SLOTHFUL MAN PROPHESIES HIS OWN DOOM !

SLOTHFUL MAN PROPHESIES HIS OWN DOOM ! In (Proverbs 22:13), we find this statement: "The slothful man saith, There is a lion without, I shall be slain in the streets." The man or woman is one who isn't going to do anything. They just sit there and says, "I'll be eaten." They don't even run. They could at least make an effort to get out of the street. But they prophesies his or her own doom. Those who don't act on the Word of God or doing that all the time. They say, "Well, you know, we're all going under." "Nothing ever works out for me." The world's going to blow up in one big atomic blast, and we are all going to be doomed." The slothful person prophesies his or her own doom. NATURAL THINGS REFLECT SPIRITUAL THINGS ! We that are born-again believers are capable of conceiving God's Word in our spirit man, bringing forth production of what God said in His Word. Remember hope is a goal-setter. "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen." Sometimes when we see these things in the Bible, we tend to take them completely outside of their natural setting. When Jesus talked about sowing a seed, He didn't take it away from the soil and say, "This is a spiritual thing." We make a serious mistake when we totally separate the natural from the spiritual. God's word is spiritual, but it works like a natural seed. The heart of man is spiritual, and it is not the natural blood pump that he is referring to. But you hear people say "I believe God with all my heart." Then they point towards the natural heart. But when the Bible mentions the heart, it is talking about the spirit of man: and it works like natural soil. Let me give you an illustration of how the heart is designed to produce. Let's bring it down to the natural level where we can all understand it. There probably is a piece of equipment at your house called a heating and cooling conditioning unit. It is the heart of the heating and cooling system. That unit has been designed by an engineer to control the temperature of your house. That's all it was designed to do. It is designed to produce whatever you dial into that little thermostat on the wall, which we will call it a goal setter. The heart of that unit was designed to produce whatever temperature you dial into that thermostat. The numbers on that thermostat represent degrees of temperature. Let's say it is 100° outside, and you want the temperature to be 70° inside. Your job would be to turn that goal setter to 70°. As long as it is kept on 70°, that unit will work night and day see that the goal is reached. You wouldn't have to fast and pray that it would get cold in your house. The unit knows how to do it. That is what it was designed to do. You will simply dial the goal setter, and it would send an" to the heart of that unit and say, "get us some cold air in here. It's hot." With the thermostat on 70° when it's 100° outside, you have created a problem for the heart of that unit. But it can handle it. That is all it knows to do, but it can do it well. That unit won't wash your clothes, it won't cook your dinner, it will not clean your house. It wasn't designed to do those things. It was designed for one purpose: to produce what you have dialed into the goal setter.