2Thessalonians 3:6-15

How to handle irresponsible people.

...that you withdraw from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition which he received from us.

The history behind this command: 1Thessalonians 4:11-12.

1Thess 4:11 that you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you, 12 that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing.

1Cor 14:33 For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.

The problem, 2Thess 3:10

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.

The practice, 2Thess 3:11

For we hear that there are some who walk among you in a disorderly manner, not working at all, but are busybodies.

... those who are such we command and exhort through our Lord Jesus Christ that they work in quietness and eat their own bread.

The authority of the Lord is transmitted in the word: settle down, get to work.

Ephesians 4:28 Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather let him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something to give him who has need.

But as for you, brethren, do not grow weary in doing good.

1Thess 2:8 So, affectionately longing for you, we were well pleased to impart to you not only the gospel of God, but also our own lives, because you had become dear to us.

Galatians 6:9 And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.

Work so you are not a burden to others, serve so you help carry the burdens of others.

Philippians 2:3 Let nothing be done through selfish ambition or conceit, but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better than himself.

... And if anyone does not obey our word in this epistle....

Withdraw from the unruly brother (v. 6).

1Corinthians 5:9-12

Don't feed the unruly brother (v.10).

Proverbs 12:27 The lazy man does not roast what he took in hunting, But diligence is man's precious possession.

Proverbs 19:24; Proverbs 26:15

Note the disobedient brother and do not keep company with him, that he may be brought to shame. (v. 14)

Dan 12:2 And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, Some to everlasting life, Some to shame and everlasting contempt.

Prov 13:18 Poverty and shame will come to him who disdains correction, But he who regards a rebuke will be honored.

Prov 25:15 The rod and rebuke give wisdom, But a child left to himself brings shame to his mother.

Admonish him as a brother.

Proverbs 26:16 The lazy man is wiser in his own eyes Than seven men who can answer sensibly.

Prov 18:9 He who is slothful in his work Is a brother to him who is a great destroyer.