T.C.B.

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T.C.B.

• Taking Care of Business

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1 Timothy 511-15

• But refuse to enroll younger widows, they learn
  to be idlers, going about from house to house,
  and not only idlers, but also gossips
  and busybodies, saying what they should not. So I
  would have younger widows marry, bear
  children, manage their households, and give the
  adversary no occasion for slander. For some have
  already strayed after Satan.

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1 Thessalonians 411

• and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet
  life and attend to your own business and work
  with your hands, just as we commanded you

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2 Thessalonians 310-12

• For we hear that some among you are leading an
  undisciplined life, doing no work at all, but
  acting like busybodies. Now such persons we
  command and exhort in the Lord Jesus Christ to
  work in quiet fashion and eat their own bread.

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What Is Involved In Minding Our Own Business??

• Our business with God

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John 94

• We must work the works of Him who sent Me, as
  long as it is day night is coming, when no man
  can work.

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Luke 2219

• And when he had taken some bread and given
  thanks, He broke it, and gave it to them saying,
  this is my body which is given for you, do this
  in remembrance of me.

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Matthew 2629

• I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from
  now on until that day when I drink it new with
  you in My Fathers kingdom.

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Hebrews 1026

• For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving
  the knowledge of the truth, there no longer
  remains a sacrifice for sins.

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Hebrews 1028-29

• Anyone who has set aside the Law of Moses dies
  without mercy on the testimony of two or three
  witnesses. How much severer punishment do you
  think he will deserve who has trampled under foot
  the Son of God, and has regarded as unclean the
  blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified,
  and has insulted the Spirit of grace?

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What Is Involved In Minding Our Own Business??

• Our business with God
• Our personal business

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1 John 311-12

• we should love one another not as Cain, who was
  of the evil one, and slew his brother. And for
  what reason did he slay him? Because his deeds
  were evil, and his brothers were righteous.

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Philippians 212-15

• Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed,
  so now, not only as in my presence but much more
  in my absence, work out your own salvation with
  fear and trembling, for it is God who works in
  you, both to will and to work for his good
  pleasure.
• Do all things without grumbling
  or disputing, that you may be blameless and
  innocent, children of God without blemish

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2 Peter 15-8

• For this very reason, make every effort to
  supplement your faith with virtue, and
  virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with
  self-control, and self-control with
  steadfastness, and steadfastness with
  godliness, and godliness with brotherly
  affection, and brotherly affection with love. For
  if these qualities are yours and are increasing,
  they keep you from being ineffective
  or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus
  Christ.

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We Need to be Busy.

1. Busy with study and prayer

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We Need to be Busy.

1. Busy with study and prayer
2. Busy bearing burdens

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1Peter 122-23

• Having purified your souls by your obedience to
  the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one
  another earnestly from a pure heart, since you
  have been born again, not of perishable seed but
  of imperishable, through the living and abiding
• word of God

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We Need to be Busy.

1. Busy with study and prayer
2. Busy bearing burdens
3. Busy doing good

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We Need to be Busy.

1. Busy with study and prayer
2. Busy bearing burdens
3. Busy doing good
4. Busy trying to encourage

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What Is Involved In Minding Our Own Business??

• Our business with God
• Our personal business
• Our business w/blessings

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Has the Lord Blessed You Like Israel?

• A wife?
• A husband?
• Children?
• A good man leaves an inheritance to his
  children's children
• Proverbs 1322

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Has the Lord Blessed You Like Israel?

• A wife?
• A husband?
• Children?
• Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD,
• the fruit of the womb a reward.
• Like arrows in the hand of a warrior
• are the children of one's youth.
• Psalm 1273-4

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Has the Lord Blessed You Like Israel?

• A wife?
• A husband?
• Children?
• A home?
• A Job, vehicles, reward for your labor?

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1 Timothy 617-18

• As for the rich in this present age, charge
  them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes
  on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who
  richly provides us with everything to enjoy. They
  are to do good, to be rich in good works, to be
  generous and ready to share,

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1 Kings 2040

• And as your servant was busy here and there, he
  was gone. The king of Israel said to him, So
  shall your judgment be you yourself have decided
  it.

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We Need To Be Minding Our Own Business.
Not like the King in 1 Kings 2040

• Are you minding the business of your soul?

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