Everybody on the steadfast back to see everybody here to see you found a seat go ahead and start in 74
274 come unto me 70
We love you. Just ask you to bless this church your son's name for our next song
We're gonna actually go to our handouts
You haven't received a handout in your bulletin raise your hand and we'll get one to you
Redeemed and if you don't have a handout, we will make sure one gets to you
Raise your hand usher can bring you a bulletin if you don't have one on the front
We have our Bible Murray verse of verbs 31 verse 19
If you quote this to myself pastor Shelley or an usher 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 churchwide soul winning times meet right now
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 meet us at 10 a.m
On Saturdays, please remember to turn in your Sony 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. It'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 continuous basis 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
Katherine Craker and her baby girl on Saturday
February 3rd from 1230 to 2 30 p.m
At the church nurselings only preferred these RSVP to Lauren Millstead 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 gonna 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 123 24
743 p.m. Nine pounds six ounces 22 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 Psalm 126 Psalm chapter
126 in your King James Bible or laminated handout
It's are being passed around of solemn son is the heaviness of his mother treasures of wickedness profit nothing but righteousness
Delivereth from death Lord will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish cast at the way the substance of the wicked
He becomeeth poor that dealeth with a slack hand
But the hand of the diligent maketh rich he that gathereth in summer is a wise son
But he that sleepeth and harvest is a son that causeth shame
Blessings are upon the head of the just but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked the memory of the just is blessed
But the name of the wicked shall rot the wise and heart will receive commandments
But a prating fool shall fall he that walketh up rightly walketh surely
But he that perverteth 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 covereth the mouth of the wicked hatred stirreth up strife's 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 ereth he that heighteth 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 a 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 bringeth forth wisdom
But the frower tongue shall be cut out the lips of the righteous know what is acceptable
But the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness. 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
I'm 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 gonna 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 first Timothy 3 1 says this is a true saying if a man desire the office of a bishop
He desire it 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 showed toward his name in 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 gonna forget your work and labor of love and I desire that all of you
Keep doing that until the end verse 12 why that e be not
Slothful but followers of them who through faith and patience
Inherit the promises look if we're gonna get blessings from God in this life
If we're gonna be used mightily of God, we cannot be slothful
We cannot be lazy. And so the title 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 second Thessalonians 3 a lazy jerk
Refuses to work a lazy jerk refuses to work. That is the first attribute of someone who is lazy
Second Thessalonians chapter number three look at verse 6 now
We command you brethren in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that you withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly
And not after the tradition which he received of us for yourselves
Know how you 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 insample 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
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 migration policy 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 has nothing to do with that
Ecclesiastes 1018 look what it says why would we want to withdraw ourselves from them think about this
Ecclesiastes 1018 by much
Slothfulness the building decayeth and through idleness of the hands the house drop it 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 2nd. Thessalonians 3 notice verse 7
It says for yourselves know how you ought to follow us
So they're the good example for we behave not ourselves disorderly among you neither
Did we eat any man's bread for not but rot 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 first 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 teat 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 second. 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 were free
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 two young
Able-bodied men that looked like they were my age
Asking for money and you know what I did. I walk I drove up to him. I rolled down my window
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 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 starved to death. That's what the Bible teaches
Disgusting. Let me tell you something. Look go to 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 half
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 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
Then 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 says I went by the field of the slothful
Are we talking about lazy people and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding and low 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 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. It 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 sty
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 catch up 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 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 if you've 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 sweatpants and their swagging
Sweatshirt and all this just weird clothing. They just disheveled. They don't look put together
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
It's on the ground into the street. Welcome to South Dallas. You wonder why their neighborhoods are messed up because they're lazy
That's why well, it's cuz the police are racist. Shut up. You idiot. It's cuz they're lazy. That's why it's cuz 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 gonna pick up their mess
They're too lazy to walk two feet to the stall. They're gonna let some car hit it
They're gonna 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 cart narks. 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
He just says like oh put your shopping cart back. Boom. He throws it on their car. I'm not recommending you do that
Okay, you're gonna 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 gonna 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. Is there something about shopping carts and lazy jerks put your shopping cart away
Go to Deuteronomy chapter 23 Deuteronomy chapter 23. Look 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'd 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 people that these places are full of wicked people that don't follow the Bible and it's 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 maybe the reason God God's hand has been taken off the life of these homeless bums
It's 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 a 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 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 and say 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 said fast 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 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 six
Proverbs chapter number six. It's number one. A lazy jerk refuses to work number two
A lazy jerk is habitually messy number three 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?
Oh slugger, so the implication here is saying like man you sleep a lot
How long without sleep Oh slugger 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 by poverty come as one that traveleth and they want as an armed man
You know here in the Proverbs is saying like man. When are you gonna stop sleeping?
What 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 1108 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 say hey, how long without sleep?
Oh 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 gonna lose a lot of food and a lot of money, right?
Just 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 gonna 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 a harvest why because if you sleep during harvest
You're just gonna lose out on all of that all that work for the year, right?
and so look there's gonna be seasons in life where you're gonna 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 gonna have gathering seasons in your life
Sometimes your family life is gonna cause you hey, you need to sleep less
Sometimes your job is gonna be really busy
You need to sleep less sometimes you have a big project that you want to take care of and it's gonna cause you to
Sleep less, you know, sometimes you want to prioritize your life, you know, like let's say 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 gonna have seasons where you don't sleep as much
That's okay. Hey, don't be lazy and sleep too much
You're gonna 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 is 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 gonna deteriorate your body's not gonna be healthy. You're gonna be feeling really bad
You're gonna 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 gonna 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 first 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 now
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 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 gonna be hard for you to do
How are you gonna preach the gospel? You're just like if you were died today, are you understand?
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 they take the extreme view of this verse like all bodily exercise. It's not profitable for anything
Don't exercise what a waste of time. Just read the Bible 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 traveleth and they want as an armed man notice people who are very poor
Oftentimes 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
Okay, I'm gonna give you a couple 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 4 a.m. Every day. He's successful Elon Musk
He goes to bed at 1 a.m. Every day and wakes up at 7 a.m. Every day
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong wakes up at 5 a.m. Every day the square CEO former CEO of Twitter Jack Dorsey wakes up at 5 a.m
Every day and goes for a six mile jog Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz wakes up at 4 3 a.m
And is in his office by 6 a.m
And look these guys they're laboring for the meat which perisheth obviously
They're you know 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 and 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 4 a.m. To be a good Christian not saying everyone has to wake up at 4 a.m
To be successful, but what I am saying is that you cannot oversleep all the time and be successful
You're someone that just loves sleep 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 gonna read a couple verses. So just listen to these verses
Genesis 1927 says an Abraham got up early in the morning
Genesis 28 18 says and Jacob rose up early in the morning mark 135 says in the more and in the morning
Rising up a great while before day
He went out and departed into a solitary place and they're 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. This is successful people carnally and 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's probably working in the night. Some people have that schedule. That's okay
We know that he was still a hard worker good of Proverbs 12
Number one a lazy jerk refuses to work number two lazy jerk is habitually messy number three a lazy jerk sleeps too much and number
Four 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
You know know where the animals are it takes a lot of planning it takes a lot of work
But once he kills his animal 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 and the least thing I guarantee you're unfaithful in other things if I wish that we could just like look through people's hearts
And know if they put away their card 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 was his least is unjust also in 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 they're 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 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 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 lazy people
Why because they're wasting the small amount that God has blessed them with they're wasting it
Who 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 for poor know 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 gonna mess up
They're gonna make mistakes and this is why customer service by the way has gone downhill
It's cuz 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 cuz they're lazy and they just want to give up immediately if it's not the most easy thing possible
Hmm. Also the heads 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 gonna 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 is out of ink and he's like, you know, sometimes I just want to tell these people
Well, let's just all die then 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 sermons over we're out of coffee
Or you can make coffee or you can think of a solution but lazy people they love to just come up to you
Here's the problem. Oh
Think of a solution. Come on. Stop being so lazy Proverbs chapter 20. Look at Proverbs 20 verse 4
Let's just 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 and 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 this is Christians
Hey, don't let the cold weather stop you from going soul winning. Praise God yesterday at brother Jason 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 first Chronicles 11
I'm gonna read for you turn to first 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 his 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 first Chronicles chapter 11 verse 22. I love this guy Ben Aya Ben Aya
I think I think he's from Idaho because it talks about the snow
Okay, this is Ben Aya the son of Jehoiada the son of a valiant man of Capsule 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 gonna 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 gonna 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 hard-working 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 go 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. 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
Holy 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 in Romans 12 1
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 in deserving 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 gonna serve the Lord with all of our might
With all of our strength that we're gonna be good testimonies that we're gonna 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 Setfast 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 hearts and that you bless the rest of this
Day Jesus name we pray. Amen
Alright in closing, let's go to song number 100 song number 100 day by day song number 100
singing out together on the first