Sermon Tone Analysis

Ch 24 may be a look outside the house of the sluggard in bed in ch 26

Prov 31 she is the opposite of the sluggard who

     "Through indolence the rafters sag, and through slackness the house leaks."

Ecc 10:18

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!!!!! Lion and Lion

The first term is less common but they seem to simply be synoyms

                                           

 

Illust: what is you lion in the road?

Ben: Syptoms: he is rude to his parent and wont obey.

He wont go to school.

Diagnosis: behavoral disorder: therapy, drugs and take him out of school.

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*Montoya quotes*

*EXCUSES- You don’t call in you crawl in*

*Your only excuse is if your dead*

*So you had a baby last night- that’s her excuse, whats yours?*

*Not enough sleep last night?

Quit crying!

The world is run by tired men.*

*Not enough time?

You had enough time to sleep last night.

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*Spirttual** sloths~/ pathetic lack of urgency*

*Do you really believe that prayer changes the world?*

*Do you really believe that unbelievers are going to hell?*

*Do you really believe that Jesus is coming back?*

*Do you really believe that unborn children are being sliced and mangled to death in Santa Clarita?*

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*This is a call to action!*

*Go pray, go preach, go evangelist, go get beat up for street preaching, go picket, go get your self arrested for trying to stop an abortion … for God’s sake don’t go back to bed!*

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*Our love of leasur is scitzophrinic insanity!

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*Your brain needs a break?

That’s why God made sleep!

But not too much.*

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*16 **The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes Than seven men who can give a discreet answer.*

“The sluggard is here one who is too idle to think a matter out, and considers his own cursory view as sure to be right.

He is one who deems study to be an unnecessary weariness of the flesh (Eccles.

12:12), and flatters himself that he is quite able without it to give a satisfactory account of any question presented to him.[1]

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*Proverbs 26:12-16 (NASB95) \\ 12 **Do you see a man wise in his own eyes?

There is more hope for a fool than for him.

\\ 13 **The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road!

A lion is in the open square!” \\ 14 **As the door turns on its hinges, So does the sluggard on his bed.

\\ 15 **The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; He is weary of bringing it to his mouth again.

\\ 16 **The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes Than seven men who can give a discreet answer.*

Proverbs 6:6-11 (NASB95) \\ 6 Go to the ant, O sluggard, Observe her ways and be wise, \\ 7 Which, having no chief, Officer or ruler, \\ 8 Prepares her food in the summer And gathers her provision in the harvest.

\\ 9 How long will you lie down, O sluggard?

When will you arise from your sleep?

\\ 10 “A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to rest”— \\ 11 Your poverty will come in like a vagabond And your need like an armed man.

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Proverbs 13:4 (NASB95) \\ 4 The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, But the soul of the diligent is made fat.

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Proverbs 19:24 (NASB95) \\ 24 The sluggard buries his hand in the dish, But will not even bring it back to his mouth.

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Proverbs 20:4-5 (NASB95) \\ 4 The sluggard does not plow after the autumn, So he begs during the harvest and has nothing.

\\ 5 A plan in the heart of a man is like deep water, But a man of understanding draws it out.

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Proverbs 21:25-26 (NASB95) \\ 25 The desire of the sluggard puts him to death, For his hands refuse to work; \\ 26 All day long he is craving, While the righteous gives and does not hold back.

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Proverbs 24:30-34 (NASB95) \\ 30 I passed by the field of the sluggard And by the vineyard of the man lacking sense, \\ 31 And behold, it was completely overgrown with thistles; Its surface was covered with nettles, And its stone wall was broken down.

\\ 32 When I saw, I reflected upon it; I looked, and received instruction.

\\ 33 “A little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to rest,” \\ 34 Then your poverty will come as a robber And your want like an armed man.

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*Proverbs 26:12-16 (NASB95) \\ 12 **Do you see a man wise in his own eyes?

There is more hope for a fool than for him.

\\ 13 **The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road!

A lion is in the open square!” \\ 14 **As the door turns on its hinges, So does the sluggard on his bed.

\\ 15 **The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; He is weary of bringing it to his mouth again.

\\ 16 **The sluggard is wiser in his own eyes Than seven men who can give a discreet* answer.

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Proverbs 10:3-5 (NASB95) \\ 3 The Lord will not allow the righteous to hunger, But He will reject the craving of the wicked.

\\ 4 Poor is he who works with a negligent hand, But the hand of the diligent makes rich.

\\ 5 He who gathers in summer is a son who acts wisely, But he who sleeps in harvest is a son who acts shamefully.

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[viii]Proverbs 14:23 (NASB95) \\ 23 In all labor there is profit, But mere talk leads only to poverty.

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[ix]Proverbs 19:15 (NASB95) \\ 15 Laziness casts into a deep sleep, And an idle man will suffer hunger.

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[x]2 Thessalonians 3:6-14 (NASB95) \\ 6 Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from every brother who leads an unruly life and not according to the tradition which you received from us.

\\ 7 For you yourselves know how you ought to follow our example, because we did not act in an undisciplined manner among you, \\ 8 nor did we eat anyone’s bread without paying for it, but with labor and hardship we kept working night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you; \\ 9 not because we do not have the right to this, but in order to offer ourselves as a model for you, so that you would follow our example.

\\ 10 For even when we were with you, we used to give you this order: if anyone is not willing to work, then he is not to eat, either.

\\ 11 For we hear that some among you are leading an undisciplined life, doing no work at all, but acting like busybodies.

\\ 12 Now such persons we command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to work in quiet fashion and eat their own bread.

\\ 13 But as for you, brethren, do not grow weary of doing good.

\\ 14 If anyone does not obey our instruction in this letter, take special note of that person and do not associate with him, so that he will be put to shame.

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According to John Silling, a Purdue University entomologist, the ant is an exemplary worker.

“Basically the ant’s entire life, which can range up to seven years, is spent working,” says Silling. “They gather food, bring it back to the nest, and use it for day-to-day meals as well as to store for the winter.”

In addition, the amazing insects can be adept horticulturalists, states the professor.

Some species “gather bits of grass or leaves and take them back to their nest.

On this organic matter, which is used much like fertilizer, they place tiny mushroom spores and grow them for food.”

But ants as dairy-keepers?

That’s right.

“Some ants get the majority of their food by ‘milking’ aphids or plant lice which are often known as ‘ant cows,’ says the scientist.

“The ants sometimes herd the aphids down into the ant nests at night or when it starts to get cool; then when it gets warm again, they herd them back up to the plants.”

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[1]/The Pulpit Commentary: Proverbs/, ed.

H. D. M. Spence-Jones (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2004), 501.

[2]Michael P. Green, /Illustrations for Bilical Preaching : Over 1500 Sermon Illustrations Arranged by Topic and Indexed Exhaustively/, Revised edition of: The expositor's illustration file.

(Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1989).

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[i]  /New American Standard Bible : 1995 Update/.

LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1995.

[ii]  /New American Standard Bible : 1995 Update/.

LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1995.

[iii]  /New American Standard Bible : 1995 Update/.

LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1995.

[iv]  /New American Standard Bible : 1995 Update/.

LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1995.

[v]  /New American Standard Bible : 1995 Update/.