Don't Live Stupid - Week 5
“Don't live stupid”
Week 5
Proverbs 6
V.1-5 Money lending.
1 My child, if you have put up security for a friend’s debt or agreed to guarantee the debt of a stranger— 2 if you have trapped yourself by your agreement and are caught by what you said— 3 follow my advice and save yourself, for you have placed yourself at your friend’s mercy. Now swallow your pride; go and beg to have your name erased. 4 Don’t put it off; do it now! Don’t rest until you do. 5 Save yourself like a gazelle escaping from a hunter, like a bird fleeing from a net.
V.6-11 Disciplining yourself.
6 Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones. Learn from their ways and become wise! 7 Though they have no prince or governor or ruler to make them work, 8 they labor hard all summer, gathering food for the winter. 9 But you, lazybones, how long will you sleep? When will you wake up? 10 A little extra sleep, a little more slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest— 11 then poverty will pounce on you like a bandit; scarcity will attack you like an armed robber.
V.12-19 Killing and building community
12 What are worthless and wicked people like? They are constant liars, 13 signaling their deceit with a wink of the eye, a nudge of the foot, or the wiggle of fingers. 14 Their perverted hearts plot evil, and they constantly stir up trouble. 15 But they will be destroyed suddenly, broken in an instant beyond all hope of healing. 16 There are six things the LORD hates— no, seven things he detests: 17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that kill the innocent, 18 a heart that plots evil, feet that race to do wrong, 19 a false witness who pours out lies, a person who sows discord in a family.
V.1-5 Money lending
1) He wants us to be generous.
2) He doesn't want us to be careless.
V.6-11 Being self disciplined
What is a sluggard?
Proverbs 26:14
14 “As a door swings back and forth on its hinges, so the lazy person turns over in bed.”
1) The sluggard will not make up his mind.
2) The sluggard will not finish what they start.
Proverbs 26:15, “Lazy people take food in their hand, but don’t even lift it to their mouth.”
3) The sluggard exaggerates their obstacles.
Proverbs 22:13, “The lazy person claims, “There’s a lion out there! If I go outside, I might be killed!”
What should the sluggard do?
V.6-8, “6 Take a lesson from the ants, you lazybones. Learn from their ways and become wise! 7 Though they have no prince or governor or ruler to make them work, 8 they labor hard all summer, gathering food for the winter.”
How do you know you're a workaholic?
How do you know you have become lazy?
Proverbs 16:27, 27 “Scoundrels create trouble; their words are a destructive blaze.”
V.9-11, “9 But you, lazybones, how long will you sleep? When will you wake up? 10 A little extra sleep, a little more slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest— 11 then poverty will pounce on you like a bandit; scarcity will attack you like an armed robber.”
“Your danger and mine is not that we become criminals, but rather that we become respectable, decent, commonplace, mediocre Christians. The twentieth-century temptations that really sap our spiritual power are the television, banana cream pie, the easy chair, and the credit card. The Christian wins or loses in those seemingly innocent little moments of decision.”