it's like the beaches of San Diego
it's like Galveston Texas and
New Orleans Louisiana all these southern areas got a bunch of lazy bums doing nothing
why because well they don't really have to worry about the cold you could just survive
doing nothing the slugger doesn't plow by reason of the cold
and you know think about this as Christians hey don't let the cold weather
stop you from going soul winning praise God yesterday at brother Jason's soul winning time we had
a packed soul winning time we had tons of people showing up
ready to go soul winning in the cold hey that's the right attitude let us have that attitude
don't go on a six month hiatus of soul winning in the winter right
don't do the same thing in the summer keep soul winning whether it's hot whether it's cold
hey just be tough don't be lazy don't let things
stop you so easily turn to 1 Chronicles 11
I'm going to read for you turn to 1 Chronicles 11 while I read Proverbs
22 verse 13 it says this the slothful man saith
there is a lion without I shall be slain in the streets
so notice the slothful man he goes to accomplish some task
he's on his way to work he's going to do something but there's an obstacle a lion
what does he do he gives up he says man there's a lion out there
I'm done I'm quitting right but what if I told you that there's a man
in the Bible that saw the lion and didn't care he just kept working okay
look at 1 Chronicles chapter 11 verse 22 I love this guy Benaiah
Benaiah I think I think he's from Idaho because it talks about the snow okay
says Benaiah the son of Jehoiada the son of a valiant man of Kabziel who had done
many acts he slew two lion like men of Moab and he went
down and slew a lion in a pit in a snowy
day so he's like it's snowing he's in
a pit there's a lion there I mean you got to be like slipping everywhere in the snow
he sees the lion in the pit he's like I'm just going to go and kill it right
whereas the other guy he just sees a lion somewhere in the streets
and he wants to quit right this guy he sees a pit there's a lion in there
he's like I'm just going to go down into that pit and kill the lion right that's what
hard workers do there's problems there's obstacles
there's excuses but you face those things anyways and what
people don't realize is lazy people and hardworking people often have
the same excuses but one person just quits at their excuses and the
other person just keeps working past their excuses anyways one person
who's lazy won't go soul winning because they have a lot of kids another person has
a lot of kids and still goes soul winning one person who's lazy
and has a lot of kids shows up late to church every single service and some people have
a lot of kids that are always early every single service they have the same exact excuse
one's lazy one's hard working one has character
one doesn't that's the difference Ben Aya it's cold
he's just as cold as the lazy man he's just as in the snow as the lazy man
he's just as in danger of the lion as the lazy man but what does he do he just kills it
anyways right hey just pull out the 44 magnum and take care of this
thing and get back to work don't let your excuses
stop you go to Romans chapter 12 will be the last place that I have you turn
Romans chapter number 12 so just to recap here number
one a lazy jerk refuses to work number two a lazy jerk is habitually
messy number three a lazy jerk sleeps too much number four a lazy jerk
is a poor steward number five a lazy jerk gives up easily
now look at Romans chapter number 12 just in conclusion here Romans chapter 12
verse 1 it says I beseech you therefore brethren by the mercies
of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice
wholly acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service you know I started off this
sermon by giving you the lesson that God wants to use hard working
people I hope you can see that now how against laziness the Bible is
but notice in Romans 12 one God wants us to literally present
our whole bodies as a sacrifice to him meaning all of our
life energy that we have our bodies all of it
God wants to give us all of his strength all of our might everything that we have into
serving God by presenting our bodies as a living sacrifice you
cannot do that and be lazy you cannot follow this verse and be a lazy
person if you're a lazy person you're not presenting your body a living sacrifice
you're holding back you're not working hard Romans chapter 12 look at verse 10
it said be kindly affection one to one to another in brotherly
love in honor preferring one another not slothful
in business fervent in spirit serving
the Lord hey let us not be lazy jerks in this world
let us be good examples as Christians as ambassadors
of Christ that we're going to serve the Lord with all of our might with
all of our strength that we're going to be good testimonies that we're going to be hard workers
not to not to get money not to be some famous CEO but to serve
the Lord Jesus Christ let us work hard let's pray Lord thank you so much for
this day and thank you for the hard workers that we do have here at steadfast Baptist Church
but I pray that all of us would examine ourselves we all can get better we all can
work harder and I just pray that we would lay these things to heart and that you bless
the rest of this day in Jesus name we pray amen
all right in closing let's go to song number 100
song number 100 day
by day song number 100
everybody sing it out together on the first day by day
and with each passing moment
strength I find to meet my
trials here trusting
in my Father's wife
bestowing I've no
pause for worrying
or for fear
he who's heart is kind
beyond all measure
gives unto each day what he
means best lovingly
is part of pain and pleasure
we cling toil
with peace and rest
every day the Lord
himself is near me
with a special mercy for each
hour all my cares
he frame could bear and cheer me
he who's name is
counselor and
the protection of his child
and treasure is a charge
that on himself he made
as thy days thy
strength shall be in measure
is the pledge to me
name help me
name in every tribulation
so to trust
thy promises oh Lord
that I lose not face
reconciliation offer me
within my holy word
help me Lord when toil
and trouble meet
ere to take as from a Father's
hand one by one
the days the moment's fleeting
till I reach the
promised land
Great singing everybody, you are all dismissed.