same over at Sid Bass.
- All right, we'll welcome Pure Words Baptist Church.
- Thank you for coming.
We'll turn your hymnals to song 187, Jesus Loves Me.
187, 187, Jesus Loves Me on the 1st.
♪ Jesus loves me this I know ♪
♪ For the Bible tells me so ♪
♪ Little ones to him belong ♪
187 on the 2nd, ♪ Jesus loves us ♪
Thank you so much for this evening
and the opportunity to be in your house.
Pray for all those that are sick,
pray that you heal them,
both hear your words and also steadfast.
And just pray that you bless the service tonight,
that you fill me with the Holy Spirit
and give us ears to hear your word this evening.
Jesus name we pray, amen.
All right, for the next song, 131, Christ Is All I Need.
Simple song, quick song, but very great truth.
Christ Is All I Need, 131, 131, Christ Is All I Need.
♪ Christ is all I need ♪
♪ Christ is all, Christ is all, Christ is all ♪
Bulletins looks like the verse of the week here
is Psalm 34, nine, O fear the Lord, be his saints,
for there is no want to them that fear him.
Great verse there.
You look on the left side of the bulletin,
we have our service times.
Sunday morning, 10.30 a.m., Sunday evening, 5.30 p.m.
And every Thursday we'll have our Bible study
at seven o'clock p.m.
Churchwide soul winning times,
Brother James Perry runs through Sunday and Thursday,
and Brother Mo Mahoney runs the Saturday time at 10 o'clock.
Please remember to turn your soul winning maps
to the back bin on the wall back there.
And also we have our end of year stats.
So it looks like Pure Words Baptist Church
had 687 salvations for the year,
which that is excellent, it's great work.
And last year, or 2020, it was 593.
So broke the record, great job,
keep up the great work soul winning in the next year.
Be in prayer for our expecting lady of the church,
Karine Darnell, and of course also Steadfast as well.
That list is always full for our church,
so if you wouldn't mind keeping them in prayer as well.
Our upcoming guest preachers on this Sunday,
Brother Duncan Urbanik will be preaching from Fort Worth,
and also the Sunday, looks like two Sundays after that,
Brother Ben Naim from Fort Worth will also be preaching.
We do have our prayer requests there.
Brother Ed and Brother Yair are asking for prayer,
family, and health.
And then just one announcement of upcoming events.
On January 16th, Brother Tanner Furr from Steadfast, Oklahoma
is going to be being ordained as an evangelist,
and he's been doing a really great job up there.
And so if you wanna make the trip
and support Brother Tanner, January 16th,
otherwise it'll be on livestream and everything like that.
You guys can check it out.
But that's really it for our announcements this evening.
You'll turn to your third song, 155 Doxology,
155 Doxology, we'll sing it two times through.
♪ Praise God from whom all blessings flow ♪
♪ Praise Him all creatures here below ♪
♪ Praise Him above ye heavenly hosts ♪
♪ Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ♪
♪ Praise God from whom all blessings flow ♪
♪ Praise Him all creatures here below ♪
♪ Praise Him above His Father, Son, and Holy Ghost ♪
- Elisha Ashes, chapter number 10.
Elisha Ashes, chapter number 10.
- There in Elisha chapter number 10,
the Bible reads, "Dead flies cause the ointment
of the prophecy in force of stinking savor.
So doth a little folly him that is in reputation
for wisdom and honor.
A wise man's heart is his right hand,
but a fool's heart at his left.
Yea, also, when he that is a fool walketh by the way,
his wisdom faileth him.
He says to everyone that he is a fool.
If the spirit of the ruler rises up against thee,
leave not thy place for yielding
past pious great offenses.
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun
as an error which proceedeth from the ruler.
Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich set in low place.
I have seen servants upon horses and princes walking
as servants upon the earth.
He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it.
And whoso breaketh in head a serpent shall bite him.
Whoso remove his stone shall be hurt therewith.
He that cleaveth wood shall be endangered thereby.
If the iron be blunt, he do not wet it.
Then must he put to more strength the wisdom
profitable to direct.
Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment.
And a babbler is no better.
The words of a wise man's mouth are precious.
But the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness.
And the end of his talk is his devious madness.
Fool also is full of words.
A man cannot tell what shall be.
What shall be after him?
Who can tell him?
The labor of the foolish weareth every one of them.
Because he knoweth not how to go to the city.
Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning.
Blessed art thou, O land, when thy king is the son of nobles, and the princes eat in
the new season, for strength and not for drunkenness.
By much slothfulness the building decayeth, and through idleness of hands the house droppeth
through.
A feast is made for laughter, and a wine maketh merry, but money answereth faulty.
Cursed is not the king, no, not in thy thought, and cursed not the rich in thy bedchamber.
For a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and the witch hath wings, shall tell the matter.
Amen. Alright, well first I want to thank Pastor Shelly for sending me down here in
the opportunity to preach to you guys, and I'm glad that you guys were the few that were
spared from this illness. You know, you could just, when everyone gets back, you could just
tell them you're more godly, okay? No, I'm just kidding. Don't tell them that. Glad that
you guys made it. It's the same thing at Fort Worth last night, very small crowd, but whatever's
going around is definitely very contagious, so glad you guys are doing okay. We're here
in Ecclesiastes chapter number 10, and the verse I want to focus on in Ecclesiastes 10
is verse 18, where the Bible reads, "By much slothfulness the building decayeth, and through
idleness of the hands the house dropeth through." And the title of my sermon this evening is
"Laziness, Laziness." And when we look at this verse, we see that when someone is lazy
or when someone's slothful, it causes their building to decay, their house to fall through.
Basically, it causes things to fall apart. In this world, everything is falling apart.
And if you're lazy, you're really just going to expedite that process. Everything in this
world is decaying. And what science calls this is the second law of thermodynamics.
But really, science did not discover this fact that everything is decaying because the
Bible actually teaches this. In Hebrews chapter 1, if you'll flip there really quick to Hebrews
chapter 1, Hebrews chapter 1. And basically, the second law of thermodynamics states that
everything is decaying and losing energy. The Bible backs that up. In Hebrews 1, 10,
it says, "And thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth, and
the heavens are the work of thine hands." But then it says this, "They shall perish,
but thou remainest, and they shall wax old as doth a garment, and as a vesture shalt
thou fold them up, and they shall be changed. But thou art the same, and thy years shall
not fail." So the Bible teaches that this world, the creation, it's waxing old. It's
getting old. It's losing its strength. And basically that's the same thing that the second
law of thermodynamics is teaching, that everything's falling apart. But when we saw that verse
in Ecclesiastes, it says, "By slothfulness, it causes the building to decay. By idleness
of hand, it causes the house to drop through." Basically, everything's always decaying and
getting worse. And if we're not working hard at maintaining that, it's just going to deteriorate
on its own if we don't act upon it. Now obviously, it's a very obvious statement to say that
God does not want us to be lazy. Go to Romans chapter number 12. But just to lay a foundation
before I get into the sermon, that God obviously does not want us to be lazy. Romans 12.1 says,
"I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present in your bodies
a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service." So
the Bible describes it as reasonable to literally sacrifice your body. So God expects you to
give Him your all, all of your life force, even up to the point of literally sacrificing
your body. The Bible says that that is completely reasonable. That doesn't sound like laziness
to me. If you're sacrificing your body to serve God, that's like the opposite of laziness.
That's just like laying it all on the line. But later on in the chapter it says this in
verse 10. It says, "Be kindly affection one to another with brotherly love, in honor, preferring
one another, not slothful in business, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord." So obviously,
God does not want us to be lazy. God does not want us as a church to be slothful but
rather fervent in spirit. That we want to work hard for the Lord. And at the beginning
of a new year, it's a great time to examine ourselves and see if we have any laziness
in our lives. Because every single person, myself included, has and will struggle with
the sin of laziness for the rest of their life. Why? Because we have the flesh. And
our flesh enjoys sitting around. Our flesh enjoys being lazy. That's why we have to have
sermons like this to remind us to work hard. And tonight basically what I want to do is
I want to give six practical statements to be able to test yourself to see if there's
any laziness in your life. Because when we sometimes, sometimes it's very easy for us
to identify sin in other people and not in ourselves. And so the sermon tonight is going
to be very practical. I'm going to make a statement and basically just try to think
if that applies to you. If one of or more of these statements apply to you, then obviously
you have a weak spot in your life. And hopefully in the next year you can tune that up and
be a hard-working Christian if you're not already. So number one, how can we tell if
a person is lazy? How can I tell, how can I examine my life and say, okay, is there
something in my life that is tending towards laziness? How can I figure that out? Well
number one, if you go to Proverbs chapter 19, Proverbs 19, if you make a habit of oversleeping,
you're lazy. If you make a habit of oversleeping, you are lazy. Look at Proverbs 19, 15. It
says, "Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep, and an idle soul shall suffer hunger." So the
state of being slothful, what does it do? It casts into a deep sleep. And so laziness
begets more laziness, sleep begets more sleep. Someone who is being slothful, what's it going
to do? It's going to cause them to be really tired. And you see one thing very common with
lazy people is they sleep all the time. You know, we go soul winning at 10, 10, 30, 11
o'clock in the afternoon and people are upset at us sometimes for waking them up at those
times. And it's like, okay, you're lazy, slothfulness casted into a deep sleep. And notice I didn't
say you're lazy if you ever sleep in. I said, if you make a habit of oversleeping, because
obviously there's seasons of life where you're burning the midnight oil and you're working
really hard and you should allow yourself to sleep in every once in a while for your
health. But I'm saying if it's a habit where every day you're sleeping in and all the time
you're oversleeping, the Bible says that that's slothfulness. Now look at Proverbs 26, flip
over to Proverbs 26 verse 14. But there's kind of this paradox with the previous verse
that we just read because we just read that slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep. So
lazy people, they sleep a lot, right? But then look at this in Proverbs 26, 14, it says,
"As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed." So this is kind
of saying the opposite, that the lazy person can't sleep. And why is that? Well, think
about it. If you're sleeping all day and you're waking up super late, you're sleeping in,
then when it's time to actually go to bed at normal person hours of going to bed, you're
just going to be tossing and turning or you're just going to be up on your phone or up playing
video games. I mean, I remember when I was in high school, some of my fellow teammates
on my baseball team, once it was summer break, I mean, they're staying up till three, four,
five, and they're waking up at three, four, five in the afternoon. And it's like, that's
insane. What are they doing? They're being lazy. They're just playing video games all
day. They're not working hard. They're not engaging their mind. And so when it's evening,
when it's the time that normal people go to bed, they're just turning upon their hit like,
like a door on hinges, laziness. Go to Proverbs chapter six, verse nine, Proverbs chapter
six, verse nine, Bible says, how long will thou sleep? Oh, sluggard, when will thou
arise out of thy sleep? And that's a question that you'd be asking someone that's lazy because
they're always sleeping. Look at verse 10, it says, yet a little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to sleep, so shall thy poverty come as one that traveleth
in thy want as an armed man. Notice a person who just indulges in a little too much sleep,
a little too much slumber, this is not saying that they're even going overboard, it's saying
that even just a little bit of this will cause poverty to come upon them. And this is true
physically and spiritually. People that oversleep, they're late to work, they miss their job,
and they come to poverty. Well, there's a lot of Christians even that are asleep on
the job, and it's time to go soul winning, and they're not there. They're not going
soul winning on a regular basis. They're not reading their Bible like God commanded. They're
not praying, they're sleeping as a Christian, and poverty will come upon them. On the day
when the judgment seat of Christ happens and you stand before God and your works are nothing,
because you're poor spiritually. Why? Because you love sleep. And so you don't want to be
lazy in either sense, whether physically or spiritually. Look at Proverbs chapter number
10. Flip over to Proverbs chapter 10 and look at verse 6. It says, "As vinegar to the teeth
and as smoke to the eyes, so is the slugger to them that send him." So being lazy, and
we're specifically talking about oversleeping, is going to affect you even on your job because
the person that sends them is talking about someone's boss, somebody's lord. And think
about it, we've already learned that lazy people they sleep a lot, they sleep in a lot,
they stay up all night. Well you know what that's going to cause to happen is it's going
to cause you to always be late to your job. And have you noticed in the jobs that you've
worked in the past that the people who are always late are always lazy? There's no, it's
not a coincidence, but look, it's like smoke to the eyes of your boss when you're lazy.
Why? Well probably because you're coming in late all the time. And then you're lazy once
you're there on the job. I'll read for you Proverbs 20 13, it says, "Love not sleep,
lest thou come to poverty. Open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread."
So this is not something that comes naturally. The Bible's having to exhort us saying, "Don't
love sleep. Open your eyes." Why? Because you want to love sleep. You want to just keep
your eyes closed. You want to stay in bed all morning. But, you know, the Bible records
consistently that men of God woke up early in the morning. You just search the term "arose
early in the morning" or "rise early in the morning." You know, that phrase happens a lot
in the Bible and you'll see it's men of God rising up early. That's a really common thing.
And even secular people understand this. I want to read for you a list of successful
people that wake up early. And I'm not saying these guys are good, or godly, or anything
like that, but I'm just saying they understand this principle of not loving sleep, of not
oversleeping, and that's partly why they're really successful people. Apple CEO Tim Cook
wakes up every day at 3.45, 3.45 a.m. It's not like, "Oh, well, it's Saturday, so we'll
sleep in until 10." No, it's just every day, 3.45 a.m., this guy wakes up. Elon Musk, he
goes to bed every day at 1 a.m. You're thinking, "Oh, is Elon Musk lazy? He's staying up until..."
But he wakes up at 7 a.m. He's like, "Going to bed at 1 a.m. and waking up at 7 a.m." It's
like, barely sleeps. He says that he operates best on six to six and a half hours of sleep.
It's like, "Well, okay." He's obviously not a lazy person, you know? The AOL CEO Tim Armstrong
wakes up every day at 5 a.m. The Square CEO and former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey wakes up
every day at 5.30 a.m. to meditate and go for a six-mile jog. That's intense, you know?
And you wouldn't expect that from the guy that looks like a white terrorist, you know?
There's a little neck beard coming out. The Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is in his office
every day by 6 a.m. So that means he's probably waking up around 5 a.m. or something like
that. And so I didn't read you that list to tell you you got to wake up at 3 45 or you're
not right with God. You got to wake up at 5 a.m. or you're not right with God. What
I'm showing you is that successful people, they don't oversleep and they definitely don't
make a habit of oversleeping if they do occasionally. And you know, you got to think every person's
schedule is different. Every person's job is different. You know, if you're up with
a newborn five times a night, like my wife is, it's like, yeah, you're not waking up
at 4 a.m. every day. This is not how it works. OK, but you got to look at your own life and
say, you know, am I making a habit of oversleeping? Am I late to work? If you're late to work,
the answer is yes, you do have a habit of oversleeping. So are you a lazy person? Well,
do you make a habit of oversleeping? Number two, go to Proverbs 20. Here's a way to tell
if you're a lazy person. If you have a habit of making excuses for why you can't do something.
Lazy people, not only do they have a habit of sleeping in too much, loving sleep, but
they also have a habit of constantly making excuses for why they can't achieve something
or why something can't be done, why there's always an obstacle. Look at verse number four
of Proverbs 20. It says, "The sluggard, the lazy person, will not plow by reason of the
cold. Therefore shall he beg in harvest and have nothing." So the sluggard, he lives
in Houston, Texas and he's like, "Oh, it's 70 degrees. This is too cold. I can't plow
today." He makes that excuse. And then the guy that lives in northern Alaska, he comes
out and it's 70 degrees and he's like, "Oh, it's too hot. I can't work today." There's
always people that are going to give an excuse of why something can't be done, even if it's
something as simple as the weather. People will literally just use the weather to say
why they can't work, even though God commanded us to work six days. Men should be working
six days a week. You know, people will just make excuses for everything. And you know
this if you've gone soul hunting any length of time. It's like, "Oh, you know what? Sorry.
I'd love to come to your church. I just, I don't have a car." And it's like, "Okay. Well,
I can give you a ride." And it's like, "I got a new cat. He's back there. I got to go."
And it's just like, "Hey, what is that person? They're lazy. They don't really want to come
to church. They're telling you that they do, but really they're just making an excuse of
why they can't do it. It's really because they don't want to. It's really because they're
lazy. And honestly, us as Christians, we have the same flesh that they do. And Christians
do the same exact thing. It's like, how often do you hear people explain why they don't have
time to read their Bible? It's like, "Oh, I'm a mom. Therefore, I don't have time to
read my Bible." It's like, I'm pretty sure God's will was for you to be a mom. I'm pretty
sure it's God's will for ladies to take care of kids. And I'm pretty sure he also wants
you to read your Bible. So I don't understand how that excuse works, right? Or, you know,
"Oh, I'm just working too many hours." And it's like, well, you have your priorities
mixed up because reading God's word is way more important than working all the overtime,
you know? But people will give all sorts of excuses. I saw a funny picture I posted on
my Instagram and it was like the "Why I Can't Read My Bible" starter pack. And it showed
like a guy on Netflix, a guy playing video games, like a girl taking pictures of her
food and all these things. And it's like, those are excuses. There is no reason why
Christians should not be reading their Bible. It's something God commanded. You know, and
He wouldn't command us something that's just not possible for us to do, especially something
so rudimental as reading the Bible. But this is the key truth that I want you to understand
about people that make excuses, is that lazy people, they make excuses. Successful people,
they have all the same excuses that they could give, but they choose rather to overcome those
obstacles. The person that says, "I can't go soul winning because I'm too tired." Well,
the person that goes soul winning, guess what? He's tired too. The person that says, "I
don't have enough time to read my Bible." Okay, the person that actually reads their
Bible, they have a busy schedule too. The person that just makes an excuse for anything,
it's too cold outside. There's the guy that won't go out and plow because it's too cold
outside. And then there's the guy that throws on the car heart, throws on the beanie, throws
on the work boots, and is out there plowing in the cold. Now, they both could give the
same excuse, but what's the difference? Well, a mindset is the difference. And so excuses,
God does not accept excuses. You know, your boss is not going to accept excuses. The Lord
does not accept excuses. Giving an excuse, all it does is it just shows that you have
a weak spot in your life of laziness. You're always giving excuses. Look at Proverbs 22
verse 13. Here's a funny excuse. Proverbs 22, 13, it says, "The slothful man saith, 'There
is a lion without. I shall be slain in the streets.'" Now, this is just a funny excuse
to me because I'm picturing this. I'm picturing a person saying this, "Hey, why aren't you
at work right now?" And he tells his boss, "There's a lion outside." Well, my first
question would be, "Okay, is the lion right outside your door or is the lion just at large
in the city?" You know what I mean? Because these are two very different things. And if
he's out your door, why don't you have a .44 Magnum? This is America here. This is Texas.
Why don't you take care of the lion? What's going on here, right? And when I lived in
Boise, Idaho, I remember it would always make really big news if there was ever like a black
bear that wandered down the mountain and came into city limits. It happened from time to
time where I live or a wolf was in city limits or a mountain lion or something like that.
It always make big news, right? But here's what's funny. Whenever there was a bear in
Boise, Idaho, you know what I never saw? I never saw a bear. No, I never saw. I never
saw a wolf because, okay, somewhere out there, there's a lion somewhere out there. There's
a bear, but it's like, I'm just going to strap my .44 Mag on and just go to work. And if
I meet the bear, if I meet the lion, then I'll take care of it then. But look, unless
that lion's literally right outside your door, you know, that's not a valid excuse at the
moment. And like I said, if it's at your door, take care of business, okay? It's just such
a funny thing to think about. But what does it mean? What's the lesson from that? When
there's a will, there's a way. You want to get to work. You want to accomplish something
in your life. If you want to do something for God, there's going to be excuses. But
are you going to just give up once an excuse comes? Because that's what lazy people do.
Let's see. Are you a lazy person? Number one, do you make a habit of oversleeping? Number
two, you have a habit of making excuses. Number three, here's how you could tell if someone's
lazy if you waste what you've been given. If you waste what you've been given. Look
at Proverbs chapter 18 verse 9. It says, "He also that is slothful in his work is brother
to him that is a great waster." So these are similar type of people. The lazy person, he's
brother to the person that wastes a lot. And like I said, if you think back in your own
life of people that you've worked with that you thought were really lazy, they probably
wasted a lot of time. They probably wasted a lot of material. They probably wasted a
lot of tools and ran through a lot of the company's supplies and things like that. Why?
Because a lazy person's trying not to work. And so they're going to waste time and material
and all these things so that they don't have to work. And you know, you want to really
make your boss mad, waste all the company's stuff. The boss isn't lazy. The boss works
really hard to start a business, to put all of his time and energy and capital into a business.
You know, putting all his money into his tools. And then he hires, you know, the slothful
man and sees him just wasting his goods. You know, that's going to make him really mad.
That's going to make, you know, husbands really mad. When the husband goes and works really
hard, tries to provide for the family, you know, he brings home the bacon and the wife
makes dinner and like can't even be bothered to put it in the fridge. Or the kids can't
even be bothered to eat it. It's like, this is called wasting and this is going to make
your authority mad. It's the same thing with God. God is also going to be mad. I'll read
for you Proverbs 12, you can turn to Proverbs 13. Proverbs 12, 27 says that the slothful
man roasteth not that which he took in hunting, but the substance of a diligent man is precious.
So think about this, if a slothful man goes hunting and he successfully kills an animal,
he's going to let that animal just sit there and rot and not eat it, not use it for any
sort of productive purpose, but rather he's just going to let it sit there.
And it says the substance of a diligent man is precious.
So someone who's a hard worker, they care about the things that they have, they value
the things that they have much more highly than the lazy person.
Now admittedly, processing an animal is a lot of work.
If any of you guys ever process an animal, yeah, I'm sure you have, exactly.
It takes a lot of work, right?
After you get the kill, hunting, it's like, "Yeah, I got a kill."
And it's like, "Oh man, here comes the next several hours, right, you got to carry the
thing out and everything."
It takes a lot of work, but look, if you want that nice filet, if you want that nice backstrap
after the end of the hunt, you know what you got to do?
You have to process it, you have to roast it, you have to work hard to get that, but
the lazy person, he just lets it go to waste.
Proverbs 13, 4 says, "The soul of the sluggard desireeth and hath nothing, but the soul of
the diligent shall be made fat."
Again, both the lazy person and the productive person, they both have desires.
They both have things that they want.
But notice the sluggard, they have that desire, but they end up having nothing.
Why?
Because they're lazy.
And so if we think about this spiritually, there's a lot of great things that God has
given us.
God's given us a family, God's given us a church, and He doesn't want us to waste the
things that God has given us, that God is entrusted with, our children.
God's given us children, and He doesn't want you to just be lazy and raising those children,
just slothful and raising those children, but rather realizing, "Hey, you know, the substance
of a diligent man is precious.
These children that God's given me are precious, and I'm going to work very hard to take care
of them."
Look at Matthew chapter 25, Matthew chapter 25, and we'll get the parable of the talents
where the Lord basically has three servants.
He gives to one man five talents, and then He brings back five talents more.
To another, He gives two, brings two more, and then to another servant, He gives one,
and that servant just buries it in the earth, is lazy, and doesn't do anything with it.
Well, look at verse 24.
It says, "Then he which had received the one talent came and said, 'Lord, I knew thee that
thou art an hard man,'" so there's that excuse, right?
"'Reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed.'"
So we see the same thing, making excuses.
Now, in verse 25, it says, "And I was afraid, and went and hid thy talent in the earth.
Lo, there thou hast, that is thine."
So he's wasting his master's good, he's not being productive with the time that his master
has entrusted him to take care of his things.
Verse 26, "His Lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou
newest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed.
Thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I
should have received mine own with usury.
Take therefore the talent from him, and give it unto him which hath ten talents.
For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance; but from him
that hath not, shall be taken away even that which he hath.
And here's the scary truth you have to understand of why it's so important to not be lazy, to
work hard, to value the things that God has given us, is that in this parable, the person
that has, the person that works hard, the person that gained the talents for their master,
what happens to them?
They get more.
And so just like a Christian, if God's blessed you with something, like we already talked
about, a church, friends, family, health, children, all of these things, if you take
care of that, if you value that and you work hard at being a steward of God, well then
God's just going to give you more.
And then the Christian life gets better and better and God gives you more and more and
more blessings, but on the contrary, if God gives someone a blessing and they waste it
and they're lazy and they make excuses and they waste what God's given them, then God
takes it away, gives the blessing to someone else and that person has less.
And that's a scary thing, we should always be in the fear of the Lord that at any time
God can take away all the blessings that God has given us.
And also God can immediately bless us at any time too if we're faithful to Him, if we work
hard.
But that's a very real truth that we have to get deep into our hearts that God can take
anything away from us at any time. If we decide to be slothful, if we decide to make excuses,
we decide to waste what God's given us. So are you a lazy person? Well, you make a habit
of oversleeping, you have a habit of making excuses, you waste what you've been given.
Number four, go to Genesis chapter number three. It says, "If you live on government
handouts, when you're able-bodied, you are lazy." Now this is sadly becoming an epidemic
in our country. Even right here in Houston, every time I leave the building, I go under
the little underpass over there. It's the same 40-something-year-old dude that's always
sitting there. He's got his whole tent and everything set up, and he's just real happy
living his life being homeless. He's not trying to get a job. He's not trying to be productive
in his life. He's just completely staying as a bum. Why? Because he's not working. He's
living on government handouts. Otherwise, how is he alive? If he's not working, if he's
not getting money somehow, he's getting it from somewhere. Look at Genesis three, verse
seventeen, it says, "And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice
of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt
not eat of it. Cursed is the ground for thy sake. In sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the
days of thy life. Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee, and thou shalt
eat the herb of the field. In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return
unto the ground, for out of it wast thou taken, for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou
return. And so, since the very, very beginning, God has ordained man to work by the sweat
of his face, to cause the earth to bring forth its fruit, and the earth is cursed, so Adam
has to put work into the earth, he's got to till it, he's got to take care of it, in order
to be able to provide for himself and for his family. It's only a new invention that
people in our country are literally able to survive without working, and sometimes not
only survive, but sometimes literally make more money on welfare than they would working.
There's actually a huge labor shortage right now in the United States. You look at any
single business, I mean, I see all the time hiring signs. Why is that? Well, because ever
since the coronavirus pandemics happened, the government handouts have just been flowing
from the United States. They're giving monthly checks, they're giving all sorts of increased
unemployment benefits to where a lot of people who are working like a service job, a regular
just entry level job, they're actually getting paid more by the government to sit at home
than to go to their job. And so of course, people are taking the government up on that
and doing nothing. But this is a curse on our nation, because our nation is just rapidly
breeding lazy people. And having a bunch of lazy people around is not a good thing because
like we read at our opening text, a bunch of lazy people, what did they do? They just
destroy everything. The house drops through. And right now, our country looks like it's
about to drop through, right? I mean, our country is just insane right now. Do you think
that in Russia and in China, there's 20 year old men begging for food on the side of the
road? Do you think the government is just paying them to literally just sit at home
and play video games? No, rather, China's like banning video games, right? So all these
other nations, even just from a national security perspective, having all of these government
handouts is a curse on our nation. It's not something that God wants. But if someone lives
off government handouts and they're an able-bodied person, that person for sure is lazy. Now,
I don't think there's anyone in this church or at Fort Worth even that's living like that,
but it's just something to realize. Like if you see that person, that 20, 30, 40 year
old on the side of the road, that's able-bodied and begging for money. Look, that person is
lazy. That person's not just down on hard times. You know, it's pretty easy to tell
usually, excuse me, pretty easy to tell. Usually the guy that actually needs help, he's got
like no legs and a patch on his eye. It's like, okay, this guy might need some help.
But the guy that is my age looks like me on the side of the road. You know, it's a horrible
thing to see. 2 Thessalonians 3, you'll go there, 2 Thessalonians 3 verse 6, it says,
"Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw
yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly." Now, a lot of people don't understand
what this is talking about when it says "walking disorderly." I've seen preachers just say
that anytime someone preaches something bad or says something bad that, "Oh, they're
walking disorderly now," no, the Bible's actually going to explain to us what it means
to walk disorderly. It says, "And not after the tradition which he received of us," verse
7, "For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us, for we behaved not ourselves disorderly
among you. Neither did we eat any man's bread for naught, but rot with labor and travail
night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you." So the apostle Paul was
literally working two full-time jobs and only taking a paycheck from one. This is the exact
opposite of the person that's living off welfare who's able-bodied. Paul's doing actually more
work. He's doing two full-time jobs, only getting paid from one. He was a hard worker.
Verse 9, "Not because we have not power." He's saying, "Look, I could have been taking
a check for my role as an evangelist, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you, follow
us." Verse 10, "For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would
not work, neither should he eat." It doesn't sound like Paul has a lot of pity here for
lazy people. He's saying like, "I'm working two jobs here. I'm only getting paid for one
of them, and I could have been being paid for two." So, here's the thing, if someone's
just not working at all around you guys, neither should he eat. He shouldn't even be alive,
basically. He's saying you should literally starve to death if you're a man and you're
not working. That'd be a hard saying for a lot of people in the United States to hear
today, to say that these bums on the side of the road that are just purposely not working,
that they should literally starve to death. But that is what the Bible says. And that's
not coming from a hypocrite, that's coming from a man that's working two full-time jobs.
So, he has every right to lay this down in the Word of God. Verse 12, it says, "Now them
that are such, though the people that don't work, we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus
Christ, that with quietness they work and eat their own bread." I love that phrase with
quietness, because the people that don't work, the people that are lazy, you know what they
always want to do? They always want to tell you a big story. They just want to tell you
this big sob story of why they're in that position, but Paul's just saying, "Hey, hey,
shut your mouth. Just with quietness, just work with your own hands. Just stop the excuses."
Right? And all the time, there's been people that have come up to Steadfast at all strange
hours of the day and night, and I've talked to some of these people, and I'm like, "You
know, what are you doing?" He's like, "Oh, I just got dropped off in Fort Worth." I was
like, "From where?" And he's like, "Oh, man, I don't know. I was just on the freeway."
And it's just like, what in the world? And they start telling you just this weird, bizarre
story. Makes no sense whatsoever. And you want to know why it makes no sense? Because it's
not true. It's just some story. You know, you ever had someone just come up to you at the
gas station, "Hey, my grandma's sister just died, and I need to get to Kentucky." It's
just like, "Okay, just with quietness, just work and eat your own bread, buddy." Because
I'm not buying your story. You're a liar. The Bible says that if you don't work, you
shouldn't even eat. So I love that phrase, "With quietness, they work and eat their own
bread." But ye brethren, be not weary in well-doing. He's saying, "Hey, you guys are not, you guys
don't have this problem. You guys are working hard, and don't become weary in the well-doing
that you're doing. Don't stop working hard. Don't be like these people." Verse 14, "And
if any man obey not our word by this epistle," so if someone's not taking heed to this doctrine,
if they are going to be lazy, if they're not going to work, it says, "Note that man and
have no company with him that he may be ashamed." And I have seen in church before someone who's
not working, that's gone around the church and given their sob story to everyone, that's
mooched off of people, and I have seen that person kicked out of church because they did
not get a job. And guess what? That is biblical. That is biblical because someone that's doing
that, we're supposed to note them and have no company with them. Why? So that they'll
be ashamed. So that hopefully the sting of getting kicked out of church or at least having
their company separated from the brethren would make them feel bad. And they should
feel bad. That's the whole point. That they feel bad, not just so that they feel bad though,
but so that they get it right. So that they get a job and become productive and not be
lazy because like we saw, lazy people, what do they do? The house drops through. They
destroy everything. They destroy church. They destroy their own lives. We can't have people
like that around us, and it's for their own good to inflict punishment on them for being
lazy. Go to Proverbs chapter 6. I'll read for you 1 Timothy 5, 8. It says, "But if any
provide not for his own, and especially for those of his own house, he hath denied the
faith and is worse than an infidel." The Bible's saying even an infidel, even an unbeliever,
even someone who's not saved, you know what they do? They provide for themselves and they
provide for their family. I mean, how many unsaved coworkers do you have where they're
providing for their family just fine? They're doing that. And so, what a shame when a Christian
is not doing that. You're saying, "Hey, you're worse than even an unbeliever." Because even
unbelievers are able to do that. So if you want to ask yourself, "Am I lazy? Do I have
any aspects in my life that is laziness?" Well, number one, you make a habit of oversleeping.
Number two, you have a habit of making excuses. Number three, do you waste what you've been
given? Number four, do you live on welfare when you're able-bodied? Number five, if the
only time you're productive is when you're told to be, then you're lazy. If the only
time that you're working is when someone's writing you and telling you what to do, that's
the only time you're productive, then you are a lazy person. If you have to be literally
micromanaged and watched in order to do anything in life, that shows you have no initiative
and that you are a lazy person. Go to Proverbs chapter number six. I can't get there myself
here. Proverbs six. Proverbs chapter six and look at verse six. It says, "Go to the aunt
thou sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise, which having no guide, overseer, or ruler,
provided her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest." The Bible talks
about this creature called the ant, and this ant doesn't have to have a boss to tell it
to go provide food, to go and build its houses, to go and do all the things that ants do to
survive. There's not an ant boss, you know, constantly riding them, constantly whipping
them. There's not mom and dad constantly, you know, telling the little kid ants what
to do. Ants just work hard, right? That's why the Bible is exhorting us to go to the
ant and to learn this principle. But, you know, there's a lot of people that literally,
they will not do any work unless their boss is telling them each and every step to do
for the entire day. And as soon as the boss leaves the workshop or as soon as the boss
leaves the construction site, everyone's done working, everyone's completely done. Or same
thing sometimes with a family, you know, maybe a wife is just one of these ladies that just
sits on the couch and watches, you know, Oprah all day or something like that. And her husband
has to be like, "Okay, did you feed the kids? Have you read the Bible? You know, have you
done the homeschool for the kids?" It's like, no, a woman should be working hard without
her husband having to be down her neck like that. Same thing with children. You know,
when obviously your tasks are going to vary all the time, and so your parents are going
to have to give you new instructions saying, "Do this today, do that today." But there's
certain things that your parents tell you to do that you know are going to happen every
single day. You know, if one of those things is take out the trash, at that point you should
be taking out the trash without being asked to do it, right? Because you learn that now
at a young age, then once you're in the job site, you can be that productive worker that's
just seeing issues, getting things done, and the boss doesn't have to waste all of his
time making sure that you know each and every menial task that needs to be accomplished.
You know, I worked for about a year for a government municipality in the state of Oregon
doing paving and road maintenance and all these different things and I had a really
great crew leader that loved to work hard and I was very happy to be on his crew but
I noticed if my crew leader was sick and we got a different boss for whatever reason,
this guy was extremely lazy so you have the crew leader which is kind of like the underboss
and then you have the shift supervisor who is the main boss.
Well if I had the lazy crew leader, he would have us do this thing called "potspotting".
So basically our job for the day was to go fill potholes throughout the city right?
And if I'm on the good crew, then our boss is running us the entire time, we're filling
tons of potholes.
But if we had the lazy shift lead, basically what he would do is he'd have us fill two
or three potholes and then he'd say okay, go hotspot.
Which basically means drive your taxpayer funded government truck around the city all
day for the rest of the day, doing absolutely nothing.
He says because a moving truck is a working truck, none of the citizens are going to call
us in and complain that the city's sitting there doing nothing.
And it's like, that's a wicked thing to do.
That's a wicked thing to do, to just take people's money, take people's tax money, and
then just drive around the city pretending to be working.
That's someone that will not be productive unless their boss is on them, unless someone's
overseeing them, telling them exactly what to do.
It's like, okay, you need to do exactly 70 potholes today.
And if you don't tell him that, then he's going to do one or two that he could fill
in and he could write, oh, it took hours and hours to do these really, you know, intricate
potholes or whatever.
When really, we filled them in a couple hours and then just the rest of the day drove around
doing absolutely nothing.
It's horrible.
And obviously, I'm the new hire, I'm the guy on probation, and I was like, okay, I'll
just do what I'm told at the time.
But obviously, it was not fun.
And I felt bad about it.
It's like, this does not feel right.
And of course, because it's not right, right?
And so, make sure you're not that type of person that's just unable to work without
being overseen.
In Ephesians chapter 6, I'll read for you, verse 5, it says, "Servants be obedient to
them that are your masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling in singleness
of your heart as unto Christ, not with eye service as men pleasers."
What's eye service?
Well, it's basically like, you're constantly looking around, making sure like, okay, I'm
in the sight of the boss, I'm within eye shot of the boss, okay, let me make sure I'm going
to start working.
As soon as he's gone, back to doing nothing.
No, we shouldn't be like that, rather we should be working unto Christ whose eyes are always
on us.
God always sees if we're working, God always sees if we're being lazy.
Verse number six, it says, "Not with eye service as men pleasers, but as the servants of Christ
doing the will of God from the heart with goodwill, doing service as to the Lord and
not to men."
And some people get frustrated because maybe they work a job where they do a lot of menial
tasks, a lot of things that they consider not important.
But I love this next verse, verse eight, it says, "Knowing that whatsoever good thing any
man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free."
So if you're working hard, if you're doing your job as a mother, if you're doing your
job as a dad raising your kids, if you're doing your secular job, or if you're working
unto the Lord, no matter what you're doing, whatever good thing you do, whether you're
bond or free, the Lord is going to reward that.
So if it's something as simple as you think, oh, cleaning the church, that's not a very
glorious task, but is it a good thing?
Is it a good thing to do?
Absolutely.
Well whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord.
It doesn't matter if it's restocking the soul-winning supplies, it doesn't matter if it's cleaning
the church, it doesn't matter if it's leading a song, or running a live stream, or doing
any type of work for the church, or any type of work at all for the Lord, the Bible says
if it's good, then you're going to be rewarded for that.
It's not like you have to be a pastor in order to get rewards in heaven for your work.
It's not like you have to preach a sermon only, that's the only thing you can get rewards
for.
No, you can get rewards any good thing, any good thing that you do.
And to me, that's a very encouraging verse.
Last thing here, how can you tell if you're a lazy person?
Number one, make a habit of oversleeping.
Number two, do you have a habit of making excuses?
Number three, do you waste what you've been given?
Number four, do you live on welfare when you're able-bodied?
Number five, is the only time you're productive when you're told to be?
Last thing here, if you'll turn to Proverbs 24, you can tell someone's lazy if they or
the things that they own are always dirty and unorganized.
If someone's always dirty, if someone's always filthy or the things that they own are always
filthy and unorganized, that is a lazy person.
I'll prove it to you.
Proverbs 24, look at verse 30, it says, "I went by the field of the slothful and by the
vineyard of the man, void of understanding."
Just picture the most ghetto neighborhood possible in Houston right now, okay?
What are you going to see?
"And below, it was all grown over with thorns, and nettles had covered the face thereof,
and the stone wall thereof was broken down."
So you're soul winning in the ghetto, and what do you see?
You go up to some shack and it's overgrown with thorns, all their fences and their stone
has just all been knocked down, there's just nettles everywhere, you know, the guy opens
the door and you're immediately hit with his BO, he can barely walk because he's so fat,
he's got Mountain Dew bottles everywhere, cigarettes everywhere, his carpet looks like
it's never been vacuumed one single time, there's smudges all over the wall, you're
hit with just the smell of death when he opens. Why? Because he's lazy. That is the picture
that the Bible is pointing. You go to the house of a slothful person and it's like everything's
just disheveled and in a mess and why is that? It's because they are lazy. And so, you know,
don't make a habit of constantly being dirty and unorganized. You see a lot of lazy young
guys and it's like, oh man, I'm looking for a wife and it's like shower, bro. Shower.
Ladies don't like to smell your B.O. You know what I mean? It's like if you're going to
be lazy like that or, you know, you show up. Oh, man, I remember this. So my first job
out of high school was as a valet and basically you park people's cars, which it sounds real
fun, but I did it at a hospital. So it's like, yeah, OK, the doctor's cars were cool and
some of the nurses cars were cool. But it's like some of the patients that come in, not
so cool. And I remember this one that came in, just extremely, just morbidly obese woman
gets out of her minivan and I get in her car and it's like, again, just that that death
smell of BO. I look around and there's literal piles of food just stacked up to the ceiling.
I'm not even kidding you. There was an opened pack of hot dogs, raw, just an open pack of
hot dogs in the summer, just cooking in her minivan. Just horrible smell. I literally
just, I got in, I just hold my breath and I drive like a quarter mile away to where
our parking lot is, holding my breath the entire time and get out and just like dead.
But it's like, you should look at that and think, okay, I don't want to be like that
person. I do not want to make some poor valet kid suffer through my laziness because everything's
just disheveled and destroyed and you can't ever have anyone over to your house because
it's so dirty and you can't even be around people and them enjoy your company because
you stink so bad. Look, these are not pleasant and nice things to tell people, but sometimes
you have to tell someone, "Look, you're being lazy. You need to shower." If you're asking
for lady advice, there it is. That's why you can't get a girlfriend, bro, because you need
to shower, because you need to present yourself like you didn't just crawl out of bed at 3
p.m. like you probably just did, right? You got to present yourself like you're a hard
worker and have yourself clean and have the things that you own clean. Verse 32 says,
"Then I saw and considered it well. I looked upon it and received instruction." He's like,
"Oh yeah, I see that. I'm going to receive some instruction. I don't want to be like
that." And that's some pretty easy instruction to receive. If you're a valet at that hospital
for a couple weeks, you'll receive that instruction that you don't want to be a dirty, nasty,
lazy person like that. Then it says, verse 33, "You had a little sleep, a little slumber,
a little folding of the hands to sleep. So shall thy poverty come as one that travel
it and thy want as an armed man." So again, all these things, they're all connected. When
you look at a lazy person, you're going to see one, if not several of these categories
where they're hitting the mark, where they're being lazy. Go to 1 Timothy 5 and we'll just
have this and one more verse that we'll turn to. 1 Timothy 5 says this, "And with all
they," and the "they" there is referring to younger ladies, it says, "And with all they
learn to be idle." So these ladies are lazy. What are they doing? They're wandering about
from house to house and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies. So these ladies
have a lot of issues right now in their life. They're lazy, tattlers, they're busybodies,
they're wandering about from house to house, and they're speaking things which they ought
not. And so what is God's solution to specifically, in this case, a woman that's lazy, a woman
that's idle? God gives a solution to this. It says, "I will therefore that the younger
women marry bare children, guide the house, give none occasion to the adversary to speak
reproachfully. For some are already turned aside after Satan." So we're talking about
this specific point is about how you can tell if someone's lazy if they're always dirty
and disheveled. Well, right here in the Bible we have these lazy women and God's prescription
to this issue is that they get married, have children, and guide the house. So if you walk
into a woman's house, and I'm not saying every once in a while thing, okay, but if it's consistently,
her house is always, as a pattern of her house being dirty, being disheveled, being gross,
that means that she is idle. Because in order to cure her idleness, what does she need to
do? She needs to get married, that's a lot of work, taking care of one of us, right,
that's a problem. Having kids, that's a lot of work, right, and guiding the house. That
is plenty of work for a woman to stay busy, to not be idle, to not be a tattler, to not
be a busybody, to not be wandering about from house to house. And guess what, there's more
than this, too, because this is just her carnal duties. But God also expects ladies, like
I said, to read the Bible, pray, go soul hunting, go to church, to have a Christian walk themselves.
And so if a woman is struggling with idleness, well, how are you going to see that? Her house
is always disheveled, her house is always a mess. Now, don't start, you know, just showing
up unannounced to people's houses, right, because number one, I didn't say if it's ever
a mess, you're lazy. I said if it's a habit of being a mess, right? And number two, it's
just rude to do that to people anyways. You know, that should never be a culture in this
church. You just walk up to someone's house without them knowing, you know, that's a bad
thing to do. But, hey, if she takes care of those things, if she's diligent working hard
with children, for her marriage, in her house, then she's not going to have much time to
be idle. So, in conclusion here, how do you tell if you're lazy? And go to Hebrews chapter
number six for the last place of the evening. These are some categories that the Bible has
clearly spelled out for us where we can look at our lives and say, "Okay, where am I hitting
on this point?" Number one, do you make a habit of oversleeping? Number two, do you
have a habit of making excuses? Number three, do you waste what you've been given? Number
four, do you live on welfare when you're able-bodied? Number five, is the only time you're productive
when you're told to be? Number six, are you or the things that you own always dirty and
unorganized? So the last thing I want to show you is in Hebrews chapter six, and this verse
is kind of an exhortation because Hebrews six, the context of Hebrews six is God wants us
to go on unto perfection, wants us to leave the basic doctrines of salvation and baptism,
and we need to go on unto perfection. It says in Hebrews six, 10 it says, "For God is not
unrighteous to forget your work and labor of love, which he have showed towards his
name, in that you have ministered to the saints and do minister." Like I said, every good
thing God is going to reward, and when you work, when you have labor of love for other
people like this is talking about, or just ministering to the work of God, God's not
going to forget that work. Other people might forget that work. Your spouse might forget
that work. Your boss might forget that work. You know, your brothers and sisters in Christ
may not notice the work that you're doing, but the Bible says that God is not unrighteous
to forget our work and our labor of love. Every single work that we do for the Lord,
all of the work that we do in our lives, even secularly, all of it, God's not going to forget
it. It's not in vain. In all labor, there is profit, the Bible says. In all labor, spiritually,
carnally, there's profit in all of it. Because remember, even when you're working carnally,
who are you really working for? The Bible says, "working unto the Lord." Verse 11,
"We desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope
unto the end." Why? "That you be not slothful, but followers of them who through faith and
patience inherit the promises." And sometimes in life, like I said, we all have the flesh,
there's going to be times when all of us feel like being lazy, when we feel like sleeping
in, when we feel like making an excuse of why something cannot be done. But, if we're
not slothful, if we continue with work and with our labor of love, the Bible says that
"through faith and patience inherit the promises." You know, someday, it's hard to just detach
ourselves from our busy lives and our everyday tasks that we go through every single day.
It's hard sometimes to detach ourselves from the reality that we're in right now to the
reality that we, one day, will be in when you are alone before the Lord Jesus Christ
and God is going to examine your works and God is going to see how you did in this life.
And all of your, you know, just laziness is gonna burn right up. There's nothing to burn.
There's no works to burn if you're lazy, right? But the Bible says that "through faith and
patient inherit the promises. There will be great rewards in heaven for those that work hard. Those
that are the hardest working Christians will have the most rewards in heaven. I didn't say pastors
will have the most rewards. I didn't say deacons. I didn't say evangelists. I said the hardest working
Christians. Could those people be evangelists, deacons, pastors? Yes, absolutely. You know who
else it could be? It could be the mom. You know who else it could be? It could be the old lady.
You know who else it could be? It could be a child that decides to forsake the vanity of youth and
actually serve God in their youth and continue their whole life with work and labor of love and
realizing God's not going to forget that. That's always going to be lasting. And someday when we
stand before Christ, through faith and patience, we're going to inherit the promises. We're going
to inherit all the fruit of our labor. And so this is a new year. Examine your life. See if you
miss the mark in any of those categories and just purpose in your hearts to say, "Hey,
I'm going to work hard physically and for the Lord in 2020." Let's have a word of prayer, Lord.
Thank you so much for your word and thank you for how many both spiritual and carnal truths we can
find in it. I pray that Pure Words Baptist Church would be full of people that want to work hard
in this world and for you, Lord, and pray that you just bless us as we go our separate ways tonight.
In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. All right. For our last song,
our last song will be song 44, "We'll Work 'Til Jesus Comes."
44, "We'll Work 'Til Jesus Comes." Song 44, "We'll Work 'Til Jesus Comes."
O land of rest for the eyesight, when will the moment come?
When I shall lay my armor by and dwell in peace at home.
We'll work 'til Jesus comes. We'll work 'til Jesus comes.
We'll work 'til Jesus comes and we'll be gathered home.
To Jesus Christ I fled for rest. He bade me cease to roam
and lean for succor on his breast till he conduct me home.
Will work till Jesus comes, will work till Jesus comes, will work
till Jesus comes and will be gathered home. I sought at once my Savior's side no more.
My steps shall roam with him all brave deaths chilling tight and reach my heavenly home.
Will work till Jesus comes, will work till Jesus comes, will work till Jesus comes and
will be gathered home. God bless. Thanks for coming. You are dismissed.