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  • Michael McCartney avatar

    Idle=i Dull

    Contributed by Michael Mccartney on Dec 30, 2001
    based on 26 ratings
     | 4,995 views

    The disease of idleness creates a life that is dull, lifeless, and unproductive. Usually idle people are the ones who have allowed everything around them to go to hell.

    IDLE = I DULL! Thesis: The disease of idleness creates a life that is dull, lifeless, and unproductive. Usually idle people are the ones who have allowed everything around them to go to hell. Main Texts: Ecclesiastes 10:18 18 If a man is lazy, the rafters sag; if his hands are idle, the house ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • Darrell Jones avatar

    What Is Your Occupation?

    Contributed by Darrell Jones on Jul 10, 2005
    based on 34 ratings
     | 5,553 views

    Among the sins of Sodom, we find the sin of doing nothing. The question Pharoah asked in our text is a good question for us today? We answer the question is it a sin to do nothing.

    I once heard Granny Clampett say this about a man named Leif Crick, "he’s the only one I know who can get up in the morning with nothing to do, and at the end of the day he is only half done." In (Matthew 29:3, we find the word idle used, in the Greek it is rendered as a man without work. Friends, ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God

  • Gerald Roberts avatar

    "Do Not Be Idle” 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13

    Contributed by Gerald Roberts on Nov 12, 2019
     | 2,947 views

    Jesus is coming don't be like some of those folks in Thessalonica they were idle.

    “Do Not Be Idle” 2 Thessalonians 3:6-13 1. Jesus is coming - am I ready?" • It’s the most important question that must be answered • The answer is either yes I am, I am not sure, an absolute no. • To be ready, of course, requires salvation. Do I know Jesus Christ as my personal Savior? ...read more

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    Denomination: United Methodist

  • Steve Shepherd avatar

    Keep Away From The Brothers

    Contributed by Steve Shepherd on Jan 5, 2009
    based on 48 ratings
     | 8,160 views

    Our text tells us what idleness is in God’s eyes. 1- Idleness is sinning 2- Idleness is stealing 3- Idleness is snooping

    INTRO.- Keep away from the brothers. That’s strange advice. Keep away from certain people. That may not be so strange. ILL.- A farmer, seeing a lot of crows picking up seed he had sown in a field, took his shotgun and fired at them. All the birds flew away except one that lay wounded on the ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • Wesley Bishop avatar

    Scandal And Cover Up

    Contributed by Wesley Bishop on Mar 15, 2004
    based on 68 ratings
     | 7,364 views

    This is about David’s affair with Bathsheba and the murder of Uriah.

    Have you ever heard someone say, “Oh, the Bible is so boring. It’s just a bunch of ‘begets’ and ‘begots’ and a bunch of stuff that happen thousands of years ago”? Our passage today certainly cannot be considered boring. We have a sex scandal at the highest levels of government. There are ...read more

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    Denomination: Wesleyan

  • Paul Clemente avatar

    "Idle" Christians? Series

    Contributed by Paul Clemente on Apr 27, 2014
    based on 1 rating
     | 7,457 views

    Who are 'idle" Christians and how are we to handle them?

    We will finish today our study of the letters to the Thessalonians. Please open your Bibles to 2 Thessalonians Chapter 3….. NIV… Read along with me 2 Thessalonians 3:6-18…… Let us note again that the New Testament was originally written in Greek and so there are various ...read more

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    Denomination: Independent/Bible

  • Jerry Flury avatar

    Why Are You Just Standing Around?

    Contributed by Jerry Flury on Aug 27, 2003
    based on 44 ratings
     | 6,829 views

    Idleness and indifference are devastating to the work of Christ. we are called to be busy for the Master.

    WHY ARE YOU JUST STANDING AROUND? Matthew 20:1-16 INTRODUCTION: In this story Christ draws attention to a familiar event in Palestine. The grapes in the vineyard ripened towards the end of September needing to be harvested before the rains came. Often a frantic race against time ensued, for if the ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Jason Love avatar

    The Sin Was Forgiven

    Contributed by Jason Love on Dec 10, 2002
    based on 31 ratings
     | 3,125 views

    We all mess up inwardly and outwardly but we must keep in mind that our God provides.

    I. Introduction Today you will be hearing about a man named David. David was a shepherd, victorious fighter, great warrior, an awesome writer and player of music, and he was a man after Gods own heart. All these things the bible tells us about David but tonight we are going to look at a ...read more

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    Denomination: Church Of God

  • Dean Rhine avatar

    Working While Waiting

    Contributed by Dean Rhine on Nov 2, 2016
    based on 1 rating
     | 10,308 views

    The Faithfulness of God

    2 Thessalonians 3 - Working While Waiting - 7/24/16 Turn with me to the book of 2 Thessalonians, chapter 3.  We’ve been looking at the book of 2 Thessalonians, which is a letter from the Apostle Paul to Christians in a town in Greece called Thessalonica.  It’s a town that is still in ...read more

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    Denomination: Evangelical/Non-Denominational

  • John McCormack avatar

    Hands That Serve God

    Contributed by John Mccormack on Jan 9, 2015
     | 5,751 views

    SERVICE TO THE LORD REQUIRES USEFUL HANDS!

    HANDS THAT SERVE GOD OBSERVATION: MANY WRITERS BELIEVE SOLOMON WROTE ECCLESIASTES. THE BASIC MESSAGE MAY BE FOUND TOWARD THE END OF THE BOOK. LET US HEAR THE CONCLUSION OF THE WHOLE MATTER: FEAR GOD AND KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS, FOR THIS IS MAN’S ALL (ECCLESIASTES 12:13 (NKJV). ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • Jason Spangler avatar

    Work Till Christ Comes

    Contributed by Jason Spangler on Jul 3, 2006
    based on 19 ratings
     | 5,881 views

    Your work reflects who your are, so put forth the greatest effort to make the most impact in your work by following Paul’s example to the Thessalonians; remember, vocation is ministry more so that ministry is vocation

    2 Thessalonians 3: 6-15 Title: Work till Christ comes: “do what is right” Introduction: How does Eschatology, the theology concerning the second coming, the Parousia (pah-ro̅o̅-seeʹuh), affect our behavior? • Talk of the end of the world tend to make people behave strangely; we ...read more

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    Denomination: Christian/Church Of Christ

  • James Lee avatar

    Walk Worthy Of Your Calling 2thessalonians 3: 6-15 Series

    Contributed by James Lee on Nov 21, 2013
    based on 1 rating
     | 5,847 views

    Part 3 of our Bible study with Handout included. The gaps between the words in the handout are to be filled in by the learner.

    Walk Worthy of Your Calling 2Thessalonians 3: 6-15 “6But we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition which he received from us. 7For you yourselves know how you ought to follow ...read more

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    Denomination: Baptist

  • William R. Nabaza avatar

    If A Man Will Not Work, He Shall Not Eat

    Contributed by William R. Nabaza on Jul 29, 2013
     | 7,073 views

    To remove idleness and being busybodies inside the church.

    I. EXORDIUM: Are you eating and not working? II. AUDIENCE PROFILE: Believers III. OBJECTIVES: To remove idleness and being busybodies inside the church. IV. TEXT: 2 Thessalonians 3:10-11 (Amplified Bible) For while we were yet with you, we gave you this rule and charge: If anyone will not ...read more

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    Denomination: Pentecostal

  • Ian Humphrey avatar

    Labourers In The Vineyard

    Contributed by Ian Humphrey on Nov 10, 2015
     | 5,890 views

    LABOURERS IN THE VINEYARD

    LABOURERS IN THE VINEYARD Matthew 20:1-16 1. GOD'S PURSUIT OF HIS LABOURERS Matthew 20:1 1 ¶ For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. See His :- (a) Duty "an householder" (b) Desire "which went ...read more

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    Denomination: Holiness

  • Wade Martin Hughes, Sr avatar

    What Might Have Been?

    Contributed by Wade Martin Hughes, Sr on Apr 14, 2005
    based on 17 ratings
     | 2,238 views

    Little effort, little satisfication? there are no sadder words of pen or tongue, than the words, what might have been.

    WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, IF I TRIED A LITTLE HARDER? By Wade Martin Hughes, Sr. Kyfingers@aol.com INTRODUCTION: Have we really been trying? Oct. 1978: Mrs. Fannie Turner of Little Rock, Arkansas passed her written drivers test on the 104th attempt, and thus made the Guinness Book of World Records. ...read more

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    Denomination: Assembly Of God