Lazy Oaf, Get A Grip On Yourself | Dr. Gene Kim

all right proverbs chapter 12 and then uh we'll go to verse 24. the lord lay this upon my heart to preach against this sin and this iniquity and i'm going to preach against laziness today i'm going gonna preach against laziness because you're a bunch of lazy oafs all right proverbs chapter 12 verse 24. yeah amen i had you and mine brother when i made this sermon [Music] we're going to go to we're going to go to proverbs chapter 12 and verse 24 the bible says the hand of the diligent shall bear rule but the slothful shall be under tribute so the passage shows that the hand of the diligent is the one that bears the rule they're the ones that can dominate they're the ones that can climb up the ladder they can make ends meet but the slothful they're the ones that cannot make ends meet and they become the slave and for those who are those of you who are struggling with laziness i think that's the thing in your mind you feel enslaved you feel like that you cannot be more free you feel tied to the body the flesh and you cannot succeed better in life your life is collapsing you're not doing well in your workplace you're not doing well in your school life you're not doing well in your family life you're not doing well in your spiritual growth or maybe you don't even have work and you're god forbid but some people they just uh end up stuck in a basement and they just don't do anything in life and then they end up i heard it's a bad case at japan unless things have changed but people that are like in their 40s and they just stay with under mommy's home and they just play video games all night so we've gotten to a point where it's really bad in this country and in god's home now what's really bad also is because of the covid situation it made people more lazy and more lethargic or it either made people more paranoid and more busy so it has like an either or situation but i believe that this sermon will be a blessing to you and i suspect this as well i'm not saying this is all but i suspect that there are some onliners who are like that they just do nothing but stick at home and this sin has become a great struggle in their lives some of you may have already finished work and some of you may have some kind of health issues where you have no choice but to stay stuck at home the point is when you stay stuck at home you become more lazy that's the point when you stay stuck at home you become more lazy because no one is watching you nothing is giving you motivation and perhaps this sermon is the sermon that you need today or it's just brother jared all right today the title of my message today the title of my message today is lazy oath get a grip on yourself let's pray god my father i pray that you'll please wash away my sins with your holy blood fill within me the power of your holy spirit i'll need to preach what you want me to preach to your people make it a blessing help it to change people's lives in jesus name we pray amen amen all right my first point is the lowsome lazy oath the lowsome lazy oath let's look at proverbs chapter 12 verse 27 verse 27 today we're only going to look at the book of proverbs so if you're struggling with laziness i would advise reading the book of proverbs it has so many verses concerning about the slothful man now notice that this lazy oath what kind of a loathsome life he's living in verse 27 says the slothful man roasted not that which he took in hunting but the substance of a diligent man is precious isn't that very lowsome isn't that gross that's disgusting so basically a person is so lazy that when he hunts and eats his meal he don't even roast it he don't even cook it but the person who's diligent they make sure they take time with their food and they make it precious if you're a lazy person some of you might be guilty of this where you go by hot pockets or something that's quick or you m uh you don't even take time to cook your meal and you just eat it cold and you just get to a point where you're so lazy that you become very lowsome now a good sign that you're lazy is just look at yourself at the mirror are you lowsome i mean like look at your face i mean did you wash yourself now that might sound a little funny to you but it's actually true once you get stuck to a point when you're always by yourself you even struggle to wash yourself to give yourself a good shower to even wash your face brush your teeth you don't change the clothes and you've been wearing it for about a week to two weeks if not three weeks by now god forbid you're wearing the same undergarments for a couple days but but it's gotten to a point where your bed i mean look at your bed i mean uh probably maturity here don't make their beds but if you look at the bed perhaps when you smell the sheet it's a little different and the blankets they don't smell as you know nice now i'm not saying that when you're lazy that it's uh that if you're struggling with a little bit of laziness that you're gonna be totally grotesque but the point is how you can tell a beginning sign of laziness is that just give your room a little bit of a whiff to smell your just smell does it smell a little bit more like you you can't tell the smell is bad until you actually go outside when you go outside and then you go back to inside your home then you realize oh i didn't know it smelled this little loathsome how you can tell you're lazy is that when you look at the pillow sheets give a smell in the room look at the floor is there dust filling up uh around the rooms now in your objects some just uh how you can tell that you're lazy is that when some things are a little lowsome look at your appearance look at your room look at your vehicle look at yourself and you can tell that you've become lazy so if you want to conquer your laziness how you know that you're lazy is that if you give yourself a good surrounding and look yourself at the mirror and when you see that then you know that you you're struggling with the laziness issue and when you see that perhaps maybe you can repent get right with god and try to get a little bit more active and try to get a little bit more involved the laundry pile is getting a little bit higher that's pretty low some the dishes in the sink is just getting a little higher and there now there's now a little bit of a funky smell that means you're lazy that means you're lazy some lazy oats they get to a point where they think that it's a little bit uh that they cleaned enough and maybe it's not spectacularly clean but it's clean enough and then when visitors come in the visitors might go notice some low some things around the place but the lazy person doesn't recognize that you know why they're so used to that they're so used to it so you've gotten that that much to a point how i can tell if i'm getting to a point of laziness is when i look at how lowsome my life is my surrounding is and how i can tell is when i'm around people when i actually get outside and when i do that then i can tell a little bit that oh so i got to be a little bit more cleaner i haven't been as active as much that when's the last time you took out the trash huh and that thing is piled so high that you're starting to squeeze it down with your hand i know what i'm talking about when you live the bachelor life you know things happen right things happen so you squash down the trash uh and you've gotten so low some that you're cooking uh that the time you're spending and cooking is shorter and shorter and even more grotesque and grotesque you don't take care of the you don't eat actually good food one thing i notice sometimes about bachelor people is that they don't genuinely eat good food sometimes or bachelors in pbi actually they don't actually eat take time to eat good food you know why because they're lazy to take time cooking they become a little bit more loathsome you are a you are a christian who's supposed to clean up your temple because your body is the temple of the holy ghost and i think god deserves to live in a better place than where you're living in amen so you got to realize that uh what you're doing is laziness and you need to repent and how you know you're lazy is look how lowsome your life is and you need to clean up yourself proverbs chapter 15 proverbs chapter 15. my second point is the lurid lazy oath the lurid lazy oath look at proverbs chapter 15 and verse 19. look how lurid this guy is proverbs chapter 15 and verse 19. it's horrible the life that he's living in the way that he's walking on is actually very horrendous and lurid look at proverbs chapter 15 and verse 19. the way of the slothful man is as in hedge of thorns but the way of the righteous is made plain so notice that the path and the direction and the way of the righteous man it's plain and it's clear but the lazy man it's all a hedge of thorns it's a horrible lurid path one thing that you've got to realize is that you're doing the christian walk in the path that you're walking in and sometimes some of you are seeking after the will of god but god can clearly show you the steps in the direction and way in your life because you filled it up with thorns through your laziness and unless you can clear that out of the way then the lord can make his way a little bit more clear to you the hedge of thorns is developed because of your laziness now notice it says hedge of thorns that's a difficult life i mean the path is so lurid and horrible that you can't walk well in the path that you're taking it's not smooth it's painful it's thorns hedge of thorns right so that means that every step you take it's like you're hurting yourself you are injuring yourself and that's how you feel how you know you're lazy is that the path you're taking you're in a lot of pain you know there are christians who go through genuine struck who go through genuine suffering and depression and loneliness so that's hard i sympathize with you and we can pray for you but one thing i learned in my own life through my own struggles with laziness uh depression and my own personal suffering a great majority of the times is from your laziness laziness doesn't have to be a person who just sleeps 24 7. you can be a hard worker but there are some things that you're lazy on you're lazy and you're bible reading you're lazy in your prayer life because the excuse you say is you're too busy or something like that lazy people are the type of people who live in a life full of pain but righteous people the way that they're walking on they think of it this way this is just normal i just face it that's it they take it like a soldier any problems quote unquote that happen in life they say this is just normal i have to work this many hours in job i have to work this hard in school i have to uh make time to take care of my family to clean up the place and then to take care of my kids to take care of my spouse etc etc a righteous person who is not lazy will will take reality at its face and then it's just playing to him it's playing is life playing to you or is it complicated to you it's a hedge of thorns isn't it to you it should be more plain than that it should be more plain than that when i pastor a church and then uh back then when i was doing graduate work and etc you know there was a lot of complicated stuff but you know what i had you know one thing i learned this is just normal this is normal this is natural move on problem happening in church oh well you know somebody is about to have a mental breakdown normal move on keep going oh guess what the school work is harder than i thought wow well that's normal all right i'm not the only grad student move on and that's how i live life but a lazy person is one that goes oh and then they fall behind and then they fall behind more and more and then they feel like life is so complicated difficult and hard a lazy person is a person that would say it's so hard to read one chapter of the bible but a righteous person they say three chapters of the bible is just normal to them there are some people who read up to 10 chapters if not more lazy people are the ones whose past become more difficult and complicated a righteous people is just plain to them it's just plain are you that type of person you need if you start to accept reality at its face and you learn to go through it then what happens is you realize that the pain that you thought was painful is actually normal normal things that happen in life and it's not that big of a burden to you look trust me you don't want to live a lazy life because what's going to happen is you're going to over dramatize and you're going to complicate nearly all kinds of things that happen in your life and that's a miserable mental breakdown in your life remember i mean the silicon valley area this is so stinking expensive and everything is going to hell but guess what everyone's struggling with rent everyone's trying to find ways to share things to live in their living situation job and family and school and that's just life i mean if liberals held bound for hell can live through life without jesus christ why can't christians in this silicon bay silicon valley in san francisco bay area we have a hope that's jesus christ look at proverbs chapter 18 verse 9 proverbs chapter 18 verse nine i kind of get a feeling now this is uh not just a few people this is uh pretty much a lot of us who struggle with this kind of issue so i have a feeling i have a feeling here that a lot of us struggle with these lazy tendencies so maybe the sermon can help you at the beginning i thought it would just be a few but it might be a lot more people then look at proverbs chapter 18 verse nine the third point is the lavish lazy oath the lavish lazy oath look at proverbs chapter 18 verse nine he also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster now if you're lazy you're not that far away from doing committing a wasteful life wasteful people if you see these people how much they lavishly spend their money and then go out and do things you might go man why would that idiot spend like uh like so much money on just one meal that day why would that idiot spend that much time on that why would the idiot spend that much money for a better video games and a better computer system so that they can just uh so that they can enjoy things why would that person uh be so wasteful in his money and not be thrifty and wise why do they he has to keep eating out all the time why does that person have to keep eating out all the time why can't the person cook his own food because the person could be lazy the person could be lazy a person is lazy because you can tell by how much they waste time and money okay how much they waste time and money you're not that far away from a waster you know a person who wastes so much money just uh living a life of sin gambling and drinking that person is uh wasting as the same amount of time the same amount of waste as you are just sitting in your room all day long not committing those sins you know what you both have in common you both are just committing different sins at all that's all but you're both wasting time it doesn't change that good more if you're a lazy person you're going to be a person that tends to spend waste more time and more money if you doubt me then uh uh look at your sleeping times now it's gotten an extra hour now right you added 30 more minutes now haven't you the time watching television and then internet and yeah online are sorry if it hurts your feeling but you know doing facebook and then youtube social networks instagram twitter and etc and etc it's gotten to a point where now it's not just uh it's normal every day where you do four hours but you don't realize it until you look at your iphone that says this is how much time you spent on the phone and you go whoa you don't realize it that's what laziness does it makes you waste waste time it makes you waste money you know how i know that you're lazy that bible reading has gotten fewer fewer times prayers got fewer fewer times and then the convenience of your flesh you spent more time on you've uh stretched out your playing video games a little longer and then your bible reading has gotten shorter then i know you're lazy that's a little bit of being more fleshly being more fleshly how you can tell you're lazy is how much you're wasting time you are wasting time when you skip bible reading prayer and skip coming to church you think you're saving time right that's what lazy people think i'm saving time by not coming to church because i've got so much imagination figment of imagination stuff to do that's what lazy people do and then what happens is actually no you're the you wasted time by not coming to church that's the thing a person thinks that uh that's what happens look i struggle with those lazy tendencies here and there and i understand that mentality and thinking so if i'm hitting somebody here it's because i shared the same thing what happens is that you feel like that if i uh skip my bible reading skip my prayer and then skip coming to church skip soul winning and etc i could save more time no you used more of that time on trust me in sleeping in tv and god forbid your sins and then your own convenient time shall i park it over here am i hitting something how much time have you wasted the bible says redeeming the time because the days are evil you need to get back your time you need to get back your time go to proverbs chapter 19 verse 15. proverbs chapter 19 verse 15. there's a lot more proverbs has a lot of things against laziness look at proverbs chapter 19 and verse 15. my fourth point is the lethargic lazy oath the lethargic lazy oath look at proverbs chapter 19 and verse 15 slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep and an idle soul shall suffer hunger the lethargic lazy oath what he spends his time is being more lethargic sleeping and a person just being idle and what happens is that you skip meals now i had some i had that happen to me sometimes sometimes you get to a point when uh you're so uh bound to laziness that you even skip meals and i'm ashamed to say that did happen to me one time before well not one time this happened to me several times before all right if i'm gonna be honest right so it did happen to me several times before what happens is when you're in a lazy world and then your what happens is you're so attracted to sleep and then sleep becomes more pleasant than eat than just eating a meal and your stomach might rumble and grumble and you'll just be willingly your flesh will just be immune and even ignore that that's what happens when you become lazy is that you sleep more often and that uh you skip meals you even skip meals according to this verse the lethargic lazy oath the dangerous thing about that is how you know you're lazy is that you're struggling more with sleep now did you hear what i just said people who struggle with sleep sometimes it could be pressure and a lot of other things don't get me wrong but you've got to realize that you got to look at yourself and you got to ask yourself i wonder if it's because of my laziness when you're lazy you do have sleep uh you do struggle with sleeping and you do sleep longer that's unbearable you know that you spend long time sleeping that's very difficult you spend long time sleeping but then at the same time when you're spending a long time sleeping you can't even sleep that's pretty bad that's pretty bad uh i was doing some research and in my research they mentioned why lazy people get to be more sleepy and they would like to take those extra siestas and then sleep like probably 12 hours through the night etc is because when you're lazy you're not being active and you're being still and you're not get when you're not moving around much you're not getting the oxygen your body needs your body needs oxygen so that it can become more energetic and motivated you desperately need that it is so important that you don't struggle with sleep issues if you struggle with sleep issues and you've been sleeping much longer much longer lately then you're struggling with laziness and you got to look at yourself perhaps laziness it could be other issues don't get me wrong i'm not accusing somebody but i'm just saying that it could be the issue of laziness it could be the issue of laziness so i'm not just accusing you of you're lazy that's why you're struggling with sleeping no everybody has issues health issues uh they got problems going on in the home or in the workplace etc it happens all right but i think it's about time that you put that aside and look at yourself and ask yourself i wonder if i've been lazy i wonder if i've been lazy you got to get out of that sleep mode and you got to put oxygen into yourself i mean i mean just open the windows and get a breath of fresh air early in the morning don't sleep through the morning and then you miss out the fresh uh morning air and when you do that man you're you're definitely losing oxygen and then you're gonna be lazy the rest of the day so don't be lethargic you need to get out you need to conquer that sleep method you need to have oxygen and so you need to move around more i need to move around more uh but here's one thing that the lord just put on my mind so you might you got to be careful you got to be careful that um it could be genuinely that you're under pressure stress life is hard and complicated and you got you're suffering through something at the home which is why you're struggling with sleep but ask yourself this back at the previous points right are those thoughts actually from laziness where i talked to you before a lazy man does what he makes life complicated he doesn't take reality at its face and say this is normal in life if i mean look i mean if if job is hard school is hard and then family life is hard and the christian life is hard you got to realize this if there's a great if there's a lot there's a lot of people who go through the same things and if they are going through the same things like you then you're just being lazy about it other people they're just taking it normal at their face like everyone's struggling this so this is just reality and i just gotta go through it that's a dangerous thing as a lazy person is that you take these over dramatic things that should be normal in life and then if you take these over dramatic things and use that as an excuse for yourself that you can't sleep well then that's dangerous then you got a double lazy issue because one the root cause is actually not the pressure or the suffering but it's just that you're lazy that's why you're having sleep issues and secondly all those thoughts about i'm suffering this suffering that these are all from lazy thoughts because they don't take reality at its face am i making any sense here all right let's go to proverbs chapter 19 verse 24 and the second passage proverbs chapter 26 verse 15. proverbs chapter 26 verse 15 and the second one is proverbs chapter 19 and verse 24. proverbs chapter 26 verse 15 proverbs chapter 19 verse 24. my fifth point is the laid-back lazy oath the laid-back lazy oath proverbs chapter 19 verse 24 the bible reads solomon repeated two times that's the interesting thing about proverbs sometimes solomon repeated two times because to show how uh how bad this sin is laziness is a serious sin proverbs 19 verse 24 a slothful man hides his hand in his bosom and will not so much as bring it to his mouth again look at proverbs 26 15 the sloth will hide his hand in his bosom it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth now uh this is not to say that this is all uh poor people there are some people who are broken suffering poverty and we need to help them but there's a huge number of them believe it or not that ended up in their poverty stricken state because of their laziness and the evidence is and i tested it all the time when a person begs for money or even begs for food i would simply say if you go down that street over there and there's a mission over there that will give food and shower and drink just go right over there and guess what they don't even go there you know why they're lazy they want to hand out easily even if they're starving they want to hand out a food easily that's one thing i learned about them so if you really want to help them see if they'll pull the effort to do it and they won't do it that's the thing and you don't have to give them a big effort making an easy effort too on what they can do just walk toward this place and then they'll give you free stuff and guess what they won't even do that you know why that proves that these people it's so sad they would rather suffer in their state without a shower food and etc because you know why their hand is in their bosom and it grieves them to get it out and to just move laziness does that laziness gets to a point believe it or not if you doubt me now if you feel snug and cozy in your pockets like this and you stay like this for a while for a while for a long long long long time it can get to a point where biologically speaking that you don't even want to get it out it can even reach that point there are some cases where uh lazy people where they're just uh there's a story about a lazy man who was just blocking the road and the person wanted to pass by him but he was blocking the road because he was sleeping on the road so then he asked the lazy man to move and uh to move over so he can walk past him you know what the lazy man did he just moved from one side to the other like that that's it why because it grieves it grieves the person it feels like so much work to the person that's bad that's really really bad but that's one thing i notice about laziness the dangerous thing about laziness it's the same mentality is that you're in a comfortable zone that you're used to and if you're at a new area you don't like that that's right so this is not just uh let's not kick the bombs all right you're actually the spiritual bum too one problem with people is that they don't like to face something new they like to stay in their comfort zone that's a universal application unless i'm wrong about that but pretty much everybody everybody when they're used to in their comfort zone they don't want to get out of their comfort zone and if you live like that then you got to realize this is that the dangerous thing believe it or not believe it or not is this is that i had to tell this to myself too when i went through a new stage in life that god put me in i had to ask myself am i being lazy about it i have to learn to accept whatever makes me uncomfortable and just work hard and do it i refuse to be lazy about it you got to realize this laziness is a sin laziness is a sin and it is lazy when you stay in your comfort zone and you are not willing to face discomfort or something outside of your comfort zone that is laziness i know that we can have all these reasons and excuses uh you know i have this and i have that something's going on in my life and all this kind of stuff but you've got to realize this is that that's the same mentality that people who are struggling with poverty they use the same thing too the point is this the point that both people have in common is they don't want to face discomfort and pull an effort to do it and if you don't like pulling an effort on something that's uncomfortable to you you're lazy period that's my heart is preaching to you remember straight out your face like that thread your face like that you got to realize that in the christian life it's war it's battle and it contains suffering and because of that you cannot be lazy about and you got to realize it's normal that i pull effort for my lord and savior jesus christ even if it makes me uncomfortable and i gotta pull effort and do it amen playing on your face like that soldier i mean if you're a soldier in the battlefield there's a lot of things they suffer and go through that makes them uncomfortable but they don't have time to whine or make up excuses they just have to go through it they have to pull effort and go through uncomfortable situations and do it and god called you a christian soldier he called you a christian soldier not a king in this world or prince in this world enjoying life and luxury all right so don't get laid back you can't be laid back you got to pull up effort it's hard but guess what a lot of people it's hard too everyone's going through suffering in life proverbs chapter 21 please proverbs chapter 21 my sixth point is the longing lazy oath the longing lazy oath look at proverbs chapter 21 and uh we'll look at verse 25. now if you have a strong desire and longing it could result from your laziness and guess what that longing desire is gonna kill you it kills you mad it really hurts you look at proverbs chapter 21 and verse 25 the desire of the slothful killeth him for his hands refuse to labor what does that mean it means this is that let's say that uh there's a let's say like yesterday man great uh great dessert right there's this uh nice delicious looking cake right in front of you and then you desire it you want it so much but you refuse to pull up an effort by getting up out of your seat walking over to that table taking that fork and knife and then pulling in at least some type of effort to put that thing in your mouth now what's my point with that kind of uh example the point is this is that lazy people they have something they long to be or they long to have and you can do it you can accomplish it if you pull effort to do it if you actually do it but they're too lazy to do anything about it so because of that all they can do is just stay stuck at home and covet covet covet and say oh i want that oh i want that oh i want that oh i want that and they never get it when they could get it but they couldn't get it because they're too lazy to get it i want to go to yosemite i want to go to yosemite and oh it's just so long of a drive and i just don't have time and then you know but it hey just do it just pull up an effort drive over there and enjoy yosemite if you want to that's the point yeah amen so that's the point the point is is that if there's something that you desire and you long to have just get it what's holding you back i mean look i know that there's a lot of things going on in our country it's evil it's wicked there's restrictions here restrictions there but guess what it's still a big world out there this is still we're still in america there are things you can enjoy in life but you're not grabbing it what you're doing is that you're not pulling up an effort to do it you're not pulling up an effort to do it i don't know what it is maybe it's because you're just too comfortable in your area you're too fleshly you're too fearful i don't know what it is but the point is is that if there is something that's a desire that you want to have and god has given it to you then pull up effort and do it i want to win souls i want to win souls i want to win souls well then pull up an effort come to seoul winning class don't be lazy about it oh i want to make sure that some soul might get saved through tracks and i just want to do that i want well don't be lazy pick up the tracks ask somebody give the tracks to people amen well uh man i wish that uh i could read through my bible just like that brother and sister did well don't be lazy start reading your bible amen pull up an effort and do it you know what your problem is laziness period that's your problem you're lazy amen i feel like that i'm preaching really hard here now let's go to proverbs chapter 22 proverbs chapter 22 proverbs chapter 22. oh i want to know what it's like to have friends and enjoy fellowship well just come to church then all right come to the fellowship pull up an effort oh i want to know what it's like to be able to get closer to jesus and love jesus pull up an effort and go through something uncomfortable suck it up and whatever trial god puts you through have his grace pull you through amen don't be sorry lazy about it amen all right let's look at uh proverbs chapter 22 verse 13. the slothful man saith there is a lion without i shall be slain in the streets now that's a laughable verse right there all right if you thought that uh proverbs 26 was bad proverbs 22 was just just as bad go to proverbs 26 13 now proverbs 26 13. proverbs chapter 26 verse 13. notice that uh king solomon repeated twice lazy people have this issue all right oh come on get out of bed come on rise and shine let's go out and no why there's a lion out there i'm gonna get i'm gonna get killed look at proverbs chapter 26 verse 13. the slothful man said there's a lion in the way a lion is in the streets all right you know what laziness does uh my seventh point is the lying lazy oath the lying lazy oak what happens now this is important you want to hear this i think this might help you if you can take our preaching all right if you can take heart preaching this is going to really help you come on you got to realize that what laziness does is that it makes you start thinking things we've read the previous passage right in the previous uh point and passes i read to you a lazy person makes life very complicated and painful and it becomes hard to bear but they don't take reality at its face but what happens is it becomes very bad now listen up it becomes very bad where you think that life is so hard so unfair and you can't bear it and etc that you start to lie about it you deceive a you you're lying to yourself you lie and deceive your mind saying that uh i can't come to church anymore i cannot uh complete this uh project anymore i cannot fulfill this task anymore i cannot complete my schooling anymore i cannot complete my job anymore i cannot fulfill my duty as a pastor anymore i cannot fulfill my duty as a family person anymore i cannot that's what happened you are lying to yourself you're lying to yourself as i've told you before if you've accepted the previous point that the way of the righteous is made plain it's plain like this is natural this is normal i have to go through it whoopty do everybody's going through the same problem too but a lazy person over dramatizes and keeps focusing on the problem and the pain but it gets so bad where you're not only making your life painful for yourself you're also even lying to yourself you're lying to yourself we're getting to a point that now uh oh we got to give up more uh welfare programs well and they keep increasing more and more and more and more and people uh there's a guy that i'm going to give you his quote and article real soon but a famous economist who said that the bill that biden is currently signing on that this is going to really uh this is really going to be bad for our economy it's going to get really bad not to scare you but the reason why is because why we got to give more handouts to people more handouts to people and we got to save the people because they're struggling they're struggling and you what you need to do is make them work you need to give them a job you need to make them pull effort all right you got to take away the protests are getting rid of the businesses all right you can't just keep businesses shut down and etc what you got to do is get people active and get them pulling up effort amen because why if you keep them sitting and doing nothing what happens we expect the tendency is that i'm in pain i'm in pain and i can't do anything about it myself i can't pull effort myself to do it so i need you to do it that's good and when you do that that mentality i need you to do it i need you to do it what happens then you get to a lying point in your life where you have a persecution complex where you feel like that i'm so miserable alone and depressed no one understands what i'm going through and i need and what happens is it develops a persecution complex and the laziness builds up that you can't pull effort to yourself that you're waiting for some kind of uh situation or person to be your knight in shining armor and then rescue out from the situation but god doesn't give that to you does he and because god does not give that to you what happens you blame god how about that that's what happens and you get to a lying point in your life and you're living a life that is full of lies and not reality don't lie to yourself there's a lion without a lion is out in the street there's no lion don't pretend that satan is uh persecuting you when that line is not it's just yourself i think the line you should be worried about is yourself all right proverbs chapter 24 all right it's chapter 24. we'll look at verse 30 proverbs chapter 24 and we'll look at verse 30. so you got to stop lying to yourself and what's going to happen to you is what's going to help you is just stop concentrating on the problem you need to concentrate on what the word of god says to overcome the problems you got to focus on the good things of life that god has given to you you got to focus on other people who are going through the same thing as you and what happens is that lie starts to diminish more and more and you start to see the truth of what's going on more and more amen all right proverbs chapter 24 verse 30. now this one is gonna if you thought that was bad this might convict you more all right proverbs chapter 24 verse 30. i think this is going to hit everybody probably all right verse 30. i went by the field of the slothful and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding and lo it was all grown over with thorns and nettles had covered the face thereof and the stonewall thereof was broken down then i saw and considered it well i looked upon it and received instruction all right what did this person learn then from looking at the place of the lazy person look at verse 33 yet a little sleep a little slumber a little folding of the hands to sleep then suddenly verse 34 so shall thy poverty come as one that travaileth and i want as an armed man just like that you might say man how did i end up wasting uh eight hours on television four hours in video games and uh like uh three months of not even reading the bible and praying how did i come to that point just a little bit just today i i can't pray and read the bible just today i can't come to church just today let me uh just let me add 30 more minutes with this video game let me watch one more show because this is a really cool episode going on that netflix display just uh let me just uh lay back just a little bit and that's what happens a little becomes what it becomes one day two days three days four days five days and guess what you don't keep track of the days anymore you're so immersed and lost into the comfort zone remember that previous point you're that thoughtful man hiding the hand in the bosom and you're going ah like that this feels comfortable i actually don't want to get out all right so i got to move and preach right so the thing is that's what happens you're so lost into this that you lose track of time and then you even waste you become the brother to the great waster little right little so guess what you should do you know what if i were you if what i would do if i were you why not just do a little bible reading huh why not just uh get up a little bit outside and enjoy the fresh air why not pray a little longer huh why don't i just grab a little bit of tracks and try it out and why don't you start out something if sin can start out little and turn big why not the opposite when you do the works of the spirit why don't i just skip sleep uh why don't i drop sleeping one hour today huh why don't i cut off a one episode from my television today why don't i cut off a one day from committing the works of the flesh see what happens a little just a little and guess what happens the holy spirit says let's get lost in here a little bit this is the holy spirit lost in the holy spirit and then you lose track of time and you're stuck in there and you do more things for the lord amen my last point proverbs chapter 26 14 proverbs chapter 26 14. my last point is the lagging lazy oath the lagging lazy oath the bible says proverbs chapter 26 14 as the door turneth upon his hinges so dot the slothful upon his bed so uh as you can see god is very hard against the sin of laziness he uses heavy sarcasm here the slaughter lazy person you know what they're like like they turn around a bit like the door upon its hinges you know what the point is that it's lagging you're like pick up the pace hurry up now here's something that you got to be careful all right now this is what you want to pay attention to if you've gotten i understand people have uh mental histories don't get me wrong all right i'm one of that too so i understand that and health issues and circumstantial issues so i understand that so there are some things that we're not fast on all right i am not fast like brother sean all right i am not fast like him and active like him i'm very slow i take time to contemplate all right this guy he can just go like this and connect dots you know but me it's okay brother it's okay brother all right you can you can pretend to be humble all right [Laughter] but the thing is this is that we can use that as an excuse we're just too slow but a lot of times you'd be surprised it's not because of you being slow it's because you're lazy now did you hear what i just said it's not that you're just slow it's because you're lazy now look i had like okay let me give you a little bit of encouragement all right look uh when i was a baby my family was worried they were worried about me like i mean what's gonna happen my mom just surrendered her baby to the lord lord he's in your hands do uh make him do whatever you want to do with him like hannah and then here am i going you know and crying all the time and i couldn't even walk uh for months and months and even past the age of one i had trouble walking and they're like saying oh man this this my boy has a mental issue you know or there's something wrong with him to pastor a church over here yeah i have mental issues i don't know why i pastored a church over here but the thing is is that no matter how slow i was i do know this when i pull effort and i practice little by little and i'm faithful in that i start to pick up speed a little more look i had a i was struggling so much for uh for the credentials that i have today you got to realize this i was the person who got the f grade at a community college at a very easy class hard to believe right so you got to understand this is that it does i was in a serious condition serious place too but the problem is is that it's because i'm not practicing in my life but when i kept practicing practicing effort effort i was the one who made mistake after mistake every day that's why i encourage you guys about don't worry about making mistakes because i understand that i made embarrassing mistakes too but it's so important that you have to go through it because if you don't go through that then what's going to happen is you're not going to make anything in life learning comes better through mistakes anyway it does come better through mistakes because your body and mind remembers the mistake more and learns what not to do next time so it is so important that uh in order to conquer laziness you need to be active you need to practice so you know what you need to do i'll tell you what you need to do when you get up in the morning i think what you need to do is that you need to open up those windows get a fresh air fall on your knees and pray and then start to jog around a bit you know why that body is so lazy caught up with laziness that uh it's so used to an inactive state but when you start jogging or when you start walking or at least do something outside guess what it gets your mind and body active amen and when you get your mind and body active then you start to do this this let's do this let's do this let's do this and you start to pick up the pace more but when you are take it slow when you first thing in the morning guess what it will dictate it to the end of the day but when you say let's do this be active first thing in the morning then what happens it becomes your life at the end of the day so you need to be active it is so important that in order to conquer your laziness here's uh this is something to conquer your flesh all right this is a fleshly advice that i'm giving to you that's actually scriptural as well but if you feel like that man it's so hard to conquer laziness i'm trying all the spiritual tactics i wish my body is just not made to be lazy you can switch that program the body can be made to be not lazy if you make it active and how you make it active is you start to go out and give yourself a walk and then push yourself to jaw and then what happens is then the body's program switches but you're a tribute to yourself you're a slave to this flesh being lazy you know why it's used to inactivity you need to switch that program start being active my advice to you to conquer your laziness is that you've got to start being active first thing fall on your knees and pray first thing go outside and exercise first thing just open up the window get up and then get the fresh air going do something anything active first thing you might say oh but uh it's so hard it's so hard let me give you something all right why not do anything you want throughout your day you can be as lazy as you want do anything you want throughout the rest of your day by completing your task first tell yourself this okay you can sleep as much as you want you can i mean god forbid i'm not really recommending this but just be a little bit lenient with me you know you can watch as much tv play video games facebook whatever all right whatever all right do eat your heart out but i've let me just get prayer over with first bible reading exercise my task and job and i can spend the rest of my day doing whatever i want what happens is this when you start the day like that that laziness that you save time for you'd be surprised it shrinks and you do all the tasks you add more activity throughout the end of your day and the laziness is gone amen so if you're really struggling with laziness tell yourself why not at least tell yourself look just be active the first thing just get all this over with and then do whatever you want after that maybe that could help give you some motivation amen all right every head bow and every eye shut this was very plain this was very practical this was also a harsh sermon it wasn't fancy it wasn't dramatic but it's probably very helpful to you because laziness is not just a person who sleeps like 12 hours a day it's anything you're lazy on you're not pulling effort anything you're not pulling effort in and that's a sin laziness is a sin you need to pull effort to read your bible pull effort to come to church pull effort to go through whatever situation you're struggling with in life you cannot be lazy about it you got to pull effort and you got to trust and have faith in god god has given you a burden that's not greater than you can bear it's a temptation that everyone goes through in life he also has given you grace to go through it and he also gives you power and you'd be surprised that the majority of the things that you over dramatize as hardships and complicated issues it actually turns out like the bible says plain just plain and clear and like this is just normal it's not actually that big of a deal i've allowed myself i've allowed my flesh to overcomplicate it make my life difficult hedge of thorns don't do that to your life some of you are living in a lie right now that's scary living in a lie that a life is so unfair miserable and hurtful and you need to look up to the creator and you need to look at reality in the face and then the lie can diminish it can diminish more and then jesus christ can be your life and your light laziness is a serious sin it makes you long things that you can get but you just don't get it laziness makes you waste your life it would be it would be interesting to see how many people at the judgment seat of christ wasted their riches that they could have gotten at the judgment seat of christ because of lazy decisions they've made lazy actions they've committed some of you are having a struggle with your bible reading prayer life etc and soul winning coming to church etc maybe the real issue is laziness if we're going to be plain and simple about it let's not talk about let's not make it complicated let's not talk about you know what the situation you're going through or circumstances that came out or what happened let's just make it plain and simple maybe it's because you're lazy and maybe what will help be helpful to you is let me just get this over with first let me just read the bible pray go to church do the sowing let's let me just do all that let me just get that out of the way and do that first and then perhaps you would see after that wow then you fulfill more things in life and that laziness even shrinks more and you get more involved in soul winning more involved in church attendance more involved in bible reading and prayer that's what could possibly happen perhaps if we're going to be very hard core about it and we're going to be plain and simple the core issue in your life that gives you pain and gives you suffering and why so many issues have happened recently in your life is because the core of laziness that could be the reason why now of course i again i want to make this very clear so that people uh don't become burdened there are people going through genuine sufferings genuine problems and it is usually the devil attacking your life with sudden things so it's not that because you're lazy you are working hard you are yielding to the lord you are keeping your life together you're trusting in the lord so i don't want uh those people to get that misunderstanding especially onliners but i do want to cover the sin of laziness if that is your true issue and i don't want to sidestep that perhaps it is that hidden issue of laziness that has been the detriment and the problem in your life because i'll tell you what uh as a pastor i go through so much busyness so much hardship so much work and all that and even i myself will admit it that there were moments in my life that i could not blame it on my lazy that i could not blame it on my suffering i could not blame it on a new trial god has given to me or uh because of my slowness or my weakness or my health issue it was because i'm just lazy plain and simple period my busyness is just my excuse my own uh personal issues is just my excuse plain and simple it's just my laziness god my father i pray that today's preaching has i i was actually surprised i i think it it actually became a very hardcore sermon which i did not expect um but i think that you started to reveal to us more through in the middle of your sermon that as we started to clean up and clear out all the hedge of thorns the complicated stuff in our path that we finally realized it is the laziness that's a hidden issue to why we have uh fell behind in our spiritual duties why we struggle with the same sinful issues why we have not improved our lives for you and i pray that today's preaching has helped the people and change their lives in jesus name we pray amen

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Length: 59min 58sec (3598 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 24 2021