Working Hard or Hardly Working

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Working Hard or Hardly Working?

• Proverbs Week 4

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Working Hard?

• The Sluggard
• A. Leads a Sedentary Life.

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Working Hard?

• How long will you lie down, O sluggard? When
  will you arise from your sleep? A little sleep,
  a little slumber, A little folding of the hands
  to rest Your poverty will come in like a
  vagabond And your need like an armed man.
• Proverbs 69-11

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Working Hard?

• As the door turns on its hinges, So does the
  sluggard on his bed.
• Proverbs 2614

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Working Hard?

• The Sluggard
• A. Leads a Sedentary Life.
• B. Makes Excuses for Laziness.

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Working Hard?

• The sluggard says, There is a lion outside I
  will be killed in the streets!
• Proverbs 2213

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Working Hard?

• The Sluggard
• A. Leads a Sedentary Life.
• B. Makes Excuses for Laziness.
• C. Leaves Work Unfinished.

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Working Hard?

• A lazy man does not roast his prey, But the
  precious possession of a man is diligence.
• Proverbs 1227

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Working Hard?

• The sluggard buries his hand in the dish, But
  will not even bring it back to his mouth.
• Proverbs 1924

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Working Hard?

• The Sluggard
• A. Leads a Sedentary Life.
• B. Makes Excuses for Laziness.
• C. Leaves Work Unfinished.
• D. Constantly Disappoints Others

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Working Hard?

• Like vinegar to the teeth and smoke to the eyes,
  So is the lazy one to those who send him.
• Proverbs 1026

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Working Hard?

• He also who is slack in his work Is brother to
  him who destroys.
• Proverbs 189

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Working Hard?

• The Sluggard
• A. Leads a Sedentary Life.
• B. Makes Excuses for Laziness.
• C. Leaves Work Unfinished.
• D. Constantly Disappoints Others
• E. Eventually Comes to Ruin.

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Working Hard?

• The sluggard does not plow after the autumn, So
  he begs during the harvest and has nothing.
• Proverbs 204

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Working Hard?

• The soul of the sluggard craves and gets
  nothing, But the soul of the diligent is made
  fat.
• Proverbs 134

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Working Hard?

• The Sluggard
• II. The Diligent
• A. Plans Ahead

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Working Hard?

• The plans of the diligent lead surely to
  advantage, But everyone who is hasty comes surely
  to poverty.
• Proverbs 215

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Working Hard?

• The Sluggard
• II. The Diligent
• A. Plans Ahead
• B. Works Hard

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Working Hard?

• In all labor there is profit, But mere talk
  leads only to poverty.
• Proverbs 1423

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Working Hard?

• Slaves, be obedient to those who are your
  masters according to the flesh, with fear and
  trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to
  Christ not by way of eyeservice, as
  men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the
  will of God from the heart. With good will render
  service, as to the Lord, and not to men, knowing
  that whatever good thing each one does, this he
  will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or
  free.
• Ephesians 65-8

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Working Hard?

• The Sluggard
• II. The Diligent
• A. Plans Ahead
• B. Works Hard
• C. Finds Blessing

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Working Hard?

• The way of the lazy is as a hedge of thorns, But
  the path of the upright is a highway.
• Proverbs 1519

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Working Hard?

• Poor is he who works with a negligent hand, But
  the hand of the diligent makes rich.
• Proverbs 104

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Working Hard?

• The hand of the diligent will rule, But the
  slack hand will be put to forced labor.
• Proverbs 1224

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