SLOTHFUL MANKIND PROPHESIES HIS OR HER OWN DOOM !
- Evangelist/Bobby Lewis
- Oct 30, 2021
- 3 min read
SLOTHFUL MANKIND PROPHESIES HIS OR HER OWN DOOM ! In 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 King James Bible. In the amplified Bible the statement reads, "The sluggard says, there is a lion outside ! I shall be slain in the streets !" The slothful man is one who isn't going to do anything. He or she just sits there and says, "I'll be eaten." He or she doesn't even run. They could at least make an effort to get out of the street. But they prophesies their own doom. In many ways those who say they can and those who say they can't are both right. Those who don't act on the Word of God are doing that all the time. They say, "Well, you know, we're all going under." "Nothing ever works out for me." The world is going to blow up in one big atomic blast, and we're all going to be doomed." The slothful man or woman prophesies his or her own doom. NATURAL THINGS REFLECT SPIRITUAL THINGS ! We are capable of conceiving God's Word in our spirit, bringing forth production of what God said in His Word. He says, the same thing is true concerning the words of the world and the devil. Remember, hope is a goal setter. Sometimes, when we see these things in the Bible, we tend to take them completely out 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, not like the physical heart that pumps the blood to the body, but it; talking about the spirit or heart of mankind 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 it your house called a heating and air 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 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 to 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 would simply dial the goal setter, and it would sin and impulse 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 won't 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.
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