 Amen. So this morning we are going to go into sermon number two of the Up from Slavery sermon series and this morning's sermon as we saw in you know kind of a main theme in Second Thessalonians chapter three keep your place there we're gonna be going back and forth there but the the the title of the sermon this morning is that hard work always works that's the title of the sermon this morning and what I really want to address this morning in you know the sermon is that there is just an overall disdain for work today and that this is nothing new actually and it's it's interesting that in the book I don't know how many of you have finished reading it or have gotten if you've gotten even halfway into it you understand that this is not an issue that's new to us just today it's not a new idea to think that physical labor and what I'm talking about is physical work things that you know that would be laborious to you but this idea that labor that actual physical labor is bad that's a problem that we have today that we see today but it is not anything new or that you know physical labor is maybe it's not bad but it's a lower form it's only for lower people in society or whatever Booker T. Washington addresses that several times in this book and it's interesting at the angle that he comes at it for remember he was born in slavery and then when he was a young man probably you know eight or nine years old he was actually you know a free man at that point but from page 35 let me give you a quote from the book up from slavery he says this about physical labor he's talking about you know this goal of getting to this Hampton Institute you know this goal of getting himself an education which will be another sermon in the series by the way but he's talking about you know just some preconceptions that he had about why he wanted an education what things were going to be like when he finally got to the school and he quotes in page 35 he says before going there at this is Hampton I had a good deal of the then rather prevalent idea this meant this was a common idea among our people that to secure an education meant to have a good easy time free from all necessity for manual labor does that sound familiar today at Hampton he continues at Hampton I not only learned that it was not a disgrace to labor but learn to love labor not alone for its financial value but for labor's own sake and for the independence and self-reliance which the ability to do something which the world wants done brings now look that was a that's just there's so much there but I mean he says he not only learned that a labor itself was not a disgrace and if you finish reading the book you will find out that that was a main theme of this school very good school I mean in the teaching of the head the hands and the heart if you remember on that phrase that he always said but it's not only disgrace to labor but he learned to love it he learned to love it why because not alone for its financial value because yes labor we will talk about that this morning labor will bring you financial gain as well but for what for labor's own sake now how many I mean if you are a hard-working man in this room you know exactly what that phrase means that you love labor for labor's own sake this is why you'll hear you know men come into the church on Sunday and say oh man you know I worked really hard and I did this and I did that this is why you know it feels so good to drive home from work on Friday because you love labor for labor's own sake because labor because it's look it's it's designed you're designed to do it meaning when you do do what you're supposed to do there's joy there it's it's j o y it's not happy like when I go and I and I was working construction and I was in a hundred degree heat with fiberglass insulation wrapped around my face all day long look that was not a happy moment you're not just happy when that's happening when you go home from work and it looks like you have like crystal arm hair from the fiberglass you know on your arms you but look there's a joy there there's a joy that look I worked hard today and I did what I was supposed to do now look he was saying that look there was this idea amongst his people so here the ex slaves are now they're not educated they're trying to get educated and there's this idea that if we get educated we don't have to do manual labor and I mean it can I can understand where that comes from from their perspective but he figured out very soon that that's not what the education was for now either from the perspective of former slave owners there was an idea that labor was bad that physical labor was bad in page nine of the book and look this became a severe advantage to the people that used to own slaves and then slavery was outlawed and now you know they had to do their own work or hire people to do work but look at in page number nine he says this he says they meaning the former slave owners said they had unconscious unconsciously imbibed look that means I assimilated to they kind of taught themselves over time to that the feeling that manual labor was not the thing for them so look it's it's the former slave owner disadvantaged himself to the point where you know he believed that manual labor was not for me so thus and we'll talk about this later in another sermon as well on this book but that that led them to many difficulties in the future of their lives they knew how to do nothing they knew how to do nothing and Washington even says that in the book he says look at least we knew how to he's like he felt sorry for the previous owners because he's like at least we knew we had skills that's not the point of this sermon but that's just a very interesting point as a matter of fact Washington even points out on the subject of physical labor even points out how the ministry became the profession that suffered the most during his time because anybody that had a slight education you know they thought that they they could get into this easy life of the ministry this labor-free life by just claiming that they were called into the ministry meaning you just ended up with all these unqualified people as ministers and he said the ministry suffered terribly because everybody was looking for this easy manual labor-free life but what does the Bible say what does the Bible say I know we're talking about this book and these lessons and there's a lot of wisdom in these lessons but really what does the Bible say about a labor-free life turn to Genesis chapter 3 Genesis chapter 3 people today are still looking for this labor-free life just like just like the people in Booker T Washington's time as a matter of fact college today that's why you see so many kids rushing off to college and just wanting to get a college degree so they don't actually have to work for a living so they don't have to actually do anything for a living this is why and I'll talk about this a little bit later as well this is why even before the COVID mess there was a like an 80% shortage in the skilled trades in the trades where you actually go out and work with your hands and do something that takes skill there's a huge shortage that shortage is it's not quite doubled but it's much higher it's like 25% higher today than it was a year and a half ago it's just getting worse the shortage of labor remember that there's a shortage of labor today we're going to talk about a little some simple economic theory as well this morning turn to Genesis chapter 3 we see what you know Booker T Washington has learned what you know what things were going on then we see the same things you know this disdain for physical labor is still happening today look at Genesis chapter 3 look at verse 19 the Bible says this is what this is what the Lord says to the man he says in the sweat of thy face shall thou eat bread till thou return to the ground for it was out of it was thou taken for dust thou art and unto dust thou shall return so God is giving the judgments and what's going to happen to man after they betrayed him in the garden and the Bible says here it says you're going to earn your bread and you'll see this theme just keep popping up over and over and that's important too by the way but he says thou shall eat bread and we see the same theme in 2 Thessalonians chapter 3 now shall eat bread by the sweat of your face by the work that you do now let me ask you a question is this how things work today I mean does the sweat I mean the sweat of your face is does it get you your food today does do do people literally need to go out and work today let me rephrase this do people in America today need to go out and work in order to have food let me just read you a quote a nutritional researcher at the University of California at San Francisco found that teen and adult food stamp recipients had larger waste and higher levels of obesity than people that aren't in the program the people that do not work in this country and receive assistance so that you know so they don't starve are literally more obese than the average obese American so what's happening in America today is the government is actually stepping in front of God's plan let's look at jobs today you say well there is a lot of you know physical labor there is a lot of you know what about physical labor though there's a lot of jobs where I can go and I can work hard to be an accountant and I sit at a desk all day and I just do accounting all day there's like tech jobs web development it's a different time it's a different time so this doesn't really apply well guess what the bible always applies and this also applies look there is jobs today that don't require physical labor you know there's a lot of tech jobs banking accounting web development I'm sure I can go on for forever but the point is this the point is this I do not know anyone in the 44 years that I've been alive on this earth I do not know anyone that has a strong work ethic that did not get that work ethic through physical labor think about it do you know anybody do you know anybody that just works like a crazy person at their tech job or their at their accounting job and they just don't know how to do any physical labor they just have never done any physical labor look that's where they gained that work ethic everybody that I know today that has a strong work ethic has gained it through physical labor either from you know just growing up with chores and their parents to you know having a side business of some kind or whatever I know a lot of people with strong work ethic that do several things they have a job that's not really a physical job but they may have maybe a business or two that's very physical that's very physical that was a common thing you know when I was working in North Dakota guys would work you know a professional job and then they would have a ranch on the side that's exactly what I did you know they could work for someone and then have a side business or just own their own business whatever but to learn hard work the point I'm trying to make and the point the Bible is making to learn hard work and to learn work ethic you need to sweat you need to learn how to do physical labor I always said that the best engineers were farm kids and that you know I I stick by that today because they they they know how to work and they know how things work but look labor the point I'm trying to make is labor is the best way so parents you need to listen up labor actual physical things to do is the best way to instill work ethic in your children and guess what it matches God's plan right and angle look as you learn how to work physically hard it will lead to bigger and less strenuous things you become the supervisor you become the foreman but it starts with sweating look the lazy office worker is still not good at their office job I mean they're still not good at it they're still lazy and here's the thing parents like if you don't get this right this is a unique thing this this slothfulness this laziness this is a unique thing in the sense that if this happens to your children I don't know how to fix the 30 year old lazy man right if I figure out look if I figure it out if I figure out that there's a process or there's a method or something I'll I'll be a I'll be a multi-millionaire because I'll write a book and everyone will buy it and it will just fix the whole country but look I I could you could literally if you don't teach your children work ethic you could literally have a ruined person on your hands turn to 2nd Thessalonians chapter 3 I mean the Bible could fix it you say well what about the Bible the Bible could fix it but we won't let the Bible work in this country is the problem turn to 2nd Thessalonians chapter 3 2nd Thessalonians chapter 3 look at verse number 7 the Bible says for you yourselves know how you ought to follow us for we behaved ourselves for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you verse 8 neither did we eat any man's bread for not but wrought with labor and travail night and day that we might not be chargeable to any of you look he's not talking about the ministry here he's saying look when we came to minister unto you when we came to be evangelist to you he's like we worked and we fed ourselves so we would not be chargeable to any not because we have not power but to make ourselves and then sample unto you to follow us he's trying to be a good example to show them how you know we're going to work for our food you should work for your food verse number 10 for even when we were with you this we commanded you that if any would not work neither should he eat but again our society will not allow the Bible to work this is the problem if you don't work you should go hungry and hunger is like one of the there's a reason that hunger is one of the strongest desires you will ever have like it's one of the things that you just can't shut off you can't if you're just you haven't eaten anything for three or four days you can't just tell yourself i'm not hungry it's a super strong desire instead here's the situation in this country let me just read you some stats here here's where we're at in this country the bible says you don't work you shouldn't eat i mean it's pretty simple right outcomes razor the simplest solution is usually the right one so if you don't work you shouldn't eat cnbc on august 7th 2021 reported this there are more than one million more open jobs in the u.s than people looking for work there are 10 million open jobs and there are 8.6 million unemployed people now you're just like 41 percent now you know here's here's where things get really stupid especially after the news on friday if you listen to uh the president and his new mandate 41 percent of employers are now offering enhanced benefits employers are trying to beg employees it is an employees market does that make sense let's talk a little bit about supply and demand for five minutes you have 10 million jobs you have 8.6 million people on unemployment we'll address that one in a second but the point is there's way more open jobs companies can't find enough people companies need people they can't find people so this is how stupid vaccine mandates are for the private industry and i'm going to give you a little bit of a positive thing to walk out the door with this morning on these vaccine mandates because look it's an employer's market it's an employer's market there are more open jobs than there are people to fill those jobs now let me explain to you how the private sector works i know that the president works for the federal government which makes no sense they do not operate in a free market they do not operate like a private industry but the point is this when you put to rent more tyrannical rules on people today and there's open jobs everywhere let me give you an example housing market in fresno is crazy it's definitely a seller's market i you know i heard that you know a house with you know one or two days on the market will have 15 offers this is like this is the equivalent of like going into a house that's for sale in fresno knowing that there's 15 offers on that house and saying i'll offer you half price and i want everything changed in the kitchen i want the bathrooms remodeled i want the backyard re-landscaped and i want you to put in a pool then i'll offer you half price for this that's what's happening it is a sell they'll laugh you out the door companies can't find people they can't find enough people they're trying to offer more benefits signing bonuses pay to get people to encourage to come to their company not get rid of people a business a private business the point i'm trying to get as a private business operating in a free market would have to be suicidal to follow these rules and don't you quit you make them fire you because guess what it's illegal so why are you some constitutional expert no but i can read the first amendment the first sentence of it that congress should not prohibit the free exercise of religion oh you some rocket scientists know i can read a sentence but the point i'm trying to make is hey go get a raise everybody's looking for employees the business would have to be suicidal but hey people are just going to go get a raise it's a fundamental misunderstanding of economics 101 supply and demand but you know when you have people that have made a career out of working for the government and just that's all they've ever been as politicians they just don't understand anything let's go back to the numbers in the sermon so that's just a positive note on the the mandate for you okay it's illegal it's illegal it's going to be found illegal and you know what maybe some people just go get a raise after they fire you but don't quit so let's go back to the numbers you say what's going on there's immediately immediately 10 million open jobs and 8.6 million people looking for work immediately everyone should be employed yet the week ending that was august 7th the week ending august 21st 8.8 million people claimed pandemic emergency assistant unemployment assistance and compensation benefits so basically to claim i had to read into this okay because i wouldn't even know how to begin to do any of this but to claim unemployment you are basically saying you're looking for a job and you can't find one that's what you're saying so basically 8.8 million people here are liars i mean some people are experts at this i wouldn't even know like where to go to find i mean i've never done this but these people aren't looking for work and but do you think the government doesn't know this do you think is the government steps in front of the bible they don't know what they're doing once again it's about removing all discomfort from people remember a couple weeks ago it's not about teaching people to overcome it's about removing all discomfort why so they can gain control over people that's it that's all it is because why turn to proverbs chapter 22 you say what unemployment that gains that gives them control you bet you it does you bet it gives them control because guess what because the bible go to proverbs 22 and look at verse number number seven proverbs 22 and look at verse number seven proverbs 22 verse number seven look what the bible says the bible says the rich ruleeth over the poor but really look at the last part here and the borrower is servant to the lender so look the government i'm going to show you this morning how the government can step in front of the bible the government can step in front of the bible they can stop the bible from working they can stop the bible see the bible would get somebody right the rules of the bible is like the rules of the economy it's like gravity it's just going to work but i'm going to show you the bible wins in the end because guess what proverbs 22 7 22 7 says the borrower is servant to the lender you know what the man that earns and saves the man that earns and saves is free but the man the man that spends and borrows is a slave and guess what guess what a slave is really easy to do it's really easy to control a slave this is why they do it folks turn to proverbs chapter 12 the lazy man is an enslaved man this is what the bible says look at proverbs chapter 12 verse number 24 you don't have to like it that's just what that's just the way it is look at proverbs 12 verse 24 again we're going to look at the last half of this verse the hand of the diligent shall bear rule yeah i know that you told me that 1700 times in the last two years but the sloth will shall be under tribute you know what that means that means that the lazy man will be a servant the lazy man will be a slave and guess what that's true you want to sit home you want to be on unemployment you want to not work you're going to be a slave you're like what i don't i don't believe this because you get all these arrogant people now you'll find people you'll find people actually bragging about benefits oh you know i'm getting this benefit and i'm getting this benefit i've seen it since the start of the pandemic people claiming you know all the different things that they're getting from the government on this but look here's a thing try to be lazy and not work and then brag about all the things that you're getting from the government and then try to go do what you want try it you can you look you can listen to me or you can try it i suggest you listen try to go try to go live where you want try to be lazy and not work and then just go live just go pick a neighborhood and say i want to live here it's nice here try to go where you want try to just go like just like one day just i want to go where i look it's impossible it's impossible because the slothful shall be under tribute the bible says you're a slave because you're lazy i mean the bible gets you in the end i mean the government steps in the government tries to you know you can you say i can still eat i can still survive but guess guess what the bible maybe the bible maybe you know the government's trying to step in front of the bible but it wins in the end every time because it's just going to be true yes you could still survive but you will live as a slave so look i mean just to recap the couple points i've made so far look you do not have to work by the sweat of your face today there's many office jobs you're true that's true but if you've never done so you will be slothful that's the first thing and then the slothful man you're right he does not starve but he's a slave there's no escaping god's word that's that you know that's the beauty of the bible you don't even have to believe it you don't even have to believe the bible it's true anyway you know whether you think it's going to happen or not it's just it's true there's no escaping it so let's talk about the flip side of this coin you know hard work let's say you know i love hard work you know i'm going to be a hard worker i love this quote from washington in the book he says nothing ever comes to one that is worth having except as a result of hard work he says this he says what's you know basically what he's saying is you want something work for it now i mean a doctrinal correction i would make here turn to james chapter one i mean he's not a theologian you always have to keep that in mind when you're reading books but james chapter one look at verse 17 look all good things come from the lord we know that and that's one doctrinal correction i would make to the book look it's a it's a secular you know book written by a man look at james chapter one and verse 17 every good gift now underline that word good because it's important that you keep that in mind okay every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and come it down from the father of lights with whom there is no variable in this neither shadow of turning look what he's look what the bible is saying here the bible here is saying that every good gift and every perfect gift comes from god so you can't just say well everything that i have and everything i've ever gotten comes from the lord but look if it's sinful and it's bad it didn't come from the lord the bible here is saying that look through your hard work that the bible teaches you to do every good gift that you get from that is from the lord that's what the bible is saying here and that is the one correction i would make to washington's quote turn to ecclesiastes chapter five but the bible does say that you know things will come from your hard work you will get you know you will get stuff there will be gifts if you work hard you know there will be things that you can enjoy because of your hard work look at ecclesiastes chapter five ecclesiastes chapter five you say i think that you should just have to be a minimalist and no the bible actually teaches to go out work hard and you know enjoy the fruits of that labor if it's a good gift look at ecclesiastes five verse 18 the bible says behold that which i have seen it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink so there's that food that you're going to get there's that sustenance and to enjoy the what's that word the good of all his labor that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life which god giveth him here it's i mean this is just reflecting james chapter 117 it's saying look the good things that come from your labor god gave you those things and it's it's okay to enjoy those things for it is his it is his portion verse 19 every man also to whom god had given riches and wealth and had given him power to eat thereof and to take his portion and to rejoice in his labor this is the gift of god verse 20 for he shall not much remember the days of his life because god answered him in the joy of his heart look work hard is what this is saying enjoy those blessings that come from that labor as long as they're good as long as you know it's not sinful sinfulness as long as they're good gifts they're from the lord enjoy them i mean give credit to the lord and enjoy those gifts there is not look folks there is nothing wrong with success nothing that is a that is a bad direction if you start hearing people talk that way look lazy people envying the hard work of hard working people that's where this country is going demonizing the rich you need to be careful about that i'm not saying that there's not evil rich people okay but look demonizing someone just because they're successful is wrong because the bible says that you know you you should enjoy the fruits of your success there are just as many types of covetous people that are lazy slothful people as there is on the other end of the spectrum so you need to be careful about that and look i mean here's another thing there's a lot of successful people in this church i think about that i think about you know just the success that some people in this and look that's a great opportunity for the younger folks in the church that is a wonderful opportunity for the younger people the younger men the younger women in this church so you young people you need to listen you need to learn you're like people don't give me advice i'm a young person nobody gives me advice that's because you know they're done giving you advice because you don't listen i've mentioned that before if people if people you know you you ask for advice and people don't really say anything anymore young person it's because you're not listening you know we've been here two years and if you don't listen people are going to stop talking to you they're going to start stop giving you that advice so hard work the disdain for physical labor is wrong we see that in the bible the benefits of hard work are there the consequences of slothfulness we talked a little bit about that let's talk about some more now about a year and a half ago when i'm about to tell you i came up with about a year and a half ago that if i should ever become the pastor of this church i was going to have this policy change as we're an independent church now is like a lot of people have asked me anything going to change anything going to change you know doctrinally no nothing's going to change everything you know what you all know what i believe and if you have any questions you can always ask but here's the thing there is going to be a policy change and i'm going to list it for you this morning there will be a change in policy turn back to 2nd Thessalonians chapter 3 and it's about the consequences of having a disdain for work or the consequences of slothfulness there will be a change and it will be a biblical change but it's going to be a change go back to 2nd Thessalonians chapter 3 look at verse number 11 we've read up to verse number 11 there's a problem here look at verse number 11 for we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly these people are just they're just they're not they're not with the program okay working not at all but our busy bodies verse number 12 so here's these people they're disorderly they're not getting with the program they're doing things against what the church wants to do and they're busy bodies which means they're gossiping they're talking about things they shouldn't talk about they're listening to things they shouldn't hear verse number 12 now them that are such we command and exhort by our lord jesus christ that with quietness they work and eat their own bread so right away he addresses the problem so they're doing all these things he doesn't say that they get orderly or that they stop being busy bodies he says that they go to work because that's the root of the problem the root of the problem is that they're not working but e brethren be not weary and well-doing verse 14 and if any man not obey our word by this epistle note that man and have no company with him that he may be ashamed now here's what i've seen in the last five years every single time i have seen a young man or a man in general in a church that does not work 100 of the time there is trouble 100 percent it's not 98 percent it's a hundred percent but it's because the bible says that we should have no company with them turn to first timothy chapter five first timothy chapter five and look at verse number eight first timothy chapter five and look at verse number eight first timothy chapter five and verse number eight the bible says but if any man provide not for his own especially for those of his own house he had denied the faith and is worse than an infidel let that thing sink in for a few moments worse than an unbeliever again how many times have i said and the reason that this sermon is coming a few weeks after is because we had the sermon series on enemies and neighbors and i wanted to really push this idea this point this bible doctrine that saved people can be wicked that saved people can act wickedly look i mean this this verse right here proves it it says that somebody that doesn't support their own family and if you're living on unemployment you're not supporting your family i am because that is that has gotten from federal taxes by all the working men and women in this country it says that you're worse than an unbeliever well how what what how could that be that makes perfect sense that doesn't say you're not that you are an infidel it says that you're worse it says that you will act worse it says that you will do worse things i've seen saved people do things that i've never seen unsaved people do isn't that something i've never seen unsaved people do some of the things that i've seen saved people do and then the bible continues to define in first Timothy chapter five look at verse number nine it's not just the men either verse number nine let not a widow be taken into the number under three score years old having been the wife of one man well reported of for good works if she brought up children if she lodged strangers she has washed the saints feet if she's a relieved the afflicted if she's diligent and followed every good work but the younger widows refuse is talking about who the church should take care of who the church should bring in who deserves the welfare of the believers and it's saying the younger widows refuse for you know they begin to wax wanton and against christ they'll marry having damnation because they've cast off their first faith and with all they learn to be idle wandering about from house to house here we go again and not only idle but tattlers also in busy body speaking things which they ought not so it's the same thing if you're a if you're a woman you're not being so basically if you're a woman under the age of 60 you're supposed to re get married but if you're somebody that you know is is not able to get married and you're under the age of 60 and you're able to work women have to work too then if they're not supported by their father or their husband basically that's what the bible is saying so it's it's everybody basically that should be working that's not is going to cause trouble in the church that that's what it is and so look here's the policy change somebody that is is supposed to be working according to the bible and refuses to do so will not be allowed in this church that's the policy change and you say well why you say well because the bible says so that should be it and the second one is because you know just the bible tells us the bible gives us the courtesy of telling us why is that they will cause trouble and you not see that have you not seen that over the last many years it's always people that are not working that they cause trouble every single time wandering from house to house lying tattling listening listening to and speaking gossip and look so you'll not be permitted to live on unemployment and stay in this church if you're deemed able to be working because the bible says we should have no company with you so look it's just you know it's going to save us all the pain and suffering is what it's going to do and again i hope you understand the philosophy of how bad you know believers can be and so we have to be careful turn to first Corinthians chapter 5 and verse 11 so you say how will it be enacted how will be enacted well you don't actually have to turn there it'll be treated the same as the first Corinthians 511 sin drunkenness or extortioners or whatever i mean basically the matthew 18 process will be followed you were not on a hair trigger to just kick somebody out of the church but the process will be followed basically it's you know a good example is uh someone who comes to the church and is called a brother somebody who's a regular to the church and it is found out that they're living in fornication so basically that person will be given three choices by the pastor that person will be given the choice you can either move out you can get married or you know you can go to church somewhere else those are your three choices you know take some time to think about it and let me know but it's not going to be allowed that's basically the example right there and you know if they refuse it can be brought before the church you know whatever so that is the new policy and like that policy i had thought of that over a year ago that you know what i'm just going to implement this i've seen so many people hurt in situations like that but go back to first Timothy chapter five we'll get verse number 13 the last point i want to make the last point i want to make about physical labor this morning and that died this idea that hard work always works is this if you don't work and if you become someone who doesn't work or has a disdain as you know washington was saying and as we see in our society today that has this disdain this idea that physical labor is bad that it's not good look it will literally change who you are the bible says look at first Timothy chapter five of verse 13 you have to you know read the words of the bible and really understand what it's saying when you just read through these things but look what it says in verse 13 here's these these people that don't work here's these people that don't work and you know what maybe maybe it started out where you know they were a hard-working person and they got you know maybe they got laid off or they got injured or something happened where they couldn't go to work anymore and then they just kind of never went back to work and they just became somebody who just became idle look what the bible says will happen it says end with all they learn to be idle look all these things wandering about from house to house and not only idle but tattlers also and busy bodies speak all this wicked stuff right here they learn it all this wicked stuff is things that happened when a man stops working it could be a man that never worked or it could be a man that you know what he just yeah stops working something bad happens look transitions in people's lives many times throw them for a loop people move maybe a bad thing happens like a divorce or something happens to somebody and they they they stop working they will learn to do these things even if they didn't do those things before because guess what the problem is the working that is the root of the disease is the not working and all these things are all these things are leaves on that tree that's why the bible says like hey you find somebody that has this root it's like ah have no company have no company that they may be ashamed that they may be ashamed why why be ashamed because we want them to get right because we want them to get back we want to pull that root out so the bible says that by you know it'll literally ruin you it'll ruin you as a human being and that all this this sin flows from it life ruining sin by the way speaking things with Tommy just terrible stuff it makes no sense for this church not to follow the bible so look here's the conclusion folks labor is good labor is good we'll learn next week you know one of the great upsides of labor one of the great upsides of labor no look i don't want to be so negative this morning but here's the thing here's the thing if you get this right with your kids look you got to be on it all the time parents you got to be finding laborious things for them to be doing all the time and they have to know how to do them and do them well i've told my kids that the worst thing you could ever be in life is lazy and i would you know what that's pretty close the worst thing you could ever be in life is lazy because it will lead to all these different things and it can lead you i mean look the worst thing you could ever be really if you want to get theological about it the worst thing you could ever be is unsaved but look after salvation laziness is way up on the list because it is the one sin look i've seen people get over drinking i've seen people get over drugs i've seen people get over all kinds of other sins i don't know that i've ever seen an adult get over this one it's bad it's bad it's life ruining you cannot let your kids get to this point where they become a lazy person you need to teach them to do physical labor when they're young and you know what if it's worth doing it's worth doing right there's another thing that they need to learn they need to do labor they need to do labor correctly they need to learn how to use a broom learn how to use a shovel learn how to use tools learn how to use all these different things they need to learn physical labor you mean even the girls even the girls look my wife works physically hard it is physically hard to keep a home there are many times when i come home and you know she is physically exhausted from all the just the organizing and the cleaning and the teaching and all the physical work that comes with with raising children and keeping a home you ladies know it's physical it's hard you cannot raise lazy daughters either this is not just for the boys but we see that look even though it doesn't matter what society says society can say oh physical labor bad and all this kind of stuff the bible always wins in the end the bible will always be true whether people don't whether people believe it or not right so look washing you know book or tea washing is a great case study for what physical labor and the respect for physical labor can do for a life what if if the respect for physical labor lifted this man from zero it can lift anybody up that's it kids do you hear me it's physical labor physical labor can lift you up through your whole life and then you you will be able to enjoy all the good gifts that god gives you or you can be a slave and guess what you don't want to be a slave today because there's a lot of slave masters that i'm seeing pop up there's a lot of slave masters out there and it's going to be worse when these kids grow up they don't know you know and then another benefit is is that everybody else goes in the other direction the child that grows up today to be a young man or a young lady that has a great work ethic they're going to be just pure solid gold pure solid gold and when some employer or when somebody you know picks them up as an employee they will never let them go because guess what your employer doesn't hire you because he feels sorry for you your employer hires you because you make him money they're not going to get rid of the solid gold employee that has that work ethic and you you men remember that too you go into work and you kill it every single day and then you will be gold as well it doesn't take much to stand out it doesn't take much to stand out look if it can lift booker t washington it can lift you and the bible proves it and the bible says it will let's bow our heads and have a word