2. T.C.B. Taking Care of Business

3. 1 Timothy 5:11-15 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.

4. 1 Thessalonians 4:11 …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…

5. 2 Thessalonians 3:10-12 …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.

6. What Is Involved In Minding Our Own Business?? Our business with God

7. John 9:4 We must work the works of Him who sent Me, as long as it is day; night is coming, when no man can work.

8. Luke 22:19 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.”

9. Matthew 26:29 …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 Father’s kingdom.

10. Hebrews 10:26 For if we go on sinning willfully after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins.

11. Hebrews 10:28-29 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?

12. What Is Involved In Minding Our Own Business?? Our business with God Our personal business Our business with God Our personal business

13. 1 John 3:11-12 …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 brother’s were righteous.

14. Philippians 2:12-15 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…

15. 2 Peter 1:5-8 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.

16. We Need to be Busy…. 1.Busy with study and prayer

17. We Need to be Busy…. 1.Busy with study and prayer 2.Busy bearing burdens 1.Busy with study and prayer 2.Busy bearing burdens

18. 1Peter 1:22-23 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 ;

19. We Need to be Busy…. 1.Busy with study and prayer 2.Busy bearing burdens 3.Busy doing good 1.Busy with study and prayer 2.Busy bearing burdens 3.Busy doing good

20. We Need to be Busy…. 1.Busy with study and prayer 2.Busy bearing burdens 3.Busy doing good 4.Busy trying to encourage 1.Busy with study and prayer 2.Busy bearing burdens 3.Busy doing good 4.Busy trying to encourage

21. What Is Involved In Minding Our Own Business?? Our business with God Our personal business Our business w/blessings Our business with God Our personal business Our business w/blessings

22. Has the Lord Blessed You Like Israel? A wife? A husband? Children? A good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children… Proverbs 13:22

23. 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 127:3-4

24. Has the Lord Blessed You Like Israel? A wife? A husband? Children? A home? A Job, vehicles, reward for your labor?

25. 1 Timothy 6:17-18 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,

26. 1 Kings 20:40 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.”

27. We Need To Be Minding Our Own Business…. Are you minding the business of your soul? Not like the King in 1 Kings 20:40