GoogleSurveySlothfulness

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index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveySlothfulness @ It is still the experience of to-day, as it was of Solomon's time, that slothfulness (indolence) brings down to a state of servitude, if not even deeper, but that vigorous activity raises to dominion or to the position of a master, i.e., to independence, wealth, respect, and power.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveySlothfulness @ Or, "by slothfulnesses" (g), The word is in the dual number, and so may signify the slothfulness of the hands, as Aben Ezra, of both hands, and of both feet; or the various kinds of slothfulness, as the Arabic version, slothfulness both of body and mind; or of all sorts of persons, superiors and inferiors, princes and subjects; and with respect to all things present and future: and, as through slothfulness a material building decays; or a "beam", as the word signifies, the raftering of a house, the roof, which consists of rafters and beams joined together when the tiling is decayed by winds and rains, or any breaches made in the rafters, and no care taken to repair, the whole falls in, and the house is in ruins: so figurative buildings, families, churches, and kingdoms, come to nothing, through the sluggishness of masters of families, ministers of the word, and civil magistrates; to the latter of which more especially this is to
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveySlothfulness @ It becomes so by slothfulness, and the prodigal love of pleasure associated therewith.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveySlothfulness @ Slothfulness is of ill consequence both to private and public affairs.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveySlothfulness @ Remove his slothfulness, and these imaginary difficulties and dangers will be no more.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveySlothfulness @ This he says within himself; or to those who call out to him, and put him on doing the business of his proper calling, whether in the field or elsewhere, which, through his slothfulness, he has a disinclination to; and therefore frames excuses, and suggests this and that difficulty or danger in the way, expressed by a "lion without"; and which shows the folly and weakness of his excuses, since lions do not usually walk in cities, towns, and villages, and in the streets of them, but in woods and mountains;
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveySlothfulness @ Though he has frequently felt hunger, yet he is regardless that his continual slothfulness must necessarily plunge him into more sufferings.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveySlothfulness @ But, we catch glimes of our true Identity, and we either stay lazy or wallow in the pig sty of the natural mind, OR we lose the slothfulness and began climbing again.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveySlothfulness @ Slothfulness makes us forget who we are, and where we came from and where we ARE NOW!
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveySlothfulness @ But, much of the time, we allow slothfulness to make us see things as we WANT to see.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveySlothfulness @ When we do not seek truth, and instead, just take someone's words or teachings, this is SLOTHFULNESS.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveySlothfulness @ Another manifestation of slothfulness is something that I call; DEPRIVING OURSELVES OF TRUTH.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveySlothfulness @ Spiritual slothfulness is much easier for a person to ignore than the physical because its effects are not often seen immediately.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveySlothfulness @ Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and an idle person will suffer hunger.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveySlothfulness @ Greed and slothfulness have similarities in definition.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveySlothfulness @ Slothfulness is out of the will of God because a slothful person will greedily craves for things (even basic necessities), but he or she is not willing to work for it.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveySlothfulness @ Slothfulness is a landmine with the potential to destroy all that we are and all that we seek to accomplish in this world.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveySlothfulness @ He identifies slothfulness as the sin of wastefulness and sees the sluggard as a poor steward of godly resources.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveySlothfulness @ I too have searched the bible on slothfulness as I know I have been bound by these forces of darkness.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveySlothfulness @ Another word for laziness is slothfulness.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveySlothfulness @ Ecclesiastes apparently coined a word for slothfulness twice over and the resulting decay of present gain (10:18).
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveySlothfulness @ This description of a sloth says such a person is loose, meaning a waywardness with a view to doing what he wants, since slothfulness is tied to gluttony.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveySlothfulness @ Poverty inflames all of these, but it is slothfulness that creates the poverty to start the process:
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveySlothfulness @ Where you see slothfulness, you most likely will see these things follow, as in gluttony.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveySlothfulness @ When called to account for the lack created by his slothfulness, the sluggard suffers from a sudden case of vagueness or outright excuses, lies and deceptions.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveySlothfulness @ A little slothfulness evolves into much slothfulness.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveySlothfulness @ Once the abundance goes, idleness is left, poverty begins to reign, and slothfulness enters.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveySlothfulness @ The sloth will entwine evasive thoughts to protect his slothfulness, and to restrain further inquiries into his activities, motives and true intentions, or so his deceits won't be uncovered.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveySlothfulness @ Both gluttony and the slothfulness deeply affect the lives of others, who become disheartened.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveySlothfulness @ It is hard for the sloth because the very meaning of slothfulness wars against his doing anything about his laziness.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveySlothfulness @ The Sin of Spiritual kjv@Slothfulness: Many Christians do not realise that spiritual slothfulness is a sin because there is no obvious evil act committed - it is a sin of omission.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveySlothfulness @ Also many do not realise the extent of their slothfulness because there is little preaching against it, and because this sin is so common even among spiritual role-models.
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveySlothfulness @ kjv@Conclusion: If we have lived in spiritual slothfulness for a long time we will most likely be convinced by our own excuses for them (eg "too busy", "too tired", "objections", "I cannot understand the Bible") that "seven men cannot render a reason" to convince us of our slothfulness (PRO 26:16).
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveySlothfulness @ We need to repent of our sin and believe that however difficult it is to overcome our spiritual slothfulness, God's grace is sufficient for us (2 CO 12:9).
index:GOOGLESURVEYQUOTES GoogleSurveySlothfulness @ Of what ill consequence slothfulness is both to private and public affairs (v.