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But it says in Proverbs 12 24, the hand of the diligent shall bear rule, but the slothful shall be under the tribute. The first thing I want to point out there is that again, if you don't need an overseer all the time and a guide, pretty soon you'll be the supervisor, you'll be the manager, you'll be the boss, you will bear rule in that situation. But then look at the second part there, it says but the slothful shall be under tribute. Now what is tribute in our modern vernacular, what would we call tribute today? Taxes, right? So the Bible is saying here that the slothful are going to be under tribute, they're going to be taxed. And I think this applies to our nation as a whole. Because we've become a slothful nation, we're heavily taxed. Why? Because people are not willing to go out and work and pay for themselves and care for themselves, so we have this entitlement system where we have so many people who are on welfare and so many people who are on unemployment and so many people who are just getting paid that could be out working, but instead they just get paid to do nothing and because our society is slothful, government expands. Because you see if everybody in America worked hard, if every man would go out and work hard and provide for his own house and make the money to pay the bills, here's the thing, we wouldn't be clamoring for all this help from the government, but we have all these people clamoring for the handout today and voting for the people that are going to give it to them. Why? Because they're slothful and sluggardly, because our society has become slothful and we don't have this ethic that says, you know what, let's work hard, let's do it ourselves, let's pay our own way. It's just no, no, my name's Jimmy, I'll take all you give me, is what it becomes, okay? Instead of going out and doing it yourself. So that's why the slothful shall be under tribute. Now unfortunately we all have to pay tribute, no matter, and the ones who work the hardest pay the most, but we're all under tribute because just as a society we've just become slothful and everybody wants something for free. And you know when you give people something for free you've removed the incentive to work for it. You know why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free, okay? And you take away people's incentive to work when you just give them everything. And the bottom line is today that when people are given a handout, for example unemployment, let's say it's given to them for 16 weeks, they start looking for a job at week 15. If it's given to them for 50 weeks they're going to start looking for a job at week 49. It's just human nature, I mean if it's free, you know what I mean? Now look, I'm not criticizing you if you've taken an employment because you paid into the crazy thing your whole life, you know? I've never taken it, but I'm not going to judge people because that's between them and God and whatever they want to do, and I can understand the philosophy that says well I paid into this my whole life, you know, give me some of it back. But you know what, if you're just going to take that time and just sit around and do nothing, you're going to become a sluggard and a slothful person that's going to ruin your life. You'd be better off to just go to work, just do something, do some kind of work, stay busy every day of your life, because listen, men were born to work. We were created to work. Adam was told, you know, you're going to work by the sweat of your face all the days of your life, and we are created to work, and let me tell you something, when you don't work as a man, you're depressed. Show me a man who's unemployed, show me a man who doesn't work, and I'll show you a man who's depressed. They're down. I mean many people, even when they retire, they get depressed and down, unless they find something else to do, some other productive work to do with their life. People will sometimes live and be healthy, and as soon as they retire they die just because they just fall apart. Because we're designed to work, we want to be busy, and when you see a man who is not working, and he's down, and then you see him get a job, it's like you just see a spring in his step, he's happy, he's doing something, even if it's not the best job in the world, it's just, it makes people happy to go to work and to do something, and people get depressed when they don't work, and they get tired, and they get depressed, and then they go to the doctor to figure out what's wrong with them. Because they're so tired, and they're so depressed, and they're down, and then they're prescribed the anti-depressant. Right? And then it's like, oh man, I just hurt all over, I'm just pain all over my body. It's just from sitting around. Sometimes if you get up and get moving, the pain will go away. You know, you just need to use, I mean your body is not designed for the sedentary life of 2013 America. That's not what God created your body to do. And so when you live this really sedentary life where you drive to the mailbox to get your mail and then drive back, even though it's like 100 feet away, when you just live this completely sedentary life, you drive everywhere you go, then you take the elevator, then you sit in a padded chair, you don't do any hard work physically, yeah it's great, it's comfortable, but you know what, your body's paying the price, and then all of a sudden you wonder why you have all this pain throughout your body. It's because you've abused your body with a sedentary lifestyle and eating junk food.