Don’t Be That Guy

Part 5 – The Lazy Fool

November 30th, 2025

PROVERBS 26:13-16 NIV

A sluggard says, “There’s a lion in the road, ————-
 a fierce lion roaming the streets!”
As a door turns on its hinges, ————- Is
 so a sluggard turns on his bed.
A sluggard buries his hand in the dish; ————- Never
 he is too lazy to bring it back to his mouth.
A sluggard is wiser in his own eyes ————- Lives
 than seven people who answer discreetly.

The Cause 

1.

The sluggard says, “There’s a lion outside!
 I’ll be killed in the public square!”

Proverbs 22:13 NIV

Isaiah 41:10 NIV 

Fear not, for I am with you;
Be not dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you,
Yes, I will help you,
I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’

2.

The soul of the sluggard craves and gets nothing, while the soul of the diligent is richly supplied.

Proverbs 13:4 ESV

3.

Lazy people consider themselves smarter than seven wise counselors.

Proverbs 26:16 NLT

The Cost 

1. 

Proverbs 18:9 NLT A lazy person is as bad as someone who destroys things.

2. 

For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life. Ephesians 2:10 BSB

Proverbs 21:25-26 NIV

The craving of a sluggard will be the death of him,
 because his hands refuse to work.
All day long he craves for more…

3. 

Proverbs 10:4 NLT

Lazy people are soon poor; hard workers get rich.

Proverbs 20:4 BSB

The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.

4. 

Proverbs 24:30-34 NIV

I went past the field of a sluggard,
 past the vineyard of someone who has no sense;
thorns had come up everywhere,
 the ground was covered with weeds,
 and the stone wall was in ruins.

I applied my heart to what I observed
 and learned a lesson from what I saw:
A little sleep, a little slumber,

 a little folding of the hands to rest—
and poverty will come on you like a thief
 and scarcity like an armed man.

The Cure

1. 

Proverbs 6:6 NIV

Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise!
It has no commander, no overseer or ruler,
yet it stores its provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest.
How long will you lie there, you sluggard? When will you get up from your sleep?
A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest—
and poverty will come on you like a thief and scarcity like an armed man.

Your habits are either your greatest weapon or your greatest enemy.

2. 

Matthew 16:24 NIV

Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.

Colossians 3:23 NIV

Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters

3. 

Acts 3:19 NIV

Repent, then, and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped out, that times of refreshing may come from the Lord